Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 9 Night attack on a small town hotel

Gate levy is the main method of collecting taxes in all cities on the mainland, with the exception of the maritime country Istar and the peninsula states at the southernmost tip of the mainland. In order to avoid this expense, hiring guards and passing through towns and villages for supplies and rest are more cost-effective options.

The gentlemen of the empire also understand this situation, and thus have a tacit and tacit understanding that hotels in towns and villages can only be the property of nobles, and most of them belong to lords. The relatively high accommodation fees for outsiders have become a disguised form of "Door sign".

The team arrived at a small town before dark. Horses and four carts filled the stables and backyard of the inn.

The boss served fruit wine for dinner, and Singletaryev and the coachmen each drank a full glass, still unsatisfied. "You drank too fast, Singer. I'll give you mine." Rorschach was not at ease with the privately brewed fruit wine and gave it to the dwarf uncle. Mr. Hill and Mr. Ale also shared their glasses with the coachmen. .

"The towns are quite dense far away from the imperial capital, so be prepared to eat and sleep in the open when you go down." Mr. Ale reminded after the meal. He booked three rooms—one each for Hill and Rorschach, and one for himself and Zinglev. "Although the beds in the hotel are not bad, we can't all sleep tightly. We need to take turns to watch the goods."

"I will keep watch for the first half of the night." Luo Xia offered to take the initiative, which surprised the others. Before, everyone had regarded this young mage with red lips and white teeth as a delicate young master, and they did not expect to take the initiative to keep him awake.

However, Rorschach's idea was very simple. He didn't think that as a spellcaster, he had any privileges in the team. So everyone had to attend the vigil. He might as well stay up in the first half of the night - he often stayed up late in college, and Rorschach also often stayed up in the magic academy. Study hard and feel no burden at all from night to night before.

In this way, Rorschach sat next to a big car in the backyard at night, reading by the light of the hotel window. The uncle who was on duty at night was smoking flammable and psychostimulant plant products from a small cupronickel pot, which flickered on and off, and the smoke filled the air with a burning and bitter aroma.

"Three King's Order Spellcasters" tells the story of three good guys from the Holy King's Order Mage Group who battle with the cardinal of the Church of Order, as well as a stupid and funny king and a charming queen... Rorschach watched it After two chapters, I realized that this best-selling novel in the Empire was very likely to be banned in the Holy Kingdom, and I needed to hurry up and read it before entering the country.

After midnight, the lights on the first floor of the hotel were turned off, and the coachman unceremoniously lay down in the carriage to sleep.

Rorschach exhaled the panel in his mind and lowered the floating position. In Rorschach's eyes, the panel glowed with a faint white fluorescence, successfully "illuminating" the pages of the book. If you light a lamp, the only light source in the backyard will attract a lot of flying insects and flies. Now you can use the panel to read a book and only Rorschach can see it.

"Am I a genius?"

Rorschach, who developed the use of panels for unidirectional lighting, was personally pleased. If other people come to the backyard, they can only vaguely see a person sitting in the darkness with his head lowered through the moonlight, which is very strange.

There were indeed other people in the backyard.

A thin man is now in the backyard of the hotel. He is very patient and waits quietly until the lights go out.

A fat fish! No one was arranged to keep vigil at night, so I slept soundly on the bed...

A normal night vigil should at least carry a lamp! The backyard is now dark, and the owner of the hotel will only check the door lock twice before going to bed and around dawn... The man who is familiar with the hotel concluded that there is no one here.

"Why is it leather..." The man was a little disappointed. Leather could not be bought at a high price around here. He continued to fumble, and finally touched some cold metal on the second car he visited. Finally, there is a good product... With the joy of harvest, the man carefully extracted the metal, which seemed to be a hand guard made of iron.

There was a situation in the classroom of Rorschach's previous life: the noisy classroom was inexplicably quiet at the same time, even if no teacher came. Somehow, the chirping and chirping of birds and insects in the backyard fell into silence. coincide? Synchronicity?
  The man was a little nervous. It was completely silent at this moment, and the slightest sound of metal colliding would be abrupt.

"Tear--"

What broke the silence was the sound of turning books in the dark. The turning of pages on low-quality thin paper was always so loud. This sound made the man take his hands off in shock——
  "Kang Dang"

Hearing the noise, Luo Xia did not continue to make any sound. He quietly picked up a stone and used [Magic Drive] on it, gathering magic power and forcibly injecting it into it. Instantly, this ubiquitous stone emitted a faint blue light and became slightly hot. This is one of Rorschach’s “tricks”.

Similar to electrical energy, magic power is a high-level energy that can be easily converted into light and heat. In addition to light and heat, it can also be kinetic energy.

Next, under the influence of the Flying Arrow Technique, blue light stones were shot straight towards the source of the sound, illuminating a frightened face. There was no hit. After all, the flying rocks glowed in the dark, and the opponent's reaction was quite quick and he successfully avoided it.

In Luo Xia's eyes, the other party was frightened at first, and then immediately showed a ferocious expression. Blue light flashed across, and it fell into darkness again.

The opponent was approaching him, and Rorschach quickly took out three ship nails.

The four-sided ship nails were purchased in large quantities by Rorschach before his departure. They were rough industrial products with similar weight and shape. After getting used to them, Rorschach used the flying arrow technique with great accuracy.

The first shot was fired in the previous direction.

No feedback Missed the shot?
  Yuexia could already see the figure of the other party. He was rushing towards me with a knife in his hand, a cold light shining on the blade. Rorschach fired another shot.

There was still no sound, no scream, which meant there was no hit.

Facing the first enemy from time travel, Rorschach tensed up his nerves. He saw the thief's figure stopped, but still remained quiet. He should still be able to move and maintain the "professionalism" of a thief. . There were carriages, goods, and hay piled in the backyard. Rorschach didn't want to use the fireball technique, and the third spike was aimed at his head.

"If you cum again, he will die." A female voice came from behind the man.

"Hill?" A hooded figure walked out of the silhouette of a thin man. When he took off his hat, he turned out to be Ranger Hill.

Rorschach walked closer and saw in the moonlight that the thin man's mouth had been gagged in such a short period of time, and his jaw had been removed and was in a dislocated state.

He was sweating profusely and crying, and he made a squeaking sound through the rag in his mouth. Without Hill's restraint on his arms, he would have collapsed on the ground. It turned out that a nail had hit his thigh, and the wound had turned outward. According to Rorschach's estimation, the nail should have rolled through his flesh.

"The mage can also play darts?"

"What the mage knows is of course magic."

Hill nodded: "Okay. Tell Mr. Aller and Singletary to get the personal guys down. Something is wrong."

Rorschach turned away, and Hill added: "Don't light the lamp now, don't disturb the people in the hotel."

"clear."

After listening to Rorschach's brief description, Al and Singer quickly came to the backyard. Al was a little angry and pushed Hag, the coachman, who was still snoring slightly, to wake up.

"Miss Hill, Hager, go and bring the horse to the backyard, put on the harness and be ready to go. Zinglev, you and Mr. Rorschach will transfer the thief to Car No. 2. I will now gather the other drivers and count the goods. ." Mr. Ale assigned the tasks calmly.

(End of this chapter)