(I wanted to take another day off, but I got to the beginning and found that I couldn’t stop. Haha, I had to finish one thing and resume the 5,000-word guaranteed update.)
"Dudu!" A brisk trumpet sounded in the walled area of the royal city. A small convoy drove through the narrow streets of the walled area. The people sitting on the carriage waved colorful performance props in their hands and spoke rhythmically. The ground was playing cheerful trumpet music.
"Hi, everyone, the mobile circus has opened. You can watch the wonderful performance for just half a silver coin. See you there in the square not far away."
A guy dressed as a clown was jumping on the roof of the carriage, cheerfully telling the surrounding residents what they were going to do next as they poked their heads out curiously.
The carriage under his feet contained brightly colored fabrics used to hold up the circus tent.
"Half a silver coin... seems pretty good... and rare. Why don't you take your child to see it?"
"There was a traveling circus during the war? It was quite attractive. If you can't afford it, it would be nice to go see a circus performance."
"It's quite interesting. Although there are not many people, it still looks quite impressive. Go and have a look?"
The residents of the city wall area are somewhat agitated. Different from the normal residents of the royal city, the residents of these city wall areas belong to the lower class of the royal city. Many of their hard-working lives are just to stay in the royal city and find a way to thrive in this place where risks and opportunities coexist. Opportunity.
Compared to the residents of the Royal City who have long been disinterested in low-end entertainment like the circus, the residents of the City Wall District who have tried their best to survive are quite interested in this little-known but well-prepared circus. interested in.
Seemingly noticing the residents' interest, the clown who spoke loudly provided new attractions.
"If it's a child, no problem, it's free. Our circus will never be stingy with children."
Holding his red nose ball, the clown informed him of this absolutely powerful offer with a cheerful and smiling voice.
"This is indeed good. You should take your children to see it."
"Okay, the price is not expensive. It's really hard for my child to take him to see interesting things all the time. Let's take advantage of this opportunity."
"Not bad, let's go and have a look."
The residents of the Walled City District were obviously attracted by this sufficiently favorable discount.
Adults can become numb for the sake of life, but lively children who are naturally curious about the outside world will never give up their enthusiasm for interesting things.
On weekdays, there is no chance to take children to experience the dramas and other entertainment in the royal city that are much better than outside. Adults who are busy running around and working hard for life can get this opportunity to bring happiness to children. After all, he is unwilling to give up.
The circus caravan traveled to the square, which was rebuilt after the Hell Gate invasion, and took up residence in it.
The members of the circus seemed to be professionals with extraordinary powers. With the help of magic and knight power, a pretty good-looking circus performance booth was quickly built under the watchful eyes of the residents of the walled area.
"Welcome everyone, don't miss this opportunity to watch a wonderful performance. Every member of the circus has their own unique skills."
The guy dressed as a clown stood in front of the door of the performance studio. He did a backflip and loudly introduced to the surroundings. In response to his words, a ferocious-looking monster that looked somewhat similar to a lion appeared. The head stuck out from the circus gate and took the clown's head into his mouth.
The residents of the surrounding city wall area all screamed in surprise, their minds completely unable to react to this sudden scene.
"Don't worry, it's just a simple illusion. We will use this skill to bring you a performance that will amaze you later."
The monster's head suddenly split in the middle, and the clown's hand came out from the inside and broke the monster's head into two halves. Only then did the exclaimed residents of the city wall area realize that the monster's head was made of some paper products with a support inside. Yes, but for some reason it seemed so real to them.
"Wow, that's good. It's really worth the money."
"Illusion is added to the performance, and there is such a good thing? It's great."
The onlookers recovered from their panic and immediately became excited about the illusion mentioned by the clown.
You must know that adding illusions to a performance can greatly enhance the excitement of the performance, but such performances with illusions are only available in high-end entertainment venues.
It's really surprising that this circus performance that can be enjoyed with half a silver coin has such high-end things.
"Come on, everyone, the show will start soon." The clown threw the paper monster head aside and made an invitation gesture, inviting the onlookers to enter the circus performance booth.
The residents of the city wall area who were already ready to move and were looking forward to it, threw half a silver coin converted into a copper coin into a box at the door. Most of these residents, who came with children, crowded in.
However, a few of them had slightly different temperaments from the residents of these walled areas, but they were well-hidden and mixed in with the people entering. From the corner of their eyes, they were constantly observing the circus that suddenly started performing in the royal city.
The people who wanted to participate quickly entered and sat in the well-organized auditorium inside the performance booth. The stage lights had not yet come on, which seemed to arouse the curiosity of the audience.
"Click!" A crisp sound imitated the opening of a switch, and a beam of light suddenly appeared in the middle of the stage. The magic light formed was extremely bright, clearly illuminating the scene in the middle of the stage.
"Wow!" the audience exclaimed. These ordinary residents who were not professionals were shocked by the scene on the stage after the darkness faded.
I saw a strong man with his upper body naked, raising his muscular arms high, holding a huge monster with one hand.
A monster several times as tall as a man tried to tear the man apart with its sharp and long fangs and claws, but the man shook his raised arm as if playing with a rubber ball, playing with the huge monster on it. .
No matter how much the giant monster struggled and resisted, trying to turn its body over, the man shook his hand casually, and the giant monster could only lie on its belly, and its flailing limbs were no different from a coquettish kitten.
"Hey!" the man suddenly shouted, throwing the monster to the ground, "Peng!" A small explosion exploded along with the rising smoke, and the white smoke obscured everything on the stage.
When the smoke and dust fell, a small and cute little kitten appeared in the hands of the man on the stage, meowing in a sweet voice.
"sharp!"
"Wonderful!"
"Ohhhhhh!"
The audience in the stands shouted excitedly. Such wonderful performances are rare in many high-end entertainment venues. The combination of this magic trick is indeed very good.
The man on the stage bowed to the audience, and then threw the cute kitten in his hand to a little boy in the front of the stand. The little boy didn't react, but the kitten seemed to have its own ideas and "pounced" on the ground. On the boy's clothes.
"Wow!" The friends next to the little boy exclaimed. The man's meaning was already obvious. These friends were all envious of the boy's good luck and stretched out their hands to touch him. Cute kitten on boy's clothes.
"Humph, it's mine!" The boy held the kitten up high to prevent his friend's dirty hands from touching his kitten.
The children begged the boy to let them touch it, and they made a lot of noise, which made the atmosphere in the circus, which was not as quiet as those elegant places, lively, and the performance booth was full of joy.
The man also retreated behind the scenes, and a thinly dressed woman walked to the front desk.
As a huge spider head popped up from the top of the circus, a "spider thread" suddenly shot out and stuck to the woman below. Amid the woman's panic expression and the excited shouts of the audience, the woman was pulled from below. That ferocious spider mouth, a new performance has begun.
"It's not bad, huh? Kittens are cute, aren't they." Ciel nudged Edward, who was looking at him seriously, with his elbow, and whispered.
"Well, that kitten is indeed quite cute. It seems that it is indeed a circus with a very good level of performance. The level of illusions used may still be in the so-called "upper-class entertainment" that rely on the warm fragrance of nephrite to attract customers. above."
Edward took another look at the dancing girl flying up and down on the "spider web", thought for a moment and then answered Ciel.
"Then is there any special need to pay attention to this circus? I don't think there is any problem. Although being able to sneak in directly without the soldiers guarding the gate shows that they are really capable, it seems that there shouldn't be any big problems now. "
Ciel shrugged his shoulders. He seemed to be very indifferent to the entertainment venues Edward mentioned, and he also didn't care much about the circus that Sieg asked them to pay attention to.
"Feel the surrounding environment. There are magic circles used to interfere with the spirit, but there is no breath of void. These illusions are achieved by slightly affecting the soul, but it is very trace and harmless, so it is easy to ignore it, Ciel Please judge carefully."
Wang Yu, who was next to Charles and Edward, flipped a metal ring with a skull and sharp teeth on his hand, and rippled out to feel the surrounding environment.
"Really? Your senses are really too sensitive. Oh, that's right. If the hallucination has no effect on you, the scene you are watching now should be quite embarrassing, right?"
Charles asked in surprise, and then it became clear that if the hallucination could not affect Wang Yu, the performance on the stage might be very, very bad.
Wang Yu nodded. Nothing could affect his "soul", so the performance on the stage was quite embarrassing.
What was supposed to be a woman in front of him was in danger under the spider's magic web. To him, it was a coolly dressed woman tossing and turning on the rope web. There was a figure on it that looked quite realistic, but at first glance it was fake. The big paper spider head prop moves around.
The circus that Sieg informed them to pay attention to is currently performing normally. Although the performance of illusions is of a higher level than expected, it is not illegal.
It is worth noting that the circus itself, which is called "Utopia", is not sure where the organization of this group of guys is. Anyway, they usually choose some suitable times to enter places similar to "slums" in different kingdoms for touring performances. .
Although there will occasionally be simple performances, the most likely one will be a drama performance called "Utopia" at the end to promote a very utopian country.
Then there will be large-scale riots for unknown reasons. It is currently unclear how they did it. Even if these guys are wiped out afterwards, they will not be able to spit out any useful information about their organization.
"Well, there are indeed obvious mind-affecting spells. They are very small and do not involve guided mind control. They should only be used to meet the needs of illusions. This will not be their method of causing riots."
Charles sensed the surrounding environment based on Wang Yu's reminder and confirmed that those slight spell fluctuations were only to produce the illusion of assisting the performance, and were not a means to cause riots at the "Utopia" circus.
"It should be those special powers that make the city guards ignore these large convoys. It's a very strange power. I have never seen it, but it is not the power of the void."
"If the prayer communication network hadn't been able to share the mental impact of those powers to a certain extent, Night Blade probably wouldn't have been able to discover them."
Wang Yu rubbed his chin. The existence of these circuses used some kind of power to directly affect the consciousness of the city guards, making them ignore this small but still conspicuous circus convoy.
If the members of Night Blade had not divided some of these forces due to the prayer communication network and noticed these circuses that were ignored by everyone, they would not have attracted the attention of Siege and others and informed Wang Yu and others of the information.
"Whatever, there are so many messy powers in this world. It's not just fighting spirit, void energy and magic power. Astrologers use power from the stars. There are also those geodivists and the like. Who knows? Whatever power these circus guys use, it won’t be a big problem if they can be separated by the prayer communication network, otherwise only Wang Yu, a guy like you who will not be affected, will come alone."
Ciel shook his head indifferently.
"Right now, as long as it has nothing to do with the beings in Severtan, it won't be a big problem." Edward added while paying attention to the situation on the stage.
At present, "The Utopia Circus has appeared many times before the war between Severtan and Aleister, and it must have nothing to do with Severtan.
"Too."
Wang Yu agreed with Ciel's statement, and kept looking at the movements on the stage. As the performances went on one by one, wonderful performances such as connecting cannons on the head, eating flames alive, and dragon wars continued one after another. The audience cheered, although Wang Yu still looked bored.
But when the clown walked out of the stage and said that he was about to bring a surprise, Wang Yu also straightened his expression and straightened the metal ring on his finger.
"Everyone, next I will bring you the most beautiful show, the perfect ideal country. I will show you a truly beautiful world where everyone can live happily. Although it looks a bit like fantasy, I A kingdom that I believe will one day be realized.”
"Oh oh oh!"
The audience didn't know what the clown was talking about, but the wonderful performance had already aroused their emotions, and the cheerful atmosphere made them cheer no matter what the clown said.
"Then I need an audience member to cooperate with me. Are you willing?"
"Yes!" the audience shouted happily. The gifts similar to the kittens given out before made them full of expectations for the so-called cooperation.
"Okay!" The clown clapped his hands.
"Then...who is it?" With a hesitant tone, the clown looked around and looked at the audience.
"Then it's you, this handsome guy, come on!" A cheerful voice sounded, and the clown's gloved fingers pointed at an audience member in the auditorium, which was Ciel.
"Me?" Ciel pointed to his face, showing an uncertain look.
"That's right! Come on, handsome brother, the next performance will definitely not disappoint you." The clown laughed, his tone full of excitement and eagerness.
"No problem, it is indeed a normal process. Just pay attention to safety. Edward and I will cooperate with you."
Wang Yu's words were transmitted to Charles one-way through ripples, confirming that this was in line with the behavioral records of the "Utopia" circus, looking for an audience to cooperate with the display of the so-called "Utopia".
"Pay attention to safety and remember to keep in touch with the Night Sky Tree at all times to prevent being mentally affected." Edward also reminded in a low voice.
"Are you ready for your inner dive?" Wang Yu asked.
"Well, be prepared at any time. Any attempt to threaten the lives of the audience will not be effective." Edward nodded to confirm that the inner potential called "barrier" had already started operating in the body.
"Okay, I'll go then." Charles said it was okay.
"Hehe, that's such an honor. I'm here, I'm here." He scratched the back of his head sheepishly, with the same joy in his voice as before, and trotted to the bottom of the auditorium.
And Wang Yu also gently pressed the metal ring with a ferocious skull carving on his finger. The "blood-biting ring" was one of the compensations the college made to Aviya and Wang Yu last time for the bad situation that happened in the big library. .
Wang Yu took a fancy to this special magical device that was quite useless to others, but was very helpful to Wang Yu's newly discovered combat system.
The skull's sharp teeth bit into the flesh of Wang Yu's fingers, blood flowed out, and the skull's eyes glowed slightly red.
Subsequently, the blood-biting ring activated by blood opened its space gap that could only store blood. Wang Yu's still active blood continued to flow from the mouth of the skull on the ring.
Under the combined action of the bloody Stormrage Knight's secret method and ripples, the blood began to spread covertly from the gaps in the auditorium to the surroundings of the circus...
