207. The Duke's Response

The old Duke sat in the shadows of the room, listening intently as the clerk of his own age reported the details of the incident. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The warm sunlight shone in through the open floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the study, but it stopped abruptly about ten centimeters away from the old man, as if it had been violently cut off by a sharp blade.

The duke, who was in the shadows, subconsciously tapped his fingers rhythmically on the armrests of the chaise longue. The discomfort in various parts of his body became more and more intense, and he knew that his body was running out of time.

He lifted his face, buried in the shadows, revealing a pale, bloodless face with many brown patches. Half-bald eyebrows and eyelashes make this face look like it is rotting. Listening to the voice of Registrar Nick's hearty voice, the Duke staggered up from his recliner and smiled a nightmare enough.

"Nick, am I getting old? Why do even the rats dare to bully me!"

The loyal clerk was the Duke's friend from childhood to adulthood, and he was the healthiest of the few people who survived to the present day. He looked at the duke, who was the same age as himself and was only sixty-two years old this year, but acted like a ninety-year-old man who was about to die, and his heart was sour.

Cannibalism is so terrible! Since that inexplicable food poisoning twenty years ago, Juniels Pervas has become what he is now. Even if he eventually defeated his brother and became the helmsman of the Pervas family, the two brothers did not have a victor in the eyes of the side branches within the family. Even the people around both sides withered in this cruel gladiatorial battle. Nick remembers the year he and the Duke were twenty years old, and they had more than fifteen close friends by their side. But the incessant murder and betrayal have left the number of people alive to be less than a handful.

Although he knew the Duke's physical condition, Nick still comforted his friend. "My friend, where are you old! It's just a feeling of weakness caused by the lingering poison. ”

For the comfort of his old friend, the Duke only smiled bitterly.

His body is completely decayed, and he may one day be useless. But his mind is still very sharp, and this is the key to his defeat of his brother, who has always had the upper hand in absolute strength.

"What do you think about Helena's mother and daughter?"

Nick knew that the Duke must have made his own judgment. The reason why he insisted on following the Duke in the first place was that he firmly believed that the Duke's intellectual level would surpass that of his eldest brother.

Nick also knew that the Duke didn't need his help to notice the anomaly, but only habitually asked the people around him for advice.

One person counts short, and everyone counts long. This was one of the keys to the victory of Juniels Pervas.

"Helena is not a weak woman. ”

Clerk Nick said only one thing. Point out the crux of the whole thing.

"Definitely. The Duke nodded slowly, then coughed twice in discomfort. He cleared his throat and continued.

"I've never seen Helena's child or man do anything, but she's no worse than Olael. According to you, there are no traces of the battle there. This can only tell one thing. Helena did not resist. ”

"Nick, when do you say Helena won't resist?"

"For a mother, it should be when the child is threatened, right?"

"That's right. Nick, you're right. The other party must have grabbed my granddaughter first and used her to coerce Helena into submission. ”

"What does this mean?" said the clerk, who was very cooperative with the duke's explanation, and asked very naturally.

The Duke held up a finger and pointed to the shadow behind him.

"The other party's ability to infiltrate is amazing. Without alarming Helena, little Mora was caught. Moreover, the other party did not kill a single person along the way. This is to show us that the other person is just asking for money. Nick, my old friend, can you guess which rats are doing this?"

The clerk thought for a moment.

"What the other party wants is a source energy crystal. That's weird. We and the royal family are not short of this stuff. I don't think the Brotherhood of Steel will be lacking either. I think I need this stuff urgently, and there are only those guys from the Green Cross in Colombo. But I heard that they were finished, and even the headquarters was terminated. At this time, I'm afraid that Aimaier's bones are cold. Not to mention that I don't feel like they're capable of doing it. ”

"Nick, can't you see it? This is a temptation to me! Some people may think that I am dying, and that they are going to find out about the Pervas family. ”

The Duke's face was full of gloom, which made the clerk feel gloomy. He asked the Duke in a somewhat nervous tone, "You said the Coren family did it?"

"It's not necessarily their hands, but it's definitely inseparable from them. I think it's more like some fool doing it at the instigation of the Cologne family. ”

The old duke suddenly straightened his back, as tall as he had been when he was a knight champion.

"Whoever it is, I want them to pay. Nick, you go find Prague. You tell him to bring more good hands. I don't want him to be lost in the White Tower. Helena's mother and daughter's affairs, I don't need him to deal with it. In addition, you send someone to find Master Zewan. I have something to talk to him about. ”

Nick nodded, and then didn't move, but hesitated again and again before saying, "Juniels, my dear friend." I can't do anything for you, but please stay away from a guy like Zewan. I always felt bad omens in him. It was a harbinger of death. You know, my sixth sense has always been accurate. ”

After saying this, the loyal clerk turned around and silently left the duke's study, leaving only the equally silent old duke, who once again lay back in the chaise longue, like a corpse, quietly waiting for the arrival of Master Zewan.

"Zewan, how are you preparing?" the Duke didn't hear the footsteps of the visitor, but he didn't need to pay attention to who the visitor was entering the study. He didn't even have to look up to know that Zewan was coming. The smell that was very similar to the rotten aura on his body always notified him of Zewan's arrival as soon as possible.

Zewan, who was hidden behind a heavy black robe, responded to the duke's question in a hollow tone that made people hairy.

"Your Excellency, my patron, you know that my research is a great technique across the ages. And you will be its first beneficiary. Now, my preparations here are complete. As long as you need to, you can start the conversion right away. ”

"What is the success rate of the conversion?

Zewan was obviously stuck, and then seemed very reluctant to speak, but under the old duke's questioning, he still had to tell the truth.

"The success rate is now as high as 50 percent. This is unprecedented. Your Excellency, I know that such a transition is risky in any case. There's no way you can't afford not to risk a little."

"That's not going to work! It's not okay. I can't accept that failure is a possibility. Do you know how much money I spent on your research? Do you know how much effort it took me to find all those experiments? And you only give me an answer with half the chance of failure, which is unacceptable to me. ”

In the face of the patron's questioning, Zewan's tone did not change. Without hesitation, he said to the duke, "I don't have any way to improve the success rate of the conversion right now. Unless you can get the legendary equipment of the Stone of Kasrul. It is the only one that can eliminate the chance of failure in any alchemical experiment. If you really want to make a risk-free transition, then you should tell Your Excellency Prague not to miss out on this opportunity to climb the White Tower. Because according to archaeological data, the existing Kasruld Stone is very rare, and one of the half-planes in the White Tower once belonged to one of the proud disciples of Master Kasruld. This is our most likely chance to get the Stone of Kasrul. ”

The Duke was silent for a moment, as if persuaded by Zewan. He sent Prague into the White Tower, also in search of the Stone of Kasruld.

"I'm running out of time, Master Zewan. You know, I've been tormented by this rotten body for twenty years. I don't have another twenty years to wait. Master Zewan, I hope you will personally enter the White Tower and search for the Stone of Kasruld. ”

"Your will, Duke. However, I can't enter the White Tower through the teleportation circle. It's up to you to do it. ”

"I'll ask Prague to bring a gold disc teleporter, you just have to bring a secondary disc and wait. I will send an army in and crush all the enemies who dare to stand in my way to smithereens. ”

"I'm afraid I can't hide it from the alchemists. Lord Duke. They are very vigilant during the annual opening period of the White Tower. Master Zewan was obviously not very impressed by this. If it weren't for the fact that the many hidden planes in the White Tower would only appear before the harvest festival, he would have gone in and searched for it himself.

"I can't care so much. Master Zewan, you know that I have a wonderful sealing artifact. I can give it to you. As soon as you enter the White Tower, destroy it immediately. It can keep the communication inside and outside the White Tower interrupted for three days and three nights. With this time, I think you can fulfill my request, right?"

Hearing that Juniels Pervas had made such a bloody investment, Master Zewan no longer expressed his opinion. He knew that the decrepit duke in front of him no longer cared about whether it would cause the public anger of other forces in order to obtain a new life.

He also knew that the old duke had a small number of people, but an extremely elite secret army. Although the annual Climbing the White Tower Contest gathers the heroes of Coronia, those who fight separately cannot be the opponent of an army.

"I assure you, with the Stone of Kasrul, Lord Duke, you will be given a perfect new body. Master Zewan bowed to the old duke, and then left as quietly as he came.

After Master Zewan left, the old duke lay back in the chaise longue again, he was silent for a while, and then said to the empty place in the shadows: "Kua Guzha, take your people to follow Zewan into the White Tower, if he dares to betray me, you will kill him." Also, you must rescue Helena and her daughter safely. You can go to Nick and ask him for ten Source Energy Crystals, and if necessary, you can temporarily compromise with the kidnappers. Remember, Helena's mother and daughter must be safe. ”

"Yes, master. The unusually eerie lingua franca sounded from the emptiness of the air with a humming sound that seemed to vibrate wings.