The outer city of the shadow imperial capital, the most prosperous southern neighborhood.

Chen Rui and Ji Ya strolled leisurely, Chen Rui was still dressed in the costume of a crafter, but many people had already recognized this as the "Arthur" who made a splash in the Smith Contest and bet on the hands of the genius Saviche in the imperial capital. No matter what field it is, the demon world respects the supremacy of the strong, and the loser is not worthy of sympathy, especially the Saviche who has always been arrogant and domineering, and many people have shown considerable respect for Chen Rui.

Of course, there are many high-ranking officials and royal families in the imperial capital, and in the eyes of these people, this is only a master competition after all, not a master competition. Chen Rui, who has no background, can be regarded as a genius with some potential, but that's all, and he didn't show any special enthusiasm, but the Xhosa master of the Craftsman Alliance threw an olive branch to Chen Rui and offered to accept him as an apprentice. Chen Rui did not directly refuse this kindness, but politely said that he would wait until after the final to reply.

Ji Ya beside Chen Rui attracted a lot of amazing eyes, the succubus wearing a long skirt showed an amazing temperament and beauty, with a confident smile on her face, as if a noble daughter, the charm of the upside-down beings of the succubus clan was undoubtedly revealed, compared with the original maid costume, it can be said that it has its own style.

"I've been around for so long, and I'm hungry. That's good, you fill your stomach first, and we'll find a restaurant later. Chen Rui was holding a string of sugar gourd-like things, which was a snack in the imperial capital.

Compared with the other two empires, the royal family of the Shadow Empire pays more attention to life and enjoyment, and driven by this love for haode, the imperial capital has a very rich variety of goods and food, and there are many places to consume.

Ji Ya took the string of balls, took a bite lightly, nodded with a smile, and the two immediately came to a high-end restaurant, asked for a secluded private room, ordered a few dishes and a bottle of wine, and ate slowly.

After being full of wine and food, Chen Rui patted his stomach with satisfaction: "It's really a comfortable life......

Ji Ya covered her mouth and smiled: "I think that since Master Arthur came, it seems that everything has become easier. My assistant is purely redundant, if only the tasks in the future could be as easy as they are now. ”

"If you really want to, I can ask Her Royal Highness the eldest princess to bring you over, and follow me in the future. Chen Rui said disapprehantly: "Anyway, I don't belong to the dark moon, and if I ask for it at a critical time like this, I won't refuse her." ”

Ji Ya showed a look of surprise: "Lord Arthur is not from the Dark Moon?"

Sure enough, he began to be tempted! Chen Rui originally deliberately led Ji Ya into this mode of thinking, wanting to take the lead in order to further probe her details.

"Of course not," Chen Rui replied without hesitation: "She used three good things in exchange for my operation, once the matter of the Custer family is over, I will have nothing to do with her again." ”

Ji Ya didn't have too many doubts about this, because she had been in the Dark Moon for several years, and she had discovered a lot of information, and she had never heard of such a top-level artifact maker in the hands of the eldest princess. If his level is really better than Robert's, then it is likely that he is only a fraction of a second away from the master.

"I don't dare to have such an extravagant expectation. Ji Ya hesitated for a moment and shook her head, "What's more, my current ownership belongs to the sheriff of Dark Moon. ”

"That waste human who has been in a coma due to illness?" Chen Rui said deliberately disdainfully, actually hoping that Ji Ya would say a few more good words about that human being, the psychology of a standard little man.

"He's not a waste," Ji Ya objected rarely, revealing a look of memory, "It's just a ...... It's just a kind of silly old good man......"

Well, it's more or less a good guy card, I'm easy for me.

Chen Rui deliberately changed his tone to echo and said: "I admit that I have gone a little too far, the eldest princess has shown me a few things he designed, and the creativity is okay." Don't talk about this guy, as long as you are willing to follow me, and I will take care of the rest. ”

"Weishenme wants to be so good to me?" Ji Ya showed a moving look of grievance: "Actually, you know, I have a special physique, and I can't serve any man. ”

"I'm the kind of ...... People who do their own thing, a bit domineering, like those who look at the right eye, and those who don't like the eyes, no matter how powerful they are, I have to find a way to make him unlucky, and Savice is the most haode example. ”,

With this, Kia believed that "Arthur" was not fascinated by her, and then dealt with Saviche under her charm, but unreasonably attacked Saviche directly and pulled her up from the fire pit. Not only that, but at this Maker Competition, a trap was set to lure the genius of the imperial capital with a master as the backstage to take the bait, completely destroying Saviche's future, and I heard that Savice's body was found in the suburbs shortly after the game.

As "Arthur" himself said, domineering, protective, ruthless, belongs to the type of doing his own thing.

"If you really want a woman to serve, as long as I ask Dio now, even if it is a woman who is more beautiful than you, he can get it," Chen Rui said generously: "I just see you pleasing to the eye, I just like you, I don't want you to serve or something, it's as simple as that." ”

Ji Ya was shocked, her eyes drooped, and then she showed a charming smile: "Then what does Master Arthur want me to do?"

"I don't like your smile, it's fake. Chen Rui shook his head: "I heard Xia say that you were put on the forbidden magic ring, don't worry, I hate to use this set to control women the most, I am an artifact maker, I can try to help you get rid of the forbidden magic ring." If you don't like me, you can leave me and live freely, I'm such a person. ”

This trick is actually to retreat as advance, if you really figure out Ji Ya's intentions, it is not entirely a lie to let her go, although this succubus is very tempting, he doesn't like to leave a time bomb by his side.

"Freedom?" Ji Ya seemed to be meeting this kind of man for the first time, just liking it and having no other intentions, he was willing to help her.

The succubus was in a trance for a moment, and his smile suddenly became a little bitter, counting the days in the dark moon, Chen Rui spent time with her constantly, and it was the first time he saw this kind of difficult smile.

Maybe under the usual charm, it is unspeakably bitter?

Chen Rui's heart moved, he stood up and walked over, grabbed her hand, but did not make excessive movements, but held the black bracelet upward, that is, the forbidden magic ring that imprisoned the magic Liliang.

Chen Rui said in an affirmative tone: "I'll help you get rid of this confinement now." ”

"No!" Ji Ya retracted her hand as if frightened, "Don't remove it!"

"weishenme, are you unwilling to untie the confinement?" Chen Rui said loudly dissatisfiedly, fortunately, there is a special magic soundproof array in this expensive private room, otherwise many people around will hear the voice of the Roaring Emperor, "Do you still want to go back to the Dark Moon?" Would you rather go back and be a lowly maid than ask for the freedom I gave you?"

"Ji Ya was originally a lowly maid. A trace of deep pain flashed in Ji Ya's eyes, but the smile was even more seductive: "The kindness of adults is purely wasteful." ”

Although he couldn't knock her mouth open, Chen Rui had already obtained three pieces of relevant information.

1. Ji Ya's actions cannot be controlled by herself, and she must keep the forbidden ring and return to the dark moon.

2. Ji Ya must have a corresponding task in the dark moon, which has not yet been completed, and there must be other contact objects.

3, Ji Ya is likely to have some hardships, but she can't easily confide in.

It would be good if he could use the method of probation to slowly find out Ji Ya's purpose, if it was really excusable, Chen Rui would not be stingy with his help.

At this moment, he suddenly appeared vigilant, although the room was well insulated, it could not isolate the detection range of the Analytical Eye.

Ji Ya saw that Chen Rui's expression was different, so she wisely didn't make a sound, Chen Rui stood in front of her, and at this moment, the door was knocked open with a "bang", and a figure rushed like lightning.

Chen Rui waved his hand, and the dark elf only felt that his speed suddenly slowed down, and before he could react, the dagger in his hand suddenly fell into the other party's hand, almost at the same time, his heart hurt, and he had already passed through his own dagger.

After Chen Rui killed this dark elf like lightning, he grabbed the void on the side with his right hand, just grabbed a teleporting falling big demon figure, and directly lifted this big demon up, and at the same time clenched his left hand into a fist, and the yellow light flashed, and a big demon who rushed on the opposite side had a fist mark on his chest, and fell straight down.

In the blink of an eye, two of the assassins of the three pinnacle high-level demons were killed and one was injured. No, the three of them were all dead, and the big demon who was caught by Chen Rui saw that the situation was not right, and without waiting for the other party to torture, he bit the poison sac in his teeth and died of poison. ,

It seems that these are all highly trained dead soldiers, and the person who sent them may be the vengeful Master Bumpman or a rival in the tournament, or it may be the Faramo couple.

Ji Ya is an expert in magic, in her eyes, "Arthur" just used two kinds of earth-based magic, "Retardation Technique" and "Magic Flying Fist", all of which are silent without spells, and their melee ability is very strong, and they solved three assassins in an instant.

You must know that even if it is also the pinnacle of high-level demons, there must be a clear difference in the combat effectiveness of the two professions of weaponmaker and assassin, but now that the assassin is dead and the crafter is safe and sound, it is very likely that the true strength of this "Arthur" has reached the demon king level, and he is a dual cultivator of liliang and magic.

The peak crafting master of the demon king-level strength is only a thin line away from the artifact master, but unfortunately, these are still far from enough. Ji Ya sighed lightly, and her hand suddenly warmed, and it was already held by Chen Rui.

"This place is not safe, let's go quickly, you don't have Liliang now, if there are more troublesome assassins, I'm afraid it will affect you." ”

It was obviously a sentence of "fear" that the assassin wanted to leave, but there was a faint warmth in Ji Ya's heart, and he did not break free of his hand, and let him lead him out.

The assassination must have been done by someone with a heart, Chen Rui didn't bother with the restaurant, he just informed them to clean up the mess, and took Ji Ya without stopping, all the way back to Dior's courtyard.

PS: I was very sad to learn the news of the author's death Feng Tianxiao, and I wish you a good journey...... ）