Shameless Warlock

"Quellas? Isn't he leaving?"

Xu Nan thought of Geralt, and couldn't help but move.

"Yes, but this morning he suddenly said that there was something urgent, which was just reported urgently."

Evelyn was also a little confused.

If Quellas wanted to bring justice to Little Jasmine, then his goal had already been achieved.

After Mirren died, Little Jasmine used the blood elves to prove her Atsam heroic bloodline, so after that, no one else could interfere in the family's internal affairs.

Little Jasmine, who is backed by a powerhouse of Quellas' level, believes that she will soon be able to grasp the castle in Coldridge Valley.

"Let's take a look together?"

Evelyn simply ate some bread and eggs, and got up to leave.

It seemed that she still had great respect for Quellas, even though it would be very rude for the other party to visit rashly in any country at this time, she chose to understand and tolerate it.

Of course Xu Nan had no objection.

In fact, he was full before Evelyn poured him milk.

...

The meeting with Quellas did not choose a large reception room, but a smaller study room.

When Evelyn and Xu Nan arrived, Quellas was already waiting.

He stood up abruptly, wanted to say something, but seeing Xu Nan was there, he seemed to hesitate for a while.

"Good morning, Your Royal Highness, and Mr. Su."

The wording he used was still that of the Eastern Kingdom, not the lord of the Ice Wind Territory.

Xu Nan noticed this.

"Good morning." The two responded politely.

"I have something very important to discuss with you." Quelrath looked at Evelyn.

Evelyn winked at the yawning waiter, who hurriedly brought a pot of hot black tea.

"Mr. Su and I are very good friends. You have seen what happened yesterday, so there is nothing he cannot know."

Her attitude was very polite, but her words hinted at a bit of condemnation of Quellas' actions yesterday.

This kind of size is very well grasped, as expected of a person who grew up in the palace.

Xu Nan didn't say anything knowingly. At this time, he just needs to play the role of a qualified dog-headed strategist of Evelyn.

Quelrath was a little surprised.

He pondered for a moment, waited for the waiter to leave, and quickly dropped two enchantments of different colors.

One is [Mantra Interruption].

The other one was even more powerful, and it turned out to be [Absolutely Keeping Secrets].

The former is one of the strongest barriers for sound blocking, while the latter is the pinnacle of the barrier for keeping secrets.

It seemed that Quellas was well prepared.

Both Evelyn and Xu Nan became nervous.

Quellas shouldn't do anything to them, but what he's going to say next probably involves a lot of big shots.

Otherwise, a mantra blocking is more than enough.

Only when you are afraid of being noticed by super existences that you are discussing their names or related content, you will use [absolutely keep secrets]!

"I'm really sorry about what happened yesterday."

Quelrath considered his vocabulary for a while, and his expression was very sincere: "I really have no desire to kill Mr. Mirren..."

"This is true."

Evelyn said calmly, "I can understand your apology, but Mirren is dead."

"It has nothing to do with what happened today, right?"

Quelrath sighed: "It's kind of related."

"This morning, I received a secret letter. Someone wanted to blackmail me. Their target was the [Drum of Time] in Little Jasmine's hand, that is, the pocket watch representing the Patriarch of the Atsam family."

blackmail?

Almost at the same time that Quellas said this word, Xu Nan had already guessed a lot!

Geralt!

Did the people from the Ninth Manor really kidnap Geralt to blackmail Geralt?

Then the relationship between them is definitely not as simple as master and apprentice.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Nan speculated on several possibilities.

Sure enough, Quellas said anxiously:

"They kidnapped one of my students and threatened his life."

"If it's just this kind of kidnapping case, of course I won't come to you and ask for your help."

Having said that, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, shook his head and said:

"But that student is actually my child. I care about him a lot, but that's not the point that I'm so worried about. The point is that the person who did it seems to know everything."

"No one other than myself knew about my relationship with that student, and even he himself didn't know that I was actually his father. But the person who wrote the blackmail letter knew this."

"What I've been dreading has finally become a reality."

"Recently, not only have I been seriously misled in certain matters, but there are also people behind me who are closely monitoring my every move with detached patterns and means..."

Geralt is the son of Quellas.

The answer is a bit surprising, but it makes sense.

According to Quellas, Geralt's birth was an accident, and he didn't even know where the child's mother went and what the origin was. He didn't want Geralt to pay too much attention to these things, and at the same time, out of consideration for protecting him, he concealed the fact that he was Geralt's father.

And after so many years of experience in the Tassar Temple, he found that Geralt had no talent, whether it was divine arts or magic, or other aspects.

He's not a great professional, but a very good guy.

Geralt is very patient, meticulous and conscientious in doing things, without much desire, and is a very pure guy.

In Quelrath's view, he was not fit to fight at all.

So under the arrangement of Quellas, Geralt went to Wildfire City to be a peaceful little priest. In fact, there was nothing wrong with Quelrath's approach. Twenty years later, Geralt was still a low-level magician in middle age, and he had a good life in Wildfire City.

Quelrath thought this was the best situation.

But what he didn't expect was that for some reason, he was being targeted by people, and those people somehow found out Geralt's relationship.

It stands to reason that only Quellas knew that Geralt was his child, and he never told anyone else.

This is where Quelrath is most panicked and anxious.

Even if the other party knows such secret information, then his plan must have no chance of winning.

"I can't give them the Drum of Time."

"But I do worry about Geralt's safety."

"So I can only come to you."

Quelrath smiled bitterly: "I need something other than variables. Those guys who are staring at me may have more than legends behind them."

More than a legend!

This sentence can be lethal enough.

"Is it really a green light?"

Xu Nan muttered silently in his heart.

No wonder Quellas was so nervous.

Green Light, one of the nine giants in the shadow world, is indeed a power that is close to that of a god; although Bingfengling has many legends that can restrain him, such as the cloud-climbing monk who had seen him that day. But as long as Lu Guang wants to leave, no one can keep him.

If he was targeted by such a top wanderer, it would be easy to have trouble sleeping and eating.

...

"Your Excellency seems to have overestimated our strength."

Evelyn looked at Quelrath with some vigilance: "Besides, your understanding of legends is far deeper than those of us, isn't it?"

"This is the Ice Wind Collar."

Her meaning is obvious, even if the green light is really eyeing Quelrath, but on the three-acre land in the Ice Wind Territory, the opponent will at most give a little shock, and it is unlikely to make a move in person, otherwise the end will be like Like the eyeballs of Tungus, who was accidentally summoned yesterday, he was arrested by an old monk from the nearby neighborhood committee...

Quellas was silent for a moment, then explained:

"Of course I know that this is the Ice Wind Territory. But legendary rogues are another concept. They may come from the Shadow Realm, and the Shadow Realm has always had some secret methods."

"Although I am not afraid of the Shadow Realm and the possible mastermind behind the scenes, even if he does make a move, I can restrain him, but the problem is that I am completely on the bright side, and I think Her Royal Highness can understand me. the meaning of."

Evelyn paced back and forth in the room, seemingly thinking, but actually winking at Xu Nan.

At the same time, she replied slowly:

"What you're worried about is that he knows all about you and will count all your cards; and you are looking for us to add some unexpected chips to these cards..."

Quellas nodded, and seemed to say something inadvertently:

"Her Royal Highness is indeed intelligent, and she is worthy of being a descendant of Caesar."

Evelyn's expression remained unchanged, but she just replied lightly:

"I didn't expect Mr. Quelrath to believe the hearsay."

Quelrath was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Evelyn to answer like that, and then nodded apologetically.

Xu Nan was also a little strange, but soon he also understood what Evelyn was doing.

Judging from the dream, she doesn't seem to like the awakening of the blood mage very much, and she herself rejects Caesar's bloodline more than she likes it; she wants to take up this responsibility, perhaps more out of responsibility for the people of Ice Wind .

In the Eastern Kingdom, the legend about Evelyn Caesar's blood has always been a semi-open secret. The so-called semi-public means that because of the turmoil caused by Evelyn's mother Ulrika, many people noticed the young Evelyn.

The secret is that, under the protection of the old king, whether it is Ulrika or Evelyn, whether they have the blood of Caesar has not been confirmed.

With the passage of time, this story was deliberately weakened by the official power, and no one mentioned it, and it naturally became the so-called secret history of the palace.

Evelyn was right to dismiss it as hearsay.

On the contrary, when Quellas suddenly said such words at this time, Xu Nan felt that he was somewhat tentative.

"Did he notice the loss of control of the blood elf yesterday?"

"Actually, it's not that Little Jasmine can't control the blood elves, but because a higher-level person has awakened. The Atsam family has sworn allegiance to Caesar's bloodline, and the blood elves should listen to those who have awakened the knowledge of the blood mage. Evelyn, and Evelyn happened to be in a coma at the time, and the blood elves naturally lost control."

These things are what Xu Nan speculated after he obtained the task of [Awakening of the Blood Mage], and in a brief discussion with Evelyn, these news were also confirmed.

Obviously, Quellas also figured it out.

If he had guessed about Evelyn's identity before, he is probably even more suspicious now.

It's just that he still needs the help of Evelyn and Xu Nan for the time being, and the test at this moment is just in passing.

"I don't know what the Ice and Snow Goddess Church's attitude is towards Caesar's descendants..."

"This Quellas does strange things all day long. It's really unpredictable. Paradise Lost doesn't seem to have any information about him. It's really strange."

Xu Nan's mind was running fast.

The information that is not involved in Paradise Lost means that the other party has an extremely terrifying ability to keep secrets; and in this case, people in the Shadow Realm can actually find out that Geralt is the illegitimate son of Quellas. !

Evelyn was still consulting Xu Nan with her eyes.

Xu Nan thought for a while, and asked bluntly:

"Everything has a motive."

"I think that Quelrath's big fanfare to uphold justice for Little Jasmine is probably not so pure?"

"Just like the legendary rogue in the shadow world who threatened you... Your goal is the drum of time, right?"

Quelrath's face was sinking like water. Obviously, he had already guessed that the progress of the conversation would not be able to bypass this pocket watch.

He shook his wrist, and took out a delicate pocket watch from the pocket of his underwear.

"That's right." Quellas didn't deny it.

Evelyn is not a fool, and this Mr. Su is obviously not either.

"The Drum of Time is certified by the head of the Atsam family, and it doesn't seem to be a precious magic item."

Evelyn looked at the pocket watch with some curiosity. If there was anything special about this watch, it might be that the time was relatively accurate, but this was not unusual, as many high-end magic clocks had a similar automatic calibration effect.

This feature alone will definitely not attract the coveted eyes of great magicians and legendary wanderers.

"What I'm going to say next is the main reason why I use enchantment."

Quill Rust paused, his eyes determined:

"The Drum of Time has another function besides being the owner of the Atsam family."

"It's a key."

"This key can open a treasure trove where countless treasures are buried. I have no interest in most of the things in this treasure, but there is only one thing that I have been searching for for many years but have not found."

"I helped that poor child, on the one hand, it was indeed to claim justice, but I seemed to have been misled in the process, which led to a flaw in my judgment, which was my huge fault; on the other hand, I did I also hope to use the Drum of Time to open that treasure."

"There's nothing shameful about it. Everyone loves treasures, and everyone has their own motives. I think that strong man in the Shadow Realm also has what he wants, and it's also in this treasure."

Treasure!

Treasures of Frostwinter. Appeared!

Xu Nan's eyelids twitched slightly. The matter really pointed directly to the Frost Winter Treasure mentioned in the Lost Paradise system.

Quelrath should not have lied, but what Xu Nan didn't expect was that the clue would be so simple and direct.

The pocket watch in Mirren's hand is the key to Frostwinter's treasure.

"I have doubts." Evelyn said calmly: "If the Drum of Time is the key to an important treasure, and the previous owner, Master Mirren, is just a weak man, and he doesn't have strong guards around him, Coldridge Valley There are few people, whether it is you or the rogue in the shadow world, it should be easy to get it, right?"

This is also Xu Nan's question.

Why all the fanfare if their purpose is the drum of the hour? Wouldn't it be simple to find Mirren directly, kill people and seize treasure?

Quellas smiled wryly:

"First of all, it's useless to get the key. Only someone from the Atsam family can hold the key to truly open the treasure."

"Secondly, Master Mirren lives reclusively and spends most of his time hiding in the castle in Coldridge Valley. It is impossible to do anything outside the castle; and that castle, hehe, you may not believe it, that castle has The protection of the will of the plane!"

Xu Nan was slightly taken aback, and Evelyn was also a little dazed.

Plane will, this rhetoric may be a bit mysterious to ordinary people, but Xu Nan understands it very well.

This stuff is equivalent to plane dreams and protoss!

But didn't the plane will of the general world, that is, Lannis, leave long ago? After she leaves, will the will of the plane still take effect?

Quelrath went on to explain:

"It may be because of Atsam's bloody battle in the abyss that year, which moved the will of the plane, so the settlement of the Atsam family has been blessed by the will of the plane. If anyone dares to break in, who dares to walk in the castle Anything that harms the descendants of Atsam will be permanently cursed by the will of the plane."

"The devil lord like Tungus is naturally not afraid. He has been cursed by the will of the plane tens of thousands of times, but the people in the Shadow Realm and I don't want to offend the will of the plane."

"So we all chose to start from other angles."

Xu Nan sneered inwardly.

Just now he said it was for the sake of advocating justice, but now he said bluntly that Mirren couldn't be moved because he was protected by the will of the plane hiding in the castle.

This magician is really real enough.

To put it bluntly, is he afraid of being cursed by Lannis? It's a pity that Lanisi has disappeared now. I don't know how long it will take for the general world to re-condense and give birth to a planar will?

Withdraw your thoughts.

Judging from Quelrath's description, he may not have lied. After all, at this time, the fact that Geralt is his own son should not be a nonsense. Since he asked Evelyn, he naturally wanted to win the trust as much as possible.

It's just that he didn't know if he was hiding something.

Anyway, Xu Nan doesn't trust this guy very much, maybe he is naturally skeptical about magical arts except Qin Lele.

However, the specific decisions should be left to Evelyn.

As much as he liked Geralt, it was a matter of great importance.

Evelyn nodded and pondered for a moment:

"If you need us to take action, what do you need us to do? What risks will we take? What can we get?"

Geralt beamed a little.

Now that Evelyn said so, she naturally decided to make a move.

No matter what angle it is from, it is excellent news for him who has been calculated to be passive in every possible way by the strong in the shadow world.

"I will go to the appointment with the Drum of Time according to the time and place on the blackmail letter."

"I hope to use the power of Her Royal Highness the Princess and Mr. Su as my backup."

"The location mentioned in the letter is actually not far from the Tasar Temple where I live, but I dare not call people in this city because it has been occupied by the Blue Clothes Sect. collusion with people!"

Quelrath spoke quickly. His thinking was very clear, and he seemed to be prepared.

"As for the reward, as long as this matter is successfully resolved, I will open the treasure. At that time, I will only take one treasure inside, and you two can take the rest!"

Evelyn and Xu Nan looked at each other, both of them were dissatisfied.

This old boy is worthy of being a great magician, he is so scheming, this is purely empty-handed white wolf!

Before the treasure was seen, it began to write bad checks.

Evelyn heard another meaning, she asked a little surprised:

"Two? You mean, only the two of us are needed?"

Quellas nodded and said, "Although there are more people, the power is greater, but it is also easy to attract the attention of the rogues, isn't it?"

This is even more suspicious.

As a lord, one shouldn't put oneself in danger. With Evelyn's status, there may not be many legends under her hand, but there must be many quasi-legends. She will most likely send a few experts to help instead of Do it yourself.

Someone like Xu Nan who is a city lord but runs around playing around is an extremely rare psychopathic physique... Of course, this is also related to the fact that he doesn't have many masters under his hands, and if he talks too much, he will cry.

Quelrath ordered Evelyn and Xu Nan to take action, but it looked more like a trap for the two.

What if the so-called kidnapping of Geralt was directed and acted by the people of Quellas and the Shadow Realm?

The information that Gray got, was it that Quellas deliberately let him know?

According to the intelligence capabilities of the Shadow Realm, nothing is impossible.

After experiencing so many things, Xu Nan's ability to calculate has also grown to a certain extent.

He said decisively, "Instead of doing this, it's better to be more proactive."

"Why don't we just go to them? Find them and save Geralt before we meet!"

Quellas was obviously taken aback, he didn't seem to have considered this plan at all.

After a while, he said sullenly:

"I'm not good at divination and tracing, and the rogues in the Shadow Realm have a natural advantage in this regard. I don't think we can find their current residence."

Evelyn's eyes lit up: "Is there a clue?"

Xu Nan nodded: "Give me some time, I'll go to the toilet."

He left the room and quickly took out a newly baked note from the original treasure chest:

[Qin Lele: I found a fat sheep! 】

This was the news he received suddenly half a minute ago, and the little girl looked very happy.

Xu Nan quickly replied: Is that fat sheep of yours a middle-aged and honest uncle who looks honest and does his job but is quite likable?

[Qin Lele: Xu Nan, are you spying on me? 】

Xu Nan: Is his name Geralt?

[Qin Lele: Wow! Peeping plus tracking stone hammer! Say, do you like me, don't hide and come out soon. 】

Xu Nan: ...

Xu Nan: Where are you?

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