Chapter 246: The Emperor is Not That Easy to Deal With
"Mr. Leon, how did you get here? To be honest, I'm a little skeptical... Is what happened here related to you?"
Emperor Marius squinted his eyes and looked at Leon who suddenly appeared from the corner. It was obvious that the emperor didn't understand the situation.
He knew that Leon had sent troops to deal with the Snake Cult, but he didn't know that the Snake Cult's army had been wiped out by Leon alone - Emperor Marius had been held hostage by Kairos recently, so of course he couldn't receive any intelligence.
"Your Majesty Marius, I never thought that our first meeting would be under such circumstances. However, you should not doubt a friend who has been providing selfless help... Moreover , if I were you, I would worry about my own safety first. This matter is obviously completely directed at you, and Kairos is obviously just deceived..."
Leon waved his hand, and a large group of strong men came out of the abandoned houses in the village and surrounded Kailos' guards.
"Leon...what are you going to do? Are you deliberately leading people to ambush here? What do you know?"
Seeing so many of Leon's men suddenly appear, Kailos actually came to his senses. He got up from the ground and asked Leon with a frown.
The number of his personal guards who entered the village was not large, only a few dozen shadow centurions. Now these personal guards gradually gathered together with their backs, feeling a little uneasy.
"You're overthinking. I don't have the time to ambush you... I'm just not sure if there are any members of the Snake Cult among your men - after all, from what you said just now, your whole family has already defected to the Snake Cult, so I naturally have to be careful... Your Majesty Marius, would you like to stand on my side first?"
Leon waved to Emperor Marius, signaling the kidnapped emperor to leave the dangerous area.
Emperor Marius looked around, took a few steps back, escaped from the control of several shadow centurions around him, and moved towards Leon.
Several shadow centurions looked at each other, but no one moved.
Only Kairos drew out the javelin he carried with him.
"Kailos... Under the current circumstances, you are not planning to commit regicide yourself, are you? I was the one who broke open this temple, but I guarantee that it is like this after I broke it open. I didn't see anyone with snake skin scales on their necks. And you should be able to see that my people dare not get their hands on the blood of these corpses - what happened here has nothing to do with me... I originally just came here to find my team members."
Leon spoke quickly. Although he had more people in the village, he still had to avoid conflicts as much as possible. The shadow centurions around Kailos were not easy to deal with.
"Regicide? I won't do such a stupid thing... But I can't let you take His Majesty away..."
After Kairos drew out his javelin, he did not look at Leon, but glanced at his own men, probably assessing the fighting strength of both sides.
It looks like Kairos doesn't intend to give up easily.
As expected, any father would be very persistent when faced with the matter of saving his son.
"Have you ever thought that the so-called priest is just deceiving you? Your son is not here..."
Leon looked at Kairos and shook his head: "If your son can still move - even if he can still move like a puppet, that guy will definitely let your son come forward to contact you... The current situation can only mean..."
"No! Shut up!"
Kairos shouted with his eyes wide open, a hint of despair and madness on his face: "My son must still be alive..."
Perhaps only when his own son is in trouble would a big shot like Kairos change his temperament so drastically and become difficult to communicate with.
But he still had some rationality after all. Le Ang's troops surrounded him at this time, and he certainly did not attack anyone, but just confronted Le Ang.
This stalemate was obviously not a solution. Anson was still unknown where he was, and Leon had to find his own medical officer, but he didn't have time to waste it here.
Just when the lord was about to solve the problem with force, something strange happened.
"Sir, it...it moved!"
Klose suddenly pointed at the altar with his eyes wide open, looking as if he had seen a ghost.
In fact, it was indeed like seeing a ghost - everyone turned their heads to look, and the dead man whose chest and abdomen were ripped open and whose heart was not beating at all, actually began to move!
Leon now understood why Kairos was so persistent. If the Snake Cult could bring back to life even those who had sustained such fatal injuries, then saving Kairos' son did not seem to be an empty talk.
I just don't know what the resurrected person will lose...
"When it comes out, we'll kill it... It's obviously become as powerful as Castro..."
Sigismund muttered to himself and made a few movements with the sword in his hand.
The monster in the altar had already torn off the chains that bound its hands and feet - several nails that nailed the chains to the four-pointed star platform were pulled out by it casually, seemingly effortlessly, as if the nails were just embedded in the tofu.
But the nail was half a foot long, and the four-pointed star stand was obviously not a rotten object, but a solid wooden stand that looked very solid...
This naturally means inhuman power.
However, no one dared to go into the temple at that time. The pus and blood inside must have meant the Red Death, and no one wanted to be contaminated by it.
The monster that had already sat up in the altar turned its head, and its eyes had completely turned into clear yellow vertical pupils.
Then, the monster tried to step out of the blood pool - this movement seemed a bit too big, and its intestines slid out along the opened abdominal cavity...
The monster seemed a little violent. It tore out its own intestines, and seemed to have torn out some other internal organs as well. Then it stepped straight out of the blood pool, with black pus and blood dripping from its entire body.
In just a few short steps, its originally cut open chest and abdomen turned into a large dark space, but it was still "alive", and it walked steadily with bloody footprints behind it.
"Sir Leon... I beg you... don't hinder me, and... let him leave here!"
Kairos also looked at the species that was probably no longer considered human walking down from the altar, and suddenly turned around and said something to Leon.
"Kailos, are you crazy? Of course I don't want to deal with you, but that thing is different. It's obviously not a human!"
Li Ang looked at Kairos with a look of idiocy: "Didn't you see that thing's internal organs were torn out by itself? Could it be that you know this guy?"
Indeed, it would be unreasonable to let it go in such a situation...
"Of course I know it's not a human... I just think it doesn't seem to have its own consciousness, but it will definitely go looking for the person who controls it... Maybe by following him, I can find the snake cult priest! And I can also find my Antonius!"
It seems that Kairos still has some sense after all, or rather, he will try anything to find and rescue his son.
In fact, Li Ang thought that this method might work.
"We really need to get to the bottom of this matter... Sir Leon, or you can just ignore it. I believe you have nothing to do with the Snake Cult... Let Kairos investigate this matter himself."
Emperor Marius also nodded to Leon.
Li Ang felt that Emperor Marius was quite bold. Kairos had just kidnapped him, but he actually dared to ask him not to stop Kairos and let Kairos investigate on his own.
But after hesitating for a moment, he signaled his men to make way and watched the monster walk out step by step.
"Kailos, I still have to go find my medical officer. I really don't have the heart to care about what's going on here. But there's something I need to tell you... I just buried tens of thousands of Snake Cult troops a few days ago... The Snake Cult troops that besieged Dilingang have been destroyed. I guarantee that not a single one will be left. Perhaps the person you're looking for has already fled far away, and you may not be able to find him by following this thing."
Leon reminded Kairos kindly.
Kairos looked at Leon and nodded: "I must thank you for what you have done... In fact, I also heard about your selfless help to Bacchus a few days ago..."
After saying that, he turned to look at Emperor Marius and said, "Your Majesty, believe me, I never thought of murdering you. I just wanted to try the blood of the king that the priest mentioned... If I can find the priest this time, I will bring him back to confess my crime to you... And, Your Majesty, if you want to implement reforms, you should have made up your mind to get rid of me a long time ago..."
After saying that, Kairos led his troops and followed the monster slowly out of the village.
Emperor Marius watched Kairos slowly leave and sighed sadly.
"Your Majesty Marius, are you going to let him leave like this?"
Leon looked at Emperor Marius with deep doubt in his eyes. Did he really let Kairos go like that?
"You...killed tens of thousands of Snake Cult soldiers? Where are you?"
Emperor Marius did not answer. He turned around and looked Leon up and down several times, apparently wanting to get to know the lord again.
"Near the village of Fiedena... Oh, by the way, in order to kill the Snake Cult army, Governor Levius and his son used themselves as bait. Unfortunately, they both died for their country. Their deaths were quite...heroic."
Leon thought carefully and used a different adjective to describe Levius' miserable death.
"I know exactly what kind of person Levius is. I'm afraid the word heroic cannot be used to describe him... Count Leon, I understand that there will be a price to pay to eliminate the Snake Cult. If the price the empire has to pay is only Levius and his son, then I should actually thank you more... Are you interested in the empire's northern governor?"
Emperor Marius and Justus were indeed in the same boat, even their rhetoric of winning him over was exactly the same...
"Forget it, Your Majesty... I just 'conquered' the Karen Deer Castle not long ago, and I will also deploy thousands of troops in Karen Deer Castle to threaten the Bacchus Empire at any time... If you appoint me as governor, you will not be able to explain to your people... Let's go, I will send you to the City of Knowledge, where General Cleon is... By the way, I hope that our next meeting can be more formal..."
Li Ang shook his head and told his men to leave.
"No need to send me off... In fact, someone has been escorting me all along. I'm very relieved that a master like you didn't even notice them... Sura!"
Emperor Marius smiled and shook his head, then turned and shouted behind him.
Several people wearing wolf-head helmets stood out from several dark corners and said, "Your Majesty, the Shadow Wolves have caught up..."
Li Ang's eyes widened. These guys were hiding so secretly. He brought hundreds of people with him, but no one could find them!
No wonder he let Governor Kairos leave so easily, it turned out he had sent someone to follow him...
Similarly, it was no wonder that he did not behave like a hostage before. It turned out that Emperor Marius had such a secret army following him all the time. It was really hard to say who was the one being held hostage...
"This is General Sura, the Shadow Wolf from the Ashborn Empire. Earl Leon, we are friends now, so I will let you see him... But when we are enemies, he may always hide in the dark, so you should be careful."
Emperor Marius introduced Sulla to Leon, but General Sulla obviously had no intention of showing up. He nodded from a distance and then shrank back into the darkness again.
"Your Majesty is really good at this... By the way, I have seen some spies called 'Vipers' under Governor Justus. Do they have any connection with General Sulla's men?"
Leon shook his head with some emotion. The spies of the Bacchus Empire were really diverse and of all kinds. They were indeed more fancy than those of the Kingdoms of Fierce Lion and Crow.
"They are some spies trained by the Shadow Wolf Pack. They were originally trained to deal with the Snake Worship Cult. They needed people to go undercover in the Snake Worship Cult. That's why they were called 'Venomous Snakes'. This nickname would prevent them from being exposed in the Snake Worship Cult..."
Emperor Marius answered very seriously, as if he was giving Leon sincere advice: "Like the Shadow Wolves, they are warriors who walk in the darkness. Perhaps you should also establish such a team... If you don't want to be killed by the Severed Lion King or other kings..."
"I am a loyal and brave minister of the Sarleon Kingdom. How could I be killed by my own king? Ha, Your Majesty, since someone is protecting you, I will take my leave..."
Li Ang shook his head, turned and left.
Emperor Marius was obviously difficult to deal with, and General Sulla's Shadow Wolves were indeed dangerous - in a head-on battle, perhaps one of their own Silver Hands could beat two of them, but the Shadow Wolves were obviously specialized in moving through dark places, and probably only Lisadilan could deal with them.
The lord thought that he should quickly find Anson and then return to Karen Deer Castle, and let Lisadilan quickly form a shadow army that would walk in secret.
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At this moment, Anson was actually less than twenty miles away from the lord.
There was a reason why Leon didn't find him - Anson was on a boat in Lake Sava at this time.
It was a small inland boat, a purely oar-powered wooden boat, the kind commonly used by fishermen, only about ten meters long and a little over one meter wide.
There were two other people on the boat with Anson, a man and a woman.
The man was unconscious, his body was swollen, and his face was covered with blue scaly spots.
The woman was wearing a worn leather armor and holding a spear in her hand, testing the depth of the lake.
