the last king of darkness

Chapter 169 Join the war
Before returning to the base, Rhodes first went to No. 17 Gray Street to find the medicine woman. She finally came back and paid for the fifty puppet woods ordered earlier as agreed.

Only then did Rhodes feel relieved, [Wooden Puppet] only lacks spirituality now.

This thing can only be found in the souls of living people. Of course, Rhodes can't kill innocent people indiscriminately, but since the last black priest incident, most of the doomsday cultists have entered a state of concealment, so it is not so easy to find.

Rhodes hugged and tried to ask the medicine woman.

She actually has it, and the price is not expensive, ten silver for one piece, the quantity is extremely large.

Rhodes refrained from asking where it came from, and bought a thousand copies in one go.

The medicine woman dragged out a box from under the dusty counter, opened it, and found that inside the box full of spiritual light, there were translucent wriggling spirits, like a bunch of unknown parasites.

The pharmacist carefully weighed out a thousand portions with a balance and handed them to Rhodes.

This spirituality extracted from the souls of hundreds of people is actually only a small lump, not enough to fill a fist.

Rhodes took the spirituality, turned around, and put his hands in his sleeves.

When I turned around and came back, the living spirit had already been sent into a dream.

"Fifty more puppet trees."

A [Wooden Puppet] can be made with a piece of puppet wood and a lot of spirituality. Rhodes simply gathered materials for a hundred.

There was no expression on the medicine woman's wrinkled face.

"Okay, pick it up in an hour."

"Why so fast this time?"

"The materials are ready."

An hour later, Yaopo handed fifty puppet logs to Rhodes on time.

"Happy cooperation, I will come to you often in the future, can I get a discount for old customers?"

The medicine woman said blankly, "No."

"Mother-in-law, don't be so ruthless, do business more flexibly, don't you want to keep a big customer like me for a long time?"

"Do not want to."

"That's right, you don't want to lose such an honest and straightforward client like me... Cough, [-]% off, that's the deal."

The medicine woman looked at him expressionlessly.

Although he didn't agree, he still accepted the discounted 2 silver cord.

"Haha, the body is quite honest... Cough cough, this, mother-in-law, do you know a hunter named Mephis?"

"do not know."

"I don't know? A Duo said that all the hunters who are often in her hunter's tavern have come to buy things from you."

The pharmacist said indifferently, "It is the principle of our business to keep clients' secrets."

"...How about this, I'll give you a thousand silver ropes, you make an exception."

"No."

But the pharmacist's hand took the money.

"...Do you know where Memphis lives?"

"do not know."

"Do you have her contact information?"

"No."

"She likes lemon jam best, is it true?"

Yao Po's cloudy eyes suddenly looked at him, and asked vigilantly, "What do you want to do?"

"I want her to be my partner, mother-in-law, I don't know if you are a fireman or if you understand our combat system, but I tell you clearly, we are a match made in heaven, no one is more suitable than us to be Teammates, the power we have together has far surpassed one plus one, reaching the level of one multiplied by one..."

"Isn't that still one?" Yaopo sharply pointed out.

"You don't know math, so don't interrupt. In short, if I am without her, it is like a wolf without a wolf. If she is without me, it is like a flower without a pistil. It is incomplete. Only when we are together can we learn from each other's strengths and make up for our weaknesses. ..."

The medicine woman said indifferently: "I'm sorry, I didn't see that you are suitable there. Mephis is also my old client. She can complete many tasks by herself without your cooperation... If something happens to her, the internal affairs will rule So you will find me here, I don't want to cause trouble, you can go."

Rhodes smiled and said: "Grandma, you don't know enough about Mephis, it seems that she is also a vain woman who likes to distort the facts and invent history to put gold on her face, but this is normal, there is no woman who does not love vanity, I Let me tell you the truth... A few days ago, we encountered a seven-headed abyssal monster during a mission, and she was so frightened that her face turned pale on the spot, and she crawled into my arms..."

Rhodes artistically processed the experience of the last mission, emphasizing his bravery, domineering pride, broad-mindedness, superb combat skills and perfect response to the enemy.

If it wasn't for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and other reasons, he would have killed them all in one go.

And Mephis stayed in his arms the whole time. The two flirted with each other while fighting against powerful monsters. While performing classic plots in various romance stories, they danced with monsters, and then when the atmosphere reached its climax, there was a farewell kiss, which exploded into an infinite small universe and instantly killed the monsters.

Rhodes thought he played perfectly, but when he looked up, he saw that the wrinkles on Yao Po's face were all crowded together.

"I don't see where you are suitable. If you don't buy something, just go."

"Hey, didn't you see it? Our team can hunt monsters more efficiently and create a better living environment for the people of Trorian..."

The medicine woman's tone became bored.

"Don't you just want to get her? Don't you just want her to be a plaything on your bed? You buy so many puppet trees, who knows which ones you will use to control her to satisfy your perverted desires, you men You are always full of obscene thoughts like this, but you still have to find a noble reason to cover it up. Go away! Otherwise, I will ask the people from the Internal Affairs Tribunal to arrest you!"

"You are slandering..."

But Yao Po no longer listened to his explanation and forcibly drove him out.

With a bang, the door slammed shut right in front of the nose.

Rhodes scratched his head, feeling that unless he showed the [Wooden Puppet] to her, it would be difficult to clear up the misunderstanding.

It's really troublesome that the Puppet Tree actually has properties such as ecstasy water and hallucinogens.

What's more troublesome is Yaopo. He didn't expect that a producer of a black workshop would have such a bottom line that he would dare to report him to the Internal Affairs Tribunal.

Isn't this the same as those who operate without a license and report smuggling and come here to sell stolen goods?
Forget it.

Or think of another way.

Rhodes had no choice but to leave Yaopo's black workshop and return to the secret base.

-

In the first two days at the secret base, it was still the same as before, training, studying, and making up lessons.

It's just that the comprehensive improvement brought about by Rhode's greatly increased soul strength has refreshed the perception of many people.

Teresa praised: "Your psychic power has increased very quickly, and I can feel it now."

With the removal of the disguise, Rhodes became a lot younger. After all, he was only 16 years old and his height was only a size seven.

And Teresa is already in her twenties, not because of some special reason, and her strength is still in the stage of rapid growth. She has already graduated from the academy, but now she is also a student of special students.

The combination of these two identities representing the strong represents a more powerful fire bearer with unlimited talent.

Coupled with the "strong" logo members in the hidden branch, her strength has already broken through the sky.

Teresa is tall and has a mature temperament, and she is in line with the status of a big sister in every way, even the posture of pressing him under her body.

"Get up! Your armor is so cold and hard, it's killing me!"

"Oh, sorry little Rhodes, I always forget that you are still a newcomer, does it hurt?"

Rhodes patted her hand away and snorted coldly: "Don't be complacent, I will surpass you soon."

Teresa smiled. "Really? That would be great."

"Hehe, don't forget our agreement, you will call me big brother from now on."

"Of course, the Valkyrie will not forget her promise, little Rhodes."

Rhodes curled his lips, of course he could hear the tone of a big sister coaxing a little brother.

Even if you don't believe it now, I will let you call from morning to night in the future, hum.

"Okay, next we will train three tactical moves, Weiss roundabout, Theo's multiple smashes, and four types of getting up."

In the training ground, Rhodes' wailing sounded again.

Many bigwigs who have completed the training are watching and cheering for him.

This is a rare day of leisure.

And the group of beautiful big sisters also gathered around, admiring and whispering.

"Wow, look at little Rhode's waist, he is fit and masculine, with smooth lines, quite masculine."

"The abdominal muscles are well-proportioned, the muscles are flexible and full, and they have inner strength. They are fit and beautiful, and they have a strong sprint force when they explode."

"Sister Jessica, your saliva is coming out..."

"Teresa, a dead woman, is so lucky, and I am not weaker than her, why can't I be an instructor?"

"Try without releasing the magic power? Teresa can make you unable to stand up with one finger."

"Wow... Sister Lisa, your words are so embarrassing."

The beautiful big sisters sometimes fight, sometimes snicker, like unfurling flower branches, clusters of flowers, fluttering light and color, competing for splendor, many people's eyes are straightened.

Teresa also knew that Rhodes was working hard. In order to attract more big sisters to watch, she tore Rhodes' coat little by little during training, revealing his well-proportioned and fit body.

"Okay, you're enough! If you do this again, I can do push-ups without my hands."

Teresa was surprised: "Your psionic energy can be released?"

Rhodes glanced at her speechlessly, closed his mouth, and concentrated on training.

From these trainings, he really felt the benefits, and his actual combat ability was increasing rapidly with the training.

What made Rhodes even more happy was that during the evening foreign language tutoring, Professor Binns believed that his foundation was solid enough, and taught him the core language-breaking rules he invented.

After mastering this rule, many language problems were immediately understood, and Rhodes' ancient language level directly rose to a big level.

In the dream before going to sleep, he thus deciphered a long section of the key content in the book of knowledge, knowing how to distinguish the size and ability of a star in the state of ashes.

More importantly, there is now a class of questions that he can get answers from the Book of Knowledge.

"Which star is the most suitable for me at present?"

After paying a hundred rubies, the Book of Knowledge gave the answer.

【Sense of God】

【Elegy of the Spirit】

Rhodes quickly found these two clusters of ashes on the Soul Wilderness, and through the method obtained from the Book of Knowledge, he learned the specific use of these two stars.

[Sense of the Gods] can greatly improve spirituality, so that he can continuously comprehend the essence and gain inspiration during the learning process.

[Elegy of the Spirit] can greatly increase psionic energy, and its star energy effect is to increase psionic energy.

really.

These are the things that Rhodes lacks the most now - spiritual strength and combat skills.

Nothing suits him better than these two stars.

But it is a pity that the ignition conditions of these two stars are very high.

To ignite [Sense of God] requires [3 Soul of Source, 100000 Spirit of Soulless, 1500 Spirit]

And to ignite [Elegy of the Spirit] requires [3 Souls of Source, 150000 Spiritless Souls, and 1000 Spirits]

[Soul of the source] is a special soul that contains the source. Rhodes doesn't even have one now, so where are the three?

Moreover, they need a lot of spiritless souls, and Rhodes' current stock is far from enough.

Only spirituality barely makes it up.

Rhodes then asked the Book of Knowledge, what exactly is a special soul?Where is it?

But the demand for answers to these questions reached tens of thousands of rubies.

Wipe, it's really poisonous.

I'll ask the teacher tomorrow.

Sure enough, the teacher of the "Top Class" did not disappoint Rhode's expectations.

The guardian Li Liwei told him that in the three-layer structure of the world, the source quality of the sea of ​​origin sometimes seeps out with the fluctuation of the void, and the souls with these source materials are special monsters, and they usually have Many strange characteristics, powerful psionic recovery and super high spiritual perception are the most common characteristics.

Destroying such monsters will help Sea of ​​Origin restore its balance and slow down the spread of the black mist from the root, but they are usually very powerful, far from the existence that Rhodes can touch now.

isn't it?
But I've already wiped out several of them.

Also, that black priest who loves to eat shit also has such a soul, isn't she also weak?

Of course, Rhodes didn't say these words, he just asked where he could find such a monster.

Lilivia told him that these monsters are usually outside the defense circle, that is, outside the Trorian Kingdom. That is the real dark world, where countless dangerous and terrifying unknown monsters lurk, and many monsters have been silent in the depths of darkness For tens of thousands of years, it has already become an incomprehensible and indescribable existence for human beings.

In contrast, within the defensive circle is heaven, the safe zone is the cradle of babies, and the royal city is the hothouse of embryos.

Rhode's first reaction was disbelief, which was very similar to an adult lying to a child not to go out for a stroll, but the second reaction was a shivering chill. Her words were not pure threats.

Rhodes knew that if dust-level monsters were not dealt with for a long time, they would mutate in the black fog, devour each other, or build nests, and gradually grow into deadly threats.

And outside of Trorian, who will clean up the dark depths that humans have never reached?Who can imagine what they have become after countless times have passed?

Rhodes had also seen such a terrifying existence before. Although it was only a surprise, it left an extremely deep impression on him.

After getting the answer, Rhodes pondered for a long time, and finally decided that he could only have a chance to kill such a monster if he traveled with the strong.

But the problem is that the Hunters don't seem to be involved in missions outside of Trorian.

And the secret base does not allow him to go out to perform tasks.

If you want to travel with those strong people, you must first become strong.

But the question is, if I don't hunt monsters, how can I become a strong one?
Rhodes felt that he was caught in a paradox, and he had no way to break this logical cycle.

How to do?
Just when Rhodes was worried, a turning point came.

In the evening of the next day, instructor Sauron finally returned from the front line.

At the same time, Dean Vera and the hidden leader Kalil announced a very amazing news.

(End of this chapter)