Heroes of Might and Magic: Knight Chapter 538: Coping

"Shadow Assassin?"

After listening to Richard's explanation for a long time, the eldest prince had a basic understanding of this strange creature. If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, who would have told him before that there were creatures that could sneak directly into the shadows of people and launch attacks? If so, he will definitely think that there is something wrong with the other person's brain.

This kind of top assassin who was known to almost everyone during the Elf Empire a thousand years ago disappeared without a trace from the world after the magic power of the mainland was exhausted in the Battle of Gods. People a thousand years later even found it in ancient books. When you read the records about the Shadow Assassin, you will feel that the writers at that time exaggerated the records, or simply read them as fantasy stories.

Even Richard was skeptical when he saw the ancient books about the Shadow Assassin. He didn't expect to see this kind of creature that was about to become a legend again today.

"Does the book say how to guard against these assassins?"

No matter how special or outrageous the ability of this creature is, after seeing it with his own eyes, the eldest prince's ability to accept it is still very strong. Soon after being challenged by these assassins to challenge his world view, the first thing the eldest prince thought of was how to prevent it. Such a natural assassin.

How terrifying this thing is. The eldest prince has seen it with his own eyes. It can be said that it is impossible to prevent it from coming out of the shadow. After accepting the existence of this creature, the eldest prince thought about how to prevent the assassination of this creature. .

He was lucky this time. It happened to be that Richard was visiting and he brought with him a master like the Protector Sword Master Keshid. He was aware of the assassin's presence before he showed up and saved the eldest prince's life.

But Richard and Keshid can't always stay by his side as his bodyguards. If they escape this time, they may not be able to escape the next time. Being targeted by such a natural assassin is a bit embarrassing just thinking about it. tingling.

If he asked other people, no one would be able to give him advice, but the ancient book of the Elf Empire that Richard looked through happened to have descriptions of shadow assassins and some methods of dealing with shadows summarized by the elf mages. Richard had a good memory for assassins' methods. Although he only glanced at them briefly, he could still quickly recall several methods of dealing with shadow assassins in his mind.

The first is to start with the limitations of the shadow assassin's abilities. Although the shadow assassin is called a shadow assassin, he cannot emerge from the shadow of everything. He can only come in and out of the shadow of humanoid creatures. As long as he is isolated The light prevents the shadow from appearing, and the shadow assassin naturally cannot emerge from the shadow to attack.

But this method is easy to say, but it is actually quite difficult to do. The eldest prince cannot hide in a dark hut forever. He needs to manage his own power, need to contact the army, and needs to go out anyway.

Normal people cannot accept that the object of their allegiance will never show up and hide in the shadows like a dark creature forever.

After listening to Richard's first suggestion, the eldest prince frowned. Apparently he also realized that he could not always guarantee that no shadow would appear. A springboard for Shadow Assassins.

The distance of a few meters or more is enough reaction time for the combat power of Richard and Keshid. After all, facing the enemy head-on, these shadow assassins only have the combat power of the earth level.

But for the eldest prince, even shadow assassins appearing from more than ten meters away are very deadly. Several earth-level shadow assassins attacked from a distance of more than ten meters, so he arranged dozens of knight-level assassins for himself. The guards would not help, and besides, it was impossible for him to keep a large number of knights or even great knights around him to serve as guards.

You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no way to prevent a thief for a thousand days. There will always be times of negligence.

However, the eldest prince immediately made some arrangements based on this first characteristic.

"I am ordering that no candles are allowed to be lit at night in the house where I live. The guards should stay in the dark as much as possible and pay attention to their shadows at all times to see if there is any abnormal movement."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

"Send me another five hundred armored guards to the manor."

Finally, the eldest prince ordered another wave of defenses to be strengthened. Although it may not have much effect, it can at least give him some psychological comfort.

"Brother-in-law, is there any other way? I can't hide in the house forever and not go out to see people, and if these guys choose to force a breakthrough, hundreds of guards may not be able to stop them."

"A few earth steps are actually not that strong..."

Richard muttered to himself in a low voice. For the current Richard, Dadi Jie is indeed not a master. He is surrounded by Keshid, Natalies, and even himself. Within it, he can easily beat up a dozen earth-level masters, and the people around him who act as guards, whether they are heroes or high-level humanoid units, all start at the sky level, and they really don’t care much about the earth level. assassin.

The words of the eldest prince who just heard Richard whispering froze directly on his lips. Isn't the earth level strong? Before, this was already the top master in the kingdom, and anyone who appeared would be fought over by all parties.

The eldest prince remained silent and did not answer. Richard also knew that he could not use his own thinking to consider this matter, so he added:

"According to the book, these shadow assassins, in addition to being able to only attack from the shadows of creatures, also have a restriction, that is, they cannot leave the land of shadow for too long. They are creatures that should not exist in our world. If they stay away from the Land of Shadow for too long, they will be erased without us taking action."

“Shadow assassins cannot exist in the real world for a long time. They usually live in the world of shadows dominated by the Lord of Shadows. There must be an envoy of the Lord of Shadows to open the passage between the two worlds for them. ."

"Are we going to the Shadow Realm to kill them all?"

"Of course it's impossible."

The Lord of Shadows is still a famous **** during the Elf Empire. No matter how these shadow assassins reappear now, it is impossible to run into the realm of shadows and fight on the opponent's absolute home court. Richard is still Not so stubborn.

But as long as there are shadow assassins, there must be shadow lords and envoys. In a sense, they are like summoners. Only with them can the shadow assassins be summoned.

"Then what you mean is that we need to find the envoy of the Lord of Shadows nearby?"

After hearing this, the eldest prince asked Richard tentatively, with a complicated expression on his face. It is not an easy task to find an angel who has deliberately hidden himself in the city of Cleis. Rice City is a large city comparable to Piaoxue City, with a permanent population of hundreds of thousands. Finding people from the city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Can you find the person?"

"It depends on luck. I will stay near the manor these days, and the people from Black Prison and Yusidu will investigate secretly at the same time. If my luck is better, I think we may gain something."

"Focus on some nobles in the city. There should be internal support in the city."

"Yeah!"

If there were no human beings as internal agents, how could these shadow assassins find the location of the eldest prince so accurately, and launch the assassination just after the eldest prince returned to the backyard? It is impossible for these shadow assassins to just ask people on the street. Yes.

The eldest prince nodded fiercely. Several suspects had already flashed through his mind. He had even thought about what to do if he caught the traitor. If he can't deal with those monsters, how can he not deal with you?

"Then please leave it to my brother-in-law!"

After regaining consciousness, the eldest prince solemnly said to Richard that this was a major matter concerning his life and must be taken seriously.

"Just do your best."

Li Cha didn't say anything, but he actually felt a little sure in his heart.

If you don’t have any characteristics, you have to find a person in the huge city of Clays. No matter how powerful Hei Jing and Yu Si are, it will be difficult to do it, but Richard just guessed what characteristics the other person should have. According to these characteristics , if we continue the investigation with the manor as the center, we should have a greater chance of gaining something.

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"Boss, look over there, he's quite handsome."

In Kress City, the spies from the dark prison began to search the entire city repeatedly as if they had opened a big net.

As the largest intelligence organization in the kingdom, once Black Prison gets serious, its capabilities will definitely be stronger than anyone imagined.

On the street, two peripheral spies were scanning a young man. They had been searching for handsome faces on the street for the past two days. If they found someone who was not a local, they would need to pay close attention.

Because in the era of the Elf Empire, any **** likes to choose elves when selecting their envoys. Even gods who are not from the elven race will most likely use elves when selecting their envoys.

Without him, the elves of that era were the darlings of heaven and earth. Compared with the elves, any other race would be inferior. Whether in terms of appearance or talent, the elves were the first choice for the gods to choose their agents.

The Lord of Shadows is an elf **** in the records, and his envoys are even less likely to be from other races. Therefore, when Richard issued the order to search the city, he described three characteristics to the people in the Black Prison.

Firstly, she is as handsome as a woman or simply an extremely good-looking woman. Secondly, she is not new to this city. Thirdly, the shape of her ears is slightly different from that of humans, and the upper ears are not slightly pointed.

Searching according to this standard, although the workload is still huge, has given the Black Prison a direction to search. Once this intelligence organization, which has existed for hundreds of years and has not declined, took action, it quickly determined many The target is suspected and repeated screening begins.

As for the concept of beauty, there will always be some people who have different aesthetics than ordinary people and make some mistakes.

The other spy turned his gaze after being reminded by the people around him. He only saw a muscular man nearly two meters tall standing next to the street. This was obviously different from the standards issued by the above. Look carefully. Looking at the other person's face, he has a big round face and a unkempt beard, which gives him a sense of a man's vicissitudes of life, but this is completely different from the handsome-looking woman described above!

"Stay away from me, I think there is something wrong with you."

After giving the other party a sidelong glance, the spy even took two steps back. For the first time, he felt that his companion was so unreliable.

Although there were some minor problems during the search process, the entire Black Prison was still running in an orderly manner. After all, Clays City was within the traditional control range of the Kingdom, and the Kingdom still had strong control over Clays City.

In addition to the Black Prison, other forces are also cooperating with this search operation. Although the Golden Dragon Kingdom has many problems, it is actually far from the end of the dynasty. The official institutions are basically still functioning normally. After the machine started running, it quickly showed its power. Soon, the suspected objects were screened and sent to the prince. Then they conducted key investigations again. In two days, all the beautiful men and women in the entire city were arrested. After being checked all over, those who didn't know thought that the eldest prince was going to choose a concubine in Clay City.

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In a gorgeous mansion in the city.

A secret room was cleaned spotlessly. A man in black robe was sitting in the room. Next to him, a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes was talking to him. Looking at the posture of the two, he was wearing black robe. The status of men wearing robes should be much higher.

"Sir, the people in the prison seem to be looking for you. Do you need me to arrange for you to go out of the city and hide for a while?"

"Oh? You mean it's not safe for me to stay here?"

"Of course not, I just want to be on the safe side..."

"That's alright, I haven't finished my work yet."

"I'm not going out anyway, how could they still come here to find me?"

"Same."

After hearing what the other party said, the person who asked the question at the beginning seemed to feel that he was a little worried.

The person in the lower robe initially wanted to persuade the man in black robe to leave, but was blocked by a few words and said no more.

"Forget it, let me take a rest, remember to ask someone to bring me some fresh fruits and osmanthus cake."

"Yes, sir!"

"Also, ask two servants to come in and clean the room. The room has not been cleaned for more than two hours, and there is dust on the floor."

"..."

The middle-aged man below subconsciously rubbed his fingers on the ground. When he picked it up, he saw that there was no dust at all. What kind of dust was on it?

However, he did not dare to complain. After the people in the room gave the eviction order, the middle-aged man exited the room. He walked through the corridor and saw most of the servants standing aside, waiting for orders.

"Have someone send some fresh fruits to that adult. Remember they must be picked within an hour."

"Let someone clean the room again."

"But wasn't that room just cleaned?"

"Don't ask so many questions. If I ask you to do it, just make arrangements as soon as possible. Remember to send a letter that is acceptable to others."

"Yes, Lord Viscount."

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