wandering fairy

The Baron is dead!

That's why the bell is ringing!

"It's over! It's over!" Grimm suddenly jumped up and turned around in a hurry: "This time we are all over!"

"What's the end?" Lelin looked at him angrily and amusedly: "The baron is dead, and this Palick is also dead. Aren't you the lord of this place now? It seems that we will have to live by your face in the future What, my lord!"

Grimm turned back and yelled at her anxiously: "You know what! We killed Palik after the bell rang, and uncle was already dead at that time. According to the will, Palik was already the lord at that time!"

He shouted hoarsely and desperately: "That is to say—we killed the lord just now!!!"

Lelin, Grimm, and Tiwedes all looked at Dong Hezi with bated breath, and the cool wind on the mountain set off a terrible silence.

Dong Hezi spread his hands, and said in a neutral tone: "Then slip away."

Then he said to the stunned Grimm: "I killed the man. After I leave, you can just put the blame on me. You are a mage, so they probably wouldn't dare to do anything to you."

But Grimm shook his head with a wry smile and said, "But if we share the loot, people will definitely be regarded as accomplices! This kind of behavior will definitely be tracked down by those gods or prophecy spells! Those nobles who are dissatisfied with my uncle must definitely They won’t let me go, because I don’t know Tier [-] arcane arts, and I’m not an official mage at all. They will definitely gather with Palik’s church to kill me!”

"Then come sneak with us." Dong Hezi comforted: "Drilling into the deep mountains and old forests, can they still chase you all the way to the ends of the world?"

"Deep mountains and old forests?" Grimm shuddered, living that kind of life of living in the open?

"Yes." Dong Hezi introduced very "enthusiastically" and said: "I originally came here to find herbs to study my secret technique. Now I understand all the herbs here, and I just moved to it to do it. Exploration. Let's drill into the deep mountains and old forests and build a stone castle to start again. It's a beautiful thing." He said with a happy face, as if nothing happened.

Grimm said hesitantly, "I-I may not be used to that kind of life."

Dong Hezi was not reluctant, thanked Tiwedes, and after sending him away, he turned to Lelin and said, "Let's pack up our things quickly. By the way, share the money too. If Grimm really doesn't want to accompany us And go, then leave him his share."

After saying that, the two returned to the stone castle together.

When going upstairs, Le Lin asked a little sadly: "Just leave like this? You spent a lot of effort to build this stone castle and that herbal medicine field. Isn't it such a pity?"

"It's a pity." Dong Hezi said calmly: "But if I don't leave, do I have to wait for others to cut my neck? You see, I have killed the priests of two gods now, one of them is a powerful god, The other one is a lord. There are probably a lot of people who want me to die. Maybe my avatar will appear on some reward lists in a few days and spread in taverns in various towns. So it’s not a pity to break it when it’s broken. Because It's a pity that it's useless, it will only make myself look forward and backward and miss the future."

Speaking of which, the two of them came to the alchemy room on the top floor, where outsiders were never allowed to enter—including Le Lin.

Dong Hezi pushed open the door with a strong medicinal smell, and a strong strange smell mixed with a strong spell breath rushed towards his face.

This is a large room with a semi-circular dome, and in the center stands a large pottery stove as tall as a person and in the shape of a long pot. It seems that it can be turned and shaken.Various patterns that resemble pictures but not pictures, and words that seem not to be written are painted on the furnace body, and an inexhaustible magic flame burns in the brazier below.On the curved wall, there are evenly distributed patterns composed of eight parallel lines. Lelin knows that it is the "gua" that this secret druid often talks about.

Now the eight "Gua" exude a very strange magic atmosphere, powerful and peaceful.They all seemed to point to the large earthenware stove in the middle of the house, from which an eerie herbal smell was emanating.

Just as Le Lin wanted to cover her nose to block the bitter smell, she suddenly found that her Nine Turns Yimai ** was slowly activated by itself, and her body was warm but not hot, soft but not soft, spreading an indescribable sense of comfort.It makes people want to join in and never come out again.Can't help but greedily inhale.

But Dong Hezi didn't give her more chances, and immediately chanted the spell lightly, put out the flame under the furnace with one finger, and asked her to help clean up the steaming, root and leaf bugs and some messy things everywhere. dregs of medicine.This is the first time that Lelin has seen such strange things mixed together. She was curious to look carefully, and for a while she couldn't care about the bitter smell of medicine and the strange touch of sticky sand.

Dong Hezi poured out the liquid medicine without hesitation, but carefully separated a part of the medicine residue, and ordered Lelin to collect it into a small jug.

Le Lin asked curiously, "What are these things for?"

"It can help the human body to become violent as soon as possible." Dong Hezi said while arranging the remaining herbs in the room: "The medicine I gave you before also contains these things. You take it away, I still have use."

Lelin said "Oh" and left, but she immediately became very interested in refining herbal medicine.

The two spent half a day packing important items into several large packages, and when they came out, they found Grimm sitting slumped in a corner.

Dong Hezi asked softly, "Should you decide to go with us or stay?"

Grim looked up depressed and said, "Let's go to Giffen City together."

"Giffen City?" Dong Hezi suddenly realized that Grimm was not an uninitiated person: "Is it the city where you learned arcane arts?"

"Yeah." Grimm stood up, his face calmed down a bit: "Giffen City is in the Principality of Clarence, so people from the Principality of Hereford can't control it. As long as I return to Giffen City, I can get the teacher If you want to kill me at that time, you must first obtain the consent of the mage association. I think that as long as we don't explain the cause and effect clearly, the mage association will not hand us over. After all, it was Palik himself who had bad intentions first." He After a pause, he said, "Didn't you also say that you want to experience advanced arcane arts? There are many advanced mages there. And I can recommend you to the teacher, and you can fully discuss the issue of spells with him."

Dong Hezi thought about it for a while, then nodded and said, "That's fine, you go and pack your things. We're leaving tomorrow!"

Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly turned around and said, "Oh, you see, we have forgotten one very important thing." Then he led the two of them to a vertical hole like a well next to it.

A warrior in armor was stuck in the ground half deep, with a gray face and closed eyes, as if he was dead.And there were rustling noises from below.

Dong Hezi said coldly: "Get up, I know you are pretending to be dead! You have such good equipment on you, the larva below can't bite through it. Your luck is not bad, you didn't get pulled down halfway If I hadn't suddenly remembered, I wouldn't have let you slip away in vain?"

The soldier opened his eyes helplessly this time, and begged for mercy: "Let me go, I can give you all the property - [-] gold coins! It is enough for a family to eat, drink, play, and live comfortably for several lifetimes."

Dong Hezi was about to reply, but he heard Grimm next to him asking the soldiers below: "Your accent sounds like someone from the Principality of Gloucester?"

"Yes, yes." The soldier below seemed to have met a big acquaintance, and said with a smile on his face: "Our people are warm, generous, honest and hospitable. You will be my benefactor if you let me go. If you When I go to the Principality of Gloucester in the future, I will definitely ask the folks to treat you well."

"Hmph!" Grimm snorted coldly, "Let your brothers kill us." Then he said to Dong Hezi: "Don't trust the people of the Principality of Gloucester, when they treat you with kindness and kindness. , but as soon as you turned your back, they immediately took out their knives and stabbed them! They are the most dishonest, greedy, and violent people I have ever seen."

The soldiers in the cave yelled anxiously: "Don't listen to the nonsense of this boy with no hair! Our people have been fighting against the invasion of centaurs for many years, so they all believe in the god of war, Arik. He is definitely the most guarded Disciplinary, the most trustworthy person. If you don’t believe me, just read the creed of the god of war, Arik. Please, [-] gold coins. If you kill me, you will lose it.”

Dong Hezi looked at Grimm again, and he just kept snorting coldly: "I have suffered a lot from them! I wouldn't believe it even if I was killed!"

Dong Hezi glanced at the soldiers below from the corner of his eyes, saw the fierce light flashing in his eyes, and suddenly begged softly with a mournful expression: "I swear to God Arik, I never lied to you! This time It was the damned priest who lied to me that there was a priest of an evil god preparing to launch a conspiracy here. I followed Arik's teachings and joined their team in order to protect the good people on the earth! Now I am I know that I was cheated. So I beg you to let me go. I am willing to pay the price for my ignorance and indiscretion—to give out [-] gold coins to make up for my collision with you. You see, this opinion is good. You have to be careful Think about it!"

Dong Hezi smiled and said: "This opinion is indeed good. It seems worth considering." Then he stretched out his hand, as if wanting to pull him up.

Grimm shouted anxiously: "Don't believe him! They are all scheming and lying guys, and they will be fooled if they are not careful!"

Dong Hezi still stretched out his hand.

The warrior looked into the shadow of the big hand and smiled.

With a "crack", the bones shattered, and the fingers sharpened into curved claws and pierced straight into the soldier's head!

His eyes widened in despair, watching Dong Hezi speak slowly: "It's just, when you came to kill me, did you ever consider my opinion?"

The claws pulled violently, bringing out the Tianling Cap and the white ooze-like brain.Continued: "I have nothing to say to the enemy!"

Grimm shuddered.

Lelin frowned slightly.

The town of Harmonwell at night was full of chills.

The old baron died, the new baron was killed by Master Dong Hezi, and the master was about to go away again.It seemed the town was about to be abandoned again.Some people began to gather under the giant statue of the god of water elements outside the town, led by Flick, and began to pray under the bleak moonlight. .

A big red bat flew quietly into the town and flew towards Bob Fith's house.

Dong Hezi knocked on the door of his house with a basic book in his hand.

The dark stone house is narrow and cold, and the cold wind blows in through some small cracks, making the faint flame flicker.Bob Fith's premature mother was mending a tattered garment with her gnarled hands, while his father looked half astonished and half flustered.I didn't know what to say, I picked my disheveled head, and then said a word from my dry and cracked lips: "Please sit on the bed."

Indeed, there is not even a chair in this cramped hut, only to sit on the "bed" made of a wooden board and several large stones.

The broken straw-covered bed was uncomfortable to sit on, and the atmosphere in the room was dull.Bob Feith's parents seemed to want to say something, but there was a look of fear on their faces, and they dared not speak.

"Afraid of getting involved with me, the person who killed the lord?" Dong Hezi thought to himself: "Or afraid of angering me after drawing a line with me?"

Maybe both.

So he stopped talking nonsense and said directly, "Where's Bob Feith? Where did he go?"

"He went to Liroux City." Bob Feith's father said cautiously, "Helping Pastor Flick build a black iron altar. He will probably be back in two days."

Dong Hezi had a bad feeling when he heard the words.Then he asked: "He~~ has been helping Flick with things."

"Yes, yes." They both nodded vigorously.

"He~~ believed in the god of water element?" Dong Hezi asked again.

They reluctantly nodded in embarrassment and said, "Yes, yes."

Dong Hezi secretly sighed in his heart—as expected, he was still a believer in ghosts and gods.

Forget it, this way he can be less implicated, and I have less worry and trouble.

Originally considering that he was too young to flee with him, he planned to keep the few books in his hand for him to study.But since he doesn't plan to be a "secret druid" now, he doesn't need to give it anymore.

So, he got up and said repeatedly: "That's good, so I can rest assured. In the future, Flick will guide him, and he will become a pastor in detail. Please pass on a message for me, let him study hard, and strive to get out of here in the future , create a little business."

Bob Feith's parents were a little happy, and they were happy for Dong Hezi's "auspicious words". You must know that in such a poor place, there are only three kinds of people who will not go hungry and have a future.One is a robber, one is a knight under the command of a nobleman, and the other is a priest.

Dong Hezi felt emotional in his heart, got up and wanted to leave.Walking to the door, I couldn't help but took out a book and handed it to the two of them, saying: "This book records the basic method of using the 'remove disease' spell and herbal medicine in combination. Please pass it on to Priest Flick for me."

They both asked suspiciously: "Then you~~?"

"I'm leaving here tomorrow, and I don't know when I'll be back." Dong Hezi said slowly: "This book is useful to her and to all of you. I still have things to pack, so I won't go I'm bothering Flick. So please pass it on to her."

Yan Bi Teng stood up, turned into a big red bat and flew into the sky with a whoosh, and disappeared into the dreamy night.

Tiwedes opened the door, and was surprised to see that the archdruid Dong Hezi was visiting him with a large pottery pot full of medicine.He hurriedly invited him into the house, and called his wife to meet the guest.

The walls of the sturdy and spacious stone house are covered with wooden planks and leather to block the cold wind coming in through the gaps in the stone walls.A tall flame burned in the fireplace, filling every corner of the big house with heat.And Tiwedes' young wife was putting a baby to sleep.

The master didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "I'm leaving tomorrow, and I will leave this pot of medicine for you. Taking half a teaspoon every day can make your body enter the violent stage in advance. If it is not convenient to use it in the near future, just take it." Seal the mouth of the jar and bury it in the ground. I estimate that if it is sealed tightly, it can be preserved for more than ten years."

Tiwedes accepted the gift in surprise, and suddenly asked: "Can this thing be given to children?" He pointed to his child and said, "I'm already very old, and I don't have the energy to go outside again. Yes. These medicines are wasted for me, so I want to save them for my son."

"Yes!" Dong Hezi said, "but it must be taken after he is eight years old, and the dose can only be one-fourth of an adult's."

"Hehehe." Tiwedes smiled happily: "Then he can be a qualified warrior in his teens?"

"Yes." Dong Hezi touched the baby's skeleton and said, "A very promising warrior."

Red bats traversed the town in the still and cold night.A faint cold mist filled the ground, but there was a vague scolding sound—it came from Aisha's hut.

Grimm was waving his magic wand and beating Aisha who was curled up in the corner: "Stinky bitch! Now that the adulterer is dead, let's see if you are still arrogant! Where did the look of looking down yesterday go? Follow your Has the adulterer gone to the Kingdom of God?"

He whipped hard, blushing from exhaustion.But the strength of each strike is getting heavier each time, as if the person hit is not a person but a piece of rotten wood.

Aisha curled up in the cold corner with her head in her arms.Her eyes were dull, she didn't say a word, she didn't suffer, she didn't scold, she didn't complain.As if the shell of his soul had been removed, he stared blankly ahead.

Grimm was finally tired from beating, he stopped his hands but gasped at the opponent's feet in a puzzled way, still cursing.

Aisha was still in a daze, as if she couldn't feel the big blue bruises on her body at all.After a long time, she suddenly said in a crying voice: "You kill me. I don't want to live anymore." After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but buried her head in sobs, tears pouring out.

"Fuck! Want to die for love?!" Grimm sarcastically said, "I didn't expect you to be a chaste woman! Tsk, tsk, tsk, the God of Justice should really promote you to be a priest!"

"You kill me." Aisha continued: "Now all my hope is gone, and I will spend my whole life in this dilapidated and hopeless town. I will never have gorgeous clothes to wear, only crude and stabbing people never have fine jewels, but those clumsy agricultural implements; never have soft cotton beds to sleep on, but these cold straw beds; never eat a piece of meat in a year, never drive a carriage once in half a lifetime, Every day I look back and live in shame. In summer, my body smells like sweat, in winter, my fingers are cracked, and I live my whole life as numb as the people around me, and then I turn into old men and women who are like dead bark, waiting to die. Is this my life? What's the point? What's the point?"

"I don't want to live my life like this!" She cried loudly, as if to vent her despair: "I don't want to live my life in poverty!"

She suddenly yelled hoarsely and saved Grimm's leg: "You kill me, I don't want to live! Let me die, let me go to the kingdom of God of the Eternal Lord! I don't want to live so humble and hopeless!"

With a fierce look on Grimm's face, he said viciously: "Okay, okay! I'll send you to die!" After he finished speaking, he chanted the incantation to condense the arcane energy, and a purple light cluster the size of a skull appeared in his hand—a magical Elsa is locked on the bomb, ready to go!

Grimm's breathing suddenly became heavy, and he was about to fire a magic bullet several times, but somehow he just couldn't do it.

Not because of a soft heart, but because of ~~ because of a kind of "sympathetic" sadness!

Oh shit!How can I feel this way?He scolded "bastard" anxiously.After repeating this over and over again, I still couldn't make a move at the last moment!

At this moment, Master Dong Hezi's voice came from the side: "Let's go, let's go. This is her pain place, and it is also your pain place. Since you can't do it, then leave quickly. Go ahead. Get yourself out of these troubles."

He turned his head and saw Master Dong Hezi standing at the door, beckoning to him, "Let's go, everything here is over."

"But she revealed your secret to Palick! Almost killed you!" cried Grimm. "Kill her, she is your enemy."

Dong Hezi looked at Aisha who was curled up alone, his eyes faintly glowed two rounds of light blue, and after a long time he said: "No, she didn't intend to kill me. So she is not my enemy."

"Let's go," he said softly to Grimm, "get out of here, everything will get better slowly."

The stone castle on the mountainside under the moonlight looks lonely and cold.

Le Lin looked at the small stone castle reluctantly, as if she had returned to the day when she first arrived here—how lovely the sunshine outside the window was.

She couldn't help but asked again: "Do you really want to burn it? Keep it and maybe it can be used when you come back in the future."

"I won't destroy it, and someone will destroy it!" Dong Hezi stood with his hands behind his back facing the stone castle, and said with a sigh: "Those people will either tear it down, or make it into a place I don't like. Both are not what I want. Rather than being destroyed by others, I would rather destroy myself first! To avoid heartache later.”

And behind them, a covered four-horse carriage was parked at the door, but there were no horses in front!

Grimm struggled to move the gold coins and his own package inside, and kept grunting: "Why did you let those horses go? Could it be that you want to become a horse to pull the cart?"

Dong Hezi didn't speak, and took out a thick wooden stick and threw it on the ground.

The stick stood up on its own with a swish, and quickly grew in size.After three or four breaths, he turned into a short tree man about two people tall and as thick as a large water tank.It walked to the shaft and grabbed it with a pair of big claws, thinking it was a horse.

Grimm reminded: "It pulls a cart? It can't run fast!"

"What are you doing running so fast?" Dong Hezi said, "It will be a few days before the news of Palik's death spreads. We have enough time to slip away. Besides, although my tree man's speed is only as fast as a human's trot, he can move quickly." It's fairly stable and can run around the clock. It's not slow to calculate. And do you want to take time to take care of the horses along the way?"

"That's her job!" said Grimm, pointing to Lerin, while he hurried into the wagon.

Dong Hezi personally lit the firewood inside and outside the stone castle.

In the flames soaring into the sky, the dwarf man pulled a boxcar and gradually disappeared into the dark and vast night.