Something unexpected happened to Kaxiu.
He originally thought that the holy spring water was just a unique life energy that could be used to strengthen the body and nourish the spirit. However, he never expected that the holy marks condensed by drinking a certain amount of holy spring water would actually have an effect on the fighter's spirit!
Although it was not clear what was going on, there was one thing that was beyond doubt: we had to get more holy spring water.
Not only to restore strength.
It is also for the higher level changes of the secret martial arts boxing.
Kashu had a hunch that this stigma born from the holy spring was definitely a good thing, at least for Nan Dou Fist.
Finally, he did some more research and testing before calling the doctor at the sanatorium to express his intention to be discharged.
After a checkup, Kaxiu left the ward smoothly.
Before leaving the sanatorium, he found a mirror.
In front of him was a young man about 1.75 meters tall, with a slender and frail figure, a common weak physique of illusionists.
Bai Kui's appearance is outstanding, and can be called exquisite. Her blue peach eyes are narrow and long, like a lake with surging waves. Her nose is straight and her mouth is naturally upturned, giving people a kind of deep meaning that seems to be smiling but not smiling. Her facial contours are soft and yin.
Especially the blue sunflower pattern under the right ear, which contrasts sharply with the cold white skin, giving it a sense of evil charm.
The semi-long hair, golden in color, has already covered the earlobes.
Bai Kui was born with a good appearance, no wonder he had several confidantes in the subsequent memories. Of course, Bai Kui was still not as handsome as Kaxiu, after all, that was the handsomeness after the transformation of the Golem Secret Weapon.
Five minutes later, a figure slowly walked out of the entrance of the sanatorium. It was nine o'clock in the morning and the sun was very strong.
The temperature is very high in summer, and the green plants deliberately planted on both sides of the road become more lush, with occasional signs of wilting leaves.
Kaxiu walked towards the direction of the organization's headquarters in his memory.
It is now the end of the Red Lebanese Empire, and the walls and buildings on both sides also have a strong style of that period. For example, the colors tend to be bright yellow and blue, and the stripes tend to be checkered.
At a glance, you can often see the pointed eaves on the tops of some buildings, or the religious symmetrical patterns on the doors and windows. Turning your sight to the streets, passers-by dressed in old-fashioned clothes hurried by, and occasionally a horse-drawn carriage passed by.
Kaxiu looked at it while walking towards his destination.
Soon, he arrived deep in the sixth district of the imperial capital. Just like a barracks, a large area of buildings was divided into a restricted area.
Only those who show the badge of the Dark Hunter Organization member can enter.
Kaxiu naturally had no obstacles and walked along the main road straight in. As he got closer to the headquarters, the small yellow-gray floor tiles turned into large floors, and the walls on both sides became higher.
A minute later he passed through a semicircular arch.
The environment in front of me suddenly became clear. It was a clean and tidy fountain square with flower beds planted with green trees and red flowers.
This is one of the four intersections of the Dark Hunter Organization's headquarters.
In addition to this square, there is another square in the center of the headquarters. It is a transportation hub with main roads leading to different areas, including the Logistics Department, the Holy Mu Cathedral, the Weapon Workshop, the Hunter Hall, and the headquarters building.
These are the five most important buildings. There are also some other areas, such as training camps and exercise rooms.
In addition, the Hunter Hall area has a temporary living area for hunters who are settling or waiting for tasks to rest. This is the area Kaxiu came to first when he entered the headquarters.
He wanted to thoroughly understand the internal situation of the Dark Hunter Organization.
Arriving at a building that looked like an apartment, Kaxiu took out Bai Kui's hunter badge and asked the front desk to register a room. Then, he walked directly to the hunter hall.
As soon as he entered the front door, a young man came towards him. Seeing that the other person was staring at him, Kaxiu frowned slightly.
He thought that some inexplicable trouble was coming.
Unexpectedly, the young man was very friendly and asked about the last group mission. He also asked about how one of the female hunters named Sana died and what killed her.
It was just a piece of cake, and Kaxiu naturally answered them one by one.
The young man nodded in thanks and then walked out of the Hunter Hall. He seemed to be a close friend of the female hunter Sana. He asked Kashu these questions perhaps for revenge, or just to get an answer. But it was none of Kashu's business.
He came to the Hunter's Hall to pick some tasks.
Soon, Kaxiu arrived at a large hall. There were also more than a dozen hunters standing quietly in the hall, looking at a wall. On the surface of the wall were pieces of white paper pasted on it.
The paper lists various tasks, danger levels, and rewards.
If you want to do that mission, just take down the white paper and go to the mission exchange office to register. The staff there will give you the detailed information of the mission.
Kaxiu glanced at the left side of the first floor lobby, where he had just come in. There was a brass staircase spiraling upward, which obviously led to the higher floors of the mission hall.
Bai Kui is a "C" level hunter, so naturally he is on the first floor, taking on the simplest missions along with the lowest level "D" level hunters.
"C" and "D" rank hunters are collectively referred to as Black Bronze rank hunters.
"B" rank hunters are called Obsidian rank.
"A" level hunters are called Dark Gold level, there are fifteen of them, six of them are special, five are Shadow Hunters and one is Holy Light Hunter.
Kaxiu speculated based on past experience that this so-called Dark Gold Hunter was probably close to the Fighter level. And these six Shadow and Holy Light Hunters were probably all Fighter level.
It will be easier to push further down.
The White Obsidian Hunter corresponds to the middle and late stages of a boxer, while the Black Bronze Hunter corresponds to a boxer apprentice and the early stages of a boxer. This is a rough and simple judgment made by Kaxiu based on Bai Kui's strength.
As he thought about it, he scanned some of the tasks on the task wall. All the titles were in bold font.
"Investigate the serial murder case in the fourth district of Florence!"
"A pedestrian disappeared at night in the first district of Florence!"
"Dark creatures are suspected to be infesting the sewers of the third district..."
These missions are basically extraordinary events within the city of Florence, and do not involve other areas. The difficulty is obviously very low, after all, the headquarters is in the sixth district of Florence.
Kaxiu glanced over, mainly looking at the rewards at the end of each mission. One unit, 0.5 units, one unit... There were few missions that could give more than two units of holy spring water. Some even didn't even give spring water, but something else.
For example, money or something.
There are some exceptions. They are team-based tasks, which can usually be issued across a level. That is, they include the Black Bronze level and the White Obsidian level to form a hunter team.
That was the situation when the original owner Bai Kui went on his last mission.
Kaxiu stood there, looking at the rows one by one, without making any expression. The hunters beside him changed one or two groups, but he remained motionless like a piece of wood. Kaxiu didn't turn around until a female figure appeared at the entrance of the hunter hall.
The person who came was the girl Qiangwei whom he had just met not long ago.
As a black bronze hunter, he could not accept some well-paid tasks in the task hall. Even if he could accept three tasks at the same time, the holy spring water was not enough for Kaxiu. He was very interested in the stigmata now.
The stigmata are a phenomenon that occurs when the body has reached a certain level of saturation with the holy spring water. Every stigmata that appears on the back of your hand means that you have drunk a certain amount of the spring water.
Therefore, the amount of holy spring water must be large.
Kaxiu didn't want to waste time and dawdle in the black bronze level mission, so he directly used another method.
Qiangwei is a White Obsidian-level hunter and can accept quests in the lobby on the second floor, where the rewards are richer than those on the first floor.
Of course, Kaxiu didn't mean that Rose would take over the White Obsidian-level individual mission on his behalf, and then Kaxiu would do it himself. What he meant was that Rose would take over the White Obsidian-level team mission and then recruit team members. The only person to be recruited was Kaxiu.
That is, two people complete a multi-person team task.
So as to achieve the greatest efficiency and the most generous rewards.
Qiangwei still took her share, while Kaxiu took all the other shares. If the team mission originally required a nine-person team, the reward would be nine portions of holy spring water. Now it has become two people, Qiangwei took one portion, and the remaining eight portions are all for Kaxiu. This is good for both parties. Qiangwei doesn't seem to have gained any advantage, but in fact, completing the mission safely is the biggest advantage. She doesn't need to do anything at all, just leave everything to Kaxiu. Moreover, this way the task will be completed very quickly.
Kaxiu told Qiangwei about this an hour ago.
Of course Qiangwei agreed, as she still wanted to become Kaxiu's apprentice. And taking on the task was just a piece of cake.
"Master Bai Kui, just wait for me for ten minutes." At the staircase of the Hunter Hall, Qiangwei placed one hand on the brass handrail.
A pair of bright big eyes stared straight at Kaxiu.
"Just call my name, go ahead."
Kaxiu ended the conversation and repeated the question of the title. He found that the girl named Qiangwei in front of him seemed to have a great interest and desire in practicing illusion.
That's why she has an unimaginable passion and respect for Kaxiu, who is suspected to be a master of illusion. I wonder what her expression will be when she finds out that Kaxiu is simply and crudely activating illusion
Seven minutes later, a figure came down the stairs again.
Fifteen minutes later, Kaxiu and Qiangwei walked out of the Hunter Hall. They received a Baiyao-level team mission with the most generous rewards, twenty units of Holy Spring water for eight people.
Apart from the 2.5 units of Rose, Kaxiu can get 17.5 units of spring water if he completes the task. Compared with the tasks on the first floor, the rewards are totally different.
You need to complete more than a dozen tasks on the first floor to be comparable to the second floor.
Back at the hunter's temporary residence, Kaxiu recalled the content of the Baiyao-level team mission. Coincidentally, it was the new version of the previous mission of the original owner Bai Kui after it was reset.
"Abandoned Knight's Castle"
Location: Far County, Rikka City, ten kilometers east of the suburbs.
Time: Within 20 days.
Information: A group of dark creatures with deformed bodies are entrenched in the Knight Castle, including many Obsidian-level individuals. They defeated a mixed team of seven people half a month ago. It is recommended that the newly formed hunter team be composed entirely of Obsidian-level hunters.
Reward: 20 units of Holy Spring Water.
In the room, Kaxiu recalled the scene when Bai Kui encountered these dark creatures. They were not very strong, and they did not have any special strange abilities, but they had outstanding physical strength. Even if his strength had not recovered yet, he could easily deal with them.
After completing the mission of the Dark Hunter Organization, Kaxiu can not only obtain the Holy Spring Water, but also obtain the Life Vibration Energy. It will probably take a while for the body to recover to the point where it can use the spirit. And if the spirit can be used, the strength will recover faster. It won't take long for the full combat power to be restored.
Time flies and it's noon.
Rose, fully equipped, appeared in the central square of the Dark Hunter Organization, while Kaxiu had no preparation and was unarmed.
The two of them didn't waste any extra time and took a carriage directly to Far County. Far County was very close to Florence.
It is only less than 60 kilometers away.
It would only take a few hours for a horse-drawn carriage to take the main road.
The midday sun was strong and hot. On a wide earth-yellow road among the woods, a black carriage was heading off into the distance.
It was five o'clock in the afternoon, approaching dusk.
Kaxiu has brought Qiangwei to the eastern suburbs of Rika City, where there used to be a small village. However, with the appearance of traces of dark creatures a year ago, the entire village was gradually abandoned.
The sky was covered with red clouds, and the afterglow shone on half of Kaxiu's face. He raised his head slightly, looking at the ruined castle halfway up the mountain, his eyes gleaming with a fiery red.
In the real world, if Kaxiu wants to find dark creatures to hunt and devour, he also needs to form his own force and collect intelligence.
In this time of retrospection, the Dark Hunter Organization he joined was the official supernatural force of the Empire, which was largely aimed at dark creatures. The relevant information and intelligence were very abundant.
It seems that I have killed some people during this period of time.
Beside her, Qiangwei took a look at the dim sky and the setting sun, then turned to Kaxiu and said, "Master Baikui, the sun is about to set. It will be dark in half an hour at most. It may be difficult to perform illusions when there is not enough light. Should we find a place to spend the night here, or stay in the abandoned village for one night..."
This is the case with illusionists, who have many limitations. Their main method is to create illusions for the enemy through vision, which is the most intuitive. Other senses such as hearing and smell have to take a back seat.
Once it gets dark and your vision is obstructed, your opponent will not be able to see your figure or your illusion movements clearly. The effect of their spiritual guidance will be greatly reduced, or even unable to cause any harm.
That's why Qiangwei told Kaxiu that she would come again tomorrow.
However, Kaxiu did not want to waste that time. He cast illusions directly through his spirit, which was different from the rules and logic of normal illusionists and would not be affected by light.
What's more, how could a small nest of dark creatures last until the evening? Not to mention half an hour, a few minutes would be enough.
"You stay here, I'll be back soon..."