Chapter 1355 1342. Naomi
In fact, the nobles of Ruyt City did not have the courage to fight against Lord Suldak. Viscount Duwei stood up and proposed to these nobles to organize a massive parade, but unfortunately there were very few responders.
The nobles were more worried about the series of countermeasures that Lord Suldak would launch after the parade incident.
At the beginning of this gathering, everyone was still criticizing Suldak fiercely, but when Viscount Du Wei announced the parade plan, the group of nobles fell silent instead.
Then someone slipped away quietly.
Not long after, there were only a few nobles who had a good personal relationship with Viscount Du Wei in the hall. Seeing that they were also fidgeting, Viscount Du Wei knew that this lobbying was a complete failure, even if it was only in Ruy They didn't dare to start a parade in Techeng.
"Viscount Du Wei, we also bid farewell..."
After the last few nobles hesitated for a moment, they also came up one after another and said to Viscount Du Wei.
When the nobles left one after another, the hall immediately became empty, the rows of tables and chairs looked a little messy, and there were leftover wine on the table, and the servants began to clean up the messy living room.
Viscount Du Wei sat on the sofa in the lounge a little tiredly, pinching the corners of his eyes with one hand, and closed them in disappointment.
When he opened his eyes again, there was a hint of world-weariness in his eyes.
The butler stood behind him without saying a word. Viscount Du Wei didn't even look back, so he asked the butler behind him:
"How is the preparation for the ceremony at the manor?"
The butler took a step forward, bent down and leaned into Viscount Du Wei's ear, and whispered, "Everything is ready, and the soul awakening ceremony for Earl Benton can be held tonight."
Viscount Du Wei nodded, lying sideways on the sofa and said: "The city has recently changed a group of guard battalion knights. You tell those warlocks to be careful these few days, and try not to go out if they can."
The steward immediately agreed, "Understood, my lord."
Du Wei suddenly sat up from the sofa, began to look at the calendar on the coffee table, took out a quill pen, scribbled on the date originally drawn with a red circle, and then said:
"Let them pour another dose of medicine in all the wells in the poor areas of the city before dawn tomorrow. This time, the metering will be increased. Now the corpses sent to the cemetery are not enough."
The butler agreed:
"Okay, I'll go and notify them myself."
Viscount Du Wei paused for a moment, and then asked: "Who is in charge of the noble district? Let's start taking action tomorrow!"
The steward hesitated for a moment and said: "Tomorrow morning, the nobles in the city may not have time to evacuate..."
Viscount Du Wei showed a disappointed expression on his face, and he said after a while: "They have already lost the courage to resist, I gave them a chance, since they don't have the courage, let them sink with this city! "
"Understood, my lord."
The butler agreed.
The room fell silent again...
…
Samira walked into the castle with a man wrapped in a linen cloak.
The man walked into the castle, and only then lifted the hood on his head, revealing a face with a livid color and faint corpse spots.
She walked a little unnaturally, and her steps were very stiff. She looked curiously at the gorgeous decorations in the castle, and her eyes moved from the rock sculptures in the corridor to the oil paintings hanging on the walls, with a look of surprise in her eyes.
When Suldak was waiting in the study, when he saw Naomi, he found that her body was still being decomposed, but she didn't seem to care about it.
There was no movement in Naomi's eyes, and there was not even a smile on her stiff face.
Surdak stood in front of the desk, asked Naomi to sit down on the chair opposite the desk, and then said:
"Recently, there have been a few things that we can't understand in Ruyt City. I'm very sorry for disturbing your peaceful life."
"Although I don't know if I can help, it is my honor that you can think of me when you are in trouble!" Naomi's voice was a little hoarse, but she was extremely calm.
Suldak said that he met a necromancer in the city the day before yesterday. The necromancer cleverly used a double to escape in front of Suldak, and used the inland river in the city to get rid of Samira's pursuit.
Naomi's pupils shrank slightly.
Suldak said to Naomi: "I want to find them. I know he must be hiding in the city. Although I don't know why he is in Ruyt City, I think they probably don't want to be in the magic union. Under your nose."
"I want to know why the necromancers came, I want to find them out of this city..."
Naomi, who was sitting on the armchair, said expressionlessly:
"As far as I know, there are no necromancers near Ruyt City, and it is very inconvenient for them to move around in areas where people gather, unless they are not good at summoning, and they are active during the day, so it is difficult to cover up their aura. So it's usually active at night."
Then Suldak talked about the robbery incident in the Benton family cemetery.
"I don't think they are ordinary gravediggers just to steal the burial objects in the tomb." Suldak finally said.
"Samira, I guess they will take action in the city next time. Since they like to be active at night, you may have to work harder at night."
The half-elf archer immediately stood up and said, "Got it."
Suldak instructed Carrie Decker again: "Carrie Decker, you sent someone to watch over the slums. As long as someone dies over there, they have to register with the guard camp. I doubt that the slums After the dead were buried in that cemetery, the tombs were almost all clothes tombs, and I can be sure that their bodies were no longer in the tombs, so I suspect that they have planned this for a long time."
Carrie Decker nodded in agreement with a serious face.
She had just been the chief of the security battalion in Ruyt City, and she encountered such a thing, which made this second-rank strongman very upset.
"Sia, have Edgar and his cavalry arrived yet?" Suldak asked Sia beside him.
Suldak did not expect Edgar to borrow a group of guard battalion knights from Mukusuo because he was worried that the cavalry under his command had no experience in governing the city. He ordered Carrie Decker again: "This guy actually knows you! Mars, Carrie Decker, you asked Edgar to increase the number of patrolling knights in the city..."
"Naomi, is there any way to find the old Earl of Benton?"
Seeing Naomi stop thinking, Suldak questioned her.
Naomi still said with a blank expression: "Yes, but you need the belongings of the deceased. Using undead magic, you can find his hiding place by escaping the breath."
Suldak said to Naomi: "Then you will follow me to the Benton family, I want to get the old Earl of Benton back."
"It's best to wait until night, and prepare sacrifices."
Naomi said hoarsely.
Then everyone split up. Naomi did not live in the guest room that Suldak prepared for her, but asked Suldak to prepare an unused cellar for her, and she waited in the cellar for dark.
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The Benton family was in chaos. Many young family members were guarding with family knights, and they were investigating the whereabouts of the old Earl of Benton.
In the family, Alan Benton's uncles all came over and asked Alan Benton to give everyone an explanation.
After so many years, this is the first time that the Benton family has encountered this kind of tomb robbery.
Several wives of the old Earl of Benton were sitting in the living room of the back house, praying continuously to the golden scepter with wings hanging on the wall, which symbolized the light of protection of the Statue of Liberty. Big, but it is very clear, and has the same rhythm as reciting poetry.
Ellen Benton saw that his mother and the other ladies were in relatively stable moods, so he stopped immediately and gave up his plan to comfort his mother.
He has to go back to the living room to entertain those friends who came back from everywhere to help.
When passing by the side hall, Alan Benton saw his stepmother Marilena sitting at the dining table. There was a glass of golden cider in front of this beautiful woman. She originally planned to leave Ruyt today. But now that something like this happened, he was stopped by Alan Benton, and no one could leave the manor until the matter was investigated clearly.
On the contrary, the stepmother Jenny, who was much younger than me, sat on the balcony on the second floor all day long. She seldom talked or walked out of the room. After the old Benton passed away, she also seemed very calm. He had no intention of leaving Benton Manor.
Maybe because she hasn't had a good rest recently, her cheeks are so pale that they are almost transparent.
I have to say that Jenny has a very special temperament. The more cold and lonely she looks, the more people want to understand her heart.
If old Benton hadn't been quicker to attack, Alan Benton looked at Jenny's side face, and now he could only sigh slightly...
"My lord, the Lord Consul of Suldak is here to visit." The butler appeared at the end of the corridor and walked up to Alan Benton and said.
Alan Benton didn't expect Lord Suldak to visit at this time, and he was a little stunned.
Thinking that he actually came to the scene in the morning, he thought it was just a formality. It should be the duty of the guard battalion to investigate this matter. Unexpectedly, it was so late, but Suldak came to the door again.
"Consul Suldak, please come in... Forget it, I will greet you in person!" Alan Benton adjusted his collar and cuffs, and hurried out to greet him.
The butler immediately followed Alan Benton.
"Lord Earl Suldak, this time..." Alan Benton walked down the steps and said earnestly when he saw Suldak.
Suldak pointed to Naomi who hid her face in the hood, and quickly introduced to Alan Benton: "This is my friend, Ms. Naomi, a warlock who is proficient in undead magic. The reason why I came here with her this time is to track down the specific whereabouts of the old Earl of Benton."
"..."
For a while, Alan Benton didn't know how to express his gratitude to Suldak.
It's no secret that Suldak has a ghost friend in Ruyt City. Such stories have even been circulating in the city. Back then, outside Mucuso City, facing the messy Lord MacDonnell's army and Suldak asked his undead friends to fight a **** road outside the city for the low-level legion of the **** demons.
In order to investigate the theft of the tomb, now he actually brought this great friend here himself, which moved Earl Alan Benton even more.
The necromancer wrapped in a black cloak stood beside Suldak. Her figure was a bit petite, she should be a lady.
She didn't speak, she didn't even move, and the hood was still on her head, making it impossible to see her face clearly.
"Master Consul Suldak, do you have a way to track down the whereabouts of your father's body?" Irene Benton asked in a low voice.
"I'm not quite sure, but at least it's worth a try!"
Waiting for Suldak to tell his inquiry method, Alan Benton said without saying a word like a maid behind him:
"Hurry up, please come in, Dasha, go to my mother and bring me a relic from his lifetime. It must be an item that my father always brought with him when he was alive."
The maid saluted: "Yes, sir!"
Then he ordered the housekeeper: "Go and clean out the pavilion by the pool in the back garden, I will take the distinguished guests there later!"
After waiting for a while, the maid did not return, and Alan Benton could only wait patiently and quietly.
Not long after, about a quarter of an hour, a plump and beautiful lady came slowly from the end of the corridor with a wooden tray. Alan Benton looked over and saw that she was sitting alone in the dining room drinking Cider's stepmother, Marilena, looked a little upset, as if she was frightened by this incident, and she didn't know why she came to the front hall with a tray this time.
Suldak also saw at this time that this beautiful and gorgeous lady was the woman who wanted to hook him up at the funeral yesterday.
Under the introduction of Earl Allen Benton, Suldak learned that her name was 'Marilena'.
"This cloak is what your father usually wears, and it's always in my place. Madam asked me to bring it to you..." Madam Marilena's Madam refers to Ellen Benton's mother.
Alan Benton just nodded, thanked very perfunctorily, then handed the cloak to Surdak, and asked: "Mr. Consul, do you think this cloak is okay?".
Suldak deliberately did not look at Mrs. Marilena, took the cloak and handed it to Naomi who was at the side. Seeing that Naomi nodded slightly, he said, "Yes..."
Alan Benton took Suldak to a relatively clean pavilion in the backyard. The idlers in the back garden were also cleaned up. The yard seemed quiet, only the manor house was brightly lit. .
Naomi glanced down at the clean slate floor. Without much hesitation, she took out a few small jars from her backpack, poured some of the dye inside into a saucer, and smashed it hard with a pebble. Finally, a few drops of viscous blood were poured out from a test tube, mixed with those dyes, and formed a more viscous muddy dye.
Then Naomi squatted on the slate floor and began to set up the undead tracking circle.
(end of this chapter)