The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 65: Thread of murderous intent

The sky is dark.

Dusk is approaching.

Amidst the growing sound of rain, the wheels of the carriage broke through the water on the ground and sped forward with a clattering sound.

Finally, the carriage stopped in front of the Viscount's Mansion.

"I'm really sorry to trouble you."

A young man with an ordinary appearance and a gentle smile opened the car door and thanked him softly: "You came to see me off after such a heavy rain."

"It's okay, Sir Gerald."

The driver laughed loudly: "Am I waiting for you here?"

"No need, I will ask the viscount's coachman to take me back."

Doctor Gerald responded politely: "The rain is getting heavier and heavier. You may catch a cold while waiting here. Please go back."

"It's okay, Mr. Gerald. I will definitely help with such a small matter even if you don't give me money... Besides, you gave me so much money, who can't help you?"

The coachman did not take this seriously: "You are such a kind and good neighbor, and there are not many left in this world."

Gerald just smiled and got out of the car holding an umbrella.

He replied in a slow and warm voice: "Then I'm leaving, sir. I will also pay tribute to the silver coin tonight."

"Salute the silver coin, Your Excellency."

After seeing off the neighbor's coachman, Dr. Gerald walked to the courtyard with that gentle smile still on his lips.

Four guards were hiding under the eaves, guarding the door with guns on their backs.

Seeing Dr. Gerald coming alone, one of the guards hesitated slightly and walked over.

The other guards also immediately grasped their guns vigilantly.

The guard asked: "Are you Mr. David Gerald?"

When he said this, he raised a square, very flat jade sign in his hand and pointed it at Dr. Gerald.

Dr. Gerald was not at all bored with this.

He just replied in a gentle and correct tone: "Yes, I am David Gerald."

After saying these words, the jade medal flashed bright white light.

The guard nodded slightly, and the other guards also put away their weapons.

"Come in, Your Excellency."

Another guard came over and saluted Dr. Gerald: "I will take you in."

Gerald followed him, smiled and joked: "I thought it would be Justin who came to receive me."

"...I'm sorry, Your Excellency."

The guard was silent for a while and replied in a low voice.

His voice was slightly trembling.

Gerald paused slightly, then continued walking forward as if nothing had happened.

But there were already transparent ripples in his pupils, like water waves spreading out in circles in a lake.

The world in front of us instantly turned into black and white like an old TV, and everyone exuded colorful brilliance with different hues and proportions.

——[Consciousness Determination]

Gerald looked at him quietly.

Such a strong sense of vigilance? Fear is not very strong... Sure enough, is there a back-up? This subtle murderous intention... Haha, if I hadn't expected it, I might have regarded it as hostility.

He is more certain about his previous speculation.

As a fugitive wizard, David Gerald has been removed from the Black Tower and is no longer directly affiliated with the kingdom official. Instead, he is on soft wanted list.

This is the so-called "Dark Wizard" mark.

The so-called soft wanted means that no one is actually sent to arrest him. Just put his name on the wanted poster as a formality. Gerald himself cannot cross the border, cannot borrow money, cannot get married and have children... and he does not enjoy the protection of the law.

In other words, it is not illegal for the cursed hunter to kill him or rob him. But that's all.

After all, he only stole the cursed object, and has not performed any illegal sacrifices, nor has he killed anyone. He can only be judged as "possibly causing harm." Naturally, no one will be assigned to catch him.

Especially because he is a wizard of the soul-stealing school. He is the type that can't be beaten by one person, but can run away by a group of people, and he is too lazy to waste precious manpower on him.

But Gerald must be wary of those cursed hunters.

As long as their wizards keep using spells while maintaining a balanced mana, they can continue to increase their strength. It is undoubtedly very difficult for hunters to quickly improve their strength in peaceful times.

Because they want to hunt other extraordinary beings.

These wanted orders are actually written specifically for hunters. He almost told them clearly, "You can only kill these people. Killing these people is not considered murder and a reward will be given."

Even Gerald is afraid of hunters.

Who knows what weird abilities a hunter can combine.

The extraordinary people of this era usually received a good education. Before they enter the advanced level, they will try to plan a self-contained ability system. After getting the bronze-level curse, you will basically start to decide the path you want to take.

In this way, the most perfect or extreme personal ability can be achieved within the limited "self-curse capacity" - that is, the number of skill slots that come with the upgrade.

But no matter what, these skills are traceable.

If you want to obtain other abilities, you can only rely on temporary spells or curses, or you can obtain random additional abilities by inheriting other people's spells.

Hunters are completely different.

As long as the hunter kills the extraordinary and performs a simple ritual, he can plunder part of the opponent's abilities, which can be activated temporarily.

So the abilities of hunters are very complicated. Although every hunter has a very fatal flaw - that is, their killing methods are limited.

But hunters have always used darkness to confront light. Only hunters investigate extraordinary beings, so there is no reason to investigate the killer in advance.

Gerald's method of coping, in addition to the "I'm Not Here" curse that always protects him, is to briefly activate a simple spell every hour or so:

——[Consciousness Capture: Killing Intent]

The water in Gerald's eyes condensed, and the crimson light in his pupils flashed away, lasting only a brief second.

In this second, he could clearly see a very thin line pointing out from the viscount's mansion, and another section was tied to himself.

...Heh, sure enough.

Gerald pursed his lips slightly and his eyes were cold.

This is the prerequisite spell of the soul-stealing spell.

"Consciousness Capture: Killing Intent" allows Gerald to discover immediately the location of the person who has a clear intention to kill him.

It's like a mind detector.

Whenever someone tries to aim a gun at Gerald, a line of guidance will immediately appear in his mind and he will aim back at the person pointing at him.

Even outside the range of the "Consciousness Displacement" and "Consciousness Loss" spells, you can roughly know where the enemy is coming from; as long as it appears within the field of vision, you can lock it on immediately.

Their main fighting method in the Bronze stage is to capture a certain consciousness emerging from the opponent, and then capture and transfer it to another person, or reduce it or detonate it.

Until they reach the Silver level, they will not have the ability to directly kill.

But if it only captures without interfering, and is limited to killing intent... then as long as it is turned on and off every second, it means that it will hardly consume Order mana, and it is unlikely to be used by other people's anti-detection types. Spells or abilities to detect.

As soon as he arrived at the Viscount's Mansion, he saw a murderous intention in the Viscount's Mansion, which was very clearly pointed at him.

Is the Viscount really planning to take action...

Gerald looked in that direction and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

That person should be Viscount Barbour.

He could feel that there was not much curse on the other person, and he should be an ordinary person.

And Gerald was very convinced that he had not offended other ordinary people at all.

——In daily life, he is very cautious in dealing with things.

He never antagonized or alienated others, and always remained kind, even to the point of being almost humble. And ordinary people who might be his enemies and have murderous intentions towards him would be killed by him silently.

In this way, search errors can be reduced to the greatest extent.

Gerald had never dated anyone in the entire Viscount Mansion.

This was a strategy he had already thought of after arriving in Roseburg - he would only interact with extraordinary people, so that he could clearly realize when the viscount had murderous intentions towards him.

Whenever he has the intention to kill, he is ready to run away.

Four hours ago, he detected a murderous intention from ordinary people coming from the direction of the Viscount Palace. That could only have come from Viscount Barbour...because no one else had the chance to know him.

Yes, everything is expected.

A bright and confident smile appeared on Gerald's face.

"The Viscount has been waiting for a long time."

He spoke gently, his eyebrows lowered.

He was ready to use [Manipulation of People's Hearts] the moment he opened the door ~IndoMTL.com~ to completely deprive the Viscount of his consciousness.

The guard beside him was suddenly startled.

Fear and panic suddenly emerged in his heart, and then he replied calmly: "The Viscount is not here for the time being. He will be back soon, please wait a moment."

"...what?"

Gerald was stunned for a moment, and stopped in place as he was still three or four steps away from the main entrance.

He did not use magic, and he only needed professional common sense to judge that the guard's words were indeed true.

Suppose the Viscount is not at home.

Then who is the person behind the door who has the intention to kill me?

Gerald immediately turned to the guards around him and whispered the keywords he had set:

"Look at me... [patient]."

The moment he said the key word [patient], Gerald's eyes instantly burst with colorful light.

The guard showed no reaction at all.

"Tell me, what is your Lord Viscount's plan?"

"The Viscount intends to trick you and Lord Geraint into coming here, and then light black fire and burn you both to death in the house."

The guard replied smoothly: "And he and the housekeeper have already gone to the winery in the suburbs——"

"Shoot that door in five seconds!"

Gerald interrupted the guard without hesitation, pointed to the other end of the line of murderous intent, and ordered the guard: "Kill everyone who comes out of the door!"

At the same time, he immediately evacuated outside and ran away, preparing to go to the door to control a group of armed guards to cover his escape.

The guard whose consciousness was taken away by him did not hesitate and drew out his rifle——