Chapter 37: The Method to Verify Lies

As a modern person from Earth, Rod did not understand the meaning of exile.

But the attitude of the crowd toward the Ruin Brotherhood was evidence enough.

"Elven magic stems from communion with the God of Nature. Once exile is decided, the Elders will use a specific ritual to return the exiled one's magic to Nature."

Lady Kali's expression did not change.

She continued: "Given the elves' reputation on the continent, do you know what a classless elf will suffer?"

A proud elf falling to the bottom; everyone who was once despised will kick him.

What Lady Kali did not say was that she had witnessed with her own eyes the tragic state of her exiled cousin, who had been exiled for two years, when the crowd carried her out of the Orc cave.

"I am not too worried about Farsad; he understands human affairs better than most elves and is more humble. I believe even if exiled, he will manage."

"Humility and so-called human affairs are manifestations of weakness and compromise; elves do not need them."

Rod gave her a smile, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

The perception brought by 【Ye Hu Xi Fa】 reached its peak at this moment.

The fluctuation of the breeze allowed him to easily discover the two thieves in the act.

Rod directly grabbed one in each hand and twisted them over to the Constable.

"I divined regarding today's operation in Shi Ying Town."

The elf suddenly spoke.

Lady Kali knew of this matter, as this was a good opportunity for Little Little Bangde's practical combat, at which time the elf would guide and protect her.

"What was the result?"

"Not good."

Rod was about to speak again.

A constable ran to his side and whispered a few words.

He said the situation had changed and that the Witch Dimia needed him to come over immediately.

"See, there's the problem already."

Rod said with a smile.

The elf still wore a sour face, not even looking at him.

Moments later.

He followed this constable all the way out of Shi Ying Town to a desolate wasteland rarely visited by people.

"That's enough, it's far enough already."

Rod laughed.

The perception of 【Ye Hu Xi Fa】 told him that at least four ambushers were hiding here.

That constable turned his head, his face mixed with terror and apology.

"Sorry, Rod. They captured my wife."

"Get lost."

Whoosh—

The ground soil loosened, and three figures slowly stood up.

"I said no need to dig holes, no need to dig holes, just do it directly!"

The tall, muscular boar-man with brown skin muttered.

He slammed the mace in his hand onto the ground.

Beside him, two hunchbacked mole-men with gray-black hair on their arms and necks bowed and scraped, speaking flattery like "Big Brother is right" and "Big Brother has foresight."

And in the distance, a Star Spirit mage surrounded by a magical shield.

Star Spirits are a semi-transparent intelligent race with high sensitivity to magic; like elves and humans, they are one of the few races on the continent skilled in magic.

He raised his staff high, and a blessing spell instantly enhanced the mole-men and the boar-man.

The boar-man, originally only at the high stage of the Fourth Tier, instantly surged to the initial stage of the Fifth Tier.

The two weaker mole-men rose to the high stage of the Fourth Tier.

"Listen, kid, there is no grudge between us. Dying here is just bad luck; who told you to work for the Aethelorn Kingdom?"

"Yes, but don't worry, we three brothers are famous for our kindness; we will neither desecrate nor eat your corpse, just burn it clean with fire."

"What nonsense to talk to him! Get him!"

The boar-man's impatient roar cut off the two mole-men's nonsense.

He raised his mace high and charged straight at him.

In his eyes, that human was already too scared to move.

Suddenly.

Blinding golden light flashed repeatedly.

Sssss!

Dense wind sounds rang in the boar-man's ears.

He suddenly felt the weight of the mace in his hand disappear.

And the vision before him flipped uncontrollably in mid-air.

The boar-man's arms and head separated in mid-air, blood splashing toward the sky.

【Aethelorn Flash】! 【Triple Flash】!

Not far away, the expressions of the two mole-men froze.

Before they could react, Rod leaped rapidly and arrived before them.

"I surrender."

Hiss!

Before the words were finished, the mole-man's spiritual shield, along with his head, was easily sliced open.

Another one flung out a bottle of magic potion.

At the same time, he fled rapidly backward.

Inside this magic potion was a very unstable alchemical creation; when it shattered against the spiritual shield of the 【Darkless Chang En Fa Yin】, fierce flames instantly erupted.

It became a huge fireball.

Rod immediately detonated the shield.

A powerful shockwave, mixed with firepower, instantly knocked the other mole-man onto the ground, crushing one leg into a double fold, while flames began to scorch his back.

"Aaaaaah—"

Rod stepped forward, pierced his heart with a sword, and ended his agonized screams.

As for the last Star Spirit.

He was on a hill not far away, staring blankly at the entire sequence; only when Rod turned his gaze toward him did he realize the battle had ended in that instant.

He hurriedly cast an invisibility spell and vanished quickly.

Rod pushed his perception to the limit.

Within this range, everything colliding with the spiritual breeze would feedback into his mind.

He widened his eyes and suddenly turned around.

"You've got guts!"

A giant serpent made of rock rose up behind him with a boom; the spiritual fluctuations in its pitch-black, ferocious mouth heated up rapidly, then it spat out a beam of orange-red high-temperature rays.

Rod once again activated the 【Darkless Chang En Fa Yin】.

One second later, the spiritual shield detonated again, blasting the rock giant serpent into fragments.

"The power of a mid-tier Sixth Stage, yet you, a Fifth Stage mage, can wield it?"

He stomped the ground fiercely.

Four steel vines burst from the earth on the left.

【Steel Vine Charge】!

As the sound of the spell shield shattering reached his ears, light-blue blood sprinkled through the air.

The Star Spirit could no longer maintain the invisibility spell and tumbled clumsily onto the ground.

One of his arms was severed at the root by the steel vines, still hanging in mid-air.

On the ring finger of the severed arm, a one-time-use spell ring turned gray-white, completely losing its spirituality.

"Don't, don't kill me..."

The Star Spirit's translucent face was filled with terror.

The intelligence was wrong!

The forest warden of Wind Wall Forest was definitely not a newly promoted low-tier Fifth Stage! And certainly not an easy-to-handle, lazy Fifth Stage!

Rod swung a sword.

Clang—

Another layer of spell shield.

It seems almost all mages have the habit of stacking shields.

He applied a bit more force and shattered the shield.

The newly learned 【Great Body Technique Enhancement】 was no longer an active skill but had become a permanent passive spiritual art that strengthened the flesh.

The spirituality bestowed greatly enhanced his physical attributes.

The blade of 【Dedicated Body Sword】 deflected and pierced into the opponent's waist.

The Star Spirit let out a piercing scream, then wailed.

"From now on, I ask, you answer. If I feel you are lying, I will cut off one of your fingers. Understood?"

"H-hic, understood..."

"Good, I will begin asking."

"Wait... My Lord, do you have a method to detect lies?"

"No."

"Then—"

"So pay attention: your expression must be sincere, because once I feel you are lying, whether true or false, I will cut off your finger."

"..."

(End of this chapter)