Chapter 416 Wedding Banquet (16)

Chapter 416 Wedding Banquet (16)

In a carriage heading towards the west exit of the castle, the Knight Commander was communicating with the woman through the curtain of the carriage.

"We will soon reach the exit on the west side of the castle. There are currently the fewest guards at that location. After we go out, the dock is not far away. My identity is quite special, so I cannot leave through the dock. Once I am seen at the dock, the news will immediately reach my father. You can find a fishing boat to leave from the dock, but I suggest that you act separately."

"Well, Lemon will leave from the dock. I gave him a photo stone with evidence in it. The rest of us will be divided into groups and leave from the main road and the swamp respectively. As long as we leave the Duke's territory, we can return to the royal city by airship or teleportation array. In about three or four days, the evidence will be delivered to the king. If our plan does not fail, then as long as you can escape from the Duke's territory within this period of time, you will be safe."

"Hmm, wait a minute, is there someone standing on the road ahead?"

"It seems so. Wait a minute... Why do I feel like this person looks familiar?"

Clemons seat was close to the carriage window, so he could hear the conversation between the Knight Commander and the woman very clearly. When he heard the woman say that a man suddenly appeared on the road ahead, Clemons instinctively stuck his head out to check. It was already late at night, and it was not easy to see the face clearly in a moving carriage, but from the physical outline, Clemons had the feeling that he had seen this guy somewhere.

Since everyone was evacuating in a low-key manner, the woman driving the carriage slowed down when other people appeared in front of them. More haste, less speed. If something happened at this time, it would easily complicate the simple situation. There were indeed few guards at the west exit of the castle, but there were some guards. The Knight Commander and his party sneaked into the castle secretly, and their names were not on the guest list, which was difficult to explain.

"No! It's him! Speed ​​up! We have to leave now!"

As the carriage gradually approached the figure walking in the middle of the road, his appearance became gradually clearer. After seeing his face clearly, Raymond was shocked and immediately asked the woman to speed up the carriage.

"Who is it? Why are you so nervous?"

"It's the Inquisitor! He found me!"

"What? Damn it!"

"At this moment... we can't speed up. If we maintain our current speed, we might still have a chance to talk. But if we speed up and rush over, I think that guy will definitely tear down the carriage or make a big noise. I'll try to talk to him and then get away with it."

"Can't we just turn around and leave?"

"It's very strange. After all, we are the only carriage on this road now."

"Hide the weapons and all that. He'll probably ask to inspect the carriage."

The woman gradually slowed down the carriage and stopped in front of the man standing in the middle of the road. She raised the oil lamp next to the driver's seat and illuminated the man's face. From the man's clothes and the power he exuded, the woman could clearly tell that this man was indeed an inquisitor. According to Lemon, this should be the same person who controlled the team he hired. However, she was going to pretend that she knew nothing. He looked like a person and had never seen her. As long as she controlled her nervousness, she should still have a chance to get away with it.

"Your Excellency the Inquisitor, you......"

However, she had just started to make up her lie when she caught a glimpse of two other people leaning against the wall of a building beside the street. Judging from the way he was dressed, one of them should be the great wizard that Clemens had mentioned. The other one was not someone she wanted to see so much. She was a member of the team that was hired at that time. The woman remembered her name, which seemed to be Taren.

If Tarun was not here, he had either lost his usefulness and was killed by the Inquisitor, or he had let him go. In that case, it might not be a problem to make up a lie that made sense and get away with it. But she was right next to him and she looked neither injured nor under any personal restraints. In the current situation, the woman could only think that Tarun might have reached some agreement with the Inquisitor. The woman didn't actually know Tarun very well, so she instinctively thought that the agreement was probably that Tarun had told others about his employment and probably confessed everything, and he was probably looking for her.

Although the sudden situation made the woman speechless for a moment, she quickly returned to normal. When getting the carriage, she changed her appearance and did some disguise. As long as she was careful, the other party should not recognize her.

"Is this the employer who hired you?"

"There's some disguise, but it's definitely her."

However, the conversation between the Inquisitor and Tarun who suddenly spoke made the woman swallow the words that were about to come out of her mouth. Tarun's behavior was not unpredictable. If you stand from the other person's perspective, this behavior is even very reasonable. But from the woman's perspective, this is a complete betrayal. However, now is not a good time to be angry, but this did not prevent her from glaring at Tarun.

"Don't look at me like that. If you were me, I guess you would make the same choice as me."

"what do you want to do?"

"I want to ask you something. Oh, there are a few 'guests' in the car. Can we go somewhere else to talk?"

"I don't understand what you are saying. There is no one in the car."

"Look, you have to play this..."

"drive!"

Something was not right; they had to evacuate as soon as possible. Clemons, who had been targeted by the Inquisitor, seemed to be in a weird state at this moment. He was completely different from his normal self. This guy was very nervous, as if he was possessed. Clemons, who heard the conversation between the two people clearly from between the lines, suddenly rushed to the driver's seat and used the belt around his waist to slap the butt of the animal pulling the cart. The animal was frightened and jumped out suddenly. The Inquisitor turned sideways in time, and the carriage sped past. The edge of the frame rubbed against his armor, producing quite a few sparks.

"They just ran away like that?"

"That's not possible, but the guy who rushed out is not in a normal state. There is something wrong. I need to ask him carefully."

The judge stretched out a hand towards the speeding carriage and slightly clenched his fingers. The carriage, which had already run out for more than ten meters, suddenly stopped in place and seemed to be floating a few centimeters in the air. The animal in front was still waving its limbs, ready to continue running, but suddenly, the animal seemed to be stimulated by something and began to struggle frantically.

"Ok?"

This situation attracted the attention of the Inquisitor. Others might not be able to see clearly at this distance, but it was different for him. He could clearly see that energy lines that should not have appeared suddenly appeared on the animal's body. He immediately used his perception ability and found that the animal's blood was actually being gradually transformed into other things by its own energy, and it was not intentional. He was not completely unfamiliar with this newly emerged energy. The residual energy fluctuations after the previous explosion were exactly the same as this.

Everyone in the carriage immediately left the carriage and hid in a nearby building. They did not notice anything wrong with the animal, they just simply shook off the Inquisitor, who did not continue to chase them, but tightened his arms and used that force to pull the carriage and the animal back from a distance. The animal was still going crazy, and the Inquisitor put his hands on the animal, trying to solve the abnormal energy runaway in its body, but this runaway energy was completely out of his control. It's not that he couldn't do it at all, but it was difficult to successfully stop the energy runaway before the animal exploded again.

Tarun and the Archmage also sensed the energy runaway, and they immediately distanced themselves and hid against the wall of the building. They thought that this might be a trap set by the people in the carriage. The Archmage had seen this before, and it seemed that the explosion was caused by the group of people in the carriage.

Han Zu, who knew the real situation, gave up trying to stop the animal from exploding, but he also couldn't just let the explosion happen. The explosion was bound to make a lot of noise, and the guards near the west gate of the castle would definitely be attracted. He was not prepared to let this happen at the moment. After thinking quickly, he took a step back, stretched out his hands, used the strange energy to wrap the still mad animal in the middle, and then suddenly retracted the power.

The flames produced by the explosion appeared immediately, but did not spread. Similarly, the sound of the explosion did not break through the envelope of that strange energy, but its impact was not completely absent. In the compressed position, an indescribable energy hum appeared.

As the Inquisitor continued to compress the force of the explosion, he gradually began to feel some counter-thrust. It was the energy generated by the explosion trying to fight against himself, so he immediately continued to compress it while absorbing the compressed energy of the explosion. Soon, the energy of the explosion was completely absorbed by the Inquisitor, and it lost its resistance. The strange force merged into one again, and the explosion that should have created a loud noise and dazzling flames, except for briefly creating some bright lights and some strange energy buzzing, left nothing behind, as if nothing had happened. There was no residual energy, no overflowing energy fluctuations, nothing was left behind.

"Snapped."

Since he was not very experienced, the Inquisitor, who was compressing his hands, clapped his hands together with all his might after the energy was completely devoured. However, it was just clapping after all, so the sound was not loud.

The person who caused the explosion was most likely himself. The Inquisitor thought about it and came to this conclusion, but he still had some doubts. After all, when the first explosion occurred, he didn't know that he could use this power. There must be something he missed.

But now is obviously not a good time to think. According to his own perception, the guys who were originally in the carriage are about to run out of the range of his perception.

"Should we chase or not?"

"It seems there is still someone in the carriage who has not escaped. I will go and check."

The group of guys in the carriage ran away as soon as they met each other, which must be wrong, so the Inquisitor was originally prepared to chase them, but when he heard Taren say that there was another person in the carriage, this aroused his vigilance. So he temporarily gave up chasing the others and walked to the location of the carriage that he had just thrown aside, and actually found a person inside.

“This is the guy who rushed out at that time.”

"The one you said was wrong?"

"Why does this face look so familiar..."

"Now that you mention it, I think so, too."

After pulling the guy out of the carriage, the Inquisitor looked at his face carefully, thought for a while, and remembered who this guy was. When the monster that escaped from the bottom of the abyss broke through the wall and was about to attack, the guy was among the crowd nearby. He was also the only one who knew what happened and saw it with his own eyes. The reason why the Inquisitor chased him at that time was to confirm whether he would report to other guards, but he was not close to any guards at that time, and suddenly ran into the building. The material of the building could shield his perception ability, so he lost this guy. However, since he did not report to the guards, he was not important, so the Inquisitor did not take him to heart.

"This seems to be the guy you were chasing at that time?"

"Yes, that was him, but he ran too fast and I lost him."

"Why is this guy like this? Is he scared and fainted? It doesn't seem like it."

The guy who stayed in the carriage was Clemmon. He was in a very strange state. His eyes were open and his occasional body movements proved that he was still alive. He was examined and found to have no other injuries except some scratches. His physical energy concentration was very low, as if he had been involved in some energy-intensive activity. Besides that, this guy curled up into a ball and had no reaction to any external touch. No matter what, he would eventually curl up.

"He didn't respond when I talked to him, and he didn't resist when I kicked him. What's wrong with this guy? Is he crazy?"

"I originally thought that there was something wrong with his energy, but after checking, it turned out that it wasn't the case at all. And judging from his expression, he didn't look scared at all. Instead, it seemed that..."

"Like a ghost possessed me?"

"That's what it means."

The Inquisitor scratched his head, trying to figure out what was going on. He looked up and focused his gaze on Tarun.

"You're a vampire, aren't you?"

"what happened?"

"Is it true that you can read memories through blood?"

"Yes, you want me to..."

"Correct."

"Ok."

Taron crouched down, lifted Lemon's arm, bit his arm, and sucked some of his blood.

“Ugh! Ugh~~!!”

However, a strange scene happened. Tarun's expression suddenly changed, as if he had suffered a severe blow. He suddenly began to vomit, spitting out all the blood he had sucked in. Then he kept coughing, and it took a while for him to recover.

"Um, are you a picky eater or.. is there something wrong with this guy?"

"Ahem! This guy has... ahem! a problem... ahem!... his... ahem!! his..."

The inquisitor looked around and found a water bag on the carriage. It was filled with wine, so there was nothing wrong with it. He handed it to Tarun, who smelled the wine and found nothing wrong. Tarun suppressed his cough and drank the wine. After about a minute, he finally stopped coughing, threw away the water bag, wiped the wine drops from the corner of his mouth, and stood up.

"There's something wrong with this guy's blood. No matter from which angle you look at it, there's no normal blood in this guy's body. At least the stuff flowing in his body has nothing to do with normal blood."

"But it still counts as blood, right?"

"If you want to ask me if I have found any information or read any memory, then you will be disappointed. I can't read any memory from his blood, or that thing that can really be called blood. It is completely transparent."

"but..."

"I know what you want to ask. Ahem, I've also come across abnormal blood or contaminated blood. It's not like I can't read anything at all, even if it's affected by some powerful black magic. And, what I can read is at most a blank, not transparent. A blank means that the memory has been modified or protected, and a transparent one means that this guy has no memory at all. But this is not..."

"That's impossible. That guy was just communicating with other people in the carriage. And I don't think a guy with no memory at all can drive a carriage."

"So what should we do now? We can't do anything to this guy now, and we don't have any other means to deal with him. Maybe we should continue to look for other people?"

"It seems that this is the only solution for now... Wait, what is this? The Philosopher's Stone?"

Occasionally, the twitching caused something to be rubbed out of Lemon's pocket. It looked like a stone, which contained a certain amount of magical energy. The energy was not small, but it was not dangerous at all. As visitors from the outside world, the inquisitor and the great wizard did not recognize this thing.

"Is this... a specially made photo stone?"

Fortunately, Tarun still had some impression of this thing.