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"This monster is indeed a gatekeeper, guarding the entrance to the Hellfire Demon King's territory. However, according to its memory, the Hellfire Demon King left his territory ten years ago and has never returned...

But at least we found the lair of a demon king. I was trying to get information from the Silver Castle, but it turns out that I can get something just by searching casually. It seems that following the rules is not a good strategy. "

Thinking this in his mind, Wang Zhifan lifted the time stagnation effect on the gatekeeper demon, mobilized the power of space to sneak into the space gate guarded by it without difficulty, and came to the demon king's domain full of flames.

During this process, the gatekeeper was completely unaware of anything unusual. It was not aware that its memory had been checked, nor was it aware that someone had sneaked in from the place it was guarding.

After all, the gap in strength between it and Wang Zhifan is too big. Wang Zhifan doesn't want it to discover him, so it would be like a blind man.

After entering the devil's realm of endless flames, Wang Zhifan began to search for the devil's whereabouts. One was to make sure that the devil was really not here, and the other was to find out where he had gone.

Along the way, he made full use of his insight and explored the memories of the large number of monsters living here. It turned out that they knew more than the gatekeeper. They only knew that the great Demon King was an existence to which they must remain loyal. As for where the Demon King was now, they had no idea.

"It seems that we can't count on these little monsters. We have to find the palace and throne of the Demon King and explore there to see if we can find the Demon King's confidants."

Speeding up the exploration, Wang Zhifan completed the exploration of this huge Demon King's territory in just one hour, and then he really found the existence of what was suspected to be the Demon King's palace.

It was a strange building made purely of fire, located in the center of the Demon King's territory, constantly emitting terrifying heat in all directions. Even the various monsters living in this space never approached here, making this place extremely special.

Wang Zhifan did not enter the Fire Palace directly. He used his powerful perception to explore and confirmed that there were no real objects or monsters in this place. It was hard to say whether there was any information about the Demon King hidden there, at least he could not see it for the time being.

But it would be too wasteful to just turn around and leave. Wang Zhifan had spent a lot of time in this space, and he must gain something. So he concentrated his power of time and space, peeked into the past of the Fire Palace, and let the past time unfold in his eyes bit by bit.

When the time span came to twelve years ago, he finally saw the image of the demon king who lived here. It turned out to be a hot and plump human female, wearing a long skirt made of flames. She walked through the vast area under her feet, stepped out of the gate of the area, and went to the direction of Silver Castle in the south.

"He went to Silver Castle? But according to my research, there is no record of large-scale destruction of Silver Castle in the past ten or even a hundred years... Did he just go to Silver Castle for a trip?"

The unexpected discovery made Wang Zhifan feel very puzzled. In his current understanding, the Demon King must be evil and destructive, but he clearly saw through the power of time that the Demon King disappeared in the Silver Castle, but did not cause any damage to the Silver Castle.

"Could it be that Silver Castle and the Demon King are in cahoots? Then what's the point of me going to Silver Castle to investigate the Demon King's information?"

Once the doubt arose, it lingered in Wang Zhifan's mind. He kept thinking back to what he had seen and heard in Silver Castle, but did not find anything particularly unusual, which further increased his doubts.

So he decided to go back quickly, but before going back, the mission had to be completed first.

He mobilized the power of space to leave the Demon King's territory, and it only took him a minute to arrive in front of his target, the Abyss Nightmare.

This monster, hiding in the third underground floor of Youjing City, looks like a dragon from the abyss. It is extremely powerful in the eyes of professionals in this world, but in Wang Zhifan's eyes, it is not as good as the gatekeeper of the Demon King's realm who is at his mercy.

"Go away, you are not qualified for me to use the knife."

Wang Zhifan stretched out his finger and lightly slashed it, and a dazzling sword light appeared from his fingertips, which turned the monster that wiped out an entire Silver-level team into ashes, leaving only the nightmare core that he had deliberately preserved.

In a blink of an eye, Wang Zhifan, carrying the nightmare core, returned to the Silver Castle and found the female knight Anna. Anna was running on the street and looking around. She was quite surprised to see Wang Zhifan suddenly appear.

"Mr. Wang, Joseph seems to be hiding. I haven't found him yet."

She thought Wang Zhifan was here to see her work progress, so she immediately reported it.

Wang Zhifan nodded after hearing this, knowing that the task he had left for Anna was a little difficult for her with her lame legs, so he stretched out his hand and pressed it on her shoulder, letting the strange power pass through her body, causing her to shudder suddenly. At the same time, he spoke:
"Joseph is in the underground tavern near the west city gate. I have healed your leg. Go and discuss it with him. If he doesn't agree, forget it. You can find me at the counter in the commission hall later."

After saying that, Wang Zhifan disappeared again, leaving the female knight Anna a little at a loss. She took a step forward and prepared to go to the place Wang Zhifan mentioned just now, but suddenly found that her left leg felt an unprecedented smoothness, which made her immediately lower her head to observe, and a look of extreme shock appeared on her face.

At the same time, Wang Zhifan had already appeared in the Silver Hand Castle with a dazzling silver roof. He did not go to the commissioning hall to deliver the task, but entered a hidden state and lurked in the deepest part of the Silver Hand Castle, a place that even the Silver Hand Knights were not allowed to enter at will.

If he had gone to the Demon King's territory before, he would probably not have investigated in this way in order to avoid causing any trouble. However, when he went to the Demon King's territory, he found that something was not right. The Silver Hand might not be as irreconcilable with the Demon King as he thought, so he had to change the way of investigation.

Through his extremely powerful perception, Wang Zhifan first determined that the Demon King was not here. There was no doubt about it. The Demon King's aura was extremely powerful, and even if he had sophisticated means to hide, he could not escape Wang Zhifan's detection.

Wang Zhifan first saw into the thoughts of several Silver Hand Knights, from which he confirmed who the leader of the Silver Hand was. Then he directly found this target, stopped the time around him, and activated the insight skill on him.

As a result, an accident happened at this stage. There was a defensive force in the mind of the Silver Hand leader whose thoughts he detected. As soon as the external force belonging to Wang Zhifan invaded, this force instantly killed the Silver Hand leader and devoured all his memories. Even if the time around him was stagnant, this process could not be completely stopped.

"The power of law? The back-up plan left by the devil?"

Wang Zhifan was quite surprised by this accident, but some tricks could not prevent him from obtaining the memory of the leader of the Silver Hand, not to mention that the more such a situation occurred, the more he wanted to find out the truth.

"Back in time!"

Wang Zhifan became serious and immediately used all his power of laws to restore the dead leader of the Silver Hand and explore his memory again.

During the initial investigation just now, he did not pay enough attention and thus launched his hidden back-up plan. Now that he is prepared, he can suppress and strip away the opponent's forces in a targeted manner.

After spending a little time to deal with other people's back-up plans at the law level, Wang Zhifan quickly found the information he wanted.

What appeared in his mind was a meeting scene, which seemed to take place in the Grand Master's Hall of the Knights of the Silver Hand.

A woman wearing a long flaming skirt and with a terrifyingly powerful aura, a demon king who looked like a human, was standing high in front of him. From the perspective, it can be seen that the captain should have been kneeling on the ground and looking up at the time, otherwise his perspective would not be so low.

From the mouth of the high and mighty Demon King, His words to the leader continued to be heard. "Human, from today on, the fate of your Silver Hand is inseparable from me. You must always prepare for that day and help me weaken the power of other beings... I hope you will not let me down, otherwise mankind will lose the final meaning of existence..."

After carefully analyzing the team leader's key memories, Wang Zhifan found that he had confirmed two things.

One is that the Silver Hand is indeed in collusion with the Demon King, and it is a deep collusion. He is simply walking into a trap by finding such a place to obtain intelligence about the Demon King.

One is that there are huge conflicts among the demon kings, and the battle between them will happen soon, and then the entire Silver Hand must be involved.

What Wang Zhifan wanted to know most was actually the location of the Demon King, but the captain had no such information in his memory, which made him feel a little regretful.

"It seems that these demon kings are most likely not in this world at the moment. They should wait until a certain time before descending en masse. This is a common routine in dungeons."

Relying on his rich experience in copying, Wang Zhifan made an inference in his mind, left without leaving a trace, and went to the commission hall.

The leader of the Silver Hand had no idea that he had died once, let alone that his memory had been explored.

Coming to the commission hall of Silver Castle again, Wang Zhifan felt that his perception of this place had completely changed. He originally regarded this place as a base camp to fight against monsters, but reality told him that this was actually a small branch of the Demon King.

Of course, most of the professionals in this hall should be unaware of this, otherwise their disguise skills would be too superb.

Miss Daiya, who was in charge of the counter, was the first to notice Wang Zhifan coming in. She waved to him while she was free and called out to him in a joking tone:
"Mr. Wang! Have you solved the nightmare of the abyss?"

Wang Zhifan walked over, rested his hands on the counter, and said with a smile:

"How can it be that fast? That's the nightmare of the abyss."

Miss Daiya was pleased to hear him say this, and responded:

"I know that you are not such an impulsive person, Mr. Wang. Tomorrow morning, I will recommend you a Dark Steel-level mission that is most suitable for you..."

Before she could finish her words, Wang Zhifan placed something on the counter with a bang, attracting her attention.

It turned out to be an extremely black spherical core that exuded deep dark power. Anyone who took a look at it would have a strong illusion of falling into the abyss.

"This, this is... please wait, I'll go find an appraiser!"

The knowledgeable Miss Dia was unable to recognize it directly this time, or she did not dare to believe the judgment in her mind, so she hurried to find a more experienced monster identifier.

When she left for a short time, Wang Zhifan looked around boredly, trying to find any traces related to the Demon King in this place, but he couldn't find even the slightest one.

"The Demon King asked Silver Castle to help deal with other subordinate forces of equal status, but the missions posted here are varied. Many of them go to Quiet City, which is close to the entrance to the Demon King's domain. Is their collusion real? Why does it feel wrong?"

While thinking, he turned his head and found the female knight Miss Anna running in quickly from the gate. After her left leg was restored, she looked very excited, which was obviously different from her previous calm appearance.

"Isn't Joseph coming?"

Wang Zhifan then asked Anna who ran up to him, saying something nonsense, after all, he could sense that Joseph was still at least a kilometer away.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, I couldn't convince him."

Anna answered with a slight breath, then put a bulging purse into Wang Zhifan's hand and explained:

"Mr. Wang, I have been working hard to complete tasks and earn money, just to obtain high-level holy water to heal my left leg, but now it has been restored by you, and you must accept this money..."

"Haha... since you insist, then I will accept your reward."

Wang Zhifan, who understood the customs of this world, knew that it was only proper to accept rewards from others, so he put the purse given by Anna into his pocket without hesitation.

Anna was quite happy to see this, as this way she had repaid Wang Zhifan's special help. But then her eyes were attracted by the nightmare core on the counter. She only stared at it for half a second before she almost fell into the abyss and fell unconscious.

“This feeling… could it be the core of the Abyssal Nightmare?!”

As an experienced copper-level professional, she actually recognized an existence that was difficult to obtain even at the silver-level.

Wang Zhifan did not answer her, but turned to look at the door inside the counter, where Miss Daya was pushing the door out, followed by a short man with gray hair and wearing a silver wizard robe.

As soon as the short wizard walked out of the door, his eyes were fixed on the nightmare core placed on the counter. His eyes glowed silver, and he resisted the illusion of being dragged into the abyss. He then stepped forward and stretched out his hands to hold the nightmare core in his hands, muttering excitedly:
"It's true...it's actually true..."

Then this man actually ran towards the door inside the counter with the Nightmare Core, not knowing what he was going to do.

Wang Zhifan didn't care at all about the precious things in other people's eyes being taken away. He looked at Miss Daiya and said:

"Now that the appraisal is complete, let's settle the task."

Miss Daiya nodded immediately, and replied while leaning over to write in the notebook:
"The reward for this mission is 1200 gold coins, but they will not be delivered to you until tomorrow. I will first upgrade you from the fine steel brand to the silver brand..." (End of this chapter)