Chapter 22: Killing
Deacon Lawrence has always had a secret that he hasn't told anyone, including his irascible and arrogant father. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
That is, he didn't actually want to join the Nether Branch.
About four months earlier, just after the New Year, he had attended a banquet among nobles with his father.
The party was normal, but after the party, Deacon found that he had an extra sheepskin scroll in his arms.
There is only one line on the parchment scroll:
"If the first pot in the third row in front of the Marquis's Mansion is removed the next day, you will receive a hundred gold coins. ”
The parchment scroll burns automatically as soon as Deacon opens it, as if it didn't exist.
Deacon thought it was ridiculous at the time, and Deacon often did pranks like this. If he did, maybe the next day a group of fox friends would come to their house and laugh at him.
So Deacon didn't take it seriously and left it behind in the blink of an eye.
But at noon that day, when Deacon came home drunk, he received a package.
Inside the package, there are a full hundred Imperial Gold Coins!
As the son of the Marquis, Deacon did not have a high status in the Lawrence family.
His father, the Marquis of Lawrence, had more than a dozen sons, and he was neither a direct nor a person of any kind.
The title of marquis is not his turn to inherit.
His best way out is to be like this to come of age, and then count on his irascible and arrogant father to take pity on him, share an easy errand, and manage an inheritance. Then continue to eat and wait for death......
In this case, one hundred Imperial Gold Coins, although not a large number for him...... But it's worth his expenses for two or three months!
With a hundred gold coins in his hand, Deacon suddenly remembered the parchment scroll, and ran frantically to the door of the Marquis's Palace.
Sure enough, the third row of flower pots has disappeared.
After asking the servant who was guarding the door, I found out that in the morning, a certain lady in the marquis's palace had accidentally knocked over two flower pots. Since these two flowers are relatively difficult to find, I haven't had time to make up for a while......
Deacon opened the strange package with some strange curiosity, and sure enough, he found a new scroll in a pile of gold coins......
If the servant at the gatekeeper of the Marquis's Court breaks a leg, you will receive 500 gold coins.
This inexplicable message made Deacon feel very strange.
He asked several fox friends and dogs, repeatedly confirmed that it was not their prank, and checked the address of the package...... It was found that no message from the sender could be found at all.
This package and the 100 gold coins inside seem to appear out of nowhere!
Deacon, who was interested, did as the parchment scroll requested that night, and even broke the legs of the eight servants guarding the gate just to be on the safe side!
The reason is that these stupid guys did not take care of the flower pots at the gate of the Marquis's Palace.
Deacon didn't have any mental burden on it, because he used to do it all the time......
The next day, he received five hundred gold coins and a third sheepskin scroll.
An ecstatic Deacon thinks it's the gods taking pity on him!
He immediately sent someone to burn down an abandoned house diagonally opposite that night. For this is what is commanded on the third parchment scroll.
On the third day, he received a full thousand Imperial Gold Coins!
That's almost enough to cover his expenses for a year!
From the fourth day onwards, Deacon's demands on the parchment scrolls became more difficult, from trivial matters to murder, arson, and robbery......
Under the deterrent power of gold coins and the Marquis's Palace, all this he did was successfully completed. And the sender of the mysterious scroll will help Deacon solve something every time he completes his mission.
At first, it was gold, and then it gradually became what Deacon wanted.
On the sixth day, for example, Deacon found the beautiful daughter of a baron whom he had coveted for a long time, and voluntarily ran to his room......
Slowly, Deacon discovers that he can get whatever he wants if he does what he is told on the parchment scroll!
Money, beauty, and even ...... Status!
After almost a month, Deacon found himself able to attend the Empire's best magic academy!
"Kill one of the commoners in the academy named Dukang Warfitt and you will become a magician and inherit your father's title!"
Deacon did not hesitate to enter the academy, even if he was assigned to the Netherworld Branch, which had a very high mortality rate.
The Nether Sorting House was so tightly guarded that he never received a single parchment scroll again.
But Deacon was so confident that he had taken something that had been given to him in a mysterious package before he entered the school. He was originally mediocre in talent, but in the last assessment, he squeezed into the top ten.
And according to the orders of the sheepskin scroll, this time there are two more people in the sorting house who will secretly help him.
"I waited three months, three months. As long as I complete this mission, I will be able to become a magician, trample my older brothers under my feet, and inherit the old man's title!"
Deacon muttered to himself as he watched the setting sun with fiery eyes.
Retracting his thoughts, Deacon spoke coldly to a teenager next to him, "Goyle, locate that pariah." ”
A tall teenager next to Deacon nodded, pulling a skull from his bosom.
Goyle closed his eyes and read the words. Half a sound later, Goyle suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and sprayed it on the skull.
The skull's originally empty eyes showed two points of green light.
A green glint flashed in Goyle's eyes, and his voice suddenly became hoarse.
He raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction.
"In this direction, it's about five kilometers. ”
"Let's go. Deacon waved his hand, and the two of them sped forward.
With the target in hand, Deacon and Goyle moved in a straight line. When I met other students on the way, they were all reminded by Goyer and bypassed them directly.
Soon, Deacon himself will be able to sense Ducon's position by guiding the crystal ball.
"Hmph...... In that location. Haha, it's nearby, poor fellow, I found you!"
Deacon laughed maniacally, and walked faster again.
"Hahaha, you're dead, pariah, I'm definitely ...... this time"
Deacon, who had suddenly jumped out of the woods, suddenly stopped. He stared at the scene in front of him in a daze, unable to move his footsteps any longer.
He did see Du Kang, but he was not alone by Du Kang's side!
Goyle, who had fallen into a strange state on the side, also woke up in an instant, and cut off contact with the skull in his hand. He looked at the scene in front of him with some blankness.
In this jungle, a blank space suddenly became vacant. Large patches of trees and meadows were pushed by magic, and there were scorched marks everywhere. In addition to the burnt smell, the strongest thing is the pungent smell of blood!
There were people next to Du Kang, but they were all dead!
And just by a casual glance at the number lying on the ground, Deacon estimated it. There were at least fifteen people lying on the ground!
But the only one standing was Du Kang, who was on his back to him, half-kneeling on the ground and gasping.
I'm not going to be dazzled, am I?
Deacon couldn't help but wipe his eyes, he didn't notice that his hands were shaking.
The crystal ball in his arms suddenly sent a message to his mind.
In front of him, twenty-two coats of arms existed. The dazzling red glow almost rendered Deacon's face a patch of purple, and the combination of the badges burst into light like a small sun.
"Twenty-two badges......" Deacon gasped, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.
He suddenly realized that the task explained on the parchment scroll was more difficult than he had imagined.
It's Carl, who ranks first in the Apprentice Tower, and he doesn't necessarily have more than two dozen badges now!
This Du Kang doesn't even have a trace of magic fluctuations!
How did he do it? Did he become a monster?
Thinking of this, Deacon took a step back with difficulty.
Titles are important, but you have to have a life to get them!
Deacon now hopes that he didn't make much of a noise just now and wouldn't alarm this pervert.
"Deacon, he's here, go over and kill him!"
At this moment, Goyer, who had just woken up from his daze, saw Du Kang at a glance and immediately spoke out with joy.
Deacon was so devastated that he didn't care to scold Goyle, so he turned around and fled into the jungle. Leaving Goyle with a stunned face.
"What are you doing? Deacon what are you running ......?"
Goyle, who was scolding, suddenly stopped.
He suddenly saw more than a dozen corpses at Du Kang's feet, as well as Du Kang's face as he turned his head.
There was still a trace of blood on Du Kang's face, coupled with an indifferent look. Goyle only felt as if he was being targeted by death.
Just now, Du Kang ran into two groups of magic apprentices.
All of them came straight to him!
He had previously received six badges, and all but the first one were all released. But in the blink of an eye, those five people didn't know how to contact others, and united with a full twenty people to hunt down and kill themselves.
That's when he understood a truth.
Sometimes to be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself.
In this battle of encirclement and counterattack, Du Kang fought extremely hard.
Against three or four mages at the same time, he can use the defense of the elemental shield and super speed to get close and kill these guys at close range. But once it goes above five, he becomes dangerous.
In the first round of attacks, Du Kang was almost burned to death!
But these guys are too underestimated!
In the escape, relying on the complex terrain of the jungle and the advantage that there were no magic fluctuations on his body, Du Kang deliberately controlled his speed, so that these guys could neither hit him nor lose their tracks.
When a few of them slowed down due to the exhaustion of mana, it immediately became a chance for Du Kang to reverse!
In desperation, the apprentices, who had run out of mana, discovered that Du Kang's physical strength far surpassed theirs. Even if there are still apprentices who release magic power, the magic released will not be able to beat Du Kang at all.
And when the people behind find out that something is wrong, it is too late.
In the end, a full sixteen magic apprentices were all consumed by Du Kang because of their greed!
"Two more?" Du Kang sneered, and the killing intent that had just calmed down immediately rose again.
"No, no, it's a misunderstanding......" Goyle's face was horrified. Scream, turn around and leave.
Even in order to be able to escape faster, he directly threw out the skull in his hand.
This skull is a mission from the instructor of the necromancer class. Du Kang has seen it, but it has never helped.
Unexpectedly, after this person was thrown out, he actually rose against the wind, and after landing on the ground, he turned into a skeleton warrior with a bone sword!
"Want to run?" Du Kang couldn't hold back the killing intent in his heart anymore, and chased after him.
The skeleton warrior only blocked his two attacks before turning into a pile of broken bones.
After chasing for a while, it looks like I'm about to catch up. Dukang found Goyle pulling another skull out of his arms.
Another skeleton warrior!
"Bang!" Scattering the skeleton warrior again, Du Kang frowned and stopped.
He wasn't sure if the other party had any other means, the fierce battle just now had consumed a huge amount of physical strength, and there were also several wounds on his body.
If you encounter a few students besieging at this time, I am afraid that it will be another danger.
"Forget it, let's find a place to recover first. Du Kang decisively gave up the pursuit and reflexively disappeared into the jungle.
Sensing through the skeleton warrior that Dukang was not in pursuit, Goyle let out a long breath.
He was really a little afraid, if Du Kang chased after him again, he would not have a third skeleton to resist.
"This monster is terrible. No wonder Deacon ran so fast and killed so many people by himself. It seems that the task is going to be put aside first, anyway, he hasn't cultivated his magic power yet, and he will wait until he completes this trial first. When I finish the trial, I'll be able to learn more necromancy ......"
Remembering that his proud skeleton warrior had held out less than two times in Dukang's hands, Goyle swallowed again, extinguishing the thought.
He wasn't going to provoke this pervert for the time being.