Although Viken's skull may contain the legendary Mithril, Lawson is not in a position to extract it at the moment, at least to get the free city of Berkeley, find a blacksmith shop, or build a reliable high-temperature blacksmith furnace himself to do the purification work.

Fortunately, he prepared a lot of low-level exorcisms, although it was a little painful when taking them, but it was quite good to be able to buy him a year.

Rosen put Viken's skull in his close-fitting waist bag, packed all his luggage with Anne and the others, and then the group boarded the carriage and continued north.

The weather was nice on this day, the wind was mild, there was not much mud on the road, and the carriage ran very lightly.

After sitting for a while, Veronica said, "This carriage is very good, very stable. The same comfortable carriage, which I have only seen in the City of Wisdom. ”

"Thanks for the compliment." Rosen laughed.

Sitting was boring anyway, so he said the doubts in his heart to Veronica: "I'm curious, why do you keep calling high-level vampires undead?" ”

Hearing this, Anne, Miss Mary, and little Alice all pricked up their ears, and it was evident that everyone was curious.

Veronica smiled slightly, "High-level vampires are a misunderstanding of the undead by human hunters. In fact, the undead do not survive by sucking blood. There are many undead who have never consumed blood in their lives, such as Erin. ”

It was the first time Rosen had heard this statement, and he was skeptical: "But Viken sucked the blood of hundreds of people in one night, including my parents. I could tell he had an almost paranoid love for blood. ”

Veronica sighed, "I'm sorry this happened, but Viken has paid for his stupidity, hasn't he?" ”

After speaking, she turned her head to look at the crystal glass looking at the carriage, and there was a faint melancholy on her face: "As long as you are willing, the undead can live forever." Perhaps it was the jealousy of the gods, or perhaps the curse of eternal life, the undead were particularly sensitive to silver and could be easily harmed by it. At the same time, they are also easily seduced by blood. An undead who has tasted the blood of a living person more than three times will become addicted, and will never forget the extreme pleasure of sucking blood for the rest of his life. ”

Anne on the side suddenly said, "Is it like an alcoholic addicted to alcohol?" ”

Veronica nodded, "It's kind of like that, but the addiction is many times bigger than the addiction to alcohol." The undead who have tasted blood cannot rely on their own will to quit blood addiction. If they do not consume the blood of a living person for a certain period of time, they will become more and more manic until they lose their minds completely. Unfortunately, Viken is such an idiot! ”

"And what is a higher life?" Rosen asked again.

This time, Veronica knew everything: "Higher beings refer to beings that are free from the control of the gods. Such beings, from birth, will continue to grow stronger, they will not get sick, they will not age, and they will not die. If there are no accidents, the higher beings are usually immortal! ”

"Won't get sick, won't age, and will always be stronger?" Rosen savored Veronica's words carefully, and after a while, he sighed: "Getting rid of the shackles of birth, old age, sickness and death, it is really stronger than ordinary people." However, any creature living in the mortal world, even if he does not die, will always encounter one accident or another, and he will still be unable to escape death after all. ”

Veronica nodded slightly: "You're right, we're all mortals. Mortals are like reeds by the river, but some of them are stronger, and some of them are weaker. ”

The topic was a little heavy, and everyone in the carriage fell silent.

After a while, Rosen suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, okay, the ants are still stealing life." As long as you live for one day, you have to live a good day. Come on, Alice, today I'm going to teach you the cross coordinate system. ”

"Yes, brother." Little Alice immediately took out her own paper and pen.

Veronica, who was on the side, was also quite moved when she heard this word, and she was also very interested in the coordinate system.

Rosen saw it and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, just listen together." The coordinate system I am going to talk about today is the basis of analytic geometry. What is analytic geometry? It is very interesting to transform a simple geometric problem into a variety of algebraic operations using a coordinate system......"

A few simple words firmly grasped Veronica's mind, she pricked up her ears, and a pair of burgundy eyes did not blink, for fear of missing the slightest mathematical knowledge.

On the other side, Anne, Sister Mary, and others were also listening.

Anne could understand a little, and Sister Mary could understand it completely, but she didn't find it boring, and when she didn't understand something, she would look at her daughter Alice. As long as she sees Alice listening attentively, she will feel satisfied.

'It's good that my daughter, who is learning the powerful art of alchemy, will never have to dig in the mud again. ’

The carriage swayed north. In the carriage, Rosen was intently teaching his math knowledge, and beside him, two students were also listening intently.

Time passed softly and quickly, and soon, most of the day passed, the sun was setting in the west, and the carriage was about 130 kilometers north, about to leave the northern border of the Parason Empire.

However, because of the defeat in the Third Northern War and the turmoil at the top of the empire, the northern border line has been deprived of garrisons, and the border line has been completely reduced to a formality, which is no longer of practical significance.

In the carriage, Lawson was concentrating on explaining, and suddenly Veronica turned her head to the side of the carriage window and said, "There is a situation ahead." ”

After more than ten seconds, Anne also pricked up her ears: "There is movement ahead, and there are cavalry coming, and the number is about 30...... Wait, it's not just cavalry, there's a faint explosion, it's like ......"

"It's lightning magic!" Veronica snapped into her senses.

Anne continued: "They ran all the way along the continent, coming in the direction where we were, and now they are about 600 meters away from us! ”

Rosen immediately opened the front window of the carriage and shouted to the coachman John, "Uncle, there is a situation ahead, take shelter in the grass on the side of the road, so as not to get into trouble." ”

"Okay." John, the coachman, answered.

After the storm of the previous night, he became more composed, pulled the reins a little, stopped the carriage, looked left and right, and then whipped it, and drove into a gap in the reeds on the right side of the road.

The reeds were about two meters high, and the carriage was hiding behind them, so you couldn't find them unless you paid special attention.

Rosen picked up the spiral troll and said to Anne, "Let's go, let's go outside the carriage and see the situation." ”

"Okay." Anne took her earth-destroying musket.

Lawson opened the carriage door and walked in first, and Anne followed closely behind, and was about to close the door, when she saw a red shadow flash, and Veronica was already standing beside her.

"But don't forget me, I just swore last night to keep Rosen safe."

"Okay." Anne rolled her eyes, thinking that the woman was an eyesore.

The three of them hid behind the carriage and used the carriage as a cover to observe the situation on the road through the gaps in the reeds.

said that it was observed by three people, but in fact, it mainly relied on Veronica and Annie.

The two women's ears are amazing, and while listening, they constantly report the battle situation ahead.

Anne whispered: "There are 31 people in total, 29 are chasing, and the weapons are mainly crossbows. The first 2 are on the run....... Wait, there was an arrow that was hit, it should have been fatal, and he fell off his horse directly. ”

Veronica continued, "The one who fell off his horse was shot in the vital position, and I'm afraid he's dead. The rest is still running...... Wait, he struck another spell...... It's Fire Breath! The flames disturbed the horses of the knights behind, and three of them fell off their horses. ”

Anne followed, "The magician ahead is still 200 meters away from us...... Oops, his horse was shot in the leg with a crossbow and he fell off his horse...... He got up and continued to run, and the knights behind him followed, and he sent a spell, it was a chain of lightning, so strong magic, at least 5 knights fell off their horses! ”

Veronica glanced at Annie, "What's so strong about this bit of magic. Your Doomsday Iron Ball is amazing, if you throw one out, the group of knights will immediately run away without a trace. ”

This reminded Anne, who turned to look at Rosen, "It's clear that a group of horsemen is chasing down two magicians. Shall we save ......?"

Before she could finish speaking, Veronica suddenly spoke, "Wait, the magician spoke, he said...... You lackeys, the gods will punish you! ”

Rosen was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is there a reply from the other side?" ”

Veronica listened and nodded, "One of the knights spoke, and he said, 'Heretics, the flame will cleanse you from your sins!' ’”

These two sentences of dialogue are enough for Rosen to deduce a lot of information.

'In the Third Northern War, the Northern Alliance was able to achieve victory, and the Flame God Cult helped greatly. As a result, the Flame God Cult gained power and became the orthodox state religion of the northern states. The Flame God Cult, Pope Tarati XIX, then declared magic to be an evil force and forbade anyone to study it. He then sent a large number of temple guards to hunt for magicians, and if he caught one, he would immediately burn them at the stake...... This is the history of the game. ’

'In the game, when I killed Viken, shortly after the Northern Alliance had won, the Cult of Flame God had already begun planning against the Wisdom Capital of Nilogaard. According to the time calculation, it is possible that the two magicians are from the Nilogaard Academy. ’

Thinking of this, Rosen immediately said to Anne, "Save that magician." ”