Chapter 271 plans did not change quickly
Lucian held the white-glazed porcelain teacup and nodded slightly: "I know. The person sitting in his position, if he hadn't been ruthless, would have become a corpse without a grave in the wild. It's a pity that he doesn't even know what other guards there are, otherwise ......"
If he knew how many powerful guards Ivanovsky had by his side now, he would definitely immediately analyze their defense loopholes, psychological blind spots, and the possibility and risk of completing the plan, and strive to eliminate the hidden dangers in the shortest possible time.
"When I was helping Ivanovsky, he was only followed by a great knight or a mid-level magician on the surface, but there must be hidden secrets. Several times the assassins sent by rivals died inexplicably outside the house before they even reached him. There was also a second-level knight who was good at hiding bloodline abilities, and he attacked and seriously injured the great knight who protected him, but he saw that he was about to succeed. Leo told the story of Ivanovsky that he knew.
Lucian said with a smile on his face: "I just summoned the 'Invisible Servant' to follow me from a distance, but I was almost discovered. Fortunately, it was also confirmed that Ivanovsky's room was surrounded by hidden magic effects such as 'Seeing Through Invisibility' and 'Evasion Detection', which were difficult to snoop on, so if you want to get rid of him, you can't assassinate him at his intended place, but let him follow our rhythm."
"Sir." Leo said hesitantly, "If you give me a mid-level magic item, I'll find a chance to die with Ivanovsky."
In his opinion, the main reason why those assassins couldn't kill Ivanovsky was that they were reluctant to part with their own lives, and if they didn't even care about their own lives, they could kill Ivanovsky before they were killed by the great knight and mid-level magicians.
Lucian looked around the house: "It's not necessary for the time being, you can rest first."
At present, his biggest advantage is that Ivanovsky does not know his strength, and he is likely to make a mistake whether he sends someone to assassinate or uses other means. And such a mistake is his own opportunity to eat away at his subordinates. Of course, if he doesn't have the intention to kill and silence people, that would be the best result, so there is no need to send Leo to make a human bomb to arouse Ivanovsky's vigilance and let him deal with himself with all his might.
At the same time, Lucian secretly arranged a hidden magic circle unique to the Magic Council. It did not prevent others from prying eyes, and its only effect was to increase the sensitivity of the magic circle manipulator's mental force field, allowing it to detect extremely small and abnormally convergent magic fluctuations - which could not be sensed at the current level under normal circumstances.
The moonlight was soft and quiet, Lucian leaned back on the sofa, closed his eyes, and seemed to have fallen asleep in the process of admiring the moon.
As the night darkened and it was quiet, Lucian suddenly felt a small magic wave.
It almost blended with the breeze in the darkness, and if it weren't for the magic circle arranged in advance, Lucian wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.
The magic fluctuations slowly and almost calmed down, but they remained hanging in mid-air, shining on Lucian like a mirror, observing his every move.
Lucian, on the other hand, occasionally twisted his body, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
This "harmonious" scene continued until dawn, and nothing happened.
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Ural City, "Green Vine" luxury hotel.
After handling most of the goods brought in this bustling city and replenishing a lot of ironware, Belf looked very leisurely.
After breakfast, he sat in the corner of the hotel lobby, drinking spirits, idly looking at the guests coming and going, and whispering to another drunkard, judging the other party's identity, status, hobbies and personality.
"Father, why are you drinking early in the morning?" Lena, who was wearing a white fur coat, accepted Igor's apology last night, reconciled with him, and was preparing to go to the market area, blacksmith area and other places with him today, but unexpectedly found that her father had become drunk early in the morning, so she asked a little angrily.
Belv burped and said with a drunken smile: "Little Lena, I'm leaving the Ural City and going home tomorrow, let me have a good day, and the more I drink, the more energetic I become." The next stop was the end of this caravan, the capital of the Kinov province.
"Father, you've been drinking for two days!" Lena frowned, "Then you promised not to drink a drop of wine on the journey from Ural City to home!"
Belf laughed and said: "Little Lena, don't think that I will agree randomly when I am drunk, I still have to drink breakfast, lunch and dinner wine."
Just after saying that, he stood up abruptly and said a little shaky: "Mr. Peter, welcome back, I thought you would stay with Baroness Carolina."
His tone was ambiguous, not at all like an old man.
At this time, Lucian was coming in from the hotel gate with Leo, blonde hair and high spirits - after breakfast, Carlyna, who had obviously cooled down, sent the coachman to send Lucian back to the Ural City, which was exactly what Lucian wanted, but he did not let his guard down because of this.
"Good morning, Mr. Peter." Lena said happily, she had always thought that Mr. Peter was a serious gentleman.
Lucian looked at her and Igor and smiled, "Good morning, Miss Lena. You seem to have reconciled? Then I'm relieved."
The obvious joke made Lena's face blush, and Igor, a young man who didn't like Lucian very much, scratched the back of his head shyly, not knowing how to answer.
Fortunately, there was a drunk next to him who changed the topic, and Belf patted Lucian on the shoulder and comforted him: "Mr. Peter, don't be discouraged, you are actually very popular with girls, hiccups, Mrs. Carilliana probably only likes orthodox Shahran men, the kind of tall and majestic and rude."
Even though Lucian was a few centimeters taller after camouflage, he was still a head shorter than most men in the Shahran Empire, and his majestic figure was far from the same.
With Belv's interruption, the awkward atmosphere quickly disappeared.
After Igor reconciled with his sweetheart, he was in a good mood and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, Mr. Peter, go back to your room and look at your luggage! I was so happy last night that I couldn't sleep, but I heard a slight noise coming from your room next door and it quickly disappeared, I don't know if it was my hallucination or there were mice or thieves waiting for ......."
Lucian glanced sideways at Leo, saw the same solemnity, and then smiled calmly: "Thank you for reminding me, Igor. I'll go back to the room right away."
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In the room, Lucian carefully examined the magic marks he had left in the hidden place, teacups, kettles and other items, and said to Leo with a slight doubt: "There was no magic trap, and no poison was used, is it really a mouse?"
The magic trap in Lucian's words no longer refers to the apprentice-level simple magic circle, but returns to the original meaning of the trap.
"Master, it shouldn't be such a coincidence." Leo has lingering fears about Ivanovsky's ruthlessness.
Lucian nodded as he looked around the room again, checking items one by one.
The suitcases I opened, the clothes I "changed", the collected folk music manuscripts, and the special items I bought on the road as souvenirs of my trip......
When Lucian's mental power was concentrated on a colorful matryoshka doll, he finally felt the faint vicious aura contained inside, which set off the exaggerated funny face of the matryoshka doll a little eerie and terrifying.
"Curse?" Lucian, who has been tutoring this knowledge for the past year, is keenly judging.
Leo followed Lucian's gaze and looked at the matryoshka doll: "Master, is there something wrong with it? What should I do?"
Lucian pondered for a few minutes and smiled: "Do what a nobleman should do!"
The "Crown of the Sun" talisman on his chest was stimulated, and the divine and vast anti-death barrier protected Lucian's body.
Lucian then picked up the nesting doll and spun it open as usual.
On the first, second, and third, when an exaggerated avatar of an old woman appeared on the fourth floor, countless black insect-like gases that could not be seen with the naked eye but were exposed under the sacred light of the anti-death barrier quickly shrouded Lucian.
Unfortunately, they could not pass through the anti-death barrier and disappeared into it one by one.
Seeing that the anti-death barrier was so dim that it was about to disappear, Lucian "roared angrily": "There is a magician who wants to assassinate me! There are magicians in the empire who dare to do such a thing! Thanks to the Lord's blessing and the Lord's gift!"
While "roaring uncontrollably", Lucian asked Leo to wrap the nesting doll in his clothes, and then took Leo directly to the nearby church under the astonished eyes of Belf and the others!
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In a hidden room in the church.
"Your Excellency, I think you have checked the magical aura on the matryoshka that has not disappeared, and you have also confirmed the death barrier on my body." Lucian still "maintained" anger at a bishop of the Urals.
The bishop was like a bear in a white robe, tall and strong, with thick hair, and he said comfortingly: "Yes, Mr. Peter, I have confirmed the extent of the magical aura and the damage to your death barrier."
Lucian said "emotionally": "Then Your Excellency, do you have any questions? Why don't you go after that damn magician? If I hadn't noticed it in time and inspired the talisman given to me by the Lord's grace, I would have become a victim of the evil magician's hands! Could it be that the church will let the magician do whatever he wants in the empire?"
After saying that, Lucian also deliberately took out the Crown of the Sun and shook it. As long as you don't check it directly and carefully, it is completely a level five divine art item that has only been unlocked two layers of seals so far.
"Mr. Peter, I can understand your anger, but we still need to investigate, after all, we don't have any information about the magician yet." The bishop said kindly.
Lucian became serious: "Your Excellency, I think I know who the murderer is! It's Ivanovsky, it's Carolina! They secretly asked the magician to kill me in order to steal the count's property!"
Then Lucian told the matter "as it is".
"However, what Mr. Peter, Baroness Caroliana and Mr. Ivanovsky did is what normal people would do. They just knew the news in advance, prepared in advance, and did not violate any laws, whether it was the empire or the church, why do they need to kill and silence them? Lord Nevsky also knows about this." The bishop shook his head, subconsciously defending the aristocratic flower of the Ural City, feeling that Lucian was a little mentally allergic after being assassinated, "Of course, thank you for providing clues, we will investigate them."
Lucian seemed unacceptably accusing the murderer of Ivanovsky, and it wasn't until more than half an hour later that his mood stabilized and he left the church.
Leo followed Lucian and whispered: "Sir, why don't you directly point out that Ivanovsky is a big smuggler?"
"Unless you testify directly, they may believe that there is something wrong with this businessman with a deep background, and that would reveal my true identity. Just do things to this point, and then it depends on what Ivanovsky does." Lucian squinted his eyes slightly.
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As soon as he returned to the hotel, Lucian saw a middle-aged gentleman with a lot of fancy stature waiting for him.
"Mr. Peter, Count Witte heard that an outstanding young man from the Vladimir family has come to the Ural City, so he would like to invite you to the castle to meet and talk." The middle-aged gentleman smiled politely.
Lucian was slightly stunned, the opportunity did not change quickly, and the originally scheduled arrangement to deal with Ivanovsky seemed to be ruined by Count Witt's invitation.
(End of this chapter)