#2445 - Deal with

From afar, Fang Heng transformed into a bat and rushed over, meeting up with Li Shaoqiang and Tan Shuo outside the Ice Fortress.

"How's the situation?"

"Not good." Li Shaoqiang immediately delivered bad news, "City Lord Hornroehr already knows about Punoze's crisis. He still insists on preventing players from entering the depths of the Ice Prison, and he doesn't seem to be willing to defend the Ice Prison together with the major forces. It looks like he's preparing to deal with the Sanctuary alone."

Is that so...?

Fang Heng stroked his chin, feeling a bit unusual.

Logically speaking, shouldn't they unite all forces to resist the Sanctuary?

"That's what he says, but I don't think City Lord Hornroehr is as simple as he looks. He may have other backup plans." Tan Shuo said, looking at Fang Heng, "Boss Fang, do you have any new information on your side?"

"Well, as far as I know, the people from the Sanctuary managed to get their hands on two sacred artifacts. One of them is for dealing with the Ice Bone Dragon, and the other is for invading the Ice Prison."

Fang Heng paused, adding, "Secondly, the Sanctuary's target in this invasion of Punoze is me, so they will definitely come after me."

This is difficult.

Li Shaoqiang and Tan Shuo exchanged glances upon hearing this, speechless.

It's strange, how exactly did Fang Heng offend the Holy Court to make the Sanctuary go to such lengths to deal with him?

Helpless, they could only take it one step at a time.

"Let's go, let's go find City Lord Hornroehr first and ask about the situation."

In fact, Li Shaoqiang and Tan Shuo had already tried to visit City Lord Hornroehr.

The guards at the gate said that the City Lord would not see anyone, and instead advised them to leave quickly to avoid being affected.

This time, with Fang Heng leading the way for a personal visit, the treatment was obviously different.

After seeing Fang Heng, the guards outside the fortress immediately led Fang Heng into the fortress to meet the City Lord.

City Lord Hornroehr could be considered an old friend of Fang Heng's.

In the beginning, Fang Heng helped him find the Hornroehr family crest. After that, Fang Heng had been staying in the Ice Prison to cultivate necromancy for a while, during which he received Hornroehr's help and also completed many related tasks for the Ice Fortress, so they had become quite familiar.

Under the guidance of the guards, the three entered the lounge.

The first time he saw City Lord Hornroehr, he was sitting on a recliner reading a book, looking very leisurely.

This gave Li Shaoqiang a glimmer of hope.

The Sanctuary is already at the door, and he can still be so calm?

Could it be that the City Lord still has some backup plans?

"Fang Heng? You haven't left yet?" City Lord Hornroehr was also a little surprised when he saw Fang Heng. He put down the book in his hand and shook his head, "I thought you had already left Punoze. Why? Why didn't you leave?"

The seal set by the Sanctuary on Punoze is only effective for most players. Hornroehr felt that with Fang Heng's ability in spatial studies, it would not be difficult to find a way to leave.

Fang Heng smiled, "City Lord, you haven't left either."

"I'm different."

"The more people there are, the more sacrifices there will be, there's no need for that."

"If irrelevant people disperse, the Ice Prison will not be so conspicuous, and it may be able to survive. After a few days, when the Necromancer camp recovers, they will naturally send reinforcements."

City Lord Hornroehr thought it through very clearly, and he didn't hide anything from Fang Heng, simply telling him his entire plan.

He couldn't win anyway.

He didn't even think about fighting.

"If the Sanctuary's target is the Ice Prison, then I will retreat into the depths of the Ice Prison with my personal guards. With our understanding of the Ice Prison, our limit is probably to enter the Yin Meridian area."

"If the Holy Court continues to pursue..."

A hint of killing intent flashed in City Lord Hornroehr's eyes.

"I will break all the seals guarding the Ice Prison. At that time, even the Sanctuary will suffer a lot."

The three of Fang Heng listened, and couldn't help but fall silent.

Good heavens, City Lord Hornroehr is planning to perish together...

Accurately speaking, if he really acted according to the plan, City Lord Hornroehr would definitely die in the Ice Prison, but the Sanctuary might not.

Therefore, City Lord Hornroehr had already made up his mind to die.

In this way, there was indeed no need for the help of other players and forces. For Hornroehr, they were a burden.

Expelling the players and the major forces was actually a disguised form of protection for them.

As for being scolded by the players, Hornroehr had never cared.

Li Shaoqiang listened, and couldn't help but admire him, City Lord is righteous!

Fang Heng shrugged and said, "You don't have to think of things so badly. Maybe we still have a chance to fight?"

Hornroehr turned his gaze towards Fang Heng, "Hmm? What do you mean?"

"I've already confirmed that the Sanctuary is on its way to the Ice Prison, and their target is only me. Also, I have a way to deal with the Sanctuary, and I need your help."

"Their target is you?"

Hornroehr looked at Fang Heng in surprise, a hint of disbelief flashing in his eyes.

The Sanctuary spent a great deal of effort to enter Punoze, and this would lead to an imbalance between the Necromancer and the Holy Court.

In recent years, the Necromancer camp as a whole has been extremely dissatisfied with the Holy Court.

It was all suppressed by the upper echelons of the Necromancer Central Council.

Now that the Holy Court has taken the initiative to attack Punoze, I'm afraid that the Central Council will not be able to suppress it in the future.

Unless the Holy Court is willing to pay an equal price to appease the Necromancer camp's resentment.

And the Holy Court paid so much, just for Fang Heng?

Hornroehr asked, "What exactly did you do to the Holy Court?"

"Uh... quite a lot."

Fang Heng shrugged.

For example, Saintess Viona, and the Demon Seed, and destroying a high-level game world of the Holy Court...

"Okay, you're not afraid that I'll kick you out." Hornroehr asked, "So you have a better suggestion?"

"Your plan just now was perfect, but unfortunately, the Sanctuary's target this time is me, so the bait this time can only be me." Fang Heng shrugged, "Sorry, City Lord, so I'm afraid I can't give you the chance to be a hero this time."

"Heh," Hornroehr smiled, "It's not like anyone wants this chance."