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At this moment, he was holding a glass of red wine, tasting it leisurely, while the maid beside him was serving him diligently.
"You're finally here." William put down the goblet in his hand, stood up and clapped his hands, signaling the maids around him to step aside, and then pointed to the seat next to him.
"Please take a seat, Mr. Loud!"
Lord seemed to have forgotten the slight unpleasantness at the door just now. He clenched the cane in his hand and sat down generously like an invited guest. However, he did not sit in the seat William pointed to, but in the seat directly opposite him.
William didn't care. He used a wooden spoon to scoop up a glass of scarlet wine, filled another glass, and then handed it to Lord himself, speaking slowly.
"I heard that Mr. Loud also worked for Lord Herram like me, responsible for transporting goods from the Sekas Empire to the Land of Wizards. Is that right?"
"It seems that you have learned a lot of information in Yieta!" Lord did not touch the glass of wine, and was not surprised that the other party knew this.
When he fled to Yieta with Lin En, he caused quite a stir in Yieta. Almost everyone in the city knew about it. It was normal for William to collect relevant information and guess his identity.
However, looking at William, who was so elegant and almost fat like a ball, Lord couldn't help feeling a little jealous. Although he was in charge of a large number of people when he was in Harbor Town, to put it bluntly, he was not presentable at all and had to look at the faces of the nobles and the church all the time.
William was obviously doing much better than him. Not only did he curry favor with the eldest prince Harold, he also became a veritable viscount. Just looking at his physique, you could tell that he enjoyed himself a lot in his daily life!
"People like us always unconsciously inquire about some information, don't we? No matter how glorious the appearance is, it is just a running dog that comes when called and goes away when dismissed." William shook his head and said meaningfully.
Lord could understand the other party's underlying meaning, but he did not agree with it and responded with a sneer. "Who in this world is not a running dog? Even King Bazel cannot decide on the candidate for the crown prince, and the cardinal cannot disobey the orders of the church's top leaders..."
"That's right. Since we are just trying to make a living under someone else, why not find a bigger and higher backer?" William sipped the red wine in his glass and said calmly. "This world ultimately belongs to the nobility and the church. All worldly things belong to the king, and spirituality and faith belong to God..."
"But the world is always changing, and the speed may be faster than you think!" Lord said without comment.
"Then I'd like to see it for myself." William didn't mind at all, and then asked casually. "I wonder what methods you have thought of to deal with me?"
Loud's heart skipped a beat. Things were clearly getting out of his control. However, he still managed to calm down and asked in confusion. "What do you mean, William? Didn't you invite me to discuss the trade share of ore and glass products?"
"Before you came in, you asked your men to take away all my self-defense equipment. Are you worried that a cripple like me who can't do magic might do something to you?" Lord said with a sneer, gently stroking his crutch with his right hand.
"In that case, I might as well give you a way out!" William got straight to the point. "I need to know how many wizards Lord Lin has sent into the capital of Hadratha, and what do they want to do?"
"Also, where is the compass that can locate the wizard's land?" William stared at Lord and questioned.
The guards on both sides had drawn their swords, and within just two or three minutes of entering the hall, William was already facing off with swords.
Lord hesitated for a long time, as if he was trying to weigh the pros and cons and fell into deep thought. Until William showed an extremely impatient look on his face, he spoke suddenly as if he had finally made a decision.
"That compass has always been in the hands of Lord Orlando!"
Lord was making up stories. In fact, the airship's positioning device had long been replaced with something called a compass. Even if they got it, they had to know the exact location of the wizard's land, or they would have to slowly search for it on the sea.
"Then how many of you have entered the Kingdom of Hadrata? Are there any great wizards? How many official wizards are there?" William asked again.
Lord thought about it for a long time before answering slowly. "About a few dozen people, but I'm not sure. Only Lord Orlando knows the details..."
Perhaps noticing that Lord was stalling for time, William's expression became somewhat dangerous. He extended his fat index finger, pointed at the glass of red wine on the table, and said without question, "I'll only give you 30 seconds to think about it. Drink that glass of wine and we'll talk."
Chapter 245 Even if your head is as hard as iron, there will be a hole in it
As William opened his mouth, the guards surrounded him.
Cold sweat broke out on Lord's forehead. These thirty seconds were undoubtedly the longest moment he had ever experienced.
"Okay!" At the last moment, Lord sighed, slowly reached out and picked up the wine glass on the table, and pretended to drink it. However, at the last moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he threw the red wine in the glass to the guard closest to him.
The scarlet liquid immediately smeared on the man's face, sticking to the skin like sticky mud. It was obvious that this was not just red wine.
A dozen fully armed guards were already slashing at them with their knives.
Lord ducked down and shamelessly crawled under the table, dodging the swung sword and calmly analyzing the situation on the field.
Although the other side has a lot of people, they are all ordinary stuff, and the fat William has difficulty moving. I may not be without a chance!
Just as he was thinking about it, the long table above was lifted up, and Lord could see clearly that the person who did it was actually William!
You have to know that a whole long solid wood table with a lot of food on it probably weighs hundreds of pounds, but William easily flipped it over.
Fortunately, Lord was not an ordinary cripple. His alchemical prosthesis was even more flexible than that of a normal person. He almost rolled and crawled to avoid several long swords that were chopped at him, and rushed straight towards William who was very close to him!
A fully armed guard suddenly blocked the way, his sturdy figure like a heavy wall.
Without slowing down, Loud raised his cane and placed his hand on the secret compartment.
The next moment, a sharp thunder sounded in the closed hall. The lead bullet with a speed of more than 300 meters per second had penetrated the helmet at the moment the gunshot rang out, and the opponent's head was twisted into a knot.
Minced meat mixed with blood was scattered on Lord's face, but he no longer cared about it. Before a dozen guards surrounded him, he had already pointed the crutch and musket in his hand at William's head.
"Surrender, William! You should have seen its power just now. Even if your head is as hard as steel, there will be a hole in it." Lord said viciously.
Although this musket cannot be fired a second time in a short period of time, it does not prevent him from using it as a threat.
However, William ignored the powerful cane and musket pointed at his head and said in disappointment, "Is this what you rely on?"
A warning sign emerged in Lord's mind, and then the ground under his feet collapsed. Lord didn't check it for a moment and lost his balance, and fell in with the fat William.
Lord got up from the ground extremely quickly, and after seeing the surrounding scene clearly, cold sweat broke out on his face.
This is an underground palace, with densely packed holes on the surrounding walls, and countless sharp crossbows mounted on them.
William also fell hard and couldn't stand up at all. He seemed like a different person. He said tremblingly, "The walls of the entire hall are built with two-meter-thick boulders. Traps like this are everywhere in the hall. The ground is filled with kerosene. Unless a great wizard or the cardinal comes in person, no one can leave here alive!"
"You are not William!" Lord finally realized that something was wrong, because the real William would never put himself in such danger.
Unless, this is just a stand-in!
Damn!
Lord thought of this immediately, and he didn't expect that he would die here with a substitute.
Accompanied by a slight mechanical sound, the crossbow placed at the entrance of the cave retracted into the cave. That was the sound of the string being drawn!
Faced with thousands of black crossbow holes all around him, Lord had no choice but to close his eyes and wait for death. Even if he could fly now, he couldn't fly out.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no sound of the crossbow being fired, and the two people present stopped.
The mechanism has... stopped?
……
A few minutes ago, outside the gate of the fortress, Murt, who had confiscated Laud's personal belongings, walked alone into the deeper part of the manor. After turning around several times, he entered a hidden compartment. This was William's real hiding place!
Except for a very small number of his most trusted confidants, no one knew that William had trained a substitute who looked very similar to him, who usually handled external affairs or attended banquets among nobles.
Compared to the stand-in outside, the real William looks fatter and fatter, even making people wonder whether he can even breathe.
"Sir, just as you expected, Mr. Loud doesn't seem to be prepared to negotiate with us." Murt walked forward with his head lowered and displayed two daggers and a small crossbow in front of William, and pointed out that these were all looted from Loud's body.
"You did a great job, Murt," William said appreciatively.
Although the intelligence indicated that Lord was just an ordinary person who could not perform magic and was not a big threat, the magic of those wizards was extremely strange and who knew whether they would have any tricks up their sleeves. Naturally, he was not prepared to face them personally.
"Go and call Cody, I have something to tell him." William said in a deep voice.
Murt just stood there quietly with no intention of moving, as if he didn't hear his command.
"Murt!" William's eyes, which were not big to begin with, were almost narrowed into a line, and his pupils were filled with murderous intent.
At this moment, a voice that was extremely unfamiliar and frightening to him sounded in the compartment.
"Forked Lightning!"
Blue-purple arcs of electricity lit up around Murt. The speed of lightning was so fast that William had no time to react. The guards standing in front of him were already covered by the lightning. The sturdy iron armor not only failed to provide protection, but instead became the best conductor.
Just a face-to-face encounter caused him to fall to the ground twitching under the electric current of tens of thousands of volts. William himself was also within the range of the thunder.
Because the guards were wearing iron armor, the lightning conduction effect was so good that William was only affected to a very limited extent. However, the fat on his body couldn't help but tremble at the moment the electric current passed through.
"It's actually affected by the conductor? This is a not insignificant disadvantage."
The strange voice sounded again in the compartment, and then Lynn's figure emerged in the void. He glanced at the guards who fell under the thunder magic and William who was intact.
It seems his new magic needs further improvement...
Chapter 246 William: Oh no, I’ve become a substitute!
"Murter, how dare you betray me?"
The moment he saw Lynn, William understood everything, but he couldn't believe that one of his most trusted men would betray him.
How is this possible? How dare he?
"Have you forgotten your parents and family? Murt, they are all in my hands." William threatened fiercely.
"The communication eagle is not with you now..." Murt responded in a low voice.
As long as William dies here, no one will issue orders.
"You probably don't know that Mr. Murt actually possesses a very good wizard talent." Lynn said with a smile. After seeing higher scenery, how could anyone bear to stay dormant in the quagmire.
Of course, he also used some extra tricks, otherwise how could he dare to trust the enemy's trusted subordinates...
"You are looking for death!" William slammed the tables and chairs angrily. Dozens of loudspeakers suddenly sounded, and sharp crossbow arrows flew out from under the two fat feet, aiming at Lin En and others.
【Electromagnetic control】
Lynn stretched out his hand, and the flying crossbow arrow immediately stopped in front of him. Then, flashes of lightning flashed on the iron arrowhead. Lynn stretched out his hand and flicked it. The wooden arrowhead suddenly shattered. The iron arrowhead shot out at a faster speed and pierced into William's fat body, blasting out a trail of blood mist.
William's painful wail immediately resounded in the room, but the exploding blood mist did not fall to the ground. Instead, it surrounded his body under the gathering of some kind of force.
Amidst the horrifying blood light, William's figure began to swell rapidly, the fat on his body quickly disappeared, and finally he turned into a two-meter-tall, extremely strong blood-red figure with red eyes, exuding a terrifying aura, and a brutal and bloodthirsty aura immediately filled the entire room.
The peeled blood spontaneously formed a barrier, blocking the upcoming [Chain Lightning].
"Sure enough, he has some skills." Lin En said lightly. He deliberately controlled the intensity of the electric current, but he did not expect that the other party could block it so easily.
It seems that during the more than ten years that he has worked for Hellram, William has been doing a lot of tricks in secret.
Before, Lin En had always been curious about which fleet brought the statue of the evil god into the land of wizards. There was no clear record of this in the Yieta Port. Now it seems that it should have been brought in from the fleet of Hadrata!
Murt was also extremely surprised by William's sudden outburst. This was information that even he was not aware of, so he quickly reminded him.
"Lord Lin, William has been brewing and drinking a strange red wine since five years ago. I suspect it may be mixed with the blood of some magical beast..."
"Traitor!" When William heard Murt's words, his eyes were filled with bloodlust, and he rushed towards the two of them like a huge bull.
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