Lord Highlander

   Chapter 507 506. Traces of the rebels

   "According to news from the Bena Province Magic Union, a great magician in this organization has sneaked into the city of Hailansa quietly. Our law enforcement team is secretly investigating this matter recently."

   Speaking of this, Lance took out a magic portrait from his arms.

  A magician stands in the portrait lifelike. Lance pointed to the magician in the portrait and introduced to Suldak:

"His name is Arvid Ives. The bounty on the arrest warrant from the General Magic Union has reached as high as 30 magic spar. It is said that several demon hunter organizations are looking for him everywhere, because he is good at space. He is based on magic, so he escaped several rounds of arrests against him. This time there are clues that he came to Hailansa City and met with a rebel liaison. Although the magician of our law enforcement team who was in charge of tracking this matter did not track down I found the whereabouts of Arvid, but found clues about the rebel liaison in the city of Hailansa."

  The dark red magic robe is covered with strange magic patterns, a magic wand inlaid with seven gems, surrounded by several lightning bolts, looks extraordinary.

  Suldak said to Lance in surprise: "The rebels... There are rebels in the Grimm Empire? This is really the first time I've heard of it..."

Lance nodded and said: "That's it. Even in the most stable period of the empire, there were some rebel forces everywhere. Some forces usually occupy a small plane and then cut off the portal with the Roland continent. It is not uncommon to conduct such an organization on such a small plane, and most of these rebel organizations are related to this magical organization."

  Suldak signaled Lance to continue talking...

"A week ago, we received news from our informant that the rebel liaison actually appeared in the White Elephant Firm, but not long after he left the White Elephant Firm, he died in a back alley of a commercial street, and was subsequently arrested by a group of people. A maid who went out to take out the garbage found that when our people arrived, the body had already been completely cold, and there were no clues left behind."

  Lance said to Suldak:

   "We suspect that this matter has something to do with Dale magician, Dak, on April 17th of this month, you went to the White Elephant Firm?"

Suldak thought about it, that day happened to be the last day he stayed in Hailansa City, he nodded calmly and said, "That's right, I went to see the Dale magician and signed a contract with the White Elephant Company on the sulfur Mine contract."

  Lance asked: "When you were in the White Elephant Firm, did you ever see a thin-faced outsider in black?"

  Suldak recalled it seriously, and said with certainty: "No."

  Lance showed some disappointment in his eyes, patted Surdak on the shoulder, and said, "If you have any clues about this, please write to me."

  Seeing that Lance didn't ask any other questions, Suldak asked back in astonishment: "Eh...you flew here just to ask me these in person?"

  Lance Magician nodded seriously: "The matter is of great importance, and every piece of information must be checked carefully."

  He pulled out the magic stick from the magic pocket, let it float in front of him and straddled it, rode the magic stick and left in a hurry without even drinking his saliva.

Of course, the arrival of the magician Lance cannot be hidden from the old village head Brett. When he arrived at Suldak, Lance had already disappeared in the sky, and stood alone on the cornerstone. Looking at a trace of floating clouds in the sky, he sighed sincerely:

   "This young magician really forgot to sleep and eat when he was working. When he came to Wall Village, he left without even drinking his saliva..."

  The security team’s house is built according to Suldak’s design drawings and construction methods. The foundation is paved with strip limestone, and then the gaps in the rock blocks are filled with volcanic ash cement slurry. So far, only the foundation part has been completed.

  The old village chief Brett is very busy every day. Whether it is the construction site of the tidal drainage canal or the construction site of the reservoir, there are a lot of trivial matters waiting for him to come forward to coordinate, so he stayed with the security team for a while and then left.

  Suldak walked under the shade of the tree, took out the magic note from his arms, and asked Celia Cooper in the page: "Celia, do you know the magician Arvid Ives?"

  Celia Cooper was sleeping in the magic notebook. Suldak opened the pages of the book and woke her up from her sleep, making her very unhappy.

  She stretched in the pages of the book, gave Suldak a glance through the railing, and said:

"He is a great magician of the space department, proficient in space magic and building magic teleportation arrays. It is said that the two-door teleportation array in Duerva province was designed by this great magician himself! But it seems that because of the research Forbidden magic from a different dimension was tracked down and wanted by the Imperial City Magic Union, and later joined the Dark Moon Gate."

   "Darkmoon Gate?" Suldak repeated.

Celia Cooper nodded and said: "Well, that is a magic organization composed entirely of space magicians. Since the Grimm Empire has a complete inheritance of fire magic, more than half of the top executives of the Empire Magic Union are fire They reject magicians from other factions. Therefore, about a few decades ago, a collective defection of space magicians broke out in the Magic Union of the Green Empire. And a temporary magical organization."

"This magic organization has a number of magicians who are proficient in teleportation circles. Some noble lords plan to occupy a certain plane. If they plan to break away from the rule of the Grimm Empire, they usually go to the Dark Moon Gate and ask them to seal the teleportation. door, cut off all ties with the Grimm Empire."

  "They once found me. At that time, Margaret, Cyrus Hickok, and I were preparing to copy the Devil's Gate, so we didn't accept their invitation."

Hearing Celia Cooper's explanation, Suldak realized that the Dark Moon Gate was actually an illegal organization, and it was on the opposite side of the Grimm Empire Magic Union. This group of space magicians are in trouble.

  As for those rebels who betrayed the Grimm Empire, they have probably been closely watched by the imperial intelligence department...

   As expected.

Three days later, the security team of Paglos Mountain in Hailansa City received a message from the guard battalion. It is said that two imperial rebels fled overnight from Hailansa City. They took advantage of the night to hide in Oak Ridge, and if they If you want to leave Bena Province as soon as possible, it is very possible to go through the barren land and then go all the way north along the Pagros Mountains. Although this road is difficult, it is the most stable way to leave the country.

  The main reason is that the Paglos Mountains are like a north-south beacon, lying across the territory of the Green Empire.

After receiving the news, Suldak quickly unfolded the map of the Badlands jointly surveyed by Andrew and Samira, and circled the border between Oak Ridge and the Badlands with a red line. Suldak analyzed the two The rebels are not familiar with the barren land, and their advance route will not leave the mountain road too far.

In the past few days, Andrew has been riding two horses, patrolling the Gobi desert alone in the barren land. He is wearing a full-body armor that is too heavy, so he has to change to another horse after riding for a while, so that he can Both horses maintained their strength.

Samira, the half-elf archer, doesn't need to be so troublesome, and Samira, who has elven blood, is naturally close to nature. She can communicate with her mount in a superficial way, so riding a horse can wantonly mess around in the barren land visit.

  Andrew and Samira investigated the whereabouts of the two rebels and notified the 19 villages to take precautions. Since they are absconding rebels, in order to keep their whereabouts secret, they will inevitably do some killings.

  Because the villages took precautions in advance, the two rebels were discovered by the villagers when they sneaked into a village to steal food, so that their whereabouts were exposed.

When Suldak received the news, Andrew and Samira were still out on patrol. The territory of the wasteland was quite large, and Andrew and Samira had to stay outside for nearly a week every time they went out to Return to Wall Village once.

  He knew that this kind of thing couldn't wait, so he took the ogre Gullitum who was about to follow the four-wheeled carriage into the depths of the barren land, and chased it out in the direction that the villager who reported the message said.

  The four-wheeled carriage transporting volcanic ash has already rutted a bare road on the Gobi Desert. There are basically no sharp gravels on this road.

The villager led the way on a Gubolai horse. After all, the horse was riding fast. In the afternoon, the villagers brought Suldak and the ogre Gulitum to the small mountain village called Uta by the locals. After the villager returned to the village, he inquired in detail about the escape route of the two rebels, and then walked into the Gobi Desert in the barren land again.

  In the barren land in early May, the temperature difference between day and night is huge.

  The temperature is extremely low at night, and during the day, there is a scorching sun above the head, and the only layer of water on the surface is evaporated.

Riding on horseback on the rolling Gobi Desert, you can see yellowish gravel everywhere. This place is located ten kilometers north of Pustout Mountain. The route chosen by the two rebels was to avoid it as much as possible. The smoky pustule mountain, as long as you bypass the pustule mountain, it will not be so desolate there, but it is deep into the depths of the mountain range where monsters are rampant.

  Before Suldak went out, the old village chief repeatedly warned Suldak that he must not enter the depths of the Pagros Mountains.

  The villager who was walking in the front stopped.

Suldak looked at him suspiciously, and he pointed to a hillside in front of the left. Suldak looked over intently, and saw two people wearing earth-colored linen cloaks on the hillside from a distance. , leading the horse on foot.

   The ogre Gullitum followed Suldak all the way and caught almost nothing except a gray rock iguana on the way.

   Seeing these two travelers walking on foot with their horses, they immediately cheered up.

Suldak took the lead and chased after the two rebels, and the ogre Gullitum did not fall behind, and the two did not hide their whereabouts at all, so that the other party discovered the attempt behind them very early. After catching up to Suldak, the two rebels were very vigilant. Seeing Suldak catching up, they jumped on their horses and fled north without hesitation.

  The two rebels did not ride horses along the way, just to keep the two horses full of energy when they escaped.

  So at the beginning they ran very fast, and the distance between them and Surdak was getting farther and farther. However, the endurance of the two horses was very average, and as the sun was about to set, the speed gradually slowed down.

  The war horse Suldak was riding was his old buddy. Since its broken leg was strengthened by Ferdinand Scholar's magic scroll, its physical fitness was much stronger than that of ordinary Gubolai horse.

The ogre Gullitum only cared about whether the rebels' two horses could be eaten, and he followed Suldak steadily all the time. No matter how fast Suldak's horse ran, the ogre could rely on two Padfoot catches up.

When the two rebels were still a hundred meters away, the ogre Gulitum bent down and picked up a stone the size of a Frisbee from the ground. He took a deep breath while running, and held The hand on the edge of the stone flake stretched back, and then he held his breath and threw the stone violently.

  The rock was like a spinning saucer, attacking the rebels in front with a whistling sound.

  By the time the rebels realized something was wrong, the stone was already on the right thigh, and the sharp stone immediately cut a long wound on the horse.

   With a neighing sound, the rebels on horseback were almost thrown off.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the two rebels immediately fled to the left and right separately. Suldak pointed at the ogre Gulitum's horse that was injured by him, and motioned him to take charge of the rebel, while He hurriedly chased another rebel.

Originally, Suldak thought that the rebels were all first-rank fighters with good strength. As soon as he came into contact with them, Suldak felt that the rebels had little fighting power, but he still tried it out very cautiously. The rebel fought hard once, and the craftsman's epee in his hand cut off the long sword of the rebel soldier. Suldak sat on the horse, and then swung the dwarf chain shield in his hand, smashing the rebel off the horse Down.

  These movements were done in one go, and the rebel was subdued almost without wasting any effort. Looking back at Gullitem, the ogre had already started looking for rope everywhere, clumsily tying the rebel firmly.

  Two horses were seized this time. Although one of the horses was injured in the hip, but with Suldak, I believe that the horse's wounds will heal soon.

  There was a severe shortage of horses in Wall Village, so Suldak very decisively rejected the ogre's request to taste horse meat.

  Subsequently, Suldak brought the two rebels back to Wall Village, and sent someone to send a letter to Karl in Hailansa City, telling him that the two fugitive rebels had been captured here.

  Suldak locked the two rebels in a wooden cage next to the kobold slave shed at the entrance of the village, and asked Luke, who was in charge of managing the group of kobold slaves, to help guard them.

Before Suldak went home and had a good night's sleep, Luke, who was in charge of guarding the two rebels, caught up with Suldak and said, "Dak, those two people asked to talk to you. , saying that he wants to make a deal with you..."

  Suldak waved his hand at Luke and said, "Ignore them for now, let them calm down, otherwise they don't know what conditions to offer, what qualifications do they have to negotiate with me now..."

  (end of this chapter)