Chapter 26 (1/2)

”I hate talking nonsense and wasting time, so please give me a reason not to kill you as soon as possible, Reverend Draco.”

Under the dark night sky, the expressionless Loren squatted beside Draco, who had collapsed to the ground. The broken sword of his right hand pressed against each other's throat without any waves.

As long as he dares to say half a word more and move his hands a little, the blade will not hesitate to pierce the fragile and soft skin and cut off his head - Loren can do it, and I believe Draco in front of him will not doubt his ability. The corpses of ghouls everywhere are the best proof.

”You, what you want, just say I can give you! Anything! Anything!” the paralyzed priest Draco tried to open his mouth, his eyes full of fear: ”as long as you can let me go, as long as you let me go, let me do anything!”

No matter how many conspiracies come out and hide in the dark to plan murder, Draco is just a priest and alchemist. He is neither a crazy believer nor a warrior who can face the bleak life and dripping blood. He can speak now and has done his best.

”I'm not a robber, let alone a blackmailer.” Loren joked: ”we are all wizards, so let's solve this problem in a wizard's way.”

”Wizard's method...” Draco Leng said for a moment, and then his face became gray in an instant - the damn apprentice wanted his own research results!

What's more, it's not a robber, it's not a blackmailer, it needs to be solved in a civilized way... It's all bullshit. For a wizard, what is more important than his own research results except his life?

Take all your achievements as your own, which is almost equal to erasing the meaning of your whole existence!

But at present, life is still important. Even if the boy offered a higher price, he couldn't refuse to accept it... After a little measurement, Draco immediately nodded desperately: ”but, yes, no matter what you want...”

”Which?” Lauren asked rhetorically.

”It's all yours...” Draco trembled and said the words that made him tremble: ”as long as you can let me go, all my achievements will be yours!”

”Where are all those things?”

”It's all... It's all... Ah! It's all in the church!” Draco almost cried out as if he remembered at once. ”As long as you let me go back to the church, no, no, no, no... You go back to the church with me, and then I'll abide by the agreement and give you the things, and then we'll have the right to assume that none of this has happened. How about?”

Draco, who tried his best to say these words, still had a little expectant smile on his face. He didn't even think he could finish these words completely, and his chest fluctuated violently.

At the moment when he saw Lauren's kind smile, he thought he really succeeded - until the tip of the sword gently scratched on his neck, it seemed that some warm liquid flowed out

”Ah, ah, ah --!!!”

Panicked, Draco, who thought he was dying, screamed desperately until the blade pressed his throat again, and Loren's cold eyes stopped him.

”Don't try to be clever, Reverend Draco.” Loren raised his mouth. ”That will only make you die faster.”

”If I'm right, when you get to the church, you'll give me the so-called 'evidence', and then tell the priest in front of him that I'm the real murderer behind all the scenes and the wizard who killed his nephew evil. In this way, you not only get rid of the suspicion, but also find a scapegoat to kill two birds with one stone.”

Draco looked as if he had lost his soul.

”So I'm going to ask your partner to deliver those things now.” Lauren threatened, ”I won't give you too much time, so you'd better expect him to hurry up!”

”Accomplices? I don't have accomplices!” Draco shouted innocently, ”how can I have any accomplices?!”