This time, Sauron was completely prepared before leaving.

Before leaving, he drew a blueprint for the further planning of the overseas islands, and according to his original layout, the upper limit of the population of Modo City was about 50,000 people, which was already a large city in the current era. The port part is still run by the Church of Fortune and the Church of the Sea, and Sauron attaches more importance to land, and the focus in the future is also on land, and when he accumulates a certain amount of strength, he may directly move to Treasure Island, where the wealth is enough to easily replace overseas trade.

After all, no matter how lucrative the trade is, it can't compare to digging gold mines yourself, and if you want to change from pirates to a higher class in the future, it will be quite difficult to do without gold mines behind you.

[Note: As mentioned above, Treasure Island, an overseas archipelago with rich mineral resources. 】

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It is much more convenient to travel alone.

Sauron set off directly in the ghost ship Dead Whisperer, and arrived at the shipwreck bay along the overseas route, without needing to resupply on the way, and after inspecting the black market of slaves overseas of the shipwreck, he went to the Northlands.

Northland is located in the northwest of the continent.

The Ice and Snow Country is located in the northernmost position, so Sauron's voyage this time is quite long, and if he wants to gather the other three elemental crystals, he needs to cover almost half of the entire continent. From south to north, from north to east, and finally across the Desert of Death into the Netherlands, where the last Elemental Hedron is somewhere.

A place where you may encounter a demon in the eye.

Back in the Northlands, Sauron's mood was very different, as he landed from the deep-water harbor and left the ghost ship Deathwhisperer in the nearby seas.

The port is still so bustling and lively.

However, in the noisy crowd, there were many more people wearing weapons, and even some half-grown children had a dagger hidden at their waists.

Sauron couldn't help frowning slightly.

He walked out along the road, as he approached the location of the Deepwater Port gates. I saw a lot of wanted notices.

There are humans, there are dwarves, and there are lizardmen.

The security here seems to have deteriorated a lot compared to the last time I came here, there are dozens of wanted notices posted on a billboard, and the guards in charge of patrolling are much more nervous than in the past, and they look like they used to be lazy and lazy. The location of the Adventurer's Guild is more lively than before, and there is even a bulletin board outside with many missions written in bright red letters.

For example, these pieces in front of you.

- "A hundred miles south of the deep-water harbor, the town of Ancient Tree has been attacked by the Darkscale Lizardmen, and the number of enemies is small, and the danger is C-class. The quest reward is 1,200 Kindler. Urgent quests with additional rewards for completion. ”

- "Ogre have appeared in the vicinity of the town of Facona, and people have been missing one after another recently, and the mayor wants to ask someone to investigate the matter and determine the number and whereabouts of the ogre. The quest rewards 300 Kindler, with an additional reward for assisting the Town Watch in killing ogres. ”

- "Yesterday in the deep-water harbor discovered a strange fog in the nearby waters, and some merchant sailors said that they had seen traces of ghost ships. This task is a special mission, anyone can get a reward as long as they have clues, and the difficulty of the task is level B. ”

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Probably because the timeline is getting closer and closer to turbulent times. The Adventurer's Guild has also released a lot more missions than in the past.

However, what made Sauron feel a little crying and laughing was that there were more than a dozen bulletin boards erected outside, and the difficulty of the missions ranged from F to C, and the only one was a B-level mission. It turned out to be an investigation of the strange fog that appeared in the deep-water port yesterday. Needless to say, it must have been because of Sauron's arrival, because he had activated the Dead Whisperer's ability to summon mist before he got close to him, and he was unexpectedly seen by nearby sailors. That's why we have today's special investigation mission of B-level difficulty.

It's surprising to think about.

Sauron had also received a mission from the Adventurer's Guild back then, but he didn't expect to go through so much. One day, it turned into a difficult investigative mission.

There was a assembled procession outside the city gates.

Before leaving the town, Sauron saw the militia in training, most of them adult men, including many children as young as fifteen or sixteen. In previous years it would not be in March. That is, the militia is trained during the busy agricultural period, and the training is also the agricultural slack period after the wheat harvest. Therefore, as long as you take a look at this situation, you can guess that there is a problem with public security in the vicinity. Urgently train the militia, something big must have happened nearby, otherwise how could there be that time for sowing spring wheat.

Sauron didn't linger here.

In fact, he had been mentally prepared for the chaos to come, a catastrophe was much more than what he saw in front of him, and when the real chaos came, it was the real catastrophe that broke out.

If there are no surprises.

Sauron was supposed to arrive in the Ice Nation tomorrow, but just after he left the Deep Water Harbor, a small accident happened.

He saw a pile of corpses.

Strictly speaking, a pile of corpses that had been dead for a while, and the corpses had basically begun to decompose, and the reason Sauron was alarmed was the stench emanating from here.

Corpses were not uncommon in this day and age.

If it were just corpses, Sauron wouldn't have cared at all.

However, there was one distinctive feature of these corpses that made Sauron stop, and all their eyeballs were gouged out.

Strictly speaking, it should have been taken out!

Bloody eye sockets, all the corpses' eyeballs had been taken out, they had battle marks on their bodies, and in some places the signs of struggle were even gouged out while they were alive, and then their throats were cut by the enemy.

Very familiar method of killing!

Sauron glanced at the corpses and couldn't help muttering, "The Eyeless!?" Has this group of people already appeared? ”

The Eyeless.

A cult of evil gods that is not very strong, but not weak either.

They believe in an evil god without eyeballs, and these people like to gouge out the eyeballs of their enemies after defeating them, or sacrifice their evil gods with a killing, and finally gouge out the eyeballs of the killed person as a sacrifice. Sauron's reason for knowing them was simple, he had been tasked with investigating another cult of evil gods.

That cult is called the Blind One.

There are some similarities between the two fallen evil organizations, and Sauron encountered the Eyeless Cultists when he was investigating the Blind.

"Suffer death! Wicked! ”

Just as Sauron was about to leave after looking at the corpses, pondering for a moment, suddenly a spell aura appeared that made him extremely uncomfortable, and then the paladin's signature spell 'Detect Evil' fell on him.

It's as if a mine was triggered!

Sauron's body exploded with an extremely rich blood-red light in an instant, as the most powerful pirate king in charge of the South Coast, it is not an exaggeration to say that Sauron is now full of blood, although the order he brought to the South Coast has made the lives of ordinary merchants much more stable. But it is also undeniable that he controlled the black market trade, the slave trade, and extracted the protection money of other merchants. Therefore, no matter from any angle, the evil aura on Sauron's body is very strong!

There is only one kind of person in this world who will throw 'evil detection' at others without asking.

That's the Paladin!

There was a hint of murder on Sauron's body, if there was any behavior in this world that disgusted him the most, it was undoubtedly the holy knight who threw 'detecting evil' in the top three.

So at the moment he has an urge to kill!

But what he didn't expect was that the first person to shout 'Die' was actually the holy warrior in front of him.

It was a handsome young man.

He looked like a noble kid, because he was wearing gorgeous full-body armor, and after he threw a 'Detect Evil' at Sauron, he had a righteous expression on his face, and he directly swung his sword and slashed at it. The paladin didn't seem to have much combat experience, and before the distance between the two of them could be closed, he had already begun to accelerate his sprint, and Sauron could catch the trajectory of his attack even with his eyes closed.

This is an inexperienced rookie!

It is estimated that the career level is around the third order, and it is not surprising that the career level is around 12.

Judging by the color of the spell's aura, Sauron had no intention of being the kind of person who committed the most crimes! Therefore, the paladin did not hesitate to attack after seeing such a rich blood-red light, and in his opinion, Sauron belonged to the kind of criminal who could be directly judged!

"Don't be impulsive!"

"Come back!"

"You're crazy! Don't litter to detect evil! ”

A female voice came from behind the young paladin, and there were two or three other mixed voices, and it looked like it was a team of adventurers.

The paladin seems to have taken over the duties of the warrior.

They looked like a team of adventurers who had accepted a certain mission, and the paladin who was at the front, after seeing the pile of corpses and Sauron standing next to him, his first reaction was not to ask, but to throw out a detection evil.

it!

With a sonorous sound, Sauron instantly pulled out his scimitar and died, and then a series of simulated warrior monks rushed forward at high speed, and after swinging his sword to block the paladin's attack, it was a slash towards his head!

"Don't!"

An exclamation rang out.

Three figures rushed out of the woods on the side, and one of the female voices sounded a little familiar to Sauron, and there were quite few people who could make him feel familiar, so after a moment's hesitation, he twisted his knife with his backhand and replaced it with the back of the knife.

Clang!

Thump.

The young paladin was knocked unconscious, falling to the ground like an upside-down onion.

Sauron turned to look at the four adventurers who were approaching, and his gaze swept slightly among them, and he immediately found a figure that was once familiar.

Anyali.

The teenage priest who had helped them in Amber City!

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(PS: That's all for today.) (To be continued......)