Volume 9: Follower Chapter 1 A murder caused by theft
After bidding farewell to our two companions who had generously been imprisoned with deep emotion, we, as previously agreed, covered Red Wolf and came to the temple of Lumbri.
Among the nearly twenty temples of all sizes in Freschit , the temple of Lumbli, the protector of the southwestern barbarians and the god of wine and animal husbandry, is probably the most dilapidated and the smallest one. His temple and the Guild Application Office are built on the same secluded path, but the difference is that the Guild Application Office is located in the middle of the path, while the temple is at the westernmost end of the path.
Although it is called a temple, it is actually a small open-air square surrounded by tall fences. Three bronze sculptures related to religion are placed on the square. Some believers are wandering in the temple. They are all barefoot, with their hair disheveled, and they draw a few lines on their faces with chalk and soot. Around the temple are sixteen temple fighters who are loyal to their beliefs. They are all level 60 warriors, with strong bodies, naked upper bodies, and pants made of animal skins. The black and white decorations on their faces add a bit of beast-like fierceness to them.
In the center of the square was a stone platform more than one meter high, surrounded by four thick stone pillars that supported the dome. Most of the stone pillars were green and covered with vines. If there were no one standing here, I'm afraid everyone would mistake this for just an old manor that had fallen into disrepair.
The young high priestess Miss Evelina stood on the platform, facing the gate, and greeted the devout believers who pursued faith with simple hearts with her pure smile. But it was regrettable that judging from the deserted situation in front of the temple, I was afraid that our group of criminals with ulterior motives were much more than the people who had come here to pursue faith.
Compared with the temples of other gods, the gate of the temple of Lumbli is very narrow, and there are two temple warriors guarding each side of the gate. Because we are worried that Red Wolf will be discovered when entering the gate, we decided to use the old method to lead these four guys away.
We chose two unlucky guys as bait by drawing lots, namely Foxiao and Cangcangyekuang. They both completed the task successfully and also welcomed the first jail time in their adventure career very smoothly.
After entering the temple, no one could stop Red Wolf from approaching the High Priestess Evelina - although there were many believers in the temple, they were all old and weak soldiers in their teens and twenties. Even if the dark elves emptied their pockets, they could not find any trace of this foreign thief - in fact, he did so and regarded it as a warm-up exercise before the formal theft; and although the levels of those temple fighters were high enough, they all stood motionless in the corners around the temple. Red Wolf certainly would not have the leisure to run to them and challenge the limits of his skills.
We never lost track of the Red Wolf, thanks to our elven archer Xian Ge Ya Yi. We all know that this mutant elf, who was born with poor eyesight, learned a skill called "Wind-Listening Arrow" without a teacher, and can find hidden enemies entirely by hearing. After determining the location of the dark elf, he cast a skill called "Life Target" on him. This skill has no damage effect at all, but can create a target-shaped magic mark on the head of the person who was hit. Like our name, this mark seems to be related to some kind of soul energy. Apart from me, only those who travel through space can discover its existence, and those who are destined to never leave this material plane will never discover the existence of this mark.
As long as we know the location of Red Wolf, searching for him will no longer be impossible. Although his stealth skills are superb, as long as we follow the magic mark, we can still vaguely see the outline of his transparent body.
The only difficulty came from the high priestess herself. Although she looked like an ordinary girl next door who was harmless to humans and animals, she was, after all, a hero-level character who had already exceeded level 70, and she was more sensitive to abnormal phenomena around her. Just as Red Wolf walked to the stairs of the high platform, Miss Evelina suddenly turned her head alertly and glanced in his direction suspiciously. The dark elf immediately broke out in a cold sweat, turned around and ran away with his tail between his legs. This dangerous situation happened three times in a row, and Red Wolf didn't even touch the edge of the high platform, which made us all worried.
The actions were frustrated repeatedly, forcing the dark elf to make a desperate attempt and use his last trump card. I vaguely saw Red Wolf put a small gray crystal bottle to his mouth, and then drank the contents. In an instant, it seemed as if a stream of steam surged out from under his feet, completely enveloping his transparent figure that was already difficult to detect, and then completely disappeared, leaving only a circular magic mark, as if it was hanging there out of thin air, leaving no clues.
I know that our dark elf friend has already used the "evaporation potion" he has prepared for a long time. Judging from the effect of use, there is a reason why this expensive potion can be sold at a price that would make people sell their pots and blood.
It is difficult for me to describe the rest of the story in detail. I can only tell you that I watched the magic symbol of a red heart in a circle in the air float up to the platform, successfully avoiding the attention of the young high priest. Then, it sneakily floated to the high priest's side and successfully stuck to her back.
It didn't stay behind Evelina for long, probably only long enough for two deep breaths at most. But I think that for a veteran thief like Red Wolf whose theft skill has reached level 40, this time is enough for him to empty the money bag in a person's underwear, take out a pen and paper, write a sonnet expressing passionate emotions such as "Thank you for your generosity", stuff it back into the empty money bag, and then put the money bag back to its original place without the owner noticing.
You know, for some people with special skills, time always seems to flow abnormally slowly.
Countless facts tell us that no matter how good your equipment or precious potions are, the gap between the soul levels of two people is still difficult to make up, whether in battle or stealing - especially when the difference between the two people is nearly thirty levels. Although the price of the "evaporation potion" is more than one hundred gold coins and it is worth the money , it only bought the multinational giant thief Dark Elf Red Wolf a maximum of five seconds with the vigilant high priest. Spending one hundred gold coins to buy these five seconds of time can't help but remind me of the difficult proverbs I once heard people say, "Time is money."
This is not quite accurate, as facts before our eyes prove that this "minute" is worth more than just a little gold.
"Intruder, the god Lumbree will not have mercy on your courage. May the light of punishment forever cover your cursed soul!" After about five seconds, the high priestess Miss Evelina suddenly realized that there was someone behind her and shouted loudly. Red Wolf's good luck also came to an end with this shouting. In just a moment, the young religious leader immediately changed her sweet appearance of a girl next door and revealed extraordinary strength that was absolutely not commensurate with her age.
She waved her slender arm gently, and a thick emerald green aura immediately burst out from her body, causing a violent shock. The dark elf lurking beside her was immediately attacked by this indiscriminate powerful shock, completely exposing his whereabouts, and the vitality in his body was drained out like a water pump, and in the blink of an eye, he was on his deathbed.
The devout and steadfast temple warriors immediately raised their spears high upon hearing the call from the high priest, and were determined to faithfully perform their duties with actions. I originally thought that these brave warriors would rush forward and smash the illegal intruders into a pile of rotten garlic. But what I didn't expect was that their attack would come so swiftly:
As soon as the high priest's voice sounded, the group of sturdy temple guardians immediately threw the spears in their hands. I guarantee that it was the most fierce and sharp long-range attack method you could imagine at this time. Those spears seemed to have the great power to split time and space. Even your eyes could not catch their existence, leaving only black shadows with the breath of death in the air. Only after they hit the target accurately and completely penetrated the thin body of the dark elf, you could hear their "woohoo" sound of splitting the air like the grin of the god of death.
Even before death, the dark elf's body didn't have time to fall down. You can imagine the death of a hapless thief with transparent holes all over his body, like a piece of dried butter cheese. His miserable fate did not end with death. Even after he died, he was hit hard by the powerful offensive magic "Hurricane Slash" of the high priestess Miss Evelina. Before this, I had never seen a person die so wastefully. When it was obvious that only a finger poke was enough to kill him, he was whipped in such a horrible way, causing the respectable high priestess to consume so much magic power in vain.
The only thing that made us feel a little bit excited about the death of the dark elf was that before his body completely disappeared, his right hand seemed to be tightly clenched, as if he had indeed stolen something...
