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"Wait! Penny was in a hurry.
"What's wrong?" Alec blinked.
"This ...... Do you know why Master Teramant is looking for me?" asked Penny with a serious expression.
Yali shook her head in confusion.
The wizard took a deep breath, "I know, because Master Teramant wants to kill me. ”
Penny said in a very dark tone.
In fact, he didn't know what Terramante would do when he saw him, and it was well documented that the High Prince had little chance of killing him, as the High Prince's hand, Hajhorner had shown kindness to Penny on many occasions.
However, Penny didn't dare to pin his life and death on the thoughts of a legendary master he had never met, not to mention that he was now a sneaky spy who needed personal space to do what he wanted.
For example, finding the Key of Isil Aaron.
So he had no choice but to threaten Alexia with false words.
In this little girl's heart, there is no rational thinking, only trust in a few close people, which the wizard knows very well.
Hearing Penny's words, Alexia opened her small mouth in disbelief, and shook her head for a moment: "Impossible, Dad and you are both good people, how could they kill you?"
"Because I have sinned against him. Penny smiled wryly and began to make up nonsense: "Now he wants to kill me, Ally, it's true. ”
Alexia sat back on the bed like an idiot and thought for a long time, "No. ”
How could Dad kill him?
"And what did he ask me for?"
Yali was speechless.
"Ally, don't do that unless you want to see me end my life now. Seeing that Alexia's expression was still hesitant, Penny was ruthless, and came up with the most effective threat he could say, which he believed would definitely impress Alexia.
Alexia was stunned for a moment, her face instantly turned pale, and she was in a daze for a while. Biting his fingers with a somewhat sullen expression: "Dad will be angry......"
Penny was completely relieved.
His body has been transformed and reshaped, and after leaving the grassland, the methodology and power system have changed drastically compared to the past, and the aura of power left by the Mithic energy core has become very light. He believed that as long as Alexia didn't expose him, he believed that no one in the Netherworld would be able to see through him.
After getting Alexia, Penny's life safety in Ghost City will be guaranteed to a certain extent.
"How so?" Penny was relieved and patted Alexia's brain: "I came quietly, quietly left, no one knew I had come, how could Lord Teramante know?"
“...... Yes. Alexia slapped her head. Throwing himself on the bed again: "So that Dad won't be angry." ”
Penny was secretly ashamed to teach a child to deceive his parents, which was a great sin.
However, compared to the big plan to save the end of the world, this little thing does not need to be considered too much.
"Would you like to stay here and play with Ally?" Ally whispered in Penny's ear, "Daddy and Hajhorner have been ignoring me lately......"
"Ya Li......" The wizard hesitated for a moment, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to be able to use Ya Li to achieve his own goals: "I came to Yin Ghost City this time because I have important things to do...... If you can't do it......"
He wanted to talk about the end of the world, and he thought that if such a statement was accepted by Arlie. Perhaps it would cause her to worry about the safety of Terramante, and then leak the news, exposing Penny's existence......
So. He had no choice but to use a more effective excuse for Alexia: "I'm going to die." ”
"Ah~?" Alexia opened her mouth in horror and hugged Penny tightly: "No, Penny won't die." ”
"So Ary...... You must not divulge my existence to Lord Teramante, this matter is too important to me to be known to anyone else. Penny solemnly repeated the monstrous lie.
...,
Ally nodded repeatedly, and through the close bodies to each other, Penny felt the little girl's whole body tremble with fear and worry, and a deep sense of shame rose in her heart.
Compared to Alexia's single-mindedness in thinking about him, what he did was simply shameless and despicable.
I was here to save the world, and the wizard felt that there was some benefit to being a savior. That is to be able to find a reason for one's shameless behavior to be loud enough and righteous enough that most people will not object to it.
Maybe that's right, but I'm sorry anyway.
The wizard gave Alexia a gentle kiss on the side of the cheek.
Alexia blushed, raised her little head, and had a resolute expression: "Penny." I'll help you. ”
"No need, Ally. The wizard smiled, of course it wasn't that he didn't really need to, but that he couldn't have asked Alexia directly to find the key to Isil Aaron, if she showed a flaw in the middle of the operation, she would be startled.
He just needs to create better conditions for Alexia without him knowing.
At least the identity of the messenger of Shen Imasca is not enough to facilitate his actions.
What happened to him before entering this manor had already made Penny understand that during the days when these Imaska apostles were working in the Netherworld, they would inevitably be under pervasive surveillance, which might not be excessive, but freedom was certainly non-existent.
At such a sensitive moment, it was impossible for the people of Ghost City to let their guard down.
Ally's expression was depressed, apparently unhappy by Penny's refusal.
"By the way, Arlie, where do you live in Netherworld?" asked Penny.
"Me?" "Ah, I live in the Arcane Hall on the side of the palace, and by the way, there is that bad woman, who lives in a villa not far from the Arcane Hall......"
Speaking of 'bad woman', Arlie bit her finger in annoyance, but the corners of Penny's eyes twitched slightly.
"By the way, she's going to come over and tell me all that boring stuff in the afternoon......" Ary's expression became more and more distressed, "If I run away, Revaran will complain to my father...... Woohoo......"
Penny's mind was racing and he quickly had a plan, "How about I go there with you, Ally?" he said in a soft tone.
"Okay!" "Allie's eyes were smiling, hugging him tightly and putting her face on Penny's shoulder, "You're going to sleep with Arlie." It's so strange how you felt when you touched Ally just now......"
The wizard sweated profusely, and he wiped the beads of sweat with his hands, barely making the expression on his face look less distorted. Only then did he say, "Then I'll prepare, and we'll go now." ”
"Hmm. Ally nodded heavily.
After a while, the wizard followed Alexia through the shadows to the palace in the Netherworld.
The size of the palace was not huge, and in the time of Gunesser, there was no real emperor, the so-called royal palace. It was also only a slightly larger Arcane Lord's Mansion, and the Shadow Lord of Terramante at the time was only a small role among many large Arcanists with amazing mana, and Netherworld was also a relatively small one of all the floating cities in Netheril.
Therefore, the palace is not ornate, it looks like a small castle from the outside, the walls of the fortress are covered with shadow moss, and the shadow of the canopy looks lonely and bleak, revealing a smell of vicissitudes and mystery.
The walls were carved with quaint runes, emitting a dark mist against a background of shadows - as if absorbing every inch of light around them. And the outer layer is a faint light.
It is said that Teramantt Tanshur would occasionally sit on a floating throne and overlook the panoramic view of the City of the Shadows from above.
Following Alexia to her quarters, Penny quickly put a stop to looking. Instead, he observed the environment intently: simple, clean, and elegant, with two ghosts guarding the doorway, and a few working maids inside.
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As for the room, there were a few toys scattered around, presumably collected from other parts of Faerun, and some books, which looked so new that Penny could almost be sure they were all decorations.
The Invisibility Ring was worn long before the Shadow Leap was activated, so when Alexia appeared in the room, Penny's body did not appear with it. Instead, they hide in a small corner of the bedroom and carefully observe their surroundings.
Facing the many maids who stood up to salute, Alexia yawned and waved her hand: "I'm going to take a nap, you all go out." ”
The maids saluted and took leave, and one of the older maids said, "Your Highness." Mr. Savian had just arrived, and was still waiting in the library next to him. ”
"Savian?" Alexia waved her hand, a hint of disgust on her face, "Let him come." ”
"Who is this Savian?" Penny asked in a low voice when he saw the disgusted look on Alexia's face.
"He's a nuisance...... too," Alexia pouted, "Brenas sent him to teach me to read a few days ago...... Hmph, just as annoying......"
Penidon was speechless, and after a while, a young ghost with glasses walked in, in all fairness, this ghost man was not ugly, and he could be called handsome, but the expression on his face was very unpopular.
Penny has always believed that if the expressions that often appear on the faces of middle-aged and elderly people appear on the faces of teenagers, it is very incongruous, and this young man with a straight face like a zombie has violated this taboo at once.
He opened a large tome and slowly began to read, the content was history, and not long after he spoke, Alexia began to fall asleep, and he woke up Alexia in a very mechanical way, and continued to chant the scriptures, Penny read for ten minutes, and then began to shake his head again and again: it is rare for a lecture to be able to speak like this.
No wonder Yali doesn't like him.
It's no wonder that children who don't like to read in the first place will like it when they meet such a gentleman.
He looked at the ghost man and decided that he wanted him to do something to save the world.
He delivers a telepathic communication to Ally, revealing his plan succinctly to Ary.
The latter was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.
She had wanted to fix this gentleman for a long time, but she didn't do it because she would be sued by Brainers after the beating.
Penny's plan caters to her needs.
"Great!"
The more she thought about it, the happier she became, and she cried out excitedly.
Pennyton sweated at the corners of his forehead.
"Your Highness Alexia, whatever you dream of in your sweet dreams......" The Ghost Man Savian tapped the table with his heavy spine in displeasure, and let out a dull 'dangdang' sound, "Please pay attention, we are in class right now." ”
"Yes, Mr. Savian. Alexia yawned and jumped from her seat to the ground, "It's a little too hot here, shall we go to the back garden for a lecture?"
Savian looked at the soft cloth underneath Alexia's seat and nodded.
At least the stools in the garden won't make it so easy to fall asleep.
As the only princess of Netherworld, Alexia's education is important.
It is difficult to instill knowledge and information through spells with powerful souls born from the Mithic core, so Alexia, despite her strength, still has to use the learning methods of ordinary people to accept knowledge outside of the arcane.
As one of the implementers of the teaching program set up by Teramante Tanshur, Savian had to do his job conscientiously.
Although the experience of a period of time has been enough for him to know what kind of undesirable talent this princess is, he still has to do his duty, otherwise neither Brainers nor Terramante will make him feel better.
So he followed Alexia to a small secluded garden.
This place is damp and has a faint cool smell, and the shade plants are growing luxuriantly, and it is a good place to look at with the aesthetics of the Yin Man.
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He took a breath and sat down on the chair beside the wooden table, and after a while he heard Her Royal Highness the princess also sit across the table, and when he looked up, he was about to bow his head and continue to flip the book, when he was suddenly startled.
Because it wasn't the princess's face that I just looked up to see.
A sense of horror drove him to raise his head again, and a completely unfamiliar man's face came into view, but before he could see what this face looked like, all his attention was drawn to his eyes.
An hourglass-shaped pupil with streamers of sand flowing through it at an impossibly slow speed, and he felt his thoughts slow down.
......
In the small garden behind the Arcane Hall, Savian Metoris, the teacher in charge of educating the history of the kingdom of the shadow princess Alexia, sat opposite the princess, and after a while, Alexia smiled and pinched Penny's face: "Penny, you have become real." ”
Simulating the methodological shell, this transformation technique can be said to be very vivid, Alexia is difficult to detect the difference with a pure mana creature, and the chance of being seen through is very small, thinking of this, Penny nodded, very satisfied with this disguise: "From now on, I will be your teacher, Yali." ”
"Hmm!" Arlie nodded happily.
"Your Highness, Lady Mayer is here. ”
The voice of the maid outside the door made Alexia's happy little face collapse again.
Solve a nasty ghost, and another nasty ghost comes.
When it was time to get down to business, Penny, disguised as Savian Metoris, lifted his spirits.