Howard's answer was almost equivalent to a tacit acquiescence that this was the necromancer's hand, and Collins, who had still had a hint of luck in his heart, turned pale.

Before this, he had always thought that the "necromancer" that had been rumored in Tower City was just a gimmick, after all, there were always some boring people in Tower City who liked to make up some inexplicable stories, such as the thick stack of light legends in which most of the things were outrageous, so Collins never looked at them.

But when the rumored "necromancers" revealed themselves, Collins felt fear.

Howard didn't notice Collins' anomaly, his brow furrowed, as if he were talking to them, and as if he was muttering to himself.

"Since you're the younger brother of Master Ulysses, I'm sure I've heard about the necromancer from him."

Corinth was about to shake his head and say that Ulysses would never tell him anything other than his studies and the legend of light, when he heard the second half of Howard's words—

"In that case, then I don't need to hide it from you, and by the way, I want you to wake up for Goss." Howard's gaze met Li Li.

Realizing that Howard seemed to be revealing something inside, Collins immediately shut up and stood up, ready to listen to the gossip.

Howard lowered his voice and said: "Necromancers actually began to gradually show traces more than ten years ago, they are keen to collect the corpses of demonic beasts, hunt or buy, the more high-level demonic beasts are the corpses of them, the more favored by them. At first, the church only thought that they were some strange magicians, or wanted to make magic props out of the fur or bones of magical beasts, as we all know that there are many magicians on the continent who study special magic, and it is not surprising that they are interested in the corpses of magical beasts. ”

Collins nodded thoughtfully, and said solemnly, "Yes, that's what my brother told me. ”

"It's not a secret between the church and many magicians, but things get out of hand." Howard's voice became a little hoarse: "Since a few years ago, we have found that these magicians seem to be conducting experiments on corpses, and from the traces they left behind, those corpses are not just monster corpses. ”

Li Li was stunned: "What do you mean ......?"

"That's right, there are human corpses inside, and a cemetery in Dongta City has been stolen by them."

Speaking of this, there was already obvious disgust in Howard's eyes: "What's worse is that these people seem to have a certain number of followers now, and there have been a lot of homeless people who have disappeared mysteriously recently, and it is impossible to tell whether they followed these people and left, or were mutilated by those disgusting guys like this village." The reason why I am telling you this is to remind Goss and you to be careful, it is not only Warcraft that is dangerous. ”

Ever since Xiren had been to Heavenly Sword Village, he had long been full of confidence in this mysterious village, so he wasn't worried about Howard's words.

He just looked in the direction of the back of the village and asked in a deep voice, "What about this village?" ”

"The villagers will stay here for the time being, we are here to track down the necromancer's advance team, and when those villagers wake up, someone will come to do a detailed investigation, don't worry that we won't arrest you for interrogation, just ask what happened."

Howard had just heard that most of the villagers had survived, and he explained, "From the results of the investigation over the years, it seems that those guys like to move during the double moon of darkness, and probably to avoid tracking by the Church of Light, they never appear in the same place a second time, so in a sense, this village is the safest place now, so it is safe to stay." ”

In order to show that he was indeed not lying, he raised the saber in his hand and said in a solemn tone, "I swear in the name of the God of Light/." ”

Collins muttered in a low voice, "The God of Light didn't promise to vouch for you......"

Before he finished his bold blasphemous words, Yao Tan, who suspected that his friend would be arrested and locked up, stepped on his foot and crushed him, reminding him in a low voice; "Don't talk nonsense!"

Li Li took a step forward and blocked both Collins and Yao Tan behind him.

She took half of the sword and pointed at the stumps of the demonic beasts that had begun to decompose: "Do you want to bring back these demonic beast corpses?" ”

"Yes, we're going to bring them back to the church along with the human stumps in order to find out what terrible magic the necromancers have created." Howard thought that Li Li wanted to use the corpse of the monster to make weapons or props, so he deliberately explained.

However, Li Li obviously had no such intentions, she just looked at Howard seriously, and said seriously: "When we came, these demonic beasts seemed to be in a strange state of death and non-death, so after killing them, the scoring medals in the gladiatorial arena did not react. ”

After hearing this, Howard thought that Li Li wanted to know what kind of magic these demonic beasts had been in, so he said in an apologetic tone: "This should also be a kind of undead magic, but even if it is found out, it should need to be kept secret, so I'm sorry I can't tell you." ”

"No, I don't want to know what kind of necromancy it is." Li Li shook his head, took out his Colosseum medal, and handed it to Howard to take a look: "I want to ask you, after bringing the corpse back and studying it, can you help tell the people in the Colosseum and ask him to manually add up the points we killed these monsters." ”

Howard: "......"

The three people standing on the side were initiated.

That's right! How could so many fierce-looking magical beasts be killed in vain!

Xiren coughed lightly, and reminded with a cool face: "What's wrong with this special magical beast, it should be counted as two more points, right?" ”

Yao Tan nodded his head quickly: "Yes!" It makes perfect sense to count two more points, and we also saved a village, so we should count five more points, and even provided you with a new clue to the necromancer in the Church of Light, in a sense, it is comparable to saving the future of Tower City, and it is not too much to be directly promoted to a rank. ”

Collins quietly gave Yao Tan a thumbs up, Niu, worthy of being an arithmetic genius!

Howard: "......"

He no longer hesitated, and quickly beckoned his frost wolf knights to pack up the corpses of the demonic beasts, and then turned over and rode on the frostwolf like a blast.

"We still need to follow the necromancer's tracks in the surrounding mountains, so we'll leave first."

Li Li tilted his head and continued to remind: "Our points." ”

Howard was deaf, waved his hand at Li Li, and said calmly, "Bring greetings to Goss and Blackstone for me." ”

Li Li reminded again: "Points." ”

Howard said goodbye to Li Li with a smile, and he quietly clamped the wolf's belly with his legs, already urging the frost wolf to run away in a low voice.

Li Li stared at his fleeing back, suddenly thought of something, and looked at Yao Tan: "Do we still owe Howard a thousand magic stones?" ”

"Yes, I didn't touch him before I left Tacheng to repay the money. I deliberately took a large bag and put it in the space ring of Corinth. ”

"Corinth, give me that bag of philosopher's stones."

Collins did so, and Li Li took the heavy bag of philosopher's stones, held it in his hand and shook it, and the philosopher's stones instantly collided in the bag with a crisp sound—

Yao Tan was very tacit, and shouted loudly in the direction of Howard's departure: "A thousand magic stones—do you want it—"

A moment later, the Captain of the Frostwolf Knight, who had run away with only the shadow of a wolf's tail, returned.

"Ahem - since you sincerely want to return my Philosopher's Stone, it doesn't seem appropriate that I don't accept it." The smile on Howard's face was slightly stiff, but his eyes kept glancing over the bag of philosopher's stones.

The name of the captain of the Frostwolf Knight Legion sounds imposing, but in fact, he is too poor!

The other warriors, knights, and magicians all had time to go to the gladiatorial arena to earn some extra money, but he was the only one who was responsible for maintaining order inside and outside the tower city, and rode the frostwolf around every day.

For this reason, his frost wolf actually lost a full ten pounds of weight than the frost wolves of other knights!

Although the Church of Light does distribute the Freedom Emblem, Howard, as the captain, is naturally embarrassed to take two and give them to his friends, fearing that he will be charged with using power for personal gain.

In this way, in order to save money to photograph the freedom crest of Goss and Blackstone, Howard did not dare to buy anything in Tower City, which had a ridiculously high consumption, and even ate all kinds of paste provided by the legion for dinner......

On the day Li Li and Yao Tan sent money to Howard for the first time, Howard, who had only eaten a paste to pad his stomach, was staring at the frost wolf's rice bowl with red eyes, and in his heart, heaven and man were fighting, should they take a good-looking goo egg.

Just as his sinful hand was about to reach out, he got the heavy bag of Philosopher's Stones.

At first, Howard wanted to refuse, but the words of refusal were almost out of his mouth, and tears of anger flowed from the corners of his mouth, after all, the coo eggs and fat pieces of meat in the frost wolf's rice bowl looked so delicious......

After getting the money, Howard bought ten catties of meat and 100 eggs that day, and had a good time with the frost wolf!

At this moment, Howard, who realized how important the Philosopher's Stone was, smiled uncontrollably and waited for Li Li to hand him the bag of Philosopher's Stones, which looked ridiculously numerous.

However......

Li Li said once: "So the matter of points?" ”

Howard raised his forehead: "Okay, I'll go to the gladiatorial arena and ask you for points." ”

After finally handing out the Philosopher's Stone, Li Li did not forget to remind Howard seriously; "The two demonic beasts in the back mountain were killed by a silver warrior named June, and the points should be counted on her."

Although the points are very fragrant, and Zhu En also owes her a life, but one yard is one yard, and it is impossible for her to snatch the credit from the Warcraft that Zhu En exchanged for her life.

“…… Got it. ”

After receiving the Philosopher's Stone, Howard was relieved and hurriedly urged the frostwolf to leave the village.

As a result, as soon as he left the village, the subordinate on the left suddenly spoke: "Don't worry, captain, we won't say it." ”

Howard: "Say what?" ”

The knight on the right took over the conversation: "We are all lifelong friends, so we will never tell the captain about the bribes." ”

Howard: "??? ”

"We swear in the name of the God of Light!"

"So in order to keep our mouths shut, the next time we go back to Tacheng, can the captain invite us to drink?"

Swear a ghost! He's never done anything like that before, okay!!

Chapter 37: The prohibition of exploitation begins in the wizarding world

June was awakened by a strange fishy smell.

She struggled to open her eyes, and had been in the cave for too long, and the harsh sunlight outside made her eyes hurt, and of course it hurt even more from the injuries on her body, especially the stinging pain in her legs.

But that's a good thing, and the pain is a sign that she's not the bread of those monsters......

Juan blinked, finally seeing the inside of the house.

It was a familiar stone house, with the light shining down from the top of the straw hut, and the miscellaneous items and spare food placed in the house...... This seems to be a warehouse in the village?

June's consciousness was a little trance-like, and she couldn't even tell if it was a dream or reality, were the long days of playing with monsters all dreams? No, not a dream, the injuries on her body are the best evidence that those things happened.

She's still alive, but what about the mother? What about the rest of the village?

Countless bad possibilities flashed through June's mind, and she didn't care about the stinging pain in her body, and immediately struggled to get up to find her relatives.

As if he heard movement inside, a young man with a crucible ran in from outside, and as he approached, the fishy smell became stronger.

Jun quickly recognized who it was, and was stunned: "Medicine...... Medicine sandalwood?! Why are you here?! ”

Yao Tan quickly stopped her: "You have an injury on your leg now and can't move, lie down, I'll finish this pot of medicine right away, and I'll tell you what's going on later!" ”

Before Jun could react, Yao Tan roared out with the crucible again. After a while, the shadow at the door shook again, and Jun thought it was Yao Tan who had returned, but when he opened his eyes, he saw only a dazzling silver.

She had seen such a silver armor countless times in Tower City, so she recognized the identity of the person almost instantly.

This is the knight of the Church of Light!

But how did the Knight of Light end up here? Funny to say, June's first reaction was not to think that it was the God of Light who saved him.

Perhaps when she was a child, she prayed to the god of light like the old man in the village when she was in a desperate situation, longing for the gods to lend a hand.

But when Juan was deceived by the black mine owner in Tower City to mine, she escaped in the second month, she went straight to the temple of the Church of Light in East Tower City, and complained about the exploitation of the mine owner under the holy and beautiful statue of Light, but the nobles of Tower City who came to pray in the past just frowned and looked at her, and the priest with a look of pity just listened quietly, and then relieved-

"Child, the tribulation of this life is to atone for the sins of the previous life, and the God of Light will bless you to atone for your sins and obtain happiness in the next life."

Then Juan was taken back, and the statue of light, holy and magnificent as the sun, grew smaller and darker in her eyes.

She remembered that the God of Light created the Tower City, blessed the Tower People, and also blessed those vagrants who had strong potential to enter the Tower City, but ordinary vagrants like her mother, who had no combat talent and no magic talent, never seemed to have been blessed by the God of Light. Of course, there are also kind-hearted knights of light who will help repel the demonic beasts when they pass through the mountain village, but there are too many people of the God of Light, and he will never make a special trip to save this small mountain village.

Maybe the walls of Tacheng are too high, or maybe the mountains outside the mountain village are too deep, so that the luster of the gods can't shine on the people in the mountains.

Jun didn't resent the Church of Light, nor did she feel obligated to come to the rescue, she just no longer believed that the gods could save everyone, like the old people in the village.

So when the Knight of Light stood in front of her and began to ask about what had happened that day, Juan was very cooperative in recounting what had happened.

"When I returned, as before, I and Mary began to prepare for a possible invasion of the Monsters......," Juan began to talk about the gloom of the two moons after her return to the village, and after skimming over some unimportant things, she quickly recounted the terrible night: "...... I saw a man dressed in black robes, who seemed to have a wand in his hand, and who looked like a magician. ”