The crowd in the Imperial Palace looked at Kane, who was flashing with golden light, and fell into a kind of short-circuited state, hurriedly following the actions of the elder.
The surrounding noble officials all knelt down, even the King on the throne crawled down onto his knees.
Seeing them beside him, repenting and apologizing, Kane turned to look at his teammates behind him and shrugged helplessly.
Then he turned back to the people kneeling in front of him and said.
"Alright, get up, I will not hold you accountable, God loves all people. As a Son of God, I will still follow the rules of my predecessors. I hide my identity to train in the mortal world. I hope you do not proclaim my identity widely, otherwise..."
After saying this, he gestured at a statue beside him with a virtual grip, and with a bang, the statue turned into a cloud of dust.
"We wouldn’t dare, seeing the true form of the Son of God is our honor, we will surely keep it a secret,"
Seeing their attitude, Kane nodded in satisfaction, and, not wanting to waste time here, said,
"Give me the location and information of the Evil Dragon and the map of this area. I will bring your Princess back safely."
Since Aiklonen says this is a romantic hero’s adventure journey, the Princess must have been rescued by him in the end.
There shouldn’t be a situation where the Princess is already dead when going for a rescue, as that wouldn’t be romantic.
A nearby official quickly took out a rectangular wooden box from his pocket, opened it, and handed it to Kane with his head bowed down.
Having obtained the items, Kane tilted his head towards his teammates, and then everyone quickly left the Royal Palace.
Once Kane had left, the crowd in the palace slowly got up and returned to their places.
The King on the throne waved his hand, and several soldiers appeared, arresting the sly and cunning official from before.
The minister seemed to know the fate he had to face; pleading was now meaningless and couldn’t change anything. He just lowered his head without saying a word.
"Pope Edgar, was that person really the Son of God?"
The King leaned on the throne and asked the elder beside him.
"Your Majesty, whether he’s the Son of our God, I’m unable to distinguish, but he definitely has God’s bloodline, no doubt about that."
"Is that so? Then I hope this Son of God can bring my daughter back safely."
Meanwhile, Kane and his companions had already left the Imperial Palace, walking on the streets of the Royal Capital.
"Did you see that guy just now, oh~ God, forgive me~ hahahaha," Longbei said, vividly mimicking the actions and words of those people they just encountered.
Kreya chuckled and then asked Kane beside her, "How did you know they would buy that?"
"Haha, actually I wasn’t sure it would have such a good effect. I just saw the presence of a church on the way to the palace and wanted to intimidate them a bit so they wouldn’t push their luck. Who knew it would work so well."
What really caught Kane’s attention was the elder who led the others in bowing to Kane, seemingly a role similar to the Pope of this country.
When he bowed to Kane, he didn’t call out to God or Divine Envoy but called Son of God, why specifically Son of God? Normally one wouldn’t think of that identity.
Whether it’s a coincidence or not, anyway, he accurately shouted out the core effect of the skill Kane just used.
Which is to transform Kane into a demigod, essentially the effect of the Son of God.
Forget it, dwelling on things without any informational support is just a waste of brainpower.
Kane called Yoyo over and then opened the wooden box given by the official, which contained two scrolls rolled up in parchment.
Spreading out the parchment, one was a map of the surrounding area, and the other detailed the location of the Evil Dragon’s nest and some simple intelligence around it.
Yoyo scanned the map first while Kane began to read through the intelligence on the Evil Dragon.
A dragon entrenched around a volcano, using the lava caves inside the volcano as its nest. Such an old... no, classic setup.
Around the Evil Dragon’s nest, besides the dragon, are lots of creatures attracted by its evil.
These creatures guard the critical paths leading to the volcano, and to meet the dragon and rescue the Princess, one must bravely hack and slash through.
Pass five gates, defeat six generals, go through various tribulations and difficulties, finally arriving before the Evil Dragon for a heroic and thrilling duel.
Kane tossed the parchment to the ground, "Crazy! This setup."
The others, extremely curious about what had Kane so frustrated, picked up the parchment from the ground and gathered to look at it.
The parchment was then tossed to the ground again by the group.
Looking at this setup, a sense of childhood embarrassment surged through them. When they were young, they loved such storyline and novels, never getting tired of them, now thinking back, it was like a dark past.
"How can you litter like that? Isn’t such an experience process interesting?" Longbei, like a Warrior, picked up the parchment from the ground, patted off the dust, and examined it intently.
Speaking of which, sometimes when they didn’t want to deal with Longbei’s chattering, Longbei would sit alone, pulling out some old knight novels to read with relish.
Oh no, they forgot Longbei had this attribute. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⚑𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⚑𝓷𝓮𝓽
After carefully reviewing the information and route on the parchment, Longbei said excitedly,
"Our first route is from the side gate of the Royal Capital along the path straight to the Dark Swamp, where one of the monster armies under the Evil Dragon is stationed, led by a Lizardman Elder. Defeat him, and we should be able to enter the road beyond."
He no longer wanted to complain about Aiklonen. If he were a game designer, he definitely couldn’t afford to eat.
Creating a linear storyline in an open world, not that such stories don’t exist, but they’re completely negligible.
If this really were Aiklonen’s true experience, then one could only say that anything is possible in this vast world.
According to Yoyo’s identification, the road from the Royal Capital to the Dark Swamp isn’t short, about 300 kilometers.
They inquired at the city gate if there were any carriages or caravans heading through there, hoping to hitch a ride.
However, no groups were heading that way, and upon hearing Kane’s team’s intention to go there, they were told about its horrors, urging them to abandon such plans.
Could it be that Aiklonen isn’t some protagonist of a game world?