the last king of darkness

Chapter 296 Cleansing the Royal City
This soul is the first and most complete soul he has obtained after completing the "quantified" of [Darkness Devourer].

Because of its special name, it survived many rounds of sacrifices and has been preserved until now.

I didn't expect it to work at this time.

[Destroy and Burn]: Destroy the soul and obtain a certain ability that it was best at during its lifetime. According to the degree of specificity and integrity of the soul, the longest duration is seven rounds, and the shortest duration is one time.

This is an ability that the soul altar possesses after reaching its full state.

Rhodes used it to occasionally burn monster souls to gain monster abilities.

But the effect is not very good, the monster's soul is completely different from that of human beings, Rhodes can only obtain part of its characteristics, not only the duration is very short, but also need to sacrifice multiple souls to strengthen the effect.

I don't know what happened to the soul of this king of thieves.

Logically speaking, since he is known as the king of thieves, his best abilities should be stealth and theft.

But Rhodes was not very sure. He came to the soul altar, took out the soul from the crystal wall, held it in his hands, and activated [Destroy Burn] with a thought.

Dark flames burst out from the depths of the soul, turning the mass of gray mist into a burning fireball.

A few seconds later, the flame fell, and the soul had disappeared.

A light gray light flashed past Rhodes.

He looked at his hands, as if nothing had changed.

"Book." Rhodes asked uncertainly, "Did I succeed?"

The Book of Knowledge wrote impatiently: "You will know if you go out and try it? Don't bother me with this little thing."

After saying that, it ran away in a hurry.

"This guy……"

With a thought, Rhodes returned to the material world, and as soon as he walked out of the gate, he realized something was wrong.

He is currently in the King's Hand's garrison, where there are high-ranking guards belonging to the King's Guard.

They are generally above the fourth-level combatants, have rich experience and strong perception, and are very sensitive to every move around them. However, he was not noticed by anyone on the way from the room to the station.

Rhode turned back and walked back to the station.

This time, with a high degree of concentration, he realized that, before he knew it, his steps were as silent as a cat, his figure was as invisible as the wind, his sense of existence became very weak for some reason, and he was different from his surroundings. environment is integrated.

Rhodes tried to approach a Hand of the King who had just taken a psychic potion and was meditating to digest it.

During meditation, his perception was the most acute, but Rhodes quietly came behind him and saw a dagger in his arms.

With a thought, he stretched out his sinful hands, and before he knew it, the dagger was in his hand.

Rhodes looked at it for a while.

This is a piece of spiritual equipment.

The sword body is made of pure silver, embedded with star rubies, and the hilt is a complete piece of ruby. The input spiritual energy will be rectified, making the real silver on the sword more stable.

This is a weapon with very strong additional damage to monsters. The user pays more attention to skill and speed, and weakens the monster's spiritual power with frequent attacks instead of hitting monsters with heavy blows.

From this point of view, the characteristics of the hand of the king may be related to acceleration or avoidance, so he chose such a weapon.

Rhodes finished looking at the short sword, moved his hand, and it returned to the arms of the King's Hand intact.

And he was still ignorant.

I rub!

This king of thieves is extraordinary!

Rhodes discovered with ecstasy that this was not just a certain technique, but also seemed to have a special reason.

His body became hazy, as if shrouded in an invisible mist, and some specific parts, such as his hands and feet, even became transparent.

Hahaha, as expected of Mist, the king of thieves.

Maggots, your end is here!
Amid wild laughter, Rhodes ran out of the station and ran along the street.

Sure enough, neither the pedestrians nor the patrolling guards on the road turned a blind eye to him.

Whether it's people or shops, they are all transparent in his eyes.

He can take and leave whatever he wants, with almost no restrictions.

Along the way, just driven by instinct, he has a lot of worthless gadgets in his hands.

This is still the result of his intentional control, otherwise he can steal everyone who passes by.

it is good!
I won't do much about it, I'm simply sorry for the title of King of Thieves.

Now let you feel the fear of being dominated by thieves from thousands of years ago.

Hahaha.

Rhodes ran to the first target on his list.

The remaining six justices.

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The residence of Justice Morey.

This is one of the many luxurious mansions on Queen Street in Uptown.

As a descendant of giant blood, Morey monopolized the position of the chief judge of the Eastern District. His family's ancestors have held this position for generations, but it was not until his generation that he became rich with the prosperity of the royal city.

The entire mansion is filled with the aura of a nouveau riche, with gold and silver inlaid everywhere, and even a pillar is covered with gold leaf.

Rhodes tore as he walked, and many servants' family members exclaimed.

"Huh? Where's the gilt on the pillar?"

"The wall is peeling off again."

"Hey, this house is too old, no matter how much it is decorated, it can't cover up its ancient history. It's time... Where's my money??"

Rhodes blew like a gust of wind, blowing away the glitz, allowing them to relive the hardships of the past, keep in mind the mission of human beings, and not lose their hearts before the prosperity.

Coincidentally, Wangcheng is now expanding its armaments, and it is quite short of supplies.

It should be donated to the greatest cause of mankind.

Haha.

Rhodes quickly came to the hall, and his instinct suddenly made him hold his breath and tiptoe.

He stepped cautiously into the hall, and sure enough, he saw Justice Morey himself.

He sat in the first place with a gloomy face.

"Although the arrogance of that little bastard has been hit, the situation is irreversible. The king's city will inevitably turn to expand. The king's new law has been implemented, and all my properties have been severely damaged. If the future war is unfavorable, our property will be expropriated. possible."

A slightly younger man asked, "Father, what shall we do now?"

"Now we can only bear with it for the time being. I have transferred all the real assets to the underground treasury. In the future, whenever we have the opportunity, we will try to interfere with the expansion. If the setback is serious, maybe we can make Wangcheng stop this unwise move."

Then, they started discussing the specifics.

For example, how to carry out destruction without leaving any traces, how to add corrupt and expired potions to good healing potions, and how to wrap rot in healing bandages.

When they won the victory in Wangcheng, how would they brag wildly, elevating the victor high, as if they could sweep the dark world tomorrow and bring mankind back to the era of light.

When the royal city fails, they want to spread pessimism and despair everywhere, creating chaos inside.

And so on, and so on.

Rhodes hid in the shadow of the pillar and heard half of it, and knew that this guy must be involved in the sabotage of the expedition.

And they can say such words in this hall unscrupulously, which proves that this hall is safe.

Evidence can certainly be found here.

As for the current conversation, Rhodes also recorded it.

Although it is also very serious, after all, without actual operation, it is impossible to uproot this family.

Rhodes pressed the ground with one hand, and found the book of the past that had been dusty for a long time in his consciousness. As soon as he thought about it, the pages of the book began to turn over.

Scenes from the past appear before the eyes one after another, and various characters come and go in and out of the screen. Although the things discussed are very off-line, they are not fundamentally different from today's conversations.

As time goes back, the consumption of psionic energy is also increasing.

After more than a month, Rhodes already felt a little strenuous.

After more than two months, the consumption of psionic energy suddenly increased, like a cobra erected.

And after three months, and every day before that, the psionic power would double.

If this goes on, he won't last long.

Just when Rhodes was anxious, he suddenly saw a picture.

In the picture, nine justices entered the hall one after another, including the dead Levill, Amory, and Karama.

Among the nine people, Levill was faintly headed.

He sat on the top seat and began to talk about something.

Although there is no sound in the picture of the book of the past, his words can be roughly distinguished from the mouth shape.

——They were very worried about the development of Fanxing Town, and were saddened by the failure of the destruction of Fanxing Town. They were planning a fatal attack on Fanxing Town, initially targeting the Aries Demon who was hundreds of thousands of yards away from Fanxing Town.

Rhodes was shocked and immediately returned to the dreamland.

Go to the hut, take out the book of the past from the bookshelf, and then take out the photo crystal.

Open the book of the past, determine the time, input the spiritual power, and the picture will appear on the page, and it will be clearly recorded by the photo crystal.

Rhodes played the entire meeting at five times the speed. Combined with the evidence found in Fanxing Town in the previous internal affairs ruling, this photo crystal is enough to send all six people and their families to the underground prison in Wangcheng, and they will face the most extreme. penalty.

it is good!
You're done!

Rhodes smiled happily, feeling very excited, rushed up to pick up the Book of Knowledge that was eating melons, and gnawed a couple of bites, annoying the latter so much.

"Do you look like a master? Didn't you just kill a few bedbugs? What's there to be happy about? The previous master was not a super strong person who led the era and stood at the forefront of the era. The smallest trouble they encountered was worse than your own. This is tens of thousands of times bigger..."

Rhodes, who was in a happy mood, didn't even insert it angrily, but quickly returned to the material world.

The evidence has been obtained, but he did not leave immediately, but found his underground warehouse as Justice Morrie said before.

In front of the ultra-thick black iron gate, a very exaggerated and complicated big lock hung in front of him, but Rhodes only used two fingers to open it.

The warehouse is full of various rare minerals and materials.

If in the past, Rhodes was not easy to hold, going back and forth to the dreamland too often would be very harmful to the spirit.

But now, Rhodes only used a dream ritual to move the entire inner library away.

Haha.

Tell you to frame me!

Take it as my mental damage fee!
Satisfied, Rhodes left Justice Morey's mansion to find the next lucky person on the list.

Thus, the entire royal city ushered in an extraordinary day.

Rhodes first ransacked the mansions of the remaining five justices, emptied their inventories, and stole all their money. The dream was like a tornado, and even half of the land was blown away.

The only troublesome thing is that the dream ritual can only lock one item, and after passing it in, it must be passed out before another one can be passed on.

Therefore, every time Rhodes commits a crime, he has to go back to his mansion and store the obtained property in the basement.

The basement was so full that he had to stack things directly in the courtyard.

Anyway, as the captain of the Hand of the King, no one would dare to break into his mansion.

After looting all the justices, Rhodes began to look for the people on the list one after another.

Everyone follows the same process, determine the location, determine the time, open the book of the past, record the evidence with the photo crystal, and then ransack the person, send the property back to the mansion, and then look for the next target.

But in one day, Rhodes almost removed more than half of the opponents in the upper city.

And at night, someone finally discovered the theft.

Whether this matter is big or small, although the parties concerned were crying like hell, the Internal Affairs Tribunal just lazily followed the procedures.

It wasn't until the number of theft cases continued to increase that the chief adjudicator noticed this.

But at this time, Rhodes had already arrived at the mansion of Grand Judge Manolo Bana.

After a series of clues, he has determined that the opposition's assembly is often held in his mansion.

This man is the leader of the opposition, and he definitely holds countless secrets.

Whether he is a doomsday cultist, a greedy betrayer, or a stupid being used, will be decided at this time.

Rhodes stepped into the mansion confidently.

However, this time the action was far from smooth as before.

Rhodes almost rummaged through the Book of the Past, every place was missed, but he didn't find any evidence that could be used as criminal evidence.

This is not right.

Rhodes keenly noticed the abnormality.

He watched the pictures of the past three months in a gloomy small room underground, but no one had ever entered here.

But this room clearly shows signs of use.

Among them is a psionic imaging communicator, which has obviously been used many times.

And Rhodes happened to have the psychic fluctuations it recorded.

—that's Jon's communication mark.

Rhodes is very clear about the fact that Manolobana is close to Jon, but after this period of contact, Rhodes' impression of Jon has changed a lot.

As a candidate for the king, he absolutely puts the interests of Trorian before his life, and it is impossible for him to harm the interests of the entire Trorian human being for his own selfishness like the opponents.

What exactly is going on?

Rhodes returned to the dreamland and carefully checked the Book of the Past day by day.

Finally, he found something unusual.

What you see some days is actually a static picture.

At the end of the day, some details on the screen suddenly changed, and no one came in during it.

There is no question that this history has been glossed over.

Rhodes asked the Book of Knowledge, and the latter lazily fanned the pages and wrote.

"Of course, but some traces can be found in the book of the past, try to increase the input of psionic power."

Rhodes returned to the book according to his words and increased his input of spiritual energy.

Sure enough, the picture of that day disappeared and became a blank.

The handwriting of the book of knowledge looks a lot more dignified, wrote.

"This period of history was erased by some kind of mysterious force, which involved the power of a god. It may be the influence of a certain artifact or semi-artifact, which intentionally obscured this period of history."

Rhodes remained silent, and based on this doubtful point, Manolo Bana could not be cleared up.

But there is no evidence.

Wangcheng is very evidence-based. In the past history, there have been enough tragedies caused by the purge without evidence.

It is impossible to cure Mano Lobana's sin with just a few words from him.

special.

Rhodes slammed the table hard.

This guy must be a doomsday cultist.

Most of this matter was done by the Book of Fate.

Rhodes was very upset. In order to calm down, he cleaned up Manolobana's house, and even relied on the instinct of the king of thieves to find his hidden warehouses hidden in various places and emptied them all. up.

To be honest, he didn't expect the Manolobana family to be so rich, and the family property of the previous opponents combined was not as much as his.

For the item of true silver alone, he has more than [-] tons, with a purity close to [-]%, which is equivalent to the monthly output of the true silver mine in Fanxing Town.

There are countless other kinds of materials.

Rhodes laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, and suddenly felt that it didn't matter if there was no evidence.

After completing this vote, the last target is the chief executive Tallinas.

There was nothing wrong with this operation.

Rhodes quickly found a lot of evidence, proving that he was not only an opponent who participated in the sabotage expedition, but also a purebred doomsday believer.

His heart is full of deep-seated hatred for human beings, and he repents for his hard work every day, and everything he has done so far is aimed at destroying human beings in the future.

This is a fundamental tenet among Doomsday Christians.

They believe that human beings are evil and must be destroyed to gain peace.

This kind of people is also a minority among the doomsday believers. Most of the doomsday believers are living unsatisfactorily and trying to make huge profits through the doomsday to change their lives.

Since then, Rhodes' actions have come to an end.

In one day, he checked nearly [-] opponents, and less than [-]% of them did not commit any illegal behaviors, and they were also marginalized later.

Ninety percent of the people participated in the destruction of Fanxing Town.

There are also several doomsday believers mixed in, fueling the flames and fanning the flames.

Rhodes used more than 200 pieces of crystals for the photoshoot, and the confiscated property almost overflowed from his mansion.

At this time, the theft had already broken out in full force, the upper city was full of people running and crying, and a large number of adjudicators and investigators shuttled through the streets and alleys, even the high-level officials were alarmed.

When Rhodes went to the holy fire sacrificial field to look for the king, he happened to see the first elder, Amondo, and dozens of elders and high-level figures in the royal city were standing beside him.

Rhodes smiled slightly and strode up.

(End of this chapter)