ACT005: Flying over the walls
When the direct and collateral relatives of Duke Baker's family were like sharks smelling blood, and they crowded to the door of the Duke's palace to "ask for explanations", in a remote alley in the city, the manhole cover on the ground was suddenly jacked up, revealing two faces full of smudges. After the two pairs of eyes made sure that there was no one around, two figures, one large and one small, came out of the sewer and dodged into an empty room where no one was around.
"Phew~!It's finally out, I thought I was going to be smoked to death down there. Taking a big breath of fresh air, Kabbalah struggled to get all the stench from his lungs. Because of the "altitude" not high enough, he inhaled more harmful gases in the sewers than Weiss, and now he was uncomfortable, and his stomach was already emptying down.
"Here, put this on, rest for a while, and we'll go out of town in the middle of the night. ”
Weiss rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the house for a long time, and found that the family had moved out for some time, leaving nothing but a few sets of tattered old clothes. These sets of torn clothes seem to be left behind by the movers, and the fabrics are already hard, but the two of them now smell of sewers, and if they wear this again, they look like beggars.
"I really want to take a shower quickly, this smell is too rushing, it can withstand the wind and smell!"
"Let's talk about it when we get out of town. ”
Sitting on the floor in the room, Weiss felt tired and hungry, but he did not dare to rest. Not to mention that the guards and "chess pieces" in the city may react at any time, just whether the old goblin named Kabbalah sitting opposite him is worth trusting, that is an unknown!
Although the two formed a temporary alliance, in fact, no one could trust anyone, and the cooperation only ended until they left the city, and then they immediately parted ways. Weiss was going west to the Republic of Langsen in the Western Flame Continent, while Kabbalah was to head north and sail back to his hometown of Nakabanjau, the land of dwarves and goblins.
According to the plan that the two had agreed upon, Weiss and Kabbalah would not be able to leave the city until the second half of the night. Although Baker City has tall walls, it is only a barrier to ordinary people, and it is a very simple thing for Kabbalah to fly out. But if he is accidentally discovered, it is equally easy for the garrison officer with the "shooter" pawn to shoot him down. Therefore, the immediate priority is to give Weiss the skills to control the power and increase their "concealment factor".
Weiss is currently in the stage that every novice who obtains the chess pieces will go through, and the powerful power that has just arrived is not yet able to be used freely, so the whole person is in a state of hyperactive "explosion". This makes Weiss like a light in the night, exuding a strong "sense of presence"! If they go out like this, I believe that they will be discovered by the owner of the chess pieces in the city guard and capture them, so Kabbalah must help Weiss learn self-control as soon as possible.
However, to Kabbalah's surprise, Weiss had a very high surname! He was just telling the other party as a passer-by to relax and return to normalcy, and Weiss only took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.
"The old man has to admit that your boy's surname is really good. If I changed to someone else, I couldn't stop for ten days and half a month, and some of them were too excited, and it was even difficult to sleep. ”
"People are in good spirits when they are happy events, and I haven't been happy for half a day when I have a happy event here, so I put people in prison, and I almost let people die, do you think I'm calm and happy?"
“......”
Either way, Weiss's problem was successfully resolved, and the two waited quietly in the empty room until the second half of the night before they began to act. Six hours had passed since the explosion, and the city was under curfew because of martial law, and there was no sign of anyone on the streets, except for the patrolling guards.
Weiss and Kabbalah first climbed onto the roof of a high-rise building to observe the situation. They found that a large group of men and horses in the city were going from house to house, whether it was a spontaneous robbery by the city guards or a search warrant issued by the Duke's Palace, which was not good news for them.
"Master of digging pits, is there a way to get out of the city quietly?"
"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult, but now alone I can sense the psychic induction of 4 'warlocks'. None of them are my opponents alone, but if they play together...... I'm just a little overwhelmed!"
"Hey, don't people say that masters can be 1v5?
"Who is a real master, who runs this bird to make money in the countryside where the bird doesn't?"
“...... You're so honest. ”
"I'll just be a kid praising me. ”
The two of them cautiously touched the southwest corner of the city wall along the roof, in order not to attract the attention of the guards and the few warlocks who did not know where they were, Kabbalah did not even dare to use the simplest levitation technique, and could only rely on the agile Weiss to jump around on the roof on his back, but when he reached the city wall, he had to rely on his flying skills to take Weiss out of the city.
One hour ago, the Engineer Corps of the City Guard finally dug up the bodies of the Duke's family of three from the ruins under the Duke's Palace, along with the nine chess piece owners. Although these people are powerful, they are only "super strong mortals" after all, and hundreds of tons of gravel can't crush them, but they can.
After digging up the basement, the old butler, who was one of the few insiders, found that not only was the young man they had captured missing from the corpse, but even the goblin magician specially invited by the Duke from other places was gone, and at the same time, the national "warlock" who came also found that in addition to the magic elements running away at the scene, there were traces of using earth magic to excavate.
"In other words, there's a good chance that those two are still alive?"
"Yes. ”
On the surface, he nodded quietly, but the butler was ecstatic in his heart, because there was finally a special "scapegoat"! If it weren't for these two people, the relatives of the Duke's family might have let him apologize for his crimes, but now he could completely shift the blame to those two survivors.
However, just as he was pondering how to arrange what charges were more appropriate for these two people, there were suddenly two loud noises in the southwest direction, and the butler's eyes rolled, thinking that the two wanted to escape, so he hurriedly ran out of the digging pit, and in front of the stunned nobles outside, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the southwest corner of the fire and shouted.
"The thief who murdered the Duke is over there!"
............
With the help of the chaos caused by several "big fireballs" of Kabbalah, the two managed to escape outside the city, and Kabbalah carried Weiss west until he dared to stop and take a breath.
"This is the Principality of White Deer, and those guys behind him shouldn't dare to chase after him rashly. ”
The two escaped found a stream to wash the stains and stench on their bodies, and after changing into clothes that came "smoothly" from the clothes pole of a certain house before leaving the city, the two finally looked like people again.
"I said boy, you did it on purpose, right?"
"What did you mean to do? I don't understand what you're talking about?"
"Why are you wearing normal clothes, but this one of mine is a special children's outfit!?"
Pulling the children's pajamas with pink lace on the neckline, Kabbalah looked angrily at Weis, who was "pretending to be innocent", but the other party just walked up to him, patted his big shiny bald head, and said in a very helpless tone.
"Master, I'm just giving it to you, and you can't wear it!"
Kabbalah, who is only more than 1 meter tall, stands in front of Weiss who is 1.7 meters tall, that is, he can look at the other party's belly button!
Fortunately, Weiss didn't really want to play tricks on him, so in addition to this pajamas, he also got a small cape, and wore clothes on his body that could just cover the inside, and if he wrapped it tightly, it would not make people see the joke.
escaped here, and the relationship between the two basically came to an end. Wess wanted to ask Kabbalah if he was interested in "teaming up" with him and making a career together, but the other party had already been loyal to a dwarven "White King", which was a very common phenomenon among goblins who were vassal of the dwarves.
Before parting ways, Kabbalah thought that Weiss had no dime on him, so he made a rare gesture of kindness, rummaged through his wallet, pinched out 5 copper coins from it with a painful expression like cutting flesh, and then handed it to Weiss tremblingly.
"Boy, you can take this money as a plate. ”
“...... Master, you should keep this huge amount of money to invest in real estate for yourself!" Glancing at the copper plates handed over by the other party with disdain, Weiss pursed his lips and refused the other party's "funding", and then touched a bag of "hard" things in his arms, feeling very down-to-earth in his heart.
While the two of them were still buried in the rubble, Kabbalah's excavations once unearthed the duke's body, and although Wess did not whip the corpse to vent his anger, he took the other's wallet. Because he knew that once he went out, he would soon embark on a journey of escape, and he would definitely not be able to do it without money.
The two of them simply exchanged a "cherish" symbolic surname, and then parted ways without looking back, and the Kabbalah flew straight into the air and flew north, while Weiss followed the forest path to the west. Neither of them knew at this time that there was "trouble" waiting for them in the direction they were heading.