Section 54. Annan became a stand-in
Church of the Goddess of Fortune
Soruman Copperbeard and Andrew Luna arrive at the church
"Dwarves, stay outside." The church guards at the front of the steps stopped them.
Soruman Copperbeard unsurprisingly stopped and let Andrew Luna in.
Andrew Luna entered the church and followed the nun's guidance to the lounge.
McCaul, who was closer, had already rushed over and stood next to Annan.
Seeing that Annan was still awake, Andrew Luna breathed a sigh of relief: "How are you?" ”
"It's not good...... Annan's eyes drooped slightly, "The treatment fee actually costs five gold nars......"
It seems that since becoming a warlock, his expenses have suddenly swelled unreasonably.
Annan misses the unfettered life of a few copper coins that can walk around the town of Pinglin.
"Copperbeard says you've been attacked?"
But it seems that Annan is fine. Healing Fee Hardware Coins...... Probably some non-fatal sharp weapon wounds.
"A gang of thugs attacked me on the street and severed the tendons in my arms." Annan raised his arm, which had fully recovered after divine healing and was no longer in pain, "It seems that I overestimated the security of Breeze City, and they even dared to attack the warlocks"
It's better to be robbed by them directly...... Anyway, he only had a few silver coins on him.
"It has nothing to do with policing, they're here for you." Michael Ker, who had always been silent, said suddenly.
Annan and Andrew Luna looked at each other, and Annan asked, "Why do you say that?" ”
"You really don't know?" Michael looked at Annan strangely.
"Know what?"
"Are you feeling better?" The nuns in the common room approached to stop their discussion.
She draped over her body, and the extravagant nun dress studded with gold thread reminded Annan of the money lost in treatment: "It's still a little sad. ”
"It's okay, young warlock, magic can make you happy." The gentle nun said thoughtfully.
"I'm not sad at all now!"
Michael had already paid for the magic, and that was the only thing that pleased Annan.
Leaving the place called the Church of the Goddess of Wealth, which was actually the Golden Grotto, they went out along the corridor and said:
"About two months ago, the convoy of Levi Reeves, the new lord of Breeze City, the only male and sole heir of the Reeves family, was attacked in the Quiet Forest near Hirabayashi."
Annan waited for Michael to continue, but he stopped here while Andrew Luna looked at him thoughtfully.
"What does this have to do with me being attacked?"
"Levi Reeves is about your age, inheriting the dark hair of his ancestor, and his body has not been found at the site of the attack."
"So you think I'm the boy?" Annan suddenly realized why Fast was always looking at him and muttering, "But it was just a bunch of thugs who attacked me......"
"Maybe it was just an accident?"
……
Beach Street
It was here that Annan was attacked.
Return Annan to the attic and let Soluman Copperbeard guard him, and Andrew Luna and Michael come to investigate the scene.
After a brief investigation, it was concluded that several people had died, but they were all local thugs. They were killed by a spellcaster, and the natural privilege prevented the guards from summoning Annan to cooperate with the investigation. But the answer is clear, whether the gangsters provoke the caster or the caster provokes the gangsters - they are more than innocent.
It's just that according to the residents of the street, they heard the roar and coercion of terror at the time - and said it must have been a dragon.
Andrew Luna and Michael didn't believe it, of course, and only thought it was some kind of "monster intimidation" or some kind of low-ring spell.
"Look here, cobweb-like incoherent blood, corpses torn into several pieces by some kind of great force, and one of them falls here." As he spoke, Michael frowned and looked into the distance.
This is not a live ...... The real scene was hundreds of yards away, and he knew that many spells could annihilate the flesh, but he couldn't think of any spell that could keep the corpse intact and throw it so far that even the scavenger couldn't find it.
"The wound is scorched." Andrew Luna crouched beside the shredded corpse, recalling what he heard in the tavern, "Look at the twig-like lines...... Not fire, it's lightning. ”
As they approached the scene, they saw a butt hanging from the treetops in the courtyard of a house.
They're back to the real scene, and it's much more serious here. The ground was littered with wreckage, and scavengers and soldiers were trying to rip out the flesh foam from the walls and broken floor tiles.
Andrew Luna reminds the scavenger that there is a rock in front of him and a butt in the tree. Although the rat infestation in Breezy City is mild, never give the rat people a chance.
"Is this a trace caused by Annan's spell? This scratch ...... Like a dragon's paw prints? As he investigated further, Michael looked like he had seen a dragon, "There are traces of lightning, is it a blue dragon?" ”
Michael and Andrew Luna were both well-informed and could hardly be wrong with their judgments, which means that there were four possibilities at the time:
One, Annan summoned a blue dragon to deal with these gangsters.
Second, Annan is actually a druid who transforms into a blue dragon after being attacked and flies away as a gangster.
Three, the blue dragon was summoned by those thugs, but they fought among themselves and killed each other.
Fourth, a passing blue dragon fell down to help Annan defeat the gangsters.
Michael and Andrew Luna looked at each other.
In other words, Annan did summon a blue dragon.
……
"I don't think it's an accident."
Michael returned to the attic first, and it wasn't long before Andrew Luna, who was following the clues like a detective, came back and said, "It's just a temptation. ”
"Temptation?"
"Let's see if you're Levi Reeves."
"The thugs who attacked you are from the Bales Gang, their nest is two blocks away, and they 'special' in casinos and protection. It has nothing to do with kidnapping and robbery. ”
"We didn't find any traces of Bewitchment or Soul Eater at the scene, so what would have caused a group to suddenly attack a warlock?"
"But there's a good chance they didn't expect you to summon a blue dragon...... Is that true? ”
Michael still couldn't believe it.
"I can't say it......" Annan shook his head, "it's not that I can't say it, but I have to keep it a secret." ”
Not even the contract itself could be revealed.
Michael guessed something, and didn't ask any more.
In any case, if the gangsters were the assassins of Levi Reeves, the appearance of the blue dragon should have scared them into doing anything for the time being. But the bad news is that the killer may be convinced that Annan is the Levi.
And they began to believe.
Otherwise, how to explain that a boy who became a warlock two months ago was suddenly able to summon a blue dragon?
"But we can collect some interest from the Baalers first." Michael said.
Annan is not a man of grudges, but he almost dies at the hands of thugs and always wants revenge: "But I'm just a rookie warlock......"
"And what about a mage with a mage tower?"