Chapter 20: Raid on the Negotiation Site

If you want to pursue a better result, then you naturally need a stronger ability, and Zhou Lie knows this very well, so in the next three days, he plans to use it all to master this ability to control flames from Frem.

I go crazy once in a while.

During the day, Zhou Lie became familiar with the aiming and shooting of the firecracker outside the city, and at night he entered the dream world and received training from Frem, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.

According to Alex, their secret conversation will take place at noon today, in a house on the corner of Old Street and Noble Street, because the forces of both sides can be involved, and it will be difficult for the other side to interfere.

Zhou Lie took a firearm and a few iron pills early in the morning, changed into civilian clothes, then hid his wig and mask in a bag, and left the academy, setting up an ambush near the place where they were going to meet secretly.

It is said to be an ambush, but in fact he is sitting on the second floor of the tavern, watching the room from the window, and from the sky, he can see it no matter which way Augustus appears from.

As time slowly passed, the sun rose into the middle of the sky, and a small red flag was planted at the door of a room, Zhou Lie saw the red, and smiled slightly.

"Aren't you afraid that they will betray you? Frem's worried voice reappeared.

"Of course I thought about it, but there's always a little bit of trust between people, right? ”

"I think you're looking for death. Frem sighed, "Even I didn't understand what you were thinking. ”

"Because I didn't even understand what I wanted. Zhou Lie laughed to himself.

Soon after the red flag was planted, a modest carriage appeared in the street, followed by a group of guards, and the insignia on the carriage was the insignia of the Libeer family, so it was naturally the consul Augustus himself.

Augustus got out of the car and entered the prepared house, and the soldiers began to clear the streets, and martial law enclosed the perimeter, so that pedestrians were simply checked, and horse-drawn carriages were not allowed to pass, so as to ensure Augustus's safety.

Augustus was not the only one who got out of the carriage, but then two men in mage robes appeared, their faces covered by wide mage robes and hoods, presumably the mages they used to capture Frem.

Augustus ordered the guards to wait outside the house, and only himself and Wilson entered the room, although the chief of the guard insisted that he follow him, but Augustus refused.

"A situation that neither a magus nor a genius mage can solve, you can only add to the chaos, and the narrow space is not suitable for you to fight. ”

Led by a member of the Resistance, the three entered the conference room, where Fawkes had been waiting for a long time, and Alex sat next to them, and behind them, a man with a scar on his face stood.

When Augustus saw this prince who was not young, his thoughts drifted back to a few years ago, when he had seen the prince from a distance at a certain banquet, and he could still vaguely find traces of that year from the people in front of him.

"Augustus Libeer, I have seen Your Highness. "According to the etiquette of the kingdom of Portia, Augustus performed the etiquette of a courtier ornament king.

"I didn't expect you to know me. Fox said.

"I saw it once from afar at a banquet many years ago, and I dare not forget it. With that, Augustus straightened up and sat down across from Fawkes.

"Who are these two?" Fawkes asked, looking at the two magicians sitting behind Augustus.

"Tell me about yourself. The old magister lifted his hood and revealed his old face, "My name is Wilson, this is my apprentice Layla, this time I accepted Augustus's invitation to come and help recover the item, if there are other accidents, the two of us will solve them." ”

Layla, who was on the side, also took off her hood and saluted Fawkes a little nervously.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the negotiations finally got to the point.

"The goods you stole that day must be returned to us, and secondly, there are many obstacles to the promotion of the decree issued not long ago by my subordinates these days, and I hope you can help remove these obstacles. Augustus said.

"We have mentioned these conditions in our previous letters, and I hope that you will agree to our conditions, first, that not only Oslin, but all the cities that originally belonged to the Kingdom of Portia will be required to implement this decree, and second, that you must hire our rebels into the government hall and promise that nothing like what happened that day will happen again. ”

Augustus nodded and said, "This is natural, I used the army in a hurry at that time, but if you didn't make trouble, things wouldn't have come to this point." Augustus sighed, looking a little disappointed, and said, "Actually, His Royal Highness the Prince should also know that the restoration of the country is no longer possible. ”

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the three rebels in the room were a little gloomy.

"It's good now compared to the war-torn times, so Your Highness the Prince, return to us what you took. ”

Retrieving what the Prime Minister wants is the real purpose of this negotiation.

Fawkes took out a bag, poured out the fragments of the wooden box that had been split in two, and said, "What you want is here, but it was already there when it got into our hands." ”

Fawkes frowned and picked up a fragment of the shard, revealing that the pattern and badge on it were indeed the ones he had seen before. His heart sank, and he asked, "Who gave it to you?" ”

"It's not our rebels, it's a... ”

Before Fawkes could finish speaking, a loud explosion came from outside the house, followed by a crack in the wall, and a ball of flames broke through the wall from the outside, kicking up smoke and dust.

The barrier formed by the condensation of flames surrounded Zhou Lie's body, looking like a living person, and came to the room, and after landing, Zhou Lie swept through the room, and smashed a fist at Fox without saying anything, and the flames on his body surged, gushing out.

"The wall of water. The old magister raised his hand and released a wall of water condensation in the direction of Zhou Lie's punch, resisting this attack, Zhou Lie's fist hit the water wall, bursts of white vapor appeared, and at the same time, a force emerged from the surging water wall, directly taking Zhou Liezhen back a step back.

At the first moment he came in, Zhou Lie found Wilson and Layla, but he didn't have time to be shocked, now that he was wearing a wig and a mask, the other party couldn't recognize him, and no matter who the opponent was, there was only one thing he should do.

"There are assassins!" Aiden, who was behind Fawkes, yelled, grabbed Alex and Fawkes, who were sitting, slapped open the secret door on the wall, and threw them directly into the secret passage of the room, and then closed the secret passage door, and Zhou Lie, who had lost the target of the attack, pointed the finger at Augustus.

From Zhou Lie's feet, a wall of flames burned towards Augustus, and the flames swept through the small room, intending to burn all the people in it.

However, the fire was only halfway spreading, but the air suddenly became wet, and a transparent blue water film resisted the path in front of the flames, and the flames released by Zhou Lie were controlled by his side, not letting him hurt anyone.

"You stand out first, and leave it to the two of us here," Wilson yelled at Augustus, who was stunned, and Aiden, who drew his sword and wanted to step forward, "You're just a burden here, this man is not something you can subdue those who command the wielding of swords." ”

"Hurry up, take me to your secret passage!" Augustus hurriedly called, Aiden hesitated, then opened the secret door on the side again, and accompanied Augustus to hide.

A rocket broke through the water film and shot towards Augustus, but it was easily defused by the water arrow summoned by Lei's hand.

These two tricks are the skills that Aiden learned from Frem, he looked at Wilson and Layla in front of him, and knew that there was an accident, and the opponent he was scheduled to be should be the court mage named Lian.

"It's really a crisis now!" said Frem angrily, "Look at you, tell you not to listen to me, now it's good, betrayed." ”

"No, I think it was just an accident. Zhou Lie said: "Actually, I should have thought that Wilson would appear, but I made a mistake." ”

The loud explosions and the collapse of the house attracted many people to come and find out, but fortunately, the guards were already around, cutting off the crowd from seeing the details, and even if the guards wanted to rush in to help, they had no way to do anything.

Because of Layla's existence, Zhou Lie left room for his shot, and the combination of the master and apprentice made Zhou Lie very unable to parry, the blue water film gradually approached, at first I thought it was a barrier to protect the two, but now it seems that it is more like a cage used to grab Zhou Lie, although occasionally I can let my own attacks penetrate this membrane, but it will also be quickly dissolved by the other party.

"Layla, defeat the other party before they break through my water prison, the other party's strength is definitely above the Magister, you can't keep your hands. Wilson said to his beloved apprentice, at this moment he had determined that the other party was the one who had obtained the Fire Star Carving, and the only one who could compete with him was now Layla, just his own ability, it was not easy to maintain this water prison.

Layla's eyes were fixed on the person in the water prison, this flame-ridden, with a theatrical mask, her red hair fluttering in all directions, indeed a bit of madness, Layla was born with a high affinity for the water element, as long as she wanted, the usually soft water would also use the blade to cut the enemy's body.

Under the control of Leila, the high-speed waterlines shot towards Zhou Lie from all directions, and these small waterlines wrapped in high speed, like a transparent and invisible small flying knife, cutting through Zhou Lie's body.

She could see that the other party had tried his best to resist the approach of the water prison, and several of her attacks were actually not aimed at the opponent's vital points, but they were still dodged by the other party, and even tried to break through the defense of the water prison and attack her teacher.

It seems that the other party is indeed a difficult opponent, as the teacher said, a fierce and crazy magister.

While controlling the flames to resist the approach of the water dungeon, you also have to pay attention to the attacks that Layla occasionally draws from tricky angles, and those thin lines of water will leave wounds on her body as long as they are rubbed.

While maintaining the wall of fire, while dodging these high-speed water lines without a trace, at this moment, the clothes on Zhou Lie's body have been torn a lot, small wounds are all over the body, and his body is also wet, and blood mixed with water is dripping from the wound bit by bit.

Zhou Lie knew very well that these attacks were not fatal, at most they would make them lose their mobility, and it seemed that Layla had not crossed that level on her own.

This is also one of the few opportunities he has now, and although the opponent has changed now, he can still carry it out according to the original plan.

First, he had to break through this water prison.

So Zhou Lie pulled out the fire gun on his waist and pointed it at Wilson.