Todd staggered into a shop that looked a little shabby and old.
Evarang has a long history, and there are many shops like this, most of which are poorly managed and difficult to maintain, let alone renovate.
But Todd knew that the real owner of this store had long since had no chance to renovate. The person sitting behind the counter now was just a fake who had used a deformation spell on his face. The real owner... was probably dead a long time ago.
If it were him in the past, he might have foolishly believed that this group of people bought the store from the previous owner, but reading the magic book not only brought him great mental pain, but also made him I gained a little more knowledge.
After Todd entered the door, he walked directly to the counter, slapped his hands on the table, and the "store owner" walked out quickly.
"I'd like...a glass of wine, chilled, anything."
"Todd?" The shopkeeper frowned and looked at him. He took out a metal wine glass from under the table, took a glass of wine from the barrel next to him, and knocked it twice, and a cold mist appeared on the glass.
Todd took the glass and drank it all.
"Where were you yesterday? Where are your things?"
"Here we go." Todd threw the cup aside, and the cold liquid made his confused brain a little clearer.
"Why do you look a little off?"
"Hey...Old Sam, tell me, how many of your people are there?"
The shopkeeper frowned: "This is not what you should ask. Now that everything is sold, you can move freely. There is no need to come here all the time."
"Then I have to live and move freely!"
Todd roared suddenly, raised his finger, and several magic rings on his hand lit up one after another. In an instant, all the doors and windows of the hotel were closed by the strong wind, making a series of loud collisions.
"Todd!" Sam, the store owner, slapped the table, "Why are you crazy?"
Seeing his reaction, Todd was actually happy: "You don't know? Hahaha, so you don't know either? Sam, I thought you were a soldier, but you are just a soldier like me... Forget it, soldier Just soldiers."
He punched the counter through the cracks and approached Sam: "I'm going to die, you know that?"
Sam frowned and looked at him: "Are you going to die? What nonsense?"
"Old man, I know that some people are surrounding you from behind, but it's useless. I only know you, and the only one I haven't said out loud is you, because I know it will always end up with you... I watched The Magician Book."
As soon as the last words were spoken, Sam immediately took several steps back like the plague, even knocking over a stool.
And seeing his actions like this, what else does Todd not understand?
"So you don't know anything about the spell?"
"What do you know? The order I got is to pass something into your hands! A magic book? Damn it! Is that a magic book?"
"Sam! Are you from Silverhand?" Todd roared.
"Silver Hand? What Silver Hand? I am the secret thread buried here by the horn. What does it have to do with Silver Hand?"
Todd was stunned.
Horn is a pirate, generally famous in the sea and offshore cities, and has almost nothing to do with the Silver Hand Thieves.
"Wait...who did you get your order from..."
"What order? I just took the job! My informant knew about it! Damn it! I'm confused! What's going on with you guy? And the magic book? Have you read the magic book? "At this time, Sam no longer cared that there were normal customers in the store, and shouted in horror.
The few people who had quietly gathered around behind did not dare to approach.
After all, Todd had only gained some experience with the magic book. At this time, he was already a little confused about what was going on. He only knew one thing, he was dead.
"Haha, hehe, isn't that, isn't that... awesome?"
After saying this, Todd raised his index fingers with a twisted smile and stabbed his own eyes.
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"Memory can increase choices, and experience can judge success, but in the end the way to deal with things is still determined by personality. Because of this, as long as Todd is still Todd, he will not be able to do anything promising."
Lu Ning squatted on the roof. About ten meters away from her was the dilapidated store door. At this time, most people were not aware of the danger inside, but the people inside began to try to open the blocked doors and windows to escape.
Several days of controlling the magic flow have made Lu Ning's magic perception extremely keen. She can feel the skyrocketing concentration of magic in the store, and even this richness has formed a pure magic environment that is not conducive to the release of magic.
At this moment, a three-meter-long flame spear blasted straight into the door. After all, Pierre was a senior magician, and he specialized in attacking fire techniques. The power of the flame spear exploded directly inside the tavern, and all seals were sealed. All the dead doors and windows were blown open by the fire wave, while precisely avoiding all the living people inside.
"Help, help!"
A man immediately appeared at the door, but he was blocked by a wall of light. The man smashed the wall hard and even threw a lot of magic. All of the magic penetrated the wall and hit the outside, but he could not escape.
The situation at the window was similar. People in the room were crowded around the cage that they could not leave, but the light coming out of the room was a dazzling blood-red color.
Lu Ning's scalp felt a little numb.
"Don't go in!" Pierre was experienced and immediately stopped everyone. At the same time, he condensed a ball of fire on his hand and yelled at the people at the door: "Get out of the way!"
The man squatted by the door with his head in his arms, and Pierre's fireball was thrown directly into the store. This time it did not explode, but ignited. Flames immediately rose from the roof, and the flames burned the wooden structure. There was a loud noise, and soon the dilapidated and decaying house began to become crumbling, but as the charred wood pieces peeled off piece by piece, more light walls appeared in sight.
"You'd better hurry up. It will take about three minutes before the guards react and arrive." Lu Ning shouted below.
"This is not something that can be dealt with in three minutes." Pierre smacked his lips, "That boy Todd seems to have created a restricted area, or a barrier?"
At this moment, the flames began to take on a blood-red color, and the bright red light scattered from the countless cracks on the wall, looking extremely scary in the night. Pierre noticed the problem, and immediately moved his fingers in the air, muttering a magic spell in his mouth.
With the development of magic today, basic spells rarely need to be recited. On the other hand, what needs to be recited must be powerful magic.
"Wind Pillar!"
At Pierre's order, the flames began to twist, and immediately, a cyclone was generated tightly around the shop house, sweeping all the wood chips and flames in the outer circle into the air, and the entire house was sealed by the light wall. It finally appeared in front of everyone's eyes, but the scene inside made everyone who saw it feel chilly.
It was an "angel" on the surface, but in fact it was a completely twisted and blasphemous creature. Its sarcoma-like head, which swelled to three or four times the size of an ordinary person, only had two eyes that continuously flowed blood. A bloody hole and a mouth full of sharp teeth that could not be closed. Its body hung in mid-air as if it was being hanged, its hands dropped, and pieces of rotten flesh continued to fall from its cuffs. Eight tentacles made of flesh and blood stretched out from its back. Now these tentacles were covered with a corpse, and they continued to spray blood drops on the ground as they twisted.
The blood-red light comes from a beating heart that was originally located on the roof. There are a large number of chambers growing on it. All parts are squirming wildly and irregularly, releasing a strong red light with every beat of the heart.
Even among the countless monsters Lu Ning has seen, this thing must be ranked among the top in terms of disgusting appearance.
"Necrosis has already occurred... No, it should be necrosis now." Pierre sighed, "Let's stay away."
"Hey! Help! Help us! As long as we can get out of here..."
The man at the door smashed the wall relentlessly, his eyes gradually filled with hatred and despair.
"Everything in the place where the destruction occurred must be eliminated, and most of the witnesses also need to have their memories cleaned. As for those of you who have witnessed it..."
Pierre looked at him with some compassion. This man hadn't realized that the same tentacles of flesh and blood had begun to stretch out from his back, and half of his head was rotting.
Lu Ning looked sideways and saw that the team of guards had arrived, and there were even some high-level magicians flying over in the air. She immediately jumped down from the room.
Pierre also quietly left the scene through another road. When something like this happens, there are naturally some people around who are watching. No matter what their psychology is, at least they will be the priority targets of the guards.
"Where's Lilian?" Bai Meigui asked when she turned around and saw that Lu Ning hadn't come over.
"Didn't she say that? She has something to do."
"Isn't her job to observe what happens in the store? Now that the observation is over, why don't we go back together?"
"Of course not. Since she didn't follow, she probably discovered something."
Pierre's judgment of Lu Ning's behavior was quite accurate.
Lu Ning jumped out of the room and walked calmly along an alley. Soon, a dazzling golden light appeared where the destruction occurred, and the blood color was quickly suppressed.
"As expected, Evarang has an emergency response team. Or rather... they should have been prepared to control the situation where the magic book is out of control. Given the time difference between everyone reading the magic book, the outbreak time will be around tomorrow morning to noon. Xueni will probably be able to come back after that."
Lu Ning pondered and turned into a secluded street.
Except for a few bustling streets in Evarang, the buildings in other places are still quite far apart. For example, there are actually no other shops around the Crow Hotel, most of which are warehouses. The road Lu Ning took was also a very quiet one. After walking only a short distance, she saw a temple.
The temple is not worshiped by magicians who practice magic. After all, the gods who believe in magic require piety and prayer, and it has nothing to do with the location. The temples in this world belong to religious sects.
Evarang itself has no religious inclination, so there are many kinds of gods enshrined in the temple. Apart from categorizing them according to their origins, nothing else is considered. But the world is huge and there are many religious people. Gradually, the temples have many more functions such as staying overnight.
So when Lu Ning saw the temple at first sight, he felt that it was much bigger than other buildings.
It was almost late at night, and it was not the time for everyone to rest. After Lu Ning entered through the vaulted door, she saw a tall woman wielding a sword in the courtyard.
"Hello." Lu Ning greeted.
The woman turned her head and wiped the sweat from her head. With the help of the crystal light in the courtyard, she could see Lu Ning's appearance. Apart from a black robe... he looked harmless.
"Hello, we can't accommodate overnight guests here at night, or even during the day. As far as I know, all the rooms are full."
"Thanks for reminding me, but I'm not here to stay." Lu Ning smiled, "My name is Lilian, what's yours?"
"Dileya." The woman inserted the sword into the soil of the flower bed next to her, and talked to Lu Ning while relaxing her body with small movements.
"I came here after someone. This is the only open door nearby. I wonder if anyone passed by the door just now?"
Dilea was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "No one has passed by."
"I'm sorry, can you be sure?"
"I am a paladin, Lilian. If I can't detect someone passing by the door, then Mr. Priest will definitely kick me out." Delea smiled, "I know that magicians have some hidden abilities. , but there are probably not many who have a very high level of physical skills.”
Lu Ning nodded and suddenly asked another question: "So, has anyone just come back?"
Delea raised her eyebrows: "Yes."
About five minutes later, Dilea led Lu Ning to knock on the door of a quiet room. After asking, Dilea reported her name. Soon candles lit up in the room, and then the door was blocked. opened.
The person who opened the door was a monk who was not very old. He was dressed very much like a Western monk in Lu Ning's impression. His clothes were tied with many knots, and there were many knots along his chest and under his ribs. .
The monk clasped his hands and bowed slightly to Delea: "I wonder if Madam is here late at night, what can I do for you?"
"Uh... I'm not used to your way of speaking. How about we talk in common language?" Dilea was a little embarrassed.
"Of course, Ms. Dilea, and this young lady, you must have something important to do with me at this time, right?"
"She came here after someone. I will practice swordsmanship for a while before going to bed at night. I didn't see anyone passing by the door. I met Jingwen from your monk Yui who came back at night. Master Jingrui knew that he was out to do it. What happened?"
"Although Monk Yui is a companion, he is just a companion. I'm sorry, but I don't know the reason why he came home late."
"Then... I'm not very familiar with Jingwen. Could you please help me find him, Master? We'll leave after asking a few words, right Lilian?"
"Yes, I just need to ask a few questions." Lu Ning smiled.
"In that case, please follow the monk's footsteps." Jingrui nodded, put on a pair of wooden slippers, stepped into the corridor, and walked toward the room inside.
