$1125 Assumption

The tower owner, Ms. Morrill, who has long silver-white hair, is rigid and paranoid, and is easily irritated and ridiculed when working, as if she is a standard scholar, but in fact her identity determines that she is definitely not just a simple scholar.

So Raymond, who was acting like a rogue, hit her soft spot, forcing Ms. Morrill to tell her what she knew.

Anger and helplessness made Ms. Morrill's eyes blaze from beginning to end. "Lord Raymond! I told you everything, but I won't admit it as long as you leave this room!"

"Thank you for the information you provided. I hope that when I return to the Scholar's Tower, I can see that there has been a breakthrough in the research on this puppet!" It's not good to be good after getting the advantage, so Raymond bowed and saluted to express his gratitude very sincerely.

But Raymond's sincere attitude made Ms. Morrill more suspicious, but Raymond, who had already understood the reason, said goodbye and left her laboratory and returned to the bottom hall of the Scholar's Tower.

Haines, the city lord's adjutant who was asked to wait here before, came up to Raymond as soon as he saw him, bowed and was about to speak.

But Raymond had already pointed at the scarlet wizard robe with gold edges on his hem and spoke. "If you don't wear this wizard robe, how many people in Dark Wing City know you?"

Haines, with his legs together and his body straightened in an instant, saluted again as if in the army, with a serious expression. "Reporting to the lord, except for the members of the Red Owl Squad outside the Scholar Tower, there are no more than thirty people in the entire Dark Wing City who know me!"

"Thirty, not a lot..."

Raymond frowned as he muttered to himself. After he walked around Haines, he found a new problem.

Haines is a wizard of level three. Although his figure is still standard, he has a very obvious feature. His shoulders are extremely broad, which is not something that ordinary people can achieve. Obviously, those who are interested can recognize him based on this feature, so Raymond asked after returning to him. "Do you have other styles of wizard robes?"

"My Lord, no!"

The answer was straightforward and decisive, which made Raymond speechless, but as soon as he thought about it, an ordinary wizard robe and a black cloak that could cover his body appeared in his hand.

After giving it to Haynes, he asked him to change his wizard robe, but before Raymond was ready to take him away, he still felt a little unsafe. So he searched in the storage ring and took out a silver-white mask and said. "Put this on your face, and you are absolutely not allowed to speak without my permission after leaving the Scholar's Tower!"

Haines took the silver-white mask and put it on, but soon spoke in a muffled voice. "My Lord Raymond, why is this mask so smelly?"

Raymond smacked his lips and had a strange expression. He naturally would not tell Haynes that this was the mask worn by those puppets, but after confirming that no one would recognize him in this way. Raymond immediately took him away from the Scholar's Tower. They quickly came to the Exon family mansion in the north of Dark Wing City.

The mansion covers a large area, and the courtyard wall on the north side is actually a whole section of the wall of Dark Wing City. The soldiers stationed on the wall are all wearing armor with the Exon family emblem, and the defense facilities on the outer wall of the mansion, although seemingly hidden, are undisguised demonstrations of the power of the family.

Raymond, who did not enter the mansion directly, took Haynes around the periphery of this huge and powerful mansion. Because he did not know much about the Exon family who had such a mansion in Dark Wing City, he asked the reason while observing.

Before Raymond came here, Haynes was dizzy because of the stench of the silver mask he was wearing, but when he saw clearly that Raymond came to the Exon family mansion. He was frightened and broke into a cold sweat, and the questions that Raymond asked immediately afterwards made him extremely horrified.

Haines, who came here after the city lord Wensley retired from the Karst Defense Line, although he served as the leader of the Red Owl Squadron and handled some affairs for the city lord Wensley and was not very public, he was quite familiar with the information of these local families.

So even though Haines was shocked by Raymond's goal, he had to follow Raymond's orders completely after being given orders by the city lord Wensley, but he still hesitated before starting the introduction.

The Exon family, who came here from the surface world, suffered heavy casualties in the early days of the construction of Dark Wing City in order to resist the attacks of the underground plane monsters. Therefore, in order to commend their family for their outstanding contributions to the construction of Dark Wing City, they were granted the privilege of freely choosing an area in the city to build a family mansion after the Dark Wing City was stabilized.

In the following hundreds of years, the Exon family, which originally had the pharmacist heritage, became the family selected by the War Zone Council to refine war potions because of their research results on potion refining, and from then on, they established their status as a top pharmacist family in Dark Wing City.

Since the successive city lords relied on and respected the Exon family, and the Exon family was constantly developing and growing, the mansion was constantly expanding outward, until the backyard wall of the mansion was only tens of meters away from the city wall, so the city lord two hundred years ago simply assigned the city defense section to the north of the mansion to his management.

Even though this section of the city wall did not have a gate, its respectful significance was extraordinary, so the Exon family officially entered its heyday, and until now it has a certain say in the war zone council, which is quite incredible.

Hearing this, Raymond compared it with the information he had obtained from Zachley before, but Haynes' attitude when introducing the situation caught his attention, and he deliberately asked after thinking for a while. "Suppose I ask you to lead the Red Owl Squad to attack this mansion, how long do you think it will take to completely occupy it?"

The sudden question made Haynes take a breath, but Raymond, with a serious expression, looked straight into his eyes. Thinking of the order of the city lord Wensley before coming, Haynes sighed and answered helplessly. "If I am given three days to prepare, if I want to rely on the combat power of the Red Owl Squad to reach the level of capture, it is estimated that it will take half a month, and the final loss may be medium..."

Raymond, who had never considered such a situation before, was interested and asked after thinking about it. "Then if the Red Owl Squad is transferred now, and we want to capture this mansion within an hourglass hour, what will be the extent of the loss?"

"Under such conditions, this mansion will definitely not be captured! The final result can only be the complete destruction of the Red Owl Squad, and at most it can enter the front yard of the Exon family mansion!"

The stunned Haynes gave an answer after a moment, but it surprised Raymond very much. After careful questioning, he understood.

From the outside, the mansion in front of us already has various defensive measures, but in fact, its internal defense strength is quite high.

And because this mansion needs to bear the defense of a section of the city wall, there must be defense and attack arrays equivalent to the city defense level inside, so according to Haynes's judgment, if the Red Owl Squad cannot carry equipment to launch a siege, then this result is doomed.

"Lord Raymond, are you really going to issue an order to capture the Exon Family Mansion?"

After asking, Haynes carefully observed Raymond, and saw that he had no possibility of answering, so he added honestly. "Although I will definitely execute it, I will respond immediately regardless of whether it can be completed or not, because it is said that there is a teleportation array in the Exon Family Mansion that leads directly to the War Zone Council, but it has not been confirmed for so many years..."

Raymond, who heard the uneasiness and panic in Haynes' tone, smiled and said to him. "Don't be so scared, I came here today to visit an old friend..." (To be continued..)