Chapter 172: The Butcher of Berkeley

"Flame Priest? How did they end up here? "Rosen is weird.

"Keep listening to them." Lilith gestured.

Outside the crack, the sound continued to come in, but it was not a sound of talking, but a strange sound of metal colliding, 'clang~clang', sounding as if it was disassembling some metal machinery.

After about a few minutes, the voice sounded again, and it was the rough voice from before: "My lord, look at this, is this what you are looking for?" ”

There was silence outside the exit for a few moments, except for the faint sound of the priest checking it.

After more than ten seconds, the priest's voice came: "Very good, this is exactly what I wanted." Richard, you're doing a great job. You have made a tremendous contribution to the church. The eternal flame will favor you, and the church will reward you richly. Now, you send a few people and bring these things back to Berkeley. Remember, there are no surprises! ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Then I'll go first. Stay safe and don't be discovered by the evil magicians of Nilogaard. ”

"Understood."

There was a sound of footsteps, the sound was getting farther and farther away, it should be that the priest had left, and after a while, the rough voice sounded again: "Brothers, all move, clean up this place, take away everything you can, and burn what you can't take away!" If you can't burn it, throw it in the sewer. ”

"Yes, head!" A group of people agreed, listening to the voice, at least more than 50 people.

Immediately after, there were all sorts of jumble sounds coming from outside the exit, and the occasional conversation, but the content was basically meaningless.

At this time, Lawson's invincible magic had lasted for more than six minutes, and there were at least 50 people outside the rift, and these guys were still a group of Pyrocultists on secret missions.

If Rosen goes out rashly, the two sides will definitely fight, and with so many people on the other side, if he is not careful, it may be a tragedy.

After a little deliberation about the situation, Lawson retreated along the rift, exiting the rift, back to the Valley of Doom, and then stayed in the dark, through the rift, listening carefully to the movement of the exit on the other side of the rift.

He was waiting, when he suddenly felt Lilith's heart beating a little fast on his back, as if he was frightened by something.

"What's wrong with you, Lilith?"

"I know that Richard." Lilith's voice was solemn.

"Where did he come from?"

"One of the chief leaders of the Wizard Hunters, known as the Butcher of Berkeley, tortured more than 70 unarmed civilians, including 2 babies under the age of a month, and 4 pregnant women, on a night of fire two months ago, for asking a magician where he was going. The corpses after the torture and killing were not spared, and they were all tied to the stake and burned to charcoal, and stood on the execution ground. ”

"It's a butcher!" Lawson took a breath of cold air.

Lilith suddenly reached out and grabbed Rosen's arm: "Alchemist, I beg you something. ”

"What? Want me to kill that Richard? ”

"Not exactly. I want you to help you find out the purpose of Chad's trip, and of course, kill that Richard if you have the chance. Lilith whispered, "Of course, I won't let you do it for nothing, I'll give you a reward." ”

As soon as he heard the honorarium, Rosen couldn't help but want to laugh: "Miss Linde, you owe me a lot of debt now." If you talk so much now, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to pay it back in the future? ”

"Uh~~~ This ......." Lilith was speechless for a while, along the way, she did owe Rosen a big favor, a life-saving favor that she couldn't repay in a lifetime.

"Haha~~"

Rosen suddenly laughed, and he touched the handle of the spiral troll, "Well, well, I also want to find out what the hell these Flame Clergy are up to." So, this time the action ....... Just give me 50,000 gold dragon coins. ”

Lilith was stunned for a moment before she said, "You're really ...... Is...... A miser. ”

"No, no, no, I love magic besides money, and to be honest, if you're willing to give me an extra magic book, I'm more than happy to accept it."

"......." Lilith felt that her wisest choice was to keep her mouth shut.

Although he decided to trouble these Flame Cultists, it was obviously not a smart choice to rush out and attack directly now, so Lawson was still waiting at the mouth of the rift.

I waited for about an hour.

After an hour, the movement on the opposite side faded away. The group of Pyruists packed up their things and left.

Rosen's energy was basically restored, so he activated the alchemy magic again, used invincible magic, and entered the rift again.

A few minutes later, he returned to the exit, and by this time, the fire at the exit had completely disappeared and became dark.

Rosen's heart was slightly relieved, and he took a step forward and walked out of the crack, and at the same time took out his flashlight and turned it on.

Outside the chasm was a huge hall, the walls of which were made of huge stone bricks, 10 meters high and more than 30 meters long and wide. The hall seemed to have just undergone a fierce battle, with bloodstains, stone fragments, and several huge footprints over 40 centimeters long everywhere on the floors and walls.

These footprints are up to 5 centimeters deep and are forcibly stepped on on stone bricks, which shows the tremendous power of the owner of the footprints.

When Rosen removed the invincible shield, he smelled a strong smell in the air, the smell of gunpowder, the smell of blood, and an inexplicable smell, a little like gasoline, and a bit like engine oil, very strange, Rosen had never smelled it, not even on Earth.

He walked around the hall again, carefully observing every trace of destruction, and finally, he concluded: "A very fierce battle has just taken place here. One of them is a humanoid troll that is at least 4 meters tall. The other side is supposed to be the warriors of the Cult of Pyro, and the weapons they use are miniature versions of Thor's power, and they also use bombs. In this battle, at least 100 people from the Flame God Cult were dispatched, and more than 60 people were killed in the battle. Eventually, the battle ended with the troll being killed. The corpses of the trolls were taken away by those men, and as for the corpses of the war dead...... Here, they were all thrown into the sewer, believing that before long, the corpses would float into the underground city and become food for the monsters. ”

As he spoke, Lawson crouched on the ground and carefully observed a stain on the ground.

It was an oil stain, one of the sources of the strange smell, and judging from the traces of the scene, it was supposed to have flowed from the body of the Death Guard.

Lilith had also been observing, and she had come to a similar conclusion to Lawson, which made her heart tremble: "More than 100 warriors of the Flame God Cult have used the power of Thor, and more than 60 have been killed. The power of this troll is truly terrifying. ”

Lawson nodded slightly: "This monster is indeed very powerful. If I do, I'm afraid I won't be its opponent. ”

Although the warriors of the Flame God Cult used the most primitive muskets, there were more than a hundred, and everyone shot together, as well as black powder bombs, the lethality was already quite terrifying, and the firepower was only stronger than the two muskets in Lawson's hand.

"What kind of monster would be so powerful? Could it be a giant ghoul lord? Lilith asked.

Lawson shook his head, he had a different idea: "Perhaps, it's the dead guard of the underground city." ”

He had dealt with the giant ghoul lord, the lord was very strong, but it was still strong enough to do so, it was the patrol guard who had crossed paths, and the thick blood and strange power that made the air drop to freezing point in an instant left a deep impression on Lawson.

Furthermore, both the little monster and the Daredevil Aisha said that there was a dead guard guarding the exit of Doom Valley, but they didn't encounter any monsters along the way. If the troll is the Death Guard, then things will be the same.

After saying that, he stretched out his hand, dipped some oil stains on the ground, and put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look, and he found that this thing was actually pale silver, as if there was a lot of metal powder dissolved in it. He rubbed his fingers together, and it felt so slippery that there was barely any friction between his fingers.

'Is it lubricating for such a slippery one?' Rosen was curious.

On the other side, Lilith didn't notice Lawson's state, and her brows were full of worry: "The death guard of the Dark City...... Is it so strong? What did those priests spend so much money to kill the guards? ”

Lawson also has no clue about this, as his understanding of this otherworld continues to deepen, the experience of the game in his previous life is completely insufficient. What he is experiencing now is completely beyond the scope of his knowledge of the game world.

"I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing for me. Let's go ahead and see what happens! ”

He had a feeling that this time, the Flame God Cult's plot might have something to do with the underground city.