Fort Sharps on the ground was noisy and bustling, and the cheers of the arena were one after another.

But it's the other way around.

It was cold, damp, the floor and walls were covered with moss, the ditch in the middle of the road was dripping with brown rotten water and emitting an unpleasant stench, and from time to time red-eyed rats and corpse insects walked over the moss.

This is the sewer of the slum of Sharpsburg.

It is also the territory of thieves, gangsters, and various shadow forces.

The tunnels dug by thieves and gangsters in the slums have been connected to the sewers, and various tunnels, escape openings, secret doors and rat alleys crisscross the sewers like an underground labyrinth.

To this day, no one knows the full route here, not even Cudelia.

- She can't recover Jackie Chan and run to the ground!

Thus, the Knights of the Guards monitored the sewer passage between the ghetto and the city. In addition, Cudelia hired mages to create an underground surveillance wall between the cities.

From the ground to the rock formations.

Up to 100 meters deep!

As long as someone digs into the wall, these mages will definitely notice it and stop it.

Even though a lot of remedies were used, beneath the ground of the slum was already a dungeon that was not under the lord's control.

……

A figure is walking in this place that is rarely frequented.

A black cloak, a pale mask with no mouth or nose, a black sickle emblem on her chest, and a slender waist and bulging chest show her feminine identity.

I don't know if it's because of the assassin training or the moss under her feet, even though I could see her movements, there was no sound of footsteps.

There was only the sound of ticking water and the squeak of rats in the passage.

Hull walked past a corpse covered in dung-worms............ The owner of this body will be forgotten by all beings, and whatever his strength and power may have been in his lifetime, he is now just a pile of rotten flesh.

Eventually, even his bones would be corroded by the acidic digest of the corpse worms, turning them into dust and sludge from the earth.

But...... Who isn't?

The mortal heroes who had achieved fame and glory in the battles of antiquity were now mere statues and legends, and as short-lived mortals, their souls were either destroyed or rested in the underworld.

Statues are dead after all, legends can be faked, and only the soul is the essence of life.

"All things will eventually be destroyed, and the soul will return to Hades until the next reincarnation."

How cruel and true is Helmer's recitation of the first three lines of the Book of Eternity (the general outline of the 'House of Eternity' school). But now these three sentences have changed: "The Pale Sage will guide us to break this cycle, a new order will be born, and our lives will embrace the eternal fire." ”

"It's all a lie!" Hull thought disdainfully.

Turning a corner, Hull looked in front and back of him, and felt that no one was following him, so he groped his hand on the wall, and after not knowing where to press, the stone brick she stepped on instantly opened downwards and dropped her, but Hull was not alarmed———— she had been here more than once.

Therefore, she just activated the feathering technique of the cloak and fell straight down.

A gray light locked onto Hel.

"Billions of bones, forge the Immortal Throne!"

"Drop! The secret word answers correctly, and the antimatter ray is canceled. ”

"Whew!"

After hearing this, Hull exhaled a long breath, "Fortunately, the secret language has not changed. ”

At the bottom of the pit is a wide road, three meters wide and high, and there are a pair of green fires every ten meters on both sides, exuding the smell of decay.

Turning a corner less than ten meters to the end, there was a metal door with dense shadows and spiritual light.

But Hel, who had the secret language, opened the door with ease.

Next, inside is a rotunda surrounded by the same green fires. In addition to the door behind Hull, there are four other doors.

'It should be the entrance passage of the other messengers,'

Hel didn't dare to enter, she didn't have the secret words of these doors, and she didn't have access to them, and if she entered, she would be wiped out by powerful magic.

Looking at the black-red crystal in the center of the top of the hall, Hull knelt down on one knee, and after chanting the incantation, a black light shot out of her hand, falling into the crystal, and after a moment of silence, a rapidly rotating vortex of energy appeared in the crystal.

Immediately after, a voice came from the vortex...... It's a cold machine.

"It's finally here, you, Hull, my apprentice, are ten days late, and you should have come to tell us on the day of the last Dark Moon, I almost thought you had betrayed the Council............ Or death! ”

At this time, a vortex of energy formed in the crystal again.

This time, it's a high-pitched female voice.

"Dry bones, if the plan is frustrated, you should be held responsible, your apprentice did not complete such a simple task, this is simply unforgivable! As punishment, her soul should be burned in the fire of the underworld for ten years. ”

Her words made Hull's body tremble, because it was no joke.

Hull had seen the owner of the voice with his own eyes, and the slightest anger on the other side's apprentices would be horrific punishment, and the terrible howls of the souls burned in the fire made Hull feel even more creepy.

"My apprentice, Heaterly, this is. The task, hers, is given by me, and naturally only I am qualified to punish her. What's more, the plan hasn't started yet, so why talk about failure. ”

The voice of the dry bones was still mechanized, and although there was no anger in the tone, it had already expressed its own meaning.

"Even so, she should have come and told us on the day of the last Dark Moon ten days ago............ She deserves to be punished for daring to neglect our councillors in such a way, so that our majesty may not be repeated! ”

The vortex churned again, and a third vortex appeared, and the first two were suppressed, much to Hull's surprise.

But immediately he bowed his head.

"Enough!! Heatley, Dry Bones, I don't want to listen to your nonsense. ”

The new voice was overbearing, but Hull's mentor Dry Bones and the female voice named Heatley immediately stopped talking.

- Like a mouse seeing a cat!

A new voice turned to Hull.

"Hull, young mage, I am the elder of the school, and the Chief has given me full control over this operation, you can call me by the code name Black Crow."

'Black crow? ’

It only took a moment for Hull to remember who it was.

'Crow—sue the dead?' What a big shot. She smiled helplessly in her heart.

Originally, although she suddenly revealed her identity and made a major mistake, she was very sure that her mentor would be able to keep herself, but now? It was really ......... for an Extreme Realm mage, a powerful existence with a status in the top five within the sect, to personally ask about such a small person as himself

Now she has no good way, she can only take one step at a time.

"I'm afraid, my lord, that a mage as great as you would personally ask a lowly mage like me...... Your Excellency, you are the Raven of Spirits, the Proclaimer of Death, and you are ......"

"Alright, stop!" The Raven stopped Hull's touting.

"Since you know your humility, then don't waste my time, I have heard too much of this kind of flattery and sycophancy in my memory! Got it? ”

"Yes, sir." Hull replied with a sincere fear, and her heart was full of contradictions.

'Do you want to hide it from them?' ’

But think of the other four doors...... That is to say: there are also four unidentified messengers.

These old fellows can ask about them.

Let's be honest.

Hel said respectfully, "Honorable Elder Crow, the day before the last Dark Moon appeared, I followed my mentor's orders to visit Archmage Ernest and invite him to join the school, but he refused. That's nothing, Ernest didn't make a move on me, he didn't find out who I was, he was only interested in writing books now, and he shouldn't have any impact on the plan. ”

Hitli said sharply, "Go on, these things have already been reported by other envoys, and we want to know why you didn't come here for ten days............ After all, you know too much to be cautious. ”

"As a special envoy, of course I can understand the hardships of all the adults, but I also ask a few adults to listen to the explanation." Hull's attitude was extremely deferential.

"Say it!"

Hull continued, "When I left Ernest's place, I accidentally saw some flaws in Kyle Noens, the adopted son of the Golden Swordmaster, and he also became suspicious of me, so I tried to assassinate him, but failed............ But that's not the point, Kyle Noons himself is the biggest problem———— he hasn't experienced the awakening ritual of the Sealing Temple, but he uses the unique 'purification power' of the Nornes family, and its effect is better than those awakened people of the Nornes family! ”

"What! Can you be sure? ”

Surprisingly, a tone of surprise actually came from the mouth of the crow-suing the dead.

Hull said affirmatively: "That's right, it's completely true, I couldn't use the holy power after being hit by that power, it can't be wrong." ”

“…… We're going to talk about it for a moment. ”

After a moment of silence, the crow said.

The three vortices in the crystal approached each other and vibrated frequently, apparently communicating with each other. Hull didn't dare to look up, she was hiding something, but revealing something that the old guys would soon know.

The will of the goddess is the only one, she can die, but not now.

The discussion ended quickly, and the final verdict came out.

The mage named Dry Bones said, "Hull, my apprentice, although Archmage Hitli still wants to punish you, Lord Raven thinks that the information you have provided is very useful, and the credit you have received can be used to offset your mistakes, and there is even a slight surplus, so you don't have to worry about being punished." ”

"Thank you for your kindness, so what should I do next?"

Dry Bone continued, "Your mission was told by another messenger in the morning, and Lord Crow can discern your emotions, and he thinks you haven't leaked your secrets...... In that case, the plan will continue. If you've recovered, go to the new Grand Emissary's Iron Skull. On the day of the success of the plan, when you are rewarded for your merits, your merits for today will be counted together. ”

"I'm fully recovered, ready to help."

"Very well, that's it for today, it won't be long before we don't need the Dark Moon power to cover up our communications............ Go ahead! ”

The three whirlpools dissipated, and Hull straightened up and left.