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"Ahh

A low moan rang out from the tent, and Maxim, who had been unconscious for a whole day, finally opened his eyes as the intertwining nightmares receded.

The loyal servant was covered in sweat and even soaked through the linen clothes underneath, but as he awoke to consciousness, the wounds that should have existed on his body had healed a lot.

At least it won't affect his actions anymore.

This abnormal self-healing comes from the fact that after the completion of the Black Iron Trial, the subtle body that has been mastered begins to release hidden potential, so that this tempered body can truly fade away from mediocrity and begin to step into the ranks of extraordinary power.

For fighters, this is only the most insignificant change.

The entire experience of the Black Iron Rank is related to the release of the individual's potential, and after all the potential belonging to the individual has been tapped, it will naturally enter the power trial of the Silver Body.

Naturally, there are new and more difficult objectives to achieve in the next stage, but that is not something that Black Iron fighters need to consider.

The elves have summed up this power system is not just a few cool and secondary two names, each stage has something that must be completed in each stage.

"Looks like you're recovering well."

Just as Maxim sat up from the bed, Murphy's voice suddenly came from the shadows of the tent, causing the loyal servant to get up immediately.

But as the blade broke through the wind, a delicate, sturdy, psionic tempered and ebony ritual black blade was handed to him.

Maxim's eyes shrunk.

He immediately recognized the black blade as Jed's sword, and on the hilt it was Jade with his personal insignia, which he could call "Jed's Blade".

But the sword is now in the hands of Master Murphy, so.

"I've got a deal with Jade, Mark, though it wasn't 'pleasant.'"

Murphy's figure stepped out of the shadows, and he said to Maxim in a gentle tone:

"From now on, you don't have to worry about the entanglement of the past, and you can finally open your arms to a new and unfettered life.

I should congratulate you, loyalist. ”

"I am also glad of this, Lord Murphy, and congratulations on your glorious victory!"

Maxim took over the ritual black blade for the Tomb Sword Guard with an open heart and no psychological burden, and what he should have returned to Jade had already been paid off.

He looked at Lord Murphy with an elegant smile and demeanor in front of him, and then read from the change in the adult's breath that Murphy had just gone through the same trial as him and won the battle.

Coupled with the relics belonging to Jade in his hand, it is not difficult to judge who Lord Murphy's power trial chose as the target.

It's Murphy-sama!

Maxim exclaimed in his heart, he had actually used a silver-ranked enemy as a stepping stone to a new realm, and the small victory he had achieved was nothing compared to him.

"Maybe it's time to fulfill my promise to you."

Murphy, who was standing in the shadow dividing line, watched the number of [1/3] blood contracts on his character card expand, and said to Maxim:

"I have acquired new powers to transform you into a midnight creature like me, leading you to eternity. But I hope you'll wait a little longer, Mark.

The weakness of the bloodline that stems from Tracey has still not been properly resolved.

But I think this trivial problem will also be solved after we set foot in the Vulture Corridor and solve the hidden dangers in the darkness once and for all. ”

He paused, and said to the silent Maxim in an accentuated tone:

"I want the best for you, and you deserve the best for what you do!"

"Of course, my lord, I obey your will."

Maxim leaned over, and he said in a deep voice:

"I have entrusted my soul, my personality, and my will to you, and my fate is to be decided by you, and all I need to do is to keep wielding my sword for you, and to slay the enemies who stand in the way of your great cause.

That's all. ”

"I have no doubt about it."

Murphy smiled, put his hands behind his back, and said to the loyal servant in front of him, who trusted him the most, second only to Tracey:

"Now, get dressed and come with me to the city.

I'm going to make my own Tomb Badge, and you're here to help me understand the process. That way, when you're one of us, you'll be able to access the Midnight Gift right away. ”

"It's my pleasure, my lord."

Maxim smiled in the dark.

As soon as Murphy left, he got up and changed out of his soaked linen robes, and quickly put on his underlined armor.

When he was about to put on the tattered chain mail, he found a set of cleaned tomb sword guard battle leather armor on the table of the tent.

This is also clearly part of Jed's "legacy".

A high-grade psionic cloak that represents the finest psionic vestments that the tailors and craftsmen of the Vulture Clan can make, and the lavish and obscure Blood Vulture crest is all over the armor.

Only the Patriarch's personal guard is eligible to wear such armor, and its very existence is a reward for loyalty.

Maxim moved his fingers, not rejecting the generosity of Master Murphy.

He put the armor neatly, picked up the vampire mask next to him and put it on his face to hide his unusual face, hid himself under the black light armor and put on Jade's ritual black blade, and finally put his psionic poison blade "Ambition and Dream" on the other side of the armed belt.

The Blood Vulture Swordsmanship has the skill of using dual swords, and Maxim is familiar with it.

"Yes, there is already a bit of a strong man's bearing."

When the faithful servant stepped out of the tent, he received praise and affirmation from Murphy.

A low laugh came from under the visor, and Maxim said cheerfully:

"Still not as good as you, my lord, you have begun to transform from a warrior to a great ruler, and this is by no means flattering."

"I seriously doubt that the first thing that the Black Iron Trial unleashed on you was the potential of your tongue, you didn't have such a good speech before."

Murphy rolled his eyes and waved his finger forward.

The master and servant quickly disappeared into the night, leaving the survivors' camp that was still under curfew. Both of them have entered the Black Iron Rank, and their movement speed is much faster due to the growth of their own strength.

Ten minutes later, they were in the ruins of Cadman, still covered with ashes, and a slightly gasping Maxim looked up in the direction of the inner city, and a few seconds later he whispered in the dim night:

"The obstacles there are gone, my lord, we can enter there now."

"Yes, but not necessarily."

Murphy didn't look at the "new map" over there, saying:

"Let the witch hunters go in and find their way.

We have a lot to do over the next two days, and while we don't want to dampen your motivation, the truth is that we are once again on the verge of having to fight hard to survive.

The old troubles have just been solved, and the new ones are on the way again. ”

But isn't that the norm for your turbulent life? My lord. ”

Maxim followed Murphy and quipped:

"Since I met you, I haven't come across that kind of beautiful experience where you can win casually and survive casually, but it's actually a good thing.

Without pressure, where is the strength? ”

"You're so optimistic, can you tell me where you bought it? I also wanted to weigh myself a few pounds so that I wouldn't be destroyed by the terrible pressure. ”

Murphy pouted.

He walked among the ruins of the city covered with ashes, holding the ebony stone gifted by the eldest lady, and used his more acute sense of night to find the entrenchment of death.

The Crypt Sword Guard's class name includes the word 'Crypt', which proves that the power of this advanced class comes from death at midnight, so its transfer process must be completed in places full of death.

It's really a profession with the characteristics of vampires, and the job transfer process alone is enough to infiltrate people.

"Found it!"

A few minutes later, Murphy captured a place where the aura of death was unusually concentrated.

Even colder and more permeable than the cemetery outside the city, it was at the feet of Murphy and Maxim, deep into the darkness beneath the city, to be precise.

In the sewers.

"My lord, this place is too filthy!"

Seeing that Murphy was about to jump off the manhole cover under his feet, Maxim immediately stepped forward to stop him:

"Even when the city was still around, the sewers were famous for hiding dirt and filth, and it's hard for me to imagine how many unspeakable man-made disasters gathered in this ghost place after the disaster.

A noble person like you shouldn't set foot here, or should we go to a cemetery outside the city?

Or find a village that has already died? ”

"Honor is not worth mentioning in the face of strength, Mark, not to mention, time! We don't have that much time to pick and choose slowly. ”

Murphy didn't care about the filth of the sewers.

In fact, he could even guess that the sewers in Cadman City weren't bad, because, as Maxim said, even when the city was still around, the intricate sewer area was a famous place to hide dirt.

Evil forces, large and small, operate in the sewers, and they will also create underground dens for themselves.

That means it's not actually dirty.

At most, it's a bit of a buried.

Murphy had visited the underground black market, and Cadman City had many of these places that had been camped by underground gangs, most of which were located in the sewers.

The vampires in the city knew about the existence of the black market, but no one thought of banning them, and during the most difficult period of the war, even the vampires had to use the underground black market to get some enjoyment of life.

This is the territory of the blood vultures, and the original sin of the blood vultures is desire, from these two words, you can imagine how crazy these people of desire will be when they indulge themselves, anyway, it is fortunate that there is no faith in this world, otherwise the blood vulture will definitely be the first batch of corrupted bastards.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that even Murphy feels that his "compatriots" have a way to die.

"Let's go!"

The vampire jumped lightly into the shaft leading to the sewer, followed by Maxim.

The two of them fell nearly five meters to a height and landed steadily in the dim passage, and under the guidance of the aura of death, they moved forward one after the other without a single point of light.

"Poof"

Maxim took out a small gas blowtorch to store the tinder, and along the way lit the specially placed torches on the walls on either side of the ancient sewer.

As they walked in this narrow and dark place, they could still hear the sound of flowing water.

"The groundwater system is still there, and that's good news."

Murphy walked in the darkness not feeling fear, but feeling a sense of relief, he ignored the bad smell around him, and said to Maxim, who was vigilant with the hilt of his sword behind him:

"While both Tris and Miss Misses have told me that the astral shadows of the outer city are not enough to pollute the groundwater, it gives me peace of mind that as a foundation for our future, it is safe to ensure that my people don't have to worry about getting water."

"They should appreciate your care."

Maxim responded:

"I've never seen a venerable vampire bother with such a trivial matter, and that proves that you must be a wise monarch, my lord.

You have a mercy that vampires don't have, and that's a supreme virtue. ”

"Well, I've confirmed now that it was your clever tongue that was the first to be unleashed of your potential, Maxim, and perhaps when we establish our power, I should give you the nickname 'Clever Tongue Mark'.

In the decades that followed, the nickname may have become synonymous with the Translancian flattery. ”

Murphy snorted, causing Maxim behind him to let out a low laugh again.

But then, as they crossed the narrow passage into the place of death in front of them, Murphy and Maxim drew their weapons almost simultaneously.

In front of them, it was obvious that the square three-dimensional space had been carved out by manpower for a long time, similar to a large area of the "underground black market", with nearly a hundred corpses lying horizontally and vertically.

The death was miserable, both male and female.

There are even some teenage children.

They weren't dressed like gangsters who would walk and gather in the sewers, they were ordinary civilians who had taken refuge in the sewers after the disaster in Cadman City.

But they did not escape death.

"It's a despair token and an astral beast, my lord."

Maxim stepped forward to inspect the sprawled corpses of the few corpses crawling out of the front, and he whispered, leaning on the psionic blade:

"These people must have exuded too much desperation in the darkness to attract the monsters, and this narrow place has nowhere to run but to meet the desperate slaughter.

As for the beast. Crocodile, possibly? Or maybe it's some amphibians. ”

"It's not here anymore."

Murphy's vampire senses allow him to find more detail in the darkness, saying:

"It's been at least three days, it's not in my range of perception, maybe it's because the fire that burned the ground before scared it back and made it hide deeper underground, or maybe it's already back in the astral plane."

His gaze swept over the corpses in the three-dimensional area in front of him, and saw the despair on the faces of the decomposing corpses, and after a few seconds, he shook his head and said:

"It's miserable, we're a step too late."

"It's not your fault, my lord, you and your warriors have done enough."

Maxim immediately persuaded:

"They fled into the sewers, which were already hard to find under the shadow of the astral plane"

"No, Mark, I'm not as fragile as you think."

Murphy shook his head and said in a low tone:

"I wonder, how many of these corpses are there in the entire sewer? Three thousand? Five thousand? No, there were at least 100,000 people living here in the outer city, and we only rescued more than 1,000 people, and the number of people who died in the sewers is definitely too high to make you despair, except for the huge number of unlucky people who have been swept up in the astral plane.

I'm worried now that the fading of the astral energy will restore the spiritual energy here, and the thought of the death monsters that so many tragic deaths can breed here makes people's scalps tingle.

Every human being is a ghoul, and there are countless locations in Cadman City where gangsters use to hide corpses. ”

He sighed and looked at the labyrinthine underground tunnel in front of him.

Holding the hilt of his sword, he said:

"A ghoul lair and a large tomb of the wraiths that envelop the entire outer city are forming, and the number of ghouls alone is conservatively estimated to be no less than ten thousand.

I'm sure Mark, the sewers beneath our realm are the largest and most terrifying nest of evil that this continent has ever formed.

After that, some of my warriors are probably busy. ”

(End of chapter)