Late at night, Lucci returned to his door, took out the key and began to open the door.

He didn't notice that under the eaves above his head, there was a mosquito lying quietly there.

And a pair of eyes, through which the mosquito is silently watching all of Lucci's actions.

In another corner of the residential area, Naya sat in a room and watched Ruchi move.

The house was privately owned by Prius, and it was just right for this mission.

Although Lucci only lives in a civilian area, the furniture and decoration of the house are particularly luxurious.

If you take out any chair, you have to sell it for hundreds of gold coins in the market, which is not something ordinary people can afford.

If it weren't for the fact that Ruchi didn't want to attract too much attention, he would have lived in a wealthy area a long time ago.

It's just that that's too abnormal, he needs to be low-key, so he can only rely on the luxurious interior decoration to satisfy his heart.

Luffy took out the wood carvings in the spatial ring one by one and placed them on the table.

He took out a white towel and carefully wiped the wood carvings one by one, even a little dust.

Under the roof, Naya looked at the wood carvings through mosquitoes, recorded all this information, and sent it to Prius.

For his part, Prius has been looking at the feedback from various subordinates and conducting some evaluation of the action plan.

As Herag stayed in the inn, he had seen two or three men sneaking around, all of whom seemed to be Max.

Another person took on the form of a shadow, completely blended into the night, and quickly entered Max's residence.

Herag stared at Max and found that he had been carving with a carving knife, completely oblivious to the intrusion of the uninvited guest.

That person had hidden his aura so perfectly that it would have been difficult to notice this person if it weren't for the deep blue environmental detection of Herag.

When Shaquille entered the house, he didn't get too close to Max, but quickly probed the house.

After he swept the first and second floors, he found the small attic on the third floor, the magic lock on the door, and the unknown witch circle behind the door.

Shaquille didn't know the exact effect of the witch circle, so he didn't dare to get close to investigate, but just wrote down the situation.

He glanced at Max, who was concentrating on carving, and left without staying too long.

Shaquille's purpose in this trip is to investigate the situation, and any superfluous actions are unnecessary and must not be extraneous.

……

Inside the town hall, the building of Serantir.

Priss looked at the parchment in his hand, on which were written the news reported by various subordinates.

He looked at the news, there were no major problems, and he was almost ready.

Prius glanced at the busy crowd in the room and waved, "Let's go." ”

A group of people disappeared from the house in an instant, and the originally noisy office became silent in an instant.

Kawat business district.

Max sat on the ground, intently carving a sunflower.

His hand holding the carving knife is very steady, and each knife is extremely precise and just right.

The wood, which was originally just a log, has slowly taken on the form of a sunflower.

After carving out the rough look, the next step is to carve the details.

It's a job that requires a lot of patience, but Max has always been patient.

Holding a carving knife, he began to slowly sketch the petals of the sunflower.

Originally, everything was going well, but suddenly, there was some deviation in the knife he drew out, causing the knife to be crooked.

This crookedness basically means that all the previous work has been in vain.

This is the difficulty of carving, the further you go, the more you need to be careful, the slightest deviation will lead to the loss of the previous work.

Although it can be repaired and made up for a little more, Max has always been a man of perfection.

This is especially true for their own engravings.

If it was the past, Max would have called it a day and started with a new piece of wood.

But this time, there were some doubts in his eyes.

"I'm obviously very focused on this knife, and it stands to reason that I can't go wrong. Why...... Could it be that the gods are sending me some message? ”

Wizards' intuition is often very sharp, and Max, as a first-level liquefied wizard, naturally has a very sharp intuition.

There was a faint feeling in his heart that something bad was wrong, but looking back at some recent events, he didn't find anything unusual.

Max thinks that his sword is wrong, and it is likely that it is a warning from the gods.

He had always trusted the gods, and since the gods had given him a hint, he had to do something.

Max didn't know where the uneasiness came from, but he knew he couldn't sit still.

Staying here all the time is likely to go wrong, and the right thing to do now is to get out of here.

Max put down the carving knife and got up to get out of here immediately, not even ready to clean up.

He's a man of action, and he does whatever he wants.

However, as soon as he was about to open the door and go out, a strong wave of magic power came from all around.

Max's heartbeat instantly accelerated, and he immediately realized that something was wrong, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the small attic.

He was about to trigger the attic's witch circle with his mind and turn into ashes along with the entire three-story building.

As soon as Max's eyes went dark, his consciousness sank into darkness.

Priss appeared behind Max, holding an off-white transparent chain that thrust through the back of Max's neck and deep into his body.

Price tugged at the chains slightly, and a gray-white spirit was pulled out of Max's body.

"It's good that I'm decisive enough, otherwise I would have made you successful."

The chains in Price's hand bound Max's soul, which was now in a deep sleep.

Before Priss wanted him to wake up, Max would sleep in the dark.

At this time, outside the small building, a huge pillar of golden light enveloped the entire three-story residence.

The magic fluctuations just now came from this witch circle, which can effectively prevent the fluctuations of the battle from affecting the surrounding buildings and residents.

And Prius appeared behind Max almost at the same time as the witch circle was activated.

The chain in his hand is a necromantic weapon that directly binds Max's soul.

Once the soul is out of the body, it is not so easy to go back, and Price did not think about letting Max's soul return to the body.

According to what Naya had discovered, the wood carvings in Luqi's hands were all demagogic things, and they were a tool for the Abyss Cultists' development.

Luffy had been arrested by this time, and had already said everything under the wizard's means.

The wooden carvings of the snake-headed human body were also dissected, and sure enough, a red worm was found inside.

At this point, Max and Lucci's charges have been completely confirmed.

(End of chapter)