That's all I can get at this stage, and I'll be able to tell you all the information at the same time. ”

It seemed that the lord of the castle still needed a little time to digest the information, and Aisha stopped talking, and took a sip of the black tea on the table.

【Taste...... It's very average. 】

Aisha frowned suspiciously, as she had taken a sip and noticed that the taste of the black tea seemed to be different from the taste she had tasted at the dinner party. It's not the tea that's the problem, it's the change in the craftsmanship of the people who make the tea.

"The maid who made the tea has changed?"

"Huh?" Byrne looked at Aisha dumbfounded, and only reacted when his eyes fell on the teacup in Aisha's hand, "That's true...... But you can really taste it, huh?"

"That's natural, although I'm not a tea lover, but I've been drinking it for so long, and I can still feel some subtle differences. ”

Aisha also has no habit of high-quality black tea, even if it is brewed by an inexperienced beginner, she can drink it safely, but this time, she rarely frowned when drinking tea.

"Is it really hard to drink?"

"It shouldn't be much different for a normal person, but my senses are weird - normally, using air as a means is just that, but if it's the act of 'tasting', because it's more direct contact, I can feel some subtle things, such as emotions or something......"

Aisha placed the finished teacup on the table.

"No matter how bad the craftsmanship is, but in the process of making tea, it is related to his own mood and emotions. It will make some subtle differences in the taste of the tea he brews. But in the cup of tea just now, I couldn't taste any 'human' emotions at all. ”

"That's right...... Hm. It's no wonder, after all, that I can't guarantee how many people will be in my mansion now. ”

Byrne spread his hands helplessly. Saying that there is nothing he can do.

"Your personnel have been infiltrated so much that you don't ...... That's right, after all, you don't have any reason to argue with that. ”

Aisha thought about it for a while, and immediately understood why Bourne was helpless - presumably these people were all made by the Xing Association, right? With Byrne's own position, he can't say anything more now, otherwise someone might grab the pigtails and say that he has two minds...... Ironically, maybe those people just wanted to make up a trumped-up charge against him, but in fact Bourne was really a two-and-five-boy boy.

"Let's not talk about that, let's just let those guys continue to make trouble for another two days...... Well, maybe I'll have a few percent of the staff here. I'll have to recruit again. ”

"It's not easy for you, be careful not to be knocked down by a cup of poisoned tea. ”

"I'm not that unlucky...... am I," Byrne fell silent halfway through his words, glancing at the bottom of the teacup that Aisha had just drunk.

There was a dark blue that could not be dissolved.

"This bunch ......"

Leaving aside how Aisha made these ingredients precipitate out of the tea again, even Byrne, who didn't have a deep understanding of this aspect, could see that this thing was quite toxic.

Byrne didn't expect these people to act so quickly, presumably it was the eyeliner planted in his mansion that informed Aisha of the coming, in order to make his position more stable, right? After all, if Aisha was poisoned in his mansion. It's a terrible situation in every sense of the word.

It's just that Aisha obviously came in over the wall, right? At that time, only her own guards knew about the situation...... It seems that even his own personal armed power has been infiltrated.

"What a stupid guy, the success rate of poisoning has always been very erratic. And the characteristics of the poison are still so obvious......"

In fact, in all fairness, the poison hidden in black tea is still very hidden, and the toxins dissolved in the tea themselves do not change the color and taste of the tea. It's just that Aisha has skills that they can't crack...... In addition, Aisha should have no problem even if she drank this highly toxic tea, right?

"I'll leave it to you here. As for the 'stuff' you mentioned, I'll figure it out when I get back......"

Aisha felt that it was not too early. So he got up and took his leave.

"Excuse me...... If we can find an effective way to suppress it, then we should be able to avoid a desperate counterattack when they face defeat at the end, right?"

Byrne is not a cold-blooded person, he has been the lord of Nazca City for more than ten years, and he has long developed a deep affection for the city - let him watch the city he has run for many years be shattered by the conspiracy of some careerists, and those innocent civilians die because of the boring games of the upper echelons, no matter what.

"You'd better worry about yourself first...... Since I dare to poison me in front of you, I may not be able to bring highly poisonous black tea or steak to you one day. You're still using them now, but once they actually do it, that's two things. ”

Aisha reminded Bourne anyway.

"Don't worry, no matter what, I'm not a sandbag that can be pinched casually......"

Byrne was about to get up and salute Aisha when he suddenly seemed to sense something, and his half-raised hand grabbed the edge of the table and threw it back!

Flutter ......

The sound of a hard object entering the wood alerted Aisha as well. Previously, because of the politeness to the owner of this place, Aisha did not spread her magic and spiritual power in the room, and the sudden attack she was aware of was a beat slower than that of Bourne, who was a pure martial artist.

"Amazing intuition. ”

Aisha exclaimed heartily.

Judging from the half-cut arrow exposed from the table, this arrow has been specially processed to deal with martial artists with profound fighting spirit. If Byrne had used a hard connection because of his own force, I'm afraid he would have been bloodstained on the spot now, right?

"It seems that my fellow countrymen are really enthusiastic......"

Byrne glanced at the arrows that brushed his cheeks, and his heart was also in a cold sweat - fortunately, the "good" habits he had developed in the tavern when he was young were still there, otherwise he might have hit the street like this today......

After that, no attack came. But Byrne didn't dare to relax, and there were no weapons in his study. Now we need to find a weapon to get our hands on......

Just as he was thinking this, a crisp "Kala" sound sounded in his ears.

Subsequently. Aisha handed him a bottle with the bottom torn open.

“......”

"Familiar, right?"

The wicked smile on Aisha's lips made Byrne feel pressured - this thing was more than familiar, and he had used such fetishities to survive the bar brawl in the first place.

"Dwarven tavern culture, I know it too~"

Therefore, a girl with a delicate appearance makes a well-known bar murder weapon so easily, no matter how you look at such a scene, the sense of disobedience is very strong!

Bourne took the bottle from Aisha, and suddenly felt that the murder weapon in his hand was somewhat familiar.

...... Wait! Where did you get the wine bottles in the study?

Byrne immediately realized that something was wrong—normally a wine bottle would not have been in the study, would it?Bourne himself was not in the habit of drinking...... However, the bottles that can be kept in the study are, as a rule, ......

"My collection of seventy-year-old wines, ahh

"Peace of mind. Although it did not fulfill its original mission, the path to realize the value of life is diverse, its life is humble, its death is great, and its death is heavier than Mount Tai......"

Aisha hurriedly comforted Byrne, who had suffered a big blow.

Fortunately, the uninvited attacker launched a second attack at the right time, freeing Byrne from his frustrated state of bending forward.

Aisha hurriedly laid out several defensive barriers, and by the way, pulled Byrne to retreat to the back of the closet to avoid the perspective of the three windows.

"If. If he hits that guy with the strength he has left behind, he'll rest in heaven......" Byrne muttered to himself, looking at the broken bottle in his hand.

It feels like I've switched to the second radio wave mode all of a sudden?But it always feels weird for the uncle to start this mode...... Well, Aisha thinks that as long as the other party doesn't hold a grudge against him for throwing his treasured wine.

"It seems. Their target this time is you...... Yes, if you die at this time, the whole city will inevitably be in chaos, right? But. Your position in their hearts is really delicate, this kind of treatment like an abandoned child. Are you sure it was the result without the consent of the highest level?"

To know that Bourne can never belong to the category of "chess pieces".

"Who knows, but now it's just their words. It's all right. ”

Bourne is also very annoyed now, although she does have her own thoughts in her heart, but on the surface her disguise is still very successful, and now she has been put on the must-kill list by those people, which means that those people have lost their minds, right? Very good, now Bourne can also make up his mind to clean up these people one by one.

However, how long has it been between the failure of the poisoning plan and the murderous attack? How did the other side arrange and convey the message? Or did it prepare with both hands from the beginning?

"What a vicious bunch......"

After all, in Aisha's identity, what can be used now is the title of the Mage Association, if Aisha and Bourne both "have something wrong" today, it will be to provoke two tigers at the same time.

"I think that the guy who can carry out terrorist attacks against innocent civilians is fundamentally rotten. "Maybe Byrne is a man of his country, and there is a glimmer of affection for them, and Aisha is completely disgusted with these people.

"By the way, your guards shouldn't be so wasteful, right? We've been attacked from three directions now, and I can even find out if I climb over the wall, so I should be aware of the anomaly now, right?"

"You say that...... Something really doesn't seem right!"

Then, both of them raised their heads at the same time and looked into each other's eyes – while also seeing the same message in each other's eyes.

"It's been half a minute since the other side attacked...... I'm not sure if they've left, or if they've changed places, can you take the risk?"

It's rude though. But for now, Aisha can only ask the other party like this.

Bourne didn't say much, after adjusting his condition. He took a deep breath and jumped out from behind the closet.

"Even though I'm just a martial artist. The only weapons I am good at are one-handed swords and two-handed swords, and now I only have a broken wine bottle in my hand......"

A second after he leaped out, three arrows with an ominous silver-blue sheen shot in from the window!

"But in my experience of bar brawls, the number of injuries is - zero!"

Bourne didn't use his profound fighting spirit to resist hard, nor did he think about relying on the defense of the magic enchantment arranged by Aisha - the previous attack had already shown that the other party was prepared, and it was definitely a very dangerous act to pin his hope here! Even if there was a ninety percent probability that it could be stopped, in this case, no matter how small the probability of the worst happening, it would be infinitely close to one hundred percent!

The only thing you can believe in is your own skills!

It turns out. Aisha's magical enchantment, like several layers of window paper, failed to stop the arrows in the slightest.

In the midst of the lightning, Bourne deftly dodged two feathered arrows, and the last arrow, which was already unavoidable, failed to leave a scar on Bourne's body - it was knocked off course by a wine bottle.

At the same time as the arrow collided with the glass and made a crisp "ding" sound, the air twisted slightly.

From Bourne's own point of view, all he could see was that the air in front of him seemed to be distorted, and the light was slightly refracted—and the range of such phenomena was very low. Probably...... It's only the size of the wind blade magic that magicians usually use, right?

Byrne looked at Aisha and saw that she was holding her right hand to her ear, carefully sorting out the sounds. Moments later, Aisha made a "V" gesture at Bourne.

"That's it. I heard blood splattering. ”

"That was ...... just now"

"The Wind Blade I've dealt with in particular...... Actually, I've always thought that the setting that the Wind Blade still has colors is really stupid!In order to deal with these professional snipers, I deliberately processed it to remove the blue color caused by the active Wind Elves. ”

The effect is not ordinary.

"Say. You must have been a complete bar hooligan, right?"

"Well, when you're young, you're impulsive. It's easy to make mistakes, too. ”

After eliminating the three archers outside the window, Aisha and Byrne walked out of the study where they had been talking. Just pushed open the door. The two of them were stunned by the scene outside the door.

"How dare you do it, you scum. ”

Not only Bourne, but even Aisha's words had a hint of gunpowder in them this time.

Although Aisha has seen many crazy guys, there is not much comparison in Aisha's memory of this scene in front of her - what makes Aisha feel angry the most is that the hellish scene in front of her is not force majeure but man-made.

The scene outside the door was no longer the familiar hallway, the walls, ceiling, and floor had begun to be eroded by black flesh. The black flesh that dotted the walls of the corridor and continued to expand outwards could still be faintly seen from the location of their dispersion points.

The armor that remained on the ground already explained who they once were.

[This thing...... It must be the strange "heart" of the necromancer she met in the underground waterways that Lynn mentioned to me earlier, right? It seems that it can be used as more than just a person's "heart". 】

Although Lynn said that it had the ability to erode the human body, judging from the current situation, this was no longer a level of "eroding the human body", could Aisha feel that these substances had begun to assimilate the walls to which it was attached.

"They're ...... He actually used this power in such an evil place!"

On the other hand, Byrne was already angry. However, there was one thing in his words that Aisha cared about.

"Hey, what do you mean by 'this strength'...... Isn't it the one you mentioned?"

Previously, Byrne had told Aisha that his people had a special skill and power, and this special power was the most important step in the plan to detonate the underground waterways.

Contrary to Lynn's speculation, although their purpose was indeed to cause a large explosion in the underground waterway, it was not through "bombs", which were physical objects that needed to be placed and detonated.

Rather, through "people".

Bourne was a martial artist, and from the beginning, because he had no talent, he was not able to come into contact with this power that was regarded as a treasure, but this did not prevent him from understanding this power. There were so many countries that were destroyed at that time, but the people of Byrne have survived to this day also have their own peculiarities, the most important thing is that it has mastered a unique technique.

Gifted people, after a special ceremony, are able to merge their minds into a special network. This network does not allow itself to know the thoughts of others, nor can it share computing power, but it has a very rebellious ability in the world of sword and sorcery - as long as both parties are willing, they can establish a state of magical power sharing between multiple individuals. One can use this to get magic from other people. The most important thing is that the sum of the magic in this network is not just the sum of the magic of all people, as long as the magic power is constantly flowing in it, the magic power will only grow and not decrease!

As long as one can bear it, one can get the magic power from others, and this value can continue to grow until one's body can no longer bear it. But sometimes, what do you have to endure for the sake of recklessness?

When the body can't withstand the ever-growing magic, what kind of consequences will it cause if the magic power suppressed to the limit breaks through the shackles of the body in one go?

That's a "Boooom!"

This is also what Bourne has been worrying about before-because as long as there are five or six people involved in this network, as long as there are five or six people, they can quickly form a small network of ever-expanding magic, and under the full force, it can reach the point of explosion in a few moments...... Even if they stopped the other party's movement in the underground waterway, in case they were annoyed and angry, the rest of them would directly join hands on the ground......

"I'd love to say no...... Still, even if I haven't experienced it myself, I can't admit it - I just don't understand how they managed to make this amount of power such an abomination!"

If before, Byrne was just troubled by the way they used this force, now he was extremely angry at these people for changing this power into such a filthy gesture.

"I see......"

Aisha watched the black and filthy flesh approaching her, and instead of being nervous, she held her chin in her hand and thought, "I can probably understand how it works...... I have to say that the person who came up with this idea is a scumbag, but also a genius...... It's a pity that it's still a scumbag. (To be continued......)