From time to time, there were fluctuations of frost and fighting spirit from the top of the mountain, and the voices of two people were mixed in with it, which was the battle between Darko and VitB12. At some point, the two of them were already fighting together again, and a new round of fighting started on the small hill next to the small village where the embers were still warm.

"Looks like you've untied the knot. VitB12 dodged the Ice Spell cast by Darko in two consecutive turns, and then said unhurriedly, "Show me your strength! Don't tell me you've only improved so much in the past six months!"

"You'll see. Darko replied in a deep voice, and at the same time, the magic in the silent recitation was not ambiguous, and one by one the ice picks smashed towards VitB12 as if they had eyes, "But why...... Why did she fail? ”

Darko still hasn't been able to completely get rid of the previous psychological shadow, after all, Sally has been with him for a long time, not to mention that the place where he fought with VitB12 now is on the top of this mountain, next to Sally's water source magic array. Even though Darko is no longer grieving, he still has a deep sense of incomprehension about Sally's failure.

"Every organization, every force, is bound to be a pyramid structure, and it is impossible to build a harmonious village without the maintenance of a higher order, let alone in this Mercury plane. VitB12 had already turned from defense to offense as he spoke, relying on the Imperial Realm to resist the icicle at the same time, the speed of the whole person approached Darko without slowing down, and a heavenly tilt slammed out, and the colorless fighting qi was lifted along with the dust on the ground, engulfing Darko in an instant.

The dust cleared, revealing a large, irregularly shaped block of ice, and Darko cast the ice barrier as fast as VitB12 spoke, protecting himself in defense, but he was thinking about what VitB12 was saying. In other well-ordered planes, no matter how small towns and villages can exist smoothly, should this be due to the order established by the major churches and guilds? If there were no such big forces, or if the major forces did not manage them diligently, would they be as chaotic as the Mercury plane? Darkot in his previous life was also born in the Church of Light, and he was very familiar with the pyramid structure within the church. Darko thought about it and casually asked, "What kind of power structure is there within the Vitamin Guild?"

"Three great consuls, twenty-three consuls, and thousands of substitutes. Hearing Darko's question, VitB12 no longer attacked the ice barrier, but just waited aside, waiting for the ice barrier to disappear, and at the same time briefly answered Darko's question, "This is actually a pyramid, not to mention that it still operates under order, and the law of Shura is the most powerful order." ”

Darko nodded, "I know, that incident is in the past, it won't affect me anymore, and you don't have to keep your hands." ”

"In that case, let's give it a go. VitB12's long knife swung with a blow.

"As you wish!" Darko replied, his gaze full of determination, as if he was now a character to defeat VitB12 rather than a hunted character. When the ice barrier dissipated, Darko's attacks exploded like fireworks, wind blades, rain arrows, and ice moons.

"It seems that your mana is twice as powerful as a high-level mage of the same level, which is really amazing. VitB12 said this, but there was no look of surprise on the outside, and he didn't dodge these low-level spells at all, relying on his strong magic resistance to rush forward directly, followed by a slash. Even though Darko was dodging with the help of the Swift Technique, he was still slashed by a small half of the ice armor with a single sword. After such a long battle, VitB12 had already deduced from Darko's reactions in various situations that its mana was higher than that of a mage of the same level, although it was not known that this was the effect of the extreme mana enchantment, but it was already known that it was almost the amount of two fourth-level spells.

"That's right, mana higher than normal capacity is my advantage. As long as I keep a flash spell, I can let go and attack you, which is also my advantage. Darko casually made up for himself with ice armor, and he was already able to use such low-level magic. Then he controlled the icicle technique to land beside him, which happened to seal the line where VitB12 was ready to attack next, so he saw that VitB12's figure paused, and he had been pulled away again.

In the long battle, Dakko has gradually realized that it is not wise to deal with a top master like VitB12 and just blindly follow the principle of "distance" of mages. The distance is to be pulled, but how much to pull is to be particular. Because VitB12 has a strong sense of combat, the distance is stretched too wide, giving it more time to react, so any attack will become futile. Therefore, in the face of such a strong person, the distance is not as far as possible, but must be kept within a certain range, so as to ensure their attack efficiency.

"Well, I've mastered the relationship between this attack rhythm and distance, and it looks like it's going to be a little difficult to kill you. VitB12 said with a smile, but it showed a strong sense of confidence, as if it didn't take Dakko seriously at all. Shadow Yue then picked up another trick and beat Darko into a hurry, rolling on the ground a few times before avoiding it.

"Listening to your tone, are you going to release water again?" Darko turned over and stood up, his expression solemn, and took out a bottle of magic potion again to drink, and replenished the consumed mana in time.

"Hehe, it's just a game. VitB12 didn't admit that he was releasing the water, and even stepped up his movements, forcing Dakko to speak up with a barrage of attacks.

Darko struggled for a while before he silently recited a flashing technique and left, and then he had time to speak again, "Otherwise, did you come to chase me all the way to see the scenery?"

Looking? Of course not...... But what are you doing with this kind of staying?VitB12 looked stunned, and was distracted by the battle, and fell into the contemplation of the past.

……

Before joining the Vitamin Guild, he had a very ordinary name, William Bull. He lived in an ordinary small aristocratic family on the Armas plane, with a small manor house and hundreds of servants, and the family's life was peaceful and simple.

Until one day, a killer was ushered in the family. The guards who usually seemed to him to be very powerful, but none of them could pass more than two moves under the killer's hands. It's just that he was still very young at that time, and even if he had some talent for fighting, he was only a trainee samurai at best, until his father was finally killed by the killer, and he could only watch from the sidelines.

At the time, he didn't know what the Vitamin Guild stood for, but since then, he has vowed to avenge his father.

As he grew older, he gradually showed the temperament of a genius, and at the age of 16 he reached the rank of high-ranking samurai, and it was in that year that he left home and began to carry out his plans.

He had already learned about the power of the Vitamin Guild at that time, but he was determined to subvert it, and he would not give up no matter how difficult it was. He is such a character who will not give up easily, and the more difficult things are, the more he sees them as challenges. Motivated by such emotions, he also calmly analyzed the steps of how to achieve his plan.

Wanting to find the killer back then was naturally like looking for a needle in a haystack, but in the face of this problem, he found the most convenient way - to join the Vitamin Guild. It was a long process, but it wasn't complicated, and after a year of searching, hard work, and a little luck, he managed to join the Vitamin Guild. Since then he has had another name, which is the name of the vitamin, followed by a number representing the occupation and the order of substitution.

In the guild, he began to fight for every task with all his might, and completed it as best he could, improving his status in the guild through accumulated contributions. Until the contribution reaches a level that gives him the right to look through past mission records. He eagerly rummaged through the task of killing his father, and the truth was soon revealed. He knew the murderer of his father, and he knew the killer's codename, occupation, appearance, personality, and ...... Date of birth and death......

Yes, the killer has been killed during a failed mission. When he learned this information, he was completely overwhelmed, and he wanted revenge only to find out that the enemy was dead, which felt like a fist that had been stored for a long time but lost its purpose.

What if hatred has nowhere to go? Is it necessary to take away anger? Anger to the entire vitamin guild? Theoretically, for a large and powerful force, it is indeed the simplest, most practical and easy to operate to dismantle it from within. However, he hesitated in the face of such an idea, in the past when his father had just been killed, he really hated such an evil and unreasonable guild organization, and he did not hesitate to destroy its plan at all, even if he knew that he could not succeed, he would definitely try. Now, however, after so many missions, he hesitated.

In those missions for the guild, it wasn't always going to be smooth sailing. Compete with other killers for missions, then learn about your prey, lurk and make plans for assassination, and so on. During his mission, he traveled to almost every plane, Mercury, Armas, Minerva, Venus, ...... His combat experience continued to grow in the process, but he never improved his level again, for no other reason, just because if he leveled up again, he would not be able to go home.

In the process, his views on the Vitamin Guild also changed subtly. In his previous vision, this organization should be an unscrupulous evil force that does things by any means, and the headquarters should be located in a dark and gloomy temple like the Dark Church. But he now knows that everything is different from what he knew.

There is no one president in the guild who has absolute power, but more like an elite democracy with 23 consuls and 3 great consuls. The goal of the guild is definitely not to destroy the world and other villains, but to simply implement the laws of Shura according to their own behavior patterns. The role of the Vitamin Guild is, at best, an intermediary between employers and killers. And this intermediary will undoubtedly survive because of the market, both sides take what they need, mutual benefit, is the intermediary wrong?

He found himself more and more confused, when his father was killed by the killer, he was still in his childhood, and he only knew that he was a good person, and the others who opposed him were bad people. After growing up in hatred, he has been immersed in the mentality of revenge, and he has never been in contact with the complicated external environment. And the Vitamin Guild became his first medium to contact the outside world.

In the past, he blindly wanted to divide everything in the world into two opposing camps, just like black and white cannot be confused. However, now he has gradually realized that everything is actually gray.

The only difference is the position of each side.

During his time in the Vitamin Guild, he didn't realize that he had been assimilated by the Guild. In other words, in his heart, he actually agrees with the code of conduct of this guild.

However, there was still a voice in his heart telling him that he was the righteous side, and his opponent must be evil. In the midst of this entanglement, he completed another mission, and the prey was a very ordinary little noble viscount in the secondary plane. When he got the prey information from the information release, the whole person was a little stunned. Judging purely from the intelligence, the family where this prey belongs is very similar to his former origin. A down-and-out and low-key aristocracy, a territory of hundreds of residents, and a calm and simple life...... With such curiosity, he lurked into the castle of the little nobleman for two whole months.

During these two months, he was completely stunned that this little aristocratic home, which in every way looked very similar to him, contained countless ugliness and filth. oppression of civilians under their jurisdiction, higher than normal taxes, and reliance on force to bully men and women...... He had been lurking for a long time, and he had already guessed that this transaction must have been placed by the residents of this viscounty's territory with a joint order.

But in such ugliness, the children of this little aristocratic family don't know at all, and they are still happy and happy every day. The familiar and the unfamiliar, the righteous and the evil, are separated in his cognition in such a way. What about his own family before? Could it be the same situation? This question is actually easy for him to find out the truth, but he can avoid it and not inquire because he is afraid.

In the end, he chose to put this issue aside, and from then on he continued to actively fight for the various tasks in the guild, but he no longer knew that he could not distinguish between black and white, good and evil, good and evil, true and false, because he knew that he could no longer distinguish between those things. So he became a real professional killer, just like the intermediary nature of the Vitamin Guild. He is just a knife, and whoever kills whom with this knife has nothing to do with the knife.

As his contributions increased, he gradually rose through the ranks of his guild until he became the No. 12 substitute for the Demon Breaker class, VitB12. However, he didn't realize that even if he deliberately didn't let himself think about those complicated questions, subconsciously he was still looking for answers, looking for the obsession that he held on to in his heart.

It is precisely because of such a plot that when he found out that Darko helped Sally, he repeatedly released water, so that Darko could survive until today. It was precisely because of this that he would not hesitate to join forces with Darko when he encountered the Flame Church pursuit team.

"At least you have to do it to know if it's futile, if you don't try, you won't even know how you will fail!"

VitB12 said this to Darko, not to himself, who had also tried to destroy the Vitamin Guild, only to be assimilated by the values of this force. Until now, he has become a very important part of the guild, and if he dies, it will also be a loss for the guild, maybe this is also a kind of revenge, right?

……

"Look, I'm going to go all out!" In the time when they were chasing each other before, if there was an ingredient in VitB12's deliberate release of water in it, now they are really going all out. His heart is to be righteous, and to accomplish the Guild's mission is also his job. Now that the attempt to protect Sally's village has failed, it's time to complete the mission.

In the face of VitB12's all-out offensive, Darko also fell into a difficult battle, and he didn't know until now how terrible VitB12's real outbreak was. If VitB12 had fought with such vigor from the beginning, I am afraid that there would not have been this nearly a year of pursuit.

In the offensive of VitB12, Daktronics continued to be in danger, and had to temporarily avoid the edge. He moved to the edge of the steep cliff on the other side of the hill with a flashing technique, but he didn't expect VitB12 to chase after him this time, and before the person landed, he attacked one after another, forcing Darko to retreat again and again.

Seeing that Darko was about to be forced to fall off the cliff, his response was not chaotic at all, and when the whole person's center of gravity was already inclined to the outside of the cliff, the wand was slightly raised, casting a spell of ice cage. VitB12 was immediately sealed in a square block of ice, which could only freeze him for a few seconds, but Dakko took the opportunity to kick the ice that was close at hand. VitB12 was already suspended in the air, and with this kick, it fell towards the cliff.

Before Darko could rejoice, the ice cage had already burst open, and VitB12 had already broken free, and immediately slashed at the rock at Darko's feet, and Darko stumbled and fell. In this way, VitB12 and Daktronics fell down the hill together.

Darko's shrill shouts rang from the top of the hill to the bottom of the mountain, and the confrontation ended until the two figures fell to the bottom of the cliff with a dull sound.