free lich

() As the saying goes, when the cunning rabbit dies, the hound will end up badly. After the failure of the nine divine punishment knights and ascetics, Esther can already guess that her identity will be revealed sooner or later. , If you return to Arraski at this time, it is really tantamount to courting death!

Whether it is the Temple of Life or the Temple of the Sun, for their so-called interests, I am afraid that they do not want to exist. After so many years of intrigue, she really knows everything inside the temple, so, as a middle-level knight who is only strong and active at the same time A traitor who has abandoned her magic, hiding is her only choice.

It may also be because she has been a spy for a long time, and Esther still has a lot of experience in how to hide herself. For example, she chose to stay in Zermas at this time. I am afraid that there is no one in this seemingly dangerous place. She can think that she will stay here, of course, she only does this to confuse those who might hunt her down, staying here for the rest of her life is not what she thinks about, just like now, Esther put down the newspaper in her hand, because As a matter of caution, she has been trying to reduce the number of times she goes out, which also delayed the time for her to get the newspaper that the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Life shook hands for a few days.

Looking at the content in the newspaper, Esther knew that her plan to escape from Britain could start. After all, she didn't want to continue this life of upside-down black and white, with no sky in the sky. As for where to escape, Esther had two choices. options.

The first one is the Charian Empire, the country of the unbelievers. Although there are also branches of the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Life, because few people believe in them, the influence of theocracy in that country is the weakest. It is said that each temple Generally, those priests who are not valued will be sent to that place, anyway, it is just a name.

The second one is the City of Sin, but Esther doesn't know much about the City of Sin, she only knows that it is ruled by a very powerful and low-key necromancer, and the people gathered there are villains, Hooligans, killers, mercenaries, there are no good people anyway, and its geographical location is very special. In order to keep away from humans, the necromancer built that city in the southernmost part of the entire Faerun continent Under the huge swamp surrounded by mountains, so it is also the only place in the world of Faerun without a temple.

"Even if it is a country of unbelievers, even if the influence of theocracy is minimized, there will still be people from the temple," Esther muttered a few words to herself, then made up her mind and decided to go to the city of sin, " Although you can't take any means of transportation for concealment, you can only rely on your feet, but with the strength of your middle-level knight, if you go out day and night, you can probably get there in a month! Anyway, this matter has passed, I believe that even if you Now jumping out to spread the word, no one will believe it, so the advantage of this is that whether it is the Temple of the Sun or the Temple of Life, as long as I don't take the initiative to appear in front of them, I believe they will not waste excess energy chasing me .”

As the saying goes, time waits for no one, if you stay in Britain for one more minute, you will still be in danger, so after Esther made up her mind, she started to pack her bags, she didn't bring much, just a set of clean clothes , a pair of shoes, the most is a pile of underwear, almost occupying most of the places in this luggage.

After all, she is also a woman, and it is absolutely unacceptable for her to wear a piece of underwear for a month. As for the golden armor, she has already been thrown away! At this time, she is wearing the linen clothes that ordinary adventurers often wear. With a long sword hanging from her waist and a not-so-big bag on her back, it is obvious that she has decided to set off now!

Esther took a deep breath, and glanced at the place where she had been hiding for more than half a month. There was nothing missing, and there was no information that could prove her identity. In fact, she herself was a little tired of it a long time ago. After living this kind of life, for her who has always been in contact with the dark side of the temple, it is basically difficult to believe in such things as God, after all, she is not a fanatic!

At the beginning, joining the temple was just to hope to live a better life, but in its place, you can't just leave if you want, now you have a chance to get out of the sea of ​​suffering, more or less let Esther There was a feeling of being reborn.

At night, everything was silent, Esther gently opened the door of the house, and then the smile that was born because she was about to get a new life was so stiff on her face, because at the door, she saw a person she didn't want to see the most. People, Lantes Farrell.

"You were changing clothes just now, so I wanted to wait until you finished changing before going in. Although I don't have much interest in women's bodies, at least I should have basic respect."

"Crack!" Esther's bag just fell to the ground, and a look of despair flashed across her face. Obviously, in front of this archbishop of the envoy level, she would not have any chance of escape, even, even the chance of committing suicide. nothing.

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"This is where the nine God's Punishment Knights died," Esther, who was carrying a bag and holding a torch in her hand, said to Lantes who was walking beside her with an expression of resignation. .

After thinking about it all the way, she wanted to understand one thing. As an archbishop, it is impossible to come and arrest herself directly, because the first is the issue of identity. The temple sent a regional leader to arrest one of her children. As a small mid-level knight, Esther doesn't think she has that much charm.

There is one, that is, the archbishop as an envoy cannot easily leave the temple, although most of the time the archbishop is fine, but that is a default rule! Therefore, the only explanation is that for some reason, the archbishop secretly If it comes out, then maybe I still have a glimmer of life. Moreover, Esther always feels that there seems to be something wrong with the archbishop, and she always feels that something is weird!

Lantes didn't seem to care about these small things in Esther's heart. He just bent down and squatted in front of the land without any traces, touched the ground with his hands, "It seems that that guy is also a very careful person." people!"

Lantes could feel that the soil on this land was newer than the surrounding areas. It was obvious that the mage had cut off a layer of the ground before leaving, especially after more than half a month. Even the slight fluctuation of the spell is gone, and there is no way to know what spell he released here!

"Pa~pa~" Lantes clapped his hands, "Do you know where the ascetic died?"

"It seems to be on a mountain a few kilometers away from here."

Under the light of the fire, the tomb at the entrance of the cave halfway up the mountain is very conspicuous. There is no tombstone, only a bag of soil. Obviously, this should be the tomb of the ascetic who died here.

"Strange person," Lantes waved to Esther behind him, "Go, go and have a look in the cave."

"As expected," Lantesi sighed slightly after wandering around, and there were no other traces in the cave except for the damaged cave walls left by the fighting, "It seems that the only The only clue is the corpse, he is really a cautious guy."

"Gulu," Esther swallowed, "Master Bishop, are you sure you want me to dig this tomb?"

Lantes took out a common shovel from the space ring, and handed it to Esther, "I stole it on the way here, of course I'm sure, or do you think you have the ability to bargain with me?"

"No, no," Esther threw away the bag on her back with a snap, took the shovel and began to dig the grave, but secretly, she had already started to hold her breath, it was very simple, even though it was winter, she saw It has been more than half a month, and the corpse has at least started to rot.

After Esther flattened the top soil bag, she continued to dig down, thinking that she would dig out a bone or something with a shovel. Who knows if the ascetic's body can still be kept intact when fighting with that perverted mage? !

The result was beyond her expectations, and also beyond Lantes' expectations. When Esther dug open the entire tomb, what appeared in front of them was not a rotten corpse, but a piece of crystal clear ice. The body of the ascetic was wrapped in the ice, Lantes put the torch close to the ice crystal, and the magic circle engraved on the ascetic's chest could be vaguely seen, "It's really..." Lanster rarely revealed A trace of speechless expression, "Strange mage!"

Obviously, the mage didn't want the ascetic's body to rot, so he deliberately set up an ice-type magic circle to protect the ascetic's body. Esther looked at the ascetic's corpse through the ice crystal The magic crystal couldn't help curling his lips, "Is this mage really rich and has no place to spend it? This magic crystal is worth hundreds of gold coins at least!"

"Hold it," Lantesi handed the torch to Esther, his hands gathered some light slightly, which seemed to be the sun magic, and then he pulled his hands lightly, and the ten fingers were connected together, Five rays of light appeared, and the light made a creaking sound when it touched the ice. The ice did not melt, but was directly vaporized. One can imagine how high the temperature of the light is.

"Boom!" When the ice was almost cut, Lantes put away the sun magic and tapped the ice a few times with his fist, finally the ascetic's body completely leaked out, because he died Coupled with the fact that it has been frozen for a long time, the ascetic's whole body is pale and pale. Combined with the pair of eyes that have been stabbed blind, and the silent environment around him, it does have some intrusive feeling. Of course, as Archbishop Lantes couldn't possibly be afraid of these things, he was just checking his body very seriously.

"There are six scars on the body, two on the back of the neck, on the forehead, on the eyes, and on the chest. Among them, the one on the left side of the heart should be a fatal wound! But there is not a single scar on the whole body caused by spells, all of them are sword wounds! This made Lance somewhat suspicious, "Is that woman named Kyle hiding her strength? In fact, she is a great knight?"

But then this kind of illogical thought was suppressed by him. Judging from these wounds, the ascetic's defense methods are gradually being disintegrated. Compared with Don Quixote who knew almost nothing about ascetics In other words, Lantes needs to know a little more.

For example, he knew very well that with the ascetic having the means of air film and golden light body protection, this kind of injury is definitely impossible to appear, so the only explanation is that the mysterious mage has some kind of means to break the defense of the ascetic!

Not only that, but relying on the ascetic's powerful melee combat ability, even if he loses his defense ability, it is impossible to be blinded! So that mage should also have the ability to restrict people's actions!" Strange, powerful, and cautious mage, indeed A tough opponent!"

"Bury him," Lantes waved his hand, and the surrounding ice and the body of the ascetic were blown back into the grave.

"Oh," Esther handed the torch to Lantes again, reaching out to pull out the magic crystal on the ascetic's chest, but was stopped by Lantes, "What are you doing?"

"Better leave it to me than let it go to waste here."

"Do you think you can survive?"

"certainly."

"Why?" Lantes looked at Esther with a smile, a curious look.

"At least I carried my luggage and you didn't stop me. If you wanted to kill me, you wouldn't do that!"

"Smart little girl~ But don't move that magic crystal, anyway, I'll hire him for a while, and leave him with a dead body~"