Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

The woman looked at them pitifully with tears in her eyes, and leaned against Silbaz's chest, which made Silbaz's heart beat faster.

She said softly, "You are so great, thank you, you are such good people..."

"It's a piece of cake," Silbaz stared at the woman eagerly. "My name is Silbaz, and these are my brothers. May I know what your name is, young lady?"

"Master Silbaz, you can just call me Naya..."

"Naya, what a nice name," Silbaz praised. "I wonder who they are and why they're chasing you? - I mean, is there anything I can do for you?"

"I..." Naya hesitated. "They kidnapped me and wanted to do something bad to me. I'm lucky I met you, otherwise I would..."

As she spoke, she couldn't help crying, which immediately made the grown men of Silbaz panic.

She choked up and said, "Please take me away, I can't stay here anymore... I beg you... As long as you can take me away from here, I can do anything for you..."

As she spoke, she shrank her neck and inadvertently exposed her shoulders.

Silbaz nodded without hesitation.

"Okay! I'll take you away! Our caravan is about to depart, so let's go now without further delay."

"Wait, wait!" Naya suddenly said, "I have something very important to get. It's a relic left to me by my poor sister. I must take it..."

"Okay, we'll get it for you!"

With that, the adventurers surrounded the woman and left.

As soon as they left, Aisha, Tricia and Charlie slowly appeared from the side.

"Wow... that woman, that look in her eyes... that movement... she practically took her clothes off!"

Charlie was already incoherent, her eyes were out of focus, and every scene just now had shocked her - although Charlie was sure that she liked women, she didn't have the slightest feeling towards the red-haired woman just now. Instead, she thought that woman's pretentious attitude was disgusting.

"Your charm and hers will repel each other. This is the instinct of a 'hunter' and it's normal. No hunter wants their prey to be possessed by someone else. Therefore, vampires and succubi often clash with each other."

Tricia explained, and Charlie was speechless for a moment. She couldn't help but feel a chill when she imagined herself and the succubus flirting with each other.

Elsa remained silent, thinking about something.

Honestly speaking, that woman—or rather, the succubus’ acting skills were mediocre. She relied entirely on physical temptation and enchantment magic to deceive. If Silvers had not been bewitched by her enchantment magic, he would certainly not have been fooled.

But it is undeniable that the woman designed a clichéd but simple and effective script to mobilize Silbaz's anger, sympathy and other emotions, unknowingly lowering Silbaz's inner defenses and using the adventurers to divert his attention. At this time, the woman took the opportunity to charm him. This method is indeed hard to guard against. Although Aisha does not intend to learn this kind of vulgar magic, this idea does have its merits.

Tricia continued, "This succubus is quite powerful. Even a silver-level adventurer like Silbaz fell for her after just one glance. I'm afraid she's already close to becoming a higher-ranked species. It's hard to imagine such a demon appearing within the empire."

There are very few superior species among the demons, but each of them possesses powerful individual strength. If fighting alone, even a gold medal adventurer may not be a match for the superior species of demons.

"Should we still follow and see?"

Aisha asked.

Tricia thought for a moment and nodded. "I want to know what her purpose is in this town. Is she planning something? And, I really want to find out why she's in a place like this."

"It would be nice if I could just use hypnosis magic to ask."

"But her mental strength is very high. It is difficult to directly control the mind of such a person."

Just like when she was interrogating Grace, if Elsa wanted to extract information, she could only design illusions, and there was no possibility of forcing her to do anything. To design illusions, she needed to know something about the person, so as to design a script to make her lose her guard and fall into the trap naturally, just like a succubus would design a script and then charm her. Otherwise, it would be easy to make mistakes. When interrogating Grace, she had Sophia's help, so there was no problem, but now she probably couldn't use such a simple and crude method.

Elsa suddenly wondered, if her spirit value was higher, would it make some things easier?

Unfortunately, there is no longer any suitable way to obtain points.

"Anyway, let's follow and see."

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322. Drink it

The red-haired woman, the succubus Naya, brought Silbaz and the others directly to a small house near the castle, and Silbaz and the others waited there willingly. Their minds were completely immersed in Naya's charm and they didn't feel anything was wrong at all.

As for Naya, she left Silbaz and the others alone and then slowly walked into the castle.

The hunters who had been chasing her, several soldiers, the shirtless man and the old wizard Gidges were all waiting for her here. As soon as Naya came back here, she put on a lazy look and slowly lay down on the bed. Seeing this, the shirtless man was about to climb onto the bed, but was stopped by Naya with a cold look.

"Go down. I'm not interested right now."

Naya waved her hand, and the men retreated respectfully.

The old wizard Gidges asked, "It seems you have taken them all down?"

Naya frowned, closed her eyes and rubbed her eyebrows, seeming to be in a bad mood.

"Well, I lured their captain. Without the captain, the caravan can't leave, right? So I've completed what the Earl asked me to do. The rest is up to the Earl. It's none of my business anyway."

Naya's idea was very simple. Since the Earl asked her to leave the caravan behind, there was no need for her to do anything extra. She could just leave a few people behind. The rest of the things had nothing to do with her - this also avoided direct conflict with the adventurers in the caravan.

For succubi, this kind of roundabout tactic is what they use most often. After all, most succubi have limited frontal combat capabilities.

"Really..." Gidges thought for a moment and then asked, "Did you see the woman who injured Kaufman?"

"I have no interest in women."

"In that case, why don't you look happy?"

"I don't know either. I just feel a little uneasy, like someone's always watching me... You know, my intuition is always right."

Gidges frowned slightly as he looked at Naya.

"Then... do you need me to bring people to kill them?"

Naya frowned and glanced at Jidges.

"Gidges," Naya's scrutinizing gaze immediately made Gidges lower his head. "The Earl didn't say he wanted to kill me, so don't do anything unnecessary. Do you understand?"

Gidges nodded quickly.

"Go tell the Count that I have fulfilled his request."

Naya raised her eyes gloomily and glanced at the men in front of her with a lack of interest.

"Everyone else please go out. I want to rest for a while."

"Yes."

Seeing this, Gidges could only lower his head and leave the room. The hunters and soldiers also left, leaving Naya alone in the room.

Everything that happened here was revealed under Tricia's magic and was seen by Elsa, Tricia and Charlie outside the castle.

Charlie was a little puzzled. "That succubus mentioned the Count. It must be Count Leonard—those bandits were sent by him, right? But why? Is there a deep conflict between the Count and Mr. Ebusen?"

"I'm afraid we can only find out by asking the parties involved," Elsa said. "That succubus named Naya has a cooperative relationship with the Count, and she seems to be protected by the Count. I remember that the laws of the Empire strictly prohibit any private involvement with the demons. Isn't this a blatant violation of the Imperial Law? He is really brave."

"Every human nation does have this rule. Aside from captives and slaves, most demons are forbidden from entering human territory," Tricia sighed regretfully. "But perhaps the Empire is no longer the same as it was forty years ago. Or perhaps, it's precisely because the Demon King War brought the demons into the public eye that more and more people are realizing their extraordinary power. So, after the threat from the Demon King's army was lifted, the demons suddenly became a target of cooperation."

How ironic.

Elsa suddenly asked, "After the war is won, no one advocates the complete annihilation of the demons?"

Although it might be biased to say so, Elsa didn't think that humans, who were the victorious side in the war, would spare the demons because of their overflowing compassion.

"Of course there are, but the nobles won't undertake such a thankless task," Tricia said. "The cost of organizing an expeditionary force is immeasurable, and then the demon stronghold they painstakingly capture is nothing but a dead land devoid of blessings and life. No one would undertake such a losing proposition. Even if the Church and other nations launched a campaign, the end result would be nothing but mutual intrigue. Everything the demons despise and hate, their very reason for waging war, has become their lifeline."

But this situation may have changed again in the past forty years. If there is anything valuable that can be used in the Demon King's Territory, it may be the demons.

Elsa nodded. In short, they were sure of one thing - the succubus named Naya was now the actual controller of this town, and she was the mayor.

At this time, they saw several figures walking out of the castle. They were Gidges and the hunters. After Gidges said a few words to the hunters, the hunters left, and Gidges turned around. He walked past Aisha and the others, but did not notice them. Instead, he went straight to the cabin where Silbaz and the others were.

"Is this the human wizard who was with the succubus? Why did he go to see Silverbaz?"

"Follow up and have a look."

Gidges came directly to the front of the hut. He squinted his eyes through the crack in the door and looked at Silbaz and the adventurers. After observing for a moment, he confirmed that these people were indeed adventurers from the caravan because he could feel Silbaz's strong aura. Obviously, Silbaz's strength was not simple, and an adventurer of this strength must be the captain.

He pushed the door open and went in. Silbaz looked at Gidges strangely.

"You are Silverbaz, right?"

"Who are you?" Silvers looked alert.

Gidges smiled sinisterly and stroked his beard. "You are waiting for Miss Naya, right?"

Silbaz and the others suddenly became nervous.

"Do you know Miss Naya?"

"Well, she told me to give this to you and have you drink it."

As he spoke, Silbaz took out a few bottles of potion and handed them to Silbaz and the others. It was a lavender liquid with a slight herbal smell, but even Silbaz didn't know what it was.

"After you finish drinking, Miss Naya will come to see you."

Gidges said.

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323. Gidges’s Purpose

"Miss Naya wants to see me again. Drink this and wait for a while. She will come to see you soon."

Gidges said as he prepared to leave the cabin.

Under normal circumstances, Silbaz would definitely not drink such a suspicious thing, but it seemed that once Naya was mentioned, he lost his judgment, pulled out the cork, tilted his head back and prepared to drink the potion.

But at this moment, with a creak, the door of the hut was pushed open, and Elsa appeared in front of them, holding a silver staff in her hand.

"Hey, Silverbaz, why are you here?"

Elsa's voice seemed to have some magic power, which made everyone pause. Then Elsa put away the staff in her hand and walked naturally to Silverbaz and the others, quickly tapping everyone's shoulder.

Silbaz paused his movements, uttered a muffled groan, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. His originally cloudy gaze immediately became clear - his mind had been freed from the enchantment, and the same was true for the other adventurers.

"Miss Fasha? What's wrong with you... Tsk... My head hurts..."

They looked around blankly, and before they could understand what was going on, memories came back to their minds like a tide. They saw how they were lured here step by step by a strange woman. Everything that had seemed natural until just now seemed as if they were watching as bystanders in their memories. This weird and incongruous feeling made them shudder.

At the same time, Naya in the castle suddenly sat up and frowned as if she sensed something.

"My charm was broken? Those men actually had that ability? No, it shouldn't be like this... They couldn't even withstand a single glance from me, how could they possibly break free from the charm themselves..."

She looked out the window uncertainly and suddenly felt a little uneasy.

"Gidges!"

She called out, but no one answered.

Suddenly, a bad premonition emerged in her heart.

On the other side, a strange scene was happening in the cabin. Silbaz and his companions slowly woke up. As they became confused and surprised by the return of their memories, they looked at Gidges in front of them warily. Gidges was also confused by what was happening suddenly.

"How did you guys…"

He had always been by Naya's side, so he naturally knew what this scene meant - all these people had actually broken free from Naya's charm.

But, how is it possible?

An extremely bad premonition arose in his heart, and he immediately looked at Elsa vigilantly. The young swordsman who had appeared just now looked ordinary, with no obvious aura on her body, and no sharpness in her eyes. She looked harmless, which made Jidges instinctively feel that all this had nothing to do with the appearance of this girl.

Suddenly, Gidges thought of another possibility——

"Could it be... Naya already knew that I was going to kill these adventurers without her knowledge, and took the initiative to remove their charm?"

Gidges felt that this was the only reasonable explanation, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. He stopped imagining things and immediately cast a spell with his palm. Before Aisha, Silbaz and the others could react, a thick smoke rose from the ground and filled the hut, blocking the view. He turned and ran, escaping directly through the door without any desire to fight - he was a wizard, and compared with orthodox magicians, his frontal combat ability was limited, not to mention facing adventurers with rich combat experience in such a narrow hut. Gidges thought very clearly that at this time there was no other way but to escape.

"Hey! Stop right there!"

How could Silbaz let him escape? He immediately drew his sword and chased after him, but he only felt a splitting headache and groggy as if he had a hangover, so his steps slowed down. When he ran out of the hut, there was no sign of Gidges.

"Silbaz, what's wrong with you? Who was that person just now?"

At this time, Aisha came out pretending to be puzzled and asked, pretending to be helpless and said:

"Speaking of which, the caravan has been waiting for you, but you haven't shown up yet, and the goods are left there unattended, so I came looking for you."

When Silverbaz and the other adventurers heard what Aisha said, their cheeks flushed. They wanted to explain but didn't know where to start. They were actually seduced by a strange woman - but they felt ashamed to say such words.

At the same time, they couldn't help but wonder how that woman could do all this?

"Anyway, let's get back to the caravan. Mr. Ebusen probably doesn't know about this yet, right? And we still have cargo to transfer to the carriage."