As soon as he returned to the castle, Lucian saw Joanna coming out of the corridor next to her with a two-handed greatsword.
"Master Evans, the corpse puppet in the castle lost control after the evil necromancer was killed by you, but we have cleaned it up." Joanna lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, as if respectfully reporting.
In her heart, in addition to fear and admiration for Lucian's knight powers, there was also a lot of dissatisfaction. One of his powerful paladins, who hired a squad of adventurers like himself to protect, apparently to distract the public, investigated and raided Baron Habero and the necromancer. But in this way, she and her husband and sister had to be involved in a battle between the strong with weak strength, and were almost killed by the damn and terrifying owl.
Lucian looked left and right, and asked calmly: "Are there any living people in the castle? Where are Simon, Betty, Wise, and Mars?"
Joanna is not a girl like Betty, even if she is mature, she still answers very seriously in the face of the paladin's question: "Except for Mr. Mars, there are no living people in the castle, and they have all been refined into corpse puppets by necromancers. Simon found that there was a riot in Gray Mist Town and rushed over to deal with it, suspecting that it was a small number of corpse puppets who had not escaped; Mr. Wise and Mr. Mars have been hiding in the storage room and do not dare to come out; Betty vomited in the bathroom."
"Vomiting?" Lucian held the spellcasting material in his left hand.
Joanna's beautiful face also showed a disgusting expression: "When dealing with the corpse puppets before, Betty found the ingredients for the dinner we were about to have in the kitchen, they were all rotten pieces of human flesh, with eyeballs, tongues, and fingers, and they were crawling with white maggots......"
As she spoke, she almost vomited, and that scene was obviously unbearable.
Lucian nodded, it seemed that the baron was going to use rotten corpse poison in the food to deal with himself more easily, but with the death of Kailin and the others, those materials lost their glamorous appearance: "Ms. Joanna, you don't need to call me my lord, just call me Mr. Evans, I don't have a title or title."
Joanna looked up slightly confused, and happened to see Lucian's deep and charming eyes, and the whole person immediately seemed to be trapped in the vast dreamy starry sky and couldn't extricate herself, her eyes were confused and admiring: "Okay, Mr. Evans."
Lucian slowly asked her about her memories of the previous battle, and after finding that there was nothing wrong, he used hypnosis to slightly modify the details without causing Joanna to rebound.
"I have no problem, Joanna, you go to Grey Mist Town to help Simon deal with it, so that he doesn't encounter danger alone." Lucian lifted the "Enchantment of Humans".
Joanna suddenly woke up, her cheeks flushed, she was in a daze at Mr. Evans just now, thinking that he was full of charm, it was really embarrassing, like a girl who was still underage! However, with Mr. Evans' strong strength, handsome appearance, elegant conversation, and gentle attitude, every woman must find him attractive, as long as she maintains an attitude of appreciation.
"Mr. Evans, I'll go to Grey Mist Town right away." She felt her face burning, so she walked quickly outside the castle.
Lucian watched Joanna leave quietly, then turned around and looked for opportunities to deal with the small details of Betty, Wise, and Mars' memories and the few traces of the battle in the baron's room.
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The dim candlelight flickered in the bedroom, and Lucian looked at Simon, Joanna and Betty in front of him and said, "Thank you for maintaining the security of Grey Mist Town, and thank you for helping me during the battle. Lock your rooms and don't give thieves a chance."
Lucian still wanted to maintain his apparent identity for the time being, so in order not to arouse the suspicion of the church and the nobility, he did not wipe out Baron Gabelo's property, like a passing knight who accidentally encountered this kind of thing.
In fact, Baron Gabero's wealth is not much, but what is really valuable is his castle, territory and manor. As for the cash, because he had to buy babies, children, maintain a luxurious life, and make some relationships, so that the bishops and priests of Cosse City would not find out that there was something wrong with the chapel in Greyfog City, so there were only a total of 60 Kinthale coins left, as well as the family heirloom second-class transcendent weapon "Boulder".
Except for a small number of nobles in the central and southern countries of the mainland, it is difficult to get at least one or two magic or magic items like the nobles with titles and property in Alto, so the name of the most barren area on the mainland is very appropriate.
Moreover, Baron Habero's only set of extraordinary armor was also paid to Hunter as a reward, and then Hunter mortgaged it to buy materials.
"Can we get twenty Kintales?" Simon, such a shrewd and calm man, couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, because one-tenth of the property was not only one-tenth of the coin, but also the discount of the extraordinary long sword. Only things with aristocratic characteristics such as castles, estates, and manors are not counted.
According to the common sense Lucian knew from Natasha, in Alto, apprentice-level transcendent items are about ten Kinthalers, low-level items (level 1 and 2) range from tens to hundreds of Kinthalers, and intermediate items (third, fourth, and fifth levels) are thousands to tens of thousands of Kinthal.
However, extraordinary items have always been priceless, not only rare, but also have not entered the magic circle, aristocratic circle, etc., and cannot be bought with Kintale. If Natasha hadn't known that Lucian had the strength of a quasi-knight, she wouldn't have told him about this at all, for example, Victor's annual income in the past was about a hundred Kinthal, but he hadn't even touched a single transcendent item.
"This two-handed greatsword is a Tier 2 Transcendent item that allows the user's strength to approach that of a Level 3 Grand Knight, crushing enemies like a boulder. Although there are certain requirements for strength, the value of one hundred and forty Kintales is not expensive." Lucian was originally going to supplement Kintale and pick up this second-level two-handed greatsword, but it required the strength of a formal knight to pick it up, so he had to give up.
At the same time, Lucian also felt in his heart that he did not give Baron Gabelo a chance to get the "boulder" at that time, otherwise things would be more troublesome.
After Simon, Joanna and Betty heard Lucian's words, their eyes looked at the pile of Kintales on the table with shining eyes, looking a little excited, even if they had hired tasks every day, the three of them didn't eat or drink together, and they only had ten Kinthalers a year, and if they wanted to really save twenty, it would take at least four or five years of difficult adventures.
"Thank you, Mr. Evans, we didn't really put in much effort." Joanna first said modestly, and then hurriedly said as if she was afraid that Lucian would regret it, "But we all need money for formal knight training, especially Betty, who can't delay any longer, so I can only accept it cheekily."
Lucian saw them put away the Kintale, put the rest into his money bag, and then smiled and said, "Before arriving in Cosher City, I will instruct Betty to do some formal knight training, hehe, that arrow before was so timely, you can also learn from it."
On the one hand, Lucian did have the idea of gratitude, and on the other hand, when they were questioned by the church, the fact that he was able to carry out regular knight training could be known to the church, and the evidence on the side was even stronger.
"Really?" Betty's expression of excitement and excitement on her face, you must know that the knights instructed and trained by the Knights of Corsher City were all nobles who were close to bankruptcy, and they did not stimulate the power of their bloodline, how could they compare to the guidance of a powerful paladin like Mr. Evans!
Joanna and Simon also thanked each other again and again: "Thank you so much, Master Evans!"
Lucian waved his hand: "I am not a paladin, nor a nobleman, just a quasi-knight of Her Royal Highness. Because there are many magic and magic items on his body, he seems to be powerful, so don't spread it everywhere."
Before Joanna and the others could answer, Lucian said again: "By the way, I was eroded by the aura of decay and death in the battle with the necromancer, and I was injured a lot. And with such an injury, I can't rush to Wolf Town in advance to report to the church, so I can only ask you to keep vigil tonight and set off for Wolf Town tomorrow morning."
Wolf Town is the next town on this route, also belonging to Baron Habelo, but the apprentice priest in the town church should not have been refined into a corpse puppet.
"Yes, Mr. Evans." With a generous monetary reward and a promise of regular knight training, Simon, Joanna, and Betty no longer had any hidden dissatisfaction, and answered in unison with great excitement and joy.
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The night gradually deepened, and the castle with only a few people seemed quieter and deeper, more mysterious and dark.
Lucian lay quietly in the bedroom, playing with the invitation Hunter received in his hand, what he said before was just a lie to be corroded by the breath of death, the real reason was that he still had something important to do.
Glancing at the invitation in his hand again, Lucian carefully compared it with the other one included in the Soul Library:
"The same wording, the same header and signature, but the two invitations have a different mark, one is a black six-pointed star, and the other is a small part of the inverted tree of life, which seems to correspond to the recipient one by one."
"Well, it's very likely, the magician's death feast will definitely prevent the church from sending people to impersonate themselves, and only such an invitation corresponds to a verified magician who has no problem to prevent something like this from happening. This part of the inverted tree of life represents Hunter, and the black six-pointed star represents the apprentice, and when the invitation he received did not match his identity, he naturally snatched it from the original owner."
"According to the careful thinking of the magicians, they will definitely prevent the danger of the church catching people and torturing them for information and location."
"In that case, how can I get in?"
Lucian had already thought of a way in his heart, but he needed to take a lot of risks, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.
"After Hunter's matter spreads, the Death Feast will definitely change the time and place, after all, he is the official necromancer who was invited."
"Unless I stay for a long time, it is difficult for me to contact the local magician, where can I get the changed time and place? And staying for a long time means that I have missed it and it has no meaning."
"It seems that you need to take a certain risk!"
Lucian took out the morning light crystal ball and began to use astrology for divination.
The result of the divination was "unknown", which was blurred to a certain extent, making Lucian shake his head helplessly, but he still opened the suitcase, changed into a black robe with a hood, pushed open the window, and quietly sneaked out.
Although Grey Mist Town is still more than seven days away from Kosher City, it only takes two or three hours to cross the mountains, cliffs and woods at the speed of a knight on a winding mountain road, and Lucian is ready to visit the castle of Karun Erdia directly tonight!
(End of this chapter)