Montenegro's hometown of Tirulag is a small village in the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the lake, on the border with Serre.

As for Lesserman and Searle, I don't know what period of hatred between these two countries goes back to.

So although the two countries are currently in a truce, there are frequent frictions along the border.

Therefore, when Sherlock and Montenegro arrived, they were immediately surrounded by a group of villagers armed with crude weapons.

"Who are you?" The man who looked like the village chief asked.

"I'm Montenegro, Uncle Ruger." Montenegro lifted his hood.

"Montenegro?" The village chief didn't easily believe it: "This year's Ice and Snow Festival has passed, how can you come back." “

"I'm here with a witch's guest." Montenegro explained.

"A witch's guest?"

"Witch!"

"Why is it a witch again?"

"Witches' guests, they won't be in a group."

"What about the gang, we can't hand over the tear crystals anyway."

"But disobeying the witch's orders is a capital offense."

"Death is death!"

When the villagers heard the witch, they began to talk about it, and their faces showed a rare display of disgust and fear.

This is very strange for Lesserman, who is a witch in the ordinary world.

"I'm really a black mountain, I burned your beard when I was a child?" Montenegro felt that the atmosphere in the village was not quite right.

Village Chief Lu Ge should have confirmed the identity of Montenegro and put away his hostility: "Montenegro, why did you come back suddenly, do you know?" ”

"Know what?" Montenegro suddenly realized: "What about my Eminem, why isn't she here?" “

"Huh!" Village Chief Lu Ge sighed: "You can go back and see for yourself." “

Before Montenegro could finish listening, he squeezed through the crowd and rushed into the village.

Sherlock wanted to go over together, but he was stopped by the villagers again, but his attitude changed by 180

"My lord, the number of tear crystals you need is too large, we really can't make up it in such a short time, please give us a few more graces." The village chief knelt directly on the ground and begged.

Then, the villagers behind him all knelt down.

From just a few words from the villagers, Sherlock had already roughly guessed what was going on in the village.

If nothing else, this should be a small story mission.

It's just that it's a witch, and he has to be cautious.

After persuading the villagers and learning about the recent events in the village, Sherlock already had a plan in mind.

The story is not unusual, a witch asks the villagers of Tirulag to hand over 100 tearcrystals within a month.

Tear crystals are a specialty of Lake Tilulag, and the tears of the sea fairies who live in the lake are nourished by the lake's water all year round.

Originally, the women in this village had the habit of collecting tear crystals for money, and the family had more or less a little inventory, and it was not difficult to make up 100 yuan.

However, this is the third time this year that the witch has come to collect the tearcrystal.

The first two times had already drained the village's inventory, and the third time, they had been desperately collecting for a month, but they couldn't make up enough anyway.

Even in order to go down to the lake to collect tear crystals, many people suffered from frostbite.

Montenegro's mother froze to death because she had been at the bottom of the lake for too long.

If the people who traveled with him hadn't found it early, they might have lost their lives.

"Is that person really a witch, have you confirmed her identity?" Sherlock was still a little unconvinced that a witch would dare to do such a thing.

In Lesserman, although witches control the life and death of all ordinary people, they are bound by the witch alliance and rarely abuse this power.

"I've identified her mask, and I shouldn't be wrong." Village Chief Ruger said.

"That's right," Sherlock was still skeptical.

The black iron mask is the most important symbol of the witch, not only the material is special, the manufacturing process is complicated, and it is enchanted with exclusive special effects, which are almost impossible for outsiders to imitate.

But whether it's a witch or not, you need to see it with your own eyes.

Two days later, the scheduled delivery date.

Sherlock and Montenegro hid in a nearby watchtower, quietly waiting for the witch to arrive.

"Sherlock, what if it's really a witch?" Montenegro said worriedly.

"Then find a way to reason, if the reason doesn't make sense"

"You're not going to kill her, are you?" Montenegro looked horrified.

"Why, you don't dare?"

"I, I"

"Don't worry." Sherlock patted Montenegro on the shoulder: "I have a bit of a friendship with Chihiro Nakamura, so I'll ask her for help if I can't do it." ”

Montenegro breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." “

The two chatted for a while, and the witch that everyone had been waiting for for a long time finally appeared.

Wearing a black iron mask, a black robe, a magic whip around his waist, and an ice crystal-shaped magic ring on the middle finger of his left hand, it is indeed the standard equipment of witches, and a group of Lytherman berserkers are beside her.

In the Truth Horizon, the profession shown by the other party is indeed the Haslan Witch.

"Montenegro, do you see anything wrong?" Based on his appearance, Sherlock couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

Montenegro shook his head: "It's really a witch, I have to go down and see you quickly." ”

"You'd better stay here for now, I'll check it out." After Sherlock finished speaking, he turned into a black mountain and walked down.

At this time, because the number of tear crystals was not enough, the witch named Murma had already drawn her magic whip and was ready to teach the villagers a lesson.

The long whip swung in a great arc in the air, and at the moment when it was about to draw on Lu Ge, a figure suddenly burst out and grabbed the long whip in his hand.

"Your Excellency Murma, these villagers really can't collect more tears, why don't you give them a little more time?" Sherlock said.

"Who are you?" The witch Murma questioned sharply, "Dare to stop the witch's decision." “

"My name is Black Mountain, and I have been invited by the Supreme Witch to study in the Lysserman region." Sherlock probed.

Murma was obviously stunned for a moment, but soon snorted angrily twice: "You dare to deceive in the name of the Supreme Witch, it seems that you are dead." “

"Really?" Sherlock smiled and asked, "I think you're swindling in the name of a witch." “

As soon as Murma wanted to refute, she felt a detection spell shine on her, and the system prompt that the mind detection judgment failed jumped out.

Not good, she was discovered, she instantly reacted, and immediately shouted: "Kill this liar for me." “

"Who sent you?" Sherlock continued to ask, dodging the attacks of several berserkers.

With the Eye of Foresight's mind detection, this time can't be wasted.

"I'm not going to tell you." Murma roared, as if trying to close her mind in this way.

"It's up to you!" Sherlock sensed that he had discovered a big secret, and quickly continued, "What is your whole plan?" “

Seeing that several berserkers couldn't even touch each other's clothes, Murma was angry and hateful: "Montenegro, you wait for me." “

After saying that, she quit the game directly.

That's right, Murma is a player, and she finally brushed Searle's prestige to respect and received this level of mission.

Unexpectedly, in the end, it fell short and was disrupted by Sherlock.

In order to avoid more information being leaked, she had no choice but to forcibly quit the game.

Of course, in this way, the secret is kept, but death is inevitable.

In the game, looking at Murma, who suddenly lost her mind, Sherlock was also helpless, so he could only focus on the remaining berserker players.

It's a pity that although these berserkers are also players, they are obviously just minions, and the tasks they get are only to cooperate with Murma's actions.

Unable to get more useful information, Sherlock no longer holds his hands.

Of course, the professions of these eight berserkers are also disguised, but in fact they are just players in their forties, and he slashed them all and sent them back to the city for free.

After the battle, the villagers slowly gathered again.

Montenegro asked a little worriedly, "Sherlock, are they really liars?" ”

"Well, have you ever seen anyone other than a witch who dared to stand in the same row or even stand in front of her?" This is the flaw that Sherlock suddenly discovers when he gets closer.

In the past few days since Lesserman, he has been deeply touched by the class system here.

Just a question of position

Among the peers, except for the witches, the rest of them could only stand in the latter position

When facing a witch, bend down and keep your head down, keeping your eyes as close to the witch's calf as possible.

These rules of conduct have been deeply imprinted in the hearts of the people of Lysserman.

But those berserkers just now not only stood casually, but also had no reverence for witches.

This will only happen to players and outlanders.

And when Sherlock first observed with the Truth Vision, he saw that the attributes of these people were all displayed, so it could only be a witch pretended to be a foreigner.

That's why he decisively used mind detection and opened the Eye of Foresight.

He thought that it was a few people who were swaggering here, but he didn't expect the real result to surprise him.

These people turned out to be all players, and they were also Searle's spies.

They are tasked with traveling to the remote areas of Lesselman to tarnish the reputation of witches, thus triggering Lesserman's riots.

This carelessness involves the game between the two countries.

As a harpist in the good camp, Sherlock was born to be at odds with the evil faction's Serge and the red-robed mage, and he must be on the side of Lesserman and the Witch League in this matter.

After telling Chihiro Nakamura the news, he repeatedly analyzed the whole story of the incident several times and found several more problems.

It's not surprising that the player who pretends to be a witch has a masterful transformation technique, but the set of equipment on her body that symbolizes the status of a witch is worth scrutinizing.

Especially this black iron mask.

Black Iron Mask: Intelligence 4, Cast Speed 30, Immunity to Detection Spells, Haslan Witch Exclusive Item.

This was the result of the player named Murma, whom Montenegro had identified as the Black Iron Mask made by their Wizard.

But according to Chihiro Nakamura and Montenegro, this mask cannot be imitated by outsiders.

If it wasn't imitated by outsiders, it wouldn't be

"Sherlock!" Black Mountain came over and pleaded solemnly: "Can you not talk about the black iron mask for the time being?" “

"You thought of it too?" Sherlock asked rhetorically.

Montenegro did not deny it: "But I don't believe that anyone in Virimoni would do such a thing!" ”

"If it's a defector like Hormid"

"Homid is only a handful, and Verim Oni is forever loyal to the League of Witches, loyal to Lesserman."

Sherlock believed that Montenegro did not need to show loyalty to an outsider in the here and now, so he was even more confused: "Do you really not hate witches at all?" ”

"It's the Witch Lord who guards Lesserman, protecting us from the nomads of the north and the Searles of the south."

Seeing the piety on Montenegro's face, Sherlock had a little more understanding of Lesserman's social system.

The Witch League's ruling system has lasted for so long, and it may not be without reason.

"Don't worry, I won't tell you until the truth is revealed." Sherlock said

"Thank you." Montenegro said and took out two things: "I think you might need them." ”

The Ice Crystal Ring and the Command Whip are just two other things needed to symbolize a witch's identity.

"How do you know?" Sherlock asked, surprised.

"I'm not a fool." Montenegro said solemnly: "I only hope you don't use them to harm witches." “

"Don't worry." Sherlock laughed and said, "I just wanted to find something that I would try not to hurt any witches." ”

Montenegro nodded and agreed: "Also, this is the tear crystal that the village chief asked me to hand over to you, saying that it is a thank you gift for saving the village." Montenegro handed over a small cloth bag.

"So much!" There were at least 50 tear crystals in the pouch.

"Without you, these would have been taken by the fake witch."

"Well, I do need these things."

Sherlock took the tears, said goodbye to Black Mountain and Tirulag, and hurried to the Ghost Forest alone.

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(Battlefield Literature)