Extraordinary in Reality Through Magic Games

350: Chapter 342 The Allied Forces’ Restless Mobilization and Lake’s Unstable MoraleSaul Continent, the Royal Capital of Kingdom.

After Brando returned from the Silent Forest, he didn’t immediately report the information he gathered to his superiors. Instead, he wandered aimlessly through the streets of the Royal Capital for a few rounds.

He would either sit alone in a tavern drinking or stand by a fountain in the park, lost in his own thoughts.

No one knew what he was thinking about.

This state lasted for three days. On the morning of the fourth day, he finally ended his wandering and hurried to the palace to see the King.

The King received him in the study.

Brando bowed to the King behind the desk: ”Your Majesty, I have returned.”

”Mm.” The King continued to lower his head to review official business. ”How is the scenery in the Royal Capital?”

”Peaceful as always.”

Peaceful? That wasn’t exactly a word used to praise scenery.

The King looked up and put the pen in his hand back into the holder: ”Has the cause of the anomaly in the Silent Forest been determined?”

”It can be confirmed as the handiwork of the gods. In about... well... a year or so, the mountains standing between Lake and Kingdom will completely disappear.”

”Lake is about to be hunted. With our offensive on top of that, they are destined for defeat. It’s just that you, Brando... seem a bit unhappy.”

”And then?” Brando didn’t answer, murmuring as if to himself, ”After Lake falls, Kingdom will face the same dilemma. Can we make it through?”

In order to accumulate the power to attack Lake, Kingdom has done its fair share of plundering neighboring countries in recent years.

Although protected by the Church’s prohibition, the cities of neighboring countries were not invaded, but almost all the villages and small towns suffered.

Moreover, Kingdom often sent High-tier Professionals to kidnap neighboring nobles and demand high ransoms.

Additionally, when Kingdom was defeated by Lake for the first time, its neighbors took advantage of its weakness to tear away a large piece of its territory. Thus, the relationship between Kingdom and the surrounding Kingdoms was far from harmonious, with considerable resentment on both sides.

Now that the gods have ordered the elimination of the heretic Lake, the Allied Forces formed by the neighboring countries have temporarily refrained from casting their greedy eyes toward Kingdom.

But what about afterward?

The regulation strictly forbidding the use of force in human settlements has been lifted, and there are no longer any obstacles to the fires of war. Will the Allied Forces spare Kingdom?

One must know that the human race’s hunger for land has never ceased for even a single moment in ten thousand years.

The King of Kingdom sat up straight, an enigmatic smile appearing on his solemn face: ”You feel that Kingdom is no match for the Allied Forces, so you plan to... join hands with the heretic?”

”And a heretic that has a thousand-year grudge against Kingdom at that?”

The words sounded like an interrogation, yet Brando was not panicked at all. He understood his King.

”Your Majesty.” He bowed again, placing his right hand over his left chest in a salute. ”Grudges cannot be forgotten, but they can be temporarily set aside.”

”As for the issue of being a heretic... as long as Lake eliminates all his enemies, no one will dare call him a heretic anymore.”

”Oh?” the King asked with interest. ”You think Lake can unify the Saul Continent?”

”Well... assuming he can do it, how do you plan to resolve the gods’ accountability?”

”The gods...” Brando laughed. ”Don’t the gods also have to rely on us to eliminate Lake?”

The King scrutinized his face. After a moment, he lowered his head to continue browsing official business and said, ”We talked about nothing today. Whatever you want to do has nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with Kingdom.”

Brando knew that this was consent.

”Your Majesty, then I shall take my leave.”

”Mm.”

Leaving the palace, Brando did not linger outside the gates and headed directly for the Allied Forces’ camp.

He intended to join forces with Lake—no, with Zhang Mu—but before that, he needed to confirm whether Zhang Mu could meet the standards in his heart.

The method of confirmation was very simple.

The Allied Forces were about to engage in battle with Zhang Mu, and during that process, there would naturally be plenty of opportunities to observe.