Chapter 216: Dark Stake
With the grail fragments gathered, Nguyen Chi and Rachel left the tomb again, but when they returned outside, they couldn't find Guldia and Betty.
The two of them escaped from the ruins of the temple of the Quetzalcoatl God with Huang Rong and the others, and they had probably already left. Ruan Chi thought about it and decided to go back to the city to look for it, but before leaving, Rachel grabbed him.
"Wait, before you go back, you must first think of placing Her Majesty the Queen." Rachel said, pointing to the unconscious Celephève on her back.
"It seems that too, if Guldia sees it, it may make things bigger." After reminding her, Ruan Chi remembered that Deep Blue had left Siphaliv's body, and if Sifarif woke up at this time and told Gulydia the truth of the matter, Ruan Chi, the fake elf king, would definitely be exposed.
But for a moment, Ruan Chi couldn't think of where to arrange Sifarif.
"Actually, I think that your queen will wake up soon, and when the time comes, the matter that we once controlled her body will definitely be revealed, otherwise, we will kill her here." When he said this, Ruan Chi deliberately put on a very fierce expression.
"Stop making a fuss." Rachel glared at him and said angrily, "Also, don't always drag me into the water, you did this alone, what does it have to do with me?" β
"Is this the rhythm of abandoning your companions?" Ruan Chi's expression changed, and he looked aggrieved.
Rachel ignored him, thought for a long time, and finally came up with a compromise solution: "There is an inn in the town, and we can arrange Her Majesty the Queen to the hotel room first." β
"Okay." Ruan Chi didn't think of a better way, so he had to nod in agreement.
The two of them made their way back to the town where they had started, where they managed to find Betty and Guldia. There are also Huang Rong and others.
This expedition to ruins. As a result, less than 1/10 of the people who came back alive were less than 1/10. There were a few adventurers who were lucky enough to escape with a tired look at this point.
Everyone was happy to see Ruan Chi and Rachel return safe and sound, only Mach was unhappy.
"I didn't expect your luck to be good, you must have escaped from the beginning?" Mach believes that Ruan Chi was only disguised when he was pierced in the chest at the beginning, and at the same time can explain why Ruan Chi "came back from the dead".
Ruan Chi didn't bother to explain Mach's speculation. The others nodded frequently, thinking that this was the case. Only Li Yinong looked at it with a slight doubt in his eyes.
Because both Ruan Chi and Rachel concealed the fact that the Quetzalcoatl clone had been killed and the Holy Grail Fragments had been obtained, everyone thought that the expedition to the ruins had failed, and no one even considered going back to the ruins.
The leader of the Sword of Kings Adventure Group looked sorry for him, and then said, "Since this mission has failed, then we don't plan to stay here any longer, so you can take your leave." β
Li Yinong also smiled slightly and said, "Rong'er, Jing'er, it's time for us to leave." β
Huang Rong was pulling Rachel to speak. Hearing Li Yinong's voice, he then said to Rachel: "This time we are evenly matched. We'll compare it next time. β
Rachel said cheerfully, "Okay, wait for you." β
"Ruan Chi, let's have an adventure together next time." Guo Jing also ran over to say goodbye.
Seeing this child's innocent appearance, Ruan Chi couldn't help but laugh a little, and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll look for you next time I have a chance." β
The two turned around and left with Li Yinong, only Mahe glanced at Ruan Chi provocatively before leaving.
"Why does this guy always seem to be targeting me?" Ruan Chi, who felt inexplicable, said depressedly.
After everyone parted ways, Ruan Chi immediately found a hotel to stay, Betty saw Sifarif on Rachel's back, and her little face couldn't help showing a worried expression, "It's okay if you don't talk sister, right?" β
When Deep Blue usually controls her physical activity, she spends most of her time in "energy-saving mode" and rarely speaks, so she gets the title of "Sister Who Doesn't Talk".
Before returning to the meeting, Rachel deliberately found a new cloak to wrap Sifarif's body tightly, so neither Betty nor Guldia could see anything unusual, and they couldn't know that the body in the cloak was the Elven Queen.
"She's fine, she just passed out when she ran away with us, just rest for a while." Ruan Chi casually made up a lie and said.
After arranging for Ciflev to rest in one room, Rachel stayed behind to take care of her, and Ruan Chi took Betty and Guldia to another room to sit down.
He took out four pieces of the Holy Grail from the system's backpack and placed them in front of the two women.
"Grail shards?" Guldia grabbed it and looked at it carefully, and after making sure that the ancient Newcarn script on it was correct, she concluded that this was a fragment of the Holy Grail of Versailles.
"Ruan Chi, when did you collect all the fragments?" Betty asked, looking surprised.
"Just when you thought I was hanging up, I was ...... you didn't pay attention" Ruan Chi began to make up the story again, foaming at the mouth and telling the "process" of finding the fragments.
The two nodded frequently, and after listening, they had no doubts.
"Now bring the fragments back to the Adventurer's Guild, and this mission is over." Guldia concluded.
"Wait, isn't the fragment for the Platinum Consortium? Why bring it back to the Adventurer's Guild? When Ruan Chi heard this, he immediately raised his hand and asked.
"After the end of the adventure mission, no matter whether the mission fails or succeeds, the deliverers are the various adventurer guilds distributed on the continent, don't you know this, Your Excellency?" Guldia asked rhetorically.
"That's right, when our adventure group was formed, the staff lady gave us a booklet with the relevant rules written on it." Betty nodded as well.
"I really don't know ......," Ruan Chi said.
Originally, I planned to contact the people of the Platinum Consortium in the name of delivering the mission items after the mission, but I didn't expect the matter to be summed up in one sentence in the end - the bamboo basket was empty.
Just when Ruan Chi was annoyed, an unknown thing was quietly going on.
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After Hank, the leader of the Sword of Kings adventure group, left with a few of his men, he also did not leave the Newkahn Kingdom immediately, but quietly returned to the ruins of the temple of Quetzalcoatl.
"Boss. Are we really going back? A subordinate with a leper on his face said timidly.
It was not easy to escape from inside. No one wants to go back to this horrible place.
"If you don't go back, you can't do it. Pons, don't forget that we have taken on the 'Dark Stake', and it doesn't matter if we can't find the Holy Grail of Versailles on this mission, but if we can't complete the 'Dark Stake' mission, you should know what the consequences will be. Hank said fiercely.
Hearing this, several subordinates behind him, including the face of the leper, shivered at the same time.
It turned out that the adventurer's mission was inside. In addition to the quests picked up in the Adventurer's Guild, there are sometimes some black market quests in ZΓ i.
This kind of task is the so-called "dark pile".
Take this A-class mission to explore the underground ruins of the Kingdom of Newcarn, the bright side mission is to find the Holy Grail of Versailles, but the dark stake mission is another unknown thing.
The Sword of Kings Adventure Group not only received the task of the bright side in the Adventurer's Guild, but also received the task of the dark pile in the black market, and the rewards of the two tasks are very different.
Although the Adventurer's Guild will not recognize the Hidden Stake quest, the reward from the quest publisher is a huge reward of 5~10 times that of the Bright Side quest.
Of course, in terms of punishment, there is a big difference between the dark pile task and the open side task.
If the mission fails on the bright side, at most some adventurer reputation will be deducted from the adventure log of the Adventurer's Guild. But if the hidden pile mission fails, the price to pay may be the whole penny. and even life.
Now Hank regrets taking on the dark pile mission, he knows that the publisher of the dark pile mission this time is also the platinum consortium, and when he thinks of the platinum consortium's methods, he can't help but fight a cold war.
When the few people sneaked back to the Quetzalcoatl Ruins, it was already getting dark, and they kept speeding up in anxiety in order to quickly find the mission items needed by the Dark Stake.
"Quick, get in through the door."
With an uneasy mood, Hank waited for a few of his men to find the entrance to the catacombs again, and they walked cautiously along the corridor, not daring to breathe.
The poisonous snakes in the tomb had long since dispersed, and with the death of the Quetzalcoatl doppelganger, the curse of the head bomb never appeared again, and after discovering this, everyone in the Sword of Kings adventure group was even more relieved.
The scenery in front of them suddenly opened up, and the people of the King's Sword finally arrived at the tomb of Duke Kidd, but when they came here, they found that it was messy inside, and there was a large hole in the ceiling.
There was no time to guess what would happen here after he left, so Hank hurriedly asked his men to quickly separate and search for the quest items needed by the Dark Stake.
Hank returned to Duke Kidd's sarcophagus alone, he wanted to see if the fragment of the Holy Grail was still there, but in the end, he naturally found nothing, because the fragment had already been taken by Ruan Chi.
Frustrated, Hank refocused on finding the Dark Stake quest item, which according to the description of the quest at the time was a bottle containing a green liquid.
The Platinum Consortium didn't explain what the bottle was, and Hank naturally didn't dare to ask more, so even if he took the secret pile mission, Hank still didn't know what he was looking for.
After searching the burial chamber twice, Hank saw that he had found nothing, and finally his eyes fell on the high platform behind him, he swallowed his saliva, and finally gritted his teeth and climbed down.
Because Quetzalcoatl's doppelganger was gone, so was the gravity spell on the steps, and Hank had no trouble climbing up to the altar on the high platform.
It was as if there had been a great war, with potholes everywhere and a large hole in the ceiling on the head, so that you could see the night sky outside.
Hank walked around the high platform, and finally found the altar in the center of the high platform, he walked slowly over, rummaged through the altar for a while, and found a stone table, and on the stone table, there was a stone plate.
This stone plate seems to be a spirit plate used to worship the gods in ancient times, and there are all kinds of sacrifices to the gods on it, and Hank didn't pay much attention to it at first, until he saw a transparent glass bottle among these sacrifices.
"Is this the ......?"
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Hank hurriedly walked over and reached out to remove the glass bottle set on the stone plate, it was not very large, only the size of half a palm.
Hank carefully pulled out the bottle, held it in both hands and looked at it, and sure enough, he saw that it contained some strange green liquid.
After confirming that this was a mission item for the Dark Stake, Hank was overjoyed and shouted at the people below who were still searching, "I found it." I found it! β
Oddly enough. Hank's good news went unanswered.
After dark. The burial chamber was even more deserted, and Hank's voice sounded in such an empty place, especially when there was no response, and there was a feeling of silence.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Hank shouted a few more times, but there was still no response, and feeling uncomfortable, he quickly put the bottle in his arms, and then drew his sword.
Although it has the strength of a high-level swordsman. However, there are too many horrors experienced today, and Hank, who has narrowly escaped death several times, is now nervous and in danger of breaking at any time.
Grabbing a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, Hank stepped down from the platform, shouting a few more times in between, but unfortunately the men seemed to be all missing, and did not respond to him at all.
At this moment, Hank was even more convinced that there was something strange, and in a panic, he decided to ignore those men who were born and died with him. Pull your legs and run in the direction of the exit of the tomb.
Just at this moment, a figure appeared in front of him. Hank didn't notice bumping into the other party for a moment.
"Ahh Hank was knocked back two steps by the man, and he let out a panicked scream as he swung his sword and raised his torch to shine at the other man.
A face full of leprosy appeared in Hank's eyes, and Hank breathed a sigh of relief, because this person was none other than Pons, one of his subordinates who had just come in with him.
"Pons? It's you? I'm scared the hell out of you, where did you just die? Hank clutched his beating heart and yelled angrily.
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The leper face standing in front of Hank did not pay attention to Hank's anger at all, but quietly approached Hank, raised a hand suddenly, and reached out like lightning.
"Poof"
Hank only felt a pain in his chest, with an expression of disbelief in his eyes, blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and he pointed to the leper in front of him and asked in a trembling voice, "You...... You're not Pons, what are you? β
"Pons" Mu Ran tilted his head, and spat out a cold and hard voice from his mouth, "Gray...... Nine ghosts! β
When Hank heard this, his pupils suddenly shrank, and before he could open his mouth to beg for mercy, there was a sudden greater cramping pain in his chest, and then his eyes lost focus and fell down.
The self-proclaimed Nine Ghosts "Pons" squatted down, found the small bottle from Hank's arms, and then said to himself: "None of the people who received the secret stake of the Platinum Consortium can live. β
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Following.
Ruan Chi, who was still asleep early in the morning, was suddenly woken up by a violent knock on the door, he rubbed his eyes in a daze and opened the door, but outside was Rachel in pajamas.
"What are you doing?" Ruan Chi asked with a yawn.
"Her Majesty, she's gone." Rachel opened her mouth and said a terrible news.
"Are you serious?" Ruan Chi was stunned for a moment and asked.
"Whoever is joking with you, come with me." Rachel pulled Ruan Chi and ran to another room, opened the door and walked in.
Last night, the two of them arranged the unconscious Sifareve here, but when Rachel woke up this morning, she found the bed empty.
"Last night, I took care of Her Majesty the Queen until late at night, but I didn't expect to come over early this morning and she would be gone." Rachel said eagerly.
"Does your queen have a habit of morning luck? So get up early in the morning and go for a walk? Ruan Chi touched his chin and thought for a while, and then said seriously.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Rachel yelled.
"Calm down, it's useless for you to be anxious now." Ruan Chi walked to the bed where West Farif was lying, reached out and touched the futon on it, and continued: "The temperature above is still there, which means that she hasn't been here for long, maybe it's still near the hotel." β
"Really?" Rachel's eyes lit up, and she turned around and was about to snatch the door.
"Hey, wait." Ruan Chi grabbed Rachel, who wanted to run out to find someone, pointed to her pajamas and said, "Are you going to go out to find someone in this dress?" Aren't you afraid that Uncle Chengguan will sue you for being untidy and hindering the city's appearance? β
"Where am I disheveled...... Rachel said halfway through, and when she looked down, she realized that she was still wearing pajamas, although it was a conservative style, but her huge breasts were larger than the average elf, and the collar was still held high, and it felt like a torn garment.
"Is it a delusion? It seems to be a little bigger than before. Ruan Chi touched her chin, her eyes fixed on the two mountains on her chest.
"Pervert, where do you look?" Rachel covered her chest, kicked Ruan Chi out of the room, and shouted, "I want to change my clothes, you get out of here." β
Ruan Chi, who had been kicked out, stood at the door. shouted through the door, "This is not your room." β
Two seconds passed. Rachel ran out with a flushed face. Ruan Chi looked at the back of Miaoman who she left, and said to himself: "This woman is really sensational. β
After changing her clothes, Rachel dragged Ruan Chi down from the second floor of the hotel, and on the way, she bumped into Guldia who had gotten up early.
"Your Excellency, Sister Rachel, good morning." The gentle and generous female diplomat was very polite, and greeted the two separately.
"Good morning, Sister Guldia." Rachel though anxious. However, in order not to let Guldia notice the abnormality, she had to stop hard.
"Good morning." Compared to the elven female swordsman with a panicked face, Ruan Chi's expression was much more natural.
"You're going out?" Seeing that the two of them were dressed neatly, Guldia couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Yes, there is...... There's something that needs to be taken care of. Rachel really doesn't lie, not only does she not dare to look into Guldia's eyes when she speaks, but her voice stutters a little.
Fortunately, Guldia, who is also a white elf, has an equally simple personality and did not notice Rachel's flustered details.
"You go and prepare breakfast while Betty wakes up. We will come back to eat as well. In order to quickly find the missing Sifarife, Ruan Chi specially instructed Guldia.
"Yes. Excellency. Guldia didn't doubt him, nodded and walked in the direction of the inn's restaurant.
Walking out of the inn, Rachel covered her undulating breasts and sighed, "I've never told a lie in my life, and it would have been terrible if Sister Gulydia found out just now." β
"Won't you white elves lie? When you spoke just now, it was full of flaws, and Guldia didn't even notice this, and it was also a strange flower. Ruan Chi pouted.
"We who believe in the goddess of the harvest have sworn that there will be no lies, and if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have broken my oath." Rachel didn't have a good airway.
"Your goddess of harvest is clearly pleasing you." Ruan Chi muttered.
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In order to find the elf queen Sifarif who lost the dark blue control zhì, the two act separately and focus on the hotel where they stayed that night.
This small town in the Kingdom of Newkagen is not easy to find a person, and the two of them carefully searched every street and alley, even some inaccessible alleys.
It took half a day for Ruan Chi and Rachel to meet again at the door of the hotel.
Rachel's face was not very good-looking, because she had searched the town twice, but she still couldn't find any trace of Sifarif.
Ruan Chi is similar, he has searched all the streets and alleys that he can find, but he still hasn't found it.
"What to do? If Her Majesty is gone, how will you let me explain to my people? Rachel squatted on the ground in despair, covering her forehead with her hands and muttering.
"Don't be so discouraged, isn't your queen a god-level elemental mage? Such a fierce man, it is estimated that after he woke up, he went back to the Elven Forest alone, the people you should be worried about now are the two of us, if she goes back to the Elven Forest, she will definitely control her affairs, and I peep into her bath and tell it, when the time comes, all the white elves will take us as enemies, and we can only be outlaw mandarin ducks. Ruan Chi said sadly.
"How many times have you said it? It's not 'us', it's you, don't keep pulling me up, when did I become your accomplice? "Rachel is really crazy, why is this guy in front of him so cheeky?
Still an outlaw mandarin duck?
"What, do you and I still need to share each other? Anyway, everyone is still a one-night couple. Ruan Chi's face was indeed quite thick, and he ignored Rachel's angry gaze at all.
"You ......" was mentioned by Ruan Chi about the absurdity of that night, Rachel couldn't help blushing, and said angrily: "Don't say it, that time was an accident, it doesn't mean that we have anything to do with each other." β
"Is it really okay?" Ruan Chi's eyes looked straight at Rachel and asked.
The elven female swordsman, who couldn't lie at all, couldn't stand it anymore and hurriedly avoided Ruan Chi's gaze.
"If you don't admit it, forget it, I won't force it." Ruan Chi actually let her go, pretending to be relaxed.
At this time, Gulydia came out of the hotel, it turned out that after she bought breakfast in the restaurant, she didn't wait for the two to come back, she was a little worried and wanted to go out to look for it, but she met Ruan Chi and Rachel again at the door of the hotel.
"Your Excellency, Sister Rachel, why are you standing here?" Guldia stepped forward and asked.
"I ...... They also happened to come back. Rachel hurriedly explained.
"Your Excellency, breakfast is ready, and Sister Betty is waiting for us." The female diplomat still didn't notice the flustered eyes of the elf female swordsman, and said to Ruan Chi.
"Okay, let's have breakfast first, and we'll talk about that later." Ruan Chi had something to say in this, ostensibly to Guldia, but actually to Rachel.
"I see." Rachel naturally heard it, so she nodded weakly. (To be continued......)