"According to the news from the Magic Guild of Bena Province, a great magician from this organization has quietly sneaked into the city of Helensa. Our law enforcement team is currently secretly investigating this matter."
Speaking of this, Lance took out a magic portrait from his arms.
A magician stood lifelike in the portrait. Lance pointed at the magician in the portrait and introduced to Suldak:
"His name is Arvid Ives. The bounty on the wanted poster from the Magic Guild has reached as high as thirty magic crystals. It is said that several demon hunter organizations are looking for traces of him because he is good at space.
He is a magician, so he escaped several rounds of arrests against him. This time there were clues that he came to Helensa City and met with a rebel liaison. Although the magician of our law enforcement team who was responsible for tracking the matter did not pursue it.
We found Arvid’s whereabouts, but we found clues about the rebel liaison in the city of Halanza.”
The dark red magic robe is covered with strange magic patterns, and there is a wand inlaid with seven gems, surrounded by several lightning bolts. It looks extraordinary.
Suldak said to Lance in surprise: "Rebels... There are still rebels in the Green Empire? This is really the first time I have heard of it..."
Lance nodded and said, "That's it. Even during the period when the situation in the empire was the most stable, there were still some rebel forces appearing in various places. Some forces usually occupied a certain small plane and then cut off the portal with Roland Continent.
It is not uncommon for such organizations to be organized in such a small plane, and most of these rebel organizations are related to this magical organization."
Suldak motioned for Lance to continue...
"A week ago, we received news from an informant that the rebel liaison actually appeared at Baixiang Trading Company. However, not long after he left Baixiang Trading Company, he died in the back alley of a shopping street, and was later killed by a man.
The maid who went out to take out the garbage discovered that by the time our people arrived, the body had already been completely cold and there were no clues left."
Lance said to Suldak:
“We suspect that this matter has something to do with the Dale Magician. Duck, on April 17th of this month, did you go to the White Elephant Trading Company?”
Surdak thought about it, and that day happened to be the last day he stayed in the city of Helensa. He nodded calmly and said: "Yes, I went to see the Dale magician and signed a contract with the White Elephant Trading Company regarding sulfur."
Mine contract."
Lance asked: "When you were at Baixiang Trading Company, did you see a foreigner wearing black clothes and a thin face?"
Suldak recalled it carefully and said with certainty: "No."
Lance showed some disappointment in his eyes, patted Suldak on the shoulder and said, "If you have any clues about this, remember to write to me."
Seeing that Lance didn't ask any other questions, Suldak asked in shock: "Uh... you flew here just to ask me these questions face to face?"
Lance Magician nodded seriously: "It is a matter of great importance, and every piece of information must be carefully checked."
He pulled out the magic handle from his magic belt bag, let it float in front of him, straddled it, and hurried away on the magic handle without even drinking water.
Of course, the arrival of Lance magician could not be concealed from the old village chief Bright. By the time he arrived at Suldak's side, Lance had already flown into the sky without a trace, and stood alone on the foundation stone.
Looking at the clouds in the sky, he sighed sincerely:
“This young magician is so sleepless and forgetful about food and sleep at work. When he came to Wall Village, he left without even having a drink of water…”
The security team's house was built according to Surdak's design drawings and construction methods. The foundation was paved with strips of limestone, and then the gaps in the rock blocks were filled with volcanic ash cement slurry. Currently, only the foundation part has been completed.
Old village chief Bright is very busy every day. Whether it is the construction site of the tidal flat drainage channel or the construction site of the reservoir, there are a lot of trivial matters waiting for him to coordinate, so he stayed with the security team for a while and then left.
Suldak walked under the shade of the tree, took out the magic notebook from his arms, and asked Celia Cooper on the page: "Celia, do you know the magician Arvid Ives?"
Celia Cooper was sleeping in the magic notebook. Suldak opened the pages of the book and woke her up from her sleep, which made her boss unhappy.
She stretched out in the pages of the book, glanced at Suldak through the railing, and said:
"He is a great space magician who is proficient in space magic and building magic teleportation arrays. It is said that the double-door teleportation array in Durva Province was designed by this great magician himself! But it seems that later because of research,
The forbidden magic of another dimension was tracked down and wanted by the Magic Guild of the Imperial City, and later joined the Dark Moon Gate."
“Dark Moon Gate?” Surdak repeated.
Celia Cooper nodded and said: "Well, it is a magic organization composed entirely of space magicians. Since the Green Empire has a complete inheritance of fire magic, more than half of the top management of the Empire Magic Union are fire magicians.
They exclude magicians from other factions. Therefore, about a few decades ago, a collective defection of space magicians broke out in the Green Empire Magic Union. The Dark Moon Gate, a magic organization, was to resist the magic union at that time.
And a temporary magic organization."
"This magic organization has several magicians who are proficient in teleportation circles. After some noble lords plan to occupy a certain plane, if they plan to break away from the rule of the Green Empire, they usually come to the Dark Moon Gate and ask them to seal the teleportation circle.
Door, cut off all ties with the Green Empire."
“They found me once, when Margaret, Cyrus Hickok and I were preparing to copy the Devil’s Gate, so we didn’t accept their invitation.”
After listening to Celia Cooper's explanation, Suldak realized that the Dark Moon Gate was actually an illegal organization and was on the opposite side of the Green Empire Magic Union. No wonder the Magic Union would look for them whenever there was an opportunity.
The trouble for these space magicians.
As for those rebels who betrayed the Green Empire, they have probably been closely watched by the imperial intelligence department...
As expected.
Three days later, the security team of Paglos Mountain in Helensa City received a message from the guard camp. It was said that two imperial rebels escaped from Helensa City overnight. They hid in Oak Ridge at night, and if they
If you want to leave Bena Province as soon as possible, you will most likely need to cross the deserted land and then go north along the Paglos Mountains. Although this road is difficult, it is the most stable way to leave.
Mainly because the Paglos Mountains are like a north-south beacon, lying across the territory of the Green Empire.
After receiving the news, Surdak quickly unfolded the map of the Desolate Lands jointly surveyed by Andrew and Samira, and circled the area bordering Oak Ridge and the Desolate Lands with a red line. Surdak analyzed these two
The rebels are not familiar with the desolate land, and their advance route will not stray too far from the mountain roads.
In the past few days, Andrew has been riding two horses, patrolling the Gobi Desert alone in the deserted land. The full-coverage armor he wore was too heavy, so he had to switch to another horse after riding for a while, so that he could ride on another horse.
Both horses maintain their strength.
Half-elf archer Samira doesn't need to be so troublesome, and Samira, who has elven blood, is naturally close to nature. She can communicate with her mount superficially, so she can ride a horse and roam around in the deserted land.
visit.
Andrew and Samira investigated the whereabouts of the two rebels and notified nineteen villages to take precautions. Since they were absconding rebels, in order to keep their whereabouts secret, they would inevitably do something to kill people and silence them.
Because the villages had taken precautions in advance, the two rebels were discovered by the villagers when they sneaked into a village to steal food, thus exposing their whereabouts.
When Suldak received the news, Andrew and Samira were still out on patrol. The deserted land was quite a large territory. Andrew and Samira had to stay outside for nearly a week every time they went out.
Return to Wall Village once.
He knew that this kind of thing could not wait, so he took the ogre Gulitum who was about to follow the four-wheeled carriage into the depths of the deserted land and chased him in the direction mentioned by the villager who reported the news.
The four-wheeled carriages transporting volcanic ash have carved a bare road in the Gobi Desert, and there are basically no sharp gravels on this road.
The villager led the way on an ancient Bolai horse. After all, the horse was fast. In the afternoon, the villager took Suldak and the ogre Gulitem to the small mountain village called Uta by the locals.
, after the villager returned to the village, he asked the two rebels in detail about their escape route, and then walked into the deserted Gobi Desert again.
In the deserted land in early May, the temperature difference between day and night is huge.
The temperature is extremely low at night, and during the day, a scorching sun shines overhead, evaporating the only layer of moisture on the surface.
Riding a horse on the rolling Gobi Desert, at a glance, there are yellow gravels everywhere. This place is located ten kilometers north of Pudu Mountain. The route chosen by the two rebels also tried to avoid it as much as possible.
As long as you bypass the smoky Pudu Mountain, it will not be so desolate, but it will go deep into the mountains where monsters are rampant.
Before Surdak left the house, the old village chief repeatedly warned Surdak that he must not enter the depths of the Paglos Mountains.
The villager walking in the front stopped.
Surdak looked at him doubtfully. He pointed to a hillside in front of him on the left. Surdak looked over intently and saw two people wearing earth-colored linen cloaks on the hillside from a distance.
, leading the horse on foot.
The ogre Gulitum followed Surdak all the way, but caught almost nothing except a gray rock iguana.
Seeing these two travelers leading their horses on foot, I immediately became energetic.
Surdak took the lead and chased the two rebels. The ogre Gulitem did not fall behind. The two did not conceal their whereabouts at all, so that the other party discovered the attempt behind them very early.
When they caught up with Surdak, the two rebels were very alert. When they saw Surdak catching up, they jumped on their horses and fled towards the north without hesitation.
The two rebels did not ride horses along the way in order to keep their two horses with sufficient strength when escaping.
So they ran very fast at first, and the distance between them and Surdak was getting further and further away. However, the endurance of the two horses was very average. As the sun was about to set, the speed gradually slowed down.
The war horse Surdak is riding is his old companion. Since its broken leg has been strengthened by the magic scroll of Ferdinand Scholar, its physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary ancient Bolai horses.
The ogre Gulitem only cares about whether the rebels' two horses can be eaten, and has been following Surdak steadily. No matter how fast Surdak's horses run, the ogre can rely on two
Padfoot catches up.
When he was still a hundred meters away from the two rebels, the ogre Gulitem bent down and picked up a stone as big as a Frisbee from the ground. He took a deep breath while running and held it.
The hand on the edge of the stone stretched back, then held in a breath and threw the stone violently.
That stone was like a spinning flying saucer, whizzing towards the rebels in front.
By the time the rebels realized something was wrong, the stone had already hit the right rear of the horse, and the sharp stone immediately opened a long wound on the horse.
A neighing sound almost knocked off the rebels on horseback.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the two rebels immediately ran away in two directions. Surdak pointed at the ogre Gulitem's injured war horse and signaled him to take charge of the rebel.
He quickly chased after another rebel.
Originally, Suldak thought that the rebels were all powerful first-tier warriors. As soon as they made contact, Suldak felt that the rebel had little combat effectiveness. However, he still tested it very cautiously and swung his sword to fight.
The rebel fought hard once, and the craftsman's heavy sword in his hand cut off the rebel soldier's long sword. Suldak sat upright on the horse, then waved the dwarf chain shield in his hand, knocking the rebel off his horse.
Down.
These actions were completed in one go, and the rebel was subdued with almost no effort wasted. Looking back at Gulitum, the ogre had already begun to look for ropes everywhere, clumsily tying the rebel tightly.
Two horses were captured this time. Although one of the horses was injured in the hip, with Surdak, I believe that the horse's injury will heal soon.
There was a severe shortage of horses in the village of Vol, so Surdak decisively refused the ogre's request to taste horse meat.
Suldak then brought the two rebels back to the village of Wall, and sent a message to Karl in the city of Halanza, telling him that the two fleeing rebels had been captured.
Suldak locked the two rebels in a wooden cage next to the kobold slave shed at the entrance of the village, and asked Luke, who was responsible for managing the group of kobold slaves, to help guard them.
Before Surdak could go home and have a good sleep, Luke, who was responsible for guarding the two rebels, caught up with Surdak and said, "Dak, those two people wanted to talk to you.
, saying that I want to make a deal with you..."
Suldak waved his hand to Luke and said: "Ignore them for the time being and let them calm down. Otherwise, they don't know what conditions they are going to offer. What qualifications do they have to negotiate with me now..."