Chapter 413: The Assassin's Identity, the Elf Elder's Thoughts

After discussing the development plan of the hideout with the territory's top leaders on horseback for some time, Rand decided to take a carriage.

But after sitting for a while, I gave up.

Turn around and get back on horseback.

The King's Road is not easy to walk on.

Years of war and disrepair have made this road unsuitable for horse-drawn carriages.

It is late winter now and there is still snow on the roads, making it even more difficult to walk on.

In the future, it is estimated that the government decrees from the royal city will often pass through the King's Road to the holiday resort.

And as Rand develops, if it wants to dump goods domestically in the future, it will need to use this route.

In fact, this road is now needed to sell some chilled sea fish.

When the time comes, the king will allocate funds, and Rand will arrange manpower and material resources for construction. It will be a win-win situation! This is the charm of having someone in a high position!

Although Rand sold himself out to gain this power.

The snowy roads required extra caution, so Rand did not travel very fast.

And right in the snow.

Rand was assassinated again.

There was an assassination when I came, and there was another assassination when I left. It's so annoying.

Do these people really think they can succeed? Indeed, riding a horse is not as safe as riding in a carriage.

After all, the target is directly exposed to the outside world.

If you take a carriage, you can arrange several carriages to confuse outsiders.

But assassinating Rand.

The degree of difficulty is really too high.

Crow Cola is now fatter, but he can still fly very high.

Rand thought the crow Cola was too fat and it was time to train it to move more.

Rand is also closely accompanied by three extraordinary and top-level professionals.

The assassin disguised himself as a passing knight and came to seek help.

But Elsa easily saw through it.

He couldn't even draw his sword, so he was held down.

Although Rand felt that he would hardly die from being stabbed, he had no intention of trying it. If his clothes were torn, he would have to prepare new ones, and being stabbed would be very painful.

"Say something. If it's valuable, you can be sent to labor camp. If it's not valuable, you will be hanged." Rand stared at the assassin with his black eyes.

This reminded him of the assassin he encountered when he set out from the holiday villa and before he met Marcus.

Rand had tried to resurrect the assassin in his spare time while working in the royal city, but the result was not ideal. The resurrected undead had no soul. He didn't know how the Scourge Cult resurrected a skeleton with a soul.

It seems that Rand's research on evil still has a long way to go.

As for the substitute skeleton of the eldest prince whose head was chopped off by Elsa in the royal city.

The substitute skeleton did manage to extract some information from it after installing the alchemical voice device on it, but it wasn't much.

It's about the cooperation between the Scourge Cult and the God of Struggle Cult.

Death can be obtained through war.

If a war is waged between the dead and the living, both sides will benefit.

What Rand was worried about was not this, but that there were too many ways to die.

Natural disasters, plague, famine.

It would be very troublesome if the Scourge Cult did something else.

The assassin in front of him did not answer, with an expression as if he was ready to sacrifice himself.

Rand was helpless.

He was a student at an agricultural college in his previous life and did not know how to use torture. He had heard that no one could withstand waterboarding, but he did not know the specifics.

The torture he was best at was threatening the skeletons with the flames of the Torch Church. At least the pain that Karin's flames brought to the skeletons was almost unbearable.

"Are any of you good at torture?" Rand asked.

Elsa actually knows a little bit, but she is not very proficient.

Duchess Ellie stepped forward and said, "Let me try."

She came before the assassin.

The vast land is covered with white snow, and the sky and the earth are clad in silver, quiet and pure.

The young Duchess's long brown-gold hair shone like silk in the weak winter sunlight, like a warm flame, and her ice-blue eyes were as clear as an icy lake, blending in with the surrounding snowy scenery.

She wore a long cape trimmed with white ermine and lined with light blue silk that fluttered gently in the breeze.

Just when the assassin thought it was a beauty trap.

Ellie's staff stabbed into his waist.

The pain struck deep into his soul: "If I don't speak, the torture will be endless. It won't be easy to die."

All I can say is that the habits brought about by being born in the country of Elibai are indeed quite wild.

However, Rand felt that this assassin would definitely not open his mouth just because of such simple pain.

I think these assassins are well-trained, just like the one who came here, he committed suicide before Elsa found him.

But the assassin seemed to be frightened by Ellie. After his lips trembled for a while, he actually spoke.

"Rand Nicholas, you are the devil who destroyed my family."

Rand raised his eyebrows. It had been a long time since anyone dared to insult him to his face.

However, although this young man has great momentum, his will is not strong enough.

After interrogating for a while, Rand had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

They are a vassal family of Earl Feihu.

The Feihu family was destroyed. Some of the vassals regained new fiefdoms, while many others directly lost their family territories.

Become a wandering noble with only noble status.

These wandering nobles often become bandit leaders in various places, causing a significant impact on the economic development of human countries.

After Rand finished the torture, he had his men lock him up.

I thought there were some big fish, but it turned out to be just a nobody.

He will be well behaved after he goes back to labor reform. So, Pero, the second son of Count Feihu, has also been in labor reform for a long time. Rand plans to take a test after he goes back, and if he passes, he will transfer to a church school to study.

Rand actually thought Perot was a pretty good guy, but he was simply held back by his neurotic father.

This assassination also reminded Rand that due to wars and conflicts in the country, there are more bandits and they need to be eliminated.

"Keep going," Rand said.

I will go back and try to bring the new king's daughter and Taner together.

So Rand couldn't remember whether he had ever seen King Marcus's daughter, but he had a deep impression of his aunt.

Marcus' aunt brought a lot of scholars to the church school, and now the church school's teaching staff has increased a lot.

And with the end of the civil war, church schools will begin to recruit students again.

This civil war has proven the quality of teaching in church schools, hasn't it? ...

Outside the Duke of Moon Phase’s territory, an elf of considerable age appeared on the road with two assistants.

They all wore hoods and were dressed like mages and scholars.

Mage scholars have a good status in this world and it is considered a relatively convenient identity.

When elven wizards come to the human world, they basically use similar disguises.

Just be careful not to be discovered by the elf's characteristics and there won't be any big problems.

Of course, it is always relatively dangerous for elves to walk in the human world.

However, for this elf elder, it is not a big problem.

As the highest-level wizard, the elven elder is quite powerful, and his two assistants are also senior elven rangers.

It is difficult for ordinary human armies to catch them, and the elf elders also made some disguises.

Disguised as a half-elf.

Half-elves are not very popular among humans, but at least they are not as hostile as pure-blood elves.

"A lot of undead have appeared in the outside world recently, so you guys better be careful." The elf elder instructed his two assistants.

The two assistants nodded.

Several people continued walking on the road.

This place is close to the place mentioned in Vanilla's letter.

They disguised themselves as scholars and inquired about the situation nearby.

There is indeed such a place as a holiday villa.

And the closer you get to that land, the more many villagers, citizens, even knights and nobles admire it.

Some towns also sell goods from holiday resorts.

When the elf elder said he was a scholar and was going to a holiday resort, the nobles of the nearby town received them.

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At that time they all thought they were going to be discovered, but it turned out to be just a reception.

It seems that it is very common for scholars to go to a holiday resort.

According to the nobles who received them, there was a wizard gathering at the resort before, and it was said that a new master had appeared in the magic field, and there had been a major breakthrough in the magic field! Although the new spell Ellie created was used to rip clothes, it could actually be used to remove armor, peel skin, etc.

Recently I heard that an Alchemist Academy is going to be established. There are great alchemists in the holiday villa, and Rand has also invested heavily in this project, which has led many alchemists to plan to go to the holiday villa.

This made the elf elder silent.

It seems like a holiday villa. There is indeed a school with a good reputation and a strong scientific research atmosphere.

So, how true is the letter Vanilla sent him? But this thought only flashed through his mind.

It is quite possible to be environmentally friendly to anthropologists.

But for the elves...

It certainly wouldn't be so friendly to elves.

The disappearance of the elf field team and the fact that Vanilla has not returned for many years are both strong evidence.

Vanilla is his student and the blood of the elven royal family. He has the responsibility to save his student.

In the midst of wind and snow.

Silvery white snowflakes dance wildly.

The elf elder walked forward, staff in hand.

From here on, the road changes from rammed earth to brick pavement.

It is quite a luxury to pave the road with bricks.

Moreover, the thickness of snow on the road is obviously lower than that of the surrounding area.

It was obvious that the road was maintained and had been cleared of snow not long ago.

In the winter in the north, the snow blocks the roads and almost no merchants come to the north.

There seem to be some exceptions here.

Further ahead is the human village.

The elf elder plans to go to the human village to rest.

…

Vanilla is about to end her vacation work period recently.

Vanilla's life cycle is divided into vacation period, vacation-work period and work-work period.

A vacation is a holiday, and there are not many opportunities for this. When Vanilla was too tired from work before, Rand gave Vanilla a few weeks of vacation to let her adjust, and Rand temporarily took over Vanilla's work.

But there are not many holidays, and Vanilla is actually used to being busy.

Or maybe she actually likes her current job very much.

Work period was a nightmare and Vanilla didn't want to think about it.

The vacation work period means that you can go to and from get off work at normal times, and you don’t have to go to the administrative hall to work.

Lord Rand has set a half-day off on Sundays.

This period was very comfortable.

After the Frost Moon Kingdom entered a civil war, Vanilla entered a period of vacation and work.

There were not many tasks in the church school, so Lady Lisa stayed in the holiday villa. Lady Lisa was very skilled in handling government affairs and did not need her help much.

If Lord Kahn is the administrator, then there are many things he needs to ask Vanilla.

When Vanilla gets off work, she can go for a walk around.

The news of Lord Rand becoming the Grand Duke has been reported back, and it can be expected that the holiday villa will become a focus of attention.

Although the holiday villa has always been eye-catching.

With the end of the war, the further improvement of Rand's status and the development of the church school itself, there will inevitably be many new students enrolled.

It is even very likely that some old students will come back.

It might be a bit busier after that, but as long as I don’t need to go to the administrative center to work, I shouldn’t be in the work period.

Vanilla was wearing thick and fleece clothes and walking on the road in Crescent Territory.

Today is half overtime.

She came out to look for someone.

The latest news is that people from the Torch Church came to say that Bishop Kahn is missing.

In fact, it is not correct to say that he is missing. After Bishop Kahn finished most of the work, he went on a normal vacation. Bishop Kahn would occasionally disappear when he was on vacation, and he would appear again when the vacation was over.

This is a very normal thing and everyone is used to it.

But recently the Torch Church suddenly had some matters to deal with, and the people of the Torch Church couldn't find Archbishop Kahn for a while, so they came to the Mother Goddess Sect to ask.

Mistress Lysa seems to know where Bishop Kahn is.

Lisa asked Vanilla to come to Crescent Territory to look for it.

There is frequent economic and personnel exchange among the four core areas of New Moon Territory, Crescent Moon Territory, Full Moon Territory, and Crescent Moon Harbor. Therefore, the roads are often maintained and there is almost no snow, allowing carriages to pass normally.

After getting off the carriage, Vanilla rubbed her hands and breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s a really cold winter.

But it's nice to go out for a walk.

The public security in the Dukedom of the Moon is very good, and there will be no bandits at times like this.

Dangerous monsters, wild beasts, and magical beasts nearby will also be cleared out by adventurers.

The command team may be composed of missionaries, Minotaur missionaries, or Centaur missionaries, together with tribunes who are usually retired soldiers.

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Then he brought out trained young men from nearby villages and some militiamen to eliminate the danger.

Therefore, at least in the core area of ​​Rand Territory, even walking at night would not be very dangerous.

There is little danger in the core area, and the cost of committing a crime in the Lunar Duchy is too high.

Vanilla came alone.

However, even though the territory is very safe, it is not completely without protection measures.

After arriving at the destination, the Centaur driver put the carriage aside and followed Vanilla into the village of Crescent Territory as an escort.

Vanilla is already an important figure in the Dukedom of the Moon, so of course she is protected.

This centaur is extremely rare, a centaur of the upper professional level.

Such monsters often become nightmares for adventurers in the wild.

But now, he seems to like pulling a carriage very much. There are some decorations on his exclusive carriage, which makes it look different from other centaur carriages.

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