Pale Emblem

Chapter 199 Final preparations
night.

In Echo Town, a large rental house temporarily requisitioned by Vice President Berg.

"Victor, the problem in Jinsha Town has been solved. Mayor Atre has sent Doctor Cole and others to a plantation outside the town as we requested. In addition, they are responsible for providing a batch of supplies, enough for 100 people to march in the wild for ten days."

Shield Guardian Harvey enthusiastically introduced the trip to Jinsha Town.

Four days ago, on Victor's orders, he returned to Jinsha Town to confront Mrs. Carol and demanded that they give up their unrealistic fantasies and let Dr. Cole, Instructor John and others leave.

Although Victor himself has never dealt with Jinsha Town, Jinsha Town has not done anything to let them down so far.

In this case, Victor should treat Jinsha Town as a friend.

However, the plan to rescue the survivors is of great importance. They must act cautiously and cannot make any mistakes. There is no mercy to be shown to Jinsha Town.

Therefore, Victor asked Harvey to use all necessary means to force the town of Jinsha to cooperate with them unreservedly until they were evacuated safely.

In fact, when things developed to this point, the only means Harvey could use was kidnapping hostages and then bribe them with a large sum of money.

"How did you do it?" Victor asked. He wanted to know more details to make sure that Jinsha Town would not bite them back at the last minute.

"It's Cole..." Harvey sat down on the chair opposite Victor and said with a beaming face, "That sinister old man poisoned the mayor's family a long time ago, even the cook and the groom were not spared."

"He took us directly to confront Carol, and Maddie came out to talk to her, saying that we were already wanted criminals by Luoye City, and we had no choice but to flee. Jinsha Town could either join us or cut ties with us."

Hearing this, a mocking smile appeared on Victor's lips.

Jinsha Town has long been an ally of Braun Town. Moreover, after the Adventurer's House was in trouble, Jinsha Town did rescue Dr. Cole and others. But the reality is that the survivors of the Adventurer's House have become criminals of Fallen Leaf City. There is no way that Carol and his wife will abandon the territory they have managed for generations and choose to flee with Victor and his friends.

The two sides are not on the same page now, and this is the root of the problem.

Dr. Cole had already secretly poisoned the mayor's family of Jinsha Town, which was something Victor had not expected.

He certainly did this to protect himself and avoid being betrayed, but he even spared the servants of the mayor's house, which was indeed a bit too much.

This also shows that Dr. Cole's ability to poison is extraordinary.

Victor said in a joking tone, "Doctor Cole won't poison us in the future, will he?" As he said that, he pushed a plate of raw wild boar meat on the table in front of Harvey.

"He dares! I'll twist his head off."

Harvey yelled, grabbed the bloody, hot wild boar meat, took a big bite, swallowed the raw meat in his mouth, and then said:

"McDad told the mayor and his wife at the time that we didn't want to implicate Jinsha Town, so we should all go our separate ways from now on... We are willing to spend 5 gold towers worth of gems to buy a batch of supplies from Jinsha Town, on the condition that the mayor's children accompany our people. After we evacuate safely, we will naturally give the antidote and gems to those young people to take back."

"Mayor Atre tried to resist, but Carol agreed to cooperate. She and Atre's two sons and two daughters were all handed over to Maddie's care."

"She's a smart woman."

The secret hunter Maddie is experienced and skilled in his work. Nothing will go wrong as long as he keeps an eye on Jinsha Town.

Victor nodded and began to concentrate on the wild boar meat on the table.

This is a long-tusked wild boar that has just been slaughtered. Its meat is still fresh and fully meets the needs of the Alchemical Serpent Tentacle.

Neither Victor nor Harvey considered Dr. Cole's poisoning method as a threat, also because the Alchemical Snake Tension can remove most of the poison damage.

There are many benefits of the Alchemical Serpent Touch. People who have had the Alchemical Serpent Touch implanted are basically free from negative effects such as poisoning, disease, and disability.

It can also replenish the host's physical energy, improve the five senses and reaction speed, and strengthen strength and physique. However, the host must eat some fresh flesh and blood every once in a while to maintain the life energy of the Alchemical Snake Tentacle.

Victor had merged with the golden-level Alchemical Snake Tentacle, and normal diet was enough to maintain the life energy of the Snake Tentacle. However, absorbing fresh blood and flesh would be more conducive to the growth of the Alchemical Snake Tentacle.

Just as Alchemical Demons can advance by absorbing flesh and soul, Alchemical Snake Tentacles also have the potential for growth.

The potential of bronze-grade alchemical snake touch is limited, and it can only increase the life energy by half at most; the potential of silver-grade alchemical snake touch is average, and it can increase the life energy by double; and the gold-grade alchemical snake touch is not as simple as increasing the upper limit of life energy, it has more characteristics that have not yet been revealed.

Victor has clearly felt that after eating flesh and blood, the Alchemical Snake Tentacle has brought an additional increase in basic strength, such as an increase of 8 pounds in wrist strength.

It's not a huge improvement, but it breaks a rule.

To be precise, it is circumventing a law of life.

That is, when the life level remains unchanged, a person's basic strength has a bottleneck.

Victor's strength level has reached its bottleneck. It is impossible for him to improve his wrist strength through training, but the alchemical snake tentacles he implanted have not yet reached their upper limit, and every improvement in the alchemical snake tentacles is directly fed back to the host.

It's like the Alchemical Serpent Tentacle allows a medium-sized host to gain the basic strength limit of a large creature.

Victor felt that he could fully envision what it would be like to have basic strength comparable to that of a goblin.

In addition, the Alchemical Serpent Tentacle can also enhance mental attributes. Currently, it gives Victor four layers of mental barriers, which can withstand four mental damages, or cast four mental blasts on the enemy.

Mind Barrier (Mind Blast) is considered a special ability of the Gold-level Alchemical Snake Touch, which can also increase its strength and number of uses.

In the future, the gold-level alchemical snake tentacles may awaken other types of supernatural powers.

Victor is looking forward to it, and all he has to do is eat fresh flesh and blood regularly.

Others also need to feed their own alchemical snake tentacles.

Therefore, Victor asked Vice President Berg to prepare a 700-pound long-tusked wild boar, and then invited all the partners who could come to the rental house to participate in this feast of flesh and blood.

To be honest, the meat of the tusked boar was old, tough, and smelly, and it was hard to swallow even if it was cooked with spices. But Victor and his followers ate it with gusto.

Ruth and Jessica were reluctant to bite raw pork in front of Victor, as that would be rude, so they used a knife to cut the wild boar meat into even thin slices, spread them with vegetable leaves, garnished them with red fruits, and then served them on the table in plates for everyone to enjoy.

Victor ate a few slices of fresh and delicious pork liver, picked up the ceramic cup beside him, which was filled with warm and sticky pig blood. Then he looked at his followers who were feasting around the long table, eating meat and drinking blood. He couldn't help but wonder: Is this a blood feast held by a group of evil demons?

The upper echelons of the Disa Alliance have clearly mastered the career path and the dragon vein path, but strangely, many noble families are secretly pursuing the devil's bloodline power.

Christine's transformation into a vampire is a typical case.

The power of demons is always accompanied by killing, plundering and greed, which will inevitably affect the host's mind and body.

Victor was not sure what the Alchemical Snake Tentacles would bring to him, but fortunately, the Alchemical Snake Tentacles had a short lifespan and would eventually be absorbed by the host.

This may be a protective mechanism to prevent the host's mind from being overly distorted by demonic power.

Now, Victor and his followers have to rely on the extraordinary abilities of the Alchemical Serpent's Touch.

Victor drank the blood in the cup, wiped the corner of his mouth with a napkin, and asked, "Harvey, did you bring the potion I asked for?"

Harvey pointed at the Alchemist who came back with him and said, "I brought them. They are all with Todlin."

The transparent Toddlin had been staying in Sands Town to assist Maddie and Stephanie in monitoring the movements of the mayor and his wife.

After the problems in Jinsha Town were resolved, Victor took the opportunity to recall Todlin.

"Sir, this is the secret recovery medicine you asked for. There are a total of 100 doses, all here." Toddlin stood up from his seat and placed a deerskin bag on the table.

Doctor Cole makes all kinds of potions for Jinsha Town, and recovery potion is a relatively common one.

A fingernail-sized piece of resin amber seals a drop of secret medicine that can continuously heal the half-elf's internal and external injuries and restore his mental and physical strength.

Victor waved his hand, signaling Todlin to put away the deerskin bag, and then turned to Harvey and instructed: "Don't rest tonight. After dinner, you and Todlin go to the prison and distribute these secret recovery drugs to those half-bloods."

"They have suffered a lot, you can comfort them by the way."

Currently, there are only 74 mixed-race survivors imprisoned by General Clark in Echo Town. None of them are seriously injured or disabled, but they are tortured physically and mentally. They have no idea about Victor's rescue plan and are in despair.

Shield Guard Harvey was one of the leaders of Braun Town. Victor sent him to contact the survivors, explain the progress of the rescue plan to them, boost the morale of the survivors and give them recovery medicine, so as to increase the success rate of the team's escape.

Harvey's eyes flashed with ferocity after hearing this, and he asked, "Victor, can I kill the prison guard?"

"That's not necessary." Victor shook his head and said, "You sneak in and find the prison captain Pierto. He will make arrangements for you."

"Captain Pierto is a slave I recently conquered. You can't beat him to death." Christine, who was sitting next to Victor, explained.

This gorgeous vampire can control up to three minions and transform them into lesser demons.

Ordinary people were not worthy of her allocating her own original power, but Pierto's situation was special.

Berg, the vice president of the Fallen Leaf City Adventurer's Guild, has wealth, connections, power, and is also a level 5 swordsman. He has enough value and weak willpower, which is why Christine targeted him and eventually became her slave.

Unlike Berg, Pierto is a lonely and unkind old man. Berg tries to deal with him because he is in charge of the surviving prisoners, but he is repeatedly rejected.

However, Pierto's position was crucial, and the plan to rescue the survivors could not bypass him. Christine had to deal with Pierto in person.

The vampire was taking the risk of being exposed. She could either succeed in charming the other person or kill him if she failed.

In fact, even if Pierto was killed, Christine might still be able to reveal her tracks. But time was running out and she could no longer worry too much.

No one expected that Pierto was not only determined but also saw through the identity of the vampire. He pretended to be bewitched and then attacked Christine with a dagger unexpectedly.

Unfortunately, Christine can sense the emotional changes of spiritual beings, so Pierto's trick is unlikely to work.

Besides, Pierto was an old disabled man. He had no thumb on his left hand, no index finger on his right hand, one eye was blind, and one leg was lame. He was facing a silver banshee who had been transformed by a god and had full combat capabilities.

Christine subdued Pierto but did not kill him because Pierto's extraordinary qualities aroused the interest of the witch.

She patiently guided the other party's emotional changes, and after sensing Pierto's strong desire for revenge, she successfully controlled him.

Pierto was once a famous servant of Baiyan City. His master was defeated and killed in a family feud. Pierto himself was also crippled and exiled.

Later, he went to Luoye City and was introduced to the famous Yinpanjiao family, where he trained private soldiers for Yinpanjiao.

Pierto is a sixth-level archer. Although he is completely useless, his knowledge and experience are unmatched.

Christine recognized Pierto's value, so she used her original power to transform him into her own secondary demon, and then used an alchemical snake tentacle to repair his defects.

In this way, Victor now has another level six archer under his command.

Pierto can also serve as a teacher to train fifth-level archers for Victor.

Under the current circumstances, with the assistance of Pierto, it will be easier for Victor and his team to transport the survivors.

After Harvey learned about Pierto's situation, he got up and went to the prison to deliver medicine to the survivors.

Victor then instructed, "After finishing the prison business, the two of you should go to the underground secret passage immediately... That secret passage has not been used for a long time, and there are debris in it. You need to clean it up."

The secret passage in Huiyin Town leads to the forest 1.5 kilometers outside the city wall.

The secret passage that Victor discovered through the Dream Arena is finally going to come in handy.

"Ok!"

"Don't worry, sir. We will never let anyone discover the secret passage." Transparent Todlin bowed to Victor and took his leave.

He knew very well that his master had summoned him to Huiyin Town so that he could use his stealth ability to quietly control the secret passage without alerting any enemy.