Lord of War

  Have such a manor in Tindes.

It is located above the deserted rock wall. The garden wall has only a very simple earth wall, no more than one meter high. Anyone can enter it by turning it over. There is not even a gate. There are only unblocked places for entering and exiting. .

Inside the earth wall, there is a pure white magnificent building-each of the four entrances facing the earth wall has a wooden building about five meters high without dividing the floors. The movable floor-to-ceiling windows are the entrances of these buildings. . Four sealed corridors connect these four buildings. The corridor is six meters high and consists of two floors. The construction facing the earth wall is very simple, with arrow holes and reinforced wooden boards shot on it, and the inward On the other side, there are many rooms distributed. These rooms are used to store weapons, food, or to live in, etc.

  In the center of these rhombus-shaped buildings, there is a building group composed of four three-story buildings over nine meters high. In the third floor space of this building complex, there is an open-air platform in the middle. A large round table is placed on the platform. The mountains and rivers are painted on the platform. Although it is a dead object, it is made of a magic map after all. Somewhat real, if it seems that Sean must be able to recognize here, the landform texture drawn on this is the entire Gleason area.

  This complex composed of four buildings is the main building of the entire manor.

  And this manor is almost unknown to everyone in the entire Tindesberg, because it is the Royce Manor that is as famous as Tindesberg.

The Royce family was established after winning the title of battle. The fief acquired at the beginning was only a small jazz leader. Because of its remoteness and desolation, no one wanted this jazz leader, even if it was to build a manor. It's not so good-looking, anyone can see that the Royce family is offending. However, the ancestors of the Royce family did not get discouraged. Instead, they built this manor in the style of a fort. He didn't need the courtyard wall of the manor, because that would make him forget his blood. The purpose of building this manor was to warn him. Your children, don’t forget the shame and blood of the year.

  Later, after several generations of hard work, the Royce family finally expanded the territory to its current size, and the title has also been promoted from the jazz to today’s marquis. As the enemy of the Royce family, they have long been annihilated in the long history of the Kingdom of Portoroa.

  The moonlight poured down on the entire manor, as if it was covered with a layer of silver gauze, which seemed to conceal the blood that was constantly emanating from the manor.

  On the open-air platform of the main building, a middle-aged man about forty years old fell on the topography map of the middle round table.

  He stared at a fortress on this map, his face was gloomy as if water would drip at any time, his fists were clenched, his breath was a little bit sharp, not excitement, but a kind of anger and despair. A beautiful suit also shook slightly with his anger, it was obvious that he was so angry that he couldn't control his figure.

   "You mean!" The middle-aged man's voice was obviously suppressed with anger, "Druen has returned to Tindesberg?"

  This middle-aged man is Earl Mario.

"Yes, Lord Earl." A young knight standing behind Earl Mario nodded. In fact, even he thought it was a little weird. "According to Anrolla's tip, Du Luen only entered this evening. City, and he didn't make any stops, and went straight to Tindesberg."

"Go straight to Tindesberg?" Count Mario frowned and his face became even more ugly. He turned his head and looked at a man in a black mage robe standing next to him. Found Bingxin Grass?"

This man has brown hair, his face is slightly thin, and his thin fingers look a little messy. Although the mage's robe is slightly wide, it doesn't appear ridiculous when worn on his body. , On the contrary, it made him look a little more gloomy. He doesn't have anything like a staff, but his left hand is holding a magic book with a black cover. This magic book is not as big and thick as the one in Cecilia's hand, but there is a certain breath from it. But it is not necessarily much weaker than the book in Cecilia's hand, and the obsidian ring he wore on the ring finger of his right hand has a faintly heart-palpitating atmosphere.

  This is obviously a magician, and not a magician apprentice like Cecilia, but an official magician!

"It's useless for him to find Bingxincao." The man's voice was a little hoarse, as unpleasant as the scraping of a metal sharp object. "If it was taken back a month ago, it might be able to save the old guy's life, but now It’s no longer useful.... Fire Dragon Poison is not an ordinary toxin. At the beginning, it was only blood poisoning. At this time, it can be cured by relying on Bingxincao, but after three months, the toxin will penetrate into the viscera and the Bingxincao only It's just a time and a half."

  Speaking of this, the mage sneered grimly: "Fire Dragon Poison, you will die within three months of poisoning! No one in this world can save it!"

  Hearing what the mage said, Count Mario finally felt relieved, his gaze turned back to the round table in front of him, his face was slightly calmer, but the gloomy color in his eyes was still very unsightly. Perhaps it was because Earl Mario's face was still gloomy, and the knight standing behind Earl Mario did not dare to leave without permission, so he could only stand here and wait.

"I asked Martin to take someone to intercept, but I didn't find Du Luen's trail. I only robbed the caravan of the merchant named Harley..." Earl Mario's expression became difficult again, "Go and check it out for me. Check out how Du Luen and the others entered the territory without realizing it!"

   "Yes!" The knight nodded immediately, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

When the knight left, Earl Mario finally moved his gaze away from the topographic map and looked to the south. From here, at the end of the horizon, the city of Anrolla was the most prosperous city of Tindes. The city, and about twenty minutes away from this city, is Timbersberg, which is as famous as this manor and also belongs to the pride of the Royce family.

After being so silent for a while, Earl Mario finally spoke again, but this time his face showed kindness and kindness: "Let’s also set off....My dear nephew finally found the solution to the fire dragon poison for my brother. Medicine, I must rush back to celebrate and witness the miraculous moment when he saved my brother."

   "Of course, Lord Earl." The black-robed magician bowed and said, "I'll let someone prepare the carriage."

   "That's right..." Mario just stepped out, then suddenly remembered something and turned to face the black-robed magician, "How did you deal with the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce?"

"all the best."

"Very good." Count Mario nodded. "Although Du Luen came back alive is indeed beyond my expectations, but fortunately, other things are going according to plan. As long as I solve the little guy Du Luen, the rest will be It’s not a problem...but this batch of cubic spinels must be controlled. Now many people in China are staring at this batch of materials on the market."

  "Please rest assured, Lord Earl, there is absolutely no fourth person in this world who knows where the materials are hidden."

   "With your words, I am relieved." Count Mario nodded, and then strode towards the door.

  ...

  In Arthur City, dozens of kilometers away from Royce Manor, another secret conversation is also underway.

  It's just this secret conversation, but it's not as good as the atmosphere...or rather, it's not as serious and mysterious as most people imagine.

The place of the secret conversation was in a room. This is the hotel room where Sean and Cecilia lived. Naturally, the two parties involved in the secret conversation were Sean and Ron. Cecilia sat on the edge of the bed and hugged him. I was holding a pack of freshly bought snacks—this is a small snack popular in the Kingdom of Puerto Rico. It is about the size of a nail slice and is pink in color. It is made of several kinds of fruits and herbs, and the taste is sweet but not greasy.

  The door of the room is guarded by Ron's personal guard to prevent others from approaching or eavesdropping.

  At this time, four days have passed since Ron and Sean first met.

In fact, as early as the next evening, a business leader from the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce in Arthur City, under the protection of dozens of Tier 3 guards, sent the ruby ​​that Sean valued. . Similarly, a lot of new news was brought from within the Chamber of Commerce—just as Sean told Ron that night, after Ron passed the news back, the behemoth of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce also moved completely. Soon we found new clues.

   is indeed a combination of Polar Silver and Medusa.

If we only suspected the bandit before, then it is really helpless if the clue is broken, but now that we know who is behind it, especially the large chambers of commerce like Polar Silver and Medusa, there must be a lot of clues and Traces can be followed. But the result of the fact is that no matter how the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce inquires, it still cannot find any clues, which makes the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce helpless.

  If he can, Ron really doesn’t want to take this ruby ​​out of his hand.

On the table, a hand holding a gorgeous blue brocade box, only pushed forward two inches and stopped. After a moment of silence for a second, this hand reclaimed with a fist like lightning. Obviously this The owner of the hand was totally reluctant to bear the brocade box under his palm.

"I heard that Mr. Sean seems to be a person who is very interested in all kinds of gems. This is a ruby ​​I got accidentally." Ron's face showed a smile, if it weren't for his extremely subtle movements. If he reveals his true feelings, anyone would think that he was willing to take out the brocade box, "This ruby ​​is very beautifully made, and all its edges have no traces of knife skills. It is completely natural, I think it is only Mr. Sean, who likes to collect gemstones, can make this ruby ​​completely show its dazzling side."

  Shaun raised his eyebrows, and responded softly: "Oh?"

   Reached out and opened the brocade box, only to see a flat ruby ​​lying quietly in the brocade box. This gem is about one inch thick, four centimeters long and three centimeters wide. It has no sharp corners, but its purity is extremely high. The whole gem is almost completely transparent, and you can feel a warmth when you hold it in your hand. People like Sean who don't have any magical power can feel the peculiar fluctuations that this ruby ​​constantly emits.

  That is a wave of magic power strong enough to twist the air.

   "It is indeed a very beautiful gem." Sean put the ruby ​​back in the brocade box and smiled.

Not to mention the magical fluctuations of this ruby, its purity alone is enough to make this ruby ​​sell for a sky-high price, but Ron is completely silent about these things. How can Sean not know what he is thinking about? ? Although in fact, this ruby ​​was indeed a quest item in the original game world, but in reality it is not necessarily regarded as a quest item. Sean had already planned to ask for it directly, but Ron did not expect Ron. He still took out this ruby, and of course he was very excited in his heart, but he would never show it now.

   "Mr. Sean likes it." Ron smiled, "Actually this time, I want to ask Mr. Sean about something."

"Why?" Sean glanced at Ron, with a greater smile on his face. "For so many days, you haven't found a storage point for the spinel? I thought you were so fanciful to send people out. You should have found it. That batch of robbed spinels."

  In fact, Sean knew about it when the merchant from the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce rushed over from Anrolla a few days ago. But he didn't care at all, because he knew that they could never find the storage point of the spinel. It was not that the people of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce were incompetent. They just used normal methods to infer and guess. It is difficult to tell where the spinel is hidden.

  After all, the real boss behind the Medusa Chamber of Commerce is a demon. Players didn’t do fewer tasks involving this devil back then, but after layers of skinning and careful research by those sophisticated party players, the identity of the devil and all related connections finally surfaced. Of course, in the end, this demon appeared as the boss of a high-ranking one-hundred-man dungeon, and then contributed a lot of gorgeous equipment to the majority of players.

  But the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce is not a good thing. The real big boss behind it is actually a Lich close to a demigod.

But whether it is the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce or the Medusa Chamber of Commerce, for the demons and liches, they are only their outermost industries, or even not deliberately created by them, so death or life is simply not in them. The big man is considering. And even the people in these two chambers of commerce might not know what kind of existence is standing behind the respective chambers of commerce.

  In this world, no one knows these chambers of commerce better than Sean.

  And Ron, when he heard Sean’s obviously slightly mocking words, he just smiled embarrassedly: "The people in the Medusa Chamber of Commerce are really very cunning."

   "Heh." After Ron said that, Sean couldn't laugh at anything anymore, but he couldn't really tell where the spinel was hidden, even if he really knew it. It doesn’t matter to Cecilia that he is a sacred stick, but he can never say this to Ron, so he can only induce it by other means: "Actually, you should learn about Medusa’s living environment. ."

  "Medusa's living environment?" Ron was taken aback for a moment, a little bit confused about the meaning of Sean's words.

"This is a kind of dungeon creature. They are dangerous and cunning, and they are very good at deceiving." Looking at Ron's appearance, Sean knew that he couldn't expect this guy to learn about Medusa's living environment. Finding the wrong direction is not conducive to his next plan. "The drive is also one of their instinctive habits. And the Medusa Chamber of Commerce inherited this characteristic of Medusa, so if you use ordinary clues to infer If you look for the next clue or trace, then you will never find them, so the best way is to do the opposite."

  After hearing Sean’s words, Ron fell into silence, his brows frowned, apparently thinking about the clues he had obtained before. And Sean didn’t quarrel with him. He just ate the food that was placed in front of him. Of course, these were all paid by someone "stupid and quicker". If Sean paid the bill himself, he would definitely not. Will buy so many flashy foods, only give priority to the stuff that is full.

  After a while, Ron’s eyes finally glowed, and he raised his head to thank Sean sincerely: “Thank you very much for your reminder. If it weren’t for you to say that, I would definitely ignore these details.”

  After that, Ron had already stood up and left, and Sean waved his hand casually, not caring what Ron was going to do next. And Cecilia didn't say a word. If Ron hadn't brought this little gift to Cecilia, Cecilia wouldn't even sit here and listen for so long.

After the rush of footsteps in the corridor drifted away, Cecilia jumped off the edge of the bed, ran over to pick up the brocade box, and then opened it. The tight little face finally revealed. A look of excitement: "It really is the Scarlet Flame!"

Seeing Cecilia’s excitement, Sean also laughed: “You have experienced the power of an official magician in the Forest of Starfall before. Although that power is only temporary, you at least You also have some relevant experience of a formal magician, which proves that your theoretical knowledge and your own mental power have completely reached the level of a formal magician. The only thing lacking is magic power.... But now with Scarlet Flame, you The speed of meditation will be much faster, and the next step is to break through the limit to become an official magician, it is no longer a problem."

   Stroking the Scarlet Flame Ruby in her hand, Cecilia nodded gently, and responded: "Well, it's probably just these few days."

  When she said this, Cecilia's words contained an absolute pride of confidence.

   "But the only pity is that this scarlet flame can only strengthen your fire element sensitivity. If it is a four-color holy flame, it will be fine."

   "You can't be too greedy." Cecilia chuckled when she heard Sean's words, "I'm very satisfied with Scarlet Flame."

Sean curled his lips in disdain, and said in his heart: "I am not satisfied yet when you are satisfied, but I want to train you to become an elemental wizard, but it's just a four-color holy flame. I don't know how to get it." It's just a little troublesome.

  However, Cecilia obviously did not notice the change in the expression on Sean’s face. Her mind was completely immersed in the joy of obtaining Scarlet Flame: "What are we going to do next? Return to the Kingdom of Celian?"

   "What are you going back for?" Sean made an exaggerated gesture, "We will stay in Arthur City for a few more days."

   "Why?" Cecilia looked puzzled.

"I'll bet on five copper plates with you. The idiots of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce must not be able to deal with those kobolds, so Ron will be back to find me in two days." Sean curled his lips, "If we leave now Now, where is he going to find us? How do we make money? Harley and Du Luen, the two bastards, haven’t paid me that payment yet. We only have three gold coins, thirteen silver coins, and seventy. Five copper coins, if we don’t make any more money, we will soon be sleeping on the streets."

"Who made you spend so much money on so many materials before?" Cecilia suddenly shouted like a housekeeper, "That money can make us rich for a long time! ... By the way, let's talk about the materials. Woolen cloth?"

   "Here, it's all over there." Sean snarled at Charles's sword.

  For an instant, Cecilia was stunned: "You...you are actually an alchemy blacksmith?"

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  Today, the codeword code was very uncomfortable. I deleted the writing, and some accidents happened later, so this chapter is very late. I am really embarrassed. However, after writing smoothly, it suddenly became a 5k-word chapter, so I posted it directly as a big chapter. I hope you can read it more easily.

  Also, I recommend a friend's work, "Human Xian", which is a fantasy book. I personally think it is unnecessary to put it about the introduction, because it is completely inconsistent with the content written by that product. ;