"Then Mr. Gray Crow, you must be careful to hide your strength." The skinny old man took a deep breath, showed a serious expression, and reminded Richard kindly, "
After all, the Pangbo family is a wizarding family that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and has a very strong foundation. Although it is a temporary recruitment, there should be no shortage of detection methods to prevent wizards from hostile forces from infiltrating - there is precedent for this kind of thing. It’s not that I doubt your strength, sir. I just hope that you will be careful and don’t let details lead to mistakes in your plan. "
"Thank you for the reminder." Richard said with a smile, "I'm really not worried about hiding your strength, especially hiding your strength and pretending to be a wizard apprentice."
The skinny old man looked up at Richard, with a bit of confusion in his eyes.
Richard said slowly: "The reason is simple, because essentially, I am a wizard apprentice."
He was right, because he followed the path of the Apocalypse Wizard. There was only a small amount of stable mana stored in the magic source in his body, which was comparable to the amount of a wizard apprentice. The rest were active free energy elements.
Therefore, according to most conventional tests, he is a wizard apprentice—even though he, a wizard apprentice, can easily severely injure and kill even third-level wizards and immortal strange species. Because of this, he was almost unaffected when faced with the magic ball-breaking attacks of the Society of Truth and the Order of Gods.
"Ah?" The wizened old man didn't know this situation. He couldn't help being stunned after hearing this. He looked up and down at Richard, but he still felt that it didn't look like him.
The Lord Gray Crow in front of me is just a wizard apprentice
A wizard apprentice has the status of a special envoy, and has the north send a special message to require special care
impossible
Richard did not explain this, and after learning about the rest of the situation, he stood up and left the intelligence agency neatly, leaving only the stunned and skinny old man in the room.
"It's impossible, right? It's impossible, right?" The skinny old man kept muttering.
…
Ten minutes later.
Richard returned to the lively "Poet and Wine" pub.
He was not interested in the story-telling bards or the delicious wine in the tavern, and was even a little resistant to the lively atmosphere in the tavern—the only thing that attracted him was the food in the tavern.
Because he was in a hurry, he didn't eat for a whole day. It wasn't until he had solved the initial operational problems and determined his action plan for the next three days that he felt hungry and prepared to replenish his food.
After walking into the tavern, he walked to the bar and ordered a few foods according to his own wishes. He sat back at the seat he had chosen before and waited patiently.
After a while, the food was delivered.
First, the steaming, golden and crispy pancakes were served on a shallow plate. The aroma was so fragrant that diners at several nearby tables couldn't help but look at it.
Then came the sausages wrapped in buckwheat batter and brushed with maple syrup, then the tender beef stewed to a pulp, and a large bowl of vegetable soup with numerous vegetable bits floating on it.
Richard picked up the tableware and started eating quickly and quietly. Halfway through, a sound suddenly floated into his ears.
"One mushroom soup, one special sausage, nothing else, just these two."
Richard stopped eating slightly, put down his knife and fork, swallowed the piece of beef in his mouth, and looked towards the bar. I saw a burly man about 1.8 meters tall. He declined the waiter's recommended menu with a straight face, insisting that he only wanted two kinds: "mushroom soup" and "special sausage".
And this is one of the preparations needed to connect with the Soma Alliance intelligence agency.
"Coincidence? Or maybe they are people serving the Soma Alliance intelligence agency?" Richard guessed in his mind as he looked at the man.
If it is the former, then there is nothing to pay attention to. If it is the latter, there is nothing to pay attention to either. After all, he and the Soma Alliance's intelligence agency only have a cooperative relationship. It is enough to successfully contact and obtain the required information. As for what happens next There are other people communicating with each other, and it has nothing to do with him at all.
With this thought in mind, he did not look back, but continued to look at the burly man standing in front of the bar. He didn't recognize the other person's face, but he felt inexplicably that the other person was familiar, as if he had met him before.
He looked at the opponent like this for a few seconds. Looking at the opponent's outstanding height of about 1.8 meters, Richard raised his eyebrows and suddenly had an answer: "The opponent seems to be the orthodox leader of the Pangbo family's magic knights."
"Yes, it's him, Gawain Nova Trunk! Although his face has been carefully disguised, the size of the eyes, the length of the eyebrows and other details have been changed, and the face has been blackened, the outline of the body cannot be changed - after all, the other party It's just a magic knight, not a wizard who masters the magic of transformation. The most important thing is that the opponent's height is so easy to recognize, I'm afraid there aren't many in the entire city of St. Louis." After a few more seconds, Richard made the final confirmation.
After confirmation, there is doubt.
What is the other person doing here
As the orthodox leader of the magic knight of the Pangbo family, the opponent is powerful, holds a high position, and has great power. There is absolutely no way that he came to the "Poet and Wine" pub in disguise just because he happened to want to eat "sausage" and "mushroom soup". Ninety-nine percent of the time, he was to contact the intelligence agency of the Soma Alliance. Judging from the appearance of the other party, it was very possible. This isn't the first time I've done this.
Then what is the purpose of the other party's contact with the Soma Alliance intelligence agency
The Soma Alliance intelligence agency came all the way to St. Louis City. Hiding around and collecting information, he was not trying to apply for the position of housekeeper of the Pangbo family and help the Pangbo family develop well. They are enemies of the Pangbo family and are preparing for future operations.
To put it simply, they are hostile to the Pangbo family.
As a core member of the Pangbo family, Gawain, the orthodox leader of the Magic Knights, secretly communicates with the Soma Alliance intelligence agency, which is very abnormal.
It is very likely that the other party, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, betrayed the Pangbo family at some point and turned to serve the Soma Alliance intelligence agency. Or maybe the two have common interests and cooperate with each other on certain things, just like his current situation with the Soma Alliance intelligence agency.
In any case, one thing is clear, the water in St. Louis is indeed very deep, which made him think divergently.
If Gawain had betrayed the Pangbo family long ago, then many things would have to be looked at from a different angle.
For example, the previous attack outside the city.
Could that be Gawain's deliberate plan? As for the purpose... what can be determined so far is that through this incident, a deputy commander of the magic knight was successfully removed from his management position, and the Pangbo family was temporarily recruited to facilitate the execution of the rest of the plan.
So... the reason why he entered the city tonight and had the opportunity to infiltrate the Pangbo family at noon tomorrow was not a coincidence or luck, but a complete hitchhiking.
This is kind of interesting.
Richard pursed his lips.
He was not dissatisfied with this, but he was a little wary because some of the other party's plans might affect his actions.
Thinking about this, Richard picked up the knife and fork again and started eating very slowly, observing Gawain calmly while eating.