Chapter 694 "Pillar of Light"

After Roland fell asleep, Nightingale escaped into the mist and left the castle without a sound.

Her destination is the diplomatic building.

The pitch-black land shrouded in night showed distinct black and white colors in the misty world. Using the distorted contour lines, she leaped several meters and crossed the garden wall in a few steps.

Roland called this method of action flash, and said it was a magic skill with no cooldown time. Nightingale fell in love with this name right away—moving like lightning, quiet like shadows, flickering, hard to guard against, it's for flashes.

It's just that she doesn't quite understand what the cooling time in the second half of the sentence means.

But this is also an old problem of His Majesty Roland. After staying with him for a long time, he can always hear some unknown words.

After leaving the castle area, Nightingale did not go down the hill as usual, but directly jumped high on the side of the hill, followed the lines that appeared in the sky, and walked through the air. After a few vertical steps, she directly landed on the Diplomatic Building top layer.

This building was built in the middle of the castle area and the residential area, with a height of four floors, just at the same level as the small high ground where the castle was located. It was also the second concrete building after the Witch's Building.

Its original purpose of construction was to house arrest some of the more important prisoners, such as the wife and daughter of the Duke of Ryan, who were detained in the basement-although they were prisoners, the environment of the new residence was much better than the previous dungeon, and every day There is time for a walk to let the wind go, according to her opinion, it is simply cheap for these nobles.

Probably because His Majesty felt that he might not have so many enemies to be placed under house arrest, the above ground became the first stopover for distinguished guests who had just come to Neverwinter, such as the Alchemist Association of the Royal Capital, the sages of the Astrology Association, and the fjord sea. Shangdu lived here for a while.

Since the rooms in the diplomatic building are mostly vacant, and they are far away from the district heating system, only tap water is connected. And because the identity of the occupants is relatively complicated, His Majesty also added a personal guard here, which can not only show that he attaches importance to the guests, but also has the meaning of monitoring and vigilance.

Naturally, Nightingale would not choose to take the corridor to alert the guards. She went directly through the top floor and entered the bedroom where the wolf-heart witches lived.

The review in the afternoon did not find anything unusual. The magic tornadoes of the four witches were all stable, and there was nothing outstanding about their capacity. They were considered the most common type. As for the content of the question and answer, basically did not lie, only a little vague when talking about past experiences, the subtle inconsistencies were keenly captured by her branch ability - but this is normal, suffering, hunting, and even Even more unspeakable treatment will become a shadow in the witch's heart that she doesn't want to mention, and it is an ordinary person's act to hide it.

If only these four witches came to Neverwinter, then she would probably have four more sisters.

But it was the ordinary woman named No. 76 that attracted Nightingale's attention.

It was obvious that the other party had no magical brilliance, and his demeanor was no different from that of ordinary people, but she still felt that something was wrong. Looking back later, she realized that it was No. 76's undisguised answer that made her feel weird.

Nightingale has seen many people confide what they know until they are facing death, but a former maid of the underground chamber of commerce, without any threats, candidly confess to strangers. Tell me, this is really rare.

But she couldn't judge the identity of the other party because of this reason.

After all, No. 76 didn't lie.

Not lying means that the experiences and origins she has spoken of so far are believable. In addition, the statements of Yorko, Amy, and Annie can also be mutually confirmed—she was indeed a guide of the "Black Money" exhibition, and was bought by Yorko because of her involvement in the witch auction.

So Nightingale decided to visit the Diplomatic Building at night and observe No. 76's actions in the mist.

If the other party really has bad intentions, this is also the easiest time to show flaws.

She walked through the bedrooms one by one, and quickly found the room where the target was.

The other witches have basically fallen asleep, but the room of No. 76 is still lit—she is sitting on the bedside, playing with the ring in her hand by the candlelight, and it can be seen that her eyes are full of joy and excitement. Intoxicated.

Is it because of the beautiful stones set in the ring?

Nightingale walked to the bedside, quietly watching her every move.

Besides admiring the ring over and over again, she had no other suspicious behaviors, just like a lucky person who was so excited that he couldn't sleep with a treasure in his hand.

Although the ring shone with tiny magical brilliance, considering that some relics collected from unknown sources are often auctioned in the exhibition, it is not surprising that there is such a magic stone.

After half an hour like this, Nightingale sighed softly until the other party was tired of admiring, lowered his arms in a daze, and closed his eyes.

It seems that I am worrying too much.

She glanced at No. 76 one last time, reached out to snuff out the candle, turned around and walked through the wall, into the whistling snowstorm.

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The heat of the colorful magic stone subsided, which proved that the person who used the magic power had left the bedroom.

Number 76 breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if they can gain almost unlimited life through soul transfer, it doesn't mean they can stay up all night. It's just that after disconnecting the connection between the soul and the body, the efficiency of rest is much higher than that of sleep, so in a day, she only needs to rest for an hour or two to recover her spirit.

Usually, she falls asleep much later than the witch.

Unexpectedly, it was precisely because of this difference that she observed an incredible scene.

No. 76 opened his eyes and looked at the empty bed—just now, there was a bright orange light in the room, a beam of light as thick as a torso went straight to the ceiling, reflecting the other side of the ring. It became a piece of golden yellow! This level of "key" has already surpassed the surviving high-ranking witch Pasha in Taquila, second only to the three seats in the federation. Although she couldn't see the figure of the other party, she knew that it was definitely not a simple invisibility technique, but a much more complicated ability!

Could it be that the visitor is Anna or Ye Zi that Nana Hua mentioned?

Although there is still a certain distance from the requirements of the Chosen One, seeing such an orange light already makes Number Seventy-six excited.

The activation method of the colorful magic stone ring is very simple. As long as someone nearby is using the ability, the magic stone can absorb a small part of the surging magic power, which shows the complexity of the ability. The specific manifestation is the beams of light observed through the magic stone. The thicker the beams, the more complicated the key.

No. 76 became more and more excited as she thought about it, she simply walked out of the room and came to the top floor of the building.

The wind and snow hit her face, but she couldn't feel a trace of cold. Usually, this feeling of emptiness and groundlessness would only make her feel tired, but now she felt extremely excited, quite a kind of standing against the wind and chasing in the dark. The heroic feeling of the last ray of dawn.

Raise the ring and point it towards the castle—according to Wendy, that's where the witches live. Now that the first high-ranking witch has appeared, will the Witch Union give her more surprises?

She is looking forward to it.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

The ring in his hand suddenly trembled, as if resonating with something.

And through the magic stone, No. 76 clearly saw an unprecedented beam of light—it was almost like a wide and high wall, cutting off half of the sky.