Goddess Wanhua Mirror

And until this exclusive temple is built, their missionary group will live in the camp they built themselves.

However, when preaching during the day, Narad also found that the situation of the locals seemed a little special.Although their preaching of teachings did attract some villagers to stop and watch, everyone's reaction was relatively flat. During the period, some villagers even murmured in a low voice, "This is far worse than Master Lude", and Nala De keenly found out.

So even if he didn't think that little-known sect could pose a threat to him, Narad still cared a little bit.

"Elu."

"Teacher, what are your orders?"

Hearing Narad calling his name, a bald disciple next to Narad stepped forward.Narad waved his hand immediately, and the other disciples and entourage left on their own in a very sensible manner, leaving only these two in the tent.

"Elu, is your brother in the village now?"

"Yes, Master Tutor, my second brother and his adventure team arrived about two weeks earlier than us. In order to facilitate our actions, his subordinates will temporarily pretend that they don't know us."

"Oh! Did he collect any valuable information?"

"Yes, Master Tutor. My second brother has compiled the information he collected into a book, and just entrusted his subordinates to hand it over to the disciples. I wanted to hand it over to the tutor later, but I didn't expect you to ask first."

"let me see."

Seeing Narad stretching out his hand, the bald disciple named Elu hurriedly took out a booklet from his pocket and handed it in respectfully.Narad flipped through it casually for a while, an expression of interest gradually appeared on his face.

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"An ancient ruin with an evil summoning ritual?"

"The locals seem to be spreading this, and the adventurers are also trying to enter the ruins, but so far only one team has succeeded."

"Let your brother investigate carefully, the more detailed the better!"

"The disciple understands."

Knowing that there are "demons and crooked ways" infesting the local area, Narad said in his heart that it is really blessed by the God of War, and this is a god-sent opportunity for them to quickly increase their prestige in the local area.

All mainstream sects in this world are used to flaunting themselves as friends of justice who exorcise demons and defend Taoism.As soon as they heard that there were undead hauntings or heresy sects that worshiped demons, they would immediately go there to exterminate them, so as to improve the reputation of their own church.

God of War is no exception. The missionary group Narad brought this time has more than 70 people. Apart from himself, a high-ranking priest who is about to become a bishop, he also has two disciples who can use divine arts, and a whole Twenty well-equipped guardian knights.

In addition, adhering to the characteristics of the God of War sect, both priests and monks must practice martial arts, so there are not a few people under Narad who can fight.

Narad was planning how to quickly win the hearts of the people, and at the same time, on the other side, Lude was facing an annoying guy right now.

"I said this young master, I am a temple here, not a brothel. You brought so many people here on a special trip to come here at night. Could it be that you want to confess your sins to me?"

"Haha! My lord priest, you really know how to joke. Of course, I am not here to talk to the beautiful nuns and ladies under your door, but to ask you for something."

"Oh? What is it?"

"I heard that Denzel once gave you a note brought out from the ruins for restoration. I wonder how the progress is?"

"To be honest, it has been repaired, but this notebook is the spoils of Denzel's team. Although I am not an adventurer, I still understand the rules of your business. It seems that it is not right to steal other people's spoils." It is allowed, right? It will be disqualified as an adventurer, right?"

"Well! There is indeed such a rule, but it doesn't count if you bought it with money! I just made a deal with them this morning and bought this notebook, so since you have repaired this notebook , then should it be returned to me, the 'original owner' now?"

As Erwin said, he asked his subordinates to show Luther a contract, which clearly stated that Denzel's team had resold the notes they obtained from the ruins to Erwin at the price of ten gold coins, and signed the contract. Paintings and pledges are readily available.

Looking at the bright red and black mark, which was obviously not a thumbprint pressed with ink pad, Lu De's face sank for a moment, his eyes seemed to be struggling, but finally he sighed and said.

"The note... I can give it to you, but I hope you can listen carefully to some of my discoveries in the process of repairing this note."

"Okay! Then tell me and listen."

Lude pondered for a moment, first asked Shanisi to get the notes, then lowered his head and lightly stroked the mottled cover of the notebook, and whispered to Erwin in a tone that clearly revealed exhaustion.

"The owner of this notebook seems to have deliberately left his name unnamed. He came to the Void Forest to find an ancient curse that is unknown to the public."

"curse?"

"Yes, he wants to curse himself with this curse."

Lude raised his head and looked at Erwin as he spoke, and he could clearly see a trace of doubt in the other's gaze.After all, according to ordinary people's common sense, cursing must be used to harm others, and I have never heard of cursing myself.

Seeing that he had successfully aroused the other party's interest, Lude continued.

"This curse is said to come from a demon named Heidtaka Miazaki, and the cursed will gain immortality."

"Wait a minute! Since you can obtain immortality, how can this be considered a curse?"

"Son, you don't understand! The devil's favorite thing to do is to deceive and deceive people, but any gift from them has a hidden price. This curse does allow people to obtain an immortal body, but the price is It is to burn the soul of the cursed, so the undead is also called the salary king, until the soul is burned out and becomes a living corpse without self-awareness, reduced to a toy played by the devil at will."

"This...is really unbelievable!"

"It's unbelievable. If possible, I hope that these contents are all fake and deceptive. But the fact is..."

Lude didn't finish his sentence, but the bitter expression on his face kept everything silent, and Erwin couldn't help asking nervously.

"Then this person... has he succeeded?"

"I don't know, Denzel and the others found this notebook from a skeleton, but it is not certain that the skeleton is the author of the notebook. In addition, the black dragon in the forest once guarded a suppressed thing. I suspect that it may be the body left by a salary king, but as far as the black dragon is concerned, that thing can no longer be regarded as a human being."

After Lude finished speaking, he solemnly handed the notebook to Erwin, and then said that there is only so much information they have at present, and Lude himself has no way of judging the authenticity of these messages.But there are so many unsolved mysteries in this world, and many bizarre rumors, no one can guarantee that they are not true.

Erwin, who got the notes, was also a little confused for a while, and he couldn't tell whether Lude's words were true or not, and he couldn't let his lightning mage give Lude the same as he did with Denzel. There is a "course of treatment", so he hesitated again and again, and decided to put away the notes first, and wait to hand them over to his third brother, so that he can show them to his priest mentor.

In this way, Erwin left the temple with the note.

After the other party left, Lu De stood at the entrance of the temple, watched them go away, and whispered in his mouth.

"Staring at them, I think Erwin should be related to those people from the God of War Sect."

"Give it to me."

In the dark night, Hume's voice came from the shadows, and then disappeared.

Lude returned to his study and took out a map of the Void Forest from the drawer, with many points and corresponding annotations marked on it.These are all the "wild monster information" he inquired from Nid Hogg, and all the more famous local snakes in the forest are on the list.

Lu Dexin said that since he had copied all the worldviews of Black Soul, he naturally had to prepare some decent "area bosses". This is a rare opportunity to kill two birds with one stone!

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The Void Forest is a place full of dangers, but it is also a huge treasure house, so every year it attracts a large number of adventurers to rush into the forest one after another, and quite a few of them never come back.

And Lude also understood a truth from a long time ago, it is called "good words are hard to persuade, damn ghosts", he can't stop those adventurers from committing suicide, so he can only settle for the next best thing, and find a way to make them die more easily. worth a little.

At present, the total number of adventurers who have arrived in Pine Tree Village has exceeded [-], and it is still increasing.Along with them came businessmen, refugees, prostitutes and thieves and other low-class people, making the whole village a miasma.

However, for most of the villagers whose main occupation is still farming, the current rapid formation of "prosperity" has only annoyance but no benefit to their lives.

Many villagers complained to Lu De when they came to the temple to pray. The village is living in trouble every day, and the young people are like lost souls. shit.

Lude is actually very clear about the villagers' reaction to these situations, but right now the powerful enemy is staring at his side, and the whole layout will take some time to complete, so now is not the best time to make a move.

In the next two weeks, adventurers continued to enter the forest, trying to get to the site of the ruins. Many of them didn't even see the city walls of the ruins, but returned because they encountered powerful monsters halfway. Only a small number of elites managed to arrive.However, they did not find the monster Denzel's team said, but found some other strange things.

All signs indicated that the monster had already left the ruins. The adventurers who arrived found some huge footprints on the east side of the ruins. Because the supplies they brought with them were almost exhausted, they did not rush after them, but stayed in the ruins Here, try to collect some useful information, and then bring it back to the village to sell to other teams left behind.

Providing information for a fee is one of the rules for mercenaries and adventurers. Depending on how difficult it is to obtain, simple ones may be done with a glass of wine, while difficult ones will inevitably show some real money.

Relying on this information exchange mode, the old bird understands that there is basically no need to go to the ruins. At this time, it has been almost a month since Denzel's team arrived at the ruins for the first time, and there is nothing left there up.

The team that arrived later not only found huge footprints moving eastward, but also found some camping traces left by the demihumans in the ruins. According to some scales left at the scene, they preliminarily speculated that they should be swamp lizardmen.

Because of religious beliefs, the relationship between the swamp lizardmen and humans has always been hostile. Humans worship their own "imagined" gods, while swamp lizardmen generally use tribes as a unit to worship some powerful individuals. Tier monsters.

In the eyes of many humans, the swamp lizardmen seem to have a very magical racial talent, able to form a wonderful "symbiotic relationship" with the high-level monsters they worship.

Lizardmen can enshrine the high-level monster they regard as a patron saint through a special sacrificial ceremony, so that the other party can grow faster, become more intelligent and powerful, and the grown-up high-level monster will wholeheartedly protect the high-level monster that enshrines itself. tribe of lizardmen.Therefore, this kind of special monster that has been strengthened is also called the "Lord of Warcraft" by human images.

According to Lude, who knows the truth about the birth of the gods, the reason why the monsters enshrined by the lizard people grow faster and become particularly powerful is probably because of the "power of faith" provided by the lizard people tribe. , turned into a special existence somewhat similar to gods.

Therefore, the unit selected by Lude as the final boss this time is a large lizard tribe located in the northeast of the village.This lizardman tribe also occupied the ruins of an ancient city left by humans, with an estimated population of more than [-]. They also enshrined a rather strong high-level monster. According to Nid Hogg, who had fought against it before, it was a A mutated monster python.

More than 100 years ago, Nid Hogg, who had entered adulthood, chose to settle in the Void Forest after completing his world tour. Because he was not happy to see that monster python, he took the initiative to fight with the other party.As a result, the dignified dragon clan fought back and forth with a snake, and even suffered a small loss in the end.

The biggest feature of this monster python is that it has many heads, and it has a high IQ and can speak.When Nidhogg fought with it, this "Zuan snake" had a bunch of heads that could spray venom and "fragrance" from its mouth.Nid Hogg fought to a draw with it, but lost the scolding battle completely!

So much so that it has been more than 100 years, but every time Ned Hogg thinks about it, he still feels more and more angry.

It is worth mentioning that this lizardman tribe was also invited to join the demihuman coalition led by the Ratmen, but because they thought it was too cold at that time, these cold-blooded creatures gave the Ratmen to the pigeons. The army was wiped out without leaving the house, which can be said to be quite scumbag!

However, although these guys did not actually join the coalition formed by the Ratmen, it does not mean that they are a peaceful and reclusive tribe. In fact, except for the fact that they are not easy to see when the weather is cold, the Lizardmen are the subhumans who like to attack human villages and towns the most. One, they especially like to snatch human children and take them back as living sacrifices to the guardian beasts of their tribe.

So if there is no accident, after another one to two months, the weather will officially enter the summer and warm up, and these lizard people will definitely come to harm people again.

What Lude is doing now is to use some forged clues to attract the attention of adventurers to the lizardman tribe bit by bit.Although it is essentially planting blame, it is also a way to drive away wolves and tigers.

You must know that under normal circumstances, if such a large sub-human tribe hidden in the deep mountains and old forests did not aggressively invade the kingdom's territory, but only sporadically harassed the pioneers in the border areas, then the king or lord would not take the initiative to raise troops to encircle and suppress , because the risks and investments are too great.

Adventurers, on the other hand, are mainly in small groups, so they will not take the initiative to provoke this lizard tribe with thousands of people and support super monsters.

But if they were given a big hat of "intent to summon demons from outside the domain", the nature would be different.

And in order to fasten this "hat" on them so that the God of War Cult has sufficient reason and motivation to attack them, Lu De spent a lot of effort secretly!

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Regarding how to take the blame on the lizardman's head, Lude has been preparing painstakingly for a long time.

In addition to continuously creating clues on the human adventurer side, leading step by step to the lizardman settlement in the northeast direction, they also sent a "key evidence" to the lizardmen through "airdrop".

This key piece of evidence is a book. Inspired by the "Encyclopedia of Dragon Slaying" that Lude got from the "Encyclopedia of Dragon Slaying" produced by Sanders, the azure dragon, he also made a "Book of Ashes". Heidataka Miazaki, the demon of malice, wrote how to get the curse of immortality and become the salary king.

After completing the "Book of Ashes", Luther found Ned Hogg again and asked him to help perform a "miracle from heaven" scene for the Lizardman.

They first found a large obsidian near the volcano, and then asked Nid Hogg to use his sharp dragon claws to polish this obsidian into a very cool-looking base.

After preparing the book and the base, Luther specially picked a cloudy night and asked Ned Hogg to fly a large rock to an altitude of [-] meters above the clouds, and then ignited it by spitting dragon breath on the rock , and then smashed hard towards the vicinity of the lizardman settlement.

In this way, when the burning boulder breaks through the clouds and falls to the ground, it looks like a meteorite from the sky from the ground.

When the boulder fell to the ground and made a big hole, Lude and Tawawa, who had been ambushing nearby for a long time, rushed over to set up the scene with the obsidian base and books.

They first placed the base in the big hole that was smashed out, and then put the "Book of Ashes" on it.In order to create a sense of mystery, Lude also applied a variant of Holy Light to the base, making the obsidian base appear to be burning with black flames, while the mysterious "Book of Ashes" was suspended on the platform, and the cover was like Flowing magma is general.

After the people (dragons) set up the scene, they hid quickly, and after a while, they could see the lizard people coming after hearing the news, and then they were shocked by the strange scene in front of them, and they all knelt down to the ground like a saint. Worship the book of Ashes.

The lizardmen who got this book basically couldn't explain whether they would try to follow the content in the book next time!

After delivering the books to the lizardmen, Luther asked Ned Hogg and his wife Tawawa to help keep an eye on the lizardmen tribe.

Nid Hogg was a little reluctant at first, but Tawawa was very interested in what Lude wanted to do, and he was obviously a playful master!

After everything was ready, Lude returned to Pine Tree Village. He did not take the initiative to participate in the actions of the adventurers, but he continued to guide their investigation direction beneficially by assisting the adventurers, so that the adventurers could stay away from the Lizardmen tribe. The location is getting closer.

During this period, Narad and others of the God of War Sect have been preaching in the village in a very high-profile way. Lu De just watched, neither confronting them openly, nor making troubles secretly, like a comfortable salty fish who gave up resistance .

In fact, Lude has been observing all the time, because for a long time in the past, Lude, who was fleeing, did not dare to approach the temples of other sects easily, and even tried to detour when encountering missionaries by chance, so his observation The number of times is not very high, and now is a good time to see how Narad and others do it.

In terms of conventional methods, the God of War Sect is not much different from other sects he has seen before, mainly relying on missionaries to stand on the street and recite teachings aloud.In Ludd's words, it's the lack of fun that is awesome, and the lack of "coolness" caused by not being able to make up stories.

But then the other party showed a "unique skill". Narad actually asked his disciples to teach martial arts to the local youths who were recruited by them.In addition, they set up a ring on the square in the center of the village, and held martial arts competitions every day. At the same time, they also encouraged villagers or adventurers to have conflicts, and let the two sides fight on the ring to resolve the conflict with their own fists.

It is worth mentioning that sometimes Narad himself will go on stage and fight with others in person.The middle-aged priest took off his loose robe, and his muscular body was comparable to that of a professional wrestler.Although this guy has an arrogant personality, his superb hand-to-hand combat skills are very popular among young people who worship the strong.

"Sure enough! Every sect that can become a big one has some skills."

At the gate of the temple, Lu De looked at the crowded arena not far away, and sincerely admired it, which made Hume roll his eyes at him.

"Hey! You still have the heart to praise them. They have only been here for half a month, and they have already developed hundreds of believers in the village. This is the person who was directly poached from you!"

"Don't worry! I've observed the young men who were taken away. Although they joined the War God Cult, they will still give us faith. Our losses at this stage are actually not big, it can be said to be minimal."

"Aren't you afraid that if it continues, the loss will further expand?"

"Of course I'm afraid, but it's useless to be anxious. Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion in my heart. The more the enemy is in front of me, the more sloppy I will be."

Lu De made up his mind to pretend to be a coward before the time he needed came, but it was a pity that the opponent came to him on his own initiative.

In the evening of the same day, a disciple of Narad suddenly came to the temple and sent an exquisite invitation to Lude, saying that his mentor wanted to invite Lude to have a meal with them, and everyone had a good chat and exchanged feelings .

Looking at the invitation card handed over by the other party, the first thought in Lu De's mind was that this could not be a grand banquet, right?If you go, you might have trouble, but if you don't go, you will give the other party an excuse and let the other party make use of the problem.

So he hesitated for a while, Lu De smiled and sent the invitation, and then asked Narad's disciple to go back and tell his mentor that he would definitely attend the banquet on time at night.After the other party left, Hume stepped out of the shadows.

"Are you really going?"