Chapter 63: The Black Hand in the Shadows

The Soul Chaser Gang, an underground organization that relies on the dark side of Black Rock City to survive, can only be regarded as a medium-sized gang among the many gangs in Black Rock City, and its territory occupies one-sixth of the northern district of Black Rock City. The leader of the gang is a third-level thief named Toby 'Stump Leg'.

The reason for this nickname is that one of his legs was injured during a previous adventure, so he walks a little lame, but this does not mean that he is low in combat. In fact, he relied on his agility to kill the previous gang leader before he seized his current position.

Because he was often ridiculed for his lameness, he liked to break the leg bones of those who mocked or offended him. In fact, no one dared to mention the whole nickname of 'stump leg' in front of him now, and the people who had been said in front of him before, except for some big people who couldn't really move, had become cripples who were worse than him.

Toby didn't kill those people, he just let those people drag their stumps and beg on the streets of Black Rock City, and if they were to beg a little more to eat a full meal, he would send someone to take the excess, leaving only the other party starving to death.

Of course, the Soul Chasers are only a medium-sized gang, and they don't have a strong backstage in the city, unlike those large gangs that have the shadow of the city's high-level behind them. They can only rely on regular monthly bribes to win over the upper echelons of some departments. So the people who Toby dares to deal with like that are some small people with no background, and for those powerful and powerful people, even if he is scolded for being lame in front of him, he will not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction.

Because of his cruel style, the merchants and civilians in the territory of the Soul Chaser Gang have shied away from this cruel gang, and even if they encounter extortion or something, they will only take the method of breaking the fortune and avoiding disasters. Of course, Toby is not a fool either, and the number and amount of extortion by the Soul Chasers are generally not too much, otherwise if he makes his own territory people unhappy, the backers he finds will not let him go.

But two months ago, someone openly challenged his prestige in the territory of the Soul Chasers. Not only did the green-skinned goblin not give the Soul Chaser a 'security fee' according to the 'regulations', but also beat the personnel including the leader of the Soul Chaser Gang, Court, to death, and Toby felt that this was challenging his bottom line.

However, after learning that the mercenary group guarding the other party had only dealt with his subordinates in a dozen seconds, and that the professional level of the members of the mercenary group was as high as level four or above, he immediately dispelled the idea of taking revenge in person.

This does not mean that you can't do anything about the other party. Although the Soul Chaser Society is only a medium-sized gangster force, it has to give a batch of gold coins to the sheriff of Black Rock City every month, so that they can safely save in Black Rock City without worrying about the official purge.

Of course, when he encounters some characters who are not easy to deal with, he will also give the sheriff a generous gift, and then the security team of Black Rock City will find the other party in the name of the official, in this case, as long as the other party is not a person with a background, most of them will be arrested on a charge, as for what happened to the other party, then you can only see Cheng Dù who offended him.

But this time, when he went to the fat-brained sheriff with the gold coin, the other party not only did not accept his gold coin, but warned him very sternly not to provoke the other party again.

At first, Toby thought that he had provoked some big shot, so he was so frightened that he gave the sheriff's assistant a lot of gold coins, and after a lot of good words, the other party finally revealed a piece of news.

It turned out that the goblin had sent a large sum of money to the sheriff before he came, which was more than the gold coins that the Soul Chasers gave each year. It's no wonder that the fat-brained guy said that to him.

After learning the actual situation, Toby was relieved and extremely unwilling at the same time. If the other party is just a little person with some money and no background to be afraid of, being ridden on the head by such a guy makes him feel angry. However, the other party is stronger than himself in terms of the strength of the team or the power of the official, whether it is soft or hard, he can't help it.

If he had encountered this kind of thing before, he would have endured it, after all, it was not that no one stronger than him had mocked him.

But this time he didn't want to give up, not only because he couldn't swallow it, but also because he was greedy for the goblin's wealth. The other party just threw out a sum of money more than the Soul Chaser Gang's funds for a year, and he inquired, the other party's guards turned out to be professional slaves who were purchased, so the amount of money it would cost was already shocking.

During this time, he has been secretly sending people to monitor the movements of the goblin, as long as the other party is out of the city, then he has a way to make the other party unable to come back, and seize the other party's wealth. This confidence stems entirely from one of his secrets, which will bring him great benefits in the future.

"Did you see clearly! that goblin did take someone out of town?" Toby sat behind a table and looked at his men who had reported to him with grim eyes.

"I can see it clearly! The goblin has definitely gone out through the gates, and I have sent the gang to keep an eye on them, as you commanded. And before the goblin left, a hundred or so men came out of their station.66 And they all scattered out of the city. "This subordinate is none other than the 'rat' who is staring at Ivor Residence.

At this time, he trembled in front of his own leader, for fear that he would be punished by the cruel methods of the leader for answering a wrong question. After seeing the leader wave him down, he ran out as fast as if he had been pardoned.

"How's your connection with the trolls outside the city?" Toby said to a man next to him.

This person is the bald one-eyed Hancott who ran to blackmail Ivor two months ago, but was beaten by the mercenary group by Ivov.

At this time, his only remaining eye burned with rage, but after hearing Toby's voice, he still replied cautiously, "Lead." The other party has already replied to us. As long as we can open the gates while they attack the city, then we will be allowed to govern all the humans after they take the city. At that time, we will deserve to be the number one gang in Black Rock City. ”

"Idiot! We're taking such a big risk to join each other, we don't want some foolish Black Rock City No. 1 gang. These trolls have a lot of appetite, and it is estimated that they will want to occupy several other nearby cities after capturing Black Rock City. We can take refuge in them at the earliest, and when they manage the captive humans, they will probably make us administrators, and then we will be at least one city lord!" Toby said in a cold voice.

"Yes! Court hurriedly chimed in.

Toby closed his eyes and leaned back in the chair behind him and said, "Talk to those trolls, just say that a team of mercenaries has run out, and if you want to find out about them, please be sure to eliminate this team of mercenaries!"

Court, hesitantly, said, "In that case, those trolls will probably guess that we are borrowing their hands to get rid of each other." Those trolls may look like savages, but they are very cunning!"

A smile appeared on Toby's lips and he said, "What if you can see it? They need us now, and even if they can see it, they won't be stingy with this little thing." ”

"I'll show you clearly, then I'll do it. But the time agreed with the other party is tonight, and I'm afraid I won't be able to come back by then!" said Court, carefully.

"You don't need to participate in this operation, you just need to get the goblin thing right. Remember that if you kill that goblin and bring back all the things on him, that goblin should have a lot of wealth. Toby said as he looked at Court with stern eyes.

"Yes, I'll bring everything back to show you!" said Court, sweating profusely.

After seeing Toby close his eyes and not speak, he knew it was time for him to leave. So he quickly turned around and walked out.

Xu Yue was not clear about the impending crisis of Ai Wo at this time, and at this time he was teaching Ellie how to train and control her mental power.

The little girl has worked hard beyond his expectations in the past two months, and she can play the game of catching light points during meditation all day, and she will go to sleep after too much mental energy consumption every time. Under such high-intensity 'play', her mental strength increased much faster than when Xu Yue first started meditating.

After Xu Yue's inspection, his current little girl's spiritual power has reached the edge of an advanced intermediate magic apprentice, I am afraid that as long as she meditates once or twice, Ellie will be able to become an intermediate magic apprentice in terms of spiritual power.

This is also where Xu Yue is troubled, generally speaking, children in Talumia's sixth year only begin to formally learn magic at the age of ten. This is to prevent children from injuring their brains when operating mental power because they are too young to be incompetent in intelligence and control.

But Ellie's talent is indeed very good, and after reaching the intermediate level of magic apprenticeship, if she only meditates at the elementary level, the effect will become very weak.

At this time, it is either changed to a set of meditation methods for intermediate magic apprentices, increasing mental power while using controllable elements nourished by mental power. Either like Xu Yue, he directly took the 'Bolsi Elixir' and directly started to advance to the advanced magic apprenticeship, and then chose the meditation technique of a formal magician after condensing the magic source.

The second way is not to think about it, even if the money is enough, but Xu Yue does not have the authority to buy the 'Bolsi Elixir' again. But if he chooses the first path, he is really not sure whether the little girl's intelligence and control power can control the mental power well.

After hesitating, Xu Yue decided to test the little girl's mind and mental control first. In terms of mind, he went directly back to Earth to download and print a set of related questions from the Internet, and the mental power control zhì aspect is simpler, after handing over Ellie's simple magic control, see the results of Ellie's mental power control zhì magic before making a decision.

The results of the test were somewhat unexpected, perhaps Ellie's experience with the trolls had made her a little precocious, and the little girl was no weaker than a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in terms of mind. And the spiritual control of the power of the face, watching the little girl control the small flames floating in her hands, has reached the average level of control of a junior magic apprentice.

In the end, Xu Yue decided to start teaching Ellie magic officially. Of course, it's only the simplest part of zero-level magic, and even a slightly dangerous magic like fast reading can only be learned after a while of young girl.

Seeing the little girl playing alone with the fire in her hand, Xu Yue smiled and took out a blank magic notebook to record her learning experience today. The magic lamp on the table gave off much brighter light than the previous oil lamp, and a small flame elf danced merrily on the wick.

This is a common lighting tool used by magicians unique to the world of Talumia, and its light does not rely on flames, but on elemental crystals that add fire attributes to the magic array, summoning fire elves for lighting. These elves are all elemental elves of the Burning Plane, and as long as you pay them Fire Crystal, they will summon them as your lighting tools.

Because these elemental spirits themselves are just some fire elemental aggregates with simple wisdom, not only do they have no use value and research value, but they can't even make basic materials. So no magician will catch or damage them, which is one of the reasons why magic lamps are popular among magicians.

After adding a small piece of fire elemental spar to the elemental furnace under the magic lamp, the fire elf's dance became more cheerful, and the light on his body also brightened a lot. This proves that the other party has grown slightly after absorbing a large amount of flame element.

Xu Yue smiled at the joyful dancing flame elf, and stretched out his hand to tease it for a while. The body of the fire elf itself is made up of the fire element, and the temperature is very high. But as long as they don't attack, they feel like lukewarm water to the touch.

The character of the flame elves is very active, even when there is no one, they will dance there by themselves, at this time when they see someone playing with them, they immediately happily fly happily on the flame of the magic lamp, drawing a halo in the air.

Just when Xu Yue was about to stop finishing his study today, he suddenly heard a loud noise outside, followed by a slight shaking. The fire elf shrank back into the flame as if frightened. Xu Yue's face sank, and he walked quickly to the window and opened the window.

There were boiling shouts from the streets, and the direction of the city wall was constantly lit up, and Xu Yue could see that it was the brilliance of magic.

Suddenly, the inheritance mark on the back of Xu Yue's right hand flashed and lit up, he knew what this meant, the magic guild fluctuated according to the registered magic mark to issue a summoning order, and this kind of summoning order generally has only one meaning - war.

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