Florence, District 7, interior of a detached house.
"All the assassins sent to assassinate him are dead?"
The tall, blond Soth sat on the sofa. When he heard his subordinates' report, he stopped in mid-air while trying to raise his glass.
Bang! The glass filled with wine fell onto the coffee table with great force.
Some of the red-purple liquid inside shook out.
Five minutes later, Soth leaned back against the backrest. He crossed his arms over his chest, frowning slightly. To be honest, he did not expect to fail in such a small matter. The royal family investigated the Black Bronze Hunter that Blood Axe Heb liked, and found that his strength was not outstanding. However, the overall strength of the three assassins hired by the Shadow Thorn Organization this time was between White Obsidian and Dark Gold. If the three of them joined forces, I am afraid that even a Dark Gold Hunter could be assassinated.
As a result, the final situation was completely different from what was expected.
Three assassins died, and the last one died in a special way, self-destructing in front of Soth's men. It seemed that this was a way to deter the forces behind the assassination of Bai Kui.
"Is it that hunter named Bai Kui who is hiding his strength?"
Soth picked up the glass again and took a sip of red wine. He let the sourness of the wine flow down his throat and spread all the way to his stomach. He pondered for a while, then quickly shook his head and denied this possibility on the spot.
The probability of Bai Kui hiding his strength was the lowest because 20 days ago, Bai Kui had just completed a team mission and survived a near-death experience.
Afterwards, he lay in bed for half a month before he finally managed to survive.
This is true, the royal family had specifically gone to the sanatorium to inquire. Therefore, the assassination failed, there are only two other possibilities.
First, there was interference from the Red Li Council and the Dark Hunters, especially the Dark Hunters. Bai Kui's submission of the honorary badge would subsequently attract hostility from all parties, which the Hunters Association and the head of the agency must have known.
They may have secretly sent out experts to protect the hunter Bai Kui.
Second, the branches of the Shadow Hunter Organization in various places, the old hunters who hold local authority, regrouped. They wanted to train Bai Kui as a representative of the younger generation. This was the most likely possibility, because Blood Axe Heb was one of the old hunters and had a lot of say. In addition, the qualification to become a Shadow Hunter did not have to be used up now. Bai Kui could be trained for more than a decade, waiting for the second opportunity for a Shadow Hunter position to become vacant. Before that, the old hunters would definitely send someone to protect him.
If you think about it this way, the failure of this assassination doesn’t seem unfair.
"You're lucky, kid."
The fierceness in Soth's eyes gradually subsided. He didn't plan to attack Bai Kui again in the near future, but that didn't mean he would just let it go. Soth had the confidence to represent the royal family as a shadow hunter, and the winner of this position would be decided in the next two months. He planned to wait until he became the new shadow hunter before he could spare the time to deal with Heb and Bai Kui.
On the other side, in Florence, the second district, in a dark street.
The black figure walked slowly, advancing in the shadows of the corners, like a silent shadow. He walked quickly and was very familiar with the street environment. After turning a dozen corners, he suddenly arrived in front of a small house.
The moonlight shone obliquely on the tiles on the top of the tall building, and a huge shadow tilted down, instantly covering the small house, making it even darker.
The black figure stood in the moonlight and slowly put down his cloak.
It was a young man with black hair and black eyes. He had a delicate face, but his eyebrows and eyes were extremely sharp, and his eyes gave people a deep and cold feeling. If I had to describe it specifically, it would probably be a black knife with a black blade unsheathed.
The moonlight draped over the young man like a thin gauze, and a shadow was cast diagonally on the wall. It was a human figure, but beside the outline there were many black tentacles that were like tentacles, baring their fangs and claws.
If you look closely, you will find that they are actually thorns. They are densely packed and surround the young man.
Like a poisonous thorn flower.
The person who came was Solomon the Thorn.
He glanced at the moonlight above his head and walked straight towards the cabin.
Standing in the shadows, he raised his hand and gently knocked on the door five times.
“Knock knock knock knock…”
"Come in."
A voice came from inside, which was obviously an agreed-upon code.
Solomon immediately pushed the door open and closed it behind him. It was very dark inside, with only a thin sliver of moonlight shining in through the cracks in the window.
In the corner, a tall cloaked figure slowly emerged.
"Zhuhun, what do you want from me this time?"
Solomon spoke first, pausing in his tracks.
The cloaked man called Candle Soul said nothing, but suddenly walked out of the darkness and threw something to Solomon.
Solomon took it and looked at it, and Tong Kong shrank slightly. This was a secret book, and he was very familiar with it. It was the second level of the Sin Thorn Secret Art, which involved how to use the Sin Thorn toxin to stimulate the physical practice.
Moreover, there is an explosive secret method inside. It can reversely invade the body with the thorns of sin, wandering between the membrane and the flesh. It can absorb burning blood and explosively increase physical strength.
"This is?"
Solomon suppressed his joy and asked tentatively.
"This time, you must become a shadow hunter of the Dark Hunting Organization..."
Zhuhun said, "At the Hunter Association headquarters, among the tens of thousands of hunters, only Shadow Hunters and Holy Light Hunters are eligible to go to the source of the Holy Spring. There, hunters will have a chance to soak in the Holy Spring water. We need you to do one thing at that time. Don't worry, the means we provide will never be discovered..."
"What is it? Can you tell me in more detail?"
Solomon said this, but he had a guess in his heart. The reason why the Dark Hunter Organization has been able to last for thousands of years in the Red Lebanese Empire is that it has always been an official supernatural force to suppress the supernatural world. The Holy Spring has made an indelible contribution.
Once something goes wrong with the Holy Spring, the entire organization will be shaken.
"I can't tell you now. I will tell you when you become a Shadow Hunter." Zhuhun continued: "I have already given you the second chapter of the Sinthorn Secret Art. I believe your strength will be improved in stages in the next month. What you need to do is to become a Shadow Hunter without any suspense. We will help you with this..."
His voice was low and had a sinister quality to it.
"What do you mean?" Solomon frowned slightly.
"Don't worry about whether it's glorious or not, being able to become a Shadow Hunter is the most important thing. There are three candidates in total, and I will try my best to help you eliminate one. After all, Florence, as an imperial capital, is not so easy to attack..."
Zhuhun's tone suddenly changed: "Oh, right. There should be four places, and the hunter named Bai Kui. I won't help you solve this. After all, there is no threat at the Black Bronze level. You can go..."
Solomon nodded and carefully placed the secret book in his arms.
With a creak, the door opened and closed.
Zhuhun stood in the shadow by the window, looking somewhere unknown.
"Gaining power through external forces is the most dangerous and most likely to have drawbacks. The Dark Hunter Organization was made by the Holy Spring, but I'm afraid it will also fail..."
There has always been a fact within the Dark Hunters that is not true. Hunters use the holy spring water to increase their strength and fight against the dark creatures on the empire. As time goes by, these battle-hardened hunters gradually develop headaches, irritability, and loss of reason. It's a bit like the sequelae of war, but in fact it's more like the transformation of dark creatures into beasts.
Some hunters thought that this was because they were injured in missions and eroded by the power of dark creatures. But in fact, this only accounted for a very small part of the reason, and the deeper reason came from the source.
The water from the holy spring contains power, but also carries disaster.
Although it was only a tiny amount, with the effect of accumulation over time, there would always be a day when it would explode. And Zhuhun and the organization behind him wanted nothing more than to make this explosion more violent.
After all, an organization that has been passed down for nearly a thousand years is not so easy to deal with. Not to mention, the organization is an official force of the empire.
Let’s go back to seven o’clock this evening.
It was late at night, in the suburbs of Florence, in an abandoned monastery.
Kaxiu met the ghost and his friend, the Iron Knight. The three of them didn't pay much attention to the episode of the assassination. They talked more about the world of disaster and Black Rain Villa. This is what is worth talking about.
As soon as the demon and Kaxiu met, he gave Kaxiu the hunter badge and concentrated secret soul power that he had promised before, and began to enthusiastically introduce his friend, who was also a top knight-level seal reporter.
What I want to express is very simple: find one more person to join the team.
Kaxiu was glad to accept the offer from someone who was a fighter. You know, although he didn't touch the black essence obtained by the ghosts and iron knights from hunting dark creatures, only Kaxiu could absorb the life vibration energy on the corpses.
Every time the ghost man and the iron knight want to use the tower of protection to expel the aura of disaster in their bodies, they need to pay an entrance fee. That is the magic species separated by Kaxiu to absorb the energy of life vibration. He has studied it carefully and can condense a special magic species with a large amount of golem spirit.
Temporarily save it to a fixed part of the two people's bodies, such as fingers.
In this way, the demon seed can absorb and temporarily store the life vibration energy. This demon seed has a time limit, and if it does not return to the main body within 24 hours, it will automatically dissipate.
The two ghosts don't have to worry too much about the alien spirit in their bodies.
You can completely treat this magic seed as an external prop similar to the hunter badge. After killing the dark creatures, absorb it.
The operation process is not difficult and is simple and easy.
During the conversation between the three, Kaxiu did not reveal any information about the secret drug for faking death. Now was not the right time. Wait until the cooperation between the three of them became somewhat familiar and tacit, and he himself recovered to the level of a fighter.
He can then truly develop external forces without restraint.
Kaxiu believed that no one of the top knights of Black Rain Villa would not be tempted. This was the only chance to escape from the control of Black Rain Villa! If they missed this opportunity, they would probably never get the chance again.
Rare goods are valuable, so there is no need to worry about not being able to attract experts to join.
The three of them finished their conversation. Before leaving, Kaxiu asked Gui Ren to do something. To destroy the headquarters of the Shadow Thorn Organization and find out who was planning to assassinate him. Gui Ren was quite professional in this regard.
Kaxiu was not going to do this himself. After all, his physical strength had not yet recovered to that of a fighter, and he could not bear the power of spirit. In addition, he had just obtained the power of the secret spirit, and wanted to study it carefully.
I had no choice but to ask the ghost to go there, just as a favor.
Gui Ren said that it was no problem at all, as this little thing was not worth any favors. Moreover, he came to Florence and happened to take a mission at Black Rain Villa, so he might have to stay for a few days. In between missions, it would not be a problem to destroy an assassin organization.
In three days at the latest, or one day at the earliest, Kaxiu would be able to hear the news of the destruction of the Shadow Thorn Organization. As for finding out the power behind it, Gui Ren was also somewhat confident. In his opinion, even a mouth made of iron could be pried open.
It is true that the Shadow Assassin organization is famous for its tight-lipped nature, but under the threat of death, there are always cowards who will kneel down and reveal the information.
In order to pray that the ghost will let him go.
He has seen this kind of situation many times.
In the abandoned monastery, the three of them had a great conversation and planned to meet together in the Ashes City of the Disaster World at the boundary between day and night tomorrow.
At about 8:30 in the evening, Kashu returned to Florence alone.
He entered the hunter's apartment, into an exclusive hidden room.
The oil lamp was lit, and the dim yellow candlelight illuminated the entire living room.
Kaxiu sat in front of a table with a triangular badge on the table. It looked like metal, but it had a stone texture.
On the other side of the badge was a bottle half the size of a fist.
Kaxiu reached out and opened the tightly sealed bottle stopper.
Suddenly, a familiar smell came out. It was a faint cold feeling, like cold and deep running water under the moonlight.
This is the power of the secret soul, a specialty of the Baptismal Church in Black Rain Villa.
Kaxiu was very familiar with this thing when he returned to the past for the third time. It was a kind of energy with special properties that could enhance and strengthen the power of various schools in Black Rain Villa. Kaxiu even used it to enhance his Qigong and Wind Element Secret Martial Arts. This meant that the power of the Secret Soul could affect the three origins of the human body, the physical soul, the spirit, and the mind, and it was of a very high level.
Coincidentally, the holy spring water of the Dark Hunter Organization also has a similar property to the power of the secret soul. The new hunters who join from outside have all kinds of source energy, whether it is physical, spiritual, or mental. However, they can all increase the power of source energy through the holy spring water.
Therefore, Kaxiu couldn't help but feel a little curious. What would happen if the holy spring water and the power of the secret soul were combined
Do the two have the same origin? Or are they mutually exclusive? He felt that if he could figure this out, he would gain great benefits!