Volume 1 The Land of the Dead Chapter 20 Infiltration
"Domination, you mean someone ruled the ruins of Amanda?"
More than any other information, Roger cared more about the word 'domination' that Elway spoke. Generally speaking, mages rarely govern a place directly, and they prefer to devote more energy to exploring the unknown, and most mages are not happy to do the tedious task of managing a territory.
Of course, there is another opinion on this issue: as we all know, the cultivation of magicians is inseparable from dealing with experiments, whether it is alchemy, potion preparation or simulation of the construction of magic models, it is not something that can be done casually, you can say that magicians are a profession that is smashed out of money, and the more high-level mages are, the more so.
Tens of thousands of Adamantite and Mithril worth tens of thousands of dollars are likely to be completely scrapped due to an error in an experimental parameter, which is inevitable even for famous mages.
Of course, mages can also sell their alchemy items for a profit, but that is still a drop in the bucket compared to the expensive magic materials.
Therefore, the consequence is that, except for a very small number of magicians who stand at the top of the pyramid, the remaining magicians are either attached to the nobility, or simply poor, and it is naturally impossible to talk about such a thing as ruling the territory.
"So, this place is occupied by a human noble? It doesn't make sense, did the mages give up the ruins....."
Saying that, Roger turned around and saw that Elway had no intention of lying down, so he simply sat up straight, picked up the emblem on the ground and observed.
It is a typical aristocratic coat of arms, with a shield-shaped metal insignia depicting the symbol of a trident and a crossed hammer on a red background, and the six-pointed star of the Federation of Non-Divisions. According to the heraldic science of the Pancontinent, which specializes in the study of noble coats of arms, such a coat of arms indicates that the noble family held at least the title of viscount of a certain duchy and served a god related to the sea.
"Well, 'Lord Fitz, with his majestic power, rules this place and sustains this city in the desert'. Elway, with the grass in his mouth, stared at the coat of arms on Roger's hand, thought for a moment, and added, "That's the exact words I got from the tongue I caught, that human seems to be a small boss, and if you want to interrogate that guy, I'm tied up behind the dunes over there." ”
According to him, only those who wore the family crest were eligible to enter the inner city where the lord was served, the area near the Stone Mountain. Other than that, from his words, I felt as if he didn't know what magic was, even though the power of the lord in his mouth was more like some magical power, he still called it a secret technique, and he called the heavenly mage's eye 'overseer', proof of the lord's rule over the city. ”
After telling Roger the information he had interrogated, Elvay was silent, leaving Roger time to think for himself.
"Interesting unfolding. Roger rubbed his hands together, his eyebrows slightly raised, "The mage camp who doesn't know magic? Is this a disguise? Could that nobleman be some kind of agent? Or is there something going on here....... It's fun."
Seeing that Roger was deep in thought, Elway on the side said indifferently, "Isn't it important where the mages went, isn't it just the right time for us to sneak in here?"
Hearing Elway's speech, Roger rolled his eyes and glanced at the innocent elf, and almost wrote the word idiot on his face, "Any unknown changes are worth being wary of, not to mention this nobleman who appeared out of thin air in the Necromantic Underworld? What if the mages turn the camp into the shadows? What if this is a trap to trap the dark wizards, if you don't plan in advance, just let the two of us break in in a daze, this is not looking for death." ”
"By the way, you didn't find that tongue when you caught it, did you?" Roger suddenly thought of something, and asked Elway with a sideways face.
With an unhappy face, Elway spat out the grass branch and said, "Half-elf, you are questioning the strength of an elven ranger. ”
"Cut, yesterday he pretended to be quite unfathomable, and he wasn't a first-order ranger. Roger didn't hold back his disdainful look, but he also knew that now was not the time to taunt Elway, and said, "Let's go, take me to see the tongue, maybe it's up to him to get into the ruins." ”
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"The gods are above! You bastards who only dare to hide in the gutter! Worms who deserve to be thrown into the quicksand by the lord! Let me go, one day you will be torn to pieces by the law enforcement team!"
Having just woken up from a coma, Tariq's eyes narrowed at the blinding light, so that he could only see a blurry figure in front of him. Tariq, who was not yet fully conscious, squirmed and tried to stand up, only to find that he had been tied up by Wuhua when he was unconscious, and all of a sudden, the overseer squad leader shouted loudly.
"Stop calling, no one will come here. ”
A mocking voice rang in his ears, and Tariq, who had adapted to the light, saw the kidnapper in front of him, it was not the person who had knocked him unconscious before, but another young man wrapped in a black shirt. Looking at his thin figure, Tariq dared to promise that if he hadn't been tied up, he would have been able to break the kid's neck in less than a minute.
"What the hell are you really informed!" Tarik, blushing, glared at the young man crouching in front of him, "Lord Lord's power is beyond your reach, put away your unrealistic ideas, and obediently roll back into your desert with your tail between your legs!"
Roger held his chin and watched with interest as the squad leader played monkey tricks in front of him, it seemed that this guy thought he was a member of an organization called the Shinchi Society, Roger didn't want to correct this mistake, maybe he could learn more from his words.
"Don't you see this guy stalling for time?" just as Tarik thought he was going to get out of danger, and a demonic whisper shattered his illusions.
Carrying a longbow, Elway stepped out from behind Tariq, and immediately crouched in front of Tariq like Roger, "The rope that tied this guy's wrist was almost broken by him with a knife. I have to say that he pretends to be quite similar. ”
Hearing the words of this young man suddenly appeared, Tariq's heart sank suddenly, his rough appearance and reckless behavior had clearly deceived the inexperienced young man in front of him, making him relax his vigilance, but he never noticed that there was another person behind him! He didn't even make a sound of breathing! This time Tariq was really going to scold his mother.
"Don't worry, this little gesture can't hide it from me. Roger poked Tajik's muscular arm and said with a joke, "I've tied up thousands of guys, at least eighteen, and I haven't seen any way to escape. ”
Roger's words made Tariq chuckle in his heart, how could this guy not sound like the people who really knew it?
Even Elway looked at Roger in surprise when he heard this, and said with some uncertainty: "You're scaring him, aren't you?"
"Hey, hey, what do you say?"
Turning his head, a sinister smile appeared on Roger's face, and he reached out and drew the dagger from his waist and gestured at Tariq. Tarik, who was sweating coldly on his head, seemed to be able to smell the strong smell of blood on the shiny silver dagger (it was actually the smell of Roger's roast crab meat last night), "Don't be nervous, baby. Let's talk about your lord and the truth......
When the light disappeared from the earth again, the Necromantic Underworld was once again shrouded in darkness.
The silent ruins of Amanda were as silent as ever, and the towers adjacent to the inner city palace rang once again with a melodious chime, and all the slave laborers who were still outside the ruins stopped their work all day and poured into the city with heavy steps under the rude reprimand of the overseer.
Most of them have yellow and thin faces, dry hair is full of dirt, sweat sticks to the scalp, this group of ragged slave laborers is even difficult to distinguish between men and women, the perennial high-intensity labor pressure makes most of them lose their lives before they live to be thirty years old, stiff and die in a crowded and dilapidated shed, and finally dragged out of the city by the patrol team to feed the monsters.
Following the flow of people, Roger and Elway, disguised as slave laborers, lowered their heads and walked in the crowd.
It wasn't until they entered the ruins that there were some voices among the silent slaves, who whispered and discussed, and then spread out into the canvas sheds that Roger had seen during the day, while the overseers with whips stood in groups by the fire, and they had to watch over the slaves not enter the ruined complex, lest the inferior people defile the land of the lord with their filthy feet.
As the slaves entered their respective sheds one after another, the crowd around Roger and Elway gradually thinned out, and the eyes of several sharp-eyed overseers began to wander over the two of them who had been wandering for a long time, after all, even after some disguise, the difference between slaves and free men was still very obvious.
What's more, a few days ago, there was an incident where the people of the True Wisdom Society infiltrated the slave labor and infiltrated the ruins, and even if the intruder was finally discovered by the 'overseers' in the air, the overseer on duty that day was still taken away by the law enforcement team, and he was still locked up in the lord's water dungeon, which made it impossible for the overseers not to cheer up.
"What now, I feel like at least three people have been watching us, so that we won't be found before we get to the room that the tongue said. Keen perception made Elway aware of the gaze coming from his surroundings, and whispered to Roger with an impassive face.
"Don't panic, come here. ”
With his head down, Roger motioned for Elway to follow, and then he naturally lifted the canvas curtain of the tent next to him, and bent down to get in, and Elway followed Roger's example and followed him into the dilapidated shed.