the last king of darkness

Chapter 163 The first time

The majestic Dead Ember Mountains blocked the entire north side from Rhodes' perspective.

Its height couldn't be seen even with his soul eyes, while its length was said to reach several thousand miles, and its width also ranged from fifty to hundreds of miles.

This huge mountain range across the land became the dividing line between two continents - the gray soil continent in the south and the dead soil continent in the north.

The guardian Li Liwei once told them in the process of teaching them how to cook monsters that if there were no Ash Mountains, the Trorian Kingdom would soon be destroyed by the monsters on the dark plain. Will keep the kingdom alive until the second sunrise.

Therefore, the Dead Ember Mountains are the kingdom's most important northern barrier,
The main structure of the stone workshop is inside the mountain range, and there is only a large platform-shaped building outside. A large number of square stones are piled up next to the platform, waiting to be transported by vehicles.

The dim firelight projected from the inside of the mountain, and was dragged out of long shadows by a large number of levers, iron frames, and mechanical lifting platforms. The black mist rolled not far away, and invaded the inside of the firelight from time to time, making everything look very bad. peaceful.

As soon as the two guards on the platform saw a light group approaching, they rushed back to report.

Workshop owner Les rushed out with a large group of foremen to meet Rhodes and Mephis.

Les has a round bald head, and his facial features look very happy. His eyes wandered between the two for a moment, and he immediately determined that Rhodes was the leader. He rushed up and hugged his hand and began to howl.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo are you finally here, all of us are almost dead!

Rhodes was dressed like a very mature adult. He patted Leth's big bald head lightly, and smiled steadily: "Don't be afraid, we are here, and you will be safe."

"Really?" The bald head raised his head and asked with tears in his eyes.

Rhodes forcibly swallowed what was about to be spit out, brother, you are not a beauty, so don't use the beauty's movements, okay?

"Of course, who doesn't know the name of our Great Eagle Death Knell?"

The bald head obviously hadn't heard of it, but influenced by Rhodes' aura, he also calmed down a little.

Next, he detailed what happened in the past few days.

The stone workshop is a stone processing workshop established in the easternmost part of the Dead Ember Mountains. Its main job is to collect the raw stones inside the mountains and process them into building stones for defense through various processes.

One of the procedures is to immerse the rough stone in a solution containing the ashes of a specific monster.

But since three days ago, this place has been attacked and destroyed. The monsters that suddenly appeared not only killed the workers, but also swallowed part of the solution.

Since the main structure of the entire workshop is inside the mountain, it can only be regarded as a monster like an evil spirit.

The reinforcement team came twice, but they couldn't find any traces, so they were forced to hire hunters to solve it.

"it is good."

Rhodes said confidently.

"Leave it to me, let the workers go out, I will immediately find the evil spirit and kill it."

The bald man was very grateful, and before he left, he kept saying that as long as this hidden danger could be eliminated, he would agree to any request.

Rhodes didn't take it seriously, but Memphis stopped him.

"Do you have a puppet stone here?"

The bald-headed Les' expression suddenly became gloomy, and he immediately dismissed the foreman beside him, and said in a low voice, "Your Excellency the hunter, to be honest, the quality of the stones on our side is relatively poor, so we can't mine so much."

Memphis said calmly, "I want a whole copy."

Under the dim light, the bald-headed Les's expression turned hideous for a moment, but he recovered quickly.

"You were hired by me."

"We can declare the mission failed."

"There will be other hunters."

"No, most hunters go to the front line to defend against the Kuroshio, and the remaining hunters will not take on such a troublesome task. The guardian of the defense zone is also very busy. It will take a long time for you to disturb him with such a small matter."

The bald head was silent for a while, and Rhodes noticed that he was looking at himself, obviously trying to test the relationship between them.

Rhodes immediately took a step closer, shoulder to shoulder with Memphis, showing the unbreakable friendship between them.

"it is good."

The bald-headed Les gritted his teeth and said.

"If you can eliminate this hidden danger in one day, I will give it to you."

Memphis said calmly: "It's a deal."

The bald Les left with a gloomy expression.

Rhodes looked at her with interest, and asked, "Are you blackmailing?"

Mephis said lightly: "No, half of this ghost is his own fault. When encountering such a thing, it is normal to ask for extra compensation."

"He created the monster?"

"No, he didn't want monsters to appear, but he was too careless and left too much black sediment in the soaking solution of the stone, which attracted some ghosts."

"Oh."

Rhodes quickly understood that the rocks on the mountain had existed in the black mist for thousands of years, and even the inanimate matter had been eroded to a certain extent.

The soaking solution is used to wash off these erosions.

These erosions probably have some illegal uses, and they also have some side effects. This bald head is greedy for money, which led to the tragedy.

"This kind of person should go to the Internal Affairs Tribunal."

Mephis said calmly: "He will go in, that's why he is so anxious to ask someone to deal with it. If the situation is more serious, he will be sentenced to black death."

The black death penalty is to put people in a cage, send them into the black mist to be infected and corrupted into monsters, and then pull them back into the fire and burn them to ashes.

To erase a person's identity and die as a monster is the harshest punishment in Trorian, and even many Doom believers are unwilling to accept it.

Rhodes showed a smile: "That really has to hit him well, Mephis, do I get a share?"

Memphis looked at him with light silver eyes, and frost and snow seemed to gather in them.

"Hey, what do you want to do?" Rhode took two steps back vigilantly, "I advise you not to think about it, you can't control my power, and you will die if you make a move."

Memphis lowered his eyes and said softly, "I can give you my salary."

Rhodes said with a smile: "That's settled, don't worry, I won't take advantage of you, I will take care of this matter, you don't have to do anything."

Memphis didn't say anything, and stood aside.

"Humph."

Rhodes came to the middle of the soaking place, and he had never been so confident as he is now.

"Now, let me show you the top detective skills and logical reasoning and deductive thinking of the famous detective Exploring Lun."

Snapped.

Rhodes pressed the ground with one hand and opened the Book of the Past.

He quickly dismissed the time to three days ago, and fast forwarded at twenty times the speed, and quickly found the moment when the attack happened.

To Rhode's surprise, it wasn't his usual evil spirit, but a glistening liquid mist. It had a human form, and when it moved, it dragged a long trail, which could pass through the human body.

The person who was pierced was like being poisoned, choking his throat and vomiting desperately until he spit out the sticky internal organs.

The entire place was quickly covered by the diffuse mist. After the misty monsters absorbed the solution, they would choose to leave from the southwest direction—although the fire in the stone workshop was weak, it also had a strong inhibitory effect on the monsters.

Most monsters will instinctively avoid fire and leave the range of fire.

Unless something attracts it, or irritates it.

Rhodes opened his eyes, stood up, tried his best to recall the monster knowledge he had learned, and quickly found the corresponding target.

Fog demon.

This is a very cruel monster, most of them are born in the swamp environment, they are good at concealment, hiding and attacking, the outer layer has no fixed shape, and the mist cloud that makes up the body is highly poisonous, and the precise control of spiritual energy is their specialty. Instinct, can travel to the spirit world, but can't stay in the spirit world for too long, otherwise it will melt into pure psionic energy.

The senior knight Gaifeng explained in detail how to cut it with a physical long sword. The weakness of the fog monster is under its ribs. When it finds that the poison is ineffective, it will try to attack with long claws. At this time, it will expose its humanoid body Use the tip of the sword to cut along the oblique line of the hollow under the ribs, and you can kill it with the least amount of force.

Rhodes told Memphis about his discovery in detail.

The latter raised his wide-brimmed hat for the first time, and a look of surprise appeared in his light silver eyes.

Rhodes smiled and said, "How is it? Are you shocked? Call Big Brother to listen, and I'll tell you how I found out."

Memphis lowered the brim of her hat again. Although she was wearing a scarf, judging from her expression, this cold and cold lady seemed to curl her lips.

Rhodes doesn't care either, as long as he hunts down more monsters quickly, he will become a real big brother.

Hey hey hey.

Rhodes chased along the escape path of the mist demon.

The Book of the Past could probe within sixty yards of him, as long as he used it every sixty yards.

The fog demon flew out through the mountain wall, and Rhodes went around the stone workshop to continue tracking. They easily climbed up the steep mountain wall, and found the wandering fog demon on a larger gentle slope.

In Rhodes' line of sight, its soul was like a cloud of ever-changing shapes. The waves of the soul were broad and long, like a sea tide, and its spiritual energy did not fluctuate significantly, which proved that it was still in a calm state.

Teresa taught him this.

The shining golden Valkyrie is also a superb scout. Although her spiritual vision is not as exaggerated as Rhodes', it is still quite high.

And her skills and experience far exceed Rhodes. While being constantly practiced by her, Rhodes has also acquired many very useful skills.

This is also one of the sources of Rhodes' current confidence.

"stop."

Rhodes reached out to stop his companion, carefully observed the enemy, and quickly judged it from the slight disturbance of its soul waveform and spiritual energy operation.

This is a ferocious monster.

The level may be between the elementary level and the middle level, and the strength of the psionic energy is about 80 thousand quarters.

According to Trorian's tactical principles, a well-prepared team with a total psionic strength of more than 20 thousand ticks can try to hunt this monster.

If targeted soul traits are present, the total strength can be reduced to 10 kk.

The spiritual power of monsters usually far exceeds that of humans, but human beings have wisdom. If they only match their opponents according to their spiritual power, there will be a huge gap in Trorian's defense.

"Stand here and don't move."

Rhodes ordered.

"I'll buy a few tangerines... I'll clear the nearby disturbances. When I hunt monsters later, you can help me wrap them around appropriately, but don't be brave, and run away immediately if you are in danger, uh, are you What sequence? I forgot to ask, sorry, the flow is still a bit rusty."

Mephis didn't laugh at his expression, and his tone was always calm.

"Blesser of Fire, Ice."

"...Oh, oh, spirit fire, don't use written language, your characteristic is ice? This is rare. It is said that it was an unknown characteristic in the past, and it was very taboo. You are lucky to be in this era..."

Rhodes tried his best to play the role of captain.

Although he only has one player.

Mephis didn't speak in silence. The aloof Yujie also has the advantage of being aloof, at least she won't talk back, and this Yujie is even better, she neither looks impatient, nor rolls her eyes or turns her face away he.

Rhodes gave her a thumbs up in his heart, then turned and walked towards the few corpses wandering nearby.

These unlevel weak monsters didn't even let him take out his gun, he just used a few smart sliding moves and a few quick punches to destroy them.

The strange experience of eliminating monsters head-on for the first time once again boosted Rhodes' confidence.

He felt that as long as time passed, the shining golden Valkyrie would only be rubbed under his body.

"Hmph, it's time to test my training results."

Rhodes took out the spirit gun, loaded the spirit sealing bullet, and held Lei Shi.

"Die!"

boom!
Feng Ling's bullet crossed a white line and shot at the vicious monster wandering in mid-air.

(End of this chapter)