The Boss King actually disguised himself as a novice village chief?!
Chapter 274 - 231 Everything Matched Up

Chapter 274: Chapter 231 Everything Matched Up

She was an ugly old woman dressed in a tattered linen dress; when one’s gaze fell upon her, the nose would involuntarily sniff out various stereotypical odors.

For example, the stench of elderly decay, the annoying smell of drool, and various groaning sounds.

She carried two wooden staffs; one of them was adorned with various decorations and was so large that an average adult man would struggle to carry it with both hands, yet she could grasp it easily with one hand, though it didn’t look as effortless as it seemed.

The staff in her other hand was slender and looked quite ordinary, yet it emitted a subtle fluctuation.

Lind was highly sensitive to this kind of mental fluctuation.

Lost Soul Chains, as well as the underground queen Melulan’s bug signals, were similar things.

The old woman was remotely controlling something through her staff.

Rats!

"Are you sure it’s her?" Lind looked at Doris, skeptical of Miss Chronicler’s sometimes functional, sometimes not, wizard abilities.

"Our powers share the same origin," Doris nodded affirmatively, her previous doubts were resolved after meeting the whispering crone today.

Both had traversed the same path of wizardry, which explained why she always felt a vaguely familiar sensation.

The "Chronicler’s Path" could also be called the "Prophet’s Path."

The only difference between them was that the whispering crone was corpulent and ugly, while Doris was beautiful.

Lind’s impression of Doris’s abilities had always revolved around her ability to hear things, which aligned well with her official duties; as a chronicler, she needed to eavesdrop in an unappealing manner and then document various court anecdotes.

It was said that many saucy jokes about the king and queen were inseparably linked to the chronicler’s poorly preserved notebooks.

Chroniclers loved to jot things down while also being adept at losing their notes, much like a professional curse.

It seemed the ability to listen endowed Doris with more than just the ability to eavesdrop.

"Let’s catch her before she notices us."

The star dragon soldiers had silently departed, getting ready, waiting for Lind’s further orders.

For this wedding, Lord Baya had almost gathered all his forces, and while it was just for show, it unexpectedly made Mountain Demon Castle into a fortress that was hard to breach.

Playing "catch the rat" inside such a castle wouldn’t be easy, but Lind couldn’t miss this opportunity, not knowing when he would next be allowed to enter Mountain Demon Castle, let alone with dozens of soldiers.

Marry well, Lind glanced at Lania as her presence gradually faded, disappearing into the crowd.

No one noticed the departure of the heavy armored knight holding his helmet as everyone was busy with their own matters and discussions.

Moreover, the wedding was still ongoing, and everyone’s attention was still not enough for the beautiful figure of the queen.

"The Queen!"

"Haha, greetings~ Her Majesty the Queen~!"

"The Queen, so beautiful!"

The market knights were shouting loudly; it was also their first time attending a royal wedding and they were merely spectating.

Lania frowned slightly, the surrounding atmosphere making her feel as if she were mired in mud.

But this was just a "fair trade," and she had approved the content of the deal, exchanging her identity and body as queen for a slim chance to revive the kingdom.

If not for the whispering crone’s prophecy hanging over her head, perhaps she wouldn’t be as anxious as she was now.

Will the future be changed?

She did not like to know in advance, but if she could make even a slight change, she would be willing to sacrifice for it.

There was still another thing that puzzled Lania.

"Why is Lind Armand here?" While the old priest above continued to stumble through the proceedings, Lania had already frowned and asked Lord Baya.

Lord Baya, admiring the Queen’s beauty, smiled and said, "He has just been through a war and is now in desperate need of protection."

Rather than telling the truth, he wanted the Queen to understand that it was he, not her, whom Lind had turned to.

He needed to minimize Lania’s influence as much as possible.

Lind’s strength could not be faked, and Lord Baya had never heard of a Baron named Lind, so he assumed the other was merely a knight from some legion.

It was unthinkable that the other could be a Noble; Nobles acquiring supernatural powers would go mad, not to mention, their bodies would invariably devolve far beyond the normal human realm without exception.

Unaware of what Lord Baya was thinking, Lania was simply surprised by Lind’s return.

What would Lind, who had once been as close as brothers with her, react to upon returning to Goliath and facing Prince Cote, who had completely become another person?

No one believed more strongly than Lind that Cote would become King.

Originally, both Lania and Cote had rights to the throne, and the gap between them was not significant.

The reason Lania became the new King was quite simple, but besides Lania and the late King, no one else knew about it.

It was because of the prophecy made by the Recorder Officer.

The prophecy did not reveal the arrival of the apocalypse, nor did it mention she would be expelled from Goliath, it merely stated that she would become the King; thus, the dying old King chose her to be the new King.

That is why Lania utterly believed the prophecy of the whispering woman.

There was no need to concern herself with how the prophecy would come to pass because when the prophecy was made, every event in the world started moving in that direction.

"He came back from the north, did he manage to cross the Snake Catcher Fortress?" Lania, apparently also aware of Baron Ronan, the barrier at the Snake Catcher Fortress, wanted no contact with either the New Nobility or the Old Nobility.

There was no significant power in the north, so all factions tacitly agreed not to infringe upon Baron Ronan’s territory.

"Yes, he came from the north..."

Lord Baya nodded, his smile suddenly freezing: "From the north, through the Snake Catcher Fortress?!"

He had thought that Lind was a central region’s legion force.

This was the disadvantage of an entire faction that lacked a Noble; broadly propagated rumors among the Nobility layers were familiar to even youngsters, but for non-Nobles like Baya, it was total darkness.

Linking it to the whispering woman’s prophecy, Lord Baya’s heart suddenly began to beat uncontrollably.

Everything matched!

No, it was just a coincidence!

He had already instigated the "rats" through the whispering woman to stir up chaos at the Snake Catcher Fortress; the other party shouldn’t have been able to get through there.

Could the other really have killed that giant snake?

He suddenly turned to look for Lind in the crowd, only to realize that both Lind and those Soldiers wearing Rand’s armor had all disappeared.

His own Knights of Honor hadn’t noticed the slightest bit, still chatting loudly, oblivious to the disappearance of several Great Knights from their lines of sight.