Lord Saren: I have a proficiency panel

Chapter 8 The murder plan against Jack
  Two days later, Lodi was in the manor and once again called the housekeeper Ogbai to his room.

Ogbai held a pamphlet in his hand. Although there was no smoke in his pipe, he still took two puffs habitually. When he first traveled through time, Lodi ordered Ogbai not to smoke in front of him because he hated secondhand smoke. This kind of habit cannot be broken overnight, but after Ogbai reminded Lodi once, he didn't do it a second time, which shows his execution ability and carefulness.

I saw him flipping through the book twice, and after confirming that it was correct, he said to Lodi: "Master, you asked me to record Master Jack's actions these days, and I have written them all in this book. These days, he has three habits It is relatively fixed. The first one is that he will go to meet his lover Mrs. Duffy on time every Tuesday and Friday night; the second one is that he will go to the Flower Room Tavern in Black Rock City basically every two days, and sometimes He would entertain friends and sometimes just go there to have a drink and have fun; also, he had a close relationship with Lord George, and he often went to and from Lord George's manor during the day."

"Well" Luo Di took the booklet and asked while reading it: "How is the effect of the rumors I asked you to put out?"

Ogbai replied: "I asked Flynn to privately find a few homeless people in the village and release information to them intentionally or unintentionally. He said that he had seen Shanna's ghost by the Salen River and Beixi. She claimed to be Jack was killed and will definitely come back for revenge. After those few tramps spread the word, there are now discussions everywhere in the village, and there are all kinds of versions. Although Lord Jack has scolded everyone and forbade them from talking nonsense, he obviously doesn't care about this. He is very fearful. Not only did he go to the church in Black Rock City to ask for holy water, but he was also followed by several guards when he came in and out recently, and even Maximilian, the trainee knight of the manor, was always with him."

When Luo Di heard this, he nodded slightly with a satisfied look on his face.

The reason why he spread these rumors was, firstly, to put the blame for the subsequent murder on Shanna's ghost, and secondly, so that Jack could gather as many masters in his manor as possible so that he could catch them all.

Now it seems that the effect of these rumors is not bad. Even Maximilian followed Jack. You know, this trainee knight was unanimously considered by the people in the village to be the most powerful knight in Xilin Village.

Roddy thought for a moment and asked again: "One more thing, I ask you to often deliver wild game to Jack's manor. What is his attitude towards this?"

"Master Jack is naturally very happy. He praised you as a good nephew." Ogbai replied: "As you asked, I took the opportunity to ask him if he could find a job at the village committee. He readily agreed and arranged for me to Responsible for land cultivation."

"That's good, you did a good job." Luo Di couldn't help but praise Ogbai: "I will continue to send him game tomorrow, and express my respect to him. In addition, you must quickly get rid of the village committee I want to find out everything about the meeting, especially where the taxes are going. I want to find out who Jack is working for."

Ogbai nodded, hesitated for a moment, hesitated to speak, and finally withdrew with concern. He has learned the rules of housekeeping and cannot question or inquire about the master's thoughts casually.

To be honest, he couldn't figure out what Roddy wanted to do. While he was constantly trying to show his favor to Jack, he was also secretly investigating his whereabouts and finances?

You don't want to kill your uncle and regain the power of the village chief, right?
  Then he shook his head and put away his wild imagination.

How could the master have such thoughts? You must know that Mr. Jack is a trainee knight himself, not to mention that there is a stronger Maximilian beside him. The master will not be stupid enough to attack the stone with an egg.

Unless he can suddenly become a quasi-knight. Of course, this is impossible.

Two days later, on Wednesday night, Lodi quietly set off towards Black Rock City.

He covered his face with black cloth and put on a pair of light leather armor, with a long sword and dagger hanging on his waist, and an arrow pot and an elven hard bow on his back. In the darkness, he walked out of the baron and quietly lurked on a high slope leading to the avenue leading to Black Rock City.

He has received the message that Jack will set off to the Flower Room Tavern in Black Rock City tonight, without any friends and only taking his bodyguard with him. Moreover, the weather is gloomy tonight, with dark clouds covering the moon, which is an excellent opportunity for assassination.

It is the coldest frozen month of the year. At this time, the world is filled with chills and silence. Not to mention the figure of a human being, there was not even a movement of a living creature around.

Luo Di lay on the snow on the high slope, motionless like an old monk in trance, waiting for his prey to take the bait.

The time he chose to take action was when Jack came back from the Flower Tavern. At this time, he was extremely drunk and his combat effectiveness was at his weakest.

Of course, sometimes he might stay in Black Rock City. But this didn't matter to Lodi, he just regarded this ambush as a test of patience.

Fortunately, God did not let Lodi's hard work go in vain. In the middle of the night, Lody finally saw Jack and his party riding fast horses on the road in the distance, coming along the avenue.

The sound of horse's hoofbeats came closer and closer, mixed with the painful wail of a woman.

Lodi looked intently and saw that Jack looked drunk. His body was swaying back and forth with the horse. Although he was swaying, he never fell off the horse. This shows that he has some equestrian skills.

He held a traction rope in his hand, and a woman was being pulled by him behind the horse's butt, dragging it through the snow. The woman had obviously been tortured for a long time and looked dying. She would only let out a weak whine when she hit a stone on the road. Some part of her body was injured, leaving a long red blood trail on the white snow.

Three guards also rode horses, following Jack. Lodi recognized that Maximilian was also in the team, pointing at the woman being dragged along, chatting and laughing with his companions.

Lodi climbed up carefully, half-kneeling on the ground, holding a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, aiming at Maximilian, making him his first target. Although he changed the target of hunting from beasts to humans, he was calmer than ever before at this moment.

Seeing the group of people getting closer and closer, Luo Di held his breath and concentrated, and immediately drew the elf bow to full capacity. With a 'whoosh' sound, the bow and arrow came out from the string and shot towards Maximilian.

Maximilian heard the noise, turned his head around, and saw the arrow was close at hand.

Years of knight training prevented him from panicking. He had no time to draw his sword and chose to lower his head immediately and raised his hand to block his face.

Although he had responded, this series of actions was obviously too late. The bow and arrow first pierced Maximilian's palm, and then with unabated force, it penetrated directly into Maximilian's cheek. Enter from the left cheek and exit from the right side of the neck.

Maximilian was taken directly off the horse by this powerful force and fell heavily to the ground.

At the same time, a line of information flashed in Lodi's mind:
  [Archery experience value +0.7]

Seeing this line of information, Luo Di couldn't help but be a little surprised. The experience points rewards in actual combat are so generous. But this is normal, after all, he prepared this blow for a long time before sending it out.

At this time, Jack and his party were attacked by a sneak attack, and the strongest combatant was knocked off his horse with one blow, and they suddenly fell into a brief panic and chaos.

Jack was sober for the most part. He immediately dropped the traction rope, turned sideways, hugged the horse's neck with both hands, pinned the stirrup with his left foot, hooked his right foot on the horse's back, so that his body was completely on the side of the horse, using the horse's hand to Use your body as your own shield.

There were two guards left, one quickly flew between Jack and Lodi to act as a human wall, and the other rushed directly to Lodi's hiding place.

‘On the contrary, they are two loyal servants, one attacking and one defending, and they handled it very well. ’ Lodi thought to himself.

He nocked an arrow and bent his bow again, but this time he didn't spend too much time accumulating power, but quickly shot three consecutive arrows.

The first arrow hit the guard who was attacking him directly in the cheek, while the second and third arrows hit the two fast horses that were running fast.

The two fast horses were struck by long arrows in their eyes and fell to the ground with a cry. Jack and a guard also staggered and fell into the snow.

Seeing the two of them fall down, they immediately hid behind the fallen horse. Lodi put back the elf bow, drew out his long sword, and immediately rubbed his body forward. The speed is as fast as a cheetah suddenly exerting force.

When the guard saw Luo Di coming so quickly, he panicked for a moment. Before he could draw his sword, Luo Di stabbed him through the heart.

But Jack's reaction was very quick. He was so frightened that he sobered up. While Lodi's sword was still on the guard's chest, he quickly stabbed Lodi's chest with the sword.

When Roddy saw Jack draw his sword, he didn't dodge. He swung out his left hand and grabbed Jack's sword-holding wrist.

Jack was overjoyed to see the other party being so supportive, thinking to himself, can you block my sword with your bare hands?
  The next moment, Jack suddenly felt that his right hand became numb and became somewhat uncontrollable.

He looked down and saw that the attacker's left hand had already grasped his wrist, and the area below the wrist was actually covered with a layer of frozen ice.

As his right hand lost consciousness, he could no longer hold the sword and it fell to the ground with a clatter.

He looked up at the attacker, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he said with a trembling tone: "So it is."

Before he could finish his sentence, there was just a 'pop', and Lodi's dagger had already cut through Jack's throat, and the blood from the carotid artery suddenly spurted out.

Jack made a "ho ho" sound and stared at Lody with his eyes. He took two steps back and covered his throat with both hands, trying desperately to stop the flow of blood, but in vain. Finally, his body went limp and he fell to the ground dead.

(End of this chapter)