——Ask for a recommendation vote on Monday.
Also, the map everyone requested is asking a kind girl to help draw it, and it has been sent up in the past few days, and my own art ability is zero.
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Gu Song repeated blankly: "Through the Shahran Empire?"
Lucian saw that his group panic technique had caused all the thugs outside the compartment to collapse to the ground, and the gentlemen who were buying and selling information in the compartment were too frightened to come out, so he did not enter the room, stood leisurely in the aisle on the second floor with his hands in the pockets of his long dress, looked at Gu Song who had retreated with his back to the wall and smiled:
"Yes, through the Shahran Empire and to the countries in the northeast of the Dark Mountains that believe in different gods. Mr. Komatsu, I think you can see that I am a magician and will be hunted by the Northern Church of the Shinshin Church in the Shahran Empire, so I need a guide who is familiar with the geography, nobility, and general customs of the Shahran Empire so that I can walk safely in the Shahran Empire."
After knowing from Gaston's mouth that the church's center of gravity was slowly shifting and the blockade of the Storm Strait became stricter, Lucian did not take the risk, but followed his advice, took the magic steam train, passed through the kingdom of Holm and the kingdom of Colette, and arrived at the famous city of Deep Sea Harbor in the Northland, and then spent more than two months traveling through the depths of the Northland, where trolls, orcs, etc. often appeared, and came to the Eastern Exile, where the southwest of the primeval forest is the Flame Fortress in the northeast of the Shahran Empire.
During this time, Lucian built a spell "Dispel Magic" in his soul, which was very important for the three-ring magician.
And across the Shahran Empire, on its southwestern edge is Lucian's destination, the Duchy of Vaulite.
In the past, smuggling into the place where the North and South churches confronted each other was more dangerous than the Storm Strait, but after the church's focus shifted, the latter became much more difficult.
After the explanation mixed with lies, Gu Song probably understood Lucian's request, he took two deep breaths, and regained a bit of the calmness of the head of the intelligence organization: "This gentleman, are you worried that flying within the Shahran Empire for a long time will be easy to be discovered, and you need a fake identity and a guide to help you cover up a different style from the Shahran Empire?"
"Mr. Gu Song, you are very smart." Lucian smiled gently, but in his heart, if my flying skills could have the speed of an airplane on Earth, that is, the level of high-level magicians, it would take three or four days, and the flying stop would have passed, but so far, my flying skills are equivalent to the running of an ordinary carriage.
Seeing that Lucian had a peaceful and personable attitude, Gu Matsu intuitively thought that he was not the kind of ruthless magician, and after pondering for a while, he said: "Sir, I suggest you go to the Taran Bar to find Leo, he used to be an assistant to a certain great smuggler in the Shahran Empire, and his business once reached the pagan country in the northeast of the Dark Mountains and the heretical principality of Vaurit, and later offended the big smuggler, and he killed his whole family, and I was lucky enough to escape to Segu with the precious magic scroll."
"The flame of vengeance and the strength of the quasi-knight made it difficult for him to survive, frantically following various tasks, trying to save money to buy precious magic potions to improve his strength, and then go back to take revenge."
"He is good at using non-magical means to change his appearance, and he knows all the nobles, fortresses and most of the geographical environment within the Shahran Empire very well, so he is the most suitable candidate."
Lucian thought for a while, and his smile did not fade: "I'm not too worried about Leo, after arriving in the Shahran Empire, if he encounters that big smuggler, he is likely to lose control of his emotions."
"Don't worry, sir, Leo is a man with the spirit of a knight keeping his promises, and as long as you sign a magic contract, he will not break it. Perhaps that is why he offended the big smuggler. Sometimes it's not good to be too principled." Gu Matsu suggested again, "He is definitely the most suitable candidate, others either have no experience traversing the Shahran Empire, or they are exiled nobles and cannot be good guides."
Lucian thought seriously for a while: "Then I'll go meet Leo first."
"He won't let you down." Gu Song said in an affirmative tone, "It's just that something seems to have happened to him recently, I don't know where he went, and the only clue is that someone has seen him at the Taran Bar."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that Lucian's brown pupils, whether it was his left eye with a monocle or his bare right eye, were like a rapidly spinning vortex, allowing his soul and spirit to be thrown into it uncontrollably, and then his thinking was confused for a while.
After using charming humans to control Gu Song, Lucian verified the information just now one by one, and then performed "hypnosis" to make Gu Song forget the memory just now - although Lucian could not modify and weave the memory, nor could he really erase the memory, but it was still possible to make Gu Song subconsciously forget the key places, and even if someone tracked down Gu Song in the future, the Lucian in his memory was also disguised!
Because he is the winner of the Holm Crown Award, he doesn't know how much the North and South Churches have mastered his appearance, and a ring of magic disguise is easy to be seen by level 5 bishops and night watchmen, and Lucian himself is not good at transformation magic, so when he went out this time, he made some camouflage items that did not involve magic, such as insoles that grow three centimeters tall when placed in leather shoes, such as brown contact lenses made of shape-shifting evil pupils (they do not have any eye-enhancing effect, they are just transparent and thin). For example, two beautiful mustaches without shaves, paired with monocles, look more elegant and polite.
It took a long time for Gu Matsu to look around as if he had woken up from a nightmare.
"What happened just now? Where are the two knights?" As the head of an intelligence organization, he quickly understood that he had met a strong man, so he simply gave up thinking, only remembering that a magician forcibly broke in, as for what happened after that, he couldn't remember what he asked.
The thugs lying on the floor of the hall gradually faded into horror, and just now they seemed to have encountered the most feared thing in their lives, such as the legendary dragon, so they were so frightened that they couldn't possess their souls.
"You bastards, get up quickly to clean the hall, and change your clothes!" Gu Song smelled the stench and roared in a very bad mood, and then ordered his men to find the two knights, fearing that their competitors would take this opportunity to assassinate them.
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"Taran Bar, the Eastern Exile's own bar".
Lucian saw this log sign, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then pushed open the door of the bar and stepped into the bar with a lot of people.
As Lucian entered, countless scrutinizing eyes looked over almost at the same time, but they left at the touch and continued to chat and laugh loudly, as if that second of silence had never appeared.
When Lucian controlled Tony, the gatekeeper of the ancient pine hut on Cross Street, he did not hide it and showed his strength generously, and the two knights who were so frightened that they ran away were also seen by many people in the East Exile, so a few very restless guys in the bar probably knew that Lucian was a stronger man than them, and they didn't dare to provoke him at all. Most of the rest of the people who didn't know who Lucian was or what his range of strength was, after seeing that those guys didn't move, they also gave up their plans and prepared to observe for a while.
This is the law of the Eastern Exile! Outsiders with no strength and no relationship can only die, even if the inhabitants of the Eastern Exile Land are abandoned by their companions, or do not know how to please the strong, they will not end well, this law is so naked and cruel!
Most people in the Eastern Exile Land want to make a lot of money, and then quickly buy through the channels to live in a normal country with rules and laws that do not want them.
As he walked through the narrow aisle between the bar tables, Lucian still maintained a calm demeanor as if he didn't belong here.
"Hello, I want to inquire about something." Lucian knocked on the table at the bar.
The blonde young man who seemed to be the bartender wiped his glass without raising his head: "You need a glass of wine."
"Give me a glass of Rice." Lucian knew that this was a common rule in all bars, and he had no objection, so he ordered a glass of wine that would arouse his nostalgia, which was the first wine he had heard since he came to this world.
The blond young man finally raised his head, he had a good face and a slightly unruly temperament very much in line with the Eastern Exile, and then poured Lucian a glass of golden Rice wine: "What do you have to ask?"
Lucian did not drink, but looked at the golden liquid like a work of art: "I want to know where Leo is."
"Many people have been looking for him recently." The bartender didn't answer directly.
Lucian didn't look at the wine in his hand anymore, raised his head and said, "I am an employer and plan to hire Leo."
The bartender said lightly: "Others are also here to 'hire' Leo." The tone was a bit sarcastic.
Hearing the conversation between the two, several middle-aged men dressed in scale armor sitting around a table behind them all stood up in an uproar, and the armor on their bodies made bursts of crisp metal collision sounds.
Their leader was a man in his thirties with a fierce temperament, his left eye was empty and there were no eyeballs, which was very scary.
He walked up to Lucian with a two-handed greatsword and his iron boots stepping on the floor with a loud noise, his tall body slightly bent, and asked in a threatening tone: "What is your relationship with Leo? Where have you met? Boy, you have to understand, I am asking on behalf of a certain big man in the Eastern Exile, you have to answer well, otherwise you will definitely not see the sun rising tomorrow."
"Actually, Leo and I don't know each other. Because I heard that he has chivalry and keeps his promises, I plan to hire him to do something." Lucian replied calmly on the surface, but in fact he was weighing whether it was necessary to continue looking for Leo, one was a waste of time, and the other was that he seemed to be in trouble.
The blind man did not give up and said viciously: "Who introduced it? What to do? You'd better answer honestly."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lucian's left hand wearing white gloves leaving the wine glass and grabbing it towards him.
Its speed was extremely fast, and the leader man had already grabbed his throat when there was still a shadow left in his pupils, and he did not react the whole time.
Lucian smiled and looked at him: "When you were a child, your mother didn't tell you, don't ask about things you shouldn't ask?"
"You...... You'd better let me go, or you don't want to get out of the Eastern Exile alive ...... the big man behind me." The leader man was frightened at first, and then laughed deliberately, but in the blink of an eye, Lucian's left hand pinched him so hard that he couldn't speak.
Lucian smiled and shook his head: "It is still unknown whether I can leave the Eastern Exile alive or not, but if you continue to say this, you will definitely not be able to get out of the Taran Bar, do you want to try? By the way, let me tell you a secret, I am also a big man."
As if being fooled, the leader man's face turned red, but he couldn't speak, and then his men reacted and drew their swords and gathered around.
Suddenly, a swordsman wearing the same style of black scale armor ran out from behind the bar and shouted, "I found Leo, he's in the bar's secret room!"
The bartender's face changed drastically, but just as he was about to get up, he was blocked by a swordsman. The rest of the swordsmen seemed to have forgotten their leader, their armor clattering and running towards the back of the bar, and two quasi-knights who were significantly stronger than the high-ranking knights' attendants rushed out from the other corner of the bar at the same time, they were the real means of ambush!
Lucian looked at the leader who was pinched by his throat amusedly, and shook his head sympathetically: "It seems that the big man doesn't value you too much, even if I kill you, he probably won't retaliate against me. I don't know which lord he is?"
"How do you know?" The leader asked in astonishment after his throat was released, and saw Lucian patting his clothes and getting up.
(End of this chapter)