Ryan's hand first walked eastward along Winter City, the royal capital of Nord, along a road, passing through a large number of towns and forests, and after the forest, his fingers came to a place covered by white desert on the map: "
The first road is to take Keith Avenue eastward, which ends at the giant snowy desert left by the original wizard empire - the Tazir Desert. Then it passes through the Roof Mountains of the World ruled by the dwarves and heads to the Dark Realm, where Chaos is worshiped.
In the huge wasteland ruled by the Chaos Ogres, Belt could find his destination there... But he did not take that road, because the road was too far away, more than two thousand kilometers, and Taqi
This place is a barren land. There are only three cities in the area that is close to two-thirds of the size of Nord, and there are no towns and villages. Most of the land is severely contaminated by alchemy and cannot be cultivated, so it is extremely difficult to obtain supplies.
, and even if Belt passes through Tazir, it will be difficult for him to pass through the Roof of the World Mountains guarded by the dwarves. The countless extremely complicated mountain paths and underground tunnels are enough to drive Belt crazy, so we can basically exclude him from taking this route.
There is a possibility of a road, and the fact is just as we imagined, Belt chose to go west."
Everyone nodded, no one would choose to leave Tazir.
"Second, go west, go north, go to the Chaos Wasteland through the port of Lapland, and join the northern barbarians entrenched there." Ryan touched his chin and shook his head as well: "This is considered a choice, but the northern barbarians
Every port is heavily entrenched by the Nord Kingdom's army, and every ship heading to the Chaos Wasteland will encounter strict inspections. Based on Belt's rich experience, he will never choose to take such a big risk. The Evil God
His will will make him violent, but it will not make him stupid."
"Then the remaining choice is..." Ryan's hand continued to move west along the Meen Forest, and everyone's eyes also moved, and they saw Ryan's finger pointing at the Adar River, the river that runs through the Meen Forest, along the
The Adal River flows downstream, and after passing several villages, Ryan's fingers arrive at a port city.
"Karzenhaven?" Teresa's beautiful silver pupils widened slightly, her red lips parted softly, and she whispered.
"Well, this is Belt's third way, which is to go to sea from Nord's western port and find a way to go to the south. Brittania, which believes in the fairy in the lake, and the powerful empire are naturally not within Belt's consideration.
Inside, the southern country with chaotic beliefs and openly worshiping the Chaos Evil God as a god, or Marienburg, the continent's largest port and trading center with people coming and going and a mixture of good and bad, are the places Belt wants to go."
"What Mr. Lane said is true, but this does not mean that Bert will definitely go to sea in Kalzenhaven?" Wilt raised his own question.
"Indeed, if not for this." Ryan took out a piece of bloody paper from his arms.
That was the death message written in blood by the dead old demon hunter: "Bert x Aesthetic Society."
"Aesthetic Society?! Isn't that... isn't that an organization established in Marienburg by a group of scholars and socialites who are famous for their efforts to spread beauty?" Teresa opened her mouth in surprise, she couldn't believe it.
The Aesthetic Society is a well-known organization in mainland China. This organization is composed of a large number of attractive upper-class people who are very particular about their behavior and follow fashion trends. They advocate the pursuit of "beauty" and lead people towards "love and harmony."
"Yes, it seems that Belt's defection involves more and deeper secrets. No one thought of holding regular salons, sponsoring art groups in more than a dozen cities in the past ten years, and providing training opportunities for countless artistic youths.
It has something to do with Chaos." Ryan frowned even more tightly: "We have no way of confirming that Bert will go to Kalzenhaven, but I can be sure that he will definitely go to the port in the west and take a boat to Marienburg!"
"And our opponent is already one day ahead of us. As long as he travels through the starry night to the western port to go to sea, and then hides at the junction between Marienburg and the Aesthetic Society, it will be difficult for us to find his traces."
Everyone was frowning.
Marienburg was originally part of the empire, or it is now part of the empire. This port is located where the three major rivers of the empire merge into the sea. It is the number one port in the world. Marienburg has unique geographical conditions. Here is
It is a plain with a pleasant climate and suitable for living, and the terrain is dangerous - a deep-water port that can handle tens of thousands of tons is surrounded by two peninsulas, with mountains on one side acting as a natural barrier.
Tens of thousands of caravans continue to travel to Marienburg every year, and astonishing amounts of gold continue to flow into this huge and extremely rich port city, but rarely flow out. The people who rule Marienburg are the Iris family, Marienburg.
The Grand Duke is most likely the richest man in the world, because very few forces can give him orders. After the second Chaos invasion ended one hundred and fifty years ago, the reorganized new empire was in dire straits.
At this time, the last Archduke of Marienburg suddenly found Ludwig, and he took out an astonishing amount of wealth, which was reported to be the empire's financial revenue for at least ten years. The Archduke of Marienburg used this money from Ludwig
The autonomy was obtained in exchange and written into the founding ceremony. From then on, the empire could only collect an annual defense fee from Marienburg and was not allowed to interfere in any internal affairs of Marienburg.
Many people have objections to Ludwig's behavior, thinking that he is dividing the country, but Ludwig said meaningfully: "The reconstruction of the empire urgently needs an astonishing wealth, and the chaos in the north will eventually return again."
, being too comfortable and seeking pleasure is not helpful in fighting chaos."
Therefore, Marienburg is in a "three-nothing" zone. In addition to paying a huge amount of defense fees to the empire, the astonishing taxes all flow into the pockets of Marienburg's upper-class nobles. Every year, countless refugees and
Mercenaries are coming in and out of this city, looking for opportunities to get ahead. There are huge and extremely complex underground tunnels under the city for smuggling and hiding goods. If Bert escapes to Marienburg, he needs to be fished out again.
It’s difficult!
"It is difficult for us to catch up with Belt now, so what we have to do now is to go to Kalzenhaven, because Kalzenhaven is the closest to here. After arriving at Kalzenhaven, the Justice Church will help us check the recent sea voyage records, and we can continue
Go after Belt." Ryan made a plan, and his words were recognized by everyone. Now it is useless to travel under the stars and night. On the contrary, if the movement is too loud, it is easy for Belt to detect it, so Ryan's plan is not to panic.
He hurriedly went to Kalzenhaven according to the normal schedule, hid himself, and waited for Belt's next appearance.
With the clue of the Aesthetic Society, finding Belt would not be like looking for a needle in a haystack. There are several ports on the western coast of Nord. With the strength of the fallen hunters, it is impossible to send so many people to watch them die one by one, and the distance is much longer.
, this is the only choice.
"Okay, then we will go to Kalzenhaven tomorrow. According to our speed, we will set off at seven o'clock tomorrow morning and arrive at Kalzenhaven around noon. At that time, Ryan and I will go to the Church of Justice and ask for news about them." Theresa nodded.
Said, Boris and Wilt both agreed. So many things happened today and the sorceress was very tired. After everyone made a specific action plan, they left separately.
It was already late at night, and the camp site was nestled against a stone hill. When Ryan saw Teresa reluctantly walking with a staff, he took the initiative to reach out and support her jade arm wrapped in long white lace gloves: "Let me help you."
Come on, dear Ms. Trowick."
The sorceress glanced at him sideways and felt a strong sense of support coming from her arms. She did not refuse, but just sighed in a low voice: "Are you considering my health when you offered not to rush? Then you don't have to.
Don't worry, my current situation is much better than you imagined, I will recover tomorrow."
"Oh? Really? Don't lie to me, don't tell me tomorrow, you won't be able to recover within three days, right?" Ryan directly exposed the sorceress's lie.
"Tch, you are responsible for my safety during this period." Teresa's lie was exposed, her pretty face turned red, like a ripe peach, as beautiful as a ripe peach, her face was not that pretty, anyone
Any arrogant female spell caster will feel uncomfortable if she is in such a situation where she is at the mercy of others.
It can only be said that Ryan knows the spell caster too well.
Spell casters are roughly divided into three systems: wizards, shamans, and warlocks.
Wizards use their rich knowledge and exquisite magic control abilities to cast spells. They can theoretically learn all known spells. They consume their own magic power to construct spells and then complete the spell casting. Therefore, to cast a spell, wizards must not only understand spells
In addition to spells, they also need to know how to construct spells. Therefore, the manpower and material resources required to train a wizard from an apprentice to a powerful wizard who can stand alone are very amazing. Their early combat effectiveness is very poor, but they have to spend a lot of money.
Money is used to support them, to allow them to experiment, learn, and even grow through repeated failures. Most of the money is wasted, which makes many farmers’ families have children with magical talents but no money to train them.
, they can only be sent to the Magic Church to be apprentices to other wizards. The magical talents of many children are wasted in the apprenticeship work day after day, year after year.
Unlike wizards, shamans' spellcasting is more about guidance than spellcasting. The magic of shamans comes from the magical elements wandering between heaven and earth. They communicate with the power of elements through totems and meditation, and use their own magic.
To guide the magic elements between heaven and earth to complete spell casting, shamans cast spells quickly and consume less magic power. However, spell casting is severely restricted by the environment. For example, in the ice and snow of Nord, shamans cannot release fire magic. If
When encountering an area with chaotic magic elements, the shaman may release a water cannon and hit the enemy as a hydrotherapy spell, which will instead help the enemy heal. In some areas where magic elements are scarce, the shaman is no different from a normal person.
Finally, there are warlocks. Warlocks are known as the "tall, rich, handsome, white and beautiful" among spell casters because they are born with the ability to cast spells. The origin of warlocks is rather strange. Some people suddenly have the ability to cast spells after experiencing a storm.
There are also people who have the ability to cast spells after having some adventures in mines or beast lairs. However, the vast majority of warlocks appear because of their bloodline, that is, one of his or her parents is a spell caster, and the spell caster has the ability to cast spells.
The blood of magic power will be passed on to the next generation, and they will automatically learn to cast spells as they grow older. They often do not need to know how the spell is constructed or what the principles of spell casting are, because those things are engraved in their blood.
They only need to chant the spell according to the script to cast the spell.
Just because they are born with the ability to cast spells, warlocks often feel superior to others, and they look down upon those who farm in the mud all day long. Therefore, there will be no people in the good camp among warlocks, that is, there is no "Mother" or "Charity".
Elaine thought that if necessary, Teresa would not hesitate to sacrifice these mercenaries to give herself a chance to escape.
There is no perfect profession, and a warlock's spellcasting ability is also limited. For example, if the warlock's bloodline is that of a great wizard of the thunder system, then he may not be able to learn one or two healing spells, even the simplest ones, in his entire life.
A small spell of one or two levels. Similarly, a warlock with a fire-based bloodline may take several years to master a simple water-based magic.
The warlock's spellcasting relied on the power of blood, so when she had exhausted her magic power, Teresa forced her bloodline to cast spells. The result was a severe physical overdraft. Within a few days, not to mention her magic power, her physical strength was in a serious state.
trough.
"As long as I'm here, don't worry. Just for the sake of Ms. Aurora, I will protect you." Ryan smiled at first, and then the corners of his eyes quickly raised: "But I'm not yours.
Servant, I hope you can understand."
"I know that no one would regard a knight of the kingdom as a servant." Teresa nodded in agreement. When the man reminded the woman, she realized that her tone was a bit like the tone she used when facing servants at home.
The elder of the Gloria Council, Aurora Trowick, saved the life of Ryan's adoptive father Norman. That was before Ryan was adopted. The specific situation was only when fighting against the barbarians on the battlefield. The young knight Norman
Man was knocked off his horse and almost died in battle. Aurora's spell saved his life. Although Aurora didn't take it seriously, Norman always remembered it. For this reason, Ryan was willing to give Teresa a little bit.
, willing to take good care of her.
But this does not mean that he is willing to give her a servant and a bodyguard. The relationship between him and the sorceress is complementary. They are companions, not superiors and subordinates.
Helping the sorceress to lift the tent curtain, Ryan smiled and said: "Good night, Teresa, I wish you a sweet dream."