On the other side, Xu Sili ended the call and discussed the meeting place with Si Sheng.
“How about going to Zone F? I don’t know the specific situation of these people. It is safest to go to Zone F.”
Naturally, Si Sheng had no objections. He saw the other person’s smile and excited expression and asked, “Do you want to take them back?”’
“Let’s see them first.”
Xu Sili leaned into his arms and ate the grapes he fed. “Several of them should be elementalists. Many of Roland’s inheritances have been broken. It would be great if we could invite them back to teach and educate people.”
He also wondered before. Roland’s inheritance was broken. Even if new ruins were found after the main city was upgraded, what about these inheritances that appeared in the ruins?
It was just like the magic circle mage inheritance. Did it all depend on the NPC’s own epiphany as a mentor? However, knowledge and ability needed to be accumulated. It was just like Su Lin, who was only a beginner magic circle mage apprentice.
Earlier when he promoted this kid to be a mentor, Su Lin was so scared that he almost cried.
Now some of these doubts had been resolved.
Perhaps the mentors with special life professions were still living outside. After the Roland Empire gradually upgraded, they would probably return to Escher under the impetus of various plots, right?
“Oh, it’s not too late!”
Xu Sili became even more excited as he thought about it. “Let’s set it to the afternoon near the food street of Zone F. There are many places suitable for talking about things.”
He settled on it directly and sent a message to Adrian. After getting a reply, he happily kissed Si Sheng.
Si Sheng looked at him, eyes becoming darker.
It had been a long time since the two of them had been intimate. Seeing the young man’s radiant appearance, he couldn’t endure it any longer. He leaned over and blocked his lips.
Xu Sili fell on the sofa.
The two of them entangled together and played until the appointed time. Then they reluctantly entered the dark room and lay down leisurely in the game cabin.
In order to avoid revealing their identities and exposing themselves as the behind the scenes bosses of the Fox’s House, they naturally couldn’t use their previous images.
Si Sheng had black hair and black eyes and wore a black mask. His age and height were adjusted to be consistent with reality. He looked much more calm and domineering.
Xu Sili still maintained the characteristics of the imperial family of Roland, but he changed to short hair and his fox mask became a pure white mask without any textured decoration.
The two of them were black and white. They were quite a good match when standing together.
Xu Sili looked at each other’s new looks and nodded with satisfaction. Then he reached out to Si Sheng.
Si Sheng held him and led him to the Star Network community.
Zone F.
This was one of the busiest places in the entire Star Network. In the universe, ordinary people with a mental strength of F and E accounted for the majority. Therefore, these two zones were the most vibrant.
Walking on the street, they could see pedestrians walking around with the milk tea of the Fox’s House everywhere. After the ‘food broadcast’ of Si Sheng’s last Genius Competition match, the reputation of the Fox House was pushed to a new height again.
This time, it wasn’t only the milk tea but also snacks like the spicy strips. Sales soared after the competition.
Every time he saw the backstage income, Xu Sili found it difficult to restrain his desire to buy things. He could only buy some virtual products for comfort.
Maybe the matter of going out into the universe could be put on the agenda.
The meeting place was a tea house near the food court.
The private room was booked a long time ago. They entered the teahouse lobby and entered the room number and password on the pop-up light curtain and were teleported to the virtual room.
In the room, someone was already waiting inside.
Mr Huo had been waiting there for a long time.
He didn’t expect that there would be such a big surprise when contacting the people of the Interstellar Alliance.
Even his proposal to see the new His Majesty Roland wasn’t rejected, making him feel like it was a dream.
After receiving the reply, he hurriedly notified his old friends who previously intended to return to their homeland. But so far, only one person had replied to him.
They were getting older and left the communicator device somewhere, or they didn’t hear the message notification.
The only person who replied to him was preparing to transfer her nationality back to Roland. She was arguing with the immigration department and couldn’t get away for a while, so Mr Huo had to be the representative.
Mr Huo fidgeted in the private room.
It had been a long time since he had been so nervous. It was probably due to homesickness and…
The admiration and submission to the Roland imperial family were engraved in the bone marrow.
Even after so many years of wandering, he never forgot Roland. The older he became, the clearer his memories of his youth.
At that time, Roland was the most powerful nation on Escher and their ruler was the strongest. Not only was there impressive strength, but there was also wisdom and benevolence that others couldn’t match.
To this day, Mr Huo still remembered the sight of the emperor from afar at the Autumn Festival…
What would the current emperor be like?
Mr Huo recalled Adrian’s reply. In his heart, he could vaguely think of the outline of a young man around 18 years old. As for the rest, he couldn’t imagine anything else.
18 years old…
He was younger than Mr Huo’s grandson. He might be an adult according to Roland’s situation but Mr Huo was accustomed to interstellar standards and felt that 18 years old was too young.
His old friend had decided to immigrate. Now all the procedures were on the agenda and even the spaceship had been booked. Mr Huo was very different from her.
He was a bit worried that they would cause chaos if they went back or that the empire wouldn’t need them at all.
Mr Huo was immersed in his thoughts and couldn’t help sighing. Then he heard a voice behind him.
“Are you Elder Huo?”
Mr Huo heard the clear and gentle male voice and had a good impression before he even saw the person.
Looking back, he found that there were two more people in the private room and subconsciously stood up.
The aura from the one with black hair and black eyes made him suffocate. Then his eyes were soon attracted to the one in the white mask.
“I’m Huo Zhen. Can I ask who you are…”
In fact, there was no need to ask at all. Access to the private room required permission and the identities of the two were ready to be revealed.
Under his gaze, the young man took off his mask and smiled gently at him.
“I’m Snow Roland and this is my marshal— Si Sheng.”
Facing the old man, a type who was dedicated to serving the nation, Xu Sili didn’t put on any airs and faced him with the posture of a junior.
Moreover, the old man should’ve used a realistic image. His hair was slightly white and he looked kind-hearted. He had the temperament of a literati, which gave Xu Sili a good first impression.
Mr Huo looked at his face and tears filled his eyes. Once he realized his gaffe, he wiped his eyes and saluted Xu Sili.
This was Roland’s ancient etiquette and it was rare for someone to still remember it.
Xu Sili helped him up and he said, “I’m sorry, you… you look really similar to the late emperor…”
Xu Sili didn’t mind. After sitting down on the seat opposite him, Xu Sili beckoned for him to sit and talk.
“The emperor you are talking about should be Roland XI. He isn’t my father but he should be my great-grandfather?”
“My father… he died half a year ago and I inherited his legacy. I am now the 15th ruler of Roland.”
Mr Huo nodded quickly with a sigh and a sad expression.
Over the past hundred years… Roland’s throne changed too quickly. The degree of hardship could be imagined.
“I am grateful that Your Majesty can take time out of your busy schedule to see me. After so many years of exile, I rarely hear about Roland…”
Mr Huo said cheekily.
“I don’t know much about the current Roland Empire. Can I bother Your Majesty to tell me about it?”
Naturally, Xu Sili didn’t refuse. He didn’t avoid the most important things and mentioned the difficulties that the Roland Empire was currently encountering.
If he chose not to come back because of the difficulties, Xu Sili could understand. However, if he came back after knowing the difficulties then Xu Sili must respect him well.
It was easy to put icing on the cake but it was hard to give help when needed.
Mr Huo listened and memorized the conversation between the two of them.
The Roland Empire…
The situation was much more serious than he thought!
Three years ago, there was a large-scale beast wave and this led to the death of two, no, three members of the imperial family, as well as sacrificed countless people and cities…
Mr Huo was sad to hear it. The Star Network system issued a warning to him and told him to control his emotions or he would be kicked offline. He barely controlled himself.
“Your Majesty, it is really hard for you!”
The old man stared into Xu Sili’s eyes with pity, making Xu Sili a bit uncomfortable. Still, he saw that Mr Huo was emotionally unstable and didn’t say much to stimulate him.
“I’m okay. The ones really working hard are the generals and soldiers defending the city. They are the foundation of the empire.”
Mr Huo nodded repeatedly.
Xu Sili said again, “However, Roland’s existing inheritances are too few. Even the inheritance of the sound elementalist is completely broken.”
“Can I ask if you are an elementalist?”
“Yes.”
Mr Huo nodded and said with some shame and regret, “It is just that I’ve abandoned training for over a hundred years and only restored the strength of three stars a short time ago…”
Three stars?
This old gentleman turned out to be a three star elementalist!
Xu Sili was a bit surprised. Such strength was ranked third in the Roland Empire. What was there to be ashamed of?
However, hearing the meaning of the old man’s words, he asked again, “What was your original strength?”
“Before my level fell, I nearly reached five stars. Unfortunately, I don’t know why but the level of myself and the elementalists I know was suppressed at two stars. There was a breakthrough not long ago…”
Mr Huo paused. “By the way, Your Majesty, has anything major happened to Roland recently?”
Several of his old friends had analyzed that the decline in level happened at the beginning of the Escher disaster. Now that their level rose, was it related to their homeland.
An event?
Xu Sili quickly understood what he wanted to know and told him about upgrading the main city and lifting the level seal.
Mr Huo gritted his teeth when he heard this and became angry.
“It turned out to be a seal! D*mn seal! Who is targeting Escher and targeting the elementalists?”
Thinking of the seniors who died due to the fall of their level, Mr Huo couldn’t wait to immediately grab that person and crush their corpse into ten thousand pieces, crushing their bones to ashes and feeding them to interstellar beasts!
Seeing that he was emotional, Xu Sili hurriedly pacified him. He couldn’t say it was due to the dog planners so he had to change the topic. “You should feel it. I just unlocked one seal so you are stopped at three stars.”
“Currently, the known way to lift the star limit is to increase the national strength of the Roland Empire.”
He looked at the old man and said seriously, “Mr Huo, are you willing to return to Escher and do your part for the empire?”
This time, Mr Huo no longer had any hesitation.
“It is my duty!”
He responded clearly and his voice was full of spirit. He didn’t seem like he was over 150 years old at all.
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