Goddess Wanhua Mirror

When Lu De came over, he saw two little black dragons lying on the open space at the entrance of the village, basking leisurely in the sun. The passing kobold farmer turned a blind eye to these two black guys, obviously quite used to it. .

At this time, two figures suddenly ran out of the village one after the other. The first one could fly black and white, and its build looked like a big cat, followed by a plump purple-haired girl. It looks choppy, giving the front Lude a strong visual impact.

The big flying cat is the baby dragon Kangna. The little guy was still the same size as before when he didn't transform. He sensed Lude's arrival and greeted him.

And following her was Hydera, the maidservant of the Snake Lady. After returning to Pine Town with Lude, she was sent to Taoyuan Township to be a baby dragon nanny.In the end, he ran out after chasing Kang Na, and just bumped into Lu De.

End of this chapter

At the first meeting, there was a wave of "meat, eggs, and green onions" full of benefits. Lu De, who was not knocked out, nodded secretly, saying that the snake girl and maid had finally fully adapted to her current human body.If it had been changed not long ago, the blow just now could have sent Lude away on the spot, and the impact was no less than a large truck that could send people to another world.

In view of the fact that Hydera has performed well in the recent period and has completed several missions successively, as a reward, Lude never included her in the book when he returned from Oyster Harbor, and planned to arrange for her to make a public appearance. identity in order to integrate into human society.

Although Hydera in human form needs the summoner to continuously provide him with divine power, as long as it is not in the form of a monster, the consumption of the human form is actually not large. There are five goddesses behind Lude as charging treasures for him, so there is no pressure at all.

But the real problem is that Hydera is not used to being a human being. After being a monster for so many years, many habits cannot be changed immediately with a new skin, so relevant special training is required.

Hydera didn't have any objections to Lude's arrangement. At first, it was simply because of "the master's order", but now she gradually adapted to her new body, and she found that being a human was much more convenient than being a snake before.

"Master, you are here."

"Come and see, you have worked hard these few days."

After touching the young dragon on his shoulder that kept rubbing against his cheek, Lu De showed a gentle smile to the timid snake lady in front of him.Hydera understood that this expression meant recognition of herself, and she also became happy.

Walking around Taoyuan Township, Lude inspected the living conditions of the demi-humans. The village has recently taken in some weak races such as gray goblins and swamp halflings.This is Lu De's accommodation policy for the leader Ah Qin, which only accepts scattered, non-powerful sub-human refugees.

Taoyuan Township is located in a valley in the territory of Nighold, which is considered a rare paradise in the entire Void Forest. Human adventurers, large and medium-sized demi-human tribes, and powerful monsters dare not approach this vicinity. The land in the valley is also It was very suitable for farming, and Nidhogg provided shelter for this multi-racial mixed demi-human village for Lud's sake.

However, the excellent conditions also attracted some coveting eyes, and it was impossible for Ned Hogg to stare at this side all the time to provide protection.

There was an accident before. Some wandering ogres from other places were led into the village by Ah Qin's bastards as refugees. As a result, the other party saw that the village was so rich and they were all weak demi-humans, so they jumped up. I have evil intentions.

Ah Qin's kobold rangers are indeed very good at scouting, but they are no match for these powerful races in a face-to-face confrontation. If Shanisi hadn't arrived in time with the teleportation of the gods and killed the group of ogres, it would have been difficult. The improved Taoyuan Township almost led to disaster.

After that, the village only absorbed small-scale subhumans. It doesn't matter if the development is slow, the key is to ask for stability.

Lu De came here this time, first to see the development of the village, and second, to arrange Ah Qin's kobold rangers in person to help him do something.

Among the many demi-humans in the Void Forest, the kobolds are considered neutral units. They will not only vassalize those powerful demi-human tribes, but also occasionally conduct intelligence transactions with human adventurers, and even accept temporary employment as guides.

Before Ah Qin was recruited by Lu De, he led a group of cronies and friends to do similar business, and even learned the human language.

In view of the other party's experience in this field, Lude asked him to lead the kobold ranger team. The daily tasks were to report to Lude in time except for the movements of various races and adventurers in the forest. Help Rudd spread the message he wants to spread.

That is the so-called "non-customer cow"!

Lu De told Ah Qin that in the next few days, as long as there are adventurers looking for him to buy information, he will find a way to leak a message to them, saying that there is a hidden cave under the Guitou Mountain in the south, and there are several ancient guardian statues inside. , seems to be guarding some rare treasure.

For the same news, in Pine Tree Town and even other towns in the northern part of the Kingdom, there will be people arranged by Lude to walk synchronously, trying to spread the news as quickly as possible and reach the ears of some people he wants to hear the news middle.

Rumors of treasures will be like blood sprinkled into the sea, attracting adventurers who are greedy for money and fame.They would never realize that this news came out in multiple places at the same time.

This is the first step of Lude's plan to lure the enemy. Since the Brotherhood of the Black Hand has been looking for a certain artifact, and they don't know what the artifact looks like, they must be attracted by this news and come to check it out. after all.

And Lude also fooled the undead warlock Dick at the same time, pulled him into the forest to hunt for treasure, and led him to meet with another Black Hand Brotherhood, and finally induced a conflict between the two parties and wiped out this group of competitors.

In this way, the relationship between Dick and another force will intensify from the previous conflict to a deadly feud. In this conflict, Lude, who helps him kill his competitor, will gain his great trust. He thought that Lude was a hard-core ally on his side.

After that, things will be much easier to handle. Lude will be like a "kind big brother", advise Dick, provide various kinds of help, and help him fight to the death with his unequal opponents. Never let this brotherhood There is no possibility of any easing of internal conflicts.

The plan for the first phase is generally like this. The specific operation details will change according to the situation, and Lude will find a way to adapt to the situation.There has never been a foolproof plan in this world, but being cautious and flexible can minimize the probability of failure.

After the arrangements were made, Lu De saw that it was getting late, so he prepared to set off and return to the town.Seeing that he wanted to go back, Kang Na squatted on his shoulders, clutching his collar tightly with her little claws, as if she would go back with her no matter what she said, or she would cry for you on the spot.

In addition, Hydera also wants to go with him.Snake Lady has been working as a dragon babysitter these days, but she can't take care of the children, and she doesn't have enough aura to suppress these dragon species, so her job is not going well these days, and she is caught by these mischievous dragon children. Get angry.

In contrast, Shanisi was surprisingly good at this. She was the one who was watching Brown and Brahmos when Luther was out before, and made them docile and obedient to these two little brats who gave his father a headache.

The specific method is that Shanisi found an opportunity to show her "second form" in front of these little brothers, and the effect was quite outstanding!

End of this chapter

With some people taking the initiative to fuel the flames, the news that Lude spread spread rapidly across the northern border of the kingdom. In just two days, more than half of the adventurers and mercenaries knew that new ruins had been discovered in the Void Forest.

Not long afterward, some people were in the forest, and the adventurers who sold information from the kobolds were the first to find the hidden cave, but they all failed without exception.

These adventurers returned to Pine Tree Town with first-hand information about the interior of the cave. Everyone learned from them that there is indeed a large-scale underground ruins in the cave, but the internal organs are densely covered and arranged extremely dangerously. The teams that entered did not explore for long before all of them were defeated and retreated.

It is worth mentioning that at the entrance of the ruins, the vanguard found a very strange metal monument. At first glance, it seemed to be newly made, with an unusually smooth surface, unlike anything else.The magician accompanying the team could sense some unusual special energy from above.

The surface of the metal monument is smooth and unmarked, but as long as someone touches it, a set of words that have been shuffled will quickly appear on the front. The vanguard reorganized and deciphered these words, and finally got three sentences.

The gods are stingy, but the devil is generous!

Here is a treasury and a place of death for the greedy.

Let's celebrate!Those who are looking for treasures, I have prepared everything you want in the abyss, Hidtaka Miyazaki loves you... especially loves to see you suffer.

There are only three sentences on the front of the stele, and when the decipherer read these three sentences in front of the stele, the inscription on the stele changed again.

The text on the front was reorganized into the correct order, and the four characters "Spiral Abyss" appeared.On the back is a structural diagram of the entire underground ruins. There are nine floors from top to bottom. Each floor clearly marks the location of the treasure chest. The quantity and quality are higher and higher as you go down. , Greeting the uncle to come and play quickly.

However, when these stunned youths officially entered the ruins, they realized that the map provided by the metal tablet was indeed correct, but it only gave them the main structure, but did not tell them how many organs there were.And they finally realized the meaning expressed in the third sentence of the inscription—Heid Taka loves to see you suffer.

This name is no stranger to the northern part of the Kingdom today. Many major events that have occurred in the Void Forest in recent years have shown its figure behind it. The Medicine God Sect who first came into contact with it called it the "suffering devil." ".

Fortunately, the leaders of the first few adventurer teams were all cautious veterans. From the very beginning, they never expected to find out the entire ruins in one go. After finding out that the situation was not right, they immediately withdrew. Therefore, although everyone in the team was injured, they finally saved their lives.

One of the teams even managed to get a treasure chest, a very ordinary pine wood chest. According to the marks on the map, it should be the lowest level among the four types of treasure chests.

But even so, when they carried the heavy box back to the surface and opened it, they were still taken aback by the "good things" inside.

Nearly two-thirds of the entire box was filled with small pieces of magic crystals. The quality was not very high, but this amount of goods could be resold for a hundred and eighty gold coins.In addition, there is an enchanted dagger and a lightning whip magic scroll in the box.The value of these two things is higher than that pile of low-quality magic crystals.

The lowest-level treasure chest is still like this, and the greed of the adventurers is instantly aroused.Gifts from demons are indeed dreadful, but they can't stand the fact that they give too much!

After the vanguard returned to Pine Tree Town, these adventurers took the treasure chests they brought back to find the most respected saint in the town, Lude, and hoped that the well-informed old man could help identify whether there were demons hidden in the boxes. curse.

As a result, Lude touched it pretendingly, and told the adventurer that he did feel the power of the devil, but these energies were not curses, but a residual malice, mainly attached to the box, and the contents inside could be used as usual.If you are really worried, you can help purify it yourself, or simply buy it at the market price.

So the adventurers studied it, and finally decided to sell all the magic crystals to the temple, and keep the enchanted daggers and scrolls for their own use.

Especially the magic scroll, after identification, it was confirmed that the technique of the Lightning Whip has been improved, from a single shot to five consecutive shots.Suddenly throwing out such a trick during the battle is quite disrespectful of martial arts!

The "success" of the vanguard instantly stimulated the adventurers and mercenaries who were still in the town. A failed adventure would bring back a treasure chest worth two or three hundred gold coins, and it was said that this was only the remains of the ruins. Inside, the lowest-grade box, the eyes of those who look at it get hot.

Immediately afterwards, Lu De also stood up and added fire to everyone's unprecedented enthusiasm.He sees the ruins as a conspiracy of suffering demons, an elaborate playground for demons.Adventurers who enter it will feel its malice and become a toy played by the devil wantonly.But if no one goes, the devil will use this to laugh at the cowardice of human beings.

In addition, he also discovered that the treasure in the maze was not created by the devil, but stolen by the devil.It is a natural and just act for adventurers to reclaim these treasures that belong to human beings!

Instigated by Lude, in order to prove the backbone and bravery of human beings, and to recapture those treasures, the adventurers rushed to the spiral abyss one after another.

In order to support the adventurers' "benevolent deeds", Lude's temple also launched a "limited time promotion" event, but all adventurers who are ready to explore the ruins can buy magical potions and special props from him, and show the association certificate All [-]% off.

The layout of the whole event was very smooth. Lude was not only trying to lure the Brotherhood of the Black Hand, but the appearance of the demon ruins also brought a new round of crowds to the town.Attracted by the treasure, in addition to adventurers and mercenaries, various chambers of commerce and organizations also formed expeditions to Pine Town, bringing a new wave of economic growth points to the town.

Seeing that the pre-preparation was almost done and the atmosphere was heated up, Lu De took the opportunity to meet with the necromancer Dick squatting in the detention center, and told him the news of the discovery of the ruins.

Under Lude's operation, Dick's identity was not revealed, and he was regarded as a drunken and troublesome adventurer. He was given a week's punishment and could be released the day after tomorrow.After Lu De let him go out, he lurked in the town and waited for his news.

End of this chapter

After the news of the devil's ruins was released, hundreds of outsiders flooded into Pine Tree Town every day, but the town today has made great progress in terms of software and hardware, and it is no longer difficult to deal with it.

The self-police regiment has now completed the reorganization, and 300 people have redistributed their labor in terms of arms. There are [-] cavalry, [-] crossbowmen, and [-] infantry. The three knights serve as the captains of each army according to their respective specialties.

On the surface, this army has been incorporated by the baron and has become a private army directly under the lord, and has nothing to do with Lude.But after Mayne was brought down and the old lady regained her sobriety, Luther, as a benefactor, became a guest of the baron's family, and his influence on all aspects did not decrease in the slightest.

It is worth mentioning that although the old lady finally only agreed to let her daughter Lisa go to school to learn cooking, tailoring and other life skills that aristocratic ladies would need to master, she hired Ludd as the baron's tutor and came to the door every week Taught the baron three times, mainly learning to read and write, and adding other subjects when he was older.

In addition, the construction of the baron's official mansion also started, and the dwarf construction team was hired from Gulig through Lude's relationship. Lude provided the renderings and layout drawings of the manor.

The old lady was amazed at Lude's knowledge and talents, even so proficient in architecture, and Lude felt in her heart that the European-style villa that everyone built together when playing MC with friends was finally made outside the computer today. The real thing.

On this day, Lude was attending the baron's class according to the appointment. In the middle of the class, Hume suddenly came over and whispered a few words in his ear. After listening, Lude gave her instructions calmly.

"Leave it to dry for a while, and wait until I finish class and go back to deal with it."

At the same time, on the other side, a medium-sized adventure team of more than 20 people has just entered the town. Judging by the clothes and temperament, this team is actually composed of two groups, one side is real mercenaries, while the other More like servants and guards, surrounded by a young master like stars.

If Lude were here at this time, he would definitely find that the captain of the mercenary team was a familiar face, and it was Erwin von Masdak from Hydrangea Blade.

This purple-haired young master once had some communication with Lude when the God of War missionary group arrived in Pine Tree Town. He can be regarded as the messenger between Lude and the Duke of Ganmaling in the east. The two sides are not allies, but they are not enemies either.

Lu De's impression of this guy at first was that he was an arrogant second-generation ancestor who liked to bully others, and ran amok as a mercenary.Later, it was discovered that his background was not simple, and he was quite a bit of a city man, secretly communicating with Duke Ganmolin behind his own father's back.

When Erwin came to Pine Tree Town this time, he seemed to have accepted a mission as a mercenary, acting as a guide and guard for another group of people traveling with him.After everyone entered the town, Erwin came to the surrounded young master and said with a warm smile.

"This is Pine Town, Master Tring."

"It looks average, far worse than Yanmu City."

Hearing the arrogant evaluation of the young master in front of him, Erwin smiled noncommittally, and said to himself that you are looking down on the first grand pass in the southeast of the kingdom with a border town that has just been established on the northern border for five years. who?

certainly!This kind of words must not be said in person, and along the way Erwin can be regarded as seeing that he is pretending to be a dude, but this one in front of him is the real thing.Anyway, this mission is for him to earn extra money, just follow this fool.

But what made Erwin a little concerned was that although this Young Master Tling was a fool, the old man who looked like a butler beside him was not simple.The first time the two sides met in Unos Town, the magician next to Erwin quietly reminded him that he couldn't see through that old man.

At first glance, these people seemed to be traveling with their young master, but they were actually looking for something. Erwin was very concerned about this, but he wisely didn't ask too much.

When the group entered the town, they first looked for a place to live. Although Young Master Tlin was a fool, he was really rich, so he directly booked an entire hotel facing the river in the north of the town.

After everyone put down their luggage, Erwin left the hotel with a teammate in the name of "seeking news".He didn't go to the tavern in the town, because he had already learned on the way here that the largest tavern in the town was temporarily requisitioned by the new lord, and the mercenaries and adventurers went to other places in the town for entertainment.

But Erwin didn't go to these places, but went straight to the temple, ready to go to the most well-informed person in the town to directly inquire about key information.

Erwin quickly came to the gate of the temple. From a long distance, he saw that a lot of people had already gathered in front of the temple. When he got closer, he realized that most of the 80 people in this huge crowd were all colleagues. , was queuing up to buy potions, and in front of the gate of the temple, there was a temporary booth, and the green signboard read "Potion - 30% OFF".

"What do these symbols (refers to 0FF) mean?"

The alien natives who couldn't understand English scratched their heads, and simply pulled a passerby over to inquire about the situation. They learned that the potion was on sale for a limited time. Second-rate dealers who take them to other places to earn the difference.

Erwin thought for a while, and the magical medicine of the God of Medicine Sect was indeed a very sought-after product, so he asked his accompanying companions to queue up, and he himself entered the temple through the passage of believers next to him.

Compared with the ever-changing town, the temple of the God of Medicine Sect remained the same as before. At best, it could be called frugal, but if it was harsh, it could be called poor.

But Erwin knew that Lude, who was in charge of this temple, was very rich. With his connections and financial resources, it was not difficult to build a luxurious cathedral, but he simply didn't do it.

After entering the temple, Erwin quickly found an acquaintance——Lude's first disciple, nun Shanisi.

For this mature and beautiful nun lady, Erwin also had some unreasonable thoughts at the beginning, but considering that this is Lude's person, no one can guarantee that there will be no comparison between their master and apprentice It's a private relationship, so I carefully controlled my evil intentions.

After finding Shanisi, Erwin directly expressed his intention to come, hoping to see Lude, preferably in a secret conversation.

Shanisi just wanted to tell him that the master was not there, but before she could speak, she saw Lu De just coming back from the outside, so she silently reached out and pointed to the door. Erwin turned his head and saw a strange young man.

"Who is this kid?"

End of this chapter

Although there are many rumors, when Erwin saw the "rejuvenated" Luther himself for the first time, he still couldn't connect this tender little white face with the Gandalf in white robe he remembered until Shani Si bowed to Lu De and called "Master" all over, and he woke up like a dream.

"Master, you also..."

"Oh! Isn't this Erwin? What brought you here?"

Seeing another acquaintance stunned by his new skin, Lu De smiled slightly, but was secretly proud in his heart.

Fortunately, Erwin quickly came back to Li and said in a low voice.

"Master, is it convenient to take a step to speak?"

Glancing at Erwin's expression, Lude nodded and greeted him to the reception room in the backyard.After the two parties were seated, Erwin first handed over a letter from Duke Ganmaling himself.There has been normal communication between Lude and the Duke, except that the messenger is used for official affairs and Erwin is used for private affairs.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that Erwin has successfully attached himself to the big tree Duke Ganmaling, and started to help him.

In front of Erwin, Lude opened the letter and read it. The first half of the letter was cured in Qualud. Before that, the Duke helped his "friend" secretly purchase a few bottles of mysterious oil from Lude. The Duke's My friends said it was good after using it. Not only the effect is remarkable, but also there are no side effects. It is not a star and a half better than those unreliable alchemists, so his friend asked him to buy some more.

Seeing this, Lude couldn't help complaining in his heart. He gave the Duke a free trial bottle back then, and that bottle could be used eight to ten times.Not long after Erwin went back, he ran back with a box of money and bought five bottles in one go. After that, the Duke sent Erwin over to buy medicine every one or two months, and the purchase volume increased every time!

Some of these medicines were indeed given to the Duke's friends as gifts.But according to Erwin's feedback, no one uses it as much as the Duke himself. Rodriguez has four more siblings this year.If this is the case at home, it is even less clear how much it spreads outside.