Yes! Five silver pennies!

It was only a short encounter with them, but every word each of them said, even the demeanor when they spoke, was deeply rooted in Li Qi's heart.

The reason why the sculptures in the three squares of Beta City are lifelike is because they have always lived in Richie's heart.

This sentence was said by the round-faced girl Mina when Li Qi recognized the identity of the viscount lord and invited them to become deacons in the viscountdom.

Mina is the liveliest of the three girls, and her demeanor of calculating life is also the most serious. But she was also the first to turn down the offer, as she was most satisfied with her job as a receptionist at the Adventurer Service Center.

Absolutely, that's Mina!

At that moment, joy was like a flame, and sorrow was like an iceberg, and it crashed into a violent storm in Richie's heart.

"Mina ......"

He rushed up to hug her, but was stopped by the mutation.

"Pain...... Pain...... It hurts——!"

The succubus let go of her hand, and blood and tears flowed down like streams, her body trembling violently, and her skin even smoked.

Mina ——!

Li Qi cried out in pain, oh no, her soul seemed to have undergone some kind of mutation, causing the forces of Purgatory to react violently, and the confrontation between the two was hurting her soul and body.

"Dead ...... Let me die......"

The succubus rolled to the ground, groaning in agony.

"Little Red ——!"

Li Qi had nothing to do at this time, and hurriedly called his partner.

"What's the name of the ghost, what kind of tone are you? We don't count anything else, we are still partners, where did you borrow the courage to call me as a maid?"

Xiaohong responded lazily, and Li Qi seemed to be able to see her pouting and unhappy, but she was so weak that she looked like she had been found out something bad.

Li Qi didn't have the heart to tease her, and said anxiously: "Help me find a way, I found Mina!"

"Mina?"

Xiaohong didn't react yet, she sensed Li Qi's mind a little, and she understood everything.

"How could it be?

She also exclaimed, and said eagerly: "You calm down first! Relax! Then use your mind to connect, let me push you in to protect Mina's soul!"

Li Qi patted his forehead, and he really cared about it, and only yesterday he gave Xiaohong a probe. Whether it's a demon or a devil, let Xiaohong push him in, and then Xiaohong will be powerful.

But Mina's appearance is already frantic with pain, how can I connect?

There is no way, it seems that the only one is hard.

Li Qi was about to step forward to suppress Mina, and a strange power swung out of Mina's body, and the forbidden ropes on her body and the magic shackles on her feet burst unkemptly.

Mina jumped to her feet, her eyes glinting with a scarlet glow. Li Qi was glanced at by her, and his heart was numb, and he had a delusion. The one standing in front of him was not a demon, but a beautiful woman with a beautiful national color, still licking her tongue and untying her belly pocket.

Fortunately, the painful divine power reacted instantaneously and resisted the effect of the charm technique, and Li Qi was just a flash.

The vision returned to reality, and at this time, Mina was indiscriminately placing all kinds of spells of the Succubus Society, and her body was also rising in Karara, and soon exceeded two meters tall. Bat-like wings stretch high, and sharp claws extend from the tips of the wings.

The originally slender body became robust and full of evil power, and the nails of both hands grew dozens of centimeters long, like a pair of claw blades.

"Die! all have to die——!"

Mina was completely self-conscious, staring at Richie as if she were looking at prey.

"What kind of road do I rely on, when will the succubus transform into Leah's version of the big pineapple?"

Li Qi cried out in his heart, a light purple light flickering, and his belt turned into a hellish weapon, wrapping him in a fully enclosed armor.

The claw blade struck, sparks splashed everywhere, and Li Qi slammed into the wall, even the dark stone, it was smashed out of the cracks.

Li Qi continued: "What a lot of strength! This is definitely not a succubus!"

Xiaohong is also shouting: "If you don't catch her and link her to your heart, how do I know what's going on!?"

"Now...... It's not ...... anymore."

Li Qi held the magic steel shield, struggling to resist Mina's stormy claw attack: "I caught her problem, it's a problem that I will be caught by her if I don't pay attention!"

Mina didn't show the legendary power at this time, but it was just pure physical strength, which made Li Qi a little unbearable. He didn't dare to fight back, for fear that if he didn't use his strength, he would cause irreparable damage to Mina.

The shield was slapped, and the claw blade scratched at the white marks on it, and Li Qi felt the slight change in rhythm and decided to drag it out. Mina's current state of rage seems to be a strange protection mechanism, and only then can she relieve her pain.

Just as he was rejoicing at the slight slowdown in the rhythm of the shield being beaten, there was a loud bang, and Otto rushed in with the Styx Heroic Spirit and Retana, and a group of people.

"Oh my God!"

"What kind of monster is this——!"

"Stop her!"

Otto had learned from the experience of letting the mortals go last time, and was not only quick but also well prepared. Styx, fully armed, pressed towards Mina, and Retana was a backup in front of him, swinging her great sword at Mina.

"Don't move——!"

Litch screamed in terror as she helped Retana stop in front of her.

There was a muffled bang, and Retana couldn't retract her sword, slashing behind Richie's shoulder, making him stumble forward, and then Mina's claw blade opened the bow left and right, brushing and pulling out two sparks on her face.

It's good that he was wearing a helmet, otherwise Richie's head would have been sliced.

Retana, Otto and the others exclaimed at the same time, and Li Qi couldn't help but be dizzy from the shock of a sword and two claws, and shouted again: "Stand back! Get out! The situation is under my control...... Uh......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was lifted up by Mina's hands around his neck.

Hell's armed with a hard neck guard, also of magic steel, still rattles under Mina's brute force.

Through the helmet, seeing the red light in Mina's eyes flickering brighter again, Li Qi resolutely opened the visor, causing Otto and Retana to exclaim in unison.

Mina let go of a hand, and the claw blade closed and plunged into Richie's cheek.

Richie shouted, "Mina!"

The red light in Mina's eyes froze, and the claw blade that was lifted in mid-air also paused, just for a moment, but Li Qi was overjoyed, effective!

Seeing the claw blade inserted again, Li Qi stared at Mina's blood-red eyes, and continued to shout: "I'm Li Qi!

The claw blade stopped a few centimeters away from Richie's forehead, and at this time, the pale golden light on Retana's body flashed rapidly, and she was struggling to endure without help.

The blood in her eyes quickly dimmed, and there was also a hot smoke on her body, and Mina muttered bitterly: "Li ...... Li ......"

Richie shouted again, "Look at me!"

A flash of clarity flashed in Mina's eyes, although it was extremely short-lived, but the psychic link that Li Qi had been pressing on her finally seized this window.

Xiaohong shouted happily in his heart: "Go in!"

Li Qi didn't sense it, his consciousness was trapped in an extremely manic storm, let alone touching Mina's heart, and he couldn't even stabilize himself.

The soft warm current seeped into his consciousness, turning him into a kite with a string, and the storm eased slightly.

At this time, he sensed Xiaohong's thoughts: "I'll just say it, I can't do without me......"

Richie looked around eagerly, "Where's Mina?"

Nothing but the storm.

Xiaohong said: "I give you strength, you look carefully." ”

The crimson divine power seeped in, and the soul space gradually brightened, and Li Qi looked at the storm again, and suddenly suddenly.

This storm is Mina's soul.

Li Qi pushed his mind softly into the storm: "Don't be afraid, I'm Li Qi, the Li Qi you know, I'm here to save you." ”

"I'm sorry...... It's my fault, if I had said you were my people, you wouldn't have suffered like this. ”

"I really don't know that you have ended up in purgatory, turned into succubi, and suffered even more. But you're still there, that's ...... Great, at least I have a chance to save you. ”

"I didn't have the power to save you then, but now I have, Mina, stretch out your hand!

The storm eased, sending out clouds of light with a murmur in between.

"No wonder it's so strange, she actually has crimson divine power in her soul!"

Xiaohong said in shock: "No, it's not a pure crimson divine power, it's more like a distorted worship power......"

Then she realized: "The statue in the square! The protector of adventurers! Many mortals, even the crimson transcendents, are praying to them! They also have corrupt divine powers! Although they are death divine powers, and they are very weak, but the connection between the two still awakens the divinity in the depths of their souls and makes their souls very special." ”

Li Qi was puzzled: "Is it so easy for the gods to be stimulated? More than 20,000 citizens of Conrad City have died, and they are all contaminated with corrupt divine powers. We have also built a memorial to the victims of Conrad in Epsillon, and the orphans of Conrad often go to pay their respects, so will those people be like them?"

"Of course it's not that simple", Xiaohong sighed, "First of all, only souls who have endured severe pain and longed for peace can fall into purgatory, and secondly, ......"

Her tone became strange, sad and tinged with a hint of pride: "Richie, I guess their spirits are stimulated, largely because of you." ”

Li Qi was stunned: "Me?"

It dawned on him that, yes, it had something to do with him.

The scene of the three of them being killed by Sylvie's order not only did not blur in his mind, but became clearer and clearer in the grinding of time.

When he explained the statue to Hammer, the image he took out on the heart map made Hammer admire, saying that he felt that the three girls were still alive.

The adventurers prayed to them as patron saints, and the receptionists at the service center revered them as goddesses of receptionists, but among all of them, he was the one who missed them the most......

Xiaohong said again: "If you want to calm Mina's soul, first find the mark you left in her soul, and then I will use a very gentle soul to trace it and let her know herself again." ”

With the experience of the last time, Li Qi knew what to do.

He continued to call out to Mina, and a few of the swamming glows vaguely echoed him, flickering slowly.

Consciousness focuses on a certain piece of light, and the scene gradually blurs, and another scene is condensed again, and it gradually becomes clearer.

Xiaohong sighed again: "It seems that she was indeed very painful before she died, and she was also very obsessed with you, so even if that memory was shattered by the power of purgatory, it gushed out again as soon as it was traced, so that I didn't dare to trace it back." ”

Li Qi is re-examining that past from Mina's perspective, not only what he sees in his eyes, but also what he thinks in his heart.

"Ah, a handsome guy! today is going to be another pleasant and interesting day!"

It was the first thought that Mina had seen when he first stepped into the Adventurer's Guild.

"Sister Anne is good, I'm not as generous as her, and I will definitely be a little nervous if I greet her. ”

It's the ponytail girl Anne greeting him, and Mina is right next to Anne.

"The clothes are very simple, but the stitches are so good, the handiwork is not ordinary, plus this guy has fine skin and tender meat, he must be a noble child, deliberately wearing ordinary people's clothes to play adventurer games?"

It turned out that Mina could see his bottom line at that time......

"Heart Whisper Book, don't try to copy the books of other nobles, aren't you afraid of offending the people of the Literature and Art Church? Forget it, remind him when the time comes. ”

It was the distraction that was spinning in Mina's mind as he made his request.

"No wonder he doesn't care, it's Viscount Prell, I have to let him remember me!"

After revealing the details, Mina stood up and muttered about the winged snake meat or something, it turned out to be a sense of existence.

"What what!?Double the monthly salary, food and lodging, so that I can save every month...... I'll do the math......"

When Mina counted five silver pennies, the memory of that moment was like a daisy blooming in spring, bright and bright.

"Ah, won't Sister Anne go? Sister Mary too...... That's right, if you don't work as a receptionist, how boring your life will be. And Anne and Mary are not going, how can I go alone?"

When Richie offered the invitation, Mina exchanged glances with Anne and Mary, and she thought so.

"What a pity...... It's a pity!"

When Richie said it didn't matter, Mina forced a smile.

Then the world shakes, and Richie goes out, while Mina, Anne, and Mary are busy packing up.

"It would be terrible if there was an earthquake, and it would be really troublesome if these materials were to be destroyed!"

At that time, Mina's mind was full of work-related thoughts.

As they were busy, the building shook suddenly, and a strange insect thicker than the height of the three of them stacked on top of each other crashed in and rushed out of the hall where they were, and the diffuse black air covered them, and the smoke and dust stimulated them to cough violently.

Seeing that the building was about to collapse, they fled hand in hand, weaving through the ruins and chaotic crowds, feeling colder and colder, and their vision blurred.

Then Mina was the first to see Richie, who was talking to Sylvie.

The "unsightly woman" asked Li Qi something, and Li Qi shook her head, and she waved her hand, and a team of paladins rushed towards them.

They thought that the paladin was here to save people, and their faces were smiling.

It wasn't until the cold blade pierced their chests that they reacted.

Blocked by the tall voice of the paladin, Mina could not see Richie, but could see the "unsightly woman" and glanced at them coldly. The sharp pain in her chest, mixed with this look, made Mina remember her firmly.

Li Qi forced himself to look at Mina's memories, and by this time he thought that Mina's souls had fallen into purgatory.

But the scene did not change, although Mina could not see, there were still touch, hearing, and pain, including the feeling of the soul.

Her body was still twitching, and she wasn't dead yet!

"John, are you soft-hearted? I can't even find my heart, like you, Her Royal Highness the princess will have a headache. ”

"Isn't the one you killed also smoking? And you Mike, look at the ponytail girl you killed, her fingers moving. ”

"Damn! They're turning into living corpses! The corrupt power exploded too violently!"

"Deal with it quickly! Let Her Royal Highness the Princess see that there are living corpses wandering around the city, and we will be finished!"

I could vaguely hear three paladins talking, followed by intense pain.

The head was cut off, and he was kicked far away by the paladin.

Arms, legs, and even torso were chopped into pieces and piled together, and then there was an even more violent pain, as if it was tearing at the soul like a storm, and it was like it was burning.

Li Qi understood that they were indeed impregnated with corrupt divine power, but it was still very light, which made them still retain a trace of perception even if they were dismembered and burned. But it was that perception that left endless pain in their souls that were about to collapse.

The perception collapsed, and the glow condensed another scene.

It was like a soul's vision, countless gray and mottled points of light swam, and the buildings of Conrad City were as blurry as perspectives, and they were constantly fluctuating and distorting.

The dots of light flowed in different directions, and Mina and Anne Marie huddled tightly together, trying to get closer to the shining figure in mid-air.

It was the Divine Light, the Kem Light they believed in, and they were devout believers, though they were not transcendental.

A face appeared in the holy light, and Richie's heart shook, Theresia!

Theresia floated in mid-air, indifferently watching the flow of points of light, occasionally flicking, some of which merged into the holy light above her head.

It doesn't look like the real Theresia either, more like Kem...... No, the will that Kelastro had invested in her.

Mina and the others got closer, and the Holy Light Theresia gave them a cold look, and there was an unstoppable force in her gaze, and she slapped them down, and then there was an endless fall.

The will contained in that power sent chills to Richie's heart......

You are neither nobles nor transcendental, and you will not be of any help to me.

You don't qualify for salvation......