Chapter 113: Mithril in Hand-Chapter 114: Aftermath
The enemy is under his butcher's knife, and with a single force, Macbeth will have his head on the ground.
However, the family environment and education in his previous life made him upright, modest, frank, and respectful to others, even if he suffered a little, he refused to bow his noble head in the face of social pressure, and the original innocence and kindness of Donald in this life, Donald knew more and more about the preciousness of these in his two lives, and he didn't want to discard these beautiful things in human nature from the bottom of his heart.
So Donald, who gained power after being reborn, never wanted to use this kind of third-rate means, and his strength was not strong enough at that time. But Macbeth has forced him all the way here, and it seems that he has to make an exception once.
"Macbeth, today is your end, and it's your honor to die under my moonblade!"
So he felt a chill in his heart, and with a knife in his hand, he cut off Macbeth's head.
The revenge was avenged, but Donald was relieved, and he only felt an unstoppable joy in his heart, as if even his soul was much more transparent and comfortable. He speculated that this was because the obsession that belonged to the part of the soul of the original young Donald dissipated and completely merged with himself.
It was only at this time that the estrangement between him and this world really disappeared, which was very beneficial to his future cultivation and promotion.
After Macbeth was dealt with, Donald asked Ade:
"Do you know where the Macbeth vaults are?"
Ade glanced at Macbeth, who had become a corpse, and replied seriously:
"The vault of Boulder City is behind the City Lord's Mansion, and there is also the private treasury of the Macbeth family in Yuanshan Town, but this is all on the surface, as for the collection of the Macbeth family in private, the small ones don't know!"
Donald thought for a moment and said:
"Macbeth is cautious, his secret study should be the safest place in the house, maybe he will hide things here, you go and look for them carefully!"
As he spoke, he mobilized his men to start searching the entire courtyard, and he himself looked through the papers on the bookcase, and then frowned, picked them up and looked at them one by one, and after reading them, he couldn't help but be glad that he had come early.
The above content is all the plans and actions that the Macbeth family is preparing to carry out in the near future, not to mention, the plans that are just about how to completely defeat Dalaran and reap the benefits of it while solving his goal account for most of them, which makes Donald's heart chill.
"Fortunately, it came early, otherwise even if the assassins arranged by Macbeth were dispatched, the territory would have suffered a lot of impact, Macbeth, you have the heart to kill me first, so I don't blame me for striking first, poor lord of the boulder city, the archon of the Northland, and after death, his soul will not rest in peace. ”
There is no detailed account of the assassination of himself, except for a vague mention that the hired assassins will arrive in a few days, and Donald is not too disappointed to be able to know that he is prepared in advance.
As for the strength of the assassin's identity, unless he is a golden powerhouse, he is confident that he will not return.
"Master, found it!"
Just thinking about it, Uther came to report, and after the three of them searched the entire courtyard, they found an underground secret room behind the study, which should be the most precious collection of the Macbeth family.
When I came to the entrance of the basement, I saw Ade excitedly inviting merit and said:
"My lord, the mechanism designed by Macbeth is really ingenious, if I hadn't accepted the thief training they arranged, I would be more familiar with this mechanism, and I wouldn't have found the hidden secret door!"
Donald smiled and nodded.
"Give you a big credit, and reward you with a stealth gear when you go back!"
"Thank you, sir!"
"Alright, since you're familiar with this mechanism, open the door!"
Ade immediately took out a few small tools and stepped forward to crack the mechanism of the secret door.
After a while, there was a click, and the secret door hidden behind the wall was opened.
It seems that all kinds of talents need some, and I used to think that thieves and assassins acted in the dark, but they were able to complete the task, as long as the means were not too excessive, then they were all acceptable.
"My lord, the door has been opened, but be careful after entering, there are likely to be other traps in the secret room!"
Donald nodded to Ade, then looked at Uther, who immediately understood what his master meant, propped up a pale golden curtain of light outside his body, and walked through the secret door first.
It may be because Macbeth thought that this was already the safest place, and in order to facilitate his own entry and exit, he did not set traps in the secret room, so the four of them entered the underground secret room about twenty feet deep without encountering any accidents.
The magic crystal lamp was lit to enter a row of wooden shelves in the secret room, on which were placed the collections of the Macbeth family.
Donald casually picked up one of the pieces on the shelf next to him, but saw that it was a candlestick made of gold, looking at the style, it should not be a recent thing, it is estimated that not only the material is valuable, but it is also an antique with collectible value.
There are at least dozens of pieces on such gold shelves alone, and there are many other antique calligraphy and paintings, all of which are carefully kept in boxes.
I heard Ade exclaim, "Oh my God! This is a high-level magic core, so many ......."
Donald walked over and saw that Ade was opening a black box, and the contents of it looked brilliant and colorful under the light of the crystal lamp, not a box of crystal clear Warcraft crystal nuclei.
Looking at the size and condition, Donald knew that this box was all fourth- or fifth-level magic cores, and there were about a hundred of them, estimated to be worth at least tens of thousands of gold soles.
Donald took a look and found that there was a small magic circle at the bottom of the box, which was supposed to prevent the loss of the magic power of the items inside, and specially stored the precious magic items such as the magic core.
There were three more on the shelves of the same box, and Donald opened them one by one, and the results were very rewarding.
The second one still contains magic cores, but there are only three of them, but they are all the smallest and high-level magic cores the size of a baby's fist. After checking it, Donald found that there were two of them that were the magic cores of the seventh-level fire-type demonic beasts, and one of the eighth-level demonic cores that did not know the attributes.
The number of high-grade magic cores is extremely rare, and the highest level of magic cores in Donald's hand is only level six, and he still paid a lot of money to receive it.
The magic core above the seventh level may not be in the hands of the silver powerhouse, because the individual combat power of the Warcraft is generally stronger than that of humans, and the general sixth-level Warcraft has the strength of silver, and the three or five ordinary silver powerhouses of the seventh-level Warcraft are not necessarily opponents. Therefore, the value of these three high-grade magic cores is immeasurable.
Donald opened the third box with excitement, this time it contained three sealed spell scrolls, looking at the names on them, they were the fourth-level flying spell, the fourth-level spell radiance shield, and the fifth-level spell flame funeral. There are three types of spells in flight, defense, and attack, and I don't know how Macbeth got these spell scrolls, even his teacher can only copy the sixth-level spell scrolls at the most, and this is because of the bonus of alchemy. The success rate of ordinary silver early stage mages in copying sixth-level spells is not more than thirty percent.
In addition to the three scrolls, the moonshine elf wine produced by himself that Macbeth auctioned at the last auction is also there, and it is estimated that he has not had time to take it yet.
Donald put the core and scroll back into the box, and then opened the last wooden box.
The box was much larger than the other three, like a single box.
Inside, there were about 100 pieces, each with a finger-sized silver ingot, emitting a dazzling silver light. Donald picked up a piece and scraped it with his fingernails, but there were no marks on the surface, so he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart and injected magic into it.
Unlike the demonic aversion of ordinary metal, after the magic power is injected into this piece of silver metal, it is as if it has come to life, not only does it not wear out in the slightest, but it has been increased to a certain extent. Seeing this, Donald knew what kind of silver metal it was, and it turned out to be a full box of Mithril!
Not long ago, Donald was still thinking about how to get such a precious magic metal, but he didn't expect to rob the enemy and have such a harvest!
"Where did Macbeth get this Mithril?"
Donald was puzzled by this, and the Northlands had never heard of the existence of any Mithril mine, except for a small vein associated with Mithril found in the royal family's silver mines. Moreover, the production of that Mithril Mine was almost exhausted a few years ago, and most of the Mithril produced in it was also occupied by those old antiques of the Kingdom Mage Association, and even an alchemist like his teacher Messer had to pay at least three times the price to get some Mithril in order to get a little share leaked from the fingers of the Mage Association.
Unbeknownst to him, Macbeth's ability to get this batch of Mithril was actually an accident. This box of Mithril was snatched from a small caravan when the Black Knight Brotherhood was still following Macbeth's orders to loot and collect money for him. However, at that time, he did not expect that a small caravan would have such a precious treasure, so his robbers did not care to kill all those caravan personnel, and there was no way to leave a living mouth to ask about the origin of this batch of Mithril.
With the weight of Mithril being heavier than gold, Donald weighed that this box of Mithril weighed at least hundreds of kilograms, and with the mined blue-veined magic gold, one piece of Mithril could make at least two hundred magic coins.
Now the plan to mint Dalaran Magic Coin can be implemented in advance!
These four boxes should be the most valuable treasures in all collections, although other things are also valuable, but they are all gold and silver antiques and the like, which are not taken into account by Donald, and are all stored in the storage space and ready to be handed over to his subordinates to sort out.
Confirming that there was nothing of value in the courtyard, Donald collected the magic statue at the core of the warning nodule and led the three Uther out of the study.
Ade pointed to the unconscious steward and asked, "My lord, what should you do with this person?"
"The first evil has been punished, this person is just a steward, it doesn't matter, there is no need to bury Macbeth!"
Donald ordered Ade to place the unconscious steward outside the courtyard, and with a wave of his hand, he recycled the two undead creatures into energy before nodding to Kael'thas.
Kael'thas received the order and immediately unleashed his own heroic spell, Flame Strike.
I saw the crimson flame phalanx erupt in the independent courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion, and the power of the flames immediately submerged the originally small building.
At this time, Donald had already opened the return scroll in his hand, and a teleportation circle appeared out of thin air, enveloping Donald and the three subordinates beside him, and the light flashed, and there were no more four people in the same place.
And all the traces of their infiltration here, the conspiracy plan in the study, and the corpse that Macbeth had begun to undead after his death, were all destroyed with a fire, and the power of the fire caused by magic was far beyond ordinary flames, and by the time the guards and servants of the City Lord's Mansion arrived to put out the fire, only a piece of ashes remained in place.
Chapter 114 After the aftermath was teleported back to the territory, the four of them appeared directly in the lord's mansion.
The first time he felt the magical experience of teleportation spells, Ade couldn't have been more excited.
Donald was fairly happy with the new recruit, but he still had to beat him up.
"Today's matter is only known to the four of us, you should understand what the consequences will be if the secret is leaked, the treatment and rewards promised to you will soon be handed over to you, all I want is your loyalty, okay, you don't have to make any oaths, go down to William to arrange it for you!"
Ade immediately thanked him solemnly, and after he left, Donald sent someone to invite Jesse, the treasurer. At the same time, in an empty room in the Lord's Palace, the ordinary collections from the Macbeth family were released.
Seeing the piles of gold and silver utensils and antique paintings, Jesse's eyes immediately widened and he exclaimed:
"My lord, have you robbed the palace?"
Donald didn't explain, and said with a smile: "Send two heartfelt servants to help you count these out, the ones that are difficult to sell and have high collection value are left, and the rest are stored in the treasury, and they will be sold when they have the opportunity, and they will be exchanged for hard currencies such as Kinsol, Demon Core, and Elemental Crystal!"
Jesse knew that as a nobleman, he should not say what to do, and he did not continue to ask.
"I see, there's a lot of good stuff in there, I'm going to have to examine it carefully, it will take a lot of time. ”
"There's no need to rush this matter, you do it quietly, and you can do a good job of confidentiality!"
Jesse nodded, and set his mind on the thousands of items in the collection.
After dealing with this, Donald returns to Boulder City alone with a piece of Mithril to find his teacher, Messer.
After briefly recounting what had happened to the teacher, the old master couldn't help but be shocked.
"You're so good at causing trouble that you almost provoked a true god?"
Donald said helplessly: "This is also a helpless thing, if I don't preemptively attack, I will definitely fall into passivity, and if I don't do it well, it will cause great losses to the territory! Besides, no one would have thought that Macbeth would be the believer of that one, if I don't kill him in time and attract the attention of the true God, I am afraid the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
Messer nodded solemnly.
"That's true, but the power of the true god is far beyond what you and I can imagine, as soon as Macbeth dies, his soul will inevitably return to the Heavenly Mountain, and then he may still be informed of the situation, it is said that the soul will pass through the underworld, you still have time to deal with the aftermath, have you thought about what to do?"
"Don't worry, teacher! Macbeth's soul has been manipulated by me, and I promise that as long as it is not the presence of a gold-level cleric like the archbishop, no one will find out my secret!"
"Oh, how do you do that?"
Messer was very surprised by this, the soul level is that he has just come into contact with a little shallow knowledge, no matter how talented his apprentice is, it is impossible to do what only a golden powerhouse can do, right?
I heard Donald say: "I definitely can't do it myself, but I summoned two undead creatures to infect Macbeth's body with curses and plagues, and then killed him, so that his soul is polluted, and he can't leave his body to go to the underworld, even if he is resurrected as an undead creature, he will lose most of his wisdom and memories in life, not to mention that I burned his body with a fire!"
"Well done!"
Messer clapped his hands.
This kind of practice is something that only a disciple of oneself would think of, and it has the conditions to implement it. The necromancer inherited the necromancer faction spell and is one of the best spell schools at playing with souls, but it is not easy to find a necromancer now. These corpse-wielding creatures are rarer than dragons.
"It's a pity that we can't expose the inside information that Macbeth is a believer in the Lord of Dawn, otherwise I will definitely be able to reveal a lot of secrets! In this way, His Royal Highness the Great Prince, who is deeply involved in the Macbeth family, is busy clearing himself up, and it is estimated that he will not have the time to deal with me. ”
Messer glanced at his disciple angrily.
"Don't think about this kind of thing without evidence, you're lucky to be able to escape that person's attention!"
"As for the eldest prince's side, the situation is very complicated, even I am afraid I can't intervene, but if he really wants to kill you, then I won't let him get his wish, although most of the mage associations can't count on it, but when I traveled to the mainland when I was young, I had a good relationship with several Gadre's mages, and an old friend of Pauline still owes me a favor, that one is now a golden ** master, so I will show this old face and invite him to come over, it should be enough to calm Andrew and his men!"
Then the old mage sighed.
"Macbeth's death will not affect us much, but the forces here in Boulder City will be reshuffled again. ”
"It's just a struggle for power and profit, teacher, what do you care about those guys!"
"You are also one of the nobles of the North County, and some things are bound to fall on your head, and you can't just avoid it by ignoring everything. What's more, the Mage Club is also one of the major forces in Boulder City, and our opinions can already influence the division of some interests. ”
Donald said with some annoyance:
"I understand what you said, teacher, I just don't like this kind of life of calculating all day long, if I have absolutely strong strength now, I don't have to worry about these things!"
"I'm glad you can think so, our mage's cultivation, concentration, is a big prerequisite. As a lord of one side, some social interaction is inevitable, but in another year or two, when I officially reach the strength of silver, with me behind your back, this situation should be better!"
Donald knew that the teacher's accumulation was profound, and if he hadn't been too involved in the study of alchemy, his strength would have already approached the golden rank by now, so he said:
"I have a way to make you advance immediately, and it will definitely not cause the adverse consequences of external force improvement, and there will be unexpected benefits, teacher, you can consider it. ”
"Oh, what weird stuff are you coming up with?"
"It will be ready in a few days, and I will inform you when the time comes, and bring the three more Chris, they are also half of your disciples, my senior brother, of course, if there are benefits, everyone should enjoy them together." ”
Seeing that the teacher was still a little hesitant, Donald added another fire and said:
"I guarantee that my method will not have the hidden danger of being forcibly promoted by external forces, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the three senior brothers, the kingdom is in turmoil, teacher, what do you think will happen if there are suddenly three more silver mages in Beijun?"
The old mage agreed to consider it when the time came, and Donald took out the Mithril Offering Treasure.
"Where did you get that?"
Messer asked in surprise.
"The collection of the Macbeth family, the origin is unknown, but there are a lot of them, you can tell me how much you need, teacher!"
"It doesn't take a lot, this one is almost enough, it's the largest piece of Mithril I've seen in years. ”
It's not that Donald is stingy, but in spell research and experiments, the amount of Mithril used is very small, unless it is to make a large magic circle or alchemy golem, so this piece is enough for the teacher to use for a long time. He had arranged for most of the remaining Mithril, a third of which would be used to mint magic coins belonging to Dalaran.
After those magic coins are circulated in the future, not only will Dalaran's reputation be greatly enhanced, but the most important thing for him is that they can also exchange them for many valuable and precious items in the mage circle, and attract many mages from the outside world to come to Beijun for exchanges.
The day after returning from the teacher, news came from Boulder City. There was an accidental fire in the city lord's mansion, and their city lord was killed in the flames.
Macbeth's death caused a lot of turmoil throughout the North County.
As for why didn't Donald cut down all the members of the Macbeth family once and for all that night?
Donald did have such thoughts, but then he thought about it, it was too obvious and very inappropriate, Macbeth had just expressed hostility towards himself some time ago, and imposed an economic blockade on Dalaran, and now their entire family was inexplicably dead, and anyone with a little brain would think of themselves.
And now only Macbeth has a problem, and most people in the outside world will only think that he died in the fire accidentally, and there should not be many people who can link Macbeth's death to themselves. Of course, the old fox of Angwa must have been able to think that it was his own hand, after all, the previous news was brought to him by this former intelligence chief!
As for Bolton, the successor of the Macbeth family, he should be busy during this period of time, not only to stabilize the turmoil caused by the death of the previous Macbeth family head, but also to deal with a lot of follow-up troubles, and he is not the only heir of the family, there are two brothers below who are fighting with him for family power, so that the Macbeth family will not come to their own trouble for at least two or three years.
Donald was very confident that at that time, Dalaran would develop into a behemoth that they could not compete with, even if it was the first nobleman of the North County, the title of viscount, he had to look up.
This fire interrupted all the plans of the Macbeth family. The death of Macbeth, who is the family Optimus Prime, is a big blow to the strength of the Macbeth family, and many nobles in Boulder City have other ideas.
Donald just listened to these situations as news, and they didn't have much to do with him. Then there was another thing that made him happy.
A few days later, Clinton had already stabilized his realm and came to report to his master.
(To be continued)