Chapitre 3: My Name Is Laylen Vader
Éditeur: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This young man was definitely at least at the intermediate stage of tier 3. This was because most of the members of the Shadow Church were of tier 1, with the strongest among them only at the intermediate stage of tier 2.
The crowd who had stayed behind to watch had thought that this young man would end up dead. They didn't expect the Shadow Church members to all get massacred. This shocked everyone.
"You," the young man pointed at a random adventurer and said calmly, "Go and tell the people of the Shadow Church to prepare themselves. If they dare to stage a rebellion with Creed, they must first be prepared to die at any time."
There was an invisible pressure in his eyes that the adventurer was unable to resist. This pressure was so strong that he almost suffocated.
"May I know your name, sir? So that they would know who to look for." The adventurer's mouth was trembling as he asked.
"Laylen."
After saying this, the young man placed his massive sword back on his back and turned around to leave the tavern.
"Laylen? Why does it sound so familiar?"
Everyone looked at his back, which was gradually disappearing into the distance. They looked left and right in puzzlement. Suddenly, someone seemed to have thought of something. His expression was shocked. Could this person be the son of the mayor that they were discussing earlier, Laylen?
The person who had disappeared for six years.
Didn't they say that when he disappeared at the age of twelve, he had not awakened his magical aptitude? It's only been a few short years, and he had already become so powerful?
This adventurer did not stay any longer. He immediately left the tavern and went to report this to the Shadow Church.
Laylen walked on the street. The people who passed by him all had hurried expressions. After ten minutes, he arrived in front of a majestic building.
The entrance of the building was heavily guarded.
"Who are you? This is the forbidden area of the mayor's mansion. Please leave quickly if you are not involved in anything here."
A few guards dressed in silver armor saw Laylen walking over and hurriedly warned him. At the same time, they waved their halberds and aimed at him.
"I've only been gone for six years and you all don't recognize me anymore?" Laylen glanced at them and said lazily.
"You are..." an older guard rubbed his eyes and asked uncertainly, "the young mayor?"
"That's right! You are the young mayor! You're already so old." The old guard exclaimed excitedly, "The young mayor is back!"
When the other guards heard the old guard's words, their tense expressions relaxed. The young mayor had disappeared for six years, and they did not expect him to return at such a crucial moment.
"Young mayor, the situation in the city now is very critical. You should leave quickly!" The old guard looked at Laylen and said.
Apart from those from Vader city itself, even the people in the surrounding cities knew that the young mayor of Vader City could not cultivate magic and had mysteriously disappeared at the age of 12. It was already a miracle that he was still alive.
This would originally have been a joyous event. However, it was a pity that the grand knight was currently trying to rope in the surrounding forces, preparing to force the old mayor to abdicate.
The young mayor had returned at a bad time.
These guards were all still loyal to Nelly Vader, so they quickly advised Laylen to leave.
"Leave?" Hearing these words, Laylen was slightly stunned. He then said, "I traveled all the way across the continent and rushed back here to render my assistance, and you want me to just leave? Can I not even meet my father?"
When the surrounding guards heard his words, they felt a little awkward. One of them quickly said, "Young mayor, since you're already back, come in quickly."
Laylen walked in and casually asked, "Is my father dead?"
The guards who accompanied him were speechless. How could their son ask their father like this? One of the guards said with a sad expression, "Young Mayor. The mayor has been poisoned. He has been drifting in and out of consciousness. I'm not sure if he can survive."
"Bring me to him," Laylen ordered.
"Inform the formation master to activate the spell formation," One of the guards said. The rest of the guards brought Laylen to the sleeping quarters.
Along the way, they did not see a single maid. There were armored guards and soldiers everywhere instead.
One of the guards seemed to see Laylen's confusion and explained awkwardly, "Young mayor, most of the women in the mayor's residence have been sent away, and some of them escaped on their own."
"When we have time later, let's talk."
As they walked and talked, they passed through the long corridor and finally arrived at the mayor's bedroom.
On a soft bed lay a middle-aged man. His face was abnormally red and covered in sweat.
Although he was unconscious, his cracked lips and twitching face showed that he was in great pain.
"No, no, this isn't made from the poison of just any flame poison spider. It's from the king of flame poison spiders."
An old man was looking at the blood in the reagent tube and muttering to himself.
Suddenly, he heard some movement behind him. He turned around and saw a few guards walking in with a young man.
"Apothecary Liszt, the young mayor has returned." One of the imperial guards clenched his right fist and placed it on his heart, saluting the old man.
"Grandpa Liszt, long time no see. How have you been?" Laylen asked with a smile.
Benjamin Liszt was a pharmacist whom his father, Nelly, had befriended before he became the mayor. Back then, Liszt had forced Laylen to study medicine, preparing to hand down his alchemy skills to him.
Unfortunately, Laylen was not interested in medicine at that time. He often skipped Liszt's lessons, which had made the old man very angry.
"Young mayor? Why are you back?" Liszt looked at Laylen and was a little surprised.
"I have been away for too long. I have come back to take a look at the situation here," Laylen said with a smile. Then, he walked to the bed and asked, "How is my father?"
The man lying on the bed was Laylen's father, Nelly Vader.
Even from one meter away from the bed, Laylen could still feel the hot air coming from his father's body.
He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it a kind of fire poison?"
Liszt nodded, "Yes, it's fire poison. Moreover, the situation is not optimistic. I originally thought it was just an ordinary poison from a flame poison spider. If it was so, tier 3 extinguishing fluid would have been able to detoxify it. However, not only did the potion have no effect, but it even made the mayor fall into a coma. His condition has worsened."
"This should be a poison concocted from the poison of the flame poison spider king mixed with its blood."
"The poison concocted from the poison and blood of the flame poison spider king... so much effort put in," Laylen's eyes flashed.
The flame poison spider was a type of magical beast that lived in the southern part of the Orsi Empire. There was a stretch of bare land there, and it was very far away from the Borodin Kingdom.
To obtain a portion of the flame poison spider king's poison from there, there would be a heavy price to pay.
These people seemed determined to seize power.
-- Cadeau
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