"Who are you?" The warriors of the Warriors looked at Xiao Chen.
"I just happened to be passing by here, so I took a break in the tavern." Xiao Chen said, "I was just chatting with everyone just now."
"Yes. Joey, the stranger, didn't do anything inappropriate. He just sat down to eat something and chat casually." The tavern owner defended Xiao Chen.
"Yes, he is a trustworthy person. I am old enough and have seen a lot of people. I can tell the difference." Father Anlock also said.
"Yes, it's just an interesting visitor. Is there any need to make such a fuss?" The blacksmith also began to interrupt.
The militia soldiers here obviously did not have much deterrent power in front of other people. Everyone in the tavern spoke one after another to defend Xiao Chen, which made the two soldiers hesitate, not knowing how to deal with the matter.
Xiao Chen smiled and said, "It seems that the current situation is very simple. You want to report to the Baron and have an explanation. I also want to talk to the Baron. Why don't you lead the way and let me meet the Baron. I came here from outside with very important information about the plague."
"Plague? Intelligence? Are you talking about those empires in Heimu Pass..." A soldier had just said half a sentence when he was stopped by Joey's eyes.
Joey said, "That's the best. Come with me. The Baron will not easily embarrass others."
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Baron Paragus's house is on the north side of the town. It doesn't look very big, it's just a two-story house.
I heard from Father Anlock that this was just the old house of the Baron's family. However, the original large Baron's mansion was sold by the Baron's father to a businessman to pay off a debt. Although Baron Pargus has now redeemed the Baron's mansion, he has not moved in.
After Joey informed him, he handed Xiao Chen to the servant who came to the door to greet him. Xiao Chen followed the servant inside, observing the decorations in the house as he walked.
Since it was an old house, there were naturally many things handed down from earlier times. Xiao Chen had some guesses about the origin of this family, which made him observe the house particularly carefully.
The owner of this house had many mages and warriors among his ancestors. On the corridor leading from the front hall to the reception room, there are magic wands, armors and weapons decorating both sides.
Most of the staffs, weapons and armors were similar to the popular styles on the mainland, but some of them were very special. Xiao Chen saw a sword on the wall. Unlike most of the long swords in this world, which had simple geometric shapes, its guard was a cloud. The scabbard was straight and slender, and there were also cloud patterns on it. There was also a wisp of sword tassel hanging at the end of the hilt. The long sword here looked very old, and it was a Chinese sword that looked 80% like it. Xiao Chen suppressed his curiosity and continued to move forward with the servant. When he came to the door of the reception room, he saw another painting. Although this painting was painted on the canvas commonly used by the locals and used local pigments, the content was a very rare landscape. The landscape painting painted with local pigments looked a bit weird, and the painter's brushwork seemed a bit naive. However, the ethereal feeling unique to Chinese painting was fully expressed in this painting. Whether it was the mountains or the water, they were all drawn with a few simple strokes. He glanced at the inscriptions on it, and the signature was Buguike.
Xiao Chen walked forward and found that there was more than one such painting, which seemed out of place in an old house with the surrounding environment.
He was now basically certain that one of the previous owners of this house must have been a time traveler from China. He didn't know from what era or how he traveled here, but it seemed that he was a lonely person.
Walking into the reception room, Xiao Chen met the current owner of the place, Baron Paragus.
The baron looked to be in his sixties, not very tall, but very strong. He was wearing a linen suit, standing in the middle of the room with his hands behind his back, quietly watching Xiao Chen walk into the living room. There was a young man next to him, who looked quite similar to him, probably his son Avadia.
Xiao Chen looked at the father and son, trying to find traces of Chinese ancestry on their faces, but he couldn't find any obvious features. They both had dark brown hair, one pair of eyes was gray and the other pair was purple, but the color of their skin was somewhat similar to Xiao Chen's own.
"Are you the one who is going to give me the plague report?" Baron Paragus said coldly, "I'm afraid you are not a simple person? Are you from the Tower of China?"
Xiao Chen's hand brushed across his face, returning to his original appearance. Black hair and black eyes, with a friendly smile: "Let me reintroduce myself, the great magician from the Tower of China, Xiao Chen."
"Great magician?" Xiao Chen's answer was beyond the expectations of the two people opposite him. Baron Paragus was obviously stunned, and his body posture changed unconsciously, and he was not as arrogant as before.
No matter how defensive and disliked the other party were towards the people of the Tower of China, they could not ignore a great magician. As the most powerful magic controller under the Saint, a magician like Xiao Chen, as long as he was given time, the power of one person was enough to destroy the entire town.
Baron Paragus, who was only a mid-level warrior, and his low-level son Avadia, might not be able to hold out for more than two minutes in front of the great magician.
"Would a great magician sneak into a town like ours like this?" Avadia looked at Xiao Chen with suspicion.
Xiao Chen stood there and released some of his mental power. The Baron and his son suddenly felt that the man in front of them suddenly gave them a huge sense of oppression, as if a person had turned into a giant dragon and could crush them anytime and anywhere.
"Please put away your strength, Master Xiao Chen. We didn't know your identity in advance, and it's a bit rude of us to ask you to come over for a talk." Baron Paragus said.
"I have no intention of showing off my strength. I just want to prove my ability to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles." Xiao Chen said.
"I wonder what your purpose is in coming to my town?" Paragus asked.
Xiao Chen said: "I originally came to inform you that the imperial people in Heimuguan have sent many patients infected with the plague to infiltrate the nearby villages and towns, hoping to use the plague to eliminate our manpower.
Our people have informed you of this news before, but you didn't give us any feedback. So naturally someone needs to come and take a look. I can act alone easily, and if I encounter an enemy, I have enough fighting power, so I took this job.
This is the fifth village I have visited. The four villages above made different choices, and naturally had different results. " (To be continued)