Chapter 71: City Lord Farouo
Disguised as a maid NPC who was out shopping for groceries, Rococo managed to get the guard NPCs at the back door to let her pass without arousing any suspicion.
Although the maid suit on Rococo was obviously made according to the body shape of a middle-aged woman with a fortune, and it looked a little fat on her, the NPC guards obviously didn't have the intelligence to be surprised by her ill-fitting outfit.
After entering the City Lord's Mansion, in order to reduce the probability of his own goofs, Rococo was guided by Arya, and tried his best to avoid the subordinates and guards walking around in the backyard all the way, and soon found the place where the city lord Farouo worked.
The most elite guards of the City Lord's Mansion and the butlers and cronies of Farouo's side are stationed everywhere, and they are obviously different from those ordinary guards and subordinates, and it is difficult to fool them by using their NPC identity to pretend to be a maid.
So Rococo no longer disguised, and after taking off the maid's suit and hiding in the corner of the courtyard, he changed back to player mode, and walked out of the courtyard generously and appeared at the main entrance of the study where the city lord was working.
Although she still hated the only dull intelligence of these ordinary natives after the NPC transformation at the door before, she was very glad for this at this moment. Generally speaking, in a well-guarded place like this, if the guards see a stranger suddenly come out of nowhere and run to the door of the owner, they will definitely arrest or even fight directly without saying a word, but these backyard guards in front of them just stared at her all the time, but they didn't have any intention of making a move.
Obviously, the absolute order to restrict the player's entry and exit only exists with the guards stationed at the outside gate and the back door of the backyard, and although these guards in the backyard will be surprised and wary of the Rococo appearing here, they will not take the initiative to drive her away, which is good news.
"Sorry to disturb the two of you, I have something important to tell the city lord in person, please tell me about it."
Seeing that the alien adventurers who should not have appeared here (players in the eyes of NPCs) did not seem to have malicious intent, the two guards were also a little relieved and glanced at each other, and after that, one of the guards nodded and turned around and entered the city lord's mansion, and after a while, Rococo was invited in by the guards who went and returned.
Although the information says that Farou is nearly sixty years old, because a strong man like him will live more or less than ordinary people, he still looks like a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes on the surface. After seeing Rococo, the NPC sitting behind the desk spoke solemnly with a non-smiling face.
"Welcome to Lancarros, adventurer from afar, I am Faruo, the lord of Lancaros, is there anything wrong with you?"
In addition to Romanticist Vepal, Farouo is the second bigwig-level NPC that Rococo has ever seen in a game. Although from the analysis of the game data in the previous life, the probability of this city lord having a godhead fragment on his body is very small, but for the sake of safety, Rococo still held a tentative psychology and did not answer immediately, if the other party retains a sense of autonomy, it should be more or less strange for Rococo's abnormal incompatible behavior.
In fact, if Arya can recover some strength, at such a close distance, Arya can completely sense whether the person in front of her has fused her godhead fragment, but unfortunately Arya can't even find a godhead fragment now, so she can only rely on Rococo to test it with this stupid method.
But fortunately, Farouo did not seem to be the owner of the godhead as Rococo guessed, and the city lord did not have the slightest patience or doubt about Rococo's silent performance as soon as they met, and still sat there with a serious expression and looked ahead, and after a while, he repeated the lines just now.
"Welcome to Lancarros, adventurer from afar, I am Faruo, the lord of Lancaros, is there anything wrong with you?"
Unable to confirm the existence of the Godhead fragment, Arya may be a little depressed, but Rococo is a lot more relaxed. After all, one of her missions is to recover the Creation Godhead, which is almost destined to clash with the natives who rely on the fusion Godhead to preserve their will in this world. Truth be told, she would rather deal with the plague mage Bekaz than be an enemy of a being like the Lord of Farouo, who has strength and power in his own right.
"Hello Lord Farouo, I have important information for you regarding the safety of Lancarros County."
In a few words, Rococo threw out the pre-organized rhetoric. As an alien adventurer, after receiving the task of the villagers of Gru Village to defeat the urina monster in the mountains, she unexpectedly found that the ursa was dead on the mountain, and it was actually a zombie of unknown origin that killed it, and the equipment on the zombie showed that he was still a regular soldier belonging to Lancarros County before his death. Later, she and her friends discovered a strange barrier in a valley near the village of Gru, and around the barrier, they also found anomalous traces of a large number of zombie creatures.
Just as she had thought before she came, after listening to her narration, the city lord Farouo's originally serious face had already changed to an extremely shocked expression, and after seeing the regular army equipment taken from the zombie boss presented by Rococo, Farouo stood up directly in surprise, his face was extremely gloomy.
“…… Thanks to you, Miss Rococo, for telling us such important information, we didn't expect that someone would hide from us and secretly prepare such an evil plan in Lancarus. I wonder if Miss Rococo knows the rest of the information? ”
Of course, she knew which towns in Lancarus would break out in the future to form an army of plague undead, but Rococo knew in her heart that she couldn't say these things clearly, otherwise she would look suspicious if she knew so many things.
"I'm sorry, that's all I know, after all, we went to Gru Village by accident on a mission, and we happened to find out about it."
Farouo didn't show disappointment on his serious face, he just nodded.
"I see, anyway, thank you for telling me this."
After Farouo finished speaking, Rococo suddenly heard a system prompt sound that the task was completed.
[System: Congratulations on triggering and completing the hidden quest "Shadow of the Dead", obtaining experience point rewards, increasing the honor of Lancaros City and the Freedom Federation forces, and obtaining item rewards. 】
Rococo was a little surprised, she didn't think that she would trigger the hidden quest reward, after all, she knew that Bekaz's undead invasion plan was not in the game plot arranged by Mira when she gamified the entire plane of the Emissia continent, because there was no corresponding plot line, so this quest should not exist logically.
But after thinking about it, Rococo was a little abrupt, probably after experiencing the failure of the previous life, Mira presciently joined the relevant plot tasks this time, right?
"Please accept this thing, adventurer, as my gratitude to you on behalf of the people of Lancarros."
With that, Farouo looked at Rococo, then pulled out a blue-covered book from one of the rows of bookshelves that lined the shelves beside him.
Rococo's eyes lit up, the water element skill book can be described as the best task prize for her now, after all, she doesn't need much equipment with gold and silver, and the purple gold weapon is rare in this level range and is destined to not be used for a long time because the level is too fast, but if you can get a sharp elemental skill, it may be a good thing that can be used until her level 50 second turn or even longer.
"This is something I've worked on in my spare time with the help of previous experience, and although it's not a shocking work, it should be better than the version on the market."
Although it should have been a set line, Rococo could still feel the faint pride under Farouo's serious face, she took the skill book in Farouo's hand with some expectation, and her eyes widened in surprise when she saw the name of the skill.
[Holy Hydrotherapy]: Archmage Farouo combines his divine spells with his water elemental talent to create a water elemental skill, which not only has a healing effect comparable to that of advanced hydrotherapy, but also has considerable damage to undead creatures.
Oh my God, you've hit the jackpot!
Although the healing effect of hydrotherapy is not as good as the soul skill healing technique that can be learned at level 10 of the priest, it is not limited by profession, as long as it is a water attribute player. After Rococo obtained the water elemental summoning, she has been thinking about where to get a hydrotherapy society to make up for the weakness of her and Chu Jiajia's lack of medical endurance when they cooperate with the summoned water elemental to farm monsters.
Now, the generous city lord actually directly threw out an improved version of the skill book of advanced hydrotherapy, which is like a sleepy pillow for Rococo, who is familiar with the plot of the upcoming undead invasion. The healing effect and lethality of the Holy Hydrotherapy technique properly surpass the healing techniques of the priests at this stage, and if it weren't for the slightly longer CD time of this skill, Rococo would have no problem even making a cameo appearance as a full-time priest after learning this skill.
With a smile, he walked out of the City Lord's Mansion with the skill book in his hand, and then immediately clapped his hands to learn it. I don't know if it's because of the mood or because of the respect gained for completing the task, Rococo felt that the expressions of the two city lord's guards in front of the door looked much kinder.
This time he earned it, and judging by the importance of Ruao, the city lord should soon order the military to start investigating the valley, as long as the undead army hidden there is discovered, then Bekaz's undead invasion plan will naturally be discovered......
Suddenly, a chill swept over Rococo's back, and she stopped and frowned, feeling as if she had missed something important.
…… No, can't you think of it, delusion? Or is there really something you haven't thought through?
Looking up at the clear and cloudless sky, Rococo still had no clue about the foreboding in his heart that suddenly appeared and disappeared.
“…… Forget it, anyway, Lancarros already knows the information, so let's wait and see. ”
said this comfortingly, but in Luo Coco's heart, after secretly saying sorry to Chu Jiajia, he put aside his plan to take the swordsman girl out on an outing today while fighting monsters and practicing levels to relax.
I remember the doctor I had heard from the mercenaries in the tavern that he was concerned about the recent plague...... Is it called the Greenland doctor?