Green Forest City is a big city that Xiao Chen has ever seen second only to the royal capital, although it is not as prosperous as Suero, but the city itself is more quaint and atmospheric. Ciro told him that the history of cities whose names were made up of magical scripts generally went back a long, long time. Although the origin of the name is no longer known, the mottled ancient city walls, the broken stone roads on the ground, and the ancient pillars and statues that are often seen in the city are quietly telling the glory of this great city in the past.

After arriving in Greenwood City yesterday, Xiao Chen and his entourage, as a mercenary group hired by the Duke of Greenforest City, were settled in a camp outside the city and stationed with other mercenaries from various places. There are many mercenaries who are vulgar people, and the Duke of Parsa is worried that these people will disturb his city, so he does not allow the mercenaries to enter the city, and specially arranges a team of soldiers to control the mercenary camp and prevent them from wandering around the camp.

Of course, such a ban is difficult for Xiao Chen. His current magic cultivation only needs to mobilize a little spiritual power, extract some spiritual magic from the outside world, and add his own will, to be able to confuse the guarding soldiers into confusion. This is also the skill he slowly mastered after he was promoted to a high-level mage and learned the Tower of Origin's "True Source of Magic": how to cast magic without runes.

He, Roger, and Ciro put on plain clothes and blended into the Green Forest City. As soon as they entered the city, they saw a notice posted at the gate of the city, which stated that the Duke of Greenwood City had canonized Julio, the youngest son of Baron O'Farrell, as a baron.

There was no one around the notice, and the ordinary Dousheng people naturally didn't pay attention to such things at all. There were two merchants talking.

"It's only been a few days, why did the baron change another one?"

"Whoever asked them to provoke the Chinese, who came from the north did not know that the Chinese were now very powerful. The merchant lowered his voice and said, "I've heard that Matos's group wants to attack the Chinese town of Arano at night, who knows that the Chinese have long been ambushed, waiting for them to take the bait." In the end, none of the team survived, except for those who guarded the baggage in the back. ”

"Such an exaggeration?" the other businessman was obviously shocked, patted his chest, looked left and right, and said, "The Chinese are ruthless enough." ”

"According to me, it's not the Chinese who are ruthless, but the people here are stupid. didn't even find out the strength of the other party, so he went to sneak attack. Isn't that looking for death?"

"I've heard that the Duke is not dead yet. Knights and mercenaries were recruited everywhere for a few days. ”

The merchant in front snorted lightly: "I don't want to think about what this Duke made his fortune on." In the past few decades, basically no one could bargain from him, and those who were used to taking advantage of it were naturally not so easy to give up. ”

"I don't know who wins or loses in the end. ”

The merchant covered his mouth with his hand and said, "I pressed the treasure on the Chinese." Half of my business is with them. ”

Xiao Chen released a magic he had invented before, and he used his spiritual power to form a membrane around the two merchants, and when he felt the vibration of the air, he could hear the sound of the two talking in the distance. He called this magic listening. After listening for a while, Xiao Chen said: "Lao Chen, they are really powerful, it only took one night to annihilate the team of the new Baron Matos. ”

"No wonder the Duke can't wait to set up a new puppet. Ciro said, "My lord, what are you going to do?"

"Let's take a look around the Duke's Palace first. Since you are here, you naturally want to see if there is any opportunity to take advantage of it. If we can find a way to get in touch with the Duke, it would be nice for us to solve the problem for the school easily. ”

"Your Excellency, do you want to assassinate the Duke?" said Ciro, surprised.

"Shall he be allowed to attack us and not allow us to teach him a lesson?"

"It is generally difficult to assassinate a figure like the Duke. Roger said, "With a noble of this level, there are inevitably a few masters around him at any time, and the power of this Duke of Greenwood City, whether in the kingdom or the empire, is not bad." It's normal to have a master around you. ”

"Don't be nervous, we're just going to take a look. Anyway, there is no clear plan of action yet. We should have been gathering intelligence. ”

Xiao Chen and the three of them walked around and found that the atmosphere in the city was really tense. There were a lot of well-covered vehicles coming and going, carrying supplies to and from outside the city, which should have been what the Duke asked the merchants to procure.

Xiao Chen took advantage of the unpreparedness of the people, saw a truck that was temporarily stopped by the carriage on the side of the road, and sent a wind blade at the goods covered with oilcloth on it. His blade was extremely thin and narrow, and it sliced silently into a bag. After the carriage moved forward and left, Xiao Chen walked to the position where the truck had just stopped, and picked up some white powder from the ground, "It's flour, and it's really military rations." ”

Roger thought for a moment and said, "I remember that on the way here, I saw that most of the cars were not going to our camp. ”

"The Duke must have used more than just us mercenaries, there must be other teams assembled elsewhere. Xiao Chen said.

"He must also have a team of knights and knightly squires. Such fine flour could not have been prepared for mercenaries, and I am afraid that his noble descendants would be qualified to eat it. ”

"My lord, the car I just had was filled with kerosene, and I used to run this business, so I'm familiar with the smell. Ciro said.

"It seems that the Duke has learned the lesson of the last time. This wave of troops attacking Arano Town should be much stronger than before. ”

The three of them came to the edge of the Duke's Palace, which was a castle in the truest sense of the word. Moats, suspension bridges, and towering walls are a lot. Above the fence, there were quite a few soldiers in armor patrolling back and forth. On the top of the towers at the four corners you can also see several soldiers, bent bows and arrows, ready to shoot at any time.

Xiao Cheng approached the wall of the castle and felt it, "There is also the power of suppressing magic here, and it is not much worse than the palace in the royal capital." It is estimated that in this castle, my combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. It seems that a sneaky raid is completely impossible. ”

During the day the drawbridge of the moat was lowered. As they passed by, there happened to be two men who looked like officers talking there.

Xiao Chen used the magic of listening as before.

The people of this world don't understand how sound is transmitted, so even people with some strength don't have much vigilance against magic like Xiao Chen.

After a while, Xiao Chen said to Roger, "Your guess is right, there is a team that will join us before we arrive in Arano Town. It's made up of knights under the Duke, and that guy is going to join that team. When the time comes, the mercenary team will be used to test the combat effectiveness of the town of Arano. We are the real cannon fodder. ”