Chapter 06: Captured Alive
Black Rock City is between Antler City and Elk City, the city is not large, with a population of more than 10,000, which is just in line with the status of Lord Peno's viscount.
But the viscount, the same is a prince!
Looking at the castle that was smaller than the Duke's Castle, but also had the rank of a prince, Link was speechless for a while.
The castle was protected by a moat five zhang wide, and the walls were more than three zhang high, at least two meters thick, with stone on the outside and solid rammed earth on the inside. Huge beams form a framework that allows the boulders to be built into a wall in an orderly manner. Yokogi is old and blackened, but it is still strong.
In the gap between the rammed earth and the wooden beams, clumps of grass poked their heads out playfully.
Looking at the castle from a distance, you can see that the gate is rolled on the round cobblestone, and then the cobblestone is rolled into the hollow to fix it, and when the gate is moved, several people use iron pry to prop up the stone, and several people push the gate.
This heavy iron-clad gate is difficult to break through in the Philo universe, and the only siege method people can think of is to hit the wood and cloud carts.
There were four guards on this side of the gate drawbridge, eight guards at the city gate, and guards patrolling the city walls.
With the level of Philo's cosmic soldiers far superior to the soldiers of the Middle Ages on Earth, it is expected that even birds will not be able to infiltrate.
The name of the Bronze Bull Tavern will not work, or even counterproductive, after all, Peno must know that Princess Fafil has hired the chief of the Bronze Bull Tavern.
If you don't pay attention to strategy, it is obvious that the moat will add a nameless corpse.
Link pondered for a moment.
The distance of action of "Blind Beauty" is sixty feet, that is, twenty meters, and its lethality is too great for Link to be so ruthless to someone who has no grievances.
This universe has declined, it is not a high demon and high martial arts universe at all, a universe that can cure blindness by removing diseases, and being blind is almost equivalent to death and despair for the Philo people at this moment.
Link pondered for a moment, and came up with the plan that best came to the actual operation.
The next day, Link found a woman who was involved in a stumbling trade and gave her a letter to bring to the castle, in return for which the woman could receive 5 silver dele.
So, the woman gladly went.
Link's gaze, after having a "blind stunning" and "shocking gaze", is almost equal to ten times that of ordinary people.
So, he soon saw that on the balcony of the second floor of the castle, a richly dressed aristocratic young man who suspected of being Peno was angry and changed.
Well, he should be angry, because in Link's letter, he said in the voice of an old servant that Princess Faffel had met his master, Earl of Releigh, who was also a contender for the title of duke. As Princess Fafeel's faithful servant, he fears that she will be deceived and deceived by the sinister person known as the Fox of the Northlands.
Peno's came out.
He came out angrily with six knights and twelve guards in a carriage.
Link was speechless for a while.
Do you think that with this group of thugs, you can run to the Earl of Reilly's mansion to ask for the guilt?
There are so many people, Link can't be paralyzed much by staring at the "shock gaze", the rest of the people, one to say one, must be good at martial arts, not to mention the knight level, even if Link has reached the knight level at this time, but in the face of the remaining possible knights, Link, there is absolutely no chance of winning.
Gotta lure this group of knights away.
Link was planning.
The only thing he can do to outperform these knights is his agility at 16.
The Philo universe, unlike some pseudo-rules, agility not only represents flexibility, balance, coordination, defense, first attack, but also speed!
That's right, the speed of walking.
16 agility is +3, which is 3 times more than 10 points, from +0 to +3.
The 10 points of agility of ordinary people, converted to speed, are X1 slow walking, X2 rapid driving, and X3 long-distance running. It represents 3 km/h slow travel, 6 km/h rapid travel, and 9 km/h running. And 3 times more, that is, the slow running of the X4 base, the rapid running of the X8 base, and the long-distance running of the X12 base, that is, 12 km/h slow, 24 km/h rapid, and 36 km/h running.
You are not mistaken, the speed of running is up to 36 kilometers per hour.
So, because the carriage creaked and swayed, and the guards could only slow down the horses, Link could swagger and ambush on the side of the road ten kilometers out of Black Rock City.
When he saw them coming, Link stepped forward and said in a loud voice, "Lord Reilly asked me to inform Your Excellency. ”
Peno's eyes widened, and he said angrily, "What did that black-hearted fox say? What else did he have to say, he actually secretly contacted Fafil when he said he was going to act together, what did he want to do?"
Link said, "Lord Reilly wants me to tell you this. ”
"Tell me, what's that!? ”
"Your Excellency, you're out. ”
Peno's face suddenly turned from black to red, and he blushed, and said, "Reilly has gone too far, he got the most at the beginning, and now he still dares, and he dares to speak wildly! Take him down! I will teach Reilly a lesson myself." ”
Seeing that it had provoked Peno's great anger, Link immediately turned around and ran wildly.
Behind him, half of a dozen guards guarded Peno, and the rest chased after him.
In the snow, horses can't run much faster.
When a horse approaches, Link turns and stares in shock.
Even the man and the horse turned into a stake in an instant and fell down on him.
Link snapped with the blade of his sword, and the knight immediately fainted.
The remaining knights and guards approached and were knocked down one by one.
This scene happened as far as Peno's line of sight.
When Link saw that Peno's face was even redder, black and red, as if the black man was angry, he immediately knew that Peno's would not run away.
Sure enough, Peno jumped on a horse himself and rushed towards Link.
Behind him, followed by the remaining eight guards.
Link waited for Peno to rush closer, he gave a "shocked gaze", and Link also saw that Peno's fingers were gesturing and there were words in his mouth during the sprint, and then, aiming at Link is a finger.
A gray-black air stream flew towards Link at the speed of an arrow.
Link was shocked, dodging, and he threw himself to the side. His neck dodged the gray air arrows, but his shoulders couldn't.
The gray-black air current, when it shot at Link's shoulder, was guided by an invisible force, deflected three inches, and shot away from Link's shoulder.
Obviously, the most fatal moment was when "Extraordinary Beauty" saved Link's life.
Although I don't know what the black ash air arrow does, it is obviously a big move that is harmful to the body.
Link broke out in a cold sweat, and Penor was already stunned on the spot, and even the men and horses fell to the ground.
Without waiting for Peno's guards to react, Link had already put his sword across Peno's neck.
"Let go of the Viscount, I'll spare your life. A knight shouted.
"No, you need to calm down and take them away, I have some questions for the Viscount, and when I'm done, I'll let him go. If you still insist on threatening me, I can only kill the Viscount first. ”
"Your Excellency, please tell me what you had in that secret meeting with the Duke, and if what you said is consistent with what the other Lord said, I will spare you. Look, is that fair?" Link said, helping Penor to his feet, pressing his sword against his neck.
"No, what are you going to ask Reilly, didn't that coward tell you everything?
"No, no, no, I said I have something to say about ability, but put it aside for now, are you sure you won't tell me?"
Peno's resentful gaze gave Link the feeling of a middle-aged uncle facing an angry little child, although he was only twenty-eight years old in two lifetimes, and the body in this life was only twenty-one years old.
Link said patiently: "You see, the situation is very clear now, my goal is Might, and Reilly's goal is the dukedom, if I accidentally kill you, Reilly will be proud, he will be happy, you will die." ”
"No! no!" Penor cried out through gritted teeth, "You have to know something, you'd better hurry up!"
"Just tell me about the secret meeting that day. ”
"That day, it was very dark and it seemed to be raining, and my uncle called us four men to his secret room, and he said that he had found traces of a powerful knight in a cave in Red Rock Gorge, and a powerful knight had melted all the sand and stones of the cave with fire. ”
So, we secretly went there, where each of us felt something different. I feel ...... I don't want to tell you. Anyway, someone must have felt the flames, otherwise, there would be no traces of flames left at the scene, and someone felt the taming of the beast, otherwise, the place where my uncle was killed, there would be no traces of monsters, in short, the four of us, everyone felt differently. ”
"Tell me the address, and I'll let you go. ”
"What? You don't know the place? I won't tell you, we all swore an oath, and if we don't keep our oath, we will be relegated to hell by the gods of order and law. ”
"You need to figure out whether going to hell will come true, but for now, I must know that place, otherwise, I will kill you, you see, you have already told the secret, and you only need to reveal a little more to save your life, do you want to die before Reilly?"
"No! your tongue is poisonous, you're an abominable devil! ”
Link remembered the directions.
Turning around, he rode away on horseback.
Behind him, Peno shouted in shame, "Catch him, I'm going to kill him!"
Link let Peno go, naturally because he got what he wanted, Princess Fafir asked him to investigate, and he was basically sure that Peno's murderer was not the murderer of the duke, so the competition between Peno's and Princess Fafir was not in his consideration.
In any case, it is rare for a viscount to be able to maintain his heart like a teenager.
Although, he is certainly an unqualified lord.
But this is what Link's? He's not Peno's parent.