Chapter 141: The Identity of a Cultist
Hearing a voice behind her, the veiled woman turned around and saw a half-elf with pointed ears standing not far away, who was holding a large bag of fried beans in his hand, and was looking at her suspiciously while chewing.
"Can you ...... See me? The veiled woman, Melita Bernia, looked at this half-elf with some surprise, of course she remembered the other party, as a high-level agent of the Mithril Treasury, she had a good memory, so she also clearly remembered what the combat power of this half-elf guard was, and a half-elf with a limited strength than a goose could easily see herself?
"Is it hard to see you?" Amber was chewing on fried beans, and she still hadn't remembered what kind of character the veiled girl in front of her was, whose painting style was different from the whole camp, so her face was full of curiosity, "Who are you?" A merchant who came to do business? Is there finally a merchant willing to come to this place? β
I don't know how she connected the person in front of her with the businessman......
"Merchant...... If you have to say that, it doesn't seem bad," Melita smiled, casually removing her concealment effect and psychological suggestion spell, and fortunately there was no one else around, otherwise there would have been another commotion when the people who came and went saw the people on the street, "You are Duke Gawain Cecil's bodyguard, right?" Please lead the way, I'm here to talk to him. β
"Oh (crunch), good," Amber casually threw two more fried beans into her mouth, and then walked up to Melita and stretched out her hand, "(crunch) three copper coins. β
Melita was stunned: "Why?" β
"Bring the way (crunch crunch)."
Melita: "...... Interested in working in the Mithril Vault? β
"Huh?" Amber was stunned for a moment, and then immediately woke up to the word Mithril Vault, and she immediately remembered something, and suddenly pulled away from Melita several meters, "Ah! Mithril Treasure Trove! I remember! I saw you last time! β
"It's me," Melita smiled, feeling that the half-elf was quite funny, and her every startled reaction was exaggerated and impressive, "your lord invited me here, so now you still have to take the fare?" β
"Hey, I thought I could make a little extra money - I can't even earn an errand fee for that old zongzi as a dog's leg, what a loss," Amber whispered, then waved her hand, "Okay, okay, come with me, I'll take you to meet him." β
Led by Amber, Melita soon reached the depths of the territory, where she saw a large tent standing in the middle of the clearing, and the foundation had been laid next to the clearing, and a large number of bricks, wood, and stones were piled up on the side, as if preparing to build a large house.
"He's in the tent, he shouldn't have taken a nap at this point," Amber strode over to the tent, "you wait outside, I'll let you in." β
A moment later, Melita heard the half-elf's grinning voice coming from the tent: "Gawain! That agent called My Little Pony is coming for you! β
Melita frowned in confusion: how could that guy and the people around him pronounce it so strangely?
Gao Wen has been waiting for this agent to visit her for many days, and today she finally waited for the other party - the agent lady is still dressed like last time, wearing a strange gauze dress, a lilac veil covering her face, and her temperament is mysterious and elegant.
Amber had seen the agent wandering around the brickyard, and before that, no one had reported outsiders coming to the territory.
This is really a young lady who accompanies a mystery.
"Long time no see, Miss Melita," Gawain said, smiling, rising from behind his desk, "I thought you'd have to wait a long time to come, since this place isn't very accessible. You may be seated. β
"There's always a lot of access to the Mithril Vault," Melita smiled as well, "and I'm glad you finally got my name right." β
Gawain was suddenly a little embarrassed: "Ahaha...... Don't say it's so full, maybe you'll have to make a mistake next time. β
"The Duke is such a funny man." Melita bowed and said decently.
She still hadn't lifted her veil, but apparently Gawain didn't care about it either, he just looked at the agent from the Mithril Treasury curiously, "You seem to have 'visited' my territory?" How do you feel? β
"A nice place, better than I thought it would be, and there are a lot of quirky ...... Magical devices," Melita said calmly, "but I'm more curious about this placeβit's strange that you live in tents, and let the civilians live in wooden huts first. β
"Most of them are workshops or places for technicians, and the infrastructure of the territory has to be prioritized," Gawain explained, "and here...... You should have seen the large open space next to the tent, and my tent will be demolished soon. β
Melita's eyes widened slightly: "I thought it was a barracks for knights and soldiers, it seems that you didn't plan to build a castle for yourself?" β
"I'll talk about it when I have the conditions in the future, it's a waste to build that one now," Gawain waved his hand, "Don't talk about that, let's talk about business." β
"Of course," Melita remembered what she had come here for, "please show me the ring you got." β
Gawain took out the Mithril Ring he had received from the cultist on the spot, placed it on the table and pushed it in front of Melita.
The moment the agent saw the silver-white ring, her eyes narrowed slightly, and her eyes became serious: it was clear that the thing was indeed real.
She picked up the ring and held it in front of her to look at it carefully, rubbing the inside of the ring to make sure of the encrypted patterns, and finally she brought it to her lips and whispered a few syllables.
The syllables sounded blurry and indistinguishable, and Gawain was keenly aware almost immediately that they were not ordinary spell-casting spells, that almost murmuring sounds didn't even look like human vocal cords, and as the syllables fell, a hazy glow suddenly appeared on the surface of the ring, and it trembled slightly.
It took more than a dozen seconds for these phenomena to dissipate.
After completing the spell that seemed to be a special identification, Melita exhaled softly, but her voice was not relaxed at all, but was extremely serious: "That's right...... It is a VIP token of the Mithril Vault, and its owner is Bard Wendell. β
"Bud Wendell?" Gawain frowned, he probably didn't recognize most of the big names of the day, but he was familiar with many of the surnames of those big people, "I've heard the surname Wendell, and there was a stunned young man in the group of people who went east back then with the surname Wendell." β
"That's right, Bard Wendell, the heir of the Wendell family of the Typhon Empire," Melita's eyes looked serious, "You should be able to imagine that the Wendell family is as old as your Cecil family, and it is already one of the most famous families in the Typhon Empire, and the current Grand Duke Ferdinand Wendell is the most powerful 'knight lord' in the Typhon Empire, and he is also the wolf general of the previous generation, and he is the descendant of the 'stunned young man' in your mouth." β
"Knight Lord?" Gawain frowned, "Is it the kind of lord I know?" β
"No, that's a unique title after the military reform of the Typhon Empire," Melita casually explained, "The Typhon Empire has undergone many reforms in recent decades, especially in terms of military system, they have organized and registered all knights, warriors, mages and other extraordinary combatants, forming the 'Imperial Legion' that is not based on the private soldiers of the nobles in various places, and the Knight Lord is the military leader of the knight order in command of this legion. β
Gao Wen just inquired casually, but he didn't expect to hear this kind of news, and he immediately frowned: "The Typhon Empire has established a professional and regular army of transcendentals?!" β
"yes," Melita nodded rightly, "that's why their military strength has grown so quickly." β
ββ¦β¦ The wine bags and rice bags in the royal capital," Gao Wen subconsciously shook his fist, "I didn't even hear any news about this in Ansu, and even when I asked those nobles in the royal capital, I couldn't find these things!" β
"Ah, they don't really know anything about what's going on in their neighbors, but it's hard to say why they don't want to take it to heart," Melita shrugged indifferently, "We can talk about this kind of national level in the future, let's move on to the Cultists and the Ring." β
"Okay," Gawain let go of his fist, "the owner of this ring, Bard Wendell, what is his relationship with the contemporary Archduke Ferdinand Wendell?" β
"Bud Wendell is the only son of Archduke Ferdinand, and the wolf general of the previous generation," Melita said word for word, "and most importantly, he disappeared more than ten years ago!" β
Gawain's eyes became strange: "The heir of the Wendell family, the general of the Typhon Empire, it is indeed not strange that he is a big customer of your Mithril Treasury, but...... What I saw in Tanzania was a level 5 depraved druid! β
The difference between the two identities was so great that Gawain couldn't connect them at all, he glanced at the ring in Melita's hand, and subconsciously shook his head: "I'm now starting to suspect that the cultist stole or picked up the ring." β
"Unfortunately, your suspicions are still not valid," Melita shook her head, "I have checked that this ring has not been touched by anyone other than your contact records, in other words, this ring has been worn by Bud Wendell until then and has never changed hands.
"That level 5 depraved druid you saw...... It's Bud Wendell himself. β
Gao Wen was stunned and speechless.
But soon, several details flashed through his mind:
In the past, when fighting the cultists, the opponent always subconsciously engaged in melee combat, even if he had more powerful evil powers, he chose to hide in the shadows and assassinate himself with a sword.
During the battle, the cultist showed extreme swordsmanship, and his experience with swords was obviously extraordinarily rich.
The cultist's weapon was a one-handed sword, and the weapon used by Tyrian Wendell in the Eastern Road Pioneer Group was also a one-handed sword, and the swordsmanship of the two seemed to be very similar, and the possibility of the same lineage was very high......
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