In the early morning of the next day, a team from the City Guard found Winter Thistle in the Western Suburb Magic Item Workshop.

It was still dark at that time, and the enchanters and apprentices in the workshop were still sleeping at home, and Winter Thistle was alone in the laboratory, reading a book by a candle.

When the city guards arrived, Dongji was very cooperative and didn't resist at all, and politely said to them: "It's already time, thank you everyone."

The captain heard that this person was suspected of dealing with a necromancer, so he brought shackles.In the end, he looked at the half-elf in front of him...with a cooperative attitude, polite, small stature, and a fair person, so he felt embarrassed to be too harsh on him.

What's more, this half-elf is Aldin's subordinate, and in Harbor City, the anaconda should be given some face.So the captain put away the shackles, and asked Winter Thistle to get into the windowless carriage by herself.

Before getting into the carriage, Winter Thistle specially said to the captain: "You must be careful, I'm afraid someone will ambush you on the road."

"What do you mean? Someone will kill you to silence you?" He asked casually.

Winter Thistle said, "Not only me, but you may also be killed."

The captain was taken aback, and other soldiers around him also looked over.

The captain realized that the half-elf was serious...so he didn't ask further.

If he continued to ask, if the half-elf said something terrible, the soldiers might not be willing to carry out the task after hearing it.

The city guards got on their horses, and before they had walked for a long time, a group of people approached in darkness not far from the main road.

The captain instantly became nervous, remembering what Dong Ji had said.

After the two sides got closer, the captain recognized that the person opposite was a mercenary from the chamber of commerce.He also saw several of them during the day.

There are at least 50 mercenaries in the chamber of commerce, several times the number of this city guard squad.Although these people's identities are allies, they now look hostile.

A man who looked like a leader walked out of the mercenaries, claiming that he had received orders from the capital and the head of the chamber of commerce, and asked the city guards to hand over Winter Thistle to them.

The mercenaries said: This refiner is Aldin's subordinate. Although Aldin has been investigated, he is still in charge of the chamber of commerce, and his rights should be respected.Therefore, the city hall should hand over the refiner to the chamber of commerce first, and the chamber of commerce will conduct a preliminary investigation on him. When the review court continues, the chamber of commerce will bring him to attend.

This is logically correct, but the captain of the city guard always feels that something is wrong.

The captain is quite old. He has been on duty for more than 30 years and has experienced many complicated things.He thought that if the chamber of commerce only wanted to take away the half-elf, and the reason was justified, the chamber of commerce could wait for the city guards to return and go directly to the city hall to demand someone.

Why did they have to send a group of people out of the city, go so far, and intercept the city guard halfway?

Thinking about what the half-elf said just now... Cold sweat broke out on the captain's forehead: I'm afraid these mercenaries are not trying to bring the mage to the chamber of commerce, but to ensure that the mage cannot return to Harbor City.It's just that they didn't move fast enough to find someone, and they were preempted by the city guards.

Winter Thistle sat in the windowless carriage, silently listening to the movement outside.

It was so dark inside the carriage that you couldn't see your fingers.Winter Thistle fumbled for the spell-casting materials, lit a small ball of light, picked up a small piece of chalk, and began to draw spell runes on the carriage floor.

While he was preparing the spell, there was arguing outside, and the noise became louder and louder.

The mercenaries took advantage of their numbers to form an enveloping formation, gradually approaching the city guards, which was already a very obvious threat.

The captain of the city guard brought out the decree to issue a warning, but the mercenaries didn't listen at all, they just kept threatening the dignitary.At the command of the captain, all the city guard soldiers got on their horses and planned to force their way through. The mercenaries were no longer polite and drew their weapons one after another.

The sound of weapons clashing came from outside the carriage.Suddenly, the carriage jolted, and the mercenaries quickly took the carriage by taking advantage of their numbers.

The captain of the mercenary jumped onto the coachman's seat, turned the car around, and rode his horse away from Harbor City.Some mercenaries rode on horseback to guard the carriage, while others continued to hold back the city guard.

Seeing that the city guards were outnumbered, the carriage got farther and farther away from Harbor City.

Inside the bumpy carriage, the sound of Winter Thistle chanting was covered by the noise outside.

The city guards couldn't catch up with the carriage, so they drew their bows and fired arrows.Strangely, all the arrows lost their aim and landed lightly on the way.

It's not just the city guard's weapons that have problems, the mercenaries are the same.

A mercenary fired a hand crossbow, and the shot hit the city guard soldier's neck, and then fell down like a piece of paper.The soldier's neck was a little sore from being hit by the soft arrow, but he was not injured.

The city guard quickly caught up, and when the two sides met hand-to-hand, their swords were either heavy and soft, hard to hold, as if dragging the corpses of livestock, or so light that they lost their center of gravity and had no strength, like waving branches.The branch-like sword collided with the scimitar, the sword broke in two, and the scimitar shattered like thin ice.

At the beginning, there were all kinds of weirdness in the weapons, but later even the shields and armor had problems.Metal products fluctuate from light to heavy, some are too heavy to move, and some are so light that people will fall over with inertia.

Some mercenaries on horseback fell down because their armor was too heavy, and the horses stopped in bewilderment.The mercenary who was driving the cart was clearly only wearing light armor, but now he couldn't move. The arm guards and greaves were surprisingly heavy. At the same time, the iron soles of the boots were not slippery, and he couldn't even stand firmly.

There are also some mercenaries and city guards who have already fought hand-to-hand.Now, they suddenly slipped their hands and feet, and fell down while hugging each other, struggling and wriggling on the ground together, unable to get up...

The captain of the city guard realized that the mage must have done something good.But he couldn't figure out, which side was this mage on?

Winter Thistle cast the same spell on both sides, including short-term enchantment and short-term modification.Because he couldn't see the outside, he also used some high-level arcane spells such as detection and long-range anchors when casting spells.

Short-term enchantment is to temporarily enchant non-enchanted objects. Short-term modification is to first detect objects with core runes, and then overwrite the runes to change the enchantment form of the item.Neither lasts very long, but Winter Thistle can be cast multiple times to extend the duration.

These spells should not have been used in combat.Even the best refiner can't strengthen enchanted weapons anytime and anywhere.

But the purpose of winter thistle is not to strengthen them, but to disrupt them.Enchant their weapons, and then make all the enchantments go haywire.

Optimizing runes is hard, but scribbling is easy.

As a result, the enchanted utensils lost their original normal runes, and were forged into extremely difficult-to-use weird effects; Swords are no longer as useful as branches and clods.

Winter Thistle doesn't understand other spells used on the battlefield, and he can't use the shield to protect others. He can only use his own method to temporarily destroy the weapons and armor of both sides, so that they don't fight too hard, at least try not to kill people ...

Dong Ji couldn't help thinking, if Jin Ye knew that he used the skills she taught to do this kind of thing, would she be laughed at, or would scold him for wasting knowledge.

Regardless, Winter Thistle's spellcasting was quite successful.

This was originally a surprise attack in which the outcome could be seen quickly, but now the two sides have been entangled to the point of exhaustion, and they can't win even if they want to fight, and they can't escape even if they want to retreat.Everyone was crawling around on the ground twisted and crooked, and it was a little funny to watch.

After a while, several teams came from multiple directions, and the number far exceeded the mercenaries present.

Coming from the official road in the harbor city were multiple formations of city guards and another team of mercenaries.Although these mercenaries also came from the chamber of commerce, they belonged neither to Bellos nor Aldin, and were subordinates of another person in charge of Mai Da.

Another group of people came from the outskirts, the number was not large, and the leader was a woman with red hair and red clothes—Aldin's old friend Deliss.She brought the least number of people, at best it could only be regarded as a team of personal bodyguards.

Before the three groups of people joined together, they saw this strange "battle" from a distance.At first they thought these people were cursed, so they were very vigilant and slowly surrounded them.

Winter Thistle's spell needs to determine the approximate number of recipients, and it is not an area-of-effect spell, so people who have just arrived will not be affected.

When the city guards rolling on the ground saw their comrades, they shouted and complained about the current situation.Although they were incoherent, the reinforcement soldiers could roughly understand them—they had captured the refiner, but they were surrounded by mercenaries on the way, and it was the mercenaries who fired their weapons first.

A middle-aged man walked out of the newly arrived mercenaries, and it was Mai Da who was in charge.He walked up to a mercenary who was dragged to the ground by heavy armor: "I have seen you. Who ordered you to do this?"

Although the mercenary couldn't move, his mouth wasn't supposed to be dumb.He rolled his eyes, but didn't answer.

The sergeant of the city guard came out and ordered the soldiers to arrest all the mercenaries everywhere.The soldiers surrounded him with all their might, and the mercenaries could only be caught without a fight.

It is not easy to take away these crooked people. Their armor is either too heavy or too slippery, and some of them feel a little sticky.

If you can’t move them, you have to take off their protective gear on the spot, and peel them out of the armor like shelling seafood. Those weapons that are either too important or too hot can’t be taken away, so they stay where they are for the time being. .

On the other side of the official road, De Lisi, who had kept some distance, rode forward slowly.The non-commissioned officer of the city guard didn't ask her identity after seeing her, but just asked her what's the matter.

De Lisi explained: "The Carlos family has a batch of orders in the workshop. I wanted to go to see it yesterday. The workshop said that the harbor city was closed and the refiner didn't come. At night, I heard that the refiner seemed to come. Yes, I rushed over again, but the person was gone again. I was looking everywhere, and I heard something happened here from the apprentices in the workshop. I brought people over to have a look, and saw two groups of them here... Uh, I don't know what they're doing."

Looking at the situation in front of him, the sergeant of the city guard also had some guesses in his heart.He took the initiative to tell De Lisi that he hoped that she could go back to Harbor City with them and provide testimony on what happened today.

De Lisi bowed while riding a horse, readily agreeing.

Winter Thistle heard voices in the carriage, and already recognized her.In fact, she had never been to that workshop, nor had she sent anyone there.She was definitely not worried about the workshop's orders, but heard some news and rushed over from a nearby town.

De Lisi showed up on her own initiative, which probably means that Aldin is fine.Winter Thistle felt relieved, and slowly wiped away the runes and spells on the floor with the hem of her robe.

Just like that, the refiner in the carriage and the mercenaries who attacked the city guard for no reason were escorted back to Harbor City by the city guard and several other teams of mercenaries.

Winter Thistle fell asleep for a while in the dark carriage.When the carriage door opened again, it was already daylight.

A soldier leaned in and pushed him, dragging him from the car before he was fully conscious.

Winter Thistle raised her head, and saw the city hall ring stone castle in front of her.Besides him, those mercenaries who had lost their helmets and armor were also brought over handcuffed.

Those people looked at him with hostility in their eyes.Winter Thistle quickly looked away.

The soldiers brought Winter Thistle into the city hall, sent them to a temporary cell on the second basement floor, locked the door and left.

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Aldin knocked on the door and walked into Kanai's room.

Kanai's leg injury was serious, and the early treatment was not very good. After returning, he has been bedridden.

Aldin sat down and told him what had happened from last night until early this morning.From the city guards finding Winter Thistle, to the mercenaries attacking the city guards, and finally everyone was taken into the dungeon.

The city hall has not convened the second review tribunal for the time being.All parties are still in communication, because the situation of those mercenary suspects is too complicated - they claimed to represent the chamber of commerce when they appeared, and then attacked the city guards, trying to rob the suspects in the carriage by force.

Judging from the behavior of the mercenaries, if the city guard refuses to cooperate no matter what, they must be prepared to silence them.The mercenaries have more people, and their opponent is a small team with only single digits.

Even if the situation is not favorable for the mercenaries, they can give up the mission halfway, as long as they see the timing, escape in time, and don't return to Harbor City, then there will be nothing to prove, and no one can identify them as mercenaries of the chamber of commerce.

And the current situation is the worst situation for mercenaries.They have already made a move, but they failed, and they have not been able to escape, and they are all caught back...

To catch these mercenaries, I would like to thank Mai Da, another head of the chamber of commerce.

Mai Da noticed that a group of people left the city in the middle of the night, and felt a little strange.As far as he knew, what was going to be captured now was only a weak refiner. Since the city guard didn't ask for reinforcements, he couldn't understand why the mercenary group of the chamber of commerce had to dispatch so many people to participate.

Earlier, he also noticed all kinds of strange signs in the court, and he could see that the chief and Simon seemed to be deliberately guiding something.

Although Mai Da did not speak, he also had some judgments in his heart.

So he informed the city hall of the fact that someone left the city on their own, and the city hall also found it strange, so they sent reinforcement guards, and Mai Da led his own people to follow.

Not long after they left the city, they heard a commotion, and upon closer inspection, it turned out that a group of mercenaries had clashed with the city guards.

There were quite a few witnesses to this conflict: there were mercenaries under Mai Da’s command, a large number of city guards and non-commissioned officers who came to reinforce them, and even a caravan from outside, that is, Delis of the Carlos family.

After returning to Harbor City, as soon as the soldiers of the city guard gathered, everyone heard the story of "being intercepted by mercenaries and almost killing people".

The story was spread to ten, ten to hundreds, the soldiers told their families, and the family spread to the neighbors... Speculations about the conspiracy spread like wildfire, and all kinds of speculations have been spread everywhere.

After Aldin finished speaking, Kanai asked, "Why is Mai Da so active? Have you communicated with Mai Da?"

"No," Aldin said, "although the result is beneficial to me, it's not that he intends to favor me on purpose. He's a man, and his character is like that. Usually suspicious people are more timid, but he is not, he always Very proactive, suspicious of everything, trying to figure out everything.”

Kanai said: "It seems that Bellows shouldn't have summoned the other managers. He must regret it now. Maybe he has not become the chief for a long time, so he doesn't know enough about the older managers."

Aldin smiled: "He still knows them better, but he doesn't know enough."

Kanai said: "If he knew, how could he find Mai Da? I heard that when Bellos Jr. became the chief, both Gorman and Mai Da expressed doubts. Gorman just died, and everyone must have I wonder, how can someone like Maida easily trust Bellows Jr.?"

Aldin said: "Maida questioned everything. When I was elected to be in charge, he also questioned me. Bellows wanted such suspicious people to be present. According to the original script, if you and I are in the court Biting each other on the ground...All this is seen by all parties, what would a person like Mai Da think?"

Kanai nodded slowly: "That's right... By the way, since Winter Thistle has been captured, what should he do?"

"We can't trust Winter Thistle just yet, let alone try to protect him," said Aldin.

"Why? Is it possible for him to give a statement against us?"

"No," Aldin laughed, "I mean, since we accused him, of course we don't trust him. We doubt him. Don't worry, he doesn't need me to do anything, Bellows is the one who wants to protect his people."

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