In the scorching summer afternoon, the sky was covered with thick dark clouds, but the rain did not fall for a long time, and even the insects in the mountains and forests began to be irritable, and the sudden vibration came from far to near, and a total of twenty people rode tall black horses from the mountain road galloping over.

They are dressed in the dark red trench coat of the Burning Legion, and under the trench coat are each of their best weapons, and the black horse they ride is a xenomorph cultivated by the second research institute with magic, and only this ** can meet the requirements of their team's high-intensity pursuit.

The team stopped at the pass, and Hegu José looked at the town built in the valley below with his blue eyes of the Hegu family, and unlike the black combat uniforms worn by the other team members, he wore a Valhalla-style white shirt with the Valhalla logo tattooed on the cuffs. He was unarmed, save a book and a quill, and he had joined the team as part of Valhalla's entourage, not as a combatant.

The other nineteen members of the team were the most elite spellcasters drawn from the front lines of the Iron Keep, each of whom had slain dragons on the battlefield, and captain Reinstein Pavic, who had a glorious record of killing seven dragons on his own, had gathered them in this team only because they were hunting down more dangerous beings than dragons.

This is a remote and backward mountain town, the style of the town is still a few decades ago, from the local administrative records, the town belongs to a third-tier city in the east, the townspeople are composed of humans and Moro people, there are no demons, there are no noteworthy people, the town is isolated from the world, and the contact with the outside world is only a mountain road, which is an ideal cage.

However, the dark cloud hanging over the town made José feel that this matter was not so easy to solve, and the group was summoned to the Elven River, the largest city outside the Iron Curtain, and it took three months to finally catch up with this dark cloud floating from the capital, and the closer he got to this dark cloud, the more bottomless he became.

Before taking on this task, he carefully studied all the information given to him by the Great Elder, the youngest son of the Lord of the Mountain, Ya Rudy, and the son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer died on the night of the accident, and there were no bodies left, the only witnesses were the children of the other powerful families who had snuck out with them on the night of the accident, and in their testimony it was a demon child disguised as a human who killed them after being demonized, and there were many doubts and ambiguities in the testimony, but these children were all powerful children after all, and he could not use mind reading on them.

José personally went to the scene of the accident to observe, that block was completely turned into ruins, the scene was comparable to being bombed by a dragon, the ruins were full of violent magic, but fortunately there were few residents in the neighborhood, and most of the residents went to Victory Square to participate in the celebration on the night of the accident, only two demons were seriously injured, nine were slightly injured, and no died.

The blood of the strange demon spirit identified from the blood on the ruins did not belong to any of the high demon spirits of the empire, and the analysis of the data monitored in Valhalla that night found that the magic of the person who caused the accident was even far stronger than that of Grand Elder Danmerson, and only the data from twenty years ago sealed in Valhalla could be compared.

Pavic rolled over and dismounted, he was taller, stronger than the two Joses combined, his thick beard was connected to his gray hair, he was wearing a black blindfold on his right eye, and under the blindfold was a scar that stretched from his forehead to his throat, it was hard to imagine how he had survived such a severe injury, the only remaining left eye, the brown pupil was indistinguishable in the inky ground lens, he looked at the town down the hill, and his face showed an excited expression, the last time Jose saw him show such an expression was in the Iron Castle, when he was about to hunt a dragon。

He turned to face his teammates, and a hoarse voice like a dragon's roar came from his big grinning mouth, "Get ready for me to dismount, ten minutes of free movement, and the hunt begins!"

José doesn't have a high opinion of this man who is called "The Beast" in the Iron Keep, he is savage, bloodthirsty, impulsive, vulgar, brutal, and has a irrational style, according to Rong Ruo, this kind of person even has muscles in his head. José had seen him fight with the incoming dragon, this man didn't know what tactics were at all, he just rushed to the dragon and fought hand-to-hand with the dragon face to face, and then dragged his tattered body to stand on the dragon's corpse to show off his exploits to others, in José's opinion, he was fully capable of taking the dragon without injury with the cooperation of his comrades. José's analysis believes that this is probably related to his origins.

Rheinstein Pavic, born in an ordinary demon family, his father was originally a small clerk of the Capital Energy Supply Bureau, but I don't know when he contracted a gambling problem, owed a large amount of gambling debts and was fired from the Energy Supply Bureau, and then borrowed alcohol all day to kill his sorrows, living on relief money, his mother finally ran away from home because she couldn't bear it, and his wife's departure did not wake up the old Rheinstein, he gambled harder, and finally one day his body was found at the door of a casino, and the cause of death was alcoholism. Poor family situation made Pavic a gangster on the streets of the capital, extorting money in the slums all day long, after his father's death, he made an unexpected decision, he entered the gladiatorial arena and became a gladiator, the imperial relief money can ensure the basic living needs of a demon spirit, no demon spirit will want to be a gladiator who loses his identity, but Pavic is different, he does not do it entirely for a living, more often, he enjoys it, the file records that Pavic challenged the strongest gladiator on the first day he entered the gladiatorial arena, he was beaten badly by the other party, three broken ribs, and multiple fractures, but that's how he actually laughed and grabbed the other party's leg after he fell to the ground, smearing his own blood on the other party's body, and the other party finally admitted defeat because he couldn't bear Pavic's madness. After that, the rise of this gladiator known for his madness and bloodlust in the colosseum became unstoppable, no matter how many opponents there were or how powerful he was, he would always be the last person standing in the colosseum, until more than 20 years ago, three unknown human gladiators from Jiangcheng came to the capital, Pavic fell for the first time in the colosseum, fell in front of the three humans who were supporting each other, his face was slashed, it is said that even the skull was exposed, no one knows how Pavitch survived such a serious injury, after this defeat, Pavitch disappeared from the capital, when he reappeared, who was already a Burning Legionnaire stationed at the Iron Fort.

Pavic's tragic past did not arouse José's sympathy, and being swayed by his own past only showed his incompetence, in Jose's opinion, Pavic, who did not know how to restrain himself, was a bad soldier, but even so, in order to complete the task assigned by Grand Elder Danmerson, he felt that he needed to remind this large middle-aged man.

He rolled over and dismounted, and walked mostly towards Pavic, who was gulping down dry food, who was sitting on a rock facing the town in the valley, and he didn't see any nervousness, "Rheinstein, the person under that dark cloud will be the closest person to the throne since 'Zen Dao Ming', you had better..."

Before José could finish speaking, he found himself being lifted by Pavic's collar, and half of the marching dry food he had eaten was thrown to the ground, his one-eyed staring at José's eyes, and the scar on his face trembled slightly, "You think my strength is not good, do you?" Looking at the fierce light in his eyes, José quickly realized what had caused the beast to blow up, and he remembered that the three humans who had defeated Pavic in the Colosseum had also left the Colosseum after defeating Pavic and disappeared from public view, and a few years later, when they reappeared, they had become powerful spellcasters, known as "Zen Daoming".

The other members of the team stopped what they were doing and looked nervously at the two people in the conflict, but Jose, as the person concerned, did not react, he looked at Pavic coldly, without any expression on his face, "Yes, judging from your past style of acting, your impulsiveness is likely to lead to the failure of this operation." His voice was as cold as his eyes.

In fact, José is such a person, in his world there is only right and wrong, and beyond that, he will never know the right time, and he will not read words. Because of his character, he offended many people in the capital, and Danmerson had to transfer him from the capital to the front line of the Iron Fort.

"You don't have to worry about it!" Pavic let go of his grip on José's collar and glared at José viciously, who was arranging his messed clothes as if nothing had happened.

Pavic walked over to the rocks, picked up the dry food on the ground, and stepped on the stones, looking out over the towns in the valley, "Is there anything to be taken care of?" ”

José finished tidying up his clothes, took out the thick black book and quill from his bag and began to record, he didn't look up at Pavic's question, "What do you care?"

"It's easy for mudslides to erupt in the mountains, isn't it, especially in a town like this built in a valley. Pavic had a meaningful smile on his face.

José frowned after hearing this, and raised his head from the black book, he understood what Pavic meant, using the mudslide to turn this mountain town into a natural cage was a completely reasonable choice tactically speaking, although the casualties of the townspeople would be more serious, but in José's opinion, it was a completely reasonable action to exchange this amount of sacrifice for defeating a caster of that level of the target, there was nothing wrong with it, but for some personal reasons, he still raised an objection, " The Grand Elder ordered that the female human being with the target be brought back alive. ”

Pavic glanced at him and grinned, "The order I received in the Burning Legion is to kill. ”

"This is the order of the Great Elder. José looked at him coldly.

The smile on Pavic's face froze, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and he took a deep breath, "Who is that female human?"

"Ye Duyu. José replied.

"Ye Duyu!, that Ye family!?" Pavic's anger surged out undisguisedly, "When did we fall to the point where we had to act according to the will of the human race!"

Jose closed the black book and looked at him coldly, "Yes, it's the Ye family, in addition, if the human being you are talking about is Ye Zhiqiu, as a member of the jury of the Supreme Court of the capital, you really need to listen to him in certain circumstances, and if nothing else, it won't be long before he becomes Prince Luoxi's teacher." ”

Pavic snorted coldly, "Actually let his son recognize a human as a teacher, it seems that the Lord of the Sky is getting worse and worse!"

"What you just said is already suspected of insulting the royal family, and I will report it truthfully. José turned to his dark horse to pack his bags one last time, leaving Pavic, whose eyes twitched slightly, standing in place, spitting on the ground and muttering, "Bastard boy." ”