Chapter 102 The Shield of Unfallen and Professor Ash
Annan blinked.
He wanted to speak but stopped.
There are twelve obvious injuries all over the body, and the back of the head was chopped with a heavy sword - under such circumstances, can it still be judged as suicide by magic?
How did he smash the back of his head with a heavy sword? Throw it into the sky and then jump up to catch it?
That's so accurate.
This was second only to having his hands and feet tied and being shot in the back of the head.
——Could it be suicide using a Rube Goldberg device?
"The result of the spell should be error-free."
Longjing Tea pointed at the newspaper and explained: "Look... because this result was too bizarre, no one believed it at the time. So many wizards and ritualists came to verify it. Among them, even the 'Unfallen Shield' Justus
Teacher, "Grey Professor" Seti."
……etc.
"'Grey Professor' Sethi?"
Annan raised his eyebrows and murmured in a low voice with some confusion.
Isn’t Seti’s title “The Bone Healer”?
Or did this happen before Master Seti became a bone healer?
It's not just an illusion.
Maybe I'm overthinking it...
Hearing the word "Professor Gray", Annan immediately thought of "Professor Wolf".
Talk about it.
Professor Wolf was also expelled from the family shortly after this, and was renamed "Professor Wolf", right?
Is he... trying to take advantage of "Gray Professor" Seti?
This thought came to Annan's mind for the first time.
He became a little more cautious.
"Wait a minute, let me take a look."
"Um."
Longjing Cha responded and handed the newspaper to Annan. Annan spread the old newspaper on the table and carefully checked the old records.
Dove on the side also put the cat's head on Annan's arm and read the newspaper intently together.
Chocolate also put his head on Annan's shoulder, pretending to be pretentious, staring at the newspaper with his eyes blankly, his pupils not even moving from side to side.
"……Huh?"
After reading it twice, Annan was a little surprised.
There was no mention of "Frederick Melvin" in the newspaper from beginning to end.
It is only mentioned above that Justus received a rather mysterious mission. A big shot named him to enter the Cinder Barrens in order to find a cursed object.
This mission is actually quite strange.
Because the Coal Barrens was not inhabited by humans at that time - it had just been destroyed by magma, so it should have been a desolate place.
In other words, there should be no danger in finding something here. Of course, it may be buried by lava... so the most difficult part is probably to dig it out.
——Then you shouldn’t be looking for the [Infallible Shield] at all.
As a very young gold-level transcendent, "Unfallen Shield" is also the most proud disciple of "Professor Gray". He is particularly good at bodyguard and security work, and his physique is extremely tough - he can even resist the lava attack of Balrog with his body.
, is a strong man who can swim in magma.
Usually they are attacked by underground monsters, or they are protecting some important person.
His body alone can protect innocent people from serious harm.
"...Union Envoy?"
Annan murmured.
Fortunately, the extraordinary beings in the underground world live on the bright side. This newspaper can write it so clearly.
——[Unbroken Shield] Justus is the gold who advanced from the silver-level profession "Union Messenger".
As early as in "Nightmare: Gallery", Annan had seen this profession.
"Courier" can transfer energy to each other within the visible range. It can extract the life force of a certain person and use it to heal another person; or it can extract the mana pool of many wizards and concentrate it on one wizard.
This is a serious tool job.
Regardless of the country or force, such extraordinary people are very welcome. As generals, they can truly "twist the power of everyone into a rope."
But on the other hand... because this profession is too practical and too tool-like.
If you want to advance to gold using this profession, it will be even more difficult.
When living a comfortable and happy life, it is difficult to have a stable and pure "desire to rise" to break everything existing and rise to a higher level.
But "Unbroken Shield" did it.
At the golden level, he is like a patron saint walking in the world.
He can transfer the trauma that others have suffered to himself; or he can transfer the attack that is about to fall on his teammates to himself in advance.
Then extract the enemy or the power of nature to quickly heal yourself.
No matter whether his heart was penetrated, his limbs were broken, his skin fell off, his spine was pulled out... As long as he was still injured, Justus would not die.
He is like a human shield.
As long as he exists there, standing on the earth.
Even if the people around you are drowned by barrages, covered in rain of fire, stabbed in the heart, cut in the throat, and chipped in brains by assassins, they will not suffer any harm.
To put it simply, as long as it is the person that Justus wants to protect... unless the target is kidnapped directly out of Justus' sight, extraordinary beings below the gold level cannot kill them.
——Justus is the guardian who can give people such a strong sense of security.
Whether it's protecting militiamen against monsters, fighting against natural disasters and providing rescue operations, or escorting others into dangerous areas...
As long as he stands with Justus, his teammates are equivalent to opening the "blood lock".
"……Huh?"
Annan frowned slightly.
——This is not right.
If Justus' vitality is so tenacious...
How could he be knocked down by a simple backstab? How could he have such obvious injuries on his body?
"It seems there are a lot of doubts."
Dove said softly.
Her cat head moved slightly on Annan's arm, and she raised her head to look at Annan: "Your Highness, are you here to purify this nightmare?"
"Um."
Annan nodded, still thinking.
If the task is to find something... then it is indeed possible to go with Frederick. The idol wizard is looking for something. Although it may not be as fast as the prophet wizard and can get the results immediately, the difficulty of determination is much simpler.
As long as he "can find this thing in the future", the prophet wizard can get the result immediately; but in the same way, if it is impossible for him to find this thing... that is, when the probability of completing this thing is low to a certain extent, the prophet wizard
The divination of wizards is invalid.
But the idol wizard is different.
They have a way of converting effects into causes. Even if this thing is hidden hundreds of meters underground, as long as the ability is strong enough, they can directly "search" it out.
From this point of view, Frederick may have been approached by Justus only after he took over the task.
...Then, the possibility of setting a trap in advance for murder does not seem to be that high.
You know, Frederick had not yet reached the golden stage at that time.
He only advanced to gold after being expelled from his family.
At this time, he was just a silver-level idol wizard...but Justus was a gold-level human shield.
Maybe Frederick, with all his strength, might not be able to return as much as Justus.
That's murder with a hammer.
"But Justus was really murdered, that's true. And it was a perfect murder, and no one found out what Frederick had done for so many years... He even got it from the tragedian through this ritual.
In exchange for strength."
Longjing Cha concluded: "It seems that there is no way to collect intelligence outside of nightmares.
"Are there any clues about this nightmare? For example, where can I get the key? I think I may have to enter the nightmare to collect more information."
"Unfortunately, no."
Annan shook his head helplessly: "Naifei and I came here just to find the 'key'.
"Since the truth has not been made public for so many years...even Justus' death at the hands of Professor Wolf is a secret. Then I guess the key here must not have been discovered.
"In other words...if Professor Wolf doesn't purify this nightmare, we will most likely have to purify a brand new nightmare that no one has purified."
In other words, you have to start from the step of finding the "key".
"——You can skip the first step."
A deep voice came from the room.
Annan felt Dove's hair suddenly explode in his arms. Delicious Wind Goose immediately opened his eyes and cast a sharp and bright gaze. Longjing Tea frowned slightly, took a deep breath and was ready to use the command spell at any time.
But just then, they suddenly reacted.
This voice... seems a bit familiar?
"Pause."
Annan stopped their work.
He was a little surprised and looked at the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the room.
In other words, looking at the person walking out of the floor-to-ceiling mirror.