Part Three Light and Darkness Chapter Eleven Accidents
The shackles are made of special stainless steel. Each link of the chain is as thick as a finger. It is densely covered with magic symbols, which have the effect of banning magic, strengthening the strength and toughness of the shackles themselves, and providing restraints.
The object is subject to a weakness spell. This kind of thing does not look like it is used to lock people, but to lock elephants, and they are still magic elephants.
Asa now has three such shackles on his body. They overlap and wrap around his body, making it look like he is wearing a strange piece of clothing.
But this is not a dark and terrifying underground prison, but the Duke's study. Asa is not kneeling on the ground covered in blood and flesh, but sitting on a chair without any injuries. He just looks at it.
He felt very tired when he got up. No matter who it was, it would be impossible for him to be energetic when he fell into this state.
Duke Mulak looked at Asa across the desk with a smile and said: "These three pairs of shackles were actually prepared by High Priest Cuthbert for you before. I heard that they were specially made by the Magic Academy to restrain a tauren sacrifice a long time ago. In fact,
I never thought much about capturing you alive before, but you didn’t let me down after all. Haha.”
"I didn't disappoint you? Are you afraid that I won't come?" Asa sat on the chair and looked at the Duke's smiling face coldly, saying weakly.
"No. I believe you will definitely come. This was originally in my plan. It's just that I originally planned to kill you on the spot, but in the end I changed my mind and hoped to capture you alive as much as possible. You really didn't let me
Disappointed, not killed."
"What are you doing to capture me alive? I thought you would cut off my hands and feet, cut off my tongue, and blind me." Asa said coldly with his eyes half-closed.
"Well said. In fact, logically speaking, I really should deal with you like this. Hahahaha." The Duke laughed. He laughed happily, honestly and gently, as if he had heard an unexpected joke.
His eyes were full of smiles. Looking at the opponent in front of him who finally fell into his hands and no longer had any room to struggle and resist, he sighed with emotion. "Perhaps from a certain perspective, the enemy is the best
Friends not only bring you fighting spirit and the joy of victory, but also because your position is clear and you have no scruples, so you no longer need to hide your intentions. You can speak your mind more safely than friends. Everything can be expressed directly.
, even if it’s hostility, it’s a very pleasant thing.”
"You look very happy." Asa said coldly.
"Wrong." The Duke waved his hand and made a negative gesture, still smiling so proudly. "It's not a little happy. It's very happy. I have almost forgotten the last time I was so happy. Because I seem to
I have never dealt with someone so hard and for such a long time. And in the end, I won." He was very satisfied with the look on the young man's face that belonged to a loser, and looked at Asa with a somewhat uncomfortable look.
She said, "Well, after you die, where can I find such an enemy and such a friend who I can talk to so freely?"
A sound of footsteps approached. The Duke stopped and frowned. He had already ordered everyone else in the palace not to approach the study. He wanted to interrogate the prisoner secretly. The conversation between him and Asa could not be heard by others.
The door of the study room was pushed open, and Rodhart walked in and saluted the Duke: "I'm sorry, Lord Duke. Captain Roland and an old priest were at the door of the mansion. He said that he wanted to bring the wanted criminal to invite the emperor.
Your Majesty will interrogate it in person with the high priests."
"Captain Roland? Huh, he didn't send people when he was asked to do so, and now he's asking me for people instead." The Duke frowned and thought for a moment, then waved his hand gently and said, "Detention them for now." He said.
He didn't say how to delay it. He only knew that since he said so, Rodhart would naturally do it.
"Yes." Rodhart turned around and went out. From the beginning to the end, he never glanced at Asa.
"This is a very smart and capable young man. The key is that he is very aware of current affairs and always knows to make the right choice under the situation." The Duke looked at Asa. "But many times your choices don't seem to be very correct.
"
"Because I've never been a smart person." Asa replied calmly. "But even if I'm not smart, I know that this doesn't seem to be a good place to detain people for interrogation. You didn't bring me here just to ask questions.
Let me express your happiness."
"Haha. Yes." The Duke smiled. "The reason why I am so polite to you and let you sit here unscathed is because I want to negotiate a deal with you."
"Deal? Do you want to let me go?" Asa's eyes and tone did not fluctuate at all, and he was still weak. "Although I am not that smart, I also know that it seems impossible for you to let me go."
"That's right." The Duke nodded, still smiling so kindly. "You yourself know that now that things have reached this point, you must die."
"Then what do you do with a person who knows he's going to die? I'm almost dead, why do I care?"
"No, I know you care. Even if you don't even care about your life, you still care about one person. My daughter. Haha. Didn't you risk coming here just for her? I will risk her life for you.
Deal." The Duke's smile seemed to be full of compassion. "As long as you agree, I will not kill her. You can rest assured that she is unharmed now, even better than you."
Asa didn't answer, but his eyes fluctuated. After a long time, he said in a strange voice: "You used your daughter's life to force a dying man to agree to your terms? Others must have thought you were crazy when they heard this.
.”
"It doesn't matter what other people say. The important thing is that I know you will definitely agree." The Duke said calmly.
"What do you want me to do?" Asa sighed.
The Duke's eyes narrowed and he said in a deep voice word by word: "I want you to admit that Cedros and the Guild of the Dead colluded and instigated you to assassinate Bishop Ronis. As long as you admit it to both the emperor and the church.
Knowing this, I vow not to harm Xiaoyi and ensure that she lives a good life as before."
"Swear?" Asa forced a smile. "Even I just think of this kind of thing as shit, do you still care?".
The Duke sighed. There seemed to be some fatherly aura on his face. "Xiaoyi is my daughter after all, and she is so capable. Do you think I want to kill her? But she knows that I actually killed Luo
Bishop of Nice, and she is standing with you, and she is also considered Cedros' disciple. I am afraid that she will join forces with Cedros to clear your name, so I have to plan to kill her to silence her. And if you can
If you identify Cedros as the murderer behind the scenes, and you die again, I will no longer have such scruples, and of course I will not embarrass her again. This time you are riding a bipedal flying dragon, this is Cedros
The biggest evidence of collusion with the Undead Guild. I can also guess that Cedros will say that you stole it yourself, but even that is enough. Of course I have my own way of adding fuel to the fire." It seemed that he was thinking of the future.
Beautiful scene, the Duke smiled again. He seemed so happy today.
Asa sighed: "It turns out that you are so happy not only because you caught me, but also because you can use me to deal with Cedros directly."
"Yes." The Duke nodded. "Haha, it seems that I can already imagine the situation where the church and the empire will join forces to deal with Ouf. I will lead the troops myself. I really want to thank you for bringing the two-legged flying dragon today for reminding me.
The role of this kind of thing on the battlefield. Before I go to attack, I will definitely convince the military minister and His Majesty the Emperor to let them buy more griffons first. Haha."
Asa still said calmly: "Since you know that I have been to Eufu and contacted Cedros, aren't you afraid that we have already agreed on a way to deal with you?"
"How?" The Duke smiled. "Whatever you can do. You have been convicted of murdering the Bishop, and Cedros will never dare to send orc troops to help you blatantly. He also has to leave a way out for himself.
Maybe if you don’t come back and stay with Oufu and Cedros, I will still be afraid of what you will do. But I know that you will definitely come back. Haha, aren’t you already in my hands now?”
Asa sighed and nodded: "You have thought very carefully. I did ask Cedros to help me, but he refused. His concerns were the same as you expected. And I... really must come back.
.You really know how to read people.”
"Looking at people is the most basic and important point in setting up strategies and traps." The Duke smiled happily and told Asa like a famous chef explaining his special dishes to diners. Be sure to let the other party try it.
After that, you can fully reflect on every bit of charm and meaning in your masterpiece. "As long as you can see clearly what kind of person he is and what kind of reaction he will have when faced with what kind of situation, you can calculate every step and then design it."
The overall situation. Even if you let the other party know your intentions, you can only walk in step by step according to your wishes."
"Just like me. You know I will definitely come back, right?" Asa lowered his head and whispered as if dejected.
"Yes. Hehehehe." The Duke smiled happily.
"See how happy you are now." Asa suddenly said softly. "But I haven't agreed to help you frame Cedros yet."
"But I believe you will agree." The Duke's face seemed to have a few words written on it, and the whole world was in my hands. "Just like I believe you will come back."
Asa was still weak and seemed to be heartbroken. He shook his head and answered in a low voice: "No. I won't agree."
The Duke was stunned. "What?" He was surprised and thought he heard wrongly.
"No, I won't agree." Asa's voice was a little louder. "Because I don't have to agree at all." After saying this, he suddenly stood up from the chair. The shackles on his body fell off with a series of sounds.
to the ground.
The Duke's expression froze. He was sure that these shackles were locked very well, and they could definitely lock a tauren whose strength was dozens of times greater than that of a human being.
"You have always been so reassuring. It seems that you really believe in these shackles for tying cattle. Indeed, I admit that I am not a cow, and I will definitely make money continuously." Asa raised his hand, holding a wooden thorn on his finger. "
But it just so happens that I know a little bit about traps and the like, so you let me sit on a chair instead of lying on the ground. It just so happens that it’s not that difficult to open the shackles on cows.”
The Duke was only surprised, not panicked. He didn't even stand up, but his face and voice darkened: "Although there was no one around the study, there were all guards outside the house. I advise you not to think that
These few who just happened to be lucky enough to hope that they can turn things around. I also advise you not to waste the opportunity I gave you."
But Asa didn't seem to show he cherished these opportunities at all. His originally decadent and blurry eyes had gradually become clearer, brighter, and sharper. Just like his voice. "I never thought you were an enemy before. We are leaving.
The roads are fundamentally different, so even though you tried to confront me several times, I didn’t think you were hateful and I didn’t want to confront you. Because I couldn’t help but stand in your way. But later I
You know I was wrong. You actually wanted to kill Bishop Ronis, and Sandro...even Xiaoyi..." Asa's voice and expression finally became a little distorted with excitement. "Even if I save
I won Xiaoyi once, but as long as you are still here, neither she nor anyone else will be at peace." Asa shouted a few words in a low voice with a voice that had been distorted by anger: "That's why I want to kill you." He
His eyes were bloodshot, and when he spoke, the canine teeth exposed at the side of his mouth smelled like wild beasts.
"I'm so surprised and disappointed. I actually gave up the opportunity I gave you." The Duke's expression turned completely cold. He stood up slowly, held the sword at his waist, and shouted suddenly:
"Come on, come here. The prisoner has broken free from his shackles and is about to escape." The Duke's face was obviously full of murderous intent and calmness, but this shout could pretend to be panic.
After the roar, the Duke still said to Asa in a deep voice: "I'll say it again, you disappoint me so much. I just know that you are not smart, and I didn't expect that you would get to this point. Huh, you thought this was a tavern.
Are they those vulgar stories that are popular in movies? With just a few bits of luck, the situation can be completely reversed?"
There were footsteps immediately in the corridor, but it was not the kind of messy and noisy sound that the Guards should make. It was just the footsteps of one person. The footsteps came very fast and loud, and in just a few blinks they were almost gone.
I arrived outside the study door. Although the movements were very hurried and probably a bit panicky, every step was very precise and followed a strange rhythm. This is a man who has integrated martial arts into every part of his body.
The sound that people can make...
Asa suddenly turned around and kicked the door of the study. With a loud bang, the two doors burst and flew towards the corridor, hitting a figure who was running towards here.
The figure paused, and then a faint white line loomed in the air for a moment, and the two menacing broken doors immediately and silently scattered into small pieces of wood.
The wood chips were scattered, and the man who came immediately sheathed his sword. He had gray hair, a bookish face, but a pair of eyes that were as sharp as swords. He was Roland who was dragged to the door of the Duke's Palace by Rodhart just now.
The leader. He was the first to rush up after hearing the Duke's shout.
"Captain Roland, this wanted criminal wants to kill me." The Duke drew his sword. He had decided not to keep this kid alive.
But Asa actually turned around to face the Duke, completely ignoring the Empire's number one swordsman behind him. Captain Roland seemed to have only chopped the two doors, and then suddenly there was no more sound, and he seemed to disappear suddenly.
.
The Duke turned his head in surprise and saw behind Asa. Captain Roland was indeed still there in the corridor outside the study. But he lowered his head and seemed to be about to walk forward, with his hand on the hilt of his sword. But he
He remained motionless in this posture, as if he had become a stone statue.
The Duke suddenly noticed a strange smell. This was not a smell that actually existed, but just a pure feeling, a feeling that would naturally arise when staring at a huge beast. Although there was no beast in sight,
But the Duke knew very clearly that the origin of this feeling was at the corner of a corridor not far behind Captain Roland.
No one can see what is there, and no one can hear any noises, but everyone, not even a human being, even another animal here can know the strangeness and danger there.
This strange and dangerous feeling became even stronger. The Duke felt as if he was standing in front of a sea that was about to be hit by a tsunami.
Captain Roland's body slowly bent down. His head was buried deeper, and he seemed to have closed his eyes. His hand holding the sword tightened. If there was a typhoon brewing behind him,
Then he and his sword are like a mountain, a volcano that is immovable but can erupt into huge flames at any time.
There was a strange cracking sound. Behind Captain Roland, a shelf in the corridor shattered together with a porcelain bottle placed on it. It seemed to be squeezed by a pair of invisible hands and it shattered toward the middle. The fragments were not scattered at all.
, all piled together in the middle.
Captain Roland did not move, nor did the man at the corner who exuded an incomparable aura. No sound was made, and even the air in that area seemed to have condensed into a solid mass. But the strange silence was brewing.
Once something breaks out, the entire Duke's Palace may suddenly shatter like a vase under a heavy blow.
The Duke was already sweating on his head. He even had trouble breathing.
"There are unexpected things that come across by luck, and there are also things that are not luck." Asa's voice suddenly sounded at this strange and solemn moment. "Actually, I should be waiting for him to untie me. But look.
It seemed like he knew I had a solution, but he never took action, so I had no choice but to do it myself."
The veins on the Duke's hand holding the sword and on his forehead were dancing, and his voice was dryer than ever before: "Do you really have a plan?"
"After you see the wyvern, you will know that I have been to Orfu. So even if I fail to save people, you should be reluctant to let me die. According to your style, you will definitely use me in the end, or at least interrogate me. And that's all.
You will never let anyone else be around when things happen, you must be alone. These are all plans, plans for you." Asa clenched his fists, and the sound of cracking joints sounded unusually clear in the strange silence.
"You're right, knowing what kind of person the other person is and how they will react under what circumstances is indeed the most important part of the trap."
The corners of the Duke's eyes also twitched. "You are betting. I am surprised that Cedros would make such a dangerous plan."
"You are right. Cedros will not accompany me in the bet, but the others will. One helps me plan, and the other agrees to help me take action. Of course, they also asked me to agree to the conditions they proposed. But no matter what the conditions are, it is better than
Yours is better." Asa said, he slowly bent down like Captain Roland. His body emitted a light white light.
"It's a pity that you lost the bet." The Duke's rapier slowly moved forward, pointing at Asa. His wrist did not move, and his body did not move, but the tip of the sword was trembling on its own, like a poisonous snake's message.
"You two, I really have nothing to say. But you are the only one now. And there are thousands of soldiers outside."
"We don't know who will lose yet." Asa replied coldly, the light in his eyes sharper than the Duke's sword. The white light all over his body had gathered on his fist.
The Duke's sword shook even more violently, like a snake that was about to fly out at any moment.
Suddenly a person sighed and said: "If you don't know who loses by now, it must be because his head is full of shit."
The wall of the study suddenly collapsed silently, leaving a hole, and an old priest and Rodhart appeared in the room behind the wall. Rodhart walked in with difficulty, keeping his eyes on the corridor.
Above. The momentum storm that filled the place became more and more intense. The old pastor also glanced at the corridor, then shook his head and sighed: "Today's young people are good at everything, they just like to block the road." He should be what Rodhart said.
The priest was waiting at the door with Captain Roland. These two people obviously couldn't come through the corridor, so they actually went around in a circle and broke through the wall from other rooms. But everyone here was completely calm under such a tense atmosphere.
aware.
The Duke smiled. Although he was a little surprised why there was no sound from the Guards, the presence of these two people was enough. He remembered that this old priest was always around the high platform when he was at the execution ground. He also took action to treat people who were killed by Black Rain.
When the poisoned soldiers were poisoned, their treatment and detoxification effects were better than anyone else's, and their magic skills were definitely not low. And now that Rodhart was added to the mix, he was sure to win. He shouted in a deep voice: "You guys came just in time. Help.
I'll kill him together."
As soon as the Duke finished speaking, the aura storm in the corridor suddenly increased dozens of times. The fragments of the pile of vases continued to break, making a sound like fried beans. Even the plaster on the wall was peeling off.
Captain Roland still did not move, and the sword in his hand was not unsheathed. However, a strange buzzing sound spread from his scabbard to every corner of the Duke's Palace. Rodhart's eyes did not move for a moment.
After leaving the corridor, without even taking a look at the Duke, cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.
The old priest who broke through the wall did not pay attention to the Duke, but weakly shouted into the corridor: "Are you young people's spirits better than others? We are all fellow travelers, and we will fight or kill everyone here."
Let’s talk about it after the matter is resolved.”
As soon as these words came out, the trembling of the thin sword in the Duke's hand immediately stopped. This extremely nimble snake that was about to choose someone to eat seemed to suddenly turn into a clothes pole. The Duke's slender pair of
His eyes were actually wider than those of ordinary people, and he looked at the old priest blankly. He couldn't figure out why the priest would say such a thing, he was so surprised.
Asa's expression was no less relaxed than the Duke's. His mouth opened so wide that he could almost put his fist in, and his fighting spirit disappeared instantly. His surprise was even bigger than the Duke's.