The most shameless alchemist in history

"Search!" Although the officer had some doubts about Rosa's appearance, he still waved his hand and gave the order. He had received a strict order from above regarding Catherine, and he was determined to find her this time. If he failed to find Catherine, he would be in deep trouble when he returned.

After the guards searched the place thoroughly, they found nothing, which made the officer's face even more grim.

"Rosa, where exactly are you hiding the person? Hand him over obediently! This is your last warning. If you don't hand him over, don't blame me for being impolite!" The officer could only turn around and shout loudly when he couldn't find the person.

"Sir, I don't understand a word you're saying. You keep saying that Miss Katherina is with me, but I've never even seen Miss Katherina. Where am I supposed to get her from? Or are you suggesting I find someone with the same name to complete the mission for you? How about I change my name to Katherina?" Rosa replied calmly.

"Are you still going to play dumb with me? Do you believe I'll arrest you?" the officer raised his voice, speaking threateningly.

"Then may I ask, sir, what crime have I committed that you want to arrest me?" Rosa asked in return.

"You're harboring criminals, wouldn't you say that's a crime?"

"Then may I ask you, sir, do you have any evidence that I am harboring criminals? If you can produce evidence, then I will willingly go with you. But if you don't have any evidence, are you going to arrest people arbitrarily without evidence? That's against the law." Rosa still refused to back down an inch.

"Well, you're pretty impressive, aren't you? Look at me now..." The officer was furious, and he made a move to grab the man.

"Is this really appropriate?" Just as the officer raised his hand, a voice suddenly rang out behind him, and his wrist was grabbed, preventing him from striking down.

The officer looked over and saw that the hand he was holding was not strong, but rather long and slender. He turned around and saw a young man who was not as tall as him standing behind him.

"Boy, who are you? How dare you obstruct me from performing my duties?" The officer was furious. He tried to shake off the young man's hand, but he soon found that no matter how hard he tried, the young man's right hand remained unmoved. The young man looked ordinary, but his strength was extraordinary, which surprised the officer.

“My name is Du Lei. You may not have heard of this name, but your boss should. If even your boss hasn’t heard of me, then keep going until you find someone who has heard of me.” The young man said his name.

At this moment, the nearby guards gathered around and surrounded the young man. The guards were filled with confusion because they did not know when the young man had appeared.

"Dure? What Dure? Kid, I think you're Rosa's accomplice, aren't you?" The officer was bewildered. He looked at the young man, then at Rosa, who had labeled them as a group.

“Professor Dure, what are you doing here?” Rosa recognized Dure and exclaimed in surprise.

She was always a very composed person, but seeing Du Lei appear was a complete surprise to her.

"Would you believe me if I said I just happened to be passing by?" Du Lei asked her with a light laugh.

"I believe you. I will definitely believe anything you say, teacher." Rosa was quite nervous just now.

But with the arrival of Dure, all the tension vanished instantly.

Because she knew that as long as this man was present, no matter how complicated the problem was, it could be easily solved.

"You two are in cahoots! What are you standing there for? Hurry up and arrest this kid!" The officer was furious that the two men were ignoring him, and what angered him even more was that the kid was still holding onto his hand.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free, which made him lose face!

The furious officer waved his hand and gave the order; he was determined to teach these two guys a lesson.

Otherwise, how could he survive?

"I'll give you two minutes to get out of here," Dure said calmly, turning to look at the officers.

"Kid, who do you think you're talking to? You think you can order us around?" the officer scoffed.

This kid is in deep trouble and doesn't even realize it, it's ridiculous!

"This is not an order, but a suggestion. However, if you do not cherish this suggestion, then I can only interpret what happens next as you being prepared to bear the consequences," Du Lei said coldly.

"Stop talking nonsense, attack together and take him down!" the officer waved his hand and gave the order.

But at that moment, a blazing light suddenly emanated from the previously peaceful inn.

This made the people who were resting in the city lord's mansion in Drizzle City stand up immediately.

They all stood up and looked towards the source of the light.

"What's going on? Why is there such a strong magical energy fluctuation?" a young man asked, frowning.

There were three people inside the city lord's mansion: an old man in a black cloak, a young man in a white cloak, and the one who spoke.

He looked to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, with a resolute face and a strong physique.

The last one was a girl who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old. She was wearing a red cloak and looking around curiously.

"This strength... is at least at the King level, and to release energy so recklessly is a provocation."

The old man quickly gave an accurate assessment and sighed.

"I didn't expect there to be a King-level magic user in Drizzle City. What kind of person is he?" The girl was quite curious.

The rain outside the window continued to fall incessantly, without end.

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888 Mr. Ghost

The commotion coming from a corner of Drizzle City was quite loud, which attracted the attention of General Seken, who was in charge of Drizzle City.

General Seken is the captain of the Royal Guard. He was ordered to come to Drizzle City to eliminate the rebels and wipe out the Assassins.

Apart from Kelly, the second daughter of the Assassin family, and Katherina, the fourth daughter, whose whereabouts are unknown, everyone else has been captured.

According to reliable sources, Katherina has been hidden by Rosa, the young innkeeper in the city of Drizzle.

Seken originally intended to personally lead his men to the hotel to arrest Katherina, but he had to receive someone from the capital.

So General Saiken sent one of his trusted men to the inn to arrest the man, which should have been a sure thing.

After all, the entire city of Drizzle was under his control; not even a fly could escape.

He had every reason to believe that as long as he resolved the matter in Drizzle City, it would be a great achievement. With this achievement, he could advance further. He was not content with being the captain of a guard; he was aiming for the position of the city defense commander of the capital.

Because once he becomes the city defense commander, he will become the gatekeeper of the power center of the Rain Kingdom. He will inevitably become someone that all parties want to win over, and he will be a hot commodity, unlike now when he is the captain of the guards, where he has to go around arresting people as soon as he gets an order from above.

This feeling of being constantly on the go made him extremely weary, and he disliked receiving and serving those distinguished guests at all.

Especially those with very eccentric personalities, and for whom he doesn't even know their background, put him under a lot of pressure at all times.

He thought that once he became the city's defense commander, he wouldn't have to suffer like this anymore. But just as he was receiving distinguished guests, he suddenly received news.

Something's happened in the city. None of the men who went to the inn to arrest Katherina have returned, and there seem to be traces of magic users in the city.

This immediately led General Seth to believe that this was the work of remnants of the Assassins, who were trying to rescue Katherina.

Therefore, he took advantage of his face and personally led people to the location of the hotel. When he arrived at the hotel, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Because the area around the hotel was completely frozen, and an ice wall had formed outside the hotel's main entrance, it was impossible to get through!

"What's going on? How did it suddenly freeze over? Where's the Sael? Didn't I send him here before?"

General Seth shouted loudly as he searched for the whereabouts of his trusted men; the scene before him made him feel extremely uneasy.

It's not winter, it's summer. Although the Land of Rain is rainy all year round and the weather isn't scorching hot, it doesn't snow. So, the sudden freezing is quite a strange thing. Many guards looked at each other, feeling very puzzled.

“This is an ice wall created by someone using magic energy. This massive amount of ice-attribute magic energy… is quite similar to that of General Restia of the Snow Kingdom.” A hoarse voice said from behind General Set, and it was an old man who spoke.

The old man looked to be in his sixties. He was short and hunched over, and had no hair on the top of his head except for a small tuft of hair at his temples. His hair and beard were all white. While Seth was puzzled, he immediately saw the secret.

“Mr. Ghost, you mean... Restia from the Griffin Legion of the Snow Kingdom has come to our Rain Kingdom?” Seth was taken aback.

Although he wasn't from the Land of Snow, he was still very familiar with the name Restia.

It's safe to say that everyone in the mainland military knows this woman, after all, she is one of the few powerful female generals with unparalleled combat strength.

Furthermore, in the previous naval battle at River Bay City in the Swamp Country, Restia and her Griffin Legion shone brightly.

They staged a textbook long-range raid and brought the art of air-to-ground strikes against the fleet to its pinnacle.

The Griffin Legion annihilated a massive fleet with almost no casualties, providing valuable lessons for dealing with naval forces.

Of course, it wasn't just Restia and her Griffin Legion that contributed valuable insights into air-to-sea warfare.

The fact that nearly half of the airships of the Wind Kingdom were wiped out serves as a reminder that weather and environment are also crucial factors.

The last time Restia appeared in the Swamp Country, it caused tremendous changes in the country.

If Restia were to appear in the Land of Rain, it would not only cause great trouble for General Set, but it would also signify the attitude of the Land of Snow.

"No, I didn't say that. I just said that there's someone here with similar abilities to Restia. They deliberately leaked their magical energy to lure us here. You don't need to be too anxious. Let's go see that person first."

The old man, known as Mr. Ghost, remained calm as he walked into the inn.

“But Mr. Ghost, there’s no way in at all, how are we supposed to get in…” General Seth hesitated.

Normally, the hotel has one entrance, but the entrance is blocked by an ice wall, making it impossible for them to move.

“Since there’s no entrance, we can just create one ourselves. Come on.” Mr. Ghost wasn’t stumped by this small problem.

He was leaning on a cane, and when he reached the ice wall, he swung the cane and drew a doorway shape on the top of the ice wall.

Soon flames suddenly rose up, and as the flames melted the ice, a door was quickly burned out of the ice wall.

Mr. Ghost also walked in through the entrance that had been burned open.

"Is it possible to do that?" Seth was taken aback. When he saw Mr. Ghost enter the inn through the melted door, he had no choice but to follow. He was just a pure soldier, not a warrior like Restia, so he didn't know much about magic.

Seth was surprised, but all he could do was go and check on the situation.

As he followed the ghost into the inn, he saw a row of ice sculptures in front of him.

These ice sculptures all look like human silhouettes, very realistic, and they are all people Seth knows.

"Seer? How could this be? How did you become like this?" Seth immediately recognized one of the ice sculptures as his trusted confidant whom he had sent earlier. But how could a perfectly healthy person have turned into an ice sculpture? This was beyond his comprehension.

Moreover, a chill ran down his spine, but he couldn't care less about that at the moment.

Because he clearly saw that there were two people sitting at a table in the hotel, leisurely drinking steaming hot black tea.

One of the women was in her early twenties and was a pretty young woman.

Although Seth had never met her, he guessed that she must be Rosa, the owner of the inn.

As for the young man, around twenty-four or twenty-five years old, sitting opposite Rosa, Seth frowned, filled with vigilance.

He realized that this man was probably the culprit who caused his subordinates to be frozen into ice sculptures.

"Boy, who exactly are you, and what have you done to my men?" Seth raised his voice and shouted.

“I spoke to them calmly, but they were so unreasonable. They insisted on taking me away, and I didn’t like the prison food, so I didn’t go with them, and that’s how this happened,” the young man said slowly.

They showed absolutely no awareness of the need to wage war on someone else's turf.

“I don’t understand what you’re saying at all, but I’m warning you, immediately restore my men to their original state and come with us obediently, or else…” Seth gripped his broadsword and coldly rebuked him.

He is the captain of the royal guard from the capital, and will become the city's defense commander in the future.

If he suffers a setback here, his chances of becoming the city's defense commander will become increasingly slim.