"Okay, let's call everyone here tonight, first of all, let everyone get to know each other and confirm their identities. ”

Sitting on the sofa, Nightshadow's slender and graceful figure is fully displayed, like a work of art carved from obsidian, especially the pair of straight and slender long legs, which have both a sense of strength and femininity. Unfortunately, the other four men in the audience didn't have the slightest hint of appreciation, and Pinglis and the other three mages sat up straight, listening to Nightshade's words with a serious face like the most serious students. The fat man Alston also cleaned the filth on his face, and this well-equipped entertainment venue will not lack washing equipment. However, he didn't do this for himself, but he didn't want to leave any bad impression on the Nightshade, if the three mages here had many doubts about betraying the Arcane Revival Society and joining Nightshade's organization, but now they are completely gone.

They are all local aristocrats who have been in Oroyosta for many years, and they are very aware of the weight of these entertainment industries on Third Avenue, and since this is the largest gold cave in the imperial capital, only the most powerful and powerful families can have a place here. Even the Arcane Revival Society was unable to show its power to this point in its heyday, this is a fundamental difference in level, no matter how powerful the underground organization is, it can only be an underground organization, because its existence is completely opposite to the existing mainstream order.

And now, the power of the organization behind Nightshade shows that this is a monster with great abilities both in and under the social order. Not only this huge entertainment venue, but also the ability of the Lady of the Night high-ranking cleric displayed by Night Shadow surprised them inexplicably.

However, there was another person next to them who was completely different from them, and their serious expression and atmosphere seemed a little incongruous. The Sword of Benevolence sat down on the soft couch in a boneless position, and not far away was a mountain of pastries of all kinds, and as soon as he tapped his fingers on the couch, one of the pastries jumped up and down into his mouth. This very unserious attitude made the three mages a little embarrassed, and they could only turn their heads away from him.

"The fact that the three of you were able to join the previous Arcane Revival shows that in addition to the fact that the three of you are all outstanding talents in the arcane field, it also shows that the three of you still have a passion and loyalty to the arcane and the Empire. But what the current situation is, everyone is very clear. I've said this before you, and I'll say it again: it's impossible to truly revive the empire by excavating arcane relics and secretly conspiring to sabotage alone. The empire did not die from conspiracy and destruction, and certainly could not be reborn from conspiracy and destruction. ”

Pingris and the thin mage were silent, and the fat mage Alston immediately agreed in an impassioned voice: "That's right! Madam Nightshadow, you're so right! ”

A sneering voice came from the side, interrupting the fat man's words full of fighting spirit and loyalty. It was the sword of benevolence sucking the little juice left in the cup with a straw. Then he threw the cup with only the ice cubes left, and kicked it lightly at the coffee table, and another cup full of juice on the coffee table jumped up and fell into his hand, and the empty cup fell right where the juice was.

"Lady Nightshadow, I don't know if this gentleman is ......," Alston asked cautiously. After the arcane healing of the necromancy, his broken finger no longer hurts, but he still remembers the feeling clearly.

"This is the invincible sword of benevolence, an external employee of our organization. Nightshade introduced, paused and added. "He's a bit of a weird person, you don't have to worry about it. In terms of strength, it is very strong, maybe you will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future. ”

"Er, this..."The fat man Alston seemed to hesitate for a moment, but still said: "If I remember correctly, it seems that this is the name of the person who was jointly wanted by ......the church before?"

"Your message lags badly, Mr. Alstom. Pinris sneered sharply beside him, he didn't deal with this fat man when he was in the revival meeting. "The temple and the church have canceled this wanted notice, and it has been stated that the previous judgment was wrong, and that this Mr. Sword of Charity is not possessed by the will of the devil. ”

"Maybe it's a means of covering up the temple. Alstom waved his hand, trying to make it look like it was just an objective description. "Anyway, if I could, I would never work with someone I can't be sure of. The more uncertain the factor, the more unpredictable it is, and that is a disaster for any plan. ”

"Hahahaha, fatty, you're quite eloquent. The Sword of Benevolence dropped the juice that had been drunk again and smiled. "You have a shadow of what happened just now, and you are afraid that I will really break something on your body and give it to you to eat, don't worry, the warrior of love and justice is very magnanimous, even if you are a sinister, cowardly and suspicious, disgusting guy who loves to slap on the back, as long as you don't provoke me, I will only treat you like shit on the side of the road, and I will not step on you. ”

"You... You... You're just an outsider, a mercenary—" Alstom's chubby face began to turn red again, but the memory was so deep for him that he could only emphasize his identity and authority in the end to embolden himself. "And I'll soon be a full member of the Nightshade Lady's organization. ”

The Sword of Benevolence looked at Nightshade and smiled, "I said that you only found three guys like this? Now these two fat and thin guys look like waste, are you going to recruit them to sing for the show?"

"This fat mage is Basil Timoni Alston, the former deputy head of the planning department of the Arcane Revival Society, and this thinner is Peter Davis, who is the elite of the R&D department. Both of them are unique in their achievements in the arcane arts, and they are definitely rare talents like Rees Doria. Nightshade replied tepidly. "I'm still in the process of recruiting people, but there are some unexpected difficulties. ”

"Judging by the fact that you didn't call people here until today, stating that this is your industry, you are very inexperienced in recruiting talents. The Sword of Benevolence laughed and slapped on the couch, and a stack of cakes jumped up and landed in his big mouth, which he mumbled as he ate. "Let's let me, a big brother who knows how to understand the world, teach you, first of all, to beat or intimidate them to understand that you are not easy to mess with, and then let them come here to charter a scene, what good wine and meat are enough, dozens of bare-ass little sisters take turns to accompany you, and finally state that this is your place, let them understand that you have good wine and good meat with you, and they will come naturally. ”

"Idiot, do you think it's the Rat Gang recruiting thugs?" "But I understand what you mean, show your strength and give them enough benefits. But the truth is much more complicated than that. ”

"Let me explain it to Your Excellency the Sword of Benevolence. Pinglis, who was on the side, couldn't help but raise his hand.

"The Arcane Revival Society is one of the most powerful mage organizations on the continent, but its most powerful is the countless affiliated organizations and families that have gathered around it because of its nostalgia for the empire and its belief in the arcane. They provide cover, provide financial support, and provide information for the Renaissance, so that the Revival Society can always oppose the Temple Church and continue to unearth the arcane relics of the Imperial Age to increase its power. In fact, if you only count the core true members, there are less than a hundred talented high-level mages. When the Star Temple, which is the biggest hole card of the organization and a symbol of cohesion, disappeared, those affiliated organizations and families felt panic, lost faith in us, and broke away one after another. But among the remaining core members, like us, this... There are not too many people who are looking for another way out. First of all, the first is that he is full of genuine enthusiasm for the Arcane and has great loyalty to the Empire. Two Vice-Presidents...... Er, perhaps, and many others are like this. Such people will probably never betray the Arcane Revival Society, and they will do everything possible to try to regain contact with the Star Temple. ”

"Let us applaud those who are firm in their faith and noble in their hearts. The Sword of Benevolence clapped his hands, saw the ugly faces of the three mages, and said with a smile: "Also applaud your intellect, did not hang yourself from the same tree with them." ”

"Nope. We are still firm in our faith in the Arcane, and our loyalty to the Empire is still unwavering!" Alston on the side said suddenly. "It's just that we understand the mistake of the previous way and method, and now we have chosen to follow Lady Nightshade again, and we will redevote our passion and loyalty to the cause of the revival of the Empire in a new way under the leadership of Lady Nightshade!"

"Hahahaha......" The Sword of Benevolence burst into a burst of laughter, pointing at Alston with a serious face. "It turns out that this fat man is really a talent! Does your organization have a propaganda department? If not, let him organize one, I promise that he will shine." ”

Nightshade didn't say anything, just made a meaningless gesture, and seemed to roll her eyes again.

Pinris coughed and continued, "As for the second type... It's a triggering sequence arcane attached to it. Don't dare to betray the guys of the Revival Society. ”

"Oh, is it the kind of arcane that bursts out on people once the conditions are met? I haven't even studied it yet. The sword of benevolence was stunned. "You're still using this thing to control your own people?"

"Well, of course not. It's not that we're going to use it to control people, it's those guys who have been sequenced by Vice President Griffin. As for the reasons, some of them seem to be secretly making some deals with Vice President Griffin, some are punished for not completing the task satisfactorily, and some are unlucky because they are simply not pleasing to Vice President Griffin. As for what kind of conditions Vice President Griffin has set, and what kind of arcane will break out, no one knows......"

"Who knows?"

"Well, that, Vice President Griffin has a weird temper, I told you before...... So his communication with other people is also a problem......"

"It's really creative and logical to have such a person as the vice president, and it's great that this organization can hold out until this point before collapsing. ”

"He's an arcane genius who has been famous since the Imperial Age! And it's usually the President and Vice President Jefferson who run the organization and communicate with him, and there's never been a problem...... Well, now there's a problem, Vice President Jefferson is under house arrest in the Arcane Academy, and he can't participate in the management of the organization, and Vice President Griffin basically doesn't communicate with people. Those guys had no idea what was going on with the Sequencer on them. But everyone is certain that the trigger for the Sequencer could be related to harming the guild. There were once two guys who quietly stole guild supplies, and the moment they moved their things into the house, the ordered arcane on their bodies was instantly activated. The two high-level mages, who were only one step away from the archmage, began to devour their bodies in front of their own families. They gnawed at their hands and feet and everything else they could get their hands like crazy, swallowing their flesh in large chunks, but their minds were lucid, their families saw them crying, some of them could cry for help in between swallowing, the triggered arcane only took control of their bodies, and one guy even used disarming arcane. But it didn't work, Vice President Griffin's necromantic arcane was something that even His Excellency the President once sighed about, even in the Imperial Era, he was the top necromantic master. The two guys' arcane arts, the protective items on their bodies, and the efforts of their family and friends had no effect on the necromantic arcane on their bodies, and even two of their subordinates and family members who wanted to hold them were also bitten to death. ”

"Of course, Griffin's arcane skills are not as simple as controlling limbs, the entire flesh of those two guys has been transformed in a very short period of time, and the bleeding will stop immediately where they bite, so they will not die from being seriously injured at all. In this way, they devoured all the places they could bite their hands, feet, and limbs, and finally they could only wriggle like large maggots. Their digestive system seems to have changed, and what they swallowed quickly pulls out again, and then they squirm around and devour what they just pulled out, and the cycle repeats......"

“... After a fellow's family realized that all their efforts had been in vain, they couldn't bear it, and an elemental arcane ended his suffering. And the other guy was miserable, he was just an accomplice who went to help, and the family was not in Oroyosta, and was thrown out of the city by those guys in a panic. So he had to repeat this torture in his own flesh and dung heap for four or five days before he died. And it's not a natural death, his organs are strengthened, his digestive system and respiratory system have changed, and he can adapt to that kind of living environment, at least for a month or two. He was found by the Lost and buried in the same way as he dealt with undead monsters. Poor fellow, I bet he must have felt like he saw a savior when he saw the corpse collectors, and he would never have guessed that he would be so fond of the corpse collectors......"

Gregrad, is the sound of the thin mage named Davis colliding his upper and lower teeth, and the fat man Alston on the side is also pale as dirt, as a member of the Revival Society, whether he has witnessed it with his own eyes or not, this is definitely an unforgettable experience that can be remembered for a lifetime, and that kind of encounter may fall on him.

Even the Sword of Benevolence next to it was silent for a while, as if it was also shocked by this terrifying arcane punishment. But the silence lasted only a few seconds, and he burst out with the trademark laugh again: "Good, good, good! What a creative one! worthy of the famous arcane genius of the Imperial Age, it seems that sooner or later I will have to meet this vice president full of all kinds of whimsy!"

“... Vice President Jefferson was extremely disgusted by Vice President Griffin's behavior, but even she couldn't dispel Vice President Griffin's arcane abilities. She asks Vice President Griffin to revoke the spell himself, but Vice Master Griffin refuses, saying that the rest is just "a small punishment that won't be fatal" and that these people will be fine as long as they don't harm the guild. His personality was originally eccentric, and he was extremely paranoid where he was paranoid, and the president seemed to acquiesce to him, so the matter was settled...... So, you see, as long as you are sure that you have the Sequencer triggering on you, you will never have the guts to betray the Revivah. Vice President Griffin's 'not fatal' is very likely to be more frightening than fatal. ”

"How many wretched creatures are there?"

"There should be twenty or thirty of them...... Luckily we weren't among them. ”

"Then there are quite a few people left, why are the three of you willing to accept the light guidance of Lady Nightshade?"

"Alright. That's one of the topics I want to discuss here. Nightshade, who had been silent, spoke. "According to the information I have, since the disappearance of the Star Temple, at least more than half of the Arcane materials, research materials, and those excavated in the ruins have been lost in various places of the Revival Society. Some of them were enriched by certain families, and some of them had buyers..."

"It turns out that there were people who received the guidance of the light a long time ago. The Sword of Benevolence smiled at the three Revival Mages. Nightshadow can grasp such news, and he must have a lot of eyeliner in the Revival Society. The three mages didn't react either, and after talking to Nightshade, they were naturally aware of this.

Nightshade continued to say lightly, "Regardless of the channels and hidden agents in the middle, the biggest buyer has now been determined. It's the guy from Incre's side. Less than a week after it was confirmed that the Star Temple had been ostracized by the gods, Archmage Adler of Incre and Archmage of Minsk had all arrived at Oroyosta. While each of them had seemingly good reasons, the purpose seemed very obvious now. They just saw that the Arcane Revival Society would inevitably be disheartened, and they would use it to make profits. In any case, the relics resources, arcane research materials, and various scarce arcane materials possessed by the Arcane Revival Society are second to none in the real continent. ”

"There's also talent. Pinris added with some indignation. Nightshade seemed to smile and nodded, "Yes." ”

"So our most urgent task now is to get as many resources out of Inclave as possible. ”

"Yes, those vulgar nouveau riche, hillbillies who smell of cow dung all over their bodies, the fruits of our hard work in their hands are nothing short of a blasphemy against the arcane," Mage Alston agreed strongly.

"It's easy to set goals, but it's very difficult to execute. Their principals are two archmages. Even if they can't compare to little Robert's psychopathy, with the help of those props and golems, they are still very difficult to deal with. Nightshade sighed, but it wasn't the kind of thing that could be done completely powerlessly. "After all, this is Oroyosta, we can't make a big deal out of it, we can't use too drastic means. ”

"Haha, I know I understand, you can't use something like Yang Yan Burst here, is it? It's a pity, I fell in love with that spell at first sight, and I think it's a powerful arcane that can solve all problems, and if one can't solve it, I'll have a few more. ”

"So we need your strength, Sword of Benevolence, and we hope that you will be professional enough to face the task here, just like the last one. All the arcane materials you salvaged can be rubbed to you, and the arcane research of the Arcane Revival Society is the top in the mainland. As for the arcane materials, I'll give you a fifth in return. ”

"Oh, that sounds good. ”

"For the sake of our personal friendship, I'm here to give you a piece of news. "The sound of the night shadows coming from the darkness seemed to have a bit of a playfulness. "According to the intelligence, the guys of Increy have spent considerable effort to smuggle a very strange batch of arcane materials out of the Revival Society's warehouse and are being sent to the territory of the Rodriguez family. The Rodriguez family also seems to have a considerable amount of arcane material of the same type. According to my informant's description, there is a high probability that those items were stolen from the Ossing City by the Qian's envoys. ”

"Oh, is that so?" the Sword of Benevolence shrugged an eyebrow. "That's right, I've heard that they had a batch of things stolen before. ”

"Moreover, the envoys of the 'Qian' Empire have now reached outside the territory of the Rodriguez family, but they are forbidden to enter their direct territory. It should be those guys who are thieves, they should have their own channels of information, knowing that those Westerners have magical spells and skills. Unfortunately, your friend, the Chief of Staff of the Envoy Calling the Wind, has been entrusting the Guardian Hand with the task of helping them investigate the stolen items. And by now they should have known that the stolen things were in the Rodriguez family. That is, so there will soon be a conflict. ”

"Looks like you're incredibly well-informed. The Sword of Benevolence gave an exaggerated expression.

"I deliberately leaked the news of the stolen items to them. The Guardian Hand has developed very well over the years, and many senior mercenaries have joined every year, and mixing sand into it is not a problem, and the sect of the secondary gods is not so pure. It's also very beneficial for us to have people come into conflict with the Inclave guys at this time and get their attention. ”

"So what do you mean by telling me? You're not showing off your powerful channels, are you?"

"Aren't you going to help them? aren't you friends with that guy called Wind? Now that the temple has canceled your want, you can go back and join your friends and brethren." If you rush to the Rodriguez family from here, the straight-line distance is not far, and I will support you with a few flying scrolls here, and you can get there in half a day if you catch up. As long as you can get back to this mission as soon as possible. ”

Nightshade said casually, and took out three scrolls from her folding bag, as if she was genuinely thinking about the Sword of Benevolence. But the sword of benevolence laughed: "Girl, you don't need to use this means to tempt, the eyes of justice can see through your heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys at once." Wind and I are friends, not each other's nannies, and he can handle the little things himself. We all have our own righteous paths to follow. As for what compatriots are not compatriots, the narrow concept of race under justice is so pale and ridiculous, and there is love and justice in my heart, even if it is a shell, I agree that he is my kind. I'm not interested in playing any more of the disgusting bureaucratic wine in the envoys, but it's more interesting to have a mission here. Now that I am a peripheral member of the Revival Society, I should take this opportunity to educate and educate the self-righteous mages and nouveau riche about the power of righteousness. ”

"Okay, I see. Nightshade replied faintly. "Then this time I ask you to take full responsibility for Oroyosta's actions. ”

"It's... This one... Excuse me, Lady Nightshade, do you mean that we obey the orders of this benevolent sword?" asked the fat man Alston, whose fat face was already a little distorted, as if a pig were asking if he was going through the sausage workshop.

"Yes, because the situation here is complicated and there are many eyes watching, I will not give you positive support. Nightshade calmly ignored the fat man's fears. "But rest assured, the promise I made to you will always work. And you don't need to fight the Inclave directly, you just need to do your job of assisting the Sword of Mercy. ”

"That's... That one... Lady Nightshade...", the thin mage, who had been silent and had no sense of existence, spoke, his voice shrill and his expression timid, like a debtor farmer in front of a tax collector. “... You... You haven't told us yet... What is the organization to which we will belong..."

“... For the time being, you will return to my direct leadership. After the matter of Oroyusta is settled, you will enter my organization. Rest assured, you will be given a status and honor commensurate with your talents, and you will be thrown into a truly great force to fight for the Empire for the revival of the Arcane. ”

Nightshade's answer is skillful. The expressions on the faces of the three mages were different and wonderful, and they finally understood that they had no choice, so they didn't say anything. The Sword of Benevolence laughed on the side: "That's right, temporary workers, let's work hard for the dream of becoming a regular." But you can rest assured that under the leadership of me, the king of temporary workers of love and justice, you will not be reduced to cannon fodder who can only carry the black pot. ”