Chapter Twenty-Three: The High Wizard's Apprentice
The night did not bring silence to the city of Dallas, and bands of city guards patrolled the city with torches several times more often than before. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Shortly after another patrol passed, a dark shadow emerged from the entrance to the sewers, and it was none other than Kamen Rider Schmidt.
Schmidt has returned to his original self. He was still puzzled, and he didn't know how he was exposed. He asked himself about pretending to be John, and the disguise was seamless. After all, he had done a lot of homework before, and he had a talent for acting, and he was confident that even John's wife would not be able to find a flaw.
But today he was suddenly wanted by the city guards. Not only his identity as a knight, but even his true identity and appearance were posted all over the streets by the city guards. It was all so sudden that Schmidt almost got it.
Last night, Viscount Colin actually sent Knight McCann to find Knight John, saying that he had something important to discuss. Schmidt almost fell for being deceived and thrown into the net.
Luckily, he had just attacked the McCann Knight with a knight from the Brotherhood of Jillian. After seeing McCann, he was a little more cautious. This made him aware of the intention of surrounding him, and when they were not yet able to close the siege, he suddenly died.
At one point, he wondered if Bill or someone from the "Brotherhood of Gillian" had betrayed him, but he ruled out that possibility. Because they didn't know that he was "John" again.
He even doubted the people in the organization, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't think who had the motive to betray him.
Despite his confusion about how he had been exposed, Schmidt knew that tomorrow the kamikaze would enter the city, and his situation would be even more dangerous. And at that time, it was difficult for him to complete the task given to him by the team leader. Tonight is probably his last chance to complete his mission.
Schmidt secretly analyzed the current situation, although his identity has been exposed and he can no longer use John's identity to implement the plan, but the situation of the city lord's mansion is also not very good.
Most of the missing people in the previous "Thousand Missing Incidents" were Jillians, and the City Lord's Mansion did not respond for a long time, which made most of the Jillian people in the city very dissatisfied.
In addition, Schmidt and the Jillian Brotherhood fanned the flames, and the city guards were extremely rude to the Jillian when they were harassing the people in the city. Now the emotions of the gillian people in the city are constantly suppressed and suppressed, like a volcano before an eruption.
Two-thirds of the inhabitants of the entire city of Dallas are gillians, if they can be incited to riot. It may be possible to repeat the "Jilian riots" in Fiyan City three years ago. Even if the riot was suppressed in the end, Schmidt could take advantage of the chaos and complete the task of burning materials assigned by the team leader.
He decided to kill a few Gillians tonight in disguise as the City Guards to provoke their anger and provoke a conflict between the Jillian and Victorians, and then contact the Jillian Brotherhood to start a riot.
Schmidt watched the patrolling city guards in the shadows for a long time, and finally he waited for his chance. A city guard soldier left the line and ran to a corner, and Schmidt approached him quietly......
There was a soft click, and the soldier fell limply. Schmidt took out a dagger and cut a small cut on the neck of the city guard soldier, and the blood that had not yet cooled slowly flowed out, he carefully took out a mask from his arms, and slowly soaked it in blood.
This is the secret treasure "Joseph Mask" that he accidentally obtained, and this is how he can transform into other people's forms.
Of course, he didn't tell anyone that he was transformed with a secret treasure, and even to the organization, he only said that the "transformation technique" was his soul talent derived from witchcraft.
The so-called soul talent derived witchcraft is the personal exclusive witchcraft created by the wizard after awakening his soul talent, through further development, tapping the potential of the soul talent, this witchcraft is closely related to his own soul talent, and can hardly be learned and imitated by other wizards.
As "Joseph Masquerade" comes into contact with the blood of the soldiers of the City Guard, something strange happens.
The blood of the City Guard soldiers began to spurt out like a duel, and was then consumed by the "Masquerade of Joseph". Then not only blood, but also the flesh, bones, and hair on the corpse were swallowed up by the "Joseph Mask" one after another. The corpses of the city guards first wriggled into a ball of flesh, and then gradually merged into the "Mask of Joseph".
The "Joseph Mask" needs to devour all of the flesh and soul of a person before it can change them, so that the mask can remember all of that person's characteristics. And after devouring the next person, the characteristics of the previous person are overwritten. So Schmidt can only become a certain person for a certain period of time.
And when the mask devours a person's flesh and soul, not only can you remember the person's physical characteristics, but you can also get a part of the person's soul memory. This greatly facilitates Schmidt's change of camouflage
By the time Schmidt picked up the mask, all that was left on the ground was a city guard uniform. Schmidt slowly put on his mask, his features melted away like candles, and then slowly reassembled, finally turning into the appearance of a city guard soldier.
Schmidt closed his eyes and slowly felt the remnants of the memories coming from the secret treasure. After a while, he opened his eyes and quickly pursued the patrolling group.
At first, he could still see a little shadow of Schmidt in his posture and expression, and after he took a few more steps, he was the city guard soldier who was alive no matter how he looked at it.
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At this time, in the hidden room of the City Lord's Mansion, Andy is at a critical moment, and he is building a model of the level 2 witchcraft "Fireball Technique". Once it can be successfully constructed, he will be able to advance to the High Wizard Apprentice realm.
Andy, meditating on his knees, has now changed dramatically, the most striking thing is that his long burgundy hair is gone, and now he has a shiny bald head on his head.
It all started during the day when he told Catherine the story of the "bear infestation". This story really attracted Catherine so much that she didn't cry much when she was electrocuted.
After Catherine's spiritual power was also raised to the level of a high-level wizard apprentice, she learned level 2 witchcraft and reached the level of a high-level wizard apprentice.
At this time, Andy, who had been studying the "Fireball Technique" model to no avail, began to ask shamelessly, and after asking, he learned that little Lori also held grudges.
Isn't it just for him to play the role of "bald strong", of course Andy will not be like a little girl. Anyway, he has no love for red hair, and he is used to short hair, and he has always felt that long hair is in the way these days.
So, he agreed to Little Lori's request and asked Louis to help him shave his head.
When Catherine finished rolling on the ground with a burst of laughter, she also began to do her best to instruct Andy in modeling his "fireball technique". Someone pointed out that it just felt different. Soon after, Andy succeeded several times in his simulation, and he began to officially attack the realm of high wizard apprentices.
Of course, before impacting the realm, he knocked Louis Butler unconscious, gagged him, tied him up, and stuffed him under the bed. After all, the time for the "voodoo puppet" to be controlled is coming up.
For the sake of this guy serving her and Catherine with all his heart in the past two days, Andy didn't kill him. Although he knew that it was only the result of being controlled by witchcraft.
Andy was afraid that this guy would disturb his promotion after he got out of control, so he dealt with him in advance. He planned to advance as soon as possible and leave the City Lord's Mansion to find out about Mentor Stein. So he asked Catherine to let her go, and Andy soon went into a meditative state.
Not surprisingly, the "Fireball" model was successful, and more magic began to slowly improve Andy's physique, and once the physique improvement was completed, he would be a high-level wizard apprentice.
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It was late at night, and Viscount Colin quietly got up from his bed, and today he was restless again, and ten times worse than yesterday when Edward had disappeared.
He went to his newly renovated study, carefully analyzing the clues he had.
It's a pity that his magic mirror can only query the events that have happened three days ago and can't explore people's hearts, otherwise how could he be so passive, just know who is hostile to him and strike first.
Viscount Colin took out his magic mirror again, along with a large pile of magic stones. These magic stones were all "donated" by the big merchants in the city during the day today.
Originally, they had a lot of complaints about "donating money and supporting the front line", but after the Viscount caught a spy of the Duchy of Saine from among them, they all honestly "donated".
Viscount Colin also knew that doing so was tantamount to killing chickens and eggs, but he couldn't care about it, the magic stone that was supposed to fill the gap was stolen by the hateful thieves, and tomorrow the kamikaze knights would enter the city.
After filling the shortfall, he is in a position to ask them to help maintain law and order and arrest spies.
Viscount Colin thinks that the person who plundered Edward and stole his wealth yesterday is the most suspicious of the spy Kamen Rider Schmidt of the Duchy of Sain, but unfortunately he escaped when he captured him yesterday.
The other suspect is the fugitive wanted Andy Charles, after all, he also has knightly power and has a grudge against the City Lord's Mansion.
Then there is Stein, who has relapsed and gone out to look for medicine, if he comes back, he may also find trouble with the City Lord's Mansion if he finds that the Wizard's Tower has been raided.
Viscount Colin is going to use the magic mirror to check them one by one, because he just failed to capture John yesterday, and John's location cannot be found now, so it is Andy that Viscount Colin began to check.
"The Magic Mirror tells me...... Tell me where Andy Charles is......".
After putting the magic stone extorted from the rich merchant, the words "Three days ago, Dallas City, the City Lord's Mansion ......" slowly appeared on the magic mirror.
Viscount Colin slammed the table. "Fuck you!"