Chapter 354
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The teleportation dizziness lasted only for a moment, and the vision gradually cleared up, causing the young man to hold his breath.
A white pine tree spreads its thick limbs, its branches and trunk are wrapped in rose-colored vines, and the unknown shrubs form a low wall with the smell of incense, and also covers a large area of shade on the narrow gravel road, and beyond the sparse canopy, the sky is narrowed by the extension of the valley, and the shimmer of the lake shimmers in the forest, light blue and dark blue, light green and dark green, the scenery and the reflection, intertwined into a mesmerizing beauty, the mirror-like lake is dotted with a little bit of light, and the trees seem to grow in the water。
All kinds of birds are busy in the air, waterfowl, white-billed ducks, wild swallows...... But most of all, the white, light gray and black figures, their slender necks bent, their reflections on the water carry a comforting vitality, so free and unrestrained.
Swan Mountain, Swan Lake. and, Swan Castle.
Little Ryan took a deep breath, and finally found the familiar place in his sight, and the scenery also made him wake up, and turned his gaze to the black burqa beside him that seemed to blend into the shadows of the trees.
"That...... Lord Edward. ”
Looking at the figure's indifferent steps, the little nobleman finally couldn't help but speak: "You, what are you going to do?"
"Go check it out. If it's easy, get something you like. ”
"You, you...... Are you crazy? ...... It's just the two of us?"
This random answer is obviously a bit ridiculous. So the little guy unexpectedly had a tachycardia: "Running to this kind of place......? We'll soon find out! Swanschwanstein Castle is home to more than a thousand soldiers, and at least three mages...... No, maybe more, after all, this is ...... You, no, if you want to scout, you should at least bring out some more men, right? With just the two of us, only, only, only ...... Got caught!"
It's a pity that in his excited time, the figure has already walked forward a distance without any worries.
"Just scouting. What does it matter?" the psychic mancer's voice was urging, "Scared, that's easy, you just stay here and wait until I come back to pick you up......"
Little Ryan couldn't help but be stunned, thinking about the allure of this building, and then sadly found that if he left here, his most likely outcome would be to become the prey of the surrounding patrol cavalry, let alone ensure his own three meals. So I had to bite the bullet and start following behind the guy. But he timidly observed his surroundings, and was frightened by every bit of wind and grass.
Could it be that this weird mage wanted to use himself as a bargaining chip?
When this thought came to his mind, little Ryan didn't have time to notice that his eyes were already red, and tears were rolling in his eyes.
Of course, the embarrassment of the little nobleman only makes some unscrupulous psychic smil.
In fact, he had planned to bring a few of his capable men, but it seems that since yesterday he had not been able to find Miss Lisa—at last Edward finally asked her whereabouts in the small temple in the city, but the two priests at the door gave the answer that the holy woman of the religion was meditating. It's best not to bother.
Amazingly, Dahni had been sleeping, and the answer was that she had performed a ritual to contact the gods before, so she needed to replenish her sleep......
As for the others...... In fact, it doesn't seem necessary to bring them, Claudia's combat power is good, but it doesn't particularly help for this kind of infiltration operation, and the rest are either dwarves or half-elves. Or those few old mages who came to the territory again unwillingly, their strength may not be enough to protect themselves under the encirclement of the other party...... It is better to stay and defend, lest there be another strange oolong.
Actually, Edward would have liked to take Master Asari with him. However, the problem is that His Excellency the Mentor is also closed, and the sheen of the dense magic traps on the door is enough to make anyone give up the intention of knocking on the door rashly, so in the end, after thinking about it, the Psychic Warlock simply came to act alone, and only took the young master back to the vicinity of his city.
Of course, if you are a guide, the older you are, the more you know, the better...... Unfortunately, there aren't many options.
Those knights may not be familiar with the inside story, if they bring that violent and reckless young lady, I am afraid that things will not be enough for her to mess around, especially the previous attempt of the mind probe made Edward notice that the little girl's mental power is surprisingly tenacious, and she has considerable resistance to psychic abilities, and some ordinary abilities are not counted, and abilities such as charm directly act on the other party's spirit, which is very easy to produce the problem of unstable effect.
The road ahead of Swanstein Castle is narrow enough to lead to a horse-drawn carriage, but it is not crowded, and the gravel on the side of the road has withstood the baptism of dampness and wind and rain, and seems to have taken on a unique and vivid shape, which makes you can't help but speed up your pace.
So, after turning a corner, the whole castle appeared at the junction of the lake and the mountain.
This small city is located in the valley of Halleran, next to the only mountain range, and its geographical advantages have allowed it to carve out a noble domain here when the territory of Tumenes has just expanded to the territory of Western Fif. As the center of this ancient territory, Swan Castle has a middle-sized outer city, and the 20-foot-high walls are made of light brown red clay and rock blocks, which give the viewer a sense of majesty from the Iron Age.
However, in the sunlight, the color changes to a soft halo, and the main body of the castle peeks out of the red clay walls with a towering blue-gray spire, and since the time of Anson, man has often built ancient bronze tiles, and the junction of the lake and the mountains, the surrounding beauty blends in, making it seem as if it has only appeared in a fairy tale.
It's just a pity that as the road gets closer and closer. This sense of peaceful beauty gradually dissipated......
At the intersection outside the city gate, the green field gradually reveals the trampled and tamped loess surface, and the dust raised renders the originally chic city wall a dim yellow color, and at the end of this dust, there are horses made of wooden stakes nailed together, across the road. As a result, the sparse flow of people on the road came to a halt here, accumulating fifteen or six hundred feet in length. Carriages, carts and
Outside the city gate, on the side of the road, a rudimentary thatched hut was erected, and in it squatted five or six soldiers, who were hunched their necks and looked lazily at the long dragon of men.
But it wasn't their companions who were checking at the barricade at the moment, but a bunch of ragged, unkempt haired fellows with crooked hats. Carrying a stick in his hand. Examiner: Every person who passes, as long as it is a relatively beautiful woman. It is inevitable that they will be ridiculed by them, and they will not let go of the loaded cart, and they will always take something.
So this slow inspection made the already piled up crowd even more agitated, and some cargo owners argued with it with dissatisfaction, but most of them chose to swallow their anger, after all, it is an extraordinary time, and it is not much good to offend this kind of guy, you can only curse loudly or quietly for irrelevant people. Cursed with speed.
"These damn ......" little Ryan, who was nervously about to go crazy, finally got a little comfort...... Edward pulled out a burqa and enveloped him in it. Therefore, he also had time to examine other questions: "These rotten, short-sighted moths! What does he think of the lord of the kingdom saints, and he actually levies taxes privately......
"Talk less. Otherwise you know what the consequences will be. Edward faintly gagged him with the words of his heart.
In fact, the Psychic Warlock thinks that these people have a good eye, and know who to mess with and who not to mess with. When two figures in robes walked along the crowd. When they came to the barricade, several guys glanced at each other, and suddenly a guy nodded and bowed.
"Two mages, I'm sorry, though. But it has to be routine...... Well, this, ah, you can get over ......"
Of course, such a guy is white for a psychic warlock, he just took out something and shook it casually, so that guy didn't have the slightest suspicion at all, so he directly shouted for release...... But the funny thing is that when the two walked past the gatehouse, a guy actually stopped them, claiming to let them follow.
"Don't worry about the two of you, I'm just taking you to the hotel, it's a curfew in the city now, so guests like you can't walk around casually. ”
Edward raised his eyebrows, noting that the city had almost become too depressed, and that there were only a few soldiers left in the city, except for a few such civilians who led the way at the city gates.
Well, in fact, it was the soldiers who lifted the gang a little bit - the average Tumines' official soldier equipment was a piece of chain mail inside, and a plate or cuirass on the outside, with a cast-iron helmet on his head, a round shield or vulture shield in his hand, and a spear. There are also insiders who can get the right to hang a light crossbow.
But these passing guys in front of you...... Well, let's call them the security team, the best thing is just an iron armor - this thing is a simple armor nailed with iron sheets on thick cloth, the protection effect is not satisfactory, not as good as leather armor, but the advantage is that it is cheaper than chain mail, and depending on the thickness of those iron sheets, the defense power is not weak. But even this kind of thing is a bit stretched...... At the end of the line, some of the unlucky-looking fellows were protected by a thick cloth robe with symbolic pieces of wood nailed to it.
And those personnel are also decadent and procrastinating, which is enough to make people see their helplessness.
"Not enough troops here?" asked the Psychic Warlock faintly.
"I'm sorry, Master Mage, but I'm ...... It's not very clear. The leader muttered, and then said no more.
The group soon arrived at their destination, this is a small hotel, but it seems to be a more popular place here, although the store can be sparsely set up with a few tables, but the cleaning is quite clean, the twill stripe wooden lattice windows let in the afternoon sun, and the bright space has a sense of comfort. There were dozens of bottles of all sorts on the wine cabinet, as well as a few that appeared to be bandages and lighting rods. Ropes and other common items, on the top of the shelf, a swarthy axe is carefully placed, as if to show off the boss's past glory.
Edward's gaze swept over the parchment-covered billboards on the right, a thick layer of work, recruitment, and wanted notices, but he didn't find anything to do with his trip, although the two most obvious parchments depicted the heads of two nobles, a man and a woman, but they had been discounted and dusted. Obviously, it is hard for anyone here to imagine that one of these two wanted people would have the guts to return to the city.
Of course, at this time, the inn seemed destined to be in poor business, the owner was wiping the dishes, and there was a few heavily armed mercenaries who were not in a match, and the few who did not take care of it much, and there was an errand for the guests in the afternoon. Shoved to a busty over-the-top waitress.
And little Ryan's gaze was in the first time. Landed in the corner of the store.
There's an eyesore sitting there...... In this not very hot weather, he only wore a small vest that could cover his shoulders, and a fire-breathing dragon tattoo on his dark half of his body twisted and jumped as if he was alive because of the activity of his muscles, only the slightly bloated belly ruined his bodybuilding champion-like amazing physique, two thick and scattered eyebrows, hooked nose and a pair of hanging eyes at the corners of the eyes perfectly matched the furrows squeezed out of the horizontal flesh on his face, and almost tattooed the words 'hooligan head' on his face.
"How can there be such a thing? Who the hell are those damn guys in?"
The whispering complaints around him made Edward pout.
This guy was clearly not just a scoundrel, though it looked like it - a closer look would reveal that the sun-burned marks on his face had exposed his feet. The strange Y-shaped marks on the skin can only be seen by those who have been wearing helmets all year round, and the calluses on their hands are concentrated in the palms and jaws rather than the knuckles, and are clearly the most suitable for the type of grip of a regular knight's sword.
This guy is a nobleman's private soldier...... At least it wasn't that long ago when I changed careers.
"Two mages, it's really rare...... Is this your first time here?" guiding the two of them to their seats, the waitress shook her overly large buttocks and answered the question with a 'wink' voice. A pair of kernel-like eyes, but they did not leave the cheeks of the young man in front of him for a moment: the latter couldn't help frowning.
"What's going on here, why are there so many soldiers?"
"Ah...... Who knows, it is said that the Duke suddenly began to recruit troops and ...... all the soldiers in the city."
"You don't want to die?"
The boss behind the counter suddenly tapped the plate in his hand. So the hostess couldn't help but tremble. Only then did he realize that he had told the truth for some reason, so he threw down a menu and hurriedly turned to leave.
Edward raised his eyebrows, and the other party's words reminded him of some of the depictions of cool officials in those braided scenes...... Spies are sprinkled everywhere, trying to lure the common people into saying things that violate the ban. And then use it as their own political achievement. Now it seems that if he is caught, he is definitely not the only one who is unlucky, after all, he will not have any oil and water on him, and those spies will definitely try to involve the shopkeeper, and sometimes even affect the people who live in the store. So everyone is now pretending to be deaf and dumb as much as possible, and people who are not familiar with them will not talk at all.
"The mouth of the people is more important than the Sichuan, and if the river collapses, there will be many injuries, and the people will do the same. He snorted: "This idiot doesn't even understand the basics of rule...... An uprising is estimated. It's a matter of morning and evening. ”
"What did you say, Lord Edward?" The young master who had just sat down couldn't help but be stunned, he couldn't even understand a word of the words spoken by the other party, he could only vaguely feel that it was a very mysterious rhythm, which seemed to pay great attention to the ups and downs of every tone......
However, the question was not answered.
As soon as he ordered, the conversation at the counter seemed to be over, and a red-haired guy who was chatting with the boss turned his head to see them, looked at them a few times, he gritted his teeth, and walked towards the two with a strange expression.
"Hey, this is a hotel, it's not a place for imps, it's just a waste of kids, so it's better to go back to your mother's arms and eat milk as soon as possible." He pulled a scimitar from his waist and struck the table with the tip of the knife with a shrill laugh.
Edward didn't care about this provocation at all, and only cared about looking for something similar on the menu, this kind of Cheng dù thing was obviously a temptation, and something must follow......
Just as the noble Lord Lane. Obviously a little unacceptable, he turned his head and glared at the guy,
"Do you want to fight? Then draw your sword early! If you don't have the guts, get out of here." Obviously, this action will only make the other party feel happy, and the words will be more provocative: "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was a man, did it turn out to be two little girls?" After laughing, he coughed and rinsed, and spit on their table with a mouthful of thick phlegm!
The shadow on the well-known black robe suddenly writhed, and a little silver luster peeked out of the darkness, and it flickered.
Then, as soon as Qiē disappeared again, as if the person had just raised his gaze in boredom and glanced at it.
But at the same time, the red-haired man let out a terrible scream as if he had been bitten, he threw away his weapon violently, took a few steps back with his head in his hands, and sat down on a chair, and the simple furniture could not bear the weight of his full armament, and scattered into a pile with a bang, and even the tables behind him were knocked over, and the sound of crackling and crashing became one.
Edward had already retracted his gaze at this time, casually pushed the table in front of him to the side, and dragged the other one in front of him.