Rafferty, Gosset, and other strong men quietly returned to Aalto with the night watchmen, and the city in the darkness was still peaceful, no different from when they left.
At this time, Cardinal Vera Ammodon suddenly stopped in mid-air, turned his head and ordered the codekeeper: "Salvador, take your squad's night watchman to the Merze Black Forest to help Lady Camille search for Her Royal Highness." She is the de facto giant of the Court of Vaulite.
Before Salvador could answer, Count Hayward, the deputy head of the Violet Knights, asked in surprise and worry: "What happened to Her Royal Highness?"
Amorton's dull and beautiful face said without any emotion: "It is said that Verdi colluded with the people of the Magic Council to assassinate the princess.
Lafferty and Hayward asked at the same time: "Is the intelligence accurate? Is it really Verdi's rebellion?"
The other nobles who followed to Lake Elsinore were just as surprised, but what surprised them didn't seem to be Verdi's assassination of Natasha.
"It was Cardinal Salde who told me just now." Just by saying the source of the information, Amouton made Hayward and the others no longer doubt.
So, Hayward said with a gloomy face: "I will also help find Her Highness the Princess."
Although he was blonde, handsome, tall, and masculine, like a young man in his twenties, he was actually over one hundred and sixty years old, had experienced countless battles and intrigues, and now he smelled a bad "smell", and it didn't seem like he was going to Lake Elsinore by himself.
The canonist Salvador replied: "Your will is our will, Bishop, and I will lead the team to set off immediately. Only the truth endures."
"Only the truth endures." Ammodon had a cross on his chest.
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In the Melzer Black Forest, relying on Aaron's special bloodline ability, it didn't take long for Todd and the two of them to see the devastated ghost woman aloe vera.
"They use Onipo aloe vera here to stop bleeding and eliminate odors." Todd was also trained as an orthodox knight, "Aaron, can you tell where they ran away?"
Aaron checked the remaining traces in the nearby shadows, and his neatly trimmed mustache moved: "My lord, the shadows told me that they did not leave."
"I didn't leave......" Todd first held the long sword vigilantly and looked around, and then came to his senses: "They left with the help of the river!"
Onipo aloe vera grows near water sources, so there is a small river here that winds towards the Masol River. According to Todd's speculation, the two people they were chasing were lying directly in the river and drifting downstream: "They have a strong ability to get rid of the tracking, and they have the advantage of the terrain of the Black Forest, but they are still chased closer and closer by us. This probably made them suspicious that we had a unique tracking method."
Aaron had a serious expression: "After entering the water, I can't communicate with the shadows." He was not yet a great knight and could not wield underwater shadows.
Todd did not panic, but smiled and said: "The current is very different from the speed of the rider's running, if they keep drifting, we can catch up quickly, and if they go ashore halfway, they will definitely leave traces such as water stains. We track on both sides of the river separately and don't miss anything."
"But this would be a waste of time......" Aaron knew that it would be troublesome to carefully search for traces of the enemy's landing, but he and Todd were not magicians, and without all kinds of magical magic, they could only rely on this stupid method.
Todd jumped to the opposite side gently: "Don't worry, we are all injured lightly, we are much faster than them, the advantage is on our side, and it is nothing to delay a little time." His nose and mouth, which had been split in half by Wynne, had almost recovered.
The two began to search carefully along the river.
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In the Melzer Black Forest.
Lucian and Natasha drifted in the river for a short time before quickly leaving and continued to run towards the depths of the forest.
"Lucian, you look really embarrassed." Natasha lay on Lucian's back and laughed and teased, although her knight's suit was seriously damaged, it was made of high-quality materials after all, and there was no embarrassing situation like Lucian's clothes were soaked and clinging.
Lucian looked at the black robe that was still dripping, and used a strange shrub plant that looked like hay to deal with the dripping water stains, and said with some worry: "I don't think this will completely get rid of the enemies behind."
In fact, there are several special magics in the first ring of magic that can help dry clothes and deal with traces, but Lucian was previously focused on analyzing "Starlight Shield", "Magic Missile", etc., and did not have time to learn those magics, and now it is too late to learn them temporarily.
"They should have a unique tracking method, and I'm afraid we can't get rid of it completely. What we need now is to delay time and give me time to recover." Natasha was very sober and did not answer blindly optimistically: "I know all the knights around Verdi, and I also know their bloodline power, unless there is the help of magic items, they will never be able to do this, so it is likely that they are the dark knights he secretly recruited, maybe when I recover a little, we can make a counterattack and kill the dark knight with tracking skills!"
"But I'm not sure how strong the knights who follow us are? What if it was Todd? What if it is indeed a magic item?" Lucian calmly analyzes and corrects Natasha's habitual adventure attempts.
Natasha raised her purple eyebrows: "But don't you think they are getting closer and closer? Don't think about how to do something, are you waiting for them to catch up?" The judgment of getting closer and closer does not require strong intuition, it can only be obtained from the temporary comparison of strength between the two sides without escaping the trace.
"We need to be more sure." Lucian looked at the stars that were about to disappear in the sky and the nearby environment, and roughly determined the location, so he adjusted his direction, "At least wait until you regain the strength of an ordinary knight."
Natasha didn't pay attention to Lucian's small changes, and after concentrating on checking her physical condition, she said: "The most severe stage of the backlash of the bloodline power has passed, but I myself am seriously injured, and I may not be able to regain the strength of a knight until the sun rises. By the way, Lucian, have you obtained any potions or materials in the ruins other than magic items?" She began to determine every possibility, and Lucian went to the ruins to look for a potion that could improve his knight's strength, and maybe he could get an item like a healing potion.
"Are the materials useful?" Lucian hesitated for a moment, but still replied.
Natasha nodded seriously: "Many materials have healing powers, although there will be serious poisoning or various sequelae without alchemy treatment, but I am a great knight and should not die directly. As long as you can get rid of tracking, it doesn't matter if you lie down for a few months and can't move. Hehe, Lucian, you can't eat like me."
Lucian took a soft breath, took out the aether, goblin hair, burning powder, vampire blood, etc., and handed it to Natasha: "Catch it casually in the magician's storage room." Lucian was very apprehensive about this lie.
Natasha saw the materials, was silent for a moment, then lay her head on Lucian's shoulder and smiled: "There are really materials that can be used, both aether and vampire blood can be treated, especially vampire blood is very effective." The laughter was hearty and clean, and there seemed to be no suspicion.
These two are the materials for refining the powerful healing potion "Song of Water", and Lucian is not surprised that he has such an ability, but asked with concern: "Will there be any sequelae?"
Natasha directly pulled out the glass tube containing the vampire's blood: "Aether healing is effective and of little use to me. Vampires' blood will have sequelae of blood burning that lasts for two months to half a year, and they will be more afraid of daytime." She removed the cork, sniffed it gently, and then her voice became excited: "This is the blood of a high vampire, the legendary magician's collection is awesome!"
"Can you heal?" Natasha didn't explicitly mention the danger and pain of blood burning, and Lucian didn't ask, so it was completely out of priority to care about these issues at this time.
Natasha took a deep breath: "Normally, I can only return to the rank of an ordinary knight, but if I cooperate with the special ability of stimulating the bloodline again, I can temporarily recover the strength of the ordinary level five, but at most three minutes I will fall back to the previous state of weakness in my hands and feet, and I will not be able to recover within a day or two."
Lucian heard the desire in Natasha's voice, "You want to fight back against the enemy behind."
"Without Todd, three minutes would be enough for me to kill all the knights who were tracking." Natasha's tone became stern, but she immediately laughed: "But after that, I have to ask Lucian to continue to carry me behind my back."
"But what if it's the Great Knight Todd?" Lucian calmly suggested other possibilities for Natasha.
Natasha laughed softly: "When the time comes, I will be responsible for luring Todd and the other great knights, you use the 'Thunder Sword' to kill all the ordinary knights, so that we are not afraid of being tracked when we escape again."
Lucian looked sideways at Natasha leaning on his shoulder, her purple eyes were bright and bright, her lips pursed gently, she didn't know what she was thinking, so she shook her head and smiled: "You lured the great knight away without the Thunder Sword, it seems that you are preparing to go and never return, sacrificing yourself to create a chance for me to escape."
Natasha raised her head suddenly as if she was frightened and laughed dryly: "How could it be? I cherish my life. The main reason is that you definitely can't beat those ordinary knights without the Thunder Sword, and I just lure away, dodge and then escape back, I don't necessarily need a level five weapon, and 'vigilance' can also be used."
"It's too dangerous." Lucian rejected her opinion, "You take the Thunder Sword, wait for us to go to a place and wait, as long as there are no more than five ordinary knights chasing after me, I am very sure to kill them."
"Lucian, are you sure?" Natasha asked in surprise.
Lucian turned his head and let her see the seriousness and seriousness on his face: "I also cherish my life."
"Then I believe you." Natasha didn't dwell on why, her smile was rare peace and tranquility.
(End of this chapter)