Chapter 2551 Smell of Death

Doakes came to the man in black robe, first took the empty seat next to the man in black robe, and bowed lightly: "Good evening, Mr. Black Earl."

No one answered, but a nose embedded in the stone board jumped from the empty spot to the table and sniffed at Doakes.

Immediately afterwards, the man in black robe said: "You don't have to be like this. I didn't use your adult ears this time, so I can't hear you."

Doakes also saw that there was a nose on the slate instead of ears. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and complained a little: "If you didn't tell me earlier, if you knew you couldn't hear me, I would have come directly to find you."

"Are you so afraid of my master?" The man in black robe said teasingly.

"Aren't you afraid?" Doakes asked.

The man in black robe chuckled softly, but didn't reply.

Doakes continued: "The body is divided into countless parts, and each part has its own consciousness. Such a monster makes me shudder just listening to it. You actually dare to take it with you every time you go out, Just tell me the truth, are you not afraid?"

The man in black robe drank a glass of wine and said calmly: "Although my master is here with his nose this time and cannot hear you, he can smell your malice."

Doakes was stunned and took a few steps back.

"Can your nose smell malice? Is it true, or are you trying to fool me?" Doakes said cautiously.

Man in black robe: "You can think I'm fooling you. But, do you believe it?"

Regardless of whether it was true or not, Doakes didn't dare to say any more. He walked around in a circle and sat in the farthest position from the man in black robe and the nose.

When Doakes sat down, the man in black robe said quietly: "You asked me just now, are you scared? I am an apprentice and can have the majestic Lord Hongjian sitting across from me. Do you think I am scared or not?"

The man in black robe was worried. Doakes no longer cared about it at this time, but he was right. The reason why Doakes talked to this apprentice as an equal, or even sat on an equal footing, was because he carried a part of Lord Black Earl's body.

As long as the "nose" is there, no one dares to be disrespectful to the man in black robe.

This is also the reason why the Noah family is so famous. There are very few people in the Noah family, but as long as the Noah people are walking outside, they have part of the Black Earl's body. It is equivalent to saying that every member of the Noah tribe is under the protection of the Black Earl.

Of course, "protection" is only the understanding of outsiders, but based on the past exchanges between Doakes and this old friend, it is vaguely noticed that the Black Earl seems to have other unknown purposes for doing this. What this purpose is, Doakes doesn't know, but with his strong spiritual perception, there is always a bad omen.

It is for this reason that Doakes asked just now: Aren't you afraid, aren't you scared?

Although the man in black robe seemed to use rhetorical questions to express that he was not afraid, but was he really not afraid? He never answered it himself.

"I won't play charades with you anymore, let's get down to business." Doakes glanced at the nose that was still sniffing around, and then turned his attention to the man in black robe: "Way, are you looking for a place where we can talk?"

Vai Noah is the name of the man in black robe, Doakes's old friend for many years.

However, the black-robed man Vai did not move, but closed his eyes for a few seconds. After a while, the nose embedded in the stone suddenly took a deep breath, and then exhaled suddenly, and a line of light appeared around Doakes and Vai. Absolute barrier.

This is a second-level spell, and blocking sound is only its most insignificant effect. Its terrifying defensive power in battle is its main purpose.

"We can talk now." Vai said calmly.

Among the apprentices, only the Noah family is probably the only one who can use the second-level magic as a sound barrier.

Doakes was silent for a moment: "Were you communicating with Lord Black Earl's nose just now? You didn't say anything bad about me, right?"

Vai rolled his eyes and was too lazy to answer such a stupid question: "I stayed well in Mesoemia. Why did you find me here?"

Judging from Vai's reaction, Doakes was sure that he probably didn't say anything bad about the Black Earl. Doakes felt relieved and replied: "I'm going to explore the ruins soon."

Vai resisted: "Don't call me. I told you before that I hate deserted places. I only like to stay in big cities. The sandworm market makes me feel suffocated."

Vai is a very special person. He is actually not very gregarious. Such people are usually very lonely, and Vai is indeed lonely. At least Doakes has never heard of Vai having any other friends besides himself. But although Vai has a withdrawn personality, he especially likes crowded places. Once someone talks to him, he is very resistant and is a very contradictory person.

He seems to simply enjoy seeing other people's excitement.

"I'm not asking you to explore with me, but my premonition seems to have failed during this expedition. I can't sense the good or the bad at all. I want you to help me find out." Doakes's face became more solemn. .

Vai frowned slightly: "If the premonition fails, it means there is a big problem. Just don't go."

Doakes: "But...I'm not willing to give in."

Reluctance is just Doakes' rhetoric, and the failure of spiritual perception is the real reason. He always had a feeling that maybe this time of exploration could truly turn his spiritual perception into an innate skill.

Vai took a deep look at Doakes and sighed: "I've convinced you, but you like to seek death. I really don't know what the point of exploring is."

"This is the essence of the wandering wizard. Once you gain freedom, you lose the source of knowledge, and exploration is a way to make up for it."

Wai was silent for a moment, and took out a transparent glass cup from his robe.

"Remember, you owe me another favor." Wai put the cup on the table and said to Dox.

Dox nodded repeatedly: "I remember it. Including this time, I owe you five favors now."

Wai raised his eyebrows: "Six."

Dox waved his hand generously: "I will pay for all your drinks here today. How about it as a favor?"

Wai was silent for a moment, and said: "Okay. Five favors."

Dox immediately came forward happily: "Then let's start."

Dox obviously had done this with Wai many times, and was very familiar with the process. When he saw the transparent glass cup, he stretched out his hand.

He silently said in his heart: I am about to go to the ruins.

Then, the wind blade gently scratched, and a drop of fingertip blood fell into the glass cup. The black and red blood showed a faint light.

Wai glanced at him and said, "Your blood purity has improved a lot compared to last time."

Dox: "I'm not as lazy as you. I won't advance if I stay at the peak of the apprenticeship."

Wai snorted, but did not refute. Instead, he stretched out his hand and dripped a drop of blood from his fingertips into the glass cup.

Wai's blood is very special in color, with a faint golden light in the bright red.

According to common sense, Dox is a formal wizard, and his blood can definitely suppress Wai's blood. But in reality, when Wai's blood fell into the glass cup, it was Dox's blood that was suppressed.

To be precise, it was Wai's blood, like a layer of membrane, that tightly wrapped Dox's blood.

"Every time I see it, I feel it's amazing. Are you Noahs really human?" Dox said with emotion.

Wai didn't want to reply to meaningless words, but picked up the glass cup and prepared to take the last step: smell.

Wai has a very wonderful talent, which Wai named himself: the smell of death.

He can smell the smell of death from the blood.

From the classification, this talent may belong to the prophecy system, because the prophecy system also has the ability to predict death. However, the prediction of death by the prophetic wizard is a kind of finding a quantity in the variable, and this result can be changed.

And Wai's smell of death is to make a death prediction for the existing quantity, of course, the result can still be changed.

When Dox dripped blood, he silently said to go to the ruins in his heart, which is a quantity.

What Wai wanted to smell was whether Dox would smell the smell of death when he went to the ruins.

However, just when Wai was about to smell the blood in the glass cup, his hand suddenly paused, and then gently placed the glass cup on the table.

Dox, who knew every step very well, asked in doubt: "What's wrong, why did you put it down before you smelled it?"

Wai was silent for a few seconds before saying: "This talent of mine is inherited from my master. Since the master's nose is here, it may be more accurate to let the master judge."

It was the first time that Dox heard that Wai's talent for smelling death was inherited from the Black Earl.

Although he didn't know why Wai wanted the Black Count's nose to smell, Dox thought about it and nodded. It's already come to this point, we can't give up halfway.

Soon, Wai picked up the stone slab with the nose and put it in front of the cup.

The Black Count's nose began to smell.

The two drops of blood in the cup kept rolling, but the strange thing was that no matter how they rolled, Wai's blood still tightly covered Dox's blood.

After a while, Wai put the stone slab down.

Wai didn't speak at the first time, but closed his eyes, as if he was asleep.

Dox guessed that Wai was probably communicating with the Black Count's nose... In fact, it can be said that he was communicating with the Black Count. Although the Black Count had "his consciousness" all over his body, it was still the Black Count's consciousness.

This communication took longer than expected. Wai's brows were frowned from time to time, as if he was arguing with the Black Count.

It was not until Dox drank two full glasses of wine in a row and looked out the window at the blue sky covered by dark clouds and raindrops falling that Wai opened his eyes.

"What was the result? Did Lord Black Earl say anything?"

Wai still did not speak, but picked up the glass cup again and smelled it again.

After smelling it, Wai looked absent-minded.

Dox, who watched Wai's series of actions, was still a little confused: "What's going on?"

After a long time, Wai sighed: "I can't smell anything myself."

No smell does not mean that death will not approach, but that Wai's talent has failed.

"However, my master smelled the smell of bad luck." Wai lowered his eyebrows and continued.

Dox: "The smell of bad luck, does that mean I will die this time?"

Wai shook his head: "I don't know, but..."

After hesitating for a long time, Wai sighed and said: "My Lord asked me to go to the ruins with you, so that I can be sure that you will not die."

Dox: "In other words, if I go, there is a high probability that I will die; but as long as you go with me, I will not be in danger?"

"Not dying and not being in danger are two different things." Wai couldn't help but corrected.

Dox: "Don't worry about these details. Can I confirm one thing, are you really going to explore the ruins?"

Wai nodded.

A nerd who never liked to explore ruins was actually going out. Even without Dox's spiritual perception, he could tell that something was wrong.

"Do you want to go?"

Wai didn't say anything.

As an old friend for many years, Dox immediately understood that this was what the Black Count meant.

"Then can I refuse? After all, this is not something I can decide. There is someone else who is in charge of the ruins exploration." Dox tried to use this method to help Wai return to his nerd life.

Wai understood what Dox meant and said helplessly: "I remember the taste of your blood."

Others didn't understand what this sudden sentence meant, but Dox did.

Even if Dox refused Wai, Wai would follow him through the smell of his blood.

Unless Dox didn't go to explore the ruins.

"Also, don't forget that you owe me five favors." Wai said again, "If I use this favor to ask you to tell me who is the leader. You won't refuse, right?"

Obviously, Wai has considered the situation if Dox doesn't go to the ruins.

The Black Earl emphasized so much that Wai must have had a premonition of something.

Dox was silent for a moment: "I can't promise you this right away. Give me a day, and I will give you an answer in a day."

Wai lowered his head, hummed softly, and silently said to Dox with his lips: I'm sorry.

Dox understood that Wai was apologizing for not being able to resist the Black Earl and getting his friend into trouble.

Dox didn't know what to say, so he could only sigh and pat Wai's shoulder: "Don't be like a woman, this is not a big deal."

After a pause, Dox said again: "By the way, after I leave, you might as well continue to ask the Black Earl, if you follow us, will our entire adventure team be safe?"

Wai nodded: "Okay."

After speaking, Dox patted his old friend's shoulder again, sighed helplessly in his heart, came to the bar, asked the bartender to take care of Wai, and then he quietly left the Cross Bar.

After leaving the bar, Dox wandered on the street for a long time, thinking about what the Black Count was going to do.

And how to help Wai.

But the Black Count was a figure standing at the top of the pyramid in the South Region, and Dox could not guess his mind.

With a sigh, Dox finally walked towards the black market outside the Sandworm Market. This time it was his mistake that led to Wai's appearance. No matter what, he still had to explain and apologize to Angel and Kael.

Moreover, Angel had his back against the Savage Cave, and he also knew something about the ruins. Maybe he knew what the Black Count's intention was?

After all, there was still a big gap in core intelligence between organized and unorganized wizards.