Soul echo

Chapter 518

"You are His Excellency Zhong Ye, right?" The burly old man asked in a low voice.

Then, he grinned, "Congratulations, you have been promoted to a legend."

--legend?
The supervisor's face changed slightly, and Lily and Lilian also turned their heads in shock, looking at Zhong Ye who had no expression. They didn't know when Zhong Ye became a legend.

Even though Zhong Ye's strength before was not weaker than ordinary legends, he has always denied that he has become a legend, and this is also the case, because he has not yet perfected his legendary ability, and has not completed the final 'sublimation', so he is not a legend .

But now, they heard the news that Zhong Ye had been promoted to a legend from another legend, and Zhong Ye would not deny it this time.

"Thank you." Zhong Ye responded without changing his face.

The supervisor took a breath, because he knew very well that when Zhong Ye first came to Westland, he wasn't even an extraordinary person.

However, he was able to become a 'legend' in just one year—even less than a year!
Of course, this may be explained by "accumulation and slow development". After all, Zhong Ye was already a master of fighting when he came to Westland.

Exhaling, the supervisor looked at Zhong Ye with a complicated expression, and explained to him: "This is the contemporary chief of the Xiong faction, Master Anders."

"Hello, Master Anders." Zhong Ye cupped his fists and saluted.

After seeing his movements, Lily and Lilian hurriedly saluted.

Anders rubbed his head and let out a laugh, then he also looked serious, and solemnly returned the salute to Zhong Ye, "Your Excellency, thank you for your help to Xilu."

Even without Zhong Ye, Xilu could still solve those abyss invasion incidents, but the sacrifice would definitely be huge. Zhong Ye's actions limited the sacrifice to the minimum, which was a huge help to them.

After greeting each other, the supervisor took the opportunity to explain their purpose to Anders.

As a master demon hunter, how could Anders not know about 'Nemo Bellucci Bailey'? Not only did he know, he had personally investigated it before and eliminated a corrupt nobleman who held Nemo's painting.

He also knew that the investigation of Nemo by the demon hunters had reached a stalemate recently, but he didn't expect that Zhong Ye's arrival would give them a hope to break the deadlock.

"I see."

Immediately afterwards, Lily and the others saw in horror that Anders opened the clothes on his chest and took out a key from the muscle under his ribs.

They could see clearly, the seeping blood stained part of the clothing under the ribs.

However, Anders didn't even frown, as if he didn't pierce his skin and muscles to take out a key, but was bitten by a mosquito.

——After fusing the organs of the abyssal creatures, they will naturally possess some of the characteristics of the abyssal creatures. Otherwise, the demon hunter would not be able to transform himself.

Anders used the blood-stained key to open the door of the storage room and entered it. Zhong Ye and the others followed him and filed in.

After opening the door, Anders 'put' the key back to the original place, and blood shot out again, but he still didn't change his face.

Lily and Lilian looked horrified, but apart from the two of them, Zhong Ye and the supervisor didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong.

There are many seemingly ordinary objects in the storage room, but being able to be placed here shows that these objects have taken lives and been stained with blood.

The reason why it is not stored underground, but on the middle floor of the fortress, is because if it is stored underground, there are many ways to steal it, and it is difficult to monitor.

But if it is placed on the middle floor, once it loses control, the demon hunters living in the fortress can respond immediately.

Anders walked all the way to the depths of the storage room, wiped his blood-stained hands on his body, and opened a box.

"Your Excellency Zhong Ye, that's all."

Zhong Ye took off the gloves, put them in his pocket, and picked up the drawing paper in the box.

Each piece of drawing paper has rubbed one of Nemo's paintings. Without the cover-up of magic, these original paintings look shocking, but there are also many paintings that are no different from the paintings made by ordinary painters.

Zhong Ye put those ordinary-looking paintings aside, and focused on checking the other part.

Before becoming a follower of the Lord of Pleasure, Nemo suffered from the curse. The world in his eyes is abnormal, and painting is the reflection of the soul. What the painter can paint depends on what he sees.

Before Nemo became a disciple of the Lord of Pleasure, he could only draw distorted paintings.

Zhong Ye tried hard to recall, and dug out from his memory those paintings that Nemo made before he was a teenager.

As time went by, Zhong Ye had more than a dozen paintings at hand, and he finally browsed through all the paintings.

The supervisor picked up the dozen or so paintings at the right time, looked at them a few times, opened his tightly pursed lips, and let out a breath.

"This, this, this..."

The supervisor picked out ten paintings out of the dozen or so, put them on the table, and looked at Zhong Ye with bright eyes, "Your Excellency, you guessed it right!"

There was a breakthrough in the stalemate. Although the breakthrough was very small, compared to before, it was already very good to have a breakthrough.

They might be able to follow the clues and find more things related to the plan that Nemo wanted to carry out.

Up to now, the supervisor can finally breathe a sigh of relief, it can be said that the moon is shining.

Zhong Ye wasn't too excited, maybe he had already made up his mind about this matter.

"So, what should we do next?" Lilian asked curiously.

The director chuckled: "The next step is to collect more paintings made by Nemo before he became a follower of the Lord of Pleasure. By investigating the distribution of these paintings and the souls that may be sealed in them, we may be able to find some clues. Based on this, we can speculate on what Nemo planned to do before."

"Ah..." Lilian tilted her head, "What's the matter with us?"

Hearing this sentence, the supervisor was stunned for a moment, and then said with a bit of confusion: "Probably...it's gone..."

This is the end of the current incident. Although clues to continue to advance have been found, it is obviously not something that can be done in a day or two.

"Let's take a stroll around Kuntuyate!" Zhong Ye suddenly suggested.

He looked at the supervisor, "I heard from Amos before that there seem to be many Eastern natives settled in Kuntuyat?"

"Yes." The supervisor raised his eyebrows, and finally remembered that Zhong Ye was still a native of the East.

"There is a residential area of ​​Eastern natives in Kuntuyate, just to the north of the city. If you want to go, we can arrange a guide and a carriage for you..."

"No, we'll just go on foot." Zhong Ye politely declined the supervisor's offer, exchanged glances with Lilian and the others, clasped fists to salute the supervisor and Anders, then turned and left.

But before leaving the storage room, the supervisor caught up again, handed three tokens to Zhong Ye and the others, and told them that if they wanted to enter the castle, they had to hold the tokens.

The Demon Hunter's Castle is heavily guarded, and even the chief must act in accordance with the rules and regulations.

Quintuart is not very far from the castle, and it takes about half an hour to walk.

When they were in Lübeck, although Lily and the others bought a lot of items with Eastern characteristics, they didn't see many Eastern natives in that city.

Even the staff working in the eastern-style pavilion are more from the west than from the east.

However, in Kuntuyat, there are actually living areas of Eastern natives, which has to be surprising.

But if you think about it, the Nuoji Kingdom is the only country in the West that still has commercial trade with the East, so maybe you can understand it.

The Witcher's Castle is located to the west of Quintuate, so if you want to go north of the city, you have to take a detour.

Zhong Ye and the others entered Kuntuyate through the city gate on the west, and after finding some passers-by on the street to ask for directions, they took the shortest route to the north of the city.

There is no obvious division between the north of the city and other urban areas, but when you enter this urban area, you can clearly feel the difference between this area and other urban areas.

Because the residents here are all Dongtu people with similar features to Zhong Ye, and the language they use is also Dongtu, which Lily can't understand.

(End of this chapter)