That night, Elizabeth's whole party stayed in the guest room of the Duke's Palace.
After all, she had just been attacked, and a nice outing to find the cat had turned into a life-and-death fight. The princess definitely didn't want to leave the Duke's Palace tonight.
As for the rest of the team, they are all responsible for saving the princess, and the Duke will prepare rewards based on their merits tomorrow morning.
In the public living room of the guest room, Flint was excitedly showing off the wine he had found from the kitchen of the guest room: "Look! Although I don't know what kind of wine sherry is, as long as it is wine, no dwarf will do it.
reject!"
Michaela teased: "You obviously dislike the honey beer in the Three Wild Boars Tavern."
"That's different! I don't admit that it's wine!" the dwarf said, pulling out the cork of the sherry wine, bringing it to his nose and smelling it, "Oh, this smell is not that kind of wine for women. Come and try it.
taste!"
While talking about Kailin, the pastor poured the wine into the oak cup, picked it up and took a sip. Then his face twisted into a ball: "Why is it sweet?"
The cat man laughed loudly and continued teasing: "You don't understand, this is human wine. You can't drink it right away. You have to appreciate its color first, then smell its taste, and then taste it in small sips. You do this
If you drink it in one gulp, you won’t be able to taste it.”
Flint frowned: "What the hell! Forget it, I'll ask His Highness to get me some really strong Shire liquor later."
As he was putting the cork back into the bottle, Elizabeth opened the door and came in: "Good evening, everyone."
Michaela smiled and said: "I thought you went to the dance, I heard the music over there in the ballroom."
Elizabeth sighed: "How can I attend the dance under such circumstances? I just went to greet my father and happened to see my eldest brother reporting to him on the underground reconnaissance situation. The ranger of the team believed that there were at least 500 people underground.
A large group of goblins. The number of kobolds is incalculable.”
The mage who had been looking through the books in the guest room raised his head: "Five hundred. The knights and city defense forces currently guarding Langdon City are simply not enough to deal with these guys. Even the city police are not enough. Goblins and kobolds.
They are all good at operating in the dark underground."
Elizabeth: "Yes. So my brother is going to mobilize the poison and use the poisonous smoke produced by burning the poison to kill these evil creatures."
"Wait a minute!" Misha Sarah raised her hand, "What about the homeless people on the ground floor?"
Elizabeth: "Are there any homeless people? We didn't meet them when we went down, did we?"
Misha Sarah: "Of course you can't. We have an iron can that clangs when we walk, and it is obviously equipped with a spell caster, and there is a beautiful lady like you. All the wanderers are entering the dark vision range of the dwarves.
He ran away before."
"But Marika didn't tell us that there were homeless people?" Elizabeth looked at Marika who was hiding nearby and blending into the darkness away from the candlestick.
The drow replied: "I found a lot of wanderers, but they posed no threat, so I didn't take the time to report them."
Elizabeth immediately turned around: "I'll go tell my brother!"
Marika stopped her: "If the kobolds and goblins in the underground can be eliminated, the death of some wanderers is acceptable."
Elizabeth: "No, we should at least notify the homeless first and let them take shelter."
King: "Then the enemy will also take refuge."
Elizabeth looked at the king and then at Marika.
Wang continued: "However, I think using poisonous smoke is a bad idea. It is too inefficient. And it cannot ensure that all goblins and kobolds are killed."
Elizabeth's hope rekindled: "What can we do?"
"Mobilize enough troops, use rangers and rogues to track the enemy's tracks and kill them all."
Elizabeth: "It's just that we don't have so many troops to mobilize, so we have to use poisonous smoke."
Marika: "Your Highness, sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils."
Elizabeth looked a little depressed: "That's what I was taught. But...Wang, please give me some advice. Can we keep these wanderers alive and achieve our goal?"
Wang frowned: "This is a bit difficult."
The dwarf helped: "He is a mage, not a magician. There is no way to change people out of thin air. But as Kailin's pastor, I also hope not to sacrifice these homeless people. Kailin is a kind god after all. But He doesn't
Will force it."
Wang: "It's not completely impossible."
The dwarf was shocked: "Is there any way to do this?"
Wang continued: "I will choose to delay your brother's action to see if our lure to the enemy is effective. The mastermind behind the scenes must have commanded the goblins and kobolds in some way. Catch him and figure out how he commands.
, you can lure the goblins and kobolds into the trap and kill them all."
Elizabeth's expression immediately became clear: "You still have a way. Then I'll go tell my brother..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang suddenly raised his hand and made a "quiet" gesture.
When the dwarf saw this, he immediately blew out the candlestick on the table.
Races with dark vision will have an advantage in the dark, and there is no reason not to take advantage of this when there are dwarves and drow in the party.
But the king opened the window and let in a crow.
As soon as the crow came in, he shouted: "Something has happened! Something has happened! The Duke has fainted!"
Elizabeth turned around suddenly and knocked down something in the darkness.
Wang: "Don't get excited. It's probably just an ordinary physical illness, and isn't the Duke planning the next move with the eldest prince? The eldest prince should be watching over you. Anyway, let's go to the Duke's study first to see what's going on."
**
The Duke's study has been transformed with astonishing speed into a small altar.
A large number of Lancelot's priests crowded into the room, and their gilded white robes almost caught the king's eyes.
The Duke has been placed on the table. He was probably worried that he would not be able to safely move to a bed in his current condition, so he could only do it temporarily. Lancelot's Holy Emblem, which was moved from an unknown church, was placed on the old man's table.
The top of the head acts as a light source.
Of course, in addition to the Holy Emblem, dozens of compound candlesticks were added throughout the room, dispersing the shadows in every corner of the room.
Elizabeth rushed directly to her father and grabbed the old man's hand: "Dad! What's wrong with you, Dad?"
The king's attention was not on the princess, but on the second prince who was also in the room.
Bruce also looked at Wang seriously and made a gesture with his hand to let him pay attention to his surroundings.
The king began to observe the surroundings. At this moment, the eldest prince spoke: "Master, you come from that magic tower, you should be well-informed, right? Come and take a look at this bottle. It contains father's gastrointestinal medicine."
"
Because the Duke was afraid of being assassinated, he had to let the poison testers eat the food 24 hours in advance before eating. In order to keep the food fresh before the poison test results came out, the dishes would be refrigerated in a magic ice cellar.
Because he kept eating cold dishes, the Duke's gastrointestinal condition was very bad and he had to take medication to treat his gastrointestinal tract.
The king took the bottle and asked: "Your Highness..."
"My name is Wayne Langdon, just call me by my first name."
At this time, the priest wearing a gorgeous robe asked: "Your Highness, just now did you say that this is... that apprentice?"
"Yes."
All the priests looked at Wang with surprised eyes, while he concentrated on studying the bottle in his hand. While studying, he continued the question: "Your Highness, Your Highness Wayne, you are responsible for preparing this stomach medicine, right?
?”
"No, I am only responsible for collecting the materials, and my father's pharmacist is responsible for refining. Now I have arrested all those pharmacists and are being interrogated."
King: "By your gardener?"
Wayne: "By our gardener."
The mage nodded, put the bottle close to his nose and smelled: "I need to get some props."
His Royal Highness made a gesture of invitation.
Then the mage handed the bottle to the catman next to him and took out the dimensional bag himself.
Everyone present who saw this dimensional bag for the first time took a step back, their expressions were exactly the same as those of the spellcasters this afternoon.
Wang took out a staff from inside and shouted to the bottle: "Detect poison!"