"Then it's settled."
Freya smiled and finalized the plan. This expanded spell array diagram was actually her experimental work. Its specific effects could only be confirmed after actual use. If it was confirmed to be feasible, then they could try to further improve it and deploy it on the battlefield.
Based on her meticulous calculations, there shouldn't be any problems with this array.
"Then, I'll leave the task of setting up the array and arranging the soldiers to search for and retrieve the monster corpses to Freya. I'm going back to my room to pack my things now."
Chen Hao got up and prepared to get out of the car and leave.
"Okay, take care. I'll have the soldiers conducting the search come and notify you directly later."
"Um."
Chen Hao went upstairs and watched Freya's carriage leave.
"Lord Chen Hao? Who was that woman just now? You seemed quite nervous."
Tsukuyomi asked softly. She and Setsuna were already dressed and stood on either side of Chen Hao, watching through the window as the luxurious carriage left under the escort of the knights.
"She is the first princess of the Kingdom of Geolar, the hero of [Art] Freya Elgrandi Geolar."
As Chen Hao spoke, he rubbed his temples. To be honest, he was really having a headache about the troubles he was about to face.
But now we can only take it one step at a time.
"Huh? She's a princess? No wonder she's so beautiful and seems very approachable."
"And like Lord Chen Hao, he is a hero, a hero of [Technique], he must be very powerful."
Tsukuyomi and Setsuna were both amazed by Freya's identity, but if they knew that Freya killed several demi-human slaves every day to level up... well, they probably would have wanted to kill her too.
Chen Hao didn't intend to continue the topic of Freya, but instead looked at the two of them and asked:
"I have some things to take care of. Do you want to stay here, or come with me?"
"Of course I'll go with you."
Unsurprisingly, they gave me an affirmative answer.
When the three of them went downstairs for a meal, no one came to disturb them or stage a ridiculous scene like, "I've taken a fancy to your slave, let me borrow him to play with." This would have been a ridiculous situation for Chen Hao to show off and embarrass himself. After all, Chen Hao was a big shot who had just been personally received by the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Geolar, so naturally no one with questionable intelligence would come up to cause trouble.
Not long after the meal, a dozen soldiers from the Kingdom of Geolar, stationed in Lanarita, arrived at the inn.
The sudden influx of more than a dozen soldiers startled the innkeeper. He was so frightened by the sight that he thought the soldiers had come to collect protection money again.
"May I ask which one of you is the Hero of Healing?"
"I am it."
Chen Hao stood up, revealing the Warrior's Mark on the back of his right hand, drawing surprised glances from those around him.
"Let's go."
Chen Hao got up and set off with Setsuna and Tsukuyomi. As soon as they stepped out of the hotel, a noisy discussion arose inside.
Chen Hao didn't care what these people were talking about. He took Setsuna and Tsukuyomi and followed the soldiers out of the city, searching upstream along the river.
Although he was lost in thought the whole way, Chen Hao still noticed that the soldiers were occasionally casting lewd glances at Setsuna and Tsukuyomi. Although they didn't show it too obviously because of his reputation, he still noticed it.
Chen Hao frowned slightly, somewhat displeased. At that moment, someone behind him gently tugged at Chen Hao's sleeve and whispered beside him:
“Lord Chen Hao, I suddenly remembered, some of these people are from the scout team that captured me back then... They seem to recognize me.”
What a coincidence! In that case, Chen Hao doesn't need to worry about anything anymore.
His motives for accompanying him on this trip were never pure.
The Ice Wolves poisoned the monster not at the river source, but at an underground river source. The monster's corpse was thrown into a stalactite cave connected to the underground water vein. The specific location was deep in a nearby forest, at the border between the Ice Wolves' territory and Lanarita.
In order to prevent the Kingdom of Geolar from finding out that the Ice Wolf Clan was responsible, Chen Hao deliberately steered the conversation towards the river's source. After all, the Ice Wolf Clan was considered Setsuna's family. Although poisoning the entire city was somewhat unethical, it was retribution brought on by the humans' own trafficking of the Ice Wolf Clan.
He ordered Freya to send out a salvage team, and then volunteered to go along, with the aim of knocking out the soldiers for use in an experiment to develop their abilities.
To develop this ability, living people must be used as subjects for human experimentation. If the subjects are soldiers from the Kingdom of Geolar in Lanarita, Chen Hao will feel less burdened, since these people are not exactly benevolent and often act arrogantly and domineeringly in Lanarita because of their status as soldiers.
By this time, they had already walked some distance away from Lanarita, and it was clear that there was no one else around.
Without any warning, Chen Hao suddenly launched an attack.
The air surged, and a gale arose. This was merely the airflow stirred up by the high-speed movement. With the combined acceleration of the jet propulsion of the released Nen and the dissipation of resistance, the sprint speed of the Shrinking Step technique was boosted to subsonic speed.
The positions of all the soldiers had been confirmed long ago. Since the neural reaction speed was not yet able to handle such subsonic high-speed movements, the body was controlled by the telekinetic power of the manipulation system to perform the pre-set movements.
Chen Hao's figure vanished into thin air in an instant, leaving only a fleeting afterimage beside the dozen or so soldiers.
All the soldiers rolled their eyes back and collapsed to the ground, their bodies limp. Only their rising and falling breaths and chest movements proved that they were still alive, just unconscious.
Chen Hao didn't use much force; in fact, he held back a lot of power, only controlling the force to the point of causing a concussion and knocking them unconscious. Otherwise, the inertial force from that speed would have been enough to kill them outright.
Tsukuyomi and Setsuna were blown over by a sudden gust of wind and fell to the ground, staring blankly at all the fallen soldiers in front of them and Chen Hao, who was standing in the distance waving his hands.
What happened?
Why did such a strong wind suddenly start blowing?
How did all the soldiers suddenly collapse?
Why did Lord Chen Hao suddenly go to such a far place?
Did Lord Chen Hao take action against these soldiers?
Why did they suddenly take action?
Setsuna and Tsukuyomi were completely bewildered; what had just happened was only a fleeting moment.
"Tsukuyomi, Setsuna, are you alright?"
Chen Hao shouted and asked, not expecting that the jet acceleration would create a storm that would blow Setsuna and Tsukuyomi away behind him.
Tsukuyomi and Setsuna shook their heads blankly, their expressions still bewildered.
"It's good that you're alright. Please keep watch for me from now on."
Chen Hao squatted down next to a soldier who had fainted and placed his hand on his head.
In his hand, invisible spiritual energy began to slowly condense...
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