Chapter 22: Ice

"Mana Brancy?" Arnold searched for the term from his memory, "I seem to have seen it in books, but I don't know much. ”

"It is not surprising that to you humans, Mana Brownsy is not so easy to perceive. Lily kicked her bare feet and wrinkled her nose with a very boring expression, "Those guys love to interfere in human affairs, and it can be said that most of the demonic events in the human world are actually the work of the Mana Blancies. However, because they know humans too well, they are also very good at hiding among them, and humans are very difficult to detect them, so they know very little about them. ”

"So, what happened to the Vortagan Territory is also their fault?" Arnold thought back to the suspicions he had analyzed earlier, and understood a little, "They infiltrated the Rupert family and killed Count Vortagen?"

Lily was silent for a while, and her two calves, which had been restless just a moment ago, stopped shaking.

"Actually, to go further, that Count of Vortagen, Nefarian Rupert, is one of the twelve Mana Branci. ”

"Count Vortagen is a demon himself!" Arnold was slightly taken aback, but immediately understood, in this way, it could indeed explain why Count Vortagen deliberately hired adventurers instead of his own army to eliminate the evil dwarves, he must have done so for some purpose, those adventurers were not hired to deal with the dwarves, but the victims he bought, for his ulterior purposes.

"So, what happened to him, was he killed by Lagres?"

Lily was silent for a moment, her expression darkened.

"No, it's not Lagres, in fact, Count Vertagen's death has a lot to do with you. ”

"Huh?" Arnold was stunned, not understanding Lily's words.

"The demonic identity of the Count of Vortagen, is Lubigonde, one of the twelve Mana Brancies. ”

"Lubigand......" Arnold repeated the name, his expression becoming solemn, the demon who had arranged for Isabella to summon when Serena told him about the plan was none other than Lubigand.

"So, it was Belle who killed him?" Arnold involuntarily touched his heart, feeling the complete peace of his heart, "It turns out that none of this is a coincidence, my plan and Serena have already unknowingly changed the fate of the Lords of Fortagen. ”

"Thankfully, although Mana Blanci is a high-level demon who stays in the eighth layer of hell, he can only be regarded as a servant in front of the demon lord. So, for the Black Sheep Society, the status of the Bearer is more than enough for them to offer you. ”

"You're saying that I can easily control the Vortagan Territory with this identity?" Arnold couldn't help but laugh, he didn't think it would be that simple, "I really don't know whether to say that the Vortagan Territory has been corrupted too badly by the Demon Cultists, or whether to say that the identity of the Philanthropist is too valuable." ”

"Of course it won't be that simple. Lily turned over and looked at Arnold face to face, "After all, the Black Sheep Society is still your human organization, such an organization is indispensable to the problems of human beings, in order to compete for power and profit, the Black Sheep Society is also divided into many factions, not to mention that there are as many as twelve Mana Branci they serve, oh, now there are only eleven left." Therefore, even if you come to your door now and say, 'I am a Belel servant, and you must all listen to me,' the most they can do is to offer you up and give you good food and drink, and raise you to be fat and fat, just as you would have been raised as a sacrifice to God. ”

That doesn't sound like a good analogy. Arnold frowned, he always felt that Lily was talking about pigs.

"Moreover, there is another question, although you have signed a contract with Belier, you have not received any power from him, do you think that a demon lord who has no power to restrain the chicken, the black sheep will listen to you?"

Arnold touched his heart again, remembering what Belle had said that night, and he always felt that there was something in this contract that he did not know.

"Why are you suddenly willing to tell me?" Arnold lowered his head, staring at his heart, "Didn't you say you didn't know anything before?" I thought you would be foolish. ”

Lily turned her face and followed Arnold's example, staring out the window instead of Arnold's face.

"You know, Arnold, I actually really like you. She looked at the bright night scene outside the window, but her expression looked very lonely, "When you care about someone, you can't wait to put the other person in your heart to care." You're not gentle, you're not kind, but you know what you have to do, and that's what I appreciate about you and what I hate about you. ”

Lily bit her lip, her eyes a little more tangled. "Your purpose is so clear, so you can't tolerate other goals, and you don't want to look at other possibilities, you are always telling you that your future is certain, but you don't want to believe that there will be better opportunities. ”

"So......" Arnold muttered for a moment before he looked up at Lily, "what do you want to tell me, that I have a better future than the path I am walking now? ”

"The hell cares about you!" Lily suddenly lost her temper for no reason, and seemed to be in a mood that became irritable all of a sudden, "Hey, now that I told you everything I know, how can you repay me?"

Arnold stared at Lily, knowing very well that Lily's tantrum was just trying to hide her true feelings.

"You say, as long as it can be done, I will agree. Arnold shrugged his shoulders and said, "I owe you once." ”

"Say anything?" Lily suddenly showed a malicious smile, and in the blink of an eye, she changed back to her usual quirky posture, and the rich emotions just now disappeared with her change of face.

Lily licked her lips as she leaned in, "Then, you will serve me well tonight, and make Miss Ben comfortable, even if you pay off this favor." ”

Arnold has a black line, and at this point, Lily still hasn't changed. He sighed, after all, the other party really helped him, Arnold didn't want to worry about Lily, and along the way, he owed Lily a lot.

"Anyway," Arnold said, staring into Lily's eyes with a look of sincerity, "thank you." ”

Lily was stunned for a moment, and then her face quickly turned red.

"Who, who wants you to thank you, what is the use of a thank you, thank you! Hurry, hurry up, it's not good to serve, don't, don't want to pass the test so easily!" Lily covered up her shyness in a panic, and the momentum just now fell.

Looking at Lily like this, Arnold couldn't help but smile.

"Sometimes, you're cute, too. ”

"Die!"

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"Ah, Mr. Bigswolf, I didn't expect the night view of the city to be so beautiful, and it was great to be in this place once!"

Chersusa strolled the streets of the Silver District of Vortagen with Mr. Bigswolf in his arms, and the night scene here was indeed beautiful, with colorful magic crystal lamps lit in front of almost every shop, as if to show off the wealth of his shop.

The bustling night market is bustling with people, and while Krsusa, who holds a cat in his arms, stands out because of his height, he is not very conspicuous in the city of Vortagan, where merchants from all over the world gather.

"Eh, there's a white horse fishcake over there, Mr. Bigswolf, would you like a piece?"

Mr. Bigswolf, who was tightly embraced by Kelsusa, looked loveless, and in the face of his master's stupid question, he directly gave a disgusted look.

"Hmmβ€”don't you like it? If you don't like it, forget it. Krsusa touched Mr. Bigswolf's head, and walked on.

The city of Vertagan is large and, thanks to its good urban planning, the streets are scattered and the boundaries between the districts are clear but there is no sense of dissonance. However, when Kelsusa, who was not familiar with the city, wandered aimlessly around the Silver District, even he did not know that he had unconsciously stepped out of the confines of the Silver District and came to the Bronze District.

Although the areas inhabited by the locals are collectively referred to as the Bronze District, in reality, there are also many neighborhood divisions within the Bronze District. Like all cities, Vortagan has its slums, but its dirty, dilapidated alleys are obscured by the tall, neat buildings that surround it, and are not very exposed to outsiders.

Now, Kelsusa had stumbled into an alley that was not crowded with people like the Silver District, or almost no pedestrians to be exact, and Kelthusa himself, as if he had not noticed it at all, had spoken to Mr. Beatsvoy and walked deeper into the alley.

A man walked from the other side of the alley, perhaps because the alley was too narrow, and as the two passed by, he bumped into Kelsusa.

Then his body froze.

"What did you touch?" Kelsusa still smiled, but his voice was cold and piercing.

The man's eyes trembled as he looked at his hand that had snuck under the other man's robe, and his eyes were full of horror.

"You, you......" His lips trembled vigorously, as if he was about to be frozen in the bitter winter, and he couldn't say a complete sentence.

"It's pathetic. Kelsusa smiled at the man, and continued to walk forward.

But the man stayed in place, and after a while, his body suddenly shattered, but not a drop of blood flowed out of the crack, and the blood in his whole body had long been frozen, and even his muscles and muscles and bones became fragile due to the extreme low temperature, and they cracked like a watermelon that had been smashed in an instant.

"Winter has arrived. Kelsusa looked at the strength of the alley, although the corners of his smiling eyes did not change, but there was a piercing coldness in his eyes, "Everything is withering." ”

As his words fell, a white cold air spread from under his feet to the end of the alley, and a thick layer of frost condensed on all the roads where the cold air passed. This is the Forta Root Territory, leaning on the Black Rock Peak, the Forta Root Territory is as hot as summer all year round, not to mention frost, even rain is rare, and Kelsusa actually relied on his own magic to reverse this climate law.

"Kill him!"

The people hiding at the end of the alley also knew that they would have no way to survive if they were frozen by the cold, so they simply gave up their intention to continue hiding, rushed out of the alley, avoided the spreading cold, and rushed straight towards Kelsusa.

The big man who rushed to the front appeared in front of Kelsusa, he raised his big knife in the air, and immediately slashed at Kelsusa's head.

"Die, mage, your treasure is mine!"

"Shhhhhh

"Don't scare my darling Biggswolf. ”

When the blade was still an inch away from Kelsusa's hair, the knife came to a halt, and the large knife shattered into several pieces.

It was not only the knife that shattered, but also the body of the big man, along with a companion who was followed by Kelsusa, all of whom were frozen by Kelsusa, and then shattered due to the extreme low temperature.

"Didn't scare you, baby Bigswolf?" Krsusa gently stroked Mr. Bigswow's cat, not glancing at the shattered corpses on the ground, and stepped over the shattered corpses as hard as stones, and continued to walk forward.

"The city is good for everything, it's just too hot, alas, and sure enough, on such a hot summer day, it's most comfortable to have some ice, do you say, Mr. Bigswolf?"

Mr. Bigswolf, in Kelthusa's arms, stretched lazily, and then meowed softly.