At this moment, the door of the tavern was suddenly pushed open, and a man wearing a cloak of animal skins entered. He was in his twenties, had curly faded hair, and a crooked nose. He is not very old, he actually has the strength of the seventeenth level, and it will not be long before he can become a powerhouse in the town country before he is thirty.

He glanced down the hall, and when he saw Richard and the others, his eyes lit up immediately, and he strode over, sat down on an empty chair, and snorted heavily.

Richard and the others should drink and drink, and eat meat and eat meat, as if there were no more people at the table. It's just that Richard sighed at the bottom of his heart for this guy's bad luck, he just wanted to sit between Io and Splash, a battle priest, a natural killer, if that man was knocked unconscious, I am afraid he would not know how he fell under the punishment of the thirteen gods.

The man was not embarrassed, but showed excitement, stared at Richard, and actually lowered his voice and said: "I know you are Richard! Don't deny it! I heard that you appeared in the territory of the empire, so I made a special trip of hundreds of kilometers to arrive." Don't be afraid, what I want is very simple, I am a descendant of the famous legendary powerhouse Dmed, and every drop of blood flowing in my veins has the desire to fight! I heard that you are also a disciple of the legend, just right, we can compete! How about it? You won't be afraid of me, right?"

Richard smiled: "According to the ancient tradition of the empire, heroes must have a lottery, and the more noble the hero's bet, the heavier the jackpot. Since you and I are both descendants of legendary powerhouses, this color is naturally indispensable, you see......"

The young man immediately understood, and was made enthusiastic by the sentence "the descendants of the legendary strong".

Richard has a series of halos on his head, legendary disciples, divine favorites, divine punishers, gods of the Western Army, and so on. In Faro, Richard's aura can blind a group of people's dogs. Now that he can be on a par with Richard, how can this man still be calm? He immediately touched his back excitedly, and said, "Yes, I specially brought a short knife, which is a treasure of our family, and it is worth the Thirteen Divine Punishments in the epic. This kind of thing is worthy of the identity of you and me...... ......"

The man reached out and touched it, but found that his back waist was empty, not to mention the priceless short knife, and even the long sword he used to use was missing. The man's sweat immediately came down, and at this moment, he didn't think about where the knife went, but how humiliating it would be to not be able to make a bet.

Fortunately, he was still in a hurry, and immediately changed his words: "But I have something better, a money bag! It has a long history, and it is something used by the previous queen, the unparalleled beauty of the time...... Ahh

This time he finally screamed, because the money bag was nowhere to be found.

The man's eyes were fixed on Richard, his hands grossing all over his body, but he could no longer find anything to pledge, not even the animal skin cloak he had just placed on the back of his chair. No matter how excited and sluggish he was, he now knew that something was wrong. Just when he was trying to find out who did the good deeds, the splash next to him suddenly said, "Look back!"

The man subconsciously turned his head according to his words, and then with a bang, the corner of his forehead hit the fist of the battle priest, and he fainted directly after shaking it at the moment. Io shrugged his shoulders and said, "You all see, I didn't hit him, he hit my fist himself." ”

Richard snorted hatefully for a long time and buried his head in bitterness. These guys didn't know anything about fun, so they stole the limelight themselves, and didn't take Richard seriously at all. Richard watched Io and Splash fly, and when the man was excited, he took off all the various things hanging on his body and took them away, and Io hid a small blade in his palm, cutting the leather rope on which the man was hanging from the money bag, and he didn't know when Io turned into a thief.

If it weren't for the man's speed of speech, the Battle Priest would have even had the idea of cutting off a piece of his pants.

There was not much movement at Richard's table, and the people in the hotel looked at the man who had suddenly passed out, just shrugged his shoulders and continued to eat and drink. They have seen a lot of such small disputes, and they don't care about them at all. Richard only ordered another room to be opened, and threw the legendary descendant into it, allowing him to slowly sober himself up.

The next morning, when Richard and the others came out of the room, it was still dark, and the hotel was already filled with the aroma of breakfast. The legendary descendant was gone, probably sobering up and finally figured out what was going on, and naturally understood how ridiculous the idea of making a date with Richard was.

It was only a small episode on the road, and apart from this young man who was almost a little stupid, Richard and his party encountered no major obstacles. His whereabouts have long been no secret, if the Iron Triangle Empire has a heart, then it will be too late to send a strong person to intercept and kill, or even send a large army to encircle and suppress. However, Richard is equivalent to the peers of five strong people in the town, and most of the troops sent to encircle and suppress them have no effect, and sending strong people to intercept and kill them may not be effective. This is only one of the reasons, and the other reason may be that Gangde and Anlekara each led 10,000 troops and marched to the border. And the star chrysalis was floating in the sky, carrying fifty elite Darkblade Knights on its body as a response at a critical moment.

Under the double constraints of light and darkness, Richard arrived in the Black Valley without any danger.

The Black Valley is a strange land, where the originally dense forests suddenly disappear, revealing the dark soil below. On the surface, the land here should be fertile, but not only can't trees grow, but not even a single weed can be seen. In the distance, the rolling low mountains are also black, and there is no vegetation on them. There was always a strange pungent smell in the land, like the stench of burnt leather.

In the middle of the black mountains is the place where the god of courage exiled criminals, the Black Valley.

Richard leaned over and grabbed a piece of black soil, twisted it in his hand, then sniffed it again, and said, "There is a strong ** and dark atmosphere." It seems that this is the place of divine punishment, as the text says. ”

Io stretched out his hand, a dazzling flower of divine power flashed on his fingertips, and then said, "But this place can use divine power normally, and this place of divine punishment is a bit unworthy of its name." ”

"Io, it will be very eye-catching for you to use your divine power here. Nayu said coldly.

The battle priest said nonchalantly, "What's that? I'm not the same as when I first reached the eighteenth level, and I'm already very used to this world. I can make the range of divine power overflow no more than ten meters. ”

"I alone have more than seventy ways to sense your divine power!

"It's not like anyone is a pervert like you!" Io said dissatisfied, but stopped playing with fire.

Richard didn't care about the slightest friction, but got off his horse and walked on the black earth, and then simply took off his shoes and walked barefoot on the soil. This time he felt that the soil was indeed lukewarm, and the heat was constantly rising from the depths of the ground, making the temperature of the land still above freezing. You know, it's the depths of winter in the north.

Richard stared at the earth, his eyes shining with a long glow that almost pierced the ground. After being promoted to the Grand Magister, Richard's true talent was also promoted, and his analytical ability was greatly enhanced, and he had been promoted to another level: insight. In addition, the wisdom talent was also promoted to the fourth order at the same time, and this promotion directly doubled Richard's ability to think, and the soul split into a part, forming a semi-independent third consciousness.

The promotion of the two great talents of wisdom and truth was not due to the increase in the level of magic power, but the result of Richard's long thinking and analysis of various plane rules. There are three types of rules that Richard has touched now, one is the life type rules obtained in the green forest plane, the other is the origin power that he comes into contact with in the Twilight Lands, and finally the rules of Hulan's Nest.

At this moment, under the power of insight, Richard saw that the earth was becoming translucent, and wisps of black gas were emerging from the depths of the earth, and then emitted into the air through the ground. In the black gas, there is not only dark red, but also a few faint wisps of pink. Deeper underground, there was darkness, like the sea under the dark night, long beyond the scope of Richard's ability. Richard observed for a while, and then said, "There is not only darkness here, but also a strong earth fire, and some strange powers, which seem to be ...... Oh, it's similar to the strength of the Bear-Headed Overseer. ”

As he spoke, Richard couldn't control his body's reaction. He looked over to the others and saw that only the splash was slightly strange, and the three archpriests did not react. It's not surprising that Richard has the essence of the bear-headed overseer in his body, and is particularly sensitive to stimuli, and the priest has always been the most resistant class to abnormal states. Now that Richard has cultivated quite thickly, he is no longer the shy and shy teenager he was back then, and he said calmly: "This land is very strange, I feel that its state is incompatible with the surrounding environment, and it is a bit artificial." ”

"Divine punishment. Nayou said.

"Then go in and see. Richard was looking forward to it.

The black soil covered a fairly vast area, and the five people crossed more than a dozen kilometers of plains before they came to the foot of the mountain, and then saw a group of lifelike statues erected at the entrance of the valley. It was a few stooping men, as thin as walking skeletons, carrying heavy rocks on their backs, but wearing chains thicker than their arms. Behind them, a fat, vicious man was whipping his whip high, as if it would be whipped down the next moment.

This group of statues is so expressive that if it weren't for the fact that they were all obviously stone, it would make people think that time had frozen. At the overseer's feet was a collapsed stone tablet, the handwriting on which was a little blurry, but still legible.

Richard walked over and looked at the inscriptions on the stele and saw that it was a rather ancient divine script of the Faro. But this was not difficult for Richard, and after he looked at it for a while, he understood the meaning and read: "God says that cowardice is the same sin as arrogance. ”

This statement is one of the foundational teachings of the God of Courage.

ps: Add more at night, but the time will be very late, do not build yì and so on. q！！！