Even a mysterious creature cannot enter and leave a noble's mansion at will. "Did Viscount Glonion invite the dark wizard to his manor?" Uriel guessed.
I'm afraid not many people can recognize his black magic ring. Of course, maybe the nobles don't care about these things. What are you doing with that wizard?
I'm not looking for him. "I'm worried that he's using witchcraft to create chaos." He could only mumble. "Isn't the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for maintaining order in the subject country?"
That's the job of the security forces. We are messengers, not Biniyao patrolmen
"Okay, but I hope the security in the motherland can be better, and that's right." Uriel muttered, waiting on the side of the road. Alarming the wizard was nothing, at most it was a bit awkward when they met. But no matter what, it is better to stay and resolve the misunderstanding than to leave. Uriel did not want to be regarded as a thief trying to sneak into the manor... although in terms of sneakiness, snooping seemed to be no different from breaking into the castle. The former is one of the steps of the latter.
Different from the situation when he came to Frostleaf Castle to report the news, Uriel calmly faced the questioning eyes of the guards until the guard who reported the news found a receptionist. It was indeed the dark wizard he had seen.
"Welcome, messenger of Chloe." After entering the living room, the wizard asked the maid to bring cheese and ale, as well as a large pot of potato and salmon soup with hot mist. He invited Uriel to join him for dinner.
The dark wizard calls himself Azrub and can take on the responsibility of receiving guests. He said that he was from Flying Eagle City and had been a monk in a certain church for several years. Later, he was fortunate enough to become a member of the Silent School, digging caves in the Wizard's Cliff to explore the mysteries. When Azrub found one day that he could no longer get any inspiration from nature, he set off and returned to the mortal realm to carry out the will of the goddess.
"Ser Isborne is not at the manor," he told Uriel when the apprentice asked politely. "His youngest son Dylan Gronion is getting married. The lord has been busy with affairs recently and has been away from home all day."
Uriel didn't want to see this lord at first. He casually said a few words of blessing, and at the same time carefully let go of his perception, looking for the fleeting fluctuation of fire. “The scenery at Falling Water Gardens is stunning, and Mr. Dylan’s wedding will surely become a wonderful memory.”
"The wedding will be held at the edge of the dam. Dylan and his bride will release a pair of pure white robins, their breasts are orange." The wizard said, "And I can use witchcraft to make them return with roses in their mouths. The love of love Red roses. I originally wanted to use silver lilies, but the lord thought that the wedding banquet of his youngest son did not need to be so solemn. I have to admit, roses are much more romantic than silver lilies."
"If it's in church, they'll take your advice."
"I don't have many suggestions." When Azrub boasted, his posture was very similar to the old mercenary of Holly Town. He has a pair of round-spotted eyebrows, and his ears are flat and close to his scalp. There was a sparkle of confidence or arrogance in his eyes, which stood out in a broad, gray face. "For a few insignificant words of advice and a little trick of blessing, Sir Isborne will pay me a bag of gold coins. Each one is of perfect quality and is an Abbey gold coin." He said proudly. "It is impossible for ordinary adventurers to make so much money in a year."
It seems that he was originally an adventurer. When the apprentice asked, he admitted it. "Ascetics also need travel expenses! Sir, of course I spent some time in the adventurer bar. Accepting mission commissions is a way to hone yourself."
Then Azrub happily talked about what happened in Holly Town, where he used his magic to play tricks on the two unlucky vampires. The apprentice once saw with his own eyes that the dark wizard easily changed their positions, but fortunately, this guy was not unwary at all. He said that he just did a trick.
Uriel understood what the wizard was doing here. No matter what, people always have to eat, and mysterious creatures are no exception. He was convinced of this. But it's one thing to fill your stomach in the adventurer's bar. It's another thing to come to the lord's manor and work for the noble gentlemen. He heard mercenaries complaining about the officials of Four Leaf City in the Knox Bar, and he also found similar comments in Wenivaz and Iron Claw City. At this point, adventurers have always believed that they are on the opposite side of the noble class. Even the Knox mercenary group, which was originally connected to the Wiggins family, rarely goes to Frostleaf Castle. Uriel didn't know the secret until York shared this knowledge with him.
"We are free riders." Sita, the orange-faced man, declared, "We are not ordered by anyone. Commissions and tasks bring us profits, but what maintains the mercenary group is friendship and honor. We will never serve the greedy and indulgent nobles, This is our creed." Calder and his mercenaries did indeed do this, and Uriel was not sure whether the adventurers in the north thought so too. Azrubber probably wouldn't consider himself an adventurer either.
However, the dark wizard has not yet realized that his identity has been exposed, and still talks about his experience of hard training to the apprentice. If Uriel hadn't seen him feasting on delicious fish and cheese, this gesture might have made him doubtful.
"I have been to many places." This is a starting line that people like to use. But even if the beginning is a bit cheesy and the tone is a bit exaggerated...if you ignore these minor flaws, Azrube's story is actually quite interesting. "On the Autumn Leaves Walkway," he told Uriel, who didn't know which story he was talking about. "I killed two tree monsters. It wasn't a hard fight, really. Later I took their nails and heels off at the market. Sold to alchemists. These are valuable things. You will think that I don't look like an ascetic, but you are wrong! I spent the money I earned from labor in my pocket to understand what the goddess said, "For the cause" and be satisfied with the struggle'. There's no shame in that."
Missionaries and ascetics are fundamentally different things, but Azrube does not seem to distinguish between the two. Uriel didn't say anything to correct him, he just felt dumbfounded. "Indeed, this...makes sense."
The Ring couldn't listen anymore: If the Silent School would allow such a wizard to enter the Wizard's Cliff, then Bernard Sterling should consider abdicating his throne! Bernard is the leader of the School of Silence. He was not a wizard of the Silent School, Sauron had never concluded.
No matter where Azrubber is a wizard, at least he won't be a bad person. Most of the stories Uriel heard were about his heroic deeds, and the response to the Scroll of Oath proved that the fictional elements were irrelevant. The main purpose of existence was to set off this guy's majestic image. Previously, the ring was worried that he would use witchcraft to track down the vampire's whereabouts and find Uriel, but the apprentice discovered that Azrub had not thought that way at all. He is more like a believer in Gaia than Uriel, and he acts openly to the point of being arrogant.
Black magic causes the mystery to erode itself and bring pain. Uriel didn't understand the side effects of magic other than the Scroll of Oath, but Ms. Helen had used facts to explain to him that neither mystery nor profession were the reasons for the erosion. It tests endurance and experience. Perhaps only people like Azrub are not deterred by the bumps in the mysterious road.
"I am walking west along the Jinque River." At last, Azrube told him. "I've been away long enough, and you have to visit your hometown." He dipped the salmon in some kind of green sauce. "What about you? Lord Messenger, young mystic, where are you going?"
"I want to go east, to Knight's Bay." Uriel didn't mind telling his destination. "I'm looking for a lost apprentice. She is a young lion." If he didn't seize the opportunity to inquire, I'm afraid he would have no way to find out the whereabouts of Roma.
"The lion man in the tower... There was a male lion man in Iron Claw City, who was also a member of the Sky Realm of your Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is said that he was wandering around the capital, making the residents panic." Azrub shouted. Taking a sip of wine, "Of course, I'm afraid it's just the nobles who are panicking. Common people don't care about the mysterious fulcrum. There is no difference between the sky realm and the ring level. As for the female lion, I have seen a lot of them in the circus! But I think None of them are what you’re looking for.”
It seems that Lord Ronald the Lion has also lost track of Roma. Uriel felt that he had to put the search for Roma on his plan, in case both groups failed to meet her after arriving at Knight's Cove. But now, time is getting tighter. "Thank you for the message." He still said.
"I suggest you go to a bar to post missing persons information. Adventurer Bar. Have you been there?"
certainly. But issuing a missing person revelation? The idea never occurred to him. "That's what I'm about to do."
"Okay, young man. I won't disturb your business. The dinner is very rich, but I think you should finish it. It's hard for you to stay with me for so long... Unfortunately, I don't have any valuable news to tell you. You. Patience is a good quality, kid, but why did you waste your time chatting for so long with an insignificant ascetic?"
"I just came to ask and pay a visit to the local lord." Since he did not capture the strange fire again, Uriel also decided to leave. "After all, the detection station has to record the appearance of a large number of mysterious creatures every day. I hope it will not interfere with their normal work..." His prevarication was suddenly interrupted.
"The detection station will only record mysterious creatures that appear frequently, and perhaps add a few particularly dangerous names. Local adventurers have long been on the relevant list, and Gao Huan does not come to Six Fingers Castle often. Their work is not enough. Just spend the day in the chair next to the Detecting Eye." The wizard wiped the juice from his beard. "When you come to the Garden of Flowing Waters, the apprentice must have appeared here before. Otherwise, you have another purpose. Could it be that you are here to attend Dylan Gronion's wedding?"
"I didn't get the news until I got here."
"You come here. Of course, I can't restrict others from walking on their feet. Let alone Croita's messenger... However, as soon as you arrived here, the vampire castle in Boot Valley was burned to the ground."
Uriel became wary. He found that although the other party was a decent person, he had a lot of experience in obtaining information during conversations. "I've heard about this too," he replied. He suddenly discovered the flaw in his words.
"This is really unlucky." Azrubber smiled in surprise, "There are not many mysterious creatures that can be used in the Garden of Flowing Waters, and the detection station has not found any big figures in the high circle... except for the messenger from the mysterious fulcrum. My lord, I really can't think of anyone else who could do this or have any reason to do this."
Even if he could deny it, Uriel couldn't lie to himself that he didn't come for Screaming Castle, because that was the fact. "You are only half right, Mr. Azrube." Since the other party was pressing harder, he simply admitted it.
"Then what else is there? The red tower of Six Finger Castle is not as majestic as Chloe's Sky Tower. It's nothing interesting to see."
"My purpose has nothing to do with Six Fingers Castle. Mr. Azrub, you said he is a traveling wizard of the school -" Uriel deliberately paused for a moment and saw the wizard's eyebrows jump up like a little ball. "Then you must know the 'pure cauldron', right?"
"The holy medicine of the Vampires?" Azrube thought for only a second. It seems that his knowledge is indeed rich, but it does not come from the Silent School.
"A prohibited alchemical product, it is made from the blood of babies." Uriel said. "I got news that the Vampires are mass-producing this evil supplement, so I came here."
"These damn mosquitoes!" Azrube threw away his knife and fork angrily. "Sooner or later I will impose sanctions on them." He completely forgot that Screaming Castle has become history. "There are also those hiding vampires. These bastards like to hang out upstream of the dam recently. I think they are probably no longer a threat, and their courage has also increased." Maybe he hadn't completely forgotten.
"The Bloodborn helped." Uriel didn't want to hear Rodenworth and the others being called bastards. "Many of them died just to destroy the Screaming Keep, which had given them half a lifetime of suffering."
Azrube was dubious. "Okay, but isn't that what it should be? They are scared to death of the Vampires, and they wish all these big mosquitoes would die." He pulled the knife off the table. "Stop talking about this, Lord Messenger, you have eradicated Screaming Castle. Please allow me to thank you for your assistance on behalf of the people of the Garden of Flowing Waters." The wizard said sincerely. "Tell me about the process. Did you go alone?" After receiving a positive response, his mood became even higher. "What an adventure! That happened last night. You weren't hurt at all, right? Look, you have your clothes and shoes intact. I knew it!"
Uriel had goosebumps all over his body. He had to tell him that he was not unscathed, but he had not become a blood descendant either. That was why he denied it. Azrube's expression suddenly changed. You would have thought that the compassion on his face could match the weeping statue. Comparable! Uriel hoped that he could share some of this compassion with other blood descendants... no matter whether those people held hoes or swords before becoming half-undead.
"You must be the best astrologer in the tower to see through the evil in the valley." Azrub's praise of others was not bad.
Uriel did not listen to his praise. "I am not an astrologer. My profession is that of a priestly knight of Gaia. When it comes to devotion to faith, I am far inferior to you, Mr. Azrub."
The next second, he saw the red light on the wizard's face suddenly disappear.
