Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

Elsa's hypnosis technique is not very sophisticated, so this situation can easily happen - if you don't ask questions clearly, you will probably get an answer that is irrelevant to the question.

Becky glared at Alman, who spread his hands with an innocent look on his face.

"I mean—" Becky took a deep breath and put her hands on her hips. "Where was Alman when he gave you the order? Where did he go afterwards?"

Willy shook his head dumbly.

"I don't know the whereabouts of Lord Alman..."

"Where was he last seen?"

"In the Barony of Fisher..."

Becky asked some more questions, but Willy was actually just a chess piece that could be discarded at any time and did not have much information.

"That's it, we've already got some useful intelligence."

Aisha said, looking towards Willy.

"Send a message to Alman now, telling him that a suspicious person has appeared in Kroros and is looking for information about him. Ask him what he needs you to do next. If you get any response, leave me a message as soon as possible."

Willy did so.

He returned to his residence and dug out a box from under the bed. Inside the box were several magic stones. He mobilized his magic power to activate the magic stones and prepared to pass on the information.

Tricia stood by and watched silently, then suddenly said, "Wait, let me see these things."

Willy handed the Philosopher's Stone to Tricia. Tricia cast a spell and the Philosopher's Stone slowly floated in her hand. Circles of azure magic lines emerged from Tricia's palm, then gathered and merged into the Philosopher's Stone. However, the Philosopher's Stone suddenly clicked and cracks appeared on the surface. Then a violent magical shock exploded from the center of the Philosopher's Stone.

bang——

Tricia casually clasped her palms together, and the dazzling light disappeared in a flash. The magic light was extinguished in Tricia's palms. The explosion did not cause any harm to Tricia, but the magic stone in Tricia's hand was also shattered.

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350: The King's Bloodline

"A sophisticated communication array, equipped with hidden mechanisms, instantly self-destructs if triggered by mistake, and transmits information in a total of seventy-eight directions—it's certainly an interesting and cautious method."

Tricia commented as she casually crushed the broken stone into pieces.

Elsa was watching from the side. In fact, at the moment of the explosion, Elsa was about to take action, but she found that Tricia could handle it herself.

However, Aisha still asked with concern:

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

Tricia smiled and opened her hands to Elsa. The fragments of the Philosopher's Stone fell away, but her palms were still as white as jade.

"This really doesn't bother you."

Elsa smiled.

"Of course, it doesn't matter who I am."

Tricia smiled confidently.

She is quite confident in magic. Just talking about magic, Tricia's power is enough to compete head-on with opponents of the level of Dragon God and Demon King, or even surpass them.

"Come to think of it, you're quite willing to part with this. This magic stone isn't cheap," Tricia turned to look at Alman. "But unfortunately, this little trick won't work on me. I've intercepted all the waves it sends out. Of the seventy-eight directions it points to, one should be the hiding place of your clone, right?"

Alman on the side was stunned.

"This... this... should be the case... but I can't be sure... these Philosopher's Stones are no longer the ones I used... I guess my clone has moved to another hiding place by now."

Arman stammered.

Of course he recognized this kind of magic stone. It was a valuable item used by them for internal communication. Each magic stone was very expensive, but it was indeed worth the price because it was set up with multiple confidentiality measures to ensure that it would not become a breakthrough point for intelligence points. In Alman's view, this magic stone could be regarded as a powerful weapon for intelligence points, but now it seems that its effect may be limited.

"Of course, I know a lot of the organization's hideouts, but I think he would choose somewhere else."

Alman continued quickly.

After all, there are so many vampires acting together. He feels that his clone will definitely guess whether anyone has been arrested and whether they will sell out information after being arrested. This possibility must be taken into consideration, and then the information that Alman currently has will be useless.

Tricia picked up another magic stone and slowly activated the magic. As the azure light became denser and hotter, complex magic patterns floated up from the magic stone one by one. The magic circle rotated regularly and slowly. Then, under the dry gaze of Becky and Alman, Tricia crushed a number of runes in the middle of the dense magic patterns, and then embedded new runes to fill the gaps.

"You use this."

Tricia threw the magic stone to Willy, who picked it up woodenly and injected magic power into it again. Magic ripples carrying simple information spread in the air and surged towards a distant direction. When they passed by Elsa, the magic fluctuations disappeared instantly, but Tricia raised her hand and simulated the same fluctuations in the same direction, passing Elsa and heading towards the distance. It looked no different from the original.

Aisha watched all this.

"Alman's clone is very cautious and has set up a lot of false intelligence, making it difficult for me to track him. Unless I try them one by one through the process of elimination, but that would likely cause him to realize my intentions and move his hiding place."

Tricia explained to Aisha.

"But now, the initiative of intelligence is in our hands. He won't know what happened here."

"It's okay. This isn't the only piece of information we have, is it?"

Another key piece of information lies in the "Baron Fisher" mentioned by Willy. Although he is called a baron, it is not a title given to him by the Empire, because Baron Fisher is also a vampire. Baron is just a title that symbolizes his identity within the vampire system, representing his quality as a vampire bloodline. Those vampires with the purest bloodlines call themselves dukes, and only the bloodlines of the legendary true ancestor of the vampire clan are qualified to call themselves "kings."

Of course, there is no "king" in the blood clan at present. The strength of those dukes is almost the same. Their bloodlines seem to have been stuck at a bottleneck. They cannot make their bloodlines purer no matter what. And it is precisely because of this that Tricia concluded that Charlie's bloodline is the "true ancestor". Tricia can still tell the difference between Charlie's bloodline and those dukes' bloodlines.

In terms of bloodline alone, in Tricia's opinion, Charlie is probably the "king".

"What do you know about 'Baron Fisher'?"

Tricia asked Willy.

Willy said a lot of random things, such as how powerful Baron Fisher was and how he was one of the vampires with very noble blood. These were all based on Willy's own cognition. Under hypnosis, he would only confess what he thought were the "facts", but this kind of subjective speech was not the information Tricia wanted.

Tricia turned her gaze to Alman again.

Yarman immediately said, "Baron Fisher once had dealings with Becky's original owner and my leader. From what I know, although Baron Fisher's strength is average, he controls a hidden mithril mine and is also a vampire who has signed a contract with the Empire. Because of this layer of protection and disguise, the leader made him a source of food for us and provided us with the mithril mine he controls. He also contracted some of the trading channels, and the money he earned in exchange made him wealthy. I dare say he is one of the vampires among us who has the most dealings with humans."

Afraid that Tricia might misunderstand him, Alman quickly explained, "I wasn't very familiar with him before, and I don't know why my clone was involved with him... Generally speaking, it's the leader who gives him orders directly... Well... That's all I know. I'm not sure about anything else..."

Alman lowered his head.

"Well, so be it."

Tricia looked at Aisha.

"Elsa, I think we need to go check it out. This Baron Fisher, since he's met Alman's clone before, he should know something. And if he's someone who takes orders directly from the leader, he might have met that mysterious man before."

Elsa nodded.

"Then I'll let Grace and Becky help look after this place. There shouldn't be any problems with them around. As for the Barony, shall we set off now?"

"Wait a moment. I want to see if Willy can get any response. It would be great if we can get it done right away."

Tricia said.

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351. This is Elsa [Part 3]

At night, the snow was still falling.

Tricia set up a magic circle in Willy's room and left, leaving Alman and Becky to guard here, and they returned to the tavern. At this time, Silbaz and the others had already finished their drinks and left. In the next few days, they will still carry out activities here as adventurers until Ebusen plans to return to Western Province, and then they will gather again.

As for old Janji, he also said goodbye to everyone - he told Aisha that he came to the North to find out the whereabouts of his wife and children, and then he would probably settle down here first, take the medical qualification exam, and find a way to make a living.

After all, if he couldn't survive, there would be no hope of finding his wife and son. However, for a witch doctor like him, it was indeed a bit difficult to take the medical license examination.

There was a thick layer of snow on the road, and the north wind at night was particularly cold, but for Elsa it was no different from cold water. As for Tricia, as long as Elsa didn't hold her hand all the time, she wouldn't feel cold because of this severe cold.

When Elsa and Tricia returned to the tavern, there were not many people in the tavern. When Elsa came back, Charlie and Grace were sitting face to face with each other - they were not familiar with each other, Grace was not a talkative person, and Charlie did not like Grace who always had a cold face towards Elsa, so naturally there was nothing to talk about.

However, Elsa keenly noticed that the atmosphere in the tavern seemed a little strange. Several men with bruised faces and noses sat trembling in the corner, not talking or drinking. The others seemed to be discussing some interesting topics, and from time to time they glanced between those men and Charlie and Grace.

The arrival of Elsa and Tricia once again attracted the attention of these people, and the tavern, which was not very lively to begin with, suddenly became eerily quiet.

Elsa noticed at a glance that the men looked at Grace and Charlie with strange eyes. Well, that was the look of "a drunk approaching and chatting up someone but being so aggressive and rude that it easily caused disgust, but instead of backing off, they became even more aggressive and were beaten up until they sobered up."

Elsa and Tricia sat down directly at Charlie and Grace's table.

"Where's Lacey?"

"I asked her to go to her room and rest first," Grace said, shaking the wine glass in her hand. "She seems to have not rested for a long time and looks very tired. I put my familiar mark on her so I can keep an eye on her at any time."

Elsa glanced at Grace with interest.

Grace is quite considerate. She took care of Lacey almost all the way. It can be seen that Grace is actually very gentle to children.

"Is her leg injury better?" Aisha asked.

Grace nodded gently, "With the medicine left by old Zhanji, he has basically recovered, but there are still some scars left."

"Give this to her." Tricia took out a bottle of potion and handed it to Grace. Grace took it after taking a look at it. It was a very high-quality potion that could repair scars. She had not taken it out when she was in the caravan before because she was concerned about her disguise, but it didn't matter now.

"Lacey will thank you," Grace said.

Elsa looked at Charlie, who had a somewhat unhappy expression, smiled, reached out and lifted the hair from Charlie's cheek, and asked knowingly:

"You look a little upset? What happened?"

Charlie glanced at the men sullenly, picked up the wine glass in front of her and drank it all in one gulp. However, the slight depression on her face quickly melted away in Elsa's palm.

"Nothing... It's just that some nasty guys tried to grope the shop girls, and I couldn't stand it..."

It was indeed as Aisha guessed, it was Charlie who taught these people a lesson, but those men did not seem to attack Charlie and Grace.

Elsa looked towards the counter. A girl with a rosy face seemed to notice her gaze and smiled awkwardly. There was gratitude and respect underneath that smile. The girl was dressed simply, but her face was quite attractive.

It seems that this is the "victim".

Elsa looked at the men again. They seemed to be adventurers here, drinking here late at night. Most of them were staying here. Perhaps they were outsiders from other places. They deliberately avoided Elsa's gaze, probably because they didn't want to be beaten by Charlie again.

Aisha had no sympathy for the men who were being beaten.

Drinking is drinking, and what adventurer doesn't drink a little? In this world, alcohol is just a drink, and everyone drinks it to some extent. However, on the other hand, it's not so easy to get drunk on alcohol in this world. Or rather, even if you do get drunk, it's not a reason to behave disrespectfully towards women.

Elsa did not dwell on this topic, but told Charlie and Grace the intelligence she and Tricia had obtained on this trip, and proposed the next plan - if there was no further progress on Willy's side, then they would go to Baron Fisher's territory and find Baron Fisher to "inquire about it." Of course, it was Elsa who took the initiative to ask Fisher to tell Elsa the intelligence.

"Charlie, come with me. As for Grace, I'll ask you to stay here. After Lacey's matter is over, please pay close attention to Becky's situation. If the vampires send anyone here, report any new developments directly to Tricia and me."

Aisha said.

Grace is actually very powerful. After all, she is the famous Ash Witch. If she takes it seriously, she can face off against extraordinary wizards of Hegelman's level. With her watching Becky and Willy here, accidents can be prevented.

After thinking for a while, Aisha added:

"But you have to be careful. According to Alman, their leader is a very powerful vampire. Although it's unlikely that he will personally show up, if he does, you'd better give up Becky rather than confront him head-on. Prioritize your own safety."

If the leader was as powerful as Alman boasted, Elsa felt that Grace and Becky combined might not be able to defeat him, so ensuring her own safety was the best option.

Although Aisha and Tricia won't be gone for long, what if?

Grace supported her cheek and looked at Elsa: "Don't underestimate me. Although I was defeated by you, not many people can survive my flames."

Elsa smiled, took Charlie's glass and took a sip.

"I'm just worried about you. I don't want anything to happen to you."

After all, Grace is Sofia's best friend. Even for this reason alone, Elsa will not let Grace get into any accidents.

But when Grace heard these words, her face immediately turned stiff.

Tricia and Charlie glanced at Aisha at the same time.

"This is Elsa."

"Yeah. That's right."

They had already reached a consensus.

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352. Alman's Suffering [Fourth Update]

Grace and Lacey shared a room, while Aisha, Tricia, and Charlie shared a room. These were the best rooms in the pub, even with their own bathrooms and toilets.

Although Elsa had not originally planned to have the three of them stay separately, after all, there were only two of the best rooms left here. Elsa was also thinking that perhaps she could take this opportunity to let Tricia and Charlie get to know each other better.