Chapter 65 Thread of Killing Intent

It was dark.

Dusk is coming.

In the increasing sound of rain, the wheels of the carriage broke through the water on the ground, making a rattling sound and galloping forward.

Finally, the carriage stopped in front of the Viscount House.

"It's really bothering you."

An ordinary-looking young man with an always gentle smile opened the car door and thanked softly, "You still come to see me in such a heavy rain."

"It's all right, Lord Gerald."

The driver laughed loudly: "Am I waiting for you here?"

"No, I'll let the coachman of the Viscount family take me back."

Dr. Gerald responded politely: "The rain is getting heavier and heavier. You may catch a cold when you wait here. Please come back."

"It's alright, Your Excellency Gerald. Even if I don't give money, I will definitely help you with this kind of trivial matter... Besides, you've given so much money, so who can't help you?"

The driver didn't take it seriously: "You are such a kind and good neighbor, there are not many things in this world."

Gerald just smiled and got out of the car with an umbrella.

He replied slowly and warmly: "Then I'm leaving, sir. Salute to the silver coin tonight."

"Salute to the silver coin, Your Excellency."

After seeing off the neighbor's coachman, Dr. Gerald still had that gentle smile on his lips and walked to the courtyard.

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

Seeing that Dr. Gerald came alone, one of the guards hesitated 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 emerald jade plaque and pointed it at Dr. Gerald.

Dr. Gerald was not in the least bit tired of it.

He just replied softly and earnestly: "Yes, I am David Gerald."

After answering this, the jade card shone with bright white light.

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

"Come in, sir."

Another guard came over and gave Dr. Gerald a salute: "I'll take you in."

Gerald followed behind him, laughing and joking: "I thought it would be Justin to receive me."

"...Sorry, Your Excellency."

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

His voice trembled slightly.

Gerald's pace paused slightly, and then he continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened.

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

The world in front of him instantly turned into the black and white of an old TV, and everyone exudes a brilliance of colors with different tones and proportions.

——【Consciousness Judgment】

Gerald looked at him quietly.

Such intense vigilance? Fear is not very strong... Sure enough, is there a backhand? This subtle killing intent... Hehe, if I hadn't expected it long ago, I might have seen it as hostile.

He was more certain of his previous speculation.

As a fugitive wizard, David Gerald has been removed from the Black Tower and no longer directly under the official kingdom of the kingdom. Instead, he was on a Soft Wanted.

Also known as the "dark wizard" mark.

The so-called "soft wanted" means that no one was really sent to arrest him. Just hang his name on the wanted notice and make a form. And Gerald himself cannot cross the border, cannot borrow money, cannot marry and have children... At the same time, he does not enjoy the protection of the law.

That said, it's not illegal to curse a hunter to kill him or rob him. But that's about it.

After all, he just stole the curse, and he hasn't made an illegal sacrifice or killed anyone.

It can only be judged as "may cause harm". Naturally, there will be no special people to arrest him.

Especially since he is a wizard of the Soul Reaper school. He belongs to the type who can't beat one, but can run in groups, and he doesn't bother to waste precious manpower on him.

But Gerald must be wary of those cursed hunters.

As long as their wizards keep using spells while maintaining the balance of mana, they can continuously increase their strength. It is undoubtedly very difficult for the profession of the hunter series to quickly improve its strength in the peaceful era.

Because they want to hunt other supernatural beings.

These wanted orders are actually written specifically for hunters. It's almost like telling them, "You can only kill these people, only killing these people is not homicide, and you will pay a bounty."

Even Gerald is afraid of hunters.

Ghosts know what strange abilities hunters can combine.

The extraordinary people of this era are usually well educated. Before they enter the stage, they will try to plan a system of abilities that can be self-contained. And after getting the Bronze Rank curse, he will basically start to decide the path he wants to take.

In this way, the most perfect or extreme personal ability can be achieved under the limited "self-curse capacity" - that is, the limit of the number of skill bits that comes with the upgrade.

But in any case, these skills are traceable.

If you want to get other abilities, you can only rely on temporary spells, or spells, or get random extra abilities by inheriting the spells of others.

The hunter is completely different.

As long as the hunter performs a simple ritual after killing the superhuman, he can plunder some of the opponent's abilities, which can be temporarily activated.

So the abilities of hunters are very messy. Although each hunter has a very fatal flaw - that is, their killing methods are limited by their own.

But the hunter has always been in the dark to the light. Only the hunter investigates the extraordinary, and there is no reason to investigate the killer in advance.

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

——[Consciousness Capture: Killing Intent]

The water in Gerald's eyes condensed, and the crimson brilliance in his pupils flashed away for only a short second.

In this second, he clearly saw an extremely thin line pointed out from the Viscount's mansion, and another section was tied to himself.

...Oh, sure enough.

Gerald pursed his lips slightly, his eyes cold.

This is a prerequisite spell for the Soul Reaper spell.

"Consciousness Capture: Killing Intent" allows Gerald to find out where the person with clear killing intent is at the first time.

It's like a mind detector.

Anytime someone tried to aim a gun at Gerald, a line would pop up in his mind, pointing back at the man pointed at him.

Even outside the range of "Consciousness Replacement" and "Consciousness Loss" spells, it is possible to roughly know where the enemy is coming from; as long as it appears within the field of vision, it can be locked at the first time.

Their main fighting style in the Bronze stage is to capture some kind of consciousness emerging from the opponent, then capture and transfer it to another person, or reduce it or detonate it.

Until they reach the silver rank, they can have direct killing ability.

But if it is only captured without interference, and only limited to killing intent... Then 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 used by other people's anti-detection spells or is the ability to perceive.

As soon as he arrived at the Viscount Mansion, he saw that there was a killing intent in the Viscount Mansion, which pointed to him very clearly.

Does the Viscount really want to make a move...

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

That person should be Viscount Barbour.

He can feel that there is not much curse on the other party, he should be an ordinary person.

And Gerald is very sure that he has not offended other ordinary people at all.

——In normal life, he will be very careful when doing things.

He was never hostile, alienated from others, always kind, even to the point of humility. Ordinary people who may be enemies with him and kill him will be killed silently by him.

In this way, the search error can be minimized.

All the people in the entire Viscount Mansion, Gerald had never been in contact with each other.

This was the strategy he had already thought of after he arrived in Roseburg - he only interacted with the supernatural, so he could clearly realize when the Viscount had murderous intentions against him.

Whenever the killing intent arises, he is ready to run away.

Four hours ago, he detected a killing intent from ordinary people coming from the direction of the Viscount Mansion. It can only be from Viscount Barber...because other people have no chance to know him at all.

Yes, everything is expected.

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

"Lord Viscount has been waiting for a long time."

He said softly, his eyebrows lowered.

He was ready to use [Manipulate the Mind] the moment he opened the door to completely deprive the Viscount of his consciousness.

But the guard beside him suddenly froze for a moment.

Fear and panic suddenly emerged in his heart, and then he replied calmly: "The Viscount is not here for the time being. He will be back soon, please wait."

"……what?"

Gerald was stunned for a moment, and he was still three or four steps away from the front door.

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

If it is said, the Viscount is not at home.

Then the person behind the door who has the intention to kill himself... Who is it?

For the first time, Gerald turned his head and softly read the keywords he set to the guard beside him:

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

The moment he uttered the keyword "patient", a burst of colorful light burst into Gerald's eyes.

The guard didn't respond at all.

"Tell me, what exactly is your Viscount's plan?"

"Lord Viscount intends to deceive you and Lord Geraint here, and then light a black fire and burn you all to death in the house."

The guard replied smoothly: "And he and the housekeeper have already gone to the winery in the suburbs-"

"Shoot that door in five seconds!"

Gerald interrupted the guard's words without hesitation, stretched his finger to the other end of the line of killing intent just now, and ordered the guard: "Kill everyone who comes out of the door!"

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

And the guard whose consciousness was seized by him did not hesitate to pull out his rifle—