As an earl, although Jack has no real power, and although he is a joke in the aristocratic circles of Ashen City, he is a big nobleman after all, and many things do not need him to do it himself. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the matter of selling the rights to "Earth and the Past", he only asked for a share, and the rest was handled by Luke's butler - although buyouts are a common rule in the publishing industry at present, he is not willing to accept the right to buy out 10,000 gold coins. Normally, Jack would have to wait for dozens of days before someone finally accepted his terms, but fortunately, Jack was lucky, and he met the anxious editor-in-chief of the Winter Newspaper.

The editor-in-chief came straight to the door, and Jack received him in the manor's study, and the two signed a contract on the same day, agreeing to start selling in ten days.

Jack is confident in his book, "The Past" writes the history of the earth from the tribal era to the First World War from the perspective of an observer, Jack's descriptions of various peoples are concise and accurate, the details full of life interest make his book full of realism, and the myths and legends integrated into various historical fragments make the book close to the individualism recognized by people in this world.

Because Jack had already received a 1,000 gold advance from the Ash City branch of the Winter Newspaper, he didn't need to worry about money for the time being. With a lot of free time again, Jack has turned his attention back to the combination of magic and mechanics - he has recently been trying to make an infrared sight.

But in the process of production, he encountered great difficulties, in the absence of modern instruments, he simply had no way to separate infrared light waves, let alone make infrared lasers, although the principle of the laser is the photoelectric effect, but it is very difficult to find light waves with the same frequency as the oscillation frequency of solid molecules, without the help of modern analytical instruments, Jack may try all his life and try not to find the right light.

Naturally, Jack thought of using magic to do something similar, but he couldn't, and he could have made a laser sight to deal with it first. However, the magic book that Jack has only includes the magic of the Plastic School - his five-ring teacher is a magician of the Plastic School, and among those 0 to 3 rings of plastic magic, Jack has not found any runes that can finely manipulate light, whether it is [Light Enhancement (0 Ring)] or [Little Demon Light Cannon (Three Rings)] are full of runes that gather energy and enhance light - the latter is a brutal magic that directly exchanges magic power for high-energy strong light pillars.

After spending another five days in the lab, and feeling like he was about to become a low-level sculptor magic master, Jack finally decided to pay a trip to the Arcane Council branch in the city, where there were some low-level magic sellers from other schools.

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The distribution of Ember City is as follows: in the center of the egg-shaped city is the City Hall, to the south of the Town Hall is the City Guard Base, and further south is the City Guard Base is the Grand Port.

On the east and west sides of these two important areas are the fan-shaped commercial districts, the commercial districts are further west of the aristocratic manor area, to the east are the residential areas of the commoners, above the commercial area are the parishes of the various sects, and above the arcane council, the knights' guild and the assassin guild, and to the east of the assassin guild, close to the large area of the Hull Mountains, is the military district of Ash City, which is a military important place directly under the royal family of Jidala, even the nobles cannot easily reach out.

Jack's manor was in the south of the manor district, near the Grand Port, and in order to avoid the other nobles in the manor district - he didn't want to see their hypocritical smiling faces, Jack took Tifa and entered the business district directly from the west, he planned to go all the way north, take the path into the parish, and then cross the church of the god of wisdom, and go through the back door to the gate of the Arcane Council.

It's a shortcut, not only is it fast, but it's hard to meet other nobles because it's a small path.

However, Tifa objected: "Master Jack, I think it's best for us not to take this kind of narrow path, so that if someone gets blocked, we basically can't escape." ”

"Don't be afraid," Jack, who didn't want to take a detour, waved his hand, "There are very few high-level powerhouses in Ash City, and if only the villains of the third and fourth rings appear, I think the two of us can solve it." The man who assassinated me last time was probably a little assassin with three rings, and if he dared to show up again, I would let him taste the taste of peanuts. "After all, he is not a strong man who has been in the wind and waves for a long time, although he was cut in the alley once, but Jack, who has been in peacetime for a long time, has no vigilance.

"Besides, Tifa, no one usually causes trouble in broad daylight, right, you see we've been walking for so long and haven't met a single villain, right?"

Jack's added sentence succeeded in raising a flag for the two of them, and after two more turns, the men were greeted with the excited and brutal roar of beasts.

"Beat him, beat him hahaha!"

"This old immortal owes money and still hasn't paid it back! A few days of grace, haha, no one can give us a few days of grace, do we still want to eat?"

"I said, just take his beautiful daughter to pay off the debt!"

"You're such a villain, Robin, but, don't mention, that little girl is twelve years old, but she looks really good, and she probably can buy it for a good price on the black market." Hey, Robin, we might as well play before we sell!"

"Hahaha, McCann, you beast has a rare suggestion!"

At the bend at the end of the narrow alleyway, an old man curled up in the corner with his hands on his head, and the two men laughed evilly while punching and kicking the old man.

The wanton fists and kicks made a dull thud on the old man's thin body, perhaps hearing the men's discussions, and the old man pleaded weakly, "Don't ...... Please, don't lay your hands on the show, please...... Please, I'll pay it back. ”

"Begg, you old gambling scumbag!" retorted viciously, with his long messy hair, the man named Robin kicked the old man in the knee.

"It's disgusting!" the bald McCann smiled lewdly, "Hahahaha, let's take care of the pretty and lovely Dew!

This is the image that unfolds in front of Tifa and Jack, who hear the voice, the crazy smiles and foul words of the men as they exercise violence stimulate the two still kind and warm hearts.

"Okay...... I take back what I said before!" Jack's voice was tinged with anger, "Tifa, beat them down for me!"

"Yes!" Tifa rushed out like a cheetah.

But before Tifa arrived, there was another man who was faster, and a black shadow streaked across the other side of the alleyway, the side where Jack and the others had to turn to get there.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

Two loud crashes silenced everything, and Tifa stopped vigilantly.

In front of him, the heads of both men were smashed into the wall, and the huge force made the brick wall full of fine cracks, and also made the sturdy skulls of the two men flow out of large patches of blood like broken coconuts.

Both men rolled their eyes like dead fish, their whole bodies slipped to the ground weakly, the dim sunlight fell in the damp alley, the large shadows divided the men's fainted bodies, the golden light guided Yin Hong's blood to flow on the ground to smear red ink, the constantly changing patterns like the wings of a butterfly.

In the silent alley, Jack and Tifa stood silently, looking at the man in black and black hat, the old man in the corner still moaning and trembling in pain, and the guy who had killed the two men turned his head towards them.

Sunlight cast down from behind him, pulling out a slender shadow in front of him.

Under the dim brim of his hat, Jack saw a familiar white mask of nothingness.

Is that......

The Faceless One!