Lord Saren: I have a proficiency panel

Chapter 11 Lodi’s Fault

Suddenly encountered an ambush, Lodi did not panic.

He immediately threw an umbrella beside the door and backed away quickly. No one knows what else is lurking in the room, so exiting first is the safest option.

As soon as he took a step back, he saw the opponent suddenly step forward, raised his hand and punched him in the face.

In such a small space, Luo Di couldn't avoid it, so he immediately mobilized his frost magic and punched fiercely.

With a 'bang' sound, the fists met, and a layer of ice immediately formed on the opponent's fist.

Luo Di took a few steps back. He only felt that his chest was filled with tightness and he couldn't even lift his breath - the opponent's strength was obviously higher than his own.

Taking advantage of the opponent's effort to wipe the ice off his fist, Luo Di stood on the spot, took two deep breaths, and immediately calmed down the chaotic breath in his chest, clenched his fists and prepared to fight again.

At this time, the opponent had already withdrawn his fist and stood up, with an incredible expression on his face, and praised: "What a boy! As a quasi-knight, not only can he hit me with this blow, but he can also adjust his condition in such a short period of time. Fight again.”

As he said that, he turned to look out the door and said with a smile: "Barron, you are right. This kid is indeed a talent."

"Barron?"

Luo Di was suddenly startled and looked out the door.

I saw an old man slowly walking into the room with his hands behind his back. His face was covered with wrinkles and ravines. Who was it if it wasn't Barron?
  Seeing the surprised and wary look on Lodi's face, Old Barron said with a relaxed expression: "Little Lodi, don't get me wrong. This man was sent by the Baron to test your skills. His name is Ram Lane. .You should have heard of it.”

Lodi felt a chill in his heart and nodded. This name was very resounding in the barony. He was a formal knight who had been famous for many years. I never thought I could fight against an official knight.

Barron continued: "The Baron is in the castle at the moment and invites you to come over and talk."

"Does the Baron invite me?" Lodi confirmed.

"Exactly." Barron nodded and said: "Lodi, you don't need to be on such high alert. We have been together for such a long time, you should know that I will not harm you."

Luo Di nodded and said: "Of course. Teacher Barron, I can trust you."

Although the situation is very unclear to him, he does believe that Old Barron will not betray him.

The fact that I can practice my breathing technique to the present level is largely due to Barron. And after being together for such a long time, Lodi doesn’t think Barron is someone who sells out easily.

In fact, Luo Di knew that whether he believed it or not, he had to go on this trip. After all, the official knight beside Barron is stronger than him in terms of speed and strength. If there was a fight, he would not be able to gain the upper hand, and it would be difficult to escape.

Now Barron was leading the way on a donkey, and Barron and Ram were following behind on horseback. The direction they were going was not the baron's manor, but Barron's knight territory.

Along the way, Ram complained about Barron's donkey running too slowly, and even turned to attack Barron personally. It seems that the relationship between the two people is very familiar.

Lodi hadn't seen Ram's face clearly before, but when he had the opportunity to investigate carefully, he realized that Ram was also an old man. His hair and beard are half white, his eyes are densely covered with wrinkles, and the wrinkles on his cheeks are full of vicissitudes of life.

Thinking back to the battle just now, it was hard for Luo Di to imagine that the fierce punch just now was delivered by the old man in front of him.

After walking for an hour, the three of them arrived at Barron's territory.

"Are you staying here for one night and going to see the Baron tomorrow morning?" Lodi asked softly.

Barron shook his head slightly, pointed to a room on the right side of the farmhouse, and motioned for Luo Di to enter.

Lodi had been to Barron's territory many times and knew that the house Barron pointed to was the living room, and he had gone in there many times.

But this time the atmosphere seemed very strange, and it actually made Lodi feel guilty. "I know what you are afraid of." Old Barron said while holding Luo Di's hand and walking forward: "You kid, it seems that you have indeed done some shameful things."

The door was slowly pushed open by Barron. There was no mechanism or ambush inside, only Baron Zemo was reclining on a chair, sipping ale and quietly watching the flickering flames in the stove.

He still looked weak, but looked much better than when we first met.

Lodi did not expect that Lord Baron would appear here, and immediately bowed to Zemo.

Zemo turned to look at Luo Di, was silent for a while, and said calmly: "Little Luo Di. You killed Jack, right?"

For this sentence, Luo Di was already prepared in his heart. Apart from this matter, there should be nothing else that could alert the Baron to summon him in person late at night.

However, he would never claim to be so, he just said with a calm expression: "It has nothing to do with me."

Zemo had a smile on his face, stretched out his wrinkled hand, motioned for Lody to sit down, and then said: "Relax, I don't mean to blame you. Jack is George's man, and I have no mercy for him."

Lodi recalled Ogbai's investigation and found that Jack did have close contacts with George during his lifetime. He felt slightly relaxed.

Zemo continued: "Let's talk about what happened that night. You first killed Jack and his three guards with great strength, and then carefully destroyed the scene, and even destroyed them. The wound. The whole process was clean and impeccable.”

"What's even more rare is that you have been pretending to be friends with Jack, making his family completely defenseless against you; you even cleverly used a witness at the scene to create the illusion of revenge for the ghost. In this way, not only It completely ruined Jack's reputation, minimized his own suspicion, and completely misled the direction of the investigation. To be honest, this approach shocked me and made me look at you with admiration."

When Zemo said this, he looked directly into Luo Di's eyes and said with a smile: "Unfortunately, even if we did this, we still guessed that the murderer was you. Do you know why?"

Luo Di pondered. To be honest, he didn't know what went wrong with him. Seeing that Zemo had revealed everything he had done, he stopped pretending and guessed: "Did that woman recognize me? But I have never gone to Huajian Tavern to drink, and I am not the same as her." There is no intersection.”

"Of course not. She was unconscious that night, didn't know anything, and she didn't know you." Zemo shook his head and said, "Your actions were perfect, but it's a pity that you missed the most critical thing."

"What?" Luo Di asked subconsciously.

Zemo replied: "A knowledge point about magic. That is: necromancy magic is a taboo of the Mage Association and the Holy Light Church."

At this point, he felt quite tired. He looked up at Ram and motioned for him to continue explaining.

Ram took over and continued to say to Lodi: "Although the stunt you made up about Shanna coming to take revenge deceived the people and exposed Jack's scandal, when this information reached Black Rock City, it caused a stir. It caused the panic of those spellcasters. Many years ago, the Necromancers and their undead troops threatened the rule of the kingdom. They were afraid that the Necromancers would come back, so they immediately participated in the investigation of Jack's death."

"From yesterday to today, after their joint investigation of Jack's body, they have come to the conclusion that Jack did not die from undead magic, but from frost magic."

Having said this, Ram stared into Lodi's eyes and said with a half-smile: "In the current barony, you are the only one who knows frost magic."

When Luo Di heard this, he finally understood. Why did Jack's death cause such a big reaction? It turned out that it was all caused by his own pretense of cleverness.

This is really an extremely depressing thing.

He thought about it for a moment and suddenly realized a problem.

So he looked at Barron and asked: "Teacher Barron, it seems that you are the only one who knows that I know frost magic."

Barron pointed at Zemo and Ram and said: "Of course I will report the truth to Lord Zemo. And Ram is Lord Zemo's confidant - except for the three of us, no one knows yet."

Lodi nodded, looked at Zemo and said, "Sir, you knew about this, but you didn't tell the Mage Association and the Holy Light Church. Could it be that you wanted to forgive my crime?"

But Zemo shook his head and said with a serious expression: "Child, you are wrong. You have no crime, how can you forgive me? This is obviously a just trial!"

(End of this chapter)