Goddess Wanhua Mirror

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Looking back suddenly, the figure of the knight had disappeared, and then everything around him suddenly collapsed.Lu De only felt dizzy for a while, and then suddenly sat up from the temple floor.

Lu De looked around, and the others had also woken up. Everyone had different expressions, some were still at a loss, some were lost, and some were still concerned.Everything I experienced in the dream before was so real that now that I really woke up, everyone suspected that they were dreaming.

"I... where is this?"

Among all the people present, the old lady who regained consciousness was probably the most bewildered one.She felt that she had had a long, long dream, in which a terrifying monster appeared, but there was a resolute figure standing between her and the monster, protecting her at all costs.

After waking up, some details of the dream had become blurred, but the old lady stretched out her hand to touch her cheek, tears had already flowed for a long time.

Seeing that the old lady's eyes were clear and her spirit had returned to normal, Lisa couldn't help crying with joy.Over the past year or so, the death of her father and elder brothers, her mother's illness and the eyes of her bad relatives made this 12-year-old girl always in a state of anxiety and hesitation. The return of her mother made her feel relieved. Once again, she could rely on her, so she hugged her mother and cried loudly.

On the contrary, the younger brother Lothar, who is still ignorant of the world, stood on tiptoe and touched his sister's head with his fleshy little hand to show comfort.

On the other side, the female ghost who was also brought back from the dream to the present world originally wanted to sneak away while the people around her just woke up and were still dazed.But he climbed out with both hands and feet and was blocked by a huge battle ax before he was three meters away.

The female ghost lifted up tremblingly, and found that there were two living people standing in front of her, a man and a woman. The female black-skinned elf squatted down with a smile, and took out a bottle of clear liquid and shook it in front of her. From it, I feel a power that makes undead creatures fear.

"If you don't want me to pour holy water on your head, be honest!"

Regarding how to deal with the "captured" female ghost, the three knights who hated her deeply wished that she could be driven out of her wits right now.

Fortunately, Lu De temporarily stopped a few people, saying that he planned to use her to follow the clues to find the harmful "Necromancer", and he needed to keep this undead used by the bad guys for the time being, so they gave up temporarily.

Lude asked the three knights to take the baron's family home first. Although the old lady is fine, she still suffers from the weakness caused by long-term bed rest. Compared with magical treatment, what she needs most now is to eat something, and the "long goodbye" The family has a good get-together.

As for the female ghost, Luther had his own special means of imprisoning her without purifying her.

After experiencing a series of encounters in the dream, the three knights had unknowingly become very trusting of Lude, so they didn't have the slightest suspicion.

"Then I will thank you, Master."

"Go back and have a good rest. I will inform you of the latest news."

The lord and his party were sent away, and at the same time, the "Heroic Spirit" Eliwen was allowed to return to God's Domain through the "Gate of Light" in front of everyone.Lude asked Shanisi to take the female ghost to the underground palace first, where there was a special dungeon built by the three craftsmen sisters, which could be used to hold undead creatures like her who could penetrate walls.

Afterwards, Lude called Hume, the "old Jianghu", and went with him to the detention center of the Police Corps, and had a "kind" exchange with Mr. Maine.

Since he had been in a dream with a weak sense of time before, Lude didn't know until he got out of the gate of the temple that it was already dark outside, but Lude, who had just woken up, was very energetic at the moment, so he simply had a night trial.

One person and one god came to the detention center, and the former police militiamen who had become the guards at hand had not sworn allegiance to Baron Cork, so they no longer obeyed Master Lude's order, and opened the door for him very happily, and sent Mayn The father and son were taken out of the cell.

Waking up from a dream in the middle of the night, Mayen subconsciously thought that he was going to execute him secretly. It wasn't until he was dragged into the interrogation room and met Lu De that he faintly realized that something was wrong.

"I've already lost, what else do you want?"

Perhaps because he knew that he was doomed to die, Mai En showed a bachelor state that he was not afraid of death at the moment.Seeing that he was still so arrogant, Lu De silently waved at the guard, and the other party immediately understood and dragged a special iron chair over, and forcibly fixed Mayn on it.

This iron chair is made by dwarf craftsmen. Its style is completely made according to the "regret chair" in Lude's memory. It can completely fix the limbs of the person sitting on it. With the slogan on the white wall behind the interrogation room, this place is instantly It made Lu De regain the feeling of being a policeman in his previous life.

"Mr. Meyer, you may not be clear about the rules here. It is called lenient for confession and strict for resistance. There will be no good end for stubborn resistance!"

"Hmph! It's like you can still let me go?"

"It's really impossible to let you go, but your stupid son who is like a fool is not worthy of death. The local law focuses on labor reform. After working in the cotton field for 30 to [-] years, you can almost be released. Even if it is for him, for your only flesh and blood, do you still have to resist to the end?"

Hearing that Luther was threatening his son Monk, Mayn's expression could not help but relax a little, while Luther was crossing his legs, with a very proud smile on his face, full of the style of a big boss of evil forces.

Judging from the information Lude had obtained before, although this Mayne is an out-and-out scum, he has been in the underworld for most of his life, and he has done all kinds of evil things before he came to Pine Town.But this guy is really good to his son, he belongs to the kind of doting father.

So he hesitated for a moment, even though he knew that Lude might repent, Mai En still chose to compromise with Lude in order to keep his son.

"what do you wish to ask?"

"I want to know something about that necromancer."

Hearing Lude mentioning "Necromancer", Mayne's eyes suddenly widened like brass bells, and subconsciously retracted his left hand.Lu De, who was experienced in interrogation, naturally did not let go of this small detail.

"See what's on his left hand?"

Hearing Lude's order, Hume immediately stepped forward and tore off Mayne's entire sleeve neatly, exposing a fat elbow.

Because it was locked by the sturdy regret chair, no matter how hard Mayne struggled, it was difficult to cover the position he didn't want to be exposed. Hume soon discovered a special brand mark on the inside of his elbow, but the moment he saw this pattern, Hume's expression also became a little subtler.

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Noticing the change in Hume's expression, Lude got up and came over, and saw a mark on Mayne's elbow that should have been burnt out. It was composed of six thin lines of different lengths. At first glance, it looked a bit like a six-fingered manpower.

"what is this?"

"The emblem of the Brotherhood of the Black Hand."

"You know about the Brotherhood?"

Seeing that Hume suddenly said what the imprint represented, Mayne couldn't help but look at the black-skinned elf a few more times. Considering that the other party's actual age may be several hundred years old, it is not too unusual to know that the Brotherhood of the Black Hand is here.

And Lu De had never heard of this organization before, judging from the name alone, it is probably not a group that can see the light.

So Lude called Hume, who should know the inside story, aside and asked.

"What is this Brotherhood of the Black Hand doing?"

"Uh... an underground guild with a religious nature. The members are all people who do black work like me, thieves, killers, and human traffickers. As long as you are not a good person, you can join the brotherhood."

"Hey! Injustice! You just said that the Brotherhood has a religious nature, which means that they also have gods to worship. Which one is it?"

"It's Thief God, Thief God Hume!"

"Um!?"

Lude seemed calm on the surface. He pulled Hume aside and glanced back at Mayne, who was still handcuffed on the chair.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Don't ask me! I am also confused now! The Brotherhood of the Black Hand is indeed an organization I built, but this organization has not been in operation for a long time. It should have been destroyed decades ago. I just Seeing the mark on his hand, I was also stunned."

"You just..."

Seeing that the God of Thieves is also in a daze at this moment, Lu De's heart is like a million alpacas sweeping across the border at this moment, and finally condensed into a big "grass".

Unfortunately, he has been looking for an opportunity to formally introduce Hume, the God of Thieves, into the Pantheon. If this is really done, and then it is revealed that Mayen is a believer of God of Thieves, then it is hard to establish a positive Reputation, half lost in a blink of an eye!

However, Lude quickly discovered a problem. Although Mayne is a scumbag who does all kinds of evil, this guy is not incapable of developing faith.

Relying on the original fire in his body, Lude can see the size and color of faith, so he has seen the faith produced by Maien, which is a kind of taupe light group, and the size of the light group is very small, indicating that Maien If one's heart is not sincere, it is also inferior in the ranks of pan-believers.

However, the beliefs he developed did not converge on Hume, who was not far away from him, within the scope of Pine Tree Town, which was blessed by the original fire, but kept drifting towards the southeast.

Therefore, the God of Thieves that Maien believed in might not be Hume.

Back in front of Meyen, under Lude's questioning, Meyen told Lude a lot about this black-handed brother in order to win a possible way out for his son.And the necromancer who can enslave the undead is one of the high-level cadres of this brotherhood.

In terms of size, the Brotherhood of the Black Hand is a regional organization, but not limited to the territory of Duran Kingdom.There are also branches of them in the southern empire.If what Mayne said is true, then this brotherhood can be said to be a first-rate underground force and a second-rate religious organization.

However, Lu De remembered very clearly that among the various underground sects that Hume mentioned that she personally participated in the establishment of, there were only two that could develop to a certain scale.One is called the Blackfire Altar, and the other is called the Shadow Vault.

However, these two organizations have been destroyed one after the other last year because of Hume, an unreliable hands-off shopkeeper who didn't do anything.Hume was on a business trip for more than half a year, just trying to integrate these two organizations, but it turned out to be a waste of work.

The causes of death of the two organizations are different. The Black Fire Altar is due to the internal division of the organization, and the members of the church can kill each other, which leads to the disintegration.In the Shadow Wine Cellar, there are groups of ghosts, middle and high-level middle and high-level people lined up densely, just like a "wine factory" in another world.

Even when Hume returned this trip, she was almost ambushed by an undercover inner ghost. She almost became the first god in the world to be sent to prison by mortals.

So after running back in disgrace, Hume kept silent about her business trip experience.It's a pity that Kumilad, who came back with her, is a very simple god, and she shook out all these embarrassing things about her, and Lude ordered three bowls of rice in a row.

There is no one else who can eat divine food for this purpose!

But the Brotherhood of the Black Hand is different. According to Mai En's description, this is a well-established complex society with a tight internal organization and an intricate network of relationships. Both black and white can be mixed.

Structurally, the whole organization can be roughly divided into inner and outer layers.The outer layer is a subsidiary organization with a large number of members, covering all kinds of people in the underground world.

The inner layer is a secret association, which has an obvious religious nature. The members are all "talented" who have been strictly selected from the outer organization, and their status is also at the management level, similar to the bishops in ordinary sects.

Mai En used to be the small leader of the outer organization. By chance, he got acquainted with the "Necromancer", the inner cadre. The other party can be regarded as one of the big backers behind Mai En.

It is worth mentioning that, after listening to Mayne's narration, Hume suddenly found that he actually knew about this Brotherhood of the Black Hand. After all, she had been around for hundreds of years, and knew many people who cheated and swindled.

But what's funny is that because this brotherhood is so powerful, Hume thought that the other party just happened to have the same name as the small organization he had established, and because he had no contact with the inner secret society, he didn't know the gods they secretly believed in. It turned out to be myself.

In short, it is very disappointing!

After confessing everything he knew, Mai En slumped down on the regret chair like a sigh of relief.

Although his leak just now can be regarded as a betrayal of the Brotherhood of the Black Hand, after all, he is only a small leader of an outer organization. It is not difficult to understand that it belongs to "information that can be made public".

And deep down in his heart, Mayne also hoped to use the name of the brotherhood to frighten Lu De, to see if he could also find a way out for himself.

However, to his disappointment, although Lude's expression was a little subtle, it was obviously not panic, but flirting with the black-skinned female elf next to him.

For some reason, Mai En suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, he felt that the appearance of this black-skinned female elf seemed to be slightly similar to the Thief God's head on the necromancer's identity tag...

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After leaving the detention center, Hume, who was carefree on weekdays, had a rare serious expression on his face.The information she got from Mayne made her very worried. An underground organization that was already quite large secretly worshiped the God of Thieves, but Hume, who was the God of Thieves, did not gain the faith of these people.

It feels like... there is another God of Thieves!

Under normal circumstances, it is not uncommon for multiple gods to compete for the same god position. During the God War period more than 300 years ago, there were as many as three NO.40 gods related to war in this world.

Different regions and different philosophies caused the religious circles of the pre-mythological era to contend among a hundred schools of thought, but there were also constant disputes.

However, it is common for a group of gods to compete for a popular god position, but what happened now is another Hume with the same name and the same god position. If Li Kui met Li Gui!

Lu De, who has learned the secrets of the God Realm, knows that the gods who were deprived of their gods after their defeat during the War of Gods were not killed immediately, but without their gods, it means that they have no source of belief, and they will become more and more Weaker and weaker, forgotten by mortals, and finally vanished when his strength was exhausted.

This process may last for dozens or even hundreds of years.

Therefore, some of the defeated gods who are unwilling to sit still will choose to bring a few of the most loyal believers, hide in remote mountains and old forests, maintain a closed small community, do not communicate with the outside world, and continue to believe in themselves. Barely able to linger on.

But Hume's current situation is even worse than this. The god of the Brotherhood of the Black Hand not only wants to snatch her as the God of Thieves, but even refuses to let go of the name Hume, which is obviously going to completely replace it!

Once the other party succeeds, waiting for Hume may not be a reprieve.

Knowing what Hume was worried about at the moment, Lu De patted her on the shoulder and said.

"Don't worry, I will definitely do what I promised you. After all, I am an old comrade who started a business together. I will definitely not sit idly by and ignore your affairs. Let me handle the Brotherhood of the Black Hand."

After being comforted by Lude, Hume couldn't help but smile.If it had been a few years ago, when a young man patted his chest and said that he would definitely help her make a comeback and break the curse imposed on her by the God of War, Hume would probably have taken this as a funny joke.

However, Lu De is different. He is indeed a mortal, but he has wisdom and endless ghost ideas in his mind that can make gods feel inferior.

It took him only six months to create the new god Aina from scratch, and then let Hume witness with his own eyes how he trained this new god to be able to Break through the second stage.

If his talent is exposed, the gods will either grab him by the head and poach him to their own sect, or at all costs, they will take this mortal who has the ability to change the status quo and the existing rules, from body to soul. All completely wiped out!

Hume thinks that she will not be the latter. Having lost most of her divine power, she and the fallen leaves have traveled the world for 300 years. She has seen both the best and the worst. Like a high god, treat these mortals as lowly ants.

But although he was grateful for Lude's comfort in his heart, Hume showed a very ungrateful expression on his face, and said with a bit of arrogance.

"You brat, you are not as old as a fraction of me, but you have a serious tone! I leave the matter of returning me to you, who do you think you are?"

"Of course they are good friends! Could it be that the beautiful and noble goddess is despising this overconfident cricket as a mere mortal?"

"...hahaha!" x2

Pretending to be exaggerated, he made a sad expression covering his heart, and each of them couldn't help looking at each other and laughing. The slightly dull atmosphere before was gone.

"The way you looked just now was disgusting!"

"Laughing, but I am serious. I already have some ideas about this matter. Give me a few days to prepare, and then I will start to act."

"Actually, there's really no need to hurry. The Brotherhood of the Black Hand has been established for decades. I still exist in the world well, without any problems. I'm sure it won't just disappear without warning."

"Hey! Don't raise the flags indiscriminately!"

Lude didn't care much about Hume before, and always used her as a tool man to order around. It's not that he didn't want to "prostitute" Hume for nothing, but that the right time has not come. He needs to use the Pantheon and God of Medicine as the basic disk first Only after the construction of the teaching is completed can we have enough strength and confidence to help Hume.

But the situation has changed now. The existence of the fake God of Thieves of the Brotherhood of the Black Hand has threatened Hume's life. This is completely different from the God of War's curse that only seals divine power, and it is an urgent task that must be resolved with the highest priority.

Soon, the two returned to the temple, squatting at the door as the fallen leaves of the old man and saw them from a distance. The expression on the face can be seen clearly.

And Luoye, who was very familiar with her master, judged that she was in a good mood now by observing the micro-expression on Hume's face.

"Did something good happen?"

Lude, who returned to the temple, washed up, and then came to the study. He had some questions to ask Kumilad, the great god of cultivating immortals who never sleeps.