Constructing-Style Wizard

Chapter 313 313. Li does good deeds

"Clang, clang, clang, clang!"

The sound of the bell became rapid and urgent, as if urging the slow-moving dark workers to gather quickly.

From the entrance of the alley came the shouts of the overseers, and from time to time there was the sound of whips beating the hard workers.

Hinton and Elodie looked at each other and noticed something unusual.

A bell rings every six hours in Lower Town.

The overseers used the sound of bells to summon their Dark Death workers, count their numbers, inspect the results of their labor, and distribute food—a kind of shadow fruit with a little bit of soul fragments.

What is heard now is the third bell of the day.

Hinton and Elodie thought it was an ordinary gathering signal at first, but now when they heard the movement at the entrance of the alley, they both felt that the situation was somewhat urgent.

The group of violent and cold-blooded Dark Death overseers seemed to be very anxious and wanted to gather all the hard workers in the square immediately.

The two Elodie teamed up to pick up the thick slurry and walked out together.

Thanks to the thick slurry contained in the cauldron, the Dark Death overseers didn't want to see the cauldron tip over.

The thick slurry bubbling in the pot was able to repel the hidden overseer guarding the alley, preventing the whip from falling on the two Elodie.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" The Dark Death Overseer shouted at Elody and the two of them, swung his whip at the eaves next to him, and repeatedly urged the passing peons.

Elody and Hinton stared at the ground, not meeting the overseers' eyes.

The two of them kept walking, talking in low voices as they walked.

"This gathering seems a little different," Hinton said.

Elody raised her head slightly, looked around quickly, and then quickly lowered her head:

"I saw the vigilance group. When we usually gather, these guys won't show up here."

Hinton glanced at the members of the vigilance group standing on the roof with his peripheral vision, and saw several dark dead wizards holding wands in both hands:

"Their looks make me uneasy, Elodie. Could it be related to the lightning wizard who appeared outside the city?"

"Shh, don't talk yet." Elodie saw that the two of them were approaching the members of the vigilance group and immediately ended the conversation.

Just because Shadow Soul is undead, it doesn't mean it doesn't need light.

In the city of exile, the dark dead illuminate the road with candles that emit dark purple light.

Surface sunlight and normal firelight will cause damage to shadow ghosts.

Only this dark purple light is suitable for the Shadow Haunter. It not only lights the way, but also nourishes the soul of the shadow soul, replenishing some soul energy and shadow energy.

Elody and Hinton followed the crowd through the streets lit by dark purple candles and merged into the crowded square.

Here, the two of them met more members of the vigilance group.

Those guys stood on the rooftops around the square, shaped like sculptures, staring quietly at the dark workers in the square, their eyes indifferent and a little disgusted.

Several unique figures caught the attention of Elodie and the others.

They were a group of humanoid creatures standing on a rooftop further away, all covered in black robes.

The loose black robes completely covered their appearance and body shape, and Elodie and Hinton were unable to distinguish their identities and origins.

This group of black-robed men were surrounded by several high-level Dark Death Watchers, and the latter seemed to be protecting the former.

When the Dark Death workers were almost here, one of the men in black robes used his leather-gloved right hand to pull out the wand from his waist and pointed at the square.

From a distance of hundreds of meters, this person projected a large black light towards the workers in the square.

"The breath of death energy...that guy doesn't seem to be from the Dark Death Vigilance Group." Hinton whispered in Elodie's ear.

Elody watched the black light fall on herself, and a hazy light appeared on the surface of her body:

Elody felt the changes in her body carefully and did not notice any discomfort:

"This seems to be some kind of death detection spell."

Xinton scratched various parts of his body, but there was no abnormality:

"Well, it must be a detection spell. What do they want to do?"

Elody and Hinton looked around.

There were many Dark Death slaves with black light emerging from their bodies, and the scene was exactly the same as the two of them.

However, some of the dark dead workers had a black light with some white spots coming out.

A few of the more special Dark Death Peons have white strips of light appearing in the black light on their bodies.

A group of Dark Death overseers pushed through the crowd and rushed towards the Dark Death peons with white dots and white bands of light coming out of their bodies.

Supervisors often do no good when they arrest people.

The scene suddenly became chaotic, with ghosts crying and wolves howling, and the whips in the hands of the overseers crackling.

"Ai Ai Elody..." Hinton suddenly trembled and pointed at the other party with trembling fingers:

"There are white spots on your body too."

"What?" Elody looked down and saw that the surface of her body, which was originally pitch black, now had a large number of white light spots appearing on it.

Before Elodie could figure out the situation, a long black whip struck her neck with a snap, whirred several times, and tied her neck up.

The owner of the whip retracted his arm, wrapped the whip around Elodie, and pulled her whole body.

Hinton panicked and shouted loudly, trying to pull Elodie back, but was struck by several whips and fell backwards, screaming in pain.

Similar scenes were repeated throughout the main square, and the scene was chaotic.

The overseers cracked their whips continuously, and then released the fierce terrifying claws and fear crawling, swallowing up a few peons who took the lead in causing trouble, and then suppressed the restlessness on the scene.

Hinton got up from the ground and glanced left and right, but there was no sign of Elodie.

Looking again at the roof where the man in black robe was, there was no one there.

"Damn it..." Hinton cursed anxiously in a low voice. He was so worried that he couldn't find any way to recall Elodie.

Just when he was restless, the overseers of Dark Death waved their whips and drove the laborers towards the city gate.

Hinton was forced to move with the crowd.

Halfway through, the members of the vigilance group set up a magic loudspeaker on the roof to broadcast orders from the upper city to the dark dead workers crawling below.

Hinton was preoccupied with finding Elodie and did not listen carefully to the content broadcast through the magic loudspeaker.

It wasn't until he followed the crowd out of the city and entered the vast plains that he suddenly came back to his senses.

"Where are we going?" Hinton hurriedly asked the hard worker next to him.

Unfortunately, the hard workers near him have been tortured to the point of death, and they are all in a state of confusion and unresponsiveness.

It took Hinton nearly two minutes to find a peon who still had some ability to think.

The hard worker glared at Hinton coldly and said:

"Where else to go. We're going to build a barrier."

"What barrier? Where to build it?" Hinton asked, taking the laborer's arm.

The peon shook off his wrist:

"To the Stalagmite Grove, you idiot. Don't hold me back."

Stalagmite forest, building barriers... Hinton was stunned and thought of the "Thunder Wizard" he had heard about before.

Could it be that the group of lightning wizards did not leave the stalagmite forest?

Did you and others go there to build a barrier this time just to fight against the lightning wizard?

Hinton took a sharp breath, forcing himself to calm down and think quickly.

The way the wraith builds a barrier is not to take hammers and building materials and slowly build defensive structures like living people do.

The Dark Death overseers will arrange a huge magic circle in advance.

The Dark Death Peon stood at the node of the magic circle.

Once the magic circle is activated, it will quickly extract the shadow energy and soul energy of the dead workers, and then summon a shadow barrier suspended in the air.

If they are lucky, the dark dead workers in the magic circle can retain some soul energy and will not die on the spot.

If you are unlucky, you will be completely wiped out, forced to transform into shadow fragments, and be reborn in the city of Exile.

Hinton knew that if he wanted to get on the line with the Thunder Wizard, he would have to find an opportunity to break away from the team and rush into the depths of the stalagmite forest before stepping into the magic circle.

But with the overseers around, escaping from the team without permission is undoubtedly suicide, and may even be broken into pieces by the overseers, leaving no possibility of rebirth.

What to do, what to do, what should I do...

Hinton was extremely anxious.

A strange feeling appeared in his heart inexplicably.

Xinton trembled, looking back and forth, always feeling like someone was staring at him.

Everywhere he looked, there were numb workers and cold overseers, and no one seemed to be paying attention to him.

Could it be that I was delusional because I was too nervous... Hinton scratched his head and forced himself to calm down again.

As he followed the team, he thought about how to contact the Thunder Wizard.

For him, there are only two worst-case scenarios.

First, he was caught red-handed by the supervisor and tortured.

The second is that after successfully escaping, he was treated as an enemy by the lightning wizard and blasted into rubble.

No matter what the situation was, it meant that he and Elodie would no longer be able to escape from the predicament.

But if you don't do anything, you can't escape the fate of death.

For his own sake and for Elodie's sake, Hinton decided to take the risk and give it a try.

…

…

"What a miserable group of people. They used to live a good life on the outskirts of Balder's Gate. They were attacked by dark creatures for no apparent reason, and then they became dark slaves in the city of exile."

In the temporary base, Li Nuo frowned and pondered over the deconstruction results in his mind.

In order to cope with the counterattack of the City of Exile, he deliberately placed a large number of "tracking markers" in the direction of the City of Exile.

Any "tracking mark" that sends a psychic alarm will receive Li Nuo's attention immediately.

Just about three minutes ago, the "tracking mark" on the outermost edge of the stalagmite forest caught Li Nuo's attention.

He threw "Psychic Sight" at the mark, and through the magical vision, he saw the team of dark dead workers approaching the stalagmite forest.

The number of dead laborers is approximately 6,000.

They were crowded together, surrounded by ghostly overseers wandering in the air in all directions.

Such a large group of people suddenly moved towards the stalagmite forest, and it was difficult not to attract Li Nuo's attention.

Li Nuo immediately threw the deconstruction technique at the dark workers and supervisors and obtained a lot of information.

Li Nuo's original intention was to use deconstruction to check the team of hard workers to see if there were high-level dark death vigilantes hidden among them.

But after seeing many memory fragments of hard labor, he only felt extreme numbness, as if everyone had lost hope in life.

In the memories of almost all the hard workers, there are only messy pictures and many contents that have been harmonized by the system.

There was only one guy who showed extraordinary agility, and that was the hard worker named Hinton.

The integrity of his memory fragments is very high, which shows that his thinking is clear and his will is firm, and he has not been tortured into a fool by the bad environment.

This is very different from the situation of other peons.

While other peon's memory fragments were only 1% to 5% complete, Hinton's was as high as 50%.

Hinton also has a companion named Elodie.

They waited day after day for help from Balder's Gate, but never received any response.

On the contrary, the city of exile ushered in several important figures with mysterious origins.

These big shots live in the upper city and have never been seen in the lower city.

But all the magic materials they needed were collected by the hard workers in the lower city.

As soon as they arrived, the daily workload of the hard workers doubled. Only when they are gone will the drudge's workload return to normal.

This is the basis for Hinton and Elodie to judge that an important person has come to the city.

"The important people...well, are they the group of black-robed men who appeared in Hinton's memory fragments?"

Li Nuo rubbed his chin and his eyes flickered:

"A group of men in black robes who have mastered the magic of death visited the exile city and used detection spells to identify the peons they wanted.

"My intuition tells me that this is selecting test subjects for a magic experiment.

"Elody met the requirements of the experiment. She was taken away by the overseer, but peons like Hinton who did not meet the requirements were taken outside the city to build a magic barrier under my nose. This is to treat those who do not meet the requirements of the experiment. The hard workers are used as cannon fodder..."

Due to the ideological and moral education he received before traveling, Li Nuo still has a good impression of people who maintain the desire to survive in desperate situations.

He didn't mind helping Hinton and Elodie.

If possible, he would help Hinton return to the ground.

As for Elodie... I can only leave it to fate.

"Norin, get ready to start work." Li Nuo looked at the machine spirit next to him.

While he was observing the hard workers, Norin was checking the condition of the machine spirit.

"Yes, sir. Your existing 1,500 mechanical spirits are in good condition and can be put into battle at any time."

Li Nuo nodded and revealed Hinton's existence to Norin.

Li Nuo asked the other party to immediately send out mechanical spirits to protect Hinton and take him away safely from the battlefield after the war started.

Noreen accepted the job.

Li Nuo called up the spell list of "Tracking Mark", estimated the current position of the hard workers, and threw "Psychic Sight" towards the nearest "Tracking Mark".

A magical vision unfolded in Li Nuo's mind.

Li Nuo planned to use "telepathy" to communicate with Hinton in advance to avoid any accidents in his later actions.

If Hinton was accidentally injured, that would be a bit troublesome.

But before Li Nuo could find Hinton's whereabouts, a creepy feeling suddenly appeared in Li Nuo's heart.

"No! Someone is going to discover my "tracking mark"! "

Without saying a word, Li Nuo closed the "psychic vision" and erased the "tracking mark" near the team of hard workers.

His expression was slightly solemn.

When he was thinking, there must be high-level Dark Death Vigilantes mixed into the team of peons.

Otherwise, if he uses his "mental vision" to observe a group of weak peons, there is no way he can trigger his own mental alarm.

Judging from the intensity and urgency of the psychic alarm, the high-level Dark Death Watchers among the hard workers are most likely from the Eighth Ring.

"Let me just say, the city of exile will not come and give away a group of peons for nothing. These peons are not only cannon fodder to consume the enemy's combat power, but also a cover. If I treat them simply as peons, they will definitely be hidden in it halfway. The high-level Dark Death Vigilance was caught off guard. Fortunately, I was mentally prepared."

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