Chapter 271: Changing Faces
When the first rays of sunlight shone on the beams of the roof, a new day had arrived, and it was time to get up, but Caroline still buried her head under the pillow, as if trying to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and lay hard in the bed.
"If you don't get up, if you don't get up, that annoying skeleton won't come to me."
Aside from the overly mature makeup and indifferent temperament, Caroline always makes people forget her age, because of her noble birth, everything is very demanding, so she seems more mature in dealing with people.
But in fact, because he grew up in the courtyard of the deep palace, he is actually very simple, and his interest is to read popular knight novels and sewing, and he will cry when he sees a place that fascinates him, and he stays up all night to read all night, which is completely no different from an ordinary girl.
As for social etiquette and good conversation, it was thanks to the hard work of the private tutor, and if she had allowed her to do so, Caroline would have rushed out on an adventure like the heroine of a knightly novel.
But this time, as the daughter of the duke, her father gave herself a task that was not easy to do.
"Caroline, you've heard it too, it's the emperor's will to strengthen ties between the upper echelons of the empire and the undead. This time you were chosen to parade with the Lich Rex, which is not only an opportunity to build a good relationship with the undead, but also don't let the local nobles be too ugly, stand in line too early, and have a bad reputation. ā
To put it simply, this is to ask her to be good, not only to strengthen the personal relationship with the lich, but not to appear too positive in front of the human nobles, originally, as the eldest daughter of a noble family, this kind of communication task is nothing, and the governess has long repeatedly taught various communication skills. But really get along. It's a big problem.
"It is said that the city's Erosi wine is famous. (A literal translation of the way the aristocracy speaks in circles: haven't you eaten lunch yet?) Why don't you wait for a drink? ļ¼ā
All right. Even Caroline knows she has said the wrong thing when the soul fire in the skull burns silently against you, but she is not such an easy person to give up.
"I've heard that the master tailor Kakalo's work is quite innovative and even very popular in the national capital, and I heard that he happens to be in business here for a while (your clothes are too old, you want me to accompany you to buy a dress?). ļ¼
The Lich Rex looked at his gray robe, which seemed to be worn out with at least five common defensive spells enchanted with it. It's an old guy who has been with him for more than a hundred years, is there a better enchantment master here who can make better products?
But in the face of the invitation of women, I always have to give my companions a little face, and I also think that it is not bad to take the opportunity to see the techniques of the human enchantment master, and Rex, who is a little expectant, is still happy to agree.
But the exhibition was embarrassing, and on the busiest shopping street in Anington City, the lich's husky soul voice was shouting, "Nothing but light and self-cleaning?" What kind of garbage enchantment is this! And the material, not even the spirit and armor pieces are installed", when everyone looked at it with surprised eyes, Caroline, who had come with her, was eager to find a crack in the ground and chase it in.
Caroline still didn't give up. So there are more such things.
"Have you heard about Sister-in-law Aijiuer? It's funny that she actually had a relationship with her uncle."
The turquoise flame of the soul was staring at him. Chatting with the lich about male and female gossip, this girl has a lot of brains.
āā¦ā¦ There's a charity fundraiser the day after tomorrow, okay, I see, let's go, don't bother your research, master. ā
The soul fire that had turned blue had already shown that even Rex was tossed enough to let the lich go to the orphanage to make a charity donation? Is this a special event for Halloween? What kind of joke is this?
When it comes to interpersonal communication, I'm not interested, but I'm very interested in how to turn the living into the dead.
Pornography and gossip? While in a sense this is indeed a killer feature to break the discipline and stalemate, don't you think it's also a mockery for the lich who has only bones left?
Talking about international forms and religious beliefs? You must be assured of shouting "For the Light!" in front of the Lich! "What? Looking for death is not like this, if you talk about international form...... Rex's memory is still three centuries ago, so I'm afraid you have to start with what kind of country the Bayer Empire is.
As the ultimate evolution of otaku, even if the lich plays a classic villain in various legends, the plot is that a certain team broke into the castle/lich's mage tower/real yĆ n room/abandoned library, which is a typical Shouguan Boss who will not die if he does not die, which also illustrates the ultimate characteristics of the lich from one side.
And in a sense, the seventeen-year-old county lord is a white rich and beautiful person (a person who has enough real life and is very popular), and it is obviously difficult for some strong people to use the same set of normal people to communicate with the lich incarnated in the dead house.
Of course, communication is not impossible, as long as you talk about something that the lich is interested in, the research house will often become very chatty, but the lich is interested in ...... "necromantic research technique" and "how to roast a squirrel with void energy?" "If you want to be a zombie, which is better, the Minotaur heart or the Tiger heart? I'm afraid this girl won't be able to learn anyway.
"We have to look forward, every day there is a new sun...... Black History. ā
Caroline added to the shameful experience in her constant attempts, and after that, even the Lich Rex couldn't stand it, and I am afraid that it would not be long before she would be punished by the upper peaks and turn her into a zombie who can only count her fingers.
After last night's horror night, she had gained a lot.
First, I saw it and shouted, "Ah! Then he used his staff to knock the lich's little mage, and then he hijacked the lord with chicken legs, and used pudding to paste the face of the Death Knight, creating a mess and escaping,
Caroline struggled to keep the situation afloat, scolding the fool who dared to secretly laugh at the lich, but when she returned to her room, she still snickered for half the night, and now she finally had to face reality.
"Lichs seem to live in cubicles, and their perception is said to be very keen...... Am I doing something wrong again before I know it? Ahh ā
The only thing that relieved Caroline a little was that fortunately, the other party seemed to have a good cultivation. At least not so angry that he smacked the finger of death.
The sun has risen. I'm afraid I'm going to have to face it today. It's still a lich whose face is damaged and falls into a rage, and if he makes any more jokes, the blue-green soul fire will really detonate.
"Hey, I really don't want to go."
But I'm afraid I can't go and I can't go, my trip's itinerary is very full, this stop is over, and I'm about to go to the nearby Baron Matt's territory, and I must discuss today's itinerary with the lich. Start early.
But when Caroline finished her make-up and opened the door, she saw a scene that tested her sanity.
In the hallway, the unbelievable Lich Lord was torn into pieces, and the little mage he had seen yesterday was holding his skull, pouring holy silver and holy water into it, and then he wanted to shake it like a sieve, and then. He also used the hand bones of the lich to stick in and stir it.
Why do you know it's a lich? The lich's epic death tombstone robe was still on top of his body, and the familiar soul fire was about to be extinguished.
"You can't recruit it. If you don't recruit any more, I'll make your head into a night pot, well, it's called Guldan...... Rex's Skull! You're scared! ā
"Smack!"
Surely she opened the door in the wrong way, Caroline slammed the door shut, and after a while, slowly opened a crack.
But as soon as he stretched out his head, the soul fire of Rex's skull and the golden mage looked at him, as if he remembered something, but the golden mage suddenly smiled.
"It seems that it doesn't matter if you don't recruit you, we have a better person to ask about."
Leave Guldo behind...... Rex's skull, the golden young man casually pinched a rib and smiled at himself.
"Don't close the door, there's nothing wrong with the way you opened it. Well, don't laugh! We're robbing! Don't look down on other people's lich brothers' thigh bones, and be careful that I give you a lich touch. ā
"Don't worry, I'm not here to trouble you, I have a small plan that may be able to help the current situation."
It was midnight in Cindy's makeshift camp, and when the young man in front of him said that he had a way to handle this qiÄ, everyone was not very convinced.
After all, it is already obvious that the Vicky Chamber of Commerce has learned from intelligence sources that the two countries have actually entered a state of war, which has already expected the worst.
āā¦ā¦ Originally, I thought that there would be a certain lord who ate too kickbacks, or bumped into the army of the undead, so as long as there was the help of the guards, as long as he could escape, there would be no problem. But now it's a war between the two countries......"
From the moment the Kingdom of Rags declared war on the Bayer Empire, the Lags people in Byer were in big trouble, and they naturally fell into the enemy country, and it sounds handsome to be the enemy of the whole world, but if even the street vendors on the side of the road and the little hairy children with snotty noses regard you as a mortal enemy, I'm afraid it's not a good thing.
And the most troublesome thing is that when the enemy is not an organized bandit, but the elite army of a country, especially the border army of a powerful country, then just the national border becomes a moat.
I casually spread out the map and pointed to the point to the south, which is the Asha Canyon we passed, and it is also the largest customs clearance point between the two countries, and of course, there is also the Haslevin Fortress of the Bair Empire.
When we came, it was easy to get through, and even caught up with me, a black household with a suspicious identity, that is, a little bribe, and the Vicky Chamber of Commerce also had a good relationship with the garrison, but if we went back...... That's probably going to be a dead end.
Turning a blind eye to a small amount of money and letting unscrupulous merchants go on weekdays is completely different from letting foreign caravans pass through in wartime, the former is an unspoken rule that everyone understands to make extra money, and the latter is mostly related to treason, after all, no one can guarantee whether there are spies and intelligence agents in this caravan.
If we are still stupid enough to contact the garrison, I am afraid that he will be the first to guillotine us, after all, no matter how much gold there is, it will be life-saving to enjoy, and the first person to dissociate ourselves from is probably himself.
āā¦ā¦ There is absolutely no way back, but most of the other borders to the 'enemy country' are also the same, of course, there are areas along the border that are not garrisoned, but those are mostly dangerous or extremely dangerous areas, such as the Dream Forest, which is said to be infested with black elves, and I am sure you will not be stupid to gamble once. No. Depending on your configuration and strength. Enter such dangerous areas. It's not even a gamble, it's definitely a death. ā
Although no one answered, judging from the embarrassing silence, and the undisguised surprise and whispering of some people, I was probably right.
"Well, the remaining options are very simple, just two, nothing more than crossing the borders of other countries. Then find a way to go back to Lagus, or simply find a mountain village and squat in the woods to see if there is any change in the shape. And you can only choose the most negative of the latter. ā
Hearing this, Cindy couldn't hide her surprised expression, the sudden incident had just happened, she had just received the information, and she hadn't made a final decision yet, but the other party had already seen it through.
"It's actually easy to guess, it's very simple. The former is more dangerous. If you want to go to the borders of other countries, you are going to wander within Bair. At the moment when the Bayer Empire enters a state of war, all places will definitely increase their vigilance, and it is too risky to wander around the enemy country without sufficient intelligence support, and if it is blocked by a certain army, there is no possibility of survival. But if this road doesn't work, I'm afraid you won't be able to return home anytime soon. ā
Everyone fell into an eerie silence that looked at each other, which everyone could see, but no one wanted to bring it up.
āā¦ā¦ But did you think of it? Find a place to squat and see how the shape changes, it seems to be relatively safe, but in fact it is the most dangerous, as a level empire, you don't have the ability to control your own land, do you believe it? And the Bayer Empire's excellence in intelligence work is well-known in various countries, you can hide, but how long can you hide? The most mistaken thing is that I still want to keep the goods at this time, and I dare to escape with the goods? Do you think that Lord Samuel will let you this piece of fat go? ā
Seeing that everyone was obviously shaken, I naturally struck while the iron was hot.
"Nope! Absolutely not! From what I know of the greedy aristocracy, he will pounce on him like a mad dog, swallow the goods himself, and take our heads as a spy to receive the reward. And according to the current situation, there is no need to even contact the upper echelons of the empire to send professional spies, it is enough to follow the wheel prints of the convoy, maybe they are already on the way. ā
I paused deliberately, and to my surprise I saw that all eyes were on Cindy, and the dissatisfaction and anger in it could no longer be hidden.
As a businessman, he insisted on fleeing with the goods, which already made the mercenaries very dissatisfied, but the rich man was the uncle, and the mercenaries were reluctant to disobey the orders of their employers and ruin their hard-earned reputation.
But no one is a fool, this detail is not difficult to guess, now the matter is too sudden, the time to think about it is too short, it is not well considered, even if I don't bring it up, after a while, someone will definitely figure it out.
At that time, there will definitely be disagreements between the mercenary and the merchant, whether the merchant finally decides to drop the goods, or the mercenary finally decides to help gamble on luck, there will definitely be contradictions on both sides.
āā¦ā¦ So, I said, if I have a way to allow you to successfully leave the Bair Empire and keep your goods, will you listen to me? ā
After showing their strength a little, the mercenaries did not hesitate to obey my command, and our first step was to eliminate the immediate threat and start the counterattack directly.
I'm afraid Samuel would not have thought that the merchants who were chased by him in the first half of the night would be killed in the second half of the night.
"Epic robes? Hey, there's actually attached 'Steel Skin' and 'Dimensional Gate', little lich, your strength is not good, and your equipment is not bad. ā
While trying to put on the robes, a piece of time warp ring on the fingers of adjustment, from youth to adulthood, from adult to old age, from old age to ...... Died!
Yes, this ring can only change the appearance of the body's age, but not at all inside, I am still a living person, but the appearance has been reduced to bones, and then the carrion has fallen, and eventually, it has turned into a moving dry bone.
What surprised me a little was that the little girl looked at the horror movie-like horror picture of this living person turning into a dead person in front of her, not only did she not pee her pants in fright, but her face was full of excitement, as if she was glad that she had finally reached a big deal.
"Are you pretending to be Lord Rex? Is it a drag plot like in the knightly novel 'Two-Faced'? But you have no soul fire and death magic, it's easy to debunk. ā
"What a strange little girl. Come on, take another look. ā
The highly condensed spiritual power was ignited in the eye sockets, and the blue-green soul fire burned brightly, and only the right hand of the dry bones snapped its fingers, and countless skeletons appeared in the black mist.
I laughed, surrounded by the power of death, the ice between my fingers darling, and the lich floating high in the air roaring silently, my avatar already more like the Great Lich than Rex himself.
"It's so much fun...... It's too bad, I don't know how to do it, but your makeup is just perfect, and you can definitely get by, so what are you going to do next, threaten me to follow your command and come to a shocking scam? First of all, I don't give in so easily, I don't care about corporal punishment or anything, but as long as you threaten to treat my family badly, I will give in. ā
I'm a little speechless, meaning that it's useless to torture you, is it enough to verbally threaten you, and even took the initiative to tell me how to attack yourself, what kind of hostage are you?
āā¦ā¦ Rest assured, we have a better option from today, Milan. ā
Out of the shadows came a woman, who is also the signature pale green silk of the Milan royal family, looking at the face shape, it is actually seven points similar to Caroline herself!
"Even if you grow up like me, it's not okay, I have the secret treasure of the royal family here, which was given to me by His Majesty the Emperor, and only the blood of the Milan royal family can make it shine...... Hey? It's brighter than when I held it! ā
The pearl necklace that was taken away by the woman was radiating dazzling brilliance, as if it had encountered the true owner's artifact, and the pearl slowly lost its brilliance.
āā¦ā¦ If you don't finish the hijacking process, and don't coerce and lure me, I will never tell you the information you want! ā
By the time I was sure that this woman was probably having something wrong with her head, I had come closer.
"Don't worry, you'll be ......"
The slender fingers had begun to untie Caroline's sleeve, and the red lips and tongue had reached the back of the other's neck and neck, while the other hand had slid down more dangerously.
"You, you, what are you doing!! This is completely different from the novel, indecent! Can be replaced......"
"Am I not asking you? Ask your body ...... Well, yes, it was unexpected, I really met a treasure, my lord, although I don't care if you see me dine, and I don't mind if you're interested in joining, but aren't you worried that Lord Heloise will give a small report to Lord Eliza? ā
Well, with some regrets, I almost asked me "can I really join", but I was stared at by the "you are in the way", and I knew that this "invitation" was just "teasing you".
Although it's a pity that I can't see the good show, I can only helplessly carry Rex's head and leave, I'm afraid it will be difficult to forget.
"Hmph, women have their own way of communicating, let's have some communication that belongs to the lich...... For example, soul torture, soul searching, and psychological shock. (To be continued......)
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