Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 220 This is a story of going north
Simon Adrian, Xia Houyan is too familiar with this name - the iron handsome guy who built himself a magic statue in the underground laboratory of the infected area!

But no matter how you count it, this old necromancer is a dead bone (literally) from 800 years ago.

In addition to the Heishui Town laboratory surrounded by millions of zombies, Adrian's "relics" can still be passed down to the present in other places. This news can only remind Xia Houyan of fraud, fakes, and Mr. Wang Gang smashing antiques. sledgehammer.

Master Lowry has repeatedly insisted on the accuracy of the information.

According to the master, this news came from the school city, and the channel is quite reliable:

"Achilledo's Magic Cube"!
This kind of small prop processed by high-end magic is one of the most time-effective communication methods on the mainland except for the winter yong pigeon. It can temporarily refract the human soul to an independent alien plane, so that it can be used at the same time. Communication with other souls in this plane - the mechanism of action is quite similar to the Internet chat room in Xia Houyan's previous life.

Since the "Achilledo Magical Magic Cube" is too precious and only the Academy can make it, basically the Academy only distributes it to magicians of the class above Magister and above. If others want it, they can only ask the Magic Association for a lot of money. It is produced on behalf of others, and only high-level magicians can use it, which completely eliminates the possibility of magic magic square becoming a regular communication method.

It stands to reason that Master Laurie used to have the official version of the magic magic formula, but I don't know when I pawned it for pocket money to buy pornographic books...

The one in the master's hand is a scrap product left by the former garrison mage found in the southern army warehouse a few days ago;
Master Laurie briefly repaired it in the Manhattan laboratory, and it was barely usable, but the soul was easily strayed.

And the news of "Simon Adrian's relic" was overheard by the master through the Magic Cube on the exclusive channel of the Academy City——

— Yes, eavesdropping.Master Victor Laurie, who practices forbidden magic and likes to tell dirty jokes on the soul channel, has long been kicked out of the soul channel by the dog management of the Magic Association.

According to the discussions of the professors in the Academy City, Teacher Adrian’s relics were left by him during his studies in the Academy City, and have been stored in the Great Secret Library of the Academy City Museum together with the relics of other famous mages;
This time, the empire held the "St. Augustus Festival", and they couldn't find enough prizes, so they went to the school city to cause famine;
The Magic Association thought about it. Anyway, these relics are still there, and no one dares to use them out of respect for the ancestors. The money of the dead is not considered a waste of money. Faithful.

So back and forth, what was behind Simon Adrian became the prize for the winner of this "St. Augustus Festival".

And after the Shuangfengling delegation left the territory, on the boring road, Master Laurie was still popularizing the cultural common sense of "St. Augustus Festival" to the lord who didn't understand anything:

"So there is more than one 'Laurel of Augustus'?" Xia Houyan sat in the rickety carriage, his eyes staring straight.

"In ancient times, there was only one festival, and later on, the activities of this festival became more and more complicated. All kinds of traditional festivals are like this..." Master Laurie shrugged, "Now the main competition of the 'St. Augustus Festival' is six:
The most traditional hunting competition led by the lords, the winner will receive a diamond crown;
A one-on-one single-handed contest between samurai warriors, the winner of which will be crowned with corundum laurel;

A spell contest where magicians participate, and the winner gets an emerald laurel crown;
The opera competition participated by well-known singers and drama actors, the winner will receive the agate laurel crown;
A debate contest involving orators, debaters, and literati politicians, the winner of which is crowned with citrine;
A chess tournament with well-known chess players in the empire, and the winner receives an ivory crown..."

"Fuck!" Xia Houyan said angrily, "How come only the magician's hat is green?!"

Master Laurie blinked inexplicably, and continued to say helplessly:

"Lord, the prizes for each event this time are magician relics contributed by the academy. For example, the prize for the hunting contest is a 'Golden Sword of Majesty' with a wide range of inspirational aura... But it is said that Adrian's relic is The prizes for the magician's spell contest have not been announced yet, but in short, if you want it, our territory must bring back a champion..."

"How to win the championship?" Xia Houyan was dumbfounded. "The empire is so big and there are so many magicians. Is our small wasteland worthy?"

"The empire is not a fool. If they really want to participate without restrictions, who can beat those big territories who move out their own high-level magicians?" Master Laurie rolled his eyes, "Let me tell you, the participants are limited." Young mages under the age of 25!"

"Let me go to the competition?" Xia Houyan smiled "shyly", "Isn't that good?"

"You deserve it too?!" Master Laurie pointed his middle finger, "You are majoring in light magic in the city, how many do you remember now? Or use your damn necromancer magic? ——I'm afraid At that time, the prize is not Master Adrian's relic, but your skull!"

"Then what should I do!" Xia Houyan was quite unhappy at being despised. The problem was that the other party was an old mage, and he had no room for retaliation.

"I mean, send your little junior sister!" Master Laurie whispered, "Don't look at this little girl Lena Leslie with a nympho face all day long, but she is quite talented in magic! According to As a rule, most of the participants in the spell competition are intermediate-level mages, so she has no pressure to participate in this competition! What's more..."

Master Laurie looked around furtively, making sure that there was no one else in the carriage, and lowered his voice even more:

"I feel that the magic fluctuations on this little girl Leslie are likely to advance soon... If she can advance before the start of the competition, isn't a 20-year-old senior mage... a crushing existence? "

"Lina is going to advance?" Xia Houyan almost bit his tongue: Could burning bricks, baking soil and exercising on the bed still have the effect of promoting the improvement of magic cultivation?

Such a young senior mage, if Professor Hugh Hosseini found out, he would be so happy...

"Who will believe it..." Master Laurie was about to cry, "When I, Victor Laurie, advanced to the rank of senior mage, I was almost fucking 40 years old..."

Xia Houyan pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said:
"Then let Lina try it! I said before in the infected area that I will try my best to find a way for Alice and the others to completely transform them back to ordinary people. The top necromancer in the history of the mainland, he I must get the research relic!"

Master Laurie poured a bucket of cold water: "Don't have too much hope, Adrian's necromancy is not as good as yours."

"But there are missing pages in that "Essentials of Necromancy"!" Xia Houyan patted the precious book that was always hidden in his arms, "What if there are any key spells and incantations in the relics of handsome man Tie?"

Master Laurie made a gesture of "you are welcome and respectful".

"In addition to other competitions, talented people in the territory should also sign up. You don't want to wear the laurels, and you can earn a consolation prize when you come back!" The lord ordered, "Especially the 'debating competition', Bob must let him ·Brook signed up and scolded in the direction of myocardial infarction when he met a player from Rock Creek City!"

"If you send Bob to fight, I suggest you give him a guard." Master Laurie said sourly, "This way, personal safety is more guaranteed..."

Of course, the main job of the Igor family is to send money to His Majesty the Emperor. As for participating in the "St. Augustus Festival" or something, it is purely for fun and fun.

The whole team is very confident about this.

However, the imaginary scene where the strongman of Jiedao jumped out of the roadside bushes shouting "Demacia" and then began to recite "I opened this road and I planted this tree" did not appear.

The Frost Maple Ridge convoy departed from Phoenix Terrace and headed north all the way, crossing the Lionheart River on a ferry contributed by the left bank town "enthusiasm" and slanting across the edge of the Grand Duchy of Houston. Not only did they not encounter robbers along the way, they even The armed forces of Rock Creek City who came to make troubles did not see it, which made Eldridge, who was frantically wielding the dark sword along the way and preparing to fight with others, deeply regretted.

However, during the journey, the occasional farmers and bards they met brought some interesting news to the lord.

The Archduke of Houston in Rock Creek is said to be busy dealing with civil unrest at the moment:
As the Grand Duke was old and childless, and increasingly weak, the issue of the heir to the title of Rock Creek was also put on the agenda by the noble officials in the city.

There are mainly three people who are considered to have the hope of inheriting Rock Creek City and the Grand Duke's title:
No.1 is the distant nephew of the Duke of Houston, Leon Houston—according to rumors, this playboy who has been in the social circle of the imperial capital is ready to rush back to Rock Creek City at any time to compete for the title;

The second person is Hollenfein, the chief aide of the Duke of Houston: this well-known lawyer and clerk, like Spencer, the dead ghost mage, is the right-hand man of the Grand Duke's ruling territory-it is rumored that Hollenfen has helped the Archduke draw up the will, the Grand Duke When he dies, he will hand over all his property to Hollenveen;

As for the third person, it is Count Dimitri, the governor of the southern border: the highest representative of the imperial authority in the south, he is still guarding the pitiful one-acre three-point land of Trout Castle—if there is really no one in Rock Creek City It can be inherited, and it is not impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to give this land to Count Dimitri as a reward for his loyalty to the royal family with a swipe of his pen.

The intrigue between the three succession forces was initially just an undercurrent, but due to the recent bad mood and poor health of the Duke of Houston, their secret war finally surfaced;

No one knows how the upheaval in Rock Creek City happened a few days ago, but the final result was that Mr. Hollenfein failed to plot to poison the Grand Duke of Houston, and was directly caught by the Knight Commander of Rock Creek City and brought to the Grand Duke. head off.

Unfortunately, Hollenveen has always been the central hub for handling clerical affairs and managing the territory of Rock Creek City. Once Hollenveen died, the entire Rock Creek City and the Grand Duchy of Houston fell into chaos. —In addition to the sudden disappearance of the chief mage Master Spencer for some reason, the Grand Duke has completely lost his left and right prime ministers...

In this case, not to mention the trouble of looking for Shuangfengling, the Grand Duke himself might be smothered to death by the pile of territorial documents piled up into a hill.

The officials of Xiahou who heard the news could only let out a long sigh as a scholar.

He doesn't care about the little story of intrigue in Rock Creek City;

What he was worried about was that if the Duke of Houston was directly exhausted by these nonsense, wouldn't he have no chance to seek revenge on this old bastard?

But then the lord was relieved: the big deal is to dig up Houston's grave, dig it out, revive it and kill it again... He thinks it's worthwhile to use the necromantic spell limit on such proud things.

After hearing about Lord Lord's plan, the senior officials of Shuangfengling formed a consensus in their hearts:
I'd rather mess with the god of death than mess with the lord...

Although in a way, the two are exactly the same thing...

The first trouble that the Frost Maple Ridge convoy encountered on the way actually happened after they left the border of the Grand Duchy of Houston and entered the Earl of Halladayne.

In this southern "forest country" rich in high-quality wood, the Shuangfengling motorcade was traveling on the main road and suddenly stopped.

Xia Houyan, who was sitting in the carriage inexplicably, poked his head out, only to find that a wooden repelling horse was blocked in the middle of the road, completely blocking the road.

However, it was not some green forest hero who blocked the way, but the regular army of the Earl of Halledine.

Lord Hallardine's leaf-shaped flag fluttered beside the Juma, and the crossbowmen guarding the Juma also wore standard green cloaks, which were pleasing to the eye.

Beside Juma, there was a group of unlucky people who were blocked from the road like the Shuangfengling convoy.

Xia Houyan was surprised to find that these were actually a group of demon merchants, who probably had paid tolls in Shuangfengling and planned to continue northward to sell goods.

Cavalier Commander Cousins, who had been leading the way at the front of the team, ran over.

"What's wrong? Why didn't you let me go?" Xia Houyan asked, poking his head out of the car window.

"It's Earl Hallardine's personal soldiers..." Commander Cousins ​​wiped his sweat and said, "It is said that there are robbers in the forest in this area, and they are afraid that we will be in danger if we continue walking, so we have temporarily blocked the road! "

"Bandits?!" Xia Houyan was delighted, "We are good at this!"

The lord climbed out of the car, comforted Katerina and other female relatives in the other car, and then took Master Laurie and Cousins ​​to Juma, preparing to negotiate with the soldiers of Halladine.

As a result, before he got close, he found that someone had already quarreled, and the harshness of the voice could only remind him of the community vegetable market at six or seven in the morning.

It seems that the two sides in the quarrel are the demon caravan and the soldiers of Halladine who are blocking the way.

Judging from the expressions, the demon caravan wanted to pass quickly, but the soldiers of Halledine looked helpless, obviously insisting on obeying the order and refusing to remove the roadblocks.

As soon as Xia Houyan came to the two sides, he heard the leader of the demon caravan curse:

"Human bastard! I'm the famous Baron Alexios. These are urgent goods from our 'Yehuo' Chamber of Commerce. They must be shipped to the north as soon as possible! Just tell me whether you will let me pass!"

Xia Houyan turned his head to look, and felt that the young leader of the caravan...

A little familiar.

(End of this chapter)