Wow!
The cold water splashed on the man's face, and he instantly woke up, his eyes widened.
"Hoo! Hoo!"
The man kept struggling to breathe. He tried to move his body, but found that he was in pain all over and his limbs were fixed to the rack.
Unable to move, that was his condition.
The masked man in front of him put the basin of water on the ground and leaned to the side with her arms folded across her chest.
She was still dressed the same way, wrapped in a cloak, with only her emerald green pupils revealed as she stared at him, which was quite scary.
He still clearly remembered that all his brothers were knocked down by her agile and vigorous skills.
"Awake? If you're awake, let's talk."
The man looked around, trying to find the source of the sound.
This was a dark and damp basement, and soon he saw the woman sitting on the chair through the sound.
The other party was playing with his nails, and the table was filled with torture instruments that could not pass the trial.
Blurred, he saw that the woman was wearing a pair of very peculiarly shaped gloves, which were inlaid with several gems, but he couldn't count them clearly.
"There is a saying that goes, 'He who knows the times is a hero.'"
"I think the various torture instruments we have now will be able to pry open your mouth."
The man's whole body was instantly soaked with cold sweat. He shook his body in panic, trying to escape from the restraints by struggling, but unfortunately, he could not move.
He shouted quickly: "I'll tell you! I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"
Bang!
The masked man in front of him slapped him suddenly in the face.
"I haven't asked yet, what do you want to say?"
Leah played with the pliers in her hand, looked at him, and laughed out loud.
This crisp slap woke the man up from his daze, and at the same time, anger took over his mind.
"Do you know what you are doing?!"
"Kidnapping! Lynching! You! You will be arrested!"
"So what? When you die on the roadside like a stray dog, will anyone care who killed you?"
Leah stood up with a cold look in her eyes, and it looked like she had done this countless times.
The man struggled desperately again.
"Damn it! Damn it! How dare you do this? What gives you the right?!"
Leah looked at him as if he were a fool: "Because I have money."
man:"..."
This one sentence made him silent.
"Just because you have money, you are great? Just because you have money, you can..."
"My brother is Victor. He is a noble and a third-level mage."
man:"..."
He stopped talking.
Leah picked up the pliers and knocked on the table, then continued, "Since you know that you are offending our Cravener family, you should have been prepared."
"Tell me, who ordered this?"
"Duke, the Duke told us to do it!"
He still did not change his previous confession, and as if to make Leah believe him, he took the initiative to give out an address.
"That's our base, you can go there, you can look for it there!"
"The Duke gave us a large sum of money to smash your store today! I am not lying, you have to believe me!"
Seeing the man's hysterics, the masked man approached Leah and lowered his voice.
"He said the same thing before. Could it be that the Duke really did it?"
Leah clicked her tongue, as if she didn't care.
"A clumsy way of putting the blame on others."
"If you hadn't said that, I might still have some suspicion about the Duke, but you insisted on it, which actually reduced his suspicion."
The man was stunned for a moment, and in just this brief moment, he was noticed by Leah.
Seeing this, she couldn't help laughing again.
The charming laughter gradually subsided, she covered her belly, raised her charming eyes, and said with a smile.
"Do you really believe it? I was lying to you."
"But judging from your reaction, it seems that it really wasn't the Duke who did it. I was wondering how a Duke like him could use such despicable means."
The man opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something else, but Leah simply waved his hand.
"Okay, take care of him, Leon."
"Don't forget to remove his organs. You can sell them for some money. Oh, and his accomplices. Get rid of them all. Don't leave any of them behind."
Leah patted the man's face and smiled like a devil.
The man's body kept shaking. He struggled in fear and wanted to say something.
But the next second, Leah flipped her palm lightly, and a bottle of medicine appeared in her hand.
The azure potion shone brightly under the light.
"What a pity! Even if I sold all your organs, your value would not be as much as one of my products."
She looked at him with a smile, and the potion swayed back and forth in front of his eyes.
"Of course, this thing worth one thousand geos is the same as yours in my eyes."
"It's worthless."
Bang!
The next second, the medicine bottle hit his face and broke with a bang.
He only felt a lot of liquid flowing down his numb face.
The red and blue potions were intertwined, making it difficult to tell whether it was blood or potion that was flowing.
"Madman...you are a madman! Let me go, let me go!"
The man's voice trembled and his eyes widened.
Under the dual torture of mental and physical torture, he had already changed beyond recognition.
Leah couldn't help but smile again when she saw the look on his face.
That beautiful smile penetrates people's hearts like a devil.
In the man's bloodshot eyes, she yawned, turned around and said lightly:
"Solve it soon."
"yes."
....
After about a few hours, Leon had dealt with everything.
She sneaked into Victor's study through the window. Now that Victor was away, Leah was sitting at the desk, dealing with recent accounts.
There was no one else in the room. Leon took off his hood, revealing his short light blonde hair and pointed ears.
Just these unusual ears are enough to prove her identity.
Elf.
"Miss, everything has been cleaned up."
Leah didn't even raise her head, but she already knew who was coming and smiled.
"Thanks a lot."
"My pleasure, Miss Leah."
Leon continued, "I collected a lot of money from those people, and I also went to their base to search. These people recently received a large sum of money, about 5,000 Geo."
Leah took the purse from Leon, weighed it and put it aside.
"That's a lot of numbers. That guy didn't lie."
Lyon looked up and couldn't help asking:
"Is it really not the Duke's order?"
Leah paused and couldn't help laughing. She closed the account book and looked at her with a smile:
"You believe it too?"
"What?"
She said with a smile: "Even if the Duke's suspicion is reduced to the minimum, it does not mean that he has been cleared of suspicion."
"We have only added a new direction of suspicion, but the fact that the Duke still hates us has not changed."
"Perhaps someone is behind this, deliberately stirring up a conflict between us, Cravener, and the Duke, so that the people behind the scenes can benefit from it."
"Or maybe the Duke simply doesn't like us. After all, there is no need for a king to have two of the youngest third-level mages."
Lyon didn't understand the calculations between these nobles. He paused and asked the question he wanted to ask most.
"Why didn't you continue to interrogate him?"
"He won't tell you, because he doesn't know who the instigator is."
Leah flicked her purse with her hand, and a jingling sound was heard from inside.
"The fact that they used money to make the deal is enough to prove that the other party is not an important member. Therefore, he can only insist that it was the Duke who did it."
Leah added:
"Why do you think the Duke's daughter came back to East City? And she happened to run into those people who smashed the store?"
"Finally, you're going to spend a lot of money to compensate us for the broken potion?"
Lyon frowned when she heard her words. She heard that Erica spent tens of thousands of geos just for compensation, and still found it a little unbelievable.
Can a person be so kind?
"I don't believe her words."
Leah spread her hands and said helplessly.
"I have lived with Victor for more than ten years. I know him very well."
"Although he has a talent for learning magic, it's still half a lifetime too early for him to teach others. I'm afraid that when he was in the academy, he relied on the speech written by the teaching assistant, and he just spoke casually in front of him."
"Erica actually said she was his student. What can Victor teach her?"
...
At the same time, Vega, far away in the town of Sanchel, sneezed.
Victor glanced at him. How could a crow catch a cold?
But he didn't have time to care about the crow that caught a cold.
They arrived at a town at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. The town was not big and they could only find one hotel.
The knights didn't have to worry too much about where to live; they could even sleep at an inn leaning against their horses for a night.
But Gwen was a woman and also their respected knight commander, so the knights asked Gwen to spend a night in the inn and recuperate.
Likewise, Victor is a mage.
He also needs a good sleeping environment to replenish his mental strength.
So the two of them had to go to the hotel together.
We originally agreed to have two rooms, but...
"Boss, is there really only one room left?"
Gwen looked a little anxious, which was a little funny to Victor.
It was the first time he saw the other person being so unstable.
At this moment, she wished she could build a new house on the vacant lot immediately.
The boss was also very helpless.
"How dare I lie to you, Sir Knight? There really is only one king-size bed room left."
"Besides, I see that the two men and women are together. They should be a couple. There should be no problem for them to live in the same room."
Gwen was anxiously about to say something more, but Victor interrupted her.
"This room is fine."
Hearing Victor's words, Gwen's eyes widened and she looked at him in disbelief.