Vol 42 Chapter 7: : Return a gift

A hundred-meter-high iron and black metal high wall, the city wall is a thick turret, the towering chimney in the city, there is a thick smoke that shows a crystal blue substance in the charred black.
The old and unrepaired streets, as well as the steps on both sides of the streets, can be seen everywhere scavengers, thieves, mercenaries, killers, and warblers, all of which form the frontline city, the iron castle city.
If all the big cities in the orc camp are ranked, the Iron Fortress is definitely the last existence in terms of public security and civilization. In this respect, Tarantula City can compete with one of them, but this one is close to the lord. The battlefield, and the city near the ancient ruins, has a kind of abnormal prosperity.
Su Xiao walked on the street and found that on both sides of the street are at most pubs, hotels, and casinos. Demand determines the market. This place is close to the main battlefield. Those who come here to rest are basically the orcs who have just come down from the main battlefield. The high pressure brought by the battlefield made them urgently in need of alcoholic anesthesia and carnal catharsis. Over time, it led to the special sight of Iron Castle.
When he was in the main city of Yonghuan City before, Su Xiao had already felt a bit of the coolness of autumn there, but now when he arrived at Iron Fort City, it was the sweltering heat of summer. This is normal. In the entire Orc Territory, at the same time, Different regions can make up all four seasons.
Tiebao City is not as big as the main city. After Su Xiao got on the bus, he arrived at the teleportation tower in the south of the city in about half an hour. As for where to go, he would naturally return to the main city·Yonghuan City.
Although he wanted to recruit his subordinates in the slums of Iron Castle, Su Xiao had a habit of trying not to take revenge overnight if conditions permit. The Marine Corps who besieged him had already killed more than 90% of him and planned to do so. The person behind the scenes of the matter can't be let go of course.
Speaking of the whole thing, the beginning was the cooperation with General Kane. The content of the cooperation between the two parties was very simple. The other side recognized Su Xiao’s lordship status, and after the reputation of Su Xiao’s camp was restored to a positive value, it was given to him. The fief corresponding to the status of the lord.
What Su Xiao cares about is naturally not the position of the lord, but the fief. With the fief, there are too many things that can be done. The total is as follows:
1. Form up to five orc legions, and let these five orc legions go to the main battlefield. After that, you can get a lot of faction reputation every day. This is the benefit of fulfilling the duties of the lord. Merit, there are additional prestige benefits.
2. After having a fief, you can quietly develop the Zerg.
3. With a lot of free time, the lords with fiefs are very leisurely. By then, you can complete the "Hunt List·Blood Deed" and compete for the "Initial Mark" fragments. If you encounter huge resistance during the period, you can consider putting The legion is transferred.
At the moment, what Su Xiao has to deal with is the trouble caused after getting the position of the lord. There is no doubt that he was involved in the battle between the Beast King and the family forces. This time he was teleported to the wilderness teleportation array of the sea clan. Above, among the seven major families of the orcs, the Jackal and the Snake Witch family secretly shot.
Coming and not going to be indecent, Su Xiao thought, he had already reached the teleportation tower in the south of the city. Instead of taking out the lord badge this time, he took out a piece of soul crystal (large) and quietly threw it to the small in front of the space tower. team leader.
The wild boar head squad leader coughed lightly and raised his nose to the sky, his arms full of bristles hugged his shoulders, as if there was something beautiful in the sky, and the other wild boar clan under his command were all in the same posture, waiting for Su Xiao After entering the space tower, the wild boar team leader resumed his previous serious appearance.
On the top of the space tower, a crisp sound of clicking came, and as Su Xiao adjusted the scale of the disc, the teleportation array was gradually activated and finally activated.
Everything around was blurred. As the gray fog dissipated in the space, everything around became clear. The coolness of the early autumn of the main city floated along the window. After Su Xiao walked out of the teleportation tower, Bubwang, Amu, and Baha all became clear. They have been waiting here. The three of them originally wanted to go to the outskirts of the Iron Castle for reinforcements, but Su Xiao asked them to stay in the main city and investigate a few things.
Seeing Su Xiao walking out of the teleportation tower, Baha flew in and said: "Boss, I have investigated clearly that this incident was done by the Jackal and the Snake Witch, as well as the shadow of the Iron Pattern family, but I estimate that Iron Pattern The family only provides space technology. The specific situation should not be clear here."
The information that Baha has investigated is similar to what the adjutant of the sea clan dwarf said. With each other's hands, weed out our enemies.
On the Poseidon’s side, Su Xiao is not prepared to pay attention to it for the time being. The side is itself an enemy, and it is normal to go against him, but the Jackal Family and the Snake Witch Family are friends in the lineup. This act of stabbing a knife behind them. It must be cleaned up first.
When I came to the hotel booked by Bubwang, I have to say that in this world, Bubwang, Eminem, and Baha are very convenient to move. This is the country of the orcs, and high-IQ canine creatures are rare and can talk. There are more eagles. As for Eminem, anyone who doesn’t know thinks it is a local.
After taking a hot shower in the bathroom of the guest room, Su Xiao became more tired. He picked up the information from Baha’s investigation and checked it and found that there was still plenty of time. When he woke up, he wore a bloodthirsty battle armor. Killing the enemy all night, now relax, his whole person feels a little weak.
When Su Xiao woke up, it was noon. The first thing he did when he woke up was to check his own information. As expected, he had changed from blood red to dark red with a -17 Charisma attribute. He could no longer hold it and slipped to -18. point.
Last night, almost annihilated a sea clan army, which caused the charm attribute to change from dark red to black. Seeing the appearance, when the charm attribute is -20 points, the value of the charm attribute will become pure black.
In contrast to the golden fonts presented by real attributes such as strength and agility, the black charm attributes are the most conspicuous.
Compared with the charm attribute, Su Xiao couldn’t figure out that he killed so many enemies last night, but didn’t drop even a treasure chest. The good news is that his faction reputation has changed from -38950 points to -15480. Point, this means that if you destroy an enemy legion, you can probably get more than 20,000 reputation points.
Su Xiao wants to accumulate his reputation as a positive number as soon as possible, and obtain a reputation value of more than 28600 points. The reason is that he wants to redeem all the [Soul Crystal Soul] in the faction shop as soon as possible.
[Soul Crystal Soul]
Inventory quantity: 22 (replenish from time to time).
Pre-exchange: Prestige level·Lord level (achieved).
Single exchange price: 1300 reputation points.
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The Soul Crystal Soul obtained before was sold to the Goblin Chamber of Commerce by Su Xiao. One of this thing is about 120 soul crystal cores, and the difference between the two is 120 times.
However, in the Orc’s camp store, [Soul Crystal Soul] is worth 1,300 prestige points, and [Soul Crystal Core] is 120 prestige points, which is only 10 times the prestige difference.
The reason for such a huge profit is not that the price of the prestige store is wrong, but that the soul crystal core is exchanged in the pre-exchange process. You only need to reach the prestige level of the "boss level". The prestige level of the "lord class" is required, and this is the reason for the huge price difference.
If in the past, don't worry too much. The threshold of "lord class" is here. Other competitors should not be so fast, but the situation in this world is different.
It seems that I can feel it in the dark. There are three pairs of undead eyes staring at these [soul crystal souls], but the good news is that these three want to achieve high status, which is more difficult than others, and all powers are Very afraid of the undead.
The problem is that a guy who uses broadswords, a stick, and a strong woman with abyssal abilities are all in this world.
The one who uses the broad knife is naturally Brother Ruthless. The "lord class" in the faction shop is in front. It really may not be able to stop this guy. God knows what he will do.
The priest must also take precautions. This old guy has too many methods. Although he is a violator, the world is notarized by the tree of the void, which means that the priest can use the faction store and contact platform normally.
The female powerhouse with the abyssal abilities is naturally the magic sickle Tyrid. The opponent's abilities are strong, but the cost of upgrading is really not lower than that of the undead system, technique type, and law system.
The current situation is very clear. There are more wolves and less meat. Su Xiao never thinks that he is the chosen person. As for only he can get the position of lord, no one else has the idea of ​​such means, and has never had it. Therefore, In the case of a pack of wolves, Su Xiao was very satisfied with the ability to win 5 to 10 of the 22 [Soul Crystals].
Furthermore, the faction store will be added in the future, that is, the total inventory of [Soul Crystal Soul] is not the 22 currently seen.
Just as Su Xiao was preparing to arrange the Jackal Family and the Snake Witch Family, the prompt of the Void Tree appeared.
[Reminder: All contractors have entered the world for 24 hours, and the first notarization will begin. 】
[The content of the first notarization is: the basic notarization mechanism of Void Tree, and the legendary ranking list. 】
【How to obtain fame: For every point of faction reputation gained, you can get 10 points of fame. Fame cannot be exchanged or transferred, and is only used for ranking. 】
[Therefore, it is a detached and native world, and the ranking rewards are increased by 50%. 】
[Due to the danger of this world, the ranking rewards have been increased by 12%. 】
[This round of legendary ranking rewards are as follows:]
First place: Origin Stone·Extreme Luck (Greatly enhance the lucky attribute, so the item is closely related to fortune, cause and effect, etc., after obtaining it, it will be in a non-tradable and non-transferable binding state).
Second place: Overlord badge (after use, it can be transformed into 85% to 90% of the source of the world in any native world, and the specific number obtained is determined according to the world rank, world danger, etc.).
Third place: Ceremony·Soul Awakening (Ritual scroll, which can deeply strengthen the basic abilities of the soul system).
Fourth place: dinner invitation letter (with this invitation letter, you can participate in the blood-thirsty dinner, and in the hunting blood night, you can get the hunter qualification, and enjoy the "sweetness" of hunting. Finally, you can sell the spoils you get to the greedy , So as to obtain a "massive" soul coin income).
Fifth place: Crimson Shard (Abyss Characteristic Item).
Sixth to tenth place: You can get 10-50 soul crystal nuclei.
Tenth to fiftieth places: 2000 to 9000 soul coins can be obtained.
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Seeing the first prize, Su Xiao's brow furrowed a little bit. [Origin Stone·Extreme Luck] He has naturally heard that this is the origin stone of the echelon only under the "Origin Stone·World", if not counted as the "Origin Stone" "World" is a BUG-level origin stone, the [Origin Stone·Extreme Luck] can be called the top origin stone.
However, due to the characteristics of the [Origin Stone·Extreme Luck], it cannot be transferred after obtaining it. It is similar to the Black King’s Armguard or Wolf Blood·Moon Ornament. Once obtained, the soul is bound, and the [Origin Stone·Extreme Luck] What is going on is the binding of causality.
The question is, this origin stone can really increase the fortune of extinction? Even Goddess of Luck, the strongest lucky god, has no way to increase the magic-killing fortune, unless it is at the cost of consuming the blood of the gods to achieve a temporary gain.
Therefore, Su Xiao estimated that he obtained this [Origin Stone·Extreme Luck]. There is a high probability that it is useless. No, it is useful. Using it to strengthen Dragon Slash by +14, it must be 100% successful, but I always feel that this Is violent.
Compared with increasing the Dragon Slash from +13 to +14, the second-place reward [Badge Badge] is obviously better. In the future, using this thing in other Tier 9 worlds will at least increase the true attributes by 35-40 points. Point of income.
The third place [Ritual·Soul Awakening] is of no use to Su Xiao. He does not have the "basic ability" of the soul system. "Basic ability" and "basic passive" are two concepts.
The fourth place [Dinner Invitation Letter] is not bad, but not as affordable as [Badge Badge].
From this point of view, it is necessary for Su Xiao to bravely fight for second place this time. This is a way to maximize revenue. Seeing Brother Ruthless, Mossy Tyrid and Ranger Four in the communication list in the contact platform People group, Solomon, Undead Girl, Antlers, Priest, Dark Demon, Su Xiao felt the pressure to compete for second place, he chose to check the current ranking.
【The ranking has been refreshed, and the ranking is now as follows. 】
First place: Brother Ruthless (Reincarnation Paradise), 85,500 points of legend.
Second place: Magic Scythe Tyrid (Holy Light Paradise), 85410 points of legend.
Third place: Priest (Sanctuary Paradise), 72900 points of legend.
Fourth place: Iger (Apocalypse Paradise): 71,850 points of legend.
Fifth place: En Zuo (Death Paradise), 68,950 points of legend.
Sixth place: Kain (Death Paradise), 62350 points of legend.
Seventh place: Dark Demon (Reincarnation Paradise), 58320 points of legend.
Eighth place: Male Antlers (Death Paradise), 46,600 points of legend.
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369th place: Bee (Reincarnation Paradise): 1 point of legend.
370th place: White Night (Reincarnation Paradise): -154800 points of legend.
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Su Xiao's gaze stayed on the name Feng for a few more seconds, and then thought about what was going on, and stopped paying too much attention.
Due to the opening of the ranking, Su Xiao found that the contact channel was extremely lively. Before opening the contact channel, he first checked the list of contractors on the side and found that the number of people on this list was much larger. Obviously, the second batch of contractors had entered the world. He looked down, glanced casually, and then closed.
Just when Su Xiao was about to open the contact platform, his eyes squinted for a few minutes, then reopened the contractor list, and turned to the lower middle position. Three names appeared in his sight. For some reason, he suddenly felt a windfall. Bashing.
Su Xiao reopened the contact channel.
Diviner (Sacred Light Paradise): "The offenders have formed an alliance. Are there any hunters, death rangers, or battle angels in charge."
Brother Ruthless (Reincarnation Paradise): "This happened? Tell me in detail, where are you? Meet and talk."
Fortuneteller (Holy Light Paradise): "Uh~, can you change someone to take care of this."
Brother Ruthless (Reincarnation Paradise): "Do you distrust me as the hunter?"
Diviner (Holy Light Paradise): "Brother, the last world, the snowy area, the lonely city, the fire, the one hanging upside down by the fire is me, have you forgotten, who hung me up? Who is it? Blackmail... who asked me for 50,000 soul coins."
Brother Ruthless (Reincarnation Paradise): "Oh, it turned out to be you, then we are quite destined, but you know me not long ago. Now I have changed my past, so don’t worry, tell me about you. Position, I’ll help you deal with the offenders, I’m the one who hates the offenders the most, let’s say, where are you."
Fortuneteller (Holy Light Paradise): "Brother, your malice is about to overflow."
Scythe Tyrid (Holy Light Paradise): "Location."
Fortuneteller (Sacred Light Paradise): "I have shared the position, this time it is saved, the few people who are outside, don't you leave?"
Xiao Ge (Sanctuary Paradise): "Fortunately for you."
Brother Ruthless (Reincarnation Paradise): "Hey, people's hearts are not ancient. I am so sincere that I don't believe me."
Morley (Apocalypse Paradise): "Everyone, I have a question, I want to ask you."
Undead Girl (Reincarnation Paradise): "Talk about it?"
Thunder God Iger (Apocalypse Paradise): "Who did you offend again?"
Morley (Apocalypse Paradise): "Isn't this our combat power, how do you recognize me?"
Thunder God Iger (Apocalypse Paradise): "How could I not know the live broadcast of Sister Flower in the World of Painting, your name, I have seen it on the "Top Ten Sand Sculpture Events of the Year in Apocalypse Paradise". This time, your old man Father Bai Ye is also there. "
Fortuneteller (Holy Light Paradise): "Old Father?"
Morley (Apocalypse Paradise): "Speaking of business, I...I have a friend, and she took a quest, but the initiator of the quest has a...not friendly relationship with her, but it is by no means hostile. Ask, how can you give up this task without cost?"
Hao Mei (Apocalypse Paradise): "No, I can't help but start laughing."
Fortuneteller (Sacred Light Paradise): "Just by seeing the phrase'I have a friend', you know that things are not easy."
Xiao Ge (Sanctuary Paradise): "There are many methods, but you have to dare to use them."
Morley (Apocalypse Paradise): "I am a battle angel and will not use illegal methods. Whether it is a battle angel, a death ranger, or a hunter, there is a bottom line."
En Zuo (Death Paradise): "I'm a bit embarrassed about this."
Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise): "If you kill the quest initiator, the quest will naturally be cancelled."
Mo Lei (Apocalypse Paradise): "It's not, it's not, besides, there is a big gap between the strength of the task initiator and me."
Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise): "Which faction is the mission initiator?"
Mo Lei (Apocalypse Paradise): "Sea Clan."
Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise): "I can help you get rid of this person at a price I am satisfied with."
Morley (Apocalypse Paradise): "Well, it's really not a question of money."
Hao Mei (Apocalypse Paradise): "Hahahaha, I'm going to laugh to death."
Bee: "╰(°▽°)╯"
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After closing the contact platform, Su Xiao took out the map of the main city. At this moment, there was a knock on the door. After Eminem opened the door, he found that the door was dark outside, and the creepy black fog was scattered in the corridor. The next moment , The entire hotel, no, the entire city, is shrouded in this darkness.
Eminem saw that the waiter pushing the dining car in the corridor stood dumbfounded in the black mist. Whether it was body, soul, or consciousness, they were all fixed at this moment. In this darkness, time stopped passing, only Su The room where Akatsuki was located was not shrouded in black mist.
A figure in a slightly torn shirt stopped outside the guest room. It was an existence that creatures could not look at directly. Amuin looked at the visitors, and dark woody branches grew on it. Not only that, it’s There were also signs of whitening in his eyes. Fortunately, someone raised his hand, causing the lignified branches of Eminem's body to shatter and wither, and Eminem's lost vitality also gathered back.
The visitor took an object from his arms and threw it towards Su Xiao. This object left a little black smoke in the air. This black smoke caused the space and time in the living room to become unstable.
The visitor is actually not an outsider, he is an undead old man. Don’t look at the star constellation. This is an old man with some tattered clothes and a withered figure, but in the outside world, this is a terrifying existence that cannot be directly seen. Regardless, unwise creatures will fall into chaos, while wise creatures will fall into madness, this one who often eats the existence of ancient gods.
Kakaka~
The space around the undead old man made a sound like the glass was about to break, which showed that the world was repelling it.
In the black fog that caused time to stagnate, the undead old man nodded to Su Xiao, walked into the space rift behind him, and left the world that kept repelling it.
In a short period of time, the black mist that had enveloped the entire city evaporated, and the people who had just stopped thinking, continued to do what they had not done just now, unaware of everything.
Su Xiao squeezed the crystal body in his hand. This is the [Container Core], which was the deal promised by the undead old man during the empty banquet.
Take out [Original Container], touch it with [Container Core], the next second, [Container Core] will be integrated into it, now look at the properties of [Original Container].
[Original container]
Place of Origin: Void·Shadow of Destruction.
Category: Container (equipped in a special equipment slot, it can take effect).
Durability: 816/850 points.
Equipment requirements: Shadow of Destruction, Silver Moon Wolf.
Equipment effect: Absorption (Core·Passive), can absorb the original energy floating within 1000 meters around by itself (so the equipment is in an incomplete state, this ability is not available).
Tip: This effect can be activated for a short time. After activation, the absorption range is increased by 70 to 80 times. This state lasts for 30 seconds. It can only be activated once per natural day. If activated multiple times, the durability of this equipment will be greatly consumed.
Stored source energy: 0%.
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Su Xiao’s "Spell-killing Talent·Shadow Hunting" uses the devouring core to absorb the enemy’s undissipated original energy after killing the enemy and convert it into soul energy. When the soul energy reaches 100%, he gains 1 point. Destroy the law system skill points.
Su Xiao himself has a limit. Therefore, after killing an enemy, it is difficult to completely absorb the original energy floating around. It will waste a lot. If you fight with many enemies, there is no time to absorb it, and you can only let the original energy appearing around dissipate. , For example, last night, he didn't absorb any source energy and couldn't tell the energy to do it.
But with [Essential Container] it is different, as long as it is equipped in the "special equipment slot", after killing the enemy in the melee, this thing can absorb the original energy that appears around it by itself.
If you had this thing last night, you would be able to get a lot of original energy, but not everything will be satisfactory. It's not too late to activate this equipment right now.
After equipping the [Essence Container] in the "Special Equipment Slot", Su Xiao took out the map of the main city and began to prepare the Jackal Family and the Snake Witch Family. Among the 190 districts in the main city, the two orc families, one In the six districts, one in the ten districts.
In fact, whether it is the Jackal Family or the Snake Witch Family, their current Patriarchs are in their respective fiefdoms, that is, in their high-walled cities, not in the main city or Yonghuan City, but this will lead to a point that these families are more and more Far away from the center of power, they are becoming more independent.
In order to avoid this, the former head of the seven families will move to the main city, Yonghuan City, and get a manor in the most prosperous urban areas.
What Su Xiao wants to clean up right now is the two former Patriarchs of the two parties. He threw a soul crystal nucleus to Baha. Baha's claws grabbed the soul crystal nucleus engraved with space marks and activated it. The temporary coordinates have been set up in Liucheng District for a long time.
After a muffled bang, Su Xiao, Bubowang, and Baha appeared in a dark basement. Su Xiao pressed the handle of the knife with one hand to confirm that the ability of the magic blade was not in the cooling stage. Swallowed two indestructible traits and abyss creatures, so after slaying ordinary enemies, it will not take long to end the slumber.
Su Xiao released the Blade Demon. Following his control, the Blade Demon fell into Bobowang's body. In the next second, Bobowang's eyes turned black and blue, and it tilted its head, showing the true colors of the two goods. , Which means that it is not controlled by the demon at this time, it is Su Xiao deliberately.
Su Xiao took out a wooden box and pressed Bobowang’s dog paws on it. A faint green smoke gushed out of the wooden box, because Bobowang had stored the Blade Demon in his body. More importantly, this was Su Xiao. The ghost of the blade, the faint green smoke gradually receded into the wooden box.
Finding that no drastic changes had occurred, Boubowang put the wooden box into its own small storage space, then merged into the environment and left the dark basement.
Su Xiao began to wait, and Boubowang returned almost an hour later.
"Wang."
Boubowan yelled, meaning it was done. Seeing this, Su Xiao took out a soul crystal nucleus engraved with space patterns and threw it to Baha. After Baha crushed it, he locked the temporary space in Shicheng District. coordinate.
After the space transfer was completed, the surroundings were still dark. Su Xiao took out a wooden box again. This time, the black smoke that still appeared extremely dark even in the dark, was a little scarlet in it.
It was still the original process, the demon was released and submerged in Boubowan's body. After that, Boubowan's dog paw was pressed on the wooden box. After confirming to ignore it, Boubowan took the wooden box and left.
This time Bobowang came back more than two hours later. Seeing Bobowang returning, Su Xiao activated the one-time spatial array on the ground and went to Sancheng District, where Baha also set the coordinates.
At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the lights in the mansion of General Kane were first turned on, and the lights in the banquet hall were all bright. At the end of the dinner, the servant brought light tea.
"White night, the Jackal and the Snake Witch are calculating your business, so forget it?"
Commander Kane picked up the tea and was just about to take a sip.
"Of course not, I have made them pay this afternoon."
Hearing Su Xiao’s words, General Commander Kane was not surprised. Both the Jackal family and the Snake Witch family had riots this afternoon. However, Kane’s men have not yet ascertained the cause of the riots over there, so Simply test Su Xiao.
"What method did you use? Did you poison it?"
Commander-in-Chief Kane spoke with a smile, and the two met because the Jackal family and the Snake Witch family poisoned Su Xiao.
"I have two abysses and original sins, which were sent to the two families in the afternoon."
Hearing this, the commander-in-chief Kane, who was about to take a sip of light tea, almost poured tea into his nose. It was not that he was not calm enough, but that what he heard was too much.
"You...this trick is ruthless."
Even though Grand Commander Kane was an old fox, he couldn’t help but bring a little pleasure in his eyes, but the pleasure only lasted for 0.01 seconds before disappearing. Another problem he thought of was that even if the Jackal family and the Snake Witch family were rivals, But he is also a member of the orc camp, that is to say, now it is equivalent to the two "wild fathers" coming from the orc?
After confirming this, the blood pressure of General Kane soared ~EbookFREE.me~ As soon as he was about to speak, Baja comforted:
"Don't worry too much about the original sin item. In fact, we still have one more item. Look at this third item, which orc family shall we send to?"
Hearing this, the things in front of Grand Commander Kane doubled for a moment, he held the armrest of the seat with one hand, his eyes were extremely solemn.
Seeing this, Baha said with a smile: "Look at you old fox happy, tell you good news, we have a friend, he should be coming soon, he, there is an original sin thing, so counted, we have Four original sins."
Hearing what Baha said, Grand Commander Kane buzzed in his head.
"Oh by the way, if the guy who is also our enemy and friend is also in the orc camp, then count the magic mirror, we have five original sins here, are you surprised? Old fox, what is your body shaking?"
After a while, there was a burst of exclamation from the servants in the banquet hall, and the sound of the seat falling down, and then a maid cried out: "Come on, Lord Kane has passed out!"