Chapter 143: On the eve
Chapter 143: On the eve
of the festival day
Ruolin told her about the fleet she saw at the dock of Enke Port, and after Du Wei listened, his face seemed to be very calm, but he just nodded and said lightly: "I know."
After a pause, he seemed to be indifferent, and suddenly diverted the topic: "Ruolin, those goods in the warehouse of Enke Port, let's put them there first." Soon it will be the summer festival, there are many people in the imperial capital city smashing with their hands, after all, we have not yet obtained legal approval for this goods, something happened, and the family's face is not good. Just send more people to watch in Enker Harbor.
Ruolin heard a hint of unusualness from Du Wei's words, and couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean... Could it be that during the summer festival, I am afraid that the imperial capital will not be peaceful?
Du Wei smiled: "I didn't say it." You don't have to guess, even if something happens, it doesn't have much to do with us. You just have to watch over the pirates. The imperial capital will be more strict in its investigation recently, and those guys should not cause any trouble. You don't have to live in the imperial capital, first wronged you to go back to Enke Port to live, if there is something, I will send someone to find you."
Ruolin didn't want to ask more, so she had to bow down.
When Ruolin left, a trace of haze appeared on Du Wei's calm face, worry flashed in his eyes, and he sighed softly: "Hey... Fleet... My father, I'm really restless. Are you going to play something for the summer festival? That
flotilla was certainly not loaded with ordinary cargo, and there were soldiers escorting them on board ... With such an easy entry into and exit the imperial capital, except for a high-ranking military official like my father, I am afraid that others will not be able to mobilize the city guard.
So, in this way, is it to do something to Prince Chen?
Du Wei suddenly remembered Prince Chen's gentle smile and friendly attitude towards himself. I couldn't help but feel sad in my heart, do you want to... Tell Prince Chen? Then Du Wei remembered his mother's pleading, he sighed, shook his head, and whispered to himself: "I'm sorry, Prince Chen, the family has a heavy responsibility, you and I are friends and foes." I can't help with this.
Du Wei sat in the room again and looked at the magic potion recipe for a while, drank a pot of high-quality tea shipped from the south, and in the evening, he suddenly heard a sound like a muffled thunder from behind!
Rumble!
In an instant, even the small building where Du Wei was located shook faintly a few times. Then I saw the door of a room downstairs being kicked open, and then billowing smoke came out of it, and the rat Gegewitch coughed violently. He ran out of it as if fleeing for his life.
"Ahem... But it almost choked me to death..." It rushed to Du Wei's room in one breath, grabbed the teapot on the table without saying a word, and poured it into its mouth, only then let out a long sigh, and the mouse's face was full of black and white soot. A pair of eyes were also smoked red under the stimulation of the smoke, and even the beard was burned a few times.
Du Wei frowned, "What's wrong?"
"Don't mention it! What kind of Bow of Silence, I finally figured it out, and I tried to use a magic crystal to figure out the magic array inside. It turned out to be an explosion! Good fellow, there must be something unusual about this bow, I have already laid out two layers of enchantment in the room, and it will be scattered at once! But fortunately, these two layers of enchantment, otherwise, I am afraid that you will not be able to keep this building.
Du Wei stood up with a smile, walked outside the courtyard first, and spread out the guards who had come to Diluolin's house when they heard the sound. He only said that he was experimenting with magic. Everyone in the Luolin family knew that this young master was now a magician, and Du Wei explained that it was not strange, but when he left, everyone looked at Du Wei with a look of awe.
Driving away the many guards, Du Wei asked Mad to come and see at the gate of the courtyard, and asked Gegewitch to arrange a magic array around his residence, and then the two entered the laboratory downstairs together.
The smoke in the room was almost released, and Du Wei cast a small wind magic. After the smoke has been blown away. On the platform in the middle of the room, the "Bow of Silence" that was snatched back by Du Wei lay quietly on the platform.
This platform of Du Wei is stony. He didn't have the capital to spend a lot of money on a metal-and-Mithril test bench like the old madman Eriko. Du Wei looked at this bow carefully and immediately felt a hint of difference!
On the bow of silence, there was a faint light around it, which shrouded the bow in it, and the violent explosion just now did not even damage the bow for half a point. When the smoke cleared, the bow still looked so new and bright that there was not even a trace of smoke. The whole bow looks faintly flowing with strange brilliance, streamlined bow, looks like a crescent moon in the night sky, the bow corners on both sides are polished with a strange transparent crystal, and there are two curved barbs, above the barbs, sharpened blades!
Obviously, such a special shape makes the owner of the bow of annihilation not only able to use the bow and arrow to hurt people from a distance when fighting, but also the blades on the corners of this bow on both sides of this bow can also become a weapon in close combat!
And Gegewitch probably tested the hardness of this blade, and used a good chest plate of knight's steel armor, this blade can easily cut a hole, poke hard, and the sharp spike on the bow corner can poke a hole in the steel armor!
"The material of this thing is not simple, I can only guess that it is made of some kind of high-quality crystal that has been specially processed, and maybe some synthetic material. As for what kind of crystal it is, I can't see it. Gegewitch pointed to the bow of annihilation, and the mouse who had been studying this thing for a day and a night was obviously excited: "This shape is different from all the existing bows on the continent, no archer can be good at hand-to-hand combat, and this bow is an exception... However, I guess that if you want to make full use of this bow, I am afraid that you should have a special set of martial arts that match this bow. "
The special martial arts that go with this bow... Du Wei thought for a while and shook his head, "I don't know about this." The guy who died under me seems to be very strong, but he should not know the set of martial arts you said. If anything, it must be an extremely powerful martial art. Then he won't be killed by me when he is close.
"The guy who snatched the bow by you is certainly not the original owner of this bow." Gegewu pouted: "I don't know the material of this spar, but in terms of year, I'm afraid it must be at least a few hundred years!"
Then, Gegewu held the bow of silence in both hands and handed it to Du Wei: "Look, do you see these ornaments on it?" It was a strange magic array, a magic array that even I couldn't understand. However, it is certain that this is a wind-based magic, supplemented by some blessing magic such as strength and agility speed... Can fuse several series of magic together, make such a complex magic array, and make it so small... Well, the owner who made this bow is at least a grandmaster-level figure in magic!
Du Wei didn't really care about any of this: "What I want to know is, how should it be used?" Speaking
of the question. Gegewu suddenly laughed, and the rat prime minister laughed extremely lewdly and proudly, and his voice could not hide his smugness, and he grinned: "This is the real most mysterious place!" I'll tell you. Little Duwei, you really earned it this time! The power of this thing is absolutely powerful! And it's far beyond your imagination!
After
that, it gently flicked the bowstring and said, "It turns out that the poor ghost who was robbed of the bow by you." A samurai, right? This bow, which samurai use to induce with fighting qi, is also possible. After all, there is a magic blessing on it, and after being triggered by fighting qi, fighting qi can condense into air arrows, whether it is the speed of launch, accuracy, and power, it is several times stronger than the best strong bow in ordinary land. In this way, it can already be regarded as a rare top-grade treasure bow on the mainland! But actually, I look at the unlucky owner of this bow, and I don't know how to really use this thing! Hmph..."
Saying that, it suddenly reached out and gently wrenched at the arrow notch of the bow, and then the mouse slowly injected a trace of magic, and the bow immediately flashed with bright colors! Then I heard a slight sound of clicking, and the arrow trough flickeredThen a small crack appeared. Immediately, a magic crystal rolled down from it!
"Let me announce the true face of this magical bow!" The mouse laughed: "This bow." In fact, it is not for samurai at all! It's a magic bow! It is specially made for magicians! "
"... Enchanter?
Du Wei was really surprised.
A bow and arrow for magicians?
Do magicians need bows and arrows? When the magicians on the continent are fighting, who is not holding a wand. Chanting spells and casting powerful magic to hurt enemies?
The use of bows and arrows is a standard samurai patent!
If magicians need to use bows and arrows against the enemy, will it be necessary to develop magicians to use long swords and large swords in the future?
"Don't doubt it, this is indeed a bow specially made for magicians!" Gegewu saw Du Wei's suspicions and said solemnly: "You're just lucky, little Du Wei!" Fortunately, no one knows the details of this bow, and if it is known, it is a thing that will cause many people to break their heads and grab it!
After
speaking, Gegewu gently pinched the magic crystal that rolled down from the bow, this is a high-grade magic crystal, but I don't know how many years have passed, the color has dimmed, and the magic power inside has obviously been exhausted, and the passage of time has also made this crystal full of fine cracks, and even some places have deteriorated, revealing a gray-black color.
Gegewitch held the crystal, closed his eyes, and a trace of magic slowly poured into the crystal. After the magic crystal was infused with mana, the originally dull crystal regained a trace of luster!
Gegewitch re-embedded the magic crystal into the groove of the arrow notch of the bow, and after a gentle magic fluctuation, the groove immediately disappeared, and the surface of the bow looked extremely smooth, without a single gap.
"Take it!" Gegewu handed the bow to Du Wei again and said with a smile: "Let's go to the roof, you try this new toy."
One person and one mouse immediately moved over the stairs, and Du Wei came to the roof of the small building where he lived alone.
Standing on the roof of a three-story small building, Du Wei held a bow in both hands and looked up at the sky. In the distance, the setting sun is west, and the faint golden afterglow falls on the earth, and Du Wei looks at the sunset. Silently pulled the bowstring, only felt that the tentacles were very flexible, and when pulled, although it was a little difficult, it was pulled apart after all. As the bowstring was pulled apart, a magical fluctuation immediately appeared on the entire bow that shocked Du Wei! The intense vibration gathered more and more, and finally faintly condensed into a little...
Du Wei clearly saw that above the arrow groove, a wind blade formed by the wind magic condensed by the bow itself was forming. Immediately, the wind blade seemed to shrink and shrink, and finally condensed into a shape like a small arrow...
As soon as Du Wei loosened the bowstring, he heard a whistle...
Is this an arrow?
No! This is clearly a shooting star!
This meteor roared out in Du Weidi's hand, whistling towards the extremely distant sunset! That's like thunder! The brilliant magical brilliance sprinkled a little light dust in the air! In this instant, this meteor had disappeared within the reach of Du Wei's sight!
Du Wei froze! Looking at the direction in which the meteor disappeared in the distance, although you can't see how powerful the place where it hit is, but just with this face, the power is definitely not small!
So powerful. It was twice as powerful as when he saw that guy using this bow to kill a court magician and wound the inner court warrior Chick two nights ago!
More importantly, he didn't have any fighting spirit, and he was only slightly stronger than ordinary people in terms of martial arts... But it can fire such a terrifying arrow!
"Sure enough... So strong! Gegewitch tiptoed, looking in the direction of the setting sun. Watching the meteor go away, the mouse suddenly flashed a trace of emotion in his eyes: "If this kind of bow can be popularized, then the warriors who are good at shooting all over the world will be replaced by magicians!"
Du Wei pressed to endure the shock in his heart. Sit down slowly and stroke your hands back and forth on this bow of silence!
Magic weapons! A true magic ranged weapon!
It does not require any power from the user, and it is a long-range attack weapon powered entirely by magic!!
"Little Duwei, did you guess?" Gegewu's eyes flashed: "Look... If you magnify this bow dozens of times, the shape will be slightly changed... Isn't it equivalent to the fact that the manufacturing process on the wall of the imperial capital has been completely lost..."
"Magic Cannon!" Du Wei replied steadily, his voice seemed to be inaudible, but his eyes were extremely strange: "If this thing is magnified dozens of times, it is almost equivalent to a magic guide cannon!" Or rather... The manufacturing principle of this thing. Exactly the same as the magic cannon!
There was also an episode that Du Wei did not know at the time: Just after Du Wei first tested the Bow of Annihilation, on the same day, the garrison of a small town five miles away from the imperial capital city reported an official document:
In the summer of the 960th year of the imperial calendar, on the evening of June 10, a meteor meteorite fell in the southeast sky, and the red light was loud, the sound was like thunder, and the mountain peak on the west bank of the town was hit by a meteorite and collapsed. Fortunately, there were no casualties. But the road is blocked by mountain rubble, pray for the speedy repair of Yunyun...
No one knows the truth about this. Even Du Wei himself didn't know that the power of this arrow was actually so great!
The day before the summer festival day.
Mad went out early in the morning, he was delivered a "beautiful errand" by Young Master Du Wei in the past two days, so that he brought enough gold coins on his body every day, wandered the streets, taverns, hotels, square restaurants, and left the footprints of this Uncle Mad everywhere, where there are many people he goes. Young Master Du Wei's explanation was very simple: "You will open the street to eat, drink and have fun, spend as much money as you want, and come back to report all the bills." But there is one article, what has happened in the imperial capital recently, interesting, lively, and strange news, and what other things are different from the past, you have seen them one by one and carefully remembered, and you will tell me when you come back.
Such a strange order, Mader did not say anything, but just took the money bag to the street.
The day before the summer festival, several prosperous streets on the imperial capital were crowded with people, countless shops opened their doors to do business, and merchants from the south and north all laid out the strange things from all over the mainland. You must know that the summer festival is an annual grand festival on the Roland Continent, and in the imperial capital, there are military parades of the City Guard and the Imperial City Guard, as well as a grand citizen parade celebration. Especially this year, I heard that on the eve of National Day, court astrologers divined horoscopes. It is said that there was an unlucky broom star, His Majesty the Emperor was furious, and cut the unlucky astrologer with a knife, for this unhappy thing, His Majesty the Emperor specially ordered this year's summer festival to be even more large, trying to use this celebration and celebration to sweep away the haze brought by the broom star!
Such a lively thing, tourists from all over the world flocked to the imperial capital. For a time, the prosperous imperial capital was overcrowded. All the hotels are fully booked, especially the hotels near the central square of the imperial capital, and the price is ten times higher than usual, and the rooms are in short supply. It is said that this year, His Majesty the Pope has been specially invited to perform magic in the square, and the president of the magic union will also bring those mysterious great magicians.
More importantly, His Majesty has specially ordered that the day of the festival will beginThe magic array of the imperial capital!! That thousand-year-old magic array left over from the era of His Majesty Aragon! Last time I turned on the magic array. It was still at the end of the Northwest Grassland Alien War twenty years ago, in order to welcome the triumphant expeditionary army, a magic array was opened, and the citizens who had experienced that scene deeply remembered the majestic scene when the magic array was opened! That brilliant magical light shrouded the entire imperial capital in it. The sky changes its colours! You can even vaguely see all kinds of strange monsters flying in the sky! Thousands of illusions, confusing the human eye!
Such a bustle, I am afraid that I may not be able to catch up once in a lifetime, if I miss it. Isn't it a pity?!
Therefore, this year's summer festival, the foreign tourists in the imperial capital were several times more than in previous years, and the people of the imperial capital security station were busy on all fours. The number of soldiers in the patrol of the police station that patrols the streets every day has increased by three times, and after the large number of people, the dragon and snake are mixed, which often leads to many security incidents. Fights, theft and robbery, one after another, the dungeon in the police station is almost full. One by one, the soldiers of the security station complained, and everyone canceled all their vacations, worked all day, and even slept in the barracks of the security station, many people. Even some officers. It's been a few days since I went home to hug my wife.
The city guard is also said to be tired, and there are many people entering and leaving the imperial capital these days. The number of city guards at several gates has tripled. And just the day before yesterday, in order to reduce the pressure on the imperial capital, according to the approval of His Majesty the Emperor, plus the order jointly issued by the High Command and the Administrative Affairs Department, the entrance and exit of the imperial capital was inspected, and the restrictions were temporarily carried out, and it was possible to go out of the city, but to enter the imperial capital, you can only queue up, single number enter, double number refuse! Everyone who enters the imperial capital must go through strict and meticulous registration!
At several city gates, additional brigades of heavily armed Guards soldiers were dispatched, and if there was a riot, they could immediately suppress it on the spot.
Moreover, because the imperial capital was overcrowded, in order to ensure the safety of the nobles and prevent some foreigners from flowing to the noble residential area to cause any security problems, the Guards specially sent an infantry regiment to guard the "rich area" leading to the noble mansion area near the imperial city, and even the temple was temporarily under martial law... After all, there are many believers on the mainland, and no one who comes to the imperial capital does not want to go to the sacred temple to admire the statues of the great gods and listen to the gospel of the temple's teachings, so that in order to ensure the order of the temple, a lot of military forces have been added to maintain order in the streets near the temple.
Only near the magic union, it was as quiet as ever. After all, magicians are a revered existence in people's hearts, and no one would want to run near the magic union to see what a magician looks like!
Mad ran outside for a few days, and even was stolen by a thief during the period, and was trampled off two pairs of shoes by crowded pedestrians when wandering, and finally reported all the news to Du Wei, but the young master did not seem to have any satisfied or dissatisfied expressions, but just said lightly: "Know, the expenses of these days, you can withdraw the gold coins after you report the account yourself."
After Madet left, Du Wei knocked on his forehead, sat quietly for a moment, a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and said to himself: "Well, the city gate sent an army... The residences of the nobles and wealthy families sent troops, and troops were arranged near the temple ... It really looks like it's going to be a big fight! "