"Hey, old ass-eyed. ”

As a woman's voice fell, two steel boots, one large and one small, stepped heavily on the counter seat of the blacksmith's shop.

A sleepy old man in front of the counter suddenly shook his spirit, shivered, and looked at the two unkind guests uneasily.

In front of the old man were a man and a woman, the man looked smaller, no matter how old he was fifteen, and the woman was older, but not more than thirty years old.

The two are Eliza's mother and son, who have been adventuring for eight years.

Leo looks older than his actual age because of his hard training under Eliza's supervision over the years, while Eliza has greatly extended her lifespan after entering the legendary rank, and her face has not changed in eight years, and she is still the same as when she first set off.

The old man got up from his chair, but immediately disappeared, and was tightly covered by the counter.

Eliza and the others realized that it was an old dwarf.

The old dwarf stepped on the stool again in embarrassment, muttering something like "discriminating against the dwarf", and was about to expose half of his body.

"What do you two command?"

The old dwarf spoke politely, without the slightest dissatisfaction with Eliza's foul language, these two people were vicious, he was just a weak and helpless old dwarf, and he could make his life more comfortable with his low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

Sure enough, Eliza's right hand rested on her right leg on the chair, leaned forward, grabbed the old dwarf's collar with her left hand, and gritted her teeth and squeezed out a sentence from her mouth: "What about the arrows I asked you to make early in the morning?

The old dwarf raised his hands and leaned back, trying to get away from Eliza, and said with a smile on his face, "There is a reason for things, there is a reason for things. ”

Eliza raised her eyebrows, and with a slight force in her hand, she lifted the old dwarf from the chair by half a centimeter: "I have limited patience now, you better speak quickly." ”

The old dwarf hurriedly pointed upstairs, and said, "The son of the Earl is here, and we have laid down all the things we have in our hands, and we are all entertaining him." ”

"Can't pull it out alone?"

"Not a single person can pull it out. The old dwarf said honestly.

Eliza's hand loosened, and the old dwarf hurriedly held the counter with his hand and stood firm, and kept explaining: "This son is the only heir to the Earl's land, and they all eat under the Earl's hand, and of course the little ones have to take care of the little son." ”

Before Eliza could do it again, Leo had already pulled out the knife from his waist and stuck it in front of the long-winded old dwarf.

The old dwarf immediately shut his mouth.

In the past eight years, Leo has not only changed in height, but even his personality has moved closer to Eliza, and his movements are often crisp and exaggerated.

Eliza nodded in satisfaction, then winked at her son.

As the roundworm in Eliza's stomach, Eliza knew what she wanted to do with a glance of Leo, and immediately pulled out the knife and walked upstairs with murderous vigour.

The old dwarf's face changed, and he was about to say a word of dissuasion to Leo who was going upstairs, but another knife was already on his throat.

The old dwarf swallowed the words, closed his eyes and resigned himself to fate, and begged the young boy not to go too far, lest the Count be held accountable and they would suffer as well.

After a while, a cold question came from upstairs.

"Who are you? Who let you in?"

The old dwarf did not wait for a reply, only the sound of ping-pong swords and tables and chairs turning over, and then the "creaking" of the windows being opened.

"Bang!"

The old dwarf shuddered again and looked at the smoke and dust outside the door.

Then there was a series of "thump, thump" sounds.

Needless to say, the old dwarf could also guess that the young man must have rudely thrown down the heir of the earl and his retinue.

"Can you make my stuff now?"

The Earl's heir's guard, a knight of the twelfth rank with six people, was thrown out by the young man three times and twice, and he didn't even put up a decent resistance.

Under the double deterrence of force and the sharp blade around his neck, the old dwarf nodded obediently and immediately ran to the workshop.

Seeing Leo coming down from the upper floor, Eliza asked, "How is the strength of this earl's guard?"

Leo pursed his lips and said: "Flower fists and embroidered legs, there is no rank, no combat effectiveness, and there is no basic cooperation between each other, it is completely full." ”

Eliza nodded and said, "It seems that the plan will go more smoothly than you thought." ”

At this time, in the human flesh mountain outside, the top guard who had fallen lightly sat up staggeringly, and after he saw the surrounding environment clearly in a daze, his face changed greatly and he jumped down from the hill, and hurriedly rummaged through the crowd to find the heir of the earl.

The guards tried to pull out the little master from the bottom of the pile, but the guards above crushed the little master to death, not only the weight of the man himself, but also the weight of the armor was several times the weight of the person.

Fortunately, at this time, the other guard also woke up, and the guard who woke up first hurriedly urged this guard to leave and go to the earl's palace to report.

Eliza and Leo watched this scene silently, and did not stop it, and it can even be said that they were conniving at them to move the rescuers.

When it comes to the heir of the count, the soldier's reaction speed is immediately several levels faster. In a few moments, a group of well-dressed soldiers was lined up at the door of the blacksmith's shop.

Eliza spat out a cherry pit and glanced outside: "This leader is only level fourteen?"

Leo, who understood Eliza's subtext, took the initiative to deal with this group of soldiers.

"It's a bit of a thing, and it seems that the earl's army is not wasted. ”

After a fierce battle, Leo touched the two scratches on the armor, praised it twice, and then said: "It seems that this little young master is not very favored, and the guards he gave him are all tattered." ”

"Look at his arrogant and domineering appearance, you can see that he is not so liked by his father as he seems. Eliza ate the last cherry and tapped the empty plate.

"One more plate!"

The old dwarf took the empty plate with a smile on his face, but he secretly complained in his heart, if he is arrogant, is there anyone who can compare to the pair in front of him?

After Eliza had eliminated two more plates of fruit, the sound of horses' hooves finally sounded in the street again.

The sound of horses' hooves stopped at the door of the store.

This is a team of heavily armored knights.

One of the black-armored knights in the lead turned over and dismounted, striding in with an icy aura.

Leo glanced at the knight, scratched his head immediately, and said, "Mom, I can't handle this, he's already level seventeen." ”

Eliza picked up an apple and smashed it on Leo's head, reprimanding, "How many times have you said it, calling me sister, telling my mother to make it seem like I'm about to be in the ground." ”

Leo caught the fallen apple with his backhand, touched his head and replied weakly, "Got it, sister." ”

Eliza raised her eyelids, glanced at the knight quickly, and pointed to the seat opposite her: "Sit, you're welcome, feel free to eat, the fruit in this shop tastes great, if they change careers to open a fruit shop, the future will be even greater." ”

The black-armored knight looked Eliza up and down, his eyes on his hands, trying to see through Eliza's power level.

Eliza's fighting spirit flashed, and she launched a counterattack on her own. The black-armored knight's eyes immediately closed tightly, and two lines of tears flowed involuntarily.

"A guy who doesn't even have the courage to touch the Sanctuary dares to look at others?" Eliza snorted, quietly teaching the black-armored knight a small lesson.

The black-armored knight in front of him was full of fighting energy, and he had obviously been wandering around the pass of the Sanctuary for a long time, but his body structure was still no different from ordinary people under Eliza's perception. This shows that he does not have the courage to take the risk of sinking his fighting spirit into the deeper layers of his body to promote the further development of his body.

This is also the type of person Eliza looks down on the most, and he quietly probes his own power level, which makes Eliza have no good opinion of him.

Eliza waved her hand and said, "Don't sit still, just say anything quickly." ”

The black-armored knight rubbed his sour eyes with the back of his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Lord Earl has ordered you to go to the Earl's Palace. ”

Before the black-armored knight could finish speaking, the man was sent flying by an invisible attack.

"Command, a little earl dares to order me?"

Eliza waved again, and the black-armored knight who flew out was dragged back by an invisible force and slammed to the ground.

"I'll give you one more chance to reorganize the language. ”

The black-armored knight struggled to his feet.

The two attacks just now seemed to simply throw him off twice, but the power attached to it shattered all the fighting energy in his body, and it was blocked in all corners of his body.

The black-armored knight was shocked in his heart, and his tough attitude was also restrained, and he said again: "Our Lord Earl has invited you to the Earl's Court as a guest. ”

The hero doesn't eat the loss in front of him, and the black-armored knight saw that this woman was not easy to provoke, so he quickly changed to a respectful tone.

"And what are the knights out there doing?"

The black-armored knight hesitated for a moment, then replied, "The Earl is afraid that there will be bad people to your guests, so he sent me to escort a team of knights. ”

It turns out that there is always a reason for wanting to, no matter how ridiculous it may seem on the surface.

Eliza nodded, and accepted the clumsy statement with satisfaction: "Then let's go, I haven't seen the life of a nobleman for many years, and I just enjoy it." ”

The black-armored knight immediately bowed slightly and led Eliza out of the door, with a demeanor and posture like a real noble knight.

When the old dwarf of the blacksmith heard the commotion, he hurried out of the workshop and shouted at his throat, "We haven't finished your work yet!"

"Keep it for yourself, I don't want it. Eliza's languid voice came from outside the store.

But we've all hit everything!

The old dwarf shouted in his heart.

In the end, it was the old dwarf's reason that prevailed, suppressing his urge to go out and theorizing, and asking an unreasonable woman who could even throw off the commander of the Praetorian Guard like a bento to ask for money, which was simply self-defeating.

Half an hour later, Eliza and Leo sat down in the earl's reception room and began a new round of eating and drinking.

The black-armored knight reported the story in the earl's study.

The Earl listened thoughtfully to the report of the black-armored knight, and then came to see Eliza.

"The pastries in my house taste good?" the Count asked with concern.

Eliza gave a thumbs up and praised, "Top notch." This is the taste and heritage that an earl should have. ”

The earl smiled and said a few more polite words, and then the conversation changed and the conversation began.

"I wonder what your Excellency wants to see me for?"

Leo looked at the Count in astonishment, and instead of pursuing the fact that they had knocked his heir unconscious, as he had expected, Leo asked a seemingly unrelated question.

Eliza spread her hands, looked back at Leo, and said, "Brother, your plan has been seen through by others at a glance." ”

It all started with rumors Eliza and Leo had heard from other realms that the Count was fond of collecting artifacts, and that there was a lot of information and clues about artifacts in the castle, which led them to come here.

However, the two of them had difficulty in how to get these clues, and the Earl had never known them all their lives, so why should they hand over the information and clues they had so painstakingly collected to others?

So Leo came up with an idea, and specially inquired about the whereabouts of the earl's eldest son, and squatted at the door of the blacksmith shop early in the morning, waiting for an opportunity to attack the earl's eldest son, deliberately creating contradictions, and waiting for the situation to escalate, forcing the earl to meet with them.

As for the meeting, whether to kidnap or deceive will be decided.

Prior to the meeting, Leo had a perfect grasp of the situation, successfully turning an arrest into an invitation to meet the Count.

But at the last step of the plan, it was seen through, which can be said to be a waste of all efforts, which made Leo depressed.

Leo looked at the smiling earl unwillingly, snorted coldly, and encouraged Eliza: "Old... Sister, anyway, we're all at the end of the plan, just arrest this guy!"

The Count waved his hand and said, "Don't get excited, young man, don't be in a hurry. Since I see that you dare to come with other plans, I must be sure that you have a certain amount of certainty, so why don't you tell me what you need first, and maybe I will give it to you. And don't you want to know where your plan went wrong?"

Leo gritted his teeth, but eventually his curiosity about how his plan would be revealed prevailed, and he threatened, "Say it quickly, or I'll stroke your dog's head." ”

The Earl pulled out his chair and sat down peacefully before he explained: "Your plan is too deliberate, after semi-actively provoking the heir of the most powerful person in this territory, you still sit there swaggeringly, and the follow-up actions are too gentle, this is too contradictory, it is easy to be suspicious." If you want to make me fearful, you only need to kill two troops with thunder, and if you are impulsive, then you should flee quickly, just defeat them without killing them, which shows that you have ulterior motives to control the scale of the situation. ”

Has it been exposed here?

Leo silently wrote it down in his heart.

The Earl was unaware of Leo's mental activity and continued: "Another point of exposure is that you did not take the custom-made things from the blacksmith shop, which shows that the real purpose of your visit to the blacksmith shop is definitely not to build equipment, which makes me even more sure that your purpose is me. At least to my accommodation. ”

"In order to maintain the dignity of the lord, the commander of my forbidden army is bound to take you away, and if you can't force it, you have to use it instead. The masses don't know the difference between coercion and invitation, they only know that the two troublemakers have been taken away by the forbidden army. You happened to grasp this thought of the commander of the forbidden army, and came to me in a high-profile manner. ”

The Count brilliantly recognized Leo's plan.

But Leo's expression was not wonderful at all, but Eliza applauded.

The earl modestly owed a debt, and then said with a smile: "Actually, you don't have to be so troublesome, an earl can also support one or two Sacred Domain powerhouses, this lady has obviously been deep in the Sacred Domain for many years, it can be said that as long as she doesn't come to take my life, almost anything is negotiable." ”

Eliza shrugged her shoulders indifferently and said, "After all, this is the first time he has made a plan, and it is inevitable that something will be missed." And didn't you find you, there are so many counts' palaces, and you don't know when to squat one by one. ”

"That's just as well. The Count nodded in agreement.

"Tell me what you're looking for me for. ”

"We want 'Artifact Origin: The Glory of the Gods Shines on the World'. ”

"I guess so, there's only such thing in my territory that will interest a lone powerhouse like you. ”

As he spoke, the Count took out a finger-thick book from his wide sleeve, which looked well prepared.

Eliza took the book, flipped through it casually, and then fixed her eyes on one of the pages.

"How is it?, is there an artifact that meets your needs?" the observant Earl asked at once, noticing Eliza's strange appearance.

"Hmm. Eliza snorted from her nostrils, then looked intently at the page.

The Earl was also amused, and waited quietly for Eliza.

After a long time, Eliza put down the book and let out a sigh of relief.

"This book fits my needs perfectly. Eliza closed the book and placed it on the table. "Make an offer. ”

The Count smiled slightly, and said, "It's just some worthless paper, if you want to, even if you owe me a favor." ”

Not worth it?

Eliza took a deep look at the wise earl, nodded and said, "Okay, I owe you a favor." You'll find that this favor is worth the money. ”

Things didn't go well and went smoothly, and Eliza yawned and walked to the hotel, she had gotten up too early for the plan.

She handed the book to Leo and said, "Keep it safe, this is the spoils of war you have obtained for the first time with your wits." ”

Leo took the book and whispered, "But my plan almost failed this time. ”

Eliza put her arms around Leo, leaned her head on Leo's head, and said, "Failure is failure, have you failed less? Don't be discouraged, summarize more, you still have a great future." ”

Leo returned to the hotel still depressed.

Leaning on the head of the bed, Leo flipped up the book "Artifact Origin" in his hand.

Leo had just remembered the page where Eliza's gaze had just left, and he turned to that page again, wanting to see what his mother had been fascinated by for so long.

"Page XVII... What is this? Bugatti, the sword used by the god-king..."

At the age of thirteen, Leo learned to use his mind to solve problems for the first time, and it was also the first time he learned about the existence of Excalibur Bugatti.