The Witch's Taste

Chapter 148 Negotiation with the Ghoul

Accompanied and led by the ghoul priest, Chen Zi'ang crossed the long white desert, but this time he did not encounter any god incarnation unfortunately.

As the two crossed the sand dunes, the majestic outline of the gloomy and decaying city soon appeared in front of them.

The last time I was here, the streets were empty.All the dwarf residents hid in the building, but cast a sinister and terrifying sight outside through the cracks in the nailed windows.

Now that Chen Ziang passed through the city gate of Zubasa again, what he saw more often was the vibrant market.

The stalls, shops, intertwined pedestrians, and the hustle and bustle of bargaining don't look like a plane in the abyss at all, but like a mortal market full of fireworks.

Chen Ziang noticed keenly that these dwarf residents turned a blind eye to himself and Sarah Hek—it wasn't that he couldn't see it, but when he and Sarah Hek passed by, the dwarves in front would automatically move out of the way to both sides, as if The flowing water meets the river stone that cannot be washed away.

Sarah Hek didn't have any explanation for this, and Chen Ziang naturally didn't ask too much, but secretly guessed that the city of Zubasa had its own traditional rules... For example, living people and ghouls are not allowed to communicate with each other.

Following the ghoul priest, he arrived at the entrance of the black temple located underground again, only to hear Sarah Hek asking:

"From the look on your face, what's the problem?"

"I don't understand one thing." Chen Ziang asked tentatively, "Zubasa is known as a gloomy and decaying city, but what I've heard and seen so far doesn't have the slightest hint of gloomy decay."

"That's natural." Sarah Hek said quietly, "Because the real Zubasa does not refer to the dwarf city on the ground, but the holy city of our family underground."

"But I'm afraid that's not what you're concerned about... You're worried about the purpose of my family's invitation, right?"

Chen Ziang responded silently, expressing his acquiescence.

"The main purpose of inviting you to Zubasa is of course to be a guest." Sarah Heck stopped before the underground steps leading to the black temple, but did not continue to climb down the steps, but continued to say in a hoarse voice, "After all You were in the ancient city of Enrank before, and you must have heard a lot of bad things about my family from the Nightmare family."

"If we can't communicate face to face, such misunderstandings are absolutely impossible to eliminate. As you can see, we ghouls are not a cruel, evil, and ruthless lower race. In Zubasa, we can interact with dwarves. Symbiosis proves that we don't have any malice towards you low-level races—the reason why ghouls attacked you before was because we accepted the instructions of my lord witch, not because we like to kill."

"I have already felt your friendship." Chen Ziang said cautiously, "Otherwise, I would never have come here safe and sound."

"It's just friendship, but there's no trust, right?" Sarah Heck pierced through his polite rhetoric, and said bluntly, "Trust needs long-term cooperation to accumulate, so let's talk further."

"The first thing is the blood-stained pin you seized from my lord's witch after you killed her."

"My lord forgives your offense, and is willing to grant you the power lodged in the blood-stained pin. However, the blood-stained pin is the identity token of our camp, and behind it is our great Supreme Mother Goddess. You want to join us The faction, in the words of you humans, just needs a 'Certificate of Voting' to please the Mother God."

Submission of certificates...Chen Ziang pondered.

In the past, he would definitely not be willing to join the flesh and blood camp. After all, he was the first to join the shadow camp in the ancient city of Enrank. How can loyalty be the second master?

Even putting aside values, walking between different gods and acting as a double-faced person sounds like an obvious and dangerous act to die for.

However, these two issues have changed up to now: From a motivation point of view, because of the same faction, the high priest of Nightmare Nicole is not willing to provide information on Takano Seiko, and also needs to charge a large amount of meritorious service as a fee.

In other words, if you stay in one camp from beginning to end, once you encounter enemies belonging to this camp, not only will you not be able to get war merits, you will not be able to receive war missions, and even the intelligence channels will be restricted. I am quite disadvantaged.

As for safety, the "specificity" mentioned by Sarah Heck does not seem to be used to fool himself after careful consideration.

The strongest evidence so far is that the king of ghouls knew his relationship with the Lord of the Great Deep Sea, so he held grudges and even cursed himself because of this, but he suddenly repented inexplicably and "expressed forgiveness", and even gave the blood-stained pin As a token, he was forced to force him to accept the settlement.

This kind of thing itself is so outrageous that "there is some kind of particularity in itself", but it has become a more plausible and reasonable explanation.

If you trust this judgment, then the danger of walking between the two camps is greatly reduced.

Finally, and the most critical factor: Maybe among the powers that can be exchanged in the flesh and blood camp, there is the possibility of healing my sister?

Seeing that Chen Ziang remained silent for a long time, Sarah Heke didn't urge him, but just let him think slowly.

"...Can you tell me what the certificate is?" Chen Ziang asked tentatively.

"Simple, do you still remember that you released an incarnation of a god here when you killed my lord witch?" Sarah Hek asked in a sinister tone.

Chen Ziang was stunned for a moment, then recalled that Xia Qingyu had released the seal of "Cloud and Mist" in the city in order to eliminate the pursuers, and quickly explained:
"That was done by my companion, I don't know very well."

"Of course." Sarah Hek said, "With your current depth in the abyss and the power involved, it is of course impossible to control an incarnation of a god. Our family does not intend to hold you accountable for this."

"In short, the incarnation of the god has brought us a lot of trouble. Although he has been exiled from the dying state, the countless bodies he once swallowed here have evolved into more troublesome existences in this world .”

"Solve that trouble for my family, and I can convey your achievements and please the Mother God, and let you obtain the identity authority of the blood-stained pin, so that you can become a part of our flesh and blood camp... In short, you can think about it slowly, when It's not too late to give me an answer."

Having said that, Sarah Heke suddenly let out a strange laugh:
"If you successfully join our flesh and blood camp, we can talk about the second thing."

"Takano Seiko, the enemy you are dealing with now, is the witch of the drowned man's lair."

"The nest of the drowned belongs to the group of gods called 'the drowned'. They are keen to create a large number of living dead and turn them into ambiguous existences that are neither alive nor dead, and this is something my lord cannot tolerate .”

"As long as you can get rid of this witch from the Lair of the Drowned, my lord is willing to issue a corresponding war mission and reward you with 2000 points of faction merit."

Chen Ziang pondered for a moment, and based on what he had seen and heard before, he probably understood the hostility of the king of ghouls towards the nest of the drowned.

According to what Sarah Hek said before, the "corpse" in the eyes of ghouls is to completely free the spirit from the decaying flesh and bring them to eternal death and sleep.

However, the Nest of the Drowned is keen on creating "living dead", but it traps the spirituality in the half-decayed corpses, so the two sides have essential conflicts and oppositions in terms of beliefs.

In addition, the camps of the two sides are not consistent, so the King of Ghouls intends to follow the example of the Lord of the Great Deep Sea and assign him a war mission, so that he can add obstacles to the nest of the drowned.

To be honest, 2000 points of merit are really tempting, and the merit obtained after killing Xichuan Meihui before has already spent more than half of it...

But will this lead to enmity between himself and the god, the Nest of the Drowned?

"I understand." Since the other party said, "I can give you an answer anytime," Chen Zi'ang showed an ambiguous gesture, and said hesitantly, "I'll answer you after I've made a decision."

"Okay, please give me the blood-stained pin." Sarah Hek stretched out his hand and said.

He took the blood-stained pin given by Chen Ziang, pointed the scepter in his right hand at it, and whispered a long, obscure, vicious incantation.

Soon, a gleam of light flashed on the surface of the blood-stained pin, and black spots appeared inside, which seemed to be traces of some kind of dirty blood.

"Take it and teleport to the Dying Realm." Sarah Hek's voice was a little hoarse, as if the spell just now consumed a lot of his strength, "As long as you visualize Zubasa in your heart, you can be teleported here. "

(End of this chapter)