Chapter 4: The Shocking Robbery

"Excuse me, miss, I think there may be some misunderstanding between us......" Rogge said with an innocent look on his hands and shook his head.

The woman sneered, and the staff in her hand swept, and the pearl on the head of the staff cast a ray of light on the ground, creating a choppy water, and countless low-level mermaid warriors jumped out of the water, wielding a trident and pounced on Rogge.

"It's only time to salute, Lilith!"

Rog exhaled a puff of cigar smoke from his nostrils, and the little owl on his shoulder soared into the air at the same time, and his eyes radiated two rays of light that could not be detected by the naked eye, reflecting on the mermaid soldier, whose body suddenly stiffened.

Rogge's sword light cut the mermaid soldiers into two sections, and then rushed forward, and a sweeping leg kicked the oncoming mermaid soldiers on their backs, and the mermaid soldiers who were kicked to the ground by Rogge didn't have time to get up, and they had already been stabbed to death by Rogge with a sword.

At this time, several other mermaid soldiers bypassed Rogge and pounced on Catherine at the entrance of the cave with their sharp tridents.

"Don't come here!" Catherine subconsciously took a step back, but the merfolk warrior ignored her cries and flew straight at her with a sharp blade in hand.

Catherine panicked, raised two silver handcuffs and aimed them at the mermaid warriors, and the silver bullets suddenly poured out like a torrential rain, and the mermaid warriors did not expect to be attacked so strongly at all, and they were instantly knocked to the ground.

The flustered Catherine did not stop, but closed her eyes and continued to fight, and the flying silver bullets not only shattered the heads of the mermaid soldiers who were fighting with Rogge, but even Rogge and Lilith in the air were almost hit by the silver bullets.

"That's enough, don't shoot anymore!" Rogge shouted back at Catherine.

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw a silver bullet cut through the darkness and flew towards the mysterious woman holding the staff, who did not notice the danger at this time, and was casting a spell to summon more merfolk warriors to join the battle.

At the last moment, Rogge took the half-burned cigar from the corner of his mouth and flew out with his fingers, and the flying cigar hit the silver bullet that was shot at the woman just right, and fell to the ground with it.

Rogge, who shot down the silver bullet, did not hesitate, flew over the mermaid soldier and rushed to the woman, grabbed the staff in the woman's hand with his left hand, and at the same time pressed his forearm against the woman's throat and pressed her against the wall behind her.

"Listen, dear Miss Mermaid - if I'm not mistaken about who you are - I'm not your enemy, I'm not your enemy, I'm here to investigate the supernatural events in the mouths of the villagers of the fishing village, and if you're only showing up to find something missing, maybe I can help you!"

The woman who was held hostage stared into Rogge's eyes quietly, her sea-blue eyes met his blue conical pupils, and after a long time, she suddenly spoke: "You are a very smart person, but since you have guessed my identity, you should be on guard!"

Before the words fell, something suddenly swept over Rogge's lower plate, and Rogge, who had lost his center of gravity, fell sideways to the ground, but he immediately supported the ground with his left hand, and he rolled over and straightened up steadily.

When he looked up at the mysterious woman again, her whole body was already floating in a mist, and her lower body showed a huge fishtail, covered with cyan scales.

"I'm Tully, the guardian of the Merfolk Temple, and it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Witcher!" the woman waved the staff in her hand, and the summoned inferior merfolk soldiers disappeared in an instant.

"It is also my pleasure, and allow me to introduce you to my companions, Lilith, Catherine. Rog reached out to the little owl in mid-air, and to the human girl at the entrance of the cave who was curiously looking at the mermaid.

"Now that you've been introduced, can you ask why you're here as far as I know, the merfolk don't have a big deal, and they won't come to the land easily. Rogge leaned over and picked up the half of the downed silver bullet cigar and asked as he lit it.

"I'm here to retrieve the lost Hallows components. Tully's words made Rog's eyes widen, his face showed a look of surprise, and he asked in surprise, "Are you talking about the archangel statue that seals the soul of the vampire king?"

"That's right, it's it, it was stolen from my temples three days ago!" Tali nodded solemnly.

Tully's words surprised Rogge, but Catherine and Lilith on the side didn't understand what was happening, and the little owl landed on Rogge's shoulder and asked curiously, "What did this little she-fish lose? What is the Archangel statue?

"Don't mess with the nickname, this is the High Priestess of the Merfolk Clan!" Rog stroked the small hairball with his fingers and continued to explain, "The Archangel Statue is not for food, it is a component of the Holy Archangel's Staff, there are three pieces in total, namely the statue, the white jade rod, and the golden crystal stone. ”

"This artifact is the magic weapon of the previous Holy Emperor, nearly a century ago, the Human Holy Society launched an operation to eliminate werewolves and vampires on the glorious plains of the Euroland continent, and the werewolves did not want to clash with humans head-on, so they avoided the human army and retreated into the Sun and Moon Forest where dwarves and elves lived. ”

Unlike the werewolves, the Vampire King was enraged by the actions of the humans, colluding with the dark wizards of the Dark Jungle and the orcs of the Savage Wilderness, along with his undead and demons, to slaughter from the Cursed Lands in the northeast of the continent to the Radiant Plains. ”

"The Old Holy Emperor who learned the news united the elves, dwarves, merfolk, and even the Titans and the dragons of the Sun and Moon Forest to form an alliance to resist the invasion of the Blood Legion, and this war that swept across the entire continent of Europe lasted for ten years. ”

At this, Rog glanced at the solemn look on Tully's face, and from her face, he saw exactly the same worry as himself, and the little owl, who listened with relish, asked impatiently, "What happened later, what happened later? Did the nasty humans win?"

"That's right, in the end, the war ended in the victory of the human alliance, the coalition army broke through the vampire king's castle in the land of the damned, and the old holy emperor who rode the expedition relied on divine magic to defeat the vampire king, but they were not capable of killing the ghost king, and the only one who could completely kill the ghost king was the werewolf. ”

"Maybe at that time, the Human Holy Emperor could have listened to the advice of the great magicians of Ice Island and invited the werewolves to join the battle and kill the Ghost King completely, and what happened today would not have happened!"

"No, even then, a hundred years is enough time to give birth to a new ghost king, after all, the death of the ghost king does not mean the extinction of the blood clan. Rogge firmly denied her words, and Tali pondered for a moment, nodding and sighing helplessly.

"And what happened to the Ghost King in the end?" Catherine, who had not spoken, slowly walked up to Rog's side from behind, and Rog's story attracted her, making her forget the awe and uneasiness in her heart for Tali.

In the end, the Old Holy Emperor stubbornly rejected the Great Mage's suggestion to recruit werewolves, because in the eyes of the Holy Order, werewolves are also evil demons - although werewolves have always been the main force in hunting vampires and are the natural nemesis of the blood clan, they are also a threat to humans, and humans are no less disgusted with them than they are for vampires. ”

"The Old Holy Emperor finally used his divine magic to imprison the soul of the Ghost King, sealed it in the Staff of the Holy Archangel, and split the Holy Weapon into three parts. ”

"Among them, the angel statue was handed over to the merfolk for safekeeping, the white jade staff rod is now under the guard of the dragons of the Sun and Moon Forest, and the golden sacred crystal is kept in the Holy Imperial Palace in the imperial capital of Bahrain, and the Holy Emperor is the only one who has the key to the storage room. ”

"So, it must have been the vampires who stole the angel statues from the merfolk, and were they planning to resurrect their king?" Catherine said cautiously as she glanced at Tully, and guessed cautiously.

"It's very possible, but only the angel statue can't do it, they have to collect all three holy artifacts and put them together at midnight on the Ghost King's Centennial Festival, and then through some special ritual to break the seal, the dark magic of the Ghost King will be poured out on the person who broke the seal, turning him into the new Ghost King. ”

Speaking of this, Rogge looked at the three of them with a gloomy face and said, "If I remember correctly, there are still a few months before that night, and the minions of darkness have already taken the first step in their conspiracy, we have to do something to find out those who stole the Hallows!"

He turned his gaze to Tully, took a solemn look at the cigar in his mouth and asked, "Miss Tully, please tell me what information you have about the thieves, maybe we will have time to catch them!"