Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 394 Who told you to pay for the gold coins?
After witnessing everything, the captain of the guard found the mage in charge: "The king's family has not traveled this far for a long time. The journey is bumpy and tiring. How about a short rest before teleportation?"

The noble mage nodded understandingly: "Excuse me, it still takes a little time to prepare the magic circle. About a quarter of an hour, okay?"

The captain of the guard nodded: "That's good."

The mage didn't care much and returned to his post. Another assistant asked him to confirm the spell: "Little Armand, did you draw the wrong circuit in the magic circle?"

Armand quickly made a "quiet" gesture: "Hush, someone has made a price, and it's higher than the captain of the guard."

"Who?"

"Who else can it be?" The mage showed a mocking expression: "Our old acquaintance, noble friend of the common people, the famous Mr. Equality."

The steam engine roared, and the steam it spewed was carefully controlled to prevent it from spreading out and exposing the location. The circuits on the magic circle gradually became brighter, and the alchemical liquid began to boil.

First, a man wrapped in fur walked out of the teleportation array. He spoke with a lowland coastal accent and shook hands with the guard captain and congratulated: "Congratulations, my friend, the teleportation has been connected!"

"Thank you for your cooperation, sir." The guard chief has communicated with the envoy of the principality many times, and now he can appear here from the lowlands to prove that the transmission path is correct.

The carriage door was locked and still strong. The soldiers smashed it with rifle butts, bayonets and swords, but it had no other effect except damaging the paint. The soldiers who had already heard that the king's family was sitting inside became more and more impatient. They simply took off one of the wheels, and then shouted "One, two, push!" and overturned the large carriage.

So the captain of the guard led the servant's carriage and the cavalry away from the teleportation site.

The captain of the guard showed a look of death: "No, I will rush back to Valuana now to mislead the judgment of the National Assembly and buy some time for Your Majesty."

Is this magic? Everyone got excited and pressed forward to find out.

The main square was cleared again, and a group of guards were on duty, leaving a large space in the city center.

Only in this way did the passengers inside surrender, open the doors and windows, and climb out, including the noble guards, maids, and cooks with their heads covered in blood.

The royal capital at the same time.

The light surged, drowning the luxurious carriage.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" "No passage is allowed here."

"Don't fight, don't fight, I'm not the king, I'm not Charlie!" Although the king's family was not captured, the people accompanying him explained Charles XVI's escape in full view of the public.

The citizens of the royal capital have become accustomed to this. According to experience, some big shot will give a speech here next, mobilizing them to defend their home and country, including going to the front line and paying more taxes.

But everyone guessed wrong. There was an explosion out of thin air, and a luxurious six-wheel carriage suddenly appeared in the square!

"Master Guardsman, won't you teleport together?"

The guards yelled: "Don't move!" They shouted to the onlookers and the people in the car. First, the coachman was controlled, the horses and vehicles were separated, and then the door was knocked.

The coachman calmed the horses, and then pulled the luxurious six-wheeled carriage step by step closer to the huge teleportation array.

Everyone else present was moved: "It is your Majesty's fortune and the kingdom's fortune to have such a loyal minister like you!"

A noble guard even revealed the entire plan under repeated greetings from the butt of his gun. The king's attempt deeply shocked the citizens and soldiers.

The motherland has been abandoned by her past masters, and the citizens have been betrayed by their king! Moreover, he also tried to bring in foreign troops and massacred those who disobeyed.
What is even more outrageous is that from the luggage compartment of the carriage, food and wine, exquisite goldware, countless jewelry, and even a dressing table and a stool wrapped in silk were taken out.

The "luggage" of the king's family became trophies, and they were placed one by one in the square. Most civilians had never seen such magnificence in their lives, and the extravagance was staggering. They are like iron evidence of guilt and pine oil that arouses people's anger. The captain of the guard didn't know what was happening on the other side of the teleportation array. Anyway, at the last moment, he changed his attention based on his intuition and activated the second option - to rush out of the country with the power of men and horses.

"Are we here? Didn't you feel anything after the teleportation?" The queen's voice came from the servant's carriage.

The captain of the guard controlled the speed of the horse and leaned close to the thin wooden board of the carriage: "Your Highness, please keep your voice down. We are not transmitting."

"What? You-" The queen's scream was cut off as someone covered her mouth.

Then came the king's voice, which was softer than the queen's and slightly muffled through the wooden board: "Is something wrong?"

"You are right, Your Majesty. Dogs are not reliable. The people who came out of the teleportation array in the first place were not lowlanders!" Sea salt is eaten in coastal areas of the lowlands. Since there are special minerals in salt-producing areas, people there, no matter how high or low they are, As long as you eat salt, your teeth will glow with a very light bluish luster.

But the messenger didn't! He was simply wearing a winter suit that was fashionable in the Low Countries.

The captain of the guard took advantage of the mages' preparations and asked the king's family and servants to switch carriages under the pretext of rest. In order to ensure that he deceived the mage, he also used the precious disguise scroll.

Is this a blessing in disguise? The guard let out a long sigh - because unexpectedly, the king's family finally stopped riding in the ostentatious luxury carriage and got rid of the unnecessary people.

However, this also means that their attempt to escape will be completely exposed, and their next actions must only succeed and not fail.

The captain of the guard felt inexplicably better, but the queen began to sob: "My jewelry! My dowry, Charlie, and the dressing table."

"I'll be back. I'll buy a new one at best." The king comforted perfunctorily. He paid more attention to safety and concealment after experiencing the near-failure accident: "Guard Captain, do you still have the disguise scroll? The effect is gone now."

The captain of the guard smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, the disguise scrolls are strictly controlled by the guild and the Tower of Stars, and all those circulating on the black market are used.

"But don't worry, just stay away from big cities. I will let the cavalry take the lead to find out whether the lords loyal to the royal family are willing to provide supplies and resting places."

However, the cavalry found nothing, and it was getting late. The cavalry commander said that his horse power had reached the limit and he needed to return to camp to rest.

Then play the role of merchant. We are far enough away from the royal capital, no problem. The guard captain finally decided to take the risk and rest in a small town along the way with the carriage.

He originally didn't want to cause trouble, but the queen and the king's heirs strongly demanded "necessary food and rest in a suitable place." Obviously, the wilderness could not satisfy them.

In the small town they arrived at before dark, there was a wooden fence and guards formed voluntarily by the townspeople and nearby farmers. At the door, the guards carried the "village gun" to check the outsiders with a few cars and horses:
"Hey, what do you do?"

"Sir, there are businessmen in the car, and those of us on horseback are bodyguards." The captain of the guard called the villager "Sir," feeling funny in his heart, but his words were even more flattering than when his subordinates called him.

The guard didn't ask for identification, he just wanted one thing: money.

"Hey, who wants waste paper?"

"I got it wrong, I understand." The guard chief had no silver in his wallet, so he had to take out gold coins.

The guard took the money and looked at it for a while. He was slightly startled when he saw Jin Cancan. Then he opened the carriage window suddenly before the guard captain could stop him: "How many people are inside?"

Under the flickering light of the torch, the panicked man in the car overlapped with the portrait on the gold coin.

The guard's eyes were wider than the money: "It's Charles XVI! The king has escaped here!"

(End of this chapter)