The autumn rain has been pouring all night, and it still hasn't stopped.

The mine has been burned to the ground, and the scorched wood and gravel that were once the buildings and facilities are now left are rainwater, turning into wisps of steam and snorting, and in some places, the simmering continues, emitting faint green smoke.

Gladstone tightened his poncho shirt and turned his gaze to the miners shivering in the rain, thin, dirty, hunched and bowed, occasionally glancing at the heavily armed GIs with a wincing gaze, anxiously awaiting the verdict.

A forty-year-old man with a beard, shy of the general's belly, trotted over, and reported with a flattering face: "Inspector General, the nearby miners have been assembled, what instructions do you have?"

Gladstone smiled, but didn't smile. "Minister Cecil, it is your authority and responsibility to deal with the issue of the jurisdiction, how can I exceed my authority?" said with a gesture of please.

'I'm sorry' Cecil scolded in his heart: "It's nice to say, it's not you who are fucking pointing fingers there, the action failed, but Lao Tzu has to take the blame together......"

Like many large organizations that have been around for some years, there is some discord between the headquarters and branches of Freemasonry.

Because the headquarters has a systematic secret method, a strong combat force directly under it, and a perfect patrol system, the various branches are not too big to lose, but the post rotation system cannot be implemented.

The main reason is that when the Freemasonry established a branch, it was to support the local obedient forces to ascend to the top, and the time passed, and the ground worm became the head snake of the land, and the relationship was intertwined. Coupled with issues such as geography and customs, it can be described as very complicated. The minister who came in was not accustomed to the soil at all.

Moreover, Freemasonry is not without opponents, and the rash and vigorous rectification of foreign enemies will only make everyone in the branches dangerous and the situation of detachment from Germany will become more and more serious.

Therefore, the headquarters grandfather can only start from the strength of the meeting, exploit more, strengthen the direct line, and deter the branch, so that it does not dare to go too far.

But in reality, the headquarters is also full of factions, intrigues and all kinds of corruption.

Therefore, in a word, the big ship of Freemasonry has passed its peak, struggling to maintain and move forward slowly, while the crew members are careful and focused on their own interests, rather than people in their positions and doing their duty.

For such a situation, Gladstone and Cecil are naturally well aware, and even Zhao Wenrui has a rough idea.

This is an old tiger with a lot of dark injuries, and it is indeed dangerous to brush the tiger's whiskers and touch the tiger's feet, but the probability of success is indeed very high when you slap a few times from the oblique side.

Of course, the main reason why Zhao Wenrui had such an idea was that he took the initiative to taste the sweetness this time.

In terms of combat, it can be said that it is lackluster, he did not even use the bone beast, but almost simply used the spell of 'summoning natural allies'.

From the first ring to the sixth ring, each ring has a corresponding summoning natural ally, and if each ring spell slot prepares a spell of that series, it can form a Warcraft warband.

What's more interesting is that the echelons from low-level to high-level can completely complete the matching arrangement of combat strength and troops.

For example, the Shadow Python is a six-ring shadow ally, and the Shadow Python is a three-ring shadow ally, the Shadow Python can summon four at a time, while the Shadow Python is 12.

Combined with the Beast's Charge and Rush ability, the Shadow Spider's Cobwebs ability, and the Shadow Squid's Magical Mist ability......

Such a team with spell-like skills of all classes is naturally very good in terms of comprehensive combat power.

What's more, there is also Zhao Wenrui in charge, shadow crows, shadow vines and all kinds of spell support.

In addition to the haunting of free access to the shadow plane, the defenders of the mine can be said to have been abused from beginning to end, first being played around, exhausted, and waiting for the survival of the combat power to decrease again and again, morale fell again and again, and when they wanted to evacuate, they found that the opponent could be crushed even if they were just facing them at the beginning, and the only reason why they played the mode of boiling frogs in warm water for a while was that they wanted to catch them all!

In fact, Zhao Wenrui did have such a mind at the beginning. After all, some secret reconnaissance before the war did not find the existence of a master who could take on the concept of 'variables'.

However, the Masonic guards in the mine did not guess the reason why Zhao Wenrui used the technique of boiling frogs in warm water.

At least not all of them.

One of the main reasons he used this tactic was that he didn't want to give the guards the opportunity to take the miners hostage and cannon fodder on a large scale.

Although he knew that poverty and disadvantage did not equate to kindness, and even saw first-hand how the poor oppressed the miners of lower status, he chose not to affect the miners as much as possible from the beginning.

At the same time, he didn't want the mine guards to see that he was concerned about the injuries and deaths of the miners, so he used this tactic, showing the enemy weakness in advance, and carrying forward the guerrilla style of fighting and running, focusing on single-digit attacks and killings, and creating a situation of rescuing someone, but not knowing where he was.

In this way, the mine guards thought that they had an advantage, and the geographical advantage, number of people, and total combat power were on their side, but the other party was quite cunning and ruthless.

Under this cognition, the way the mine guards deal with it is more like whack-a-mole, divided into several teams, and smashed where they appear.

In Zhao Wenrui's eyes, this is tantamount to being divided into a small piece and a small piece by his strategy.

So it's like a cut steak, you don't need to gobble it up, you don't have to worry about choking, but you can eat it quickly and comfortably.

After all, Zhao Wenrui and his subordinates have the advantage of taking shortcuts in the shadow plane, and this advantage is further increased in three-dimensional areas with a labyrinth nature such as mining caves.

In the face of the concentrated fire attack of Zhao Wenrui's war group, a handful or a handful of mine guards were defeated without any suspense, and they were completely slaughtered.

After killing the guards of the mine and some of the doglegs of the guards close to him, Zhao Wenrui successfully deterred the miners who tried to rob on a large scale.

He did not show the characteristics of a liberator who rescued the suffering, but played the game of the gang of mountain bandits.

The most important feature of the mountain bandits is not to force the good to become bandits, but to surrender to the name.

He also added an extra one, taking 'Shadow Poison', which is the Shadow Druid's version of the 'Three Corpses Brain Pill'. Pills are both beneficial and poisonous, and you should take them regularly, otherwise you will die of poison.

As a result, he saw the treacherous nature of the poor, and only a small number of people were willing to really join the gang, and most of them chose to surrender and then share the grain.

And this small number of occupants can be roughly divided into three categories.

The first type is those who know that they are weak and weak, and they can't run away at all. There are most such people, who are basically mine slaves, whose bodies and bones have been tortured and broken, and they don't have much time to live.

Of course, that is also to live, after all, it is the most difficult and only death in the ages.

Therefore, for these people, joining Zhao Wenrui's gang is mainly due to gambling ideas.

The second category is opportunists. This category is also dominated by those who are mine slaves.

Freemasonry miners have a mixed history, including captives of hostile forces.

These people have some skills, some knowledge, some brains, and no lack of courage, they are not willing to be consumed in the mine, and they have been secretly looking for opportunities.

And Zhao Wenrui is a good opportunity for them, this opportunity is not only to join the company, but also to find out the details of Zhao Wenrui, sell the information to others, or match up for his old club, etc.

These people know that taking refuge empty-handed is the most embarrassing, and if they climb out of the trough first, and then make preparations, the situation will be very different.

The third category, who has nowhere to go, is willing to follow Zhao Wenrui and see if he can mix up some famous people.

This kind of person is the least, and there are nearly 1,000 miners and miners in the entire mine, and none of these people are in double digits.

Generally speaking, there is basically no one who joins the gang with the intention of repaying gratitude; there are very few people who are willing to gamble and join the gang, and most of them have handed over their names and then received some rations.

As for the nomination, he actually worked under the assignment of Zhao Wenrui and participated in the activities of incinerating the mine.

In essence, it was not an ordinary burning, but a sacrifice.

Before the sacrifice, Zhao Wenrui was not sure, but had the attitude of giving it a try.

I didn't expect it to really work, and the harvest was beyond his imagination.

The cheat system provides more options, in addition to gaining temporary additional strength boosts, which can also be settled in experience points or substance.

In other words, the totem system of sacrifice has actually opened the shop system.

For Zhao Wenrui, who was trying to quickly raise the rank, this discovery was naturally a gospel for him to be ecstatic.

So he completed the sacrificial rite as required, and sacrificed the entire mine.

The experience points gained allowed him to gain one-third more experience after he went straight to level 15.

He realized that this alone would make him a lot of money on this trip to the Magic Crystal Mine, after all, level 15 was the watershed of the transcendent combat position, and after being promoted to level 15, he would be able to add 'big' in front of the combat position.

So where exactly is the big one?

The first is the 8-ring spell slot. There are a number of more powerful techniques, such as the Finger of Death, the Return Mantra (teleporting back to the marked location, similar to the Hearthstone of World of Warcraft), and so on.

Secondly, in terms of special abilities, you can become super large animals, such as tyrannosaurus, adult shadow squid, shadow horseshoe crab and so on. In addition, it also has the effect of eternal youth.

And Shadow De is used as a hero template combat position, and then gives a special ability (optional)

Zhao Wenrui chose the 'Lord of Shadow Demons' this time.

Lord of the Shadow Demons: Gain the skill of creating Shadow Demons, and for each Shadow Demon, gain +1% Shadow Affinity.

Note: The maximum number of Shadow Demons is always a multiple of the Shadow Demon's main combat rank.

At present, it is 2 times, that is, Zhao Wenrui can create 30 shadow demons.

As for the shadow demons, they can be said to be lichs that use the power of shadows, but they are not partial spells, but hand-to-hand combat, dexterity, high attack, and although their own defense is not high, they have three major skills, shadow shield, void, and life box, so they are not brittle.

Zhao Wenrui felt that the Lord of the Shadow Demon was a good match for the extra special ability 'Shadow Lord' obtained at level 14.

Just by looking at the name, you know that it is a series. And the shadow demon plus the shadow affinity, 30 shadow demons are in place, and the affinity is increased by 30%.

His shadow affinity is already 90%, and if it continues to improve, beyond 100%, it is bound to be another wave of unusual increases.

In other words, by increasing his Shadow Affinity, he is on his way to becoming a Shadow Lord.

And the shadow demon can be said to have upgraded the soul class among his four major types of puppets.

This type of spell was originally a partial necromancer, and he was reluctant to invest too much in this area before, so he had the cannon fodder system of the Soul Returning Puppet.

However, the Shadow Demon has taken this series to a big level, and it has been relegated to the Shadow series.

Because creating a shadow demon involves a slave soul and a refining body, the refining body is refined with shadow flames.

This is equivalent to giving him a basic method, which can be used to upgrade the body material of the bone beast.

And the Soul Slave (Soul Enslavement) can take his Shadow Crow Mimicry to the next level.

At the same time, the creation of the shadow demon makes the body of the rejuvenated puppet no longer decay and expire, which is equivalent to saving a lot of cost investment.

So after a careful calculation, the cost performance is not ordinarily high, and it suits his appetite, he is naturally happy.

Also, since it is a hero template, from level 15 onwards, he can already access the power of the realm.

It usually doesn't start until level 18, and his early exposure to the power of the domain is another comprehensive increase in overall strength, because the domain he chooses is the shadow.

Considering that it would take some time for him to turn the benefits of level up into strength, coupled with the fact that the full moon was approaching and the strange activities were intensifying, Zhao Wenrui decided to find a place to hibernate and recuperate for a few days.

Eventually, after some deliberation, he chose the Old Town as his place to stay.

The Old Town is the ruins of a town that was attacked by the Strange in its early years.

There are several reasons why people are not rebuilding from the rubble.

The first is the issue of drinking water.

The old town's draught, including farming, depended on wells.

The old town has a well-developed underground water vein, and the well water is sweet and the crops irrigated by it are exceptionally high-quality, and the sake brewed from the well water and grain here was once very popular.

The old town started out with winemaking.

But the strange disaster, the water veins have become a military route, and the water is polluted and can no longer be eaten, which has become the main reason for people to abandon this place.

The second is that the original loss was huge, the strange monster came out of the well, the inside and the outside, captured the old town, and caused a fire, a large amount of wine, sake lees, and straw became combustibles, and the investment in reconstruction was too great.

The third is because of the lack of manpower, Lin Jin retreated.

Due to the siege of the town by the Monsters and the heavy loss of personnel, the remaining people were not enough to cope with the erosion of the wilderness, so they joined their relatives and friends, and the people merged into the other villages and towns.

Zhao Wenrui and his entourage came to the old town, and what they saw was the scene of deep ruins, the original farmland and roads have been replaced by forests and weeds, and the ruins have also been eroded badly, even if they are close to within fifty meters, they can only see some broken walls and some dilapidated houses.

Zhao Wenrui didn't care about any of this, he didn't need much support, relying on magic, he could establish a residence in a very short period of time, not to mention that there was a batch of materials seized from the mine that could be used.

He chose this place because he thought that the strange disaster in the old town back then was likely to have some special hidden secrets. This secret is likely to involve the secrets of Aragami. And he was ambitious to think about whether he could return the power of Aragami to nature? Even if he couldn't, if there were any important relics, he could sacrifice them......