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When Wang Yi saw this scene, he immediately took out a small bag from his dimensional bag and handed it to Elizabeth.
"what is this?"
"It's a parting gift from those guys in the Transmutation Department. If you put it next to your nose like this, it can filter out bad odors." Wang said as he took out another small bag and demonstrated it.
Elizabeth put the bag next to her nose doubtfully, then immediately laughed: "That's great, it works."
The king subconsciously raised the light spell in his hand so that he could stare at the princess' smile better, and then suddenly said, "So why do you want to learn how to charm humans? This smile is enough!"
Elizabeth, who was still studying the sachet, suddenly froze.
Seeing this, Misha Sara, who was left behind, said, "Good! This is a good move! I call this the Idiot Straight Punch! Come on, Mage, we need to high-five at this time. Raise your hands."
Although Wang was very surprised, he still raised his hand.
"Come on!" The cat man came over and high-fived him.
king:"?"
The dwarf in front shouted: "Hey! Although I don't know where Zhuoer is, I feel that she is very far away from us. Let's go."
"Okay, let's go!" Wang replied immediately.
The wanderer in front is also responsible for guiding, and she will leave a mark every few steps.
As an underground race, dwarves also have darkvision with a range of about sixty feet, so the intervals between these marks are roughly 30 to 40 feet, ensuring that the space between two marks is covered by the dwarf's darkvision.
Gotrek and the swordsman in the team carried torches, and the two spellcasters held up the light spell.
The team walked into the unknown underground world little by little.
Chapter 17 Is it wrong to seek romance in the sewers?
The team marched quietly underground for a while, and Her Royal Highness the Princess couldn't help but ask, "Are we going to keep walking quietly like this?"
Wang: "You still want to sing and dance? Why don't you let the pastor do a tap dance? He is Kailin's believer, and Kailin will be happy."
"Come on," the cat-man behind said, "that would sound like an entire dwarven army marching underground."
The human swordsman laughed heartily.
Curses were heard from the dwarves ahead.
The dwarf advanced by darkvision, without a torch, and for a moment the king could not see where he was.
These underground races have great advantages in the darkness underground.
The princess looked at the darkness outside the range of the light spell and asked nervously, "King, when do you think the enemy will attack?"
"I don't think the enemy will attack." Wang said affirmatively.
The princess looked surprised: "Why?"
"Because your head maid openly supported your action and gave you a defensive wristband. I think everyone in Langdon City knows the destination of the princess's outing. And there must be many eyes watching us."
"Is this why no one comes?" the princess was shocked.
"Not only that. First of all, you should know that our team has a great advantage underground. If the attackers are humans, the dwarves and the drow would be enough to give them a hard time. So they have to ambush us.
"We all know they're going to attack, so how can we ambush them?"
The princess nodded repeatedly: "I understand. We learned in military class that we should attack the enemy when they are least prepared and take them by surprise."
"Second point. After we were attacked, regardless of whether you went back or not, who could benefit from the attack?"
Facing the king's question, the princess frowned: "Hmm... it seems that no one can benefit? Or it seems that everyone who has the right of inheritance will benefit?"
"That's the problem."
Wang subconsciously switched to a lecture tone and continued, "It seems that everyone has benefited, after all, there is one less competitor, but in fact no one has benefited at all, because you have the lowest succession order among all the competitors, and it would not have been your turn if the first two had not died.
"You are also the weakest. You have just established your own base, and the team that obeys you has just taken shape.
"Keeping you here even has an advantage, as it can be used to form marriage alliances with other electors.
"You are a beautiful sorceress, very attractive to other Elector Counts who are eager to capture a trustworthy spellcaster.
"To put it bluntly, you are still an insignificant but beautiful bottle, a tool for marriage."
Elizabeth pouted: "Although it is the truth, but...can you please consider my feelings a little."
"When my teacher was teaching me political science, he particularly emphasized that a political master should have the courage to face the cruel reality."
Elizabeth was shocked: "Well, he... is right."
Wang directly brought the topic back to the original topic: “So you see, the benefits of the attack itself are very low, and the cost is very high if it is not a sneak attack.
"Besides, you were attacked in front of everyone. To put it in a bigger picture, the authority of the Landon Territory was challenged.
“As the legitimate first-in-line heir, Prince Langdon will definitely go all out in the investigation and dig deep to find the attacker.
"With the eldest brother setting an example, the second brother couldn't help but take action. The final result was that everyone was digging deep in the ground to find the attacker.
"Very insignificant evidence can be taken as irrefutable evidence and used to convict someone. In this case, isn't it natural that the attacker who was originally planning to attack would decide not to do it?"
Elizabeth nodded slightly as she thought about it.
Suddenly she said, "It's funny, you look so socially awkward, yet you can still speak like that!"
"Because there is a basic rule in Machiavelli: interests. Everyone acts rationally driven by interests," Wang shrugged. "This makes Machiavelli very similar to mathematics. Given conditions, similar results can be derived. As long as it is a subject like mathematics, I am very good at it."
Elizabeth frowned. “Does what you just said have anything to do with mathematics?”
Wang: "I said 'like'. The foundation of mathematics is logic. So is Machiavelli..."
Elizabeth shook her head repeatedly. "No, no, no, I can't accept it. Two math classes a week are already uncomfortable for me. If governance also becomes math, I will go crazy... So, we won't be attacked?"
Wang: "That's what I think. After all, as I said at the beginning, we have dwarves and drow in our team, so we have a huge advantage in underground combat."
As they were talking, the two happened to pass by a sewer opening covered with an iron grille. The sunlight slanted into the sewer, illuminating the mottled stone walls.
Elizabeth suddenly said, "Look, these mosses are actually hiding from the sunlight! They are obviously green too."
Wang: “Some of these lichens really don’t like direct sunlight.”
"Is that so..." Elizabeth sighed, "So, we are really going on an outing? In that case, I might as well go horseback riding?"
Wang scratched the back of his head and said, "It's not like there's no chance of being attacked."
"Oh?" Elizabeth turned her head excitedly, "Really?"
"First of all, there are all kinds of things hidden underground, and maybe some ancient evil thing will jump out. Bob said that Landon County never really controlled the ancient underground waterway. This is what you built on the basis of the original ancient sewer.
"Secondly, the Thieves Guild has already received a commission to deal with the undead. Remember? Marika mentioned this yesterday.
"Also, the enemy may have thugs who are good at underground operations. If these thugs happen to be some species that likes to attack humans randomly, then we can perfectly shift the blame."
Elizabeth was about to laugh, but the king suddenly said, "But!"
"No buts!" the princess cried out.
Wang: "But. If the attacker can control some underground creatures, is it possible for him to attack a weak and helpless youngest daughter? No, no, no, this kind of power should be saved for bigger things."
Elizabeth punched the king on the shoulder: "You've come full circle and you're back again!"
Wang laughed cheerfully: "When I was a kid, I was very serious, so I was often teased by my senior brothers. They liked it that way."
Elizabeth: "Brothers? Tell me the story of your Mage Tower. What is it like to grow up in a Mage Tower?"
Wang scratched his head: "I don't feel anything... When I was very young, I would help the teacher with experiments and was ordered around by the talking crow. That crow is very smart, and unlike mine, it will talk when the teacher doesn't control it.
"It can also make sarcastic remarks. When I first practiced the mirror image technique, it said, 'Oh, you are a genius, Wang. Your mirror image has turned into a girl!'"
Wang imitated the crow's tone, making Elizabeth giggle.
Chapter 18 Excluding all possible options, the one remaining
Mark looked at the two spellcasters in front of him and sighed: "The princess has grown up."
The cat man said, "This is good, much better than those disgusting nobles. Moreover, he is the beloved disciple of the legendary wizard, and he has a dimensional bag, so there must be other good things. When the time comes, Her Royal Highness the Princess will become the object of marriage with the Wizard Tower, my God!"
Mark: "I'm just sighing. But it's true that the wizard is much better than other nobles. Well, let's just be good guards for the princess to fall in love with. But the wizard really knows how to choose a place, to have a love affair in the sewer."
"They haven't gotten to that stage yet, but you see, making a girl find you interesting is the first step in starting a relationship."
At this time, the dwarf in front shouted: "We need to go deeper underground. I sense some undead spirits. They may stretch their muscles."
"Okay!" Wang responded.
Elizabeth: "Everyone is used to treating you as the captain."
"This should be a job for a bard or a paladin." The king shrugged.
At this time, just as the dwarf had predicted, the ground began to tilt, and it was obvious that a group of people were moving deeper underground.
Elizabeth frowned: "It stinks even more..."
Wang nodded, "The sachets given by those guys from the Transfiguration Department don't even work anymore."
Elizabeth asked in front: "How far is it to the exterminated goblin tribe?"
"You'll have to ask the drow who's leading the way." The dwarf's voice floated back from the front.
Wang: "It should be in a deeper layer. Wait a minute, there is a carving on the stone wall over here."
Wang moved closer and the lichen on the wall shrank immediately after being illuminated by the strong light of the light magic, revealing the carvings on the mottled stone wall below.
Elizabeth also came over: "You even recognize this? Are you really eighteen years old?"
"It's just a badge." The king said nonchalantly, "Look at this mural. The Second Age was colder than it is now. Kusania was covered in ice and snow most of the time."
Elizabeth: "Why are you painting these in the sewers?"
"This is not necessarily a sewer. The Second Age was quite cold, and some human countries would deliberately build city passages underground to keep out the cold."
"So this is the street of the Second Age people?" Elizabeth asked.
"possible."
Just then, Marika suddenly appeared: "Your Highness!"
The princess was startled: "Ah? Marika? You scared me."
The cat man interrupted: "Your Highness is immersed in the world of two people with the wizard brother."