Chapter 459: Prepare, Infiltrate
After leaving the First Court, Xia Duo did not go to the mission immediately, a month, although he will not really wait until a month later to start the operation, but there is no need to go now.
Back at the residence, Xia Duo first checked the scroll box, the standard box of the trial court, but the scrolls inside were different, and the key one was the [Dimensional Anchor].
Since it is already known that the other party entered the territory of the empire by teleportation mistake on the front line, it is impossible not to prevent the other party from teleporting again, although this possibility is very small, after all, there are very few high-level mages on the front line, and most of them are medium and low-level mages who cast spells together.
But there is such a thing as a magic scroll, which humans have, and "demons" also have it!
In addition to the [Dimensional Anchor], there are also some scrolls of protection spells and restriction spells, but the most are judgment spells, and Xia Duo probably guessed the function of these scrolls.
It seems that the townspeople of Little Goat Town are going to be screened again.
After putting away the scroll box and putting it aside, Xia Duo took off the [Spell Reversal Ring] that he had just put on at Osk's side and observed it carefully.
Due to the surveillance in the Arcane Empire, he didn't take out any of his own magic items to use, and this year he mixed a judge's robes and a light ring, which was the most famous of all the magic items he had ever seen.
Gray all over, with a less obvious silver ornamentation on the surface, it looks very ordinary, but under the magical vision, a dense string of magic nets is linked to the ring, which at first glance looks like a small marshmallow.
According to Osk's instructions, Xia Duo carefully linked some of the strings of the magic web to himself in a specific order, until the magic aura stabilized and then tended to disappear.
Xia Duo didn't try to parse the [Spell Reversal] on this ring, this spell was something he didn't even master, not to mention "Eddie", it was early.
After attaching the ring to itself and playing with it for a while, I put it back on my finger and the detailed plan followed.
It is foreseeable that Osk has even taken out the [Spell Reversal Ring], and there will definitely be a detection spell to follow, so the actions he can take must be in line with his current identity and personality.
"Add" has just become a mid-level mage, and the only 3-ring spell he can use is [Flying Spell], and any other 3-ring spell cannot be displayed except for flying.
Even if the original low-ring spell is raised to the ring level, it will be difficult to pass in time.
Therefore, if you can solve it with a scroll, it is best to solve it with a scroll, and it is ideal to do it without your own action at all.
Of course, for "Add", the scroll also takes time to get used to, especially spells such as [Dimensional Anchor], if Xia Duo himself uses it, real-time casting is not a problem, but "Add" needs additional practice.
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Over the next few days, Xia Duo went to the Fourth Court to retrieve past case files about "Little Goat Town" while practicing unfamiliar spell scrolls in the spell practice arena of the Inquisition.
By the time everything was "ready", it was already three days later.
On this day, Xia Duo led 100 ordinary soldiers from Kiran City, and not long after leaving the city, he realized that he was being targeted by the detection spell, and he didn't need to think about it to know where it came from.
Little Goat Town is not far from Kieran City, less than ten miles away. Unlike the main plane from Savile Town to Linshui Village, each town here is connected to Kieran City by road, and the traffic is very convenient.
In the past, the main industry of Little Goat Town was sheep raising and supplying the production of parchment paper, and later the invention of papermaking, parchment paper was only used to make magic scrolls, and the daily consumption was greatly reduced, so Little Goat Town began to reduce production, and now it is mainly engaged in planting, wheat, oats, carrots and the like.
On the way to Little Goat Town, Xia Duo thought back to the records he had seen in the Fourth Court file, which at the last census had more than 2,000 inhabitants.
Excluding those who have died of natural causes over the years, as well as those who have been eliminated from apprenticeship schools and magic academies, the total number will not change much.
It is not easy to find two hidden "demons" among 2,000 people, after all, reality is not a game, and the boss has been staying in place waiting for the player to fight and brush repeatedly.
If the movement is too loud, maybe they will just run away, so where will his task be completed?
When there was still some distance from Little Goat Town, Xia Duo ordered the team to stop, "You stay here, see my signal, come here immediately!" ”
After receiving the hand crossbow and short sword prepared in advance from a soldier, and then agreeing on a signal with the captain, Xia Duo went on the road alone.
If he can reveal his identity as a high-level mage, then he can bring people over, and teleportation is not impossible to track, if the other party can't teleport, even ordinary people are enough to surround and kill them.
But for now, it's just a matter of plan.
activated the light body ring, and then cast [invisibility], this "Eddie" body, Xia Duo actually regained the agility of the body, and when he ran towards the little goat town, he didn't have any difficulty at all.
When approaching the town, Xia Duo slowed down, but unfortunately slowed down, and the footprints left on the ground could not be eliminated, fortunately, there are often people walking around here, and the footprints are messy, as long as you don't deliberately look for it, who would have thought that an invisible person would suddenly come in broad daylight?
Taking advantage of the fact that the [invisibility] could continue for a while, Xia Duo casually found a house and got in, a young woman was cooking something inside, Xia Duo didn't want to waste time, and immediately cast a judgment spell - [Command], and then appeared and ordered:
"Stay quiet and don't panic, I'm a Level 4 judge in the trial court, I'm on a secret mission, and I have a few questions for you."
[Command] This spell is a bit similar to [Confusion Effect] but has a certain coercive effect, but it is not a percentage that is useful, and the mind spell is even the heart, and some people are born with stronger resistance, so there is no way.
Compared with spells, maybe the official identity is more effective, anyway, Xia Duo can't tell whether the person in front of him is because of spells or the clothes on his body, in short, the other party is obedient.
Continue to cast [Inquiry], this spell can cover a field, and it is a bit wasteful to use it to ask a person alone, but for the sake of caution, Xia Duo still uses it.
"Have you had any strangers in town lately?"
"Nope."
Not lying? Xia Duo is not surprised, I think that the so-called demon will not reveal his identity and appearance openly, otherwise, the townspeople who have been educated in the empire will report it directly, and even be killed.
"Has there been a person in town who has suddenly been rarely seen lately?"
The woman thought about it for a while, and finally shook it, but she put forward a conjecture, "My lord, the men in the town have to take the roll call every day when they go to work, and only pregnant women can suddenly not show up." ”
"And has anyone died in town lately?"
"Yes."
"Who?"
"The man from the mayor's family heard that he was taken by a wild wolf when he went to work a few days ago."
"......" Xia Duo was a little speechless, are there any wild wolves nearby?
There were no large forests near the city of Kiran, all of them were farmland, except for a hill near Little Goat Town, but according to the case files of the Fourth Court, there had never been a wolf attack in the past few decades.
Suspicious!