It was dark.

Dusk is approaching.

In the sound of the rain getting louder and louder, the wheels of the carriage broke through the water on the ground and galloped forward with a clattering sound.

Eventually, the carriage stopped in front of the Viscount's Palace.

"I'm sorry for you."

A young man with an ordinary appearance and an always gentle smile opened the car door and thanked him softly: "It's raining so hard and sending me off." ”

"It's all right, Lord Gerald."

The coachman laughed: "Am I waiting for you here?" ”

"No need, I'll let the Viscount's coachman take me back."

Dr. Gerald politely replied, "It's getting heavier and heavier, and you might catch a cold if you wait here." Please come back. ”

"It's all right, Lord Gerald. This kind of trivial matter, even if I don't give money, I will definitely help...... What's more, you gave so much money, who is not pulling. ”

The coachman was unimpressed: "You are such a kind and good neighbor, there are not many ways in this world. ”

Gerald just smiled and got out of the car with his umbrella in hand.

He replied in a slow and gentle voice, "Then I'll go, sir." Tonight also salutes to silver coins. ”

"Hail to the silver coins, Your Excellency."

Seeing off the neighbor's coachman, Dr. Gerald, still with that gentle smile on his lips, walked to the front of the courtyard.

Four guards were hiding under the eaves, guarding the door with guns on their backs.

Seeing that Dr. Gerald had come alone, one of the guards hesitated a little and walked over.

The other guards also held their guns vigilantly for the first time.

The guard asked, "Are you Lord David Gerald?" ”

As he said this, he held up a square, very flat jade plaque in his hand and pointed it at Dr. Gerald.

Dr. Gerald was not in the slightest tired of this.

He just replied in a gentle, rounded tone, "Yes, I am David Gerald." ”

When he answered this, the jade plaque shone with a bright white light.

The guards nodded slightly, and the other guards put away their weapons.

"Please come in, Your Excellency."

Another guard approached and saluted Dr. Gerald, "I'll take you in." ”

Gerald followed him, laughing and joking, "I thought it was going to be Justin to receive me." ”

“…… Sorry, Your Excellency. ”

The guard was silent for a moment, then replied in a low voice.

His voice trembled faintly.

Gerald's steps paused slightly, and then continued on as if nothing had happened.

But his pupils were already covered with transparent ripples, like waves in a lake that spread out in circles.

The world in front of me instantly turned into black and white like an old TV, and everyone exuded a colorful glow of different hues and proportions.

- [Consciousness Judgment]

Gerald looked at him quietly.

Such a strong sense of vigilance? Fear isn't very strong...... Sure enough, is there a backhand? This subtle killing intent...... Hehe, if I hadn't expected it, I might have seen it as hostility.

He was more certain of his previous assumptions.

David Gerald, a fugitive wizard, has been removed from the Black Tower and is no longer directly affiliated with the kingdom's officials. Rather, he was wanted by a soft notice.

This is also known as the "Dark Wizard" mark.

The so-called soft wanted is that people are not really sent to arrest him. Just hang his name on the wanted warrant and make a formality. Gerald himself, on the other hand, could not cross the border, could not borrow money, could not marry and have children...... At the same time, it does not enjoy the protection of the law.

In other words, it is not illegal for a cursed hunter to kill him or rob him. But that's about it.

After all, he had only stolen the spell, and had not yet performed an illegal sacrifice or killed anyone, so he could only be judged as "likely to cause harm". Naturally, he will not be specially assigned to arrest him.

In particular, he is also a wizard of the Soul Snatcher School. belongs to the type that can't be beaten and a group of people who can run, and they are even more lazy to waste valuable manpower on him.

But Gerald must be wary of the cursed hunters.

As long as their wizards keep using spells while maintaining the balance of mana, they can continue to increase their strength. As a hunter, it is undoubtedly very difficult to quickly improve its strength in peacetime.

Because they want to hunt down other transcendents.

These wanted notices are actually written specifically for hunters. It's almost like telling them, "You can only kill these people, and only killing these people is not considered homicide, and a reward will be given."

Even Gerald is afraid of hunters.

The devil knows what strange abilities hunters can put together.

The transcendents of this era are usually well educated. Before they get to the top, they try to plan a self-contained system of competencies. And after getting the Bronze Rank Spell, you will basically start to decide the path you want to take.

This allows you to achieve the most complete or extreme individual abilities with a limited "self-curse capacity", which is the number of skill slots that come with an upgrade.

But in any case, these skills are traceable.

The only way to get other abilities is to rely on temporary spells, or spells, or to inherit someone else's spell to get random additional abilities.

And the hunter is completely different.

Hunters only need to perform a simple ritual after killing the transcendent, and they can plunder part of the opponent's ability, which can be temporarily activated.

So the abilities on the hunter are very messy. Although each hunter has a very fatal flaw - that is, they are limited in the way they kill.

But hunters have always used darkness to light, and only hunters investigate the transcendental, so there is no reason to investigate the killer in advance.

Gerald's response, in addition to the spell "I'm not here" that has always protected him, is to briefly activate a simple spell every hour or so:

- [Consciousness Capture: Killing Intent]

The water in Gerald's eyes froze, and the crimson glow in his pupils flickered away, lasting only a brief second.

And in this second, he clearly saw a very thin line pointing out from the Viscount's Palace, and another one tied to himself.

…… Oh, sure enough.

Gerald pursed the corners of his mouth slightly, his eyes cold.

This is the precursor to the Soul Reaver spell.

"Consciousness Capture: Killing Intent" allows Gerald to discover where the person with a clear killing intent is located in the first place.

It's like a psychic detector.

Whenever someone tried to aim a gun at Gerald, a line of instruction immediately floated in his mind to aim at the person pointing at him.

Even outside the range of the "Consciousness Replacement" and "Lost Consciousness" spells, you can roughly know where the enemy is coming from; As soon as it is in view, it can be locked as soon as possible.

Their main mode of fighting in the Bronze Phase is to capture a certain consciousness that emerges from the opponent, and then capture and transfer it to another person, or reduce it or detonate it.

Until they reach the Silver Tier, they will not be able to have direct damage.

But if it only captures and does not interfere, and at the same time is only limited to killing intent...... As long as it is turned on and off in seconds, it means that it will hardly consume order mana, and it is unlikely to be detected by other people's anti-detection spells or abilities.

As soon as he arrived at the Viscount's Mansion, he saw a killing intent in the Viscount's Mansion, which pointed very clearly at him.

Did the viscount really want to do it......

Gerald looked in that direction, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

That person should be Viscount Barb.

He could feel that there wasn't much curse on the other party, and he should be an ordinary person.

And Gerald was very sure that he had not offended other ordinary people at all.

- In ordinary life, he will be very careful.

He never made enemies of others, distanced himself from his relationships with others, and remained always kind, even to the point of humility. And ordinary people who may be enemies of him and have killing intent towards him will be killed by him silently.

In this way, search errors can be minimized.

All the people in the entire viscount's palace, Gerald did not interact at all.

This was a strategy he had already devised since he arrived in Roseburg - he only interacted with the Transcendent, so that he could clearly know when the Viscount had murderous intent towards him.

When he has killing intent, he is ready to run away.

Four hours ago, he detected a killing intent from the direction of the Viscount's Mansion. That could only have come from Viscount Barb...... Because no one else had a chance to know him.

Yes, everything was expected.

A bright, confident smile appeared on Gerald's face.

"The viscount has been waiting for a long time."

He said softly, his eyebrows lowered.

He was ready to use [Manipulating People's Hearts] to completely deprive the Viscount of consciousness the moment he opened the door.

And the guards beside him were suddenly stunned.

Fear and panic suddenly appeared in his heart, and then he replied calmly, "Lord Viscount is not here for the time being. He'll be back soon, please wait. ”

“…… What the? ”

Gerald was stunned for a moment, and his steps in front of the main gate stopped three or four steps away.

He didn't use spells, and he only needed professional common sense to judge that the guard's words were indeed true.

If, say, the viscount is not at home.

So the person behind the door who has murderous intent for himself...... And who?

As soon as Gerald first looked, he turned his head and whispered the key words he had set to the guards beside him:

"Look at me...... [patient]."

The moment he said the key word "patient", Gerald's eyes instantly bloomed with a burst of colorful light.

The guards didn't react in the slightest.

"Tell me, what exactly is your Viscount going to do?"

"Lord Viscount intends to trick both you and Lord Geraint into coming here, and then light a black fire to burn you all in the house."

The guard replied fluently, "And he and the butler have already gone to the winery in the suburbs—"

"Shoot at that door in five seconds!"

Gerald interrupted the guards without hesitation, stretched out his hand to the other end of the line of killing intent just now, and ordered the guards: "Kill everyone who comes out of the door!" ”

At the same time, he immediately evacuated outside, ran away, and prepared to go to the door to control a group of armed guards to cover his escape.

And the guards who were seized by him did not hesitate to pull out their rifled guns—