Max and his two daughters sat around the dining table, with a few candles lit on the table.

"Father, do you really want Aaron to be a sacrifice in my place?" Max's youngest daughter, who seemed to be in a bad mood, asked in a low voice with a frown. "Originally, it was me who was drawn in this draw, is it really appropriate for us to do this?"

Max remained silent when he heard this, while the eldest daughter next to him spoke: "Jesse, my father didn't want to lose you by doing this, to be honest, in fact, my father originally wanted to replace you and let that messenger take ...... away."

After hearing these words, Jesse's eyes darkened, and he lowered his head: "Is there no other way?"

At this time, Max finally spoke: "If there was another way, I would not do it, every year that messenger takes a man from the village, and he is so powerful that one person can slaughter the whole of our village, and no one can stop it." ”

"Thirty years ago, we organized a rebellion, but he was upset and killed hundreds of people in the village at once, and you were not born at that time, you don't know how terrible this messenger really is......" Max's eyes were dark, and he fell into the painful memories of the past as he spoke.

"Jesse, don't worry so much about this matter, stay at home tomorrow night, don't go anywhere, I have made up my mind, I can only be sorry for Aaron!" Max took a deep breath and said resolutely, in order not to lose his daughter, he has decided to treat Aaron as a substitute for the dead.

Then the three of them were silent for a while, and then went to sleep.

"So that's the case, I said how could Max be so enthusiastic about retaining, and actually wanted me to be a sacrifice instead of Jesse. Aaron was by the window, listening to all the conversations just now, and finally understood what was going on, and verified his conjecture correctly.

Knowing of Max's conspiracy, Aaron was not in a hurry to act, but was very interested in the messenger in his mouth: "Messenger? Sacrifice? It seems that there are some secrets hidden in this area. ”

According to Max, this messenger seems to be very powerful, but this is relative to the people in their village, and Aaron personally feels that this messenger should not be much stronger.

You must know that the people in this village are all ordinary people, and they don't have much combat power at all, and even a third-level apprentice is enough to quickly slaughter all the people here.

At this time, Aaron was already an official first-level mage, and in his eyes, no matter how strong that messenger was, it should not be much stronger.

Back in the cabin, Aaron had been thinking about it, and Max's behavior made him angry and disdainful, but when he remembered the reason for it, he felt understandable.

If he were in this situation, he would also choose this approach, maybe this is the so-called family affection, this incident also made Aaron sigh, reminding of his parents in the original world.

Lying on the bed and thinking about it for a long time, Aaron finally decided not to embarrass Max, and he was very interested in the messenger, and planned to stay tomorrow, and meet the so-called messenger for a while, to see what he came from and what he was going to do.

The idea of the sacrifice first reminded Aaron of the sacrifice of the evil dryad, and wondered what the connection was, and it was because of this that he chose to stay, and to find out what to learn from the messenger's mouth.

The next morning, Aaron pretended not to know anything, and wandered around the village calmly.

The villagers here live a similar life every day, simple and simple, young and strong, most of them will go out to hunt, leaving women, children and older people to work in the village.

After wandering around the village for a short while, Aaron saw a middle-aged man sitting on the ground with a knife in his right hand, carving a piece of wood, which seemed to be making a wood carving.

Aaron stopped and looked at it a few times playfully: "Well, the color of this little knife is so strange." ”

Looking closely, Aaron was attracted by the knife in the middle-aged man's hand, the handle of this knife was nothing special, but the color of the blade was very special, silver mixed with a faint blue.

"Chip, what is the material of the blade that forged this knife?" Aaron stood by and watched, and asked the chip to analyze and scan the knife.

Comparing the existing information in the database, there is a 60% chance that the blade material is Mithril and 38% likelier iron. After analysis, the chip immediately gave two greater possibilities.

"Mithril! If it's Mithril, it's exactly what I need!" The three things that the Evil Tree Spirit wants, including the Heart of the Bloodline, if you want to get it, you will inevitably have to come into contact with the Bloodline.

Although the Bloodline is very strong, it has a weakness, that is, it is afraid of weapons made of Mithril, which can suppress the Bloodline's powerful regenerative ability, and it is necessary to prepare when dealing with them.

Mithril is a rare ore, and it is also one of the materials that Aaron needs to collect, if the blade of this knife is really made of Mithril, it means that there may be Mithril ore stored nearby.

"Uncle, I see that the color of the blade of your knife is very peculiar, can you ask what material it is made of?" Aaron stepped forward, then crouched down and asked in a low voice.

"That's what you say. When the middle-aged man heard this, he stopped what he was doing: "Actually, I don't know what material forged it, this knife was picked up in a forest when I went out hunting more than ten years ago." ”

"Uh......" Aaron was a little speechless, and then said, "Uncle, can you sell me this knife, I am willing to pay ten gold coins to buy it." ”

"Ten gold coins! do you mean it?" The middle-aged man heard ten gold coins, and his eyes immediately lit up, and he looked very surprised, a broken knife was worth ten gold coins, how could he not be surprised.

Aaron looked at the look on his face, and knew that he agreed without thinking about it, and then took out ten golden gold coins from his body: "Here are ten gold coins, uncle, you can take them." ”

When the middle-aged man saw the gold coin, his eyes were straight, and he put all the gold coins away at once, and then handed the knife to Aaron, and said, "Now this knife belongs to you, but I will make it clear first, if you regret it in the future, I will not return the gold coins to you!"

"Don't worry, I can't regret it. Aaron smiled, took the knife, and walked to the little house where he lived.

"It's a pity, if only the cross sword. Back in the house, Aaron took out a knife and looked at it carefully for a while, the blade of the knife was only about 10 centimeters long, and at a glance he knew that it was used as a dagger, and it was not very suitable for Aaron.

"If it's made of Mithril, I don't know how pure the material is. "There are good and bad Mithril, the key is the purity, according to the evil tree spirit, the higher the purity of the Mithril ore used to create weapons, the better the effect will be when it is used against the Blood Clan.

After playing with it for a while, Aaron put the knife away and thought about what was going to happen tonight.

At dusk, Max invited Aaron to dinner again, and finally told him the location of the nearest city, and told him how to walk.

When he came back from Max, as soon as he walked to the cabin, Aaron noticed something, and saw a strange red cloth on the roof.

Aaron's eyes rolled slightly: "Because it should be a mark, no wonder I didn't see Max's eldest daughter just now, she should have secretly put the fabric on it." ”

After thinking about it, Aaron guessed what the cloth was for, and nine out of nine was used as a marker, telling the messenger who came tonight the location of the sacrifice.

After noticing this detail, Aaron didn't take off the fabric, just walked straight into the wooden house and waited quietly.

Soon, the sky was completely dark, and the darkness shrouded the earth, making it seem extraordinarily silent.

Aaron placed a noctilucent stone in the room to provide a light source, and then the whole person hid on a beam above, closely watching the surrounding qiē, of course, the scanning function of the chip was also on all the time.

"Drop! Spotting lifeforms approaching! Spotting lifeforms approaching. After waiting for dozens of minutes, the chip found the anomaly first and kept issuing warnings.

"The messenger is finally here!" For the sake of safety, when Aaron received the prompt, he took out a third-generation mutant thorn vine seed, placed it in the palm of his hand, and then built a magic circle of vine armor in his mind to cast a spell.

Soon, the casting process ended, and a set of emerald green vine armor covered Aaron's body.

It was at this time that the door of the cabin was forcibly pushed open, and a young man walked in.

The young man's face looked a little pale, as if he were sickly colored, and he was dressed in a black cloak, his face was expressionless, and he glanced around the room as soon as he entered.

"Name: Unknown;Strength: 3.5/Dexterity: 4.6/Constitution: 5.1Status: Unknown"

After scanning the young man with the chip, Aaron looked at the numbers, and then completely relieved himself, the messenger in Max's mouth was similar to what he expected.

This kind of body is indeed very powerful for the people in the village, but for Aaron, it is nothing more than that, and it is too easy to take him down.

Determined by the strength of the comer, Aaron decided that he didn't need to hide anymore, so he jumped off the crossbar and came face to face with the young man: "Who are you? What are you doing with me?"

In the face of Aaron's questioning, the young man still looked expressionless, just tilted his neck and looked at him a few times, without the slightest intention of answering the question.