Chapter 209: The Plan of No Evidence
Amber Xiu didn't expect that this was the image of himself in Catherine's mind.
Ariel was really just an accident. He had never thought of tricking her into coming here at first. He just wanted to fool her away. Who would have thought that Ariel would stick to him like a sticky candy.
As for the Paladins, that was a complete accident. Who would have thought that the Silver Moon Knights would seek help from the Liches in training? Isn't this just a coincidence?
But Amber could not explain, the elf girl already had a stereotype of him. People's prejudices are like a mountain, which even the legendary lich cannot move.
"Oh, if only you could have such a strong imagination normally."
Amberxiu complained, then transformed into the appearance of the green-skinned Slaad, and covered Catherine with illusion, turning her invisible.
The two of them swaggered back into the depths of the swamp.
As expected, the green-skinned Slaad had a higher status, and no one stopped him from entering this time.
The so-called deep swamp is actually a water fortress built with wood. Although the Slaad are amphibians, they do not always stay in the water. A small palace was built on the swamp, and the Slaad lord lived in it.
According to the memory of the green slaad named "Shidubi", the slaad lord usually stayed in the highest room of the water fort. The gray slaad is already the middle level of the slaad species. If it wants to continue to evolve upward, there are two directions.
One is to continue to improve his spellcasting ability, and one day he will be able to evolve into a Slaadi that controls necromancy.
The second method is simpler. Find a Slaadi's corpse and eat it to evolve and upgrade directly.
However, it is estimated that the corpse of the Death Slaad cannot be found in this swamp, so the Slaad Lord named Kakachang likes to study spells in seclusion. Only when the Slaad need to reproduce will he come out to summon the space gate to allow the Slaad to enter another plane for hunting.
But something went wrong during the last space connection ceremony.
The swamp connected to a desolate ruin with nothing in it. The Slaad ran around in it for a few circles, but couldn't find even a living grass, let alone find prey.
And Amberxiu and Catherine killed all the Slaads. I believe the Slaad Lord has already known the news, and the second space connection ceremony will be held soon.
When Amberxiu arrived at the water fort, the number of Sla green toads around him began to increase. When they saw Amberxiu, they all made cooing sounds and greeted him. It seemed that they were all familiar to him.
Amber Xiu didn't dare to respond casually.
Although there is information about each of his companions in Shidubi's memory, in Ambershu's opinion, these Slaads all look the same. Even if he has seen them in his memory, he cannot tell who is who.
How could he say hello? He could only pretend to be in a bad mood and walk by with his head down, not daring to talk to any of the Sla Green Toads.
We walked forward and soon arrived at the deepest part of the water fort.
Amberxiu saw the Sla Gray Toad Lord Kakachang standing on the railing and looking into the distance.
Seeing Amberxiu appear, Kakachang sighed and made a cooing sound. Amberxiu quietly threw out a thought detection and read the other party's thoughts.
Thought detection is a spell that reads the mind. It has the same effect on any race, but it is easy for the opponent to detect it and then expose the identity. However, Amber is not afraid of failure in casting spells, because he has the dice of fate to help him modify the probability.
With the help of mind detection, Amberxiu knew the thoughts of Lord Kakachang.
The cooing sound just now was still full of emotion.
"Shidubi, this hunt went wrong again. Our group of Slaads are living on thin ice. Do you think we can really return home?"
Amberxiu didn't know the language of the Slaad, so he couldn't express such a complex meaning with a few simple cooing sounds. He could only make a low and short "coo".
This is something I just learned, which means: “I don’t know.”
Yes, no, I don't know. These are the three sentences of Slaadi language that Ambershu learned from Stubi's memory. They are easy to learn because they are simple, but he can't say anything else.
Fortunately, Lord Kakachang had no intention of really seeking Amberxiu's opinion, he was just expressing his feelings.
So, he quickly said to Amber Xiu: "Have you found the intruder?"
An accident happened to the space connection, the invaders killed those slaads, and then the space connection was closed. Kakachang already knew about this. This Shidubi was one of the green-skinned slaads sent out to hunt down the invaders, so Kakachang asked this question.
And Amber Xiu could only make a "gu" sound again to indicate that he didn't know.
Kakachang said unhappily, "You don't know anything. What are you doing back here? Don't you have anything to report to me?"
This series of cooing sounds was so sharp that it hurt the eardrums. Kakachang was really excited.
Amberxiu had anticipated this situation, so he took out an arrow and handed it to Kakachang.
This is Catherine's arrow. The specially made magic-breaking arrowhead made Kakachang's eyes bulge out.
"What kind of weapon is this? It gives me a chilling feeling. It seems to have a great restraining effect on spells. Was this found on the intruder?"
Amberxiu shook his head quickly and then sighed in a pretentious manner.
Kakachang understood, patted Amberxiu on the shoulder and said, "I see, it was found from the corpse of your descendant. Never mind, I understand you don't want to talk, it seems this intruder is really troublesome. Shidubi, get ready, and find the intruder before the next ceremony begins!"
Amber Xiu quickly said, "Yes."
Kakachang didn't feel anything was wrong. He waved his hand to let Amberxiu leave, and then went back into the lord's room.
Amber Xiu hesitated for a moment and did not chase in to continue talking to Kakachang, but turned around and left the water fort.
Katherine followed all the way until there was no one around. She said to Amber in surprise: "Are you really not the God of Deception? How can you chat with Slaad with cooing? What did you talk about?"
Catherine was really surprised. How could Amber learn a completely different new language in just ten minutes? This didn't make sense. Coo, coo, coo all sounded the same. How could they express complex meanings? Amber was actually chatting with the Slaad Lord properly. Of course, the other party patted him on the shoulder. It was obvious that they were having a good chat.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Amber Xiu did not answer this subjective question, but said to Catherine: "If you want to use their space connection ritual to leave here, I have two plans. Let's discuss it with you."
"What plan?" Catherine asked curiously. Suddenly there were two plans. It was amazing.
Amber suggested, "Just now the Slaad Lord told me that the next space connection ritual will only be carried out after the intruder is captured. But they don't know that there are two intruders yet, so why don't you sacrifice yourself and be captured by them, and then wait for me to secretly learn their ritual."
Catherine said angrily: "No way, I choose the second option."
Those slaads looked so disgusting. Even if they were fake, Katherine didn't want to be caught by these toads. It would give her nightmares for a whole year.
"The second plan is that you play the role of the Slaad and I will go and catch them. Are you confident that you can play the role well?" Amber asked.
Lyra's true illusion can be cast in groups, and it doesn't necessarily require Umbert to pretend to be a slaadi. Umbert can just pretend to be caught, since he is a lich and has many ways to escape.
But Catherine doesn't have the ability to deceive the Slaad Lord. If we rely on her, the success rate of the plan will be very low.
As expected, Catherine herself had no confidence in herself and could only mutter quietly, "Can't we use illusion to create a fake one so they can catch it?"
Amber Xiu could only explain: "It's not that I can't, but the chance of failure is very high. I was able to fool others in the Emerald Dream Forest before, because I was a guest and no one would attack me. Illusions are illusions after all. Once these slaads attack, it will be easy to notice that something is wrong."
Illusions are just illusions after all. If Leila was so powerful, she would not have been deprived of her priesthood and even her body would not have been picked up by druids to create magic barriers.
"Are these really the only two options?" Catherine asked pitifully.
"The third method is to charge in directly and capture this Slaad Lord. I hope to force him to tell me the ritual. But don't expect me to read his soul. This guy may have ascended to the Slaad Kingdom directly after his death."
In fact, the biggest problem is that Amberxiu doesn't understand the language of the Slaads. If he is given a teacher who teaches him carefully for ten days or half a month, Amberxiu is guaranteed to be able to trick these Slaads into selling their skins to him.
Language barrier is the biggest obstacle for scammers.
Catherine thought for a long time, gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, then sacrifice me, but you have to promise not to let these toads... Oh, forget it, just arrange it however you want. I believe you won't hurt me, and I'll still work for you until I collapse and cry, right?"
Catherine still remembered that Amber used this reason to trick her into getting into the dragon's belly and putting a seal on it. Before Catherine reaches that painful future, she will not have any safety problems.
When Amber heard what Catherine said, he smiled with satisfaction.
But he quickly said to Catherine: "Haha, I just want to see if you have this awareness. In fact, you don't have to sacrifice yourself."
Catherine looked at Amber Xiu in confusion and asked, "Besides you, there is only me. Do you want to use Naomi as a prisoner? I can't agree to that!"
Amber said, "What are you thinking? What ranger would sacrifice his beast companion? Am I that kind of person?"
Catherine looked at Amberxiu with disbelief, as if he was just that kind of person.
Amber Xiu had no choice but to open his private space, take out a cobbled-together puppet, and say to Catherine: "We have killed all the witnesses, and they don't know what the intruder looks like, so we can just use this thing to fool them. We will lure the Slaad to the edge of the swamp and throw the puppet out. Isn't that going to mean there will be no evidence?"
(End of this chapter)