In the dimly lit palace, Hekat sat on the throne at the top of the Holy Tower and stared at Andy in silence.

"........." Hekat seemed to think of something, so the expression on his face looked a little gloomy.

"You said that before—" she suddenly opened her mouth to speak.

"You say, that fruit was made by Diana, right?" Andy nodded as a matter of course.

"It's true, Lady Hecate." Hekate clenched her fists, her expression unrecognizable, after all, her face was completely covered by the colorful paint of unknown composition.

Andy looked at the colorful things and guessed in his heart. For example: Why did Hecate cover his face so closely?

How often does she change this makeup? Such a complex color means that it will not be easy to apply these pigments perfectly to the face, not only will it take a long time, but also someone will need help.

...... In this dark palace, who is she painting for? After another moment, Hekate seemed to recover from the negativity, and his face became smiling again.

"Well, then, this doesn't count as what I promised you, so you can continue to think about what else you want." Andy knew that he might be able to get something worth a lot of caps or some transcendent status in Ouroboros Village, but the thought of these things coming from a cruel village of slavery and the moodiness in front of him

"King", he felt that he had no incentive to ask for anything. At this time, the original promise suddenly emerged from the bottom of my heart.

His eyes lit up, indeed, he almost forgot about it.

"I have a friend who came here to meet you before, and I heard that he accidentally offended you...."Hekate seemed a little puzzled when he heard this, and let out an oh after a moment.

"I remember, not long ago there were indeed two guys from the west like you who came into my territory, and my hounds spied on them for a while, and it turned out that they were just keen on.... Impart? I guess that's what I can say. I was a little intrigued by what they were babbling about, so when one of them asked my hound to see me, I agreed—" she looked at Andy.

"That sounds like you're going through, doesn't it? My sister Diana taught me one thing, that even gods need regular contact with mortals, because that is a necessary pastime. Andy complained again when he heard this, what he heard from Diana was not the two marrying Jinlan, but just Diana's name based on the classic on a whim.

At the same time, Hecate seems to be stubbornly determined to be above mortals, and this determination is almost as strong as her hatred for all the tribesmen, which in Andy's opinion speaks volumes about the highest level of deception to others, first of all liars themselves.

"Uh.... You are so generous.... Is that man still alive? Hekat looked up and thought for a moment, giving an ambiguous answer.

"Perhaps." As soon as she beckoned, a huge two-headed snake approached her and let her pet it.

Andy watched the scene, which had happened to him more than once, and the huge two-headed viper was the so-called Holy Serpent.

In the eyes of the old poisonous snake, this snake has an extremely violent temperament, and has no chance of being tamed by humans, and can only be used as a barely controllable biological weapon.

Those old poisonous snakes have been with all kinds of poisonous snakes in the west for many years, and they are definitely old snake charmers, if they all think so, then it should not be possible to tame these monsters.

But why did Hekat do it so easily? Andy thought that this was probably one of the miracles of the apparitions that Hecate advertised to the outside world.

"Has he been ordered to be executed by your order?" Putting aside those thoughts in his heart, Andy didn't have much hope for saving that naïve and naïve follower of the apocalypse, such a cruel

In the "realm", not to mention an inexplicable outsider like him, even thousands of slaves or multiple tribes hiding in the mountains and rivers would be slaughtered by Hekate's wrath.

He had no chance of escaping death, so he could only bow his head and pay for his actions. Hekat shook his head.

"I didn't do that.... It's called... I know that his nature is as harmless as a two-headed cow, but I cannot accept that he dares to comment on my honor, and even more so that he speculates on my thoughts. So, I asked my hound to put him in a dungeon.... People there will be dealt with regularly by these pets of mine. The two-headed viper she petted wagged its tail, some strange scales at the end of its tail that allowed it to emit an eerie low-frequency hum that sounded like some kind of thick, muffled music.

Hekate turned his head and found a key from a small dark compartment beside him, and then threw it to Andy.

"You, take this key, go outside and find a random member of my personal guard, and ask him to take you to the dungeon. If that dumb-headed guy had any luck, maybe he wasn't dead yet.... If that's the case, you just let him out, and count me for forgiving him this time. Andy calmly lowered his head and picked up the key on the ground.

"Then I'll quit." Hekate looked at Andy's back in silence and suddenly stopped him.

"Wait!" She stood up and casually coiled a snake around herself.

"Since you mentioned that guy, I did think about something at the beginning, but unfortunately that guy was so clumsy that I didn't have a mind... For so many years, no one has had the ability or the right to write about what has happened in the past. But you're different, you're not destined to have much contact with this place, and I can see that you don't want to stay here long at all.... And, you seem to have some connection to Diana that I don't know about, which is interesting. Andy looked at her, wanting to hear what this somewhat crazy woman was trying to do.

"I think you might be a witness, a witness to the great gods." Hekate waved his hand and motioned for Andy to go.

"When you come back, come and see me immediately, and give me back the key by the way, and I'll talk to you about something in detail when the time comes." Andy didn't know why, but he turned around and left the dimly lit palace, and as soon as he went out, he saw Ivana waiting.

"Lady Hekate appreciates you, don't let her down." She said this in a tone of three points of admonition and seven points of exhortation.

"You've proven yourself with your strength, but don't get carried away." Andy shrugged his shoulders indifferently and handed the key to a member of the Guard, a warrior wearing a rare full suit of combat armor and carrying a rifle in good condition.

In the Buraku region, such a set of equipment is not enough to describe it as superb, and it is not something that can be compared with the spears and crotch cloths of the natives.

He didn't look very good, his face was a little dark, and it was an unhealthy kind of black, and he had a lot of scars on his body.

This is a loyal old hound, but he is not supposed to be old, he just looks old. Such a person may have a lot of experience, but he is not very suitable to continue fighting outside.

The guards took the key and looked at Andy with a serious expression.

"What orders does Lady Hekate have?" Andy saw a hay basket with food next to it, so he took out the broken bowl inside, held it in his hand, and shook it a few times, and a pile of hope filled the basket.

He threw the basket to Ivana, who was a little surprised when he took it.

"What kind of trick is this....." Ivana looked at the fruit in the basket, this amount could not be hidden somewhere on her body.

"Yes, I'm also a part-time magician, so hurry up and mix these fruits into the herbs that you are going to send to the various tribes, I believe it will benefit you, because it can also be regarded as a miracle and a supreme favor for Lady Hecate, isn't it?" Andy casually dealt with Ivana and walked over to the guard.

"Lady Hecate has allowed me to go to the dungeon to free Alidean, lead the way." The black-faced man nodded, but was slightly confused.

"Who's that?" Andy smacked his mouth, trying his best to describe an egghead from a follower of the Apocalypse.

"Probably... Well, he's not a native, and he's dressed like me... It's the man who was imprisoned not long ago for offending Ms. Hecate, such a person should be very conspicuous, right? In this way, the two of them walked towards the first floor, Andy thought that he would see the entrance to an underground space somewhere in the corner of the first floor, who knew that the guard actually led him all the way out through the back door of the first floor of the Holy Tower.

As soon as he came out, Andy found a large amount of metal junk piled up here, all of which were pre-war vehicles that they had dragged back from an unknown place, in addition to the usual RV compartments, truck fronts, and three-wheeled cars and Kevega sedans known as fusion fleas, Andy even saw the wreckage of what appeared to be a pre-war military aircraft and what appeared to be the bow of a small ship.

This is undoubtedly a garbage dump, or rather, a yard of building materials for Ouroboros Village. Andy thought to himself that most of them must have been reported or paid tribute to Hekat by the tribes that were being controlled below.

The guards led him through the mountains of metal garbage, and finally saw a rusty iron gate in one place.

Pushing it open, a narrow room came into view, and two hounds were sitting on a broken mat on the floor, playing some kind of card game.

Andy noticed that they were using playing cards left over from before the war, and the two men had divided the playing cards into corresponding stacks, with some next to them that seemed to have been decided

The "Exit" card. The two of them were frightened when they saw the black-faced guard suddenly push the door in, and in a panic, they rolled up the playing cards and the mat together and kicked them into the corner.