Mage Veigar

Chapter 299 Favorability Increases
On the heavily guarded carriage.

Princess Sia Saint Laurent picked up a bottle of potion and helped Lianna apply it on her injured cheek.

"Your Highness, please let me do it myself. How can you, with your noble status, ..."

"Lianna, don't move, it will be fine soon."

After applying the colorless potion, Princess Xia said with great emotion: "Thank you, thank you for protecting me at that time. If you hadn't delayed me, I might have fallen into their hands."

At this point, Xia showed a frightened expression on her face.

Lianna smiled slightly, and then comforted her: "Don't worry, Princess. Everything is over. And compared to me, you should be more grateful to General Vega who saved you."

“Come to think of it, I didn’t really thank General Vega at that time.”

Princess Xia said uneasily, "I wanted to thank him, but when he blocked the slap and I saw his face, which was even more childish than mine, my heart was beating so fast that I habitually said the diplomatic words I had trained in daily life, treated him with such a hypocritical attitude, and ran to Carol as soon as I was afraid..."

Xia became more and more frustrated as she spoke.

Finally, he threw himself into Lianna's arms, blushing, and said, "Lianna, I'm so hopeless. I was able to face him calmly when I first met him, but why am I so nervous this time? I must have left him with a bad and arrogant impression. I hope he won't blame me for my disrespect."

"Your Highness is just frightened."

Lianna hurriedly comforted him, "And in my opinion, Her Royal Highness's performance at that time was elegant and polite, not as bad as you imagined. I believe she must have left a good impression on General Vega."

"really?"

Xia raised her little head from Lianna's arms: "Then can I still be friends with him? I have been following his deeds. He graduated as a recruit at the age of 11, and became a brigadier general at the age of 13. During this period, he never lost a single battle, big or small. I hope that one day I can become an excellent commander like him and help grandpa drive the kingdom's army out of our territory."

"Your Highness, you can definitely do it."

Lianna said with hatred in her eyes: "One day, you will inherit the Holy Dynasty, defeat the United Kingdom, and avenge every citizen who died in this war."

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at the same time.

After another fierce battle between Vega and Carol in the alley, he came to the final conclusion -

The winning rate is not enough.

This is the conclusion that Vega came to in the end.

Although he had not used shadow magic yet, Carol had never used it either. In addition, the opponent had at least two complete versions of intermediate combat skills, so Vega saw no hope of winning 100%.

If he continues to fight, he will most likely be defeated.

If it wasn't a matter of victory or death, Vega wasn't prepared to fight to the death.

Although some people say that if one fights for one's pride, one stick of incense will do the job, but in Vega's opinion, it is the most foolish thing to do to bet one's precious life on such a dispute.

Therefore, it is better to retreat immediately than to continue fighting.

Besides, he and Carol didn't have any life-and-death feud. At most, it just hindered his friendship with Princess Xia. Please don't really regard him as a third-rate villain who has lost his mind for such a ridiculous reason to fight a life-and-death battle. Vega activated the trickery and disappeared in front of Carol.

Knight Carol also had no way to deal with the Shadow Mage's trickery. His magician level was not even three levels higher than Vega, so he could only make a few harsh words.

He sheathed his sword.

Then he said to the empty alley: "Little devil, I will let you go this time. I hope you don't appear in front of Her Royal Highness the Princess again, otherwise you won't be so lucky next time, even if you are a powerful shadow mage."

Vega, who had not yet walked far, curled his lips in disdain.

Everyone can brag, but if he could really crack the trick, why would he put away his sword? Vega didn't think the other party would be so kind.

Although the attack just now did not have the intention of killing, but was mostly for shock, if she really took it all, she would not be able to get out of bed for at least 10 days or half a month. This is enough to show the other party's determination to protect Xia.

After making these harsh remarks, Carol disappeared into the alley.

Veigar canceled his trick and found a random spot to sit on the ground. He looked at the broken dagger in front of him and sighed.

When he first arrived in the east, his dagger was cut off by someone's sword. Now, only a few days after arriving in the Holy Dynasty, the spare low-level magic weapon he just bought was once again destroyed by a mid-level magic weapon. Unfortunately, mid-level magic weapons are hard to come by, which makes Vega a little depressed.

"Intermediate combat skills plus intermediate magic weapons."

Vega carefully recalled the battle just now: "In terms of attack power, it is more than three times that of mine. And the fact that he has no killing intent at least shows that he did not use his full strength. His speed is also faster than mine. This Carol is a bit tricky."

After assessing the enemy's strength, Vega also left the alley.

He did not take this matter to heart, because Carol was the princess's guardian knight, and he did not intend to assassinate the princess, so there was no direct conflict of interest, and there was no possibility of becoming an enemy, so there was no need to be on guard with all his strength.

As for the princess' awakening potion?
Veigar no longer had any hope.

Because the dynasty was about to retreat and this incident had happened, the princess would probably not come out alone again, and he had no chance to improve her favorability. As for violent means, he would not dare to use them, after all, she was the future queen.

"What a hero saving a beautiful girl, but it's actually causing a lot of harm to others."

Vega shook his head as he walked. It was said that a hero saving a beautiful girl would greatly increase his favorability. Now it seemed like pure nonsense. His polite words and cold expression clearly showed that he was keeping people at a distance.

"But then again."

Vega thought back to the extremely frightened Shia and said to himself, "She was so scared a few minutes ago, but she thanked me politely in the next two minutes. Although her thanks were a little hypocritical, she is worthy of being a royal child. If it were an ordinary 15-year-old girl, she would probably be speechless."

While walking and thinking, Vega had already returned to the barracks.

According to his original plan, he was to return to the brigade and immediately ask his adjutant to collect some new intermediate combat skills. Even if he could not exert his full combat effectiveness, it was always better to have more skills, so he should learn everything first.

But as soon as he arrived at the military camp, the adjutant came towards him in a hurry.

"General, emergency meeting."

Adjutant Iroh said with a pale face: "The Holy Dynasty's blocking troops were completely wiped out. Shaye City has fallen. The main force of the Kingdom Army is heading towards Tali City, but our retreat will take another 4-6 days to complete."

(End of this chapter)