The Last Alchemist

Dock area.

Rosen walked aimlessly on the road along the river.

He did not deliberately lighten his footsteps, nor did he use magic to eliminate his traces. He hummed a little tune while walking, looking like he was strolling leisurely.

After wandering on the street for about half an hour, Rosen's ears moved slightly, and he thought to himself: 'Here it comes! '

He immediately lightened his footsteps, quietly hid beside a thick stone wall, squatted down, holding a musket in one hand, and took out four high-strength alloy balls from his waist bag with the other hand, waiting patiently.

About ten seconds later, the light footsteps stopped at the corner of the street about 20 meters away from Rosen, and there was only a corner of the wall between Rosen's hiding place.

Although there was no footsteps, at this distance, Rosen could clearly hear the other party's breathing and heartbeat.

'The breathing and heartbeat are the same as those of ordinary people, but there is a strange pungent smell in the air. It is the tree demon puppet that has come. ’

If it were in a crowd, this kind of puppet would be very difficult to distinguish. Unfortunately, Nerogard is now a city of death. Facing Rosen, who has super perception, the tree demon puppet has nowhere to hide.

To be on the safe side, Rosen still squatted in the corner and waited patiently for the other party to enter his attack range.

After waiting for more than a minute, the tree demon puppet still hid on the other side of the corner without moving, neither attacking nor leaving.

Rosen felt a little uneasy: ‘Is this guy waiting for me to attack? Or is it not acting alone, and there are accomplices who are not cooperating well. There is far more than one monster in the city. The longer it takes, the more disadvantageous it is for me! Besides, this thing is a puppet of the tree demon. If it takes a long time, I will be besieged, but if the tree demon of destruction is attracted, I may not be its opponent. ’

Thinking of this, Rosen made a prompt decision and started to act.

He rolled over and rushed out of his hiding place. The moment he rushed out of the corner, he saw the tree demon puppet.

This guy was squatting behind an overturned wine barrel on the street. He was quite strong and wore a linen shirt that ordinary sailors often wore. The skin on his exposed arms was dark blue and had a metallic luster that other monsters did not have.

After hearing the noise, he instantly raised his head, revealing a pair of eyes emitting a dazzling green light. His eyes were also much brighter than other monsters, and his face had more expressions than other similar monsters, no longer as stiff as a puppet.

When he saw Rosen, his cheek muscles twitched slightly, and he seemed a little surprised.

Rosen's heart "clicked" and knew that he might have encountered a tough guy this time!

However, this was not the first time he encountered this kind of monster, nor was it the first time he encountered a strong man, so he would not be scared by his opponent. He concentrated his mind, raised his musket, activated the magic power to create a vacuum area around the gun body, and then pulled the trigger and shot at the opponent's body.

With an extremely subtle sound of "Puff~", the armor-piercing bullet rushed towards the target.

At the same time Rosen fired, the tree demon puppet slightly tilted its body, using the smallest movement amplitude to dodge the bullet by a millimeter.

Rosen's eyes twitched, and he immediately raised his opponent's combat power to a level similar to that of the dragon warrior Oramson.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 10 meters. At this distance, Oramson could approach Rosen at a speed that was almost teleporting, and the speed was almost beyond Rosen's reaction limit.

Rosen immediately assumed that this monster had a speed and explosive power similar to Oramson!

Under this premise, what he should do most now is to distance the two sides, rather than continue to attack.

These thoughts flashed through Rosen's mind like lightning, and he immediately extracted 20 kilograms of TNT equivalent energy from the energy pool and exploded violently in front of his body.

"Boom~~~"

A dull explosion sounded, and even at a critical moment, Rosen still tried his best to control the movement of the energy explosion.

At the moment of energy explosion, a brilliant jet-like aurora appeared in the air in front of him, and he was pushed back by the expanding air, and the speed was very fast, like a cannonball.

At the moment when Rosen flew back, he saw a pair of eyes with a faint green light appeared in the airflow, only half a meter away from his body. The other party had stretched out his hand, and the sharp steel-gray nails on his hand were almost reaching the corner of Rosen's clothes!

The speed of this monster was indeed comparable to that of Oramson, but unfortunately, he was now in the violent airflow, and his charge momentum had been exhausted. This last distance of less than one centimeter became an insurmountable natural barrier for it.

Under the huge thrust of the violent airflow, the monster's body moved away from Rosen uncontrollably, while Rosen retreated rapidly, and the distance between the two sides quickly widened!

At this moment, Rosen in the air began to fight back.

He gently threw his left hand upwards, and four alloy balls appeared in the air. Energy from the energy pool surged out, and each alloy ball was allocated 10 kilograms of TNT equivalent condensed energy.

In an instant, the metal balls accelerated to an incredible degree, and flew towards the limbs of the tree demon puppet at a speed beyond the limit of life reaction.

What's more, the monster was in the violent airflow, and its movements were unbalanced, and it was unable to make an effective dodge.

"Puff puff puff~~"

The tree demon puppet's hands and feet immediately spattered with large black blood flowers. Under the impact of the ultra-high-speed alloy ball, both his hands and feet were not spared, and were smashed by the alloy ball!

"Plop~~"

The tree demon puppet fell to the ground. It struggled hard and tried to get up, but without the support of its arms and legs, it could only roll around on the ground pointlessly. Although the scrolling speed is not slow, it is several orders of magnitude lower than before.

Rosen took a long breath: "It's done!"

He immediately rushed forward, and the energy in the energy pool surged out at the same time, pushing the air, forming a burst of high-pressure airflow, pressing the body of the tree demon puppet tightly to the ground.

"Hiss~~hiss~~~~"

The body of the tree demon puppet could not move, and a snake-like hissing sound came from his throat. The sound was very sharp and penetrating.

Rosen was shocked: 'This guy is probably reporting a message to his companions! ’

He immediately used magic power to create a vacuum zone around the mouth of the tree demon puppet.

The screams disappeared immediately.

After doing all this, Rosen took out the rope, controlled it with magic power, and wrapped it around the body of the tree demon puppet, until it was entangled into a big rice dumpling and then stopped.

At this point, he removed the high-pressure airflow, and the tree demon puppet fell to the ground, motionless.

"very good!"

Rosen did not dare to make any stop. As soon as the magic power moved, the body of the tree demon puppet levitated, floated next to Rosen, and followed him quickly away from the battle scene.

Along the way, Rosen was very cautious. He used magic to remove traces, footprints, smells, and even the temperature of the air as he walked. He also used magic to carefully smooth out the traces, footprints, smells, and even the temperature of the air to ensure that there was no traceable information.

In the blink of an eye, Rosen disappeared from the scene of the conflict.

Less than half a minute after he left, four tree demon puppets rushed over from different directions.

Naturally, they came up short.

On the other side, Rosen ran wildly with the prisoner.

After a while, he arrived at the edge of the dock. He looked left and right, and after making sure it was safe, he walked to an alley next to the dock. After walking a few dozen meters, a staircase appeared. Under the staircase was a stone spiral. stairs. Rosen walked in without hesitation and went all the way down to the sewer.

When he and Lilith accidentally entered the underground city, they escaped from here. Now, Rosen went in the opposite direction and entered the sewer from here.

‘The end of this sewer is the Valley of Doom in the Dark City, which is a monster territory, and no monsters will come out of the Dark City. There are at most some low-level monsters like water ghosts and ghouls inside. As long as they are cleaned up, I can have a safe experiment site. ’

After entering the sewer, Rosen walked all the way inside.

As he walked, he threw some pebbles and dry branches on the ground. These things were inconspicuous, but if a stranger entered the sewer, they could call the police for Rosen.

After walking deep into the sewers for about ten minutes, Rosen returned to the deepest underground hall again.

In the beginning, he escaped from the dark city by crawling through the gap in the inner wall of the hall.

'Luckily, there aren't any monsters in here. ’

Rosen was very happy. He threw the captured tree demon puppet on the ground, and then used magic power to light a torch. With the light of the torch, he began to carefully examine the situation in the hall.

In the hall, the body of the tall death guard was still lying quietly on the ground, his position untouched, but the bodies of the wizard hunters were all missing. Many messy footprints could be seen on the ground. The footprints were strange in shape, and they were all very strange. There are human beings, including ghouls and water ghosts. Occasionally, some highly decomposed fragments of human tissue can be seen in the corners.

These traces made Rosen's heart move slightly: "There were many monsters attracted by the blood. They ate up all the corpses, not even the monsters, but only the death guards remained intact. These monsters seemed to be very afraid of death." guard. Why? Aren't they all residents of the Dark City? ’

Rosen couldn't understand, but he didn't have the heart to pursue it now.

After carefully checking the hall and confirming that it was safe, Rosen found a place far away from the corpses of the dead guards and placed the tree demon puppet. Then, he took out his dagger and started experimenting.

‘Only one puppet was caught, and there is no control group for the time being. Ignore this for now, after this tossing is over, I will find a way to catch another one. ’

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While Rosen was tossing the tree demon puppet in the underground hall, a tree demon puppet bolted to the residential area north of the dock area.

After arriving in the residential area, the puppet rushed straight into a huge stone building with a blue roof. Judging from the sign at the door of the building, it was originally the city hall of Nerogard.

After entering the hall, the puppet stopped, hissed lowly at a large group of black rattans squirming like snakes at the top of the hall, and danced at the same time, which looked very strange.

Half a minute later, some of the black rattans gathered into a human shape, which was the tree demon Donasis.

He glanced at the puppets down the hall and shouted: "Nirod! Nirod!"

A few minutes later, a black shadow flew into the hall like lightning. When it reached the middle of the hall, the black shadow stopped, and the black mist around the body slowly disappeared, revealing a man with a pale face, who was the Phantom Assassin Ni. Rod.

"Lord Donasis, what do you want from me?" Nirod asked respectfully.

Donasis pointed to the puppet beside him and said, "He just told me that someone defeated the elite tree slaves I carefully selected in the southern dock area. I am very curious, who else in the city has such powerful power."

Nirod was stunned: "The southern dock area. Lord Donasis, if the incident happened in the west of the city, it should be the work of the magician named Rosen. But if it is in the south, I must investigate it before I can report the accurate situation to you."

"Then go and investigate now. Your brain is better than these puppets of mine. Although it is not much better, it is better than nothing. Um~ Forgive me for talking to myself, my friend, you act now."

Nirod left the hall with a dark face. If he was not afraid of the other party's powerful strength, he would definitely cut off the tongue of this damn vine monster with a dagger, if he had a tongue.