Chapter 32 Be cautious when working overtime
In the vicinity of the Legislative Committee's premises, there are hardly any pedestrians to be seen.
In fact, no one would want to go near such a place at such a time, after all, the reputation of the Dharma Council among the people is not good, and no matter where they are, people will always be afraid of those supernatural powers that they cannot understand, but strangely, when people witness the magic of the Dharma Council mages, they often pray to their gods in the hope that they will perform miracles.
At such times, people began to look forward to the manifestation of supernatural powers.
It's just human nature, and there's nothing strange about it.
Shuge and Wei Lin have separated, according to the plan and arrangement, Wei Lin will try to enter the legal committee residence to find out the current situation, she very much wants to find out the current personnel changes in the station, after all, she has very limited authority in the task of escorting adult changelings, which means that in addition to her, there are very likely other insiders in the station.
If you can contact these insiders, you may be able to get rid of the current embarrassing situation of the two in the city of Selen.
And the list of personnel and material transfers that Wei Lin wanted to get was handed over to Xiuge to complete.
As a senior magic consultant, Wei Lin had realized the abilities of the strange mouse summoned by Xiuge through a skirmish during the day, and to be honest, she was very curious about these magic and Xiuge itself now, because according to her judgment, the "tentacle magic" used by Xiuge and the magical creatures summoned by Xiuge already possessed far more power than ordinary "raindrop" level magic, and to exaggerate it, they were even enough to crush some "stream" level magic.
In the past, such a peculiar case should be brought back to the Legislative Committee for careful investigation.
"When I was helping to maintain the Residency Ritual Grounds, I didn't expect such a day...... It's a very volatile situation. ”
Verin sighed softly, and then she lifted her disguise magic and erased all traces of her magic, after which she walked alone in the direction of the station.
At the same time, Shug also came to a shop not far from the station, and after making sure that there was no one in the store, Shug successfully opened the locked door with the help of the Running Mouse, and then silently infiltrated it, where he would continue to control his magic summons.
At Viline's behest, Hug carried the Running Rat in front of him, and then he carefully wrapped another page that suppressed the fluctuations and traces of magic around the Running Mouse like a garment, the creature was unhappy with his master's behavior, and it writhed like a cat that was wearing a small coat or collar for the first time, trying to tear the tough paper off of its body.
As a last resort, Xiuge could only give it a mandatory order in his mind, telling it not to touch or damage the paper on its body.
"Alright, let's go."
After making sure there were no leaks, Shog secretly opened a crack in the window, and when the Running Rats got out, he locked the window again, locking himself in a thick darkness.
With the eyes of the Rat of Madness, Hug was able to see the night world outside more clearly, and he soon discovered that the Tricolor Brotherhood in the city was working far closer with the Kingdom of Dereand and the Law Council than he had ever imagined.
"Is this a co-optation?"
Xiuge looked at the thieves who were walking around the nearby streets, carrying daggers, daggers, and bows, and shaking the simple magic pendulum in their hands, and felt a little surprised in his heart, after all, the mages of the Law Council had a very high status in this world, and it was hard to imagine that they would throw an olive branch to a group at the bottom of society.
What surprised him even more was what some of the members of the Tricolor Brotherhood were doing.
Sugg discovered that the thieves were deliberately "visiting" some residents and merchants.
Judging by the style of the building and the decoration in front of the door, the people they visited were all Wattles, and the thieves did not have a very friendly approach.
"The members of these tricolor fraternities do not appear to be looting...... They were really searching, and they all looked angry. ”
Shuge looked at it twice, and then controlled the Running Rat into the darkness: "I once heard that the founder of the Tricolor Brotherhood was originally a Deran, so he used the 'Tricolor' that fits the emblem of the Deresan Kingdom as the name of the organization. ”
He remembered for no reason the dissatisfaction he had expressed with the Kingdom of Wattle and the people of Wattle when he had spoken to Putlin in the tavern before, and he was a very typical young man of Deresa, and now it seemed that this hostility might have been prevalent in the hearts of those young people for a long time.
The Rat of Madness began to move quickly towards the council's premises, and it wasn't long before Shug came across the massive walled building.
This scale is enough to be regarded as a manor standing in the middle of the city.
"I don't know how Wei Lin plans to get in......"
Through the eyes of the Rat of Madness, Shug cautiously observed the sentry set up at the gate, in addition to the regular elite guards armed with enchanted steel swords, on a tower set up behind the door, there were two Executors of the Legislature, these were two stream-level spellcasters, they looked quite relaxed, and they seemed to be sitting on top of the tower lazily playing cards.
This is normal, after all, with a sufficient number of guards and magical rituals set up in the premises of the Legislature, it is enough to deal with most external threats.
The dull thunder rumbles from the direction of the Lowe Plateau, and at this time of year, under the influence of the magic flow of the western part of the Vann, the terrible monsoon named "Wailing of the Sea God" carries a thick layer of water vapor across the mountains west of the plateau and launches a mighty expedition towards the Lowe Plateau and the plain of the goddess further east.
This year's "Poseidon Roar" seems to have come a little early.
"You'll have to get into the sewer while it's still raining."
Shug sighed, and then controlled the Running Rat to slip to a ditch near the Dharma Committee's residence, fortunately, there had been no rain in the city of Salem for a while, so the ditch was very dry and there was not much mess, but even so, a suffocating and terrible smell rushed into Xiuge's brain through the sensitive nose of the Running Rat.
"My God......"
Shuge, who was far away in the clothing store, couldn't help but retch, and then decisively blocked the smell of the running rat on the magic level.
Unlike Shuge, who is a human, this strange mouse that has been endowed with the bountiful blessing of the Earth Mother God is now extremely excited.
Entering the sewers looked like coming home to it.
……
In the building to the left of the Legislature Residence, the mage clerks in white robes were still resting, and they were busy processing one newly arrived order after another.
Most of these clerks are entry-level spellcasters at the Raindrop level, and it is too difficult for them to complete the magic inscription and go further on the path of mage, so they can only rely on their own manipulation of magic power to get ordinary jobs in the various institutions and departments of the Judicial Council.
Although it is an ordinary job, compared with ordinary people in the outside world, the working environment and salary provided by the Law Committee are enough to make them have a better life than ordinary people.
A man with glasses and a little thinning hair manipulated his mage's hand and sent a large stack of magic documents to the table next door: "These documents have been processed, bring them to the secret instrument for recording, and then destroy them." ”
"Ah, that's ......"
The young clerk stopped the magic pen in his hand, he took the stack of documents, quickly flipped through them and checked them, and then wondered, "No, they are all documents marked with Mel's logo, shouldn't they be sent for record?" Direct destruction is not in accordance with the rules. ”
The middle-aged man turned his head and scolded in a low voice: "I think you are working overtime and being stupid!" Either that or just snoozing in a daze earlier in the meeting......"
He looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this side, and then he suppressed his voice and said, "Wake up, this is the new order of Merlin Lehe brought by the sword-wielders...... If something goes wrong, it's not as simple as losing your job, do you want to be dragged to the Spiritual Intelligence for interrogation? ”
The clerk shrunk his neck, and then quickly nodded: "Okay, okay, I'll go." ”
"Come back when it's over, it's not time to rest, there's too much to do tonight."
The middle-aged man instructed, and then scratched the thinning hair on his head in annoyance.
Merlinlehe's new directive came too suddenly, and those ruthless sword-wielding hermits actually asked the clerks in the station to check all the documents and records of the past six months in one day, and find out whether any of them had passed through Merlinlehe's documents, which was an extremely exaggerated workload, even for the mage clerks who had mastered magic and had extremely high office efficiency.
The clerk smoothly controlled the mage's hand, carefully avoiding the others walking in the corridor, and after reaching the middle of the corridor, he took out the magic pass he had with him, and gently pressed it against the magic pattern in the middle of the metal door on the right, so that with a glimmer of light, the door slowly opened.
Known as the "Eye of Mel", a huge metal secret instrument exists in every Dharma's station, this is the basis for the Dharma's orders and eyeliner to easily reach all parts of Van'n, on the copper-colored metal base engraved with fine lines, different colors of magic light continue to flash, a huge magic crystal ore carved and polished into the regular octahedron suspended in the air, on each plane of it, carved with an open eye.
There was no one else in the secret room, so the young man went to the innermost part of the room and placed the documents he had checked on the platform that extended from the base.
He took out his magic credentials again, and was about to activate the ritual when he suddenly heard a small sound coming from the corner diagonally above the room.
"What?"
Confused, he turned back and realized that the source of the sound was the extremely narrow pipe located diagonally above it, which is found in all rooms where the Myer's Eye Secret Instrument is placed, for the simple reason that the oversized crystalline ore slowly emits a harmful odor, so the air in the room must be replaced at all times.
In the next second, the young clerk saw two dark green eyes pop out of the narrow and dark pipe, and he was startled and took two steps back.
The thing in the pipe seemed to be startled as well, and it froze for a moment, but then moved on to the next move.
Three long, powerful tails poked out of the ventilation pipe, and they groped outside the pipe like flexible tentacles, and soon, one of the tails touched a metal machine, so the tail flexibly rested on the machine, and with a forceful break, the metal mesh blocking the pipe was successfully opened.
At this time, the clerk in the room finally reacted, he exclaimed, the thin magic in his body began to work, and the basic self-defense trick that almost all magic apprentices and raindrop-level mages would learn was revealed, and an unusually bright, but extremely limited scale electric light burst out from his palm, flying in the direction of the ventilation pipe.
However, the thing hidden in the pipe was faster than his magic, and at the moment of lightning, the Running Rat, with three nimble tails and its body wrapped in the pages of a magic book, leaped out of it and landed lightly beside the clerk.
"Magical creatures!?"
The young man had not yet returned the knowledge he had learned in the magic school to his teacher, so he immediately realized what was happening in front of him, someone had managed to avoid the ritual ground set up by the Dharma, and sent a magic summon into the station!
He didn't think much of it, his palm was raised, and another mediocre arrow-shaped lightning bolt shot out, and then he ran towards the door of the secret room in a panic.
Shuge saw all this in his eyes, where did he dare to let the other party escape, and immediately manipulated the running rat to rush over, it pounced on the back of the clerk fiercely, and after knocking him to the ground, the three tails immediately swept up like ropes, and wrapped the opponent's neck tightly.
"Boom...... Boom......"
The clerk's struggle gradually subsided, perhaps because he had a trace of sympathy for this helpless overtime worker, Xiuge did not kill him, and after suffocating and fainting, he forcibly suppressed the killing desire of the running rat, ordered it to release its tail, and then manipulated his summon to the stack of papers.
"There's only a lot of magic left, and I need to speed things up...... Hope to be able to find something useful"