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"Wizard?"

John pricked up his ears and listened, he was confused by the communication between the fat boss and the messenger, he didn't understand any glasses and strange cults, but the first time the word wizard appeared, the image of a certain man quickly flashed through his mind.

That man's ability is black fear, and that man's personality, like his ability, is cold despair.

Of course, John said that he had never told anyone about it, and he said that it was a lie that he had not seen strange abilities, and that his shock when he saw them was also deceiving.

Nothing in the world has been surprising since he went through the process of resurrection from the dead, and John enjoyed the change, and he was 10,000 times happier than he had been before.

The messenger bowed his head respectfully and continued to convey.

"Boss Hande hopes that you can persuade the emperor to prevent her from interfering in the next incident, after all, the black street can develop from an ordinary mafia eight hundred years ago to today, because we never take the initiative to cause trouble. ”

"And the ruler of the world, the Holy See of Ode, has existed for more than two thousand years, and their way of maintaining their vitality for thousands of years and the way they continue their faith and power are all terrifying!"

"The wizards are still hiding in the shadows, no one knows what the hell they are up to, and the few activities that have been discovered are scattered all over the world, and it seems that they really lost their vitality from the hunt more than ten years ago. ”

"That's why Boss Hande hopes that you can persuade the Emperor that the Black Street can't go against the Oude Holy See, these are the original words of Boss Hand. ”

The messenger stopped talking, and the fat boss took a deep puff of the dry loofah cigar, and the gray-white mist came out of his mouth, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence......

"He's really going to make trouble for me, if I dare to relay what he said directly to the emperor, we both will die without a place to bury, and if the emperor is so easy to stop, she won't be our emperor. ”

"Of course, if she is an ignorant princess, we should be more worried about the black street, there are no children in the cruel world......"

The messenger disappeared into the desert and at the end of the night, and the fat boss was halfway through his cigar when he suddenly snuffed out the burning red smoke ring with his hand.

The little brother sitting on the ground seemed to have been instructed to get up quickly after the cigar went out, secretly removed the earbuds and put them back in his pocket, ready to continue walking.

"We're heading in the right direction, aren't we?"

"Boss, that's the right direction, the palace is very close to where we are. ”

The younger brother, who was in charge of recording the desert terrain and the location of the palace, stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, and John looked at it, heading to the barren desert that was still boundless, and there were no sand dunes.

And the casino city of Magnora behind him has long been out of sight, only the mountains that continue to arch in the wind block all John's imagination.

He continued walking after the fat boss, only this time they didn't go long, and the group that was hurrying in the cool night stopped again.

John saw that between the sand dunes of them, the original unique desert had changed the terrain again, causing John to wonder how he had come into this desert.

The little brother who led the way held a compass-like brown and black disc-shaped prop in his hand, and after a few laps, he finally lay on a very mediocre sand surface, and spent a bunch of incomprehensible symbols on the sand with both hands.

Soon John noticed something strange, as the little brother wrote more and more characters, the sand around him seemed to tremble slightly, and it continued to sink according to a certain law, as if an invisible person was writing!

The area covered by this special symbol became quieter and quieter, and even the sandy and dry wind bypassed it, and John unconsciously held his breath......

The little brother had fulfilled his summoning to the door, waiting for the palace gate to unlock automatically, the curvy characters like carnivorous beetles crawling in the sand, eroding the desert.

Suddenly, a faint light flashed, and John's eyes quickly turned black in front of him, but the next second, the sense of repulsion to the darkness disappeared, and everyone had entered another space.

"Where is this?"

"This is where the Emperor of Heijie lives, and it is also the palace of our council. ”

The voices of the little brothers were no longer joking, and under the quiet stone wall illuminated by the flames, everyone spoke of seriousness, and even the fat boss who answered John's question took his stomach and took a silver candlestick from the wall.

There are no entrances and exits in the narrow stone walls, and the air can still feel the humidity, and the ubiquitous moss creatures smell of green peppers.

There was only one direction in the stone wall corridor to walk, and the other direction was already a dead end, and the members of the Black Street walked neatly, straightened their black suits, and marched through the constantly shaking and jumping flames.

The sound of crisp footsteps echoed in the corridors, and they passed several stone chambers with closed doors, and the footsteps did not stop, and they kept moving forward firmly......

Until John saw a heavy metal door larger than all the stone chambers, like a real palace, with intricate carvings.

"It's such a beautiful pattern, how long does it take a blacksmith to make such a door......"

Just as John sighed at the intricate design of the door and wanted to touch this charming work of art with his hand, the door creaked open.

No one touched the door, neither inside nor outside, and even this door had no handles, and when it turned, it didn't scratch the ground in the slightest, making a standard rotational motion along the axis.

John's eyes widened and he couldn't hold back his surprise, because he saw that his colleagues in front of him and behind him didn't speak, and he also followed behind the fat boss with bated breath, holding his stomach and chest up.

"Don't talk nonsense for a while, don't look around, the emperor doesn't like anyone staring at her face the most. ”

The fat boss finally instructed two words, John nodded hurriedly, from the time he joined the black street to manage the security of a certain casino until today, it was the second time he saw the fat boss tell himself like this.

The last time he told himself was when he was telling John about the rules of the mysterious world.

John nodded hurriedly, he followed behind the fat boss, and also tried to keep his steps in line with everyone, staring ahead, but unconsciously peeking with his spare eyes.

After walking through the exquisite door, the vast room......

No, it shouldn't have been described as a room, because it was so big that John even felt like the space behind the door was bigger than a village!

It was indeed worthy of being called a palace, and he was soon fascinated by the gold bricks piled up on both sides of the huge palace.

Although the lighting flames that stand around are all silver candlesticks, the dim yellow glow also reflects the golden stones with dazzling light.

"So much gold, it's all gold!"

John swallowed unconsciously, his fanaticism for gold would not be changed by anything, and even if he stuffed him with another 10,000 beauties now, he would definitely not waver!

Continuing on, they passed through the gold area to the more dazzling jewelry area, where red, pink, blue and green natural crystals were piled up haphazardly, and the cut gems were thrown together in several boxes made of crocodile skin.

These treasures, which were bound to be fought over outside, were now stones everywhere, and John resisted the urge to grab a handful on the ground, for the ground was covered with gold dust and the road was inlaid with orbs!

But no one but John showed more greedy eyes for the dazzling array of gold and silver jewelry, for there was other longing in the depths of their eyes that they had tried to hide.

This desire overcame their desire for money, and everyone, including the fat boss, once again accelerated their pace of running forward.

Let's click, click!

The footsteps grew faster and faster, but also tried to restrain himself before the mess occurred, John had to trot up to keep up with them, and as he made his way through the jewelry area, he also saw precious animal skins, artifacts that were hundreds or thousands of years old, and ancient books that had been missing for many years......

"Oh my God, I've come somewhere!"

"Is this the treasure trove of the Black Street?"

John's heartbeat, who thought that there would be no more joys and sorrows in his heart, had never seen a priceless baby!

John kept licking his parched lips, his eyes frozen at the image of his pupils, but beyond the shock, other thoughts involuntarily rose in his heart.

"They didn't stop to look at it for a while, is there anything more valuable in front of them, and the emperor they said lived in this kind of place?"

"It's nice to be rich......

He rubbed his eyelids, trying to retract his greed and jealousy.

In the face of all this, a casual or cynical heart suddenly woke up, and John realized what money was.

This is money, this is the inexhaustible real wealth!

His face unconsciously rose, and the smile hidden behind the honest man was John's mockery of himself, of his ignorance and poverty.

Not only was he a poor man in reality, John suddenly realized that his spirit was even poorer, because he had never imagined what real wealth would look like until it appeared to him!

"That man's contempt for me, I didn't even understand the reason until today. 」

"I'm a complete failure. 」

The thought popped through John's mind, and he thought again of the indifferent wizard who ruined his sleep under the deep caverns of the Sivar mines, and there was not the slightest resentment in his heart, he was just mourning his stupid, weak, and ignorant past.

Remembering this poignant feeling in his heart, John looked at the treasures on both sides, and the desire for money in the pair of little eyes disappeared, and he learned more.

And just when John completed a rapid change in his mental journey, the team finally stopped, and John struggled to control his body to stabilize his balance and not crash into the fat boss.

They had reached the deepest part of the palace, and the black velvet carpet of gold dust and silver filigree was still flanked only by two candlesticks filled with sterling silver.

The candles were burning, the faint flames bringing a dark glow to the dark and empty palace, and the wax oil was hidden in the melting grooves of the candles beneath the flames, like a glittering thousand-year-old amber, rolling down the walls of the candles.

White grease piles up under the candlestick, like a cake decorated with a waterfall of cream, burning in an increasingly irregular form.

John saw the white candles on both sides, but he didn't see the treasures that should have appeared, and the emptiness made him feel a little strange and unaccustomed.

It wasn't until the fat boss bowed to the steps at the end of the carpet, a standard ninety-degree right angle, and John was also pressed down on his waist with the help of his colleagues, that he noticed the way ahead.

I don't know when it began, and there was no longer a world where nothing could be seen in front of me, there was a light, milky white light.

Before John could figure out why he couldn't see the light in front of him in the distance, a voice came from above the steps, so cold that it didn't have the slightest emotion.

"Fett, why are you looking for me today?"

John suddenly forgot the fat boss's advice, and suddenly looked up at the steps, because he dared to swear that he had just heard the most moving voice in the world!

And the moment he looked up, he was stunned......

Reflected in John's gap-sized pupils was the woman sitting on the throne.

Emperor of the Black Street, Cassiopaya.

Her skin was like ice and snow, but it was more delicate than snow, her long hair was like silver threads, but it was more silver and soft, her facial features were three-dimensional and deep, and they were arranged in the most harmonious way, and her eyes shimmered with a little ghostly light, which was a luster and beauty that black diamonds could not match......

She wore a white and flawless dress, with only a row of pearls as buttons, because under this beauty, the jewels would be eclipsed in front of her, and any decoration would be superfluous, and even the pearls would secretly hide their warm luster, so as not to be ridiculed by the world for its indiscretion.

With her head on one hand, she sat motionless on the throne made of a single piece of red sparkle that had been used by the kings of the Kentenu dynasty eight centuries earlier.

Her silver hair draped over her softest and slender shoulders became one with the gemstones beneath her, a work of art carved out of crystal by the most skilled craftsmen of all over the centuries.

"Mom, you can't believe that I have seen the most beautiful woman in the world. 」

"Mother, I think I'm hopelessly in love with her, or in other words, who can escape her beauty in this worldly and ignorant world?"

John looked at Cassiopaya obsessively, a woman he could not describe in words other than beauty, as if she had been born from heaven, and had only one thought left.

"Mom, I want to get her ......"

Not only did John couldn't help but look up at her, but all the members of the Black Street behind the fat boss looked up, indulging in Cassiopaya's beauty, and only the fat boss replied with his head down.

"Your Majesty Cassiopaya, there is a very important matter to report to you on this return to the palace, I think I have discovered a new mysterious source of information. ”

The fat boss lowered his head and pulled John to his side, and directly pressed his head in a place where John couldn't resist at all, showing it to Cassiopaya.

"Your Majesty, this is the information I have discovered, the new member I invited into the Black Street a month ago, John. ”

"He has a basic mystical power that I have never seen before, so I suspect that John was influenced by a mysterious source that has not yet been discovered by anyone!"