The fog on the sea is getting thicker and thicker, and the hustle and bustle of Palermo's dock area is equally lively.
Tonight will be the last night many sailors spend on land this month.
If you go to the Northland tomorrow, you have to wait until at least the beginning of next month to stop at the nearest port tavern and indulge yourself.
After handing over the materials to Wagner and giving some instructions on the details of the weapon drawings, Woody said goodbye to his blacksmith shop.
The single-carriage carriage left amid the sound of iron felt and hammering, and then left the trading area without looking back.
Head to the aristocratic neighborhood across the bridge.
Today, the inspection at the bridge, the only passage leading to the aristocratic district, is extremely strict. This group of professional soldiers with an average level of over 5 is meticulously checking any place where people may be hiding. At the same time, everyone who enters the aristocratic district is also inspected.
Pedestrians or nobles all undergo a lighting test.
The subject is required to open his or her eyes and face the strong light. If there is no excessive reaction, the subject will pass. This is the most convenient way to examine underground creatures. The brightest object that most drow or gray dwarves have ever seen is a species.
The luminous spores that fill the entire cave have rarely experienced too intense glare. Even if the camouflaged drow's eyelids are coated with blinding ointment specially designed to resist sunlight, they cannot resist this kind of inspection.
Soon, it was Woody's turn to check. The guard captain, who carried a two-handed sword on his back and wore silver armor, showed a little respect after seeing that the carriage belonged to Edith.
"Your Excellency, according to the count's order, all persons entering the noble area will be subject to routine inspection."
"Check it out."
Woody didn't pay much attention, it was just a routine inspection. He stepped out of the carriage, opened his golden beast eyes, and let the strong light shine directly.
However, when the bright light disappeared and the inspection was completed, Woody, who was very perceptive, still felt that there was still a gaze on him.
He looked around with some confusion from the corner of his eye, and found that there were the noble guards who were smiling apologetically at him, and his companions behind him.
As he entered the carriage.
The feeling of locked gazes gradually disappeared.
…
"No problem, let me go!"
As usual, the guard captain guarding the bridge planned to get out of the way and let the Edith family's carriage leave. However, what he didn't expect was that the carriage did not move away, but instead opened the door again.
A young voice came from inside.
"Hello, Your Excellency, can you let me see that thing in your hand?"
The captain subconsciously wanted to refuse, but found out that it was the member of the Edith family just now.
A very polite black-haired young man with strange golden eyes, he was referring to the magical object in his hand that emits strong light.
"Oh well."
The captain looked at Woody and saw that there were no other carriages waiting behind him. Since the nobles of the Edith family in front of him wanted to observe, there was no reason to refuse.
He just happened to be thinking about how to find an opportunity to show his face in front of the Edith family. Now this family emblem is the most popular in the city. He quickly handed the test stone into the hands of this noble young man.
"This is the shining stone given to us by Priest Gwell of the Dawn Temple. It is not a valuable thing. We only need to shake it gently and then thumb..."
Seeing the noble boy who got off the carriage playing with the oval-shaped sparkling stone in his hand, the captain began to tell him how to use it.
"Oh? Is that so?"
This handsome-looking aristocratic young man stared at those golden pupils and made a confused sound in his mouth, but the movements of his hands were not slow. Before the captain finished speaking, the movements of this aristocratic young man's hands
He had rehearsed the steps that the guard captain had not yet spoken out in advance. It came unexpectedly, and everyone present was shocked by his move.
Following a burst of violent light, the area was completely covered, and at the same time there was a strange exclamation, with an inhuman tone.
When the light dissipated, many guards discovered that a fellow soldier who was standing with them was rubbing his eyes frantically, tears streaming down uncontrollably, and the painful sounds coming from his mouth did not belong to any area in Palermo.
In a tone of voice, as his face was soaked with tears and the rubbed skin gradually turned black, the truth became clear.
——"Drow!"
——"It's a drow!"
I don’t know who was the first to make this frightening sound. Anyway, everyone subconsciously surrounded him, and the drow warrior who was blinded and disguised as a guard was looking at a certain person with a face filled with resentment.
Direction, surviving in the darkness all year round, most drow warriors master "blind fighting" with great ease.
——"The surface people who deserve to be eaten by thousands of spiders!"
——"You can't run away, you are destined to die! The will of the great Spider Queen already knows you!"
——"In the name of Nimun Faltes!"
Gu Jiao
——"After I die, you will die with me!"
--"Together……"
However, before the drow warrior named Nimune had finished speaking, the sound of cold swords piercing the air and the angry shouts of the guard captain could be heard at the same time.
"Death! The black-skinned monster! He disguised himself as my favorite Matthew, my poor little Matthew, who hasn't even married a wife yet."
The guard captain gnashed his teeth and wanted to chew up the drow in front of him. The moment the drow revealed his true identity, he had already stepped past Woody's figure and was bound to kill him with his hand.
Under the blade of the sword, you will redeem your sins.
However, even if the drow's vision is affected, he is not that easy to kill. At least when faced with such a loud sword move, he can detect the movement even if he is blind and has experience fighting in the darkness for many years.
He casually drew out the cross sword from his waist, and blocked the guard captain's "slash" attack that infused him with strength.
Clang clang clang!
The two exchanged a few moves again, and the captain of the guard in front may have the upper hand. Every attack made the drow suppressed and breathless, as if he was struggling to survive under his sword moves.
The surrounding guards suddenly cheered.
However, as time went by, only the guard captain himself understood that whether it was the armor on his body or the giant sword in his hand, it was a huge drain on physical strength.
We can't go on like this, let's end it neatly.
——"Chong Wu's four consecutive cuts."
The two-handed sword slashed at the drow warrior in front of him with a strong wind, although he was blind but his skills were like a ghost. The range was unexpectedly large and the destructive power was full. Even if there was one of the most ferocious drow warriors standing in front of him,
Bugbear, he was confident that he would cut it into pieces.
In the face of this sword skill, you either have to run out of the attack range in advance, or you have to face it head-on.
He had the opportunity, waiting for the damn blind black man in front of him to fall into the trap.
Die!
Under my sword!
However, what happened was beyond his surprise. Even though the drow in front of him was blind, he seemed to have judged the landing point of his attack in advance. Facing the two-handed sword that was speeding towards him, he did not choose to retreat, but stayed close to the sword.
He quickly approached the sword owner.
Too bad!
The guard captain's heart tightened as he failed to use his long sword again. He immediately forcibly stopped the sword move and prepared to push sideways, exerting force on his waist and draining his energy to carry out a short-distance charge.
But before he could turn around, the drow's strange figure sped up again, and he lost his sight target.
That's... bad!
The guard captain wanted to curse in his heart, but as the faint voice came from behind, his heart skipped a beat, and a chill ran down his spine. He wanted to turn around, but found that he couldn't turn back at all.
"Die! Surface people! Use your blood to pay tribute to my dead compatriots first!"
The drow warrior who dodged behind the guard captain was in a state of madness, and the long sword in his hand had already traced the trajectory of the blazing light, stabbing hard at his neck where the gap in the armor was.
"Ho ho... I'm regretting..."
He couldn't help but want to laugh heartily, and wanted to rely on his perception to show a malicious smile to the hateful human who exposed him.
However, the words he had not yet spoken were suddenly stuck in his throat, and the severe pain on the right side of his neck caused his voice to stop abruptly.
A slow steel sword without any sound or trajectory was stuck in his neck like cutting wood. Blood spurted out from the cut wound.
The eyes of this drow warrior were full of shock, because the sensory feedback caused by the blind battle made him not feel anyone nearby at all.
This long sword seemed to be conjured out of thin air. It wasn't until it came into contact with his neck that it revealed its sharpest fangs.
"How did you..."
His words were full of disbelief, but as the blade shook again, the pain in his neck intensified, and then he felt that his center of gravity suddenly lost balance, and his weak vision gradually returned to tell him.
He is in heaven now...
At the same time, the last picture of the brain consciousness feedback that has not been completely stopped.
It was the scene where the human who had escaped Lady Elise's magic at night took back the sword.
And under the gloomy sky, the extremely cold golden beast eyes...
