Chapter 90: Return to Earth (1)
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"How many people in this world are doing what they like, besides criminals?"
On the towering tower, a red-robed man shook the empty goblet and looked at the dark earth outside the stone window, his voice did not fluctuate.
"At least they don't make others miserable."
The silver-haired girl's short sword pierced the red-robed man's heart from behind, and replied coldly.
Red liquid spurted out of his chest, and the goblet was full at once, but it was not wine.
Time goes back to the Black Earth Continent eight years ago.
As the name suggests, almost 80% of the land is dark land, so the night here will be darker than elsewhere, and all kinds of human ugliness will be presented at this time. In the moonlight, the great landowner named Sinz was admiring the hard fight, and a beautiful girl of fourteen years old was in her arms on her left and right, and the bonfire flickered in their confused eyes like tears, when in fact, they were long gone.
"These lowly people, look at their pitiful appearance, haha." Zinz laughed heartily, and the girls on both sides laughed awkwardly.
"Shoot him, shoot him." His youngest son is also very passionate.
"This guy is really resistant to fighting, but his movements are as clumsy as a bear, and if I were him, I would have solved it with a sword earlier." Another richly dressed boy said.
"I want to laugh when I think of the first time you killed someone and scared me, and now I'm still so arrogant, the first time I killed a slave, I didn't have any mercy at all, the feeling of blood left behind, I feel comfortable thinking about it." A boy sitting next to him sneered.
"Cut, what's the use of just daring? Your strength is really too weak. I'm a disciple of Isaac, the great swordsman of the Butline Empire, and I don't know how much higher than your family's ancestral swordsmanship. Brother Gongzi retorted again.
"Hehe, after watching the performance in a while, I will definitely have a discussion with you." The other boy replied with a smile.
The two slaves in the arena each hold a long sword, slashing wildly, they used to be friends of a tribe, but since the tribe was wiped out and they were shackled, all they could do was give up all emotions for a mouthful of life-sustaining food.
The arena is surrounded by steep valleys with a fearsome pattern on the rugged rock face. A red-robed man hid in the night with a short sword, his grim eyes fixed on Zinz's neck. For him, people, whether noble, good or evil, are just prey on which he depends, and only their death can have their own life.
"Kill, kill that coward." Sinz yelled excitedly, and his hands couldn't help but gestur, and the rotten smell of wine and meat erupted from his mouth.
A white mist rose at Zinz's feet, like a fire from hell spreading upwards, and the crowd became agitated, and four of Sinzi's personal guards drew their swords and clung to them.
"Dad, what's wrong?" His little daughter exclaimed.
"Damn, is it on fire?" His son said.
The squires and nobles stood up uneasily, and the guards at the bottom of the auditorium hurried up.
These four personal guards are all more than 2 meters tall, standing up as tall as the two Sinzi, they are all prisoners who have committed serious crimes, they were recruited by Xinzi, and they were tricked to make them obey their orders, otherwise, the poisonous Gu will immediately make them pierce their intestines and break their stomachs.
"Whoosh-" A sword shadow, the four guards were cut out of a bloody hole while holding their swords, and the four of them became more alert, struggling to find the enemy's traces in the thick smoke.
"Ahh The first person to be cut off had an entire arm festering in the blink of an eye, the red and green liquid slid down the white bones, the flesh fell from the arm like snowflakes, the venom continued to spread and corrod, and the green liquid eroded his body like a colony of man-eating ants.
The wounds of the other three also began to fester, and the most agile guard decisively cut off his right arm.
"This is the sword poison of the three-pattern poison purpose, don't let it spread." The man who cut off his right arm shouted.
The other three had already been corroded by most of their bodies and collapsed to the ground.
The enemy slowly approached through the smoke, he, with long hair over his shawl, was not tall, and his dress and appearance could not be seen clearly, only the half-meter-long short sword in his hand glowed green.
The guard who had lost his arm slashed down with his sword, but the enemy disappeared in an instant, and when the guard came back to his senses, he had already appeared in front of Sinz, and stabbed a sword into the heart of Sinz, who was already stunned.
"Bang-" Zinz's body exploded like fireworks, flesh and blood splashed with green light, and most of the smoke dispersed.
The guards at the bottom of the audience rushed up, but at this time, Sintz's body was long gone, and only a small and half-complete body of the three corpses next to him remained, and the other part had become white bones with green scum, and the other guard knelt on the ground with one hand pressing the wound that kept spurting blood.
"Daddy, Daddy." Sintz's son cried out in pain.
"Chase, chase the assassin." The owner of the Colosseum shouted, and the 200 guards of the Colosseum immediately blocked the Colosseum.
"Oh no, the cages in the arena have all been opened." A frightened colossal colosseum owner said.
Sure enough, elephants, lions, tigers and other fierce beasts rampaged in the gladiatorial arena, more than 300 slaves also frantically slashed and killed the nobles fleeing from the stands, the guards who blocked the gladiatorial arena also made a mess, and a large number of slaves also took the opportunity to escape.
"Whoever is so bold as to catch this assassin will rip out his heart and liver." Zinz's son's eyes were fiery and he roared wildly.
The guards divided into three groups under the command of the captain and blocked the venue, but the unstoppable riot had left the venue in shambles, and the slaves were like ants in the anthill of the flood, and this desire to survive could not be stopped by steel guns and force. It was simply impossible for the guards to control the venue and capture the Assassins.
"Master, this was found next to the master's corpse." An attendant handed a black token to Sinz's son.
"It's ...... Phantom? A guard stared.
"Phantom? Could it be the symbol of the Assassin Order? Sinzi's son's gloom suddenly turned to fear.
The gladiatorial arena was in shambles, and the day they had always dreamed of had finally arrived when the freed slaves and wild beasts returned their suffering in the darkness to the pot-bellied nobles.
The cold light of the moon poured down on the dark earth, and his heart was still as calm as usual, and killing was an essential activity for him as eating and sleeping.
No one knows his name, but his title makes the people of the Black Earth Continent fearful, he is the "Ghost Assassin".
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This is a huge black castle, but outside you can only see it swallowed by endless darkness, because the mountains of the black earth continent are also dark colors, and the valley next to the ancient castle is full of this kind of lacquer trees that are more than 7 meters high, so even in the daytime, it is like a black hole as weirdly hidden in this corner of the secluded continent, and the outside world is said to have four people living here, or the outside world does not know whether the others are counted as people.
People passing by here will only look at this gloomy place from afar, because once you get close to the sumac forest within three kilometers, you will not be able to see the sun tomorrow, and people call it "Ghost City". This is Lafitte's home, the home of the Tomb Organization.
Lafitte pulled out a stone token from his pocket, the Phantom Stone, and only it could not be attacked by the Soul Eaters around the Phantom City. This three-meter-tall behemoth is unique to this dark wood, and it lives by eating human souls, and they can't see the light, but if they eat a person's soul, they can live for thirty years.
The alert Lafitte suddenly noticed that something was wrong, one of the three phantom stones in his pocket was missing, although only one phantom stone could resist these soul eaters, but this kind of negligence should not be committed by an assassin.
"What? Looking for it? A pleasant voice sounded behind Lafitte.
Lafitte grabbed the stone like a bullet with two fingers, but did not look back, but continued to walk towards the city.
"Hey, you can't say thank you once?" The man floated to Lafitte's side.
The girl who looked to be about twenty years old, wearing a bra made of black gold, her body was mostly exposed, she had a tattoo of a black apple on her left arm, and she was carrying a large stone sword taller than herself on her back. With a beautiful face and curly blond hair, she exudes this alluring charm all over her body.
"I killed several guards to help you get it back from the rewarding son!" The girl pouted, looking dissatisfied.
"Don't follow me anymore." Lafitte turned her head gloomily, her inky eyeballs looking at her coldly, the voice was like a cloud floating across the sky, no anger, no command, no emotion.
At this time, the girl's blue eyes almost fell, and her hands quickly covered her cheeks, and the whole person was surprised as if she was a ghost, if anyone won the jackpot, it would probably be this expression.
"Oh my God, you can actually speak, it's terrible, I've been a member for a year, and it's the first time I've heard you speak." The girl screamed like crazy, exaggeratedly.
"Hey, let's show Miss Ben again, come on." The girl jumped like a rabbit next to Lafitte, pointing her finger at Lafitte's mouth.
He was calmly angry, and quickly took out three poisonous eyes, and slashed at the girl, a green light cut through the surrounding darkness.
"Bang-" The huge shock wave knocked away the surrounding 6 large sumac trees, and Lafitte was also knocked back by a meter, and almost slipped and fell. The venom on the sword's body spread rapidly, and the three lacquer trees that had contaminated it all emitted billowing black smoke.
The girl held a large stone sword and smiled.
"What, it's a hurry to say a word, I won't tell anyone else." The girl put away her sword, and the venom on her body slipped down and disappeared.
Lafitte still had the same face, his hands in his pockets, and walked briskly towards the ghost city.
Tethered to the gates of the ghost was a nightmare that was not huge, about the size of an adult lion. It's just that it has dense green spikes, a flattened head, and a beak like a platypus's beak, which can spew out a fog that makes people fall asleep in a second, and then the nightmare can feast on its prey while it is asleep. Even if the person is rescued by a companion while in a coma, then the person will not wake up, but will not wake up as if he was in a nightmare, and will not unravel until he falls asleep three days later. Nightmare are very loyal, and as long as their owner feeds them human flesh on time, it will not attack its master or his men. Its owner is the lord of the ghost city, the leader of the tomb.
Lafitte and the girl arrived in the hall, where two people were already seated on the four golden thrones, and two black golems were placed on the other two seats, with a steel knife around their necks. It is a spell in which if the Tomb Order's assassins fail to complete their tasks within the allotted time, the steel knife will cut the golem's neck, and the person receiving the curse will die in the same way. This spell needs to be accepted by the person who is under the spell, so it can only be used for some kind of contract, not for assassination.
"It seems that the only thing left is the rose, which has not been completed." Said the man on the golden throne.
He is also a member of the tomb, usually wearing a blue robe, and will change into a dark blue leotard when assassinating people. He was born in the Red Earth Continent, and in his right ear he wears the Yang Jing Stone, a specialty of the Red Earth Continent, which will have the effect of stopping bleeding when the body is injured. Although he was also an Assassin, Lafitte and the others had never seen his weapon, and everyone called him Blue Feather.
"You think I'm going to fail?" A pleasant female voice came from the hallway, followed by the sound of clattering high heels, she was Rose.
Rose does not have an exact age, as she has the special ability to survive on her soul alone, or to have her soul lodge in a newborn baby, but if she does so, she must wait until the baby reaches the age of 28 or dies before she can choose a new host. So even though she looks like she's only in her twenties, she's actually an old woman. I have to admit that this body is indeed the best in the world at the moment, with black and beautiful hair, pretty face, well-proportioned posture and snow-like skin, all of which make people jealous.
There was a muffled thud, and a blood-soaked cloth bag rolled onto the floor. Rose put her cloak on the hanger and rubbed her shoulders.
"Auntie, why does your employer still want to reward people's heads?" The girl looked at the blood-red cloth bag on the ground and said with a smile.
"This is a good expression of appreciating death, Wei'er, do you want to see it?" Rose said.
She removed the steel knife next to the puppet and slashed her middle finger with it.
Lafitte did the same, and the steel knife and the golem disappeared at the same time. The two sat down on the golden chair, the girl leaned against the wall, and the five did not speak again.
The clock on the wall had only one hour hand, because everyone here counted the time, and the mind always relied on this memory to run a clock, which was one of the skills that the Assassins would know. The five Assassins in the hall were all assassins with a zero failure rate, and the bounties offered by their employers were naturally sky-high. However, Duffy can only be hired once a year, because the assassination he has done is the most difficult, and the bounty paid to the lord at one time is enough to squander it to his heart's content. It was also the first time Vile had met Doffy herself, and he had always been absent from previous summons.
"The time should come." Rose frowned.
"I'm getting older, and my ability is declining, and there are still 8 seconds left to reach 0:00." Blue Feather said evilly.
"Milky kid." Rose frowned, and a red needle flew out at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
Blue Feather barely dodged, and a delicate rose bloomed at the end of the red needle after piercing the wall.
"Want to fight?" The blue feather floated lightly in front of the rose.
"No, it killed you." As Rose spoke, Blue Feather's arms and legs were already covered with vines.
"Hum-" The hands of the big clock jumped directly from 11 o'clock to 12 o'clock, and there was a depressing muffled sound inside, which made people's hearts very blocked.
Then, a man more than 2 meters tall stood at the door, dressed in a white suit, without hair, with sharp eyes and a tall nose that made the whole person look heroic. With a glass of blood in his right hand, he slowly walked towards the five people.
Rose gathered the vines, and Blue Feather floated back to her seat.
He is the lord of the ghost city, the source of sin.
"Long time no see, everyone." Sin Yuan took a sip of blood and placed the teacup on the stone table. With a friendly smile on his face, he didn't smell infected by the darkness at all.
"Boss, just say something, I'm very busy." Blue Feather frowned lightly.
Sin Yuan stretched out his hands in the air, and a large black stone chair appeared behind him, and the armrests on either side were two stone dragons.
"Of course, to make a long story short, the principle of our tomb is that as long as you get the employer's money, you will kill 100% of the reward. But this time the employer is very special, or rather...... Employers are our enemies. The deep voice of the source of sin echoed in the air.
"Peace Alliance?" Doffy bit his thumb.
"That's right, the Peace Alliance, the organization that maintains world peace, is also the number one enemy who has been secretly investigating us. Seven major Assassin Orders in the world have been destroyed by them, and our Order, a branch of the Tomb Order, was forced to disband thirty years ago and reorganized twenty-five years ago, with only three members remaining. Sin Yuan put away his smile, coldly picked up the teacup containing blood, and shook it gently.
"I'm only here to make a living because I was saved by you, don't think about revenge or anything, boss, just say the price." Blue Feather didn't seem interested in these old things.
"Of course, if the conditions are unacceptable, I will not summon you. Their terms were tempting, and if we succeeded in killing the bounty, all five treasure maps of Itami's burial goods would be ours, and the Peace Alliance would legalize our storage for three years, but we would still be nominally wanted as criminals. Sin Sources took a sip of blood.
Lafitte's eyes changed imperceptibly. The Itami Burial Goods are five artifacts left behind after the collapse of the Kingdom of Rost, each with five corresponding treasure maps depicting their location. And Lafitte's three-striped poisonous eye is also one of them, this qiē has an inexplicable connection with his life experience, and this reward is exactly what Lafitte dreams of.
"Will they keep their promise?" Lan Yu was very skeptical.
"They have to make a contract, and they will get it, but legalizing it is just a blank check." The source of sin said.
The Assassin Order's contract was a spell similar to the Puppet Death Curse, in which the spell sufferer had to actively accept the spell caster's spell in order for it to take effect. Once a contract is made, it can only be terminated if the agreement is completed, otherwise it will be punished by spells.
"I'm not against that." Dophy's eyes flashed with greed.
"It really doesn't matter if it's legal for three years, it's tempting." Blue Feather was also very interested.
"I listen to Sister Rose." Wei'er didn't say anything, but she couldn't help but salivate in her heart.
"I agree, of course." Rose said.
The source of sin drank the blood and pressed his hands on his thighs. The stone carved dragon on the armrest of the black stone chair shimmered with a cold light.
"Then go guò, now arrange the grouping and tasks." The source of the sin did not ask Lafitte, because he knew that he would not refuse.
"The location is the city of the sunset, and there are three people in total, all of whom are the core of the reactionaries in the country of the black earth, Butlion, who formed a military force called the "Revolutionary Army" three years ago, but after the rebellion failed, these people fled to the legendary land of the city of the sunset to start another armed uprising. Of course, we're not righteous teachers, it doesn't matter, all we have to do is kill these three rewarders. Sin Source took out five maps of the city of Earthset.
"The City of Earthset? Is there really a zài in that place? Blue Feather was shocked.
"A child is a child." Rose was somewhat contemptuous.
Legend has it that this is a city under the ancient ruins of the Black Earth Continent, and there is a small sun formed by the core of the earth, and the people of the City have been living underground, relying on this sun to cultivate and live. But no one has ever been there, let alone any maps.
"According to the route of the map, you will soon find there, these three rewards, the leader of the revolutionary army, Dikash, is three treasure maps, the deputy leader Yemo is a treasure map, and the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army is a treasure map. It doesn't matter how many of you kill the five of you, whoever kills the reward will get the reward they deserve, and if you need to cooperate, it's up to you to decide how to divide the bounty. The source of the crime took out the photos and materials of the three men and put them on the stone table.
Dealing with these three people alone, Lafitte kept echoing the thought in her mind.
"Then I'll go first, I don't have to cast a puppet death curse this time, because no one knows how long it will take, and besides, I can't guarantee that the Justice League won't set a trap." With that, the source of sin got up and left, and the stone chair turned into a black lacquer leaf and went with him. Outside the city, the wind was howling, and Dophy, Blue Feather, Rose, Vier, and Lafitte were each planning their own plans. Lafitte was expressionless and picked up the map. R1058