Chapter 46: Encounter
Before the smoke of the explosion had cleared, a figure in a robe, rushed out of the smoke and fled in the direction where Givens and Adella were. Behind him, a stout hedron warrior chased him out of the smoke.
The hedron warrior wielded a sledgehammer and shouted angrily in his distinctive voice, "Rot, you stand still! You bastard dares to ambush me with a trap, I will beat your leg flat!"
Hearing this neutral voice, Givens and Adelia were stunned in unison, this voice was very familiar to them, wasn't this the voice of Sheriff Ares?
The summoner, named Rot, ignored Ares' scolding and applied cat speed to himself as he ran, then summoned his own summoned beast. I saw a huge mollusk appear out of thin air, and at once completely crushed Ares under him.
Taking advantage of this gap, the summoner ran away at a rapid pace, widening the distance between him and Ares, and it was not far from Jiwen and them.
"Jiwen, stop him!"
When Adelia saw that Sheriff Ares was being suppressed by the summoning beast, her heart immediately became anxious. After all, these days, she has regarded these enthusiastic sheriffs as close friends. Now that Ares seems to be in danger, Adelia feels that it is her duty to help.
Although judging from the summoned beasts that were summoned, this summoner seemed to be a fourth-order high-level summoner, and his strength should be above Adella. But Adelia had been through many bloody battles, and she was not afraid, and she skillfully blocked the mage's path through the dancing vines that covered the street in front of her.
The thorny vines wrapped around the mage's legs, and the mage staggered to the ground, then was immediately shielded by the vines, forming a wriggling pile of thorns.
The spell seems to have worked!
This easy success made Adelia so puzzled that she even stopped the spells she was about to cast in succession.
How could a fourth-order summoner be easily tripped by the Thorn Technique?
Just as Adelia was still hesitating to use the Wood Thorn to end the battle, the pile of thorns suddenly burst open, and a black shadow jumped out of it, flashing like the wind to the other side of the street.
Oops, that fall was just a disguise for the opponent.
After discovering that she had been fooled, Adelia quickly changed her casting, but now that she was a beat slower, someone had to stop her.
"Jiwen!"
Adelia shouted telepathically, and before Adella gave the order, Jiwen had already chased after him, and after the brutal training in the forbidden space, Jiwen's physical coordination and strength explosion had been greatly improved, and his movement speed was much faster than before.
It only took a few seconds for Givens to catch up with the shadow, and just as the shadow was about to leap up the wall on the side of the street, Gilvan leaped up and grabbed the shadow by the ankle and dragged him to the ground.
"Poof!"
The shadow slammed into the ground and rolled a few times. Givens reached out and tried to grab the shadow by the neck and pick him up. But when he touched the body of the black shadow, he suddenly realized that he had been deceived.
It was a writhing mass of thorns, barely maintaining its human appearance under the influence of spells.
Gawain turned his head sharply and shouted in his heart, "Be careful, it's a scam!
And just as Given's grasp of the dark shadow, from the fragments of the thorn pile, emerged the figure of a summoner, who had already muted himself, and now he quietly jumped out and pounced on the unsuspecting Adelea.
The summoner's mouth quickly recited the incantation of poison strikes, and his right hand reaching for Adelia was immediately enveloped in a cloud of green smoke, and the summoner's nails glowed with a dark green glow.
Oops, it's too late.
Given, who had no long-range attack means, quickly took out a small chain ball and threw it at the summoner, this small chain ball was not inlaid with magic crystals, and the dim earth body was hidden in the darkness, cutting through the air and flying towards the summoner.
When Adella heard Given's warning and turned around, the summoner's hand was about to grab Adella's shoulder.
In desperation, Adellia bit her lip. As that wisp of blood oozed out, Adella's magic resistance began to build up in her body with the mixed blood.
But at this moment, a chain ball with a chain hit the summoner's arm, and under the huge impact, the summoner's arm bone broke, the arm bent at an incredible angle, and the dark green nails also crossed Adella's cheek.
The pain distorted the summoner's expression as he opened his mouth to howl, but the mute spell effect kept his surroundings as quiet as usual.
It was also at that moment that Adelia gathered all the strength of her body and threw a punch. The weak-looking fist was smashing into the bridge of the summoner's nose.
After connecting with Jiwen's blood contract, Adelia is now no weaker than a third-order hedron warrior, and this punch caused the hapless summoner to soar into the air, fall to the ground, and completely faint.
And at this moment, Jiwen also rushed back to Adelia as fast as he could.
"Are you alright?" asked Given.
"Hmm. Adelia replied with a blank face, then turned her face away, and used the magic vines alone to bind the unconscious summoner tightly.
Seeing Adella's reaction, Givens knew that she was still angry about what had just happened. However, Givens didn't feel that he was at fault, and he didn't bother to explain any more, so he stood aside.
Just then, Ares scurried over, covered in slimy slime. After the summoner fell unconscious just now, the huge mollusk also returned to the summoning space, and Ares finally regained his freedom, but the residual slime could not be removed for a while.
Ares was busy wiping the slime, while barely recognising the person, but after seeing clearly the person who helped stop the summoner, Ares exclaimed in surprise: "It turned out to be you, Adelia! This guy deserved to be unlucky, and actually ran to your side, eh, this is your friend?" Ares saw the disguised Given, but did not recognize him.
Adelia looked at Jivan like this, and then explained indifferently, "This is Mr. Copperbeard." ”
"Hello, I'm Ares, the sheriff of the city. Adelia's friend is also my friend of Ares, thanks to the help of the two of you today, otherwise this kid Rott would have run away!" Ares greeted Gilvin with the same enthusiasm.
"Is he a criminal?" asked Adelia as she pointed to the unconscious summoner.
"This guy is Roth, a seasoned liar who can cheat even a dead man out of a few gold coins. He is also a supplier of various fraudulent props in the city. Today I just asked him for questions, but I didn't expect this guy to attack me with such a weak heart!"
Thinking of this, Ares shook off the slime on his body, then kicked Roth, who had fainted to the ground, a few times, and finally complained: "I don't know what the Archon is crazy about, and he suddenly wants to investigate the city's summoning materials and scroll merchants." Otherwise, I wouldn't have encountered this. ”
"I see. Adelia listened to Ares's explanation and whispered. But Jiwen, who was listening on the sidelines, suddenly realized something different, and the consul Midor Ya also got the red spar powder left over from the summoning, with the cunning of the consul, it was not difficult to guess the truth of the matter, could it be that she was also investigating the matter of the summoning?
Of course, Givan could not have guessed that the Archon's order was only to carry out Prince Djonnmi's will, but the myriad consequences of this order were something that Givan did not expect.
After a few small talks with Adella, Ares took a closer look at the unconscious prisoner, and the delicate little chain ball on the prisoner's arm was very interesting to the sheriff, and he took the chain ball off and asked, "Whose thing is this?" ”
"It's Mr. Copperbeard's. Adelia replied.
Ares looked at Givens and asked with interest, "How about giving it to me?"
Jiwen was afraid of making a sound to reveal his stuffing, so he just nodded, this thing is not precious, and it is not a big deal to give it to the sheriff.
"Thanks!" Ares put the hammer ball in his waist bag, and then said generously, "But you wait a while, I, Ares, will not let you help in vain." ”
With that, Ares tossed and turned on the prisoner, and it took a long time for him to get a ring from the prisoner's hand. In the dimness, Ares looked at it for a long time before he recognized that it was a small storage ring.
"Where did this guy Roth hide all the treasures, why is there only a ring left. Otherwise, if you are wronged, accept this storage ring. Ares said with some embarrassment, he thought that he would be able to scavenge a few valuable pieces of magic equipment from Rot.
"Is that good? Ares. Adelia watched Ares's movements in surprise and looted the prisoner's belongings without permission, which made Adelia a little unacceptable to Adelia who had been attending classes in the academy.
In the night, Ares laughed and replied indifferently, "This fellow who has never done anything good is unlucky, and when he fell, he dropped the ring, and it was so dark that I couldn't see where the ring had gone." You say no, Mr. Copperbeard. ”
In response to Ares' inquiry, Givens nodded approvingly. Fighting monsters and hugging equipment, of course, this is a natural thing.
However, Given's disregard for the moral law seemed to disgust Adelia again, and she scolded Given, and then said, "Since you agree, then you can keep the ring, I'm not interested." ”
Ares ignored Adelia's temper tantrum and said to himself, "But before giving it to you, I have to take out the contents first, this liar must have a lot of evidence of the crime with him." ”
With that, Ares touched the magic trap and poured out the contents of the spell.
But the storage space of this storage ring seems to be not small, and I saw a bunch of scrolls, a few books, and a lot of strange tools, rolling to the ground.
Because the surroundings were too dim, Adelia quickly released a spell: the Moon Sphere, a bright miniature moon that lit up the surroundings and revealed everything scattered on the ground. Adelia and Ares immediately began to pack their things, and Givens crouched down to help clean up the scrolls and books scattered on the floor.
Just as Givens picked up a few scrolls, Govern suddenly found that there was a small old notebook pressed under one scroll, and the scattered pages seemed to be full of various design drawings and explanatory texts. Seeing that this thing seemed to be very valuable, Given's idea of secretly staying. He crept back to see that Adelia and Ares were still with their backs to him, busy cleaning up the props on the ground. So he immediately slipped the notebook into his pocket.
As soon as he hid his things, he heard Adelia screaming from behind him, "Ares, what kind of scroll is this?"