I don’t know how long it took, until an oil lamp on the wall started to flicker, and the suffocating silence in the tavern finally dissipated.

"Damn it, Prince..." Tampa sighed painfully: "This...why am I so unlucky today..."

"Oops, uh, this is not a good sign..." Kuaisheng lowered his head and muttered something.

"You..." This is Marina staring at Thales with her eyes wide open, her palm pressed tightly on the hilt of the sword.

The mercenaries also began to whisper.

"Quiet."

Clay ordered calmly, his eyes not leaving Thales, but the sword was still pressed against Dean's chest.

Thales put aside all his scruples, leaned back on the chair with relief, and calmly faced everyone's gaze.

Now that things have come to this, what else can be done?

It's better to think about it, next...

"Do you really think you can smuggle out loot right under our noses, Dean?"

The former special envoy of the Exeters, Russell Vader, who was no longer a baron, snorted from his nose, glanced at Thales, and said coldly to Dean: "Especially such a big portion?"

Dean curled his lips disdainfully: "You are just lucky, the king's lackey."

Russell gave him a contemptuous smile in return.

Ricky slowly walked forward, stood in front of Thales, and looked directly into Thales' eyes.

"Tiles Bright Star?"

Ricky raised the corners of his mouth and looked at Thales with slightly divergent eyes: "You really exceeded my expectations."

At that moment, his eyes became stern:

"Just like other bright stars."

Thales was a little stunned.

Whether it was Nicolai, Monty, Dean, or just now Dozer and Russell, when they looked at Thales, it was often like looking at a prey or valuable treasure.

But the strange thing is that the way Ricky looked at him didn't have any such meaning at all, but was slightly confused.

It's like seeing another person through Thales.

But Thales, who was in danger, couldn't think so much. He thought carefully about his opportunities.

Thales coughed first, then took a deep breath: "Same for you, Sword of Disaster."

“Choosing the hardest road was beyond my expectation.”

Ricky closed his eyes, smiled, and turned around. The figure cast on the wall swayed in the light.

"It seems that your mission has been completed ahead of schedule, Drill," Ricky glanced sideways at Drill in the distance: "It's easier than expected, maybe too easy?"

The driller bowed from afar, with a smile on his face.

"Thanks to you all."

"Don't waste any more time," Russell interrupted them decisively: "This is the enemy's territory, and we still need to arrange evacuation."

"You are intercepting the secret room..." Dean wanted to say something, but Clay turned his wrist slightly, and the pressing edge of the sword blocked all the words of the dark room agent in his throat.

Ricky walked back and waved, and Clay and the masked man nodded to him.

Thales observed their interaction, saw Ricky's gesture, and knew that he could no longer remain silent.

"I don't understand, Ricky," Thales cleared his throat and said loudly to Ricky's back: "I heard about you from an attendant, a group of swordsmen who aim to overthrow the Terminator Tower, right?

"

Ricky paused.

"Of course, you have heard of it," Crassus, the Sword of Disaster, sneered:

"But you don't know that."

Thales snorted softly.

"does it worth?"

The prince stood up from his seat, and the mercenaries beside him unconsciously shifted into combat postures until Ricky waved them away.

"The Prison of Bones...is it worth you giving up everything and going against the entire Kingdom of Stars? Even to the point of cooperating with these people to kidnap me and make yourself the mortal enemy of the stars?" Thales said solemnly.

Russell frowned in the distance.

"Stop talking nonsense to him, this prince is used to inciting..."

But Ricky raised a hand to suppress the Exeter man's words.

The leader of the Sword of Disaster turned around again and approached Thales step by step.

Compared with other people who are murderous or have a sharp aura that keeps strangers away, the leader of the Sword of Disaster has gentle eyes and a calm demeanor, and is not very aggressive. However, for some reason, he seems to have a slowly accumulating whirlpool around him.

As the steps slowly accumulated, Thales' breathing stagnated unconsciously wherever he stepped.

"Like I said, you don't know."

He bent down and looked directly into Thales's eyes: "You don't know what we want."

Thales gritted his teeth and raised his fingers.

"Listen, no matter what you want, or who you want to rescue from the Bone Prison, I can satisfy you, just a small order..."

The prince took a step forward and said firmly: "Don't forget, I am the prince of the stars and the heir to the kingdom. This is your best and safest opportunity, as long as..."

But Ricky just smiled mysteriously and shook his head.

Instead, the masked man behind him said in a low voice: "You can't."

His tone was cold:

"Unless you are the king."

The masked man's tone contained an irresistible negative emotion, as if Thales was his enemy, which made the prince stunned for a moment.

"But I will eventually," Thales came back to his senses and tried his best to seize the opportunity:

"And you're ruining that opportunity..."

Ricky suddenly spoke and interrupted him.

"I heard another Bright Star say something like "I will become a king," Ricky said lightly: "Guess what happened to him?"

Thales was stunned for a second by these words.

"Even if you do become the king, Thales Bright Star," Ricky straightened up and looked down at Thales: "By then, everything will have changed. Whether it's us..."

His eyes dimmed slightly:

"still you."

"In contrast, I prefer to choose the present."

The melancholy in his tone made Thales think deeply.

Ricky shook his head.

"Tie him up, pack him up and take him away." The leader of the Sword of Disaster returned to his previous calmness and ruthlessness.

This made Thales nervous!

Oops.

what to do?

Ricky glanced at the fast rope beside Thales and frowned, "As for the other person..."

Quick Rope immediately sat up straight, pointing at Thales with a frightened and innocent look on his face: "No, no, no..."

"I swear, he paid me to do this. I really have nothing to do with this person."

What? Thales raised his eyebrows.

Ricky snorted: "Very good, then kill him."

What? Kuaisheng's throat seemed to have been strangled instantly, and together with his unbelievable expression, he was frozen in place.

The two mercenaries behind Quick Rope drew their swords and prepared to step forward.

Dean couldn't help but frown.

"Really, there really isn't anything..." Kuaisheng looked at this and then that, biting the word "relationship" in his mouth, and repeated in shock and mechanically: "No, no, no

any……"

The next second, the sluggish Quick Rope seemed to have made up his mind. He gritted his teeth, raised his voice, and shouted out the words he was still hesitating intermittently: "There is really no possibility of separation!"

In the strange eyes of everyone, Kuaisheng threw away his arms, looking righteous and awe-inspiring.

"I, Wyatt Kasuo, must stay with His Highness Thales!" He stopped in front of Thales and shouted categorically under the latter's stunned eyes.

Quick Rope bravely raised his arms and pointed at the people around him, his tone was heroic and fearless, and he looked down upon death:
To be continued...