Lord Highlander

"What's your name?" Sia asked, blinking.

"Pedro." The boy replied without hesitation. Although his eyes were a little timid, he looked at the surroundings very strangely, especially the black sea that made him extremely afraid.

Xi Ya continued to ask: "It's a nice name, where do you live?"

She flicked her long hair casually, deliberately revealing the scales on her neck and collarbone...

"Yezipias Manor, my father is a swordsman and a squadron leader there." The boy's eyes were attracted by the silver scales of Xiya.

Xi Ya asked him again: "Then can you usually play around in the manor?"

"Yes, I have been to all places in this manor." The boy said very proudly.

"Then let me ask you, is there any place where you live that your children are forbidden to go?" Xi Ya asked with some disbelief.

"There are many, such as... Earl Petunia's room, Captain Galt's office, and the basement of the manor. I heard that there were ghosts there a long time ago, and Earl Petunia ordered people to seal it up. ’” the child said afterward.

Speaking of ghosts, the boy looked a little scared.

"Then recently... are you still haunted?"

"Occasionally, I can still hear the wailing of ghosts!" said the boy.

At this time, he touched his arm suspiciously and felt the temperature. When he was about to ask, Xi Ya sang a lullaby again, the singing was soothing and melodious, and the boy closed his eyelids under the singing.

Xi Ya helped the boy to lie down on the bed, then dismissed the illusion, and nodded to Suldak.

Walking out of the boy's room and returning to the living room, the three of them sat back on the sofa and did not turn on the lights. The night had no effect on them at all.

"It seems that we have to look for that basement, maybe we can find something!" Suldak said.

Aphrodite also said at this time: "I can feel the breath of black magic. It seems that there is something here that is constantly absorbing the power of the soul around me, but the breath is very weak and very vague. Easily overlooked!"

Xi Ya asked, "If the Institute of Black Magic is really hidden in this manor, and they have not been discovered by the garrison and farmers, where do you think they will hide?"

Suldak thought for a while and guessed: "Their residence is most likely Earl Petunia's yard, or the basement under the manor, which is a huge underground building..."

"Actually, when I walked into this manor, I found a unique place here. The more I think about it now, the more I think it's worth exploring." Xi Ya looked at the excuse out of the window and said firmly.

...

"It's there!"

Xi Ya stood in the shadow of the street, pointing to the fountain in the middle of the square.

It was a very ordinary-looking fountain. In the center of the intersection, there were some rockery piled up in the center of the fountain. There was even a humanoid sculpture on it. It was a girl holding a water bottle on her shoulder. A stream of clear water flowed from the water bottle. It spewed out, soaking half of the girl statue's body, and the clear water hit the rockery, and finally flowed into the pool.

This kind of stone statue of a girl holding a water bottle can often be seen in the small towns or manors of the Green Empire, so Suldak didn't even take a second look when he entered the manor.

Xi Ya said to Suldak and Aphrodite: "Have you seen that no matter how much water flows out of that fountain, it never overflows, and that water spout is clearly the magic circle of the water gathering technique?" , that is to say, this pool must have an overflow, and the water channel is either a well or an underground river."

"Since this pool is connected to the underground river, then this underground river is likely to be connected to the basement. Of course, the premise is that the basement is large enough."

She turned to Suldak and said, "Dak, I want to search in the underground river."

"Then you have to be careful yourself."

Suldak patted Siya's round shoulders. He was a little confused now, why Siya was so eager to express herself...

Xi Ya nodded, and quickly ran out of the shadows while there was no one at the intersection.

When she ran, her steps were very light, as if she was dancing.

Then he jumped into the pool with a perfect fish leap, his body became lighter little by little, and gradually merged into the water of the pool, without even turning into a mermaid figure, and not even the slightest splash of water could be seen.

Seeing Sia sneak into the manor's water system, Suldak and Aphrodite also decided to sneak into Earl Petunia's house to investigate.

Aphrodite had concluded that there was no life in this house before, and the two sneaked into the yard. Sure enough, the rooms inside were empty, and many rooms did not even have basic furniture. It seemed that no one had lived here for a long time. It seems that the house has not been cleaned for a long time.

After exiting Earl Petunia's house, Suldak and Aphrodite returned to the opposite side of the fountain in the square at the intersection of the street again, which was the place where they agreed to meet with Sia.

Alarm bells sounded from the manor, and Suldak and Aphrodite looked at each other. It seemed that the night warrior sleeping in the watchtower had been discovered.

The lights in the entire garrison camp gradually lit up, and not long after, a group of cavalry came out of the barracks. These cavalry held turpentine torches in their hands and began to search around the manor.

Suldak and Aphrodite were sitting in the shadow of a roof opposite the fountain square. The cavalry passed by the street below the house, but no one noticed that there were two pairs of eyes on the roof watching the street below. .

After waiting for a long time, Sia emerged from the fountain, and while a troop of cavalry ran across the street, she quickly passed through the street and got into the shadows, leaving only a string of water-soaked spots on the stone floor. stained footprints.

She quickly climbed up to the roof and hid in the shadow beside Suldak, panting lightly while twisting her wet hair.

"Did you find any clues?" Suldak asked Sia.

"Um!"

He blinked his big blue eyes and smiled. Then he said:

"There is a secret room below..."

Suldak asked, "How many people are there?"

Sia shook her head and said, "There are a lot, but I don't know the exact number. I can't check all the places."

Suldak asked again: "Then have you checked the exit of that basement?"

Xi Ya nodded quickly and said, "It's not in this manor, it's on the cliff behind, next to dense bushes and valleys, it's very hidden."

Suldak said to Siya and Aphrodite: "You two are waiting for me at the exit, and I will bring the heavy armored infantry over..."

"Are we going to fight Earl Petunia?" Sia asked curiously.

Suldak shook his head, took the two of them out of the manor, and said as he walked:

"Since the garrison here doesn't know the existence of these black magicians, let's wake them up and let them know that there is a good neighbor hiding under their barracks..."

...

The three of them went around to the secret exit of the Black Magic Priory Research Institute.

There is a gurgling stream at the exit of the cave, and it seems to be surrounded by barbed wire. According to the sign outside the fence, this is the private hunting ground of Earl Petunia. There are usually some ferocious beasts in the hunting ground, which is considered to be around the manor. A forbidden zone.

Siya pointed to a rock at the exit. Even if Suldak had the 'Insight Technique', he had to look carefully for a long time before discovering that there was a magician lurking there. into one.

"This stream is the source of water upstream, and part of it comes from the fountain in the manor. I went all the way down the river and came here..."

Xi Ya hid behind Surdak and whispered to him.

Suldak glanced at Aphrodite.

Aphrodite nodded to him, and the meaning in her eyes was clearly 'Don't worry, I'll take care of her...'

Only then did Suldak run into the bushes, and quickly ran towards the camp on the other side of the mountain.

...

When Suldak returned to the camp, the bearded Edgar was still sleeping soundly in the tent.

On the contrary, the night warriors at the edge of the camp were very vigilant, keenly spotting Suldak who was trying to approach.

Edgar climbed out of the tent and immediately called all the infantry fighters to assemble. These fighters were almost all the elite troops left by the Ganbu plane rebels. They followed the bearded Edgar all the way out of the canyon town. Having passed the Battle of Bansko, defending the battle at Mukuso, and chasing the Hell Legion into the Sai Ruoman Plateau, it is the Iron Army after countless battles.

When Suldak led the heavy armored infantry regiment around the blockade of the lord's private army on the opposite side, and broke into the private hunting ground set by Count Petunia as a restricted area, the sky had already turned bright.

The heavy armored infantry regiment surrounded almost all the woodlands, valleys, and rivers under the mountains and rocks, and the lord's private army guarding beside the boundary markers discovered that this heavy armored infantry regiment broke into their house without making a sound. territory.

The cavalry were the first to return from the boundary marker. They heard that Suldak's heavy armored infantry regiment had entered the restricted area of ​​the hunting ground, so they chased them here.

Just when this group of cavalry arrived at the edge of the hunting area, they were blocked from the hunting ground by a double-headed ogre covered in black heavy armor.

The dozen or so knights who rushed to the front almost fell off their horses. These knights lay on the ground and wailed. Their horses were hit by Gulitum's huge force, and almost all of their internal organs were smashed. Blood spurted from the mouth and nose and fell to the ground. The ogre was already squatting on the edge of the hunting ground to start a fire, and was about to set up a large iron pot to cook horse meat.

In the face of disparity in strength, a group of cavalry did not dare to act rashly.

On the other side, Suldak had already led the soldiers of the heavy armored infantry regiment into the monastery research institute hidden under the mountain wall.

Because this place is extremely secretive, the garrison and farmers in the manor don't even know that there is such a hidden place under their feet, so there are actually not many black magicians and magic apprentices in this research institute.

Under the charm of Aphrodite, the magician guarding the entrance became a string puppet without even having time to issue a warning.

Suldak rushed into the cave with a group of soldiers first...