Travels of the Necromancer

Ford City, the residence of the city lord.

With the blessing of the invisibility spell, I floated in mid-air, overlooking the buildings below.Lai was locked up somewhere here, and the area to be searched was not small.So, I summoned a few little wandering spirits to find his location for me.Little wandering spirits are the lowest among ghosts, they don't have any attack power, and at the same time, they are not easy to be detected. When they pass by, ordinary people will only feel a gust of cool wind blowing by.

Ley was arrested, and Kate died of serious injuries. The cause of everything was precisely because of the monster forest.Originally, the monsters in the forest did not pose a threat to the city, but for some unknown reason, the monsters recently started to riot, and even ran out of the forest of monsters, hurting the residents of the surrounding villages and towns.The development of the matter is bound to have an impact on this tourist city, so the chamber of commerce in Ford City offered a bounty and invited mercenaries from all over the place to come and wipe out the monsters.

After Lai and the others entered the forest, they encountered a group of griffins. This high-level monster caused them heavy casualties, but they also obtained a lot of complete high-level magic cores, so they decided to temporarily withdraw from the forest to rest. Unexpectedly, they met on the way Holy Sword Mercenary Group.

The mercenary team that Lai was in belonged to the Silver Moon Mercenary Group, which was the number one mercenary group on the Mercenary Guild's leaderboard and had a long history.The Holy Sword Mercenary Group has only been established for a few years, but its development momentum is extremely rapid. It has continuously merged with other mercenary groups, and has risen to the second place in one fell swoop.Although these two mercenary regiments are still maintaining superficial peace, they have been at odds for a long time, and this time the holy sword mercenary regiment openly attacked Yinyue's mercenary squad to snatch the magic core.

Taking advantage of the fire to rob is not new in the mercenary world, but it often happens in uninhabited adventure places, dare to do it in the forest so close to the city, maybe this is the prelude to the official declaration of war between Holy Sword and Silver Moon.

This battle ended with the complete annihilation of the Silver Moon Mercenary Squad. The sword wound on Kate came from this battle, and several surviving members including Lay were also taken away by the Holy Sword. .

After sorting out this memory of Kate, I couldn't help but sigh, he died really unjustly!Kate's swordsmanship has reached the level of a sword master. It is not an exaggeration to call him a genius at his age. Even if his combat experience is not as rich as the mercenaries, it is not difficult to retreat in such a melee, but But he... I really can't understand the knight's way of thinking.Chivalry does include bravery, honesty and sacrifice, but does this mean that knights cannot sneak attack or retreat?If this is the case, it should be knights rather than ordinary soldiers who die the most on the battlefield.

But thinking back carefully, Kate seldom met his father, and grew up under the guidance of his martial arts teacher, a standard knight, so he was also trained to be a standard knight.If he can inherit the title and truly enter the aristocratic circle, maybe he can be tempered by reality to be more mature and practical... But thinking about it now makes no sense, and I brought my thoughts back.

After some investigation, I found out that the stronghold of the Holy Sword Mercenary Group was actually set up in the mansion of the Lord of Ford City, so I went here directly to look for Lai's whereabouts while it was dark.The holy sword is backed by the city lord, no wonder he dares to be so confident around Ford City.Counting it, it has been nearly a day and a night since Lai was arrested, and I don't know what the situation is now.

Well, I seem to have found it. I felt the mental fluctuations from the little wandering souls. They found the dungeon in the northwest corner.There are four humans imprisoned in the dungeon, old Jack, Bill... Where is Ley?Based on Kate's memory, I recognized the survivors of the mercenary squad held in the prison, but Ley was missing.

So I manipulated a little wandering spirit to eavesdrop on the conversations of several survivors, hoping to learn about Lai's whereabouts through their conversations, while the others continued to scatter to search.

"Damn it!" Bill kept walking back and forth in the cell, his nose was bruised and his face was bruised, and he seemed extremely restless. "What the hell are those bastards trying to do by taking Ley away?"

Old Jack was sitting on the ground, his body was covered with blood, and he looked seriously injured.He coughed twice, and said anxiously: "I heard people say in the bar that the castellan has some special... hobbies, I'm afraid of Lai and him..."

"Hmph! No matter what they want Ley to do, I hope that kid will be smart and stop talking nonsense!" Someone in the corner snorted coldly, who seemed to be a guy named Gary, "Now there are only a few of us left, the Holy Sword group If the bastard finds out what he wants, will he let us go?"

For a while, the cell fell silent, filled with despair, I think they should not be in the mood to continue chatting. What does "special quirk" refer to?I frowned and thought about it. Old Jack's anxious and hesitant attitude made me a little concerned, but from the conversation just now, I can at least be sure that it didn't take long for Ley to be taken away.

As long as the teleportation array is not used, even if Ley is taken away from the mansion, he will not go very far.If you search for magic at close range... By the way, it suddenly occurred to me that you can use blood magic to find him.

Bloodlines are bonds of great power, and magic that utilizes this power is called bloodline magic.Kate and Ley have half the same blood, and the power of blood magic will never be weak.

So I began to chant the incantation, and at the same time took out the magic dagger that I kept close to me.After finishing the spell, I used a dagger to cut a small gash on my left middle finger, and the blood dripping from the wound immediately turned into a red flying insect.The flying insect circled in the air and then flew south, and I followed behind it.

According to the layout of the noble buildings, it doesn't look like a place to torture captives, does it?I looked down at the two-story building from the air with some doubts.The small building is located in the back garden, the surrounding scenery is very good, and the decoration of the building is also very exquisite, making it impossible to equate it with a prison cell.But the red flying insects did fly into the second floor, which meant that Ley was inside.

Through the exploration of wandering souls, I already have a certain understanding of the strength of the small building's guards.Twelve guards, including two middle-level swordsmen and one senior swordsman, guarded the small building, and two teams of guards patrolled the back garden. The guards were tight.The most troublesome thing is that there is an intermediate-level light mage among them.Although the intermediate magician can't pose a threat to me, it will be troublesome if he detects the aura of undead magic around him and reports it to the temple. The guys in the temple have always had sharper noses than dogs. From the very beginning, they were staring at them.

Judging from the positions of the guards, the guards were arranged by very experienced and careful people, but it was a pity that if the executors were lax, no matter how perfect the arrangement was, it would not work.Just like now, although the wandering soul is afraid of the sacred aura of the light mage and cannot get too close, I can still clearly see him sitting leisurely reading a book in the small room on the first floor, and I should have personally protected him. The guards outside the room were talking with their companions, laughing softly from time to time.

It seems that now is the best opportunity to sneak in. I took back my wandering soul and decided to do it myself.

I first used a small wind magic to blow open the window of the magician's room. During this process, I carefully controlled the magic fluctuations to make it look like ordinary wind.The magician stood up and closed the window naturally, but at that moment my wind blade cut his throat.

The magician staggered back clutching the wound on his neck, fell on the chair and twitched. The wind blade severed the blood vessels in his neck and severed his vocal cords at the same time, preventing him from using even the simplest restoration spell for himself. Hemostasis, after all, without reciting incantations, instant low-level magic can only be done by magicians above the wizard level.And I have already teleported into the room at this time, and a magic barrier has been added to the room to prevent the smell of blood and the sound in the room from attracting the attention of the guards outside.Thanks to the magician's low alertness, the whole process went smoothly.

After solving the magician who is extremely sensitive to magic fluctuations, I can use some high-level magic with confidence, such as magic fog.Many cursed lands will be surrounded by magic mist, and the surrounding magic mist in the Night Swamp can immediately corrode an ordinary person into a skeleton, but what I use now will only make people sleepy, after all, I am not keen on expanding the undead army.With the sound of the incantation, a faint mist spread from the room where I was, and finally enveloped the entire small building.There was already mist tonight, even if the patrolling guards saw the small building shrouded in mist from a distance, they would not have any doubts.

After confirming that all life in the small building had fallen into a coma, I opened the door, stepped over the bodies of the two guards lying in front of the door, and walked to the middle room on the second floor.Now it is about half an hour before the patrolling guards in the garden pass by again, enough time for me to rescue Ley.

I was just stunned as soon as I entered the door. What is the situation now?This should be a gorgeous bedroom, but there are chains, leather whips and other things that should not appear in the bedroom on the wall. Could it be that this place is really used to torture prisoners?But surprise turned to anger when I saw what was happening in bed.

Lai was lying on the bed, his arms were raised above his head and fixed on the head of the bed, his wrists were left with hideous wounds due to violent struggle, his clothes were torn, and red welts criss-crossed on his fair skin.And a middle-aged man with a fat figure fell beside the bed, holding a whip in his hand, who was obviously the culprit.

Before I rationally analyzed what happened, my body had already acted out of anger: I pulled out my portable sword neatly and cut off the chain in Ley's hand, and then pierced the man's head with the sword—— Piercing from the back of the neck through the entire head, finally took off the cloak to wrap Ley, carefully carried him and left the room.