Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 59: Differences in Attack and Defense (First Update)
Oh no! Richard was taken away by the Xingyue Society in broad daylight!

Both the incident involving Dean Hank and the incident involving Lord Xingge were related to Richard. He was undoubtedly the top figure in the news media during this period.

If there had been no external force, the fact that Richard was taken away by Xingyue Society would have definitely caused a big stir. Not to mention the official media getting involved, the whole Internet would have reposted it, and it would at least have been a hot topic.

But for some reason, Richard's case was like a breeze blowing across the water, without causing even a splash. Even the doctors and nurses who saw Richard being taken away with his mouth covered chose to remain silent.

The reckoning that Iluna had verbally promised had never come, as if it really had to wait until autumn.

The incident of Richard being arrested seemed to have passed without any incident and everything was peaceful.

However, those old sailors who often sail on the sea know that the most deadly thing on the sea is often not the violent storms in the distant sky, but the turbulent undercurrents beneath the calm sea surface.

"Good morning, Professor Princeton."

The day after Richard was arrested, he opened the door of the pharmacy as usual and greeted Princeton who was enjoying breakfast with a smile on his face.

"Oh, Mr. Richard! Good morning!" Princeton still had half a piece of pumpkin bread in his mouth. He chewed it up and swallowed it hastily, and asked in surprise:

"Mr. Richard, why are you here this morning? Usually you come at noon or in the afternoon."

Richard casually hung his purple wizard robe on the hanger and replied, "The earlier I come, the earlier I can start practicing medicine making.

I am very passionate about making medicines now. I tossed and turned last night and couldn't fall asleep, thinking about coming to the hospital to make medicines as soon as possible. I can't wait. "

"Okay, okay, it's good to be passionate." Princeton smiled and nodded. But he didn't believe Richard's words completely. So he raised his eyebrows and said meaningfully:

"Mr. Richard, you came so early today, could it be that you were affected by what happened yesterday?

I'll make it clear in advance!

I had nothing to do with what happened yesterday. If those black crows from the Xingyue Society had informed me before arresting you, I would have died a miserable death.

Please don't stop cooperating with me because of those black crows."

"Haha." Richard smiled slightly, "I know.

Even if what happened yesterday has something to do with you, I don't care.

We each have our own masters. I don’t blame you.”

"Oh...oh...ok, ok. Then you can practice making medicine first. After I have breakfast, shall we start today's routine inspection?"

"Okay, professor, no problem at all." Richard agreed, and began to prepare the crucible and medicinal materials while humming a little tune, looking relaxed and casual.

Princeton's attention would be focused on Richard from time to time. He always felt a little strange. Richard seemed to be particularly easy to talk to today. He was no longer aggressive and wary as usual, and his whole body was filled with sunshine and relaxation.

This made him extremely curious. He didn't understand what had happened between Richard and the black-robed man from the Star-Moon Society yesterday that caused him to undergo such a miraculous change?

Half a morning had passed, and Richard's medicine-making skills were still as regrettable as before, and his discarded potions once again filled up a small cart.

So he said hello to Princeton and pushed the cart into the bathroom.

There was a click.

The moment Richard entered the bathroom, he leaned the car against the wall and suddenly smiled.

"Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. You should settle what you owe me."

As Richard spoke, he suddenly took out a stone chain whip from his back.

This is the interrogation whip used to whip prisoners in Saint Laurent Prison. The entire whip is made of forbidden magic stone. There are nine sections on the whip. It sounds very powerful when swung.

"The Demon Forbidden Whip cannot be used fairly! This whip is used to hit a vicious dog that is bullying a fierce tiger."

Richard held a whip in his hand and whipped it in the air!
pat!

The whip created a sonic boom and hit the roof hard, hitting the mosquito lying on the roof.

The moment the whip touched the mosquito, the magic-forbidden stone instantly broke through the mosquito's weak magic defense and whipped the mosquito lying on the ceiling into a pool of pus and blood.

"You like spying on me, don't you? I flipped the table!"

Richard was still not satisfied. He strode to the only mirror in the bathroom, grabbed the bottom of the mirror with both hands, and pulled hard!
With a "snap", the entire mirror was pulled off by Richard.

On the wall behind the mirror, there was a magic drawing with magic patterns drawn on it. The magic patterns on the drawing formed the shape of an eye, which looked particularly creepy.

"Got you."

Richard smiled coldly, picked up the whip mercilessly, and used the magic-forbidden stone on the whip to squeeze the magic drawing!

Chila! A burst of thick smoke came out from the blueprint. Under the pressure of the magic-forbidden stone, the entire magic blueprint began to burn, twist, and gradually curl up.

At the same time, in the Xingyue Society monitoring room located in the basement of the First Affiliated Hospital.

Several black-robed mages were looking at two completely black surveillance screens in panic.

"Richard destroyed our magical surveillance.

Two of the three magical surveillance cameras in Bathroom No. 1 have completely failed, and he is still searching for the last one in the bathroom."

"Hurry up and inform Commander Anosayan!"

“I was playing conch shells, and the call was connected.

Commander Anosayan, something bad has happened. Come and have a look. Richard is destroying our surveillance."

The shouts of the surveillance team attracted the other black-robed mages in the monitoring room.

Several black-robed mages were indignant and discussed the matter.

"What is Richard doing? How dare he?"

"Why did he destroy the surveillance that our Xingyue Society had set up?"

boom!
At this moment, the door of the monitoring room suddenly opened, and a short halfling walked in hurriedly.

"Commander Anosayan!"

The Black Emperor mages greeted him one after another, but the half-body was in no mood to reply. He strode to the surveillance screen.

When he saw the images on the surveillance screen, he slammed the table in anger.

"Damn it! We are in a passive position. This damn Richard is so cunning!"

"Ah? Sir, what do you mean we are passive?"

The black-robed halfling explained angrily:
“Originally, there was a tacit understanding between us and Richard.

Even if he knew we were spying on him, he had to pretend he didn't know. But we had already exposed the fact that we were spying on him.

The moment we exposed this fact, he had the power to stop us from monitoring him.”

"What a shitty power. We are the power!
Boss, doesn't Richard's malicious destruction of these surveillance cameras prove that he has something to hide?
If he has nothing to hide, what's the harm in letting us watch?

Boss Anosayan, why don't we just arrest him and interrogate him."

The halfling shook his head slowly and said in a heavy tone:

"Catch? How do you want to catch?
Don't forget, as Richard himself said, he is not a prisoner, nor a suspect. He is a great hero, a member of the Dome Mage Corps.

We in Xingyue will capture and kill any ordinary mage who has no backing. But we can't do that to Richard.

As soon as we touch Richard, the Dome Mage Corps will come and cause trouble for us.

Even the Lord of Xingge City, who asked us to monitor him, sternly warned us not to cause any substantial physical or mental harm to Richard.

He was originally a hot potato, extremely troublesome. But before that, there was a tacit understanding between him and us that he had to pretend to know nothing and let us monitor him.

But now all the windows have been broken."

"Captain Arnold, can we stop him?

Richard searched the toilet in such a thorough manner that he seemed to have divided the entire toilet into many small squares, and then searched each square one by one, leaving no detail untouched.

If this continues, he will definitely find our last surveillance camera, and we will completely lose his footage. We will have no idea what he will do in the toilet. "

"Tsk." The halfling bit his nails. He understood what the younger brother meant, but he couldn't do that.

His head ached when he thought about the complicated relationship between the Dome Mage Corps and the Star-Moon Society.

The Star-Moon Society is a public power organization affiliated with the Nine-Ring Magician Senate, responsible for espionage work in the entire Silver City-State.

The power of the Star-Moon Society is granted by the seven permanent demigods of the Magician Senate. The lower-level Star-Moon Society is only responsible to the upper-level Star-Moon Society, and the highest-level Star-Moon Society is only responsible to the seven demigods. It is precisely because of this complete independence in the administrative system that the Star-Moon Society has extraordinary power and can handle many things arbitrarily.

The Dome Mage Corps, where Richard is located, is the private armed force of one of the seven permanent members, Maher, and belongs to Maher's permanent private armed force.

The authority that is empowered by a higher power cannot monitor and control the higher power itself.

It is just like the imperial envoy appointed by the emperor cannot use his own power to chop off the emperor - if such a thing happens, it is a rebellion, a rebellion of the authority against the higher authority.

Under normal circumstances, the Dome Mage Corps and the Star-Moon Society should have a parallel relationship with no subordination, no interference, and no jurisdiction over each other.

It is extremely taboo for people from the Star-Moon Society to attack people from the Dome Mage Corps.

Take yesterday for example, this group of people detained Richard in the name of protection.

If President Maher really wants to investigate and insists that this is a threat to him, at least one senior member of the Star-Moon Association at the Star-Moon headquarters in the capital will have to step down in order to appease President Maher's anger.

Some things cannot be weighed. A light weight of eight ounces may weigh more than a thousand pounds when put on the scale.

They had already touched Richard once and did not obtain sufficient evidence to support their continued control of Richard, so they had a criminal record.

If they make any move against Richard again in the near future, it would be a blatant disrespect to President Maher and a naked test.

Even if Maher is magnanimous and doesn't bother with them, everyone in the Dome Mage Corps will be in danger.

If Richard can be supervised by the Star-Moon Society, then all members of the Dome Mage Corps may be supervised in the future.

In order to maintain their independence and uniqueness, the members of the Dome Mage Corps will definitely fight back, and then things will get really bad.

Thinking of the various consequences that might result from a conflict, the halfling felt a splitting headache. He was not very good at this kind of power struggle.

He had been influenced by this since childhood and knew very well that he could not keep up with such a big rhythm with his small body. Even the Lord of Xingge City had to compromise under such a trend.

So he took a deep breath and said:
“In theory, we in the Xingyue Society have no right to monitor Richard.

If we send someone to stop him and stop him from removing our surveillance equipment, it would be like sending someone to follow him. It would be like telling Richard clearly that we are watching his every move.

This is no different from arresting him directly, and it will still cause a confrontation between the Dome Mage Group and our Star-Moon Society."

"Captain, what should we do? Are we going to just sit there and watch Richard tear down all our surveillance cameras?"

"if not?"

"Ah, Richard has discovered the magic mosquito hiding in the shower head."

"Our magic mosquito is escaping!"

"Run! Richard is chasing us with a whip."

"Leave it to me. I'm a master at controlling mosquitoes. Watch me whirlwind charge and make a spiral turn!"

"Ah! He was beaten to death. He almost ran out of the door, Chao!"

"Hmm? What's Richard doing? Oh, he's back from washing the bottles.

"Wait a minute, he wants to sleep again, but he thinks it's too bright around him. Would he even want to remove the surveillance camera in the pharmacy?

Ah! He really took it apart! How did he know there was something wrong with the flowerpot?
The black-robed wizard looked at the halfling, who shook his head grimly and said, "Notify the Lord of Star Song City. Our surveillance mission has failed."

"Ah? Boss Anosayan. This... we can still work on it.

If he dismantles our surveillance, we will install it again.

If he kills all our surveillance bugs, we will release another batch of mosquitoes.

He destroyed our surveillance inscriptions, so we carved a bunch of new ones in their place.

We can’t do anything to him, but as long as there’s no direct conflict, he can’t do anything to us either.”

"You are so smart." The halfling shook his head and said, "Our goal is to find people involved in the sulfur case or the Holy See through Richard.

Your method will only make Richard alert and not reveal any flaws.

We kept setting up surveillance and Richard kept dismantling it, but it didn't make any sense and was just wasting both of our energy and time.

That's not monitoring Richard, but disgusting Richard. If we use such a despicable method, we might as well just admit defeat. "

The halfling said with a deep gaze: "It doesn't matter, we have more ways to deal with Richard than just surveillance.

The Lord of Xingge City once said that wherever you go, you will leave traces.
As long as Richard really has any contact with the Holy See or the people involved in the Sulfur Case, he will be exposed sooner or later."

(End of this chapter)