Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

The coat of arms below the stone slab is very small, not as big as a palm. The image engraved on it Esther has never seen before. It looks like a town surrounded by night, but the town is made up of twisted black lines. Thin lines make the whole picture look distorted and weird.

Thomas' eyes lit up: "Is it the Kingdom of the Night? This is the ruins of the Kingdom of the Night!"

Alexander had already put on his gloves. Seeing that Hamel hadn't moved further, he motioned for Aaron to step aside, and he carefully picked up the coat of arms.

And Esther was also a little dazed: "Is this thing useful?"

Alexander nodded, and put the coat of arms into the box that held the key before: "At least it is definitely more valuable than that key. As a relic of that mysterious kingdom, it can be used for divination and guidance of many related secrets."

Aaron's smile was obviously uneasy and kind. He bent over and picked up the heavy backpack that he had just put down. It was not very convenient to carry stones with this thing before: "Of course, there are certain risks, but we can let others bear it." the risk."

It means to use this thing as a trade item with the Secret Order, and then exchange for better benefits.

Esther glanced around the "bath": "It's a pity that there is only this... There seems to be no other special items here."

"It's not such a special room in the first place, it would be nice to have something to gain." Thomas said.

Esther's perception was suddenly touched.

The next moment, the flames in the lanterns around them exploded. Amidst the crackling sound, a figure twisted and jumped out of it, and rushed towards Alexander from behind. Like a flying knife, it went straight to Alexander's head.

The opponent's goal is self-evident, it is a bronze box with a coat of arms!

Esther left the spot of light in the passage to support their retreat. At this time, she could not directly use the power of "restart". It would take a longer time to use the body to intercept the action, and a quicker and instinctive response——

She opened and closed her five fingers, and with one grasp, she stole the other person's idea, which stopped the person's forward momentum, and Esther took a step forward instead.

It was too late for her to stop the flying knives that turned into pieces of white paper.

At the moment when the enemy appeared, Aaron was standing on the other side of Alexander. His actions were completely subconscious reactions when encountering the enemy: raising his hand and turning around.

Aaron was carrying the heavy backpack that he had just grabbed at the shoulder straps and hadn't had time to pick up again.

The backpack rose up with his movements, so coincidentally that no one could have expected it, it hit Alexander's head directly, gave him a hard hit, and knocked Alexander's whole body to the side.

It was such a sudden change that made the backpack very lucky to block a few paper knives, only one cut through Alexander's shoulder and was dyed bright red.

And the moment the opponent's body stopped, Thomas had already thrown off the backpack on his shoulders and went up to him. He grabbed the opponent's arm and twisted his body and fell over his shoulder.

If it were another occasion that was more leisurely, Esther would definitely complain about this in her heart-why Thomas, as a scroll mage genre, can master hand-to-hand combat skills so easily!It even looks so skilled!

But with Thomas' gesture, Esther could see the other person's face clearly. This is the middle-aged man she and Alexander met in the bookstore before!

The man who was hit by the chest and abdomen pain instantly regained his sanity, resisting the discomfort of wanting to cough, he activated his extraordinary ability before Thomas' fist fell on his face.

"Magician", "Paper Doll Stand-in"!

His figure immediately appeared next to Alexander, reaching out to grab the box in Alexander's arms.

However, when Alexander rolled to the ground, he had already protected the box with his left arm, and took out a charm from his arms with his right hand. At the moment when a figure flashed by his side, Alexander read a sentence of ancient Hermes without hesitation. Phrase: "Storm!"

A bolt of lightning blasted out, tore apart another paper figurine in the air, and slammed into the wall fiercely. The entire room was in turmoil, and a large amount of dust and gravel fell from above.

After the man launched this paper doll substitute, he realized that the strength gap between the few people was too great, so he simply gave up continuing to entangle with everyone, and his figure jumped out of the still burning candle.

Esther seized this opportunity to grab again. This time, what she grabbed was not the opponent's thoughts and thoughts, but the extraordinary ability - she stole the ability of "air bullets" and took away the opponent's most suitable long-range attack method .

Her thoughts even coincided with the other party's. The middle-aged man's lips moved slightly, and he spit out a word according to his thoughts in the last second: "Bang!"

The man himself just wanted to use this to injure the opponent and delay their pursuit, but nothing happened. He realized that his abilities had been stolen!

Aaron raised the long-barreled revolver, but the moment he aimed and knocked, the figure of the man disappeared again.

Esther's perception was touched, and she immediately shared the information she had learned with others: "He left a match in the passage, and he jumped directly from there before."

Alexander had already got up from the ground. Although blood was oozing from his shoulder, the wound was not so deep as to bleed heavily: "Let's leave immediately. If the other party tries to destroy the passage, it will be troublesome. There may not be other exits here."

Thomas helped Alexander: "I thought Aaron would make you pass out."

"If it wasn't for the increased physique of Sequence Eight, maybe I would really be killed by him." Alexander stood up and shook his head, "Maybe I have a slight concussion."

Aaron looked apologetic: "I'm sorry, I didn't think about anything at the time, it was a completely subconscious action..."

Thomas was rather impatient: "The balance of good luck and bad luck, right? We know, you stop talking."

Alexander didn't even have time to stuff the box into his backpack, and the four quickly rushed to the entrance of the passage, hoping to get out of here before the other party made other moves.

However, what they didn't expect was that the other party was waiting for the four of them by the entrance of the cave.

The middle-aged man in a tuxedo kept hitting the edge of the hole with a stone, and there were several low-quality explosive tubes stacked together at his feet.When he saw a few people stopped three meters away, his face became more gloomy, but he kept knocking on the wall.

The man kicked out a tube of dynamite towards them: "Choose yourself."

His strength was controlled very skillfully. The explosive rolled twice and stopped just in front of the four of Esther. The choice given by the other party was very clear, whether to hand over the thing or let the opponent detonate the explosive.

He stared at Esther and said further: "If you make me stagnate again, my companions outside will manipulate the flames to ignite them without hesitation."

That's why the men banged stones on the walls incessantly, signaling to their associates outside.

Esther was also vaguely aware of the weirdness, so she didn't act immediately, and she never missed her premonition.

Thomas sneered very viciously: "Ha, it seems that your relationship with your companion is not very good, he doesn't care about your life or death at all."

"Yes, the task objective is the priority." The middle-aged man on the opposite side replied indifferently, which made Thomas choke on this sentence.

Esther was standing at the back of the four of them, and she was calmly withdrawing the light spots that were in stalemate with the black line in the passage, letting them slowly fall to the top of her head in the direction of her back.

Because the other three men were covering her, there was very little light falling on her, so her small movements were not noticed by the other party.

Aaron's neck moved twice, without turning his head, he just asked the people around him, "Shall we just give him the things like this? Nothing matters."

He said this on purpose to the other party, but Esther keenly captured that Aaron had other thoughts, and the current "showing weakness" was more like wanting the other party to relax his vigilance.

Alexander didn't have much expression on his face: "We don't seem to have anything to do."

Esther could tell that the tone of his voice was off. Alexander had never spoken in such a high-pitched voice.This was obviously a hint of "other plans", but because she hadn't gotten along with a few of them not long ago, she didn't have the kind of tacit understanding that could quickly comprehend the action instructions.

Thomas cursed a few words, and stared at the other side more fiercely, as if he really wanted to make up for the punch that he missed before.He looked particularly irritable, which was not much different from his usual reaction, but Esther could vaguely feel his emotions.

Thomas was far less impulsive than on the surface. Unlike Esther, he understood the hints of Aaron and Alexander well and was ready to cooperate with them.

Aaron sighed: "Oh, it seems that there is really no other way, are we so unlucky? It's really bad luck..."

The man standing next to the explosives raised his chin at them: "It's just good to know people."

Thomas suddenly rushed over, grabbed Aaron by the collar, and stared angrily: "You fucking! How many times have I told you, stop talking about your bad luck!"

Such a sudden change made Esther stunned, and the middle-aged man on the opposite side also showed doubts in his eyes, but the tapping action on his hand didn't stop.

Of course he didn't dare to relax, this was also a signal that his own life was at stake.Even if he said that "the task objective is the priority", he didn't want to die because of such a small mistake in surprise.

Thomas grabbed the bronze box in Alexander's hand, saved the thing in his hand, and shouted to the opposite side: "You want this garbage, right? I don't want to die in this miserable place, so what if I give it to you !"

"Wait, Thomas! We have to talk to them!" Although Alexander said so loudly, he didn't try to reach out and hold Thomas down at all.

"Talk about it! What else is there to talk about, I will give it to you if you want it!"

After cursing furiously, Thomas swung his arm violently and threw the box in his hand towards the man.

"They threw things over here! I'll get out right away!" The other party still didn't have much expression on his face, but when he shouted outside, Esther could clearly hear the anxiety in his tone.

Aaron suddenly turned his head and gestured to Esther with his mouth. Esther instantly understood what he said.

"theft"!