CHAPTER XXXV
"If the underground forces are determined to keep their current number one killer, why do they go to great lengths to frame us for killing the people in the slums?"
"Because they want to pay the least price."
None of them had any conclusive evidence that the assassination of the Adventurer's Guild member was the work of a member of the Underground.
No one really witnessed the assassination of Shi Junjun, and the basis for surmising the identity of the assassin's adventurer guild leader is only from the adventurers' descriptions and traces of the scene.
This is just a one-sided statement by their Adventurers' Guild......
All the slum people present today can be used as evidence for their murder in the streets.
Compared with the testimony of adventurers who belong to the same faction, the words of these people are more credible in the eyes of the judges.
But whether they will be able to make it to the Inquisitor of Reberion alive now is in question......
"There are no less than three mana fluctuations in the crowd."
"There are archers who have climbed the commanding heights around them."
"They brought in ignition and fuel! They want to set us on fire! ”
From the tight conversations of the adventurers around him, Shi Junjun quickly understood that this was the underground force of Reberion, and in response to the danger set up by these people, they wanted to use the "righteous indignation" of the ignorant poor to wipe them all out here.
Even if the official investigation of the incident was launched by the Southern Richifus, the underground forces were not afraid, and they could have pulled out a few scapegoats from the slums and confessed to them as the murderers of the adventurers.
The principle that the law does not hold the people accountable is also applicable in this world.
But the bargaining chips they used to frame them were the lives of an innocent old man.
If those people still have a heart......
Won't their hearts ache?
She's seen many deaths since she traveled through the other world, from the South Richsyphus Lord Guard, to the green-skinned dwarfs, and to the old man who had just been detached......
After going through so much, her doubts have not diminished but increased.
Haven't the time-travelers before her changed the world?
Or is this world, which regards human life as a mustard, simply the creation of those previous generations?
So on the basis of figuring out how to return to the original world, she added a new goal for herself.
Learn the truth about this world......
And then change the world.
But before she could do so, she had to defend herself.
A fireball whistled over the heads of the ghetto crowd and landed on the head of one of the archers who climbed onto the roof, who lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground on his back.
"Who set off the fireball? Didn't you say you couldn't shoot at civilians? ”
The bearded Uncle Vonte, who was hoarse and exhausted to explain to the civilians at his feet, turned his head and roared at his companions, and more fireballs flew towards the archers who were gradually occupying the commanding heights around them.
"We all know that those people are not poor people here, and if we sit back and die, we will all die here."
As he spoke, more fireballs condensed at Shi Junjun's fingertips:
"If you are responsible for going out after you go out, it will be put on my head, so that the official forces here should not embarrass you."
Anyway, that Embryonic Otherworldly Noble had already wanted to kill her more than once......
If you can't clarify the truth, just let him be more anxious and angry.
Uncle Font wanted to say something, but Yanni, who was holding a staff, had already cast a magic spell to summon a large suspended wall of water, and with a wave of her hand, these liquids that were originally in an approximate state poured down, drenching the crowd that was too close to the soup chickens, and even the fuel and ignition built next to the house were useless.
"Even if you are held accountable by the Inquisition Hall and the Guild after the fact, it is better than dying here without knowing it."
Yanni argued that three ice picks that were spinning at high speed were shot at the three people in the crowd who had previously emitted magical fluctuations.
As a low-level attack, the icicle was quickly blocked by the trio's respective defenses, and soon each cast an attack spell and returned color.
The attacks of the three of them were also blocked by Yanni and the magicians in the monster hunting team, and the strength of the three of them was undoubtedly slightly inferior to them in terms of attack strength.
However, since these people are in the midst of the slum crowds, the adventurers on the rooftops are unable to cast more powerful area killing magic, even if they are condescending.
In addition, they had to distract themselves from time to time to protect Shi Junjun, who had not yet learned defensive magic, and the two adventurer magicians who were two against three were a little busy for a while.
Shi Junjun, who had used the fireball technique to accurately clear the archers at the commanding heights near the house, immediately joined the magic confrontation between Yanni and the underground magicians before she could catch her breath.
The indignant slum dwellers looked up to see fireballs, stone bullets, and ice picks screeching through the air......
There are even all kinds of girls whose names they can't name, and colorful magic missiles fly around their heads.
Walls of water and rock that popped up out of thin air blocked most of the attacks on both sides, but the splash damage still spread to the surrounding poor, who knew little about magic.
Some were hit by crumbling ice and rubble, others were burned by the splattering flames, and others were struck by the aftermath of the explosion of the magic missile......
Already relatively sober-minded paupers have begun to withdraw from the range of the magic confrontation between the two sides, and the density of the crowd surrounding the houses where the adventurers are located has visibly decreased to the naked eye.
For these unarmed and miserable people, they can only hope that their injuries will heal themselves in the slums where medical care is completely lacking.
And not being able to work while recuperating means that in the slums, where there are not many people to fill their stomachs, the likelihood of starvation is greatly increased.
The death of a prestigious old man in the slum did provoke the indignation of these people, but they were more concerned with their own lives than the former who were already dead.
The paupers, who had the simple idea of wanting to live, began to retreat gradually after a long time of being unable to attack the adventurers, and those who insisted on attacking the adventurers and tried to incite the paupers again had nowhere to hide, and the adventurers naturally could not let go of this excellent opportunity to use various long-range attack methods to attract the poor people pretended to be members of the underground forces.
Shi Junjun, who was still condensing the fireball, glanced at the archers who were struggling to get up not far away.
Even though they looked quite scary in pitch black, the girl knew that at such a distance, the fireball technique, which was the basic magic, would not be able to do any lethal damage.
I still have to learn more powerful magic......