Chapter 1,559 Assassination and the Fulen Brothers
"Carina will regret it sooner or later... Look, this tent is really shabby."
Her Highness the Princess, who was using Dorothy's body, looked at the tent where the furniture was being arranged. After taking a look at Tifa holding little Mia, she asked Xiang Shade:
"Should we stay here tonight, go to Carina Manor, or go home?"
Because the competition lasts for four consecutive days, adapting to the venue in advance or getting close to your horses will obviously lead to better results in subsequent competitions, so in previous years many contestants would live here directly.
"Of course I'm going home. It's only an hour's journey home."
Lesia smiled, as expected:
"Then I wish you luck, my knight. Let Dorothy take a good look at your heroic performance for me. I will be here when the armored duel is held on the last day on Thursday."
She gently kissed the side of Shade's face and then closed her eyes.
The first day of competition was not difficult for Shade. Although today's unexpectedly good weather made the sun a bit dazzling, so that once he aimed at the target and faced the sun, he could hardly see the target. But Shade relied on his archery skills.
Instead of her own eyes, "she" corrected the position and intensity of the arrow little by little in Shade's ear. Shade only had to follow the steps.
Outside the arena is a lively market, and the arena is full of spectators who have bought tickets. 36 "knights" entered the arena one after another and were divided into 12 groups of three, each shooting at fixed targets and moving targets.
red, green and blue targets.
Shade was assigned to a group with two knights who were also from Tobesk, and his target was the blue target. Coincidentally, the 25-year-old Mr. Ben Silver who was in the same group with the target was the red target.
and the 31-year-old Mr. Duane Wiswer, who is aiming for the green target, are also titled knights. However, they inherited the knighthood from their fathers, which is one of the traces passed down from the old era.
They were quite familiar with Shad, the city's gossip celebrity. After greeting Shad before entering the venue, they even joked and asked him to play Rhodes with him during their lunch break.
After entering the stadium, they were given bows and arrows, and the two people who were originally joking became serious. They stood in the field according to the order of the draw. Amidst the cheers and applause from the audience, they recognized the whistle and separated.
Draw your bow and shoot an arrow, looking for your target in the dazzling sunlight.
It is worth mentioning that Shade asked before the game that props such as "blackened glasses" cannot be used during the game, so today's game is really harmful to the eyes.
In the morning competition, Shade's group was arranged to enter the venue at ten o'clock. Because they still had to familiarize themselves with bows and arrows, identify the venue in advance, and clean up the lost arrows from the previous game, so by the time they finished their shooting, they had already
It's almost eleven o'clock noon.
Shade didn't know much about the results of the other groups, but at least among the three of them, he hit all the targets within the prescribed time, so his results were definitely the best.
After bidding farewell to Mr. Silver and Mr. Wiswo at the entrance of the arena, Shade smiled and walked towards Dorothy and Tifa who were waiting for him.
The entrance to the arena has completely transformed into a market, with dining tables, open-air tavern bars, stables, barber's shops, Rhodes gambling tables, butcher shops, etc. mixed together, making it look more like a Christmas holiday at the end of the year.
Derain Square is even more lively.
Little Mia lay lazily in Tifa's arms. When Shade came over, she just said "meow~".
"My grades are pretty good, but my eyes are almost blinded by the sun."
"You are quite lucky. It rained heavily on the day of last year's archery competition. As a result, 6 of the 54 contestants fell ill at once on the second day."
Dorothy said with a smile, and then lowered her voice and talked about the interesting things in the morning:
"Earl Lewis also came to watch the game, but half an hour ago we heard the news that he was accidentally injured by an arrow flying out of the arena."
"Oh? Is the injury serious? Where was it hit? On the head or below."
Shade asked expectantly as he and the girls walked towards their camp.
"Oh, Shade."
Dorothy patted Shade gently:
"Tifa sent someone to inquire. The right arm was hit, but there was no penetration. Because he needed to stop the bleeding and treat the wound, the count did not leave immediately. He is resting in the tent over there. Do you want to go and have a look?"
"What's the point of going to see him? Let's go have lunch."
Regarding the "Grey Eagle Mission", Shade didn't think it was enough to just hurt the opponent's arm. But he wasn't in a hurry either, he had plenty of time to deal with the opponent.
The group’s lunch was not cooked here, but was delivered directly from Carina Manor. When the metal lunch box wrapped in thermal insulation cotton was opened, the food was still steaming.
Miss Carina probably thought that Shade was going to exercise vigorously today, so she prepared enough lunch for twenty people.
Although the maids were unwilling to eat with Shade, they finally had lunch together in the tent after his repeated persuasion. After lunch, it was still early for the afternoon horseback riding and archery session, so Shade said goodbye temporarily.
I picked up the girls and Xiao Mia in the tent and walked around the camp outside the arena.
He didn't take Dorothy and Tifa with him, naturally because he had to do some things on his own, and the girls all knew that Shad was going to do bad things.
After leaving the camp pretending to be wandering, Shade turned into a blind spot on the side of the camp, then used illusion magic to hide himself, and then went to the tent where Tifa had inquired about Earl Lewis's training.
There were some ordinary guards around the tent, but this had no effect on Shade of the Sixth Ring. However, he didn't want this "assassination" to arouse the church's idea, so he just stole the gun from the guard, and then pointed it at the tent window and locked it inside.
Pulled the trigger:
"Today is indeed a day for competitive shooting... Judging from this person's reputation, I should be doing something good."
When he threw down his pistol and left, Shade was still amusing himself with his thoughts, and quickly blended into the crowd in the market. Because the market was very lively, the accident at the camp did not affect the people here.
As for poor Earl Lewis, who was shot in a vital part of his lower body, he probably will never have to spy on those beautiful girls again.
In short, the matter of assassinating the earl was just a trivial matter to Shade.
The small disturbance did not affect the lively atmosphere of the market. As the time came to noon, more and more citizens arrived and nobles came to watch the excitement, and the small market was also expanding to a larger area. Participation
The camps of the "knights" are all in the same area, and there are special fences to separate them from the outside world to prevent them from being disturbed.
Shade did not stop at the market. When he returned to the camp area, he unexpectedly met the two Fulen brothers from Kasenlik. Their game in the morning also went well. When Shade talked with the two at the door of the camp,
Then I realized that although these two five-ring warlocks took longer than Shade, they did not miss the target just like Shade.
Although the Fulen brothers are older than Shade's body, they are very at odds with Shade. Queen Diana is right, they are all very upright gentlemen.
Originally, Shade wanted to walk around so that more people could see him wandering around. The two brothers originally planned to visit Earl Lewis, who was unfortunately injured in the morning. But while chatting, they talked about Rhodes cards.
topic.
"Speaking of which, Mr. Hamilton, if we remember correctly, you were the Grand City Players' Champion in 1853?"
My brother, Mr. Eric Fullan, who wore a monocle in his right eye, asked. He lowered his head slightly, with an expression of interest flashing in his beautiful brown eyes. Mr. Charles Fullan also showed a similar expression.
You can go to the market later, and Earl Lewis cannot die now. Shade smiled and took out the card box containing his deck from his pocket:
"What, do you want to play a game with me? Oh, gentlemen, I want to bet on special cards."
Lunch was still being prepared in the brothers' camp, and there was no place to play Rhodes, so the three gentlemen left the knights' camp together and went to the open-air tavern with the sign of "Pig's Head Tavern" in the lively arena market.
Take a seat at the long table.
A small group of uniformed police officers passed by them, and although the "Pig's Head Tavern" was called a tavern, it was actually just a temporary venue with a counter and a dozen long solid wood tables backed by three cargo carriages.
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There are stone pillars standing on the four corners of this simple "tavern". The pillars are pulled with hemp rope to form a very perfunctory fence, which is separated from the barber's field next door and the paid painter's field on the other side. At the same time, there are hanging ropes above the pillars.
Wearing colorful ribbons, together with the colorful ribbons floating above the camp, added a brand new scenery to this unique spring event.
It's noon, and two-thirds of the tables in the Pig's Head Tavern are already occupied by guests, and a middle-aged woman wearing an apron is entertaining the guests with her thin husband.
Considering that he had to compete in the afternoon and he didn't like drinking, Shade only ordered a glass of butterbeer. The two Fulan brothers ordered absinthe and rum respectively. The former is a strong anise-flavored drink.
Liquor, the wine has a natural green color under the sun, which is very beautiful; the latter is a distilled liquor produced from sugar cane molasses, and has an amber color under the sun.
"We have a game this afternoon."
Shade kindly reminded that a glass of rum is not a big problem, but absinthe is a strong drink. This kind of alcohol was originally used for medical purposes. Shade didn't even know that there was such a thing in the temporary market tavern.
This kind of wine.
"It's because I have to ride horses in the afternoon, so I drink. Alcohol can make the knights more energetic."
Mr. Eric Foran said, and then he also took out his deck.
Because there are not many people playing Rhodes here, no one has come to watch the three people's card game for the time being. Like Shade, the two Mr. Fulan also use special card boxes to pack their decks, and
They also engraved their names on the standard card box of the Prophet Association.