Chapter 269 Leo's Discovery (Ask for a monthly pass in the middle of the night)
——I made up for the update, asking for a monthly pass~
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"Huh?" Carilliana didn't understand what it meant for a moment, her eyes full of doubts.
Lucian continued to say seriously: "But we are more suitable to be friends."
"Really?" Carolina's expression was a little dull, her face changed repeatedly, and finally she said with a little sadness, "I'm really sorry to trouble you, Mr. Peter."
The corners of her eyes seemed to reflect the light with a faint crystal, and her mournful appearance could impress most men, but Lucian just smiled gently and said: "I am very moved by your kindness to me, but you are not the type I like, so I can only apologetically refuse."
As the dance music came to an end, Carilliana lowered her head, and two pearl-like tears fell on the carpet in a wonderful arc.
She said in a nasal clogged voice: "I know that I am just a widow and not worthy of a promising knight like you, Mr. Peter. Anyway, I just want to show my heart, you gave me a touch that I will never forget. Thank you for accompanying me to dance this opening dance, and welcome to visit Ural City in the future."
The music stopped, and Caroliana turned away abruptly.
She kept her head buried in and did not let people see her expression, which caused Bowershack and other people who were paying close attention to this side to glare at Lucian, and they all dropped their dance partners, trying to comfort Carolina, but unfortunately they were a step slower, Caroliana had already entered the women's makeup and dressing room specially opened in the corner of the first floor, and locked the door.
"Hmph." Ballshak stared at Lucian, not knowing whether to be happy or angry, in short, there was a sour taste, and the sweetheart he worked hard to pursue was rejected by him so uncherished.
However, due to Lucian's knightly strength, neither Bolshak nor anyone else dared to ask for a duel on the spot. This made Lucian happy and relaxed.
In the makeup and dressing room, Carriliana raised her head, her pretty face was full of anger, her white and neat teeth were rattling, and she said hatefully: "Am I a good person? Am I only suitable for friends? Are you moved by my kindness? Damn guy, do you think I like you! When the matter is over, I must let you know what regret is!"
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In the underground cell behind the manor, Miaka, who had turned into a winter bear, groaned and woke up, and saw her companion Nyak next to her.
"Huh, you finally came back to life." Nyack put away a small box containing a lot of potions.
Miaka asked a little confused: "Why am I here?"
"Miaka, what exactly were you doing before? I told you to pretend to fail, not to let you commit suicide! Even if he is an official knight, you are still a winter bear with knightly strength, how could he be cut like this with a sword?" Nyak asked completely incomprehensible, he stayed for a full minute, feeling that an absurd comedy was playing out in front of him.
Miaka stretched out her hand and touched her head with difficulty: "He seems to be a knight in terms of speed and agility, when a sword slashed at me, I couldn't dodge at all, I could only rely on fur to resist, and then I fainted, not knowing what happened next. Isn't the winter bear's defense quite strong? Isn't it able to block the attack of the second-level knight?"
"It seems that his sword is at least a second-level high-level magic longsword, and we completely underestimate his strength. I have to report to Mr. Nyack discovered a serious intelligence error that almost turned a heroic drama into a tragedy.
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After re-putting on her makeup, Carilliana rekindled the mood of the prom with a warm and charming smile, but every time she saw Lucian, she just nodded lightly and didn't say much, as if the previous "confession" was all hallucinations.
This made Lucian breathe a sigh of relief, he was just a passing "liar", and he had no hope of making a fortune and encountering him here, and hoped that they could shift their goals from this.
When the ball is over, Carilliana arranges for guests to stay in a guest room on the upper floors of the main house, ready to send them back to the city tomorrow morning.
After buttoning up his night dress, Lucian went to the small living room next to him to look for the "housekeeper" Leo waiting here, but unexpectedly found that he was missing!
When Lucian was about to use mental force field induction to search, Leo flashed out from behind a decorative pillar in the corner: "Master, is the ball over?"
His wrinkled face was slightly distorted, as if he was forcibly enduring something, but at the same time with a fear that he could not perceive.
"Leo, what's wrong with you?" Lucian saw that the housekeepers and attendants waiting in the small living room had followed their master to the guest room, and it was empty, so he asked in a low voice.
Leo signaled Lucian with his eyes: "Master, you look a little tired, why don't you go back to your room and rest early."
"Okay." Lucian smiled and nodded cooperatively.
After arriving at the guest room on the third floor, locking the wooden door, and carefully inspecting the room, Leo said with strong hatred: "Master, I met that big smuggler."
"The big smuggler who killed your whole family?" Lucian pushed down the monocle.
Leo nodded vigorously: "Yes, it's him. While I was waiting for you, my lord, in the small living room, I saw him and his new assistant come in. Because I was afraid that he would see through the disguise and ruin your crossing of the Shahran Empire, I quietly hid in the corner. Then he left his assistant and went to the hall to attend the ball himself."
"What's his name?" Lucian asked speculatively.
Leo's voice was very low, as if he was worried that he would not be able to control his emotions, and said: "He changed his name, and I heard the housekeepers and attendants of other nobles in the small living room call him 'Mr. Ivanovsky'."
"Sure enough, it's him." Lucian nodded slightly. The non-aristocrats that Kareliana knew were either fraudsters or big smugglers, indicating that she herself probably had some problems, probably not the image of a widow who was simply greedy for vanity, and Sergei was probably Ivanovsky's subordinate.
But in this way, Lucian had a lot of doubts, since he was cooperating with the big smuggler, why would Carriliana throw herself into her, and what was there in her that made her worthy of doing this?
Although the sword "Frost" is worth more than 20,000 gold, which is worth the net worth of an ordinary baron, enough to be coveted by most fraudsters and barons, Kalyana inherits the inheritance of Baron Rotnikov, who owns many estates and three mines, and is worth hundreds of thousands of Shahran gold coins, which is comparable to that of a wealthy viscount. The annuity she gets from the manor and mines every year is seven or eight thousand gold coins, and two or three years is a frost sword.
Moreover, she was also the niece of the second wife of Count Vetter, the lord of the Urals, famous for her ores, blacksmiths and weapons, and there was no need to betray her beauty for a fourth-level long sword.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Carriliana is the kind of person who is greedy for wealth and does not cherish her body, but the possibility is very small.
Seeing that Lucian did not speak, Leo whispered: "Master, don't worry, I won't lose my mind. I understand that you are taking great risks while traveling within the Shahran Empire, and since the contract has been signed, I will not do anything that goes against it and put you in danger, and you have saved my life. One day, I will pinch his neck with my own hands."
"Leo, I am very confident in your character. But since I met him, I'm worried about what will be involved, you tell me about him." Lucian nodded in satisfaction, although he admired Leo's character, but this was the Shahran Empire, and it was impossible to risk avenging him.
This kind of big smuggler must be protected by powerful forces, whether it is recruited by himself or dispatched by the big bosses behind his scenes, there will definitely be no shortage of official professionals, and he wants to kill him, unless he is full of firepower and has prepared to set a trap in advance, but this will easily expose the identity of the magician.
Being chased by the night watchmen of the Northern Church will not be any better than the Southern Church!
Leo's expression became very complicated, his eyes were full of sadness and remembrance: "When I met Ivanovsky, he was already a famous smuggler from the Eastern Exile to the Shahran Empire, and it is said that behind him stood a great nobleman of the Empire and the second of the nine city lords of the Eastern Exile, and he also had contact with the reclusive ancient inheritance magicians, responsible for selling magic potions and alchemy items for them, and his connections were so wide that he could ignore the nobles below the earl."
"He has several good magic items on him, and he has been protected by mid-level magicians or great knights for a long time, accounting for a full twenty percent of the smuggling share of the Shahran Empire. After I followed him, I made a lot of contributions in the smuggling of goods such as top tobacco and nightingale yarn in Briana several times, protected him once, and helped him open up smuggling channels to the southwest of the empire.
"Later, he planned to disguise himself as a robber and loot the village, and then sell all the people in the village to a certain ancient inheritance magician as experimental materials. I couldn't stand by and secretly notify the church, causing his plan to fail, losing a lot of his men and property, and it seemed that he himself had to change his name and identity. I thought I was doing this very secretly, but he found out and found them before I moved my family, so I ......"
Lucian pinched his chin: "If you can escape from being wanted and hunted by the church, the big nobleman behind Mr. Ivanovsky is very strong." After confirming that Ivanovsky must have a mid-level professional around him, Lucian became more and more vigilant and decided to leave Ural City as soon as possible.
After inquiring a lot from Leo, Lucian did not sleep, blew out the candle and let Leo go to the room to rest, while he sat quietly in the corner of the sofa, mapping the spell construction shape, continuing the creation of the four-ring magic of "Professor's Infrasound Resonance", while watching the silver and cold moonlight sprinkled outside the window.
It seems to be getting a bit dangerous here, so it's best to wait carefully for dawn.
"Whenever I see the moonlight, I think of me......" Lucian remembered the past and suddenly burst into laughter, he was really in bad taste.
There was a soft knock on the door.
"Who?" Lucian asked calmly and vigilantly.
Outside was a familiar and kind voice: "Mr. Peter, it's me, Ivanovsky. I have something I want to discuss with you."
(End of this chapter)