Chapter 5: Assassination

The plants grow very vigorously in spring, which is also related to the fertile soil, as long as there is no one to take care of it for two days, weeds will spread everywhere, and even those trails are full of weeds. These tenacious plants poked their heads out of the compacted soil, and the tallest one had grown to Hathaway's waist.

After absorbing the strength of the dire wolf, she found that she seemed to be more like a warrior than like a magic apprentice, very agile between running, and long strength, and weak at all, the national art that she had practiced the earth before could finally come in handy, even if she didn't have that half-baked magic, she also had the ability to protect herself.

As she ran, Hathaway adjusted her breathing, which was extremely important for a martial artist, because the exertion of strength depended entirely on the control of breathing, and despite the extreme exertion of the body, the breathing could never be disturbed in the slightest.

As she remembered, while the sun was still shining obliquely overhead, Hathaway finally saw the town not far from the riverbank, and she hurried forward.

Originally, it was just a small town in her memory, but now it seems that it is quite large. Like most towns, there are no tall, sturdy walls or pointed church roofs. The town was surrounded by a fence, about a man tall, made of thin planks, apparently not built to protect against human or ferocious beasts, but more likely to keep foxes and weasels out of the town, which were annoying to the common people. These critters steal their fish and kill poultry and lambs, which is a heavy loss for civilians who do not have much industry.

Walking into the town, it is lined with low-rise bungalows, and only the roadside inn is a three-story building. The road in the town is marked by a large cross, and there is a simple square in the middle, and there is even a sculpture in the square of Artemis, the most worshipped goddess of forests and hunting in the Ortiga Empire.

This place is close to the Kaya Mountains, and people are naturally protected by this goddess, and the status of the Druid Church in the empire is extremely high, and if there is any danger, they can immediately ask for support from the church in the city.

Hathaway takes out five gold carats from the fairy garden...... Carat is the unified currency of this world, there are double-sided gold carats, gold carats (single-sided), silver carats, copper carats, and the conversion unit is decimal system. Originally, there were a few gold carats in her package, but she made a windfall from that knight, there were nearly a hundred double-sided gold carats alone, as well as a lot of gold carats and silver carats, so there was no need to think about the cost of travel at all, and after looking at the direction, she walked straight to the inn.

It was a three-story building, the tallest building in the town, boxy, unpretentious, with a chimney sticking out from the left side, which looked like a kitchen. The inn seemed to be made of bricks, but Hathaway wasn't sure about that, for the outside was thickly coated with a layer of lime, perhaps just made of mud. The exterior walls of the second and third floors are nailed with intersecting wooden planks, and it is not clear whether the corridor is for firmness or aesthetics; The roof is laid on top of wooden planks, which are painted on both sides, but they are quite durable.

Pushing open the heavy wooden door of the inn, Hathaway walked in, perhaps because of the time, there were not many customers in the store, and a guy was leaning against the counter and dozing. Two other men, apparently on business, were sitting in a corner by the window, gesturing and arguing over something. Hearing someone coming in, they all glanced at Hathaway.

Hathaway tapped on the plank of the counter, waking up the man who was sleeping soundly.

"I want a room for a night's rest, and I want it to be clean." Hathaway commanded. She really didn't expect any delicious food here, but when she was working on the earth before, she had even been to the uninhabited area of Tibet, so this little trouble was really nothing.

The fellow looked up in a daze, but the displeasure on his face immediately disappeared as soon as he saw Hathaway's costume clearly...... An apprentice magician, this is not a guest that can be met very often. Although the status of the magician is no longer as good as that of the druid, it is still not something that ordinary people can insult, and after hearing this, he hurriedly responded: "Yes, my lord, I will lead you up now!" With that, he pulled out the key from under the counter and walked out.

Just as Hathaway followed the guy upstairs, the two who had been sitting and talking about business were afraid that the two of them got up and quietly followed.

"Are you satisfied, sir?" The guy stood in the doorway with a smile on his face, looking at Hathaway with hope.

"Make do with it."

Hathaway looked around the room, "When is there a boat to Lusp?" ”

"Under normal circumstances, there is a boat to Lusp tomorrow morning." The guy replied.

"What if it's not normal?" Hathaway glanced at him and tossed him a silver carat.

"There is a small boat in Mondo on the edge of town, and I often take on some private work, but the boat is a little more expensive."

When the man was rewarded, he immediately smiled, and told him in detail where the Mondo was.

"Alright, you go down and get me a steak, a hash brown, and a glass of mulled wine." Hathaway commanded, and as she spoke, she tossed another silver carat over.

To be honest, the food information she got from her memory was much poorer in her opinion, and it was not as diverse as the variety of Western food on the earth, not to mention the profound Chinese food culture.

"Yes, my lord, I'll send it right away." The man took the silver carat and went downstairs full of joy.

Knock, knock, knock.

A moment later, there was a knock on the door outside, and Hathaway asked, "Who?" ”

"I'm a food deliverer." There was a man's voice outside, I don't know if Lu Dao was afraid of making noise to others, his voice was a little low.

"Wait a minute."

Hathaway got up to open the door, and at the moment the door opened, two people suddenly rushed in from outside, both holding daggers in their hands, making an attacking posture, but to their surprise, there was no one in front of them, as if they were facing the air.

"Not good!"

These two people are the two people who were talking about business just now, and their faces are full of murder at this time, where is there half a businessman's posture. After the two of them were stunned, they immediately realized that something was wrong, but their reactions were still a little sluggish, and the one on the left only felt a pain in the back of his neck, and his body couldn't help but soften, and the dagger in his hand didn't know when it had fallen into a snow-white little hand, and it was sent to the side like a boat pushing down the river, and the 'poof' sound pierced into the heart of the assassin on the right.

The sequence of actions was completed in the light of lightning, and footsteps could be heard in the hallway, and Hathaway dragged both the unconscious and dead Assassin to the bedside. At this time, there was another knock at the door: "My lord, the dinner you asked for has been delivered." ”

Hathaway opened the door, took the plate from the man's hand, and ordered, "I need to rest for a while after eating, and I will send the plate down later, so you don't have to come up." ”

"Yes, sir." The men knew that the magicians had some special tempers, and they didn't dare to ask more, so they quickly left with a promise.

Hathaway closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief, thanks to the two blood floats in the mountains, especially after absorbing the blood of the dire wolf, her sense of sight, smell and hearing have been greatly improved, just now the two assassins were pretending to be shop guys outside, although the voice was pretending to be beautiful, but it was the sound of two people's breathing, this is this alertness, so that she can avoid death. But who was going to kill her?

To know Lu Dao, she is now a magic apprentice, although she is not a formal mage, but she is not something that ordinary people can calculate, these two assassins know at a glance that Lu Dao is targeted, if it is not ordered to come, then it is called weird!

Fortunately, there was no damage to the room, and Hathaway thought for a moment, dragging one in one hand, and threw them into the fairy garden, then pressed her hand on the unicorn tattoo and closed her eyes. When I opened my eyes again, I was already in the fairy garden.

She was about to make a round, when a dialog box suddenly popped up in front of her: "Found organic fertilizer, do you absorb it?" ”

Organic fertilizers?

Does the fairy garden need to be fertilized too?

There are 'yes' and 'no' options on the dialog, Hathaway selects 'yes', and the dialog box suddenly disappears, and under Hathaway's gaze, the body of the slain assassin is quickly decomposed, and then absorbed by the earth.

What's going on?

Hathaway rubbed it, thinking her eyes were spent. However, the body did disappear, leaving only the unconscious assassin alone.

"By the way, there's also a dire wolf corpse."

Hathaway suddenly remembered that she had also dumped a dire wolf corpse in the fairy garden in the mountains earlier, and she immediately raised her eyes to look around...... No, the dire wolf corpse was gone.

"I didn't expect the fairy garden to be okay!" Hathaway probably understood what was going on, after the death of a human or animal, here it is organic compounds, it is fertilizer. But what does this fertilizer bring when it is absorbed?

Her heart moved, and she pulled up the status panel and looked at some ...... The status bar seems to be progressing a bit, but it's not very noticeable. She thought for a moment, and woke up another living Assassin...... Anyway, he was born as a criminal policeman, and he definitely specialized in the art industry or something, and in the face of a magic apprentice, the assassin confessed without much insistence - he didn't know who was behind the scenes, someone gave money, and gave Hathaway's portrait, that's all.

"In that case, then you ...... Die! Hathaway hesitated slightly, but killed the assassin anyway. Because she couldn't think of a better way to deal with it, and the law-abiding and the like she had studied in the police academy before didn't seem to be needed in this time and space.

As soon as the assassin died, in the eyes of the Fairy Garden, he became an organic fertilizer again, and his strength had no retained value in Hathaway's opinion, so he directly let the Fairy Garden absorb ...... The strange status bar really moved again, but the amplitude of the movement was not large, and Hathaway was not interested in increasing the progress of the status bar by killing people, as for blood absorption, then don't say it, it's not that she has any resistance, but the level of those two assassins is too poor, and I really don't think there is anything to learn.

That night, a cloak guest came to the house of a resident of the town called Mondo, and she gave him a gold carat, and without saying a word, Mondo went out to prepare the boat. In a short time, a small boat carried the mysterious guest down the river.