Chapter 137: Magic 1
Chapter 137: Magic 1
“Achoo!”
Paul, who was sitting on the back of the horse, sneezed, and he took out his handkerchief to wipe his nose and tightly wrapped the clothes he was wearing.
The weather was getting colder and colder as we entered November.
“After the shipyard builds another batch of boats, I’ll make sure to open an inland river shipping that specializes in carrying people, and I’ll name it ‘Public Transportation Boat’.”
“Let these boats run back and forth along the Wis River, and everyone can get on board for just one or two coppers, and get off again when they have reached their destination all the way.”
“When it comes to weather like today, you won’t have to brave the cold wind and run around outside, wouldn’t it be nice to build a small fireplace in the cabin and enjoy the scenery on both sides of the river while roasting the fire. “
Paul rattled off his ideas to the crowd around him.
“Your idea is awesome!”
Squadron Leader Victor, who was the head of the guards, offered a well-timed ass-kissing.
Paul glanced at the female counselor next to him, Lardy, and to his dismay, the other party didn’t seem to be listening to what he had just said at all, and still looked as if she was on the verge of an attack, looking around with a wary eye from time to time.
He made a helpless gesture to the head of the guards, “Ugh~~ She’s been like this since she left Lakewood in the morning.”
Victor scratches his head, “Uh…… subordinate thinks that Lady Ladi is right to be so vigilant, though it’s a bit out of character for a girl like her to act like that.”
After Paul decided to take a trip to Port Fullan, the female advisor offered to go with him, at first Paul thought she was going out for a walk or something, but the reason the female advisor gave made him feel incredibly odd:
“Lord Earl, I have divined for you that you may encounter some bad things on the road during this trip! Of course, this is only a possibility, but there is no harm in being careful, so please let me accompany you on your journey, some of the skills I acquired as an adventurer should be useful to you.”
Divination? She couldn’t be joking, as a serious scholar she even believed in this. However, seeing that she was indeed worried about her own safety, Paul granted her request to accompany her.
“Then why didn’t you just stop me from this trip?”
“The divination results show that you will likewise not be able to escape this bad luck even if you stay in Lake Town.”
“Uh …… okay.”
Then Lardy put on the same outfit she used to wear when she was an adventurer, still carrying the bow and arrows that had once killed the black-spotted tiger, and went on the road with him.
The female advisor also strongly suggested that he bring more guards with him, and Paul agreed, bringing a full two squads of inner guardsmen, commanded by Victor, the head of the guards, along for the journey to Port Fullan.
Just as Paul was inwardly lamenting that this was truly an age of ignorance, and that even Lardy, who was a scholar, was not immune to it, he heard the female counselor yell, “Something’s happening, stop!”
Startled by him, the crowd reined in and the whole group stopped moving.
The female advisor pointed her finger ahead, and the crowd followed it to see that about 500 meters away, there was indeed a person walking along the road towards them.
Paul grumbled, “Hey, hey, you’re paranoid, aren’t you? That could just be an ordinary passerby.”
“I’ve been staring at that man for ten minutes now, and I’ve always had a feeling in my heart that he doesn’t mean well for us. Lord Earl, please trust my intuition, it’s always been spot on.”
“Ten minutes? We’ve only just seen him alas, your eyesight is that good? Well, being on the edge of your seat, Viktor, send someone over to question him.”
“Yes, Lord Earl.”
Just as the head guard was about to call someone over, the man in front of them seemed to have noticed them as well, he stopped and stared at this side of the party, and soon continued walking this way, and walked impartially right in the middle of the road without the slightest intention of avoiding it.
Knowing that Paul’s team was under the banner of the Greiman family, a flag with a red background printed with a flying dragon pattern was extremely eye-catching, as long as one wasn’t blind, which one of the people who saw this flag dared to stand in the middle of the road?
The head guard sensed the abnormality and shouted, “Alert!”
The guards gripped their weapons and clattered with the sound of swords being sheathed.
Paul looked ahead, only to see that this person is tall, wrapped in a black cloak, hunting under the cold wind, face is covered by the hood can not be seen clearly. “Wipe! It won’t be really come over to pick a fight, right? Looking at the bull B coaxing momentum, but really have a few points of lone assassin feeling!”
Paul mentally spat out, “This guy won’t suddenly rush to our team and open Undisputed, right? That’s how it plays out in movies and anime.”
The opponent was getting closer and Victor shouted at the man, “Stranger, stop in your tracks! In front of you is the party of Count Paul Greiman, Lord of Arda, stand still and state your intentions at once.”
The cloaked man stopped about 50 meters from the party and a low voice came out of his hood:
“You are Paul Greiman? Hmph! What a way to get here, I didn’t expect to meet you halfway, and it saves me a trip to Lakeheart Town.”
The voice was obviously not loud, but it was clearly and unmistakably transmitted to everyone’s ears from a great distance away.
Female counselor Ladi immediately shielded herself in front of Paul’s body, her eyebrows furrowed as she stared at the visitor, and she said in a deep voice, “Earl-sama, something strange may happen later, please be prepared for it.”
Paul was bewildered, but the visitor’s ill intentions were certain, seeing the female advisor, who was always steady, so nervous, his heart also lifted up.
Let him feel wrong there is another point, their side of the two squads add up to dozens of people, while the other side is only one person, but there is a vague sense of oppression came.
Squire Victor shouted angrily, “Guards, take down this insolent man!”
Not to mention calling the lord’s name, he also arrogantly said something like it took no effort to get there, as if Lord Earl was just like an object to be pinned down at will, too much to put the earl in his eyes, and too much to put him, the chief of guards, in his eyes.
Three soldiers immediately ran over, but saw the cloaked man obediently stood there, let two soldiers left and right pinch his arms, the third soldier took out a rope to bind him.
Just as the two soldiers on the left and right tried to break his arms towards his back, a sudden change occurred!
The cloaked man’s arms suddenly raised up, grabbing the two soldiers’ necks in a death grip and gathering their heads towards the front of his chest.
The two soldiers were like babies who were unable to resist, their heads instantly touched together, and in the eyes of the stunned crowd, the part of their foreheads that touched together unexpectedly deflated, and their brains splattered in all directions.
As soon as the cloaked man let go of his hand, the two corpses collapsed helplessly on the ground, he shook his head and said, “Tsk! The newly purchased clothes are dirty again!”
Although he was complaining, his tone was relaxed, as if he had just crushed two small insects.
He stuck out his tongue and licked the brain matter splattered at the corner of his mouth, and said sorrowfully, “However, this feeling has really been missing for a long time!”
Two of his companions were killed in the blink of an eye, the remaining soldier with the rope was so scared that he didn’t even have the strength to run away, he sat on his butt on the ground, his body constantly shaking, his terrified eyes casting at the person in front of him as if he was looking at a demon that had run out of hell.
“First squad, protect the Count! Second squad, follow me forward!”
The head guard, Victor, was the first to react and gave the order on the spot.
A squad of soldiers surrounded Paul who hadn’t reacted yet and the female counselor who was chanting and didn’t know what to say in death, their swords were outwardly guarding the surroundings, at this time, they couldn’t just focus on one direction, in case the enemy attacked from the east to the west, what to do.
Another squad of soldiers gathered around the head of the guard, and together they approached the cloaked man.
The cloaked man also moved his feet to continue to Paul’s side, he used his right hand to gesture strange movements, while his mouth recited some inexplicable words.
“Stone Skin Technique ……” a combination of words that could be understood came out of his mouth.
It was also at this moment that the female counselor beside Paul stopped whispering, and after a slight pause she whispered, “Total concentration ……”
Paul suddenly felt something moving in his chest, and he looked down to see that a stone hanging on his chest was trembling slightly, and its original grayish appearance was slowly turning black ……
I heard that you have to do 10,000 shifts in the first 24 hours of being on the shelves, so I’ll code another chapter all night today.
(End of this chapter)