The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#157 - Vulture's witchcraft display

Chapter 157: The Vulture's Wizardry Display

The Vulture clearly didn't know what nine-year compulsory education was.

Naturally, he couldn't understand why Lu Jing wasn't the least bit intimidated by his grand spectacle.

He actually rushed up so resolutely, not even giving him a chance to speak before wielding the Buddhist staff in his hand.

Although he was now being sucked into mid-air, after the initial moment of distraction, he still tried his best to maintain his mysterious and terrifying image.

With a straight face, he threatened Lu Jing, saying that he had already used a powerful wizardry to suck onto his weapon. If Lu Jing didn't let go, he would... he would just keep sucking and not let go.

Lu Jing was amused by his words, so he held up the Buddhist staff and said, "Respected Lord Vulture, I apologize for my previous impolite behavior, and I guarantee that I will not attack you again, so please withdraw your supernatural powers and come down from my Buddhist staff."

The Vulture heard the female shopkeeper's translation, and the expression on his face couldn't help but stiffen.

It's not that he didn't want to come down, but the magnetic field wouldn't allow it.

Especially when he saw the smile that wasn't quite a smile on Lu Jing's face, he also understood that it would be difficult for him to continue bluffing.

Therefore, he could only grit his teeth, retract his hands, slide out of the magnetic suit, and fall to the ground.

Before he could say any polite words to get the magnetic suit back, he saw that Lu Jing had already retracted the Buddhist staff.

Then, Lu Jing reached out, took off the magnetic suit from the Buddhist staff.

He held it in his hand and looked at the black sand on it, "It really is iron powder."

"What is iron powder?" the female shopkeeper asked, "Is it wizardry?"

"No, it's physics. It seems that this guy is not a dark wizard at all, at most he's just a charlatan who knows a little pseudo-science."

As Lu Jing spoke, he looked at the bare-chested Vulture not far away.

A cold wind blew, and the Vulture couldn't help but shiver.

He just couldn't tell whether it was the night wind that was cold, or Lu Jing's gaze that was colder.

"Speak, why are you looking for us?" Lu Jing asked in an unkind tone.

"I drew protective secret patterns for everyone," the Vulture said softly.

"The one that killed more than thirty warriors?" Nada asked back.

The Vulture smiled bitterly, "You should have also heard about the grievances between me and Ishag before, and honestly, I really hoped that he would die sooner, but I am willing to swear to the heavens that I did not tamper with the secret patterns to take revenge.

"After all, I was the one who proposed this matter to the city lord. If it doesn't succeed, it will be difficult for me to explain. You know, Yazdan has always disliked me and can't wait to collect more evidence against me to send me back to prison.

"Even if I don't like Ishag, I wouldn't risk my future to scheme against him."

Lu Jing believed that the Vulture was telling the truth. For a charlatan, personal grievances were far less important than establishing a firm foothold, after all, the latter was related to his wealth and glory for the rest of his life.

"That incident had a great impact on me. After that, almost no one outside the palace was willing to listen to me. Fortunately, the city lord trusted me enough, and I had previously confessed my conflict with Ishag to him.

"He felt that it was Ishag who didn't trust me and covered up the secret patterns, which led to the death of those thirty people, so he didn't pursue my responsibility." The Vulture looked like he was still scared when he talked about this.

Lu Jing didn't care too much about the Vulture's grievances with the vanguard commander, and continued.

"Where did you find this so-called protective secret pattern?"

This was also the question that Lu Jing was most concerned about.

Honestly, meeting the Vulture today also surprised him a bit.

After all, he had heard a lot of magical legends about this guy before. Before he saw the magnetic suit, Lu Jing also thought that the dark wizard had some real skills, so he was prepared to fight against him.

As a result, he didn't expect the Vulture to choose to self-destruct as soon as he started, so Lu Jing had to start to suspect how much the Vulture knew about the ancient tomb on the mural.

Sure enough, he then heard the dark wizard answer, "In a dream."

Seeing the suspicion in Lu Jing's eyes, the Vulture quickly explained, "This is true, I am not lying. The great Oneiros gave me the instructions, he chose me to save Marasar Khan..."

Speaking of this, the Vulture seemed to remember something, and secretly glanced at Lu Jing again, adding, "Of course, he may have felt that I couldn't do it alone, so he sent Great Hero Lu Jing here. As long as we join hands, we will definitely be able to stop this disaster."

Lu Jing shook his head when he heard this, "I will not join hands with you, at most I will just exchange information. And who is Oneiros?"

"He is the god of dreams," the female shopkeeper directly answered Lu Jing's question.

Lu Jing wasn't a pure atheist, after all, strange things had appeared before, but he really doubted how the Vulture, with his level of skill, could get in touch with the gods.

So he continued to ask, "How did you get in touch with your so-called god of dreams?"

"We wizards have a set of rituals that allow our souls to leave our bodies through spells, float in the air, and communicate with all things in the world."

What the Vulture said sounded quite convincing, but when he was about to perform the so-called psychic ritual on the spot according to Lu Jing's request, he was exposed again.

Lu Jing found a dog and fed it some of the pills that the Vulture had to swallow during the ritual. Before long, the dog began to sway and walk like a drunken man, but his spirit was exceptionally excited, and he was barking loudly the whole time.

"I can't tell, you are still a drug addict."

Lu Jing already knew what the psychic medicine in his hand was.

The possibility of the Vulture contacting the god of dreams with this kind of thing was not as great as contacting the god of coco.

So the pattern was obviously not the instruction of Oneiros, but someone showed it to the Vulture when he was high, and they should have used some means to constantly strengthen the Vulture's memory, so that this pattern was completely left in the Vulture's mind.

And the reason why the other party did this... naturally, they didn't have good intentions.

Obviously, they planned to use the Vulture as a target to attract the attention of people like him who wanted to investigate the crisis, especially if he couldn't help it and killed the Vulture as soon as he came up, it would immediately alert the enemy.

And now the only question left was, who was letting this evil gnome take the blame?

Lu Jing's mind flashed with the image of the maid named Beryl.