1342. Naomi
In fact, the nobles of Ruyin did not have the courage to stand up to the lord of Surdak, and Viscount Duwe stepped forward and proposed to these nobles to organize a huge procession, but unfortunately few responded.
The nobles were more worried about the series of countermeasures that the Lord of Surdak would launch after the parade.
At the beginning of the meeting, everyone was still fiercely criticizing Surdak, but when Viscount Du Wei revealed the plan for the march, the nobles fell silent.
Then someone quietly walked away.
It didn't take long for the guests in the hall to be left with only a few nobles who had a good personal relationship with Viscount Du Wei, and seeing that they were also restless, Viscount Du Wei knew that this lobbying was a complete failure, even if it was just a march in the city of Luyin, they would not dare.
"Viscount Du Wei, we have also taken our leave......"
After hesitating for a moment, the last few nobles also came up one after another and said to Viscount Du Wei.
When the nobles had departed, the hall was immediately empty, the rows of tables and chairs looked a little messy, and there was still leftover wine on the table, and the servants began to tidy up the messy living room.
Viscount Du Wei sat on the sofa in the lounge a little tiredly, he pinched the corner of his eye with one hand, and closed his eyes with some disappointment.
When I opened my eyes again, there was a touch of world-weary fierceness in my eyes.
The butler stood behind him without making a sound, and Viscount Du Wei didn't look back, so he asked the butler behind him:
"How's the ceremony going at the manor?"
The butler took a step forward, bent down to Viscount Du Wei's ear, and whispered, "All are ready, and tonight we can hold a soul awakening ceremony for Earl Benton." ”
Viscount Du Wei nodded, lay on the sofa on his side and said, "There has recently been a group of knights in the guard battalion in the city, you tell those warlocks to be careful these days, and try not to go out if you can." ”
The butler immediately agreed, "Got it, sir." ”
Du Wei suddenly sat up from the sofa, began to look through the calendar on the coffee table, took out a quill pen, scribbled the date originally drawn in red, and then said:
"Let them refill the medicine in all the wells in the slums of the city before dawn tomorrow, and this time the amount will be increased, and now the corpses sent to the cemetery are starting to run out of numbers."
The steward agreed:
"Okay, I'll let them know in person."
Viscount Du Wei paused and asked again, "Who is in charge of the noble district?" Let's start tomorrow too! ”
The butler hesitated for a moment and said, "Early tomorrow morning, the nobles in the city may not have time to evacuate......
Viscount Du Wei showed a disappointed expression on his face, and only after a while did he say: "They have long lost the courage to resist, I have given them a chance, since they don't have the courage, let them sink with this city!" ”
"Got it, sir."
The butler agreed.
The room fell silent again......
……
Samira walked into the castle with a man wrapped in a linen cloak.
The man walked into the castle and lifted the hood from his head, revealing a face that was iron blue and stained with corpse spots.
She walked unnaturally and stiffly, and she looked curiously at the ornate decorations of the castle, her eyes moving from the rock sculptures in the corridor to the oil paintings hanging on the walls, and there was a look of surprise in her eyes.
Surdak, who was waiting in the study, saw Naomi and found that her body was still being further autopsied, but she didn't seem to care about it.
There was no fluctuation in Naomi's eyes, and there wasn't even a hint of a smile on her stiff face.
Surdak stood at his desk, invited Naomi to sit down in the chair across from the desk, and then said:
"Recently, there have been a few things in Luyinte City that we can't understand, I'm very sorry to disturb your peaceful life."
"I don't know if I can help, but it's an honor to think of me when you're in trouble!" Naomi's voice was hoarse, but it was remarkably calm.
Surdak said that the day before yesterday he met a necromancer in the city, and the necromancer skillfully used a double to escape in front of Surdak's eyes, and used the city's river to get rid of Samira's tracking.
Naomi's hole shrank slightly.
Surdak said to Naomi, "I want to find them, I know he must be hiding in the city, although I don't know why he is in Ruyin City, I don't think they are likely to be willing to operate under the nose of the Magic Guild." ”
"I want to know why the necromancers came from, and I want to find them out of this city......"
Naomi, who was sitting in the chair, said with a blank face:
"As far as I know, there are no necromancers near Ruyint City, and it is also very inconvenient for them to move in areas where people gather, unless they are not good at summoning, and they are active during the day, it is difficult to hide the aura on their bodies, so they usually move at night."
Surdak then goes on to talk about the robbery of the Benton family cemetery.
"I don't think they're ordinary gravediggers just to steal the burial goods from the tombs." Surdak concluded.
"Samira, I guess they're going to be in the city next, and since they like to be active at night, you might have to work a little harder lately."
The half-elf archer immediately stood up and said, "Got it." ”
Surdak asked Kari again. Decker commanded, "Carrie. Decker, you send someone to keep an eye on the ghetto, and whenever someone dies there, they have to be registered with the guard barracks, and I suspect that the dead on the other side of the ghetto are almost all graves after they are buried in that cemetery, and I am sure that their bodies are long gone, so I suspect they have been planning for a long time. ”
Jiali. Decker nodded in agreement with a serious face.
She had just served as the commander of the guard battalion in Luyinte City, and she encountered such a thing, which made this second-turn powerhouse very unhappy.
"Thea, have Edgar and his cavalry arrived?" Surdak asked Thea beside him.
"The guard camp has arrived, and the cavalry has begun to hand over the duties with the constructed knights, this time Edgar has seconded a thousand guard battalion knights from the guard camp in Mukuso." Thea said.
Surdak didn't expect that Edgar was worried that the cavalry under his command had no experience in managing urban security, so he actually seconded a group of guards battalion knights from Mukuso. Decker commanded again: "This guy actually knows Hamas, Carrie. Decker, you asked Edgar to increase the number of knights patrolling the city......"
"Naomi, is there any way to find the old Earl Benton?"
Surdak saw that Naomi had stopped thinking and asked her.
Naomi still said with a blank face, "Yes, but you need the deceased's belongings before death, and using necromancy magic you can find his hiding place." ”
Surdak said to Naomi, "Then you will follow me to the Benton family, I want to get the old Benton back." ”
"It's better to wait until the evening, and also to prepare sacrifices."
Naomi said in a hoarse voice.
Then everyone went their separate ways, and instead of staying in the room that Surdak had prepared for her, she asked Surdak to prepare an unused cellar for her, and she waited in the cellar for dark.
……
There is chaos inside the Benton family, and many young family members are guarding with family knights, who are outside to investigate the whereabouts of the old Benton earl.
Inside the family, Allen. Benton's uncles all came over and asked Alan to get him. Benton gives you an explanation.
This is the first time in many years that the Benton family has been subjected to such a tomb robbery.
The wives of the old Benton sat in the drawing-room of the back house, praying incessantly to the winged golden scepter that hung on the wall, symbolizing the light of Liberty's protection, and their prayers were not loud, but they were clear and rhymed like poetry.
Allan. Seeing that his mother and the other ladies were in a more stable mood, Benton immediately stopped and gave up his intention to comfort his mother.
He's going back to the living room to entertain his friends who have come back from all over to help.
When passing by the side hall, Alan. Benton saw his stepmother Mariliana sitting at the dining table, and this beautiful woman had a glass of golden cider in front of her. Benton stopped and said that no one could leave the manor until the matter was investigated.
But Jenny, the stepmother, who was much younger than herself, sat on the terrace on the second floor all day, she rarely spoke, and rarely went out of the room, and after the death of old Benton, she also seemed very calm, and had no intention of leaving Benton Manor.
Perhaps because she hasn't been resting well lately, her cheeks are so pale that they are almost transparent.
I have to say that Jenny has a very special temperament, the more she seems cold and lonely, the more people want to read her heart.
If it weren't for the fact that Old Benton had made a little quicker, Allen. Benton looked at Jenny's side face, and now he could only sigh softly......
"Lord Earl, Lord Archon Surdak is here to visit." The butler appears at the end of the hallway and walks over to Alan. Benton said in front of him.
Allan. Benton didn't expect Lord Surdak to come to visit at this time, and he was a little stunned.
Thinking that he actually came to the scene in the morning, he thought that it was just a formality, and it should have been the duty of the guard battalion to investigate this matter, but he didn't expect that it was so late, but Surdak came to the door again.
"Archon Surdak, please...... Forget it, I'll meet it myself! "Alan. Benton straightened his neckline and cuffs and hurried out.
The butler immediately followed in Alan. Behind Benton.
"Lord Surdak, you ...... this time" Alan . Benton walked down the stairs and said earnestly when he saw Surdak.
Surdak pointed to Naomi who had hidden her face in her hood and said to Alan. Benton hurriedly introduced: "This is my friend Lady Naomi, a warlock who is proficient in necromancy, and I came with her this time to track down the specific whereabouts of the old Earl Benton. ”
“……”
All of a sudden, Alan. Benton didn't know how to thank Surdak anymore.
It's no secret that Surdak has an undead friend, and there is even a story in the city that Surdak asked his undead friends to fight their way out of the city when he faced the chaotic army of Lord McDonnell and the low-ranking legions of the Hell Demons outside the city.
In order to investigate the theft of the tomb, now he actually brought this amazing friend over in person, which made Alan even more embarrassed. The Earl of Benton was moved.
The necromancer wrapped in a black cloak stood beside Surdak, and her figure looked a little delicate. Small, it should be a lady.
She didn't speak, she didn't even make any movements, and she had a hood over her head, making it impossible to see her face.
"Lord Suldak, do you have a way to trace the whereabouts of your father's body?" Erin. Benton asked quietly.
"I'm not sure, but at least it's worth a try!"
Waiting for Surdak to say how he inquired, Alan. Benton didn't say a word, as if a maid behind him commanded:
"Come in, Dasha, go and get a relic from my mother's life, and be sure to bring it with me during his lifetime."
The maid saluted: "Yes, sir! ”
Then he instructed the butler: "Go and clear the pavilion by the pool in the back garden, and I will take the distinguished guest there later!" ”
After waiting for a while, the maid did not return, Alan. Benton could only wait patiently and quietly.
It didn't take long, about a quarter of an hour or so, for a plump beauty. Mrs. Yan came from the end of the corridor with a wooden plate. Benton looked over and saw that it was Mariliana, who was sitting alone in the dining room drinking cider, and saw that her face was a little bad, as if she was frightened by the incident, and wondered why she had walked to the antechamber with a tray this time.
Surdak also saw this beautiful face at this time. Mrs. Yan was just yesterday. The woman who wanted to hook up with him at the funeral.
In Allen. It was introduced by the Earl of Benton that Surdak learned that her name was 'Mariliana'.
"This cloak is what your father usually wears, and he usually keeps it with me, and Madame asked me to bring it to you......" Madame Marilyna said to Madame Marilina, referring to Alan. Benton's mother.
Allan. Benton just nodded, thanked him very perfunctorily, and then handed the cloak to Surdak and asked, "Lord Archon, do you think this cloak is okay?" ”。
Surdak deliberately didn't look at Lady Mariliana, took the cloak and handed it to Naomi on the side, seeing Naomi nodding slightly, he said, "It's okay to ......"
Allan. Benton took Surdak to a relatively clean pavilion in the backyard, and the idlers in the back garden were also cleaned up, and the yard seemed quiet, only the manor house seemed to be brightly lit.
Naomi glanced down at the clean slate floor, she didn't hesitate, she took out a few small jars from the backpack she was carrying, poured some of the dye into the saucer, smashed it with a pebble, and finally poured out a few drops of viscous blood from a test tube, mixed with the dyes to form an even more viscous muddy dye.
Naomi then crouched down on the stone floor and began to set up an undead tracking circle.