"The green liquid in this pool looks weird, I don't know if it's poisonous or not."

Instead of approaching immediately, Natsu summoned a Wind Meerkat with his summoning technique.

This little monster is more sensitive to toxins, and it has an excellent poison resistance physique, which is most suitable for use in this kind of situation.

The young meerkat sniffed the air, circled the pool, and raised his head to give Natsu a warning signal.

"Is it poisonous...... The meerkat is an animal that is not even afraid of the king snake, and it actually issued such a strong warning about what is in the pool. ”

Just as she was considering whether to find a monster that was immune to toxins to investigate, two groups of malicious spirits appeared within the range of her superpowers.

"Someone is coming, hide first, maybe you can get a clue about this place."

She smuggled and hid to the side.

The two men did not come in through a secret passage, but from below the mountain, and it wasn't long before a man's head peeked out from the edge of the cliff.

The man looked vigilantly at the top of the mountain for a long time, then waved his hand to the side.

Another hooded man climbed up across from him, holding a staff in his hand, the tip of which glowed ghostly, as if using some kind of detection spell.

Xia held her breath and hid there motionless, undetectable fluctuations swept past her, and she blocked them with a mental power barrier.

The man in the hood was obviously not at the level of the Grand Magus and could not detect the anomaly here, so he gestured to the man who came up first, indicating that there was no one here.

"Cornell, how dare you use a spell directly? Do you think we're dying slowly? ”

The man who came up first cursed.

"It's nature, one of the most imperceptible detection spells, you know what."

The man named Cornell circled around with his staff in his hand, taking a closer look at the dust cover and some marks that looked like footprints, and his face under the hood showed a look of relief.

"No one else, just some ghoul footprints."

"I'm not worried, I'll go somewhere else."

"You're too cautious, Eden, do you still want me to go down this damn pool?"

Cornell used the light of his staff to illuminate the dark exit of the secret passage, and had no intention of entering.

"Go and see in the secret passages, be careful."

Eden drew the short sword at his waist, and he had a longbow on his back, and the outfit looked like that of a ranger.

"If you want to go, go together."

Cornell looked at him wary.

"Why, are you still worried about what I'm going to do? Don't forget that I'm not a mage, and that today's mission must be completed by you, and I'm just a poor support character. ”

Eden took the short sword and spread his hands and said:

"Well, my young friend, we haven't seen each other for almost 4 or 5 years, you are now a big man here, no longer my subordinate, I really shouldn't have ordered you...... So let's take matters into our business and tell me something worth noting around here. ”

"Nothing noteworthy."

Cornell put down his staff, covered his nose and went to the pool, looked at the dark green liquid inside, and said:

"It's true that something big has happened in the past few months, but you should have already got detailed information from there, so why bother asking me?"

"I heard you have a wife and two children in Westminster?"

Eden continued to ask quietly:

"Have you forgotten who you are?"

"It's just a cover-up, my old fellow."

Cornell's face changed slightly, but the hood concealed it, and he took a few steps back and left the pool:

"I can break their necks at any time with those two little cubs, and that woman is just a slave I bought with money, and I have already killed several such slave girls, what are you worried about?"

"Ha, nothing."

Eden slapped his palm with the blade of his dagger:

"It's just a matter of duty, just ask a few words."

"Then you should help me get ready and complete the task at hand, instead of asking about trivial things."

Cornell opened the wrap around his waist and took out a disc from it and placed it on the ground, then placed a few metal rods next to the disc.

With great skill, he placed the metal rods on the discs, arranged them in a strange pattern, and whispered a incantation.

There was a faint glow on the disc, and several metal rods stood up like antennas.

"Why did the program start early? I don't think we can go to war against Westminster. Although Pengzan has developed very well in recent years, it has not yet swallowed the strength of a country. ”

After doing this qiē, he asked seemingly casually.

"I don't know about this, I'm going to ask those noble lords, I'm just a hard-working intelligence liaison officer."

Eden stood not far away, tapping his hand on the hilt of his sword and said:

"This thing was hidden here ten years ago, or even earlier, and for some reason the seal outside was damaged, allowing those ghouls to escape, so I just asked me to take a look, not necessarily to start the plan in advance."

"After all, it's this time, and anything can happen."

Cornell stood up from the ground.

"That's right, in fact, I also think there is a bit of a fuss above, and after receiving the warning, they sent us two hard-working guys to investigate, don't they know that this thing is dangerous?"

Eden seemed to be convinced of his words.

Hearing the conversation just now, Xia had a bottom in his heart about the identities of the two:

"It turned out to be a spy for Punzan...... Do you want to wreak havoc here? One of them has been lurking for so many years, and even has a child. ”

"Anyway, Stephanie also mentioned this period, what kind of period is it?"

She thought with doubts:

"These two guys are not good things, but their strength is not weak, I'm afraid the spiritual charm is useless to them, let's listen to what they have to say first."

"It's more than a danger."

Cornell looked at the things on the ground, and his face was very ugly:

"If it weren't for the order you sent personally, I don't believe that the higher authorities would have made such a stupid decision, this thing was a killer weapon prepared by the Wolf Tooth Army in the vicinity during the Southern War, and it was used to attack the fortress, even an army of thousands of people may not be able to stop it."

"War in the South? If it weren't for Westminster kneeling on the ground and licking the feet of the Harlem Empire, I'm afraid the entire southern region would have been ours long ago. ”

Eden walked up to him affectionately, looking like he wanted to pat him on the shoulder.

Cornell stared at his hand, clutching his staff tightly.

Eden was bored and took his hand back.

"The bootstrap ceremony is ready, and it will start automatically when the time comes."

Connell saw him retreat a few meters away, took out a blue magic crystal from his pocket, and placed it in the disc:

"One magic crystal is not enough, you will take care of the rest."

"You're getting stingy."

Eden reluctantly took out a few magic crystals, put the corresponding number of metal rods on the disc, straightened up and said:

"That's fine? Can we get out of here? I don't want to stay next to this foul pool at all. ”

As he spoke, the disc on the ground shone brightly, and it seemed to have been fully activated.

"Alright."

Cornell replied:

"You can go back the way you came, I need to go inside the lair and take a closer look......"

He spoke with his back to Eden, not seeing the ranger behind him slowly and silently taking off the longbow behind his back.

"There's someone in the secret passage!"

Eden shouted.

Connell was startled, his gaze turned to the dark entrance to the secret passage, and then he felt his arm go numb, and a jet-black arrow peeked through his wrist holding the staff, and the staff fell heavily to the ground.

"Damn! I've been leaving the spell barrier open, how can you hurt me? ”

He gritted his teeth and stepped back, feeling that the wound was not painful at all, but rattling, and the arrow was clearly poisonous.

"It's a demon-breaking arrow, dear Cornell, and your spell barrier is just a ridiculous eggshell in front of it."

Eden put his longbow back behind him, took out his short sword and pressed it towards him:

"Stadorfandu ......"

Cornell groaned in his mouth, and a silvery white glow appeared on his body.

"Witchcraft shield, it's the first time I've seen a real thing."

Eden didn't stop:

"Cornell, stop struggling...... I already know your roots, a few years ago you obtained the power of a wizard in the forest ruins, and after your strength increased greatly, you were favored by a certain nobleman, and your status in the intelligence system rose sharply, and you became the head of this region at a young age. ”

He slowly shook the short sword in his hand, and the edge of the blade reflected the light of the disc on the ground, constantly shining on Eden's face, making him unable to open his eyes.

"I've heard that those wizards in overseas wonderlands have a lot of good things, and their powers are similar to magicians, but they are different; But even if you're a true wizard, you won't be able to resist my Demon Breaker Arrow, not to mention my secret poison on it! ”

"Did you send you to kill me? Why? I am loyal to the kingdom of Punzan! ”

Cornell yelled with a blue face.

"Whether you are faithful or not is none of my business, and that's not the point."

Eden was still quite wary of the mysterious caster of the wizard, and did not attack it immediately, but slowly waited for the poison to attack:

"You should understand the current situation, and obediently hand over the thing you got last month, or I'll leave you with no bones!"

He squinted at the green pool:

"Because I'm going to throw you into there...... Do you understand? ”

"It can't be, I didn't bring it with me."

Cornell replied angrily.

"Yes, but I can feel it, and lying is a bad act."

Eden showed a grim smile:

"Especially when you're poisoned and you're dealing with an expert torturer."

"Don't think!"

Cornell's lips began to glow purple-black, and his voice trembled:

"It's something I bought with all my savings, it's my hope......"

"The hope in your mouth is not for yourself, but for your son with great talent, right?"

Eden pulled a handful of chestnut hair from his bosom and blew.

Seeing the hair floating in the air, Cornell fell silent.

"It's a pity that he's in my hands now...... As for whether you live or die after that, it's up to you. ”

Eden smiled and approached his side, poking his dagger at the wizarding shield:

"You can probably stay conscious for about 2 minutes, how about it, do you still have to hold on?"

After he finished speaking, the witchcraft shield slowly disappeared.

"Very smart choice."

Eden walked up to him satisfied, lifted his hood, revealing the young face underneath, and grabbed him by the hair:

"You said you could pinch them to death at any time? How do I think you're treating those two little cubs like babes? You've got everything for them that I haven't gotten in years...... Now, sue me, where is that thing? ”

Cornell's head slowly approached him, as if trying to say something.

— and then lowered her head and sniffed at him.

"It's her perfume."

There was a madness in the young wizard's eyes.

"Don't worry about the details, man. Like you said, it's just a slave. ”

Eden said nonchalantly:

"When you and I are prosperous, what woman do you want...... Hey, what do you want to do! ”

He suddenly noticed that Cornell bit the tip of his tongue and chanted a short series of incantations with blood in his mouth, forming a blood-colored symbol in front of him.

"Die."

The young wizard stared at him with a vicious gaze and uttered the last words of his life.

"-self-destructing?"

Seeing him fall headlong to the ground, Eden hurriedly retreated until he reached the edge of the pool.

I saw the corpse lying there quietly, purple-black blood began to flow from the corner of the mouth, and it didn't look like it was about to explode.

"It can't be a spell failure, haha......"

Eden laughed and put the dagger in the sheath, "So the young man just can't be trusted. ”

Xia watched the two spies kill each other and didn't help.

One is the conversation just now, she doesn't have a good impression of either of them; The second was that when that Cornell was chanting the incantation, she felt a strange aura, which made her not act rashly.

Just as Eden smiled and tried to get closer to the corpse on the ground, the green pool in the middle of the hilltop began to shake.

Then a huge arm reached out from it and struck him on the head like a walnut, smashing him into a patty.

"Boss monster!"

Seeing the power of that arm, Xia didn't dare to stay where he was for longer, and dodged into the secret passage.

"Peng!"

Another arm stretched out from the pool and pressed it the rocky ground, the green liquid corroding the rocks of the ground into countless deep pits.

Immediately afterwards, a shriveled head slowly rose from the pool, and the skull's eyes were closed so tightly that it occupied almost the entire pool. R1152