Along the chosen road, Rhodes led the vampire along.
On the road, there was no sound except for the sound of footsteps on the ground and the sound of the surrounding wind.
It turns out that in the territory of Eli, Rhodes was advancing with the vampires in this way, but there were still some sounds around him, whether it was the chirping of birds, insects, or the noise of biological activities, the surroundings were silent at this time.
Rhodes was not in a hurry and just moved forward. Since there are no large creatures around, even if Rhodes wanted to find a creature to take his place, he would not be able to do so.
Fortunately, along this road, Rhodes finally found his way forward and didn't have to worry about getting lost.
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This is a sleepy town.
The town is located not far from the Diya border. Due to the long distance, the dark sky that shrouded the sky of the Screaming City all day long has disappeared without a trace. It was replaced by continuous stratus clouds. It seems that in Diya, the sun is rarely seen. .
There are not many people in the town, and most of them are elderly people.
For some reason, the young adults in the town had already chosen to escape from this place and go to the nearby City of Screams. Especially after hearing that the Necromancy Academy is recruiting a large number of apprentices, everyone dreams of joining the academy and learning spells in the academy to become a powerful necromancer.
People left one after another, making the already empty town look even more dead.
In the small town, an old man was basking in the sun doing nothing. Judging from the sad look on his face, he was not in a calm mood at this time.
Suddenly, the old man looked towards the street not far away. At this time, two men in black robes were walking toward him on the street.
As if he had thought of something, the old man showed an extremely frightened expression, but he did not dare to make any physical movement. He just watched the man in black robe walk in front of him.
A man in black robes in front also noticed this and lowered the hood on his head, revealing his original face, which was Rhodes.
It turned out that after walking along the road, Rhodes and the vampire finally entered this town.
As soon as he entered the town, Rhodes noticed something unusual. Due to his mastery of spiritualism, Rhodes perceived that the town was filled with death energy. This death energy has a huge range and envelops the entire town.
Rhodes understood that something must have happened inside the town, but he was just guessing about what happened and was not sure.
At this time, seeing the expression of the old man in front of him, Rhodes was obviously sure of something.
Rhodes guessed that the lords here anticipated that the war was about to begin and began to turn the residents of the town into undead creatures. Later, due to the arrival of the war, even if you do not choose to join the war, you can still exchange undead creatures for a large amount of gold coins.
Judging from the death energy shrouding the town, the lord of the town has been transforming undead creatures for some time. Rhodes has some ideas about this.
At the same time, Rhodes also realized that some time had already been spent following the business group, plus walking in the forest for nearly a day and a half. The news of the war is no longer a secret. As long as people from the border areas can gather information from the Thieves Guild, they can determine the occurrence of the war.
Because of this, many people began to take action.
Rhodes realized that his progress was already a bit slow. If he could not gain enough experience points in the early stages of the war, he would not have such a good opportunity when the high-level creatures inside Eli took action.
When he came to this town, Rhodes originally wanted to quickly ask someone to find a way to the City of Lament, but after confirming some situations, Rhodes had a new idea.
Without immediately looking at the old man in front of him, Rhodes put down his hood and looked around the town, as if confirming something, before finally looking at the old man.
Rhodes asked the old man: "Where is the Interior Department in the town? Or rather, where is the mayor's residence?"
The old man swallowed, raised his hand tremblingly, stretched out his finger, and pointed towards a tall building in the town.
Rhodes nodded to him, and then walked in the direction pointed by the old man.
Just after Rhodes left, the old man still stayed where he was, without making any movement for a while.
The old man recalled the young face under the hood, and couldn't help but feel a kind of shock in his heart. Judging from the appearance, the man in black robe just now was not even as big as Sun Tzu who went to the City of Screams by himself, but the power in him, The old man had also seen it in the mayor.
Although in the previous conversation, Rhodes only asked a question to the old man, the experience brought by the years made the old man find something abnormal in Rhodes's expression.
Thinking of what happened in the town recently, the old man fell into deep fear for a moment and wanted to go back to his house to pack his things and escape. However, due to his old age and frailty, where could he escape to even if he left here
The fear dissipated, replaced by a deep despair.
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Rhodes walked towards the location pointed by the old man, observing as he went. The town is large and has a decent number of houses. However, judging from the feedback from reconnaissance techniques, Rhodes knows that many houses have been abandoned for a long time.
The actual number of people in the entire town was smaller than Rhodes originally thought.
Moving along the road, Rhodes came to a mansion. Along the way, this mansion is considered the largest building in the town.
At this time, the guards at the entrance of the mansion were obviously stunned when they saw Rhodes coming to the front of the mansion.
The guard obviously didn't expect that there would be someone standing directly at the door of the mansion, and was about to scold him, but he noticed that Rhodes was dressed like a vampire.
The guard seemed to have remembered something, swallowed what he was about to say, and opened the main door of the mansion directly. Then he did not say anything about guiding Rhodes, but ran directly into the mansion.
Seeing the guards opening the main door of the mansion, Rhodes did not make any move, but just stood at the door and waited.
Rhodes knew that the guard had already seen that he was a necromancer and reported it to the mayor. At this time, Rhodes was waiting for the mayor's response.
It turned out that after Rhodes entered the town, he noticed something unusual in the town. After obtaining some information through reconnaissance techniques, Rhodes changed his original plan and planned to come to the mansion for a test to see how the mayor would deal with him.
In the process of dealing with the temptation, if the mayor does not handle it carefully, some flaws will inevitably be exposed.
If the mayor is weak, Rhodes can find an opportunity to kill him and harvest the remaining undead creatures.
(End of chapter)