Chapter 326: Pre-Operation Reconnaissance Intelligence
With no access to portals and only being able to fly at high speed in the sky, it took Alice three days to reach the Gothic capital, a city that Alice had no interest in knowing or knowing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As she passed through several other cities on the way, she obtained information from the citizens about Barushinger's party, and it is said that Barushinger and his ten children were welcomed by the whole city in Gothic, and the old men, children, women, and warriors all cheered for the arrival of peace, and after a short welcome, they were received into the palace by King Siegel and Queen Sigoarne.
It is said that for three days, the whole palace was filled with the smell of wine and food, and the enticing music came from the cracks in the door, attracting countless citizens to listen outside the palace gates, and even some berserkers secretly joined in the listening procession.
Alice didn't rush directly into the city, but rushed into the castle palace to ask Siegel about Barushinger and his party in person, that would be too reckless and ignorant, even if she didn't fear anyone in the city at all.
Alice chose to land in a deserted suburb outside the city, she carefully hid her body by the snowstorm that was still blowing, and after confirming that no one had found her traces, she took out the spell book, with the fluctuation of magic, the exquisite illusion made Alice become an ordinary goth boy, and her spell book also disappeared in her palm, but when entering the combat state, the spell book will work in an instant, after all, the book contains Alice's soul fragments, to be precise, the book is actually Alice's body controlled by a doppelganger。
Carrying a simple rope and a wooden stick on his back, this catapult is much better than the one of the jackals, in terms of stability, range, accuracy and strength, and it seems that there is no technical content, but it can only be made by a number of carpenters.
The shabby clothes were still stained with mud and fine crumbs, the fingernails were covered with black mud and fragments of leaves, several ropes hung from his waist, one of which was tied with a rusty flying axe, and the young man had a tired expression on his face, no matter who saw this kind of young man, he would subconsciously think that this was an unlucky guy who had been tired for a day in the forest and snowfield, and had suffered a lot of losses but had not hunted any prey.
Such unlucky eggs are not uncommon at this time, in such a blizzard weather, most of the prey that ordinary people can hunt have entered hibernation, and the rest are powerful existences such as white dragons and winter wolves, if you meet those guys, then it is not just unlucky to be able to describe, it is already a thing that can be closed and wait for death, but under normal circumstances, those guys do not dare to get too close to the city, especially the city with the protection of the gods, the signing of the agreement of the gods did not make everyone forget the power of the gods。
The city has a population of tens of thousands, and at least a thousand people pass through the city gates every day, so it is impossible for the guards to know everyone, and under the pitiful eyes of the gate guards, Alice bowed her head and entered the city through the tall city gate.
Unlike the previous capital of Barushinger, the city blessed by the trees, the Gothic kings gave Alice a different feeling, perhaps because of the distance from the forest, or because of the lack of druids here, the air of the whole city was filled with a manic smell, and countless houses made of stone were built haphazardly in the city, giving people a crowded feeling, and people could feel the savagery hidden in the blood of the people who lived here at first glance...... I can't help but see the violent and rude performance of those berserkers on the battlefield.
The passers-by were dressed in thick fur coats, and the spoils of war from the prey and the dry wood cut from the forest could allow ordinary civilians to survive the cold winter in the north, and Alice also saw that in the city, whether it was the old man or the child or the adult warriors, they all had the smell of blood, which was the smell of fighting wild beasts in the snow fields of the forest all year round, and fighting with their own kind in battle.
What makes Alice feel even more uncomfortable is that the faces of the people here are very similar, the hair color, the color of the pupils and the height are almost identical, which also shows that the Goths here are a very xenophobic people, and they do not have blood from other races in their bodies, if it weren't for the fact that Alice is also a typical Gothic teenager in disguise now, and still maintains her original face, maybe it will only take ten minutes for the news of her appearance here to be delivered to Siegel's hands.
There are still traces of the past few days of celebration on the top of the road, and in addition to the stench of garbage hidden in the corners of the city, at least along the way, Alice has found no less than three mutilated corpses, judging by the remaining scars on the corpses, these unlucky guys must have died in gladiatorial fights.
That's not a strange thing, for the warlike Scandinavians, fighting and violence are the solution to everything, preferring to put on the best clothes, take the most precious weapons, gamble their lives for gladiatorial fights, and the winner gets everything for the loser rather than settling disputes with words.
Of course, such gladiatorial battles can only be carried out in the presence of the gods, and must have the sacrifice of the gods as a judge, and because of this, the losers of the gladiatorial battles rarely die directly, they are more likely to be healed by the mercy of the gods, and lose everything.
Only the most unfortunate ones will be decapitated and pierced to death in battle, and if they have a family, they will still be able to get a decent burial, and if they have no relatives or relatives who are unwilling to bury them (most likely because their relatives cannot afford to bury them), their bodies are more likely to be burned in a fire to prevent them from becoming food for some dark creatures or used by the evildoers, and of course some of the missing ones will be forgotten in the corners of the city until the stench of decay attracts the guards guarding the city。
"What a savage city. ”
Alice muttered, stepping into the city until now, she felt like she was in a chaotic orc camp, and if it weren't for the buildings around her, she couldn't imagine that this place was actually a city.
"Okay, let's take a look at the information of those guys......"
In order not to expose herself, Alice did not treat ordinary citizens or soldiers as objects for obtaining information.
Without anyone noticing, Alice's footsteps shifted slightly, and she turned into a dark and narrow alley, where the cracks between the houses could barely allow a grown man to pass through, filled with all kinds of foul smells that could harm the human sense of smell, the best hotbed of the gray zone that most cities would have, even Alice's Jutland and Schleswig existed, and where the laws of the city and the radiance of the gods could not enter.
These places often hide races or professions that are not popular with city dwellers, such as Alice being attacked by a vampire just a moment of entry, who is just a normal vampire, but has an innate ability that allows him to turn into a cloud of fog and wait at the entrance to the alley, acting as a guard and guard.
His job is to get out of the ordinary people who strayed here intact (in Scandinavia, life in these gray areas is very difficult, the people here are a bunch of people who like to communicate with fists and axes, you don't know the [ordinary people] who have strayed in casually) Whether or not to burst out of the hidden power in his body before dying is a thrilling puzzle like a riddle, well, the thrill of making all the gray characters in the entire alley go up in smoke), or fend off the spies and enemies of the other alleys, and warn the companions behind.
It's a pity that this time he encountered Alice, whose strength surpassed him too much, [Charm Human] was bounced back the next second after using it, and the loss of control made him change from a thick fog to a new human form, and finally left in the memory The last thing is the pair of eyes that are darker than the winter night.
The vampire who wants to charm is easily seduced by Alice, and the body that has lost the control of his mind tells everything in his memory, as a little mouse hidden in the city, relying more on the acquisition of information than the power in his hands, in a city where magic and magic are not uncommon, if a gray character like a vampire doesn't know anything, then he will be killed and abandoned soon after.
In at least thirty minutes, Alice had obtained information from the vampire about the entire Gothic kingdom, including Siegel's preparations for the establishment of the Scandinavian Empire, and when Barusenge and his children had entered the castle, and no information had come out so far.
Everyone thought that the fellows were indulging in the meat wine pool that Siegel had created, and still enjoying all the luxuries that Siegel had prepared to welcome them, and none of them felt abnormal, and no one would have thought that Siegel would be detrimental to Barushinger and his party.
After all, Siegel's affection for Sigourney is in the eyes of people, and they don't think that Siegel has the reason and motivation to deal with the Ballusenger who has turned enemies into friends and become his relatives, not to mention that those guys are all berserkers who have reached the legendary level, as long as they enter the state of madness, each of them can exert more than three times the combat power, which is not a force that unprepared goths can resist.
On the battlefield, the reason why the Goths were able to become enemies with Ballusinger and fight against them for many years was not the strength of individuals, but the superior fighting quality of the entire army.
Perhaps Siegmund alone could defeat thousands of Goths, but thousands of Gothic warriors could also defeat the Barusenge, who numbered several times as many as them.
"It's really bad...... Isn't that why I want to go down there and see what's going on? ”
Alice muttered and let go of the vampire's body, and at the same time unlocked the control of him before leaving, of course, the indispensable [Amnesia Dafa] Alice did not forget to cast it on him.
Through the acquisition of information, Alice only felt that something was wrong, although she didn't know what Sigourney was thinking now (Alice didn't know that Sigourney was controlled by Siegel), but if she only used the existing information to analyze, then Barusenge and his party, who had not shown up for three days after entering the palace, must have been more than lucky.
The others Alice didn't know, but Siegmund, the warrior who had successfully killed the orc chieftain on the battlefield, Alice had worked with him for some time, and she knew that Siegmund was not a man who would indulge in pleasure, that the food was no different from ordinary coarse black bread to him, and that expensive wine was just a tool for quenching his thirst and replenishing his body's water.
"There were no large-scale battles, which means at least they're safe. ”
Alice made such a judgment, a wrong judgment.
She didn't know that Siegmund was no longer the tough warrior she had known before, because of Sigoaney, who had fallen into the trap of wine and food three days earlier, just like his father and brother.
"In that case, the first task is to find Sigourney to find out, but ......"
Looking at the faint magical light shining above the palace, Alice only felt that her skull hurt, the sacred place blessed by the gods, without the permission of the master, is not so easy to blend into, especially now that Alice has entered the eyes of the gods, she needs to be more cautious and careful with every step she takes.
"But this thing...... I guess I'll be able to avoid the detection of that barrier. ”
Alice took out the [Morrigan's Invisibility Cloak] from the space items she was wearing, and she hoped to use this artifact to successfully enter the palace to understand the specific situation and discuss the plan for her next action with Sigourney.
The result was exactly the same as Alice guessed, the simple blessings of the gods did not have any effect at all in front of the artifact containing part of the power of the gods' body, and the girl who had covered all traces easily entered the heavily guarded palace.
The first thing she did after entering the palace was to take the artifact back into the space items, and if she could, she didn't want the gods to find out what cards she had in her hand, especially if the gods didn't show any kindness to her.