[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

The people present were all experienced enough, and after a brief gaffe, Alphonse immediately restrained his movements, as if he had just suddenly remembered something, and walked casually to the pick-up counter of the buffet, Swiping the flannel with his fingertips, he took two pieces of pudding for himself, and sat back down again.

It seemed that his purpose of this trip was to pick up two desserts for the end of today's dinner.

The metal spoon cuts the soft pudding and makes a ding sound when it hits the white porcelain plate.The magic power flowed from the fingertips down the spoon all the way to the ground, turning into soundless and invisible waves, centered on the blond alchemist, sweeping in all directions.

Tony Stark's face remained motionless, he refilled himself a glass of wine steadily, raised his glass from a distance showing a rather frivolous look, leaned close to Alphonse who had a straight back, and put one hand on the other's shoulder, The lips fluttered in the alchemist's ears, and the words were accompanied by warm breaths:

"What's wrong? What did you just discover?"

"... there are magicians in the crowd."

Alphonse lowered his voice: "Besides me, there are also multiple magic waves present, and the opponent's anti-detection methods are very strict. If I didn't happen to use the monocle dress just now, it would be difficult even for me." Discover."

"Don't be so nervous Al, maybe it's a guy who lives in New York like you."

Tony Stark said in a voice that only the three present could hear: "Or, have you noticed the danger?"

As soon as Nick Fury looked up, he winked at Natasha, who was temporarily serving as the secretary. The latter nodded knowingly, flicked his curly hair, and hid in the crowd.

"The main feature of this dress is to detect hostility, and monitoring the magic power response is just an incidental function."

Alphonse had already gone through several countermeasures in his mind. Wearing formal attire wherever he is too lazy to buy clothes is really a good suggestion. At least he doesn’t have to worry about defensive techniques... He stretched one hand behind him, from An amethyst was found in the air.

"The default state of this dress is to detect the hostile reactions around me. I didn't have time to adjust anything just now. I wanted to modify the hostile detection mode to target you. As soon as I opened it, I found that there were people on the scene who wanted to deal with me. magician."

The blond-haired alchemist said in an apologetic tone: "This time I got you involved, and I will solve it in the mirror space, so as not to affect the dinner as much as possible."

Although I don't know what rune Loki left behind, the other party left a message saying that it will be very effective if it is in danger.It wasn’t long before I returned to my gem shop from the coffee shop, and I didn’t have time to study the completely unfamiliar rune magic. I could only copy the other party’s spells into gold gems and make it into a form of magic power. Considering the nine The name of the world's number one magician is taboo, and I hope it can be of some use at critical moments.

"A battle between magicians?"

Nick Fury frowned: "Al, in other words, you judge that this matter has nothing to do with these ordinary people present, but is it a grievance in your mysterious world?"

Alphonse did not give a definite answer.

"There are families that hate Bathmelo or Edelfelt, but most of this kind of hostility will be directed at the head of the family who inherited the engraving. Personally, I really don't have much social interaction..."

He also felt that these accidents came inexplicably: "If it is the guys who betrayed the ancient first division, the first to bear the brunt should be to deal with Karl Modu and the others."

Nick Fury's gaze swept across the crowd holding wine glasses, his expression flickering.

"Who did you invite to this party, Stark?"

"How could I know, this is not my own decision."

The mustache businessman rolled his eyes: "I only invited Al, where did you get the invitation from?"

"..."

Nick Fury took a deep breath: "From the relevant departments of your Stark Industries that you don't bother to deal with anyway, but it doesn't matter."

The important thing is that among the people present, there are many key political figures and some people who can control the lifeline of the economy. If one or a few of them die suddenly, the negative impact will be extremely difficult to eliminate.

Tony Stark kept his eyebrows still: "Mark 5 is already on its way, and Harpy will be here soon. Seriously, I have to make a function that allows the suit to fly over next time."

Alphonse took off his emerald brooch and pinned it on Tony Stark's collar: "This will have a certain amount of magical protection. If it affects the real world, try to evacuate the crowd here."

"Wow."

The latter sighed cooperatively, and crossed his arms: "Then I guess, Mr. Alchemist is going to start acting alone now?"

"Ordinary people have almost no resistance to magic such as curses. A simple Gandr can directly penetrate plate armor if it is well controlled, not to mention spells such as directly absorbing life force. If there is a problem, I will Directly use this to inform you and Fury, I think S.H.I.E.L.D. should have its own arrangements, and you should evacuate as soon as possible."

Alphonse put a hanging ring on his finger, stretched out his hand and loosened the collar of his formal suit.

"Listen, Al, I remember you are not very familiar with this kind of spell, are you sure you won't be knocked out by your peers? If you wait a few minutes, there is still a row of miniature positioning in my suit box Tracking bullets, you..."

Before he finished speaking, he realized that the alchemist in front of him suddenly disappeared.The other party disappeared without a sound, as if he was still looking at him with lake-green eyes just now, and there was no trace in a blink of an eye.

Tony: "...???"

Tony: "Jar, what did he just do? Why didn't I even see the spell casting action?"

The smart butler replied honestly: "He just walked away from you, Sir."

Tony: "??"

"Even waved his hand, it seems that he interfered with the cognition of the people around him."

The smart butler said: "Do you need me to call up the video record?"

"never mind."

Tony Stark pressed his eyebrows, and his eyes swept across the crowd present: "He just wants to kill those magicians secretly by himself, and I just don't like him."

Fury stood up and pressed Tony Stark's shoulder.

"Just for once, I agree with your proposal."

He said: "Alphonse cannot be left alone to solve this matter - even if we know almost nothing about magicians."

If there is no chaos, create chaos.

Tony Stark kicked over a champagne tower while everyone was not paying attention. Nick Fury took out a tear gas the size of a bottle cap from his pocket and rolled it out along the ground. Amidst the screams of the crowd, Natasha and Fury glanced over the people who were running away in a panic, looking for the abnormal guests among them.Magicians are different from professionally trained killers. They rarely have the training to hide their emotions and details. Too much belief in their magic power often leads to carelessness in handling details. Even Alphonse himself has great anti-reconnaissance methods. Most of them rely on teleportation and imaginary space. If he is allowed to take transportation honestly, even a newcomer who has just graduated from the special forces training unit may be able to track the clues that are close to each other.

But it is a pity that among the people who ran away in a panic, no one seemed to be uncharacteristically calm.While Tony asked the smart butler to locate the hurriedly arrived Habifa, he covered his mouth and nose and hid in the corridor. Fury didn't know where he was scattered, but the bastard's skill alone would not make people worry. The most important thing now, Alphonse's current location is determined by the marker on his body.

I don't know if the improved version [-] of the tracker can locate in the mirror space.

In the empty banquet scene, Alphonse wore a monocle with a dignified expression.Here he found at least four bullets mixed with magic power, and successfully destroyed them with gem magic.This is some kind of enchantment formula that he has never been exposed to. After a brief interpretation, its effects include but are not limited to gradually weakening the vitality of people in the enchantment, and the bullets placed in the mirror space can be destroyed before he finds out. The magic is almost about to seep into the real world.

Alphonse turned out a long light blue conical gemstone in the palm of his hand. With the infusion of magic power, its tip melted slightly, drawing a complex magic circle on the ground like a water pen.This space has been disturbed quite unstable, and needs to be anchored to ensure that it will not interfere with people who are having a banquet in the real world.

"Call Celestite."

The black suit transformed into the alchemist's white robe again, and with the wide sleeves automatic without wind, one magic circuit after another lit up one by one, clinging to the back of the magician's hand.

"Call Spinel."

The seven-pointed star's magic array lights up with seven light spots, and the magic power gathers into bundles to traverse the surroundings, but apart from the loose mirror space that needs to be anchored, there is not a single redundant arrangement here.

Even though he is not one of the Twelve Monarchs but can be named "Lord", Alphonse is quite confident in his gem magic, but no matter how he probes, it is like stepping into an empty house with complicated decorations.

——Those malicious magicians are not here.

The blond gem merchant's expression froze, and he stretched out his left hand with the hanging ring on.He just barely judged the malice aimed at him and hurried to the mirror space, but the actual situation seemed far less simple than he thought at first.

It's more like some kind of distraction.

The real world, the banquet scene.

The bullets from the sniper rifle did not know from which angle they were shot, and even after they bounced out of the angle at the corner of the wall, they flew towards Tony Stark who was originally hiding in a blind corner at an extremely distorted angle, but it barely hit the opposite door. Before, dissolved in front of Stark.

The space in front of him was slightly wrinkled like ripples on the surface of the water, and the bullet was like a mud cow entering the water, leaving a small puddle of deformed solidified metal on the ground.

The businessman with the mustache was taken aback for a moment, and then subconsciously looked at his chest. There was a crack on the emerald brooch on his chest, which was hard to be noticed normally.

"Tsk."

He immediately complained: "It seems that the other party is not just targeting Alphonse."

The Iron Suit arrived just in time, and Nick Fury was resupplied from S.H.I.E.L.D. just as quickly.After quickly snapping on the upper mask, Tony Stark quickly detected several snipers aiming at his vicinity. He turned on the internal communication frequency band and said irritably: "Those guys may It's coming for me, do you have any clues?"

"If it is said that both technical means and mysterious fields have infiltrated, there is only one name I can think of."

Nick Fury replied with a slight panting in the communication frequency band: "Hydra, unfortunately, the areas infiltrated by this organization are many and complicated. It is surprising but not surprising if there are people from them in the magician. I'll have to discuss it with Alphonse later, ordinary detectives can't deal with a group of guys who don't understand the laws of physics."

"The key is now!"

The iron suit braved several bullets and dragged its long tail to the sky. Fortunately, Natasha led the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to evacuate most of the guests.After the steel suit turned around in the air, an inconspicuous bullet suddenly accelerated in the air twice, knocking him back with unpredictable speed and intensity. There was an obvious gap visible to the naked eye, and the posture was adjusted in the air after the balance assist system was activated.

"Is this a sniper bullet??"

Tony was shocked: "I feel like I was hit by a mortar just now!"

[DAMAGE ASSESSMENT, EXTERNAL ARMOR FAILURE 10%.In addition, there is a new co-channel communication access, Sir.]

"Sorry, Tony."

Alphonse's voice appeared in the signal range: "Simple diversion, I should think more about it. How is your situation?"

"Other than the unpleasantness of being chased and beaten, it's okay, and if being attacked can save you from saying 'Stark' at last, it's kind of paying off."

Tony spoke quickly: "The long-lost coordinated operation, Al?"

"I thought you guys would never understand what coordinated operations are."

Nick Fury spoke in a cool tone in the communication frequency band. He just picked up a bottle of wine and slapped an enemy who wanted to fish in troubled waters: "There are ordinary people on my side, but the bullet just now was not normal."

"It has been protected, or at least it has been treated by magic."

Alphonse walked through the smoke-filled corridor: "There is a feeling of modern magic. Magicians who inherit ancient times will not attach protection to items such as bullets, but will tend to prefer gems, Mercury, bones and other traditional media that can flow magic. I only know one magician who attaches magic properties to bullets, but he should be dead."

What's more, the current monarch of the modern magic department is that El-Melloi II, and it is impossible for him to appear in New York...

"You may be overcomplicated, Alphonse."

Nick Fury said: "If, I mean if... Is it possible that the magician will cooperate with the ordinary people you call?"

"That would be hunted down by the Law and Political Section."

Alphonse replied subconsciously, but suddenly realized something, and suddenly fell silent.

The world of ordinary people is as unstable as that of magicians, even more unstable.So among this group of people, will there be some people who dare to stretch out their tentacles to the mysterious, and there are indeed some unruly and deviant guys among the magicians, if these people meet together...

"S.H.I.E.L.D. has had a very large enemy since its inception."

Nick Fury said slowly: "I don't know how much you sensed when you first came to my office, but I think you should have heard of the name 'Hydra', if SHIELD can be infiltrated part of As far as human beings are concerned, I'm afraid there may be one or two magicians who will join this kind of organization."

This statement is even a bit too conservative.

During World War II, there were rumors that human military forces were involved in the early Holy Grail War. However, due to the limitations of the Clock Tower, the Holy Grail War, which occurred in the far east, did not pay much attention to the dispute between magicians. In addition, the Holy Grail War It has been ending in failure all the time, and the investigation has been abandoned for various reasons.But maybe, that was the first glimpse of some plotters into the mysterious world.

"Where are you? I'll go meet you."

Finally, the alchemist said calmly.

……

The banquet hall was in a mess at this time.Tony Stark in the golden-red battle suit and Nick Fury carrying a broken wine bottle stood in the middle of the hall, and soon the alchemist in a white robe rushed over.

"I think we're like a three-person team in an RPG right now."

Stark said: "Mage, Warrior and Tank are all available, but depending on the situation, Al, you probably have to play the role of healer."

"I don't even want to know why you in plate armor are a fighter and I'm a T..."

Nick Fury disgusted: "This is not fair at all."

"...Then I will lend him a diamond to withstand the impact?"

Alphonse said suspiciously: "If you must insist on playing RPG games."

In fact, alchemists who have little experience in cooperating with ordinary humans have maintained a great degree of understanding and concessions.

Tony Stark: "..."

What is the experience of lifting a rock and shooting yourself in the foot?He added annoyedly: "I am especially suitable to be a T, the plate armor made of titanium alloy is really too strong."

Nick Fury let out a short, disgusted laugh.

"Although I don't know how far you can go, but I have a plan."

The bald tenth-level agent announced in a deep voice: "I think at least as an RPG game, it needs a command."

"Hey, a team of three."

Tony Stark, who has always only relied on output and recklessness, shrugged his shoulders in his battle suit: "As long as this plan does not exceed three steps, you are welcome, Fury."

……

The plan really only has three steps.

The first step is to impose martial law around the area and separate the combat area from the safe area where guests are evacuated.

"Call Emerald."

Alphonse nodded, took out a gem in front of Fury and Tony, and stretched out his hand to write a long series of incomprehensible magic formulas in the space.The gems glowed and disappeared after being connected to several points in the space.In the next second, the smart butler in the steel suit issued a reminder: "The short-wave communication with the outside world has been interrupted."

"The enchantment was successful."

he confirmed.

The second step is to use the infrared heat sensor equipped in MARK5 to find out all the hostile targets present, and then...

"Don't follow it, wash it with a microflush missile first."

Tony Stark interrupted Fury's speech. After a burst of smoke, most of the tracking bombs distorted strange trajectories out of thin air, but this was enough to expose the enemy to the target.

six people.Four people were fully armed and held sniper rifles, while two people looked gloomy and empty-handed.

Sure enough, cognitive interference was used, Alphonse thought, but in modern society, pure cognitive interference cannot escape infrared thermal sensitivity.

"Alphonse Edelfelt."

The other party said angrily: "Finland's famous magic family has become Bathmelo's running dog, and the clock tower's watchdog... Now you don't even pick your master to the point where you start working for S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

When Tony Stark heard this, the cannon in his palm immediately lit up, but was stopped by Alphonse raising his hand.

Nick Fury's expression was solemn: "Then, why would a magician, who has always adhered to the principle of mystery and non-disclosure, work for Hydra?"