37. Chapter 37 The mastermind behind the scenes appears
Author: Gushan fishing snow
Chapter 37 The mastermind behind the scenes appears
After dinner, Wang met the rest of the team in the living room where the wardrobe was.
The mage took out the dimensional bag and began to distribute the items recovered by the drow elves to everyone. While doing so, he said: "Yesterday the drow took 10,000 gold coins. I think this is considered the property of the Langdon family and should be decided by Her Royal Highness the Princess.
How to use it."
"Ah?" Elizabeth was a little surprised, "Uh...I give you the authority to make the decision! You can use it to purchase everything you need for adventure."
When Misha Sarah heard the word "adventure", she suddenly laughed: "Adventure, yesterday the word "adventure" felt like I was playing house, but after everything I experienced yesterday, everything is different."
"Because we did encounter a huge danger. Although the one who was injured the most was the one who didn't need to worry about being injured the least," Flint said.
Wang: "Thank you for your treatment yesterday. We gained two things in total yesterday. The first one was this counter-spell ring. Elizabeth gave it to me and decided to give Mark, who discovered the ring, 4,500 gold coins as compensation. But... Mark died.
, so I got a ring for nothing.
"The second harvest is this Banshee's Wail scroll. As a nine-ring scroll, the person who tears the scroll must have considerable experience in using magic devices. The scroll is also a kind of magic device..."
Malika concluded on behalf of the mage: "This scroll can only be used by you."
Wang nodded: "Yes. So the current situation is that I have taken both harvests. I think there is no need to take me with you when the rewards will be discussed later. In addition, the spell of Banshee's Wail does not distinguish between friend and foe.
, if I want to tear up the scroll, I must ensure that I stand in the middle of the enemy group, without any friendly troops.
"So I think I may need to master dimension jumping first. This is a five-ring magic. Invisibility will also work, but this spell will be detected by the enemy if it is cast in front of the enemy, so I may need an invisibility potion to match this scroll."
Elizabeth looked at Wang: "Can you master all the spells in this level immediately after you have the power to cast the next level?"
Wang: "Of course not. As I said, I'm not good at the Charm Control system. I can't even master the first level of Charming Humans very well."
Elizabeth shrugged: "Okay, I understand. I'll prepare the invisibility potion - or the advanced invisibility potion. But you don't have it in your treasure bag?"
"Treasure Bag," Flint took a sip of wine, "this name is really appropriate."
Wang: "The high-invisibility potion is a hot commodity in the tower. It is useful for escaping after pranks or messing up some experiments. There are two bottles of invisibility, but the invisibility spell is easy to break and is not as reliable as high-level invisibility."
Elizabeth looked at Marika, and the drow exclaimed: "This thing may be more popular in Langdon City than in your tower. The Duke's treasure trove doesn't even have a few bottles. I heard that the second prince holds one bottle, or we should consider
Steal it from him?"
Wang: "Stealing the new Duke? He should be the new Duke, right? Or is our employer planning to fight?"
Elizabeth shook her head: "No, actually I have no interest in being a duchess. What I want to do is..."
The catman smiled and said: "I actually thought about it a little bit at first, but now I don't think about it at all, Your Highness Princess. Being a Grand Duchess is not as interesting as traveling across thousands of rivers and mountains with my mage brother. Your Highness, aren't you a good dancer? We can
Like the people in the Jip Village, wandering around, performing arts, and doing some business on the side..."
Wang: "The princess dances well?"
"Of course." Elizabeth raised her head proudly, "After all, I am a princess, and I usually have to dance the first lead dance at the ball. But I don't like to go to the ball, because the dandies in Langdon City are all a bunch of disgusting trash, and I don't want to
Dance with them."
Catman suddenly asked with interest: "Can the mage dance?"
"No." Wang replied simply, "There are dance classes in the tower. It is said that learning to dance can make the mage have a flexible body, which will be useful in adventures. But my experience is that once you enter, you need to rely on your own body skills to dodge physical attacks.
In such a situation, I should basically hang up."
Cat Man: "Then I can let His Highness teach you. You also want to dance with His Highness, right? Put your arms around His Highness's thin waist, and then...after all, you won't wear chainmail at the dance, it must be whale bone, right?"
"
Wang swallowed: "Uh, this..."
The catman laughed, obviously she found teasing the mage very interesting.
At this time, the dwarf coughed: "Now we already know that the scroll requires high concealment to be used. The spell counterattack ring is also with the mage. We still have 10,000 gold coins to purchase the necessary supplies. Can we enter the city now?
Already? I think the new Duke is still waiting for us."
Wang nodded: "Yes. There is nothing else. Today we will go to see the Duke first to understand the situation, and then decide what to do today. Generally speaking, our goal is to find the mastermind behind the world crisis."
Elizabeth clapped her hands: "Let's go!"
**
As soon as the group passed through the portal in the wardrobe, they saw Mrs. Mellie's husband, Butler Merlin, waiting for them in the princess's room.
After Butler Merlin bowed respectfully, he said loudly: "Your Excellency Bruce is waiting for everyone in the military camp command room."
Wang: "Commander's Office?"
The butler nodded and said: "Yes, because the current situation requires the use of the giant sand table of Langdon in the commander's room. At the same time, there is enough space in that place. Now all the nobles living in Langdon City have arrived, and the surrounding barons
and the viscount also arrived, and the baron further away was informing them.
"In addition, all the leaders of various forces in Langdon City, including the Chamber of Commerce, Merchant Guild, various mercenary guilds, and rogue guilds in the underground world, are also present. Only the audience hall and the command room in Langdon City can accommodate so many people.
"
Elizabeth: "The ballroom and the garden are fine too, but that's obviously not the place to talk."
The butler nodded: "The audience hall is currently being used as the old Duke's morgue. I am organizing funeral-related matters. So, please follow me to the command room."
After a while, the group of people was led into the command room by Butler Merlin. On the way there, the king saw that many parts of the castle were covered with scaffolding and covered with cloth.
Apparently last night's fighting caused a lot of damage.
As soon as he entered the command room, Wang saw a huge sand table, which reproduced the terrain in Langdon's territory with extremely high accuracy.
There are many wooden carvings of knights standing on the sand table, and each wooden carving should represent an army of baron leaders that can be recruited.
When they entered, a knight was reporting to Bruce: "From the information currently obtained from the merchants brought by Steyr, the emperor may have hired 10,000 to 20,000 mercenaries, all of whom are well-equipped troops.
.”
Bruce muttered: "Where did he get so much money? Styria is not like us, which can enjoy trade tariffs."
Several people who were asked looked at each other.
Mr. Accountant pushed up his glasses: "According to our cargo transit records, Steyr has indeed received more cargo recently. Mainly textiles, including linen and some cotton."
"That emperor actually developed industry?" Bruce muttered, then noticed his sister and the others.
He immediately said: "You are here! I was going to reward you based on your merits today, but you see the situation is so complicated now. Just go to the equipment warehouse and take whatever you see."
Elizabeth: "We don't care about rewards, we want to continue to deal with the crisis of annihilation."
"Yes, it's a world-ending crisis." Bruce nodded, "Don from the Rogue Guild has information for you. The underground was originally their territory, and they have been using underground passages to smuggle all kinds of things, including Orc war.
Wolf."
Bruce pointed at the short, fat man who looked out of place among the armored knights.
Wang raised his eyebrows: "So they smuggled in the orc warrior wolf that was used to rob the law field?"
The short fat man smiled and bowed: "Yes, we were smuggled in. We are innocent, even half-orcs, as long as we have enough money, we can do anything. But recently our 'underground trade route' has come to an end."
King: "Because of goblins and kobolds."
"Yes. Usually kobolds and goblins will beat each other until their brains are bleeding. But this time they formed a funny joint army, which made it very difficult for us. We captured many goblins and kobolds and passed the interrogation
We probably have some information. The man behind the scenes owns an artifact common to kobolds and goblins."
Dwarf Flint exclaimed: "Artifact! Oh! I must take it and see it!"
Wang: "The mastermind behind the scenes uses this artifact to command the kobolds and goblins?"
The pudgy Tang nodded: "We are convinced that this is it. And through interrogating these evil little creatures and using a lot of locating spells, we finally determined the location of the mastermind's lair. In other words, the location of the laboratory."
Wang was speechless: "Laboratory. Is he a mage?"
"Yes, a powerful mage."
"Okay, maybe the Banshee's Wail we just got will be used here." Wang glanced at Elizabeth, "Get an advanced invisibility potion as soon as possible."
"I will."
Wang continued to look at the pudgy Tang: "So, what is this mage's name? Have you figured it out?"
"Of course we figured it out, his name is... Erwin!"
King: "Erwin (surprised)!"
Elizabeth immediately followed: "Erwin (surprise)!"
Dwarf: "Erwin (confused)?"
Barbarian: "Irwin (angry)!"
Bruce Langdon looked at his sister's team in confusion: "Do you know him?"
Wang: "I don't know. But... I just found out the name of the mastermind behind the scenes. We have to show something, right?"