the last king of darkness

Chapter 588 Investigation Legion Advances (Part [-])
However, the Book of Knowledge warned him not to be careless, this invasion of Chaos Demon was a bit strange.

In the injured state, it was inexplicably affected by the feedback of the black mist source and invaded the dreamland.

Theoretically, it's not impossible, but it's too coincidental to be suspicious.

Maybe there is some unknown danger hidden in it, so be careful.

In addition, the Book of Knowledge also told him that too many spiritless souls have been consumed recently to repair dreams. To ignite the [Song of Life], in addition to the king's soul, source, and firewood, 76 billion spiritless souls are needed .

Currently, there are less than 1 million spiritless souls stored in the dream. Rhodes had better hurry up to hunt monsters and harvest enough souls.

Rhodes was a little worried. As a super combatant, he was Trorian's highest combat force, a strategic force. During the war, he was not allowed to leave the royal city casually, and had to obey the arrangements of the Temple of Fire.

Now, the battle started again, but he hadn't received the battle order yet.

Except for Xingge, all other super fighters have already rushed to the battlefield.

It is definitely not acceptable to act without authorization. Rhodes of the Wangcheng sewer has already been vomited, and for him now, the benefits are very small.

There are not even a hundred million spiritless souls in one trip.

The monsters in the sewer were almost wiped out by him, and he couldn't go to the deeper abyss.

Horus also warned him not to fight too often.

Killing monsters will bring dark backlash and pollute the soul.

Even if his soul self-purification ability is extremely strong, it is still limited.

Once the soul is polluted, the combat effectiveness will be affected, and the super combatants must put all their strength on the real battlefield.

Just when Rhodes didn't know what to do, the Flame Crown logo on the neckline finally ignited.

This shows that he has entered the battle order and will receive an order for combat immediately.

But to his surprise, the fire continued to expand, forming the face of the king in front of his eyes.

"king!"

"His Majesty!"

Many people knelt down in the training ground at once.

They were all potential recruits Molly had brought in, and they had just become reserve members of the Black Warband.

Rhodes has now relaxed his thinking, as long as the resources are sufficient, the more members the better.

The previous method of recruiting only powerful or useful members is not feasible, the cycle of transforming into dream apostles is too long and the efficiency is too low.

It's better to recruit more potential seeds and become the reserve members of the Black Warband.

After they are completely transformed into "Dream Apostles", they will meet the basic standards of the Black Battlegroup, and then become full-time members.

If there are those who perform particularly well and have a particularly great supporting effect on Rhodes, they can become elite players.

Of course, old people like Memphis, Annabelle, and Kashan are all at the captain level.

Molly became the deputy head, Rhode's right-hand man, responsible for all routine affairs in the battle group.

Wang looked around and smiled slightly: "Little Rhodes, it seems that you have recruited a lot of people. I originally thought that the Black War Group was your harem group. Unless young, beautiful and capable beauties, no one else can enter. .”

Rhode's face darkened: "King, you are slandering, don't you know the quality of me?"

Wang nodded seriously.

"Of course I know, the person who received the most complaints in the Disciplinary Committee is a mutant who can't be controlled when he sees a beautiful woman, a super voyeur and an illegal photo crystal holder."

Fortunately, Rhodes opened the psychic barrier in time to cover himself and cut off the sound, otherwise his face as the head of the group could be used to mop the floor.

"Forget about the first few items, I will never recognize a super voyeur who is also an illegal photo crystal holder!"

Wang smiled and said: "Don't struggle, your teacher Sauron was caught when he secretly recorded Olivia taking a bath, and he confessed you right away. In order to avoid the impact, we didn't say anything about it. .”

Rhodes' eyes widened immediately: "Haven't you ever thought that Sauron is using me as a shield? How could I do such a thing?"

"Little Rhodes."

Wang looked at him seriously.

"Your psychic powers are soft, but your mouth is hard, we found Olivia's picture crystal in your living room, and it's a really good shot... er, I mean, you've gone too far, Fortunately, Olivia has already gone to the front line of Crow Fortress, and when she comes back, she will kill you."

Rhodes covered his face, knowing that he couldn't explain clearly, he sighed and said, "King, it's better to send me out quickly."

Wang laughed and said, "Isn't this here?"

He paused, his tone becoming serious.

"I have a very important task for you. Liszt, the head of the investigative legion, returned to the royal city half a day ago. He brought a very important message."

"About 3700 thousand yards southwest of Wangcheng, he and his team found a trace of suspected human activity, but further investigation was blocked, and a special combatant was required to accompany him."

"I think you are very suitable for this task. They have finished repairing and are waiting for you at the third gate of the outer city. You can start now."

Rhodes was stunned by Wang's words, and asked, "Have we found other human survivors? What kind of traces are those? 3700 thousand yards, am I the only one going? But I haven't stepped into the law yet." At most, they can only be regarded as quasi-special fighters, won’t it affect the mission? Also, don’t we need to prepare anything to go so far into the dark depths?”

Wang smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, there are no king-level monsters among the enemies, otherwise we will not only send a special-level combatant. I believe in your strength, you will have no problem dealing with non-king-level monsters. As for the traces, you can face them." Go ask Liszt."

Rhodes was sure, and immediately had a bottom line.

Without the help of dreams, he has no confidence in defeating a king-level monster.

But below the king level, with his means, there is nothing he can't handle.

"I see, don't worry, I will bring the good news back to Wangcheng."

"Okay, go there, they have brought all the supplies, don't worry about this."

After speaking, the flame dissipated with a snap.

Rhodes unlocked the psychic energy barrier, and Annabelle immediately ran over, asking with bright eyes, "Are you going to fight?"

The reserve team members all gathered around. Although Kashan was still in training, her attention was obviously focused here.

Only Memphis sat in the corner, not knowing what he was thinking.

Rhodes waved his hand: "Go back to training, this mission is very dangerous, I will go alone."

The team members scattered in disappointment, but Annabelle grabbed Rhodes: "I can definitely go, right?"

Rhodes shook his head, the pollution in the dark depths is extremely strong, the concentration of black mist is too high, the danger is extremely high, the less people go, the better.

Although Annabelle was fast and had the ability to assist, she was not suitable for this trip.

"Training at home, when I come back, we should be able to go together on the next combat mission."

Annabelle's expression looked very disappointed, but she soon cheered up again: "I see, I just took advantage of this time to hit the seventh level of magic liberation, and when you come back, you will see a brand new me. "

Rhodes smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to it."

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outer city.

The third city gate.

In the lively crowd, Rhodes saw Liszt's big bald head at a glance.

He was wearing the standard Survey Corps military uniform, a gray and black robe with the Survey Corps insignia printed on the front and back—a pair of outstretched wings under crossed swords.

"Captain Liszt."

Rhodes crossed a distance of tens of yards in one step and came to him.

A smile suddenly appeared on Liszt's face: "Your Excellency Rhodes!"

They had fought side by side in Starry Sky City before, and although they were not very familiar with each other, they were considered acquaintances.

Liszt reached out and held Rhode's hands—his other hand was broken during the battle of Starry Sky City.

"Let's go now."

He said eagerly, his eyes sparkling and full of expectation.

"Go and find our countrymen."

Rhodes can understand his feelings. In fact, he is also very excited. Trorian has fought independently in the dark for 800 years, and now he can finally see other survivors under the terrifying black mist. Excited?
However, it is not enough to be excited, Rhodes asked: "Where are the supplies?"

Liszt kept pointing to his side: "Here, potions, phlogiston, lanterns, afterglow, embers, red tearstones, necessary food, and the bell of silence are all a hundred times the amount."

Rhodes was stunned by the hill in front of him. He originally thought it was a warehouse or something.

"so much?"

Liszt nodded slightly: "The depths of darkness are very dangerous, thick black mist, powerful erosion, and countless unknowns. We must act carefully. When the king told me that he decided to send you to accompany us, we were ready With so many materials, can your space capacity hold them?"

Liszt's words were very simple, but Rhodes was inexplicably moved, because he used the general term "spatial ability" instead of "meat bucket", which made him feel much taller in an instant.

"no problem."

Rhodes agreed immediately, and immediately drew the sign of the dream, and used the dream ritual to transport the pile of hills to the dream—this was his way of loading large quantities of goods.

Liszt said with reverence on his face: "As expected of you, no wonder the king sent you out, no one is more suitable for long-distance travel than you."

Rhodes felt good and said with a smile, "Let's go quickly."

Liszt nodded slightly, waved his hand, and three more people in the same clothes came out from the shadows.

"This is our companion on this trip, the most elite high-level investigator in the investigative legion."

The three nodded to Rhodes.

A bearded man said, "I am number 7."

A one-eyed man said, "I am number nine."

The last one had half of his head cut off, half of his head was flattened, and he looked very scary: "I am number 19."

Rhodes asked in surprise: "You only have numbers, don't you have names?"

The bearded No. 7 replied respectfully: "Your Excellency, Son of Fire, in the depths of the darkness, there are many unknown taboos. We'd better not use names, so as not to be cursed by terror and undergo ominous changes."

No. 19 with half of his head said: "We are away all year round, and we often call them by numbers. I have forgotten the names. The numbers are our names."

Liszt smiled and said, "Your Excellency Rhodes, I also have a number. After we go out, we don't need to call you by name, but use numbers... My number is number 1, and you are number 0. This is exclusive to 'guests'."

Rhodes is not very happy, 01 sounds weird.

But the principles of the Survey Corps are condensed through blood and sacrifice, and it is best to follow what they say.

"Oh well."

"Let's go."

Liszt turned around and walked outside the city gate.

He couldn't wait any longer, an inexplicable longing called to him.

Trorian has been alone in this dark world for too long, and this fear of loneliness has deeply penetrated into the soul of every Trorian.

For more than 1000 years, Trorian has been looking for his compatriots all the time, eager to hear the voices of the same kind in this boundless darkness.

But until now, they have found a clue.

The investigation team rushed to the southwest with enthusiasm.

Rhodes was surprised to find that their psychic level was only between level 10 and 11, and the group leader Liszt was only 12th level, but their speed was not slower than him, and they seemed to be able to handle it with ease.

Liszt praised: "Your Excellency Rhodes, you are the best at long-distance travel among the high-level fighters I have ever seen. They can only bully people with their high spiritual power, and they can't run long distances like us."

Rhodes missed Annabel a little, and asked, "Can't we ride horses?"

Liszt shook his head: "Of course not. When the distance from Trorian exceeds 1000 thousand yards, the spirit lamp will basically be unable to stop the erosion of the black mist, and the spirit horse will be corrupted. We can only use long-distance travel. .”

Rhodes asked worriedly: "For a distance of 3700 thousand yards, do we need many days?"

Liszt smiled and said: "No, the route and map are already available. We ran once and just repeated the original route. One to two days will do."

No. 7 said: "If it is land reclamation and there is no map recorded on the astrolabe, it may take a month, or even two months. We need to be careful, explore the surroundings bit by bit, and avoid danger before we can move forward."

No. 9 said: "We have been exploring this route for six months before we reached such a deep position."

Only then did Rhode feel relieved, as long as the super fighters don't sprint with all their strength, it doesn't matter if they run for ten days and ten nights.

If it is not for the protection of the black fog, it will take half a day to reach 3700 thousand yards.

After about an hour, they passed the Trorian's outermost line of defense and left the flame's influence.

After another half an hour, Liszt turned off the lamp.

It is very dangerous to use a spiritual lamp in the dark depths, and it may alarm many terrifying existences that should not be alarmed, and become moving targets.

Rhodes took out three times as many red tearstones, distributed them to them, and continued to move deeper into the darkness.

Along the way, Liszt explained to Rhodes the clues they found and the difficulties they encountered.

As No. 9 said, they have been exploring along this route, trying to go as deep as possible while searching for an area within 3 yards along the way-unless a new route is opened, it cannot exceed this distance.

They passed through swamps, mountains, hills, plains, basins, deserts, Gobi and mountains, and even crossed a super-large lake. The water in the lake has become pure black under the erosion of black fog for many years. Transform to pure black water.

This is the first time they have seen black water that did not evolve from the black mist of the source, which filled another gap in Wangcheng's knowledge system.

After reaching a depth of about 3700 yards, they found a broken flag at the foot of a barren hill.

It has been silent in the black mist for an unknown number of years, covered by thick dust.

However, after extensive knowledge, Liszt discovered that the pattern on this flag is very special and does not belong to any human kingdom in the age of fire they know.

Most importantly, after identification, it may not be a product of the Age of Fire.

Then, the human power in the more distant Era of Gods is impossible.

If the inference is correct, then it means that there is an unknown human force nearby.

However, when Liszt wanted to explore forward, they encountered many super-inspired monsters.

The perception of these monsters is extremely strong, forming an isolation zone that completely blocks their way.

That's why they had to ask a special fighter to help them kill monsters and clear a passage.

Liszt said: "Your Excellency No. 0, I found many details during the reconnaissance. I am almost sure that this belongs to a new human kingdom. It is very likely that it is ahead of the route. I have a hunch that they have not Annihilation, this time, we may really be able to find a new Kingdom of Fire!"

Rhodes nodded and said, "I will definitely do my best to assist you."

The trip was smoother than expected, and after about half a day, they arrived at the barren mountain.

(End of this chapter)