Manning City, Adventurer's Guild Headquarters, Tower of Babel. Looking at the still lively crowd in the market under the tower, Green thought about it.

Dozens of days have passed since the "Manning Incident", and the Desik mission has all left Manning, and the news from the border guards that the Desik border guards have moved frequently and frequently, and the situation is about to erupt.

The Adventurer's Guild has been under tremendous pressure these days. In Manning City, where the Tower of Babel, the headquarters of the Adventurers' Guild is located, a vicious dark magic incident occurred, many foreign ministers, including Crown Prince Desik, were killed, and King Manning's royal palace was also attacked by rioters. It is said that King Manning was furious that day and smashed seven or eight treasures from the days of the Magic Empire.

Fortunately, at the venue that day, the chief elder of the adventurers did not attend for some reason and escaped the catastrophe.

After the assassins escaped, the Adventurers' Guild immediately organized an investigation team led by Green and participated by a number of senior hunters to track down the real culprit and the mastermind behind the scenes, and the assassination of the day was also known as the "Manning Incident".

From day one, the investigation was fraught with difficulties.

There were five Assassins that day, one skilled swordsman, two archers, and two dark mages. After the closed magic of the venue was destroyed, the Manning Axe Guards fought a battle with the Assassins, and in the end only one of the Assassins was injured, and there seemed to be another dark mage outside the venue, and several Assassins escaped.

During the few days that the vigilantes had been in the city, several escaped Assassins had vanished into the crowd of Manning City. The last assassin to be stabbed, after being pursued by a large number of security guards for half a day, disappeared into the complex terrain of the embassy district.

As a result, in the hands of the Adventurer's Guild, only the dark mage who died on the spot in the venue that day was left.

Green personally took his senior hunters to examine the body. It was a middle-aged man with some typical Desic features, about forty years old, tall, with black hair and brown eyes, wearing an unmarked satin robe, and in the pockets of his clothes, hunters had found a large number of magic crystals, marked with the symbol of the magic book ticket.

This discovery is very surprising, a Desik, with a spar painted with the mark of the court magician of San Jose, is difficult to explain.

There were some fragments of daily necessities on the corpse, as well as a wooden identity tag, the identity of the sign was Bai Gangguo's servant, it seems that he mixed into the venue in the team of Bai Gangguo's envoys. This person should have also used magic to change his physical appearance, otherwise his black hair would still be a little dazzling in the ranks of the Shang Alliance. After death, the magic could not be maintained, and it returned to its original form.

During the examination, in addition to the sword wound that penetrated the front and back of his chest, Green also found a burn on the shoulder, the wound was so deep that it was impossible to tell what weapon caused it.

There are so many clues on the corpse, however, there is no way to continue the pursuit of the corpse of this Desik. With the death of the crown prince, De Sik has basically closed the border now, and trying to track down the origin of De Sik's killer is tantamount to a fool's dream.

There were other clues in the venue, such as the arrow that was fired at the beginning of the assassination.

Green believes that if that arrow could kill Prince Ferdinand directly, then perhaps the Assassins would not necessarily reveal their identities.

The arrow was fired by a crossbow placed on the pillars of the venue in advance, which is another huge suspicion. How could such a large military weapon suddenly appear in such a heavily guarded place as the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce Chairman's Council, and what means did the assassins use to hide from the axe-wielding guards, or did the guards themselves have moles. Green had the idea almost immediately.

A number of dresses were also found in the venue, which the hunters believed were disguises discarded by the assassins, but this clue was not very good, the envoys of the countries to which these dresses belonged basically died in the assassination, and there was no proof of their deaths.

On the day of the incident, in addition to the meeting hall of the chairman's meeting, there were still many other disturbances in Manning City, and after investigation, it was determined that all of them were caused by the dark magic cast by one or more dark magicians, including the Manning Palace. The riot interfered with the judgment of the Manning vigilantes, and it was a good move to divert the tiger from the mountain.

There are still useful clues, and the spar of the court magician of San Jose is one of them. So the Chief Elder personally sent a letter to the court magician of San Jose, believing that San Jose would definitely give an account of the large number of magic crystals that had been lost.

In addition, for more than a year, the Adventurers' Guild has been tracking down the dark mages who have frequently appeared in various places this year. The Council of Elders unanimously decided that they must have a secret organization, and Green led the hunters to track it down, and the shadow outline of this dark organization gradually revealed. For hunters, clues will always increase with more and more events, and the so-called "long will lose".

And what happened in Manning City this time made Green even more convinced of the inference of the elder group, that the appearance of multiple dark magicians and the use of a large number of different dark magics at one time was definitely an organized and premeditated act.

There weren't many survivors at the venue that day, less than a dozen envoys or servants had escaped, although all of them were more or less wounded. The ambassador of the Principality of Kaman, Count Munch, who had seen the most of the scene, described in detail the situation of the battle to the investigators of the Adventurers' Guild.

"Kerst and Fayda, it's really good. "I heard that the two of them turned the tide that day, killed the dark mage, and opened the door of the venue, Green was sincerely happy for them, otherwise, it would be even more difficult to end.

The Earl of Munch also provides one of the most important clues.

The leader of the assassins, who was so skilled in martial arts that many Desic warriors could not take him down, and in the end, he killed many people, and then a flying sword, along with the guards and the prince himself, died. Count Munch said that when the Assassin leader was fighting, he clearly saw that his sword body was spewing yellow sword light, and he thought he was dazzled, how could there be swordsmanship that spewed yellow light!

However, Green immediately understood that Count Munch was not lying, it was not yellow light, it was sword qi! On this continent, there were no more than five people who could use sword qi, and the previous one with yellow sword qi was dead 100 years ago, and this assassin may have something to do with that person back then.

Sword Qi, the essence of which is a kind of magic cast by samurai, can form a sharp aura at the tip of the sword, sharpen iron like clay, and greatly enhance the aggressiveness. The sword qi itself is actually an invention of the Magic Empire, back then, the Magic Empire court had a rainbow guard, and the people in the guard were all warriors who could make sword qi, because their sword qi was colorful, so it was called the rainbow guard.

After the end of the war, most of the Rainbow Guards died in the last battle of the capital, but a few surrendered to the last rebel coalition.

Time flies, hundreds of years have passed, and the continent has forgotten the strange sword aura of the Rainbow Guards, it is said that this stunt is only passed down among the descendants of their family, and just 100 years ago, a special killer appeared on the continent.

This killer, he committed a series of assassinations in a row, assassinating many dignitaries at the time, all over the world. Obviously, he is a master of money. Later, under the pursuit of the adventurer's guild, the desperate killer finally surrendered, and during the capture operation, the hunters saw the yellow sword qi spewing from the long sword for the first time.

Green called a hunter, "Go back to the Tower of Babel and go to the headquarters to check the information from 99 years ago, a record of the killer of the Shadow Blade." ”

The hunter answered, turned and walked away.

Previous records show that after the killer Fu Fa, he was once found to have adopted several orphans, and after the adventurer's guild traced the killer's lair all the way, those orphans disappeared.

It seems that those orphans not only survived, but also passed them on, Green thought.

An old voice interrupted Green's thoughts, it turned out to be the Chief Elder, who came to Green's side at some point: "Green, San Jose has sent back a message, and they have confirmed that the spars on the assassins are the ones they lost not long ago. They sent a court magician to investigate, and they would soon reach Manning. ”

"Alright, Chief Lord, we'll get to the bottom of it. ”

The chief elder turned his back to Green, his old body no longer looked so tall, and there were indeed more things that had happened recently, "I can't say it, I may have to mobilize the power of the whole guild." Green, I'm ready to issue a Red Notice (Note 1)!"

"It's no joke," Green exclaimed.

"I know that having all members of the guild, whether hunters or adventurers (Note 2), stop all unnecessary work at hand at the same time to carry out the red notice orders means that the guild has only one job for now, and everything else is suspended. I've been the chief for 20 years, so why don't you have to issue a red notice to be in vain? ”

Green didn't have anything to say, "Alright, Chief, I'll have someone prepare." ”

The Chief Elder turned his back to Green and waved his hand.

"It seems that the Chief Elder has decided that this organization is the biggest threat at the moment, and the threat level is extremely high. Green thought to himself.

When Mage Setty came to Manning again on the royal galleon, Green personally led a group of people to wait at the docks, the two people who were not meeting for the first time, and there was not much to greet, Green handed Setty a suit for the journey.

Setie looked at Green puzzled, and Green hurriedly explained, "I don't have much time to say, I'll tell you on the way, we're going to White Harbor now." ”

Setie's eyes lit up, "There's a clue, huh?"

Green acquiesced, "Let's go, talk on the way!"

Note 1: A Red Notice is a wanted notice issued by the Adventurer's Guild for key people and major events. Once a Red Notice is issued, all members must stop their non-essential work and track down the wanted officer. Of course, those who are successfully captured will receive great benefits and honors, and even have a history of direct promotion to the elder body.

Note 2: Internal members of the Adventurer's Guild, including hunters of the Hunter Regiment, need to be instructed by the guild. Adventurers, on the other hand, are more free by registering and becoming members of the guild. The nature of the two is not the same.