This hall looks ordinary, just like the warehouses that can be seen everywhere in the West Gate City, and if a few businessman-looking guys push a cart carrying goods in and out here, of course, there is nothing suspicious.

It's just that this group of people has been replaced by black-robed people who feel sneaky at a glance, and the big leader of the bloody sail gang, which is not so normal.

Not to mention, there were people who recognized their identity from the tattoos on the arms of the men in black - these guys probably belonged to the Bane Church.

So Penny redoubled his attention, especially the Serion gang leader.

If this person is really a minion of the Black Hand Tyrant, it can only show that the eyes of the Archbishop of Qajar are too problematic to regard such a famous cult believer who is not in the same position as Tyr as an ally of 'justice'.

Of course, this is not to be overly surprising, and while the servants of the good gods have some simple ways of discerning friend from foe, either by magic or by some other means, it is clear that these methods are deeply flawed.

Especially when dealing with veteran hostile church spies.

The way Bishop Qajar is now looking for allies will make it worthless for the followers of the evil gods to disguise themselves and blend in.

At this time, Selion in the center of the warehouse raised his hand, and a mysterious figure appeared in the palm of his hand, and flashing lines appeared on the surrounding wooden pillars, emitting a dazzling light.

The power of magic surged in the middle of it, startling the wizard who was hiding not far behind, and looking at Selion's gaze filled with fear.

In his perception, the power emanating from the runes on the surrounding wooden pillars was extremely weak, and the arcane power that Selion had induced was much more powerful than the highest level of six-ring spells that Penny could now cast.

And the power released by the gang leader himself at this time shocked Penny even more.

This is a terrifyingly powerful arcane spellcaster.

Although I know that there are many people in this world who can hide their spell casting abilities under his prying eyes, it can be said responsibly that this number is by no means large enough to be found everywhere, and with Penny's current eyesight, there are not many arcane spellcasters who can hide from him.

Selien in front of him is clearly such a guy, and by revealing a shadow of that methodology when he pulls mana, Penny can judge that this guy's strength is very terrifying.

During this period of study, although there has not been much progress in spell-casting ability-according to the little old man Helast, it would be a waste of time for him to spend more time on his current spell-casting skills, but due to the daily study of the decipherment of methodology, his understanding of methodology, the lifeblood of high-level mages, is increasing day by day.

In the past, with the arcane power induced by Selien, Penny could only judge the fact that this person was very powerful, but it was difficult to say how powerful it was, but now, Penny could judge that this low-key guy at the alliance meeting was probably at the limit of universal magic, and as for whether he had the ability to cast legendary spells, Penny still couldn't judge.

This was very terrifying, and the wizard who was covered in cold sweat began to be one hundred and twenty percent vigilant and cautious about this temporary ally.

The purpose of such a guy's plan to participate in the West Gate City is definitely not just to support justice or occupy a few territories.

What made him feel even more strange was that when Selion cast a spell, he felt a vague sense of familiarity, and he couldn't tell where this feeling came from, because he had never seen this person cast a spell before, but the way he cast a spell made Penny feel familiar.

Of course, this feeling was very strange, but Penny couldn't find the root cause of it, so he could only pay closer attention to the man's actions.

Lannie bit her mouth, her face was covered with sweat, and the chanting of the men in black came from the center of the warehouse, and the sound was clearly uncomfortable.

Bane's will is strong and oppressive, and it must not feel good for those who have been shrouded in this light to feel this power again.

However, when a portal appeared in front of Selion, these dark whispers came to an end, and Selion walked into the portal made of light, and after a while he walked out of it, and walked out of the warehouse with a few men in black, and his powerful concealment ability allowed Penny to deceive the eyes of these people, and while the portal composed of light had not disappeared, he pulled Serra and got into it. ...,

He really wanted to know what was hidden inside.

This mysterious Selion jī aroused his suspicion and curiosity, and with the cover of the Key of Isil Aaron, he was able to ignore many dangers, and carried the dimensional teleportation gem in his arms, which increased his confidence and gave him the ability to delve into this unknown portal.

Surprisingly, there were no traps inside, and the mage's sensitive instincts for the plane also let Penny know that this place was still in Feren and not far from Simon, which was a real surprise to him.

In front of him was a corridor with some monsters standing - for the average reckless adventurer, these monsters were undoubtedly very powerful, but for Pan Diesel, these monsters were a bit inadequate, the mage attached a string of spells to Lannie, and the black knight screamed and brandished his greatsword and rushed over, and with the spells released by the wizard, this large chain of monsters quickly turned into corpses and waste.

The wizard used concealed spells to purge the signals that might be sent out, in order not to alarm Selien, who had just walked a short distance, which was not difficult for him to do now, and the more advanced spell cracking ability allowed him to do all this with ease.

At the end of this short corridor was a secret room without a door, and as soon as he approached, he heard a shēn groan, the wizard raised his eyebrows, and a light spell illuminated the dark room.

A naked middle-aged man was lying in the corner of this secret room, several thick iron chains nailed to the wall at the end wrapped around his neck and limbs, this man did not have a single piece of flesh intact on his body, it was obvious that he had endured countless tortures, one right arm was amputated at the elbow, the testicles were castrated, and a huge incision in the stomach seemed to have been thrown aside but not properly stitched, and maggots had grown at the fracture, which made Lannie vomit directly.

The man who was not far from death from all angles seemed to hear the sound of vomiting, turned half of his face that had been peeled off, and opened two pale eyes—the lower half of the eyelid of one of them had been cut off, and as soon as he moved his eyeballs, the scabbed incision immediately burst out of the bloody pus, "Rom?" To Penny's surprise, Lanny seemed to know the poor fellow, and after some careful identification, she covered her nose and frowned: "Kia Rom, why are you here?" Shouldn't you be transferred to a foreign bishop?"

The wizard raised an eyebrow, and the tone seemed to be Lanny's old acquaintance in the Moon Sea.

“... Through the blood of Méng's eyes, he seemed to recognize the face of the woman who had leaned down and looked at herself, and stood up straight again, the skinned half of her face oozed a disgusting slime, and if the skin was intact, you could probably see a distorted or angry expression: "You ・・・・・・ you have turned your back on the grace of the Lord?

He struggled angrily, the chains on his body snapping and the wound leaking more pus and mucus.

"Traitor, what kind of traitor do you mean?" Lanny's brows furrowed even tighter, with a look of disapproval: "Although I am no longer in his charge, but I have not yet formed a group to fight against him, is there something wrong with your stubborn brain?"

"Oh・・・・・・ yes, you killed the guards. The guy named Kia Rom looked at the corridor behind him, rolled his eyes and gasped: "You're not with them......"

"Who is that guy?" Penny asked, frowning, "a wizard with a scar on his face." ”

The current mage no longer believes that Selion could be a simple gang leader.

To be able to imprison such a guy who may be the bishop of the Bane Church, Selion's identity must not be simple.

"He?" Penny's question seemed to make the Kia Rom jī move in an instant, and his blood spurted like a climax: "He's a shameless rogue bandit." ”

This accusation amuses Penny, but he can't laugh at it, although they belong to the dark forces that Ferron has traditionally defined, but the Bane Church has always been known for its observance, and many kings are even potential believers in Bane, and they do have a rather dismissive attitude towards hooligans and robbers who disrupt social order.

"Hooligans and robbers, can you be clearer?" the wizard continued. ...,

"You know what you want to do with so many things?" Rohm closed his intact upper eyelids, and there was a clear sense of alarm in his tone.

"Oh, poor Rom, you're almost hanging up, what are you doing so much?" Lanny raised her eyebrows, although she didn't care much about what the mage was doing, she was still willing to give a little help: "Say what interests us, I'll give you a good time, look at your poor appearance now, I guess my lord doesn't care about you anymore, perhaps, according to my lord's rules......"

Lannie swept Kea Rom's body up and down: "At this point, I didn't answer your prayers, are you a loser who was abandoned in the struggle?"

"I'm not a loser!" made Kia Rohm shiver with a convulsion, causing Lannie and Penny to look at each other, knowing that this might be why this Bane's priest was being held here.

Bane's creed was unique among the evil gods - this god respected loyalty, tradition, and law, but was extremely resistant to the bright side of some societies, and it was not without reason that he was called an evil god, which caused the struggle between them to never be severed in their tightly organized system.

Struggles within the order are tolerated and even encouraged, and of course some Bane have used extra-order means, which in some cases are not approved by the evil gods, and the clergy who use such means will lose their charism, but at some point, the situation will be accommodated.

In other words, what prompted Kea Rohm to lose Bane's patronage was that the man who kept him here did not violate Bane's will - or rather, the 'traitor' was more valuable and of higher status in the eyes of the black tyrant than Kea Rohm, and it was not against the rules to find a chance to reconcile the low-ranking fellows.

So it is normal for Kiarom to be abandoned.

"They are all traitors!" the poor outcast still cried out, "I, I am the bishop of the church of Simon, and the ・・・・・・ and that pirate leader have usurped my position in the open, and I, I don't believe that the divine light of my lord should shine on a pirate leader, ah!"

The last scream came from Lannie's giant sword poking at him, the blade of which did not break the skin, but the blood flowed out - even if it was only a light touch, it was not something that Roma's festering skin could withstand: "Don't turn things around, make it clear what we want to know."

"So that guy named Selion now controls Simon's Church of Bane?" the wizard gave Lanny a look and stopped her from doing so, the poor creature was dying, and tortured like this, and if he did, then a lot of information of interest to the wizard would be taken to the ground.

"How can you care so much about such a thing?" Rohm opened his eyes, and the doubts and the last remaining sobriety made him ask rhetorically, "Are you his enemies?"

"Yes, yes. The wizard nodded.

Knowing that Selion may have something to do with the Bane Cult, then Penny won't be believing in this temporary ally, after driving the vampires out of the Dragon Coast, if the Tyre Church is in power, maybe he can give Penny some clear soup to drink, and if Bane's followers are in power, then Penny won't even be able to get a little scum, and he must beware of more open guns and arrows.

And the vague sense of familiarity that Selien gave Penny when casting the spell made the wizard feel even more sleepy and wary.

In addition to the vampire, the righteous camp also returned his wife to Bane's power, "Hahaha, great, great, if you want to kill him, you must kill him!" The abandoned Bane priest jī pulled the chains and laughed loudly: "Whatever you want to know, I'll tell you!"

After getting the information he wanted, the wizard didn't bother until he left the warehouse for a while, and even forgot to cast a spell in a secluded place and returned to the mage tower until he was hit the back by Lannie.

"It turns out that the Blood Sail turned out to be some remnants of the Bann Church's collection of the Assassin Order's Flame Dagger, a mercenary army gathered in the waters south of Sambia, ready to take advantage of the next sāo chaos to enter the West Gate. Penny muttered to himself, "I didn't expect to be usurped by that wizard named Selion." ”...,

Over the past decade, the Flame Daggers have been a bloodbath in the Dragon's Coast, but they have been uprooted by a group of Simon nobles - more likely because they offended the Night Mask for something and were forced to leave Simon.

What's more, their leader has also been determined to be an extremely dangerous guy.

"If Selion is not a member of Bane, then there is nothing wrong with using force, and the precepts of the Church will not be in charge of those who do not believe in Bane. Lanny frowned: "But according to the dead ghost Rom, that Selion obviously came to seize power openly with a large number of sacrifices, but he himself did not receive the edict of the Central Church in advance, which is more surprising, that is, that Selion gave Bann a multiple-choice question at an abrupt time, and won Bane's favor." ”

"This shows that he has a special value to Bane. Penny whispered, "His spell-casting ability has the potential to surpass the Yuanwai Rim, what a terrible guy." ”

"There is such a thing. Lannie's eyebrows tightened: "No, this is not enough, even a character like Lord Manson, after losing power, is still treated coldly by my lord without hesitation, just a legendary spellcaster, it is impossible to get special attention from my lord, unless he has a special status." ”

"Special status?" the wizard raised an eyebrow.

"It has the potential to bring great benefits to my Lord. Lanny lowered her head, sighed slightly, and shook her head.

"You're feeling a little down?" the wizard asked, trying.

Her mouth squirmed, and she spoke a little stiffly: "When I was in the Moon Sea, Rom was one of the teachers who taught me the magic arts, and I also did a few internship missions with him, he was the bishop of a region at this age, and everyone thought he had a bright future, but now he died like this, without Bane's favor, and he died really worthless, hehe." ”

At the end of her speech, she let out a somewhat nervous laugh, but her face quickly turned pale in this burst of laughter, and the wizard saw that her body trembled slightly, and sensed the emotions in her heart, and his fingers took her right shoulder, and sat down on a bluestone under the corner: "You calm down, don't be afraid." ”

She bit her mouth tightly, her pale face revealed the iron blue of fear, the water droplets in the lower half of her eyelids seemed to fall out at any time, her body did not calm down because of the wizard's comfort, her hands trembled and grabbed the wizard's neckline, and her throat kept making sounds similar to whimpering, like a little beast that was extremely surprised, and her originally heroic face looked extremely weak under this weakness and fear, and it seemed that the innate arrogance was also swept away.

"You don't have to believe in anything to live. The wizard held her hair, knowing deeply what she was worried about, and when he came to this world, he understood very well the importance of faith to the people of Faerun, and if the gods of faith did not respond for a long time, the depression caused to a believer like Lannie who was wandering can be imagined.

"You・・・・・・ of course you don't believe it. She trembled for a while, her body seemed to warm up a little more, wiped her eyes, felt what seemed to be an untimely weakness, and turned her head to the other side: "There is nothing ・・・・・・ or nothing...... It's just a detachment from a church that doesn't fit right...... I...... Nothing to regret. ”

"What does it feel like to believe in a god?" Penny could easily sense her lack of confidence and cowardice in these words, and instead of comforting, he asked rhetorically.

"Well, when I was in the Moon Sea, I wielded a sword for him. The wizard's words made her eyes flash a few traces of recourse and confusion, and her nervous body began to soften, and she fell on the mage's body, and the two eyes passed the wizard's face, and looked at the sky blankly: "It was a good time, no matter how miserable the enemy died, there would be no disgusting feeling in my heart, as if all the negative feelings were cleared by him for me, and I fought for him, so naturally I didn't feel anything wrong, I took them all apart like a toy, and ...... to pieces."

She muttered, "But now, when someone dies at my hands, I feel sick and sick to my stomach, and no one bears these things for me anymore・・・・・・"

She shook her head and propped up her body lonely: "You are right, people don't have to have faith to live, but without a pillar, more pressure will weigh on the body and mind, making you feel that you may collapse at any time...... Rom, he—he died a miserable death・・・・・・"

Her eyes widened as she looked at her hands, and her tone became scrambled again.

"Don't think about it. Penny pressed her down on the bluestone slab and stopped her almost frantic movements: "Leave it all to me." ”

"I'll leave it to you・・・・・・" Lannie was shocked, her scattered eyes gradually condensed, and then she became a little angry, turning her head away from the wizard's focused gaze: "Hmph, it seems that there are messengers from other gods waiting for your words?"

The wizard suddenly remembered Lannie's original intention of leaving the Mage Tower, and quickly shook his head: "She is different from you, she is very religious, and it is impossible for her to have anything to do with me." ”

He explained with some humility.

"So I should thank you for this humble possession?" she blinked, her expression very playful. ！。