As a villain, I really can't become stronger anymore

Daphne finished her words and everyone fell silent.

The expression on his face was gloomy and somewhat ugly.

No one expected this would be the result. The Andre family's lair turned out to be an independent space newly opened up in the Soul Burial Forest by forty-nine demigod-level ancestors.

It takes forty-nine ancestors working together to open up this space. With their strength, the possibility of breaking this space is infinitely close to zero.

As for the teleportation array... Sorry, it still doesn't work.

They were not members of the Andre family and had no idea how to activate the space teleportation array. Rather, they did not even know space magic. Even if they knew how to arrange the teleportation array, they would not be able to activate it.

After working so hard for so long, they finally found the location of the Andre Family and knew the way to the Andre Family. However, both of these two roads were dead ends for them. Could they just give up like that?

Not reconciled.

For them, giving up means death.

The atmosphere was gloomy and depressing all around, and no one spoke. However, the clenched fists clearly showed how bad everyone's mood was.

"Could it be that every member of the Andre family can learn the secret of space?" At this moment, Philomena's clear voice suddenly broke the silence at the scene.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.

Yes.

That's right.

The Andre family has many descendants and is flourishing.

Who can guarantee that every member has the talent for spatial ability?

If you don't have this talent, does that mean you have to live in your old nest all your life and never go out, or never go back after going out?

Or does it mean that members without spatial talent will never go out on missions?

Daphne shook her head slightly: "Of course not."

“No matter what power you learn, it requires talent. Without the corresponding talent, no matter how hard you try, it will be difficult to achieve anything.”

"What's more, space power is also a very high-end type among many powers. If you want to master the secrets of space, you need a higher level of talent. In fact, although the Andre family has been breeding through inbreeding in the hope of passing on the excellent genes of the family, among normal descendants, the number of members who have space talent is still less than one-tenth."

"Moreover, the ability to travel between two parallel spaces requires practicing the secrets of space to an extremely high level. Among ten members with space talents, it is already the limit for one to reach this level."

"So there are very few members who can freely travel between the Andre family's lair and the Dusk Continent. Each one of them is extremely precious in the family."

"In the eyes of those old guys, these people are the real elites and the real wealth of the family. Those old monsters are even reluctant to let these people go out on missions, for fear that they will be killed outside by accident. Those old monsters have equipped each elite with a dozen or even dozens of partners, just to let them work hard to reproduce for the family."

"As for the responsibilities of the guardian of destiny, most of them are handed over to ordinary members to carry out."

Daphne said a lot of words in one breath.

At the beginning, he might not be used to this new body and his speech was a little halting, but it became much smoother later on.

Daphne was worthy of being from the Andre family. She really knew more about the Andre family's situation than anyone else. Not to mention Ron, Hefferson and Philomena, even Patridge, the son-in-law, didn't know about these things.

Moreover, these words suddenly brightened everyone's faces, as if they saw hope in a desperate situation.

That's right, the Andre family has always claimed to be the guardians of destiny, and they regard protecting destiny as their greatest responsibility and honor. Therefore, although the Andre family's lair and the Dusk Continent are considered to be slightly lower-level parallel worlds, the two worlds must be connected.

People with spatial talents are extremely valuable and are regarded as tools for continuing the family line. They will never carry out the task of protecting destiny, for fear that one of them will accidentally die in the Dusk Continent, which would be a great loss for the Andre family. Therefore, only ordinary members can be assigned to carry out the task of protecting destiny.

And since these ordinary members do not have spatial abilities, there must be some special way that allows them to travel freely between the two worlds.

Or, it is some kind of special channel.

Or, it is some special prop.

After figuring this out, everyone's eyes fell on Daphne again. Poor Daphne was just about to take a breath when she was stared at so passionately that she was frightened and almost had a heart attack.

The slender neck couldn't help shrinking, and the fair little face timidly said: "Why, what's wrong?"

"Ahem, it's okay, it's okay..." Ron waved his hand quickly: "Ms. Daphne, since most of the Andre family's guardians of destiny who go out on missions don't have space talents, how do they travel between the Andre family and the Dusk Continent?"

"Of course, it's through some equipment." Daphne said as a matter of course: "In the Andre family, there is an ancestor who is very good at refining various magical equipment. He can imprint the magic of traveling between the two spaces on the equipment. When using it, just inject magic power into the magic circle, and the magic circle can be activated at any time, allowing those guardians of fate to travel between the two worlds at will."

After a pause, as if to ensure the credibility of her words, Daphne added: "My husband is a guardian of destiny. I know very well that his equipment is a necklace."

"In other words, we now need to find the guardians of destiny arranged by the Andre family in the Dusk Continent, kill them, and then snatch the magic equipment from them?" Ron blinked and said.

At the same time, a strong sense of regret surged in my heart.

He met many people from the Andre family.

He still destroyed a branch of the Andre family in the royal city of the Kingdom of Granville.

Naturally, he got a lot of equipment from there, but the properties and grades of these equipment were completely incomparable to what he had, so there was no need to replace them, so Ron strengthened almost all of them and distributed them to the people around him.

So now, Ron can be said to have nothing.

He never dreamed that those equipment would come in handy at this moment. Even if he went out to look for them immediately, where would he find them in such a short time?

Those old foxes in the Andre family are more cunning than each other, and each one hides deeper than the other. These guys often have another identity when walking in the Dusk Continent. What's more, this identity is extremely perfect, almost seamless, so that you can't see any flaws at all. Even if someone walks in front of you, you can't notice it.

But now, in no more than three days at the shortest and no more than half a month at the longest, the gods will descend on the Dusk Continent. Where can I find them in such a short time?

For a moment, Ron felt overwhelmed.

However, after hearing this, the expressions on the faces of Hefferson, Patrich, and Philomena next to them suddenly became extremely strange.

"Well, Ms. Daphne, let me confirm, as long as the equipment is taken from the people of Andre's family, it will be fine, right?" Heferson raised his hand and asked tentatively.

"That's right, but not every piece of equipment is useful." Daphne nodded: "Generally speaking, a Guardian of Destiny only has one piece of equipment like this."

"Just equipment? Can't we have other things?" Patridge also raised his hand and asked.

"There are other props, such as magic scrolls, and even some holy relics have similar effects." Daphne thought for a moment and said.

After all, that old ancestor had a weird personality.

Generally speaking, when refining magic equipment, one tends to specialize in one thing, so that the proficiency will be greatly improved, the refining will be more proficient, and the success rate will be higher.

But that old ancestor treated refining equipment the same way he treated the women around him. It was difficult for him to concentrate on refining just one thing. No matter what equipment it was, after refining eight or ten pieces, he would soon lose interest and turn his attention to other things.

In addition to equipment, a lot of magic scrolls were also drawn.

He even tried to imprint magic on the holy relics.

"That's good. I have some equipment that I took from members of the Andre family. Ms. Daphne, please see if there is anything you can use among them." Heferson exhaled heavily and said quickly.

As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand, and the next second, with a loud crash, countless equipment burst out from the storage ring and piled up into a small hill in front of everyone.

A layer of black lines instantly appeared on Ron's forehead.

How many of these damn things are there?

A few hundred pieces is about right?

"I have a few here too." Patridge scratched his hair and said in a simple and honest manner.

then……

Rumble!

Ron only felt that the ground beneath his feet seemed to shake, and a hill appeared, which was even more exaggerated than the hill created by Heferson. Damn, there must be more than a thousand of them, right?

A few?

When did you two become so reserved and polite?

For a moment, Ron was speechless. He felt that these two old guys, Patridge and Hefferson, just wanted to show off in front of him. How could there be such abominable guys in the world?

Philomena blinked her innocent eyes and raised her hands: "Well, I have a few here too..."

The next second... Ron felt like he was about to be drowned by the mountain of equipment.

The ground originally paved with white bones looked so pleasing to the eye, but now it is all covered with messy equipment, which is really disgusting.

The so-called "few pieces" mentioned by Philomena were an even more exaggerated number than the number of Patridge and Hefferson combined.

Although it seemed that the problem of how to enter the Andre family's lair was about to be solved, Ron felt very strange. He glanced at the three guys who looked more innocent than each other and couldn't help rubbing his forehead: "Where did you get these things?"

"Don't forget, I'm a heretic in their eyes." Heferson spread his hands. "Although the Andre family has been very honest in recent years, they have tried to kill me many times before. At the most, there were more than 20 guardians of fate who attacked me together, including three practitioners of the destruction realm. I was almost killed that time. If it weren't for the source of all evil hanging on to my life, I would have died long ago."

"But since I'm alive and I killed them, then their equipment and storage rings are naturally my trophies. Sniffing corpses is a basic quality of a cultivator. Don't you know that?" Hefferson looked at Ron in disbelief, as if asking Ron how he couldn't even know such a basic rule.

Of course Ron knew that he was just accidentally provoked.

He looked at Partridge.

"Don't look at me. I have been hunted by those guys for more than eight hundred years... more than eight hundred years. Do you know how I have survived these eight hundred years? I was forced to kill one guardian of destiny after another. Has anyone considered my feelings?" Patridge's expression became even more innocent, as if he was asking for a beating, as if to say, "I really don't want to kill anyone, but they just keep coming up to me to die."

Who said this old guy can only hide here and there? It’s obvious that this old guy is more ruthless than anyone else, right?

"I have also been hunted for more than 800 years, but most of them were left by my father. I have killed only a few guardians of destiny, less than a hundred..." Philomena also muttered softly.

Originally Ron thought that he had killed enough people from the Andre family, but compared with the three in front of him, Ron felt that he was nothing but a dwarf.

The blood feud between these three and the Andre family is truly deep-rooted. As for what's happening on his side, it's just a trivial matter not worth mentioning.

Daphne did not waste any time and quickly walked to the pile of equipment in front of Heferson. It didn't take long for her to find a ring from the pile of equipment.

If you look closely, you can see a plum blossom logo on the ring.

According to Daphne's explanation, the old ancestor loved plum blossoms very much, so every piece of equipment he forged would leave a plum blossom mark... And this ring also came with a special skill: returning home and leaving home!

It is this additional special effect that allows those members of the Andre family who do not have spatial talent to enter and exit the two parallel worlds at will.

Use it in the lair to randomly appear at any location in the Dusk Continent.

Use it on the Dusk Continent to instantly return to your lair no matter where you are.

The effect is simple and crude.

Daphne found dozens of them at one time, and each person could get a dozen. If a piece of equipment suddenly broke down due to disrepair, there would be a spare one immediately to replace it.

After preparing all the props, Patridge, Hefferson, Ron, Philomena and Daphne stood in a row and held each other's hands. According to Daphne, the skills of returning home and leaving home, whether entering the nest or leaving the nest, are random.

Once the homing effect is activated, several people will immediately appear anywhere inside the Andre family except inside the building.

Although several people are powerful, they are after all the Andre family who are going to infiltrate this time. The thirteen ancestors of the family are not for show. If they are not careful, they will die. In this case, it is natural that the probability of survival will be greater if they gather together. By connecting with each other, they can ensure that they will not be separated when traveling through parallel spaces.

That’s not all. Several of them have also made various preparations and suppressed their own realm and the aura they emit to an extremely subtle level. They will not be easily provoked and will definitely not attract too much attention.

After completing all the preparations, the five people injected their own energy into the magic props almost at the same time. The next moment, five teleportation magic circles appeared out of thin air under the feet of the five people. With a humming sound, the five figures disappeared instantly.

The huge Soul Burial Forest has regained its former tranquility.

……

The Andre family's lair.

This is a small city.

Although it is not very luxurious and there are not many tall buildings, each building has a retro style and is made of perfectly cut and flat stones. The cost is also quite expensive.

Although this is the headquarters of a family, the daily routine is actually not much different from that in other cities.

On both sides of the wide street, there are two rows of shops facing the street, where all kinds of clothes, food, equipment props, magic potions, and magic materials can be purchased. Behind the shops is the residential area. However, the houses here are not as tall and crowded as those outside, with hundreds of residents in one building. Each house is a single-family house.

There are no churches or schools in this city. All children who want to learn to read and write can only rely on their parents’ personal teaching.

The construction pattern of the entire city presents a huge ring.

Seven prosperous commercial streets are evenly distributed, dividing this circular city into seven different areas. At the end of the seven commercial streets is the center of the entire city.

There was a very spacious square. In the deepest part of the east side of the town was a huge tower, the Tower of Babel. In front of the Tower of Babel was a huge hexagonal altar.

Normally, the ancestor of the Andre family listened to oracles in the Tower of Babel.

Activities such as worshiping gods and offering sacrifices are carried out through altars.

At this moment, the originally prosperous streets in the small town have become somewhat deserted and scattered.

Most of the residents in the city have gathered around the altar. Right above the altar is a giant dragon covered with blue-gray scales all over its body.

That is, Ifrit's brother, Mansfield.

This time's sacrificial offering!

Chapter 2 presented