"I remember, you guys come down to the dungeon to find me......"

In the silence of the three, Sakel spoke softly.

"It's for the dragon breaker who was reformed back then—and you've been suggesting that our misfortune comes from those two unspeakable supreme magicians. ”

Ricky looked back and smiled:

"Who isn't fate?"

Unbewildered by Ricky's evasive answer, Sachael calmly asked:

"So, the purpose of the Sword of Calamity is the opposite of the name: to fight the Calamity?"

Under Saker's questioning, Tails suddenly realizes that the organization he leads is a better breakthrough than asking about the mystery of Ricky.

Ricky shook his head with a snort.

"Correction," Ricky said with a look of disdain:

"We are the inheritors of the outside of the tower, not some 'sword of calamity'. ”

Sakel stared at Ricky firmly.

"You want me to join you, but I don't know anything about you—only the Secret Branch keeps your records: whether it's those strange finishing powers, or your long-term activities as mercenaries in the Western Wilderness. ”

But Sakel shook his head:

"But what makes me strange is that Mystro has been turning a blind eye to you. ”

Hearing the name of the secret department, Tails felt a pang in his heart.

Thinking of something, he looked at Sacrael, but the latter only shook his head slightly.

Ricky smiled slightly:

"If that reassures you, the knights, our relationship with the Stellar Mystic is closer than you think. ”

Hearing this, Tails raised his vigilance:

He remembered the "dragon's blood" six years ago.

At that time, Myko's relationship with Rumba was also closer than he thought - if only Tails wasn't the last to know.

Perhaps it was the loosening of Saker's tone that gave him hope, and Ricky continued with a smile:

"More than a hundred years ago, Qiu Crassus, who walked out of the Tower of the End, came to the Kingdom of the Stars in order to avoid being pursued: at that time, the 'Red King' was angrily conquering the Valley of the Blades, which was the period when the relationship between the stars and the Tower of the End was the worst. ”

"At that time, Crassus made a deal with the 'Red King' John II, and he obtained the king's permission and protection, and was able to hide in the Western Wilderness under the name of a mercenary group. ”

Saker and Tails were both stunned.

Ricky smiled and gestured to the people around him:

"That's the origin of the 'blood whistle', and that's what you see as we are today. ”

More than a hundred years ago, Crassus and the Red King, the Sword of Calamity and the Kingdom of the Stars, traded?

A thought crossed Tails' mind.

"What deal?"

Sakel solemnly asked, "The king has his own royal guards and a number of servants to serve, so why should he go to a foreign ......?"

"Convince your subordinates to join us, knight, and I'll tell you more," Ricky confidently interrupted Saker:

"Believe me, we are not in conflict with your beloved kingdom, and we are even related. ”

"And I can help you. ”

Ricky's tone was full of demagogy.

But to his disappointment, Sakel only bowed his head and muttered for a moment.

"But there's a reason why the Tower of the End calls you the 'Sword of Calamity'?" said the Knight of Punishment softly.

Ricky sighed:

"Correction, we have never admitted that we are ......"

He seems to care a lot about this.

But Sakel suddenly raised his head at this moment, and his eyes burned.

"According to you, more than a hundred years ago, the first generation of Crassus established your organization in the name of mercenaries, hiding in the Western Wilderness. ”

"Do you know what I'm reminded of?"

Ricky raised an eyebrow and made a "so what?" emosis.

In the next second, Sakel's tone became serious:

Coincidentally, it was at that time that an underground mutual aid society that started from trafficking in bootlegged liquor in the Western Wilderness also grew in Eternal Star City, with the tacit consent of many powerful nobles, until it controlled the entire underground world. ”

Ricky was slightly stunned.

Hearing this, Tails was moved!

Before becoming a prince, the insights of the underground world came back to his mind.

Started from trafficking in moonshine in the Western Wilderness......

Underground Mutual Aid ......

Powerful nobles......

In Yongxing City, it gradually grows ......

Take control of the underworld......

Isn't that just-

"The Blood Vials?"

Tails subconsciously said the name, and couldn't help the surprise in his heart.

At that moment, Ricky's face was hard to look at.

Tyers suddenly understood a number of things: Sachael had connected him with a bridge of intelligence.

"Of course. ”

Sakel confirmed Tails' guess in a cold tone:

"Later, we all knew who was behind the Blood Vils. ”

Blood Vial Gang ......

Tails' mind couldn't help but think of the two strange figures again: one elegant and elegant, the other sweet and lovely, and yet ......

Ricky's eyebrows furrowed.

The demon suddenly realized:

He underestimated the humans in front of him.

But Sakel, like a knight chasing after victory, said coldly:

"Then, at the time of the rise of the Blood Vial Gang, Crassus and the Outer Legion he had just established were called the 'Sword of Calamity' by the Tower of Termination?"

At that moment, Ricky's face turned pale.

Tails remembered.

Rolf had told him that six years ago, the Blood Vials had hired swordsmen with strange finishing powers, and they were directly at the mercy of ......

Ashida.

Not only that, but Tails looked at Ricky, whose expression was getting worse and worse, and recalled another detail.

When he was in Longxiao City, Ashda said when he was leaving......

He's going to the Tower of End.

Tails clenched his fists involuntarily.

He had never wanted to meet the leaders of the Blood Vials so much as he did now:

Ashida, and ......

Well, maybe it's just Ashida.

"Build with the Blood Vials, and fight with the scourge," Sakel's tone was full of mockery after seeing through the lie:

"Yes, come, tell me again: you are not the 'Sword of Calamity'?"

Ricky was silent.

Tails watched their confrontation cautiously.

I don't know when the aggressive Ricky and the repeatedly talkative Saker have switched places.

Now in the offensive is the Knight of Punishment.

"You're not going to join us, are you, knight?"

Ricky, whose eyes were getting cold, finally raised his head:

"You go as I want, just to get my word for it. ”

"It's like just guessing I'm a demon. ”

Sakel snorted coldly.

"You didn't just come to me to recruit me. ”

Sakel gritted his teeth and raised the volume:

"Eighteen years ago, the Blood Vials and the Calamity all had a share—and you who had such a good relationship with them were among them, right?"

Ricky didn't answer his question again.

The demon's attitude from top to bottom, from the inside out, has become extremely indifferent:

"Looks like you're good at more than just fighting, knight. ”

"I'm only good at fighting," Saker said fearlessly to Ricky's eyes, even-for-tat:

"But fighting doesn't have to be fought with a sword. ”

The two looked at each other, their eyes like swords, and they exchanged back and forth.

Tails, who looked at the side, felt a chill behind him.

Finally, after a suffocating standoff, Ricky turned his head.

"Semir!"

Ricky said coldly:

"I think Sacael is sitting with a little numb legs, can you kindly accompany your old chief for a walk?"

Semir came from a distance, glanced at the two who were almost about to fight, and nodded:

"Gladly. ”

Sacrael sneered and shook his head.

Without waiting for Semir to help him, the Knight of Punishment rose to his feet, dragged his badly wounded body, and limped off into the distance.

"So he was able to walk on his own. ”

Ricky stared coldly at Saker's back, and a deep wariness swelled up in his eyes: "Just now he was just showing weakness to me and deliberately making a joke." ”

This man is not a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill.

On the contrary, he has a keen eye and an astonishing understanding.

Even in dialogue under the battlefield, he will bully the enemy, show weakness, and set up tricks......

Get the intel he wants.

Knight of Punishment......

Ricky clenched his sword.

"He makes you nervous. ”

Ricky looked back.

Tails narrowed his eyes and looked at the demon with some schadenfreude: "In the clash of words, you lost to a human, and he tricked up a lot of information, didn't you?"

Ricky's face sank.

Tails sighed softly:

"But you just said that the real demon is so inhuman as to make you think that it is human......"

Listening to the young man's words repeated, the distracted Ricky frowned:

"What?"

Tails looked up.

"'Real Demons'?"

Tails said suspiciously:

"What does that mean, Ricky?"

"Mean, you're not really a demon?"

Ricky's cheeks twitched slightly.

But Tails wasn't over yet.

"And, in the tavern before, I tried to replicate your finishing powers, right?"

Tails whispered, noticing Ricky's face.

"I know that the power of the end is the pride of humanity...... And I also know that the power of both the Bloods and the Orcs is very different from the power of the human termination. ”

Tails got serious:

"If you really live underground, in hell, Ricky...... Then why, do you have the power of the end?"

"Is it really you, as Sakel said, that you possess others?"

"If so, where did this body of yours come from?"

Ricky's expression was hard to look at again.

He suddenly realized...... The young man in front of him may not be better to deal with than Saker.

"I have said it, Your Highness, there have been all kinds of miracles in this life," Ricky looked at him deeply:

"And my existence is more complicated than you think. ”

It's a little more complicated......

Tails was thinking about how to get more information when Ricky suddenly interjected.

"So, use the Sins of the River of Hell to replicate other ending powers, right......"

Ricky narrowed his eyes:

"Did you realize it yourself, or did someone teach it to you?"

Tails vaguely knew that the other party was changing the subject, but had to admit that the thing he used to change the subject attracted the teenager's attention.

The Sins of the River of Hell.

Tails' eyes flashed with the appearance of a black sword.

"Does it matter?"

Ricky laughed:

"Of course. ”

"If that's what you think of, you're good. ”

But Ricky's expression immediately changed, as if a cold wave was coming:

"If someone else taught you ......"

I saw Ricky say coldly:

"Then he is intent on harming you. ”

"Or they don't want you to do anything good at all. ”

For a moment, Tails was completely stunned.

Hurt me?

Thinking about the other party's demonic identity, Tails was about to retort disdainfully, but he suddenly remembered the scene when he was separated from Black Sword.

[About the Sins of the River of Hell...... After tonight, you'd better not use it again. 】

No way?

The boy subconsciously clenched his fists.

Thinking of this, Tails' mocking words that were about to exit paused for a moment, and finally turned into a rhetorical question:

"What do you mean?"

Ricky took a deep breath, and unhurriedly—Tails suspected that the other party wanted this kind of comfort while he looked at others confused—leaned back and shook his head and smiled:

"Because the transformative nature of the Sins of the Hellriver is so useful, there are so many ways to improve yourself......"

"But you chose the stupidest, the least efficient, the most troublesome, the most boring. ”

Ricky's eyes flashed, and his face was deep:

"Imitation. ”

Tails frowned:

"Any questions?"

Ricky snorted.

"Of course, the first generation of Crassus discussed this issue. ”

Tails' heart moved: the first generation of Crassus?

That's the ......

"I know it might be effective at first, funny, and sound imposing," said Ricky, who was uncharacteristically staring at him earnestly and solemnly, this time:

"Is 'the Almighty Terminator'?"

Hearing the phrase "Almighty Terminating Power", Tails' face changed.

Yes, he does know something.

Seeing Tails' acquiescence, Ricky sneered:

"So you think that your future journey is to meet powerful masters, and when you encounter a useful finishing power, you will open your Hell River Sin, imitate and copy it, and easily collect it as your bag and loot, and cheat to gain their power as if you were cheating?"

The boy was stunned.

He also ...... I really didn't think about it.

Yala's strange sword, Wya's blade of no return, Nicola's fate ......

The objects he has imitated over the years are not few, but ......

"So, the power of the end is an apple or a sword to you," Ricky's expression became more stern, especially clear in the rumble around him:

"If you put it in your mouth, you can eat it, and if you put it in your hand, you can use it?"

Tails was a little confused by his sudden sharp tone.

Ricky snorted

"Tell me, Tails. ”

This time, Ricky, who either called him His Highness detachedly or playfully called him "dear", actually called out Tails' name uncharacteristically.

I saw Ricky say coldly:

"Do you think this is the meaning of the Sins of the Hell, or even the true meaning of the Terminating Power?"

Tails raised an eyebrow and pulled the corners of his mouth in embarrassment:

"Uh...... Not?"

He certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to say yes.

But Tails had a feeling that whether it was his previous confrontation with Barney and Saker, or the story of his subordinates, or now telling himself about the crimes of the Prison River, it seemed as if Ricky had changed as a person when he encountered certain topics.

As if that was the only ...... he had left Final respects.

And at this moment, Ricky stared straight at Tails, as if to see through his heart.

"Barney—if I'm not mistakenly by his name—have you ever imitated his finishing powers?"

Tails, who was thinking about what kind of person Ricky was, was stunned.

Bar...... Barney?