Chapter 106: How Things Went
This is how things went.
Ever since Cang Xu encountered the black gowned magician and lost the ice blade fish bone material to him, he had surmised that the black gowned and masked magician as a necromancer.
He ordered Xu Ma to investigate.
Xu Ma was worried for his safety, and did it half-heartedly, but Cang Xu didn’t notice.
Xu Ma was savvy at stealth and evasion.
Cang Xu just believed Xu Ma’s abilities were limited and understood that he wasn’t making any headway.
Thus, Cang Xu changed his way of thinking. Since the search wasn’t working, then he would play the role of them, stalking the streets and using necromancy of his own accord to beat the grass and scare the snake!
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps wasn’t a regional power, but as long as Feudal Lord Hun Tong was forced to react, they could use his strength to conduct a large scale search and investigate the black gowned magician.
Cang Xu was relying on the Deceptive Disguise spell.
They used the pearl bubble, a god level casting material, making the magic the apex of its type.
If the black gowned magician was a necromancer, he probably wouldn’t be able to escape the search and investigation. But Cang Xu was very sure that his disguise could be maintained.
Cang Xu informed the dragonman youngster of this plan.
After pondering the cause and effect, the young man approved this plan.
Although using a necromancy method was risky, he too believed in the Deceptive Disguise spell and the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell.
“If Two Eyes Island has a necromancer nestled in it, it would be an immense danger to the masses.”
“Not all necromancers are like Cang Xu.”
“We must seize him; this is righteous thing!”
The young commander approved this plan.
Thus, Cang Xu began to refine his mask.
He wasn’t able to make an actual ashen death mask, and the one he did refine was a commonly seen magician mask. The magician mask could slightly accelerate magic power recovery speed and was known as a curved magic mask.
After the curved magic mask was refined, Cang Xu inserted it into the Deceptive Disguise formation.
After taking on the mask, it now looked exactly like the one the black gowned magician was wearing.
Not long after obtaining the mask, Cang Xu heard that someone was making false charges against and blockading the Wisteria store’s gateway, defaming the Green Hat Potion’s healing potency.
He and Zi Di left together to check up on the particulars.
On the way, Bai Ya found them.
Naturally, Bai Ya knew who they were and informed them that he had noticed a group of people secretly playing dirty tricks and that Xu Ma was already chasing them down.
Cang Xu’s and Zi Di’s hearts shivered with joy, the trail was already there, and there was no need to investigate.
The troublemakers at the scene were mere shilling underlings, not worth to capture. Furthermore, they also weren’t able to act out in the open, they couldn’t let more people say and think the Wisteria store was acting tyrannically and having a guilty conscience, could they?
Therefore, Cang Xu made arrangements, it was likely that a battle might occur and since the enemy power’s situation was unknown, Bai Ya would continue to stay behind to take care of things in the alley mouth, Zi Di provided support midway, and he, the strongest, would approach the target. If something occurred, there would be a specific response based on the specific situation. Such as what they would do if the enemy was weak, if the enemy was stronger than those deployed, and if the enemy was stronger than the entire Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
This arrangement was quite rational and strict.
Zi Di was just a bronze level, and based on currently available information, the thin person was a bronze level fighter, a threat to Zi Di. But to the iron level Cang xu, such a person was a far lesser threat.
In addition, if the enemy power was large and Cang Xu was in an unfavorable situation, Zi Di would retreat without delay, and transmit a request for aid.
After the three acted according to the arrangement, Cang Xu quickly reached the destination.
It wasn’t hard to find.
Xu Ma had left behind secret marks along the way.
This was standard for all veteran mercenary corps. As a mercenary commander, Tripleblade had helped Zong Ge and played an important role in plugging such deficiencies.
Cang Xu saw the guards out in the open, and also knew the place likely concealed stakeouts.
Since he didn’t see Xu Ma or any traces of battle, Cang Xu determined that Xu Ma was still safe and was currently hidden somewhere inside.
The necromancer was in no rush to act. He thought that if Xu Ma snuck back out and provided more accurate information, it would undoubtedly be more appropriate to act after he verified the risks.
Of course, the necromancer didn’t place all of his hopes on Xu Ma, as he stood on the street, he began to mobilize scouting puppets.
The survivors had made large quantities of these alchemy puppets on Snake Rat Island.
After coming to Two Eyes Island, they released a batch into it.
Although some were recalled, many were still placed in crucial locations.
The Wisteria shop, of course, was a key place. Therefore, there were a few alchemy puppets nearby.
Cang Xu had the authority to control these scouting puppets.
Under his spiritual control, three puppets snuck towards the building.
But before the puppets could enter, something strange happened.
The sound of fighting could be heard from the courtyard, and someone shrieked, “Capture him!”
Soon after, Cang Xu saw Xu Ma’s sorry figure running away, while at the same time, sensing the intense aura of a silver level caster!
Cang Xu hesitated for a moment, then deciding to act!
He put on his curved magic mask; he had been wearing a black armored gown. In order to conceal his necromancer identity, he chose to use Fireball scrolls.
The scroll was activated, causing it to shoot a fireball.
As Xu Ma rushed towards the courtyard gate, he tumbled to the ground and was hanging by a thread between life and death.
Cang Xu didn’t save him directly, rather he detonated the fireball next to the latter.
The faceplanted Xu Ma was the least harmed, while his pursuers were blown up by the fireball, leaving them in a pitiful state.
Xu Ma was able to escape with his life.
At the same time, Zi Di in the middle section, responsible for providing support and detection, immediately sensed Xi Dai Zi’s life aura.
“A silver level caster!?” Zi Di knew the situation had suddenly changed, the enemy’s strength surpassed their own, thus, they immediately carried out their corresponding response plan.
She instantly summoned Bai Ya, then had Bai Ya find someone to indirectly inform the city guard.
She then hurried elsewhere so she could take out the ghost Lan Lu and set up the ambush.
Cang Xu and Xi Dai Zi fought.
The entire fight was filled with danger.
At first, Cang Xu used several magic scrolls in a row, one fire ball after the other to suppress Xi Dai Zi in the early stage.
But Xi Dai Zi was a silver level, and his strength exceeded Cang Xu’s greatly, while also having powerful magic equipment too.
Through his magic item and higher strength, he was able to resist the fireball bombardment and turn the tables.
Cang Xu didn’t dare to zealously fight further. In addition, Zi Di told him that the ambush was set.
Cang Xu chose to retreat.
Xi Dai Zi drove the three headed water snake and pursued relentlessly.
Cang Xu arrived at the ambush site, and with a storm of fire ball scrolls, attracted Xi Dai Zi’s attention.
Zi Di immediately had the ghost Lan Lu launch a surprise attack.
The silver level ghost’s sneak attack was successful and achieved a crucial battle result.
Xi Dai Zi was heavily wounded, causing him to change his plan to retreat.
The ghost Lan Lu was battered by divine power, causing him to become unstable and unable to fight further.
Zi Di was even more on the verge of collapse, barely able to control Lan Lu.
Cang Xu joined back with Zi Di, and decided not to pursue Xi Dai Zi, but instead to dispose of the thin person and his people.
Xi Dai Zi was barely able to withstand the necromancy, while the thin person and others were unable to resist them at all. Most of them were killed on the spot, while those who didn’t sank into a dying unconsciousness.
By the time the city guard commander and his subordinates arrived on the scene, Cang Xu, Zi Di, Xi Dai Zi, and the others had already vanished without a trace.
Only a messy battle aftermath remained.
After Xu Ma returned to the ship, he reported everything he had heard.
The survivors rewarded him to a certain extent and gave him a chance to heal and rest.
The survivors soon after held a meeting to discuss this matter.
What was the origin of the thin person and his group? They worked without a bottom line or principles, they were actually colluding with a fishman pirate group and agreed to pave the way for the fishman pirate group’s invasion of Two Eyes Island!
That was something the dragonman youngster did not want to see.
Zong Ge abhorred these traitorous people even more!
The survivors made a unanimous decision, they would dig out these people and eradicate them.
Not only were they retaliating against a different race and protecting the righteous humanity, but these people had also wickedly discredited their Green Hat Healing Potion and severely hindered the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ plan to acquire capital.
Cang Xu proposed, “I have already disguised myself as another, and exposed myself as an exiled necromancer. After the city guard investigates, they will surely discover some things.”
“In order to prevent the other party from covering this information up and for insurance, we should disguise our features and distribute some rumors.”
“Since this matter involves a necromancer, Hun Tong will be unable to cover it up, there is bound to be an all-out investigation and a speedy report to the Blood Light Punishment Institution.”
“The Blood Light Punishment Institution’s dispatched personnel will tidy up Two Eyes Island. The mysterious black gowned magician will have nowhere to hide and will have to prove their identity. Even if they aren’t a necromancer, that group of people will also be exposed and the fishman pirate group’s place to attack the island will be completely destroyed.”
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was a newcomer, and it was difficult for them to sniff out the culprit. But Cang Xu’s scheme allowed them to draw support from the natives’ and the empire’s strength.
Wisdom was a type of power.
Cang Xu’s necromancer identity was originally his weak point. But it could ingeniously be put to use and be treated as a type of weapon that could solve the difficult problem before them.
After understanding the particulars of the battle, Zong Ge secretly had a new level of respect towards the necromancer, “That old codger knows the hearts of men and is an expert of crafty plots and machinations.”
“He obviously didn’t have armor, but during the fight, through his flurry of attacks and fearless attitude, he was able to force Xi Da Zi onto the defensive.”
In order to find the third party and find that damned necromancer, Feudal Lord Hun Tong and the imperial secret spy genuinely cooperated fully for the first time.
One was the feudal lord of Two Eyes Island, the other was a master intelligence officer, an imperial secret spy, and there were almost no hindrances to their investigation.
The imperial secret spy lead the investigation.
This was his specialty.
Most people would be baffled and at a loss at where to start, because those well acquainted with what happened, namely the thin person and the others, were all missing. But in the imperial secret spy’s eyes, there were many clues in his hands.