The moonlight is like water.
It got dark very early today. At this moment, a round of bright moon hangs in the sky, and the soft and delicate moonlight is evenly distributed on this land.
On the main road leading to the imperial capital, Du Wei and his team of carriages were driving slowly.
This trip back to the imperial capital, Du Wei specifically confessed that there is no need to hurry, but to move forward leisurely every day, as long as the time is limited, it will be fine to reach the imperial capital.
So this journey is a leisurely and carefree journey. Du Wei was very affectionate to that Master Clark. The two rode on horseback, walking side by side, talking from time to time. When he was tired, Du Wei invited Master Clark to ride in his carriage.
The Luo Lin family's carriage is naturally an expensive top-notch product, with high-quality wood and fine horses, and Du Wei has made a series of modifications to the inside. A thick velvet blanket is laid underneath, so that when the carriage is driving, it will not feel the pain of bumps at all.
In the carriage, fine wine and food were prepared, which made Clark enjoy a lot along the way.
Clark was also on the road, reciprocated, and spent a lot of effort on the road, creating a few small wind-type magic circles on the chassis of Du Wei's carriage. Anyway, several carriages in Du Wei's convoy carried a lot of magic materials, crystal gems and the like in the gifts from the Magic Union.
The magic circle on the chassis of the carriage consumed a few high-quality magic crystals. But with this wind magic, the carriage can be automatically assisted by wind power when it runs fast. It runs faster and more stable, and even supported by the wind, the weight is much lighter. It feels even more stable.
Du Wei saw that his thoughts were turning secretly in his heart, and he couldn't help asking: "Since this kind of magic array can reduce the weight of the carriage, is there any advanced wind-learning magic array that can completely make the carriage fly?"
After hearing this, Clark thought for a moment and replied: "Theoretically, it is possible. But wind magic, in general, still relies on wind power, and the magic circle below automatically gathers wind power, but the weight of the carriage must be completely given up." The power of the wind, let it fly, consumes a lot of magic power. It costs a lot of magic power crystals and some magic gems. The cost is too expensive, and the level of the magic formation is also higher. It took such a big price and strength, but only made an enclave carriage. It's not very useful, and it's too wasteful."
Du Wei nodded, but he didn't say anything, but secretly thought in his heart: If the carriage can fly by simply relying on the magic circle, of course it would be the best. It's a pity that Clark said that it would cost an almost astronomical figure just to fly a carriage. It cannot be popularized. If it can be popularized, then even if you can't build an airplane yourself, you can still create an "air force" in this way.
certainly. From a reality point of view, this can only be fantasy.
Clark also smiled on his face, but thought to himself: After all, a child is a child, so whimsical. How much magic material does it take to make the carriage fly? In other words, this child was born in a wealthy family, and recently received a large number of gifts from the Magic Union. There are so many magic crystals to do this boring game. Where do ordinary people have such financial resources? The current magic array that makes the carriage lighter and consumes magic crystals, if the price supported by the market, has already cost nearly 10,000 gold coins. If you really want to make it fly, you may not be able to do it without a hundred thousand gold coins. There must be an archmage with advanced magic to arrange the magic circle, and to inject magic power all the time to replenish consumption. It really took so much effort to come up with an enclave carriage, that would be called flashy.
During the small talk, Du Wei's most important attention was on how to extract Clark's words. After all, the magic guild spent so much money to win them over, it must have their intentions. Du Wei is about to enter the imperial capital, so he must first inquire carefully.
Don't say anything else. The more Du Wei thought about the title of "Bachelor of Magic", the more extraordinary he felt. The more benefits you get, I am afraid that in the future, people will have things they want from you, and you will not be able to shirk them.
But after all, Clark has been in the imperial capital for many years, and he is also very cunning. Although he talks and laughs happily in his words, he doesn't reveal his words at all. Du Wei spent a lot of thought, but couldn't come up with anything.
This night, under the moonlight. The convoy was driving slowly, and Du Wei was asking Clark for some knowledge about magic. In front of him, Made came running over on horseback. Gently knocked on the window and said in a low voice, "Master, Jumu Town is just ahead."
Du Wei's heart skipped a beat.
Jumu Town? This is a very memorable place for me.
When he was kicked out from the imperial capital and dispatched to Luolin Plain, when he passed by Jumu Town, he met Ruolin, Solskjaer and others in the town, and then took back these guys by force. Now back to the imperial capital, and revisited again.
Du Wei looked at the sky and said with a smile: "Okay, let's live in Jumu Town tonight."
After the convoy entered Jumu Town, Mader certainly remembered this, and led the convoy directly to the Jumu Hotel where his group had stayed at the beginning.
Just walked to the front, but found that the original giant wooden hotel has changed its appearance, the original rotten signboard that was almost rusted has taken on a new look, the blue stone wall was also painted with white lime, and the signboard was exposed by the wind at night. Swaying gently in the middle, the words written on it are no longer the Giant Wood Hotel. Instead, it became "Adventurer's House".
Made looked strange, thinking how long it had been, why did the hotel change owners
The door had been pushed open a long time ago, and a short and fat guy inside, probably the boss here, ran out quickly. Seeing a big deal, he nodded and bowed, and sent a few people from the hotel to help pull the horse .
Du Wei and Clark walked into the hotel, and saw that the place was much cleaner than when they came last time. It just seems that the business is not very good and there are not many people. There was no one in the spacious hall.
Those tables, chairs, and counters are all new, and it looks like some of the paint hasn't even fully dried. It seems that no one usually uses it.
The chunky boss had already come up, his clothes were clean, and his big eyes were full of shrewdness. Made asked him to send someone to feed the horses, and then cleaned out a few clean rooms.
Du Wei saw that the grooms and waiters who came and went in this hotel were all strong and strong, so he couldn't help but frown slightly. He glanced at Madeleine. Tell him to call the chunky boss over.
"I remember that this place was originally called Jumu Hotel. I stayed here once last time. Why has the owner changed now?"
The short and fat boss nodded repeatedly, and explained: "Sir, the original boss thought the business here was not good, so he simply sold the hotel."
Du Wei glanced at him: "Your accent doesn't seem to belong to Ben?"
The chunky boss smiled: "Sir, I'm also from Jumu Town, but I went to the north to do business, and I just came back a few months ago."
Du Wei nodded. Just looking at the appearance of those waiters, he frowned and said, "This small hotel of yours actually has so many subordinates. These people are all strong and strong, and they seem to have been soldiers, right?"
The boss nodded, with a trace of helplessness on his face: "I used to stay in the Fang Garrison when I was in the north, but I was injured when I rounded up some mercenary groups that smuggled monsters a few days ago. I can no longer serve in the army, and then I received the resettlement fee for retirement and returned to my hometown. These men of mine are all friends from the original army. They all suffered the same as me. They were injured, disabled, and Qing retired from the army, but the resettlement fee is quite a lot. But there will always be a day when the meal is over, and I just started a business, and summoned so many veterans who have been discharged from the army to come back, and everyone can have food."
Du Wei smiled and nodded. When watching the boss walk, he was a little lame, as if his legs and feet were not flexible.
As for those waiters, although they were all strong and powerful, they looked carefully. Sure enough, some of them had right hands but their thumbs and index fingers could no longer hold swords. Some even had their palms broken off at the wrist, and some had very long arms. They thought they were archers, but they lost an eye. , with empty arms, but poor eyesight, was cleared out by the army.
Du Wei sighed, causing Made to hurt a few more gold coins. Then went to the room to rest.
In the middle of the night, Du Wei was lying on the bed. But I don't know what's going on, I feel a little restless tonight, but I can't sleep. He thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know why, so he just lay on the bed with his eyes wide open, looking at the ceiling, thinking about his own affairs.
There was silence all around, in the dark room, only the sound of my own heartbeat and breathing could be heard.
Just keeping his eyes open until the middle of the night, Du Wei gradually felt a little tired, turned over, and was about to fall asleep, when suddenly...
He is a magician, and he is very talented, his hearing and senses are ten times better than ordinary people, and suddenly he heard a strange voice: crack!
It seems to be the subtle cracking sound of old decayed wood.
Du Wei was startled by this voice, and suddenly felt a trace of uneasiness and vigilance in his heart, but this thought flashed through his mind, and he couldn't catch it for a while.
Du Wei pricked up his ears and listened for a while, but there was no more sound. He just thought it was a mouse or something. But just as he relaxed in his heart, suddenly, a sudden change occurred!
On the beam of the ceiling above the head, there was a sudden bang, and the entire beam was broken. In an instant, a bright sword energy broke through the layers of broken wood, fell into the sky, and stabbed fiercely at Du Wei who was lying on the bed. down!
This sword is fast and ruthless, it is obvious that someone with strong martial arts has gained momentum! Du Wei yelled. Fortunately, although he was born with a weak constitution, after traveling in the frozen forest for a while, he practiced the basic movements of the starry sky fighting spirit every day, and his body has become much stronger. One turned over and turned sideways to avoid it.
It's just that the opponent's sword has been prepared for a long time, and it was issued by a master. How can Du Wei dodge it? As soon as he turned over, he felt a sharp pain in his back. A cold sword's edge had already cut through the clothes and skin on his back, and immediately blood flowed profusely.
Du Wei broke out in cold sweat instantly. He flipped over to the board under the bed, and heard a bang behind him, and the bed board was torn apart by the sword!
A black shadow jumped down from the top of the head, the whole body of this shadow was pitch black, only the thin and long sword in his hand was flickering with cold light. Du Wei was lying on the bed, his back hurt so badly that he almost passed out, but when his life was at stake, Du Wei was shocked by the severe pain. Instead, his potential was stimulated, and he lay on the bed without looking back, and a fire in his hand shot towards the person standing on the ruins of the bed.
This fire magic rushed over, and the person on the bed didn't dare to bear it hard, so he turned somersault out, and with a bang, the flames shot out, illuminating the dark room brightly. Only then did Du Wei see the person who came, dressed in black and covering his face, but murderous intent flashed in his eyes, the long sword in his hand was pointed at him, and he rushed towards him again without making a sound!
Du Wei lay on the bed, and threw himself to the side of the closet in the room in fear, but the opponent's sword was already in front of him, and Du Wei fumbled with both hands. But he touched a long couch that was originally placed beside the bed. Originally, the coat I took off before going to bed last night was placed next to the soft bed. In his haste, Du Wei didn't care too much, he only touched a corner of his clothes, and threw it out violently.
It happened that when the Liszt family gave gifts last time, they sent a top-quality short sword. Du Wei always carried it with him, and he usually wore the mage robes given by the magic union. There was a leather belt inside, and the dagger had been inserted into the leather belt all the time. Now he threw it out with all his strength, and heard a slight sound of metal cracking.
Immediately the black-clothed killer snorted, but threw his body towards Du Wei, and immediately landed on Du Wei's body.
At this moment, Du Wei almost froze the cold sweat all over his body, and the opponent's body pressed heavily on his body, as if there was still a piece of cold sword edge sticking against his body and stabbing down.
In such a situation, people suddenly lose their minds, and Du Wei's mind flooded with countless thoughts: Am I going to die today? !
That's why I was stunned for a while. But he found that the person on his body didn't move. Instead, a hot, wet thing flowed to his neck, and dripped on his body along the collar of his clothes. He smelled a pungent blood in his nose. odor.
Excited by the bloody smell, Du Wei regained his composure. He pushed the person on him hard, only to find that the person on his body was already dead, with a dagger stuck in his chest, which he just threw out in a hurry. . The dagger was pierced right in the opponent's heart!
At this time, there was also noise outside. But I heard the sound of ping-ping-pong-pong fighting, and some people screamed and groaned. In the dark night, without knowing what was going on outside, Du Wei gritted his teeth and pushed away the dead body, and pulled out his dagger from the man's body with his backhand, but saw a flash of light on the dagger The magic light comes.
At this time, the door of the room was slammed open, and then I saw Clark rushing in from the outside. Clark was also disheveled and disheveled. When he came in, he saw Du Wei covered in blood. Standing with the dagger in his hand, he was relieved, and hurriedly shouted: "There is a killer, I will protect you and leave!"
After speaking, he came up to hold Du Wei and was about to go out. Du Wei had calmed down now, but he threw Clark away and said in a low voice, "You can't go out! The other party must be prepared!"
Just as he was talking, he heard the screams of Luo Lin's cavalry guards coming from outside, and someone dying shouted: "Back in! They have bows and crossbows!"
Then he heard the sound of breaking through the air, and I don't know how many killers fired their crossbows in the darkness, and they heard dense snatching sounds from the walls and wooden boards outside.
Clark had a fierce look on his face, the muscles on his face twitched, and he chanted a spell quickly, then opened his arms, and a wave of magic power came from him, and then Clark raised his finger and swiped in the air. He made an opening, and then a cloud of black air floated out from the crack, and quickly condensed into a human shape.
But it is a necromancer warrior whose whole body is pitch black and shrouded in black air!
Du Wei's heart skipped a beat. It turns out that this Clark practiced dark magic! This intermediate dark summoning technique summoned a dead warrior.
Clark snorted, and with a wave of his hand, the necromancer rushed out of the door.
In the corridor, seven or eight killers had already surrounded in the darkness. Most of the cavalrymen of Luo Lin's family lived downstairs. Although there were two cavalrymen staying on the night watch in the corridor upstairs, they were killed by the killer long ago. At this moment, the killer guarded the stairs, but rushed towards Du Wei's room. They had bows and crossbows in their hands. This kind of thing is a murderous weapon in the night. They guarded the stairs, and the rest of them had already rushed to Du Wei's room. At the door of the room, he suddenly saw a black shadow rushing out of it.
These killers are also strictly trained, although they are surprised. But the hand didn't stay there, there was a sound of brushing the ground, and a few sounds of breaking through the air, someone had already fired a bow and crossbow towards the necromancer warrior. It's just that the body of the Necromancer Warrior is not a physical body, and the crossbow arrows shot at his body, but passed through the body, causing him no harm at all. In just a short while, the necromancer warrior had already raised a pitch-black long sword and charged into the crowd of killers, stabbing one of them with his sword. The killer immediately screamed, and a cloud of black air emerged from the place where he was stabbed. This cloud of black air quickly spread to the whole body, like a black flame, and a person was completely burned in an instant. Not a single scum was left.
The other killers recognized it very well, and they all shouted: "This is a necromantic creature, use fighting spirit!"
After finishing speaking, in the darkness, the weapons in the hands of several killers burst out with stronger or weaker grudges at the same time! Can show grudge. That is at least the level of a third-level samurai!
The necromancer warrior was unconscious, but relied on the killing instinct left over from his lifetime, and was not afraid of these grudges. He stood up and rushed forward, holding a long sword with black magic flames in his hand, and soon wounded two more killers. The killers' long swords pierced his body with fighting spirit, and the necromancer let out a roar, and the black flame on his body suddenly dimmed a bit.
There was a scream, and another killer was killed, but the necromancer's body was pierced several times by the killer's fighting spirit, and finally he shook his body, the black flames all over his body dissipated, and then disappeared immediately.
Just this time, almost half of the killers in the corridor were killed or injured, and they could no longer stop the guard cavalry of Luo Lin's family rushing up from the stairs below. Seeing that things were going badly, the leading killer shouted, "Back!"
Everyone retreated towards the end of the corridor immediately, there was a window there, raised their hand and punched the window, and jumped down.
Clark rushed out behind him, grinning grinningly, "Can you run away!"
Before he finished speaking, he pointed his finger, and another crack appeared in the air. This time, two necromancer warriors flashed out of the crack. Raising the long sword burning with the black flame of death, he rushed towards the fleeing killers.
The last two killers had no time to run. In the middle of each other, their bodies burned to death in the black flames.
Only the leader jumped out of the window.
Although Clark's magic was strange, he summoned three necromancer warriors in one breath, and his magic power was almost exhausted. He shook his body and quickly backed away. He is a magician. After his magic power is exhausted, he has almost no ability to protect himself.
Several guard cavalrymen from Luo Lin's family had already rushed up, and immediately someone rushed towards the window at the end of the corridor, but as soon as they reached the door, they heard a scream, and a cavalryman who rushed to the window fell on his back. A crossbow arrow pierced his face. Obviously, the other party still has someone outside to meet him.
The rest of the cavalry didn't dare to chase any more, they just rushed into Du Wei's room and firmly protected Du Wei.
Du Wei was seriously injured. Although the sword in the back did not directly hit the vital point, the opponent's fighting spirit was not weak. The fighting spirit damaged the surrounding muscles, and half of his body could hardly move.
The subordinates hurriedly found the wound medicine and put it on Du Wei. Clark pulled himself together and cast another healing magic. Watching Du Wei's injury slowly healed under the magic light, Clark's face was already pale, so he sat down. He fell on the bed, gasping for breath.
The cavalry searched the entire hotel carefully, where was the figure of the chunky boss and his waiter
Du Wei sat on the chair with a pale face. Looking back on the scene just now, life and death were really close at hand, and he couldn't help but secretly startled.
snort! What a ruthless method!
That chunky boss and those waiters are indeed killers in disguise! In order not to make themselves suspicious, these people are willing to self-mutilate themselves, cut off their hands or fingers, and pretend to be disabled veterans to deceive themselves! With such ruthless intentions and decisive means, people can't help but change their colors! !
Already in shock, the guard cavalry of Luo Lin's family searched the entire inn to the bottom, but found several corpses in a cellar, but they were the original owner and waiter of the inn.
Du Wei sighed, his face gloomy.
It seems that the other party had planned that he would pass here, deliberately set up this ambush, killed the original people in the hotel, pretended to be the boss and the waiter, and then set up this trick to assassinate himself! ! Even those killers with extraordinary skills are willing to self-mutilate their bodies to disguise their identities for this task...
Who is it
I am just a child of a small nobleman, even if there is an additional apprentice of Gandolf, who is attracted by the Magic Union, it is not likely that someone will come to assassinate him before he arrives in the imperial capital
Temple
probably not. Although he made a deal with the devil and took in Hussein, the most wanted criminal on the mainland, none of these things were exposed, and the temple should not target himself. Moreover, if the temple wants to deal with itself, it will not use this method of assassination. As long as you expose your secret, you can hunt and kill yourself openly.
So, who did you offend
At this moment, the cavalrymen under his command brought over the body of the killer who died in Du Wei's room, and examined it carefully, only to find that it was an inn waiter who had a broken hand. He took off his clothes, and there were no clues on his body.
However, an experienced veteran from the Luo Lin family raised a doubt: the opponent used a bow and crossbow. This kind of hand-held ground crossbow is easy to carry and has great lethality. But the cost of equipment is very high. Even in those large mercenary regiments, it is difficult to get a few, and often only the leader can carry a self-defense. And even in the private army of the rich and nobles, there is very little equipment.
"Only..." The experienced cavalryman hesitated to speak up to this point, as if he was afraid to speak.
Du Wei snorted: "Only what? Tell me!"
Only then did the cavalry muster up his courage, and he gritted his teeth and said, "On the Roland Continent, only the main force of the military's regular legion has the ability to unify this kind of weapon."
After a pause, the cavalryman's face was also very ugly, and he said in a low voice: "Master, there are a few killers we killed just now, and the bows and crossbows left behind, I have checked them, and there are stamps on them, which are the signs of ordnance No matter where these killers come from, there is no doubt that these bows and crossbows are ordnance handed down from the army!"
Du Wei was expressionless: "Could those steel seals be fake? You can't read it wrong?"
The cavalryman nodded: "No! I used to serve in the army with the Earl, and then returned to the Luolin Plain, and then transferred to the family's private army. I have seen those bows and crossbows before, and I will definitely not mistake them land."
The experienced cavalry's words made Du Wei fall into deep thought...
The military... the military? !