Upon hearing the soldiers' words, Liang Lidong fell into deep thought. For such a large-scale hypnosis spell, the magical waves must have been exaggerated, and it would have been accompanied by quite eye-catching magical effects. Yet, these soldiers said that they fell asleep without seeing anything unusual. There was something strange about this matter no matter how one looked at it. Sigh …
In that case, it shouldn't have been a purely magical effect. Could it be poison? That was unlikely. Leaving aside the fact that there was no poison that could put so many people to sleep at the same time, and even if there was, wouldn't it be better if it was a direct lethal poison? Liang Lidong narrowed his eyes slightly. He looked at the silver crescent moon in the night sky. After eliminating those two possibilities, there was only one left.
Causality!
In the game, causality was known as the strongest non-magical, non-divine skill. There were very few people who could grasp causality, and even among the players, there were less than a hundred who had grasped the skill. If it was causality, then it would explain why these soldiers could suddenly fall asleep when they were defenseless. It also explained why the enemy did not send enough people to immediately clear the battlefield after all the soldiers were hypnotized, and only sent two Assassins to slit the throats of more than a hundred royal infantry soldiers.
Causality was not a magical skill, nor was it a divine spell, but it was known as a divine spell among divine spells because only powerful and devout believers could learn this extremely domineering ability.
This skill required a predetermined cause and effect. Then, it would use powerful mental strength to materialize the process, and as long as the process was perfectly produced, the result would definitely appear. For example, an archbishop who had mastered the law of causality could set the cause of his enemy's death by falling into a deep river, and the result would be drowning. Then, as long as he imagined how his enemy would struggle and scream after falling into the water, the more realistic the scene in his mind, the better, and the higher the chance of success in the law of causality. Once it was perfectly imagined, then no matter where the enemy was, even if he was in the desert, he would die immediately, and the cause of death would definitely be drowning, even if there was not a drop of water around him.
Of course, the more powerful the ability, the higher the requirements … the law of causality required one to have the support of powerful mental strength. After all, creating reality through imagination was a miracle in itself. The second requirement was that the willpower of the person being imagined could not be too strong, because a strong willpower would interfere with any bad luck that targeted the person. It could be said that a person with strong willpower would not be bad even if their luck was not extremely good.
And the nature of negative causality was a powerful kind of bad luck.
The City Lord's wife walked over from the side. She looked at Liang Lidong's expression and asked, "What's wrong? You seem to have thought of some clues?"
"Indeed!" Liang Lidong sighed. "We've encountered a very powerful enemy. If my guess is correct, you and your wife have been feeling that you're being watched recently, haven't you? And you've been having weird nightmares, such as being drowned, being burned, and so on!"
The City Lord's wife widened her beautiful eyes. "How do you know? Recently, we've been having frequent nightmares. Sometimes, when we wake up, the feeling of being drowned in water and being burned by fire feels like it's real. "
"This is the law of causality. Mark is dealing with you."
"The law of causality?"
In the game, not many NPCs knew about the law of causality, but the players were different. Many casual players liked to dig deeper into the game's background. In their view, the game Continent of Falan was almost a real world, where all the equipment and items had their origins, and all the characters could be found out. Under the tireless exploration of this group of players, many hidden events and special abilities and items in the game were discovered by them and then shared through online sections such as forums.
The law of causality was one of the special abilities excavated by the casual players under such circumstances.
The City Lord's wife didn't know what the law of causality was. Liang Lidong tried to explain the function of this ability in simple terms. This time, the City Lord's wife's face became unusually gloomy. For physical professions, the methods of spellcasters were dirty and disgusting enough, but she didn't expect that there was an ability in this world that could be so domineering.
"Don't worry too much." Liang Lidong comforted her. "I think Mark has used the law of causality on you several times, but it didn't work, which means that your willpower can interfere with him. As long as you continue to grow stronger, you will never be affected by the law of causality. "
The City Lord's wife was relieved. On the surface, Liang Lidong looked indifferent, but in fact, he was sighing in his heart. Mark was a Priest, and generally speaking, willpower was the main growth attribute of a Priest. Being able to understand the law of causality at level 10 proved that not only was he deeply favored by Lady Rose, but he was also a genius. Right now, Mark couldn't use the law of causality to affect the City Lord and his wife. That was because Mark might not have understood the law of causality for long, and the City Lord and his wife were professionals, so the law of causality didn't have much effect on them for the time being. But as Mark's strength and level slowly increased, his willpower would become stronger and stronger. On the other hand, because the City Lord and his wife were physical professions, their willpower growth wasn't high. This way, the gap in willpower would grow bigger and bigger … One day, Mark would be able to use the law of causality to silently kill the City Lord and his wife, and that day wouldn't be too long. Liang Lidong estimated that it would be within ten years.
But soon, the City Lord's wife's expression became ugly again. "If Mark can hypnotize our soldiers once, he can hypnotize them a second time. What if he does it again?"
"The conditions for activating the negative law of causality are very harsh. I think it'll be difficult for him to activate it a second time within a month." Liang Lidong said, "And I guess he's not sure if his law of causality will work, so he only sent two Hitmen over. If it works, they'll kill the royal infantry. It turns out that his gamble was right. Unfortunately, he didn't bet big. If he sends all his forces at once, we'll be in danger."
As the night grew darker, the City Lord's wife exhaled a puff of white mist. She said, "Then how should we prevent the power of causality?"
"Gold is a very good magic resistance. In the future, the garrison will be divided into two groups. One group will be on duty normally, and the other will stay in the mines. Not only magic elements, but also mental power and willpower will have a hard time penetrating the gold layer, " the City Lord's wife said.
"That mine tunnel must be wider … Mr. Beta, send me back to the castle. I thought that the Church of Life's energy was only a little stronger than ours, but now it seems that our estimation was seriously wrong."
"Okay!" Liang Lidong nodded.
After telling the middle-aged steward about the precautions, the City Lord's wife galloped back with the sixty cavalrymen. Because of her anxiety, her horse ran very fast. Liang Lidong followed her closely. Because of the bumpiness, Joan Of Arc woke up in his arms. The first thing the bird said when she opened her eyes was, "It's morning? Can we have breakfast now? "
The City Lord's wife, who was in the lead, couldn't help but chuckle. She was finally in a better mood.
Winterwind was not supposed to be open at night, but the whole city belonged to the Longman family. So, their journey was smooth. They returned to the castle in no more than an hour.
They went to the library on the second floor, where the City Lord was giving instructions. Seeing them, he raised his head, only to be stunned. "Sophia, you don't look well. What happened?"
Liang Lidong found a chair and sat down, while the castellan's wife began to tell him everything that had happened. When the castellan heard that all of the royal infantry had died, he broke the charcoal pen in his hand. When he heard about the causality, he fell silent for a while, then rolled up his sleeves and showed the red spot under his armpit to the two of them. "Twenty days ago, I dreamed that I was surrounded by fire. When I woke up the next day, I found this wound. At that time, it was just a piece of burnt skin. At that time, I thought that someone had cursed me, but I didn't expect it to be the causality."
The City Lord's wife lunged at her husband and touched his wound. She asked regretfully, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"It wouldn't have helped. We didn't know what was going on at all, and we would've made you worry." The City Lord patted his wife's shoulder. Then, his eyes became aggressive. "It seems that we can't let this stalemate go on any longer. We have to find a chance to counterattack. We have to kill Mark, or we won't have a good life."
Liang Lidong said, "But the problem is that we were at a disadvantage in the first place, and you will be blamed for the deaths of Clement's men. It's obviously one disaster after another."
"That fat envoy will return tomorrow, and he won't care where Clement's men are at all!" The City Lord's face suddenly became gloomy.
Liang Lidong thought for a moment and immediately understood the City Lord's intention. The City Lord planned to force the fat envoy to leave the city tomorrow and then find an opportunity to kill him and dump his body in the wilderness. After all, this place was too far away from the emperor. Even if the emperor blamed the death of the envoy, the City Lord wouldn't be able to do anything about it as long as he refused to admit it. Clement would probably suspect that he killed Robin, but the Clement family wouldn't be too hostile without evidence. Also, even if the City Lord didn't kill the fat envoy, the people of the Temple of Life would, in order to frame the Longman family for the crime.
All in all, the fat envoy was dead for sure. The fat envoy seemed rather pitiful, but in fact, he had brought this upon himself. If he and Robin had been greedy for the gold mines in Winterwind and were willing to be taken advantage of, they wouldn't have discovered such a thing at all, and Robin Clement might still be alive.
"If we want to deal with Mark, we have to take the path of assassination. Our strength alone is not enough. I suggest that the assassin union be invited in to help."