13 Mink Street

Neo entered the cave, the cave was not steep down, but it was deep, and it was pitch black.

From time to time, there will be wind blowing out of it, which means that there is more than one entrance and exit below. If you regard it as a cage, then this cage is really riddled with holes.

After walking a short distance inside with a little caution, Neo stopped and looked down. There was a faint green luster in his eyes, like a bat.

What was supposed to be an ant nest at the foot, the ants here are bigger than the outside world, so their ant nest is like an ice cream sundae the size of a human head.

Compared with the surrounding hard soil and rock walls, it is undoubtedly soft and has a little moisture, so after being stepped on, it left a boot print.

Neo squatted down, carefully observed the mark, and then he smiled:

"The military boots of the Knights of Order."

He stretched out his hand and poked it lightly. There was still a little softness, indicating that he stepped on it recently.

If you simplify things, you don’t consider members of the Knights who are absconding or performing special missions to walk here, and you don’t consider the kind of Order Knights who deliberately imitate the costumes of the Knights and come here for a walk...

Then, the only member of the knight order who came to the underground world known recently is Captain Da'an.

"He asked us to kill people, but he himself came here not long ago, alas..."

Neo sighed. In fact, before that, he and Karen knew that the target to be killed this time would not be that simple, and the identity would be rather special.

From the current point of view, the identity of the other party may be more complicated than what I expected.

So, it's better not to know too much about the identity of the apostate, and treat her as a simple task of execution.

And after the task is over, I have to keep it a secret, and let this matter end as quietly as possible, so that there can be no more disturbances.

"She should have a complicated relationship with some high-level people..."

This is a very sensitive task, but it's a pity that everyone has been wiped by candied fruit in advance.

Neo couldn't help but think of Kevin. Most of Karen's secrets were disclosed to Neo, so Neo knew that Kevin was once the white glove of the God of Order.

Now, he and the others are also the white gloves of Captain Da'an.

To make white gloves, one must have the self-consciousness of making white gloves, and things must be done cleanly, otherwise dirty gloves will be easily discarded.

Gently twisting his neck, Neo turned into a group of bats and flew downwards, no longer cautious before, but hurried on his way very simply.

Since Captain Da'an has been here before, there should be no other dangers in the distance to the core.

Sure enough, after flying for a while, Neo finally came to a flat cave below. Because of the spar on the wall, the visibility here is quite high.

But at this moment, a puddle in front of him suddenly reflected a strange luster, and soon the puddle stood up, like a mirror with dynamic ripples.

...

The huge red heart in the depths of the cave beat slightly at this moment, and a woman gradually leaked out from the inside of the heart, and the flesh on the back of the woman was completely glued to the heart.

Undead Master Merindi looked calm and said to himself:

"Are you here, Karen?"

Merindi raised her left hand and slowly clenched her fist.

...

A black vortex appeared in the mirror in front of Neo, and the aura of the undead was rapidly condensing.

It stands to reason that it shouldn't be Neo's style to stand stupidly waiting for the undead summoning spell in front of him to be successfully cast, but Neo has already noticed the positions on both sides of the mirror from the corners of his eyes.

There, there were two things with hidden aura, waiting for him to launch a sneak attack on him when he stepped forward to destroy the spell.

Moreover, the release of the spell in front of him was obviously slowed down deliberately. Once he tried to strike first, the spell that originally took one minute to cast might become three seconds to complete.

This apostate is very calm, she has no life-or-death crisis at all, it seems more like she wants to play with her own executioners slowly.

Neo tried to take a step back, and sure enough, the cohesion of spells accelerated.

I can't go?

Are you so confident?

"Buzz!"

The technique was successfully condensed, and the black mirror surface seemed to be painted with ink. A person came out from inside. This person exuded a strong undead aura, but his image was very vivid.

This man is... Foden.

Whip bearer of the Whip of Order.

Of course, Neo believed that it was impossible for Foden to die, let alone be summoned by the opponent after he died.

Therefore, either the other party is deliberately humiliating himself in this way, or the other party is very familiar with Foden, at least once.

Because the Foden in front of him is obviously much younger than the whipman who often appears in the "Weekly Order" now.

Neo pursed his lips. In fact, his probing mission has not been completed at this time, because no actual contact has been formed. His task is to test the strength of the opponent. Under the premise of penetration control, if the opponent's strength is too high...then this mission can only be given up.

After all, there is no reason why everyone's lives must be filled here, it is not worth it.

And if the strength of the opponent is within the acceptable range, it can be solved, even if it costs a certain amount.

Neo moved.

Instead of rushing directly to Foden, he chose to go around.

Foden stayed where he was and didn't move, but a crack appeared under Foden's feet. With a "click", the crack quickly enlarged and covered a large area.

Cracks also appeared under Neo's feet, and invisible restraints began to lock Neo.

This is simply an unbelievable restraint technique!

Before this, Neo had never seen anyone use it like this in reality.

Neo, who was shackled, had two lizardmen on both sides of his body. The lizardmen were covered with runes, and they died long ago and were refined into puppets.

The two lizardmen each held a knife and stabbed Neo crosswise.

Neo raised his hands quickly, and staggered the two knives. The power of the lizardman made them stab each other into each other's chest.

This seems to be a very gorgeous fight, but with their respective blades entering their chests, the two lizardmen opened their mouths and let out a roar, and then their bodies quickly petrified, and a small and strong formation was directly completed, knocking Ni O was locked inside.

Right now, he seemed to be surrounded by two lizard men.

If it were someone else, he would have been captured alive at this time.

But Neo's body twisted at this moment, and he was trapped into a cloud of black mist, and the two petrified lizardmen collided violently, twisting the black mist away.

However, a cloud of blood mist appeared in the dispersed black mist. After the blood mist quickly broke away, Neo's figure re-condensed.

This is an escape completed in a short period of time by taking advantage of the only loophole in this blockade formation. After all, they are not living people but puppets, and they will only act according to the logic of operation, and will not adapt to the situation like a human.

But Neo had just condensed his figure, and before he had time to catch his breath, a cold breath appeared behind him.

It's Foden.

Neo turned around immediately, but his chest was pierced by the palm, and both hands were pierced at the same time, one of which was still holding Neo's heart.

"boom!"

Without hesitation, it crushed and exploded a piece of feather.

What Foden held in his hand turned into a cute doll.

And the real Neo landed in the distance with one hand on the ground, his eyes full of horror.

In the previous series of confrontations, his operations have been stretched to the limit. Just here, he is still on the edge of walking a tightrope, and he is suppressed to death by the opponent.

Foden raised his hand and pointed to Neo.

The crack actually spread from the direction of Foden's finger all the way to Neo, and when it was halfway through, it exploded directly, forming a crack cage.

Neo flicked his left hand, and a black dagger appeared in his palm, but he didn't choose to emergency, but inserted the dagger into the ground in front of him, and chanted the Blood Race spell in his mouth.

Immediately, Neo pulled out the dagger that had just been inserted, and blood gushed from the ground, quickly forming a pool of blood under Neo's feet.

The pool of blood began to seep, and soon, all the cracks around Neo were soaked.

Scarlet flashed in Neo's eyes, and he clenched his hands into fists. Behind him, a hideous grimace appeared.

Neo opened his mouth, Grimace also opened his mouth, and screamed.

The blood that had penetrated into the cracks began to boil rapidly, and the countercurrent rushed towards Foden.

Foden didn't retreat, with him as the center, a void formed around his body, absorbing all the cracks and blood.

This is simply an unimaginable way of fighting, and then, an even more unimaginable scene appeared.

Inside the huge blood-red ghost face behind Neo, there was also a void. Foden walked out of it and looked up.

"boom!"

In an instant, the grimace exploded.

Foden stepped on Neo, and Neo flipped his other hand, a blue dagger made a piercing friction sound, and pierced Foden's foot.

This is a dagger produced by Pamires, which has the ability to respond to space ripples.

It is really not surprising that Neo has these things on his body. You know that he can spare time to help Karen collect available weapons. How could he lack it himself?

However, when the dagger pierced through, it seemed to be on an invisible diaphragm.

What Foden stepped on was not an attack, but a sealing formation.

"Buzz!"

In an instant, taking the sole of Foden's boot as the cross-section, a plane burning with the fire of order rapidly enlarged, and then an extremely large and terrifying force was exerted on it, and Neo's whole body was about to be crushed underneath.

With a "crack", it was pressed into the ground.

"Squeak..."

On the ground obliquely in front, blood overflowed, and Neo's figure was re-condensed, but his face was already very pale.

"hiss……"

This is a secret method of the blood clan, which Neo learned from the old man, but his bloodthirsty strange blood is not yet ready to use it calmly, this time it is also for survival, but the price of survival is extremely high. Serious injury.

The blood power in the body has fallen into a slump due to the use of this secret method, and then the body's self-healing ability will drop to the lowest point.

"ah……"

Neo slapped his forehead hard, looking very painful.

However, Foden suddenly stood there and did not move.

This made Neo, who made this action on purpose, a little embarrassed, because he waited for Foden to come close to attack again, and used light magic to isolate him, and forcibly cut Foden from the person who controlled him. This is the most effective so far. The way to break the game, after all, the technique of light and the technique of necromancy are two opposing attributes.

In the previous confrontation, Neo has not used his most powerful light force, but deliberately waited for the critical moment.

But on the other side, he didn't give a chance.

...

"Bloodthirsty strange blood?"

Above the heart, Molindi frowned slightly, the skeleton never told her that the one named Karen actually had the bloodthirsty blood of strange demons.

Is it Karen?

Although not telling her does not mean that he must not have one, but when the skeleton tells himself about the young man named Karen, he often uses the word "pure";

Merindi believed in the intelligence gathering ability of the skeleton, so this person... might not be Karen.

Have you replaced yourself to kill yourself?

Not Karen from Pie, but someone else?

Mo Lindi raised her hand:

"Stop first."

...

In the cave level, fell into a strange and extremely quiet.

Neo kept looking around. He was looking for the true location of the apostate. As for Foden in front of him, he was not the one he focused on.

But one thing that must be confirmed is, was the Whip Bearer already this powerful when he was young?

I don't know whether to describe this as a puppet or a summoning of the undead. It must have been formed in the early days, and maybe the whip-bearer gave a spiritual mark on purpose, which is equivalent to rubbing into his own spells and fighting methods. .

The fact is indeed true, Molindi and Foden were in the same group back then, and they followed Norton, who was not a high priest at that time, very early on.

As a necromancer, when Merlindi planned to cultivate a few special undead summons, the partners around him were naturally willing to help.

Back then when the big guys had a good atmosphere, the partners even regarded the rubbing of the undead summons as a model show, not only focusing on rubbing into their own habitual spells, but also had a great influence on the image and clothing high demands.

Those were also Molindi's years, which she still misses to this day.

If she hadn't understood the true purpose of the high priest, she wouldn't have been imprisoned here for decades, not only missing the period of her best development, but also missing opportunities for career development.

Foden became the whip leader, and Da'an became the team leader. If she was still in that team, she should be able to serve as the first or second leader in a certain system of the Cult of Kosmos now.

"Take off your mask."

When a woman's voice came, Neo knew it must be the apostate.

"I don't know what you're talking about, I'm just an adventure buff, spelunkering, environmentalism."

While Neo was trying to locate the apostate based on the voice, he said something that he thought was nonsense.

But at this moment, five black mirrors appeared around Neo. They stood upright, with a figure inside each.

Wow……

Neo knew that he should slip away.

If each of these five mirrors can produce a summoned creature of the same level as Foden, then there is really no need to fight this fight.

It's not that there is no chance, but if you insist on fighting for this opportunity, how many people you come this time can leave alive, you really have to put a big question mark on it.

It's not worth it, it's too much money, I quit, I'd rather go back and be yelled at by Da'an.

"Take off your mask."

The woman's voice came again.

Neo shouted, "Then you must at least let me see you, ma'am."

"as you wish."

A huge red heart moved out, and Merindi stood on it.

Neo's eyes widened immediately. At this moment, he immediately began to calculate the success rate of his surprise assassination with the power of light.

But when he sensed the terrifying power contained in that huge heart, he immediately gave up this plan.

The heart that was supposed to represent vitality was filled with an extremely strong breath of undead. Even if he was really lucky enough to surprise and kill her, what was waiting for him would be instantly annihilated by the exploding undead power.

it's not fun...

Merindi looked at Neo and said, "It's time."

"How do you know I'm wearing a mask?" Neo asked.

"I saw it when you used that bloodthirsty strange magic to escape just now. This is your negligence, if you want to continue to hide your identity."

"Thank you for your reminder."

Neo stretched out his hand and uncovered his "face", revealing a fresh and blood-red face.

Molindi frowned slightly: "You use your own skin as a mask?"

Neo replied: "Yes, because for a while I was going to be lost, and I used this method to strengthen my belief in order."

Mo Lindi sighed, took off the mask, and after revealing his real face, he could directly determine from his age that he was no longer the outstanding young man of the religion that Skull valued.

Immediately, Mo Lindi said: "Okay, you can go."

"Can I go?" Neo couldn't believe it, he was still thinking about how to slip away, but the other party actually let him go so leniently.

"Let's go, I won't kill you. There are not many people with bloodthirsty and strange blood in the divine religion, and there are very few people who can raise the bloodthirsty and strange blood to this level without falling into a loss. , I have only met one before, and you are the second.

I don't want to kill a talent like you, that would be a pity. "

Uh, is this what the apostate said?

Neo feels that the world is a little too ridiculous.

However, since people want to let me go, I should go and tell Karen after I go back that I will not do this task.

Molindi looked at Neo who was about to leave, and suddenly asked:

"What's your name? I want to know if you are a student of that person, that person, and I used to be good friends."

Neo thought: Then you must be disappointed, my lineage is from the first embrace given by my wife.

Immediately afterwards,

Neo replied politely:

"My lord, my name is Karen."