Chapter 417 Wedding Banquet (17)
Once you know what the Photo Stone is, the method of using it becomes clear. The Inquisitor injected some energy into the Photo Stone, and soon the Photo Stone was reactivated.
"Let's go back to the warehouse we were in. Maybe there are some secrets in there."
There were many places to park carriages nearby, so the Inquisitor randomly put the carriage into an empty space, and then took Lemon, who was in a bad state, back to the warehouse with the Archmage and the "Scholar" Talen. He closed the door, tied Lemon up with the ropes found inside, and threw him on the ground. The Inquisitor then activated the recording stone and projected the recorded images onto the wall.
"What kind of mine does it look like?"
"That woman is dead? No, she must have faked her death to fake the scene. The other people in the carriage should be the ones in the picture."
"This person is... the Knight Commander of the Kingdom?!"
"You know him?"
"Of course! Is there anyone in the whole kingdom who doesn't know him? This guy is the king's confidant, and the king doesn't get along well with the duke, the owner of the castle, so they must have cooperated with our employer and sneaked into the castle. From this point of view, the woman should be a member of the duke's family."
The conversation between the three people seemed normal, but the Inquisitor and the Archmage didn't seem to be very interested in these "relationships between characters". Tarun didn't notice anything at first, but when she thought about it, she immediately realized that something was wrong with these two people. If the identities of these two people were true, even if they had not seen the Knight Commander of the Kingdom in person, they would know who he was. After all, the Knight Commander's portraits could be seen everywhere in the royal capital.
"What is this? It looks like an obelisk? Have you seen this thing?"
"!... I've never seen it before."
However, when the obelisk appeared in the image of the photo stone, "scholar" Talen almost immediately determined that they were fake based on the reactions of the Inquisitor and the Archmage. If they had not met the Knight Commander of the Kingdom, they could still use the explanation that they had not been to the capital or carried out secret missions due to the requirements of the Inquisition, but not knowing what this obelisk was would completely expose their identities.
It is no exaggeration to say that not only in the entire kingdom, but in the entire continent, even slaves know what that thing is used for, not to mention the Inquisition whose primary purpose is to find and destroy the obelisk, and the Mage Council who often assists the Inquisition to complete the above tasks. If they don’t even recognize the obelisk, it can only mean that they are not from this continent at all.
Although Tarun was extremely shocked by this evil thing when he first saw the obelisk, he quickly controlled his emotions. The Inquisitor and the Archmage were still discussing the situation inside the photo stone, so Tarun took this opportunity to start thinking about where these two people came from.
There are three continents in the world, and each continent has different races. The current continent can be excluded immediately. After the unification a hundred years ago, there is only one kingdom left on this continent. The races in the kingdom are mainly humans and elves, and there are some subspecies of the other two races, as well as some demons, banshees and the like. Obviously, these two people are not any of them. The archmage has the skin color of an elf, but does not have ears or pupils like an elf, and is completely different from other races. Although the judge looks like a human in every way, tentacles will not grow in the human body.
Taren had traveled to the remaining two continents. One of the continents was the territory of demons. Thanks to her identity as a vampire, Taren was actually a very normal existence on that continent. She had seen all types of demons, banshees, and their subspecies, and it could be basically confirmed that these two people were not one of them.
The last continent has long disappeared. Ninety-one years ago, it was swallowed up by a huge wave that almost no one knew about. The two kingdoms on it were completely swallowed up by the ocean overnight. Since then, no one knows that there was a third continent in the world. A group of people escaped that year, and Tarun had some contact with them. Most of those guys were orcs, with strong bodies. Although they were in human form, they had obvious animal characteristics. It was obvious that these two people were not one of them.
Of course, there are races like dwarves and goblins everywhere in this world, but the Inquisitor is tall and strong, almost as tall as a troll, second only to some orcs and demons, and is definitely not one of them.
To sum up, Taren came to a conclusion. Although the true identity of the Archmage was uncertain, it was basically certain that this guy who used the Inquisitor as a cover was most likely not from this world. Taren immediately remembered the legend that the "Siren" had told her. This guy disguised as the Inquisitor was most likely the legendary alien.
"The purpose of these people should be this obelisk. They were hired to steal the useless stone disc, probably to attract attention. I guess their original purpose was to let them release the monster below when stealing the stone disc and create chaos in the castle. Now it is during the banquet. Although there have been many accidents, the banquet has not been stopped. So this banquet must be more important than this chaos."
"If that's what you said, then I guess the previous explosions were probably part of the plan. Then this obelisk must be very important, but I'm curious, if that's the case, why didn't they just take the obelisk away? It doesn't look big, probably... about the size of a carriage."
"It shouldn't be the case that they were discovered by others, otherwise they wouldn't be able to reach the nearby west gate so easily."
"Should we find them and ask them, or go to the obelisk and take a look?"
"Let's find someone first. After all, this place is too big, and the castle's architecture can block energy. If we don't know the specific route, it will be difficult for us to find the specific route."
"Wait a minute, that seems to be...our mark?!"
Through one of the windows of the warehouse, the wizard saw a bright light appear in the distant sky. It was not fireworks, but some kind of energy exploding in the sky, which was consistent with the sign they agreed upon at the time.
"We'll go there right away!"
The archmage immediately prepared to leave, but the inquisitor next to her immediately stopped her.
"It's too far. It's diagonally from us. At our normal speed, it will take more than ten minutes to get there."
"But maybe they found something, we..."
"Tarun, ask your friend the Rat to help pass the message to the location where the mark appeared. I think the girl who followed you before should know who it should be passed to. After all, she has been following us for a while."
"Have you discovered it a long time ago?"
"That's not the case. It's just that before we separated, I remembered that she had appeared beside us. At that time, she seemed to be dressed as a maid."
"Ok."
Using his magic, Taren passed the information to the other five people. According to the description of the "Siren", the "Rat King" sent out some rats. There were a lot of these rats. Thanks to the special ability of the "Rat King", these controlled rats only needed to come into contact with other rats to complete the transformation of the controlled objects. These rats were like optical cables. Within a few minutes, the information was transmitted to each other's location. When two controlled rats communicated, it was as convenient and fast as a mobile phone.
“This ability is truly impressive.”
"Let's talk business first. What did you find over there?"
"We found a gap hidden by energy in the underground waterway nearby. Below it is a very long tunnel that looks like it was dug by humans. Judging from the state of the soil, it should have been dug recently. This tunnel leads directly to the outside of the southeast side of the castle. Although it has not been completely dug through, it is almost there."
After hearing the conversation between the two parties, Tarun paused. They should have found the evacuation passage dug by the "Earth Dragon". This group of people was indeed strange. They were able to find the secret place they carefully selected.
The Inquisitor looked at Tarun, whose expression changed a little, and then thought of her companion who seemed to be suitable for excavation work. He immediately understood who dug the tunnel. This was not very important, but it was not bad to have an extra route out of the castle.
"Have you found the materials you need?"
"Found it. We have joined up with Sinler's team. However, we are currently lacking a stable energy supply device. But other than that, we have met all the construction conditions. Have you found anything over there? Do you have any usable energy supply devices?"
"Not yet, but we may have found something similar. It's an obelisk, but we don't know the exact location yet. But we can confirm that the obelisk is somewhere under the castle. The Inquisitor has found some people who may know the exact route, and we are preparing to look for them."
"We will stay in the underground waterway for now. If we can confirm that thing can be used as an energy source, we will contact you again and we will bring the construction materials with us."
The communication between the two parties ended quickly and the mice ran away quickly.
"What should we do with this guy? He seems to be unable to recover for a while. If we take him with us, it will affect our actions."
"Just leave him here. When we go out, put him near the brazier. If someone passes by, they will find him. We don't need to worry about this matter. Our primary goal now is to find the obelisk or those who know its location. Maybe they can provide us with more clues."
"Well, we need to hurry. This place is not far from the west city gate. If we let them escape, it will be difficult to deal with them."
As they were talking, the three men, plus Clemens who had been carried up, had walked out of the warehouse and returned to the road. The road was straight, and the Inquisitor did not see anything unusual at the west gate. The patrol team was patrolling normally, and there were no problems with the handover process.
"If what this little vampire said is true, the Knight Commander of the Kingdom sneaked into the castle, then they would definitely not walk out of the city gate in a swagger. This is why they needed a carriage before. They must want to use the identity of that woman to transport them out of the city, so they will definitely look for a carriage. We just need to wait at the west gate."
"What if they leave from another location?"
"It's unrealistic. The things in the image stone are definitely bad for the Duke, so they will definitely leave the castle as soon as possible and send the message out. The other exits are far away from here, and there will be more guards. The woman's identity may not be useful at other exits. And one of their companions is missing, the unlucky guy lying here. They may try to save him. Even if they don't, they will definitely choose the fastest way to leave here, but it is not ruled out that they will leave separately from other locations."
"You don't seem to be in a hurry at all."
"As long as we can capture one of them, we will know the exact location of the obelisk. After that, what they are willing to do will not be our problem."
The three returned to the west gate, but in order not to alert the enemy, they did not communicate with the guards normally. Instead, they sneaked up the city wall and waited for those who were about to escape from the castle.
after a while.
"Are you sure they'll be back? It's been nearly an hour."
"At least one person will leave here, otherwise the woman's identity will be useless. And from the previous situation, she seems to be preparing to escape from the castle, probably with the Duke..."
“Tap tap tap~~”
The three people hiding on the city wall heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance. Tarun quietly distanced himself from the two and began to quietly gather blood magic. Tarun guessed about the obelisk. The woman who hired them might have a change of heart or she might have killed her relatives for the greater good. She contacted the chief knight of the kingdom and prepared to inform the king about the obelisk. Although there were certainly political factors involved, the king and his faction were definitely not stupid. Once the obelisk was fully activated, the consequences would be disastrous. So spreading the news of the obelisk was actually a good thing.
But this fake Inquisitor didn't seem to think so. His previous communication with other people basically planned to use the obelisk to make some kind of energy supply device. If he wanted to confirm whether the obelisk was usable, he would have to activate the obelisk. No one knew the consequences of doing so. Although Taren was not a saint, she had personally experienced the damage that the obelisk could cause. So the reason why she secretly gathered blood magic was to prepare to use blood explosions to create visions, thereby alerting the Knight Commander and others and asking them to leave quickly.
Just when the carriage arrived and the city wall could be seen clearly, Tarun immediately prepared to leave her hiding place and use blood magic to issue a warning. However, just as she was about to move her body, she found that she was fixed in place by a strange force and could not move.
"I know you must know what that obelisk is. From your appearance, you must make sure that the news of the obelisk leaves the castle, even if your actions may lead to my revenge. This means that this matter has exceeded personal interests. Although I don't know the reason, you can't go out and do bad things now. You'd better stay here first, or I can knock you out."
"coming."
The carriage gradually approached the city gate, but the road was very dark and the guards were not able to see the carriage clearly, but they did know that a carriage was arriving here.
"Click."
The woman was still driving the carriage. When she was about to slow down, the carriage suddenly broke apart. The horse in front suddenly left the carriage and lost its center of gravity. The carriage tilted forward. Just as the carriage was about to overturn, a soldier hiding in the curtain behind the woman suddenly flew out and flew onto the city wall. It was very dark and the guards didn't see it at all.
Immediately afterwards, a powerful and strange force locked onto her before she could make any move, and her body suddenly flew up, flying uncontrollably towards the city wall.
"Resume~~~"
"What's going on? Why is there a horse running over here?"
"It looks like it broke away from a carriage? I seemed to hear the sound of carriage wheels just now."
"Let's go and take a look. The rest of you, stay on guard."
Several guards walked along the road in front of them and soon found the overturned carriage under the light of torches.
"It's weird, there's no one inside."
"Maybe someone forgot to unhook the horses from the wagon and left the door of the barn open, and the horses ran out."
"Move this carriage out of the way first. I'll go get the horse back."