Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 238 It's Nice To Live In A Cave
Xia Houyan and other high-level officials in Shuangfengling were still stunned by the sudden opening of the secret door. In the dark underground cave, there was an inarticulate curse:

"Who! Which bastard of you blindly recited the door-opening spell? What if someone outside heard it?!"

Then, there was a vague sound of quarreling and wrangling in the cave. It seemed that the "residents" in the underground cave were arguing.

Xia Houyan winked at the boys under his command.

Immediately, Eldridge took two steps forward, with the large bronze shield on his left hand and the short sword ready with his right hand, he leaned over and aimed at the dark hole;

On the other side of the cave, Clement also quietly walked to the edge, holding the hilt of his rune greatsword tightly with both hands.

Except that the door leaf in the traditional situation was replaced by a dark hole, the movements of these two people are very similar to professional riot police who are ready to break into the door at any time, very SWAT.

As for Master Laurie, under the protection of Alice, he approached the entrance of the cave, and shouted into the cave with a voice amplified by magic:

"Listen, people in the cave! Put down your weapons, raise your hands, come out of the cave and surrender! You are surrounded by Shuangfengling's armed forces! If you continue to resist, you will die!"

The noise inside the cave was silent for a moment, and then there was a clearly audible, long-lasting "Fuck!"

Seeing that the suspect in the cave still didn't respond, Master Laurie quickly snapped his fingers at Lina—the latter immediately understood, and quickly sang the ancient Aeolian syllable of "Dragon Burning Technique":

This fire spell has limited damage, and its biggest feature is that it will produce a huge amount of pungent smoke, which is most suitable for smoking rabbits from the hole.

Seeing that Lina's spell was ready, Master Laurie continued to shout:
"Listen up, people in the cave! Fighting against Shuangfengling will not end well. Put down your staff and long sword and you still have a chance to reform yourself! You should have felt the fluctuation of the flame magic power in the air. I will count to five more seconds, you guys! If you don’t surrender yet, just wait to be roasted to death by fire spells and choked to death in the cave! One! Two!”

What responded to Master Laurie was a short ancient syllable, and a vicious wraith suddenly sprang out from the entrance of the cave.

Xiahou, who had been prepared for a long time, flicked his fingers and killed this too weak undead creature without any effort.

The air was instantly quiet.

"You are fighting against the great dictatorship of Shuangfengling!" Master Laurie, who was almost attacked by the wraith, burst into anger, "You have already cut yourself off from the people, and you have no chance! Let me wait to become cave bacon !"

Suddenly there was a mournful cry from inside the cave, like a dead father and mother remarried:
"Don't! Don't! We surrender! Don't fire!"

A moment later, a sawed-off staff, four fine steel daggers, and two watermelon knives were thrown out of the hole.

Xia Houyan took a cursory glance at the weapons handed over by the other party, and based on their appearance, he preliminarily judged them to be worthless street goods.

"Very good!" Master Laurie kicked these tattered weapons aside with his feet, and shouted towards the hole, "Hold your head in your hands, and come out one by one!"

A wail came from the mouth of the cave:
"But, but this is an underground cave, we have to climb up the ladder with our hands, we can't hold our heads!"

Master Laurie was dumbfounded: There doesn't seem to be such a special situation in the words of persuading surrender taught me by the lord?

The Xiahou official could only roll his eyes, pushed his chief mage aside, and shouted at the entrance of the cave himself:

"Then you don't have to hold your head! Climb up one by one! If you don't want to die, don't play tricks. Twenty heavy armored warriors and twelve mages are staring at you!"

Probably because the wraith used to fight back was killed by the opponent in one fell swoop. These guys hiding in the cave were scared out of their wits, and they didn't have any desire to play tricks at all. They crawled out of the cave one by one out.

The first thing that appeared in everyone's sight were six young guys in gray linen shirts. a row.

And the last one to climb out of the cave was a middle-aged man with hair full of hair and a sad face, wearing a black robe - Judging from his age and voice, Xia Houyan recognized that he had been talking to Master Laurie just now. The dialogue is also likely to be the leader of this group.

There is nothing particularly unusual about this group of people, even the iconic face of the rogues in the imperial capital is full of flesh, and they all look like honest and good citizens;
However, Xia Houyan noticed that each of these people wore a silver badge with a skull pattern on their chests, which was really conspicuous.

"Is everyone here?" Master Laurie stretched his neck and looked into the cave entrance, "Is there no one in the cave?"

"We're all here, just us..." The black-robed man squatted on the ground, aggrieved and authentic.

Seeing that his statement does not seem to be false, Jahouyan winked, so Eldridge and Clement carefully climbed down the cave entrance, ready to see what was going on below——Clement, who had an immortal body Taking the lead, Shuangfengling is really not afraid of any traps and ambushes in the cave.

Xia Houyan stared at the row of unlucky people squatting on the ground for a while, then kicked the sawed-off staff on the ground with his toes:

"Whose is this?"

The magic staff is a standard weapon for magicians. The regular staffs on the market in the empire often have the powerful effect of magic amplification, and the price is ridiculously expensive-but the one lying on the garden ground at the moment is nothing no matter how you look at it. Non-magical fluctuations, imitation crafts inlaid with low-quality rubies.

However, even so, anyone who dared to use this sawed-off staff as a weapon must be a magician.

"It's mine..." The black-robed man tremblingly raised his hand.

"Are you a magician?" Xia Houyan narrowed his eyes.

"Junior mage..." the black-robed man's voice trembled.

Master Laurie smacked his lips:

Damn, it turned out to be just a second-level junior mage, not even the magic class of the lord.

It's true!
"Are you a necromancer?" Xia Houyan confirmed, "You were responsible for the ghosts and hauntings in the house?"

Even though necromancy is a huge taboo, the black-robed man whose life was hanging by his hands could only nod his head sadly and admit it.

"Niang Xipi... I have seen more taboo mages along the way than my main-line mages..." Xia Houyan snorted.

Eldridge's muffled voice of return came from the cave entrance:

"My lord, there's not even a single hair under here! There's a bookcase, some food boxes, and a shitty toilet! Vomit!"

"Very good. At least you guys sincerely surrendered and didn't play any tricks." Xia Houyan didn't bother to talk to Eldridge, and walked in square steps, holding a crowbar to examine the group of underground cavemen. "Tell me, why did you hide in the cave?" In the basement of this house? Why use necromancy to destroy it?"

"This, this is all because..." The black-robed man who had been hanging his head raised his face and muttered pitifully, "I-I..."

An exclamation interrupted the black-robed man's explanation of the case.

Alice Comstock took two steps forward, looking at the face of the middle-aged man in black in surprise:

"Wait! I seem to recognize you...you...you are...Uncle Black?"

The man in black opened his mouth like a shad out of water, stared at Alice for a long time, and then stammered:
"You...you...you are...Alice? Alice Comstock? That! That! Then you are..."

The man in black suddenly turned to Master Laurie: "You are Master Laurie, right? The chief mage of the Igor family, Victor Laurie!"

Master Laurie was taken aback, stared at the man in black for a closer look, and breathed out in shock: "Fuck? Black?"

Xia Houyan was stunned for a long time, then squeezed his chin and said, "You...know each other?"

"Ai... Your lord!" Alice quickly tugged on the sleeve of the official Xiahou, "This, this uncle, is the former housekeeper of the Igor family's mansion, Mr. Bart Black! Master Laurie and I , when I came to the imperial capital with the eldest lady, I met a few times! It's just..."

Alice frowned again and looked at the man in black, Black:

"...Mr. Black, he is much older and haggard than in previous years... I didn't recognize it at first..."

"Alice! My lovely Miss Alice Comstock! My respected Master Victor Laurie!" Mr. Black, the man in black, burst into tears on the spot. "You must not know that after the master left, how my life goes..."

Having said that, Blake suddenly got stuck, staring at Lord Frost Maple Ridge like a ghost:
"Wait... 'My lord'...Miss Comstock said 'My lord'...then you are..."

"Ahem, let me introduce you." Master Laurie quickly cleared his throat, "This is Lord Elliot Igor, the son and heir of Vincent Igor, the current patriarch of the Igor family... "

Xia Houyan jumped back wittily, and deftly dodged Mr. Black's leg-hugging attack crying "Master".

"Stop, stop!" The lord yelled angrily, "Stand up for me, and explain to the lord what's going on!"

Mr. Black hurriedly got up from the ground, snotted and cried:

"Master... my Young Master Elliott... the thing, the thing is like this, last year when your father, Lord Vincent, was arrested by the emperor in the capital, there was a lot of trouble in the city... I... I was at the time Our house in Igor's house was almost taken away by the imperial army..."

"So you were afraid of being implicated, so you ran to hide in the secret room?" Xia Houyan raised his eyebrows.

"No, no, Lord Vincent asked me to hide and wait for the limelight to pass..." Mr. Black wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, "I just happen to know that there is this extremely hidden underground cave in the garden of the house, and it is still inside I saved some food and water as a reserve, so I simply hid in with people..."

Blake pointed to the young people kneeling on the ground:
"Master Elliott, these were also the servants of Igor's house at that time..."

"So you just hid in this underground cave for a year?" Xia Houyan asked in shock.

"At that time, the city defense forces of the imperial capital were looking for us like crazy! They probably wanted us to confess the evidence of Master Vincent!" Mr. Black cried, "After they found out that I was missing, they put me on the reward list and wanted me all over the city... I I didn't know where to go for a while, and there were food, drinking water and books to relieve boredom in the ground, so I simply hid here for a while, but unexpectedly, the house changed hands and was bought by a bastard rich businessman! "

"Then the house became a haunted house?" Xia Houyan smiled wryly.

"Master Elliot! You don't know how they treat Master Vincent, the ancestral house of our Igor family!" Mr. Black said bitterly, "Do you know that every day there are nobles Young master, with a group of wild bees and butterflies, on Master Vincent's sofa and bed..."

"Stop!" Xia Houyan hurriedly interrupted the other party, "I don't want to hear this!"

"Oh, oh!" Mr. Black nodded embarrassingly, and then said with a bitter face, "We were hiding underground, and we couldn't be angry to hear these movements, so I had a brainstorm and cast some necromancy spells to create some hauntings. The incident finally drove away these bastards..."

"So that's what happened!" Xia Houyan was delighted, "Are you still the hero who protected Igor's ancestral house?"

"Wait, wait a minute!" Lena Leslie, who had been listening to the side, finally stood up and asked with the awareness that a master mage should have, "You... aren't you the steward of Igor's mansion? Or a necromancer?"

Mr. Black glanced at the lord terrifiedly, thinking about what to say, when Master Laurie stretched out a hand, sneered and pointed at the skull badge on Black's chest:
"I think it has something to do with this stuff, right? Blake, Blake, you pagan of the 'Thin Burial Sect', you are hiding deep enough!"

Xia Houyan and Lina looked at the skull badges worn on the chests of these "cavemen" and suddenly realized.

The "Thin Burial Sect" is an ancient pagan sect, most of its members are magicians who study necromancy and folk believers who worship the god of death——

Under the joint strangling of the Magic Association and the Supreme Church, the "Thin Burial Sect" and other cults have been in a semi-dead underground state, but the activities of these underground sects have never ceased in history among the folks in the western region where Eagle's Rest Fort is located.

Considering that Mr. Bart Black, as the steward of Igor's mansion, must also be a native of Eagle's Rest from the western region, then under the influence of the local environment, he secretly believed in the "Thin Burial Sect" for a long time, and even practiced necromancy , it is not surprising and logical.

"Ai, Master Elliott! I, I'm sorry, Master Vincent, I'm sorry...I really didn't mean to hide it from the family!" Black knew how taboo "belief in heresy" was in the empire, so he quickly knelt down Begging, "I, I can quit the 'Thin Burial Sect' immediately, and reform my evil ways!"

"Quit? Why do you want to quit?" Xia Houyan smiled and shook the crowbar, "Believe in the pagan religion of death? Hehe, it's interesting... To tell you the truth, my dear Mr. Black, now our Igor family And Shuangfengling territory, uphold the great position of 'religious tolerance'!"

Mr. Bart Black knelt on the ground and blinked inexplicably.

(End of this chapter)