The Duke's Palace is also in Southwest City, not far from Caesar's estate. This is a wealthy area, and many rich and powerful nobles live here.
At this time, Wright had just finished some trivial official duties and was lying on a wicker chair under the grapevine, listening to the violin music played by the musicians at home. Because these days, he has been busy with the alchemy competition and some work of the city government.
He took everything to his home to handle, and most of the work had already been handled for him.
He was at the XX open-air cafe on the street when he heard a servant coming to report that Princess Alice was looking for him. He quickly changed his clothes and went out.
When they arrived at the coffee shop, Alice saw him from a distance and waved: "The drinks have been ordered, please take a seat."
Wright sat down and said: "Princess, why did you come to me in person, and you haven't brought anyone with you yet? It would be unsafe. If you come to me with anything, just call someone to come."
"There's nothing unsafe. I hate having people following me and not being free." Alice smiled and said, "Besides, I haven't seen you in the past few days, and I really miss you."
"Miss me?" Wright was startled, looking a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly picked up the coffee on the table and drank it.
Alice said: "I came back to see you for something. I want you to help me make a...make some kind of barrier. It is a barrier that can slow down time for a short time to test my reaction speed.
, I want to know about my current abilities, I wonder if you can?"
"Ah? Oh, it's the 'Reverse Clock' barrier." Wright suddenly noticed the injury on Alice's face and asked, "Princess, what's going on here?"
Alice said: "Oh, I accidentally injured it when I was fighting with the servants just now. I forgot to take care of it."
Wright waved one hand, and a small magic circle flashed in the air, and a healing spell was cast. The healing starlight gathered and flashed at the wound on Alice's cheek, making Alice's face itchy. Wright said
: "The wound will be completely healed in about an hour."
Alice touched her face and smiled: "Thank you."
"Princess." Wright hesitated for a while and said, "You just said..."
"Um?"
"You just said you missed me?"
Alice nodded: "Yes, why..." She immediately reacted: "Oh, you thought... No, no, no, I didn't mean that, I..."
Alice's violent reaction attracted the attention of those around her.
Wright hurriedly asked Alice to sit down, motioned for her to keep her voice down, and then said with a smile: "I thought you fell in love with me, princess. It seems I misunderstood."
Alice herself also found it funny: "No, I just feel that since I came here, you and Uncle Caesar have been very good to me. I always ask you to help me, and you have helped me. It feels like
My brother is the same. Besides, didn't you promise me that you would give me a gift when you leave? I always wonder what it would be?"
"Haha, princess, I hope you will be satisfied when you receive the gift."
After finishing their drinks, the two were about to leave. Not far away, they saw a servant from the Wright family running over in a hurry: "Master, Master..."
"What's the matter?" Wright asked, "Didn't you accompany my mother to the opera house to watch the opera?"
"We've finished watching the opera." The servant said eagerly, "Madam was stabbed on the road just now."
"What!" Wright was startled and his face changed drastically: "Where is it?"
The servant said: "It's in the alley over the Opera House Road."
Wright followed the servant immediately without saying a word. Alice was also worried about the safety of Wright's mother, so she also went with him.
Under the leadership of the servant, Wright and Alice walked into an alley near Opera House Road. Following the servant and walking in the alley for a while, Wright found that they were getting more and more remote and farther and farther away from the bustling neighborhood.
Further away, he realized something was wrong, and at this time he calmed down from the panic.
"Who are you?" Wright stopped.
The servant turned around and said, "Master, what do you mean?"
"What do you mean by me?" Wright said in a cold voice: "You have very weak magic fluctuations on your body, which is obviously disguised magic. Moreover, it is impossible for my mother to come to such a remote place."
"Hahahaha, that's amazing, Master Wright of the Duke's family." As the servant laughed, the magic fluctuations became more intense. In a flash of light, he took off his magic disguise and revealed his true face, but he was a masked man.
He squinted at Wright and said, "Not only are you thoughtful, but you are also very perceptive. I thought that I had become very proficient in disguise magic. With my control, I could minimize the fluctuations of magic power. Unexpectedly, it still happened.
you caught me."
"Who are you? What's your purpose?" Wright said sternly.
"Ah!" Suddenly Alice's scream came from behind.
Wright was startled, and turned around to see two more masked men appearing behind him and kidnapping Alice. "Let her go, what do you want to do?" Wright shouted, and he began to emit magic power, getting stronger and stronger each time.
The fluctuation of magic power can be felt by everyone.
"Don't mess around, Master Wright, a high-level space magician." The masked man who turned from a servant said: "Before you do anything, think clearly whether you can really do what you want to do." The words were not finished.
, seven or ten more masked people came out one after another.
"Let me go, you bastards." Alice kept struggling, but she couldn't break free from the masked man's iron-like hands.
"Don't move around, Princess Alice. If you move around and anger it, don't blame me if it accidentally hurts you."
Alice saw a golden strange snake slipping out of his sleeve, crawling onto her body and slipping into her neck. She was immediately frightened and did not dare to move. She just said: "You...since you know who I am
, why don’t you let me go quickly.”
"Let you go?" The masked man laughed and said, "We waited for a few days and finally got the chance to catch you. How could we let you go so easily?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wright said: "What do you want to do by kidnapping the princess? Do you want money? How much do you want, please give me a price, three million or five million?"
"Hmph, he is worthy of being the son of a duke. He speaks with great dignity." The masked man sneered in his eyes: "What a pity, our purpose this time is not for money. But if you say so, then hand over all the valuable things you have on you.
Bar."
"If it's not for money, then what are you doing?"
Another masked man slapped Alice on the face and said sternly: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and hand over the valuable things."
"You..." Wright was so angry that he could only hold back with his fists clenched, and he searched for all the valuable things on his body and put them on the ground.
A guy picked up all the things on the ground, looked at them, and said with a smile: "Hey, there are not many things, but every piece is valuable. This bracelet alone is probably worth hundreds of thousands." He took it.
Wright's 'Grendel's Summoning Bracelet' was proudly worn on his hand.
"You are very obedient." The masked man who was led by a servant said: "It seems that you should know what the consequences will be if the majestic Princess of the Demon Moon Empire dies in Arant."
Of course Wright knew that the consequences would be disastrous.
Alice also panicked and shouted loudly: "How dare you! You...do you know who my master is? He will definitely kill you."
"Oh, Your Royal Highness, there is also a master? I would like to hear it." A masked man asked.
Alice said: "My master is Bing Zhixie, he is an ice magician. If you dare to hurt me, just wait to die!"
"Oh MYGOD, it turns out to be a magician. I'm really scared." The masked man smiled and said, "It's a pity that he's not here, so you should be afraid of me now. I like this person very much.
Beauty, you'd better not let me fall in love with you, beautiful princess." His hands touched Alice's face and neck...
"Stop it, you bastards!" Wright shouted: "Tell me your true purpose. What do you want to do? Are you from Saint Vicoia? Do you want to sow discord between our country and the Demon Moon Empire?"
"Stop guessing, Master Wright." The leader of the masked men said: "Our purpose is very simple. Isn't the final of the alchemy competition about to begin? We hope you can abstain from this competition."
Wright's deeply furrowed brows relaxed a little: "So this is your purpose? Then you must be alchemists, or employed by some alchemist. Since you are not doing it for money, then... I understand."
"As long as you understand, I won't beat around the bush with you." The masked leader said: "Yes, our boss wants to win this competition, so powerful people like you must be eliminated to ensure that
There is no risk for our boss to win the championship. Speaking of which, Master Wright, you are too annoying. As a royal family of the empire, you can have the imperial government recommend you to study in the Holy Garden. Why are you competing with us for the alchemy competition?
Quota, you are so abominable."
"Humph." Wright said coldly: "I don't care about recommendations. I want to enter the Holy Garden on my own ability."
"But if you do this, you will infringe on our interests, do you understand?" the masked leader said.
Wright said: "Aren't you afraid of being known by others and wanted by the government when you do this?"
"Wanted?" The leading masked man said with a smile: "Who is out there now and has not been wanted in other countries? As long as I leave your country, what else can you do to me? If you are sensible, you should know how.
Did you do it?"
Wright said: "Since your goal is the alchemy competition, it has nothing to do with Princess Alice, so let her go."
The masked man smiled and said: "Haha, Master Wright, are you kidding me? Princess Alice is the only capital we have to negotiate with you. If we let her go, do you think we are idiots?"
"Well, I promise you that I will not participate in this alchemy competition. Now you can let the princess go."
The leader of the masked men said: "Master Wright, I told you, don't treat us like idiots. You are talking nonsense, how can we believe what you say?"
"Then what do you want?"
"Not very good." The leader of the masked men said: "Before the finals of the alchemy competition are over, I have no choice but to humiliate Her Highness the Princess and condescend to live with us for a few days."
"you……"
"But don't worry, as long as you don't participate in the alchemy competition, we will not harm the princess. Take the princess away." The masked man in the lead pointed at Wright and shook his finger, which meant to warn him not to chase after him.
Wright had no choice but to watch helplessly as they took Alice away.