Noble Emblem

Two arrows came through the air, but when they were close to Beta, they were directly bounced away.

"The opponent knows how to defend against arrow magic and fight in close combat. We cannot let him escape."

Four men in black rushed over one after another. Beta was not in a hurry to use magic, and then rode his horse to walk slowly to the right.

If you are an experienced player, you can naturally see that Beta is 'moving'. Just a few steps away, most of the people on the other side are on the same straight line as you.

A golden beam of light blasted away at a speed that made it impossible for people to react. The three men in black vaporized in an instant. The remaining man in black was wiped by the edge of the magic, and he and his horse were wiped out. Rolled to the ground.

He had no feeling on the left side of his body and was trying to struggle, but he had no strength left.

"How dare you go against us, we are the third princess..."

The other party's voice suddenly stopped, Beta shook off the blood drops on the golden sword, and then put it back into the mansion's magic space.

Beta took out the key to the royal tomb from his clothes and found that although the thing was generating heat, it was not generating heat on a 'physical' level, but on a spiritual level. There is a strange spiritual power in the key that affects the holder's spiritual senses.

Why is this happening? The front was fine.

Beta was a little strange and took a few steps forward. Then he found that the reaction of the square key was even greater. He looked at the two corpses in the distance and understood.

Sure enough, as he approached the 'Seventh Prince', the square key became more and more 'hot'. When he was about five meters closer to the body, the square key began to glow, shining on the body of the gorgeously dressed Seventh Prince. superior.

The transparent soul was pulled back by the light. This soul did not have any consciousness. It just instinctively ran persistently in the air, as if it was escaping from something.

The souls of ordinary people have no thoughts after death. They are essentially the remaining information of the spirit before the body. After a certain period of death, they will be led to the underworld by the power of Sophie, the god of the underworld, where they will slowly and without any thought. Painfully dissipated into the most basic elements of magic. If you want the soul after death to have the memory and thinking ability of your lifetime, you must have at least 10 points of will. Not to mention ordinary people, even many professionals cannot achieve this.

Moreover, only some special necromancy magic can extract human souls. Even Beta does not know the magic of extracting souls. At most, he can contact the sea of ​​soul consciousness during his lifetime.

But this king had the key and pulled the soul of the 'Seventh Prince' out of his body. Not only that, under the illumination of the light pillar, the soul of the Seventh Prince slowly disappeared and turned into a ball of light blue magic elements. Then he was sucked into the key.

After absorbing the soul, the square key returned to its original temperature, but on the system interface, there was an additional line of comments behind it.

Seal energy (1/5).

Gee, that’s interesting. Beta looked at the epic mission on the mission interface, and then looked at the square key. He had several guesses in his mind, and then he threw the thing into the mansion space.

Beta looked around, then flicked his fingers. The ground turned into a swamp, 'submerging' several corpses, and then the ground became hard again. There was no blood left on the ground, as if nothing had happened just now.

Beta Shi Shizhu sat on the pack horse and continued to move forward.

About an hour later, he arrived at the foot of the royal city.

All the inland cities in France have no city walls, but Royal City of France is the only exception. It has city walls, which are not high, only about six meters, and not wide, only about four meters.

In a world with high-end weapons like professionals, a city wall with such height and thickness and made of ordinary building materials has no defensive significance at all. It is more of a symbolic meaning.

This is a royal city, so... there must be a city wall.

It's probably such a unique feeling.

When Beta entered the city, several guards who almost looked at people with their noses checked his family crest and noble certificate. Even if they knew he was a noble, even if they knew he was a magician, they still looked proud and looked down on outsiders. appearance.

This is probably the feeling of 'at the feet of the emperor, I have never seen any big nobles or strong people, and a little bumpkin from outside like you is nothing.'

Bei Qiang didn't take it seriously and entered the royal city directly. The royal city was very lively, and the streets were bustling with people, making it very noisy.

The more people a city has, the more prosperous it is. This is an iron rule.

After finding a hotel to stay, he lay on the bed and rested for about two hours. Then he wandered around the streets and went to a pub for a drink. He returned to the hotel around midnight.

After taking a shower, he sorted out the collected information in his notebook and found that there was indeed an undercurrent in the royal city.

The current King of France always has seven children, four girls and three boys... If the seventh prince Beta met during the day is genuine, then there are only six left now.

After walking around the streets for an afternoon and a night, Beta didn't collect much information. After all, he didn't come into contact with the upper class of the Royal City of France, so there wasn't much useful information. But even so, it can be seen that , the current state of the Royal City of France is very troublesome.

There is a bad relationship between the eldest princess and the third princess. When they meet, they always make fun of each other and make others look embarrassed.

The second princess didn't like being a trustee very much and stayed at home every day to study magic. However, it is said that she was assassinated four times in the past year.

The third princess had a somewhat surly personality...and then the seventh prince died in her hands, assuming those men in black didn't tell lies.

The fourth prince has a cowardly character, but his family is very powerful... The daughter of the current president of the Red Magic Tower is his mother.

The fifth princess has a good relationship with the eldest princess, but she is not on good terms with the third and sixth princesses.

The sixth princess is a tomboy who likes women and leads a group of soldiers to play mercenary games every day.

The seventh prince... has died.

Beta drew several circles on the paper, focusing on the names of the eldest princess, the second princess and the sixth princess.

The fourth prince was also trapped by him, but the circle was relatively small.

There is a precedent for women to be in power in France, so the princess will also participate in the competition for the throne.

The most important thing is that the current King of France, George France, has no intention of stopping the competition among these children. On the contrary, he has a feeling of watching a drama. He is already in the council hall, He has said several times that when his king recovers, he will give it to the strongest person, regardless of gender.

No wonder the seventh prince died. A boy less than sixteen years old was killed by his thirty-two-year-old third sister.

Although the battle for the throne may not come out so quickly, Beta feels that he still has to stay here and try his luck. If another member of the royal family dies during this period, wouldn't it be a profit?

For example... a sudden death or something like that.

Beta continued to wander the streets for the next three days, and then he targeted a fat man... Count Kaller.

Count Carle is a distant relative of the royal family and has royal blood. Beta wanted to see if the key would absorb this person's soul if he died.

The reason why he was targeted was because Count Kahler was a scumbag, the kind who would kidnap civilian girls, torture them for a period of time, and then sink them into the river or bury them in the soil.

He is now in his thirties. He has killed three to five girls every year since he became an adult. After all, his hands are so red that they are turning black.

However, he was very cautious in doing things. He never touched aristocratic women, only looking for commoner women with good looks. Even though many people knew about his beastly behavior, they were unwilling to pay more attention to it.

The royal city has a population of nearly six million, and a few women every year are nothing. The ones who died were untouchables, not nobles.

After Beta kills such a person, there will be no psychological burden at all.

That night, Beta was letting Joan of Arc reconnoiter the terrain of Carle Manor from a high altitude, while outside the city, a group of professionals in white robes were digging on the ground by the roadside. It didn't take long for them to take the seventh prince to the ground. The corpse, which had begun to stink, was dug out.

"Your Excellency, we have indeed found him. He is indeed the seventh prince."

A middle-aged bald man walked up to the corpse and wiped the dirt off the seventh prince's face regardless of the smell of the corpse. After looking at the swollen face that was about to turn into a balloon for a while, he nodded and said, "It is indeed the seventh prince." Prince, what’s the cause of death?”

"Hit a vital point by a bow and arrow!" A white-robed subordinate replied: "The bow and arrow are handmade, so you can't see much."

"There's another body here."

The body of a man in black robe was dug out.

The middle-aged bald man walked over, inspected it for a while, and said: "A sword stabs the head, from the forehead to the back of the head. The sword is very sharp and the hand is very steady. The opponent is a swordsman master. But it is definitely not the habit of the known swordsmanship masters in the royal city. . You should thoroughly investigate the soldiers, thieves, and even hunters who have been in and out of the royal city in the past month to see if there are any suspicious persons."

The three people next to him took orders.

"Check more, go and report to His Majesty, and say that the seventh prince has been found, but he can't open his eyes again."

A man in white robes rode away.

The middle-aged bald man looked at the body of the seventh prince, sighed, and said, "Others, take the prince's body back to the city, wash it, put some clothes on him, and then hand it over to the guardian of the royal tomb."

"Yes." Several white robes picked up the seventh prince's body and placed it on a stretcher.

Beta had already arrived at Kaler Manor. He waited outside for about half an hour. After all the candles in the manor were extinguished, he flicked his fingers and used the fog control technique.

White mist enveloped the entire manor.

There are more than a dozen guard dogs in the manor, but their vision and hearing have been greatly affected, and even their sense of smell has lost their function. They can only smell the smell of mist.

"Damn it, why is there such a heavy fog?"

"It's not magic, there is no magic power fluctuation, it should be the rare night mist."

A manor guard holding a torch walked past more than ten meters in front. Beta didn't even have to hide, he just stood there and the other party couldn't see him.

Even if they hold torches, the effective field of vision of these people will not exceed ten meters.

Beta waited for them to pass by, then slowly walked through the garden, opened the door of the manor mansion, and walked in.

As a count, Kaler naturally invited a magician to take charge.

On the top floor of the manor, there is a small magic tower. It was originally a watchtower, but it was changed into a simple magic tower.

Master magician Anthony was doing experiments in the magic tower when suddenly thick fog seeped in from the window. He was not alert at first because there was no magic fluctuation, so he thought it was ordinary natural fog.

But soon, the density of the fog exceeded his imagination. Even if he looked out of the window, he could not see anything more than twenty meters away.

"No, very wrong."

Anthony tried to use dispersion to dispel the surrounding fog, but it didn't work.

"It's really not magic? An illusion?"

Anthony wasn't sure what he felt. If it was magic, dispersion should work.

He thought about it again, sat back on the chair and continued the magic experiment, but after sitting for a while, he felt his heartbeat getting faster and faster, and his intuition told him that there was something wrong with the mist, something very wrong.

"No..." Anthony thought of a possibility, and immediately used a slow-falling technique on himself, and then jumped out of the window.

Beta had already entered Kaller's bedroom. The fat man's throat had been slit, and blood spurted out like spring water.

Next to him, lay the naked but cold body of a young girl.

The girl's body was covered with bruises and bruises.

Kaller's face showed the same frightened look as the girl. He looked at Beta, his eyes full of begging for mercy, but Beta ignored it and looked coldly at the fat man's blood flowing out.

The blood was greatly reduced, and the fat man's body began to lack oxygen. He twisted and struggled like a fish that landed on the beach, and made a gurgling sound from the hole in his throat. After a while, all the muscles in his body began to twitch. , and finally he arched his body, his eyes almost protruding from his sockets.

His life was fixed at this moment.

Beta took out the square key from the mansion's magic space.

The key began to heat up, and the fat man's soul was pulled out. Beta thought that the fat man's soul could also be attracted, but unexpectedly, the fat man's soul actually dispersed after turning into a ball of magic elements.

The temperature of the square key begins to cool down.

"It doesn't seem possible."

Beta muttered, then jumped out of the window. Not ten seconds after he left, Anthony floated in from the window. He rushed directly to the bedroom, and then saw the dead Kale.

"No."

Because of the Mist Riding Technique, only Beta could hear this sad and angry roar. He had already arrived outside the manor. When he heard the voice, he sneered, flicked his fingers, and removed the fog-riding technique.

He returned to the hotel to rest, and then the next morning, when he went down to the first floor for breakfast, he heard that someone was already talking about Kahler's death.

Beta smiled, had breakfast, and went to the mercenary union.

Since the blood of distant relatives of the royal family is useless, the only option is to look for the direct blood of the royal family.

The sixth princess likes to play mercenary games?

This is a very good breakthrough, at least Beta thinks so.