Chapter 11: The First Meeting of the Knight and the Lich (Part 1)
"This is it." Jericho looked up at the half-deleted, blurry sign and said, "Mi Funa's daughter, Mi You, has been living in the capital..."
"Don't the mother and daughter live together?" Andre asked casually, fiddling with the coarse cloth cloak that was blocking his eyes.
"No, Mi You is Mebucha's student. She had been studying magic with Mebucha several years before Mi Funa's death...
"Rumor has it that she was able to become Mebucha's disciple thanks to her mother's connections. Her own magical skills aren't very high.
“She was originally a disciple of Mebucha and lived in Mebucha’s Mage Tower on the outskirts of the royal capital.
"After Mi Funa passed away, Mi You left the Mage Tower with Mebucha's letter of recommendation and went to study at the Royal Magic Academy in the capital.
"Until four months ago, she failed a magic test and was forced to drop out of school. According to her classmates, she accepted the situation calmly and packed her bags and left without even a word of protest.
"Maybe he finally realized that he wasn't cut out for magic..."
"But she still decided to return to the abandoned workshop left by her mother and inherit the family business." Andre said.
"It's like this," Jericho said, pulling out a palm-sized notebook from his chest pocket and flipping through his notes. "According to people around here, she only opened her business for a few days before disappearing without a trace. People's comments on the potions she brewed were: 'terrible,' 'useless garbage'... It was the same kind of words, without exception."
Jericho shrugged. "It seems this Ms. Mi You didn't inherit her mother's talent for potions. Master, do you think she could be the follower of the 'Evil Eye Moon' we're looking for?"
Andrei's eyes lit up with a magical green light, as if he could see through the outer wall of the half-stone, half-wooden hut. "I don't know. But there are traces of necromancy, summoning magic, and time magic in this house..."
"I think this Miss Mi You isn't the magical idiot as the rumors say.
"These are all extremely difficult high-level black magic. If she didn't have a Dark Arts License, we could have arrested her today."
He gestured to Jericho, "You go around the back, I'll go through the main gate, and we'll block her together!"
Jericho nodded.
The two walked into the front yard together. Jericho took a few steps towards the small door in the backyard, but did not go in directly. Instead, he glanced at his young master a few more times with concern.
I saw the tall man holding the door handle with one hand, turning it and pushing it...
The door lock clicked open as the doorknob turned, but the wooden door didn't budge.
Andre: “…” What the hell?
He gathered all his strength and slammed the door hard with his shoulder. The heavy wooden door shook and dust fell, but it remained motionless.
Jericho came back, and the half-grown boy looked worried: "Master, are you okay?"
"Watch the back door!" Andrei tore off the rough cloth covering his head and face and threw it aside. His translucent emerald eyes blazed with a fierce fighting spirit. "I don't believe this broken door can stop me."
Jericho glanced at the "back door" leading to the front yard. The yard was surrounded by a wall one meter high, and the front and back yards were separated by only a low fence. Standing here, he could see the entire backyard at a glance.
He felt that the woman would not be able to escape, so it was more important to keep a close eye on his unreliable young master.
——If the prisoner escapes, we can catch him again, but if anything happens to the young master, the master and his mistress will not let him go!
Andrei gathered his energy into his dantian, a golden light flashed in his green eyes, and his whole body was ablaze with silver-white fighting spirit - this was the unique physical magic of the kingdom's knights.
By utilizing special breathing techniques to absorb magical elements from nature and the atmosphere and allowing them to circulate throughout the body, it is possible to activate cells within the body that are normally dormant or underutilized, thereby gaining greater strength than usual.
These forces can be condensed into a special kind of energy, which is what the kingdom's knights call "fighting spirit".
Dou Qi has numerous uses. It can be used as a shield, covering the entire body and protecting vital parts in battle; it can also be released as a weapon, becoming a fist, a sword, a giant axe, and even capable of splitting mountains and rifting valleys...
Andre wouldn't even take a wooden door seriously!
Silver-white Dou Qi quickly covered his shoulders, forming a thick Dou Qi armor. Andrei turned the door handle with one hand and slammed it hard against the door.
Boom!!
The Dou Qi armor hit the door like a battering ram, and the deformed door finally loosened from the stuck door slot and opened inward with a creak.
Andrei exerted too much force and stumbled as he rushed into the house. However, the experienced Knight of the Kingdom did not embarrass himself and quickly steadied himself with his strong core strength.
He carefully surveyed his surroundings, realizing the place resembled a completely closed store: old, dusty shelves, cobweb-covered bottles that had sat untouched for who knows how long, and strange marks on the dusty floor...
Is this... footprints?
He stared at the mark on the ground for several seconds. The footprints were very strange, consisting of thin, fragmented marks... It looked like a pair of fleshless foot bones left by walking on the dusty ground.
"What the hell..." Andre's right hand subconsciously placed on the sword hanging on the left side of his waist. He took two more steps into the house and suddenly smelled a strange smell.
It was a hard to describe smell that he had never smelled before. It had the sweet scent of roses, but mixed with a sweeter, heavier scent that reminded him of the rice pudding his mother made, but with a completely different feeling.
What is certain is that it is probably the smell of some kind of food.
...So, is that girl cooking in the back kitchen? No, maybe it's some kind of deceptive act...
His vigilance increased a bit, and finally there was movement in the house. A skeletal head poked out from the inner door. "Huh? Customers? Sorry, our store is not open yet!"
Andre: “???” What the hell is this?!
He drew his sword with a swish. "The Kingdom Knights are investigating! Come out! Don't hide there!"
"Hey hey?!" The white skeleton rushed out with a soup spoon in its right hand. Its... or rather her eyes were emitting golden-red soul fire: "Why is it you!"
Andre: "...??? You recognize me?... No, that's not the point. Put down your weapon first!"
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