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"Bishop Hersman, can you tell me what your temple is transporting?" The leader of the mercenary group questioned Bishop Hersman.

According to the employment regulations, the employer should be honest with the mercenary and explain the difficulties of the task and the remuneration, and should not conceal anything.

Only in this way can mercenaries earn the same amount of risk they take, which is also a unique right for mercenaries.

However, this time the mission employer was the temple, and since the temple deliberately concealed it, the mercenaries didn't ask much.

Anyway, the employer is a temple, and no one dares to mess with this kind of big organization; They hire mercenaries, but they are just to deal with the gangsters on the road and prevent accidents.

But who knows, this simple escort mission will actually encounter the famous raiding organization on the mainland, the Black Blood Knights!

If it weren't for the luck of meeting a strong man, the mercenary group might have completely disappeared in this escort mission; This risk is not on the same level as what an escort needs to pay.

To put it simply, it was the temple that pitted the mercenary group in the name of escort!

Therefore, in order to give an explanation to the members of the group, the head of the regiment approached Bishop Hersman.

"Alas..."The middle-aged bishop sighed, his eyes a little helpless,

"When you get to the temple, I will definitely pay you twice as much, and I won't let the mercenaries die in vain; As for the goods shipped..."

Hersman looked at the group of mercenaries gathered around the carriage excitedly, and walked over helplessly,

"You come with me..."

Bishop Hersman led the mercenary leader to the second carriage and gave the two priests guarding the carriage an order to open the door.

"What we are transporting is a magic artifact unearthed from the ruins of the West. Originally, I wanted to transport it back to the main hall to study and see if I could find a way to fight the demons, but I didn't expect it to attract the Black Blood Knights. We don't know why these wicked people are attracted. Hersman explained.

At the same time, the priest also opened the carriage of the carriage, revealing multiple golden enchantments set up in the carriage, and the mercenary leader also looked over at the signal of Hersman:

Inside the sturdy barrier was a miserable white skull that was steaming black; In its sunken eye sockets, two green lights flickered at the humans staring at it...

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After leaving Dahlak and crossing tens of thousands of kilometers of endless sea, there is an unknown land.

Desolate, depressing, dead and silent!

It was an apocalyptic world, and the earth was plunged into cold and darkness;

There are so many dead lives that they resemble vultures but are even more ferocious, hovering in the sky and competing for corpses.

On the corner near the west, there are large clusters of sharp stone towers that look like awls.

They are neatly arranged in a wide expanse of land, and at first glance they look like some kind of man-made buildings.

In the minaret complex, a circular area is vacated.

This area is carved with a large-scale magic circle, and in the center there is a black stone tower similar to the surrounding buildings;

However, compared to the other stone towers, this one is taller and more grandiose.

In the center of the tower, in a room full of magical spirit mediums, pitch-black shadows were fiddling with the sophisticated alchemy equipment in front of them with their hands condensed by black mist.

The shriveled heart was connected to a bubbling crystal bottle by a demonic metal tube.

The purple blood was continuously sucked away from the heart along the transparent bottle, and at the same time it made a strange 'gurgling' sound.

Combined with the disembodied dark shadows standing in front of it, the whole scene looks eerie and terrifying.

Tuk...

There were a few slight knocks at the door, and it looked like someone was coming.

The shadow ignored it, and it remained motionless at the purple blood of its heart, as if it hadn't heard a knock at the door.

With the infusion of blood, the originally shriveled heart gradually plumped up.

Pounding!

Suddenly, the still heart shook violently.

The shadow also waved the mist arm, and the pen and paper immediately floated out of the pile of materials next to it and fell in front of it;

Shadow hurriedly grabbed a pen and paper and quickly recorded it on it.

After the heart beat once, it beat one after another, and the purple blood in the crystal bottle also decreased rapidly.

When the blood was completely sucked into the heart, Shadow immediately removed the two plugs and sealed the metal catheter that connected the heart.

"Hmm... The quality of the essence and blood this time is okay; Alright, come in. ”

Satisfied, he looked at the finished alchemy core, and then the shadow called the people waiting outside the door... Another lighter shade, to be exact.

"What's the matter?" Shadow asked crisply.

"Master, the third soul tablet of the Black Blood Knight has been shattered."

"The third piece...... Is it Quell and their group? With a flash of red light, Shadow asked.

"Yes, master."

"There's one less good minion, I remember if they weren't looking for magic weapons? How can you find something to die? Shadow muttered to herself, apparently wondering about Quill's death.

"Okay, bring the deputy's soul bead and take a look."

"Yes!"

After taking the transparent bead from the hands of his subordinates, the shadow was immediately pinched, and a humanoid light and shadow appeared in front of him - it was the soul of the regiment commander's deputy!

"Master, I... I live up to your expectations. As soon as the soul appeared, he half-knelt down and said tremblingly.

"Know the punishment for failure," the shadow said faintly, as he poked his mist-like claws into the deputy's soul.

"The hosts... I can still do things for you, and I can also... Ahh!!hhhhh ”

A terrible scream rang out, and the deputy's soul twisted violently under the claws, and it looked like it might be lost at any moment.

Shadow flipped through the soul with his black claws, grabbed a fragment, and placed it in the crystal ball in his hand, only then did he release the screaming soul.

"Thanks... Thank you master for sparing his life..."

As soon as the words were finished, the languishing soul turned back into the transparent orb as if it had exhausted its energy.

However, the current beads don't seem to be as crystal clear as they were just now.

Shadow wasn't going to kill the deputy in the first place, after all, his subordinates were not so easy to cultivate, and it did this mainly to get the soul image and see the reason for the total annihilation of the three regiments.

The soul image is different from the ordinary recorded image, and it can not only see the image, but also the sound, the smell, and everything else that the person concerned can feel.

It couldn't be more apt to describe it as immersive.

Ignoring his men's thanks, the shadow poured a small amount of magic into the crystal ball, and a three-dimensional image immediately appeared in the room.

The horses were galloping, the black air was enveloping, and the iron horsemen of the Knights were charging forward.

The blonde girl in silver armor slashed at this side with a huge lightsaber, and the golden torrent drowned everything, and the picture ended there.

"Blonde Juggernaut? I don't have an impression..."Looking at the blonde young *** shadow, I felt a little puzzled, and I was immediately relieved.

"Forget it, it's just a junior sword master who can cast magic, just find a time to dispose of it..."

The shadow withdrew his gaze, pointed to the soul bead on the ground, and commanded his subordinates standing aside:

"Find him another body and pull the three regiments up again."

"Yes!"

The subordinate picked up the orb and turned to leave the room. Shadow is ready to put away the crystal ball and start its experiments again.

"Huh?"

Just as his fingers were about to touch the crystal ball, the shadow suddenly felt a familiar aura in the soul image of the off-hand.

It hurriedly focused its attention on the corner on the right side of the picture, and the three-dimensional soul image immediately seemed to be magnified, narrowing the field of view.

The shadow finally saw the cloak girl sitting in the carriage,

"This breath..."

The black mist rolled for a while, and the two red rays flickered violently,

"Devil's !!"

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