Chapter 77 Gu Lin’s bet is
a binge drinker!
Gu Lin suddenly looked solemn.
Pei Ze's eyes narrowed slightly.
The Guzzler is more or less a legendary knight who has mastered the element of earth.
If she met a strong man of this level, she would have no ability to resist at all. She would be lucky to escape.
"With so many wizards and legendary knights joining forces, how could they let a binge drinker escape?" Gu Lin frowned.
Fan He shook his head: "The binge drinker happened not to be in the stronghold that night. It was only after the city guards interrogated other prisoners that they found out that such a person existed."
Pei Ze and Gu Lin nodded in relief.
At this time, there was a commotion at the door, and the city guard general headed by Yan Zhen opened the door and walked in.
Honan was among them.
His eyes wandered among the crowd, and happened to meet Pei Ze's eyes.
Pei Ze smiled slightly.
The corners of Huonan's eyes twitched and he looked away expressionlessly.
After the generals were in place, it was still the tall officer who explained the next action plan to everyone.
The general content is similar to what Fan He just said, but the details are more specific.
"All teams will allocate patrol areas later, and patrols will begin tomorrow night. Your task is to find the heretics hiding in the responsible area and kill them." "In
addition, if the patrol soldiers find heretics, send a signal for help At this time, nearby teams will also rush to support as soon as possible."
"Then how do we find the heretics?" A wizard apprentice raised his hand and asked.
The tall officer was obviously prepared for this problem. He took out an item from his arms and placed it in his palm to show it to everyone.
It was something similar to a human index finger, but it seemed to have been completely dehydrated, with wrinkled gray-white skin, and sharp nails on the end of the finger.
"This is a finger taken from a demon disciple. It has been refined into a temporary magic prop by the wizards. As long as you get close to Abepu believers within 500 meters, you can sense the demonic aura on their bodies. The effect is about It can last for a month."
Everyone looked relieved.
With this tool, it will be much easier to find heretics.
Although there is a limit of five hundred meters, it is still better than wandering around like a headless fly.
"We will distribute a prop to each team later." The tall officer put away his fingers and said solemnly, "In addition, according to the information we received, there is a binge drinker among the remnants of the heretics. If anyone discovers the binge drinker, If there is a drinker, please immediately issue a warning and try to delay the other party until reinforcements arrive." As soon as
these words came out, the crowd suddenly burst into buzzing discussion.
Many wizard apprentices frowned.
The Guzzlers are legendary knight-level beings. How do they get the ability to deal with each other?
If we really encounter him, we won’t be able to escape immediately!
Many wizard apprentices secretly made up their minds that if they encountered a binge drinker, they would turn around and run away without saying a word.
They are here to earn merit points, not to fight for their lives.
The tall officer obviously understood this. He saw everyone's reaction in his eyes and didn't say much. When the crowd's discussion subdued, he raised his voice and said: "Then let's start allocating patrol areas." Because the scope expanded to the
entire Because of the North District of the Outer City, the area each team is responsible for this time is more than ten or twenty times larger than before.
It would take more than half a month to search the entire area carefully.
After that, each wizard apprentice received a piece of the devil's finger.
Pei Ze was no exception. What he got was a thumb, which was like holding a cold stone in his hand.
After walking out of the command hall, Fan He took the lead to say goodbye.
Watching Fan He go away, Gu Lin suddenly smiled and said: "Pei Ze, let's compete this time to see who gets more merit points next. How about it?"
Pei Ze glanced at her and asked: " What's the bet?"
Gu Lin rolled his eyes and raised two fingers: "How about twenty magic stone coins?"
Pei Ze raised his eyebrows. Twenty magic stone coins were enough to buy a shimmer-level one. Gu Lin is so confident about magic items?
Is it possible that there are other more effective ways to search for heretics?
Pei Ze's eyes flashed slightly, and he smiled and said, "Let's do this. If you win, I will give you twenty magic stone coins. If I win, you will teach me gem magic." "That's impossible!" Gu Lin
thought
. Not wanting to refuse, he rolled his eyes at Pei Ze.
"Gem magic is the core inheritance of our family, and it can never be passed on to outsiders unless"
mid-sentence, Gu Lin suddenly paused, glanced at Pei Ze, his face turned slightly red, and he snorted: "It's impossible anyway, and I'm going to lose too much on this bet."
Pei Ze knew that Gu Lin would never agree, so he didn't care when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Well, if I win, you will teach me how to enchant gems. How about the knowledge?"
Gu Lin was slightly startled, thought for a few seconds, and nodded in agreement.
"Okay."
Gem enchantment is one of the branches of enchantment. It is not a knowledge unique to the Gu family, but it is relatively precious.
Compared with twenty magic stone coins, the value is not much higher.
Anyway, she was confident that she could beat Pei Ze.
"Then it's settled." A hint of cunning flashed in Gu Lin's eyes.
Pei Ze showed a half-smiling expression and said, "Then you have to work hard, don't be like this time."
Gu Lin raised his chin slightly and said confidently: "Just wait and see, unless you kill a madman Drink, otherwise I will definitely win this competition!"
After saying these words, the girl turned and left with brisk steps.
Looking at her back, a smile appeared on Pei Ze's lips.
Of course he could see that Gu Lin must have his own trump card, but why didn't he?
Looking down at the devil's fingers in his palms, Pei Ze said silently in his heart:
"Omniscient, analyze the spells attached to them."
[The task has been created, and the analysis of the spells attached to them has been started. It is expected to take 5 days and 12 hours]
Pei Ze decisively consumes mental acceleration. , complete the analysis instantly.
A large amount of information poured into his mind instantly, and within a moment, Pei Ze understood the principle and effect of the spell.
To put it simply, this is a detection spell similar to detecting undead.
It's just that the detection target range is far less than the former, and it only has a detection effect on pagans who are contaminated with the aura of Abep.
Moreover, this spell must use a certain part of the devil's body as a medium to be effective.
This also results in the extremely limited effect of this spell.
It is obvious that this is a temporary spell created by a wizard specifically for the situation at hand.
The only time period that can be applied is probably this operation.
By the time the action is over, this spell will be useless.
Except for a few wizard apprentices who may be interested in magic research, others may not even take a second look.
But precisely because of this, the principle structure of this spell is not complicated, far less than a one-level spell, and slightly more complicated than a zero-level spell.
If the complete spell model could be obtained, the Omniscient Eye could probably analyze it in a day.
Only the analysis from scratch would take five days.
"Omniscient, without destroying the items, improve the attachment spell to enhance the detection effect." Pei Ze gave the order.
[The task has been created to enhance the effect of magic items, it is expected to take 12 days]
Pei Ze did not say anything and once again consumed his mental energy to accelerate.
In an instant, a large amount of information emerged from the depths of his mind, which was about the improvement plan for the devil's fingers.
Pei Ze read it carefully and nodded secretly.
According to the plan, the improved detection range of the devil's finger will be increased to a radius of one thousand meters, and it will also have an additional function of detecting the strength of the devil's aura.
In this way, the strength of the target can be roughly judged based on the strength of the devil's aura.
The effect improvement is not just a little bit.
"Unfortunately, I don't know anything about enchantment. If I want to transform the devil's fingers, I have to find a professional enchanter."
This is not a big problem.
Most of the shops selling magic items in Dawn City provide enchantment customization services.
Transforming a demon's fingers is not a big job. It is not as difficult as refining an alchemy-level item. It can be done in any shop.
However, Pei Ze thought for a moment and finally decided to go to the black market.
After all, the devil's fingers are relatively sensitive. If someone discovered that he had developed an improvement plan for the devil's fingers in less than a day, it might cause unnecessary trouble.
Just in case, it's better to hide your identity and go to the black market.
It just so happens that tonight is the opening time of the black market.
"I wonder how Gu Lin's trump card compares to my improved version of the Devil's Finger?" Pei Ze thought to himself.
Twenty magic stone coins are no longer a large amount for him now, and he can easily earn it back by selling a batch of potions.
On the contrary, enchantment knowledge is much more difficult to obtain.
In terms of pharmacy, the Logistics Department sells various formulas for low-level pharmaceuticals.
But in terms of enchantment, in addition to basic subject knowledge, there are only some props refining methods for sale that are not even alchemy-level magic items - such as how to solidify decontamination on apprentice robes.
If you want to learn the true knowledge of enchantment, you can only become a disciple of an enchanter.
However, Pei Ze has already worshiped Mo Weng as his teacher, so this path will naturally not work, so he can only think of other ways.
In fact, even before today, he had thought of acquiring enchantment knowledge from Gu Lin.
Gu Lin took the initiative to propose a bet this time, but gave him a chance.
"I will win this bet no matter what!"
Pei Ze secretly made up his mind.
Mastering a new way to make money is secondary. More importantly, enchantment also plays a huge role in improving combat effectiveness.
As far as he knew, the magic tattoos and elemental runes in the enchantment branch could immediately improve the wizard's combat effectiveness.
Not to mention anything else, he must master these two pieces of knowledge!
Night falls.
Deep darkness enveloped the entire base.
After the raid on the stronghold came to an end, the control of the station was relaxed a lot, and the wizard apprentices could come and go freely.
In the early hours of the morning, Pei Ze quietly left the station and rushed towards the bar on the edge of the North District.
Originally, he was a little worried that the black market might not be open due to the actions in recent days, but when he got there and took a look, he realized that he had been worried too much.
The underground black market was as lively as ever, with people coming and going without any signs of being deserted.
"It seems that the backer behind the black market is very powerful."
Pei Ze covered the brim of his hat and walked quickly towards the store.
As the largest shop selling magic items in the black market, it is natural that there would be no enchanting business.
With the gold coins opening the way, the bald shop owner readily agreed to Pei Ze's request for enchantment. He didn't say a word about the origin of the devil's finger. He only asked him to wait for a moment, then took the devil's finger and the spell model that Pei Ze had drawn in advance. Go into the back room.
Pei Ze found a chair and sat down, waiting patiently.
About half an hour later, the bald shop owner walked out of the room and handed the devil's finger back to him.
"Are you satisfied?"
Pei Ze took the demon's finger and quietly checked it with his omniscient eye. The result made him very satisfied.
The improved effect is almost the same as the analysis result of the omniscient eye.
This is already pretty good.
After all, even if the master of enchantment takes action, it is impossible to transform the devil's fingers exactly like the final plan of the omniscient eye.
After all, manpower is limited, and no matter how delicate and careful the work is, it cannot be compared with cheating.
The same goes for Pei Ze.
Therefore, even if the omniscient eye would give the best plan when refining the potion, and monitor and remind him throughout the process, he would never be able to achieve 100% refining efficiency.
Putting aside his distracting thoughts, Pei Ze praised the enchanter's craftsmanship a few times, and then walked out of the store as the bald store manager greeted him with a smile on his face.
After that, he wandered around the black market again, but unfortunately gained little.
At Pei Ze's current level, the things he needs are often very precious.
For example, magic items must be at least low-light level to arouse his interest, and that's just interest.
What makes him greedy is a treasure at the level of a witchcraft.
As for potions, only second-level potions like the Evil Illusion Potion could allow him to find ways to obtain them.
Whether it is a witchcraft weapon or a second-level potion, they are all rare items in the black market. They are either used as treasures in a certain store and are only displayed but not sold, or they are bought immediately as soon as they appear, leaving Pei Ze with no chance to pick them up.
After shopping around, he only used his omniscient eye to pick out a few materials and bought them, which was better than nothing.
Shaking his head without interest, Pei Ze turned around and left the black market, returning to the city guard station.
Next thing is to wait for the raid to start tomorrow.
Even if you can't earn enough merit points to exchange for a place in the Secret Realm of Truth, it's not bad to win the bet with Gu Lin and get the knowledge of gem enchantment.
The next morning.
As soon as Pei Ze went out, he saw Su Ya and Peng Yan already standing at the door, fully armed and waiting.
"Sir!" The two of them greeted at the same time.
Pei Ze nodded lightly and walked out.
"Let's go."
Su Ya and Peng Yan quickly followed.
In order to facilitate patrols, the city guard arranged a carriage for each team.
Protective arrays are engraved on the walls on both sides of the carriage. When attacked from the outside, a shield with a defensive power equivalent to a mage's armor will be released, giving the people in the carriage time to fight back.
In addition, the person responsible for pulling the cart is not a common horse, but a captive-bred ferocious beast called a black wildebeest.
It is taller and more majestic than ordinary horses. It is completely black and has a single horn on its head that points diagonally toward the sky.
Judging from the appearance alone, it looks a bit like the legendary nightmare.
The coachman arranged by the city guard was a Derro barbarian. Seeing the arrival of Pei Ze and the others, he immediately showed a flattering smile, jumped out of the carriage, and opened the carriage door diligently.
"Sir, please."
Pei Ze nodded gently to him and got on the carriage.
The coachman suddenly looked flattered.
There are many barbarians in Chenxi City, and there are millions of them in the outer city alone.
Except for a handful of those who made great achievements and obtained citizenship, the vast majority of barbarians were just civilians or slaves.
Slaves had the lowest status and were mostly found in mining areas or plantations outside the city.
The status of civilians is slightly higher, but they are also divided into three, six or nine levels.
Among them, the highest-ranking ones either serve as servants of a wizard or wizard's apprentice, or are the guards of some wealthy people.
Those with low status, like him, can only find a job in the city that does not pay well but is better than stable.
Dawn City has strict and strict hierarchies, and the citizens naturally have a sense of superiority to civilians and slaves.
The citizens he met on daily basis treated him politely and turned a blind eye.
Not to mention wizard apprentices, an elite class among citizens, this was the first time he had seen such a kind wizard apprentice.
Su Ya didn't even look at the coachman and went straight onto the carriage.
Peng Yan smiled honestly at the driver and got into the car.
He has half barbarian blood in his body, so he is more friendly to barbarians than others.
The interior of the carriage is very spacious, more than enough to accommodate three people.
After sitting down, Pei Ze ordered: "Let's go."
"Yes, sir!"
The coachman responded respectfully, climbed up to the front room with both hands and feet, and whipped the black wildebeest.
With a neighing sound, the black wildebeest moved its hooves and pulled the cart out of the station quickly.
In the carriage, Su Ya took out a map and placed it on the seat board.
"Sir, this is the map of the northern area of the outer city that I requested from the city guards as per your instructions."
Pei Ze nodded and looked at the map. Su Ya had already marked the patrol area of their team on it.
"Sir, where should we start patrolling?" Peng Yan asked in a loud voice.
Pei Ze had already made up his mind, pointed to the block closest to them and said, "Start from here."
In fact, there is no good way to search for heretics, it is nothing more than a blanket search.
Although it takes time and energy, it is simple and effective.
Just follow the sensing radius of the devil's fingers and sweep them block by block.
Of course, considering that the heretics may change their hiding place midway, I'm afraid it will take more than one sweep.
After hearing Pei Ze's words, Su Ya and Peng Yan nodded one after another, looking eager to try.
During the previous garrison, the two of them made a lot of money following Pei Ze and exchanged a lot of precious resources. Now is the time when they are full of energy and want to kill the heretics' hideout now.
Not long after, the carriage drove into the team's patrol area.
Pei Ze took out the devil's fingers, held them in the palm of his right hand, and then leaned on his seat and closed his eyes to rest.
The carriage shook slightly, and the sound of rolling wheels and bursts of noise could be heard in my ears.
This was the time when the outer city started to get lively, and traffic and people could be seen everywhere on the streets.
The sounds of vendors, students laughing, and newsboys shouting were all mixed together and transmitted into the carriage through the open windows.
Su Ya glanced at Pei Ze who had his eyes closed and was concentrating. She stood up and wanted to close the window, but was stopped by Pei Ze who suddenly opened his eyes.
"Turn left." Pei Ze said solemnly.
The coachman outside immediately responded and quickly steered the carriage to turn to the street on the left.
Su Ya and Peng Yan were stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and their eyes lit up.
Peng Yan said excitedly: "Sir, have you found any heretics?"
Pei Ze narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded.
Just now, the devil's fingers in his palm suddenly felt something. He didn't expect to find the heretic not long after entering the patrol area.
After confirming that there were pagans nearby, Su Ya and Peng Yan immediately geared up and were ready to take action at any time.
But as the carriage moved forward, the two of them gradually showed doubts.
Isn't the sensing range of the devil's fingers five hundred meters?
But they had walked more than five hundred meters.
what happened?
The two looked at Pei Ze and saw that the latter was calm and composed, so they had no choice but to suppress their doubts and wait patiently.
After a while, Pei Ze finally spoke up.
"Stop."
The carriage stopped in response.
Su Ya looked out the window and saw a three-story red-roofed building.
Looking around, there are black street lamps lined up on both sides of the clean gray streets. Most of the buildings on the roadside are ordinary cement buildings, and occasionally some white stone houses can be seen.
Obviously, this is a residential area.
Su Ya frowned slightly, feeling a little troubled.
If a battle breaks out here, it can easily affect ordinary people.
Pei Ze patted his robe gently and said calmly: "Get off the carriage."
After saying that, without waiting for Su Ya and Peng Yan to respond, he walked straight out of the carriage.
Seeing this, Su Ya stopped thinking and quickly got out of the car with Peng Yan.
What surprised the two of them was that after getting out of the car, Pei Ze stood quietly in front of the carriage without making any movement.
Su Ya and Peng Yan looked at each other, both confused.
After a while, Su Ya finally couldn't hold it anymore and asked, "Sir."
As soon as the words came out, she was interrupted by a short scream.
The sound clearly came from the red-roofed building.
Su Ya tensed her body as if reflexively, pressed the hilt of the sword at her waist, and looked at the building warily.
What surprised her was that two more short screams came from the building.
"What happened?"
Just when Su Ya and Peng Yan were wondering, they saw a group of crows flying out of the window on the top floor of the building, working together to grab three corpses with their claws.
Judging from the color of the corpse's skin, there is no doubt that it is a follower of Abep.
"!!!"
Su Ya and Peng Yan looked at each other, thinking of the atomization ability of the crow demon pet they saw that night, and they suddenly realized.
Lord Pei Ze had already let his demon pet sneak into the building quietly. When the heretics inside were attracted by the three of them, he made a sudden attack and killed the three heretics neatly.
After understanding this, Su Ya and Peng Yan couldn't help but admire them secretly.
Lord Pei Ze is still very clever!
"Three demonizers are only worth 5 merit points."
After absorbing the soul energy with the recording ring, Pei Ze threw the body on the spot and turned back to the carriage.
As for the corpse, the city guards will come to deal with it later.
"Let's go, continue searching."
After verifying the effect of the improved devil's finger, Pei Ze's confidence greatly increased.
The good start made Su Ya and Peng Yan even more motivated.
A group of three people continued patrolling.
(End of chapter)