the last king of darkness

Chapter 152 The Book of the Past
The East City Gate is not too far away, and Rhodes will be there in a while.

This is also the result of the special training. In the past, he would only choose to take the hearse.

After a long distance, Rhodes saw the three Iron Wolf Wade waiting at the gate of the city.

"very good."

Iron Wolf looked at his pocket watch.

"Punctuality is an essential quality of a hunter."

He stretched out his hand.

"Let me introduce, this is a tiger, a five-star hunter, a seventh-level combatant, a fifth-level psychic power, a spiritual fire sequence, a soul characteristic of tearing, and a good tactical position is the front position, such as forward, avant-garde main attack, avant-garde reconnaissance, etc. "

Da Chong is a tall, dark-skinned man with a simple and honest appearance.

He shook hands with Rhodes in a friendly manner, and said sincerely, "I hope our cooperation will go very smoothly."

"This is Tiancha, a six-star hunter, a seventh-level combatant, a fifth-level psionic energy, and a spark sequence. She has lit six fire seeds, five of which are related to increasing strength, and the remaining one allows her to condense the wind spear from the air. The general tactical position is the middle position, such as the middle fire support, the middle fire output."

Tiancha is a middle-aged woman with a pretty face without too many wrinkles, but her gray temples make her look a little old.

She nodded slightly to Rhodes: "Nice to meet you."

Iron Wolf turned his head.

"And this one is the Mr. Dawn Blade I told you about. The star rating is not high, but the strength is good. He has completed 34 sewer tasks in seven hours, so he should be trustworthy."

Rhode suddenly had a bad premonition that this sewer mission would not become his symbol, and people would point out like this wherever he went:

"Look, that's the hunter with 34 sewer quests at seven o'clock."

It's just too bad.

But the other two didn't think so. They smiled exaggeratedly and stepped forward to hug him.

"Welcome to join us."

Afterwards, Iron Wolf announced his departure after checking the lanterns and phlogiston on the three of them.

To Rhode's surprise, Iron Wolf drove over in a rectangular car.

It's shaped a bit like a bus, but with a thick shell and metal grilles carved with strange patterns.

The strangest thing is that this is not a hearse, let alone a motor vehicle, but a rickshaw.

Every seat on the car has a rocker, and only by turning the rocker can the car be powered.

This is too primitive, what about your psionic technology?
After getting into the car, Rhodes asked casually, "Why don't we use a hearse?"

Iron Wolf glanced at him.

"Spiritual things are easily corroded and corroded in the black mist. Tools driven by spiritual energy generally will not leave the range of fire unless there are special protections. Purely mechanical structures are completely fine."

Da Chong smiled and said, "This is the latest hunter bike developed by the Engineering Research Institute, and it won't be stuck as frequently as before."

Tiancha said in a low tone: "Special protection or ghost stallions are too expensive, we can't afford them."

Rhodes didn't ask why we didn't walk over, and turned the joystick like the other two, and suddenly felt that they were not hunters, but hard workers.

Iron Wolf was in charge of driving, and he left the city very smoothly. The guards at the city gate let him go immediately after seeing the hunter's license.

So, this strange rickshaw got out of Wangcheng in the less congested traffic.

The convoys nearby are also full of strange things, including horseless carts, human-drawn carts, mechanical rickshaws, buses, and a few floating cars.

Its civilization spans at least 2000 years.

Maybe this is the characteristic of Wangcheng, Rhodes thought.

After leaving Wangcheng, the traffic flow became scarce immediately, and the rickshaw crashed into the boundless darkness.

This is the second time that Rhodes has officially left the royal city. This time without the guardian fire, everyone's peripheral vision can only illuminate their surroundings.

There was boundless darkness outside the car window, and a thick black mist was billowing in front of the window.

The sense of desolation and horror rushed over again, and the rickshaw ran at a speed of about [-] yards, as if rushing straight towards the dark abyss.

The faces of the three of them also became serious, Tiancha said in a low voice: "No matter how many times, leaving the royal city gives me a sense of fear."

The tiger comforted: "Don't worry, we will soon usher in a stable day, and Trorian will definitely become stronger and stronger under the leadership of the king."

Iron Wolf held the steering wheel nervously, held the astrolabe with one hand, and constantly identified the direction. His spiritual vision distance was only less than thirty yards, so he had to react very quickly, otherwise he would hit a rock, fall into a big pit, or Colliding with other teams is bad.

Although hunters also have hunter obligations and hunter honors, their main purpose is to make money in order to obtain a more stable life.

Avoiding unnecessary losses is their principle of action.

Along the way, Iron Wolf carefully introduced the details of the mission.

Qingcao Town, where the mission is located, is about 10 miles away from Wangcheng. It is a medium-sized settlement, with about [-] people living there for a long time. Their specialties are all kinds of grass, ranging from tea to raw materials for elixir.

Qingcao Town has two guardian fires and a small holy white tree. There are 32 convoys passing by along the route. The annual output converted into silver cables is at least [-] million yuan. It is considered a relatively rich production place.

Therefore, threats that appear near it must be resolved quickly, otherwise it will affect the stability of the safe area and the safety of the route.

Rhodes now knows that the so-called safe zone is this large area on the red soil plain.

From the map, the northern part of the Red Earth Plain is the Dead Ember Mountains, and the east is the Barren Mountains, a branch of the Dead Ember Mountains. Between these two mountains is the Red Earth Plain, the heart of Trorian.

Therefore, only deploying defense lines in the west and south, this area is safe.

Trorian's three layers of defense are all there.

Of course, the mountains are not absolutely safe, and Trorian built a great wall along the top of the mountains to resist threats from the dark plains in the north and the hills of the dead in the east.

Guarding the Great Wall is the famous Night's Watch Legion.

The area surrounded by such layers is called the safe zone.

The defense level in the safety zone is extremely high, and any threats must be dealt with as soon as possible, and they must not be allowed to exist for a long time, otherwise they will gradually grow into a deadly threat in the black mist, affecting the lifeline of Trorian humans.

And these threats usually come from sporadic monsters that slip through the line of defense, unknown existences lurking underground, and monsters that appear here through means such as the spirit world.

Once they are discovered, the investigation legion will quickly assess their threat level, and then decide whether to dispatch the defense force in the settlement on the spot, or form a hunting or clearing squad depending on the threat level.

The monsters near Qingcao Town were judged to be a relatively large threat. Because of the concealment of the monsters, the War Department decided to issue a task to the Hunter Headquarters. This was also due to the influence of the Kuroshio and the shortage of manpower.

Most of the hunters in the hunter group have strong personal abilities, good at tracking and hunting, suitable for small team operations, and most suitable for handling this kind of task.

It is also very suitable for Rhodes to hunt souls.

The rickshaw ran fast on the plains, and only fire-holders could drive this kind of car. It perfectly realized the process of converting spiritual energy into power, and it happened to exercise Rhodes' spiritual proficiency.

After about three hours, they arrived at Qingcao Town smoothly.

This is a town surrounded by blue and green, presenting a strong visual impact in the boundless darkness.

The moment they saw it, all four of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The pedestrian vehicle stopped at the edge of the town. After the four iron wolves showed their hunter licenses to the town's defenders, they immediately received a warm reception. A large group of townspeople poured out to welcome them to the mayor's hall.

Rhodes looked at this not-so-small human settlement. It was full of blue or green flowers and plants, and every house was surrounded by green grass. Many townspeople were bending over to work in the grass.

In the bright light, you can clearly see a big pure white tree in the center of the town.

Its surface is crystal clear, like white jade, and like crystal, with a faint mist falling from the lush branches.

Is this the legendary holy white tree?
Rhodes thought.

They all say this is the tree of life, maybe there is something magical about it.

After a while, they came to the mayor's hall.

The mayor was an old man with a gray beard. With a sad face, he introduced the specific situation of their attack to Iron Wolf and others.

Iron Wolf, Big Chong, and Tiancha listened very carefully, keenly asked for any possible details, and guessed the possible types, habits, behavior patterns, etc. of the monsters.

Rhodes closed his eyes and sorted out his means. Now he doesn't need to directly enter the dream, but can also observe a lot of information in the dream.

Although Iron Wolf didn't speak, he felt a little dissatisfied. Those who don't pay attention to details are not qualified hunters.

He decided to let him join because A Duo said that he has excellent qualities such as calm mind, keen observation ability, and outstanding reasoning ability.

After a while, the mayor led them to the location of the attack.

This is a corner of the outskirts of Qingcao Town, composed of relatively solid stone houses, but now a part has collapsed, and the protected inner grassland has also been destroyed.

Iron Wolf, Big Chong, and Tiancha listened to the details of the attack while carefully observing the destroyed site.

"The physical ability is very strong, it should be of the monster type."

The tiger saw the section of the special stone and made a judgment.

"Maybe it's a blood cougher, a creeper or something like that."

"No, that's not right." Tiancha denied his statement. "There are burnt marks here. Normally, monsters don't have high temperatures. They may be ghosts with physical destruction capabilities."

Iron Wolf saw that Rhodes was still in a daze, and said dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Dawn Blade, who has strong deductive and reasoning abilities, what is your judgment?"

"Oh."

Rhodes woke up suddenly.

"What did you say?"

Iron Wolf's face became more gloomy, and he said in a bad tone: "I ask you, what monster attacked here?"

The mayor and several townspeople turned their gazes to Rhodes, feeling that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Not far away, several flower-picking girls hugged each other worriedly. The hunter who came to rescue them seemed to have internal strife, which was not good news.

"Oh."

Rhodes didn't feel anything, and replied.

"Okay, I'll tell you right away."

He squatted down, pressed the ground with one hand, closed his eyes, and sensed the Book of the Past in his mind.

(End of this chapter)