my armed maid

Chapter 112 Chapter 109: Becoming Extraordinary

"Da da da……"

On the mountain road, the sound of horse hooves could be heard constantly, and a team from the Knights of Flamel arrived and surrounded the "murder scene".

Links looked at Erich's body lying on the ground with an ugly face, his eyes flashed slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Click..."

The blood-stained rock helmet peeled off layer by layer, revealing Nolen's clean black robe. He stood in the blood on the ground, facing Links from a distance without changing his expression.

On the other side, after the caster died, Arland, Julius and others also woke up from the illusion one after another.

When they saw that they were surrounded by people from the Flamel Knights, everyone's expressions changed and they gathered around Nolen.

"What happened just now?" Arlande asked with a pale face, "How long have we been unconscious?"

"Erich attacked us secretly, but he is already dead."

Nolen pointed at the corpse in front of him and said, "As for the current situation, Mr. Links seems to be quite dissatisfied with Erich's death, and he wants to ask us for an explanation!"

“Damn it, there’s still this matter!”

When Arland heard this, he immediately became angry. He swore at Flamel and walked up to Links to argue.

"Links, what do you mean? Erich has ulterior motives. He actually dared to carry out assassinations in Flamel. He made it clear that he doesn't take us seriously.

"It's good for you. Instead of helping to kill the evildoers, you actually spoke up for these evildoers. What on earth are you thinking!"

"Young Master, please say a few words!" Links was also irritated in his heart, "Things are not as simple as you think!"

The assassination of the envoys was very likely to affect the diplomacy of various city-states and even the division of power between the two prince camps, and he was not allowed to make an easy decision.

There is no right or wrong in this level of gaming, there are only trade-offs between interests.

"No." Arland stamped his feet, "It's because you don't understand the seriousness of this matter!"

Links is indeed a powerful knight, but he is not an alchemist and does not understand how important Nolen is to Flamel.

Erich's death was not a pity at all, and Broken Star City was not a reliable ally.

Any long-term friendship that lasts for decades is empty. If this friendship is really useful, how could Broken Star City do anything to embarrass Flamel?

Only Nolen can bring real innovation and progress to Flamel. As long as he understands this, the first thing Links should do now is to appease the emotions of the envoys as much as possible, rather than for Erich. Tangled and depressed to death.

"...Wait for Lord Bach to come here." Links sighed, unwilling to say more.

No matter what he does now, Flamel will be at odds with one of them, and there is no end in sight for Flamel.

He didn't want to deal with this mess, and he didn't want to take the responsibility for it.

On the side, Julius watched the surrounding Flamel Knights warily and whispered:

"Flamel...are you going to fall out with us?"

Although I felt that this shouldn't be the case, the face of the eighth-level knight over there really didn't look good.

"Will not."

Having just killed someone and being stared at by dozens of heavily armed knights, Nolen's expression remained calm and he chuckled, "They will invite us back soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves came from the other side of the mountain road, breaking the increasingly solemn atmosphere at the scene.

"Master Bach is here!"

Links breathed a sigh of relief and hurried forward to greet him.

The carriage of the City Lord's Mansion escorted by the knights quickly drove over. As the carriage stopped, Bach stepped out of the carriage. The first thing he did was to walk towards Nolen and asked solemnly:

"Is anyone injured? I brought the best doctors here."

"Excuse me, Sir, we are fine." Nolen bowed, "On the contrary, we have killed the assassins. I heard about their identities..."

Bach's eyes stayed on Erich's body for a moment, shook his head and said:

"No matter who they are, the crimes they committed are unforgivable. Flamel will definitely investigate the matter thoroughly and give you a satisfactory answer."

Erich is dead, and the relationship between Flamel and Broken Star City can never be restored to its original state. If Linfeng City is made unhappy at this time, it will really be an unhappy ending for both parties.

In this chaotic era, if Flamel has to choose a side, then he can only go to the dark side and cooperate with Linfeng City where Nolen is located.

However, this may not be such a bad thing.

Even though Broken Star City is obviously stronger at present, the benefits that Linfeng City can bring to Flamel are unique and unique among alchemy-side cities.

As the city lord of Flamel, Bach already had the answer in his mind after just thinking for a moment.

He continued to make amends: "This incident was just an accident. As the host, we are willing to make sincere compensation for this to express our deep apology."

"I believe Flamel can do justice to us." Nolen agreed.

Of course, this was just a scene. What really brought justice to the Linfeng City envoys was not Bach's sense of justice, but his own strength.

If the Linfeng City envoys had been completely wiped out by the ambush of Erich and others, I believe Bach would not fight against Broken Star City for the dead.

It is very likely that Flamel will be bewitched by Erich, take the opportunity to swallow his alchemy results, and collude with Broken Star City... and this is the matter of another world line.

At least now, it was Erich who died, and he was the one who had the last laugh.

The winner gets everything and the loser loses everything. This level of fighting and gaming is so dangerous and cruel.

Now that the Lord of the City has expressed his position, the knights have also dispersed to clean up the scene. Bach asked again:

"What happened just now has shocked everyone. I wonder if you are going to return to Flamel or continue to visit the Rocky Mine?"

"Why not continue." Nolen smiled, "Perhaps you have already received the news that Linfeng City has discovered a mine of its own.

"I am very interested in Flamel's mining technology, and I am planning to learn from you!"

"Very welcome." Bach said warmly, "I have prepared a new carriage for you. If you are still interested, let's set off."

"Then that will trouble you, sir."

Nolen saluted and left here together with the Linfeng City envoy group.

Seeing them getting on the carriage, Bach stopped Arland before setting off and asked in a low voice: "Then the three Erichs were killed by Nolen and the others?"

The three seventh-level mages with different attack methods are undoubtedly very difficult opponents.

However, the Linfeng City envoy group seemed to be mediocre in strength, but they were able to kill them. At the same time, no one of them was injured or killed, which was beyond his expectation. "Yes."

Arland nodded. Although he could not see the complete battle due to the illusion, Erich must have been killed by the Linfeng Envoys alone.

After all, Links was not willing to take action against the messenger from Broken Star City.

Recalling White Raven's stunning fighting posture, he solemnly said: "Linfeng City's research on new magic formations and the development of new alchemical weapons are already far ahead of us.

"This is the correct path of alchemy that Flamel has been pursuing. As long as we can also embark on this path, Flamel will definitely become stronger!"

The so-called correct path of alchemy is to use human wisdom and alchemical weapons forged after tomorrow to fight against the born extraordinary.

For thousands of years, Flamel has made achievements in various fields of alchemy, such as building the towering Flamel Tower, developing special potions that can become extraordinary, and inventing alchemical props such as luminous lamps and motors...

But the most critical thing - the step of creating powerful alchemical weapons that can compete with high-level extraordinary beings, has not yet made breakthrough progress due to the obsolescence of the system and theory.

And without straightforward combat effectiveness, there is no strong right to speak.

This is why even though Flamel is known as the holy city of alchemists, its overall strength is still not at the forefront of the empire.

Today, the white raven soaring in the sky shocked Arlande. The alchemical weapon she was equipped with that could kill a high-level mage was the last piece of the puzzle that Flamel was missing!

"An alchemical weapon capable of killing a high-level mage..."

Bach chewed on the deeper meaning of this sentence, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.

This can indeed explain why the Linfeng City envoys were able to kill the three powerful Erichs. Unexpectedly, Nolen had already researched new alchemical weapons to this extent.

"I really don't know how many secrets he still has hidden in his mind."

Bach shook his head and sighed, "Originally, the atmosphere last night was pretty good, but something like this happened this afternoon. If I want to exchange for these precious alchemical results, I'm afraid I have to pay a higher price."

He could almost predict that Nolen would make a big fuss about this matter when negotiating cooperation later, accusing Flamel of poor hospitality and insincere cooperation, in order to seek more benefits.

In the past, when he thought that Flamel's thousands of years of alchemy savings would be chosen and used at will by this young boy, he always had a strange feeling in his heart.

It was as if the delicate girl who had been raised in the imperial palace for more than ten years was fucked by a nouveau riche from the countryside...

He understood that this was a top-down look down upon the younger ones by the seniors in alchemy. Even if he acknowledged Nolen's talent, deep down in his heart, he still didn't feel that the new Linfeng City could compete with the ancient Flamel. Sit on equal footing.

That's why he was so competitive about the terms of cooperation, not wanting Linfeng City to take advantage of him.

But looking back now, is this really the case?

It can be seen from this battle that in the field of new alchemical weapons, Linfeng City has surpassed Flamel by a lot, and these are the research results that Flamel dreams of.

Now is not the time to hide and seduce the eldest daughter of our family. Instead, it is time for the eldest daughter to bring a lot of dowry and beg to marry this upstart with a bright future...

Although this analogy is not very appropriate, the current situation of Flamel and Linfeng City is roughly the same.

Arland took this matter very seriously and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, the old will not go and the new will not come. Knowledge and resources are different, but they will not become less because of sharing.

"If past research results are shelved, it is no different from non-existence. It is better to share them with others frankly. If you can gain friendship and other research results, it will be a good thing with no harm.

"Communication, sharing, and research, aren't these the concepts that the Alchemy Society proposed when it was first founded?"

Bach was stunned for a moment, and also smiled slightly: "Exactly."

Regardless of whether it is psychological comfort or factual, Flamel's decision will not change.

That is to unite the front with Linfeng City and do our best to cooperate with Nolen.

……

In the evening, Nolen finished visiting the Rocky Mine and returned to Flamel's city lord's palace with the escort of the Knights.

After the assassination incident in Broken Star City ended, Bach specially sent an additional elite team of knights to protect the envoys.

And the captain of this escort was actually Links, the leader of the Knights.

"Sir Nolen, the Knights will escort you here first."

Bach must have told him something. At this time, Links' attitude was obviously better than before, "I will continue to protect your safety when I travel tomorrow."

"Excuse me."

Nolen nodded and said goodbye to Links. The attendant from the city lord's palace came over and said, "Sir Nolen, Master Bach would like to invite you to dinner, and asked me to bring you a message——

"'To express Flamel's apology, I have prepared a small gift for you.'"

"Oh, a small gift?" Nolen raised his lips, "I have to go now."

As the lord of Flamel, how could the things he gave away really be considered 'small' gifts?

After experiencing the attack in the afternoon, he wanted to see how much Bachken would spend to make up for the bad impact caused by this incident and ease the relationship between the two parties.

The nature of this dinner is different from yesterday's dinner. It was a separate invitation sent by Bach to Nolen in his personal capacity, so Nolen went to the dinner alone this time.

The banquet was held on the 100th floor of the Flamel Tower, a private restaurant on the first floor specially built by Bach to meet with various high-ranking officials and celebrities.

After riding the elevator for several minutes, Nolen arrived at the 100th floor.

At this time, soft and soothing violin music was playing in the restaurant. Under the illumination of the right night lights, Bach was sitting at the window of the dining table, tasting wine while overlooking the brightly lit night scene of Flamel below.

"You're here." Bach nodded to him.

“The view here is really nice.”

Nolen sat down in front of him, looked at the scenery outside the window, and praised, "Thank you for the hospitality, this will be the most impressive dinner I have ever had."

"I will only invite the most noble guests here. The last person who came here was His Highness the Second Prince Roderick who visited Flamel two years ago."

Bach tapped lightly on the table, and the waiter brought a beautiful box.

"This is..." Nolen looked at it and saw that it didn't look like dinner dishes.

"This is an extraordinary potion, a special alchemical potion that Flamel has not told anyone about. Its refining materials are extremely rare and the refining methods are extremely complex, so the yield is extremely low."

Bach said slowly, "Currently, the entire Roland Empire only has two hands of extraordinary potions in stock. Only the most distinguished guests can receive this gift from Flamel, and now it belongs to you.

"Achieving extraordinary things with a mortal body is one of Flamel's most proud alchemical achievements. I hope you can feel Flamel's sincerity to you in this small gift——

"Nolen, are you interested in becoming a transcendent?"

(End of this chapter)