After a winter's silence, spring after the Spori festival is the home of the merchants. Caravans began to walk the territory of the Rose York Kingdom, and even the Kingdom of Aragon, which was negotiating against the Rose Kingdom, saw large trading fairs at the border junction between the two countries.

Even the tulip collars, which traveled on a rough road, had been open for a few days because of the caravans.

The huge flow of people also makes Perth's tavern under its name, so it makes a lot of money in Madrid.

Even the poultry in the castle was sold at a high price, although it was still much cheaper than outside. In the end, under the strong demand of several caravans, the city hall came forward to buy poultry in the territory like the residents, which not only increased the income of the territory, but also intensified the determination of many residents to raise poultry.

After all, poultry eggs, meat, duck feathers, goose feathers, and even manure will be purchased by the city hall, so that they will not have to travel a lot of time and have more income, so why not?

However, since it is ready to take poultry breeding as an industry, Perth is naturally attentive to the quality of poultry. Therefore, even if it is impossible to allocate better feed, for poultry farmers, old Chuck will arrange a simple elemental circle to make the poultry grow better.

Of course, this is subject to the payment of a fee to the town hall and the annual fee. Despite the low price, Perth announced a waiver of the first set-up fee, which further boosted the development of poultry farming. Perth sometimes even wonders what it will be like when a poultry breeding base is established.

Therefore, within half a month of the Spori festival, many caravans of poultry came to buy poultry, and the town hall even had a poultry purchase order in hand.

Perth was naturally happy to see the economic mobility of the territory, especially the caravans, which brought many fresh kinds of fruit to enrich the daily recipe table.

.......

But before Perth could be pleased, the steward of Ston came and said, "Lord Perth, the Knight of Keyes and the Archon Nader have requested to summon you. ”

"Did you say anything?" Perth asked, furrowed, knowing that if there were no problems, they would never come together in this busy season.

Seeing this, Ston said with an ugly face, "This morning, more than a dozen residents found the Sheriff's Office, saying that the child in the family disappeared overnight. There was even a child's body found in the forest. ”

Perth was shocked when he heard this, this had never happened before, and hurriedly asked, "What about the families of those children?" ”

"Still at the town hall, Archon Nader has already sent someone to pacify him." Ston said.

With that, Perth said, "Call in." Perth said.

When Keith and Nader came in, and before they could salute, Perth hurriedly asked, "What happened?" How many children are missing? ”

"Seventeen children are currently missing, and the remains of one child were found in the forest. In addition, most of them are about three years old.

Especially the child who died, his heart and intestines were dug out with sharp weapons, and the blood all over his body was drained, and only the expression on his face could tell the horror before death.

And, according to the families of the missing and victims, there is no trace of any strangers in the home, and there are no anomalies. Keith bowed his head and said, his words were full of backups, and he scolded the murderer in his heart for being a scumbag!

When Perth heard this, he always felt a little inexplicably uneasy, and even seemed to be oppressed by a gloom, permeating the top of the tulip collar.

The inexplicable anxiety seemed to burn his heart, and the irrepressible anger made him not only shout, "Investigate! Check them all! What the hell does the Sheriff's Department eat?! Is the night patrol captain a pig who only knows how to eat?! ”

For a moment, the hall even trembled slightly with the roar of Perth, and a wave of heat rippled in the hall of the castle with the flickering of the golden divine pattern on the forehead.

Nader and Keith's minds seemed to feel a tremendous pressure, and they fell to their knees, not even daring to say anything more.

Keith felt a tremor in his heart, because he knew that the wrath of the gods, even the weak and young gods, was above everyone.

Perth seemed to realize his gaffe, sat on a tulip-wrapped chair, bowed his head and was silent for a long time, and asked, "No need to kneel, tell me how long the missing children have been, have they all been found?" ”

When Keith heard this, he got up and said with a look of embarrassment and even some frustration, "Please forgive me for my dereliction of duty, although everyone in the territory is already looking for it."

However, due to the endless stream of caravans coming and going after the Spori Festival, it has not been found. ”

After all, it was the first time he had felt defeated, but for this strange case and Perth's questioning. Anyway, Keith voiced his suspicion: "Perhaps, there will be some evil supernatural forces involved. ”

This is not good news, Perth is frowning.

What kind of power is permeated with such a mysterious aura, and even cruelly tortured to death with such a hideous appearance!

So Perth finally decided, "Do you still have it, I want to see it." Perth asked.

Nader hurriedly said, "I have called the people from the security department to guard it, and I have ensured the safety of the scene as soon as possible." ”

"Call Mr. Chuck, and we'll go now." Perth thought for a moment and said.

In this regard, it is necessary to be more comprehensive in this regard, such as Chuck Sr., who specializes in magic and nature, and they are synonymous with wise men.

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When Perth came to the Yuxi River where the crime was found, he found that this was a remote corner not far from the porcelain factory, because of the slow flow of water, it used to be a place where many children of porcelain factory workers usually played in the water.

Now it has become the sheriff's office, and the whole place is guarded with a solemn face, which makes people daunting.

As soon as a few people dismounted, Perth and Old Chuck's faces became a little solemn, and even Perth's faces became a little disgusted.

For in this air, there is still a residual evil and turbid aura, and although it is faint, as a newborn god, Perth is unusually sensitive to this aura.

Old Chuck relied on his half-elf nature as a great druid, and followed the smell of rusty blood to smell a small dirt bag that was slightly raised.

Especially when he saw the red buds on the earthen bag, he even looked a little frightened, as if he had thought of something terrible.

Keith looked at the expressions of the two, and he already had some conjectures in his heart, so he couldn't help but go to Old Chuck, who was carefully observing, bent down and squatted down next to Old Chuck and whispered, "Mr. Chuck, what do you see abnormal?" ”

"Was the child's head in the same position when you found it?" Hearing Keith's whispered inquiry, Old Chuck asked with a solemn expression after being silent for a long time.

Keith's face turned pale, and the speculation in his heart became more and more certain, and he said in a low tone, "What's wrong, that child's head is right on this little dirt bag." ”

When old Chuck heard this, his heart was true. This completely confirmed the conjecture in his heart, and the old rumor.

His expression was also extremely serious, and he said, "This is the bud of the red fruit that only pure blood that has been infected by a special evil ritual and grows in the contaminated land, also called the "Blood Bead Fruit".

Legend has it that once upon a time, the favorite fruit of the Five Dragon Mothers and the Tyrannical was also the fruit of the contract for the sacrifice of the fallen gods and the ritual of the fallen. ”

"People are actually worshipping ancient evil gods?!" Keith was furious, and said to himself that this is a bastard and scum!

Old Chuck knew that even if Keith was a golden knight, he would not know about this forbidden technique that had long been banned, and explained with a wry smile, "If only it were that simple, the so-called depraved consciousness."

It was the priest who used the red fruit as a contract sacrifice to communicate with the abyss seal of Tartarus with his soul in exchange for the power of the five dragon mothers, Tiamat.

In the eyes of those cultists, this is called "the favor of the Mother of God." ”

Hearing this, Keith's eyes widened, and he said angrily, "It's just stupid and ridiculous, there are people who kill innocents indiscriminately and create evil, in order to imprison their souls in the abyss and hell forever!" ”

After recalling the memories of the ancient bloodline as a god, Perth asked very strangely, "Wasn't this ancient evil contract destroyed by the gods as early as the golden age of the Age of the Gods?" ”

In this regard, Old Chuck shook his head helplessly, and sighed, "Crime and chaos have never disappeared, but they have been cowering in corners we have never seen, and they have been gathering momentum." ”

Perth thought back to the memories of the inheritance, and the cruel fighting and the hideous maw suppressed his heart like a dark cloud.

The serious face made people dare not approach, and said coldly, "The real terrible thing is that the transformed tyrant, as the slave of the five dragon mothers, has no reason at all.

There is only a bloodthirsty and desire to fight, almost like a mad beast.

So, we have to stop him as soon as possible! ”

Old Chuck knew, of course, that although he knew that such rituals were strange and hidden, he looked at Perth's brow so solemn that it seemed to kill a fly, and said, "Don't worry, I'll let the birds and beasts of the forest be my eyes."

As long as we break the six-pointed star's covenant ceremony, we will surely be able to stop his sin. “