Lord Helanza

In the winter morning, a cold wind blew up at the entrance of Helanza street with icy snow grits. Occasionally pedestrians passed by, and they both pinched their hands on the collar of the coat and shrank their heads. After walking, no one wants to stay outside for too long in such a cold weather, even the leather shoes on their feet will be frozen hard.

The cold wind blows on the triangular flags on the roof. Those flags have faded under the wind and rain. Even some of the flags have broken holes, but they are still conspicuous enough. The guards were standing on the watchtower. They were wearing thick leather clothes and two-layered leather boots on their feet. They patrolled the watchtower. If they didn't walk back and forth occasionally, they might be treated as stone statues.

The sky is gray and the sun is hidden in thick clouds. There are few pedestrians at the entrance of the Helanza Opera House. This time in previous years was the hottest time for the Opera House, because in the long winter, people There are not many activities to choose from. Listening to the opera is definitely a good choice. Every afternoon, there will be busy traffic at the Opera House. This is the most lively social venue for the noble circle of Helanza in winter.

It’s just that this year is different. The Opera House was closed a month ago.

Since members of the Black Magic Priory appeared in the Opera House, not only the Enforcement Corps of the Magic Guild, but also the Knights of the Guard Camp occasionally visit the Opera House to investigate. During the time that the Helanza Opera House was closed, many things happened in Helanza. The boss of the Opera House, Dominic, received the death of Samoa in the morning. It was a guard camp Knight who came to inform him.

As the boss of the opera house, Dominic has the responsibility to go to the guard camp. He must collect the body of the dancer and deal with subsequent punishments.

"Hey...!" Dominic sighed dejectedly. Who would have thought that such a singular dancer would be the black magician of the Black Magic Priory.

He calculated the time when Samoa joined the opera house. When she first met Samoa, she was still a scrawny young girl, but when she danced, she appeared very light and agile. Like a Swift flying over the water, it was her excellent innate talent that made Dominic select her at a glance from more than a hundred candidates.

He tightened his neckline and walked two steps quickly to board the magic caravan on the roadside of the Opera House.

Behind him is Dominic Levi, the manager of the opera house. In the past month, Levi, who was about to weigh three hundred pounds, lost a lot of weight. Now look When he got up, his eye sockets collapsed, and the fat on his cheeks and chin had disappeared. Only loose skin was left. It made him look like a vulture with fur, and his big eyes looked a little scary.

The two are old friends who have known each other for more than 20 years. They are sitting in the magic caravan. There is still the smell of rouge perfume in the car a month ago, but now these two people don’t have that mood. , Dominic sat on the blue buckskin sofa and said with emotion: "Samoya has been in the opera for seven or eight years! No one in the opera knows that she will perform magic..."

Levy sitting across from him propped up his drooping eyelids. In the past month, he spent almost half of his time in the interrogation room of the Magic Union Law Enforcement Group, and spent the rest of the time in the guard camp. In the prison, although there is no evidence that he is connected with the Black Magic Priory, neither the law enforcement team nor the guard camp thinks that he can be separated from the Black Magic Priory.

If it weren’t for Dominic’s friends in the city of Helanza, he would have to be detained in the guard camp until the spring, maybe he would die in the jail.

Levy crouched and asked Dominic: "Did you say that she joined the Black Magic Priory first, or did she join the Opera House first?"

The Opera House A touch of ridicule appeared on Boss Dominic’s face, as if mocking the incompetence of the Helanza guard camp, and as if mocking himself at his difficult situation. He said:

"Who knows! Good point... Why cause the bandit group to ransack the manor outside the city. Now there is each one. As long as you get a little bit of it with the Black Magic Priory, they will guard the battalion.

Levy knows what kind of pressure Dominic is under. The entire opera house has raised almost two hundred people. Even if these people are not at home, the opera house still pays monthly salaries, which may not be needed. How long will this huge expenditure drag Dominic down.

“If you don’t need to organize a dance troupe, I will do a tour in the cities of Pena Province...” Levi suggested to Dominica that performances are forbidden in Helanza, so it’s better to go to other cities. It’s good to sit and eat.

Opera Boss Dominic smiled bitterly and said, "I think! The Magic Union Law Enforcement Corps issued a notice that all members of the Opera House have received a foot ban. If you leave Helanza at this time, He will be wanted by the Enforcement Corps of the Magic Trade Union."

Levy has been detained in the prison of the guard camp these days, so he has no idea about the ban.

Levy frowned and said: "I can't keep consuming like this..."

Dominic rubbed his stiff face with both hands and said, "I will I went to the guard camp to catch my breath, but it is estimated that there will be no turning point. This time, Samoa is really hurting us. She is actually looking at Miss Hoyle. The bandit group destroyed Hoyle Manor. Needless to say, this time I sneaked into Christie Castle and almost snatched Miss Hoyle from the castle, which was regarded as offending Sir Bernard Christie to death."

" Now I can only take one step as one step!"

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As soon as Surdak walked into the guard camp gate, he saw two aristocratic men, one fatty and one thin, with very poor complexions. Walking down from the magic caravan, Sauron Great Captain was unprecedented standing at the gate of the main guard camp, quietly watching the two nobles.

"Sauron." Opera Boss Dominic walked off the carriage, strode up the steps, and hugged Sauron Great Captain who was standing on the steps.

The yard is full of the guard camp Knight, not specifically to welcome the boss of the opera house, but today is the day of Glenfel Baron’s torture, and in the afternoon, Glenfel Baron will be Sent to the guillotine, if anyone wants to rescue Glenfell Baron, there is only the last half day.

"Dominic..." Sauron Great Captain squinted and looked at this man who was once very influential in the noble circle of Helanza. Who would have thought that the opera house would fall in just one month. After failing like this, the boss of the opera house was almost like'bad luck' this month, and the nobles who were close to him were more or less unlucky.

Sauron Great Captain didn’t have much to say. He took Dominic and Levi directly to the cold morgue next to the prison. It was winter, and the morgue was like an ice storehouse. The morgue and the walls were covered with a thick layer of frost. A line of corpses lay on the morgue, and each corpse was covered with a layer of linen.

Surdak rushed to the guard camp to take a look at Samoa's body.

He and Karl walked into the morgue, only to find that Sauron Great Captain was already standing in the morgue with two aristocratic men. They were surrounded by the morgue where Samoa’s body was placed. Around the corpse frame, the linen cloth has been lifted, revealing the petite corpse that was almost charred by Fireball. Although she was wearing a tight-fitting leather armor, she was basically carbonized under the fire of the big Fireball, and the whole body was drawn. Formed into a ball and curled up together, it looked like a black monkey.

The two aristocratic men next to Sauron Great Captain just took a few glances and couldn't help retching.

Carl was also bitter and didn’t want to take another look. Surdak was so used to seeing dead people on the battlefield. He didn’t think the charred corpse was so disgusting. He walked into the carbonized one. The corpse, the corpse was burned so badly that it was difficult to tell whether it was Samoa even at a close distance. It is certain that the charred body was a female corpse, but Surdak always felt that this should not be so simple.

Samoya escaped from Christie’s Castle with two Assassins last night. She is also good at'shadow hiding'. There is absolutely no reason to run around in the city. Finally, she was blocked by the magicians of the law enforcement team. In the alley, this is also the reason Surdak rushed over, wanting to see Samoa.

"This is Samoa's necklace. This is a gift I gave her after her first time. She always wears this necklace on her body." Dominic pointed to the morgue. Said the necklace.

This necklace was found on the corpse when the corpse was gathered. The whole chain had been burnt to black, but the pendant was not melted, Dominique said with certainty.

"If there is no doubt, you can take the body back. If no one claims it, the guard camp will take care of it in a week!" Sauron Great Captain has no such thing as the law enforcement team. The valuable body was sent to the guard camp rather unsatisfactory, so he wanted to dispose of the body as soon as possible.

Since the law enforcement team determined that this was the corpse of the absconding dancer Samoa, the guard camp did not carefully check it. If Dominic hadn’t personally ran to collect the body, Sauron Great Captain would not personally. Came to the morgue.

Surdak showed a look of doubt. He and Karl looked at each other, and when he saw a trace of suspicion in Karl's eyes, Surdak plucked up the courage and said:

"Wait a minute! "

The eyes of everyone in the morgue fell on Surdak, especially Dominic looked towards Surdak, showing a look of distrust.

Surdak saluted Sauron Great Captain, and then said to Sauron Great Captain in the tone of asking for instructions: "Sauron Great Captain, I have doubts about this corpse. The corpse is very scorched. As for the unrecognizable physical features of the body, I saw Samoa at Christie Castle that night. At that time she sneaked into the castle as a maid disguised as a maid. She was also wearing a maid dress when she got out. I didn’t see her wearing a leather armor..."

Sauron Great Captain eyebrows raised, he glanced at Surdak with a dignified look, and asked him: "How can you identify her?"

Surdak takes a step forward As soon as he wanted to touch the wrist of the corpse, he was stopped by a guard camp Knight who was following Sauron Great Captain. He said to Surdak with a straight face: "I'm coming..."

After that, I saw him lift up his clothes, revealing a wide belt around his waist. This wide belt of rawhide was hung with more than a dozen tweezers, saws, hammers, and small files. The Knight didn't mind the corpse. The scorching smell came out, turning his head to look at Surdak, and asked him: "Did you just want to peel off the leather wristband on her arm?"

Surdak nodded.

The Knight used tweezers to cautiously peel off the burnt wristband. This leather wristband has been completely carbonized. Although he was very careful, it still broke into pieces, like charred. Of bamboo charcoal.

Carl stood beside Surdak and whispered to him: "Eugene is the best coroner in our guard camp."

Eugene Knight scorched Samoa's body After peeling off his wristband, the brown linen shirt inside the wristband was exposed, because it was tightly wrapped by the wristband. Although the wristband was turned into coke, the linen shirt sleeves at the cuffs were not completely burnt, just It burned a little yellow, Eugene saw Surdak nodded signal to continue, and then took out a pair of scissors from the tool belt.

Eugene Knight cut the sleeves of the shirt that had been burnt on his wrists, and finally revealed a section that did not burn his wrists. Surdak took a closer look. At this time, Karl also noticed something was wrong. , If the corpse is Samoa, there should be a magic pattern with black eyes on her right hand wrist, but unfortunately her arm does not seem to be engraved.

The atmosphere in the morgue became a little dignified for a while, and Sauron pondered for a while before saying to Dominic: "Dominic, is there anything that can identify Samoa?"

Dominic thought about it seriously and said: "Three years ago, Samoa had broken the shin of his right leg when rehearsing the new dance. Even if it healed later, there should be a joint mark on that leg..."

When Eugene heard Dominic say this, he quickly peeled off the charred leg bone. As expected, the leg bone was very smooth and there were no breaks.

"...It seems that this is not Samoa!" Dominic said, and then he and Levi looked at each other.

"Carl, you go and invite people from the Magic Guild Enforcement Group." Sauron Great Captain closed his eyes and instructed Carl a little annoyed.

Carl quickly replied: "Yes, Lord Sauron!"

As he said that, he took Surdak out of the morgue, and heard Sauron Great Captain behind, to Dominic Said: "Sorry, let you go for nothing, the Black Magic Priory has a lot of involvement in this matter, and the guard camp is also under great pressure. If there is any improper work, please forgive me!"

Surdak did not expect that Samoa would have deceived the magicians in the magic union law enforcement team by some means. If the magic union were not busy, they would throw Samoa's body to the guard camp. This matter will be directly identified by the magic guild. In that case, Samoa will become a dead person from then on. As long as he changes his identity, he can live again after leaving Helanza city...