Chapter 128: Arraignment (Ai)
Alfie had a bright red slap print on his face, his eyes were blindfolded again, a rude hand kept pushing and shoving behind his back, and whispering voices kept coming from his ears:
"I heard that this kid is the spy who tried to fly over the river yesterday. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Tsk, such a human being actually went to be a foreign dog's leg. ”
"Looking at his young age, maybe he was bewitched by some kind of magic of the alien race. ”
"This kid is such an idiot, he dares to fly over the river so blatantly in broad daylight, and it's really shit luck that he hasn't been killed by a ballista. ”
"Then again, the tool that helped him fly across the river yesterday looks quite novel, a bit like the legendary kingdom of machines. ”
"I heard that it had also been seized by Scar, so I stored it in the camp to the south. ”
"Really? ”
......
The people in the camp were judging Alfie, but they didn't know that Alfie was also carefully observing the surroundings with the help of Koco's vision hidden in the Wentini Orb, carefully remembering the layout of Calus's camp and the escape route.
He researched with Koco the Fishman in the dungeon what magic was currently available, and this vision sharing was the first magic he chose.
After mastering the many tricks of the Wentini Orb, Alfie turned the Orb into an inconspicuous pendant and hung it on her chest. As for the Demon Notes, Alfie never deliberately hid them, but strangely no one was able to find them from him, and it seemed to have a concealment effect that would not be discovered by others. As for the soul blade, it was carefully hidden in his space bag by Koke when he had just fallen into the water. In Koko's words, the rag made him feel very uncomfortable, and it was better to put it away sooner.
To Alfie's secret horror, it was obvious that the camp was preparing for the expedition at this time, and the soldiers in the camp were wiping their weapons, wearing armor, and packing their bags. There is a conspicuous shortage of horses here, with no more than a thousand in Alfie's sight, but these exiles have apparently found a replacement, countless tamed wild boars, snow wolves, and stag have taken the role of war horses, and Alfie has even found a storm bear and a ground dragon among them. It seems that these exiles have been working hard to build a good army for two thousand years.
From time to time, people dressed as leaders shouted back and forth in the ranks, commanding loudly, so that the seemingly chaotic battle preparations were actually in order, and it was clear that the exiles outside the walls were not a rabble, and there must be someone behind them.
Alfie was sighing, and suddenly saw something, which made him stop unconsciously, and the guard escorting him behind him impatiently pushed him hard, and slapped him fiercely on the back of the head:
"Don't be struggling! I don't know if your kid is lucky or unlucky, the boss and the leader are going to interrogate you at the same time. Don't keep the two adults waiting too long!"
'Shet!, I remember you rough guy!' Elfie cursed as the half-noseless creature burst into the dungeon, interrupting his progress in learning magic from Koco. In his hurry, he only had time for Koko to hide in the Wentini Orb, but he didn't have time for Koko to cover his blindfold.
Seeing that Alfie's blindfold was removed, this hateful guy came up and gave him two slaps, but fortunately Alfie just kept an eye on him and didn't let Koco help him loosen his ties, otherwise I really don't know what this rough guy would do to him. Alfie wasn't locked up in that dungeon for long, and he only had time to learn three spells.
But...... Alfie remembered the scene he had just paused to see, and the corners of his mouth arced.
Their destination was apparently the largest fortress in the middle of the camp, and Alfie noticed that the closer they got to it, the more heavily guarded it became. What struck him as strange was that the guards of the fortress were clearly divided into two groups, one of them a ragtag army with the insignia of Camp Calus, which appeared to be composed of many people belonging to different factions, and the other of guards with silver wolf insignia and uniform uniforms, which looked more like a disciplined army.
It's so funny, it seems that the camp is not an unbreakable steel plate either. Alfie was quick to come to this conclusion.
Soon, Alfie was escorted into the largest fortress, and after bypassing a shadow wall, the inner hall of the fortress appeared in Alfie's "shared vision".
The 1,000-square-meter fortress hall is decorated in a rough style without too many fancy decorations, and the interior walls are completely the same as the giant wood that frames the exterior walls, and some of them have not even been peeled off the bark. The walls are surrounded by huge torches, illuminating the entire hall.
In the middle of the hall sat a huge man with an equally rugged shape on a huge chair with a hideous naked body, a terrifying scar that took up half of his face, from his forehead to the corner of his mouth. He was lucky not to lose his left eye. At this time, the giant man was holding a roasted suckling pig in his hand and gnawing wildly, and from time to time he picked up an oversized cup next to him and poured strong wine into his mouth. Alfie guessed that the giant man's temper must be as fiery as his fiery red hair and beard.
On the left hand side of the hall is a scarlet velvet carpet with a set of white beech tables and chairs with intricate gold patterns. On the table was a polished silver candlestick, on which were lit seven delicate candles that looked like works of art.
On a high-backed chair sat an elegant man in a silver wolf uniform, holding a knife and fork in his hand, enjoying the delicious steak on the table like a jade porcelain plate, occasionally grabbing a crystal clear goblet and taking a sip of the red wine inside.
To Alfie's surprise, the elegant man with long silver-purple hair somehow wore a half-mask that covered all of his face from the nose onwards, revealing only ice-blue eyes and equally silver-purple eyebrows.
Alfie unconsciously thought of another person who liked to cover his face with a mask, Cardinal Olufei. For some reason, Alfie always had a natural aversion to this kind of guy who didn't want to show his true face.
"Are masked men popular in this world?" Alfie murmured in her heart.
It seemed that there had just been an argument between the two, and they each ate and did not talk to each other, one rough and the other elegant, forming an extremely strong contrast, and the hall was exceptionally quiet, except for the elegant man who occasionally let out a light cough or two. Alfie, who was escorted, appeared in the hall, breaking the awkward atmosphere just right.
"Boss, chief, the spy has arrived!" the big man with the missing nose pushed Alfie into the middle of the hall and saluted with his hands crossed.
"Thank you, Hogg. Go down and enjoy your own wine and barbecue. The giant man took a sip of wine and laughed.
Alfie noticed that the elegant man frowned slightly, and a hint of unhappiness flashed in his ice-blue eyes: "Hogg, please untie this captive's blindfold and rope before you leave." ”
This voice is really beautiful, I don't know how many infatuated girls will be fascinated. The elegant man's voice was so magnetic that even Alfie was a little shaken when she heard it.
"Boss, aren't you worried about this guy stabbing him?" Noseless Hogg's rhetorical question finally allowed Alfie to figure out which of the two was the leader and which was the boss.