Blood of Mercury

Roland can't read minds or tell fortunes. Of course, what he said to Macon was also fortune-telling in a sense.

However, that is not the unique peeping fate of astrological wizards, but just pure flickering.

It's okay to talk about people talking to people and talking about ghosts - that's not a great thing. If you insist on giving it a high-level name, it is cold reading.

Most of this knowledge is used in folk divination such as constellations and tarot cards. If it is described in more official terms, it can be called cold reading as a skill that uses conversational and psychological strategies to build trusting relationships.

Many liars, fortune-tellers and magicians will skillfully use this knowledge to give themselves an advantage in front of strangers. Roland was good at using this knowledge to establish a trusting relationship with strangers a long time ago.

Of course, in the modern society of information explosion, many people are very vigilant against strangers. Therefore, Roland's communication does not hope to reach his goal once and only once. Compared with that unrealistic vision, Roland wanted to get more relevant information through cold reading, and use this as a springboard for further contact.

For example, if Roland said in an unobtrusive tone, "I can see that you often make simple things complicated" or "I think you are more happy with your girlfriend than yourself." Important person", the other party's general reaction is to look at Roland in surprise, and then "Indeed, I used to..."

After that, Roland would adjust his next steps according to what the other party said.

For Macon, there are not so many doors.

After revealing a person's secret - or after he thinks that Roland has revealed his secret, the image of Roland in his memory will be associated with this secret. This has nothing to do with the size or importance of the secret, but only depends on when Macken forgets what Roland is saying now.

But I'm afraid he will never forget it for the rest of his life.

What's more, what Roland said to Markon was not a complete lie. In more than a day of getting along, Roland also got a little bit of Macken's character from the details. Although Roland's flickering is a bit mysterious, the essence of it is indeed true.

Markan definitely had some kind of purpose in mind. Joining Kalar's military or even the Dumbblade could bring him closer to his goals, but not directly satisfy him.

Until his goal is achieved, the Dumbblade cannot gain Macken's absolute loyalty.

The word General Marnos that Roland blurted out before did not mean how familiar Roland was with him—Roland only knew about General Marnos "the boss with a ridiculously stupid mechanism".

However, Roland's knowledge of Caral's military, and his ability to casually name high-ranking officers in the military's secrecy regulations, is actually the same as Roland's debunking of Marken's silent swordsman profession.

When Roland was unknown, this behavior would only double Marken's hostility and vigilance towards Roland.

And once he decided that Roland was Duide—his superior, his own, this kind of knowledge of Macken’s environment would only deepen the presumption in Macken’s heart.

By the time Roland entered the door, Macken's last vigilance towards Roland disappeared immediately. General Marnos was a secret figure in the Caral army, and he was a killer hidden in the dark. Until now, although Marnos had taken up the post of general, except for the silent swordsman directly under him, even the generals of other troops did not know him.

Kluveen is a special case - that's because he was rescued once by General Marnos. And he still doesn't know the name of the person who saved him, only what he looks like.

Under this circumstance, Roland was able to open his mouth to say the name of Marnos, and Macken put down all his vigilance against Roland.

Subconsciously, Macken also believed what Roland said later.

Trust has inertia—this is the reason why nine sentences are true and one is false.

When someone revealed the secret hidden in his heart, Macken was shocked.

Although it is impossible to say what Macken will do to Roland. But at least when reporting the process of this operation to the superior, it is worth thinking carefully about whether or not to mention Roland's existence.

He quickly stabilized his mind—it was just a moment of stunnedness in front of others, Markon quickly turned around and followed Roland into the hotel, forgetting to wipe off the sweat on his body.

This was his subconscious reaction to taking Roland as a leader.

"A grilled pear."

Before taking a look at the menu, Roland found a random place, Roland, and said casually.

Slowly wiping the table, the proprietress with long fiery red hair raised her head and glanced at Roland, but when she saw Roland's outfit, her whole body trembled, and she immediately lowered her eyes and answered vaguely. , walked away quickly to prepare breakfast for Roland.

Roland didn't bother to look back at the obviously flustered proprietress. He just leaned on the seat, closed his eyes slightly and wanted to rest. After all, I got up a little early today.

The reason why the proprietress panicked when she saw Roland was because she had something to do with the blacksmith's son. It wasn't that Roland didn't walk through this quest line in the game back then.

...Really, the blighters don't care about these things. Even if you have something to do with all the men in the town, it's none of Roland's business.

And Macon stood straight next to Roland, looking a little unnatural.

Before, he wanted to go out and scrub, but after subconsciously following Roland in, he went out by himself, which seemed a little bad—

"Ah, by the way," Roland closed his eyes and said softly, "Markon, if you have anything to do, do it first. I don't like being stared at when I eat."

"Then I'll go scrub. The eldest lady should also be awake, and she's probably praying now."

Macken said in a deep voice.

The sound of light footsteps gradually leaving made Roland a little confused. Roland had been recalling the details about Farina's diary the night before, and he hardly slept at all. This also ensures that Roland can't oversleep in the morning - he has woken up since midnight, when the silver moon slanted westward.

After that, Roland's nerves were even more tense - unlike in Scar without Light, in a place where a group of people could be kited purely by relying on technology and location, Roland never had much nervousness.

But it's different in Ram. Don't look at Roland's appearance of being very calm all the time, and he is nervous to death - because his life is directly linked to the words of this woman, Farina, but he is not familiar with Farina at all, completely guessing Not getting her reaction.

Even if Roland was right about all of Farina's reactions, but that woman didn't care about anything when she was so embarrassed, what if she shot Roland to death?

Roland used to think that depending on whether the success of the plan depends on whether the woman has a petty temper, the stupidity of this matter is almost no different from deceiving people by looking at the yellow calendar.

Anyway, it's just to deceive people by looking at the day.

However, he did not expect that one day he would be reduced to a situation where he had to do such a stupid thing.

The feeling that life is completely in the hands of others is really bad. That's why Roland wouldn't devote his loyalty to any existence that might be brainstorming.

This is also the reason why Roland has to get the profession of suing the crow.

Of all the priesthoods, only the death crow has the highest degree of freedom. Even the son of Yeloha, who is also a holy priest, must do what Yeloha approves.

And the long-sleeping mentor, she only looked at the results. Therefore, she will never deliberately cheat her own followers, and as long as the result is what she wants, no matter what methods the crows take, whether they are devout or not, she doesn't care at all.

Therefore, although the death crow is the strongest of all professions, it is also the least united. Fortunately, there is a boss pressing down on it, at least it won't really fight.

Of course, you can also think that this is because the death crow is the only pastor group that does not have the supreme leader under God and the spokesperson of God on earth.

If Roland can become the agent of the long-sleeping mentor, become the Pope of the dead crows, and unite this huge and scattered force into one, maybe the loss of this world will not be so great when Christmas is lost.

—Even, maybe the Ring of the South Wind will be wiped out by Roland before the Lost Christmas begins.

Roland thought so wildly, and soon fell asleep in a daze, but at this moment, Roland suddenly felt that someone was approaching him - and it was not the proprietress who brought roasted pears. Roland had been dazed and felt that the lady boss had come once before.

And Roland could also hear it. It wasn't Macken or Kluveen, but footsteps that Roland had never heard before.

The unfamiliar footsteps stopped politely two or three meters away from Roland.

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...is it from Farina? Did she react so quickly?

Or someone who is the Lord of Violence? No, not possible. Those guys with their heads full of muscles and booze have absolutely no such manners.

After about two seconds, an elegant young voice with a Titan-like but not so standard tail sounded from the place in front of Roland:

"Respected Blighter, Esther Eberron pays tribute to the father of Gaia—"

Roland's eyelids trembled, and he pulled away a little displeased.

Can't you see he's sleeping? Knowing that he is a blighter, why dare to disturb a blighter's rest?

However, he actually knew that Gaia's father, Roland, was also a little curious about the young man who suddenly came to him.

So Roland raised his head slightly and looked at the daring young man.

Wearing golden glasses, black hair and black eyes, he is very tall, about 1.9 meters. He wears a simple dress that is very uncomplicated in this small town, and gives the impression of being as refined as a scholar.

It wasn't an illusion—Roland always felt that he had seen him somewhere. And the name Esther is also a bit familiar - he has definitely seen the owner of this name outside the dungeon.

"Young man, what's the matter?"

Out of this vigilance, Roland kept his voice very low, and with his naturally hoarse voice, he became like an old man.

"Lord Witherer, have you heard of Yali?"

"...I'm sorry, can you repeat it again?"

The confused Roland almost heard it wrong.

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