The person kneeling beside him must have been dumbfounded. Although there weren't enough samples to test, Marco Lin didn't think that ordinary people could enter and exit the high-dimensional world without any protection without being harmed.
The two rows of soldiers in front of him seemed to be very puzzled by the sudden appearance of a person who looked very much like their lord knight kneeling beside the mage. Almost everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction of the lord. Unfortunately, the horse's back was empty.
For a moment, everyone was still confused and couldn't figure out what was going on.
But for Lin, he was also puzzled. The two maidservants, who hadn't been protected before, had been brought back and forth several times. They had vomited so much that they had even vomited bile. But this person didn't have any reaction at all. Could it be that the knight's physique was better, so he could withstand such a ravaging?
Suddenly, there was a burst of strange laughter, and then there were incomprehensible syllables that sounded like he was talking. Lin Huang only felt that something was wrong and violently took off the knight's helmet. The face was still a human face, but his neck was turned at an extraordinary angle. The eyes that looked at Lin were pitch-black, and there were several small white pupils in between.
This scene caused a certain person to feel a chill run down his spine. This was even more serious than the high-dimensional pollution. He was possessed by a freak.
According to the original plan, he would cut off the knight's head neatly with a sword. Lin Huang also cruelly stomped on the head, but this kind of behavior was neither in line with the style of the maze, nor was it outside of the plan.
Generally speaking, in a battle between members of the same race, they would at least respect the dead; in a battle between different races, or if there was a blood feud or a mortal enemy, it was possible to do so.
But because that face was too frightening, he didn't dare to do so. Lin Huang didn't know if there would be any adverse effects if he left that head behind. The head had to be connected to the body to live. That was human. Not necessarily so for non-humans.
But there were still benefits to such a brutal action. At least someone stared fiercely at the hundred soldiers and the villagers of the mining village who originally lived here. With just one glance, they scattered in horror.
In fact, this was a very understandable situation. When the object of their service dies, there are only two things that can happen. One is that they turn to the service of the one's heir, if there be one, and the other is that they disperse to their own homes. Unless it was a family member, there would not be any subordinates shouting for revenge. They did not have the qualifications to do so.
It was unlikely that this group of people would take the initiative to expose this matter to the nobles of a higher level. If one were to be questioned as to why their lord had died while they were still alive and well, there would be many who would go to the gallows because of this reason.
Most importantly, what did this magician do? No one could understand it. How did my lord kneel beside that person? How did the assassin helper that the Lord Knight was so proud of disappear into thin air? Where did they go?
Although the style of the Earth Spellcaster was to give himself a full set of buffs and charge around like a Berserker. However, there was another type of Magician that was even more terrifying. It was the type where one's own people would mysteriously die without knowing what they were doing.
The fear of the unknown was the same no matter where and when. This time, even though the knight was the only one who died, the mysterious way he died still made the group of ordinary farmers who had turned into soldiers. Most of them were still young lads who had never fought in a battle before and were at a loss of what to do. Their only thought was to stay away from that magician.
Because of this, a certain transmigrator who forced himself to be a hooligan succeeded in achieving his goal with the least amount of killing. The only dead were a noble knight and the villagers of the original mining village who were unable to break free from Fen's hands. Oh, and the few unlucky assassins who were thrown to unknown places.
However, the change in this knight also brought some warning to Lin. The pollution of the Higher Dimension was more complicated than he had imagined. It seemed that he could not easily bring anything back from that world. Otherwise, if he unfortunately brought back something that could not be dealt with, the consequences would be unimaginable.
On the other hand, Lin also looked towards the depths of the mine, where the darkness was. He did not know if the matter here would provoke the lord above the Knight. If no one forcefully sealed the matter here, the news would sooner or later reach the ears of those great lords. If the matter of the Magic Stone mine was exposed, those nobles who were no different from jackals and wolves would not keep quiet.
Hopefully, they could leave this place before more troops surrounded them. However, the answer to this question depended on when Fen would complete her ritual. This Lich who was good at calculation did not calculate an approximate time, so the three of them could only wait. Hopefully, they would not have to wait for ten months, or three years.
After cleaning up the scene, he added a few more illusions to the place where he parked the carriage. Lin also made a trip to the place where the pile of human stakes was originally standing. As expected, most of the people had broken free and left. However, there were still many bloodstains and broken limbs on the ground.
The wild beasts and magic beasts in the land of mystery were very bold, and the location of this village deep in the forest was far from safe. Even if he did not see what happened at the scene, Lin could roughly imagine that many of the people who could not move were eaten by the hungry wild beasts. There might even be people who were bitten to death and eaten on the spot.
He also cleaned up the mess because the smell of blood could easily attract wild beasts. Although Lin was not afraid, it did not mean that he liked to be disturbed by blind things. The best way, of course, was to remove some unnecessary incentives. Apart from that, he had to stay here for who knew how long, so it was not too much to maintain the circle mirror and treat himself well.
And in a place where he could not see, there was a group of people hiding in the shadows, holding their breaths and communicating simply with hand gestures. However, it seemed that they could not get a good communication, and their hand gestures were almost stabbing into each other's faces. Thus, they retreated a long distance and glared at each other.
"Little John, how are you going to explain our losses?"
"Explain what? We wanted to assassinate a mage, not a rich noble. It is expected that there would be losses. If this bounty was so easy to get, do you think it would be our turn to take it? "
It should be a reasonable answer, but the people around a certain thief were still angry. Someone reprimanded loudly, "This mage is clearly very weak, but he used a method that no one could understand to make our subordinates disappear. No one knows where they went. Isn't this because your information was wrong and caused us to suffer unnecessary losses? I still remember clearly that none of your subordinates were among the missing people. "
"Why do I remember that the most active person among the people who rushed to launch the first wave of attacks was not me? Even the deliberate exclusion of my people was not my idea. Besides, I never said that this mage was weak, although in the internal intelligence of the guild in the southwest peninsula, without considering the Magic Tower, he is a mage who only dares to cause trouble for the goblins. "
Someone rushed to answer, trying to set the tone of the matter. "That's right, that is clearly a weakling."
Little John, however, sneered a few times and said, "Do you think that as the original master of the Tower of the Great Sage, the man who set off a fireworks show in the abyss, he really has no means that outsiders don't know? Not to mention that Lich who follows him, the Demon King Tikal from a thousand years ago. She may not have gathered dark forces to invade the whole world, but how can a man who can follow her be easily killed by a few 'thieves' who have just debuted? "
The deliberately emphasized tone made the indignant people feel hatred and regret, unable to respond for a long time.
"If you ask me, the idea of wanting to give this glory to your own nephew is the height of stupidity. Why do you think I don't dare to act alone and take this bounty alone, and have to eagerly ask a group of you to share the loot with me? Do you think that the money is too much? "Little John unceremoniously gave the final blow.
In fact, among the people that Little John had recruited, there was no lack of people who had disputes with him and usually fought to the death with him. But the bounty of Xbarkiel (10,000 gold) made everyone temporarily put aside their grudges and come together.
Even so, a few people who didn't get along with Little John also vaguely joined forces to exclude him when making plans. The others had their own standpoints, and most people chose not to help either side. And the group of people who were friendly with Little John also saw that the owner of the matter didn't forcefully stand up, so they didn't jump out to oppose.
In terms of results, it was the group of people who jumped the happiest who suffered the most losses. The people who disappeared were all their subordinates, and even a few of their relatives. And Little John's approach, even those who didn't like this man had to admire him.
There was also some information about that mage within the guild. But who could guarantee that they had completely grasped all the trump cards of a mage? If there really was, then that mage probably wouldn't live long. The mystery of the Master Mages came more from the richness of their methods. No matter how reckless a person was, they would have a few trump cards hidden up their sleeves to save their lives.
So in such a situation, how to increase one's chances of winning? Of course, it was to use people's lives to pave the way. The best case scenario was to use other people's lives to pave the way. So when Little John chose to back down before, the price he paid was only that the benefits he might get would be snatched away by others. If that mage was just a paper tiger, he would be able to do so.
But it turned out that the bounty didn't fall into anyone's hands.
This made a few of the more cautious old thieves recall the information about this mage once again. There was a magic tower that could resist the invasion of the abyss on its own, but it withdrew because of a piece of paper from the Society of Sorcerers. With this kind of ability to not be afraid of anyone, but in the battle of the Sijia District Academy more than a year ago, he quietly withdrew.
Was he pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger before? So what was the reason for being so tough this time?
It was said that there was a magic stone vein in that mine. But looking at the other party's appearance, it didn't look like they were going to stay for long and occupy this mine.
Judging from today's performance, there was no chance of a frontal assault. Maybe at night, it was possible to carry out a sneak assassination. However, the greater opportunity would only appear when they left the mine and entered the city. It was a good opportunity to poison and assassinate.
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