Travels of the Necromancer

Now that the matter of the castle has been resolved, I can finally take a good tour of Yinyue Lake. Ley still has to deal with family affairs, so I dragged Noah along.

At the gate of the castle, I ran into Oska who just came back from the outside. He greeted me as usual, and then his eyes fell on Noah.Seeing Noah, he was taken aback for a moment, and then extended his hand to him with a surprised look: "Noah? Long time no see, I didn't expect to see you here."

By the way, I forgot that Oscar is Noah's classmate.Oska perfectly expressed the surprise of reuniting with a "not very familiar" classmate whom he had not seen for many years.On the contrary, Noah had no expression on his face, his body was tense, he completely ignored Oska's outstretched hand and walked straight forward, just passing him by.

Oska was not affected by Noah's attitude, and turned to me with a smile, "Did Your Excellency Kate also go for a walk by the lake? The maple leaves there are beautiful."

But I won't let him change the subject like this: "The last time I asked about Noah, you seemed to say that you didn't know him well."

"If you ask him, he will probably say that he doesn't know me." Oska glanced at Noah's distant figure.

"Then I'll go and ask." Knowing that Oska couldn't ask anything, I turned around and went after Noah.

Today's weather is still very good, the fiery red maple leaves are more and more gorgeous against the blue sky, the emerald green lake is far away from the sky, dotted with the shadows of several sailing boats.The scenery in front of me is a kind of open beauty, perhaps because of this reason, when I found Noah by the lake, his face was already much better.

How would you describe the atmosphere just now? "When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous"?It seems to have this meaning, but it seems not very accurate.I think that even if Noah meets the Skeleton Squad again, he won't show that expression.

"The one just now is Oscar, one of the temple trio I mentioned to you." I have told Noah what happened in the castle before, but I think I didn't mention Oscar The name of the card, because I usually refer to people in the temple as "the temple trio" or "those bastards".

"Oscar and you studied in a military academy, so they should be classmates." After a moment of silence, I asked politely.

But Noah looked at the lake silently and didn't answer.After so many years, I still haven't learned to be tactful. After a while, I couldn't help asking him and Oska directly what was going on.But before that, Noah spoke first.

"Oscar used to be my best friend."

"Obviously something happened to make you not now."

"Do you remember how I was disqualified as a knight?" Noah turned his head and looked at me.

"In order to protect the orc village and the local defenders clashed." I still remember the template of the tragic hero.

"When I got back to the temple, I entered the tribunal." Noah smiled wryly. "During the trial, Oskar suddenly appeared as a key witness, proving that I provoked the local defenders for no reason after being drunk..."

Betrayed by the most trusted person, the tragic hero template has been perfected again, I can't help but sigh.

But even though I don't like the people in the temple, Oska has also proved through his actions that he is a guy who is very good at acting, but I always feel that there is something hidden about this matter.

So at night, I knocked on Merkel's door again.

Merkel seems to be used to answering my questions, but speaking of it, the injury has healed and I still live in me, er, no, the guy who lives and eats for free in Kate's castle has no right to refuse.

"With the mind of a creature like a knight, do you think there will be any creative reason?" Merkel's evaluation of his knight was merciless.

"I do have a few bloody conjectures..."

"The truth is probably the bloodiest one."

"That is to say, Oska and Noah fell in love with a woman at the same time, and that lady had a crush on Noah. Oska struggled between love and friendship, and went back and forth, and was finally overwhelmed by jealousy. framed Noah with his head?"

The following plot should be that Oska felt guilty, but was threatened by the black hand behind the scenes, so he had to continue hunting down Noah.During the decisive battle, Ouska’s conscience found that he had blocked the last blow for Noah, and then fell into his arms and begged for forgiveness while spitting blood. After finally being forgiven, he closed his eyes with peace of mind... Uh, I seem to want to too far.

Merkel was silent for a moment after hearing my conjecture, and then said: "I have to admit that your attainments in dog blood are much higher than mine."

I am not at all happy to hear this compliment!

So, in the end, Merkel told me the bloody truth that Oskar went to the court to give false testimony in order to save Noah's life.

According to Merkel, the behavior of the local defenders is a very rare phenomenon. The high-level officials of the temple were also very angry when they found out that they had looted the orc village, and immediately issued an order to severely punish the person in charge (whoever believes it).But if this matter is leaked out, it will undoubtedly severely damage the reputation of the temple.Therefore, the higher-ups of the temple had to suspend handling this matter.

However, Noah was young and energetic, lacking experience in life and long-term vision. He not only "provoked" the local defenders, but even targeted the local temple.Therefore, the temple had to make a painful decision to let him "shut up", which meant that Noah was likely to "die of illness" on the way, and he would never have the opportunity to step into the referee.

But if Noah was originally a drunk, bad-tempered, and bad-behaved person, then others would not believe what he said, and naturally he would not be silenced.When a high-ranking member of the temple found Oska and gave him such a hint, Oska thought about it all night and finally agreed to testify.

"Since this is the case, shouldn't it be enough for Oska to explain clearly to him?" After listening to this, I frowned.

"Some things can't be done in the name of being good for the other party. Faith, honor and friendship, you know Noah better than me, you should know what these three things mean to him, and what Oscar did , undoubtedly made him lose these at the same time.”

Are these things important?After thinking about it, I decided to replace them with eating and magic research, and I immediately understood what Merkel meant.

"At worst, he distorts his mind to retaliate against the world, and at worst, he no longer trusts other people. Noah doesn't have any of these two kinds of illnesses. It's just that he doesn't like Oska, so he's already quite resolute in spirit."

I couldn't help but marvel at the durability of the knight, and then marvel at Merkel's understanding of human mental illness.

"If you listened to a dozen confessions every day in the confessional for a year like I did, you too would become an expert."

"I remember that you used to be a knight guarding the temple, not even a paladin, why did you listen to confessions like a priest." After finally catching the loophole in Merkel's words, I asked immediately.

"Don't you know, ever since some dark remnants took advantage of the confession to assassinate the priest, the temple has allowed knights to enter the confession room to protect the priest." Unfortunately, Merkel is still tight-lipped.

"Then how are you going to solve this matter? You deliberately exaggerated the injuries of me and Lai in the letter to make Noah rush over. Presumably you want to solve this matter?"

"It was discovered!" Merkel smiled. "The matter between the knights, of course, should be resolved by the knight's method. Let them fight a duel, and the trouble will be solved if you kill one."

I nodded expressionlessly: "Well, it really is a good idea."

Merkel immediately changed the subject: "However, I have a better way. I don't think there is anything that can bring the relationship between two men closer than fighting side by side. I just have a commission here..."

"I refuse!" I said emphatically, before Merkel could finish speaking.

"You haven't listened to the reward I offered."

"You don't need to say, I will never accept your commission." A joke, doing tasks with someone like Merkel, and being sold by him, you have to help him count the money, maybe he will use another light Forbidden spell, I still have 30 pages of "Food Encyclopedia" that I haven't practiced yet!

"I think you will accept this commission." Merkel smiled again, and I had an ominous premonition when he smiled, "especially after meeting this person."

Following his voice, a slender figure fell in front of me.I immediately became vigilant, but I didn't find this person hiding in the room. It can be seen that he is very good at hiding his aura, so he should be an assassin.

But after seeing his face clearly, I forgot to be vigilant and rushed forward, grabbing his collar and shaking: "Lan, you still dare to appear in front of me, return the book of truth to me immediately!"