Chapter 39: The Black Castle
Roth didn't write on the parchment that he was being targeted by the Evil Man as a scourge.
Although Joel should be able to get some information about "Adventurer Lot" through other channels relatively naturally, this kind of thing should also be hidden from Joel on the guild side.
If Lista hadn't chosen to go with him, Rott could have disguised himself as another person through that pocket watch, and if he didn't, he would have used his original appearance, which would have been better than being taken away.
But wouldn't it be too unrighteous for Rulista to be hunted down and killed alone?
According to McTwinkin's words and practices, even if the evil people have a grudge against themselves, as long as they still suspect that Roth is a disaster, they will not dare to directly kill Roth.
On the contrary, once Lista is found, I am afraid that he will die.
Of course, Roth was not naΓ―ve enough to really believe that Lista killed McZegin in order to save himself, and there was no level of affection and trust between them at all, but it was also true that the other party was involved by him, so Roth asked Lista about his next plans.
He wasn't going to leave all at once, but Lista had no intention of keeping him if he wanted to go his separate ways.
On top of that, whether he has the so-called disaster star physique is actually what Roth cares about the most now, and he can't escape without knowing this.
If he really changed his face and fled everywhere, he would really bring disaster wherever he went, which was something that Roth could not accept.
If things get bigger and bigger, this pocket watch will one day be unable to hide the truth, and then everyone will know that Joel has a scourge master......
It's still worth it!?
However, the Joker's stories are still very interesting, and I can't help but share them with Joel, and finally say that he will return to his original world when he is satisfied with his adventure.
After ending his regular contact, Roth breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it is not explicitly stated in the content that Joel wrote to Roth, Roth still relied on, well, the master's intuition, and sensed that Joel seemed to be in a very difficult state, hoping that this letter could relieve Joel's pressure.
"What the hell are you recording on?" asked Lista curiously, "just a few pieces of paper, and they don't look like a diary." β
Earlier, it was indeed disguised as a diary, but it was too easy to be exposed by writing every day, so it was changed to writing every three days, and if there was no urgency, the reply should be written a day later, and the extra ones were all tricks.
Of course, this could not be told to Lista, and Roth put away the parchment and said: "It was my habit when I was a merchant to record some information that might have business opportunities, and when I arrived in a new place, I could compare the situation between the two places, and maybe we could make a deal." It's not completely useless for adventurers, is it?"
"Can you show me?" asked Lista.
"Okay. β
Roth pulled out another parchment with all sorts of information about the humble town they were in.
This is a new town in the northern part of the "Shincheonji", because there is not even a normal forest nearby, and the buildings here are all made of clods of earth that have been forcibly pulled from the ground by magic, because the color and the land are exactly the same, and the style is also monotonous square, and it is almost invisible from a distance.
Why would such a wasteland have the value of forcibly building a city?
The answer is the huge black castle that can be easily seen from the earthen benches of the restaurants in the city.
There are a lot of filth remnants in this new world created by the explosion, some of them because they happened to be blown up just between the two explosions, and some because of their own strength, even if they were blown up, they were not dispersed like that.
This black castle belongs to the latter group.
Unlike the White Eagle Fortress, which was completely re-embodied by filth, only special structures that can maintain their existence even if they are devoured by filth can survive such an explosion of power, such as the Elven Kingdom, such as the capital of the Wickane Kingdom.
In order to prevent the filthy power from spreading again, and to purify the black castle while it was weak, the Adventurers' Guild organized a large number of earth mages and craftsmen to forcibly create a town here.
It is precisely because of such a situation that Roth chose this place.
Even if the evil man chased here, he would definitely not dare to do anything to himself, a disaster suspect, in such a sensitive area, so that Roth would have room for negotiation.
He did not believe that an organization that could obtain the acquiescence of the United Kingdom could judge whether a person was a scourge or not would be so brutal, and that McZekin might have come out of confidence in his strength and in the spirit of grasping mistakes and not letting go, but now that McZekin had been, well, sacrificed, the Evil Man would not send another person like that.
If it is confirmed that he is really a disaster, then Roth will also take the initiative to cooperate with them to reduce the damage, but the other party's practice of catching first and then confirming is unacceptable to Roth, he is really in a special situation and has no way to cooperate.
"It's all written as well as I can tell, don't you have a record of it?" complained Lista.
"The previous ones are lost, and you don't know what I experienced some time ago. Roth said helplessly, "Now it's time to start writing again, as for the content, there is no way, who said that everything is missing here...... You turn the page, and there is information about the black castle that you don't know. β
The owner of the restaurant brought a soup stewed with fresh beef and tomatoes and a few hot pancakes, and smiled at Roth, who also looked like a Qin and Han Chinese.
The other adventurers in the restaurant who were nibbling on dry food and various pickled foods looked at Roth and them with some blush.
Freshness is a luxury in the city, and as mentioned before, the neighborhood is basically a wasteland, and no one knows why a castle would be built in such a place.
Of course, it is also possible that this was not a wasteland in the first place, but that the land was changed by the after-effects of violence to remove filth.
It is said that the scholar department of the Adventurers' Guild has begun to search for historical materials and legends related to this castle, but those scholars are now busy to death, there are countless places in this new world that need them to check the information, and the edge of the new world has begun to be re-polluted by filth because of its undefended, how to take over as much land as possible while delaying the counterattack of filth is the most important thing, this lonely city is a secondary problem at best, and there is almost no progress in this area.
Now the information that the Adventurer Association can provide to adventurers is basically from the adventurers' guild itself by sending people to investigate, and some of it is the personal experience of some adventurers who do not want to die.
The former is okay to say, in order to encourage adventurers to enter, the information obtained by the guild itself is public, but the latter is different, it is all about collecting money.
Fortunately, in the related industries of the Adventurers' Association, Roth is not short of money now, and Lista now happens to see a piece of personal information that Roth bought.
"That's it, how much did you spend on this?" even if it wasn't his own money, Lista felt distressed.
Roth took out Duchem's jade plaque, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't remember, I didn't spend it anyway." I don't think I'll ever run out of this stuff, so I don't care. β
Lista's eyes twitched and said, "You don't have to be so pessimistic, nothing happened in the greenstone forest in the end, I think the statement of the calamity is nonsense." β
"Do you really think so?
"I only figured out later that if I want to talk about what Thrando did, I'm also an experiencer! And isn't it the same with the clown's thing? Then McTinkin must have been eyeing the two of us from the beginning, and he only said that you were alone, probably deliberately dividing the two of us! If you had surrendered at that time, he would have told me that he would have made a note or something with me, and then he would have detained me when he turned around!" said Lista hatefully.
That's right, maybe the disaster star is actually this person! Roth looked at Lista with his eyes and said, "Hey, I didn't think of it earlier!"
"No, what do you mean by that?" said Lista, dissatisfied.
Roth smiled: "Okay, let's be a grasshopper on a rope." β
"Grasshoppers? Oh, what you Qin and Han people say. Lista returned the parchment to Roth, "What are we going to do next?"
Roth put away the parchment and said: "What can I do, I don't want to run to Xintiandi to be a wild man, besides, it is too dangerous, and it is impossible to control the weather all the time, and when the rain falls, we will all become mud figures." And staying in the association's sphere of influence, the association will sell our information to those evil people sooner or later, so we can only find this kind of place to stay, and there is still room for negotiation when people come. β
"I'm not asking about that, I'm asking if we want to go into that black castle. If we can solve this black castle, then not only can we take off the hat of this calamity, but we will not be two random adventurers for the guild, even if the evil people want to seek revenge, it will depend on whether the guild agrees, right?" proposed.
"If it's so easy to solve, it won't be solved here sooner, and we can wait for the two of us to come......" Roth shook his head.
The title of Calamity has hurt him a lot, and his self-confidence has been affected with it.
"Don't you believe in yourself, don't you believe me?" Lista smirked evilly, spreading his right hand, a miniature wheel of divine power spinning in his hand.
Roth didn't answer immediately, but looked at the Wheel of Divine Power silently for a while before he said, "But it took so long for the idol on it to recover to the third one, didn't it?
You must know that if the Wheel of Divine Power remained motionless at that time, if Lot did not do enough damage to it, it would not even be able to catch up with the speed at which it recovered.
"This must be temporary!" said Lista, who somehow came from his confidence, "sooner or later it will listen to me completely!"
Now it seemed that Lista could only speed up and slow down the time in its vicinity for a short period of time, so small that it could barely be used to himself, and the rate at which the idols were consumed was frighteningly fast.
"Besides, didn't you also get the information that you got that you must be fine when you enter that black castle for the first time?" said Lista again.
"yes, and it was said that the people were gone as soon as they entered, and it was more than a week since they came out again, and they didn't remember what happened in there!" Roth couldn't understand what Lista was thinking, "and the second time you entered Castle Black, it wouldn't have been like this at all, but it was normally attacked by the Fallen Shadow." β
The adventurers next to him pricked up their ears, but Roth wasn't going to go into any more details.
This level of intelligence can be regarded as encouraging adventurers, and Roth doesn't mind, but if it is more, it will be bought with money, and Roth is not in the mood to do charity.
The Fallen Shadow in Castle Black is very powerful, and it is said that the shadow of the castle's former owner has always sat on the throne at the top, but so far it has not been able to fight him or her, and adventurers have not even been able to defeat the female guards guarding the throne.
This is also the reason why the adventurers are willing to die at the request of the guild, after all, dying at the hands of filth is not just as simple as dying themselves, but also means that the adventurers behind have to face their own shadows.
If it's a necessary sacrifice, it's just a fool's stupid thing to add trouble to the subsequent battle when you don't have a clue.
There are also some strange rumors.
For example, adventurers always escape, as if this black castle had no intention of killing people - no one believed this, and everyone thought that they were good at running away.
For example, the person on the throne is actually a disguise, and the female guard is the real owner of the castle - there are many people who believe in it.
For example, even if you kill the shadow on the throne, it will not cause the tide of filth to recede, and the real core is actually hidden somewhere else - this is a matter of opinion, some people say that it is true, and some people think that it is the adventurers who are good at exploring and raising the price of their information.
For example, if you want to truly purify this place, you have to solve it when you go in the first time - those who believe in this are gone, after all, if that's the case, wouldn't it be a waste of time to stay here any longer?
For example, the female guard actually wears a maid costume when she is not fighting - since the female guard will take the initiative to hit her as soon as she finds the breath of a person, no one has ever seen what her non-combat state is like, but most people who think that the person who says this is either a masochist or has a broken brain, what is the use of adding this setting to a shadow formed by filth? After the black castle is purified, the magical building may be able to stay, but the shadow will definitely not be saved.
...... To be honest, Roth was actually quite curious, after all, it was already determined that it would be okay for the first time, and those adventurers who had entered it once had been personally inspected by the priest, and indeed they had not been harmed in any way, and everything on their bodies was exactly the same as more than a week ago.
After that, the guild also sent someone to enter with several magic tools that recorded time, and that person only came out a week and a half later, but the time recorded on those magic tools was different, some did not move, some were just a week and a half later, and some even months or even years passed.
"If we find someone here during the week, and wait outside the castle, won't we even have room for negotiation?" Aside from his other concerns, Roth felt that this was the most important thing they needed to pay attention to.
Lista grabbed the baked cake and took a bite and said, "Then he has to know where we got in? Look at this castle, like a mountain, I am afraid that it can be stuffed with more troops than the population of the capital of Wicken, and how many ways to enter! Unless the people sent by the Evil Demons can directly surround this castle, or we are so unlucky, this can make them squat." If that's the case, then it's the same to stay outside, right?"
Roth looked up at the black castle with some emotion.