Lord of the Oasis

After hearing Kant's question, Besture did not answer immediately.

He respectfully said to Kant:

"Sir, please allow me to learn more about the information."

Kant nodded, his voice a little serious:

"Can!"

Kant knew that Bestuer attached great importance to information and intelligence.

Although Kant himself had guessed and understood the information about these nobles just now, he was not specialized in analyzing intelligence after all. In this respect, he was slightly different from Bestur.

Kant asked Bestuer for this reason.

Bestur came to the Swadian royal knight who first reported the situation.

With a serious look on his face, he asked the Swadian Royal Knight:

"Your Excellency, may I ask you to find the sleeping nobles, attendants, warriors, knights, great knights, etc. in the noble mansion. Where are they?"

The Swadian Royal Knight, after thinking seriously for a while, said:

"Lord Bestur, the nobleman, was found in his bedroom, and the attendants, warriors, knights, and great knights were also found in their resting places."

"In fact, we were all taken aback at first, thinking they were sleeping in bed."

Bestur nodded and said:

"So, have you found any traces of battle in the noble mansion?"

The Swadian Royal Knight replied without hesitation this time:

"No, we didn't find any traces of battle."

Bestur nodded:

"Okay, knight! Thanks for your answer, which allowed me to confirm some of my conjectures."

Bestur came to the Enfas Imperial Mage who answered Kant's question again, and asked him with a serious look:

"Dear Mage,

I would like to ask, can the Archmage fly? "

Bestur came from the continent of Calradia, which is not the same as the continent of Pendor, where the mages of the Ainfath Empire came from.

The power system of mages is rarely seen in Calradia.

The Ainfas Empire Mage mage pondered for a while and said:

"This score faction, if it is an energy-type or transformation-type archmage, they can fly. The archmage of the other factions do not have the ability to fly."

Bestur nodded clearly and continued to ask:

"Then, the archmage you mentioned who released the mental confinement spell in the entire noble mansion, can he fly?"

The Enfas Empire Mage said hesitantly:

"Mental imprisonment is not an exclusive spell of a certain faction. In fact, Mage with powerful spiritual power can use it."

"However, since that archmage can specialize in developing new spells of this type, he is probably an archmage of the illusion department. If he hadn't studied the energy or transformation department at the same time, he should not be able to fly. ."

Bestuer directly concluded:

"That means it might not be able to fly?"

The Imperial Mage of Ainfas nodded:

"It can indeed be said that the world of magic is difficult and obscure. It is not easy to become an archmage in any department. Even if it is achieved, it should continue to be studied in depth. Instead of wasting time on other factions."

"Therefore, it is very possible that the Archmage of the Illusion Department specializes in the Department of Illusion."

Bestul understands:

"It seems that the archmage is unlikely to fly out of the closed noble mansion."

He went on to ask:

"So, can the Archmage release a spell and then trigger it after a specific time?"

"Well, what I mean specifically is, is it possible that after the archmage casts mental imprisonment on others, let those who have been imprisoned by him perform normal activities for a period of time before falling asleep."

The Imperial Mage of Ainfas nodded:

"Lord Bestur, the situation you mentioned belongs to super magic skills - spell delay. People who can become archmage generally master some super magic skills more or less."

"Therefore, the situation you mentioned is entirely possible."

Bestur pondered for a while, and continued to ask the Mage of the Empire of Enfass:

"last question!"

"What is the strength of the archmage? Can he deal with 300 soldiers and 30 great knights in this noble mansion at the same time?"

This time, the Imperial Mage of Enfas thought for a long time:

"If it is an archmage of the summoning or evocation system, it is somewhat possible. However, the illusion system, which favors support and control, is difficult to deal with so many people at the same time, especially 30 great knights, their will is stronger. , the magic resistance to the illusion system is stronger."

Bestur nodded:

"Okay, thank you for your answer, respected mage!"

Bestur asked for some specific details to verify his conjecture, and then he came to Kant.

"My lord, I think we can lead the army forward!"

Kant listened to Bestur's questions and answers about the Swadia Royal Knights and the Enfass Empire Mage, and wanted to understand what Bestur meant. Regarding the observation of details, he was indeed not as good as Bestur.

However, Bestur is completely loyal to him, as long as he can control Bestur and let him exert his talents.

Like now.

"Tell me about your analysis!"

Although Kant made the same conjecture in his heart, he still needs to listen to Bestuer's opinion, perhaps Bestur's consideration is more detailed than him.

"My lord, according to the known clues, I judge that the people in this noble mansion are all voluntarily mentally imprisoned by the archmage. Perhaps the nobleman personally sent the archmage out of the mansion, and then ordered the soldiers to close it. The door, only to return to the bedroom and fall into a deep sleep."

Kant also had this idea, otherwise even if an archmage has the ability to imprison so many people, but those people are not wood, as long as they resist together, the archmage may not even think about successfully imprisoning one person.

Such a situation can only occur if the people in the noble mansion actively cooperate.

"The analysis makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't serve as a basis for your decision to move forward or retreat."

Bestur was refreshed and continued:

"My lord, there are only two situations in which people can be so obedient."

"One is the absolute crushing of strength, and the difference in strength is so large that the weaker party can't think of any resistance at all.

"We ruled out this situation. After all, these nobles combined are quite powerful."

"The other is the absolute suppression of status. The high-ranking person has an extremely powerful deterrent effect on the low-ranking person, even to the extent that the high-ranking person can dominate the fate of the low-ranking person with only words."

"The law of the jungle applies to the first type, but ethnic groups with a rule-based social system are often more suitable for the second type. It comes from the crushing of status and the crushing of power."

Kant interface says:

"But status and power require strength to guarantee!"

Bestur nodded and said:

"Yes, my lord, status and power do require strength to guarantee."

"But it doesn't necessarily need to be stronger than the combined force of all the low-ranking people, it just needs to be stronger than every low-ranking person. Behind the archmage who made these nobles cooperate almost unconditionally, there may be such a person standing behind him. "

"According to my speculation, he is likely to be your father, the Duke of the Lion, Cameron."