Time flies, time flies. The time of a month of prayer passed quickly.

Gothic has a long history of thriving commerce, and where there is profit, there will be bandits, who hide outside the city, raid caravans, and plunder supplies. In order to keep the trade routes open and eliminate bandits, the city of Gothic had several times more city defenses than any other city in Ilan County. Despite this, driven by huge and unprofitable interests, bandits are still emerging. The greed and insatiability of real bandits chasing gold coins is one reason, and the other reason is that some bandits are simply the private soldiers of nearby nobles, and after they loot, they hide directly in the manor, and it is difficult to track them down.

Recently, there is a large chamber of commerce caravan in the Gothic City, suffered a bandit robbery, of course, the chamber of commerce's armed forces are also very strong, after the battle, each lay down more than ten companions, when the war was scorching, the bandits in the realization of the caravan after the difficulty, dragged away the supplies of two carriages, and fled.

Although the loss was not large, the Great Chamber of Commerce still felt that it had been provoked and its face was damaged, so it spent a lot of money on the Gothic City City Lord's Mansion, asking the City Lord to uphold justice and eliminate the gang of bandits.

So, after three days of exploration, the city defense regiment locked down the hiding place of the bandits, and that night, the city defense troops of the two brigades went straight to the bandits' den, intending to annihilate the entire bandits.

The plan went smoothly until the den was encircled, and the bandits did not notice it. The commander ordered the soldiers to advance slowly, but, surprisingly, until the den was turned upside down, the entire bandit disappeared out of thin air, except for some discarded debris.

Of course, this is just a small matter, since the bandits have fled and there is no trace, then report all annihilation, no one can verify anything, and the low-hanging fruit should not be in vain.

At the west gate of Gothic City, a team of ten-man mercenaries with two wagons of goods is queuing up for inspection. The team of mercenaries had traveled all the way from the Forest of Chaos to Ponches County to attend the mercenary convention, passing through Gothic City, where they were selling some valuable goods. After the soldiers' inspection, there was no problem with the mercenary certificate and road certificate, and the goods were also normal goods, so they were released at the city gate.

Ten mercenaries, eight men and two women, four drove carriages and six rode horses.

The two women are a middle-aged woman and a young girl, judging from their faces, they should be a mother and daughter, with ordinary appearances, but both of them are dressed as swordsmen.

Of the eight men, four of whom were in charge of driving the carriage, were clearly among the lowest of the ten, and two of them looked like father and son, dressed as knights. There were two people left, one was a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, carrying a giant sword that was larger than usual, and the other was an old man, wearing a robe and holding a staff of human height, who was actually a mage.

Walking through the city gate, the middle-aged man with the giant sword on his back snorted, and said with an angry face: "Our wolf tooth mercenary group, the prestige of the top fifty in the Forest of Chaos, such a small city, even has to be searched and checked, this group of miscellaneous people, if not... ”

"Shut up!" stopped the father of fathers and sons, not the mage. Judging from his appearance, he is the least leader-like, giving people a particularly honest feeling.

The big man with the giant sword was stopped not only not getting angry after being drunk, but immediately shrunk his neck and whispered: "Got it, boss, I won't say it, don't be angry." ”

The seemingly honest man, after glaring at him, said to everyone again: "Everyone is out of the house, this time there is still a task in you, so it is better to be careful in your words." Roy, you go find a hotel, come and take everyone to live first, all listen, no one is allowed to go out without permission after staying, all actions are waiting for my notice. ”

Then, he turned to the old mage who was closing his eyes and said.

"Simon, come with me. ”

The old mage named Simon nodded imperceptibly, and Roy was one of the four men driving the carriage, and he immediately agreed, then jumped out of the carriage and went to find the inn.

Castle Lord's Mansion.

Lord Carter was a handsome middle-aged man just over forty years old, with a standard aristocratic beard and an ironed city defense corps commander's uniform. He fiddled with the bonsai on the table at will, glanced at the young man sitting opposite, and said with a cold expression.

"Viscount Frank, Paran has already made a marriage contract, I have told you about this a long time ago, it's not that we don't want to marry you, the noble covenant is there, and I can't help it. ”

It turned out that it was Frank who was sitting opposite the Carter City Lord at this moment.

"Lord Carter, we all know whether Miss Parland's marriage contract is true or not, but I am not here today to inquire about the truth of the marriage contract, this topic is meaningless. What I'm trying to say is, true or not, are the Daemon family ready for the wrath of the Gariani family?"

The City Lord Carter snorted lightly, his expression full of disdain.

"The Twelve Golden Families of the Empire are really majestic. Have you forgotten that you are just branches, and the style of the silver wolf has always been to care whether the branch lives or dies. Also, can you represent your family? The marriage contract, in Ilan County, I say yes, yes. That's the end of the matter, Frank, I don't think there's any need to argue. ”

Frank had no intention of leaving. "I'm here today to make a deal with Lord Carter. ”

"Deal? ”

Frank continued. "My family would give up on the idea of marriage anyway, as if it had never happened. Plus five full-grown griffons in exchange for a favor from Lord Carter. ”

When Carter heard this, he immediately sat up straight, the number of griffin knights determines the hard power of an army, and the Gothic City City Defense Regiment has accumulated for so many years, and there are only five griffin knights at present. He resisted the urge to say yes and asked. "What do you need me to do?"

"I don't need to do anything from Lord Carter, I just need one night, you don't have to do anything, it's all right. I assure you that my actions are not directed against Gothic City, nor against the City Defense Regiment. ”

After a moment of silence, Carter replied in a muffled voice.

"Deal. ”

Holy Empire, City of St. Caesar, Papal Room.

It is the residence of the Pope and the office of the clergy of the Papal Chamber. Walking through the splendid and majestic gilt gallery of St. Alexander, in a large room, two copies of the proclamation from the county of Elam were placed at the same time before the old man of the Third Consul, known as the "Left Hand of the Pope".

The old man was full of silver threads, wearing a big red robe, extremely majestic. After picking up the two copies of the report, reading them carefully, and thinking for a moment, the old man waved his hand and threw the copy signed by Wood into the waste cardboard box on the side, and then put the note signed by Emmed into the file compartment.

In the third penance room, the old man folded a piece of parchment and put it in the eye of the magic circle in front of him, and after waiting for the parchment to be swallowed by the white light emitted by the magic circle, the old man walked outside the house, found a clean stone pier, and sat down. Then leisurely basking in the sun, recalling his magnificent life.

A cluster of stone houses on a cliff. It was still the room engraved with the stone platform of the magic circle, and at this moment, in addition to the rickety old man, there were three other people standing next to the stone platform in turn.

An old woman wearing a black mage robe, with a six-pointed star pattern formed by silver threads on her chest covering the entire robe. A man of about fifty years of age, his short stature completely obscured by his bright red robes. The last one was a middle-aged man, scruffy and lazy, dressed like leather and cloth.

The magic circle on the stone platform suddenly activated, the white light flashed, and a folded parchment appeared in the middle of the magic circle. "As First Consul, I now announce the opening of the voting, William's choice is to open, my own choice is to abstain, and then you all make a statement. ”

Short male in a big red robe, "abstaining"

The old woman in the black mage robe, "opposed"

The sloppy middle-aged man glanced at the other three one by one, yawned, and said, "You guys, one by one, either abstain or oppose, and in the end, I have to vote for it, Bretzel, do you want to guess how I will choose?"

The rickety old man said impatiently: "Xiaoqing, just say your choice, don't talk about anything else." ”

"Well, old Terry, you've always been so confused. The sloppy middle-aged man wanted to tease, but when he saw the impatient gaze of the old woman in the black robe, he immediately said honestly.

"On, I choose to turn on. ”

Five people voted, two abstained, one against, and two in favor. The final result is 2 to 1, and that's it, on!

It's been a month of prayer since the last time he and Paran shopped at the Goode Magic Materials Market, and during that time, Oss and Paran had met a few times, talking about magic and meeting for dinner. Paland is very concerned about Oss's crazy idea, and will always ask about the progress, originally today Oss has entered the final portrayal stage, Paland said that he would come and watch, but there is something temporary, so he can only give up.

The circle carrier chosen by Oss is very special, it is the cloister floor of the attic where he lives. After Osus became the Great Auxiliary Priest, the entire attic on the west side of the church belonged to him alone, and was rarely entered. The reason why I chose to depict it on the floor of the cloister is that there is enough space here, and secondly, it is the necessary place to get to my room and the west door of the church.

Sweating profusely, but Oss didn't bother to wipe it off, and the portrayal was entering the most critical juncture. The depiction of the ninety-nine fireball magic circles is actually not difficult, Oss completed it in ten days, this combination of magic circles, the most difficult part of the fire rain is to connect the eyes of all the fireball magic circles with a tactful and tortuous lead in one go.

This was already Oss's third attempt, the first failed in the thirty-first, and the second failed in the ninety-third.

The Wandering Pen is specially crafted to store enough crafting materials. Ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-five. Osdu did it without a hitch, but his fitness was also at its limit.

Oss's right hand began to become extremely heavy, but he still did not stop, and the tip of the pen swiped through the ninety-eighth place, and the last place was still missing, but he really felt that his body could not continue. Suddenly, Oss's head cleared for a while, and he felt the beating he hadn't felt for a long time.

Suddenly, suddenly, it hit the bottom of his heart like a tide.

rumble

A loud bang exploded in his body, and the tip of the pen smoothly slashed through the ninety-ninth place, perfectly connecting all the magic circles into a whole.

Awaken!