In the sewers near the Knights' headquarters, Ophelia and Melissa are waiting for rescue.

"By the way, how did you know I was here?" Melissa suddenly asked about this.

Her previous investigation into Nova's matter was fruitless, so she put it aside for the time being, and then went to investigate the attack on the carriage. After many twists and turns, she came to the sewer. She didn't know how Ophelia came up with the idea.

If it was a coincidence, it would be too much of a coincidence.

"Of course it's intuition." Ophelia replied lightly.

"Tch, stop teasing me, I'm not a child." Melissa was not satisfied with this answer.

"...Haha, well, it's actually because I found traces of magic power."

"What?" Melissa felt incredible, "Did...you learn magic?"

After all, in her impression, her sister had always strictly abided by the knight's code and was proud of being a knight. She should not be contaminated with magic.

"I know you can't accept it," Ophelia said frankly, "but I have no choice. In order to achieve that goal, I can only do this."

When Ophelia said this, her tone was calm, but it gave people a very firm feeling.

However, she has not yet told Melissa about her abandonment of her human identity, and the reason why the other party did not suspect her was because she was used to wearing a helmet.

Melissa initially asked her why she had this habit, but the answer she received was that she didn't want people to see her face.

Melissa did not become suspicious, because she knew Ophelia's past very well, so she understood it as failing to complete the mission of revitalizing the family, so she was ashamed to see others.

At this time, when she heard her say this, Melissa, as her younger sister, could naturally feel her determination to learn magic and did not intend to go into details.

"It doesn't matter, Ophelia, no matter what you do, I will support you, even if it means betraying the whole world."

"Haha, you are saying strange things again," Ophelia chuckled, and then said, "But it would be great if Mr. Victor could be as easy to talk to as you."

"Whatever, now that we have left him, we can make our own decisions on everything." Melissa comforted her.

"Well, that's what I say, but I always feel a knot in my heart. You have to know that Mr. Victor is the person I respect the most. If I don't get his approval, I..."

"Okay, okay, let's stop this topic." Seeing that she was getting more and more depressed, Melissa quickly changed the topic, "Speaking of which, why can you find me when you find traces of magic? I'm not a magician."

"Hmm...I was also puzzled by this. I followed the traces of magic power to find him. After I met you, the very obvious traces of magic power suddenly disappeared."

"You should have figured it out now, right? Since Cornes did all this, and he is closely monitoring us, he will naturally find a way to lure you away from Emil."

"Yes, this is the only possibility..." Ophelia nodded and couldn't help but fell into deep thought. Then she suddenly remembered something, "Tsk, that's too bad."

"What?"

"Since he is monitoring us, and his target is Emir, and now he finds out that Emir is not dead, but alone, isn't that dangerous?"

The two of them took a deep breath when they thought of this. Their actions just now undoubtedly pushed Emil into the fire pit.

…

Meanwhile, on the street above the sewer.

A large group of red-eyed crows appeared in front of Emil. He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but was startled by several crows and flew up. It turned out that there was also a group behind him.

At this time, Emil was surrounded by hundreds of crows. He waved his hand to drive them away, but the crows only flapped their wings a few times or moved aside, showing no sign of leaving.

When he was helpless, the crows suddenly flew up and finally formed a small black tornado, landing next to a table not far from Emil.

It was a table and chairs placed outdoors in a restaurant. At this time, the black tornado gathered on a chair and finally turned into a human shape.

From the rickety figure and clothing, it can be seen that it is Cornes who was against Leonard in front of him before.

"Your name is Emil, right?" Cornes turned his back to him and said unhurriedly.

"..."

Emil remained silent. After listening to Ophelia's analysis just now, he also believed that this guy wanted to harm him, and for no reason.

Cornes turned around and put on a smile.

"Come, sit here, I have something to talk to you about."

He pointed to the chair opposite him and motioned for Emil to sit down.

Faced with such an unexplained invitation, Emil would naturally not believe it. Who knew whether this old guy would suddenly take action against him.

An ordinary boy faced off against a magician notorious in the empire, and the result was obvious.

Seeing that he was not giving face, Cornes was not angry, but cleared his throat and continued.

"Sorry, I was too blind to see it before. Later I got the latest information. It is said that you signed a contract with a giant dragon, which is a very powerful combat power. So I have changed my mind now. I will convince Lai

Leonard, what do you think about letting him make you the Lord of Blackpool Town?"

"Well, don't you look down on the common people?" Emil asked.

"Haha, who told you that there is no such thing," Cornes smiled kindly and continued, "Besides, weren't the first nobles also common people? This means that every common people

You have the qualifications to become a noble, so why can't this lucky commoner be you? Oh, of course, I believe you are strong enough to conquer that dragon, so you don't rely on luck, but on real strength

.”

Emil knew something about the world and could naturally understand what Cornes wanted to say. However, this wave of forced compliments did not make him happy, but made him even more dissatisfied.

Because he really relied on luck to sign the contract with Lilith, he was feeling melancholy about this, and what Cornes said was really flattering.

"Haha, I'm grateful, but I can't promise you."

As the saying goes, don't hit someone with a smiling face. Even though Emil was unhappy with Cornes, he only politely rejected him.

"Oh? Why?" Cornes was a little surprised.

He knew the habits of the common people very well. They often coveted immediate interests. As for things like morality, they were nothing in the face of interests, but he found that he had misjudged Emil.

"It's like this. Since the sword-making mission failed at noon today, I have deeply realized that my strength is limited and I am not qualified to be a city lord at all, let alone a noble. If people like me can become a noble, then what will happen in this world?

There will be no common people." Emir explained seriously.

"..."

Cornes did not expect that Emil would belittle himself in this way. He finally understood that in front of such a person, any praise was meaningless and would have the opposite effect.

"So, thanks to your kindness, I plan to go to my hometown in a few days and be an ordinary blacksmith."

"Tsk," Cornes's face suddenly fell, "You are really a guy who refuses to drink and eat as a penalty. Don't think that I don't know your little thoughts."

"Huh, since you already knew this, why would you lie to me by saying these things?" Emil said not to be outdone.

"What a pity, what a pity, Emil." Cornes sighed heavily, and then said, "I am giving you a chance. If you can bring your dragon to serve Lord Leonard,

Then it’s not impossible for me to reluctantly accept a commoner like you, but in the end you still have no idea.”

Emil secretly screamed that something was wrong. Could it be that this old guy wanted to kill him in broad daylight?

However, he took a look around and found that except for a large group of crows, there were no other humans nearby.

Subsequently, Kones kept approaching him. In order to escape at any time, he slowly retreated, and then stared closely at Kones' movements.

I saw the other party holding a cane in one hand and walking towards him tremblingly. Looking at his appearance, I was afraid that he would fall down if the wind blew.

But Emil knew very well that since this guy was on the empire's magic list, his strength was definitely not just a boast.

At this moment, he was not too afraid, because he knew that when his life was in danger, Lilith would teleport over to protect him.

Then when Byron and Leonard break up, this Cornes will definitely become a very difficult enemy. If he is killed now with the help of Lilith's power, it should save a lot of trouble in the future.

When he thought of this, Emil even straightened his back. Instead of retreating, he moved closer to Cornes.

"Hey, instead of running away, you came towards me instead, right?"

"Of course, otherwise how could I burn you to ashes?"

The next second, Cornes raised his crutch, and then hundreds of crows obeyed his orders and turned into countless sharp arrows to attack.

At the critical moment, a huge creature appeared in front of Emir. It was Lilith who was summoned by the contract. All the black arrows turned into crows shot at her, but she was unscathed.

"Haha, idiot, you have been fooled." Cornes suddenly smiled sinisterly.

"……ha?"

Emil felt baffled that Lilith could take the old guy away with just one breath of dragon at this time. How could he be fooled?

However, the next second, a black magic circle enveloped Lilith.

Thin black pillars rose from the ground, hundreds of them, evenly inserted around Lilith's body, and then countless filaments spread out horizontally between the pillars.

After a while, Lilith was locked in a black cage. In desperation, she breathed out the dragon's breath and planned to burn Cornes to death. But the strange thing was that the gap in the cage was obviously large, but the dragon's breath could not be sprayed out.

come out.

"Save your strength, this is a barrier."

"Damn it, what have you done?" Emil was furious and wanted to rush over and fight with Cornes.

"Oh? It seems that the content of the contract is that when the owner's life is threatened, the dragon will appear." Cornes understood this.

But he knew very well that Lilith had been controlled by a special barrier that could even isolate the effect of the contract.

So, he released a magic on Emil, and three black hands suddenly emerged from the ground and caught Emil.

He struggled desperately, but found that his physical strength was rapidly draining. After a while, he lost consciousness. The moment he closed his eyes, he saw Lilith struggling in the cage.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you."

However, the next second, Cornes' body was knocked away by some sudden force like a ball.

After flying more than ten meters, he lay on the ground and spit out a mouthful of blood. He wanted to get up immediately, but he couldn't do it.

"Who is it?" He roared viciously, but like a dying beast, there was no deterrence.

"Hmph, who allowed you to hurt my friend?"

Appearing next to Emil was a knight in white armor, which was obviously Ophelia. She raised her sword towards Cornes and had a sharp look in her eyes.
Chapter completed!