37 - Chapter 37

Seeing that the fog had completely cleared away, Heisong breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe the ‘Undead demon dragon’ had solved everything, and others didn’t need to be worried about it. Then he could just drink tea, eat snacks and have a good laugh with the prince…

After entering the palace, Prince Lanto first noticed something was wrong.

Several servants were busy doing laundry by the high wall. Usually the servants should rest at this time, why are they so hardworking today?

Also, the guards at the gate saluted the prince respectfully without even looking at Heisong. This is quite abnormal… The elf mage was sitting on a bone chair, floating in the air and the gate guard and the soldiers patrolling the street all would look at him like he is a monster, even the knights who have seen him before can’t help but look sideways…How could the guard in front of the palace be so calm?

The prince found someone at random and asked his name and squad. In fact, the prince could not know every soldier, he just wanted to see if the person’s reaction was normal. The guard replied politely, as if there was nothing wrong, but a knight who was following the prince was shocked and immediately drew his sword.

“Royal Highness! This man is not Foley from Team Eight! Foley is the cousin of my brother-in-law’s sister’s boyfriend! I have seen him! This person is an impostor!”

At the beginning, the impostor also quibbled a few words. Seeing that he couldn’t fool him, he simply drew his weapon. He was not the only one, the guards, watchmen and laundrymen in the vicinity all surrounded them with weapons. They were armed with standard military weapons, which should have been snatched from the real guards.

Heisong noticed the difference, and sure enough, these people were all resurrected corpses. He wanted to take control of the corpses and was thinking about the method silently in his heart, but suddenly the nearest corpse suddenly burst into flames.

Heisong screamed. The corpses began to burn one after another, and the flames spread to their weapons. They slowly narrowed their encirclement and stopped a few steps away from the prince and his men, scorching the living people with suffocating heat.

The door of the palace slowly opened, and two figures leaning against each other came out. Nollard looked outside with a blank expression, supporting a slender red-haired boy in his hand.

No one else had seen that face, only Prince Lanto was impressed.

“Could it be that you are dead…” The prince murmured. “You are a man or a ghost… have you become an undead?”

“I’m still alive, Your Highness.” Rosey Green pushed Nollard away and took a few steps forward and he followed him reluctantly with his eyes.

“Your Highness, let’s not talk around the bush.” Rosey said. “I’m here to negotiate with you. If we get together, these corpses will leave your palace and your castle will not be disturbed anymore.”

“Are they still alive?” The prince was referring to the living people who were replaced.

“Of course they are still alive. Otherwise, what would I use to trade with you? They are very obedient and hardly resist…” As he spoke, Rosey hooked his fingers and Nollard immediately followed obsessively and hugged him from behind. “Because I have Lord Nollard, they wouldn’t dare to play with his life.”

“What do you want?” The prince asked.

Rosey pondered for a while, and said, “I want you to replace this young man with yourself.”

“What?”

“You will go with me and leave Silver Falcon Castle from now on.” Rosey said. “I will let your son go, and his mind will return to normal. Anyway, you are getting old, so it is better to let your eldest son inherit the lordship, right? As long as you follow me, your subordinates and children will be safe.”

The eyes of the warlock were shining with fire, like the blooming flowers in front of the mountain cabin.

“Or if you really don’t want to go, I can take Nollard…he likes me anyway. Believe it or not, he liked me before being affected by the spell. Don’t be embarrassed, this is the simplest choice. You nod and I will disappear with Nollard immediately. All the resurrected corpses in the castle will be evacuated immediately, and then you will slowly find the soldiers and servants caught by me… how about it, Your Highness, will you bless Nollard and me?”

Prince Lanto clenched his fists. “You can resent me, but you shouldn’t involve my child! He has never hurt you! Don’t forget… he is also Sinig’s child.”

“You dare to mention her?” Rosey said coldly. “If you didn’t take it seriously, she should be as strong and free as me now, instead of being tortured to death by her own power! Our deal has nothing to do with her, just as your happiness had nothing to do with me.”

The knights in the ring of fire dared not make a sound while carrying their weapons and could only look at each other. The topic suddenly mentioned the deceased princess, and it sounded completely like a personal grievance. They were fortunate enough to listen to private matters of the prince… which was a bit embarrassing.

“Your excellency, what are you doing?” The knight closest to the bone chair whispered.

Heisong was indeed secretly casting spells, but it takes time. He stared at one of the corpses, his hands in his sleeves, and the crackling sound of flames covered his breathless spell.

The Red Vulture became young and beautiful, but his spellcasting habits should not have changed much. During the Battle of the Moonset Mountains, Heisong was very impressed with this warlock. He had many typical warlock characteristics, such as: all enemies are afraid of fire by default, so he ignites them easily; when he encounters enemies who are not afraid of fire, he use elements to use impact force against them, believing that success can only be achieved if the enemy falls down or flies out; when casting spells, he tends to choose a fuzzy range instead of a precise path. He often concentrates on casting a large number of spells with similar effects, but after encountering an emergency, he has already overdrawn his physical strength and is unable to respond…

Of course, warlocks also have some advantages but Heisong just doesn’t remember what their advantages are.

Don’t you like to set fires, then let me help you . Heisong raised the corners of his mouth and had already completed the spell.

The corpses suddenly began to sway, and the fire on their bodies burned deeper and more violently, but the tongue of the fire did not jump high, and it would not affect the living people surrounded by them. Rosey Green noticed that something was wrong. One of the corpses had fallen down and was smashed, the others had also begun to lose support, and their bodies broke into pieces, their skin peeling and carbonizing.

Fast burning is a common technique used by necromancers. It is rarely used in combat because the prerequisite is that an open flame must be lit on the corpse. The spell will speed up the incineration process, and will not burn other things, the entire incineration process is safe and fast.

After the mage solved the wall of fire, the knights of the realm immediately dispersed and surrounded the warlock in front of the door from different directions. Rosey immediately raised his hand and drew a rune, but the impact of the spell was neither on the knights nor the prince, it turned out to be Heisong.

This is another characteristic of warlocks, especially those who were born in the mountains and have not read much: no matter what the situation around them is in the battle, they should be bent on killing those who had made them suffer losses…

Heisong rolled off the bone chair, and it was blown up to a pulp. He stood up bitterly, thinking about any other spell that could restrain Rosey without hurting the prince’s son.

The knights had surrounded Rosey but did not dare to act rashly. Although Rosey was unarmed, Nollard aimed his dagger at his own throat.

Rosey gently held Nollard’s wrists and unbuttoned his cufflinks. Nollard’s wrist was engraved with a bloody sigil, which was the spell that turned the dead into a puppet thirteen days later.

“It seems I have to take him away.” Rosey sneered. “I won’t kill him casually; I want him to live with me. This sigil is only a last resort. If I need him to die, he will die somewhere quietly, and you will not find his tomb in the Moonset Mountains. When he wakes up, he will take the initiative to return to me.”

As he spoke, the warlock chanted a spell and snapped his fingers, and the air around him and Nollard shook like water waves.

“He’s going to run away!” Heisong yelled. He wanted to manipulate the fragments of the chair to fly over to interfere with the warlock, but such a simple spell did not succeed…

Not only his spell, but also Rosey’s teleportation spell failed.

The air rippled for a few seconds, and then everything recovered as before, and nothing happened.

Rosey looked at Heisong in surprise, thinking it was the elf who did something. At this moment, Burris’ voice came from the castle gate…but the voice was not majestic, and he was panting a little.

“No one can use magic now.”

Burris ran to the prince’s side. This way of appearing was really mediocre. He should use a short-distance teleportation to appear directly, but he couldn’t do it now.

“It took me a while to arrange seventy-two interference stones around the castle. In the diagonal of the two interference stones, all arcane magic will fail. I made the seventy-two interference stones be divided as evenly as possible. As a result, there is a net to suppress arcane magic in the castle.”

The prince, the knights of the realm, and Rosey all looked stunned but only Heisong was shocked: the arcane interference stone is an artifact only the size of a pearl, and the price of each one can buy a farm… so many interference stones, how much is it? Mentor Burris was really willing to spend money on his son!

Disturbance stones are generally not used in combat because they can only take effect within a diagonal line of a certain length, and it is impossible for the enemy to stand still during combat. It is commonly found in special buildings, such as some temples. There is also the secret-related area of the Tower of Truth in the Royal Capital, which also hides the Forbidden Demon Net woven by the interference stone. When a spellcaster carries them, they will be packed in a special small bag so that they will not accidentally interfere with themselves and others.

Heisong speculated that the reason why this little mage brought so many interference stones was because of his own lack of ability to cast spells. If it was Burris himself, he could directly cast a huge forbidden magic field outside. Although casting that spell took time, it was much faster than burying stones.

“Wait… Then, I can’t cast spells either?” Heisong said accidentally.

Burris thought: But I can. When burying the stone, I calculated the angle based on the terrain. Now I can choose an undisturbed position based on the calculation result … But he didn’t say it like this: “It’s okay, we don’t need to cast spells. They are well-trained elite warriors; they can control the situation without the help of a mage.”

These words made the knights feel warm in their hearts. Mage Heisong was not like that, he especially emphasized “how much my magic has helped you”…

Nollard became a little awake, and relaxed his hand holding the dagger. The knight next to him immediately took the dagger and took him away from Rosey. And Rosey, who had no magic, was quickly subdued by the knights. The whole process only took a few seconds, and Prince Lanto nodded in satisfaction.

There was applause behind him, and Roth happily ran in. “The corpses outside have been taken care of.” He stood next to Burris, and Burris took a wet handkerchief and asked him to wipe his hands. “They are arranged in groups of six for your convenience. These corpses didn’t intruded in. They have been hidden in the city for a while. I guess no one knew they were dead!”

The knights of the realm exchanged uneasy eyes. No wonder the gate was not impacted, but the castle was unknowingly controlled by the Red Vulture.

Roth said: “Also, I found that there are many living people tied up in the basement of the mill, but I don’t think they are important, so I didn’t save them. Anyone of you has time to save them.”

The corner of the prince’s mouth twitched, and several knights were arranged to deal with it. He walked up to Rosey Green and opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say. Nollard was completely awake. He looked at his father and at Rosey, whose hands were held behind his back and a sword was against his neck. He was speechless for a while.

The scene fell into a weird silence, until Roth spoke. “Why is everyone not talking? Do you want to lock up this warlock? If you want to interrogate him, can I apply to watch? I have never seen an interrogation before!”

Burris has become more and more used to the situation ‘If Roth is there, there is embarrassment’. He walked to the prince’s side and handed a pair of rusty gray shackles. The shackles were very thin and light. What really worked was the spell on them.

“Your Highness, if you want to take him into custody, use this first. After leaving the interference stone range, he is still very dangerous. Wearing this will prevent him from casting spells.”

The prince was very grateful to this young apprentice, and it seemed that Mage Burris did not choose the wrong heir. After shackling Rosey, the prince hesitated for a long time and could not decide what to do with him, so he had to order the knight to take him to the cell.

When being taken away, Rosey kept his head down and said nothing. No curse, and no excuse. Prince Lanto dared not look at him, but Nollard’s eyes followed him until his figure disappeared into the dim porch.

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