Deep underground, buried in the depths of the ruins of many famous mercenary teams and several church exploration teams and tribal forces, more than a dozen people in black robes gathered together.

Originally, they shouldn't have gathered at such a time. Because of the exposure of the underground ruins, the entire underground ruins are no longer a safe and secret place, even if the ruins themselves are very huge, they can't stop people who are crazy about treasures and various legends.

However, a sudden change of life has rendered all plans in ruins. In the face of this upheaval that no one could have predicted, the people who discovered the ruins long ago and used it as a secret base had to gather here temporarily through the safe lines they knew.

"What the hell is going on, Kimu, didn't you say your experiments were safe? "The one who dared to rebuke the controller of this secret stronghold so unceremoniously was a pot-bellied black robe.

He is not a dark magician, nor is he a thief who loves to live in the dark, but he has a significant authority in this stronghold, because he provides all the funds and intelligence channels for the activities of this organization, for his sake something that cannot be said to anyone.

To this end, he allowed this evil organization called the "One Church" to operate underground in the city of Zelda, providing them with funds, food, intelligence, and experimental materials. Everything is for the sake of one of the greatest ** that has lasted from ancient times to the present - eternal youthful vitality.

As an ordinary person, he is self-aware of his qualifications and will, so he never had the luxury of expecting that he could become a legendary powerhouse. In this way, relying on the means of evil ways to obtain the power to maintain his youth has become his only choice.

Just when he felt that his body was getting worse and worse, the cult leader named Kimu approached him, claiming that he had a secret recipe for a potion that would keep people young forever, but it would require a lot of money and experimental materials to research.

It turns out that the elixir created by that secret recipe does have miraculous effects, and when taken regularly, it has the effect of turning decay into magic. However, once it is stopped, serious side effects will occur immediately, and energy will even regress, just like an old man in his seventies and eighties.

Therefore, even if he knew that the potion needed living people as sacrifices and materials to make the finished product, he still maintained his support for this cult, and even occasionally used his power and connections to send some people who did not deserve to die into the underground ruins.

Speaking of this ruin, it was completely discovered by chance, the entrance he found when he ordered people to dig up the underground water veins.

For some reason that he couldn't tell anyone, he hid the news of the ruin's existence. Then he handed over the key to the ruins he found, and made this a secret stronghold of the church from now on, and he continued to refine the kind of potions that needed to be made with human life.

"Unfortunately, I didn't know this was happening, it was a complete accident and I didn't expect it at all, like you. Kimu, the leader of the "One Church" who had been hiding under Zelda for quite a long time and had developed many followers for his church, knocked on the table.

He really didn't lie about this, he had just refined a new batch of "life essences" not long ago, ready to use them to pull more people off the horse.

In fact, under the secret temptation of the past few years, many rulers of Zelda City have become "only cult" believers, and the forbidden potion "life essence" that can permanently maintain youth and vitality is the biggest enamel in his hand.

It is impossible for the vast majority of people in this world to break their limits and become a seventh-level powerhouse who can maintain their vitality all the time. And before reaching the seventh level, aging and pain will continue to erode themselves after people pass middle age, especially in Zelda City, where there are many adventurers, and many of the high-ranking mercenaries who were born and died back then.

When they were young, they were not afraid of anything, and after fighting monsters and monsters desperately, and gaining enough money and glory but finally unable to reach the realm of legends, these people suddenly found that their bodies were no longer good.

There is nothing more terrible than watching aging and death approach, and they who were once afraid of nothing to move forward are beginning to become more afraid of death than anyone else. Because of this, the development of the "One Sect" with the ability to refine the "essence of life" potion is very gratifying, and after years of operation, this Zelda City has become the base camp of this cult organization.

Of course, the ambition of the "only teaching" was far more than that, and after completing the refining of the "essence of life", they began to embark on further cruel research. For this reason, the disappearance rate of the population in the city of Zelda has increased several times in recent years. But the city was originally a large trading bazaar, and the loss of a few hundred people a year was insignificant.

In the past few days, a certain research of the "One Teaching" has achieved breakthrough results, and it is almost perfect to restore the forbidden art of a certain ancient language magic period.

However, just as the experiment was close to success, the ruins were discovered by the Cult of the High God, forcing them to move deeper into the ruins. Unexpectedly, at this time, such a thing suddenly appeared.

Now the people who come here are basically the backbone of the "One Church", in addition to the sect leader and several high priests, there are also the main supporters of the church in Zelda City. It can be said that the entire strength of the church has basically gathered here.

In other words, you didn't make this move. "It was a woman who wore a veil and did not show her true face.

As a female surname, she is even more enthusiastic about the "essence of life" possessed by the "only teaching". Without that, she would have become an old woman at the age of forty now, due to the sequelae of overdrawing her magic power when she was young. For a woman, this is a torture more terrible than death.

"Of course not, it is estimated that someone touched the forbidden law in the deepest part of the ruins, causing the final means of this ruin to explode. Luckily, we have some of the keys to the ruins, so this place hasn't been affected. ”

"But this is only temporary. I don't know what the ultimate forbidden law is for this relic. But if we want to make sure that we are safe, we must not sit here and wait for death, we must find a way to find the initiative. ”

"What do you mean......" Although Kimu didn't say it explicitly, everyone who knew something about the recent experiment had different expressions.

There was disgust, disgust, and disdain, but no one spoke out to stop Kimu from talking, which basically represented their attitude.

"That's right, now is the time to put our experiments to work. It just so happens that the monsters of those ruins are hunting outside, and even if our things are released, no one will suspect them......"

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