Miss Witch, please respect yourself

Chapter 123

Chiling Town, entrance.

The guarding soldiers checked the pass certificates of Reid and the others, and after confirming that there was no problem, they let them in.

People in this era, except for the nobles, must have a pass certificate if they want to enter the towns of other lords.

The essence of the pass certificate is a guarantee provided by a noble lord for the passer-by. Once something happens, the noble lord as the guarantor will also bear joint and several liabilities. Therefore, unless it is necessary, few lords will issue pass certificates for others.

Of course, this is also to minimize the circulation of people - because once people circulate, the number of people engaged in agriculture will decrease, and the food production will decrease, and the inflow of foreign population will easily bring about factors of instability.

Without a pass, the citizens who fled from the local area would not be able to enter other towns. It could be said that they were close to death in the wild. Therefore, if they really couldn't survive, otherwise, no citizens would choose to defect from the territory.

Under the leadership of a Chiling manager, Reid and his party headed for a hotel in Chiling Town.

Generally, merchants who came to Red Ridge to buy grain did not receive this kind of treatment, but Reid, as the Bronze Horseman, and with a ferocious animal tied to the trailer behind him, naturally received a warm reception from the steward.

"Mr. Harrison, your patrol team travels so frequently?"

On the way to the hotel, the grain purchase team encountered two waves of patrolling knights. Even though they were led by the steward, they were still interrogated. This surprised Reid, so he asked the steward of Chiling beside him.

Harrison is a middle-aged man with a long beard, wearing a black hat, and a cheerful smile on his face.

Facing Reid's question, the smile on Harrison's face became more bitter, and he sighed:
"Mr. Reid must have heard about the banditry around Chiling. Two days ago, these bandits even stormed the granary in the city and stole a lot of food."

"A large number of soldiers and official knights were stationed around the granary, but that night, a fire suddenly broke out in the town, and most people rushed to fight the fire, which led to the attack on the granary and the defense failed."

"Later, after investigation, it was found that bandits had infiltrated the town and brought in a large amount of combustion aids through unknown means, which led to the fire."

"In order to prevent such incidents from happening, the lord ordered a strict investigation of the whole town, and the vigilance has been greatly increased."

"So that's the case." Reid nodded, his expression unchanged, but there was a trace of suspicion in the depths of his eyes.

It's not the first time he has come to Chiling, and he has bought grain here before, so he has some understanding of Chiling's situation.

As a grain production area, Chiling has two large granaries, which are located three kilometers away from the lord's mansion. Logically speaking, even if the territory caught fire, most of the knights rushed to fight the fire, resulting in an empty defense force. As the lord of Chiling The Bronze Knight had time to rush to support.

With the strength of the Bronze Knight, this distance is not more than two or three minutes.

And in two or three minutes, even if the granary was opened for the bandits to move, how much could they move?Thinking about it further, the speed of the bandit team carrying a large amount of food has been greatly reduced, how could it be possible to escape?

There are too many doubts.

But Reid didn't get to the bottom of it.

Whatever the real situation was, it didn't have much to do with him.He just brought the grain purchasing team to buy grain, as long as Chiling could sell the grain, he didn't want to intervene or interfere with the rest.

After bringing the grain purchasing team to the hotel, the steward of Chiling politely said some polite words, and then left.

It was getting late, and the faces of the food purchase team were all tired, it was not the time to discuss business matters.

After being greeted by the waiter in the hotel, the knights of the food purchasing team soon settled down. Except for some knights who were watching the night, most of them took their rooms back to rest after eating and bathing.

Reid stood by the window and released the carrier pigeon in his hand.

He wrote everything he had encountered so far in the letter and told Roy.

The speed of the carrier pigeon is not fast. It takes half a day to fly back to the Black Stone collar, but it is much faster than the speed of the entire grain purchase team.

Looking at the Red Ridge where the flames flickered faintly in the night, and thinking about what happened during the day, for some reason, Reid felt a faint sense of uneasiness.

It was as if there was a pair of eyes staring straight at him in the dark.

"call……"

Taking a deep breath, Reid turned around and sat down on the bed. He stretched out his hand and touched the high-purity magic crystal inside through the clothes.

Since Mr. Roy gave him this high-purity magic crystal, Red felt that his talent in the knights was completely different.

In the past, when he was practicing the breathing method, it was like a very narrow and cracked container filled with water. No matter how hard he tried, the opening of the container was only that big, and only a little water could flow in in a relatively short period of time. In the process of filling water, it is also necessary to consider whether the container will be broken.

But now, with the high-purity magic crystal, the cracks on the container were gradually repaired, and the opening of the container became larger.

In just a few days, Reid felt that his fighting spirit had grown stronger. At this rate, he was confident that he could reach the Bronze Peak within two months, and break through the Silver rank within half a year!

This is the radical change that the high-purity magic crystal brought to a knight!

Thinking that the realm of silver, which he didn't dare to hope for in the past, has become within reach, Reid cheered up, and seized the time to practice the breathing method.

Now he is too weak.

Mr. Roy's talent is so high that he has never heard of it, and the rapid improvement in strength is far beyond his imagination.

Red knew very well that no matter how hard he tried, he would never catch up with Lord Roy, but at least, he wanted to see Lord Roy's back on the way forward.

……

South of Chiling Town, in a densely wooded hilltop cave.

The two figures stared at the screen of a square silver-white metal device in front of them through the light-emitting device hanging on the top of the cave wall.

Several pictures were displayed on the screen, one of which was a hotel with faint candlelight in the night.

"Black Stone Collar..."

After a moment of silence, one of them spoke in a low voice.

His voice was very hoarse, as dry as the rubbing of unlubricated tracks.

"Experiment 003 was captured by the Blackstone collar. According to Regulation B-023, it must be taken back, and at the end it must be destroyed."

Another voice spoke, she was standing behind the man, her voice was obviously a female voice, unusually cold, without any emotion, like a robot reading out instructions.

"I know, but the question is how to get it back." There was a little anger in the man's voice: "Who would have thought that the experimental subject 003 would suddenly lose control and run out to attack passers-by, and luckily met the team led by Blackstone, that The leading knight, who was able to take down Experimental 003 so easily, is only three-star bronze in strength, so with those trash, he probably won't be an opponent."

"Then let's take action." The cold female voice sounded again: "The existence of the experimental subject must not be exposed."

"All members related to it must die."

"You know the consequences of violating the regulations."

"Violation of regulations..." Hearing this word, the man fell silent, and after a few seconds, he gritted his teeth: "Then do it."

"After destroying Experimental Subject 003 and those related personnel, we immediately fled from this place and destroyed all leftovers."

"Although the technology of the Glory Empire is very backward, its top powerhouses are extremely terrifying. Once our traces are exposed and they attract their attention, we will be in trouble."

"When do you start?"

"When they leave tomorrow, the action should be as quiet as possible. We will divide into two groups. I will deal with the people from the Blackstone collar, and you will deal with the insiders in Chiling and destroy the experimental subject 003. The bird has already marked it. It has to be done quickly so no one finds out."

"can."

……

Black Stone Collar, the lord's mansion.

Roy sat on a cushion in the courtyard, practicing the breathing method of flame.

In the corner of the courtyard, Shanika in a black and white maid outfit was lying on the stone table. While lightening the weight in front of her, she turned her head and stared at Roy, who was practicing with his eyes closed. His eyes were slightly divergent, and a sweet, With a silly smile, the whole person is like a ripe peach, full of tenderness and beauty.

Lilia stood in the shadow of the corner and glanced at Shanika.

For some reason, she always felt that today's Miss Shanika was a bit strange, and it seemed that she looked more attractive.

The girl's sixth sense made Lilia faintly feel that something happened.

Pursing her lips, Lilia, who felt a little depressed, simply closed her eyes and began to practice the "basic meditation method".

With the strength of the witch's apex as the foundation, she practiced the "basic meditation method" very fast, and now three runes have been imprinted in her body.

As long as the nine runes of the first stage are engraved, she can start to break through the "crown position"!

For the "crown position", Lilia is extremely eager.

If at the bottom of the star lake in the past, she had the foundation of the "crown position", then with the help of the "Dark Moon Seed" given by the great moonlight witch Ms. Cecil, she can even exert the strength of a false great witch.

In that case, the Cang Horned Moon Wolf King Xiaoxue summoned by her blood sacrifice could even descend in real body for a short time!
The legendary king creature in the shadow world is as strong as the legendary peak, and even faintly stronger.

If he can descend in real body, he will definitely defeat the legendary three-star knight Sima of Yafeng!
Lilia never wanted to feel the despair of not being able to protect Lord Roy in the face of a strong enemy!

With the proficiency of the "basic meditation method", all the witches have also started to practice the runes one after another.

Among them, Ai Si has the fastest speed, and now she has engraved six pieces.

And Yi Lianna and Vivienne are the slowest, and they have just completed the engraving of the first one.

As for Miss Shanika... To be honest, Lilia didn't understand it very well.

In her eyes, Miss Shanika didn't have much time to practice, but she actually engraved one more rune than her.

This made Lilia feel a sense of urgency.

As Lord Roy's guard, she is defined as a "combatant", if her magic power is not as good as a logistics "nanny" in the end, she will feel extremely ashamed.

You have to work harder to practice!

On the eaves of the courtyard, Ai Si stood quietly, the cold moonlight shone on her body, as if she had been covered with a veil, like an elf under the moon.

"Floating..."

At this moment, a pure white carrier pigeon flew from afar.

Seeing the small mark on the pigeon's wings that belonged to the black stone collar, the cold current on Ai Si's fingertips slowly dissipated, watching the pigeon land on the small tree branch in the corner of the courtyard.

"call……"

Feeling the movement, Roy let out a breath, and stopped practicing the flame breathing method.

He slowly opened his eyes, and the red-golden flames flickered in his pupils.

Feeling the vigorous fighting spirit in his body, Roy's eyes were full of joy.

After the basic emptiness problem was over, he was finally able to raise the upper limit of his fighting spirit without any scruples.

And with the flame breathing method of [Explosive Flame] and [Extreme Blossom], Roy's specific actual combat ability is still uncertain, but the effect of practice is far superior to before.

After a day of practice, Roy's grudge strength has increased from the first silver star to the top of the silver star, which is 89 points, and if he increases by one point, he will enter the silver peak level.

At this point, Roy had to stop his grudge practice.

He had a hunch that once he directly ascended to the silver peak in a short period of time, he would once again enter the situation of vain foundation.

Therefore, he decided to suppress his vindictiveness, and planned to find Lilia to continue the actual combat training tomorrow to consolidate his foundation.

The flame breathing method with the [Extreme Blossom] trait has been added to further improve the purity of Roy's battle qi. Although limited by his shallow attainments in [Extreme Blossom], the increase in purity is not much.

But the purity of this thing, every time it is improved, the improvement of strength is very large.

Therefore, Roy can feel that compared to himself before mastering [Extreme Blossom], at the same level, his combat effectiveness has increased by at least [-]%!
This is already a very scary data.

When the attainment of [Extreme Blossom] is improved later, this level of increase will be further improved!
Compared with the improvement in the purity of battle qi, the breathing method of inflammation with the characteristic of [Extreme Blossom] added, and the nourishing effect on the body exceeded Roy's expectations.

To describe it numerically, a single [Explosive Flame] trait, the upper limit of the body that can be nourished at the Silver stage is 10, then, the new [Extreme Blossom] trait, with the dual-trait Flame Breath, the body that can be nourished at the Silver stage The upper limit reached 12!
The improvement of physical fitness is not linear. To a certain extent, every point of improvement is an earth-shaking change.

Although the difference between 12 and 10 is 2, it is extremely easy for a knight with a physique of 12 to fight two knights with a physique of 10.

The gap between the purity of fighting spirit and the strength of physique is the key to the knight who has mastered the breathing method of flame after mastering [Extreme Blossom], and his combat power is far superior to that of the same level!

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Roy turned his attention to the carrier pigeon on the branch next to him.

This was an agreement between him and Reid, and he reported the situation through carrier pigeons every day.

Lilia's Shadow Crow cannot be too far away from her body, and the same is true for the Sound Transmission Conch, so she can only use such a relatively primitive method.

As Roy raised his hand, the carrier pigeon flapped its wings and flew onto his arm.

After taking out some special food to feed the pigeon, as its reward, Roy took off the letter paper tied to the pigeon's leg and started to read it.

(End of this chapter)