Under the rising sun, a large transport ship was hung with sails. Driven by the wind, the bow of the ship plowed through the waves and raised white waves.
"Almost there, almost there."
"It's finally here~!"
The passengers on the ship looked at the black city in the distance in the east and cheered on the deck.
Among the cheering crowd on the deck, a man wearing an ordinary cheap gray robe and a hood slowly raised his head, squinted his eyes, and looked at the city in the distance.
The bright sunlight shone slantly from the south, so the shadow formed by the deep hood could only barely cover the upper part of his face, but exposed the cold lips.
If you look up along those thin lips, you will see a pair of cold, cruel eyes without a trace of human emotion.
It is none other than the Lich Edwood.
He hid quietly behind the crowd, carefully looking at everyone around him with cold eyes.
Compared with other companions who only like to hide in dark basements, Edwood likes to walk alone in the human world and interact with humans.
When the mood strikes, grab a few things that interest you, or go looking for trouble in the temple, or plan some fun little actions with the people of the Dark Council.
When I'm not in the mood, I'll spread out some evil spells, plagues, natural disasters, etc., and give the priests something to do.
It is precisely because of this that Edwood is regarded as an outlier among lichs, a lich who loves to travel in the human world. This unique hobby cannot be understood by other necromancers. If you have this time, practice more.
How great would it be to use spells to enhance mana? It’s just wasted on useless things.
However, it was precisely because of this unique hobby that Edwood stood out among the lichs and was appreciated by the High Priest of the Undead himself.
The old man, the High Priest of the Undead, would often hear some interesting anecdotes about the human world from Edwood.
Having often walked in the human world, Edwood understands the dangers of the human world better than any other dark wizard.
Here, the power of the Holy See of Light is pervasive. You can see churches and priests of the God of Light wherever there are people on the mainland.
Their churches and temples are like a huge net, covering every corner of the continent. Once there is any disturbance, they can always get the news in time, and then calmly deploy their troops to pursue and intercept it.
No matter what kind of master falls into this big net, he will ultimately be unable to escape their pursuit.
Therefore, Edwood was always extra cautious, fearing to reveal any flaws. On the ship bound for Naider, Edwood stayed away from the crowd and avoided contact with anyone.
Of course, no one would take the initiative to talk to this old man who looked lonely and weird.
"We'll be there soon." Edwood also breathed a sigh of relief. He had had enough of the cramped, dark, damp and stuffy cabin.
He raised his head and looked towards the city in the distance.
At this time, driven by the sea breeze, the ship was moving very fast. After a short while, the city gradually became clearer.
Particularly eye-catching is the spire of a tall tower.
The glazed spire sparkled in the sunlight, as conspicuous as a lighthouse.
Edwood grabbed a sailor who was passing by and asked: "Is that spire building in the distance the temple of Nai'an?"
The young sailor looked Edwood up and down. Seeing that this impolite guy was an old man about the same age as his grandfather, he suppressed his thoughts and said: "Are you kidding, those guys from the temple?"
Dare you? Lend them courage.
That’s the high tower of the Governor’s Palace, our landmark building in Nai’an. It became like this after our Governor of Lorraine renovated it.”
This sailor was probably a native of Nai'an. He kept saying "we" in every word, and his words were filled with pride.
Edwood was stunned for a moment and asked doubtfully: "Shouldn't the temple building be the tallest in the city?"
Edwood had already made a plan. After finding the location of the temple, he would stay far away from there and then take action with the camera.
For lichs, temples everywhere are the most dangerous places.
Especially the holy artifacts made by the Sun Tzu group are like magical instruments. Just put them among the crowd, and they can gather people's beliefs and transform them into the holy power of the priests for their practice. It is simply
So convenient.
And the most irritating thing is that, even though those priests are not of high rank, they dare to shout at any bishop of any region in front of the dignified Lich Lord.
Not only that, once they have the Paladin on their side, they dare to rush over and fight the Lich in person. What's even more frightening is that as long as nothing goes wrong, they can basically win.
***, any lich with a little bit of self-respect can’t stand it~!
Therefore, after being killed countless times by those bastards from the Holy See, everyone finally learned their experience and lessons, and learned a lot better.
After all, this is the home ground of the human race, so it’s better for everyone to keep their tail between their legs.
After listening to Edwood's question, the sailor put his hands on his hips and laughed proudly, saying: "It may be true in other places, but in our Naian, this rule does not exist. The spire of the temple is far worse than the Governor's Palace.
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It is said that this is a rule established by the current Pope when he was still the bishop of Naian. No matter whether it is a temple or a priest, when you meet our Governor of Lorraine, you must be equal. Everything must be discussed and resolved.
Here, whoever has money can build as high as he wants."
It turned out that the young sailor wanted to show off the fact that 'our governor is the father of the Pope's child', which was popular with the people.
But looking at that old guy being mysterious and sneaky, it doesn't look like a good thing at first glance.
Who knows where he comes from? If he is a special envoy sent by the temple, or if he is full and goes to the temple to tell a secret, he will not be able to eat and walk away.
Edwood was familiar with the customs of human society. He sneered when he heard this and thought to himself: This damn guy Lorraine is really arrogant.
Whether it is the human race or the Semitic race, whether it is the Temple of Light or the Temple of Demons, they are all transcendent and supreme existences.
"She is still equal to him. This shows how arrogant this Lorraine has reached." Edwood sighed inwardly: "The higher you climb, the harder you fall. In history, such ambitious guys always end badly.
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Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a pity. It seemed that Lorraine had been killed, and he was here to pay homage to the talented person who was jealous of God.
At this time, the big ship was getting closer and closer to the harbor, and was about to enter the harbor.
Under the captain's loud orders, the sailors shouted slogans and slowly lowered the huge sails on the transport ship.
The large transport ship slowly slowed down, and a small boat flying the Ruman flag came from the direction of the port and leaned against the transport ship.
A person who looked like a secretary and several soldiers quickly jumped onto the transport ship.
The captain of the transport ship and a few people hurriedly rushed up to greet them and greeted them politely.
This is when the port pilot registers the ship before entering the port.
The clerk was talking to the captain and walked into the cabin holding a writing board in his hand.
The clerk's eyes scanned everyone on the deck. Edwood bent down, lowered his head, completely hiding his face under the shadow of his hood, and then pretended to cough twice.
The secretary's eyes only stayed on Edwood for a moment, and then several people got into the cabin.
Edwood secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After a while, the secretary led the soldiers out of the cabin, tore off a piece of permission to enter the port, and said expressionlessly: "Let the passengers pack their luggage and get off the ship as soon as possible. Don't waste time. The soldiers still have to conduct a thorough search."
The captain received the permission order respectfully, raised his head and shouted to the surrounding passengers: "If you didn't hear your instructions, go get your luggage and bring your documents."
The passengers ran into the cabin in panic.
Soon, under the guidance of the pilot, the transport ship sailed into the port and docked at the dock.
A group of soldiers were already waiting on the dock, blocking all positions from the bow to the stern of the ship, making it impossible to sneak out of the ship.
When the sailors put down the gangplank, the official waiting on the dock impatiently said to the people on the boat: "Get off the boat, get off the boat."
The passengers, who had been waiting at sea for several days, were already impatient. After hearing this, they swarmed down. Edwood was also swept up in the crowd and walked to the shore with the flow of people.
When his feet stepped on the stones of the pier, Edwood secretly sighed in his heart, finally coming to this place, this is the lair of that guy Lorraine, and all his secrets are hidden here.
Hum, you can take away our war fortress, and I can also take away your artillery. When the cannonballs fall on Lorraine's head, his expression will definitely be wonderful.
Thinking of this ironic situation, Edwood couldn't help but smile knowingly.
"Hey, you~! Old man," a soldier shouted at Edwood: "I'm deaf and I'm calling you."
Edwood was interrupted and raised his head to glance at the soldier dissatisfied.
Seeing Edwood's cold gaze, the soldier couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart and felt extremely uncomfortable.
He frowned and said angrily: "What are you looking at? Register."
Having to talk to travelers coming and going on the dock hundreds of times every day, these soldiers' patience has long been worn out and their attitudes are very irritable.
"Come here and register." The soldier took out his writing pad and asked stiffly.
Edwood glanced at the situation at the port and saw that there were soldiers inside and outside, probably no less than two or three thousand people. Priests in white robes could also be seen among the crowd. There were even magicians in the air.
They fly by from time to time.
He couldn't help but gasped, the defense here was so tight~!
While he was dazed, he heard the soldier next to him urging: "Hurry up, hurry up, old man. Take out your ID~!"
"Identification? What identification?" Edwood replied blurtly.
The soldier put down his writing board with a straight face, looked at Edwood carefully, and said solemnly: "No documents? Where are you from? Forget it, come with me first."
Edwood raised his head warily, stared at the soldier and said, "Come with you? Where do you want to take me?"
At the same time, Edwood secretly gathered the mana in his hand, ready to take action at any time.
"Hi~!" The soldier raised his hat and tilted his head and said, "I'm telling you, you old guy, you didn't have any ID, why did you beep? You just followed me when I asked you to come. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
With that said, he grabbed Edwood's arm.
Edwood's body tensed, hesitating whether to take action immediately and fight out of here, or whether to stay still and follow the soldiers to see what would happen.
"Is it possible that someone has found out? Is there any danger?" Edwood's mind was spinning.
"Uncle, uncle~!" At this time, against the flow of people leaving the port, a middle-aged man with a sweaty face was pushing and shoving forward, jumping up and down, waving to Edwood, and shouted loudly
Said: "Uncle, I'm here and there, stay there and don't move, don't move~!"
Edwood was stunned for a moment. The person waving to him was a short, stocky, middle-aged man with a complexion as black as iron and a simple face, like a farmer who had been working with crops all his life.
Edwood let go of his hand and decided to wait and see what would happen.
The middle-aged man spent a lot of effort to squeeze out of the crowd, trotted all the way to Edwood, and said breathlessly: "Uncle, you are finally here, I have been waiting for you for two days."
Then he turned around, bowed to the soldier, and said: "This military master. This is my old uncle. He is not from Ruman. He comes from a small place in the countryside. So he has no documents on him. I can vouch for it. You see
, this is my proof.”
The soldier took it, glanced at it, and said, "That person Xue Ya...how long have you been immigrating?"
"It's been two years, and there's still Jun Ye. Don't say I'm from Xue Ya anymore. According to our immigration rules, I already got a green card half a year ago." The middle-aged man patted his chest and said proudly: "We are now
But we are serious Naian people. We pay taxes according to regulations every month."
"Uh...that's it." The soldier immediately changed his face to a smile when he heard that this person was a taxpayer.
This is not surprising. Sir Luo has always been polite to those who pay money. When it comes to it, we should serve others regardless of their taxpayers. Although the people below have their hearts in mind
I was still very dissatisfied, thinking that this was just another way for Sir Alex to defraud people out of money, but at least on the surface he was a lot more polite to these people.
"Okay, just check in and you're good to go." The soldier didn't doubt that he was there, he just checked in and let the two of them leave the dock.
Walking out of the pier and leaving the group of soldiers behind, Edwood took a breath, looked at the middle-aged man and said, "Are you Knicks?"
The middle-aged man sighed tiredly, nodded, and said: "It's me, you are the gentleman the big boss calls you. I knew things would not be simple. Fortunately, the gentleman's appearance was mentioned above. I have been here for three days.
Oh my God, I finally waited for you."
Edwood asked sharply: "What happened?"
"Hey, don't mention it," Nix shook his head helplessly and said, "I heard that a lich suddenly appeared on Edin Island and killed everyone on the island. Yes, it's that kind of evil undead creature.
It's so terrible, the whole island of Edin Island probably stinks now.
It is said that that guy still has followers, and now all the port cities in the continent are under martial law. Soldiers are searching one by one. I was afraid that something would happen to you, but luckily I caught up with you."
"What did you say...?" Edwood squeezed Nix's shoulders and said nervously: "What happened to Edin Island?"
Nix's shoulders were pinched so hard that he grinned and hissed: "Let go first."
Edwood suddenly woke up, let go of Nix's shoulder, and said: "Tell me, what happened to Edin Island?"
Nicks rubbed his sore shoulders and thought to himself: "This old guy is as skinny as a ghost. Why are his hands so strong?"
Nicks thought for a while and said: "Five or six days ago, there was news here that a lich suddenly appeared on Edin Island, killing people and setting fires everywhere. All ships going to Edin Island were stopped, and it was said that the entire island was destroyed.
Okay. One day later, news came from above that there was more than one lich, and the whole country was required to step up vigilance.
Now there are soldiers everywhere in and outside the city, and the work at hand has stopped."
Edwood hurriedly asked: "That lich? Have you caught him?"
Nix shook his head and said: "I haven't heard the news, but I heard that the peacekeeping force has mobilized troops."
Edwood was so angry that half of his face kept twitching, and he gritted his teeth and whispered: "Usi Peter, you idiot, idiot, idiot~!"
Edwood felt like his phylactery was going to explode with anger. He had clearly planned well before they separated. After everyone was in place, they acted together in the last two days at the end of the month.
Mainly attack in secret, and if discovered, run away and come back to another place.
As long as this plan is executed well, several port cities of the Ruman people can be paralyzed at the same time and disrupt the retreat route of the peacekeeping forces.
Once their whereabouts are exposed, they can attack in another place, and a dozen of them can turn the entire human continent upside down.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after he came out, Usipeter would already be exposed and surrounded by people on Edin Island.
"This idiot seems to be dead. How did I add him to the list in the first place?" Usipeter thought to himself.
Their intentions have been exposed, so people are on guard, just like today's Port of Nadel, where a large number of soldiers and priests are on the dock.
No matter how confident he was, Edwood would not dare to act rashly, otherwise he would have to run for his life.
"But they didn't expect that I didn't come here for the port." Edwood thought carefully about the pros and cons in his heart: "Since people are concentrated at the port, the factory in Lorraine must have neglected to take precautions. Wouldn't it be more convenient for me to attack."
Seeing the expression on Edwood's face constantly changing, sometimes nervous and sometimes angry, Nicks asked doubtfully: "Are you nervous about Edin Island?"
Edwood said coldly: "I have an old friend on the island."
Nicks nodded and said comfortingly: "Maybe he's fine. There's no point in worrying."
"I wish it would be better if he died." Edwood muttered lowly.
Edwood followed Nix around the city of Nadel, walking for more than an hour before arriving at a private courtyard not far from the city wall. He led Edwood in, and Nix closed the door.
He came to the door, pointed to the courtyard, and said, "This is where we will stay temporarily."
Edwood frowned and said dissatisfied: "Why is it so remote?"
Nicks sighed and said: "Every inch of land in Naider City is very expensive now. My identity is a hawker who sells condiments on the streets. Living in the city will attract people's attention. It is very safe here, and the people who live here are all from other provinces and foreign countries."
People who come to Nai'an to make a living, no one wants to meddle in other people's business."
Nix led Edwood into the room, glanced left and right, closed the door, and said, "What's the purpose of your coming? It just said that we will fully cooperate with your work."