Lord of War

Own such a manor in Tindes.

It is located on the barren rock wall. The protective garden wall is only a very simple earth wall, no more than one meter high. Anyone can enter by turning over it. There is not even a gate. There are only four unblocked places for entry and exit. .

But inside the earthen wall, it is a magnificent building of pure white. Each of the four entrances facing the earthen wall has a wooden building with a height of about five meters regardless of floors. The floor-to-ceiling windows that can be moved are these buildings. Entrance. Four sealed corridors connect the four buildings. The corridor is six meters high and consists of two floors. The side facing the earth wall is very simple, with arrow holes and reinforced wooden boards. On one side, there are many rooms distributed, these rooms are used to store weapons, food or for living and so on.

In the center of these rhombus-shaped buildings is a complex of four three-story buildings over nine meters high. On the third floor of this building complex, there is an open-air platform in the middle. On the platform is a large round table with mountains and rivers painted on it. Although it is a dead object, it is made of an imitation magic map after all. It's a bit real, if it seems that Sean can definitely recognize it here, the landform texture drawn on it is the entire Zeros region.

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

And this manor is almost unknown and unknown in the entire Tinders territory, because it is the Royce Manor, which is as famous as Tindersburg.

The Royce family was founded after winning the title by military exploits. The fief it obtained at the time was only a small knighthood. Because of its remote and desolate location, no one wanted this knighthood at all, even if it was to build a manor. It's not very good-looking, and anyone can see that the Royce family has offended someone. However, the ancestors of the Royce family were not discouraged by this, but built the manor in the style of a fortress. He did not need the courtyard wall of the manor, because it would make him forget his blood. The purpose of building this manor was to warn him Your own children and grandchildren, don't forget the shame and blood of those years.

Later, after the efforts of the Royce family for several generations, the territory finally expanded to the current size, and the title was also promoted from the knight to the marquis of today. As the enemy of the Royce family, they have long since been annihilated in the long history of the Kingdom of Portoroa.

The moonlight poured down on the entire manor, like a layer of silver gauze, which seemed to cover up the blood that was constantly radiating from the manor.

On the open-air platform of the main building, a middle-aged man in his forties fell on the topographic map on the middle round table.

His eyes were fixed on a fortress on this topographic map, his face was so gloomy as if water would drip at any time, the fists of his hands were clenched, and his breath was a little short, not excited, but a kind of anger. His gorgeous clothes also trembled slightly with his anger, and 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 Tindersburg?"

This middle-aged man is Count Mario.

"Yes, Lord Count." A young knight standing behind Count Mario nodded, in fact even he felt a little incredible, "According to the information from Arora, Duroen only entered tonight. City, and he didn't make any stops and went straight to Tindersburg."

"Go straight to Tindersburg?" Count Mario's brows furrowed, his face became even more ugly, he turned his head to look at a man wearing a black mage robe standing beside him, "He can't be real Did you find the ice heart grass?"

This man has brown hair, his face is slightly thin, and his skinny fingers look a little messy. Although the mage robe on his body is a little wide, it does not appear funny when worn on him. , but made him look a little more gloomy.

He didn't have a staff or anything, just a black-covered magic book in his left hand. This magic book wasn't as big and thick as the one in Cecilia's hand, but there was a certain aura on it. But it is not necessarily weaker than the book in Cecilia's hand, and the ring inlaid with obsidian on the ring finger of his right hand has a faint aura that makes people palpitate.

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

"It's useless for him to find the ice heart grass." The man's voice was hoarse, like the scratching of a sharp metal tool, "If he had brought it back a month ago, he might have saved the old guy's life, but now It's useless.... Fire dragon poison is not an ordinary toxin, it was just blood poisoning at the beginning. At this time, it can really be cured by relying on ice heart grass, but after three months, the toxin will penetrate deep into the internal organs, and ice heart grass will also It can only be delayed for a while.”

Speaking of this, the mage sneered gloomily: "Fire dragon poison, you will die after three months of poisoning! There is no one in this world who can save you!"

Hearing the mage's words, Count Mario finally felt a little relieved, his eyes 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 Count Mario's face was still gloomy, and the knight standing behind Count Mario did not dare to leave without authorization, so he could only stand here and wait.

"I asked Martin to take someone to intercept it, but I didn't find any trace of Duroun, and only robbed the caravan of the businessman named Harley..." Count Mario's face became ugly again, "Go and give it to me. Check it out, how did Du Luen and the others enter the territory unknowingly!"

"Yes!" The knight immediately nodded in command, and he couldn't help but sigh in relief.

When the knight left, Count Mario finally looked away from the topographic map and looked to the south. From here, at the end of the horizon, there was the city of Arora, where the most prosperous Tindes Territory was. The city, and about 20 minutes away from the city, is Tindersburg, which is the pride of the Royce family, which is as famous as this manor.

After such a moment of silence, Count Mario finally spoke again, but this time his face showed kindness and kindness: "Let's go too. ... My dear nephew finally found the fire dragon poison for my brother. The antidote, 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 have someone prepare the carriage."

"By the way..." As soon as Mario stepped out, he 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 Duroen came back alive is indeed beyond my expectations, but fortunately everything else is going according to plan, as long as I solve this little guy Duroen, the rest will be It's not a problem anymore.... But this batch of obelisks must be well controlled, and now there are many people in China who are watching the listing of this batch of materials."

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

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

...

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

It's just that this secret conversation didn't have the good atmosphere as imagined...or in other words, it wasn't as serious and mysterious as most people imagined.

The location of the secret conversation was in a room. This was the hotel room where Sean and Cecilia lived, and the two sides of the secret conversation were naturally Sean and Ron. Cecilia sat on the edge of the bed and hugged. He was carrying a bag of snacks that he had just bought - this is a popular snack in the Kingdom of Portoroa, about the size of a fingernail, pink in color, made from several fruits and herbs, sweet but not greasy. .

The door to the room was guarded by Ron's personal bodyguard, preventing others from approaching or eavesdropping.

At this point, four days had passed since Ron and Sean first met.

In fact, as early as the evening of the second day, a business leader from the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce in Arthur City, under the protection of more than a dozen Tier 3 guards, brought the ruby ​​that Sean valued over. . Similarly, a lot of new news was brought from within the Chamber of Commerce - just as Sean said to Ron that night, after Ron sent the news back, the behemoth of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce also moved completely. New clues were soon found.

Truly a combination of Polar Silver and Medusa.

If it was only suspected that it was a mountain bandit before, then the clues are broken and there is nothing to do, but now that you know who is behind the scenes, especially the large chambers of commerce like Polar Silver and Medusa, there will definitely be a lot of clues and There are traces to follow. But the fact is that no matter how the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce inquires, they still can't find any clues, which makes the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce helpless.

Ron really didn't want to take the ruby ​​out of his hand if he could.

On the table, a hand that was holding a blue ornate brocade box was pushed forward only two inches before it stopped. After a moment of silence, the hand clenched like a lightning bolt and retracted it. The owner of one hand is completely reluctant to hold this brocade box in 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 found by accident." A smile appeared on Ron's face, if it weren't for his extremely subtle movements If he showed his true feelings, anyone would think that he took out the brocade box willingly, "This ruby ​​is very beautifully made, and all its facets have no traces of knife skills at all, it is completely natural, I think only Sean, who loves to collect gems, was able to make this ruby ​​show its dazzling side."

Sean raised his eyebrows and replied softly, "Oh?"

Reaching out to open the brocade box, I saw a flat ruby ​​lying quietly in the brocade box. This gem is about one inch thick, four centimeters long, three centimeters wide, and has no sharp corners, but its purity is extremely high. The whole gem is almost completely transparent. It is people like Sean who don't have any magical senses who can feel the strange fluctuations that this ruby ​​constantly emits.

It was a magic wave strong enough to distort the air.

"It is indeed a very beautiful gem." Sean put the ruby ​​back into 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 kept his mouth shut. How could Sean not know what he was thinking? ? Although in fact, this ruby ​​was indeed a quest item in the original game world, but it is not necessarily regarded as a quest item in reality. Sean has already made plans to ask for it directly, but he did not expect Ron He still took out this ruby, and of course he was very excited in his heart, but now he would never show it.

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

"What?" Sean glanced at Ron, with a wider smile on his face, "After so many days, you haven't found a storage site for obelisks? I thought you sent people with such a big fanfare, you should have found them. Where are the robbed obelisks?"

In fact, when the business leader of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce came from Anluola a few days ago, Sean already knew about it. But he didn't care at all, because he knew that they would never be able to find the storage point for the batch of obelisks. It's not that the people of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce are incompetent, but if they use normal means to infer and conjecture, it is indeed very It is difficult to tell where the obelisk is hidden.

After all, the real boss behind the Medusa Chamber of Commerce is a demon. Back then, players did a lot of tasks that involved this demon, but after layer upon layer of skinning and careful research by those sophisticated players, the identity of this demon and all the related implication finally surfaced one by one. Of course, in the end, this demon appeared as the boss of a certain high-level 100-person dungeon, and then contributed a lot of gorgeous equipment to the majority of players.

However, the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce is not a good thing. The real 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 demons and lich, they are only their outermost industries, or they are not even deliberately created by them, so it is not up to them to live or die. Considered by the big man. And even the people in these two chambers of commerce probably don't know what kind of existence is standing behind their respective chambers of commerce.

No one in this world knows these chambers better than Sean.

And Ron, after hearing Sean's obviously slightly sarcastic words, he just smiled embarrassedly: "The people of the Medusa Chamber of Commerce are really very cunning."

"Heh." After hearing what Ron said, Sean couldn't laugh at anything, but he couldn't really tell the hiding point of the obelisk, even if he really knew. It doesn't matter to Cecilia that he is a magician, but it is impossible for him to say this to Ron, so he can only induce it through other methods: "Actually, you should learn about Medusa's living environment. ."

"Medusa's living environment?" Ron was stunned for a moment, not understanding 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." Seeing Ron's appearance, Sean knew that he couldn't expect this guy to know about Medusa's living environment. Going in the wrong direction will not be conducive to his next plan. "Driving is also one of their instinctive habits. The Medusa Chamber of Commerce has 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 furrowed, apparently recalling all kinds of clues he had obtained before. And Sean didn't bother him, he just ate the food placed in front of him. Of course, these were all bills paid by a "dumb and fast". If Sean paid the bills by himself, he would definitely not Will buy so much flashy food and will only prioritise what is full.

After a while, Ron's eyes finally lit up, and he raised his head and sincerely thanked Sean: "Thank you very much for your reminder. If you hadn't said that, I would have ignored these details."

After all, Ron got up and left, and Sean just waved his hand casually, and didn't care 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 hurried footsteps in the corridor were fading away, Cecilia jumped off the edge of the bed, ran over to pick up the brocade box, and opened it to see that the tight little face finally showed. The excited look: "It really is the crimson flame!"

Seeing Cecilia's excited look, Sean also laughed: "You have experienced the power of an official magician in the Forest of Starfall before, although that power is only temporary, but you at least You also have some relevant experience of a formal magician, which proves that your theoretical knowledge and your own spiritual power have fully reached the level of a formal magician. Your meditation speed will be much faster, and it is no longer a problem to break through the limit and become a full-fledged magician."

Stroking the crimson flame ruby ​​in her hand, Cecilia nodded lightly and replied, "Well, it's probably just a few days ago."

When she said this, there was an absolutely proud confidence in Cecilia's words.

"But the only pity is that this crimson flame can only strengthen your fire element induction. It would be nice if it were a four-color holy flame."

"You can't be too greedy." Hearing Sean's words, Cecilia chuckled, "I am very satisfied with the crimson flame."

Sean curled his lips in disdain, thinking in his heart: I'm not satisfied yet if you are satisfied, but I want to train you to become an elemental wizard, but it's just four-color holy flame, it's not that I don't know how to do it, It's just a little more troublesome.

However, Cecilia obviously did not notice the change in the expression on Sean's face, and her mind was completely immersed in the joy of obtaining the crimson flame: "What are we going to do next? Back to the kingdom of Serian?"

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

"Why?" Cecilia looked puzzled.

"I'll bet you five coins, the idiots of the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce will definitely not be able to handle those kobolds, so within two days Ron will come back to me again." Sean curled his lips, "If we leave now Now, where did he go to find us? How can we make money? The two bastards, Harley and Duroun, haven't paid me that payment yet. We only have three gold coins, thirteen silver coins and seventy coins left on us. 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 to buy so many materials before." Cecilia suddenly shouted like a housekeeper, "That money can make us rich for a long time! ... By the way, speaking of those What about the material?"

"Well, it's all there." Sean pouted at Charles' sword.

For a moment, Cecilia was stunned: "You... are you really an alchemist and blacksmith?"

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Today, the code is very difficult to code. I deleted and wrote it. Later, some accidents happened, so this chapter is very late, and I am really sorry. However, after I wrote it smoothly, it suddenly became a 5K-word chapter, so I just posted it as a big chapter. I hope you can read it more easily.

In addition, I recommend a friend's work, "Human Immortal", which is a fantasy work. I personally don't think it is necessary to include the introduction, because it does not match the content written by that guy.