The legendary path of the abandoned half-elf

The house was quiet, without a sound of fighting, as if no one had ever entered.

The next day, Lorenno took the four of them to the dilapidated house that was easiest to enter as planned. The resentful Shaluo looked murderous. For a while, he didn't want to see Mina for fear that he could not control his emotions and be exposed.

The reason why the half-elf girl followed the original plan was because of the habits of the soul-covering vines. Their seeds would never be able to maintain activity in a normal environment. They would die in about two hours at most, and those druids obviously would not be at the same time. Those who are parasitized must be killed first before using them.

So Saruman definitely has a place where the soul-crushing vines can grow and bear fruit. There are only three areas in this city, or all three areas. Anyway, you can find them by searching them one by one. .

Arriving at the edge of a house full of negative energy, which looked like an ordinary house from the outside, Lorenno squatted down and asked about the plants around her, but found that it was difficult to communicate with them. She could only expand the scope, but the result was still the same.

The half-elf girl did not believe in evil and expanded the range to 200 meters away. Finally, some plants made sounds, but they were also free from the influence of negative energy and did not know about it.

'But - we found - yesterday someone - went in and didn't come out -'

After hearing the news, Lorenno nodded, assuming that a homeless man who was not afraid of death had entered. When he walked to the iron gate of the garden, he realized that something was wrong. The iron gate on the ground had impact marks. It seemed that it was hit by a horse, and the impactor was very urgent. , it seemed like someone was chasing him from behind.

"Aisha, Shaluo, Vita, everyone, please be careful."

The four of them came to the house. Lorenno slashed at the door with a standard long sword and stabbed it in easily. Then he asked Elsa to tear down the broken door that still blocked the sun, providing a little light for a few people. .

There were several loud noises, and the door fell into the room. Four people worked in teams of two, dragging the two heavy doors into the manor and setting them on fire. Lorenno poked his head into the house. It was full of dust, but it looked like nothing. It was special, but she always felt a sense of violation.

"Come and take a look, I always feel something is wrong."

The three of them stuck their heads in, and Aisha felt the same way. Data flow flashed in Vita's eyes, and after calculation, he discovered the problem: "There is an illusion here."

Chapter 269 Burning the Soul-Covering Vine

Illusion?

Although Lorenno could feel the flow of magic power, he could not detect any abnormalities. It was hard to imagine that this place was really shrouded in illusion spells.

Vita gave her reason: "Master, look there, the distance between the candlesticks on both sides and the walls on both sides is exactly the same, there is no difference at all, and the data of each staircase is exactly the same, unless the designer of this mansion is A mage with obsessive-compulsive disorder has set up a non-wearing spell for this house, otherwise it would never be so neat."

The half-elf girl showed such an expression after hearing this. This is really something that only Vita can do, and it will not be of much use to them in breaking the illusion in the future.

This was just an effect on the line of sight. Lorenno simply covered his eyes and used other senses to look inside. His psychic energy instantly discovered the powerful negative energy hidden in the walls and the ground. Based on their direction, he could judge where the negative energy resided. It's a vine.

The soul-covering vine is here, who is the person who escaped here?

The ranger girl stretched out her hand and pressed it against the ground. Her wrist cracked and her blood flowed on the ground. Her life force gradually turned into a gel-like substance due to [materialization] and spread. The thin layer rolled out, providing Lorenno with the entire house. The structure of the large living room revealed something hidden by illusion.

There were more than a dozen recently deceased corpses lying on the ground, and the walls had slash marks. They resisted, but eventually died inside.

"Sha Luo, control the vines to roll towards the place I pointed to. There are some corpses that you need to pull out."

"Ok."

The druid girl cast a spell, and the tough vines rolled to the corner, bringing out all the corpses, allowing Lorenno to observe. There was a noble among these corpses, and the rest were undoubtedly assassins from the costumes. She After groping for the identity of the nobleman, he finally found a necklace with a ring in his arms. The ring was engraved with "For my beloved Eri".

Urry...Duke Charles's son?

Finoa mentioned to her not long ago that there was only one person named Eri in Black Pigeon City.

Why did he die here, and why were these assassins hunting him?

Lorenno thought of Saruman's ability to control corpses as before and had already made some guesses. I'm afraid that the Duke's Palace has become a hell. The best case scenario is that Saruman is unwilling to use precious seeds on his servants, but only senior officials All are controlled.

Lorenno pressed his temples, not wanting to think, and looked at the house that had become a devil's cave. Feeling the increasingly malicious gaze of the soul-covering vine and the resentful souls on it, he obediently took out the Immortal Slash and a large number of holy water props, and distributed them to the three of them. .

"Don't go in yet, just throw things in. This is how it's used -"

The half-elf girl demonstrated to Aisha and Sara, lighting the fuse on the mouth of the glass bottle in her hand and throwing it directly into the house! !

boom!

呵呵味——

After the explosion, thick golden fog spread throughout the house, and the burning sounds were like pouring hot water into a pan. The soul-covering vines hiding in the walls, ceilings, and floors simply couldn't bear the pain and had no time to open. The good holes were drilled out little by little, and the vines could only be swung painfully to smash open all the things blocking it. As the magic circle in the house was destroyed by itself, the real scene of the house appeared in front of several people.

The house was dark and damp, surrounded by mold. There were hundreds of ghosts in the air tearing apart the parts stained with holy water with their hands, trying to stay as far away from the thick fog as possible, which made the half-elf girl frown.

More than half of these ghosts were residents of Black Pigeon City. So many people died but the city guard did not notice them. Someone must be helping Saruman cover up. Lorenno was even more convinced of his guess.

The soul-covering vine and the ghosts controlled by it naturally did not want to be attacked unilaterally by the half-elf girl. Some of the more evil professional ghosts rushed towards the door regardless of the positive energy fire burning on their bodies. Lorenno took a step back.

"Throw it in."

Aisha, who was eager to try, and Shaluo, who was full of hatred, threw the sacred cocktail in their hands. It drew a graceful arc in the air and passed through some ghosts that rushed over. The holy water in the bottle vaporized due to stimulation, reaching the peak of pressure. Suddenly exploded!

The raging white-gold flames swept between the living room and the door, and spread inward due to the air flow. The ghost in the center of the flames and flames was burned to the point where the soul energy escaped without even screaming, and the soul-covering vine made a crackling sound. , the violent conflict between positive and negative energy causes it to produce a small explosion from the inside out, or be rapidly eroded from the outside to the inside.

'die!die!die! '

The huge vine was angered by Lorenno's team, and the thick vine whip hit it regardless of its own damage. Unfortunately, there were three people inside to restrain it.

Elsa wielded the Frost Moon Sword to cut off the vines. As the juice seeped in, the biting ice continued to spread upward and freeze the vines to pieces. Lorenno's Immortal Slash exuded an aura of strong positive energy and life energy. The vines just came close. Withering instantly, Shaluo hid behind and recited a spell. A long flaming knife appeared in his hand, and he slashed at the branches that attacked him.

The attack of the soul-covering vine was blocked tightly. The ghost was sucked up a lot of energy by it, and even the positive energy flames couldn't pass through it. Vita, who was standing behind the three people, said: "Master, I can use a breath attack. I can't." You hurt yourself, do you need help?”

"Okay, please."

After receiving the permission, the construct girl opened her small mouth and took a deep breath. The surrounding air and the flames in the room tended to reverse direction. Then Vita jumped high and exhaled the breath of the golden dragon above Lorenno and others!

"Roar--!"

Faint golden scales grew around the construct girl's eyes, and the flames spit out from her mouth instantly expanded into a cone shape, covering the entire house. The flame wave hit the wall on the other side, completely igniting the soul-covering vine. .

……

After a while, the three of them sat down tiredly while looking at the soul-covering vine breeding site that was completely burned to ashes. Lorenno opened her arms to absorb the life energy brought by the soul-covering vine to replenish her physical strength, and used her spiritual energy to confirm that there was no A fish that slipped through the net.

Although the soul-covering vines cannot survive in a place full of negative energy, their roots will affect the soil. Out of the plants' help to Lorenno, she will still spend some time and energy to help them clean up the soul-covering vines. Of vine.

"It seems like this house is in very bad condition?"

Finoa also rushed over at this time, looking at the "former haunted house" that was burned into ruins and asked.

Lorenno inserted the Immortal Slash into the soil and burned the remaining roots: "Well, I can basically confirm where Saruman is hiding."

The half-elf girl threw her discovery and the ring she found to the assassin girl. After catching it, Fenoa said: "This is a great help to the empire. Thank you very much, Miss Lorenno."

"Hands up."

Chapter 270 Saruman’s chaotic plan

"Shadow Crow No. 224, what's going on?"

"The whereabouts of Saruman have been found, and it is most likely located in the residence of Earl Charles. At the same time, I have found the body of the Earl's son Eri. I suspect that it was the hand of Saruman the Blighter. It seems that Charles is already under his control. "

"The Planning Department has already made a preliminary plan. Next, the City Guards will..."

After learning of Saruman's whereabouts, Fenoa immediately contacted the headquarters and learned the new plan from there. They were going to make Saruman feel as dangerous as possible and trigger a riot in the noble area to weaken the local nobles. the power of.

As for the simple operation, under the current environment, the soul-covering vine raised by the withered ones may not produce ten seeds in a month. As long as its nutrient supply is cut off, it will stop growing and gradually shrink. Saruman is sure He didn't dare to come forward and confront the city guards, so he could only use the seeds to influence more nobles.

"By the way," the planning department reminded before Finoa hung up the phone, "remember to change the place to sleep after dressing up Sir Urry."

After hanging up the phone, Fenoa returned to the half-elf girl, raised Eri's body and said to Lorenno: "I need his body to make some traps to lure Saruman."

"Okay, hurry up and come back. We'll wait here." Lorenno continued to clean up the roots, and asked Shaluo to join him. As a druid, he naturally couldn't refuse this work.

The assassin girl put the body into the space and turned into a shadow. She rushed to the city guard station and met with the city guard officer who was awakened. She called a group of mid-level professionals to guard the dilapidated house and turned around again. leave.

After being far enough away from the Soul-Covering Vine, Finoa threw the body out and used a special makeup box to disguise the body, covering up the traces of vine whipping and negative energy erosion, and making sure that there was nothing related to the Soul-Closing Vine. After that, he returned to Lorenno.

"Is the matter done? Why did you call the people from the city guard station to come over?"

"what!!!"

Saruman the Blighter, who was meditating, woke up from his sleep with bloodshot eyes. He felt the death of a soul-covering vine he had raised!

Did the druid who came to him start taking action? !

Holding back the pain in his soul, Saruman took out the medicine bottle from his dimensional bag and drank it. His expression turned gloomy after he took a breath. He didn't know who had done it. He might have to send someone to investigate.

Thinking so, he immediately summoned his animal companion, which was a black eagle with bare bones. It was Saruman's companion during the druid period. After Saruman became the Blighter, it was also transformed into of the undead.

"Go and bring me the news."

Using magic to share vision with Black Eagle, Saruman quickly saw his first stronghold when he came to Black Pigeon City. When he saw the situation around the abandoned house, his face turned completely livid, and the worst situation occurred. Got——

The house had been burned to ashes and was surrounded by city guards.

If Saruman could still kill them with his own abilities when the druids came to him, now that he was targeted by the city guards, even if he exchanged his life for the help of the "master" in the box, he might not be able to escape. Pigeon City.

Fortunately, he was cautious enough and did not leave any clues that could be found. There is no need to be afraid of prophecy. All prophecies directed at him, as long as they are not legends, will eventually lead to his "master".

But there is not much time left for Saruman. As long as the city guard gradually investigates, they will come to him sooner or later. He must think of an escape route in advance...

There was a dark light in the Blighter's eyes, and he quickly came up with an idea, but before that, he had to see if the earl's son was still alive.

He ordered his servants to bring a basin of water, and used a ritual to perform prophecy with his staff across the water. The swaying water returned to calm, and a body fell in the dark alley. No one has found it yet. There were obvious injuries on the body, and the body was shabby. Luman could not sense any trace of Eri's life at all, he was completely dead.

Very good, it's time to ask Mr. Charles to hold a banquet to let the nobles of Black Pigeon City see his changes.

……

Early the next morning, Charles Bo

The prince got up energetically, kissed the maid lying beside him, packed his clothes and strode to the study to work. After drinking the water of life developed by Saruman, he could be said to have returned to his youth, the water of life. One bottle of water is really refreshing, two bottles will never make you tired, and three bottles will make you immortal.

"Your Majesty," the beautiful maid did not dare to break away from Charles' hand touching her butt, and said solemnly, "Master Eri did not come back all night."

"Don't worry about this traitor!"

Speaking of his rebellious son, Charles became furious. Previously, Charles was afraid that the water of life would be useless, so he ignored his son's little actions. But now that his friend Saruman has confirmed the effect of the longevity potion, his child is actually not that important anymore— —

Anyway, he can have another child with someone else. If the woman who gives birth to the child has a good status, he can marry her as his wife. If not, then he can raise him as an illegitimate child.

tuk tuk-

"Charles."

The earl's eyes lit up, he let go of the maid's hand and said, "Saruman, come in."

Saruman walked into the study, and the maid left voluntarily. Charles looked at the old man who gave him a new life and said, "Do you need my help with anything?"

"No, I just came to remind you that since you have been resurrected, it is time to surprise those families who want to target you."

After hearing Saruman's suggestion, the Count not only did not feel that the mage had gone too far, but he agreed with his opinion: "You are right, it is time for them to be afraid, and it is time for me to launch a counterattack against them."

Charles's eyes kept swimming across the black line at this time. Saruman nodded with satisfaction and took out today's water of life:

"My dearest Earl Charles, it's time for you to take your medicine."

Lorenno looked out the window at the city guards who were searching from house to house. They had also heard from Finoa about what the empire wanted to do. Except for Sha Luo, no one had any objections. Only the druid girl had one condition. If possible, Sha Luo should be killed. Luman left it to her to deal with it, at least giving her the final blow, and Finoa also agreed to Shaluo's condition.

Lorenno looked at Sha Luo and said, "While you're at it, would you like to spend some time with Miss Mina?"

Sha Luo was silent for a moment and shook her head: "No need, I'm worried that I can't control my emotions. Just wait until she comes to me. It would be best if she doesn't come."

Chapter 271 Charles, come back to life!

In the days that followed, Lorenno did not participate too much in the empire's planning. She wanted to avoid participating in political issues as much as possible, although she had participated many times now.

After Lorenno borrows the Mirror of All Knowledge, he will work for the empire for an unknown period of time. If it is just a girl, it will be fine, but there is Connie here. She will leave the empire sooner or later. It is difficult to say that there is a long-term relationship between countries. In the "honeymoon period" of time, it is more likely that they will gradually part ways. At that time, what will the half-elf girl do?

With this in mind, Lorenno did not join the task of the imperial nobles, but took over half of what Finoa had done - to see how many druids were alive in the city.

The result was not optimistic. She searched all the recorded druids in the city and found that there was no living person except Shaluo. This made the half-elf girl suspicious of the empire's upcoming plan. What if it got out of control? manage.

Finoa smiled after hearing this: "In the final analysis, he is just a mid-level blighter who cannot make too big a storm."

"……maybe."

Lorenno still had some doubts. She always felt that ordinary blighters would not be that powerful. At this moment, Shaluo was stunned for a moment while he was meditating. The voice of the Druid elder echoed in his head. He contacted him through some kind of magic. Fucked her.

'Saluo, are you listening? '

'Elder, I'm listening! '

'Things are not good. You must not be facing Saruman, right? '

Hearing the elder's anxious tone, Shaluo glanced at Lorenno and Finoa, and continued to respond: 'Not yet, recently...'

Informed the Druid elder about what happened. The elder on the other side was very frightened when he relaxed his tense mood. He told Shaluo what he had discovered not long ago: "Fortunately, we caught up, Shaluo. Something serious is not going well. Hurry up." Tell Miss Blood Beast and the Empire the next news..."

Listening to the voice in his mind, Shaluo's face gradually turned pale, with fear on his face. After the elder finished speaking, he tremblingly said the words: "I...I know, I will inform them."

After hanging up the communication, the druid girl swallowed her saliva and looked at the people in the room. Lorenno's right eyelid twitched, as if there was bad news about to come out of Shaluo's mouth. Unfortunately, her guess came true. .

Sha Luo picked up the water on the table, took a sip and said, "There is bad news."