Alonso's house was on the outskirts of the royal capital, about seven or eight kilometers from the city gates.

The dinner was impromptu, but it was impeccable by local standards. In an elegant ballroom adorned with paintings, vases and fabrics, everyone gathers around a long table.

The scale of the banquet is not large, only about a dozen people. Among the invitees were Feng Qi and others from the reading club, as well as some mages and nobles who had a good relationship with the Alonso family.

Tasia really came up with an original little magic. Named: Tasia's Vortex Wind. The magic made a small object rotate at a constant and uniform speed, and she hadn't figured out how it should be used. But Xiao Chen could see at a glance that this could act like a centrifuge in the laboratory.

Although it is a small magic, it is very difficult for mages to create any magic, they do not have a methodology for effective research and development of magic, and their understanding of magic is also very limited, basically relying on exploration, luck and experience. Therefore, Tasia, who is still a mid-level mage, can invent a new magic, which is enough to be praised and envied, and it is reasonable to hold a banquet to celebrate.

After the dinner was over, Xiao Chen finally left Tasia's house, when there were two more women wearing cloaks beside him. One of them is naturally Tasia, and the other is her bodyguard, the knight Belea.

"You really don't have to follow me. Xiao Chen said.

"Don't say these meaningless words, today I will help you create a reasonable reason so that you can draw out the enemy, and I will naturally try to keep you safe.

You and Roger are too weak, but with me and Belea, there are four of us, and we can basically go anywhere. What's more, you swear to me that there is no problem with the answer, everything is under control, then I will accompany you to learn more. ”

"However, today there is a high probability that we will be attacked and we may even need to flee. Xiao Chen pulled open the collar of his coat, revealing the soft armor enchanted inside, "I made all the preparations I could, but my heart is still not steady, and I am even more panicked when I bring you." If something happens to you, how can I be worthy of you?"

"I don't have to worry about you. Tasia touched her bracelet, and a shield of light rose around her body. She gave Belia a look, and the latter gathered her fighting energy and punched the light shield with all her might, only to hear a bang, and the light shield did not move. Tasia smiled, "I also have several auto-triggered defense items bound to my body, who do you think is more dangerous and who needs protection?"

At this time, it began to rain in the sky, Xiao Chen looked up at the sky, if the rain was heavy, there would only be more uncertain factors. It's time to go, he sighed, the girl in front of him, the more he touched, the more he couldn't figure out her thoughts.

"Do you need me to sign a paperwork to prove that I did it all my own free will?" teased Tasia.

Xiao Chen knew that he couldn't change her mind, so he said, "Then don't be reckless no matter what. I'll do my best to protect you. ”

"Waiting for your protection, it is better to rely on my Belea. Tasia said, and stepped into the carriage first.

The female knight Belia hadn't said a word since she saw Xiao Chen, she just nodded to Xiao Chen and followed into the car.

Roger on the throne wore a wide cloak that covered the light armor underneath. When Xiao Chen got in the car and closed the door, he whipped it, and the carriage drove into the night.

The horses' hooves hit the waterlogged dirt road, making sometimes crisp, sometimes dull tapping sounds.

Xiao Chen looked out from the curtain, and saw that the road in the forest was pitch black, and there was not much starlight. Only at the front of the car, the light from the hedron illuminated a short stretch of the road ahead, allowing Roger to make out his way. The carriage was like a boat in the dark sea, moving forward alone.

It's a good day for sneak attacks and assassinations.

Sitting across from him, Tasia's little face was excited, and instead of sitting upright, as she usually does, she peered out along the curtain cracks, her gray eyes rolling around, as if she wished that an assassin would jump out now.

"Don't get too close to the window. It is dangerous in case someone shoots an arrow. ”

"My left earring has a constant spell of deflecting arrows, and my right earring has a constant spell that reflects energy. Tasia shook her head deliberately, and two cyan pendants swayed with her ears.

Xiao Chen: ......

After a while, Tasia said, "You haven't told me what the whole plan is." ”

"It takes about an hour to get from here to the city gate, and our ambush men are on standby in a forest a kilometer from the city gate.

If we are attacked, run away as we can, lure them to that ambush circle, and then naturally someone can deal with the assassins. ”

"Who's doing it?"

Xiao Chen was silent.

"Can't trust me?"

"No, I don't think I should have involved you. ”

"When you open Magic Origin, we're already in a carriage. Tasia patted the cushion with her hand, "Actually, if you don't say it, I know it, it must be Roland's people." ”

"Well, it's his people, the Knights of the Wind, to be exact. ”

"Roland is so bold that he actually used the Knights of the Templars to deal with the Shadow Regiment of the Temple. ”

"It is not surprising that many times the internal enemy is far more dangerous than the external enemy...... It's also more vicious. ”

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About three kilometers away from Xiao Chen's carriage, there was a gentle slope, and more than a dozen riders led their horses and waited quietly in the rain, and the people in these shadows were all wearing leather cloaks and carrying bows and crossbows. Except for the occasional sound of horses snapping their noses, the whole team was silent.

In the distance came the sound of horses' hooves, and in a few moments two knights dressed in the same costume came in the rain, and rode up the gentle slope to the man at the head.

"Sancho, they're coming. Twenty minutes to get here. One of them reported.

"From the outside, there was only one coachman in the carriage. But there were a few people in the car, unbeknownst to us, who got into the car at Alonso's estate. Another said.

"However, judging by the feeling of rut depth, there should be more than one person. The former one added.

"Well, no matter how many people are in the car, it can't be an opponent for our team. Act according to the plan for a while. If you can catch him alive, you will catch him alive, and if you can't catch him, you will solve him. Sancho said.

After he learned the news of Xiao Chen's banquet, he immediately reorganized the team, on the one hand, he sent people to keep an eye on him, and on the other hand, he went back to the headquarters to equip horses and bows and arrows, and made an ambush plan.

He looked up at the cloudy sky and said to the left and right, "Let's get started." I'll be watching you guys from behind. ”

The people got on their horses and rushed down the valley in two ways.