The length of this visit was a little beyond Leo's expectations, so much so that he had to expand the range of perception to the maximum to find Isenas, after more than half a year of running-in, a tacit consensus has been reached in the adventure group, if there is anything that you don't understand or need to analyze, it is right to find Isenas.

Under the gray clouds, the little yolk-like light of dusk hit Isenas in the rain. He stood quietly on the street, as if thinking about something.

"Hey, Isenas, what are you doing standing here in a daze?" Leo stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Isenas.

Isenus glanced at Leo and said, "You used the Sanctuary ability?"

Leo smiled: "I really can't hide anything from you, we do have some more important information." ”

"It just so happened that I deduced something to see if there was anything we could do with each other. ”

"So fast?" said Leo, if he and Lizanka were able to get useful information so quickly, or thanks to Ente's guidance, where did Isenas get the information?

"Just validated one of my conjectures these days. Isenas explained, and waited quietly for Leo to speak.

Leo had no choice but to tell the information he had obtained from the Bloodline.

After a brief remark, Leo asked, "Do you say his experience is real?"

"Although there are historical objects as physical evidence, and three priests as witnesses, it only shows that his position is at least neutral, and does not prove the authenticity of his experience. Don't forget that he's a dark creature and can't be easily put on the good side. ”

"Okay, I'll be wary of him. And what about his message? What can you see?"

Isenus nodded his forehead, thought about it and said: "To sum up, it is nothing more than that he guards the balance between the dark creatures and humans in this diocese, and the problem of dark power appeared more than a hundred years ago, but it has only come out of the water source Jedi in the past few years, and the change in the nature of the power in the water source Jedi he said more than twenty years ago, I have a little idea." ”

Leo wiped the rain from his face, pulled up Isennas, and walked under the tree next to him, "Do you have to talk in the rain?"

Esenus broke free of Leo's grasp and stood still.

"What I'm going to say has to do with rain. Isenus pointed to the sky. "I think you remember where we first went on an adventure?"

"Mount Mebius?"

Now that Isenas had raised it, Leo had discovered similarities between it and Mount Mebius.

"Yes, I asked the local residents how similar to what happened to us at Morbius Mountain, which lasted for almost a spring rainy season, which even the longest-lived old people had never heard of. ”

Leo shook his head and said, "There is a lot of rain in the spring, maybe it's just a coincidence. ”

Although they experienced the continuous spring rain firsthand, in terms of intensity, it was still far from the torrential rain in Mobius Mountain, and it seemed that it was difficult to conclude the similarities between the Xinshui Town and the Mobius Mountain incident based on this alone.

"So the information you just brought confirmed my thoughts, maybe you have forgotten a little, when Grinich left through a portal, Lao Mo analyzed the traces of divine power from the portal, so there is a great possibility that the unknown power breath in the blood diary came from the dragon. ”

"But—" Leo looked a little uncertain, still trying to figure out other possibilities.

"Nothing good. Esenus interrupted Leo and said, "If this happens, we must enter the Water Jedi as soon as possible and drive out the dragon that is still growing." If we let it grow, not to mention grow to the level of the indifferent dragon Euzhegalus, even if it is only the level of the dragons at the bottom of the Artisan Town ranking, we may not be able to solve it. ”

Isennas's words made Leo nod silently, after seeing the complete legendary combat power in a row, he felt more and more lucky and afraid of the first few battles.

"And when are we leaving?"

"The sooner the better, and if the others don't have enough information there to influence my judgment, I'd like to set off early tomorrow morning. ”

"Okay, I'll take you to the others. Leo was also resolute, and once he had made a plan, he would go ahead and execute it non-stop.

The three of them hurried forward in the rain.

The first thing Leo finds is Entre and Paul Jr.

In Leo's perspective perception, Entre and little Paul are in a daze in a small alley facing a corner.

"Two lazy guys. Leo muttered, and led the way into the alley.

The alley was not as tidy as the rest of Xinshui, where worn samurai swords, broken shields, torn armor and tattered cloth were everywhere, and dirty figures were hidden under the grass huts, huddled and shivering in the cold spring rain.

This is the refugee slum of Xinshui Town, and every slightly larger town has such a place, so that the homeless can stay away from the happy people, and retain a shred of dispensable dignity.

Occasionally, among these paupers, a few sharp eyes came from under the hut, and those were the eyes of the adventurers. Not all adventurers make tens of thousands of gold coins like Leo and them, and there will always be some particularly down-and-out guys who have to live in such places temporarily.

Leo walked briskly through the alley to Ente's side, and the sight made him feel slightly startled.

In the empty corner of the alley in the perspective of perspective perception, a middle-aged man with a blue face was lying on the ground trembling in the rain, the dazzling red light in his pupils was conspicuous in the rain at dusk, and the other civilians in the alley hid dozens of meters away.

"Dark creatures?" Leo asked.

This kind of stealth in perception is exactly the same as the situation that Leo encountered at Gonzalo, and the red light in the eyes of the middle-aged man is exactly the same as the werewolf captured by little Paul.

"It seems so. ”

"Then this is the fourth. ”

Ente turned his head and asked with some surprise, "The fourth?" have you already killed three?"

"The situation of two and the other one is a bit special, and we haven't done it for the time being. Leo looked at the middle-aged man in front of him again and said, "What's the matter with this man?"

"He seems to be transforming into a creature of darkness. Ente's face was not very good-looking, before Leo arrived, he had tried several times to expel this dark power from this man's body, but not only did it not work, but instead intensified the explosion of dark power in his body.

"Where did he come from?" Isenas crouched down and lifted the man's eyelids, his eyes glazed over, as if he had lost consciousness from the pain.

"Adventurer, some time ago, I went in the direction of the water source Jedi and encountered dark creatures, and he was the only one in their team who came back alive. ”

"Alone?" repeated Isenas heavily.

"Any questions?"

Isenus lifted his tattered clothes and said: "He has no wounds on his body, and the dark creature that can make his companions unable to return has not been able to leave a scar on his body, if he has another secret, then the dark creature did it on purpose, judging from the current situation of this man, I prefer the latter." ”

"What was his purpose?" Entre crouched down as well, trying again to exorcise the dark power from the man's body, trying to wake him up, but in exchange for the man's more violent convulsions.

"Create chaos. Leo and the others learned that there was a Bloodline named Gonzalo who leaned towards the good camp, and that he kept the peace in the region, and that all dark creatures who entered the diocese were subject to his rules. But if the dark creatures were to be brought in in this way, I don't think the church and Gonzalo would have found out. ”

"Poor pawn. Lizanka shook her head, pulled out her knife, and said, "I'll deal with him?"

Leo pressed back the knife he had drawn from Lizanka's hand, and was about to speak, but Entre jerked his head back and looked at another corner of the alley.

Everyone was startled by Ente's sudden movements, and hurriedly followed Ente's gaze.

Under a tattered straw hut, another younger man let out a groan of pain, and a faint red light came out of his eyes.

"The fifth!"

Before he could finish speaking, moaning began to sound intermittently in the alley, and six or seven people began the process of transformation into dark creatures at the same time, which Isenus believed was no coincidence.

Ente took the heavy sword from his back and said with a solemn expression: "The situation is not right, Isenus, I feel that a large number of dark creatures have appeared outside the town, and they seem to be planning to attack here, is this their plan?"

“... I retract what I said before, the purpose of those dark creatures is probably to spread the dark power, and then wait for the dark power to erupt and disintegrate the defenses of New Water Town from within. As it stands, it's likely that these dark forces can infect those who have come into contact with it, and while it's unclear how it works, it's time to make a decision, Captain. ”

Isenus drew his sword from his waist and placed it in Leo's hand.

"For some unknown reason, the dark forces are starting to erupt, and we are afraid that we will have to deal with these guys first, and in the current situation, we now have only two options. ”

"First, kill these humans who are transforming into dark creatures, and second, control these people and keep them as far away from ordinary humans as possible, otherwise we will face a situation of being caught between two sides. ”

This was a difficult decision for Leo to make, and in the carriage, he admitted that he couldn't do anything to the werewolves of the secondary erosion species, let alone these humans who had not yet completely transformed into dark creatures.

Leo looked at Ente and asked with a glimmer of hope, "Will these people eventually transform into dark creatures?"

"Not necessarily, some people are able to resist the past by their own will, but it takes time and the help of others. ”

This made it even harder for Leo to decide, if these half-humans were destined to become dark creatures, it would have been easier, but since they still had hope of recovery, killing them would be no different from slaughtering civilians. Leo, who has not yet been washed by power, does not have such a hard heart.

Two thoughts flared in his mind, should he kill these half-humans and save another group of humans, or should he save the half-humans and put more humans in danger?

No matter what you choose, there's no perfect balance between the two.

It's a decision that's bound to be wrong.

He buried his face in his hands.

It wasn't until the end of the dusk in the rain curtain that Leo raised his head: "Remember their lives and families, and then kill them." ”

"If someone says that the person who forces others to sacrifice for the sake of the greater good is a cold-blooded and ruthless person, then I am the cruel and tyrannical king. ”

p.s This problem originated from the problem of train track change, with a slight extension and change.