Chapter 53: The Pursuit of Thunder
By the time Saleddin and Zenai chased them out of the palace, the intruders were gone.
Chasing is inevitable, but if there is no trace, you can't chase together, if you chase separately, of course, the three robed mages are not lacking in confidence, but there are not enough people. However, soon the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the director of the Department of Health and Justice also chased after them, so the five agreed to chase in one direction and notify the others as soon as they found out—saying so, but everyone knew in their hearts that unless they had to, who would call for someone to share their own credit, although the Ministry of Justice did not love worldly money and power, but it valued the merits within the legal system.
As the highest-ranking prefect on the scene, Guibent certainly has the priority of direction selection, he first picked the direction that deviated to Miyagi - this is the pot of information asymmetry, he didn't know that the target of the mysterious law loser in the brain king city was actually a list of demigods, and his inertial thinking made him believe that no law loser dared to throw himself into the net and provoke the law management department. Therefore, he always suspected in his heart that the mastermind behind the scenes was Minister Yingting Mou. With this judgment, he left and picked the farthest direction from the city - the other party would not think of escaping from the city, he should have chosen a place that seemed dangerous and actually safe to hide.
Although the others did not identify the mastermind behind the scene as he did, they also believed that the other party would not risk breaking through the city walls, so the direction closest to the outside of the city was left to Zaredin, who was the lowest level on the scene. I have to say that the information blockade is really in the way, the five high-ranking officials on the scene, they want to cultivate and have experience, but they have no intelligence support, they never thought that this intruder who dared to challenge the authority of the legal management department was actually a mysterious loser who caused a series of disturbances in the royal capital - how crazy a madman must be to openly humiliate the royal power and the legal power at the same time?
Although Saredin was "chosen" in the least likely direction, he still pursued it seriously. It's just that the target is not in the field of vision, and it is not suitable to use spatial transfer to quickly shorten the distance, so you can only chase it with a flying staff.
The staff is to the mage, more than the sword and the gun are to the soldier, at least it is also the role of the sword, the gun and the shield. A staff is a must for a mage, and a flying staff is a luxury for a mage.
Similar to talismans, the simplest and most primitive staff can be made in a day or two by a mage who has studied and practiced properly, while high-quality or even top-level staffs naturally require the help of expert craftsmen, and must also be supplied with sufficient and demanding materials, and the standard construction period alone is calculated in months. The reason why the flying staff is called a luxury is that in addition to the need for additional rare materials, it also requires a rare expert, a flight expert, to design the key shape of the staff, so as to ensure that the staff is flyable, reliable and easy to operate. And such experts are extremely rare, so rare that there is not a single recognized expert in flight science in the entire kingdom of Loren Magaga. As a result, although the Flying Staff is not controlled by the Ministry of Justice like the Guardians, it is generally believed that about seventy percent of the Flying Staffs in the Kingdom are in the hands of the Ministry of Justice.
Unlike the amulet, which can be worn and used, the use of the flying staff requires considerable practice, and requires sufficient self-protection ability to avoid all kinds of accidental injuries during the flight, in a nutshell - this thing is not suitable for ordinary people. Because of this, the Flying Staff does not have an energy retention design for mana, and the amount of driving energy required for a Flying Staff depends entirely on the user, and even the difference in driving energy will affect some characteristics of the Flying Staff.
Saredin majored in thunder, and the natural thing used to drive the staff was thunder element energy, and the biggest advantage of thunder elemental energy drive was that it was explosive and fast, but Saredin was afraid of missing the target and did not drive it at full speed. It was only when he saw from a distance that there was a fierce battle ahead that he hurried to his feet.
When he approached, it was the last moment of stalemate between the arrogant atmosphere and the repulsive diffuse of Lidoulai. He didn't recognize Li Doulai, but when he saw the bunch of royal guards who were struggling in the barbed net, as well as a few mages lying on the ground, and looking at the offensive and defensive posture over there, he could easily distinguish the relationship between friend and foe on the surface—the Dharma King was not hostile, and in this situation, the Dharma King was more like standing on the same side.
With his experience in battle, he could see at a glance that the repulsive mage could no longer support it. Before he had time to think about the strategy, he directly smashed it with a range of lightning spells. In fact, he hadn't determined the other party's location at all, but he just saw that the ground over there was a little abnormal and made a move. Coupled with that voice, it was nothing more than thinking that even if he missed, he would scare the other party, and at least he could share a little pressure from the repulsive mage. He didn't think that saving the other party was to join forces, with his pride, he didn't even want to shout his own people, let alone outsiders.
The effect of falling force to relieve the siege was unexpectedly good, when the atmospheric mass just took off into the air, he thought that it was the repulsion mage who took the opportunity to reverse the situation, but when he saw the air mass turning in the air, he knew that the other party took the initiative to change the target and rushed towards him.
Come on, come on, the deputy director of the Judicial Supervision and Law Administration is not a person who is afraid of fighting a tough battle. Seeing the air mass approaching, he directly urged five thunderbolts to meet him.
Thunder spells belong to the rare elements in the elemental system, and they are also recognized as one of the spells with the strongest attack performance, which is fast and fierce, and can also restrain many spells of other types, so there is nothing to do about earth-based defensive spells. His weakness lies precisely in his weak defense, so the thunder mages prefer to attack hard and attack instead of defend when they fight.
Thunder is a kind of thunder spell favorite explosion, no matter what obstacle it encounters, it will explode, thunder meets high-pressure air mass, the result is unknown. Just listen to the sound of "boom and rumble" like a series of beads, a huge fireball illuminates half of the royal capital, both the light and the momentum, far more than last night's big explosion. The blast of the explosion was such that even Saradin had to use a mana wall to resist it. Fortunately, the explosion occurred in the air twenty or thirty times in the air, and the damage to the buildings on the ground was not too great. But the air wave of the violent explosion blew away the dust from an unknown distance.
Although the explosion was fierce, it was a sourceless flame, and it was instantaneous, and Saredin could see far away in mid-air, only to see a figure strung out of the city at high speed, and that speed, even his flying staff powered by the thunder element, might not be able to catch up.
This man, who is definitely the intruder, does not and does not need any evidence, and Zaredin has this intuition.
Of course, the man was arrogant, and the blind lightning of Zaredin did not hit him, but it was not very far away.
He had just seen the thunder spell on the roof of the palace of the Ministry of Legal Management, so he naturally guessed the identity of the person, since this one had already chased after him, would the other mages be far away?
He was very willing to have a good fight with the mages of the Law Management Department, especially this thunder mage who restrained his sense of qi a little. That war was not now.
"There's a mage chasing him, you see, he's got a flying machine," the Ringwraith said excitedly.
The range of Ao's qi will be greatly reduced when using light power to hurry, but even if the ring spirit doesn't say it, Aozong can feel about it, there is a person at the edge of his qi who seems to be following him, and he doesn't care about this, because he feels that the distance between the other party and himself has not decreased, indicating that the speed is not faster than himself. But I heard that the spirit of the ring said that the man had a flying machine, and with his personality, even if he had to take a little risk, he had to see what a flying machine was.
Sareddin chased in the air without looking at the road, his attention kept staring at Aozhuo, and when Aozhuan turned around, the two of them shone on their faces.
It was a bright night, and the sky was very bright, enough for the two of them to roughly see each other's faces. It's nothing arrogant, he turned his back to this Saredin and the others when he was in the palace building, this is the first time he has seen each other, and his attention is on the arc spark, which looks like an extraordinary staff. But when Zaredin saw his arrogant face, a certain figure in his mind instantly connected, it was actually this person?! The thunder and lightning of the staff that Zaredin sat on were not as thunderous as the thunder and excitement in his mind, and the strings of fragments were all connected.
When he heard about the theft of Senubas's treasury, he instinctively thought it was related to the mysterious mage of Gerdoron, although the circle of the underground vaults of Fort Lindenbo had not found a direct connection between the murder of the royal magic advisor and the looting of the vault, and the lip readers he had recruited had failed to provide more useful clues—the dialogue between the Ringwraith and the Arrogance was in the southern dialect of Middle-earth, and the lip readers were pointless. But the two reappearances still made him remember the appearance of the prisoner who ransacked the money vault.
Right now, this intruder looks exactly like that guy, and considering their actions, there is no doubt that the two are the same person.
Zaredin didn't have as many clues as the Mouthless, but with years of experience and instinct, he thought he had found the key clues to the astonishing events from Gtoren, to Senubeis, to the royal capital—he didn't know what had happened to Dovin, but the previous events alone were enough for him to put aside his selfishness and deal with it carefully.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I thought I had found an intruder, this person may be suspected of a number of major cases of misconduct, please help me to arrest him", Zaredin directly sent a request for help to his colleagues in the other four directions with inspiration, and at the same time issued a guiding pattern.
No one replied, this is normal, and when you encounter this situation, you should not talk nonsense, and immediately use the echo to teleport to the position of the guide pattern.
However, flying out of dozens of rounds, Sareddin looked back, why hasn't anyone passed it yet?
"The echo teleportation failed, there may be a forbidden sky spell in your area, I'll rush over to intercept it now", Zeng Nei said with inspiration.
The Echo Teleportation spell is not a true point-to-point teleportation, it is actually an acceleration passage to the guide point, which is invisible, but if you encounter something like a forbidden sky spell on the way, the echo teleportation will get off halfway.
The forbidden air spell that Li Dou Laiben used to restrict Ao Zongheng didn't expect it to help Ao Zongheng a lot at this time.
also intercepted a fart, Saredin knew in his heart that the other four roads were in different directions, and they ran far away, if they couldn't teleport, they wouldn't be able to rely on the flying staff alone, and their thunderbolt-driven flying staff was faster than all of them, and they couldn't catch up with this guy on the ground.
He couldn't comprehend the speed of the other party - he didn't fly, but he relied on a pair of legs, and he was actually a little faster than his own flying staff. Moreover, the flying staff consumes mana at full speed, and I am afraid that I can't catch up with this guy by chasing him alone.
A very bold thought came to Saledin's mind.