There are many shops opposite the Knight Academy and near the Magic Tower. Many shops here are dedicated to providing services to magicians, including some magic materials, magic scrolls, books, magic robes, staffs, etc. A wide variety of shops
, there are also hotels and restaurants. It is close to the wealthy area, so the consumption level is one of the highest in Helensa City.
A magic caravan was parked next to the sycamore tree that had lost all its leaves. There was still some snow on the grass on the roadside. Karl was sitting on a bench wearing a thick coat. He raised his eyes and looked at the man who was walking quickly.
Surdak smiled helplessly and said: "I really want to know, if I don't come to see you, can you really remain calm and not ask about the outcome of this matter?"
Suldak was wearing some old Warcraft leather armor and sat casually next to Karl. Sitting on the bench, he could see a magic shop called Oriana across the street. He asked Karl:
"You can't wait until the weekend to come back and tell me what happened in the past two days?"
“Don’t you know how serious this assassination is?” Karl asked Suldak.
He stood up, stared at Suldak seriously and said: "That is not an ordinary assassin. He is an assassin who specializes in performing special tasks in the Black Magic Monastery. He killed two swordsmen in the guard camp in one encounter.
Soldiers, those two are the most outstanding swordsmen in the guard camp."
“So...” Surdak asked with a smile.
Seeing Suldak's lackluster reaction, Karl approached and asked, "I want to know...how you escaped the assassin's assassination."
Suldak sat up straight and said to Karl: "I made full preparations in advance, and of course there was a little bit of luck involved. You may not know... I used to be a shield warrior in the infantry regiment. In order to cope with that day
I even bought a shield for possible assassinations at night..."
With that said, he pulled out a door panel-like tower shield from his magic belt bag and stood on the ground with a clang.
Karl's eyes widened and he looked at Suldak in shock and said, "You are exaggerating. You can actually lift such a heavy tower shield!"
Surdak put his arm through the sheath on the north side of the shield, lifted up the tower shield effortlessly, and then demonstrated to Karl: "This shield is tied to the forearm. Although it is big and bulky,
But you don’t need to move frequently during battle, just stay in front of you.”
Karl touched the surface of the shield. The neatly arranged four-sided spikes felt cold to the touch, and there were some dried blood stains on the surface.
Seeing Karl looking at the tower shield in a daze, Surdak was not in a hurry to put away the tower shield. He put a hand on Karl's shoulder and asked him: "What's so good about this ordinary heavy shield? Whatever
You can buy it from a blacksmith shop in Helensa City. By the way...have you caught Ms. Samoa?"
“She slipped away...” Karl said with an embarrassed look.
Suldak felt that he might have heard wrongly, but seeing Karl's constipated expression, he asked Karl with a headache: "This... can she still run away?"
Karl explained to Suldak apologetically: "At the beginning, the higher-ups in the camp had a negative attitude towards arresting Samoa. She is a well-known performer in the opera. They thought my speculation was not valid.
On any basis, if I hadn't brought it up at the meeting, they wouldn't have even wanted to monitor Samoa."
"But later on, no one expected that she was actually a puppet warlock! Although we sent out monitors, she actually used puppetry to lure the monitors away, and then killed five guards who were chasing her along the way.
The knight just ran away while being chased and intercepted by the guard camp!"
"But our people didn't see her leaving the city. She should still be staying in the city of Halanza..."
Surdak's face was a little dark. There were probably only two possibilities for Samoa not leaving Helensa City. The first was that she had a very safe hiding place in the city, where she could avoid being hunted by the black dogs of the guard camp.
, the second one is that she hid in a certain residence in the city of Helensa, just waiting for the assassination to be successful before leaving quietly.
Suldak only hoped that it would not be the second type, because... he was very likely to be one of Samoa's targets.
He asked Karl: "Then what are you going to do?"
Karl rubbed his hands and said to Suldak: "We analyze that Samoa's target is probably you. The intention above is to use you to come forward to lure them out."
"You mean the members of the Black Magic Monastery will take the initiative to look for me?" Surdak frowned. This was the scene he least wanted to see, but the matter had reached this point, and it was useless to blame anyone.
We can only make up for it by working together, and Suldak asked Karl again: "Then what do you need me to do?"
Seeing that Suldak didn't get angry or say any harsh words, Karl said quickly: "We will arrange for you to leave the city. They may plan an interception on your way home. This time they will send constructor knights to protect you."
For your safety, the camp will also mobilize a large number of manpower this time, and will also notify the magicians in the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Group. This time it will be absolutely foolproof. If this trouble is not dealt with, no one will be able to sleep every night in the future.
A good night’s sleep.”
Suldak was a little hesitant. Of course, he also knew that what Karl was telling the truth was that if the Black Magic Priory did not solve the problem, trouble would come to his door sooner or later.
"But here at the Knight Academy..." Suldak thought about the arduous cultural classes every day. No matter what, he had to get the graduation certificate from the Knight Academy.
Karl waved his hand casually and said, "I'll help you with this. Coming here to study is actually just a formality for us. There's no need to be so serious."
“You have to give me some time to think about it...” Suldak said.
Then, seeing Karl staring at him intently, Suldak sighed softly, and could only bite the bullet and agree and asked: "Okay, what's in it for me?"
After getting the desired result, Karl smiled, as if he had been prepared to say directly: "We will invite you to join the Guard Camp Knights."
Suldak sat back on the bench feebly and asked Karl: "Can this be considered a reward?"
In fact, the knights of the guard camp are just like the night watchmen in the city. In the eyes of the people of the Green Empire, they are a group of stinky turds with low ability to do things and only exploit ordinary citizens. They are a group of hooligans who receive government subsidies.
This group of knights, who usually roam the streets on horseback and show off their power, are always the last to arrive when an emergency arises.
Suldak really doesn’t want to wear this layer of black skin unless necessary.
Karl smiled proudly and said to Suldak: "When you enter the guard camp, you will find that there are many benefits to becoming a formal knight. Believe me, this decision will not be wrong."
Although the guard camp in Halanza City is unpopular with the people, it is still considered an official department of the Green Empire.
Suldak asked again: "By the way, how is the situation at Baron Grenfell's estate?"
Carl's smile froze, and his originally somewhat arrogant expression suddenly weakened, and he only said: "The superiors are planning to use Samoa as a breakthrough point. As long as I can find something from Samoa, I can apply for a search warrant!"
Okay! The implication of this sentence is that Baron Grenfell is still under the protection of the Green Empire's noble decree, and the guard camp currently has no right to infringe on Baron Grenfell's personal rights.
Suldak put the large tower shield next to him back into the magic belt bag. Apart from being a bit bulky to carry, this shield had no other shortcomings.
The weather is a bit cold, and pedestrians passing by on the street are all wearing windbreakers. Occasionally, you can see magic apprentices wearing magic robes. In the city of Helensa, this is probably the only place where you can see magicians.
Karl rubbed his cheeks, which were numb from the cold, and looked around. Sure enough, there was a tavern sign not far ahead. He pointed at the tavern and asked Suldak:
“Would you like to find a pub and have another drink?”
Suldak looked at the sky and saw that it was just noon. He shook his head and refused: "Forget it, who knows when Samoa will come out."
Seeing that Surdak was unwilling to go into the pub for a drink, Karl had no choice but to give up and said to Surdak: "Oh, by the way, if there is nothing else to do in the afternoon, come to the guard camp with me to register and officially join the job.
"
Suldak shrugged helplessly and said: "I have four more cultural classes to attend in the afternoon!"
“Okay, I’ll go to the Knight Academy with you first and take care of the academy’s affairs first!” Karl put his arm around Suldak’s shoulders and smiled at him.
As he spoke, he waved to the magic caravan parked on the roadside, and was about to take the carriage with Suldak to the Knight Academy. Suddenly he felt Suldak stop, and Karl asked strangely: "What's wrong?"
?”
Surdak stopped and looked at the door of Oriana's Puppet Magic Store. Through the glass window, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a lot of people gathered inside, and some people were even standing inside arguing. Surdak said:
"I saw some acquaintances, new classmates in the Knight Academy."
“Do you want to go say hello to them?” Karl asked.
Suldak withdrew his gaze, waved his hand indifferently, and said: "Forget it, there are at least two generation gaps between me and them, but we don't have much in common... But it seems like they have encountered some trouble."
While talking, the door of Oriana's Puppet Magic Shop was suddenly knocked open, and two teenagers were pushed out of the shop in embarrassment, followed by a dozen young people wearing leather armor and swords hanging from their waists.
The emblem on the chest is not the sword and shield that represents the knight, but the double-edged sword inserted among the roses that symbolizes the swordsman. The group of teenagers had a proud look on their faces, just in front of the Oriana Puppet Shop.
, a dozen apprentice swordsmen surrounded two apprentice knights.
Lina, Nedra and three other girls whom Surdak didn't know chased out of Oriana's puppet shop. Lina ran at the front and shouted at the trainee swordsmen: "Vic, you
Stop……"
A blond boy stood out among these trainee swordsmen. He approached Lina and preached to Lina: "Lina, I have told you so many times, you have to go out to practice and be with us."
We have already prepared everything to form an adventure team. Why do we need to organize another one? Even if it is an organization, we cannot just find some rabble. Although there are no powerful monsters in that demiplane,
After all, there are still some dangers lurking.”
Linna stood at the door of Oriana's Puppet Shop, her big lake-blue eyes widened, and she said to Vic: "You have no right to interfere with what I want to do. If you dare to hurt my classmates, I will definitely kill them."
You look good!”
Subsequently, Lina waved to the distance, and the two guards waiting beside a magic caravan hurriedly ran towards Lina.
Suldak knew that Linna's family was wealthy, but he did not expect that she would be accompanied by two guards. She was obviously from a noble family in the city of Helensa.
The young man Vic said with a playful smile: "I'm just helping you train their adaptability."
A group of his companions surrounded the two apprentice knights in the middle. A group of people stared eagerly at the two apprentice knights back to back.
"You fart... Ouch!" one of the apprentice knights yelled angrily, but was slapped hard by an apprentice swordsman in the crowd.
The two guards who ran over did not come forward, they just protected Lina behind them and said with a serious face: "Master Vic, you can't do this..."
“It’s not your turn to teach me what I do!” the young Vic angrily shouted with arrogance.
The two guards blushed for a moment, but they did not dare to really teach the young man in front of them.
Seeing a dozen trainee swordsmen blocking the entrance of Oriana's Puppet Shop, pushing and shoving the two trainee swordsmen in the crowd, but no one really dared to rush to the rescue. Linna, who was blocked at the door of the store, took a step.
Stepping out and pushing Vic away, she tried to break into the group of trainee swordsmen and pull out her two companions.
Nedra followed closely behind, but the two girls were powerless against this group of apprentice swordsmen who were stronger than themselves.
The other three female companions stood aside and did not dare to make a move. Seeing that she could not break into the crowd, Lina quickly chased the young Vic, pointed her finger at his face, and said to him in the most stern tone: "Vic, you better
Hurry up and let them go! Otherwise I'll have someone do it."
The two guards who followed Lina closely also took off the shields on their backs, stood up from Lina, and put pressure on Vic.
After all, this group of trainee swordsmen were only teenagers of thirteen or fourteen years old. Facing the guards who were already adults, they still felt very oppressive. For a moment, the group of trainee swordsmen retreated one after another, and the two trainee knights looked embarrassed.
Escape from the crowd.
It’s just that the young Vic refused to suffer the loss, “Shake people, right?”
He picked up the whistle hanging around his neck and blew it hard. A sharp sound sounded. Immediately there was the neighing of war horses in the distance, a burst of horse hoofbeats, and a group of knights quickly rushed from Suldak and Karl.
He rushed past in front of him and rushed directly to the young Vic.
Five ancient Bolai horses and the sturdy armored knights on the horses suddenly escalated this small incident of mere jealousy.