Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Sudden New Mission
The little count stood quietly, watching his enemy die like a clown, seemingly unconcerned about the Shadow Assassin's reaction.
"According to our tradition, we should not accept employment from other people during the employment period." The Shadow Assassin said with a serious expression, Antoine's eyes lit up as he spoke.
However, the Shadow Assassin, who stretched out a finger, shook his finger: "But there is only one exception, and that is when it is determined that the employer is unable to pay the promised payment, the Shadow Assassin will choose the appropriate way to recover the loss. β
"But I still have the ability to pay!" Antoine roared excitedly: "Not counting my treasure, but also my title deed!" Even if it's just the revenue from the port! Just two weeks is enough to pay your commission! β
The Shadow Assassin stretched out his hand to signal his former employer to calm down: "Here's the problem, you don't have two weeks, my lord, in fact, you don't even have two days!" Your treasure is only enough to pay my previous salary, and the title deeds, those things will be worthless in no time. Because by this time tomorrow, the city will be completely destroyed, just as the lord said. β
"What!" Antoine's face felt like he had been punched, and his facial features were all squeezed together.
"For the sake of your former employer, I'm going to make you a fool." The Shadow Assassin coughed lightly, "Ever since you asked me to start investigating the Demon Hunter's intentions, I've started from the cultist direction. After all, Demon Hunters, their greatest hobby is to kill Chaos Believers and Chaos monsters, what could attract the attention of Demon Hunters more than Chaos? Especially when there is still news of cultists haunting the city? β
"What I didn't expect was that the first thing I found out was that our lord was actually involved with these cultists in private, originally I wanted to warn you in exchange for some extra income." The Shadow Assassin said this, as if regretful, "But unfortunately, by the time I found out about their plan to destroy the entire city, they were almost done. I'm sorry, but even if I join forces with the Demon Hunters, I'm afraid it won't be too late to stop them. So, the next thing is the question of how to stop the loss. β
The Shadow Assassin's expression of helplessness when working with Chaos made Antoine's heart drop completely.
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When the lord performed Infernal Affairs in the middle of the chast, in the chaos crack, the female warrior who opened the violent posture waved the flail, shouted and launched the skill, the flail instantly shone with ominous blood-colored light, knocking open the egg and shooting a plague warrior in the head, the metal helmet failed to play a protective effect, and the scattered brains were quickly absorbed by the platform under her feet, but a brand new head grew like fruit on the branch next to it.
(Reckless Strike: Unleashes a charged attack that deals 1.5x damage.) οΌ
Taking advantage of the samurai's ability to pluck her own head, the castrated female samurai wasted no time and charged again, giving a corrupted archer only time to use her own body to block the heavy weapons that were slashed by the momentum, which made the huge difference in strength between the two fully manifest - the enemy was blasted out of the platform by the huge impact force and even the weapons of the people!
The female warrior relied on the increase of [Fury] to crush the audience for a while, Xu Yichen did not waste time, and rushed towards the black-robed sacrifice at an unimaginable speed, he now only hopes that the weapon in his hand can cause effective damage to the enemy leader in front of him, and at the same time expects that the enemy will be a little sensible in his own identity, and will not be full of dedication like his own subordinates, and treat mutation as food and drink.
Otherwise, he can only hope that the mysterious necklace in his hand will have an unexpected effect, and the difficulty of the task has been made to the highest difficulty by his own death, and he can only count on the plot to kill, and it is difficult to make a difference with the strength of the two of them alone. However, years of education in school have taught Xu Yichen that he should never put his last hope on the basis that the enemy will make mistakes.
At the last moment when the blade was about to be added, the black-robed man was indeed worthy of being the leader of this group of mutant monsters, the sharp saber cut through the gorgeous black robe, and the steel-like touch under the clothes made the weapon in Xu Yichen's hand stop here.
The huge danger perception made Xu Yichen quickly roll to the side and dodge, as if the steel cable stretched to the limit was broken, and the sound of exploding air sounded in his ears!
The black-robed man who had lost his disguise finally revealed his true face, covered with a large pool of rotten flesh of tentacles, barely combined into a human form, wriggling tentacles revealed from all parts of the "body", densely woven tiny tentacles were like meridians and blood vessels, twisted together to become his feet, and the broken black robe was dyed with a different color; The hands are just a few tentacles. The strange-looking creature actually had a humanoid headβa giant eyeball that had replaced his headβwith exposed fangs and flat jaws that grew directly into the huge eye.
"Ignorant mortals! How dare you stop the steps of our Lord, and the world will finally feel the care of a loving Father! The alienated leader roared, and stretched his limbs like spiders, supporting his entire body with his tentacles.
"You look directly at the Chaos God, the vanguard of Nurgle, and are affected by the effect of 'Chaos Shock', and perform a round of will judgment, if you can't pass, you will not be able to move for 5 seconds."
"You have stepped into the range of the 'Plague Domain', and you will be judged every 60 seconds by a round of physique, and if you don't pass, you will randomly get 1~3 disease effects."
"You have passed the Judgment of the Will with extraordinary will, the firm faith hidden in your soul has made you fearless, and you have temporarily gained a 'heroic' effect, immune to any psychic effects for 5 minutes."
"Because you have the [Immunity to All Diseases] talent, you are immune to the effects of the 'Plague Domain'."
With the transformation of the black-robed man, Xu Yichen's retina was swiped by various system prompts for a while, but fortunately, it seems that he is immune to all the negative environmental influences.
Then, a sudden system message was refreshed.
"Your task log has been updated."
"The Far South in the Storm" (Completed): During a conversation between the Demon Hunter and the Elves, you learn that the Far South Colony has been surrounded by danger, and now you need to bring goodwill from the Elves to the upper echelons of the Humans. But will the decaying aristocracy respond correctly?
Difficulty: Dangerous
Rewards: 3000 XP, 300 Anthony Grand Port Fame (Current City Fame 300/500, Friendly)
"The follow-up mission - 'Far South in the Storm - A City in Danger' has been accepted."
"The Far South in the Wind and Rain - The City at Risk": You find the undercurrents surging in the city. With great instinct and luck, you've found evidence of collusion between the local lords and the forces of Chaos. In your reckless actions, you find the Chaos Rift hidden in the ghetto, forcing the cultists to launch their own plans in advance. So your teacher has sensed the leak of chaos and is heading there, and perhaps you and your teacher have enough time to undo it.
Difficulty: Epic
Reward: High risk and high reward, if you can survive, you will definitely feel that it will be worth it.
It seems that his teacher has met the little Count Anthony, completed this task, and is on his way to support him, and finally has good news.
"You now have enough experience to level up your class."
"Overall Level 2 (9195/7200)"
Looking at the almost invincible enemy in front of him, Xu Yichen took out the [Broken Pendant] in his arms in the gap of dodging the attack, wrapped it in his hand, and clicked the upgrade option on the character interface with the idea of dying and struggling.