A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

When this power was recorded by him and bloomed in his hands at this moment, one can imagine the grief and hatred of Chalchak.

"Cang... birth... disaster... calamity..."

Ariant's voice gradually weakened, and the white flesh worms were sucked into crimson and round. They cocooned in the blood tide, secreting mucus that coagulated blood and soul, and the entire hillside turned into a red and white evil place.

When Ariente's will dissipated, Chalchak pressed on the stone tablet, and all the marked "disasters of the common people" were immediately involved in the nexus of the spectacle.

The starry sky is clear, the woods are lush, the river is still clear, and the whole graveyard is brand new as if it has been washed by light rain.

With one last glance, Chalchak stepped into the stele and disappeared over the hill with it.With the release of the enchantment, the frozen picture in the sky flows swiftly, as if resynchronized with the split time.

Another half a day later, the mountain spring suddenly oozes blood, and Ariente, wearing a scarlet beak mask, condenses under the waterfall. He stretches out a complete arm, white granulation sprouts jumping on his fingers, and the rich radiation condenses in Among them, the characteristics of parasitic, assimilation, decomposition, and reproduction spread layer by layer, and even hard granite can become a pale and twisted monster under this force.

Ariente stood under the waterfall and pondered: "Is this the disaster that Chalchak is going to unleash?" He pressed one side of the mask, as if he could touch the half of the eroded face, and murmured, "Corrupt the monastery... ..."

……

Hermes, the bandit leader of the ship robbery case, was also a well-known air bandit, and he had left clues to the Explorers' Guild, and when the guild searched for it based on the name "Obster" provided by Cloris, they also found clues. Based on the transit record of the identity star emblem, deduction was made, and finally the information of the two clues was integrated, and the target was locked on the two air bandits in the Twisted Forest——

The big lords subsidize the air bandits for their own use. This is a conspiracy theory that has always existed among the people, and it is an open secret for the Explorers' Guild.

Cloris doesn't need to be involved in this matter: the clues are already clear, and the girl's personal strength won't play a big role in destroying the air bandits.

Therefore, it was Sasha who wanted to have a reason to get along with the girl, so she recommended her girlfriend at the same time she volunteered.

It has been a week since she stayed in Weicheng. During this period, Cloris was looking for secrets related to dreams in addition to browsing the library.It's a pity that the Explorer's Guild is lacking in this aspect, it's miscellaneous but not perfect.If she meditated step by step, years of training would allow her to break free from the illusion of the common people with only her mental strength, but it would take too long, and besides, it was not convenient for the girl to meditate now.

It’s been almost a month since I left the temple. Cloris thought it was time to go back. One of the powers of the deep space sages is illusion. The temple belonging to the visionary dream palace should have quite a lot of dream secrets That's right.The girl was a little uneasy about this. There was too much commotion during this period, and the ghost knows what tricks she missed to get out.

As for the matter of auctioning and buying materials, there is no need to think about it for the time being—Sasha is already the director of the mysterious circulation affairs department. If even she can't get the materials, the auction house doesn't even exist.

In the evening, in the Weicheng residence where Cloris lived, Sasha walked in after finishing her day's work. The little white cat stepped on boots and was not wearing a skirt. Instead, she was wearing a tight cotton shirt and slim trousers. The vest, the coat outside the vest is covered with a coat, and the petite head is wearing a flight hat made of animal skin, with two ears protruding from both sides of the hat brim.

She was opening her coat at the moment, and Cloris could vaguely sense the space dislocation under the layers of clothing.

Sasha held the staff with a leather sheath, looking like a traveler: "Cloris, it's time for us to set off."

"Suppress the Air Pirates?"

"There is no need to exterminate," Sasha said, "The midnight picket will pretend to be a merchant ship under the name of the guild and pass through the twisted forest. The news of the voyage has been released, and we just need to wait for the air robber to plunder. Our team will follow the mark and enter the air robber's field , catch the living." After that, she added, "These air robbers are very difficult to deal with, Cloris, you follow me carefully, er, just beware of danger for me!"

On the bright side, the Explorers' Guild and the Lord Group get along harmoniously, but as the territory that can be divided becomes less and less, and it gets worse, coupled with the purge of the Round Table Council, the contradiction between the two has become irreconcilable.The lords hope to return to the core of the parliament, back to the separatist era of state autonomy, and if the Explorers' Guild wants to reform, it must remove the cancerous tumors of the old era one by one and gather power.

Among them, many powerful faction lords remained neutral, and they were the targets of both sides' efforts to win over. In terms of diplomacy and trade, the guild had fought countless times with the Pioneering Party.

Cloris asked, "Are we following the fleet?"

"No, those air thieves will fully inspect the hull, which may allow them to erase the beacon," Sasha opened the suitcase, and there was a space the size of a container that was not commensurate with the external perspective. The structure of the cabin, the reduction of the wall area, the change of the space connecting the boiler room and the passenger cabin, made a dark room where we would hide with a five-man picket squad.”

Listening to Sasha's words, Cloris felt that what they were facing was not an ordinary air bandit, but a well-trained team of extraordinary people.

"Remember this map. It is incomplete and time-sensitive. Some paths may change with the activities of the Twisted Forest." Sasha took out a record crystal and a stack of materials from the suitcase, which was projecting The three-dimensional structure of the Twisted Forest is mostly in the unknown fog, and only a few peripheral areas are marked with passable routes. "There are also some air robbers' appearance, characteristics, criminal records, and special hobbies. Some quirks may come from curses." , but you can’t believe it all, some superhumans will deliberately disguise some defects and characteristics to deceive opponents, such as Cloris..." The little white cat glanced at the surrounding environment, "You always clean the room quite tidy , all the tables and chairs are tightly attached to the wall, and even the tea table is placed in the center of the carpet.”

"..." Cloris shook her head, "I just can't help it a lot of the time."

"Well, you have to pay attention anyway, otherwise it may become more and more serious with the mysterious promotion," Sasha said, "or you can do something else to divert your attention and ease the usual demands on the environment... You can also cultivate yourself aesthetics."

If this is really the negative impact of Cloris, it would not be serious, but if faced with an extremely inconsistent space in the dream realm, it may cause unnecessary burden on the girl's spirit.

"Own aesthetics?"

"Just like when I get excited," Sasha said blushingly when she recalled fainting in front of Cloris at the manor. I have matured myself through experience and training, and I am no longer disturbed by terrible and sad things. The effects of many curses do not necessarily come from objective pressure, but depend on your cognition—you think the world is orderly, they are Regularly, cultivate your own diversified aesthetics, let the external objects follow your aesthetic existence, and you can cover up most of the obvious traces."

Cloris nodded. Sasha's words seemed to inspire her, but they seemed to have nothing.This probably takes time to comprehend, and it cannot be accomplished in a short period of time.

"I've prepared some warm clothes for you. The ice mud dragon fat filled inside can absorb some of the mysterious effects. It can also be used to feed your hunger and replenish your energy when the conditions are bad. It tastes good."

Sasha handed Cloris a jacket with the texture of a down jacket.Although it doesn't look good, it is definitely more practical than Weiman who wears a dress at minus zero.

If it weren't for the flame characteristics of the dress, the red rose would have turned into an ice rose in the ruins.

Cloris knew that she didn't need to go this time. However, Sasha had given herself so many promises. Not only did she search the guild's inventory, but she also used her private rights to contact the Church of Souls. She couldn't help but express it.

Furthermore, Sasha will credit herself as a contribution for performing this task.The explorer level is still very valuable, and she still has a little white cat to take care of in the central deep realm. Once she goes to another guild realm, if she wants to enjoy the privilege again, she can only look at the color of her badge.

The explorer guilds in various regions do not belong to each other, and do not share information. It seems that the activity records left by the girl in the central deep world and the surrounding airspace only exist in the core of the Weicheng guild, and other guilds can only apply for inspection.However, the privileges that Blazing Gold and Mithril level explorers can enjoy are the same. The former needs to be negotiated and determined by multiple parties, while the number of the latter is limited by the fixed promotion quota every year.

With Sasha's help, Cloris can avoid detours on the road to being promoted to Mithril rank explorer, and her activities in other places will be smoother in the future.

"You are so kind, Sasha." Cloris said sincerely, and the little white cat's heart was warmed. "If there is no other preparation, let's go now!"

551. Twisted Forest

After leaving the Sea of ​​Floating Stars, the temperature in the air dropped rapidly.Although the Twisted Forest has dirty warm currents leaking from the huge forest stretching hundreds of kilometers every day, it still doesn't have much effect on the hypothermic environment. If there is a hurricane season, the cold air from the west will still It will freeze the deck with a thin layer of ice.

In the dark room of the cabin, the thin filaments of light in the wall lamp trembled with the whistling of the siren. The five members of the midnight picket either closed their eyes and meditated, or read the information, or maintained the alchemy equipment in their hands.

As the department of the Explorers' Guild that conducts case investigation, mysterious containment, and criminal execution, the Midnight Picket is also responsible for the picket and the Mystery Supervision Bureau, and passes information and records to the Temple of Memory.The picket squad is usually led by a Mithril-level explorer, and the team includes at least two Bronze-level explorers. The team is complete with combatants, scouts, and auxiliary personnel, and is equipped with a great magician as a staff member.Depending on the types of investigation, containment, and execution tasks, there are also differences in the details of the configuration of different teams.

Sasha is not tired of Cloris, she is focusing on marking the three-dimensional map of the twisted jungle under the wall lamp, adding plans and warnings.

"Sasha," said Cloris who was lying in the hammock thinking, "about the magic circle you gave me."

"Huh?" The little white cat put down the work in hand, looked at Shao Shao, and listened attentively.

"If I use it to kill two hundred-meter-level thousand-legged demons, how feasible do you think it is?"

"Hundred meters!" Sasha blew her eyebrows and stared, "Although it is difficult to make a qualitative breakthrough in the personality of the thousand-legged devil, the hundred-meter thousand-legged devil is already top-notch in disaster-level disasters, and has never appeared in history. After a few thousand-legged demons of this level, my magic lineup can't accommodate such a huge size, and you must not even think about touching them-this size can make their spiritual erosion ten times and a hundred times deeper !"

"But the brains of my trade with the guild come from two hundred-meter-level thousand-legged demons."

Several midnight picketers were attracted by Cloris' words at the same time, and they were very curious about how the girl did it.

Even Sasha didn't dare to say that she could kill a [-]-meter-level thousand-legged demon in the town of unknown ruins. Even if she was well prepared, considering the ability of the thousand-footed demon to affect emotions, the little white cat would choose to stay away.

"How did you do it?" Even Sasha wanted to ask this question.

"A fellow great magician, he modified your magic circle." Cloris reproduced every detail of Olgov's step in her memory, "Is this feasible?"

"Hmm, use the strange blood that can be obtained everywhere? This kind of spiritual communication method... The thousand-legged demon is a collection of human consciousness, and he is using the strange spirit to break down the consciousness of the thousand-legged demon?" Sasha grabbed He meditated with his ears, "But this bit of spirituality will be instantly assimilated as soon as it enters the spiritual world of the thousand-legged demon. I have never seen the secret script he uses. It is somewhat similar to some symbols in the known ruins of the Muye Plateau, but The Council of Mages is still deciphering the spirituality of those symbols."

"He's just a great magician? Those damned snobbish villains dare to suppress geniuses like this!" The goblin mage among the midnight picketers approached, touching the secret text on the illusion excitedly, and asked, "This mage Is there any adventure in the ruins, what is his relationship with the Church of Soul?"

"Master Yankatis' main focus is spirituality, and his knowledge in some fields is no less than that of a magister." Sasha said to Cloris.

Learning to touch the boundaries of a magister does not mean that she can be awarded the title. Cloris remembers the great magician before she wants to improve, and has strict requirements on her own spiritual appearance.

The girl put her eyes on the flickering lights, and shook her head: "Qiyu, probably there is, but only he knows what exactly happened."

The goblin mage wanted to ask again, but the cabin suddenly tilted to one side, and it swayed from side to side for a while before balancing.

Sasha stretched out her hand to press on the wall, and delicate rhizomes spread out along the cabin. With a serious expression, she said to all the members: "The air robber is here."

The strong wind howled, and the siren calling for help sounded like a fat sheep surrounded by wolves whimpering. This was a merchant ship with a load of [-] tons. The steel was rusted and the hull was covered with barnacles. In the past, the river of mist intertwined in all directions reflected the gloomy light under the searchlight, like the blood vessels of a giant beast.

Thick smoke billowed in the tug of the escorting ships for nearly two hours, and lifeboats abandoned the ship and fled. When the guns of the air pirates pointed down at the merchant ships, the crew members who had no time to escape knelt on the ground and raised the white flag.

On the main ship of the Green Tooth Pirates, a thin middle-aged man with messy long hair hanging on the ground like a shawl leaned on a long staff, and he had a pipe in his mouth. He ordered his subordinates: "Raise the floating net and let Oleg lead the people first." Get on board and investigate."

The Floating Net is a lift formation constructed from six ships used as hubs.Generally speaking, the things in the lower world will not fall infinitely. The invisible and layered mystery is like the grease in the water glass, the river water and the sand at the bottom. Later, it becomes a temporary stable landmark, and the function of the floating net is to stabilize its current coordinates when the turbine or engine of the ship is shut down.

The air bandits quickly took over the captives who surrendered, and temporarily detained them in a special transport ship, keeping a certain distance from the main ship. At the same time, they sent people to quickly search the people hiding on the merchant ship, check the traps, and roughly count the goods.

After being busy for about two hours, the subordinate returned to report: "Commander, the threat on the ship has been checked. Except for a dozen prisoners in the bridge room and the boiler room, the rest of the merchant ship escaped cleanly!"

"What about the goods?"

"Most of them are explorer equipment and supplies," the subordinate replied, "and some are precision mechanical parts and handicrafts!"

The man with disheveled hair nodded, which was exactly as the intelligence said.

This is a ship that mainly transports expedition equipment, and its destination is Hurricane Island. These equipment supplies will be sold to local merchants in the city that never sleeps. Transport to explorer strongholds in various places at several times the price.Other precision machinery and handicrafts mainly meet the needs of workshops and wealthy people in various regions.

"Take the boat to White Pit Bay, and re-count the goods there," the man with hair on his face said while puffing out smoke rings.

"Yes!"

Even if it is adjacent to the Sea of ​​Floating Stars, the Air Piracy business of the Twisted Forest has never stopped.This is the main road leading to the airspace of Ubud Noor. The complex root terrain grows vertically, and the giant monster that can't look up or overlook the end can bring people the greatest fear.In this environment, it is impossible to wipe out the air bandits.

The air bandits from the Three Caves of the Rabbit parked their merchant ships at White Pit Bay, while their warships and transport ships were docked at more secret ports.In order to prevent the goods from being marked with anchors, the air bandits will check the goods one by one in Whitebait Bay, leaving most of the necessary supplies, and the rest will be transported in batches to the sales points in the Twisted Forest and Tyrntan.

"Quick, quick, work hard for me!"

In the empty cave, the pirate overseer was whipping the handcuffed slaves to load and unload the goods.

The Twisted Forest has no unusual soil. In addition to the main roots, there are also a large number of parasitic plants attached to the dense forest. Long before the colonists arrived, the residents here learned to open up space through the gaps between the giant roots and use various All kinds of plant stems weave the road. They are familiar with most of the ecology here, and use the experience passed down by word of mouth to catch prey and collect edible berries.

"The Green Tooth Air Bandits control eleven surrounding strongholds," Sasha and Cloris have already left the darkroom. However, this is far from the den of the Air Bandits. There are still a lot of unknowns deep in the dense forest, the little white cat said, "Most of them are settlements for raising slaves, and here, here and here," she pointed to the map, "are the fortresses of air robbers that we know, and they are in a corner. We will remove any of them, unless we can kill all of them quietly. People, there will be endless traps and guerrillas waiting for us, so we must be careful, an ordinary person who is familiar with the local ecology may cause harm to the extraordinary."

"Our purpose is to find evidence of the collusion between the Pioneering Party and the Air Pirates," said the Mithril-level captain among the midnight picketers. "These fortresses can be bypassed."

"But two tongues of status must be caught," said the goblin mage, "and I'll extract the map from their souls."

It sounded cruel, but when it came out of Yankatis' mouth, it was as common as eating and drinking.

Cloris asked, "Where are our captives?"

"Don't worry about them," Sasha shook her head, "Those are professional captives who have been injected with improved ghoul activity. Their bodies are no different from ordinary people, but they have a longer lifespan and strong self-repair ability, and everyone Familiar with dozens of ways of feigning death and escape techniques, as long as there are still heads and spines left, they can live, this is one of the secrets of the midnight pickets."

"What if they were tortured?"

"Ghoulization will numb the senses of these people, so if they are hacked into pieces," Sasha said slowly, "they will feel excited instead, er, this is really evil."

"They are servants who take the initiative to join the necromancers," the captain of the pickets explained flatly, "We have signed an employment agreement with some necromancer groups. These new ghouls work for us, and we provide salaries and resources to strengthen their bodies. "

"Cloris, do you have any other questions?" Sasha asked.

"No more." Cloris shrugged.

"Then let's move, Barney, you lead your team to investigate Fort No. [-], and I will set up a hidden camp nearby," Sasha said, "If your actions are exposed, immediately evacuate in the direction of the camp, and don't get lost in the camp." Such a dangerous place."

The pickets acted immediately, while Cloris and Sasha climbed up a climbing vine, more than ten meters high, to build a stronghold in an open environment.

Sasha inserted the staff into the intertwined vine net, and the network-like secret script nerves spread out from her body surface, and then gradually communicated with the surrounding plants through the characteristics of [Earth Warlock] to check for danger.

While Sasha was working, Cloris hung lanterns on the thorns protruding from the tree wall, and observed the depths of the tree gap——

"Prick!" A piercing friction sounded from the gap, and a tube-shaped tongue covered with thorns suddenly pierced out. A white fungus wall immediately blocked the girl, but in the next second, it got stuck in the fungus wall. The acid-etched thorns suddenly shot out from his tongue, and the "sizzling" corrosion sound directly melted away the tough bacteria wall that had been woven into several layers.

But Cloris was no longer behind the wall.

"Wood thorn demon." Sasha said slowly as she watched a white creep that spread to her feet gradually weave into the appearance of a girl.

"I know," Cloris nodded, "I just want to verify."

She has already been familiar with most of the known ecology of the Twisted Jungle in "Explorer's Illustrated Journal". However, the description in the book always deviates from the actual situation, and the same plant also has individual differences. It is not easy to distinguish in such a dark green world.

"I got them under control—"

After all, the tree wall more than ten meters away suddenly made dense stinging sounds, and the several-meter-long tubular mouthparts continued to shrink, dripping strong acid, leaving new black marks on the surface of the surface plants.

"Sasha, help me weave a solid door out of plants." Cloris said.

"Are you going to build a portal? How far away?"

"The mystery here is very stable, and it can be transmitted stably within a straight-line distance of three kilometers."

Cloris still intends to use the Oberan Gate Opener, but this time instead of using the void source crystal left by Voyty, she will use the substitute purchased by Gulingting. Although it is expensive, it is more cost-effective than the previous waste .

The source crystal left by Voyti can only support the girl to draw another [-] doors at most. It has a very high personality and can easily cover the coffin poison and Kalopsi's portal. It is a waste of money to use it in this situation.

About an hour later, if Sasha felt something, under her control, a half body made of intertwined vines emerged from the ground, and the little white cat asked, "Barney, how is the situation?"

"Something's not right. Jankatis hypnotized a slave. There seems to be an ambush here."

"Is there an ambush?" Sasha immediately thought that the news had leaked, "The plan has been exposed?"

"It's not like that," said the picket captain Barney. "Two days ago, there was a wild beast riot here. More than [-] slaves were killed, and the air robbers also lost more than a dozen people. The scene was a mess. According to the slave's Memory, the person in charge of the third fortress seems to say that he wants to catch some little mouse."

"Little mouse?" Cloris and Sasha looked at each other.

"It can be speculated that the Green Tooth Pirates are facing another group of enemies," Barney said. "Maybe they are hostile air bandits, or maybe they are the aborigines living in the deep forest. What should we do now, Senator?"

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PS:

This ps is placed in the text, because the author’s words cannot be inserted into pictures, and the next step is that smart readers can appreciate art, but stupid readers cannot appreciate art.

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