Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 143

Chapter 143
"Bulls*^t! Totally bulls*^t!" Vonmerge shook his head non-stop . They were friends, but he could not stand Hui Wei’s nonsense .


Hui Wei gave a disdaining smile . He glanced at Anfey, finding him lost in thought . He was shocked for a second, since he did not think Anfey would take his bizarre talking without reacting . However he was wrong .
"Hui Wei, you will be on the wanted list if you speak this nonsense to others . " Suzanna smiled bitterly . "You are crazier than any defiler in history . "
Hui Wei hesitated for a second and said, "I’ve already been on the wanted list . "
"No wonder you would rather stay with orcs . " Suzanna gave Hui Wei a weird look .
"Defilers are everywhere in the world . Churches’ abilities are limited . " Hui Wei looked calm . "For instance, there have been so many archmages in history . They have devoted themselves to improving spells, silent chanting magic, immediate magic and many other techniques . They were doing it more to challenge old rules than to improve their combat powers . Some archmages were able to release antimagic spells in silence in the Sacred Battle . They represented the archmages who hoped to have control of everything with their innovation on spells rather than praying to God for it . "
"You are using crazy logic," Vonmerge yelled .
"Your vision is too short," Hui Wei responded .
"It does not make sense to argue about these . Let’s get back to gnomes," Anfey said casually . "Hui Wei, are you saying gnomes are strong?"
"No, they are not strong at all . " Hui Wei thought for a moment and then said, "Civilization is the backbone of intelligent life . Losing it means losing everything . If human orphans were kept in a cave without being taught anything, they would be more stupid than any barbarian when they were kicked out of the cave as they reach adulthood . The gnomes had already lost their culture . If you have seen any gnome, you would think they are just garbage . "
"What else do you know?" Anfey asked .
"No matter whether gnomes are male or female, they are just as selfish as their ancestors . Even when they receive more stress from outside, they still look for opportunities to pick fights inside their group, even over very small things, and they…" Hui Wei said .
"Hold on, when you talked about dwarves, you divided them into men and women . Why are you dividing gnomes into males and females? Isn’t it showing disdain?" Anfey asked .
"Hehehe, gnomes are at a disadvantage in the magic world, but they have looked down upon other intelligent races, including human beings . They are still as proud of themselves as they were in ancient times . Therefore, other intelligent beings disdain them . It is not just me; all intelligent beings on Pan Continent divide them into males and females . We are isolating them this way . " Hui Wei looked at Anfey, "Don’t tell me you do not even know about this? This is common knowledge . "
"Anfey has followed Archmage Yagor to learn magic since he was little . He did not have much experience on Pan Continent . Of course, he did not know about it . Did you know everything when you were just born?" Suzanna asked unhappily .
Hui Wei looked at Suzanna with curiosity, "Did you say Anfey is not experienced? Does he lack experience?"
Suzanna was shocked . Anfey paid attention to details, and the strategies he used were phenomenal as well, but he had always made a fool of himself on issues involving common sense . It was hard to explain this contradiction . Not to mention with Suzanna: even Anfey himself could not explain it .
"We are talking about gnomes . Why are you talking about me?" Anfey shook his head helplessly .
"When we enter Moramatch, we have to be careful of gnomes . Hatred and revenge are only part of it . There are some other things that could make gnomes go crazy," Hui Wei said .
"What is it?" Anfey asked .
"Male gnomes love beautiful girls . You can understand them . Besides elves, human beings have the best looks . " Hui Wei smiled . "Female gnomes also like men . Besides the looks, compared with short gnomes, male human beings can give them more intense sensual pleasures and orgasms . "
Suzanna blushed right away . She was just a virgin without any bedroom experience . She was not able to take it when Hui Wei was talking about sensual pleasure and orgasms .
"Sorry, Miss . Suzanna, it was my bad . " Hui Wei noticed Suzanna was comfortable with his talking . He immediately apologized .
"It’s alright . It’s fine . " Suzanna hurriedly waving her hands .
"Did you say gnomes would attack us first if there is any conflict?" Anfey asked .
"Pretty much . They act more on impulse than hot-tempered dwarves . If they get to know we are powerful, they would be the first ones to run away as well," Hui Wei said .
"Any powerful ones among gnomes?" Anfey asked .


"Well…" Hui Wei thought for a while . "Gnomes could practice neither magic nor combat powers . I would say there is no powerful gnome . "
"How could they survive till now?" Anfey was fascinated .
"They have fighting puppets . " Suzanna answered Anfey’s question first . Anfey had asked another stupid question . She did not want Hui Wei to answer it, in case he would mock Anfey for having no common sense . Although others did not think Hui Wei mocked Anfey, Suzanna still felt uncomfortable about his comments .
"Fighting puppets?" Anfey asked .

"Death magic includes puppet magic . Do you know about it?" Suzanna asked .
"No," Anfey answered honestly .
"You know about puppets, right?" Suzanna was a little worried .
"Yes," Anfey answered . "Fighting puppets are the puppets that can fight . "
Suzanna heaved a sigh of relief . "Fighting Puppets were empty inside . Gnomes could get into them to control Fighting Puppets so they could know how to fight, but Fighting Puppets are generated by magic crystals," Suzanna said .
Hui Wei added, "A Fighting Puppet with high accuracy has unbelievable fighting power, but this kind of Fighting Puppet has not been seen for a long time . Steel Fighting Puppets are not powerful, at least they could not pose any threat to us . Miss Suzanna could handle more than ten of them by herself . "
Anfey got a sense of what Fighting Puppets were . Fighting Puppets were similar to robots . He was shocked for a second and said, "Why did other countries not do any research on Fighting Puppets? Thousands of Fighting Puppets could form a military, and then their military power would be powerful . "
"Archmages could burn groups of Fighting Puppets into ore while master swordsmen could cut them into pieces like slicing bread . What do you think of their fighting ability now?" Hui Wei smiled . "Fighting Puppets with high accuracy could pose some threat . However, these rare things could be melted into ore and made into all kinds of weapons once they were found by human beings . Human beings would never allow gnomes to have them . "
"It is weird . How could barbarians defeat gnomes when they had so many Fighting Puppets at their peak?" Anfey asked .


"You curiosity is crazy . " Hui Wei smiled bitterly . "It happened ten thousand years ago . You ask me . How can I know the answer ?"
"It’s better to ask than pretending to know everything . " Anfey laughed at himself . "According to what you said, gnomes should be posing no threat to us . "
"We still have to be careful . If Fighting Puppets come out of nowhere, it would pose a lot of threats to mages . There was a layer of defense inside the Fighting Puppets . As long as the gnomes are not hurt, their Fighting Puppets would not stop fighting . Junior mages could not hurt gnomes . Intermediate mages were not powerful enough either . Only senior mages could do fatal damage to them . We do have Suzanna, so we do not have to be scared by them . Those gnomes would not have more than two Fighting Puppets . Suzanna could destroy them in a second," Hui Wei said slowly .
"Ok . " Anfey nodded . "I know what we should do now . Hui Wei, did you have any contact with gnomes?"
"Yes," Hui Wei answered .
"How about you, Vonmerge?" Anfey asked .
"I did not have any contact with gnomes, but I had contact with dwarves," Vonmerge answered .
"Would you dare to negotiate with gnomes and dwarves if I ask you to?" Anfey asked .
Hui Wei hesitated for a second, but Vonmerge nodded . "Sure, no problem . "
"Don’t worry . I would not ask you to risk your life without any protection . " Anfey smiled . Vonmerge’s response made Anfey happy . At least, he could tell what his job was and what his preferences were, otherwise he would have tried to talk Anfey out of it .
"Anfey, negotiation would not do us much good . No matter whether they are dwarves or gnomes, it would be hard to achieve any negotiation with them . "
"I understand your concerns . " Anfey nodded . "Ok, all of you can go take some rest . "
Anfey and Suzanna walked slowly outside together . Suzanna hesitated for a second before she asked, "Anfey, do you really want them to negotiate with gnomes and dwarves? It is too dangerous . "
"Are you worried about him?" Anfey smiled .
Anfey could swear he was just joking, but what he said just rubbed Suzanna the wrong way . She was shocked and stared at Anfey . Her face turned a little pale as well .
"Suzanna, I was just joking . Don’t be mad at me . " Anfey just realized that Suzanna was very sensitive, and his joke was a little overboard . He gave Suzanna a smile right away . This was the first time he had ever tried to please someone with a smile .
Suzanna bit her lip without saying anything . She felt wronged .
"Ok, ok . I apologize," Anfey said gently . He even made a move to hold Suzanna’s hand .
Suzanna swung her arm and got away from Anfey’s hand .
As Anfey was trying to comfort Suzanna, a woman’s voice came from behind . "Anfey, you are here . I am looking for you . "
Anfey turned around and saw Shansa Empire’s princess standing there, lookikng beautiful .
"Alice, what do you need?" Anfey asked .
"Can I talk to you in private?" the princess asked .
"I…" Anfey hesitated for a second, and then he felt something warm and soft in his hand . Suzanna held his hand . Suzanna stepped forward, standing next to Anfey .
"I am sorry to bother you . We can talk later . " Alice stared at Suzanna’s hand . She looked sad .
Suzanna snorted quietly . She held Anfey’s hand even tighter .