Chapter 1: Destruction! The Power of Runes

My name is Saul Arthur, a registered treasure hunter with two treasure hunts. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info there is a saying in our treasure hunting world that there is only a one-third chance of surviving the first three treasure hunts, but after that, your commission will triple and become a real treasure hunter. In other words, I'm still a rookie, a rookie who is still a foot in the door.

It's been more than half a month since my last treasure hunt, not because I don't want to find a job, but because it's the time of the Treasure Hunters' Annual Meeting, and no one will go on a treasure hunt until they have laid out a series of rules.

I walked into the "Lightning Snow Mouse" lounge, and Catwoman "Katarina" wore a water-red linen dress today and played the most popular song for treasure hunters: "Lonely Accordion". Her seductive white cat tail swayed to the rhythm, her lilac hair was a round and innocent face, and two serpentine daggers pinned to her waist discouraged those who were pompous and frivolous, and she was a deadly rose. I'm already a regular here, and Carter blinks when he sees me in.

At this time, there were quite a few people in the wine room, and their topic was naturally the topic of today's treasure hunters' meeting, and I walked through the tables, and their words fell into my ears from time to time.

"If we don't change the way we hire, there will be more cannibalism・・・・・・

"But the way you say it, the power of the hunter leader will be weakened・・・・・・"

I'm not in the mood to bother with these topics, because I'm still a hunter struggling to make ends meet, and I don't need to worry about these things, and I'm more concerned about when the next job will be.

I grabbed two bottles of deer wine from the counter and walked straight to the southeast corner of the parlor, where a hunter who was already below the subsistence line borrowed wine to survive. He has short thick hair, his muscles emit a red light, and his nearly eight-foot figure gives people a strong sense of strength. His name was Glenhead Lance, but we usually called him "Iron Hand" Lange, because he once smashed the head of a snow ape. I was with him on his second treasure hunt, his first treasure hunt, and we became friends after that experience.

The son of a blacksmith, Lange escaped from the aristocratic manor to Aria in the "Black Gold Empire" and, like most treasure hunters, hopes to change his fate from his life.

I smashed the liquor in front of him, and Lange opened his hazy eyes, I knew that he had already spent all the poor commission he had received from the last treasure hunt, and now he was all living on borrowed money, but not too many people were willing to lend it to a rookie who had not yet survived the "Three Three Tribulations".

I untied a rabbit leg from my waist, and Lange's eyes glowed strangely when he saw it like a pervert when he saw a woman, and a pair of iron hands stretched out before I could hand it over.

"Hurry up and eat, and when they're done with this bird party, we'll go find work." ”

Lange hurriedly took the rabbit leg and gnawed on it, while muttering: "These turtle grandsons are hungry for a meeting, I really want to grab a bunch of explosive runes and blow ・・・・・・them up."

Before Lange's words could be heard, an earth-shattering loud bang shook everyone in the "Lightning Snow Mouse", and a puff of dust fell from the ceiling, spilling on the rabbit leg next to Lange's mouth.

"This Nima isn't really going to blow up, is it?" I was the first to react and rushed out of the parlor, Lange stumbling after me. I looked over to the place where the loud noise had come from, and a pile of dust was slowly rising, and that was the Great Council Chamber, the site of the final meeting of the Treasure Hunters' Delegates.

The streets were in chaos, some people were running from that side, others were running to the blast site, and Lange and I were the ones who were not afraid of big things, and we squeezed desperately into the big council room.

"Attack! Attack! The Chamber has been attacked!"

"Hurry up and save people, there are still people buried underneath!"

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I saw two rays of light flying from the distance, one red and one blue, from the dust, and it was much later that I learned that it was Noe Gavin, the fire mage, and Fenton Randy, the thunder mage, among the twelve wizards of the Black Tower, they were also one of the few people who survived the explosion, who told them to be so powerful in magic?

Lange and I panted to the scene of the incident, the once 30,000-meter-old Great Council Hall was razed to ruins, I visited the second landmark building in Aria on the first day - twelve giant pillars arched a huge ashlar, the hollow funnel design allows this place to accommodate nearly 10,000 people at a time, I didn't expect that today it has become a pile of rubble, only countless long stones are still telling the grandeur of the past.

"This ・・・・・・ really blown up. Lange muttered to himself as he swallowed the last piece of rabbit meat and threw the bone into the rubble, perhaps the first person to dare to throw it at the council chamber.

"Maybe you shouldn't have desecrated a great building like that・・・・・・ eh? I watched more and more people pouring in to watch and save people, and said.

Lange woke up a lot at this time, and his mind began to turn: "I haven't seen what it looked like before, and it has made me hungry for so long, you can quickly tell me if this has any effect on our lives." ”

Lange is right, nearly fifty or so well-known leaders of treasure hunters may not survive this explosion, and I really don't know what earth-shaking changes will happen in the treasure hunting world now.

"I don't know the impact from afar, but I know the impact now. "I stepped into the rubble and pulled out a black jade ring from the cracks, and the bloodstained black jade gave off a cold luster in the sunlight.

Soon the same discovery was made, and more and more people poured into the stone piles, rummaging through the undamaged gems, and Langer swarmed with the crowd, and after three hours of searching, he found only one gilded medallion. Of course, his luck was not bad, after all, there was not much left behind in the explosion.

"Haha, you can eat meat well these days. Lange grinned at his pure white teeth and shamelessly clutched the medallion, happier than he had had broken the head of the great ape three months earlier.

We left the site of the explosion that was still in chaos, and as night fell, the stars fell silent, and the towering black tower was still silent in the night. But I know that the wizards in the tower don't rest on their laurels, and there's nothing more terrible than annoying a wizard, and if there is, it's annoying a group of wizards.