Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 210 Persuasion (4000 words)
The easiest way for Rhodes is to burn all the soldiers' corpses with oil, but this will definitely make him the public enemy of all Nords.

Whether they believe in the Holy Spirit or not, all Nords believe that the bodies of the Nords should be buried instead of burned. This will make their souls find no home, and they will be roasted by the flames of the Dragon God and tortured forever.

It really takes courage to do such a thing that is not understood but will be hated by countless people. Rhodes feels that he does not have this kind of courage now, and he can escape from this fortress, regardless of their life or death.

Rhodes decided to find the Nord wearing black keel armor first, to see if he could be persuaded, if not, he had to rely on himself.

He rode into the castle wall and was stopped by several Nord soldiers in front of the castle hall. The second and third floors of the castle were burned, but the hall on the first floor was not affected.

"You can't go in, His Majesty the King and His Excellency the Duke are resting inside." A soldier stared at Rhodes and said.

"I have something very important to tell them. It is related to the lives of 10,000+ people in the fortress." Rhodes felt that it would be better to talk to him directly after hearing that the king of Nord was inside. If he could convince the king, the king Give the order according to what Rhodes said, then the plague should not break out.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying?" The soldier pointed his sword at Rhodes, and a large group of soldiers behind him drew their weapons and looked at Rhodes.

Rhodes was hesitating whether to rush in directly, or find a different way to get in.

If he rushed in directly, he would definitely be regarded as an assassin, and he would be killed without even giving him a chance to explain.

Finally he turned his horse and ran in the direction of Gilbert's grocery store.

Rhodes decided to ask Gilbert first to see if he could prepare some potions that could cure diseases, and then he took the risk to sneak into the castle through the secret passage.

He came to the backyard of the grocery store, tied up the horse, and climbed in through the backyard wall.

Arriving at the door of Gilbert's room, Rhodes patted on the door after seeing that it was locked.

"Open the door quickly, I have something very important to tell you." Rhodes shouted loudly.

It didn't take long for the door to be opened, behind which was Gilbert with two dark circles under his eyes.

"What do you want me to do so early?" Gilbert yawned.

"Will you prepare potions for treating diseases?" Rhodes asked as he walked into the room.

"Different medicines can treat different diseases. Which disease medicine are you asking?" Gilbert asked while sitting on the bed.

"It can cure the plague." Rhode blurted out, and then felt something was wrong. Plague was a general term, not a specific disease. Smallpox and plague belonged to plague.

"The plague is God's punishment for killing each other..." Gilbert was interrupted by Rhodes before he could finish speaking.

"Do you still believe in God?"

Rhodes pointed to a rotten orange on the table in the room. Green penicillium grew on the rotten part of the orange.

"Do you know which kind of potion used that kind of penicillium?" Rhodes asked.

Gilbert turned his head and looked at the rotten orange that he had forgotten to eat all the time, and after careful consideration, he replied, "I seem to have seen a potion that uses that thing as the main ingredient, and the other ingredients are used as auxiliary materials. To neutralize it, but that kind of medicine is not oral, it needs to be injected into the body, and there is a certain mortality rate, but it can treat almost all diseases."

"Can you make the potion you mentioned with the materials here?" Rhodes asked hastily.

"How much do you want? Even if you want to configure a dozen bottles, I have enough materials here." Gilbert replied.

"A dozen bottles is too little. If one bottle is used for one person, at least 10,000+ bottles are needed." Rhodes replied.

"Are you trying to exhaust me?" Gilbert looked at Rhodes with wide eyes in disbelief, "You can do the math yourself, even if I can prepare a bottle in a second, I need to work dozens of times in a row." It takes only an hour to prepare so many, and I have never made this kind of potion, no matter how genius I am, it will take at least a few attempts to prepare a bottle."

"Okay, let's start first, make as much as you can, every bottle you make can save a person's life." Rhodes patted him on the shoulder.

He threw Gilbert a few gems, "If you don't have enough materials, go to another grocery store to buy them, and if you don't have enough money, tell me."

"That's enough. For your sake, I'll take care of my neighbor's business." Gilbert said after putting away the gems.

"I'm leaving first. If I don't come back tomorrow, you can take the money and leave this fortress quickly. If you see a bald Nord with a height of more than two meters holding a giant axe, take this potion Give him a bottle." Rhodes thought about it and threw a few gems to Gilbert.

Gilbert looked at Rhodes suspiciously and nodded.

Rhodes jumped out from the wall of the backyard, and then he rode his horse and ran towards the cave outside the city.

After arriving at the cave, he walked in along the cave with ease.

It didn't take long before he arrived in the cellar of the castle, and he burned all the cellars that were originally used to store grain.

If he knew that the Nords broke through the castle in one night, he would definitely not choose to burn the food.

Rhodes opened the door and walked out. He found that Baron was sleeping soundly on a bed for the servants in the castle. Rhodes chose to shake him awake. For some reason, he felt a sense of revenge success .

"Why are you here?" Baron asked in a daze.

"I have something very important to discuss with the King of Nord." Rhodes replied.

"Is it about your title? He promised me to give you a count and a good territory..." Baron snored again as he spoke.

Rhodes felt that what Balon just said might be a dream, how could he know the king of Nord, so he shook him awake again, "It's about the plague, so many people died in this war, if it is not handled properly, it is very likely A plague will break out, and by then all the people in the fortress will die. Do you still remember the necromancer, he specialized in the study of the plague, and wrote it in his diary. Moreover, the fortress is damp and airless, making it particularly prone to plague outbreaks."

Baron woke up completely halfway through listening to Rhodes' words.

He sat up abruptly and said, "Come on, I'll take you to meet someone, and you'll tell him how to prevent the outbreak of the plague later."

Rhodes followed Baron to a room. Baron didn't knock on the door, but kicked the wooden door rudely.

A gray-haired Nord in the room was awakened by the sound of Baron breaking the door. He sat up and stared at Baron angrily.

"We have a very important and urgent matter to tell you. It is related to the life and death of 10,000+ people in the fortress." Baron said.

"What's the matter? The reinforcements from the Roman Empire have arrived? Or is there a dragon flying?" the gray-haired Nord asked.

"Come on." Baron glanced at Rhodes behind him.

"We need to clean up the corpses in the fortress, burn the ones that can be burned, and bury the ones that can't be burned as soon as possible, otherwise it may cause a serious plague." Rhodes said.

"Are you sure?" the gray-haired Nord asked, staring at Rhodes.

"Even if it doesn't cause the plague, it will need to be cleaned up sooner or later, or you will let them pile up there to rot? Don't you think it stinks? Or are the people there accustomed to that smell?" Baron told the gray-haired Nord People are speechless.

Baron was a little angry when he saw the gray-haired Nord. If he hadn't diverted most of the energy from his body just now, the Nord would never have had the chance to freeze him.

"Don't be so excited, I'll let someone clean up those corpses." The gray-haired Nord blocked his ears.

After hearing his words, Rhodes and Baron left the room.

"Who is this person?" Rhodes asked.

Baron froze for a moment. He suddenly realized that what he just did was wrong. If that person's true identity was revealed, Rhodes would definitely wonder why he knew such a person, and he was able to talk to him with the attitude just now. Then Rhodes might think of his life experience.

"A friend I met during my adventures before, he returned home and inherited the title like Jon, and he was able to talk in the army." Baron scratched his bald head. People who have known him for a long time will involuntarily talk to him like that."

Rhodes heard that Baron was lying, but felt that there was no need to expose him. He would not believe that everyone dared to talk like that gray-haired Nord who was as strong as a bear, and that gray-haired Nord was still the same. aristocrat.

He has always been aware that Baron is hiding many things from him, but he also has many things from Baron.

What Rhodes is worried about now is that it will take a certain amount of time to deal with these corpses, and he doesn't know if a plague will break out during this time.

He thinks the most sensible thing to do is to burn all the remains of the corpses on fire. The high temperature of the flame can also kill most bacteria and viruses, but the tradition of the Nords does not allow them to do so, and he doesn't know how Huaxia Let those most people can accept cremation.

"I'm going back to sleep first. I haven't slept well for the past few days." Rhodes said to Baron. Seeing that the previous plan had been completed, he decided to go back and see how Gilbert's medicine was prepared.

"Just rest here, there are still many spare beds here." Baron said.

"No need, I still have some things to deal with when I go back." Rhodes followed Baron into the room where Baron slept before.

"Did you come in from here?" Baron asked, pointing to the cellar.

"The castle guards won't let me enter the main entrance, so I can only take the secret passage." Rhodes replied.

"So you were the one who set the castle on fire through the secret passage?" Baron asked again.

Rhodes nodded, then walked into the cellar, and lifted the iron cover leading to the secret passage.

He just noticed that after the iron cover was closed, it was completely integrated with the surrounding stone floor tiles. If he didn't check it a little bit, he would definitely not find anything abnormal.

After leaving the cave, Rhode untied the pack horse tied to the tree, and then rode back to Gilbert's grocery store.

"Have all the medicines been prepared?" Rhodes walked into the door of the grocery store and saw Gilbert sitting listlessly on the chair before him.

Rhodes felt that even if they could only clean up all the remains of the corpses in one day, there might still be an outbreak of infectious disease in the fortress, so some potions still needed to be prepared.Too many people died in the fortress. Before walking on the street, Rhodes could see many creatures like flies, mice, and cockroaches.

"No, I didn't sleep well today. It takes a lot of energy to configure the alchemy potion. I need to rest for a while before I can continue to configure it." Gilbert replied.

"Then why don't you lie on the bed and sleep but sit on this chair?" Rhodes asked suspiciously.

"My chair can speed up the recovery of the spirit, and there is a magic circle engraved on the floor under the chair that can gather magic power." Gilbert explained.

"Then I'll go to bed first, and you can continue after you rest." Rhode walked up the stairs leading to the attic.

He didn't lie on the bed directly to sleep. After so many exciting things, he didn't feel sleepy.

Rhodes took out three magic books from the space ring. These books were all placed in the space ring by the mage he met at the beginning.

The names of the three books are "What is Magic?" ", "Advanced Application of Extracting Objects from Space", "Guide to Destruction Magic".

Rhodes first picked up the "Destruction Magic Guide". He always wanted to learn a powerful destruction magic so as not to waste the huge magic power in his body.

Yesterday's high-intensity battle made him discover that if the internal power and magic power were combined according to the optimal ratio, the internal power would be exhausted first, and the remaining magic power could even unleash a powerful expert-level magic such as Thunderstorm or Ice Lance.

For Rhodes, there are many ways to improve his strength, but it is much faster to increase his strength by transforming his current ability into combat power than improving his own foundation.

In this book, apart from the three most basic novice-level destruction magics that Rhodes has learned, there are only three apprentice-level destruction magics: Flame Arrow, Cone of Cold, and Lightning Bolt.

Rhodes studied these three spells carefully for nearly two hours before learning them. Compared with the three magic books he read in the attic before, the language of this book is much more concise, but it only taught Rhodes how to spell. Using these three spells, did not tell him more specific principles.

He picked up "Advanced Application of Space Fetch" and began to read. Space Fetch is a veteran-level transformation magic. The levels of magic are divided into novice level, apprentice level, veteran level, expert level, and master level.

Although Rhodes already has a mage ball with the effect of teleportation, there is still a difference between the real teleportation and the gravity control of the mage ball. The teleportation is to take, while the mage ball is more like traction.

It took him more than an hour to learn teleportation. After using it, he found that the effect of teleportation is much better than that of the mage ball. Simply put, it consumes the same magic power to use teleportation to lift the same object. get higher.

Although the mage ball has many effects, it can be regarded as an apprentice level magic at best.The higher the level of magic, the more complex it is, but it can make the same amount of magic power exert better effects.

Take the destruction magic as an example. If the caster does not change the spell, the magic power of using an incineration spell is enough for a person to use the Flame Tongue spell for several minutes. Using the Flame Tongue spell for so long may only kill A few ordinary soldiers or one or two ordinary knights, but if the incineration technique is used well, a dozen powerful knights with rich combat experience can be killed instantly.

Rhodes put down the book and picked up "What is Magic?" ", I put it down after reading more than a dozen pages. This book is all about basic theoretical knowledge and some research history, and it doesn't allow him to master one or two spells to improve his strength.

Looking at the books in front of him, Rhodes suddenly remembered that there was a function in the system that he had forgotten all along...

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