Pale Emblem

Chapter 138 Rhein’s Recommendation Token

The demon hunter Rhine has a venomous gaze. Even though Ruth and Jessica have their hair cut messy and their skin dyed dark, and their image is very bad, he can still see that they are naturally beautiful, they are still young virgins, and they are very talented at a young age. They are all already second-level professionals.

A slave girl who is young, beautiful, has talent and potential, has no human experience, and is deceived by the hobgoblin. Such a female slave has excellent conditions. If she is put on the auction block, famous families will spend a lot of money and compete to buy her.

The Disa Alliance adopted city-state slavery, which in Rhine's eyes was a normal thing.

When Ruth and Jessica were captured by the hobgoblins, it was because of their low abilities and bad luck that they could not blame others. The reason why they survived was that they were slave women who could be bought and sold, rather than citizens of a certain city-state.

If Victor picks them up, they become Victor's personal property.

There is no doubt about this. Even if their immediate relatives come to the door, they can only ask to exercise the first right of redemption of city-state citizens. They must pay a full ransom to Victor before they can be taken away and help them restore the city-state. citizenship.

Before that, Ruth and Jessica were Victor's female slaves and could be disposed of at will. Even if they were killed, they only had to pay a fine to the Earth Temple.

Victor can obviously easily possess the bodies and minds of Ruth and Jessica, making them obedient to him from then on, establishing a harmonious and beautiful partnership with clear master and slave, mutual trust.

Why is he unwilling to do this and still showing disdain?

Rhine couldn't understand Victor, but he could feel the strong will revealed in Victor's tone.

Victor is different from the famous nobles Rhine knew. He disdains bullying the weak, but he has a ruthless and decisive side and is very determined.

Rhine could only sigh, knowing that he was unlikely to convince Victor to join the Demon Hunter Guild and become a powerful demon hunter from then on.

"Anyway, I want to thank you, you saved us all." Rhine said sincerely.

Victor pursed his lips and said, "I forgot that after I woke up, I couldn't remember anything before."

"Ah?" Rhine was surprised, looked at Victor's expression, then thought about it, and nodded: "It's possible that you lost your memory temporarily. You used too much force when you killed the big demon, and you were seriously overdrawn. We saw you Exhausted and comatose. I doubted whether you could wake up at the time. Fortunately, you only had temporary amnesia. "

"Oh." Victor nodded. He had many questions that he needed Rhine to answer, but the most urgent was the issue of missing persons. He asked: "Have you seen the mayor's wife, Christine, and the deceased?" The four Dragon Vein Shield Guards of the Claw Adventure Group?”

Rhine shook his head and said: "I didn't notice Christine, but the four Dragon Vein Shield guards all escaped while we were fighting the split spawn of the great demon... They woke up first, but did not help."

The dragoon was not killed by the demon, but witnessed the battle and escaped again.

Victor immediately became alert and felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

As the eagle-dog minion of a well-known noble family, the Dragoon must have recognized Victor's use of the popular talent that resembled the Moon Dancer of the Golden Nightingale.

Therefore, he could not rule out the possibility that the four dragoons would return to Water Snake Town and spread the word that they had seen a fugitive from a famous Nightingale family in an underground cave who was offering a huge reward, thus luring more guards, adventurers, and gangsters to search for him in the underground cave.

Victor knew that he could not stay too long and they had to leave from the secret passage as soon as possible. Although he desperately wanted to continue talking to Rhine, this was obviously not the right place.

"Rhine, can we talk somewhere else?" Victor tried to ask.

Rhine could understand Victor's situation. He himself believed that Victor was the fugitive being pursued by the famous Golden Nightingale family, but he still shook his head and refused: "I understand that you are eager to leave, but we don't have time to delay any longer. I'll get there right away. I have to go back to the hotel and use a living secret medicine, and then I will probably be in a coma for a day and a night before I wake up."

Seeing the demon hunter's face pale and pale, looking sickly, Victor knew that he was not lying, and there would definitely be a price to pay for using the companion's secret ritual to remove the evil spirit of the Silver Blade Lady.

"In that case...can you tell me the whereabouts of the Wolf Shepherd Girl?"

Rhine was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said with a smile: "I... didn't want to lie to you, but what I said to you at the party was incomplete."

"What does incomplete mean?" Victor's face sank and he asked displeasedly.

"Uh... more than two months ago, we received intelligence that an evil demon moved from the west to the east of Strom City, with dozens of victims along the way. The scouts of the Demon Hunter Guild were divided into two groups, and one group was responsible for tracking To turn the monster into evil, the other team wants to trace its origin, that is, search for the traces left by the monster in the western region of Rapid City until they find its lair."

Rhine continued to explain: "It was a remote suburban village that was abandoned a long time ago, close to the dark place, called Niuwei Village. Our scouts detected traces of fierce fighting in Niuwei Village, which was very similar to the fighting style of the Wolf Shepherd... After gathering intelligence from all aspects, we concluded that the Wolf Shepherd attacked the monster's lair and defeated it there, but failed to kill it completely."

"The seriously injured monster enters an irreversible state of evil, and its life is measured in days. This is why it continues to suck the lives of half-elves along the way. It relies on this to stay alive. But the more it sucks the lives of half-elves, the more evil it becomes. The deeper it went, the more it restrained its bloodlust and did not cause large-scale casualties.”

"When I took over the demon hunting mission, it had already entered Water Snake Town and was lurking."

Victor frowned and said, "Where's the wolf-shepherd girl? I'm asking about the wolf-shepherd girl Bertina."

Rhine responded with a slight embarrassment: "The scouts who track monsters are trained by the Demon Hunter Guild, but they belong to major city-states and actually obey the orders of the city-state councils."

Victor asked: "But they still reported the information about the Wolf Shepherd Girl to you, didn't they?"

Rhine nodded and shook his head, sighing: "Yes, but I don't have any more information about the Wolf Shepherd Girl. That is not my mission. However, there are signs that the Wolf Shepherd Girl wanted to enter the Darkness two months ago. land."

Victor shook his head regretfully and asked again: "Your Demon Hunter Guild is also interested in the Wolf Shepherd Girl?" "Not everyone has the same idea, at least I don't have the idea of ​​pursuing the Wolf Shepherd Girl... The Demon Hunter Guild is now One thing is certain, she is not a monster." Rhine said: "Actually, our Demon Hunter Guild is not a very strict organization. Demon hunters abide by the rules, but they are relatively free in their actions."

Victor finally heard the news about the wolf shepherd girl Bertina. Two months ago, in the dark place, it was unclear where she was now.

No matter what, he must go to the Dark Land, but he must first collect information there and make full preparations before he can start exploring the Dark Land.

Rhine also took the opportunity to raise his own question: "Mr. Victor, how did you come up with the idea of ​​using snake touch and potion to save so many seriously injured patients?"

Victor replied with an innocent expression: "I can't remember."

"Huh?!" Rhine's eyes widened, feeling that Victor was too shameless to use such a bad excuse to excuse him.

Victor thought for a while, turned around and pulled out Middleton's experimental notes from the trailer, handed it to the depressed and angry Rhine, and explained: "The mayor of Water Snake Town serves a certain famous force, and they secretly study the secrets of monsters. , and also had shady dealings with monsters. The monster you were following came to Water Snake Town just to ask for a secret medicine that could reverse the evil transformation. However, your arrival surprised Christine. He may have secretly instigated the mayor’s butler to kill Middleton... You know what happened next.”

"If I really want to use snake touch and the potion developed by the mayor to save people, then I can only say that I am trying my luck without any other options."

Rhine took the notes and said with a bit of shame: "A few nobles colluded with the monsters and stole the monsters' extraordinary power. This kind of thing... is their own responsibility."

Victor frowned and said, "You mean, the Demon Hunters Guild doesn't care about these matters and lets the nobles discuss and deal with them?"

"Yes... However, colluding with monsters is a very serious accusation against a famous noble. Once the evidence is verified, the Highland City Council will usually deal with it seriously." Rhine still defended the collective position of the famous nobles.

Victor didn't care how the famous nobles dealt with the "devil traitor" problem. He asked: "So, you are not here to find Christine, even if she is also a monster?"

"No, we have no intention of looking for her and the mayor's housekeeper." Rhine shook his head and said, "They are not monsters, they are half-demon... We generally do not specifically hunt down half-demon. This is also handled by the city-state guards themselves."

"…half-demon?"

"Half-demons are not touched by snakes after death, and half-demons cannot create derivative bodies like the ancestor monsters."

Victor's eyes lit up and he asked: "What use does snake touch do to you demon hunters?"

"..." Rhine resisted the question with silence.

"Then let me change the question again, what is the ancestor monster?"

"This is very complicated to say..."

"Why doesn't the Dragon King Palace use dragon-veined half-elves as demon hunters, but instead borrows the power of demons to fight against monsters?"

Rhine was overwhelmed by the continuous questions. In fact, he was very tired now and needed to use the special living secret medicine as soon as possible. He had no time to satisfy Victor's curiosity.

"Here you go." Rhine took out a brass emblem and a thin booklet from his bag. He handed it to Victor and then said: "The emblem is a token of recommendation for demon hunters, and the booklet is a manual for newcomers to the Demon Hunter Guild. It contains records Some common knowledge about monsters should be helpful to you.”

"In addition, if you take my recommendation token and newcomer's handbook, go to any base of the Demon Hunter Guild, and they will take you to the main headquarters of the Demon Hunter Guild. After a simple assessment, you will become a trainee demon hunter."

"You saved my life and that of my woman. This is the only way I can think of to repay you... As long as you join the Demon Hunter Guild, the new patriarch of the famous Golden Nightingale family will no longer be able to hunt you down."

Victor opened the book casually and asked while reading: "The stronghold? Where is the stronghold... Oh, there is a specific address on the booklet."

"I have to go...but there is one more thing." Rhine yawned uncontrollably, rubbed his sore eyes with his hands and said: "...I must remind you that the seven you saved The Deathclaw adventurer was already dead."

"Dead? What do you mean?"

"We can feel that the souls of the seven adventurers have dissipated, leaving only living bodies." A silver blade lady interjected and explained: "They are indeed dead, but their bodies are not completely dead."

"We didn't expect you to be able to revive them," another Silverblade lady said.

"So, do you know what it is that you saved?" the third Silver Blade lady asked.

Of course Victor knew that "he" did not save the seven adventurers, "he" just borrowed the bodies of the adventurers to create seven alchemical demon descendants.

There is a clear answer to what exactly an adventurer is after being resurrected from the dead.

The question is who is the "him" who created the Alchemy Demon?

Victor didn't dare to mention it to anyone, he just buried this question deep in his heart. Once he thought about it, he would be surrounded by fear and anxiety, and that feeling was terrible.

"Your first aid method may have serious hidden dangers. No one knows what bizarre things will happen to the rescued people in the future." Rhine finally warned weakly: "Please be more careful. If you need it in the future, you can go to the Demon Hunter Guild." Hidden stronghold for help.”

"Thank you for your kindness. I will always be careful."

Victor stood up straight, stroked his chest and saluted, responding to Rhine's kindness in a solemn manner.