Each person has his own way of survival, one set for the grand duke who wants to be king, and another set for the commoners who are dragged by conscription to fight. And if these civilians who want to survive on the battlefield and earn some money unite with the old nobles who want to escape from Feinberg and enter the model realm as soon as possible, and the two ways of survival merge with each other, then a profitable Yangguan Avenue will be born.

The nobles of Feinberg, the commander of Aria, the soldiers of both sides, and Feige Hall in the rear, when they cooperated, they were called the combination of the inside and the outside. With the Earl in the middle, some of the nobles who were close to the Hall family supporting each other, and the prestige of the Marquise of Famas, nothing could be done. Feige even suspected that the Marquis of Famas, who had disappeared on the battlefield, might have been mixed in. No one has exposed this matter, let alone investigated, this is a tacit understanding.

On the other side of the tacit understanding, on the other side of a line called the "Camp Boundary", Aria was busy. He had to be busy receiving the nobles who had surrendered, pacifying the citizens, dealing with the endless public security incidents, and even more so busy with his own promotion to the king's ceremony, but at this time he looked at everyone like a bad person. So, doing it yourself is the same as being too busy, and it's a good opportunity for your subordinates to do their own thing.

The large convoy of Minas Ihir entered empty, and left with a full load, like ants moving. Feige relies on "family learning" and understands the principle of equal interests, and never eats alone. The lighthouse collar is his own family, and he is indispensable, and the aristocracy of Aria who gathered around Earl Hall should also take care of it, and even the territories passed along the way, even Gresham's saddle collar has also benefited. Of course, what the Feinberg aristocracy now valued most was safety and shelter, and the hope of a comeback, which was a commodity that only a model collar could provide, and of course sold at a good price.

Such an opportunity was once in a lifetime, and Feige stayed in the lighthouse for a while. Anyway, his brother is a lord here, and everything is free of charge, which is lower than the cost of living in Minas Ihir. Incidentally, he designed and built a protective rune circle for Andrew's new castle, which was enough to deal with most enemy invasions.

The main spell is, of course, Earth Elemental Bondage, as this magic can be more effective against enemies on the ground. As soon as the circle is activated, countless earth elemental tentacles will reach out from the walls, ground, and ceiling, turning the entire area into a "hairball monster". Any movement towards the interior of the castle triggers an attack of the spell, followed by binding, binding, and hanging. This spell does not attack the Goddess's clerics and paladins, allowing Andrew and most of his knights to move freely. Andrew's adjutant Pierce objected to this design, as he was just an ordinary knight with one missing word "saint". However, the opposition was ineffective, and before they knew what the effect of the spell was, Fitch had already done his job.

"Don't worry, this circle is definitely easy to use, and its biggest benefit is to save money. On the ground, the Earth Elemental is a better source of energy to collect than Thunder, so it is very low maintenance. And once filled, the earth elemental tentacles will also tighten the city wall like the roots of a tree, acting as a reinforcement. Feiqi said very seriously, "Believe me, I'm definitely not here to practice my spells with your spell rune materials. ”

Andrew rolled his eyes, but he was used to being taken advantage of by his younger brother, who he had been used to since he was a child. "Feige, have you received the letter, Didrite is coming. I think this elven woman is afraid that her chief advisor will stay in a better lighthouse collar all day and be abducted, so hurry up and come to you, right?"

"Please don't use the word crutches, it seems like I'm interested in men. ”

"Also, you're past that stage. ”

What are you talking about! Could it be that "Young Master Hall" has ever done that kind of thing?!! Andrew looked at his expression and suddenly laughed: "Okay, I know I promised you not to mention it, but the scene at that time was really like that, and people couldn't help but want to laugh." You sometimes can't tell the difference between men and women, Eddie has been dressed as a man for so long and you haven't noticed it, and you haven't recognized that liar who is dressed as a woman......"

"Are paladins so noisy now?" Feiqi didn't want to talk about it anymore: "Honorable lord, you're very idle today, don't you have nothing to do outside?"

"The autumn harvest is over, and the road will continue to be built after the celebration, which was done last year, and this year is no different, so it's quite leisurely. I thought this year would be dull, but I didn't expect to have an extra income because of Feinberg's war. ”

"Yes, it was a bonus, I never thought that the smuggling aristocracy could make such a profit. Fei Qi spread his hands: "Now I understand, the nobility in this world is like a fruit tree, you can pick it from time to time." ”

"What do you say? War is bad, and so is conflict between nobles. Alas, I'm not qualified to say that you, in many things you know more than I do. By the way, Aria is preparing to officially become king next spring, His Majesty King Saloyan Aria, how does that title sound?"

"Next spring, so soon?" Fei Qi snorted, "What if he becomes king, the essence is nothing more than an archduke with more land than before, and the stool under his ass is getting more and more unstable." Anyway, I don't think well of this king, and besides, he can't pardon me, so why should I cheer for his accession to the throne?"

"That's what I thought, too. Andrew nodded: "Originally, the main role of the Lighthouse Leader is to isolate the influence of the Model Leader on the Principality of Aria, and I should be slightly biased towards the side of Aria." But now it seems that a king who does not keep his word is not worthy of favoring him. ”

"That's right. Although the church is a bit bureaucratic and pedantic, and some things are not understood enough, and they will shirk their responsibilities......" Feige wanted to continue, but Andrew glared at him, so he hurriedly said: "But the church still talks about rules, and it will protect its own people if it keeps its word, which is much better than the king!"

"When he ascends the throne, I'll send someone to deliver a gift. Andrew suddenly frowned: "Feiqi, you said that my father is still in the Principality of Aria, will it be in danger? and mother, brother and sister ...... them"

"It's going to be dangerous, but I'm sure the Count can handle it. Moreover, picking up other people is a harbinger of preparing to do it, and it may be self-defeating. Why don't you send someone you can trust, and if the Count agrees, you can bring them to the lighthouse. Just make up one of the reasons and say ...... Let's just say that your wife is about to give birth. ”

"You really don't talk like a nobleman, do you deliberately make me anxious?" Andrew shook his head: "Okay, I'm going to go to the butler to see how the banquet is going." What do elves like to eat? Does Didlet have any preferences?"

"Just prepare it, just have more fruit, don't slaughter live animals on the spot. Didlet loves chicken and red fruits. ”

Andrew made a strange expression of "Sure enough, I understand" and left with a "weird" smile, leaving Monk Fei Qi at a loss. Didlet's coming was a bit unexpected for Feige, he just wrote to Eddie to come over and take over the smuggling of nobles and nobles' assets as soon as possible, there was nothing to do with Didlet! Besides, there was still a lot of resettlement work to be done in the territory, how did Didwright find time?

No matter, she'll be here today anyway, just meet and ask. Feige sent Andrew away, and got a rare period of time when no one was disturbing - of course, Shani's company was never an obscuration, and if she wasn't in sight, Feige would feel uncomfortable. What is this time for? Of course, it's for research! Recent research progress has made him feel that there are some questions that he should figure out.

When he was with Shanny, Feige had a lot of brilliant ideas, but he needed some prerequisites to put them into practice. Recently, he has obtained some clues that may help solve the current mystery.

All he needed was a small wound with the Soul Harvest Dagger, and he would be able to return to Hell. He hadn't considered whether this "setting" was reasonable before, but now he wanted to understand the magic behind it. Every time he goes to Hell like this, he "wakes up" in the throne hall as a soul body. However, according to the previous discovery when calculating the flow of time with a pocket watch, every time Feige enters hell, he consumes a little more time than returning to the human world.

Hell welcomes all souls to "fall", and even if angels want to enter, they are only preparing armies to meet them, and they will not be turned away. On the contrary, there is a barrier to the entry of demons in the mortal world, especially since this mortal world is still under the management of the goddess of truth and thunder, and it will be very troublesome for normal devils to break in. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to go to hell more than to go back to earth, and it shouldn't be the other way around.

So, he devised a method for testing. First, he took the dagger and stabbed it lightly on the back of his hand.

Once again, Yan Rui "opened his eyes" and "found" himself standing in the throne hall, no different from the past—except for a few more doubts in his mind. Without saying a word, he waited in the hall, a pair of eyes made of black mist of soul bodies looking nervously around him.

At this time, in the mortal world, Xia Ni looked at the pocket watch that Feige had given her, and when the hands had gone two squares, she grabbed Feiqi's hand holding the Soul Harvesting Dagger and slashed it at Midnight. The black cat's innocent and helpless eyes left a deep impression on Xia Ni, but her well-behaved and obedient spirit of not running around also touched her very much. This means that Midnight will not speak, otherwise it will definitely accuse Feige of enslaving and controlling it, and the temptation that the small dried fish cannot resist.

Feige can take Midnight to Hell, or leave it in the mortal world to guard the "corpse". Now, with the trustworthy Shani, midnight's guard job becomes replaceable, and it is automatically "promoted" to experimental material. They have the same soul, and it stands to reason that they should enter hell in the same way, so by looking at midnight, as if looking at yourself through a mirror, you can know what the "soul body" is all about.

Silently calculating the time, and then there was movement on the soul crystal's side, and Yan Rui immediately ran over.

The Soul Crystal is a large red columnar polyhedron that usually emits a faint fluorescence and is slightly brighter when absorbing souls. It occupies a square room in the underworld alone, in the center, surrounded by natural no decoration. Because he was going to return to the mortal world from here, Yan Rui had been here many times, and he had stopped and stared for a long time, but he had never seen anything strange or clueless.

"That's because my soul is different from other souls that are used to 'enter the account'. ”

Midnight was coming, and a black liquid suddenly appeared in the center of the soul crystal pillar, about the size of a person. It was churning and looked very viscous, like greasy ink. At the same time, a very vague, so to speak, looming silhouette of a huge humanoid appeared in the soul crystal, enveloping the black liquid.

The black liquid didn't look stable, rushing left and right, and the huge silhouette was unstable, blocking left and right, and the two were in some kind of confrontation. It can be seen that about one or two drops of black liquid detach from the main body, gradually vaporize, and then slowly move outside the soul crystal.

When this change occurred, the huge silhouette became silent, and at this time, Yan Rui was finally able to recognize that it was a devil. It was a strong devil with wings folded behind his back, a long tail, and horns on his head, except that one of his horns was missing, and the left and right sides became asymmetrical. But judging from the outline, both the Horned Demon and the Deep Hell Purgatory fit this image, but considering the material of the Soul Harvesting Dagger in his hand, Yan Rui felt that the possibility of the Horned Demon could be ruled out.

After the separated droplets vaporized, they turned into clouds and flew out, leaving the room of the soul crystal. Feige followed it, then watched it stop in the corner of the throne hall before slowly turning into midnight. The demon pet kitten opened its eyes, as if it had just woken up, gave a blank look at the unscrupulous owner, curled up and waited to go home, and there were small dried fish when they came home......

"It's just a contract demon, I'll go!, I don't believe it!" Yan Rui rolled his eyes. There is only one explanation for the previous situation: the Fork in the Road Demon is likely to be a Deep Hell Purgatory who has been abducted in the form of a Contract Demon for some reason or for some purpose. The core of this hellish territory, the soul crystal, is actually the embodiment of some of its abilities as a deep hell purgatory.

Every Hell Purgatory is a contender for the position of Hell Lord, and the expression of the Hell Lord's power is the territory! Yan Rui patted his head, and now he could finally match the clues. "A shrewd and capable contract demon who obtains territory", this story sounds very legendary and very difficult to do, so it will mislead people into thinking that it is true. People have this problem, which is usually defined as "pretending to be smart", "being clever but being clever and mistaken" - "smart as a contract demon who will not deceive people with lies that will obviously be exposed, so this must be true." The more legendary the story, the more authentic it is. ”

There's no denying that legends do exist, but what is more common are boring, mundane, and pee-free stories. A deep hell purgatory, who already has a territory, needs to disguise himself as a contract demon because of some kind of change, which is more credible in reality. Active downgrading is too wasteful, and the devil always wants to seek power, so soul crystals, which can store soul energy, were created. Keep collecting souls and storing them here, and the Contract Demon can turn back into the Deep Hell Purgatory.

If you think about it this way, then the question of the Hell Pact can also be answered. Baier is now the lord of the first layer of Hell, and the former lord is Zariel. The change of lords is always accompanied by betrayal, fighting, and killing, and since there are devils who will be promoted, then there are devils who will be demoted. If the Fork Demon is from Zariel's faction, then it would explain why it had a Hell Contract signed by Zariel, and why it was disparaged. Of course, it is more likely that the fork demon wants to curry favor with both sides, but he ends up with two sides that are not human, so he can only run to the seventh layer to dodge, in order to make a comeback.

Hiding and paying twenty percent of the fortune and then making a comeback is too much like the nobles of Feinberg now, isn't that exactly what the Marquis Marquis family's family did?

But what is the black thing, and why can Yan Rui be able to separate and form a soul body? Yan Rui has never found his connection with this world, and he doesn't know why he was summoned to cross, and now he finds that it is not the devil who is more closely connected to him, but the black thing.

Judging by the state of struggle between the black unknown substance and the devil's silhouette in the soul crystal, they are hostile to each other and are currently in a kind of equilibrium. However, every time Yan Rui enters Hell, he will thin the black unknown substance, and every cent of his soul income that Yan Rui earns will strengthen the devil, so the balance will be upset sooner or later. "It's really a ring after a ring, and there are traps everywhere!, and before I knew it, I walked in......" Yan Rui sat on the throne, and in the mirrors on the left and right, the avatars of the fork demon and Young Master Hall appeared.

"How many layers of serial deception is this?" Yan Rui said to the Fork Demon "Young Master Hall's identity is the first layer, the temptation of the devil's ability is the second layer, the third layer is to retrieve his body, and the welfare of the hell territory is the fourth level......"

In fact, he also discovered many layers such as "Hell Contract", "True Hell Contract", "Deep Hell Purgatory Demon", "Hell Lords Dispute" and so on, but Yan Rui didn't want to reveal all his discoveries to the fork in the road. The Fork Demon set up layers of traps, as long as he felt that he had won in any of the previous layers, and he had no intention of giving up and continued to dig down, and decided to take action against the Fork Demon, then he was trapped.

"I still think I'm smarter than you and can find your loopholes. Yan Rui said to the fork in the road, "But pride is a sin, and I must be careful about that. I'm smarter than you, but you have a longer lifespan, you can lay out more far-reaching innings, and then use the accumulation of time to defeat me. ”

"What are you talking about? I didn't want to defeat you, let's work together and go our separate ways, aren't we?" The Fork in the Road Demon looked confused and said in a concerned tone, "What's wrong with you? Are you too tired lately? ”

Yan Rui looked at it, his eyes narrowed, and his fingers tapped lightly on the throne. After collecting the clues, his mind jumped out of the scope of the previous devil's contract and hell contract, and began to focus on a larger angle. "Fork in the road, Master Hall, you two tell me, what are the names of my parents, what is the name of the place I came from, and under what circumstances does 1+1 equal to 10?"

Both men in the mirror were silent. Yan Rui looked at the mirror on the left and said to Young Master Hall's confused face, "The Fork in the Road Demon has a reason to confuse me by concealing whether he knows or not, but you don't. According to the arrangement of your identity, you should be on my side, but you have a strange temper. So tell me, what are the answers to those three questions. ”

"No, I don't know, it's something I don't know. You're in the driver's seat, and I can't see your memory. Young Master Hall said.

"You really don't know, but it has nothing to do with my memory, it's ......" Yan Rui turned to look at the fork in the road, "but because Feige Hall has no autonomy, he has already lost to you, even the body and the soul." He's just an illusion, a temporary place to store 'me'. He is not a party to the fight, he is not my ally, but an assassin you have placed at my side. He doesn't know, just because you don't!"

The fork in the road smiled, and the avatars in both mirrors became it. "I'll admit, you caught me. Can you tell me how you got suspicious?"

Because Fege Hale doesn't have any information about his contract with the Fork Demon in his memory, he can't find it anywhere. There is another possibility for a contract that cannot be found than to be hidden: it has been executed and can be destroyed.

"No, I don't want to tell you. Yan Rui shook his head and said, "I only know that from this moment on, whether in hell or mortal, there will be no more Feige Hale, only me. ”

"Whatever you like. The fork in the road demon smiled slightly: "And then, can we continue to cooperate?"

"Of course. I really like the identity of Feige Hall, and I also like the ability of the contract demon, I am very good in the world, and my life is much better than my previous life. And, now that there's no more Feige Hall, his body is my trophy, and I can do things that felt a little awkward before. ”

"But you promised that you would take back your body and let me out, and then we would go our separate ways: you would enjoy your life, and I would be the devil of freedom. ”

"If I'm not tired of this body, if I'm not so obsessed with getting my original body, why should I help you regain your freedom, why should I go back to the way you were? Actually, I don't owe anything to Fiitch Hall, let alone you. Yan Rui sat down on the throne, let out a comfortable breath, and then deliberately said to the fork in the road, "How good is this! I kill demons, the church likes me, and hell likes me." I get rewards, I get stronger! I have territory, wealth, beauty, status, and I have immortality!"

"No, it's all mine, it's all mine!" the fork in the road roared.

"Shut up, I'm sitting on the throne here. Yan Rui snapped his fingers, and the voice of the fork demon could not be heard in the mirror, even if it opened its mouth wide and shouted wildly.

"Midnight, follow me. "Yan Rui, or Feiqi, there are no distinctions or misunderstandings anymore anyway. A man and a cat opened the passage to hell and walked out of the hall to the outside of the ruins.

Hell created a contract demon body for him, and automatically loaded the soul into it.

"Only the soul body is real. "Yan Rui can confirm it now. "Between my soul and the devil, there is still that black unknown substance, so the fork in the road demon can't access my memories. All the information it knows about me is what I told it before. ”

"Whether it's harvesting daggers with souls, or devil contracts, or hell favors from killing demons, or even hell contracts, it's all given by the fork in the road. With the help of these, it will always be stronger than me. Yan Rui looked at his devil's palm and smiled bitterly: "Especially if you put the demon into the territory and then kill it, isn't this equivalent to directly increasing the merit of the devil? This devil is not me, but the fork of the road, the outline of the deep hell purgatory in that soul crystal." Hell's favor? It's just a little bit of sweetness for me. ”

"All the previous plans did not completely solve the problem, and in the end there was only one way to go: self-reliance and hard work. There is never a shortcut to self-sublimation, so if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?"

Yan Rui raised his head and looked at the gray sky. If he saw through the clouds, he could see the bottom of the sixth level of hell. Above that, there is 54321, and the eternal war between the devil and the devil continues on the top layer. There's the Hell Lord Bair, and there's the secrets of the former Lord Zareel. Yan Rui (Feiqi) gradually figured out that if you want to defeat a devil in hell, you can only follow the methods of hell, and the mortal cleverness that belongs to humans is meaningless.

The reason is simple, hell itself is order, a completely evil order. There is no tolerance for chaos or other order. Therefore, there is no other logic, no other reason, no room for other plans and schemes!

"Looks like I'm going to get the hell out of it...... Well, I don't have faith in the kingdom of God, and it's the same in the mortal world, so why don't I do the same in hell? Next, I just face one test after another, even if they come like a tide, what is there to fear? After all, I am stronger than the fork in the road! Whether it is in intelligence or combat effectiveness! Rank suppression? Rank suppression! This is the most powerful and essential power in hell! The power of evil order! You can change from an inferior demon to a contract demon, or even a deep hell purgatory, can't I?" Feige let out a long sigh, but then burst out laughing, louder and louder.

It seems to be going to the first level of hell.