Chapter 05: Persuasion and Skepticism
The Duke's castle, the council chamber, Princess Fafil and a dozen knights, and a university scholar, asked the guards who guarded the tomb yesterday.
"What? You said that when you saw him coming, but couldn't move, it was like having a nightmare, and you woke up to find yourself knocked unconscious?" Princess Fafel's expression changed, and she said, "Didn't you see anything else? Didn't you hear any strange sounds?"
The gauze-wrapped guard said, "No, not really." ”
The princess turned to the scholar and asked, "Master Turner, what is the situation?"
Turner stroked his long beard in his hand, and after a moment, his expression changed drastically, and he said, "Could it be that the devil has come?"
"Demon Calamity, Demon Calamity!" the people present gasped.
Although there has been no demonic disaster for more than a thousand years, the scene of the collapse of the heavens and the earth brought by each demonic disaster has occupied a large amount of the most important space in the history of civilization in the past 30,000 years.
Turner said in a psalm-like tone: "The Elven Myth Chapter 16, verse 8 reads: Before the demons come like a tide, the heavens and the earth change, and a large number of monsters are born naturally, this is the age of heroes, and it is also the age of demons, and it is also the age of monsters, and when monsters begin to emerge, all kinds of unbelievable aliens emerge, and the civilized race will face the final test." ”
"In ancient times, the demonic plague basically occurred once every two or three hundred years, and gradually, it became once every four or five hundred years, and the latest demonic plague was a thousand years ago. Memories have faded, but they have shaped the Gurudin Empire on the continent. ”
The princess said, "You must find the man, whether he is human or not." ”
The expression on the princess's face was tangled, and it was clear that she had the object of suspicion.
Link looked at his golden finger, the master of ability optimization, and found that with only five hundred ability points, he could optimize the most powerful supernatural ability, "Extraordinary Beauty", into a special ability. "Extraordinary Beauty" – The Nymph's exemption is always enhanced by her own Charisma modifier, which is also added to her Defense Level AC as a deflection bonus.
The so-called gap between supernatural abilities and special abilities is too big to be calculated, and the most direct gap is that when the other party uses the ability of death magic, whether it is a spell-like, supernatural ability or a special ability, his supernatural ability cannot take effect.
The special ability, on the other hand, takes effect at any time, even if you are unconscious, even if you are in a dead magic area, it still takes effect.
Then, these five hundred ability points will definitely be spent in the future.
Now, it's just over fifty points, which is too little!
was regretting, and suddenly saw a side note, a line of inconspicuous words: "You can merge two abilities into one comprehensive ability, or according to three or more gold-level basic abilities, touch the class to bypass another gold-level basic ability." ”
Link clicked on the instructions.
He found a longer introduction.
The ability is divided into white, red, yellow, blue, gold, purple gold, purple and so on.
Your "Extraordinary Beauty" is purple-gold if it is a special ability, and it is currently a supernatural ability, so it is golden.
Your "Blind Gaze" and "Shocking Gaze" are both golden abilities.
You have three golden abilities, so you can bypass one golden ability.
At present, the ones that can be lit up are the "Eye of Scrutiny", "Eye of Burning Blood", and "Eye of the Secret Law".
Link looked over one by one, and he found that the "Eye of Scrutiny" had no effect on the enemy, it was just equivalent to providing a character panel that displayed all of his own data, but this was too critical, too important!
The "Burning Eye" causes the opponent's blood to burn, causing damage.
The "Arcane Eye" spawns an invisible eyeball that drifts out to observe the enemy's movements.
It's all very bullish, but the most bullish thing at the moment is naturally the "eye of scrutiny".
Hey, it costs fifty points to light one?
Spend it, you can afford it!
Link, satisfied, saw that he was able to examine his own data.
Huge, faint phone screen displays:
Link:
Race (Human), Gender (Male), Age (Actual Twenty-Eight, Body Twenty-One), Hitomi Color (Black), Hair Color (Black)
Height (1.78 meters), weight (65 kg)
Strength 16 \ Agility 16 \ Constitution 16 \ Intelligence 16 \ Perception 16 \ Charisma 16
Level: Trainee Ranger Level 10
HEALTH: 43 (10X4+3)
Evaluate you as a one-in-a-million martial arts wizard.
Link, suddenly embarrassed - just call me 16 beasts, 16 for anything.
But isn't that too simplistic? A lot of things haven't been examined.
Well, sure enough, we need to continue to optimize our betting ability values to get more detailed data.
Link spent a few days outside and then returned to Deer Hunting City, where he had deliberately restrained his abilities, so that his "extraordinary beauty" was no longer manifested, so that outsiders could see his face and body without their eyes being distorted by their abilities.
Taking his other storage belongings, Link walked towards the Great Northland Library in Antlers.
This is a public library built by successive Duke Antlers, and you can copy any public book from here as long as you pay a deposit and pay for copying.
Given a 5-silver Deloitte library card deposit, Link walked to the "Customs" bookshelf.
Looking at the past one by one, he didn't see a detailed record of the monster.
Guruding language is similar to the official book of the earth in China, simple and generous, like the image of meaning, it is very difficult to learn, but the narrative is accurate, including many contents, is very advanced.
Reading books in Gurudin, it was a real treat.
In the sunlight, Link sat on the shiny wooden floor, flipping through the pages.
In a humble pamphlet, Link saw the information he was looking for.
"Classification of monsters.
The so-called monster is a general term for monsters that have supernatural abilities, quasi-spells, and special abilities, one of the three major types of abilities, or two, or all, and are far superior to ordinary people in both physical and intellectual development.
The types of monsters have not yet been counted.
Monsters, Violent Animals, Mythical Animals, Constructs, Dragons, Spirits, Humanoids, Magical Beasts, ...... ,
When it comes to monster types, you can use your imagination to the fullest, even if you come up with a hundred monster names a day and think about it for a lifetime, it is impossible to describe all the types of monsters. ”
"The strength of the monsters: The strongest monsters can rival the demigods, and the weakest ones are only equal to the goblins. You read that right, the kind of goblins who live in kennels, eat rice and common fields, and serve humans, and are killed from time to time to control the number of domestic animals, were also monsters in the past!"
Link's face was a little strange, and he suddenly realized that the universe of feelings, in the first fifteen thousand years of civilization, was still a high-magic universe.
Why now, even the traces of aliens are rarely heard of?
"Your Highness, there is a person at the Bronze Bull Tavern who wants to see you. Anna walked briskly into Fafel's study.
"Let him in. ”
Link walked in, and Princess Fafel immediately stared at her and whispered, "It's you!?"
"It's me. ”
Anger appeared on Princess Fafel's face, and she said, "You still dare to come to me?
Link smiled and said, "The princess is angry." Do you think, if I hadn't escaped the other day, would you have calmly thought about my role now? Maybe I'd be in jail that night. Of course, the princess is a kind-hearted person, maybe she will release me in ten or eight years, but I don't dare to bet. ”
Princess Fafil said, "What is your role?"
Link looked stunned and said, "The princess doesn't want to find the real murderer?"
Viewing Phil was stunned for a moment, Link continued: "Obviously, the princess already has a judgment in her heart, but whether the judgment is correct or not, the princess is not sure, if she lets go of the murderer, she also planted a mine for herself." ”
Fafel's expression remained unchanged, and he said coldly: "This is our Antler Family's business, since you have left, you should not come back." ”
Link smiled and said, "Princess, be patient, I'm not sure, how can I come to see you." You're sure that person is one of your rivals, and the princess must have information that no one else knows. But if you don't tell me, the man will continue to use his resources against the princess. This time, it was His Royal Highness the Duke who suffered, and next time, maybe it would be you, the princess. Besides, doesn't the princess want to know where the source of the power that holds the murder of the Duke is?"
Fafil said, "I tell you, and you don't know." ”
Link said, "If you don't give it a try, how do you know I can't guess the murderer?"
Fafel's expression changed, and after a long time, he let out a long breath and said, "Well, I can't guess who the real indicator is, but it must be one of my four cousins." They were the only ones who had a secret meeting with my father. ”
"At the time, I wasn't very interested in that meeting and didn't care about it, but now that I think about it, it must have started at that time. It was three and a half years ago, one evening, my father secretly summoned them. In the Chamber of Secrets, they talked about a place that was said to have mysterious powers. You heard it right, it's the power of the Medieval Mighty Knight!"
Link listened to Fafel say so cautiously about the medieval power knight, and of course understood what the princess meant.
At that time, it was the pawns of devils and demons that were rampant, and they were the powerful bloodline knights of the ancients.
The Mighty Knight ruled Philo for 20,000 years.
In ancient times, 5,000 years ago, the lineage of the Mighty Knights was also severed.
Thus, the Ancient Knight took center stage.
But the Ancient Knight is no different from the Mighty Knight, and even three Mighty Knights of the same level may not be able to defeat a Mighty Knight, let alone the previous bloodline knights.
But after surviving the last demonic disaster, the inheritance of the ancient knights was also abruptly severed, and the rest were pseudo-knights.
The so-called fighting spirit no longer even has the power of the ancient knights to cut iron and cut gold. Regardless of the ancient power of the Mighty Knight and the Bloodline Knight.
"Princess, if you wait any longer, the murderer's strength will increase day by day, and soon, even the superficial balance will not be maintained, and at that time, it will be time for you to be victimized, princess. ”
"You have to help me, but what's in it for you? Not to mention that you've already taken the 10,000 gold coins. ”
Link smiled slightly and said, "Of course there are benefits, otherwise, how could I take a risk?"
Fafel stared at him and said, "Could it be that you are also a powerful knight? Don't be in a hurry to deny it! The only one who can fight against the powerful knight is the powerful knight." Even the Ancient Knights, without a few people in a team, can't fight against a single powerful knight!"
Link said, "I'm an ordinary person, and I have a little ability, and the princess doesn't need to dig into this." ”
Fafil said, "No, I want to know what you're capable of. Isn't it, it's paralyzing, just like ...... It's like the weird head my father became?"
"Basically, the principle is the same, but the details are different," Link said. ”
Fafel brushed the blonde hair that fell from his ear and said, "I envy you mighty ones. I agree to cooperate with you. ”
Link said, "Does the princess have the first object of suspicion?"
Farfil said, "My cousin Peno. He is the lord of Blackstone, the viscount, and he has twelve knights under his command, each of whom is enough to fight ten heavily armed soldiers with one block of ten. ”
Link said, "I'll go find him." Is there anything I need to be wary of?"
"I heard that his face has been very strange recently, like a layer of black ash will emerge, the last time we met at the funeral, he was as dark as people who bask in the sun too much, but he never basks in the sun, besides, we don't have too hot sun in the north. If it's him, then you have to watch out for his power. ”
"I see. ”
"You can say whatever benefits you want, and if you don't say anything, I'll be a volunteer for you. ”
Link smiled and said, "The princess is unmarried, Xiaomin is unmarried, if this thing is done, can the princess marry next?"
"You're too greedy, I don't like it. Don't mention it, anything else. Why don't I give you another thousand platinum coins?"
"Well, that's barely enough. ”
"It's a deal!"
Coming out of the castle of the Lord, Link was thoughtful.
The princess was suspicious of the four cousins, and revealed another very important piece of information.
That's Link's main takeaway.
If that place really has the magical power to make people gain power, then it will definitely be more than the four counts and viscounts who will benefit, in fact, the most direct beneficiary must be the princess.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the fact that the Duke would be killed without killing the princess.
Kill the princess, the murderer has at least a quarter of the chance of inheriting the future duke's throne, and kill the duke, there is only a less than a 5 chance of killing the duke.
Where to go, do you still need to choose?
The exception is for people with funny heads, this kind of person usually can't grow up in a territorial noble family and become a lord.
Whether it is the princess borrowing his link's hand to get rid of the competitor, or the princess really discovering the murderer, anyway, he Link can get the ability value from that person, which is the biggest gain.
As long as you have the ability and evolve the ability, the level of the bloodline knight may still be a little hot, but the level of the mighty knight will definitely be reached.
It's just that the flame ability that can kill three knights in an instant is a little jealous of Link.