In the eyes of players, the battle between Lord Sherlock and Phoenix is simply a fight between immortals.

Because from the beginning, the two of them have disappeared, because of the volcanic eruption, thick smoke and dust obscured the sky over the entire underground corridor, and the figures of Phoenix Phoenix and Sherlock disappeared in the thick smoke and dust for most of the day.

It's not that Sherlock took the initiative to do this, but not long after the battle began, Phoenix took the initiative and desperately drilled into the smoke.

However, each time, Sherlock pulled it out of the smoke and dust, beat it violently in the air, and then continued its previous actions.

If the gods fight, for the players, they can only watch the plot, of course, there are still a few players who can participate in it, such as those who sit on the airship.

Because of their proficiency in maneuvering airships, they were chosen to operate airships to help Lord Sherlock.

This is very comfortable, there are black dragon dog eggs and black cat pineapple to charge the magic cannon, all the gunner needs to do is to manipulate the magic cannon, then aim, fire.

Of course, there are only a few who can fire guns, and most of the players are still sailing, logistics and observation, etc.

Whether the players operated the airship brought any help to the Sherlock Lord, everyone is not very clear, but at least they had a lot of fun, and the people watching below were also very red-eyed, how cool the magic can be bombarded, although it didn't hit a few times before it was dumb.

As for the battle on the ground, it ended early, and after the inhabitants of the distant town ran out of the Black Volcano, the players who were waiting outside grabbed them with a hammer.

The poisonous mist they can rely on has no effect on the players at all, and they have not been trained all year round, just living like ordinary townspeople, and their combat effectiveness is really not high, and there is no way to compare with the players who have been licking blood for a few months.

After suffering a few casualties, a group of townspeople, led by the mayor and the chief of the garrison, surrendered one after another.

Except for the people in the Garrison Bureau, who have sophisticated weapons and equipment, the other NPCs don't have any reasonable equipment on hand, such as rolling pins, hammers, pitchforks, sickles, etc., which really don't pose much of a threat to the players.

After these townsfolk surrendered, the players did not start a bloody massacre against them, but asked them to take off their equipment, lay down their weapons, take out all the magic stones on their bodies, and so on.

Then this is a tourist town, many people come to consume every year, the per capita consumption level is very high, and most people are of course making money.

Just when the players were happily busy collecting magic stones, in the gray fog of the sky, the battle between Phoenix Phoenix and Sherlock that had been fought for most of the day finally came to an end.

Players will see Phoenix's figure fall like a brilliant meteor against the backdrop of erupting lava and flying rocks, and somewhere at the foot of the black volcano, it emits an explosion-like effect.

Players in the distance, standing in a safe place, let out a cry of amazement together.

And not far away, beetle beasts, carrying a large number of soldiers from the Merchant Alliance Winterfell, rushed towards this side......

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The attack on the Black Volcano Winterfell caravan finally sorted out the cause and effect satisfactorily.

It all started with a catastrophe that swept through the underworld and the surface world thousands of years ago.

As one of the seventy-two demons, Phoenix, was once a subordinate of the great demon Roki Lang Kaimi, after Roki Lang Kaimi was defeated by the full force of the heavens, Phoenix fled back to the underground world, and came to the Black Volcano, clashed with the local residents and ogres, and finally chose to side with the local residents and defeated the ogre, but Phoenix, who was already weak, needed a lot of events to recover his strength, or rather, to avoid the limelight.

After all, after the fall of Roki Lang Kaimi, the counterattack of the Demon Committee was very fierce, and Phoenix was directly labeled as a "war criminal", if he didn't find a way to escape quickly, he might have to be the same as Pineapple, and if he was caught, he would be sent directly to Bankazia for detention.

So Phoenix decided to seal himself in the lava cave of the Black Volcano, sheltering himself from the wind and healing his wounds, agreeing to free him after a few hundred years.

The two hit it off and signed the contract.

But a few hundred years is too long, let alone a few hundred years, two generations later, this thing will become a legend, and few people know how to properly break the seal of Phoenix.

Because the contract has expired, the inhabitants of distant towns and their descendants who have violated the terms of the contract will have to accept the curse of the contract for the rest of their lives - they have no little toe thumbs in their lives, including slimes!

In order to lift this terrible curse, after thousands of years, they finally saw the contents of Cherry in the newspaper by chance, and then, with the help of a mysterious person, they began a detailed plan, they not only want to lift the curse, they also want to control Phoenix and use Phoenix to rule the world! Let the boulder and pressure that once pressed on them become their help!

They begin to try their best to invite Cherry to work in a distant town, in various ways, but Cherry is not happy and only wants to be in Winterfell.

It wasn't until Cherry resigned that he made his way to the distant town, and during this time, the caravan of Winterfell passed through the distant town and the Black Volcano, and the incident could be described as an accident, at least for the inhabitants of the distant town.

Everyone knows what happened after that, they designed Cherry to contact the seal of Phoenix, but it turned out that they themselves had misunderstood it for so many years, and it was not the person named Cherry who was needed to lift the seal at all, but Cherry, a fruit that is not available in the underground world!

There were some that Phoenix brought here, but they were eaten by their ancestors, and they completely forgot about keeping the cherries to fulfill the contract.

"What?! You say our story is? I said you're a journalist! What kind of nonsense you're reporting, do you know how we feel? We've protected Phoenix from being sent to Bankazia for thousands of years, and how did he repay us?! Do you know what it's like to not have a thumb on your little feet? If I could have a little thumb, I'd trade the whole world for it! You don't understand me at all! Those of you with little thumbs can only say cool things! ”

The head of the captured garrison roared at Patrick who was interviewing him, and there were already people from the Winterfell garrison who forcibly escorted him to the beetle beast sent to Bankazia, and the guards shouted at him:

"Shut up, you're going to be rotten in Bankazia for the rest of your life!"

Looking at the scene in front of him, the chief assistant from the Winterfell City Lord's office, Nicholas's butler, and the chief ooze monster, turned around and looked at Lord Sherlock, who was standing beside him, covered in dust, and the black cat Pineapple, the leader of the mercenary group.

"I'm so grateful to Captain Pineapple and Lord Sherlock! With such a complex and confusing case, it is absolutely impossible to solve the puzzle without the help of two people! ”

"That's what we're supposed to do."

The black cat Pineapple had a serious expression, and Sherlock also nodded and said:

"That's right. But I didn't expect that the black volcano, which has always been a tourist attraction, still hides such a sad secret, and the entire distant town has been cursed with such darkness, Phoenix is really harmful, but it's a pity that this phoenix escaped as soon as possible after getting rid of the shackles, and I blame my lack of ability, I can't beat him, otherwise I will definitely send him to Bankazia. ”

Sherlock said as he spoke, and with a deep finger, he touched a parrot covered in red feathers on his shoulder, the parrot's eyes were wide, the hair on his body was a little messy, one eye was a little blue, and the most important thing was that the bird's face actually showed a "I dare not move.jpg expression].

"It's a bit of a headache to let Phoenix escape, but it is already a blessing in misfortune that it didn't cause larger-scale casualties, and the heroic caravan guards of the 2,500 people who were poisoned by these townspeople can also be blinded, it's really a catastrophe." The ooze sighed, but he hesitated for a moment, and finally asked:

"Lord Sherlock, is it possible that Phoenix was seriously injured by you and ended up somewhere? Because I heard the head of the guard of that crazy distant town say that you are inseparable from him, and there is also the magic of the airship, will he be seriously injured? ”

"Inseparable? No, no, no, how could it be, I was completely pressed and beaten. How could I have beaten the seventy-two demons! Sherlock said as he reached out and touched the mouth of the parrot on his shoulder, which quickly made a swallowing sound.

The head of the black cat pineapple, who was standing next to Sherlock, for some reason, had his entire hair standing on end.

"Of course, you can also send a team to search, what if Phoenix is caught?"

"Ah...... Is that so......" The ooze monster nodded, and he hesitated again before saying:

"That, about the dungeon core hidden in the director's house......"

"Huh? Is the dungeon core in the chief's house? I don't know! Sherlock looked surprised.

"Ah, according to his confession, this is true, but we went over to look at it, and we couldn't find it anymore, and then the director corrected it, saying that you took it, of course, I definitely didn't doubt what you meant, I just wanted to ask, could it be that your subordinates took it?" The ooze asked curiously.

"Is that so? You wait. Sherlock said, grabbing a player with the word "hoe" on his head, and asked:

"Have you ever been to the Director's house? See the dungeon core? ”

"Huh? What the hell is the dungeon core, I don't know? ”

After Hoe He finished speaking with a confused face, he was thrown aside by Sherlock, and then Sherlock shrugged his shoulders, and the red parrot moved twice uneasily.

"You see, they obviously don't know about it, I don't even know about it, how can they possibly know. The director is probably lying, he must have disposed of the dungeon core, sold it to someone, or damaged it or something, in short, he must be interrogated properly, don't believe the accusations about me and the mercenary group [no one takes this name], you also know, what they hate most now is us, and they can't wait to pull us into the water. ”

"What you said makes a lot of sense, I'll look into this matter as soon as possible, thank you very much, Lord Sherlock, and Captain Pineapple!"

The ooze monster said again.

"It's nothing, this is what I should do as a member of the demons in the underground world, everyone knows that the current peace is not easy to come by, and a lot of credit is due to your merchant alliance, providing you with help and service is what I should do!"

Sherlock asked again:

"About the reward ...... this time"

"Don't worry, Lord Sherlock, ten million magic stones will come back to you soon...... I'm talking about the pineapple captain's account. ”

The ooze was quick to say.

Sherlock nodded, clearly pleased with Winterfell's efficiency.

But just as he was about to end the conversation and leave, the ooze suddenly remembered something and asked:

"Sherlock, sir, where did you buy your parrot? How much does it cost? It's beautiful and well-behaved, do you have a name? ”

"Him? Picked up, it's called Phoenix. ”

Sherlock said with a smile.

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