It has been said that the city of Catrice is a chaotic cauldron that has been thrown into all sorts of things like the cauldron used by witches in ancient legends to boil potions. Different cultures and different nationalities communicate in this city, and then paint the city with their own colors.

The Empire's openness to immigrants has also affected the Dominions it belongs to, and humans of different nationalities, demons who are similar to humans but have different bloodlines, and even Gulnius, who are of two species from humans, can become residents of the Dominion. Recently, I heard that some self-conscious immortals have begun to make bills in the imperial capital to demand normal citizenship, and I feel that times have changed.

If these common different races or races have a human shape in terms of physical structure, then the inhabitants of some minority races are somewhat impressive, and one only needs to look at them to feel that they are absolutely different from humans.

On the edge of the old Big 6, on the wastelands, swamps, deserts, and mountains that have not yet been fully trodden by human footprints, there are many intelligent races of different species, ranging from races with animal characteristics on human bodies to races that seem to be a combination of animals and humans...... The various characteristics of the "people" are divided into tribes or city-states and form relative collectives.

In the past, some scholars referred to them as "sub-human races," as if to assert that "humans" were the center of a single literary and literary civilization, and to divide them into inferior races that possessed some human characteristics. However, these species have their own civilization, and they are also very different from humans in nature.

Undoubtedly. These human-like, non-human, intelligent beings are sometimes seen as monsters, even if some of them are well-intentioned beings with human beings. Their appearance instills a sense of fear, and when they have the power that humans can't. People tend to be more afraid of their being.

The coolly dressed woman in front of her was one of these inhuman "monsters", sitting leisurely in front of the bar counter, her crimson snake body moving from time to time below her hips. The scales on the snake's body reflected in the dim light, like armor.

The Lamia snake race, an ethnic group living in the warm desert area of the old big 6, with a snake tail in their bodies, gives people a sense of oppression just by looking like they're looking like they're in the background. The boy's knowledge of this people does not come from formal study books, but from the stories in the holy book in the hands of the missionaries.

"I saw a woman coming from the end of the horizon. She had a serpentine tail and a poisonous glow. Snakes and scorpions followed her, their march like a black storm in the desert. All men and beasts that touched them were swallowed up by this dazzling light, and turned into corpses......"

The second verse of the Tale of the Sand Sea, which is a chapter of the outer chapter of the Holy Book, describes a traveler who encounters a woman of the Lamian snake race in the depths of the desert and is toyed with by the woman. The story of how he used his wits to escape from women before he was brutally killed.

It is probably the only part of the holy book that mentions this race. But in a story of less than a few thousand words, a large part of it is a denigration of this nation. The same "story" abounds in the Holy Book, where the Holy Episcopal Sect, one of the most widespread religions among mankind, has not yet been able to escape the influence of anthropocentrism, which has been refuted for many years as worthless.

It may seem easy for some secular religions to communicate with such a non-human species, but for a teenager whose ethics and morality have been shaped by people who believe in the Holy Episcopal sect for more than a decade, the woman in front of her is really a symbol of calamity.

For the sake of the present goal, how far can the boy be sacrificed? His closest companion has become a small box in the ossuary, and it is impossible to see that it was once a human skeleton. The family wealth that was not there from the beginning is still gone, and there is not much left. Is vindictiveness or faith important?

It didn't seem to be a question to ponder, and after a moment of silence, he made a decisive decision and followed Curt is in silence.

When he saw Curt come up to him and sit down, the half-human, half-snake woman smiled at him and said, "Really, Leinster, you're too late, aren't you?"

In all fairness, her face is quite beautiful, with a healthy flush on her face with just the right amount of melon seeds, and with that ethnic outfit, she looks a bit like a worker like Rebecca. In her mouth with a malicious smile, two sharp canine teeth peeked out, vaguely proclaiming her danger.

Curt sighed and said mercilessly, "I'm sorry, I don't think you're a weak woman...... Hermia, if you will, the people in this bar add up to a matter of seconds, right? Your poison is not something that ordinary humans can bear. ”

The woman's name was Hermia, at least what she had told Sù Curt, and as terrifying as her appearance looked, she was indeed a dangerous person.

"It's okay, I'm not going to use the precious poison on these miscellaneous pieces. Hermia hissed and laughed, just like her appearance like a snake, "Speaking of which, I've been drinking a lot of wine today, of course, this stall is probably for you to invite, right?"

The Lamian snake people are skilled at concocting medicines, and they have mastered pharmaceutical techniques that have been passed down from the distant past to the present day. Whether it's a healing elixir or a poison for killing, there are other wonderful medicines that work in a variety of ways...... The potions they made were among the most high-grade in the pharmacies of the imperial capital, and they were one of the representatives of the imperial capital.

As for Hermia, Curt didn't know how good she was at making other potions, but if it was a contest of poisoning skills, none of the assassins in the entire Catrice City could beat her, after all, her nickname of "Viper" was not in vain.

"Anyway, I'm looking for you, so it's okay if I ask you to have a few drinks. Curt glanced at the bartender, who looked like a native of Catrice, and then at the grinning Hermia, "As long as you're not ordering something that's specifically designed to deal with wrongdoers." ”

Lizzie glanced at Hermia unhappily, and the half-human, half-snake woman was as unresponsive as if she hadn't seen her. Instead, her attention was focused on the boy, who was uncomfortable with her staring, but he still stood silently at Curt's request.

"And then, Leinster, what are you looking for me? You know, I was really a little surprised when I heard you say that you had something to entrust me, after all, a mercenary who always flaunts to abide by the law actually had something to ask me for, and how much did it make me feel the power of the changing times. ”

Her acquaintance with Curt was only a casual exchange of information, and Curt had never sought out her for any reason other than that. Liqi has seen her a few times by chance, but the relationship between the two seems to be so bad that Cheng Dù can not speak without talking.

The boy kept a blind eye to Hermia, and finally, Hermia, who showed her fangs, could no longer suppress her curiosity, and she leaned out in the direction of the boy and said, "And what is this boy here for? ”

With that, Hermia licked her lips and smiled seductively, and it seemed that the boy from the slums had a good appetite for her in some sense. The boy she was targeting didn't pay attention to her as much as possible, but the beads of sweat on his forehead made his nervousness very clear.

Looking at Hermia, who was staring straight at the young man, Curt clapped his hands: "Ahem, although I don't have any opinion on your personal interest, but this time I still trouble you not to rush to eat him and wipe him clean." After all, no matter what you say, he is also the client who is going to find you this time. ”

Lizzie, who was sitting on the side, snorted softly, and it seemed that she complained about something that Curt didn't care about, especially about Hermia's personal interests.

"Oh?"

Ignoring Lizzie's blunt displeasure, Curt's words made Hermia seem to think of something and laugh even more obviously. She had been looking at the young man's eyes suddenly lit up, and there was a bit of greed in her reptilian-like pupils.

"I think you already know that I've been working with the garrison lately," Curt opened his coat to show him, and a slightly thicker envelope was placed in the inner pocket of his suit, "I've sorted out the details, and all the things I can tell you have been recorded here." ”

Hermia glanced at the envelope handed by Curt with interest, and tried to begin to weigh the information inside. Whether it is a mercenary or an assassin, intelligence is extremely valuable to most professionals who do skill export work, but how much value a piece of intelligence has needs to be carefully judged.

"So what? Information about an incident that the garrison is investigating should be very valuable information. But I want to use these to buy my 'poison'...... Although I think I can help you get a discount in the case of old acquaintances, it still seems a little cheap, right?"

She grinned, revealing a sly smile Assassins have different prices for taking people's lives, and like different intelligence, they need to be paid on a case-by-case basis.

"It's just a deposit to show our sincerity. ”

Curt shrugged and said indifferently, "The object is a high-level mage who is probably rated by a talent dispatch agency with a four-star rating, as for the reward...... This time, I'm just in charge of the introduction, and you probably need to talk to this client about things like compensation. ”

The price of assassinating a high-level mage is naturally equal to the difficulty of killing him, and according to the list price of some hunter companies, the price of a high-level mage rated by a four-star rating of a talent dispatch agency is roughly equivalent to the total salary that Curt has received for five to six years of hard work.

Of course, this teenager couldn't get the money together through regular means. (To be continued......)

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