Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 273 - 273 138 Just Leave It All Behind

273: Chapter 138: Just Leave It All Behind 273: Chapter 138: Just Leave It All Behind In the deep hours of the night, in the tavern hall, most of the unrelated guests were allowed to return to their rooms to rest.

The innkeeper and waitstaff, along with other idle folk, were temporarily dismissed; Leon approached the man who was fast asleep.

The search team of guards found this man’s armor and sword in his hotel room; he was a soldier captain from an eastern supply camp.

Leon reached out and shook him, but, as expected, the soldier captain remained deeply asleep.

This was strikingly similar to the effects of Soul Comforting Incense.

A beautiful poetess, adept in spells, proficient in martial arts, and approaching Selva’s heavily guarded core late at night…

The suspicious level of the person described by Lord Larian was self-evident.

Was she with the same group that had initially intended to assassinate Lady Adelina?

With Canis’s death less than a day behind, could she be the assassin who infiltrated the Longka Prison to murder the Wolf Family Young Master?

“Have you all seen that woman?” Sir Sambu asked the Farolis soldiers that were hastily summoned through the night.

“Yes, sir.

After negotiating a price with that prostitute poetess, the captain went upstairs to open a room, and afterwards we gambled in the tavern for a while and then went back to camp to rest,” the soldier answered honestly.

“That poetess did ask some questions about Lord Pendragon; she claimed she wanted to perform for nobles, but we didn’t really know anything about the Lord, so we didn’t say anything out of turn, honestly…”

Leon waved his hand, not blaming these soldiers; they didn’t even know what information they held, so naturally, they had nothing to disclose to the other party.

From the information currently available, whether it be from tavern guests, the landlady, or these soldiers, their testimonies all matched up with the process described by Lord Larian.

Leon was already eighty percent convinced by the words of this foreign knight.

Moreover…

He looked towards the women whispering to each other at a nearby table.

Miss Elena was talking excitedly with the female relatives brought by Lord Larian, sharing their experiences over this period.

From the snippets of their conversation, it seemed that, aside from Lord Larian’s lover, the other ladies and young girls of various ages were all like Miss Elena—once carrying the blood curse, they had been imprisoned as slave women at the Black Robe embassy.

Quite a coincidence.

Leon remembered that when they had first successfully assassinated the Imperial Mage and fled, they had planned to escape together with them.

But that night, Miss Elena’s several companions mysteriously vanished.

Unexpectedly, after more than two months, they were able to reach Selva, thousands of miles away, and reunite with Miss Elena.

“Sir Sambu, the family of Lokhak and the companions brought by Lord Larian are acquainted; I am also clear about their origins, though it’s complicated to explain briefly.

However, I can assure you, there is little suspicion about these people; leave the interrogation to me, you go back to protect the lady’s manor, it will suffice to leave some soldiers here to watch over the inn,” Leon said to Sambu.

“Since you’ve put it that way, alright, I’ll take some people around for another look.”

Sir Sambu nodded, having a lot of trust in the family hero before him who had made significant achievements and recently repelled the Wolf Domain Army and captured the Young Master Gunnar.

Handing over his gorgeous long sword to Leon, Sambu turned and left the tavern with the soldiers, leaving only a few to guard the inn.

Leon had Guard Hawk watch the main entrance, placed the Urian-styled sword on the table, and pulled over a chair from a nearby table to sit down on his own.

“Let’s talk, Lord Larian.

Since we were unlucky not to meet when you visited during the day, now we can take the opportunity to have a good chat about your purpose in coming here.”

Larian glanced at Martha and the others, who were chatting happily not far away, and nodded as he came to sit across from him: “It’s an honor, Lord Pendragon.”

“You aren’t from Dinexion, are you?” Leon asked as the other party sat down.

“And how do you figure?” Larian’s voice paused; his heritage was not anything special.

He had been somewhat vague about his origins in response to that Sir Sambu’s questioning, only fearing that his Kantadar identity might cause unnecessary troubles in the Northern Kingdom.

“The design of your Urian sword could be a matter of personal preference, but I was the one who personally rescued Elena from the Kantadar Western Port.

Her plight is the same as those female relatives you’ve been protecting all the way here.

So, it’s unlikely that they were rescued from the Western Port to Dinexion in the east and then followed you back all the way west, entering Orland and reaching Selva, right?”

Leon smiled; he now had a basic understanding of the geography of the Western Continent.

From the Western Port of the Felcon Family to the Holy Court Kingdom at the eastern edge of the Western Continent, and then back to Selva, that round trip, considering the various detours along the way, would be a journey of four thousand miles at least.

“You’ve been to the Western Port?” Larian said, surprised.

“Yes, not only have I been there, but I’ve also infiltrated the castle of the Felcon Family.

Well, Miss Elena, my current housekeeper, she’s a close friend’s elder sister, once trapped there like the female relatives you’ve protected.” Leon explained.

“And when I first infiltrated the Felcon Family’s castle, I saw your lover from a distance in the crowd.

If I remember correctly, she’s Miss Magreina, right?” Leon looked at the noble young lady accompanying the group of female relatives and turned to the foreign knight before him with a sense of wonder, “Lord Larian, your courage and skill are not small, to have stolen the bride from the Felcon Family on her wedding day and eloped, how did you manage that?”