"I said...you didn't let these people's real names be revealed? Why did you reveal it yourself instead?"
"What do you know? This is called testing. If the numbers are right, we might be able to start a new quest line right away."
"Then are you connected?"
"Maybe not."
With Duan Qing's sudden visit and greeting, the atmosphere around the pavilion fell silent for a moment. Even the imperial soldier named John who brought the two people here began to have a serious look on his face. He became unnatural as the two nobles above him stared directly down at him. Duan Qing took a step back slightly, still smiling, and then discussed in a low voice with Xue Linghuan Bingmian beside him without changing his expression. The next moment he looked up at the top of the balcony, he was talking to the man he called Hank. The gazes passed down from the young nobleman met together, and a strange prompt from the system sounded in his mind.
[...the relationship is unfamiliar, the success rate is reduced by 20%]
[The coincidence rate of conditions is 28%, start the success rate test——]
[The test result is failure. 】
[Hank Corleone chose to ignore it. 】
Ignore it...?
I thought I was going to be chopped out.
Such emotion inexplicably arose in his heart, and Duan Qing shook his head with a wry smile. After noticing that there was no movement for a long time, a certain city lord also cleared his throat and stopped paying attention to the noble man in black dress. came back: "What's your name?"
"The water is cut off by the abyss."
Duan Qing hurriedly collected his emotions and replied in a low voice: "He is a magician and alchemist."
"Alchemist?" He raised his eyebrows, and the city lord of Tanzania City began to have a little ridicule in his eyes: "I have seen the few alchemists in Tanzania City, but I have never heard of it. An alchemist like you."
"Well...these two arrived in Santerius Province just yesterday."
Before Duan Qing could give his answer, John, the imperial soldier standing in front, coughed and explained: "They claimed that they were villagers from Kalo Village in Thebilis Province and had just crossed the Gemenan River. And arriving here..."
"Carlow Village? Two adventurers?"
After looking up and down at the man and woman in front of him again, the Romlia City Lord slowly raised his lips: "It turns out he is a country bumpkin. No wonder he can even pronounce Lord Luxor's name wrong..."
"Ah, it was just a slip of the tongue." Duan Qing showed an apologetic expression; "But since this imperial soldier brother brought us here, we must have found the wrong person."
"So you want to meet Han Gu, right?" Looking at the middle-aged noble who was still speechless, the Lord of the City stood up and put his hands on his back: "What do you want to see him for?"
"There is a commission that was handed over to me by a certain villager in Carlo Village." Duan Qing replied in an unassuming tone: "The client wants me to hand over something to Master Han Gu, that's it."
"So, what is it?"
"...Sorry, the client specifically emphasized that I can only leave it to Lord Han Gu himself, so..."
"Presumptuous! This is the city lord!"
Before Duan Qing could finish his words, a guard of the City Lord's Mansion standing by the banquet table in the pavilion loudly reprimanded: "Do you humble adventurers still want to deliberately hide what the Lord of the City wants to know? "
"say no more."
Before Duan Qing could react, the Lord of Romlia raised his hand and pushed the guard back: "Forget about other people, but if it is Your Excellency Han Gu..."
"Your Excellency Han Gu, is what this adventurer said true?" He put down his hand, and as he turned around, his eyes fell on the middle-aged nobleman who had been silent across the dining table: "You have entrusted What is his mission?"
"...No." Han Gu, who was silent for a moment, replied in a low voice: "I don't know this person."
"……ha."
Letting out an angry laugh, the Romlia City Lord turned around and then waved his hand forward; "The bold maniac dares to break into the City Lord's Mansion late at night. Come on! Drive him out!" !”
"Wait, wait a minute!" Amidst the voices of the guards all around, Duan Qing, who raised his hands in the air, hurriedly defended: "I'm not a suspicious person, and I didn't come here without permission! It's this guy Brother John, and his commander, Captain Locke, introduced us, and we just - Hey, John, please help me say a few words!"
"I think you just want to drag us into the water, right? Don't you know that there have always been conflicts between the city lord and the garrison?"
"This, we'll talk about this kind of thing later, now help us save our lives..."
"……whispering sound."
As if he had been told something a long time ago, the imperial soldier named John Corner secretly pouted his lips, and then slowly pulled out the gun from his back amidst the sight of the surrounding guards surrounding him. Chang Qiang: "Don't mobilize troops like this. If the city lord really doesn't believe it, just let me take them two away again."
"You also want to be an accomplice of these two unruly people, right?" Romilia, standing above the pavilion, smiled after her success: "Your Excellency Han Gu should have made it very clear just now... Even at this time, you still choose not to believe Mr. Han Gu’s testimony?”
"As an imperial soldier, of course I unconditionally believe the testimony of the water chief." He slowly put the helmet in his arms on his head, and the fully armed imperial soldier raised the spear behind him to his body. Before: "But as John Corner... I have long since stopped believing a word this guy says."
"Are you, are you going to rebel?" The Lord of Romlia shouted loudly: "Okay, very good! The guards obey the order and get them -"
"Wait a minute."
In the tense atmosphere behind the garden of the City Lord's Mansion, the figure of the middle-aged man in black dress suddenly appeared between the two groups of figures who were about to collide. I don't know how he appeared there. Putting the politeness on his head on his head, he turned around and showed an aristocratic smile to the two parties who stopped: "Don't be anxious, Lord City Lord and this soldier of the Iwakuma Army, although I really don't know this person. , but I have no intention of punishing these two adventurers who have never met for this reason."
"It must be something these two adventurers said that convinced you, right?" He turned around and showed a smile to John, and at the same time gently pressed the spear that the other person had just raised with his hand. Go on: "It is not worth advocating to easily believe what one family says."
"I don't want to hear what you have to say." John, who became very angry for some reason, threw away his spear: "If you really want to make any excuse, then go and speak for yourself in the abyss."
"That's not possible. After all, I still have a lot of things to deal with."
Still looking like he was strolling in the courtyard, Han Gu, who had his hands on his back, ignored the various swords and guns that were standing around him: "I'm sorry, Lord City Lord, although I don't think today's conflict has anything to do with me, but this matter After all, it’s still because of me, so…”
"Farewell." He stroked his chest and saluted, and then walked towards the far side of the banquet with the two guards in black who came forward: "I hope you can still have a happy night."
"But..." The Lord of the City standing on the pavilion stretched out his hand: "But that matter..."
"If we have time, we can talk about that later."
Saying these words without looking back, Han Gu, who was wearing aristocratic attire, then reached over John's shoulders, grinned and ignored the trembling body of the imperial soldier, and rushed towards the rear section. The direction where Qing and Xue Ling Huan Bing were: "As for you two..."
"Please follow me." He withdrew his gaze: "I have something to ask you."
The guard group that gradually dispersed returned to where they were standing as the commotion ended. At the same time, they also brought the surrounding nobles of Tanzania City who had stood up because of the commotion back to their original positions, with expressions in their eyes. With surprised expressions, they then focused their attention on the figures who left one after another, as if they were using this method to say goodbye to everything that happened in the City Lord's Mansion tonight. The sound of horse hooves gradually became louder, and then a carriage slowly came to the gate of the city lord's palace. Along with it, a black-clothed guard driving a carriage came to greet Han Gu. The man who had just walked out of the gate However, he stopped in his tracks, and then raised his head as laughter and noise rang out again from the City Lord's Mansion behind him: "...We should be the only ones now."
"Can I tell you the content of the commission now?"
"You choose to believe us?"
He glanced around the street where the gate of the City Lord's Mansion was located, and Duan Qing, who had been following closely behind him, smiled when he heard the sound: "But before -"
"It was not very convenient before, but...that doesn't mean I will believe you now."
After a slight silence, Han Gu then waved to his side: "Especially when the friend behind you brings you here."
In the scene where several guards in black jumped out of the carriage and pressed forward with fists clenched, he looked at the imperial spearman who was still staring at him: "So I plan to give you one last chance."
"What is the content of the commission?" A sinister smile gradually appeared on his face: "Answer me, or... let my men throw your bodies into the Gemenan River."
"This is still not the place."
To everyone's surprise, Duan Qing shook his head and showed a different calmness than before: "If possible, I hope it's just us talking, just you and the two of us."
"Hmph." There was a dangerous light in his eyes, and the middle-aged noble's eyes turned around the silent figure of Xue Ling Huan Bing: "Lies and delays will not have any effect at this time. If there are no other excuses, If so, your luck will probably end here..."
"What a familiar expression."
He interrupted the other party's words with a sudden voice. Facing the ferocious smile, Duan Qing sighed and shook his head: "Or do you really think that I accidentally called the wrong name?"
"..."
The threatening smile on his face gradually disappeared, and his eyes returned to Duan Qing. The nobleman reached out and touched his head politely: "Azi Amoka."
"What?"
"Azi Amoka."
After repeating the name, Han Gu raised his head again and asked in a low voice: "Do you know what it means?"
"Is it... some kind of secret code?" Duan Qing reacted for a moment and then showed a thoughtful expression: "Well..."
"If I remember correctly, I have heard of this name."
He held his chin with his fingers, and then slowly replied under the slightly surprised look of Xue Ling Huan Bing beside him: "That seems to be a place name, the name of a village left over from the ancient Magic Empire period, that The village has disappeared with the destruction of the Magic Empire, and descendants have built a gateway in their location."
"A certain person once met another coachman at that pass, and was then dragged by the other party to Tania, the current capital of the Principality of Elnifia." Speaking of this, Duan Qing gradually revealed an inexplicable smile: " And this name seems to have its own meaning, I remember it was interpreted as..."
"The place where the journey begins." He showed a knowing smile: "That is, the Fool."
"……bingo."
Han Gu waved his hands to the surroundings and nodded his head slowly while staring closely at Duan Qing. Then, in the even more surprised eyes of everyone around him, he turned around and boarded the carriage behind him.
"Get in the car."
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"So you are not an Empire citizen, but an adventurer who has infiltrated the Empire?"
"No, I am indeed a citizen of the Empire."
"and you……"
"You might not believe me if I say that I happen to know these things, so... just think that I heard it from the roadside."
The creaking sound of the door being pushed open sounded in Duan Qing's ears. It was the sound that came when the carriage returning to Luxor's mansion passed through the vermilion door. This was the third time Duan saw this door. Qing then let out an involuntary sigh, and his eyes turned back to Hank in front of him: "How did you come to this place? And now you have become a noble of the empire?"
"Some tricks of the Shadow Society just helped me get an identity." The middle-aged man known as Hank replied nonchalantly: "Since you know the meaning of the code, you should also know their abilities."
"If it were another person, I wouldn't have any doubts about this kind of disguise." Duan Qing spread his hands: "But now... what are you doing here?"
"Of course it's to do something." Hank, who rubbed his shoulders, replied with an unhappy look on his face: "Besides..."
"Taking care of the person you just mentioned is also one of the purposes of my trip."
