Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 292 Action, The Witch King's Interception
On the second day, Alfred Hall wandered around the streets of Puning Harbor with several nobles who had better personal relationships.

There are quite a few nobles who went from Backlund to the southern continent to make money or seek to start a career. Most of them are the descendants of a certain powerful noble.

This time, they left the Southern Continent with Alfred Hall, so that they could take care of each other on the way.

After wandering the streets for a while, the group went to a well-known local restaurant for lunch.

Compared to the rough style of the Southern Continent, the food here is much more refined, although it is still far behind Backlund.

The group was enjoying the delicious food in their hometown with emotion, and the topic of chatting with the guests somehow involved the Grand Duke of South Wales and the future of South Wales.

Many diners said that even if a pig became the Grand Duke of South Wales, it would be better than the current one.

Some radical diners even said in a joking tone that if one day the Southern Continent really spread the flames of war to South Wales, he would definitely not count on the defenders of South Wales, but would join the camp of the Southern Continent. Overthrow this rotten and fetid land.

Although the man said it in a joking tone, it still attracted the support of many people.

Listening to the content of their conversation, it was full of accusations, and not a single word was aimed at the kingdom.

This made Alfred Hall and the others look at each other in dismay, even the delicious food in front of them was not delicious.

They listened patiently for a while, and found that the logic of these diners' speeches was that the port defenders were not good, and the Grand Duke of Southwell was incompetent, which meant that the king was too stupid, and the entire Loen Kingdom was rotten.

Finally, Alfred Hall and others hurriedly finished their lunch and left the restaurant.

After they left, the diners, who were still chattering, quieted down again, and began to chat about what they were going to do today.

Alfred Hall and his group had no interest in going shopping anymore. When they returned to the hotel room, they each wrote a letter and sent it to Backlund.

They have experienced with their own eyes how terrible the war in the southern continent is. In the current state of South Wales, if there is no suitable person in power to turn the tide, it will be a matter of time before the kingdom's door is pried open.

Maybe even a well-equipped pirate group can directly seize the port.

As the nobles of Loen, they have the responsibility to remind the king at this critical moment.

In another hotel room, Hastur was holding Azshara and stroking its hair.

After being kneaded by Sharon once, Azshara became much more obedient, and she didn't dare to instigate the relationship between Hastur and Sharon.

Instead, the battle between stray cats and dogs in the port was much more intense than before.

"I didn't expect Miss Audrey's second brother to come back from the Southern Continent. It seems that the situation there is very chaotic." Hastur sighed with emotion.

At noon today, he was also in that restaurant and heard those nobles call a man of about twenty-five six as Alfred.

Compared with Audrey's beauty and Hibbert's aristocratic temperament, Alfred, who went to the southern continent to fight hard, exudes a rough atmosphere from the southern continent, even though he tried his best to dilute it with noble etiquette. , with little effect.

Xu Shi has been exposed to the sea breeze and the sun all year round in the Southern Continent. His complexion is obviously bronzed, his chin beard is messy, and only a pair of eyes are shining like a businessman's shrewdness.

Based on his understanding of Earl Hall, Hasta believed that even if Alfred returned to Backlund, he would not please Earl Hall.

In the matter of inheriting the title of Earl of Hall, he was already doomed to be a loser.

There is no way, things like appearance and temperament can sometimes determine many things.

This point, Hastur has a deep understanding.

"Meow?"

Azshara raised her head slightly, as if questioning Hastur.

Hastur lowered his head slightly and kneaded the chubby Azshara against the direction of the hair, "You have the talent to be a provocateur."

"Meow." Azshara thought it was a compliment, and laughed happily.

When Hastur was playing with Azshara, Sharon, who went out to inquire about the situation, came back from the window.

"From two o'clock in the middle of the night to around 02:30, the target ship will dock."

"Meow."

Azshara broke free from Hastur's kneading, fled to Sharon's arms, blinked her innocent eyes, and began to complain about her grievances.

Hastur asked: "Have you figured out who is in charge of guarding the ship?"

"There is a high probability that it is a Sequence 4." Sharon reached out and stroked Azshara's head, and continued: "The target is the coffin, there is no need to fight to the death."

"Well, I understand." Hastur nodded.

The two began to make plans on how to act.

……

Late at night, at 25:[-], a total of three ships from the southern mainland successfully arrived at Puning Port.

The night under the hazy moonlight seemed extraordinarily deserted and quiet.

In the berthing area of ​​the merchant ships in the port, when the three ships were docked, a fire, which was set by whoever set it, started to burn for no reason.

These three ships, disguised as ordinary merchant ships, secretly used extraordinary abilities to extinguish the source of the fire when the fire tended to spread out of control, so as to avoid damage to the cargo on board.

When the fire was contained and the smoke gradually cleared, Hastur had gone invisible to one of the ships with a mirror.

According to Sharon's information, she only knew that there was a coffin containing a demigod's mummy on board, but she didn't know which ship it was on, so she needed to find it by herself.

This was a job Hastur was good at, for he had peeked at Fate before he acted, and had a rough idea of ​​where the demigod mummy was.

But in the peeped-in related pictures, I didn't see that guardian, so Hastur only dispatched the spirit body, which is more convenient and safer.

When there is any danger, Hastur will hide in the Hall of Stars, and then descend again with the help of the Stars Container.

Because of the preparations in advance, Hastur touched the place where the mummy was placed very smoothly.

On the surface, there were only six people guarding near the coffin. They were divided into three groups, with two people in each group. The two groups patrolled alternately, and the other group was always guarding near the target coffin.

Even if there was a fire on the ship just now, they did not leave their posts.

Hastur hid in a corner and didn't move right away.

In the plan he and Sharon made, it was to send the coffin into the spirit world, and then transport the coffin away from the spirit world.

Otherwise, if you want to remove the coffin in full view, you need to defeat all the guards on the ship.

If this is the case, Hastur doesn't need to sneak in secretly, just grab it openly.

After silently observing the staggered time of the two patrol teams, Hastur came out of the shadows, took advantage of the short gap between the patrols, successfully sneaked in, and came to a place three meters away from the coffin.

Now you only need to solve the two guards who are inseparable, and you can send the coffin into the spirit world.

In order to be sure, Hastur specially brought the witch card with him.

The Witch blends into the shadows, is good at assassination, and also possesses certain anti-divination abilities. Coupled with the personality of the Witch Card itself, it can more effectively cover Hastur's aura.

Before taking action, Hastur looked around again, and indeed he did not sense the aura of the demigod, so he launched a surprise attack from the shadow position.

First surprise behind a guard, the witch card in his hand is like the sharpest weapon to easily cut his throat, and at the same time control the other person with a mental shock move, so that he cannot issue a warning, and then surprise him, in front of him With horrified eyes, he cut his throat with the corner of the witch card.

After finishing the two quickly, Hastur pushed a corner of the coffin away before the other guardians had time to react.

When it was clear that there was indeed a mummy full of spices lying inside, Hastur threw the mirror he was carrying into the coffin, and Sharon, who was hidden in the mirror, took the coffin into the spirit world.

It will take a little time, so Hastur put away the Witch Card, used the ability of the War Emblem, put on a layer of armor for himself, held a big sword, and stood in front of the coffin to buy time for Sharon.

Just when Hastur pushed away a corner of the coffin, he had touched the precautionary measures left above.

A figure with a powerful aura rushed over quickly. He was about 40 years old, [-] meters tall, bald, but with a beard, and a slanted scar at the corner of his left eye. He looked particularly burly and healthy. large.

The feng shui of the Southern Continent is really nourishing.

This was the only thought in Hastur's mind, and his physique seemed even more tyrannical than this barbarian himself.

The rest of the guards rushed over and surrounded Hastur.

When he noticed the subtle fluctuation of the opening of the spiritual world, the leader didn't say a word, but picked up a book and started to read it carefully.

Such a contrast made Hastur stunned for a moment, but the various vicious curses and frost attacks that swept over him made him instantly understand that the other party was a Witch King who came from the path of the moon.

Hastur tried his best to dodge, but every horrible green or dark foul-smelling curse, like tarsal poison, kept chasing after him. In just a few breaths, the armor on Hastur's body had been corroded into a a hole.

If there is flesh inside the armor, the skin must have festered and pus.

"A spirit body?"

The leader showed puzzlement and sarcasm on his face, so he didn't reveal his mythical creature form, but continued to turn the pages of the book, and the curses aimed at the spirit body completely covered Hastur's surroundings.

At the same time, Hastur's figure was reflected in his eyes, as if he was brewing something.

At this moment, a bright ray of light bloomed as dazzlingly as the sun, and all those curses and ice shackles melted like snow.

The light was so dazzling that it was difficult to open one's eyes, and even the leader squinted his eyes subconsciously.

For a while, he couldn't see the specific situation in the light.

Fearing that the intruder would take this opportunity to slip away, he drew a ceremony in midair with his right hand, as if a moon appeared.

The gentle and cold light brought by the moon dissipated the glare of the sun and restored the eyesight of those present.

But when the light dissipated, the coffin had disappeared, only a figure in tattered armor remained.

(End of this chapter)