purgatory artist

Chapter 197 Queen
The bartender took down a thick card book from the wall, put it on the table and said:

"Please take a look."

Liu Ping opened the card book, turned over ten lines at a glance, picked out a few cards from it and said:
"that's it."

The bartender picked up the cards and murmured, "These are worth a lot."

"Let's settle the score." Liu Ping said.

The bartender called a number.

Liu Ping took out the wealth card and lightly pasted it on the opponent's wealth card.

Transaction complete.

The bartender smiled and said, "What else do you need? Whether it's slaves, bodyguards, intelligence, or even other things, I can sell them here."

"Do you receive information?" Liu Ping asked.

"Of course, our Assassin's Guild often collects all kinds of information and pays according to its value." The bartender said.

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

"I don't know what concerns you have?" the bartender asked.

"That's it. I want to ask you to help deliver the message to the designated person, but you can't reveal my identity." Liu Ping said.

The bartender said with a smile: "This kind of special service is rare, and it is usually accompanied by certain dangers, but we can also do it—but the charge is relatively high."

"Money is not a problem." Liu Ping said.

The bartender puts the fortune card in front of Liu Ping.

A number is shown on the card.

Libertas said in surprise, "Why don't you go grab it!"

The bartender said: "No way, such things as sending messages anonymously are both simple and complicated. Sometimes nothing will happen, and sometimes it will bring great danger to ourselves - we must ensure that our people can get out safely." .”

Liu Ping glanced at the number, pasted his own card on the opponent's wealth card, and said, "I'll pay double the price, and you will send the most powerful assassin to deliver the news."

A row of numbers suddenly jumped on the surface of the bartender's card.

Double pay.

The bartender took a deep look at Liu Ping, and took out an envelope and a magic seal.

"There is a piece of letter paper in here, you can write your message on it, and then seal it in an envelope and seal it with a magic seal."

After the bartender finished speaking, he went out.

Liu Ping took out the letter paper from the envelope, picked up a pen and said, "Libertas, go to the bar and have a drink, I'll be there later."

"What the hell news, even I can't read it?" Libertas said dissatisfied.

"This is about a private affair of a noble lady - when did you become so gossip?" Liu Ping laughed.

Libertas was speechless, relaxed again, and murmured: "So that's the case, the lady from some family has taken a fancy to you, right?"

He stood up and walked out of the room.

Only then did Liu Ping start writing on the letter paper.

Soon.

He put the letter back into the envelope and sealed it with a magic seal.

Runes lit up on the surface of the envelope.

These runes are linked together like countless chains.

Lines of burning small characters quickly appeared to remind him of this.

—the bartender didn't do anything.

after awhile.

The bartender walks into the room.

"Is it ready?" He asked, looking at the envelope on the table.

"Yes." Liu Ping.

"Very well, who is this letter for?" asked the bartender.

"The customers at the third table from the left when entering the bar." Liu Ping said.

"Do you need to bring something?"

"No need, they will understand after reading it."

"When will it be given to them?"

"In 10 minutes."

"Okay, don't worry, we will definitely finish the job."

"That would be troublesome."

Liu Ping stood up, nodded to the bartender, turned and walked out of the room.

He came to the bar, patted Libertas, and said softly: "I'll go out for a while, you go back first at night, and I will go back by myself later."

"What's wrong?" Libertas asked.

"Yes." Liu Ping said.

"Okay." Libertas said.

Liu Ping turned and left the bar.

10 minutes.

fleeting.

On the third table from the left after entering the bar, a letter suddenly appeared.

"Humph!"

Beside the table, a burly man let out a cold snort.

"It's an assassin." An old man beside him said.

"It's running fast, do you want to catch up?" the man asked.

Several people around him were eager to try.

The old man smiled and said, "No need, that assassin is just running errands, and it's useless to catch him back."

He picked up the letter and murmured, "I haven't received this kind of anonymous letter for many years..."

The envelope was torn.

The old man opened the letter paper and read it slowly.

His expression suddenly became serious.

"My lord, what's the news?" the burly man asked.

The old man put the letter away carefully, and said softly: "It's not convenient to say now, we have to set off immediately to check something."

Several people around him stood up.

Under the leadership of the old man, they quickly left the bar, and even left Coldhammer Town.

……

After half an hour.

Snow mountain.

In a leeward mountain forest, the old man stood in the snow.

All his men scattered in all directions, searching for something in the forest.

"My lord, I found it!"

The burly man said.

The white cloth covering the magic circle was pulled away, revealing the complete diamond-shaped summoning rune circle below.

The rune array seemed to sense the existence of these people, and gradually emitted a misty and peaceful light.

The light is full of rhythm, rising and falling like a beating heart, making everyone onlookers look confused.

The old man's expression changed, and he roared:
"Cover that cloth! Quick!"

The burly man woke up like a dream, and quickly covered the rune array with a white cloth.

In an instant, the strange fluctuation disappeared.

Everyone fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

"My lord, what's going on!"

The burly man couldn't help but said.

The old man's expression has become extremely gloomy, and he said in a low voice: "I have a guess, but this matter is too big, guessing will not work, we must immediately call Her Majesty the Queen."

"What! You want to trouble Her Majesty to come here in person?" the burly man couldn't help but lost his voice.

"You don't understand—in case something goes wrong, I will bear it." The old man said.

He carefully took out a flower-shaped emblem, knelt down on one knee, kissed the emblem with his mouth and said, "Honorable Your Majesty, I have made an extremely important discovery here, and I must invite you to come here in person to determine the level of the situation."

hum-

There was a whisper from the emblem, and then it brightened.

night sky.

A meteor blasted from the extremely distant deep space.

It landed quietly in the forest, appearing as a slim woman with black wings on her back.

She has deep black eyes, and various strange phantoms keep appearing behind her, her voice is melodious and charming, with a natural coldness:

"The kingdom of the human race is gradually becoming unstable. I am dispatching troops to prepare for a tentative attack-I remember I said that there is no urgent matter, so don't use that emblem."

The old man kept kneeling on one knee, but held the letter up high.

As soon as the woman beckoned, the letter was opened directly in front of her.

She scanned the contents of the letter at a glance, put the letter in her hand and rubbed it for a while, and said with a low smile:
"This is a trick of the Human Race Assassin's Guild. It uses paper made by grinding 24 kinds of forbidden magic plants. It is impossible to trace any information."

The woman looked around and waved lightly.

The white cloth was lifted immediately, revealing the rhombus-shaped rune array emitting a misty light inside.

"Spirit Killer, Demon King with Thousand Eyes, the source of fear of the gods!"

The woman's expression changed, and a phantom emerged from her body, completely covering the area around the diamond-shaped rune array.

"What happened...you are obviously trapped in the soulless abyss...who set up a communication circle for you..."

The woman snapped her fingers lightly.

The phantom suddenly turned into a light and shadow that swirled against the turmoil, quickly showing scenes of the past in front of the woman.

First came the snow.

Then--

A group of believers appeared in the phantom, pouring gems at the rhombus rune array.

Dialogue rings out.

After a while, the voice in the rune array agreed to the other party's request, provided that the soul was obtained.

"madness!"

The woman seemed very angry, and cursed loudly: "That guy is trapped in the abyss where he can never get a soul. Once he gets a soul, he will regain his strength... Who would dare to do that?"

The voice did not fall.

A believer stepped forward and offered to make a secret deal.

This time I couldn't hear what he said.

It was only at the end that fifteen worshipers were dedicated to the monster.

The two sides appear to have struck a deal.

The believer covered himself with a white cloth and left.

All phantoms disappear.

The woman was silent for a few breaths, and waved her hand lightly.

The white cloth was covered again.

There was no sound.

"Your Majesty..." the old man said in panic.

The woman thought for a while, and then said: "You did a good job, if you didn't discover the situation here, it would be really troublesome."

The burly man said in a rough voice: "Your Majesty, is that monster very powerful?"

"Of course, it once devoured most of our country, and now, there is another guy who dares to send human followers to trade with it-do you know what this means?" the woman said.

"This subordinate doesn't know." The burly man said.

"This means that another guy who covets the human empire is not weaker than it." The woman said.

She walked back and forth, and suddenly said: "Command!"

Everyone knelt down one after another.

The woman said: "All the devils withdrew from the human kingdom, we immediately moved away from this area, and re-found a safe place to establish a country."

The old man turned pale with shock and said, "Your Majesty, it took you so much effort to lay down a place, did you just give up like this?"

"What do you know—the human kingdom here is being targeted by two such existences, and it is already doomed. We can only escape before the two monsters have set their sights on us."

The woman thought of something, and sneered: "Their emperor dared to say that he had explored a billion square kilometers, what an ignorant lie."

The old man was at a loss: "Then—we—"

The woman said decisively: "Contact everyone immediately and withdraw from the Human Empire. We will leave this area tomorrow."

"Where do we go?"

"Going north, the road is a little dangerous, but it is said that there is another civilized country in the north-if it has not perished until today."

The old man sighed, as if a little unwilling.

The woman also understood these subordinates, and her tone became slightly warmer:
"I know that you are reluctant to part with this piece of foundation, in fact I am even more reluctant. Unfortunately, there is no reason in the eternal night—"

"In the eyes of those too powerful unknowns, I am no different from you, just their food."

"Take action!"

Everyone responded in unison: "Yes!"

The woman nodded and turned into a starlight, soaring into the sky in an instant, without a trace.

The old man sighed again, then stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go and fulfill His Majesty's order."

The burly man shook his head and murmured: "We have fought against the Human Race Empire for more than 100 years. I never thought we would escape now."

"Because humans will die here, but we won't." The old man said.

He began to arrange for his subordinates to complete various specific tasks in order to prepare for leaving tomorrow.

After all the discussions were settled, these devils divided into groups and left the leeward forest.

About a few minutes passed.

One of them returned to stand in the forest again.

He looked at the white cloth gradually covered by snowflakes, and spread his hands helplessly.

Lines of burning small characters still stayed in front of his eyes:
"You activated the Fisherman."

"You have joined the devil's team and are walking with them on the snow mountain."

"You left the team."

Liu Ping turned his eyes to the wind and snow beyond the cliff, feeling a little confused.

original……

Still thinking about uniting with the devil to fight against the prisoners...

After all, the devil has been suppressing the human race in the big and small battles of the past years. If it weren't for the human race's order of war, they might have been eaten up by the devil long ago.

But who would have thought-

Just seeing this rune formation, the queen of the devil kingdom made a decision.

——The entire kingdom of devils is fleeing from this region!
The decision was not easy to make, but she was so decisive and decisive.

So the current situation is actually self-evident.

Humanity……

What should humans do?
Liu Ping was silent for a long time, then suddenly ran towards Hanchui Town.

(End of this chapter)