Chapter 16: The Gluttony Returns
The Panxiao City Protector Array is about to enter the stage of destroying the city.
While being bitten by countless ghouls, Qiu Xiao saw the light of the dome of the magic circle through the gap between the ghouls on his body.
The original darkness was dispelled, and the sun shone into the land again.
Countless ghouls looked up, and the sunlight grew stronger and stronger, until it turned into a dazzling polar white light.
A deafening roar rang out.
Qiu Xiao, who was pressed under the ghouls, suddenly fainted.
Qiu Xiao's inner worldββ
As far as the eye can see, this area of water is as clear as a mirror, and every step will ripple in a circle.
"What is this place?"
Qiu Xiao was a little puzzled, he was obviously bitten by a group of ghouls just now, how could he have arrived in this strange place in a blink of an eye, could it be that this is the world after death?
He felt a strong sense of threat behind him.
When I turned my head, I saw a huge beast lying on the water, looking like a tiger and a lion, with a pitch-black body, and intricate blood-red lines that were straight or curved, a black mane that was very coarse, and two scarlet eyes were still staring at me.
"What a youkai!"
In astonishment, Qiu Xiao habitually quickly reached out to touch the sword, but found that the sword at his waist was not there.
The vicious-looking behemoth actually spoke, "My host is you a weak human? β
The behemoth's tone was full of contempt, and it was obvious that it didn't look down on Qiu Xiao at all.
"Host? What are you? β
Qiu Xiao stepped back vigilantly.
"What am I?"
The gluttonous eyes showed a fierce light, and with a wave of his palm, an invisible shock wave rippled on the surface of the water.
The shock wave struck suddenly, sending Qiu Xiao flying more than ten meters away and slamming heavily on the water.
"Ahem.." Qiu Xiao clutched his chest and coughed.
Gluttony spoke again: "Weak ant, you don't even deserve to worship me, have you ever heard of Glutton's name?" I am your master, and if you don't want to die, you will obediently leave your body under my control. β
Qiu Xiao stood up and confronted: "My master? This is my body, I am my own master, kill me, you don't want to live. β
Tao Tao was a little speechless: "You.."
Qiu Xiao thought for a moment, and then said: "But if you can save me, then my body can be temporarily lent to you, otherwise everyone will die together, anyway, I will already treat myself as dead." β
Gluttony was a little annoyed, but he didn't expect this Terran kid to play Lai Pi to threaten himself.
It didn't want to die with Qiu Xiao, so it compromised: "Boy, I'll help you for the time being, but don't be complacent, one day you will surrender at my feet." β
Qiu Xiao responded: "Then let's wait and see." β
Tao Tao waved his palm again and said contemptuously towards Qiu Xiao: "I don't know how thick the sky is. β
Boom β
A shockwave hit Qiu Xiao again, and in an instant, Qiu Xiao lost consciousness, and the control of his body was gluttonous.
Qiu Xiao, who was pressed by the ghouls, suddenly opened his scarlet eyes, he grabbed the two ghouls with both hands, and his palms surrounded the black and red aura, instantly sucking the blood of the two ghouls.
With a single force, the group of ghouls were shaken into the air, and then they were caught one by one to absorb the blood.
The circle is about to explode, and the countdown to the destruction of the city has begun, and the survivors outside the circle have been evacuating with the imperial army in the distance.
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four...
Three
Two
One
...
Zi - boom rumble!!
The white light of the explosion swept through every corner of the magic circle of Panxiao City, and the shockwave was like a greedy hungry beast devouring everything.
Qiu Xiao, who was standing in the white light, stretched out his arms, absorbing the explosive power continuously.
When the white light dissipated, it was already a charred black flat land full of devastation, and all the mountains, rivers, flowers and trees, and houses and buildings had turned into clouds.
The semi-circular canopy-like circle gradually became transparent, and then vanished.
In the dust, there was a complete body, this charred body began to magically heal itself, the charred shell fell off, and the new skin and flesh grew rapidly, changing into the appearance of ordinary people.
Fingers twitched.
Then he grabbed the ground with five fingers, then clenched, held a handful of scorched earth, supported it with the other hand, knelt on the ground, and slowly opened his eyes.
He stood up and stood in the wasteland, stretching out his palm, surrounded by a black and red air current. With a flick of his hand, the force struck the ground not far away.
Bang β
A huge crater was blown out of the ground.
Looking at the ground that was dented by himself, he said disappointedly: "It's still too weak." β
After speaking, Qiu Xiao, who was possessed by gluttony, flew towards the sky.
In the dark, the gluttony can feel a force in the distance attracting it, and this power is its own origin power, the power of the demon star.
A few days later, in the north of Haohai City, near the sea shadow gate tower.
The wild bull brought Qiu Xiao's "bad news".
It happened that Wei Qing was not on a mission, so she couldn't learn the news for the time being.
"It's a pity, cultivating him cost me a lot of resources."
The bald eunuch looked at the sea, although it had consumed a lot of resources to cultivate Qiu Xiao over the years, the commissions that Qiu Xiao had received were enough to pay off.
There are two branches of each faction in the Shadow Gate, one is the mercenary recruited from the Shadow Gate, and the other is the dead soldiers of the Shadow Gate who have been cultivated since childhood.
Like Qiu Xiao, Wei Qing, and Falcon, they were all cultivated by Yingmen since childhood, and Bruniu, White Wolf, Snow Deer and others were mercenaries recruited from the outside world.
Of course, the bounties that can be obtained by the recruited and those cultivated by the Shadow Gate are also different, a commission, the recruited mercenaries can only take forty percent of them, and the remaining sixty percent go to the Shadow Gate, but the one cultivated by the Shadow Gate is the opposite, the mercenaries take sixty percent, and the Shadow Gate draws forty percent.
Regarding the distribution of death commissions in mercenary missions, if there is a family, then the commission that belongs to the mercenary will be given to the family of the dead mercenary, and Shadowgate will not take any money.
Shadowgate is very generous compared to other mercenary groups, which usually only give mercenaries two or three percent of the commission.
The mercenary group will provide applicable magic weapons, magic circles, and related information for different tasks.
No one knows the force behind the Shadow Gate, and it is rumored that the force behind it is a minister in the court who has a lot of eyes and hands, and some people speculate that it belongs to the royal family.
"The seventh team of the Demon Hunter Faction has lost two members at once, since you are the captain, then it is up to you to decide whether to recruit new members or disband the team."
The bald eunuch put this decision in the hands of the captain Manniu.
Since the death of the white wolf, Xuelu has been depressed and the original sentence is like the two of them, hiding in the tavern all day to get drunk and escape reality, seeing her like this, the brute cow can't help but think about whether his family will become like this if he dies in the future mission, so he decided not to live this kind of life that makes his family fearful.
The brute bull decided to the bald eunuch: "Lord Eight-clawed Spider, I have thought about it, and I will disband the seventh team here." β
The bald eunuch nodded slightly, and then said, "Then according to what you say." β
The seventh team of the demon hunting faction was disbanded here, but it will not disappear, and there will be new blood injected into it in the future to form a new seventh team.
After the White Wolf's funeral, Snow Deer lost his message and gradually faded out of people's sight, and Falcon, as the Shadow Gate Dead, could only be ordered to merge into other teams.