Chapter 79: The Scroll of Nia the Sage
Anne jumped out of the carriage with the Sky-Destroying Musket, her figure flashed, and disappeared into the reeds.
Veronica turned her head and looked at Annie's back and whispered to Rosen: "You seem to trust this hunter very much."
Rosen nodded: "We trust each other."
"Well~ This is a blessing." Veronica nodded slightly. After a few seconds of silence, she whispered softly: "Maybe Anne is really worthy of your trust, but as your protector, I must remind you that the purpose of those Black Magic Academy that can cultivate mutants is not so pure. Most of the magicians in the academy are marginal figures in human society, and their methods of acting are very extreme."
Rosen frowned slightly: "What do you want to say?"
Veronica didn't answer immediately. She listened with her ears and suddenly reached out and gently pulled Luosen's body. The next moment, Luosen heard a "swoosh" sound in his ears. A crossbow arrow almost flew over to his ears. The sound of the wind brought by the crossbow arrow made his face feel cold.
"We all hide behind the carriage so as not to be accidentally injured by the group of knights." Veronica said.
"Okay." Luo Sen was still scared.
He now thinks that making Veronica his protector is the right choice, otherwise, he might be shot to death just now. If someone in later generations remembers him, the description given to him should be "Although he is gifted and ambitious, he unfortunately died of the ravage."
This is a scam.
He greeted the coachman John and signaled that the other party would hide, and then Rosen and Veronica hid behind the carriage.
Veronica continued: "In recent hundreds of years, a large number of Black Magician Academy have emerged in the human world, creating thousands of mutants. As far as I know, the techniques of those black magicians in creating mutants are similar, and they are all called fusion."
“Fusion law?”
"Yes. The so-called fusion method is to use monster flesh and blood as the main mutant guide material, add some medicinal materials to neutralize the toxicity of monster flesh and blood to the greatest extent, and then put these flesh and blood into the body of children under 10 years old, and finally wait for changes. This method has a certain chance of success, and can cultivate powerful hunters like Anne, but the greater possibility is that the child dies because he cannot withstand the toxicity of monster flesh and blood. I have observed that the proportion of fusion method failure is at least 90%.
"Gudu~"
Luo Sen swallowed secretly. It was the first time he heard about the inside story of the mutant hunter. As an earthling, he felt that the black magician's approach was very cruel and he could not accept it.
"That is, have at least nine innocent children collapsed before Anne succeeded?"
Veronica sighed: "Yes, the proportion is amazing, and the total amount is amazing."
“How much is the total amount?”
"After a little calculation, you will know that a small black magic academy can create at least 10 mutant hunters a year. And there are at least 100 black magic academys on the mainland. Most of these academies are gathered at the junction of the Palasen Empire and the Northern Alliance. According to my observations in previous years, whenever the war breaks out, a large number of new mutant hunters will emerge one after another... You should know where these new people came from, right?"
Luo Sen nodded: "In the war, the family is destroyed, and the orphans are everywhere. I am afraid that many orphans have entered the Black Magic Academy."
"Yes." Veronica nodded and finally said, "I can see that Anne is a rare good girl, but she trusts others too easily and is too soft-hearted. Even for those black magicians, she seems to be respectful and grateful. However, those black magicians act paranoid and do whatever they want to achieve their goals... Maybe Anne will not be coveted, but you have too many treasures. So, be careful to be careful of Anne being used."
Luo Sen nodded slightly: "I understand, thank you very much for your reminder."
He believed Veronica at least 90% of the words, because the description of the black magician she mentioned was exactly what Rosen himself saw in the game.
If the magician Dias had a little bit of limitation in his heart, then most black magicians acted without any taboos, regarded human life as a mustard, and exchanged a 90% chance of failure in exchange for a qualified mutant hunter, they might not even blink when they did it.
At this time, a "bang" gunshot suddenly came from the reeds.
About 2 seconds later, the neighing of war horses and the shouting of knights came from outside the reeds. You can tell that the road outside is very chaotic.
Veronica listened with her ears and a few seconds later, she whispered: "Anne shot and killed the cavalry leader's war horse. The unlucky cavalry leader broke his leg after falling off the horse."
As soon as she finished speaking, a "bang" sounded from the reeds. The sound from the road became more and more noisy, and many people were shouting and screaming.
"The second-person horse was also shot to death, and the cavalry were panicked." Veronica continued to explain to Rosen.
"Bang~" The third gunshot appeared.
As soon as the gunshots fell, a messy shout came from the road. After a few seconds, the rapid sound of horse hooves sounded, but unlike before, these sounds of horse hooves were moving away quickly.
This time even Rosen understood: "The cavalry were scared away."
A few minutes later, Annie came back, and she was also supporting a man in a gray cloth robe. The man was in a bad condition. He was covered in blood and a crossbow arrow was deeply inserted on his back. His entire back was almost soaked in blood.
Luo Sen was shocked to see it: "How is he hurt?"
Annie didn't say anything, just shook her head slightly at Rosen.
At this moment, the man spoke: "I can't do it anymore."
When talking, the man looked full of pain and helplessness, but he was not afraid.
Faced with such fatal injuries, Rosen was helpless. He walked over and helped Anne put the man next to the carriage, sitting with her back against the wheel.
"Do you have any last words?" Rosen asked, this was the only thing he could do.
Upon hearing this, the man gasped for a few breaths, and a hint of flush appeared on his face: "My immediately had a bag...bag, huh~huh~ there was a scroll box inside...box. Please... please bring it to...xian...Niya~~huh~~~~"
After saying this, the man coughed continuously, and bleeding spots kept splashing out of his mouth.
After coughing a few times, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Rosen's arm tightly, staring at Rosen with his eyes: "Promise me, I will definitely bring the scroll to the sage!"
This is a person's last wish before his death.
Rosen nodded quickly: "I will do my best."
"No!" the man shouted with all his might, because of this voice, a lot of blood spurted out of his mouth: "Don't do your best! Be sure to send it over! Promise me!"
When he said this, the man's pupils began to dissipate, and his eyes were not at all focused. Rather than asking for Luo Sen, it was better to say that he was expressing his obsession in his heart.
"Promise me, I will definitely protect...protect the academy!"
"Agree...Cough~~~Cough~~"
He began to cough, the heart-wrenching one, and gasped while coughing, but the crossbow arrows injured his lungs, and his lungs were already full of blood. As he coughed, he suddenly spurted out a large mouthful of blood with a "wow" sound, and then his head drooped down weakly, and his eyes gradually lost its luster.
Anne reached out to his breath, then shook her head at Rosen: "He's dead."
Rosen nodded with relief. He gently took the man's hand off his arm, then reached out and closed the man's eyes, and said, "Let's go, let's find his luggage."
He walked out of the reeds first, and Anne and Veronica followed.
Soon, the three of them walked on the dirt road outside and walked fifty or sixty meters along the dirt road, and saw the previous battle place. There were many corpses, including people and horses.
Except for one of these people, the wizard companion, the others were all hunting cavalry.
Rosen walked to a cavalry corpse and looked at the cavalry's outfit carefully. This guy was only a young man in his early twenties. He was wearing well-made cowhide armor, holding a steel sword in one hand and a crossbow in the other. On the right chest of his leather armor, there was a very delicate brass emblem. Looking at the pattern carefully, the background was a burning flame, and a cross sword was penetrated in the middle of the flame.
Seeing this mark, Rosen was shocked: "Witcher Hunter, Fire God's lackey."
In the early stage of the game, these wizard hunters only hunted down those black magicians, but after the Third Northern War, the Fire God Cult was supported by the king of the Kingdom of Cowell, the most powerful country in the north. Their power grew. The Fire God Cult established a jury. Any magician, as long as he did not register in the jury, was illegal and would be hunted by the wizard hunters. Once caught, he would be sent to the stolen rack.
Rosen remembers it very clearly that the headquarters of the Inquisition was set up in the city of Liberty Berkeley, so the wizard hunter in Berkeley was the most arrogant, just to the point of lawlessness.
On the other side, Anne had found the magician's horse, and she simply brought the entire duffel bag to Rosen.
"Rosen, that guy's stuff is here, the scroll box is inside."
"Very good." Rosen turned around and walked back towards the carriage: "It's not far from Berkeley, and more wizard hunters will be found soon. Let's leave quickly."
The three of them quickly returned to the carriage, and Rosen said to the coachman John: "Come on the way east, bypass Berkeley, and go to the capital of wisdom, Nilo Garder!"
Nellogard is northeast of Berkeley, and the two cities are only 40 kilometers away.
If Berkeley, the city of Freedom, is the base camp of the Fire God Cult, Nanogaard is the world of magicians. No matter how arrogant the wizard hunter is, he will not dare to act wildly in Niogaard.
Anne asked softly: "Rosen, are we going to take the way to Holderburg? Maybe they happen to have a solution to the magic of blood marks."
Rosen shook his head slightly: "It's too late to go. So many wizard hunters chased the magician just to regain the scroll, which shows that this thing is very important. Let's send this thing to Nilo Gard first."
"But the blood mark magic on you?" Annie looked worried. She didn't care about the scroll. The only thing she cared about about the blood mark magic on Rosen was already a knot in her heart.
"It's okay, there's still a year left, and there's still a lot of time. Besides, there are many magicians in the Capital of Wisdom, and the sage Niya is there. Maybe she has a way to help me." Luo Sen smiled.
"This is true that the sage Niya has supreme wisdom, and she must have a way." Anne nodded in agreement.
The carriage diverted and drove all the way east.
On the way, Rosen opened the dead magician's duffel bag and began to count the items inside.
There are not many things inside. Apart from some daily necessities, there are only three things, namely a diary, a closed scroll box, and a quartz crystal with many metal wires embedded on the surface. The crystal looks very beautiful, but unfortunately, there are many fine cracks inside, and the metal wires on the surface are also broken in many places.
Veronica glanced at the crystal and her eyes lit up: "Well~ it should be the unique messaging crystal of Nilo Gader, but unfortunately it has been damaged."
"Do you send a message to the crystal?" Luo Sen took a closer look at the wire structure on the surface of the crystal, thinking about something.
Annie looked at him and asked, "Rosen, can you fix it?"
Rosen smiled and said, "I don't have such great ability. I just think the structure of this thing looks familiar, so I took a few more glances."
Chapter completed!