It's the Moonlight Tavern again.
The reason why Shuke likes to talk here is mainly because the fruit wine here tastes pretty good.
This black fruit wine tastes like apple-flavored Fat House Happy Water.
It's a bit like kvass, but it tastes pretty good anyway.
Many times, you like to go to a certain place frequently for such a simple reason.
Shuke is so handsome that most women will like him.
But human aesthetics is very strange. There are normal ones, and of course there are abnormal ones.
Stephanie sat opposite Shuke. She looked at Shuke's handsome face and felt goosebumps rising on her arms.
"I've heard that His Highness, the new paladin of the Light Religion, is unparalleledly handsome. I'm really not bragging." Stephanie looked at Shuke's face and said calmly: "I heard that you have something to ask me?"
Shuke was a little surprised at Stephanie's calmness. He didn't expect that there was another woman here who was not affected by her own charm.
Of course, Shuke is not the overbearing CEO or some kind of aloof male god in romance novels. The more a girl ignores him, the more interested he becomes, and he may even fall in love with the girl who ignores him.
Shuke is not such an idiot.
He prefers girls who are sincere to him.
She also needs to be beautiful.
Why should I lick someone who doesn't like me
This is Shu Ke's simple love feeling.
So even if Stephanie wasn't moved by her extremely handsome face, he didn't find it strange at all.
It’s not like I’ve never seen such a woman before.
Shuke nodded and said, "If it weren't for Roland, I probably wouldn't have dared to ask the eldest princess out. I want to know, eldest princess, why did you kill your husband two years ago?"
Stephanie's expression was very unhappy, but then she smiled helplessly and said, "Sir Shuke, are you asking about this matter because of the Temple of Light?"
"No, it's purely a personal question of mine." Shuke took a sip of fruit wine and smiled politely: "This may have something to do with what I'm investigating."
Stephanie closed her eyes slightly, and then said: "There are rumors outside that I can't stand him looking for women outside, so..."
"This possibility is not high." Shuke waved his hand: "According to the information we have investigated, the prince-consort was already looking for women everywhere before he married into the royal family. You have also investigated him. Besides, such things are not common among nobles. It's just a normal operation. Princess, you have a calm character and you are not someone who killed your husband because of this."
Smiling lightly, Stephanie sighed: "Yes, in the eyes of most people, I am a person who puts interests first, and I will not do anything without good things. Likewise, this news is not too confidential. But if you want to get the answer from me, you have to pay some price."
"What do I need to pay?" Shuke asked.
"I heard that you have a red dragon. I need five of her fine scales."
Shuke narrowed his eyes slightly: "Margaret has not yet reached the molting stage."
"That's your business. I only want five red dragon scales. You can ask your dragon to get some from the clan."
Shuke nodded slightly: "You want to brew a blood potion?"
"It seems I can't fool you." Stephanie nodded.
Shuke smiled and said, "I didn't know it originally, but Margaret told me about it."
About a year ago, Margaret just became Shuke's mount dragon.
Although Shuke had more than a dozen gold coins every month at that time, he still didn't have enough money to buy some special magic equipment.
Then Margaret said, scrape off the dragon scales on your body and sell them, especially the dragon scales on the neck. Each piece can be sold for at least five gold, which can be used to brew dragon vein potion. Ability, you can get some dragon bloodline abilities.
What kind of ability you can get and how strong it is depends on luck.
But of course Shuke didn't shave Xiao Longnu's scales, he couldn't bear to do it.
Shuke thought for a while and asked: "Princess, when you brew this potion, should you drink it yourself or brew it for others?"
"It's such a rare thing, so of course you should drink it yourself."
Shuke glanced at Roland and Andonara who were sitting not far away.
Then he asked: "How is your relationship with Roland?"
"It's okay, we can be considered friends."
Shuke nodded: "Okay, for Roland's sake, I will send you five dragon scales when I go back."
Stephanie's eyes lit up: "Thank you. Since you want to know, I'll tell you. The reason why I killed my ex-husband was because he actually wanted to use black magic to control me."
Shuke nodded: "That's true."
In black magic, there is a kind of spiritual magic called "Puppetry". Different from the "Humanoid Control" spell, Puppetry erases all the memories and emotions of the person being controlled, turning it into a person who only knows how to obey. The living dead of sorcerers. The control of humanoid creatures is to temporarily use mental power to impact the enemy's soul during battle, making it in an enlightened state, and then obey the command of the caster for a short period of time. When the spell time passes, the person who was cast will wake up and their memory will not be affected.
The viciousness of the two is not on the same level at all.
If it were Shu Ke, if someone used puppetry on him, he would kill the other person. This magic is too vicious.
Shuke stood up: "Thank you, Her Royal Highness, for telling me. I will go back now. What you need will be delivered to your manor within a day or two."
Stephanie also stood up and said a little excitedly: "Then thank you very much, Your Excellency."
"polite."
Shuke waved to Roland next to him and left the Moonstone Tavern.
Stephanie walked to the table not far away and sat down side by side with Andonara. At the same time, she said to Roland: "Thank you."
"Why are you thanking me all of a sudden?" Roland was a little confused.
He didn't eavesdrop on the chat between Shuke and Stephanie.
"If it weren't for your sake, Shuke would not agree to trade five dragon scales to me." Stephanie's smile was a little forced: "You said that you and Shuke are very good friends. Now I am I finally believe it.”
Stephanie felt a little frustrated.
She thought that with her appearance, status, identity and power, Shuke should at least be able to sell herself some face.
As a result, if Roland hadn't been here, Shuke would definitely not have agreed to the five dragon scales.
In addition to being frustrated, Stephanie was also a little unhappy.
The Golden Son is too difficult to deal with.
Both Roland and Shuke look neither humble nor arrogant.
They don't seem to pay much attention to the nobility and the royal family.
Incentives are not enough, and coercion is not easy to use. After all, these golden sons all seem to be quite strong and immortal.
Why did the goddess of life throw these things into this world
Can't figure it out.
After casually drinking some fruit wine and eating some pastries at the Moonstone Tavern, Stephanie said that the food here was not as good as the ones made by her own chef, so she might as well go back.
The three of them took the carriage back to the manor.
When the carriage entered the entrance of the square forest, Andonara, who had been leaning against Roland, suddenly sat upright.
She grabbed the sword and stared slightly: "It smells of blood, very strong."
Roland and Andonara immediately became alert, and the carriage moved forward for a few seconds, then stopped.
The coachman's voice sounded outside, looking quite panicked: "Princess, there are many dead people ahead, blocking the middle of the road."
Upon hearing this, Andonara immediately jumped out of the carriage, followed closely by Roland.
I saw at least dozens of corpses lying scattered in the dead center.
Most of them were black-robed soldiers, and in the center of these soldiers lay a plump female corpse.
Roland had seen this woman before, blocking the entrance to the eldest princess's manor.
Andonara jumped in, turned over the woman's body with the scabbard, and then turned over the body of the black soldier, and then said: "They all pierced the heart with one sword, and they died without feeling any pain. The murderer's swordsmanship was quite good. , and he either uses the assassination route or the swordsmanship of stabbing."
This world is very chaotic, with battles happening from time to time and mostly group fights. Therefore, in most cases, melee professions prefer to use heavy weapons to deal with multiple enemies at the same time.
Stab fencing is generally used in duels.
After all, no matter how hard you stab, you are just attacking an enemy.
"The time of death of all the deceased was almost the same, and there was almost no resistance from the deceased. The murderer's strength is probably legendary. It's really weird. Someone can actually practice the stabbing skill to the legendary level? How to practice it? Yes, do you make dummies every day?"
When she heard that it was stabbing and fencing, and then heard the word legend, Stephanie's expression suddenly turned pale.
Roland happened to see it and was about to ask.
But at this moment, Andonara suddenly returned to Roland and whispered: "We are surrounded and there are enemies."
Just a few seconds after Andonara finished speaking, a group of soldiers wearing gray leather armor and different-colored eagle feather helmets suddenly appeared from the woods.
The leader was a middle-aged man, holding a thin and long straight sword in his hand.
Seeing him, Stephanie shouted softly: "Biden, why is it you!"
"Princess, I didn't expect you to be so cruel." This middle-aged man is quite handsome, with a hooked nose and long but strong cheeks. The only flaw is that his hairline is slightly set back: "His Majesty the King heard that Nesir came to trouble you, so he took her back to me. Unexpectedly, you actually killed her and all the guards. Fortunately, I came by chance and saw you murdering Nessir. Miss, you killed someone’s younger brother, and now even my sister has died in your hands.”
Stephanie didn't speak, but her expression became colder and colder.
Roland walked slightly to her side and asked, "From what I see, it seems that your father wants to deal with you."
Stephanie nodded slightly: "I don't understand why my father wants to kill me. I am obviously the best candidate to be the next king."
While the two were whispering, Biden said: "Princess, please come with me to the palace, and you can explain it to the king yourself."
Roland felt that if Stephanie really wanted to go to the palace, she would definitely die.
Stephanie took a few steps back. She didn't want to go, and she could guess the consequences.
At this time, Andonara and Roland stood in front of Stephanie almost at the same time.