Wizard: I brought the wrong system...

Chapter 343 Red Lanelli

"Red Lanelli greets Lord Dancer of the Moon."

The young man, clad in leather armor, gently touched his left chest, his ring and little fingers slightly raised, his left hand pressed against his leg armor, and bowed gracefully: "I was planning to visit you after I finished my business, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

"Red Lanelli? You're the wizard apprentice who appeared at the Viscount's manor the night before last?" Yarrow looked at his posture, his eyes flickering slightly. "Were you lying in ambush on me?"

While Reid Lanelli's manners were elegant, he had one minor flaw.

In apprenticeship etiquette, fingers are not required to be raised; this is only necessary when the palms are broad and there is not enough space in the chest. Red Lanelli's slender fingers are not included in this rule.

Of course, this isn't a major problem, but it does indicate that there are some gaps in Red Lanelli's knowledge transmission and that there isn't much information exchange between him and the mainstream wizarding community.

"An ambush? Don't misunderstand," Red Lanelli chuckled, rising to retort, "How could I possibly know you'd come here? With your strength, how could I dare to ambush you?"

Traps need bait. If it weren't for Yaro's sudden rise to power and his desire for a formal knight's body cells, it would have been very unlikely that he would have come this way.

Yaro toyed with the gleaming greatsword. "Then what are you doing lying in ambush here? It's been several days since we first met; you've been staking out this place for quite some time, haven't you?"

"You didn't know?" Red Lanelli seemed somewhat taken aback.

With very little information available, Yaro could only tentatively ask, "What do you know? Tell me, what exactly happened?"

"this……"

"What, is there something you can't say?"

Red Lanelli feigned difficulty: "It's not that I can't tell you, it's just that since you asked so suddenly, I don't know where to begin."

Yaro calmly said, "You should understand my strength. If you can't give me an explanation... then you don't need to explain."

The name "Dancer Under the Moon" sounds poetic, but it is a name born from bloodshed and piled up on countless bones.

Seeing the red light gradually emanating from the crystalline greatsword, Reid Lanelli felt a chill run down his spine. His initial greed vanished instantly, and he quickly exclaimed, "I'm luring away any potential ghouls!"

"Ghouls? They might exist? What do you mean?" Yaro frowned slightly.

Red Lanelli explained, "The Fernando wizarding family plans to turn the Earl's territory into a necromantic domain so that they can use necromancy potions to train their younger apprentices."

"The Earl's territory has been besieged by them for two years using various methods. The atmosphere of despair has been built up to a certain extent. Coupled with the catalysis of the Fernando wizard family, some undead should have naturally emerged within it."

"I happened to be short of materials for ghoul hearts, and seeing that there were refugees around here, I used the corpses here to set up a trap for ghouls."

With its strong smell of rotting corpses and its hard-shelled, highly corrosive venomous iron-backed centipede, this trap certainly seems designed for ghouls.

But—didn't the Witcher say that the Earl's territory was invaded because they killed the alien nobles of the "San Fernando Empire"?

Instead of revealing the information he had heard from the witchers, Yaro asked, "Isn't the Earldom part of the 'Kingdom of Lanelli'? You just stand by and watch it be invaded like this? Didn't you try anything to rescue your people?"

"The more people we have in our territory, the more extraordinary materials we can produce. How could we not want to rescue our people?" Red Lanelli sighed helplessly. "But we dare not!"

"The Fernando family has official wizards; we are no match for them."

Are there any officially recognized wizards?

So, does their country's name contain the character "圣" (saint)?

After a moment's hesitation, Yaro suddenly spoke up: "Were the shadow monsters in Perrin's territory your doing?"

“No!” Reid Lanelli shook his head. “That was Viscount Corey’s decision on his own. One of the reasons I came here is to punish them.”

"While we dare not directly confront the Fernando wizarding family, we will not help them blockade the Earl's territory."

"After all—we won't refuse to have more people."

Should the area surrounding the Earl's residence be sealed off?

Yaro narrowed his eyes, thinking of the shadowy alternate dimension that had previously covered the territory of Perlan, and the strange things the tree spirit had said.

"You disgusting wizards who enjoy killing each other! Even if you find my people, I will not grant you any of your demands!"

Will we use various supernatural powers to seal off the area surrounding the Earl's territory, trapping all those mortals within this area?

No, it might also have the effect of blocking undead.

Yaro's mind raced, and he asked instead, "By the way, what punishment did you give the viscount?"

No wonder Reid Lanelli wanted to "have some fun" himself; perhaps it was because the Viscountry's previous actions had angered them?

Why didn't we see any damage to the Viscount's mansion before?

Reid Larnelly explained with a smile, "Naturally, it's about making him hand over more despair powder to make up for what should have been ours."

Harvest?

Is the people a harvest, or is the powder of despair a harvest?

Yaro's mind worked continuously, sorting through the known information and gradually figuring out the origins of it all.

"Did the power struggle between the two wizarding families ultimately lead to the Lanelli Wizarding Family reluctantly relinquishing the earldom?"

Glancing at the relaxed-looking Reid Lanelli, a thought suddenly flashed through Yarrow's mind: "What if I joined the academy established by the Witchers in the Earl's territory?"

Correct!

The Witcher Academy factor cannot be ignored!

Following these factors...

"Based on the Witcher's Declaration, if the Witcher Academy were established in the Earl's capital, the Earl's territory would likely be unable to continue producing Despair Powder."

"The Witchers are already a semi-supernatural organization, and now that they're no longer handing over Despair Powder, the Lanelli family can't possibly accept this situation."

"Furthermore, judging from Red Larnel's description, there are no formal wizards in their family."

"The combat strength of apprentices is not enough to overwhelm the Demon Hunter Academy, and their numbers are far fewer than those of an entire academy."

"If we can't achieve a forceful expulsion at an extraordinary level, we can only rely on the king to exert pressure and the nobles to persuade us."

Yarrow suddenly remembered the Baroness's diary.

Claire hasn't returned yet; he's been gone for another three months. All he's done is protect Countess Ilinda; even the children have grown up, and he hasn't..."

Protecting Countess Ilinda, another three months have passed, and the children have all grown up...

From this information, we can draw the conclusion that Baron Claire had been guarding Countess Ilinda for a very long time.

Bevan is now twelve years old, two years after the Shadow Disaster.

In other words, Baron Claire likely protected Countess Ilinda for at least ten years.

Why would a baron with a fiefdom need to be guarded by someone for so long?

How many conspiracies and intrigues were involved?

But judging from the results, Countess Ilinda is still alive, and the Witcher Academy was disbanded not long ago, which may indicate that all those conspiracies and schemes have failed!

"If our own military strength is insufficient, and external tactics are ineffective... Could it be that the 'San Fernando Empire' has invaded the 'Lanelli Kingdom'? From this perspective, it's more possible that the 'Lanelli Kingdom's wizards' invited the 'San Fernando Empire'."

(End of this chapter)