Scepter of Thorns

"..." Amiens said, "Do I have anything to do with you?"

Edward moved his lower lip, but in the end he didn't say anything, but walked out of the virtual space with Amiens along the stairs in the room.They returned to the dusty side hall again. Amiens lowered her eyes and caught a glimpse of the broken violin, her eyes could not help but be stained with a touch of sadness.

He picked it up carefully, shook off the thin dust, found a bow from the piled furniture, took out a handkerchief and wiped it carefully.

The corner of Edward's mouth hooked slightly, and he took off the space ring on his finger and handed it to Amiens in a considerate manner, "You can use it first, it is very inconvenient without a space ring."

Amiens did not refuse, but came straight down, his tone was much more relaxed than before, "Thank you." After putting the violin and bow into the space ring, he raised his head and glanced at Edward, with a slightly surprised tone, " Are you laughing?"

A trace of unknown meaning flashed in the other party's blood-red eyes. Edward did not answer, but smiled more clearly.

He discovered that Amiens has a very fatal weakness, nostalgia.This kind of person usually can't be cruel, nor can he be cruel, just like a domesticated eagle, a contradiction between cruelty and obedience.

Amiens just felt that his smile was cold, as if it was sewn on his face with needles and threads.

But Edward quickly returned to his usual expressionless face, as if nothing had happened just now.He opened the closet and asked Amiens beside him, "You should know how to get out."

"Yes." Amiens replied, he held the scepter of lies tightly, and cast a spell on the two of them with the most basic manifestation technique.Soon his hair color and eye color were the same as those of ordinary demons, but Edward's changes were a little slower. He tightened his lips, endured the impact of the elements in his body, and tried his best to look calm.

"You, don't you feel it?"

Amiens looked at him thoughtfully, "Why, are you feeling bad?"

Edward shook his head, forcibly overcoming the backlash.

Seeing this, Amiens didn't ask any more questions, but handed him the scepter of lies, "Take it away first, there are only two clans in the Demon Realm, and no one will find out if you stay away from Caesar."

Edward took the scepter and grasped it tightly with five fingers, like a drowning man grasping a life-saving straw.After using the restoration technique to make the footprints on the ground disappear, he followed Amiens and went to the dungeon through the closet.

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Black Widow walked quickly into a secluded alley, and the footsteps of pursuers passed behind him.He hung the blood-stained cloak on the low wall, a faint blue flashed in his pupils, and his body was carefully pressed against the corner of the wall.He watched the pursuers approaching, took the lead and raised his cloak to check the trail carefully, and then signaled to the soldiers around him to move forward.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief.

What the familiar said was still ringing in his ears. "The opportunity is here!" it said in a pretentiously mysterious tone, "Do you still remember that half-blooded beauty, 'there' seems to have got his information, asking you to get him over, get him over, get over! !They don't care what the beauty looks like, as long as he lives, you know what I mean? This is a good opportunity! This is a good opportunity!!"

How did he answer at that time? "You're really looking more and more like a chewing parrot."

"No, it's not important!!" the familiar said excitedly, flapping its wings from time to time, as if gesticulating, "We can collect him, oh, the most perfect work of art! He's not one of those The puppet of the shell, his soul is entwined with thorns, and the pentagonal pyramid has already produced an induction, we can use it to take away his soul!!!”

The stupid bird that was already intoxicated was flying in the air dizzily, and the corners of his mouth twitched helplessly: "Hey, have you ever thought about why his soul would have a reaction to the pentagonal pyramid? I think it's probably not easy to mess with." ..."

The fiend rushed in front of him, "I've already accepted the order, do you want to reject it?! If you accept the order and don't cancel it, it will be a breach of contract, and double the funds will be returned!! You still have to make money to support me!! !"

"Yes, yes, you are the biggest." The black widow picked up a small box engraved with a magic circle and walked out of the house, looking back helplessly, "Stay at home honestly, I went to devote myself to my career. Remember, don't Open the door for strangers, don't mess with water and fire, and don't make a mess of the house..."

The door slammed shut in front of him, he touched the tip of his nose that was almost hit with some hesitation, turned and left.

……However.

"Meeting the previous wave of people, I almost sacrificed my life." The black widow gritted her teeth, her strong resentment almost materialized, "A group of little goblins who torture people."

He felt that there was nothing to love in his life. In order to vent his emotions and prove that he was not unlucky, he resolutely entered the dungeon through a narrow entrance, and decided to try his luck at the quarry.

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This time they entered the stone gambling field.

Amiens explained this: "Well, I haven't been to the Demon Realm for a long time, and I have never gone out. It's normal to remember the wrong way... A place like a gambling quarry is a big place. It's a bit big, but it doesn't matter, let's find someone to ask the way."

Edward: "Hehe."

The area of ​​the stone gambling field is so wide that it can't be seen from the direction they stand.Lights were burning on the stone wall, illuminating the rough stones on the long table, surrounded by demons in twos and threes, and a large crowd gathered farther away, as if they were opening stones on the spot.

"Speaking of stone gambling..." Amiens turned her body sideways and glanced at him, "Do you want a hand?"

Edward did not answer, but walked to a table, his eyes symbolically swept across the stacked rough stones.In fact, he is concentrating on perceiving the dark elements. They are wandering in the place where the demons gather, like a dark river of spirit, with waves appearing from time to time.

He seemed to be immersed in the water of the river, and could detect even the slightest ripple.After a long while, he opened his eyes and casually pointed to a rough stone: "How much is this piece?"

The waiter standing by the table compared the numbers, and he began to change money from the space ring.

His voice caught the attention of a female demon next to him.She frowned, pulled Edward aside suddenly, and said with a face of "I'm afraid you will be deceived", "Hey, do you know that those stones are only the most surface layer of the mine, and there is no more than one piece in 100 yuan?" A little bit of mineral deposits, the rest are stones. The quarry only uses this to fool newcomers, don't be fooled."

"Oh." Edward said, "Do you know how to bargain?"

The female demon looked at him with incredible eyes, then walked up to the waiter with a pair of small high heels "da da da", weighed the rough stone with her hand, and said to the waiter: "Forty zuobei. "

The waiter shook his head, indicating that he would not sell it.

She threw the rough stone down in front of the waiter, the table shook, but the rough stone was not broken, but the waiter was startled by her murderous expression, she saw her red lips lightly parted, but her sharp words were like arrows Shoot the opponent into a sieve.

"Don't think that I don't know. The cost price of this kind of stone is basically zero. Some of them are not from the mine. If you just pick up some broken stones and dare to put them in there, it's cheap for you to give you forty or so shells. You also know that it is basically impossible to mine this kind of stone, and you are deceiving our consumers by charging such a high price.”

The waiter was suddenly put on such a big hat, and couldn't help being stunned.A few customers not far away heard the sound and looked at him, making him sweat even more, "You, don't talk nonsense..."

"Why, I still can't hear the truth." She sneered and knocked on another unremarkable stone, and snorted, "Use of waste in the entire Demon Realm is not as good as yours. Since I dare to add ingredients here, why should I I believe that you didn't tamper with the high-level area, every stone there can be sold for a sky-high price, and you can calculate how much black-hearted money you have earned!"

Hearing her suddenly raised voice, the waiter was so frightened that he wanted to come up and cover her mouth: "Don't shout... Our stones have been inspected, but it's normal to have omissions occasionally, forty or so is forty or so Come on, keep your voice down, it’s not an example.”

He handed over the stone tremblingly, and then carefully took forty shells away, with an expression as if a piece of flesh had been bitten off.In the end, Edward held the rough stone and watched the sister-in-law leave with admiring eyes together with Amiens.

"That." He poked the waiter who was still looking dull, "Cut it for me."

The little brother mechanically picked up the stone cutter and started cutting from the corner.As expected, there was nothing in the stone.

Edward took out the tweezers and isolation bag from the interspatial ring, put some broken stones inside, and left the table with Amiens.

"This is a piece of waste." Amiens stared at the bag in his hand.

"The proportion of water elements in this quarry is greater than that of elements other than darkness. Presumably the main ore is water spar." Edward lifted the bag up and looked carefully at the light, "Oh, the rare wave pattern Ah, there must be a large number of high-purity water crystals under this rough stone. They will cause the stone to fluctuate, and after a long period of time, this water-shaped pattern will appear, as if it has been impacted by the tide for a long time."

Amiens was even more surprised: "You actually know, so why buy it?!"

"Satisfy my personal desire for research, but you will definitely not be interested." Edward put away the bag and said casually, "So we are going to ask for directions now."

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Black Widow's eyes focused on one person.

He had just been attracted by the scolding voice of a woman not far away, so he looked there from his desk. When he saw that figure, he could hardly believe that he was so lucky!

The Black Widow quickly straightened her baggy robe so that it hugged her skin to accentuate her slender figure, and then pretended to be passing by.Just when he was about to find a reason to strike up a conversation, that person stopped him.

"Hello." Edward showed a polite smile, his scarlet eyes narrowed slightly, "Where is the exit of the gambling quarry?"

He adjusted his breathing and tried his best to calm his beating heart: "It just so happens that I'm on the way, I'm going out too, just follow me."

His voice was slightly hoarse, as if he was suppressing something.

"Excuse me."

The black widow didn't seem to hear. He looked at the other person's long black hair affectionately, and couldn't help but think of the golden sun that seemed to be broken.

----Chapter34. Encounter & End----

The author has something to say:

... Do you think that I will write about the protagonist's golden finger, and then bet on stones to blow up the audience?

I won't, ah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, hit me up.

By the way, I asked an extra question on the post bar before, that is, I am able to write an extra episode to find inspiration, and provide a few pairs of cp: 1, Edward X Kyle Ross

2. Valentine X Ke Qi

3. Lilith X Sophia

4. Conns X Mufujie

5. Caesar (or?) X Amiens

Among them, 245 is more abusive, and 1 is the most popular one on the post bar for the time being. Shall I tell you about the Xiaoheiwu Broken Wing play or something, stop making trouble, I am not that kind of person.

Finally, roll around and ask for a comment... God, my readers feel so silent.