It's already curfew time outside, Du Dian is speeding along the street, relying on his keen sense of hearing to avoid the patrolling soldiers in advance, he came to the wilderness, marching at full speed, not long after, he came to a small town in the suburbs, this is a dilapidated town, Soldiers on duty receive meager salaries, chatting at the gate of the town, dozing off, and after the curfew, they will patrol once at most, so they don't bother to care.
Du Dian came to the last butcher's house, put on a mask, and still bought an iron-backed fat pig. The head of the butcher was a middle-aged man, who had already recognized Du Dian, and was not surprised to see him dressed like this, suspected of being a thief , and politely handed over the iron-backed pigs slaughtered in advance to Du Dian. During this time, his youngest son did not sleep. He came out and saw Du Dian. After opening the door, only whispers came out, ordinary people couldn't hear them, but they couldn't escape Du Dian's ears.
Du Dian listened to his wife's words while trading. Seeing that he didn't talk about him behind his back, he felt relieved. He put the iron-backed pig on his back in a thick linen sack, turned around and left. The power of this action made the middle-aged butcher deeply Feeling in awe, he remembered Du Dian's warning more and more, and dared not expose the transaction between the two. After all, if this matter was spread, he himself would have to punish him.
Du Dian followed the river outside the town and left the town from the side. He didn't see the patrolling soldiers along the way. After entering the wilderness, he quickly went to the fortress where he had repeatedly smuggled. Today is different from usual. From a distance, the fortress There is obviously one more team of soldiers, and the smell of different people is much stronger. Du Dian observed for a while, found a gap, and passed the wall with ease.
After smuggling out of the fortress, Du Di immediately walked along the wilderness to the dilapidated building.
When he came to the basement of this building, Du Dian immediately saw the little Ripper locked in the tungsten steel cage. On the steel cage, there was a tinkling sound, like countless swords clashing.
Du Dian took out his dagger, and as usual, cut the iron-backed pig into several sections and threw it at it.
The little splitter looked at the iron-backed pig that had been thrown in, and enjoyed it happily. It didn't take long before the whole iron-backed pig went into its stomach. After eating, it sat down to rest again, as if knowing that there would be no more There is more food.
Seeing that it didn't growl at him, Du Dian was also a little happy. Now he doesn't carry the Ripper's plasma shell on him, and he doesn't have any scent of Ripper, but this little Ripper seems to know him, even if he is close to the cage. Arouse its aggressiveness.
Du Dian smiled slightly, and chatted with it while sitting in the cage. Although he knew that it couldn't understand, it was because of this that he could open his heart and speak his inner words without any scruples.
In this bleak night, in this barren mountain and broken house, one man and one beast whispered.
After talking for half an hour, Du Dian bid farewell to the little splitter, turned and left, blocked the hole outside the basement, left the broken house, and went in the other direction to the rented passage of death.
In the middle of the passage leading to the giant wall, there is another fortress guarded by knights under the command of the Holy See to prevent hunters from smuggling into the city. A hunter with special lurking abilities.
Du Dian rushed to the Fortress of Light, stopped far away, and took out a high-powered telescope to observe. Everything in the fortress was as usual. It seemed that the destruction of the Little Ripper last time was just an illusion.
After hesitating for a moment, he gave up the idea of taking risks, turned around and left here. At this moment, he felt the difficulty of being alone. If he had acquaintances in the Holy See of Guangming, he could smuggle across with just a greeting. This point, other consortiums have, this is the background.
After returning along the original road, Du Dian walked in a diagonal line and went to another fortress, which was the king's fortress that was attacked by the wildlings.
After traveling at full speed for more than an hour, he finally arrived at the Fortress of the King of Riders. Along the way, he could vaguely meet some wandering savage teams, marching towards the Fortress of the King of Riders late at night.
Du Dian didn't make an attack. Although he couldn't find any information about the savages in the library and knew little about the savages, he didn't need to think about it. The spoken language of the savages is not the same as the language in the fortress. The higher-ups among the people, the other party may understand some languages of the living area, and they also know enough about the wildlings, so they can attack and kidnap.
When he came ten kilometers away from King Qi Fortress, Du Dian could already smell the strong smell of blood coming from the grassland, which was pungent and choking. About eight miles away, the outline of a fortress can already be seen from a distance. One of the tall city walls was breached and collapsed, and many hazy black figures swayed and entered the fortress along the gap.
Du Dian's eyes flickered. He didn't expect that the military department hadn't snatched the fort back until late at night, and they didn't hear the sound of military drums and battles. Could it be that the military department had abandoned the fortress
"Behind this is the plain, which leads directly to the living area of the commercial area. There are nobles and rich merchants living in it. The military department should carry out the final defense on the city wall in the living area. Once the city wall is breached, the savages will be like wolves. If you enter the flock, the casualties will be uncountable." Du Dian's eyes flickered, although he should be able to hold on with the background of the military department, but the savages should not be underestimated. In any case, before the start of this war, the first The sacrifices were nomadic civilians living on the plain inside the city wall leading to the living area. Although there were only a few scattered villages and economically backward small towns on this plain, the population was at least tens of thousands. Fortress Wang counterattacked immediately, which meant that the residents on this plain were abandoned by the military.
Du Dian was thoughtful, and suddenly an idea popped up in his heart, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned and left quietly.
After smuggling into the fortress along the original road, Du Dian returned to the hotel, it was already early in the morning, he woke up the coachman, and went directly to the temple.
Du Dian went straight to the Divine Art Temple, bought another 100 catties of the three materials from yesterday, and found another thing at the same time, said: "This is exchanged for gold coins, how much does it cost?"
The people behind the trading desk are still the same young people as before. Even though Du Dian was wearing a mask, he still recognized him, and said politely: "At your discount rate, if you exchange one drop, it only costs ten gold coins."
Du Dian immediately said: "Give me two bottles."
The young man was slightly stunned, and smiled wryly: "With your authority, you can only buy one thousand drops at a time, only one bottle."
Du Dian frowned and said, "Okay, let's have a bottle first."
The corner of the young man’s mouth twitched slightly, and his tone sounded like he was buying horse wine, but he knew that Du Dian had just developed a new magical technique recently, so he didn’t need the money, so he said, “Okay, you fill out the form first, and I’ll apply for you. "
Du Dian filled out the form, paid the money, and turned to leave.
Arriving in the castle of the Thirteen Gods in a carriage, Du Dian got off at the door and asked the coachman to wait for him. As soon as he arrived in front of his temple, he was stopped by the staff of the temple guarding here, "Hello, may I ask you Is it Mr. Du Dian?"
Du Dian nodded.
"This is an invitation letter for you." The temple staff handed out a letter respectfully.
Du Dian was surprised, took a look at it, there was no signature on it, he didn't open it on the spot, after entering the shrine, he opened the letter paper, took out the letter paper and glanced twice, understood that this is inside the castle of the thirteen gods Letter, inviting him to participate in the magic seminar held in Thirteen Forts in March. The date is three days later, and the invitation letter was sent three days in advance. artistic creation.
Du Dian put away the letter, picked up a large package of letter paper on the ground, turned and left, and prepared to open it slowly after returning to the castle.
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Lane Castle, second floor.
Three young figures came to Fulin's study and knocked on the door.
The door opened, and it was Sandro who opened the door. In the past two years, Flynn had arranged a middle-aged maid in the lobby on the grounds that he was old and had inconvenient legs, and Sandro would personally take care of his daily life.
"Here we come." Sandro smiled when he saw the three of them.
The three were flattered and said: "I have seen the young patriarch."
Sandro smiled slightly and invited the three of them into the house.
In the study, Fulin sat on the rattan chair, looked at the three of them with a smile, and said, "Your friend, Dean sent a letter asking you to help him. He is short of manpower now. You have stayed with me for so long, nobleman. I have shown you the basic etiquette, preferences, rules, and various clothing brands and luxury items, and now Dean needs you, and I hope you will help him well."
These three people were the three of Barton. Hearing Flynn's words, the three of them nodded repeatedly.
Fulin smiled slightly and said, "Go ahead, say hello to him for me."
"Yes." Barton agreed.
The three left the study, went downstairs together, and left in the carriage of the Ryan family. Inside the carriage, the three were full of excitement. Barton lowered his voice and said, "We can finally do something big with Dean."
"Yeah." Joseph grinned and said, "I've been living in this nobleman's house for a long time, and I feel uncomfortable all over the body. I will work with Dean in the future. We can't call him Dean anymore, so as not to expose our old background."
"Well, let's call him Mr. Du or Young Master from now on. Although we came out with him, without Dean, there would be no life for the three of us today. I wouldn't dare to think about it before. Silk and satin are used to make rags, milk is used to wash your face, and a small stone is worth hundreds of thousands of copper coins. Compared with now, our life in the past is like raising pigs." Kruen said with a beaming face.
Button smiled and said, "You're wrong, the pigs here eat much better than ours, there is meat in Dun Dun."
Joseph laughed and said: "Dean, oh no, it should be called the young master. He said that he will lead us to do a great job in the future. Now he is already a senior envoy of the Temple of Elements. He reports every day. He is a person who is as dazzling as a bright pearl, we did not choose the wrong one, and if we follow him, we will have a good life in the future."
Kruen smiled and said: "You can't escape the good days, but don't forget, what was the reason why the young master brought us here? The first is to trust us, and the second is that we have a clean foundation. , It is convenient to do some things. The things that the young master asked us to do a few times ago were all those things, and it will probably be the same in the future. Once you make a mistake, you can... "
Barton's expression was serious, and he said seriously: "What we are doing is shameful. If it is exposed or arrested, the young master cannot be implicated in death. Without him, we would not have what we are today, and there would be no me, Barton!"
Joseph and Kluen glanced at each other and patted him on the shoulder. Kluen said, "Look at what you said, are we the kind who would betray our brothers?"
Barton's expression softened, and he said, "Of course I understand you guys, let's not talk about this, we're coming soon, be careful when you speak, there are ears behind walls."
"Yeah." Joseph nodded, "He should be watched by all parties now, and there are probably many other consortia's eyeliners outside the castle where he lives."
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"Master, three people have come and said they want to see you." Nicotine entered the room and reported.
Du Dian was opening the letters one by one, and said casually: "Let them in."
"Yes." Nicotine turned and left, and turned back after a while, followed by the three of Barton.
Du Dian stopped the half-read letter in his hand and looked up at the three of them. It had been a long time since they had seen each other. The three of them had changed significantly. They were no longer timid and timid as before. They looked elegant and dressed in plain clothes. , but has its own temperament. At first glance, it is difficult to associate it with the "slum area", but if you look closely, you can still see the defects on the three of them, such as the tiny flesh bump on Patton's neck. It is an obvious change caused by radiation. Like Kruen, his left hand only grows to the elbow, half of the sleeve is empty, and he is disabled.
Du Dian knew that Nicotine next to him should have noticed this too. He looked calm and said to the three: "Long time no see, sit down."
Although the three of Barton knew that Du Dian was from the same background as them, but now seeing the latter's temperament made the three of them a little restrained, and it was difficult to call him by his name like before. Barton responded and sat on the chair next to him. He said to Du Dian: "Master Du... what do you want the three of us to do?"
Du Dian glanced at him, did not correct his address, but was quite satisfied. Of course, this was not due to his vanity, but from this trivial matter, it can be seen that the three of them have indeed grown up, and their personalities are much more cautious. Without recklessly exposing their close relationship, they immediately said, "Patton, do you believe in the Holy See of Light?"
Button was slightly startled, not understanding why Du Dian asked this, glanced at Nicotine next to him, and said honestly: "Have doubts..."
When Du Dian heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and Nicotine next to him also showed a smile, and at the same time looked at Du Dian curiously, only to see Du Dian smiled and said: "From now on, you will believe in the Holy See of Light."
"Huh?" Barton blinked, a little confused.
Du Dian smiled and said: "I mean, you enter the Holy See of Light and become a knight in the Holy See of Light."
Button was stunned, and said awkwardly: "Master, I think about this too, but they won't want me, I..."
"Leave this to me." Du Dian smiled, "You are only responsible for entering the Holy See of Light and dedicating your allegiance to the Holy See of Light wholeheartedly."
Barton suddenly realized, "Master, are you going to place me in the Holy See of Light to serve you there?"
Du Dian shook his head slightly, "You just need to do what I said, and you will be loyal to the Holy See wholeheartedly, and you don't need to think about anything else. You will never know me again, understand?"
Button was a little dazed, he seemed to understand, but he didn't understand. He wanted to ask, but hesitated and held back, and said, "I see."
Du Dian nodded with satisfaction, and said to Joseph next to him: "What about you, do you want to be a mighty general?"
Joseph was stunned, and said in amazement: "Master, do you want me to enter the military headquarters?"
"Smart." Du Dian smiled, "Like Patton, you develop well in the military department and forget about me from then on. You just need to think about how to be a good general."
Joseph and Barton looked at each other, although a little dazed, they still nodded, "Got it."
Du Dian looked at the last Kruen, smiled slightly, and said, "Just follow me."
Kruen was slightly taken aback, but still nodded in response.