The first day after the restart of the selection passed quickly.

Night.

Lake Michigan is pitch black at night, and black waves lap rhythmically against the shore.

There was a rickety figure on the shore, this was a very old, very large old lady, her face was full of wrinkles, and there was a small sharp horn on her forehead - a cultivator of the flame wizard lineage, as he grew older, a small horn would grow on his forehead.

But even an old man like Grayson, who has assisted three generations of city lords, has no obvious sharp corners on his forehead. From this point of view, this old lady is really, very old, older than Grayson.

Her name is Rayla.

She is the oldest person in Demon Hunting City, because she is too old, she used to be the peak of the sixth level of the profession, and she has degraded to the level of a first-level professional. But she's still alive, as the oldest being in Demon Hunting City. In the Daywalker Alliance, it is generally believed that the one with a relatively long lifespan is the Huaxia Daomen. The shortest lifespan is the ancient Chinese warrior. But in fact, the average lifespan of the Flame Wizard is longer than that of the Dao Yu Priest of the Huaxia Dao Sect.

There is a saying that the flame wizard lineage may not be a pure human being, and the long life span may not be the result of cultivation, but the advantage of the race. But such a claim has never been confirmed.

"It's almost certain now that one of the four candidates in our Demon Hunter City should be a Nightkin spy. ”

Rayla spoke.

Grayson couldn't tell who it was, so he announced that he would suspend the selection three months ago. ”

She's not talking to herself.

Not far behind her, Bane stood respectfully, and couldn't help but wonder when he heard the words: "If there are really nightkin spies among the four of Skarna, Alpha, Eliza, and Baru, with the strength and eyesight of Lord Grayson, how can they not see it?"

Rayla said lightly: "I am a professional in the Demon Hunting City, and I can recognize the breath of the Night Stalker at a glance. But even the top witchers or flame wizards can't see through the blood clan that the blood prince has personally transformed. ”

Speaking of this, Rayla smiled strangely and continued, "In particular, as the Demon Hunter continues to evolve, even if it reaches the end of the 'Blood Pattern Hunter', it is only infinitely close to the ability of the Blood Clan. The Nocturnal Bloodline, on the other hand, can easily disguise themselves as Demon Hunters. The relationship between the witchers and the blood clan is far deeper than you children can imagine......"

Rayla then restrained her smile, stared at the dark lake, and said softly, "The target of the Nightkin should be the ocean. There is no news yet on the third Ancestral Hallows, and the Nightkin attacked our Demon Hunter City three months ago, so it could only be that they came towards the ocean. Before the Night Ancestor is truly resurrected, it is still possible to be killed by the inheritance artifact of our Demon Hunting City. Artifacts cannot be destroyed, but those who use them can be killed. If that traitor can successfully become a guardian knight, he will have countless ways and countless opportunities to kill the ocean. ”

Bane was on the sidelines, listening in horror.

He didn't doubt the words of the old lady in front of him at all, because Rayla had always been considered the strongest brain in Demon Hunting City, she was very old, but not old at all, on the contrary, she was an extremely smart old lady.

"Original...... Did you come down to the Ocean Palace?" muttered Bane.

"Of course, what else?" Rayla chuckled again, a bit like an old witch, and then her words changed suddenly, "but the problem now is not the Nightkin spies, but ...... Li Xiaosen, this little ghost. ”

"I know, that guy Grayson, what did he agree to do with that Huaxia imp to participate in the Holy Guardian Knight selection. Presumably, it was to introduce a variable that would be used to disrupt the original plan and rhythm of the Nightkin spy. ”

"But Grayson is an old fool!!"

Rayla screamed angrily, the wrinkles on her face deepened, like a knife.

Bain was silent.

He didn't understand why Mistress Ryla had called him here today, but now he understood.

Mistress Rayla, because of a very important issue, has a disagreement with Lord Grayson, so that the control of Demon Hunter City is actually not great.

Rayla is a figure of the Mountain Sect, and she is much more radical and extreme than the former Minister of Adjudication of the Cultivation Academy and the Donkey-Riding Ghost Sword of the Huaxia Daomen.

To put it simply, Rayla's awareness of the mountain gate is so strong that in her mind, if she can completely defeat the Nightcrawler Ancestor and eliminate the Nightkin in the future, but if the Demon Hunter City cannot participate as the leader of the Daywalker Alliance in the process, and after everything is over, the Demon Hunter City cannot become the real world's largest mountain gate and dominate many other mountain gates, then it is meaningless to defeat the Nightkin .

The former is represented by Li Xingni, who inherited the will of the ancient academy, hoping to weaken the friction and suspicion between the mountain gates while retaining the characteristics of each mountain gate. The latter has supporters of this idea in all the mountain gates around the world, and the people of the mountain gate sect emphasize the maximization of the interests of the mountain gate, and in the eyes of people like Rayla, the night walker is naturally an enemy, and the other mountain gates in the day travel alliance are also enemies!

If you can't defeat the Nightkin at the expense of Demon Hunter, then you might as well not defeat the Nightkin - that's what a very radical Mountain Sect figure like Rayla really thinks.

"What does Mistress Ryla want me to do?" Bane asked softly.

Rayla turned around and said, "It's not about you doing something, it's about you doing me a favor." With that, she gently patted her withered palm.

A tall figure walked out of the darkness, it was Bane's partner, the former North American Demon Hunter City, Bella!

Bane was not too surprised, and smiled slightly bitterly: "Sure enough, you are here too." ”

"Lee can't play in tomorrow's second round, he has to die tonight," Bella said. ”

Rayla didn't say anything more, just gently shoved a small object into Bella's hand, then gently kissed Bella's forehead and left. She knows the relationship between Bella and Bane very well, and she doesn't need to talk nonsense anymore, Bella will convince Bane.

"Have you really thought it through?" Bane stared at his partner, "The thing that Lord Ryla gave you is indeed terrifying, but using it to kill Li Xiaosen will cost you a huge price, and there is a high chance that you will die!"

Bella said: "This is no longer a personal vendetta, but for the Demon Hunting City, for the Mountain Gate." Such a sacred title as Guardian Knight cannot fall into the hands of an outsider under any circumstances, even if there is only such a possibility, I will erase it!"

"Although...... Although I also love Demon Hunting City and our mountain gate, does it really have to be like this?" Bane said hoarsely.

"Does it have to be like this?" said Bella, categorically. In her eyes, she couldn't see the hatred for Li Xiaosen, only an almost pathological paranoia, in order to maintain the Demon Hunting City, for the sake of the word "Mountain Gate".

“...... Mistress Rayla is the strongest brain in our Demon Hunting City, and she really knows you and I too. Bane was silent for a long time, then finally sighed.

There was a rare hint of softness in Bella's eyes, and she whispered, "I'm sorry, Bane." ”

Bane waved his hand and said, "Be polite to me, since you want to go, then I'm your partner, there's no reason not to go." After a pause, his eyes showed murderous aura, "Since you have decided to do it, let's do it well." That Li Xiaosen is indeed powerful, far beyond your and my expectations, but since we have the 'Withered Blade' given by Lord Ryla, you and I are very sure that we can kill him, and we don't have to die ourselves. ”

Bane is a relatively rare faction in the Flame Wizard lineage that "supports the witchers", rather than the school that "casts spells and attacks himself under the protection of the witchers".

The founder of this genre is none other than Rayla, who has just left!

And the small object that Rayla gave to Bella before leaving, was the "Withered Blade", which was the product of the wooden cone weapon used by Lord Rayla's partner and husband, after hunting more than a thousand bloods, and finally fused with the corpse of Rayla's husband after his death.

This weapon can be said to be the strongest weapon in Demon Hunting City at present, except for the inheritance artifact.

Because this weapon, for the restraint of the blood clan, is amazing.

Bella and Bane both understand why Mistress Rayla would give this weapon to him to deal with Li Xiaosen.

Because the effect of the Withered Blade is very special: the stronger the recovery ability of the person who is stabbed, the faster he will die.

This is a weapon that is entirely against the Bloodline.

The Bloodline's ability to recover is very strong, but the more powerful the Bloodline, the more vulnerable it is to the Blighted Blade.

And if memory serves, Li Xiaosen's recovery ability is comparable to that of the Nocturnal Blood Clan.

In other words, the Withered Blade is deadly and poisonous for a guy like Li Xiaosen!

There are many people in this world, and different people have different ideas, like the former minister of adjudication, who did not approve of Li Xingni's ideas until his death, and insisted on suppressing the academic school. There are also people like riding a donkey ghost sword, even if they agree to form an alliance with the academy because of the pressure of the ancestors, recognize the academy, and recognize the academy, but deep down in their hearts, they still dislike Li Xingni and Long Wu, and they are difficult to dispel their wariness and jealousy of the academy, the birthplace of academic thought.

Of course, there are also more extreme mountain sects like Rayla. Ruilan would rather be killed by the Nightkin than let the minds of the academy and the academy invade the gates of the Demon Hunter City.

The glory of the Demon Hunter City, above all else. That's what Rayla had in mind.

The kind of ideas that the academics wanted, abandoning the view of the gate, weakening the concept of the mountain gate, and emphasizing the ideas of "everyone", "Datong", and "we", Rayla not only scoffed, but also felt bitter from the bottom of her heart.

In her opinion, it was an invasion, an invasion of ideas.

Such an invasion has already had an effect, such as Grayson's agreement to allow Lee to participate in the selection. This is a very bad sign. Today, he recognized Li Xiaosen as a foreigner to participate in the selection of the Demon Hunting City, and even became the guardian knight of the Demon Hunting City, so will he go further tomorrow and accept Li Xingni's cheap woman as the head of the Demon Hunting City?

Are you kidding!

Li Xingni, as well as the ancient academy, once said: Eliminating prejudices does not mean the disappearance of the concept of mountain gate. It's like in the realm of cultivation, blurring the professional barrier doesn't really erase that barrier.

But Rayla didn't believe it at all.

In the darkness of the night, Rayla looked at Bella and Bane quietly heading to Li Xiaosen's residence, grinning happily.

"You won't see the sun tomorrow, dead imp!" she said, squinting her cloudy eyes and delighting like a girl.