Act XII: Inference

The scene returned to the demon invasion area, and Lilith sat silently at a distance from the other three, and the atmosphere of the whole scene was a little solemn. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info both sides of the information that she has mastered through risk, which side to believe, she really can't make an easy decision in a short time.

Originally, she wanted to do a close probing of Sheena and Dorov's body-related aspects, but the two of them were worried that the "magic erosion" would spread through physical contact. According to them, this phenomenon, which was recorded in the ancient texts in only a few words, plunged their bodies into a great weakness, and they could clearly feel the withering of vitality and the decline of magic in their bodies.

Lilith could not take any comforting words about this situation, which was also vaguely recorded in the texts. After calming down a little, Antoun's figure began to wander in her mind again: how did the young man counteract this weakness?

Through the previous intentional or unintentional physical contact, she could clearly feel that the other party was a real ordinary human being, but his physique was a little better than most people after a long period of exercise. But it is definitely not up to the level of a warrior professional.

As professionals, Hina and Dorov have stronger physiques than him, but looking at their current state of struggling to speak, it is really hard to imagine that young man can survive such changes.

Thinking about it this way, the dead "tree of predation" at that time may be the crux of the matter. The "Predatory Tree" is a predator of life force, and the tree itself is a storehouse of vast life force. Judging by Antoun's reaction at the time, he shouldn't have been trapped for long, which means that the tree won't be dead for too long.

According to common sense, it would take some time for such a huge vitality to return to the arms of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, but the truth is that the result of her exploration of the magic power into the trunk of the tree is that the tree has been dead for a long time.

The contradiction between the two is self-evident. Assuming that Antoun wasn't lying, then someone had done something to the tree or to Antoun himself.

At this point, Lilith came up with a bold conjecture about how the whole thing had developed. Although her teachers often told her, "Sometimes you don't rely on experience, but think outside of common sense." But this answer was too whimsical, and even she herself was too unconvinced that it could exist in the world.

Moreover, regardless of the difficulty of implementing the "thing" she guessed, the purpose of the implementer, and possibly the implementer group, is also unpredictable.

As I said just now, she has obtained the result that the young man is an ordinary person through some simple physical judgments. From this point of view, there is no need to apply such a complex way to him. It would be unreasonable to say that this is just an experiment. The "predatory tree" that grows so tall is not unique, but it really depends on luck to find another one in a short time - its value as experimental material is too high.

If you continue to go along this line of thought, there are only two relatively large possibilities: one is that this is indeed an experiment, because it is really necessary to accept the identity or status of the person who works in this way is extremely respectful, and even if it costs a lot of money to do an "exercise", it is within the scope of the plan; The second is that the youth himself has a special identity or status, and this work is meant to be carried out on him, probably with the aim of bringing about some kind of change in him.

Based on the previous clues, Lilith's thinking at this time is more biased towards the latter. The most critical reason is that young people have golden eyes that are not like ordinary people.

She had seen a lot of people like amber or dark gold in more than ten years, but she had seen only a few people who could be described as gold. In the region of Greenia, those people were once in high esteem, and Antoun's eyes were not only not inferior to them, but perhaps even better than them in purity.

Yes, Lilith was thinking of the core members of the old Greenian royal family who died in the "Red Night War" that caused the collapse of the old Greenia kingdom and turned into the demon invasion area "Heltham" and later the mercenary country "Lucatia" about eleven years ago, that is, in the year 1186 of the continental calendar.

Some of their families who survived in order to continue the flame of the kingdom, after a long period of fugitives, came to the south, which was not much developed and managed during the Old Kingdom, and was full of chaos, with the intention of restoring the royal flag. Of course, the ridiculous development that followed this group of powerless people was known to the people of the entire continent.

Assuming that Antoun was one of the fugitives who had been left behind in Haytham and had a bloodline as pure as the core members, it was entirely possible that the "one" she had guessed would be implemented. And in a situation where failure means death, what the young man gains after surviving "according to plan" is definitely not as simple as being able to perceive the flow of magic in his body as he stated.

Last but not least, the premise for all of this to be successful is that there is a high probability that there will be one Tier 7 caster or higher, or a number of 10 or more Rank 6 casters.

Not to mention the sixth-order that requires many people to reach the implementation conditions, what is the concept of seventh-order? Although the evaluation criteria of the major professional associations are different in detail, some of the requirements are generally the same. Excluding the legendary Tenth Order, which no one has reached, and the only few Ninth Orders on the continent, the Seventh Order can already be called a first-class person in the world's power.

When and how did such a person come here? Why hasn't there been a bailout in 11 years? What do you want to do with the old royals now?

Numerous questions were generated in Lilith's mind, and then they were connected into a thread. From the moment she decided to go out on an adventure before the teacher woke up from his slumber, and the senior brothers and sisters were too busy with their own affairs to take care of her little junior sister, she seemed to be assigned to the script that had already been written:

In order not to attract attention, I went to the Adventurer's Association to ask for help instead of the Mercenary Association; The same is true of the coincidental purchase of information on an old royal secret treasure buried in the hinterland of the occupied area from a black marketeer; From time to time, astrology is relied upon to decide where to go; Before entering this forest, the adventure along the way miraculously did not encounter anything truly life-threatening; Finally, the same is true of the encounter with Antun.

It was supposed to be a memorable first adventure, but why, and why did it turn out like this?

The answers derived from these clues violently shook her heart. As for what Antoun gained through "that" and why he wanted to hide it; I'm afraid that she secretly followed her team to enter Haytham along the way, where is the new seventh-order spellcaster who has been promoted for more than ten years now; What kind of transformation has happened to Lian. She didn't have time to guess about the details.

The old royal faction lurking in Lukatia has already begun to act, where should the descendants of her "sinner" family go?

“…… It's terrible. ”

"Lilith?"

The air of silence began to flow again with the whispers she couldn't help but make, and a strong sense of guilt welled up in Lilith's heart as she looked at the three companions in front of her, most likely because she had caused unnecessary danger.