The Truth of Magic

Chapter 535 The Lord's Promise

In the end, Antinoya still did not accept the persuasion of the former coachman, that is, the old man Matthews, and left resolutely.

This also cast a looming shadow over Zhao Xu's heart.

He realized that the abilities he obtained now seemed powerful, but in fact, he had not yet achieved true invincibility in front of the real strong.

Even now, if he wants to reach the "Bottomless Abyss" or "Bator Hell", he doesn't have any spells that can be used.

Therefore, after Zhao Xu participated in the town's highest authority, the "joint meeting" for the next two days, he continued to stay on the wooden tower, flipping through a series of books on the principles of magic, and kept thinking about the five rings. The secret.

With the help of the security patrol last time, he cooperated with the scammers' internal and external actions to offend Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu, who only had the name of the lord but no "personnel authority", tore a hole in the small town's power pyramid for the first time, turning the entire security team into the Zhao family army.

It also makes people who want to get in touch, start to warm up, and come to visit this station from time to time.

There were quite a few people who wanted to watch the excitement, and they were all ready to watch the jokes of Zhao Xu, who had no talent at all.

After all, players cannot be online 24 hours a day, and sometimes they are busy, and even one hour a day is not guaranteed.

The previous National University Examination Month emptied the entire Arthur of many player crowds, and it is still vivid in my memory.

It's just that Zhao Xu may not be familiar with other departments, but he knows everything about the security team that has been struggling since crossing.

He knows who is suppressed, who has conflicts with whom, and who has been unable to get ahead.

So when he re-ruled the magistrate and gave the other party a brand new list.

The security work in the entire Falling Star Town went smoothly without even a single splash.

It also allowed Zhao Xu to continue to focus on improving his strength in his daily life.

For mages, each ring corresponds to a floor, and mages are like being blindfolded, relying on their own strength to find the stairs in the dark.

Some people were lucky and found the corresponding stairs directly.

If you are unlucky, you may have to explore most of the floors before finding the entrance to go up.

And Zhao Xu was the lucky one who took the elevator all the way to the fourth floor.

But now, he is also afraid that if he continues to mess around like this, he will be even more blinded when he reaches the bigger floors above.

Therefore, he became more cautious about the principles of these spells, thinking bit by bit.

Suddenly, there was a rush of gongs and drums from the sentry tower at the city gate.

The rhythm made Zhao Xu, who had read the code table, realize that it meant that people were dead, and there might be a lot of them.

Zhao Xu stood up suddenly from the wooden tower and looked towards the city gate, only to see that the beacon fire was already burning there.

This is a signal of breaking the city level.

Realizing that the situation was serious, Zhao Xu stuffed the spell book in his hand into his backpack, jumped over the tower and jumped down, triggering the "Feather Falling Technique" by the way, allowing him to land smoothly.

The surrounding construction personnel were stunned.

"Vivian, you watch here, Cyrus, you and I go see what's going on." Zhao Xu shouted directly.

Then he sacrificed the three-ring spell of Phantom Horse.

A large, semi-real horse-shaped creature instantly appeared under him, and the four horseshoes were as insubstantial as smoke.

Zhao Xu pulled the rein of the horse and pulled it, and the phantom horse also activated the "flying" ability brought about by the 14th level caster level, pulling it up to a speed 8 times that of a human, and galloped away like before.

And White Dragon Serus, since he cooperated with Zhao Xu to pretend once in Falling Star Town, let the town spread the legend that the lord can control the dragon.

After all, compared to the young dragons and cubs who are still alive in the countryside, the white dragon Cyrus, who has lived to his prime, can be regarded as possessing the ability of "dragon power", and he can be regarded as being on the edge of a "giant dragon". .

Shishu can cast terrible spells, and the town's higher-ups can only take it for granted.

But when Zhao Xu was able to subdue a giant dragon, it meant more.

Even the magic pet that a sorcerer should have was never seen by Zhao Xu.

Let everyone doubt the possibility of the white dragon.

Many people reconsidered their relationship with Zhao Xu on the spot, which also allowed his personnel reform to proceed smoothly.

Satisfied with this result, Zhao Xu was not stingy with giving Bailong "salary" to make Cyrus work harder.

After a while, Zhao Xu and Serus rushed to the gate of the city, only to see a militiaman in simple cloth armor crying loudly.

Zhao Xu immediately remembered what was going on.

The recent ice and snow have receded and slowly melted away, and the grazing in early spring is coming soon.

Therefore, after Lu Qi, the new sheriff of the small town, asked him for instructions yesterday, he organized the outstanding young adults in the small town to come out and practice before the spring planting, which can be regarded as their labor tax.

In other words, these militiamen who are not included in the establishment of the security forces will organize two training sessions every year before spring plowing and after autumn harvest to maintain their basic combat effectiveness.

They are Arthur's version of "reserves".

Naturally, these people are not needed for daily small town security, city defense, and mine security.

They are ordinary peasants and craftsmen, but in times of crisis, when the town needs to be defended, and when Winter City fails to provide timely assistance, they are the last "new force".

The militia training process is also a talent selection.

In the previous life, the Black Dragon's attack on Falling Star Town not only ruined Zhao Xu's family, but also exhausted the temporary militia formed in the town. In that month, no less than a hundred families held funerals.

Looking at this scorched and scruffy militia boy at this moment, Zhao Xu immediately realized that something was wrong.

Something happened, but he was the only one.

At this time, many important figures in the town have arrived one after another.

"What's going on?" The mayor asked urgently in an instant, and his grandson also joined the militia service this time.

However, the militia boy who had just been drawn into the team today, seeing these big men who would be entertained by his blacksmith father with the most valuable food in the house when he came to his house on weekdays, couldn't help feeling more nervous, and burst into tears on the spot.

"Why are you crying? I'm asking you something!" The financial officer with a goatee became even more annoyed. His daughter had just been engaged to the mayor's grandson, so how could he ever want to make such a fuss.

It's just that his questioning got him a louder cry.

Thinking of the urgency of time, and seeing the angry eyes of these big men when the blacksmith came, he almost raised the hammer in his hand and beat his son.

Only the boy's mother, who was wrapped in a thick animal skin to avoid being burned by the fire, hugged her child tightly, trying to comfort him, but couldn't stop her emotions for a while.

"Relax!"

After Zhao Xu shook his head, he waved the staff around him and cast the second-ring spell.

In an instant, with him as the center of the circle, everyone within a full six meters felt a stable and peaceful force, and the restless emotions in their hearts gradually calmed down.

Whether it was the thought of wanting to blame, or the voice of the boy crying, they all weakened a little bit.

"Is this the magnificence of magic? It's so amazing."

"As expected of the lord, no, it should be called the chairman."

"I have never felt so relaxed and comfortable in my heart." Those who were emotional even closed their eyes, as if they were feeling it.

For this kind of rainbow fart, Zhao Xu's ears automatically filtered most of it.

The spell of peace of mind is originally used to suppress the state driven by "emotions", such as counteracting the effects of blessing, poet's singing, and barbarian rage.

Inner peace, on the contrary, is an additional additional effect.

At this moment, the young man also started to cry, and said: "Today, Chief Lu Qi took us and said that we would go to the field to practice first, to check our physical fitness and teamwork, and it turned out that we were on our way to Tiger Gorge."

As he spoke, the young man showed a horrified look, and choked up, "Then suddenly a group of monsters appeared, so scary, they were a bit like dragons, flapping their wings, but with three heads, they could spew out various mysterious energies , there is poisonous gas as well as lightning and flames.”

"Officer Lu Qi and the six or seven coaches who protected us passed out at once, and then these monsters took my companions away. At that time, I was caught by the trap set by Chief Lu Qi because of execution, and I fell into the pit escaped a catastrophe."

"Three heads?" Suddenly the faces of several town executives turned pale.

"Chimera, challenge level 7 monster." Zhao Xu explained.

"What can we do about this?" the parents of a missing militiaman who rushed over immediately after hearing the news wailed.

Zhao Xu recognized the other party as a clerk from the government affairs department, but unexpectedly, he also placed his child in the militia.

It seems that everyone is sure that he will clean up the power structure of the entire town next time.

And there must be someone to fill the position, and he will naturally be very likely to choose from the militia system managed by his direct descendants.

Naturally, these well-informed families also exerted their strength early on.

This is also the helplessness of the magistrate who is alone in power.

Because no matter how they change staff, they will find that as long as they are promoted locally, those who come up will have all kinds of devious relatives.

But Zhao Xu, who had the backing of future Earth traversers, naturally didn't care about this.

However, as the leader of the entire security system, he did not expect that the security officer Lu Qi, who had been promoted by himself for only two days, was attacked and disappeared.

Even among this batch of missing militiamen, those who can be included in the list have some backgrounds.

If they were all dead, it would be enough to shock Falling Star Town, and it would directly affect his prestige.

It was like slapping him in the face.

"My lord, you have to save my child." Immediately, the clerk at the mayor's side ran over, bowed and begged him, "My wife is only looking forward to seeing that kid get married, so she hangs her breath. , if something happens to him, our whole family will definitely be ruined."

"Yes, my lord, please." Another mother, who stood farther away, even knelt down to him.

Zhao Xu also quickly signaled his subordinates to help him up.

It has to be said that as he incorporated the entire security force, the security force basically became his direct subordinates, and he could order with a single word, without detours, and he could only achieve it by making requests to the magistrate.

Because, he is the "final boss" who controls the future of these people.

"How did you run so far on the first day?" Zhao Xu asked.

Standing aside at this time, Khaki, who was in charge of the security team's documents, said awkwardly: "Because the deputy chief Qingqiu suggested that we adopt their 'ice-breaking journey' in the earth world, and use unity and cooperation to eliminate everyone's strangeness, so we arranged a training session first. "

"I didn't expect that such a powerful monster as Chimera would suddenly appear in such a short distance." As he spoke, Khaki's face became tangled. One of the militiamen was also his nephew. At this time, he didn't know how to get there. Confront your own sister.

Zhao Xu also looked embarrassed. Lin Qingqiu was his direct subordinate in his previous life, and he was also a powerful warrior.

Originally, the opponent's upgrade speed was quite fast, but unfortunately, the five resurrection stones were used up a few months before the time travel, and in the end he had to start a new account, so after the time travel, although the level was almost the same as Zhao Xu, but because the relationship behind him was not strong enough, he still succumbed to him under.

In this life, Zhao Xu knew that the other party was a reliable character, so he gave him the position of deputy magistrate, but he didn't expect something to happen.

"What about him?" Zhao Xu asked.

"Officer Qingqiu has gone out to look for it." The document replied.

Zhao Xu also nodded. He dared to go alone to find a group of chimeras who challenged level 7 alone. It was indeed courageous. If something happened, he would be able to protect them.

But since Zhao Xu appeared, basically everyone was looking at him, waiting for his idea.

Power corresponds to responsibility. He can call a group of younger brothers. Naturally, when something happens, these younger brothers will have to watch his face.

"Kaqi, you first pick a group of brothers who are quick-responsive, quick-witted, and have tracking experience, and go to Tiger Gorge first."

"Lord, these chimeras can fly, so I'm afraid it's hard to find them." Khaki struggled, "let alone me, we haven't heard of any chimera lairs nearby."

Hearing this, everyone also came to their senses, somewhat realizing that those young militiamen who were taken away were in danger.

Creatures that fly away will not leave any trackable traces on the ground at all.

This is like killing people in the snow, but without footprints, there is nowhere to check.

"I'm not asking them to go find the Chimera, but to see if there are any other youngsters like this one who survived and hid."

After hearing this, a mother cried bitterly: "My lord, what about our children?"

It's your child, not ours.

Zhao Xu silently corrected himself.

"Don't worry, I'll find the chimera's lair myself," Zhao Xu said.

The document card was worried that Zhao Xu's work was useless, so he struggled and said, "My lord, there is no record of Chimera appearing in this town before."

Since he took over yesterday, he has been looking at the file records, so it is very clear.

However, Zhao Xu shook his head, "Why do you think they want to take away these militiamen, or keep them alive?"

Khaki shook his head when asked.

"It's because there is a nest, so I have to take it back and keep it as rations." Zhao Xu explained.

As soon as these words came out, the parents of several militia boys burst into tears on the spot.

"Don't cry, I'll bring them back."

As Zhao Xu said, he tugged on the reins of the Phantom Horse, "As long as you live, there will be no one left."

"This is a lord's promise."