Roland can't read minds or tell fortunes. Of course, what he said to Marken was also a fortune teller in a sense.

However, it was not a peep at fate peculiar to astrowizards, but a simple flicker.

It's okay to talk about people and talk about people and talk about ghosts - that's not a big deal. If you insist on giving it a lofty name, it is cold reading.

Most of this knowledge is used in folk divination such as horoscopes and tarot cards. In more official terms, cold reading is a technique that uses conversational and psychological strategies to build trusting relationships.

Many liars, soothsayers, and magicians will skillfully use this knowledge to give themselves an advantage in front of strangers. Roland has long been adept at using this knowledge to build a trusting relationship with strangers.

Of course, in the modern society of information explosion, many people are very wary of strangers. Therefore, Roland's communication is not about achieving his goals in place and just once. Rather than that unrealistic vision, Roland wanted to get more relevant information through cold reading, and use it as a springboard for further contact.

For example, if Roland says in a non-alarming tone, "I can see that you often think of a simple thing as complicated" or "I think you are the one who is more pleased with your girlfriend than you are happy with yourself", the general reaction is to look at Roland in surprise and say, "Indeed, I used to ......"

After that, Roland will adjust his next step according to what the other party says.

And for Macken, there are not so many doorways.

After revealing a person's secret—or he thinks Roland has revealed his secret—Roland's image in his memory is associated with that secret. It has nothing to do with the size or urgency of the secret, but only depends on when Marken forgets what Roland is talking about now.

But I'm afraid he will never forget it for the rest of his life.

What's more, what Roland said to Marken was not a complete fool. In more than a day of getting along, Roland also touched a little bit of Macen's character from the details. Although Roland's deception is a bit of a god, the essence of it is indeed true.

Marken definitely had some kind of purpose in mind. Joining the military and even the Dumb Blade Force in Karaal can bring him closer to his goal, but it can't get him directly satisfied.

Until his goal is achieved, the Dumbblade Force will not be able to gain the absolute loyalty of Maken.

The term General Maleos that Roland blurted out before did not mean how familiar Roland was with him - Roland's only understanding of General Maleos was "a stake boss with a surprisingly stupid mechanism".

However, Roland's understanding of the Karar military and his ability to casually name the high-ranking officers in the military's secrecy regulations are actually the same as Roland's previous revelation of the nature of Maken's Silent Swordsman profession.

When Roland's enemies are unknown, this behavior only makes Macken doubly hostile and wary of Roland.

And once he decided that Roland was Doyd—his boss, his own—this display of intimate knowledge of Marken's environment only deepened the presumption in Marken's mind.

By the time Roland entered, Marken's last wariness of Roland had vanished - General Maleos was a secret figure in the Karaar military, a killer hidden in the shadows. Until now, although Malnos has been hung up to the rank of general, except for the silent swordsman directly under him, even the generals of other units do not know him.

Kruvien was a special case - that was because he was saved once by General Malenos. And he still doesn't know the name of the person who saved him, only what he looks like.

In this case, Roland was able to open his mouth to say Maleos's name, and Marken let down all his vigilance against Roland.

Subconsciously, Marken also believed what Roland said later.

Trust has inertia – that's why nine sentences are true and one sentence is false.

Being exposed to the secret hidden in his heart by a word, Marken's heart was shocked.

Although it is not possible to say what Macen will do to Roland. But at least when reporting the process of this operation to his superiors, it is worth thinking carefully about whether to mention Roland's existence.

After quickly stabilizing his mind - it was only a momentary stunned in front of others, and Macken quickly turned around and followed Roland into the hotel, forgetting to wipe the sweat stains on his body.

This was his reaction to subconsciously treating Roland as a leader.

"A roasted pear."

Without waiting to glance at the menu, Roland casually found a place Roland, and then said casually.

Slowly wiping the table, the proprietress with long fiery red hair raised her head and glanced at Roland, but when she saw Roland's dress, her whole body trembled, and she immediately lowered her eyes, answered a few vaguely in her mouth, and walked away quickly to prepare breakfast for Roland.

Roland didn't bother to look back at the obviously panicked proprietress in her heart, she just leaned on her seat and closed her eyes slightly to take a break. After all, I woke up a little early today.

The reason why the proprietress panicked when she saw Roland was nothing more than having something to do with the blacksmith's son. In the game, Roland didn't go through this quest line.

…… Really, the witherers don't care about these things. You just have something to do with all the men in town, and it's none of Roland's business.

And Marken stood straight beside Roland, looking a little unnatural.

Before, he wanted to go out and scrub it, but after subconsciously following Roland in, he went out by himself, which seemed to be a little bad-

"Ah, by the way," Roland whispered, closing his eyes, "Marken, if you want to do anything, go ahead and do it." I don't like to be stared at when I eat. ”

"Then I'll scrub it. The eldest lady must have woken up and was probably praying now. ”

Marken said in a deep voice.

The sound of light footsteps fading away made Roland a little confused. The night before, Roland had been recalling details about Farina's diary, barely sleeping. It also ensured that Roland could not oversleep in the morning—he had woken up just after midnight when the silver moon was setting in the west.

After that, Roland's nerves tightened even more - unlike in the lightless traces, in a place where a group of people could kite purely by technology and location, Roland never had much nervousness.

But in Ram is different. Don't look at Roland's always seemed to be very calm, and he was nervous to death - because his life hung directly on the words of the woman Farina, and he was not familiar with Falina at all, and he couldn't guess her reaction at all.

Even if Roland calculated all of Farina's reactions, what if that woman didn't care about anything in anger and slapped Roland to death?

Roland used to think that the stupidity of pinning the success of the plan on whether the woman had a small temper was almost the same as watching the yellow calendar deceive people.

Anyway, it's just a lie.

However, he didn't expect that one day he would fall into a situation where he would have to do such a stupid thing.

It's really bad to feel that life completely in the hands of someone else. That's why Roland doesn't offer loyalty to any being who might be brain-pumping.

That's why Roland had to get the Crow job.

Of all the priesthoods, only the Raven has the highest degree of freedom. Even the sons of Jerohah, who were fellow priests of the saints, had to do what Jerohath approved.

And the long-sleeping tutor only looks at the results. Therefore, she would never deliberately deceive her followers, and as long as the result was what she wanted, she did not care at all about the means taken by the crows, whether they were pious or not.

Thus, while the Raven is the strongest of all classes, it is also the least united. Fortunately, there is a boss above, at least there will be no real fight.

Of course, you can also think that this is because the crow is the only group of priests who do not have a supreme leader under God, an earthly spokesman for God.

If Roland could become the agent of the Sleeping Teacher, become the Pope of the Dead Crows, and unite this huge and scattered force into one, maybe the loss of the world would not be so great at the time of the Lost Christmas.

- Even, maybe the Ring of the South Wind will be cleared by Roland before the start of the Lost Christmas.

Roland thought so crankily that he was about to fall asleep in a daze, but at this moment, Roland suddenly felt that someone was approaching him—and it was not the proprietress who brought the baked pear. Roland had already felt that the proprietress had been here once before.

And Roland could hear it, it wasn't Marken or Cruvien, but footsteps that Roland had never heard before.

The sound of unfamiliar footsteps stopped politely when he was still two or three meters away from Roland.

Roland could feel that this person was definitely coming at him.

…… Is it Farina's man? She reacted so quickly?

Or is it the man of the Lord of Violence? No. The bunch of guys whose brains were stuffed with muscles and spirits had absolutely no such manners.

After about two seconds, an elegant, young voice dragging a Titan-like, but not so standard tail sounded out in front of Roland:

"Dear Blight, Esther. Alberon pays homage to Gaia's father—"

Roland's eyelids twitched, and he broke away with some displeasure.

Can't you see he's sleeping? Knowing that he is a blighter, why dare to disturb the rest of a blighter?

However, he actually knew that Roland, the father of Gaia, was also a little curious about the young man who suddenly came to him.

So Roland raised his head slightly and looked at the bold young man.

With gold-rimmed glasses, black hair and black eyes, he is very tall, about 1.9 meters. He wore a plain dress that was very indifferent to the town, and he felt like a scholar.

It wasn't an illusion - Roland always felt like he had seen him somewhere. And the name Esther was somewhat familiar - he had definitely seen the owner of the name outside of the dungeon.

"Young man, is there anything wrong?"

Out of this vigilance, Roland kept his voice low, and with his naturally somewhat hoarse voice, he became like an old man in the twilight.

"Lord Blighter, have you heard of Arry?"

“…… I'm sorry, can you repeat it again? ”

Roland, who was still a little confused, almost misheard.