The Last Alchemist

Hotel room.

Rosen walked quickly to the window, stretched out his hand to open the curtain a little, and secretly looked at the street outside.

Across the street was a carriage with the flag of the academy. There was a team of fully armed knights in front and behind the carriage, about 30 people in total. Next to the carriage, Rosen saw the four academy magicians.

Four magicians, three were very young, the oldest one looked only about 27 or 28 years old, and the youngest female magician was only in her early 20s. There was another one who was a little older, a middle-aged man in his 40s.

The four were also followed by a group of shield-bearing warriors. The youngest female magician stayed by the carriage, while the other three, escorted by the shield-bearing warriors, walked all the way to the door of the Flower Hotel.

After taking a look, Rosen immediately retracted his body. He activated the alchemical magic power with a thought, and the rune compass placed on the table next to him immediately floated towards his hand.

Rosen glanced at Annie and whispered, "Nine out of ten, it's the rune compass that caused the trouble."

On the outermost runes of the rune compass, the three runes that guide the direction of the monster have always maintained brightness, but Rosen clearly remembers that when this thing was just taken out of the iron box in the secret room, the runes were dim. After appearing in the air, it took about two or three seconds before the runes on the compass seemed to be activated and showed light.

Why did Dallas put the compass in the box on purpose?

Why did the runes go out?

Why was Dallas so calm?

During this period, because he was always busy, Rosen simply brought the rune compass with him and did not study it carefully, but now, the inexplicable actions of the academy magician have linked together all the inconspicuous clues he had found before.

"The rune compass must have triggered some kind of signal, a signal that can be detected by the academy."

"Rosen, they are about to enter the hotel lobby. How do we deal with this thing now?" Annie said anxiously.

Rosen's thoughts raced, and after a moment, he said, "Annie, you and Veronica go control Dallas!"

"What about you?"

"I'll attract the attention of these magicians. You should always pay attention to the opponent's movements. Once those magicians are away from the hotel, you will quietly take Dallas to the Blue Moon Mansion of Earl Derek."

The Blue Moon Mansion has been sealed, and there is no one inside. Taking Dallas in is just right to deal with him properly.

Annie said anxiously: "How do you attract it?"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Rosen quickly stuffed the rune compass into the package, and tied the package to his back. Then, he suddenly pulled open the curtains, pushed open the window, climbed up, and jumped out of the window on the second floor of the hotel.

There was a commotion outside the hotel.

"Ah~ Someone jumped off the building!" It was the scream of an ordinary person.

"Stop! You stop right there." The voice was very rough, and it was heard that it was made by a strong and sturdy warrior.

"Catch him! Don't let him run away!" The voice was male, but the strength was not strong. It should be a magician.

Anne's heart tightened, and she quickly rushed to the window and took a look outside. She saw Rosen running wildly on the street, followed by a line of fully armed soldiers. Behind him, the three magicians who were originally preparing to enter the hotel also turned around and followed Rosen.

There were a lot of people on the street. Those magicians may be worried about accidentally hurting innocent people, so they just ran behind Rosen and did not cast spells to attack.

Anne found that Rosen ran quite fast, faster than the fastest warrior behind him, and he was very flexible. He was like a fish swimming in the crowd. At his current speed, it was not difficult to get rid of the pursuers behind him.

She was a little relieved. She shrank back and turned back to the wooden door. As soon as she reached the door, she saw Veronica coming hurriedly.

After seeing Annie, Veronica looked into the room, but didn't see Rosen, so she asked, "I just saw Rosen on the street? What's going on?"

"It was Rosen on the street. He said he led the magician away and asked us to take Davos away quietly. We will meet at the Blue Moon Mansion later."

"Oh~ Is he okay alone? There are four magicians under him. I don't think they are good people?" Veronica looked doubtful.

Annie was shocked and her heart was lifted. After a moment of hesitation, she immediately said, "I can take Davos away by myself. Otherwise, you can help?"

"Okay!" Veronica nodded very straightforwardly.

On this side, the two women quickly reached a consensus, and on the other side, Rosen ran wildly on the street with all his might.

Thanks to the physique of the undead, the warriors behind him basically had no chance of catching up with him. Not to mention those weak magicians. The only thing he had to worry about was the patrol guards on the street.

If a guard suddenly appeared from a corner and hit him, he would be in trouble.

To avoid such an accident, Rosen was very alert and went to crowded places. He kept changing his direction and running on new streets. At the same time, he used various obstacles on the roadside to block the pursuit of the pursuers.

As he ran, he was thinking about what to do next.

"These magicians should have been attracted by me. Anne and Veronica must have found a chance to slip away. The most important thing now is how can I escape from being tracked."

Originally, pure escape was not difficult, but the problem was that he was carrying a rune compass.

This thing can show the way to the opponent.

The best way is to throw it away, but Rosen is reluctant to do so. He subconsciously feels that this thing was made by Bishop Amlan, who has been pursuing the secrets of the great magician. Perhaps this rune compass contains important results from his research on monsters.

Now, this rune compass can actually attract the attention of the academy, and he is even more curious about it.

"I got the compass yesterday and never shielded it, but the other party came to me today. When Dallas used the disk, the compass was also exposed, but the academy magician did not find him. This shows that the academy does not monitor the movement of the rune compass all the time, or that although the academy magician can sense the compass, it is extremely difficult to locate it. However, this was the situation before. Now I have been exposed and must be watched by the other party. Carrying this thing is like carrying a time bomb."

"What should I do?"

Rosen reached out and took out the disk from the package. He ran and looked at it. Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "The things that attract the academy magicians are most likely related to the light emitted by the compass. If I break this compass, won't the other party have no way to track it?"

Thinking of this, he immediately pulled out the dagger from the leg strap and scratched the rune surface of the rune compass a few times, leaving several large metal marks, and some runes were even split in half by the dagger.

As a result, the light on the rune in the outermost circle flashed a few times, and then went out.

"It should be fine now. There are some external injuries on the compass. I will find a way to restore it when I have time." Rosen put away the compass and continued to run.

He ran all the way, and ran all the way. After running for about ten minutes, Rosen suddenly felt something was wrong.

"What's wrong? I ran for so long, why am I still near the dock?"

He remembered very clearly that he had passed this street for the second time, but although he kept changing the direction of advance, he had a plan in his mind. Generally speaking, he was still moving in the direction away from the dock area. How could he go back?

"Am I lost?"

"No, it's impossible. Nilogard City is not a big place, and it is so many orders of magnitude different from the super metropolises on Earth. I won't get lost on Earth, but I will get lost in this tiny place?"

He has a very good sense of direction since he was a child, and he is completely insulated from the word "road idiot". For example, now, although he was running away urgently, he could still clearly recall the route he had run before.

Since he was sure that he would not get lost, there was only one reasonable explanation.

That is, he was hit by a magician's magic, or to be more precise, an illusion.

Illusions cannot hurt people directly, but they are the most troublesome magic in the world. Once trapped by an illusion, no matter how strong the power is, it will be useless. Only intelligence can break the illusion.

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