Grystone City, Garden District.
A huge black hound kept sniffing the streets, followed by the dark elf magician Hom and a group of dark elf assassins.
Tracking is a careful job, and the speed cannot be increased naturally. It took a full hour for a group of dark elves to track Link to the pier where Link entered the branch of the Gris River.
After arriving here, there was an accident, and the smell was broken.
The land hound kept turning in circles on the pier, and let out a low growl of 'wuwuwuwu', it seemed very helpless.
"My lord, he must be on board, what should I do?" Terry asked.
"Nonsense!" Holm snorted coldly, standing by the pier, looking at the river and thinking, and soon he had a clue: "Go, look down the river, he can't be on the river all the time, he must be somewhere somewhere ashore."
"My lord, what if he goes upstream?" Terry hesitated.
Holm felt that this warrior was mentally handicapped, and glanced at him sideways: "There are a hundred times more magicians who don't know how to row a boat than those who know how to do it. Do you think we should look downstream or upstream?"
"Downstream."
Terry was convinced. Indeed, rowing upstream is a technical job, and it is also a physical job. He is not very good at a fighter, let alone a weak magician.
A group of dark elves went ashore and went down the river, ignoring the rioters running around in the garden area. In fact, no one dared to mess with them.
After walking for more than 20 minutes, the earth hound let out a low growl, then quickly accelerated its pace, and it began to sniff the ground again.
"Found it!" Home was also overjoyed. Tracking is actually a gamble. Before finding someone, no one knows whether he will win or not. Now, he won the bet.
Holm could clearly feel the admiration in the eyes of the dark elf assassins around him, and he enjoyed this feeling very much.
Unconsciously, his back became straighter and his head held higher.
This is the entrance to the business district, and the street is obviously depressed. Although there are a few people running around, it is much less than in the garden district. The interference of the smell is greatly reduced, and the tracking speed of the earth hound has been accelerated.
After another hour, it was already one o'clock in the morning, and Hom and the assassins stood at the entrance of the old city.
"The situation is not good. He is going to the old city. Could it be that he is going to rescue the female leader of MI3?" Home frowned. He knew that the female leader was also the main target of the assassins. The leader's request is to capture him alive.
"Speed up!" Holm shouted, he had a bad feeling.
There were even fewer people in the old town, and the tracking speed of the hounds sped up again. After about ten minutes, Home arrived near the fountain square.
The situation on the square surprised the dark elves.
The buildings on one side of the square were almost completely burnt down, leaving only ruins with green smoke rising from them, which indicated that the fire had just been extinguished.
There are more than a dozen bloody corpses lying on the square. Although it is difficult to distinguish them, judging from the body shape and clothes fragments, these are all dark elves.
Holm saw sharply that there were still many water marks on the ground. He walked closer and felt it with the back of his hand. The water marks were cold, and some of them were unmelted ice slags.
"The power of magic...is a secondary ice storm, he has been here!" Home frowned tightly, not only because the other party had been here, but also because he felt the power of high-level magic.
Secondary ice storm, level 2 magic, this young magician turned out to be a level 2 magician, not the level 1 magician he imagined.
This level is already the same as him, and the situation is a bit tricky.
However, Holm has full confidence in his magic: "The opponent is very young and has little accumulation. Maybe he has mastered this magic, but he definitely has no super magic skills. If I fight against him, I will definitely beat him!" '
He has been immersed in magic for many years, and has his own unique understanding of magic, which is the source of his self-confidence.
There were footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head, it was Terry, who was walking over with a dark elf assassin. Holm had an amazing memory, and recognized at a glance that the assassin had not followed the previous tracking team, that is, Said that the other party should have witnessed the battle in Fountain Square.
"What's going on here?" Home asked.
The assassin's face still had thick horror: "It's a magician, terrible magic! He summoned an ice storm, and he killed the leader! He escaped with Anne Abel. The dark lady, it's terrible!" ( Dark Lady, another name for Rose, Queen of the Spiders)
"Which direction are you going?" Holm demanded.
"I don't know, they went to the tavern in the end. We chased them in, but we didn't find their shadows. We suspected that there was a secret passage inside, but we didn't find them." The assassin looked helpless, and there was a trace of fear. , he will definitely be severely punished.
"There must be a secret passage in the tavern!" Holm looked at the tavern in the distance, and then at the two-meter-high land hound, and immediately cursed: "Damn the tavern!"
Earth hounds are too big to squeeze into taverns.
But Holm is not helpless, he thought about the countermeasures: "The excavation and construction of the secret tunnel is very difficult, it cannot be too long, and it is meaningless, two to three hundred meters should be the limit. '
Thinking of this, he said to the assassin: "How many of you are left?"
"76ers." The assassin replied.
"Where are they now?"
"They all scattered out to find someone."
"Very good." Home took a few steps on the spot, and suddenly a thought popped into his mind: "Why must I chase after them? What is the most likely thing they did when they escaped? Isn't it all right in front?"
So here comes the new problem. Where is the opponent most likely to go
As soon as this question is asked, the answer is immediately ready.
"The opponent is most likely to go to the city guard barracks. Once they control the command of the barracks, they will not only escape, but turn the tables! No, we must not let this happen, damn it!"
Home was terrified. He realized that it didn't matter whether the young magician or Anne Abel escaped. The important thing was to keep the city guard barracks in chaos.
Otherwise, once the magician and the head of MI3 enter the barracks, it will be like a tiger with wings added. Those dark elves who sneaked into the city will definitely die without a place to die!
"Gather your people immediately and go to Halls Castle!"
Halls Castle is the family castle of the lord of the city, Earl Hosmine Halls. It is located in a valley in the west of the city, just at the northernmost end of the old city.
At this time, Earl Hosmine, the lord of the city, was finished. He was too lustful, which became his fatal flaw.
Three hours ago, he died on the bed, and the one who killed him was a beautiful human assassin who had been carefully trained by the dark elves for more than ten years. In fact, the people in Halls Castle have been killed.
The city guard barracks is near Halls Castle. The commander of the city guard had been poisoned a day ago, and the officers were also dead. At this time, the city guards were completely leaderless. To restore order, but these people are simply not enough to pose a threat to the dark elves.
But now, both the magician and Anne Abel are important characters, so they must be stopped.
Regardless of the dark elves or the human race, the status of the magician is very high. Although Home is not the commander of the operation in name, when the commanders are finished, he will naturally become the leader of the team.
The dark elf assassins found the backbone, and within ten minutes, they gathered together. Including the assassins brought by Home from the Academy of Magic, the total number exceeded 150.
This number has already accounted for more than half of the total number of assassins who have sneaked into Gristone City, and there is a second-level magician leading them, which is already a quite powerful force.
"Quicken your pace! While there's still time!" Holm yelled sharply. He snapped his fingers, and the terrestrial hound immediately crouched down. He climbed onto its back, and then the hound began to gallop at high speed.
The dark elf assassins ran after the hounds.
The speed of the earth hound was very fast, and soon, Home left the assassins behind. This move was a little dangerous, but he didn't care. He believed that he was absolutely capable of dealing with that magician, even if he had assassins by his side!
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The dark elves, who were determined to intercept Link and Annie, did not notice that while they were gathering, a petite figure quietly watched them in a remote corner of the fountain square.
It was the assassin Jasmine who was rescued by Link halfway. After undergoing elemental treatment, she rested for nearly half an hour, and she had recovered most of her strength.
"No, the captain and the magician are in danger, I have to notify them immediately!"
Jasmine quietly sneaked into the tavern, went to the underground wine cellar, skillfully found the secret passage, and hurried forward all the way. After a while, she appeared from the exit of the residential building.
The young couple in the folk house looked at her in surprise.
"Has the captain been here?" Jasmine asked anxiously.
The young husband nodded: "I've been here, but I just left, and I haven't left for three minutes."
"Where did you go?"
"I don't know, but I'm heading north." The young man was not sure. As a peripheral member of MI3, he never asked more questions.
"Understood. Immediately seal the secret passage, if anyone comes out from inside, it must be the enemy!" Jasmine said loudly.
The young couple nodded hastily.
Jasmine opened the door and chased her out. She probably knew the path the captain would take, so she ran all the way. When she entered an alley, a figure suddenly rushed out, and a dagger was pressed against her throat, but then the dagger After putting it away, a pleasantly familiar voice came over: "Jasmine, is it you?"
Jasmine immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Captain, I have very important information!"