I draw a card first

Chapter 42 Shadow Trail
After finally finishing his work at the basic college, Aiwen was relieved just now, and then he had to worry about those uneasy neighbors again.

Because someone had killed the envoy of the Noble Council before, the nearby lords who were about to make a move seemed to be frightened and kept quiet for a while. Ivan was even more busy and had no time to pay attention to them.

As a result, a month later, I heard that the envoy sent by the royal family seems to be on the way and is expected to arrive soon.

With someone backing them up, they obviously became daring again, and they continued to make various small moves.

"Should we just let the undead army in the Canyon of the Dead kill them all?"

The huge and powerful undead army accumulated in the Canyon of the Dead is definitely capable of wiping out the entire western part of the kingdom, and even triggering a real "natural disaster of the undead" in the entire Kingdom of Lotias!
But in the end, Ivan thought about it and let it go.

First of all, it is too easy to hurt the innocent, and at the same time, the completely fine lion collar is too conspicuous.

Others are not fools. If someone finds out the relationship between the undead and him, it is estimated that the plan to promote the Holy Light will collapse.

After all, the combination of light and darkness, and the interplay of yin and yang is still too scary for people in this world.

"What a hassle!"

These annoying lords are like some bugs jumping up and down. I don't know if it hurts to bite people, but they are indeed irritating.

Harassing and harassing the borders of the territory today, disturbing the passing caravans tomorrow, indulging soldiers in private searches and even extortion, greatly intensified Ai Wenwen's overwhelming workload, and even interfered with the efficiency of the territory's construction and development.

"Forget it, after we finish dealing with the problem of the royal envoys, just pull out the [-] new trainee paladins who should have been formed by then, plus the [-] formal paladins with dragon blood speed, for a military exercise. It's estimated that this If you help, the guy will shut up."

Speaking of the five hundred apprentice paladins, Aiwen is very satisfied now.

Although they didn't advance directly with the help of the sub-dragon blood, after his inspection, more than half of them can successfully advance to become official paladins if nothing goes wrong.

At that time, he will be a big step closer to the Great Lord of Light.

But the only thing that makes Ivan feel regretful is that currently there are only these [-] young people found in the territory who are qualified to directly bear the Holy Light Seed, and it will be difficult to expand in a short time.

It's not a question of qualifications.

After all, [-] people were recruited in one afternoon, so there are ordinary back-up personnel, but there are not many apprentices who can really get started quickly and have a higher chance of being promoted to a full-time Paladin.

After all, trainee professionals are still labeled as professionals, and they require years of study and training, so they are not always easy to find.

Perhaps only in those big cities would trainees be more common and exist as a class.

But such a person doesn't know the background, and Ivan dare not make random moves.

Although he is not afraid of having a second-guessing kid who has complete control over the Holy Light, he doesn't want to cause trouble for himself. After all, he is already troubled enough.

Therefore, Aiwen is also very lucky to be able to accumulate enough accumulation in the Lions from the beginning.

If you start with another ordinary barony, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Aiwen to gather the first 100 people.

And the degree of stagnation in his subsequent development made him vomit blood even more.

"It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!"

Sighing a little dissatisfied, Ai Wen casually took a document that was covered with the words "Urgent" and stuffed to the top.

After just two glances, his brows suddenly wrinkled.

"Suspicious traces of suspected cultists were found in a certain building in Xicheng District?"

"finally coming."

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Ivan has been waiting for these guys to take action for a long time.

Although considering that these cultists are planning to get a base, they should not use some excessive methods such as large-scale plagues, but Aiwen has not let down his guard.

Fortunately, the monitoring effect of the enchantment is not bad so far. Coupled with the previous turmoil and raids, Aiwen found the clue just as the other party showed signs.

"Come two people, follow me to see!"

Calling two trainee paladins who were on duty to act as errands by the way, Ai Wen and his party rushed to the scene quickly.

Two trainee Paladin officers in charge of patrolling the city were leading more than 20 soldiers to seal off the scene at this time. Seeing Aiwen, they hurried forward to salute and report what they found so far:

"This is an older two-story villa building. It was found that it once belonged to a female noble who participated in the rebellion. It has been idle at present."

"Through the protection and monitoring, an abnormal energy fluctuation suddenly appeared in the villa half an hour ago. After our preliminary detection, the energy should be a magical reaction of some kind of evil camp. The further situation has not yet been carried out because the blockade of the site has just been completed. .”

Ivan looked at this orderly young man who seemed to have similar experience in surprise.

Feeling some doubts in his eyes, the serious young man smiled awkwardly.

"Sir, my grandfather was once the city defense officer of Lion City. My grandfather taught me this."

Ai Wen nodded, then crossed the blockade and walked into the villa.

The entire villa facing the street is not big, and overall it looks a lot older, but it has been repaired fairly well, and it seems that its former owner was very attentive.

Across the dusty living room, looking at the furniture and the thick dust on the floor, Aiwen followed the energy induction and quickly came to a small door at the side rear.

This is apparently an entrance to a basement.

The narrow metal door was tightly locked by an exaggerated large magic lock. Judging from the thick dust, it didn't look like someone had opened it.

Pull out the laser sword and easily cut off the magic lock. With a slight push, the metal door slowly opened, and a cold breath rushed over.

"It looks very deep!"

First, he threw a BUFF on himself and the two trainee paladins, and then Aiwen radiated holy light to illuminate the surroundings. While carefully sensing the surrounding situation, he slowly descended the stone steps.

He knocked down a few flying arrows that were triggered by someone's touch, and smashed the magic trap on the wall next to him with a punch. Aiwen, who was strong enough, obviously didn't ask a thief for help. Pushing all the way horizontally, he quickly broke through those mechanisms and reached the bottom of the underground secret room.

The space at the bottom is surprisingly tight.

It was about five by five meters in size, empty and empty, and at first glance it felt a bit like a secret prison.

No, it says that it used to be a place to imprison people.

Because Aiwen quickly discovered that under the scattered dusty debris in the corner, there were many dim bloodstains and obvious traces of fingertip scratching, with different shades and shapes, and it was definitely not something that one person could leave behind for a short period of time.

"My lord, there is a discovery here!"

Because the space is really small, the two trainee paladins who kept searching and knocking in the secret room soon found out.

By knocking on the floor, one of them soon found a place where the sound was slightly hollow. If he couldn't find the mechanism, Aiwen simply hit the holy light and smashed the stone floor open, immediately revealing a huge bottomless hole.

"There is still underground?"

Alvin was curious how deep the builders dug?
If there is a third layer, it might touch the underground world that the surface life often calls it!
Let the two people stay behind, and Aiwen put a shield on his body, and then took out the [Scroll of Magic - Flying Wings] scroll and jumped down.

There is no way, he is really afraid that he will fall to his death if he doesn't take the scroll, this way of death is really unjust...

(End of this chapter)