Blood of Mercury - v3 Chapter 44

……I remembered.

When did Roland hear the name Serena, Roland finally remembered it now.

That was when it was still in the City of Fortune. At that time, Roland had met a Templar of Tyre who was poisoned by the Goblin’s Kiss, and the maker of the Goblin’s Kiss who poisoned him was Seruna.

At that time, it happened that the tree of suffering was about to awaken, and after adding some rats from the Truth Society, Roland easily pinned the pot on the Truth Society.

For example, killing a Templar of Tyre who infiltrated the city of wealth with the goblin’s kiss, and seducing the army of Templars of Tyre to attack the city of wealth.

Just as what happened later, an entire knight order was directly destroyed by the half-dead Tree of Suffering. If it was the Tree of Suffering in its heyday, it would naturally be able to crush them.

With the invincible knights of Tyre as a sacrifice, the fame of the tree of suffering will naturally be proclaimed. That’s exactly what the rats who’ve been wanting to make big news want to do.

… However, looking back now, Roland’s guesses at that time were probably all wrong.

If the truth was really going to provoke Tyre’s knights, they wouldn’t need something as complicated and troublesome as a fairy’s kiss. Not to mention how expensive the goblin’s kiss is, no matter what the reason for the hapless Templar was killed, as long as he died in the city of wealth, Tyre will eventually send a knight to attack the city of wealth.

Although the N’Zoth that the Truth Society believes in will be brain-dead from time to time, the synchronization rate of this group of mortals is far from that high. There are two ways of accomplishing the same task, one is expensive and troublesome, and the other is free and simple – how much money does it take to deliberately choose the first one?

But, who was the one who tried to provoke a war between the City of Fortune and Tyre – one might even say, who tried to cultivate the Tree of Passion with Tyre’s Templars?

Compare with past episodes. Without Roland’s intervention, the Tree of Suffering will eventually become a terrifying monster, opening the storyline of [Wild Disaster].

So, what did you do to make the plot take such a big turn?

When this question first appeared in Roland’s mind, he already understood the answer.

In short, there is only one thing Roland has done in the City of Fortune.

That’s what made the identity “Orlando” famous – he just blew up the entire city of wealth.

Roland clearly remembered that at that time, he blew up the underground waterway in Caral, blew up the dam, and blew the undead on Rib Street into shreds with human flesh and bombs. At that time, the tide that burst the embankment gushed out from the gap, and the tide was full of walking corpses—

… no, wait, what about the walking dead?

Roland was stunned for a moment.

He clearly remembered that before the Tree of Suffering was summoned by the Truth Society, the water that was like a flood was full of walking corpses. If it weren’t for the blazing light that he had caused people to fall down in advance, the walking corpses who moved freely in the big water would have caused huge trouble for their group’s escape.

But, after that, why did those walking corpses suddenly disappear?

If it was burned to death by flames… Why is there no experience in killing walking corpses in Roland’s experience tips?

For a moment, Roland only felt a chill in his body.

That’s right… Such an obvious flaw, but I was immersed in a lot of experience at the time, and I didn’t find the walking corpse that disappeared out of thin air.

In the city of wealth at that time, there was only one person who could do this—

“……professor?”

Roland murmured.

However, Roland noticed that when he said the name, Oletta and Seruna were silent for a while.

Roland immediately realized that he had finally grasped the problem.

“My lovely kin—”

“Well, I know it.”

Before Roland’s words were finished, Seruna simply admitted it neatly.

Fairies can still be trusted. They never bothered to lie, which was different from Roland.

However, Roland just shook his head.

“I’m asking something else. Maybe offended, but I have to make sure.”

Roland’s expression became serious: “I want to ask, Seruna, have you ever sold or given a finished fairy’s kiss?”

“Hey?”

Serena was stunned for a moment.

After the petite green-haired girl reacted, her face immediately turned red: “How, how, how is it possible! Shameless! That kind of thing… how can you do it!”

“I understand, I understand,” Roland quickly reassured, “So I said it was a bit offensive… But just in case, I have to make sure.”

“Definitely not!”

Serena puffed up her bun face in dissatisfaction: “I haven’t been arrested, and I’m not one of those shameless guys. How could I sell my body fluids to others…”

“Is that so…”

Roland pondered a little, then turned his eyes to Aureta.

“I sold it to the professor. If you mean Victor by the professor.”

Before Roland could ask, the old lich simply admitted it neatly: “He bought it at a premium with information I had never heard of before, and he wanted it on the spot in a hurry…”

“Ugh? So, so I was betrayed by Ola?”

In Serena’s small scream, Roland showed an unexpected expression.

It was all exactly as he thought.

Yes… what if the Templar was poisoned by the professor in the first place? What’s the difference between being directly killed?

In fact ~www.mtlnovel.com~ did not make any difference in terms of results. But if it was poisoned by a fairy’s kiss, it would always give the feeling that the person was murdered by someone. Compared to dying in the city of wealth for no reason, such a purpose would be stronger. At least it won’t give people a kind of “after all, the city of wealth is such a dangerous place, maybe it was just killed by mistake”. However, because of the high cost of Fairy Kiss, people will not consider the possibility of manslaughter or accident from the beginning, but instead focus on the identity and purpose of the culprit behind the scenes. △≧miào△≧bi△≧gé△≧

That’s what a professor has to do.

He wanted to muddy the waters of the City of Fortune, but he wanted everyone to focus on the Tree of Suffering and the Templars of Tyre and the goblin-kissed murderers. In this way, no one will notice that the original professor is still in the city.

In the previous plot, the inexplicable explosion of the Tilance Dam was probably the bomb that the professor installed when no one noticed him. And his purpose is to destroy the groundwater system of Caral at a special point in time, as the last straw to crush the country… and the deeper purpose is still unknown.

And Roland noticed that after the professor saw him, his plans changed significantly.

As in the past, the Tilance Dam still collapsed.

After meeting Roland and learning of his identity as a death crow, the professor gave him almost all the light of the fire. And the big movement of “Orlando” in the city of wealth undoubtedly made the professor completely invisible.

——Then, it is self-evident who moved the hands and feet when the group of walking corpses suddenly disappeared.