North American wizards, starting as cooks, roam freely and without fear.

"Gah..."

Immediately, the raven shrunk rapidly, returning to its normal size, and flew towards Li Heng, landing on his shoulder: "Master, he's dead..."

Hearing Dahei's boastful words, Li Heng reached out and patted Dahei's head, smiling, "Well done."

"squeak..."

Just then, Jerry the mouse saw this and immediately darted over, quickly climbing onto my shoulder and squeaking as if vying for attention: "Squeak squeak..."

"Jerry did a good job too..."

Li Heng smiled and patted the mouse's head, praising it before walking to the corpse.

Looking at the headless corpse dressed in priest's robes, he thought that when he saw the bloodstains on the stairs not long ago, he should have asked Harvey whether the priest's body had been moved after he died.

If the body wasn't moved, could it possibly turn into an evil spirit?

As it turned out, his prediction came true. The body wasn't moved, and the villa gained an evil spirit—a spirit with a physical body.

Although its strength is not high, only at the C-level, it is slightly weaker than the evil spirit downstairs.

But they are two evil spirits, and the danger of facing two evil spirits at the same time is far greater than that of facing one evil spirit.

This was largely thanks to him taking on the bounty. He had two witch pets, which, together with him, made up three combatants. If it had been an ordinary B-level superhuman, the chances of them failing this time would have been much higher.

Looking at the deep, gaping wounds on the corpse's back, and the severed neck, he saw...

He immediately recalled how Big Black had completely overpowered the evil spirit, leaving it utterly helpless. The strength of this creature after evolving into a witch pet surprised him.

Then, he remembered the scene of Big Black devouring the evil spirit, and he turned to look at the shoulder beside him and asked, "Big Black, were you able to eat that evil spirit just now?"

"able..."

Upon hearing this, Big Black immediately nodded vigorously, then said in its distinctive eunuch-like tone, "Big Black likes it, Big Black likes to eat..."

Hearing this, Li Heng looked at the other shoulder and asked, "Jerry, can you eat that evil spirit too?"

"squeak!"

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

Jerry the mouse immediately started squeaking, getting quite excited, meaning that it could eat too and wanted to eat as well.

Hearing the two little ones' answer.

Li Heng then realized that the witch's pet also had this ability, but he had little contact with evil spirits in his previous life and did not know about it.

In their previous lives, wizards could improve their cultivation through meditation.

As for the witch's pet, besides absorbing elemental energy from the air day by day to slowly improve its cultivation strength,

Furthermore, due to the close contract with the wizard, the wizard's improved cultivation can, to some extent, boost the cultivation of the wizard's pet with whom the contract exists.

Now it seems there's another method: devouring evil spirits... no, it shouldn't just be evil spirits, but rather any entity that is a collection of elemental energy like this should be able to be devoured by the sorcerer's pet.

In fact, this kind of energy aggregate is not only liked by witches and pets, but also by extraordinary creatures such as wizards, werewolves, and vampires.

However, besides elemental energy, that aggregate of evil spirits also contains a large amount of malevolent and negative energy. Just because a witch pet can eat that stuff without any problems doesn't mean that other extraordinary creatures can eat it without any problems.

"If that's the case..."

Li Heng immediately thought to himself, "It seems I can take on more bounty cases like this in the future."

They realized this.

Li Heng didn't linger any longer. He turned around, looked around, and seeing that there was nothing unusual, he turned and went downstairs.

Upon reaching the second floor, he walked to the room at the far left and entered the scene where he had blasted the evil spirit to death with a single intermediate fireball.

The place was a complete mess. Not only were the original bed, sheets, clothes and other items in the room blown away—yes, not even fragments, they were all gone—but even the corner of the wall at the epicenter of the explosion had been blasted open, revealing the original materials such as bricks, stones and steel bars inside.

Looking at the scene like this...

Li Heng had a good idea of ​​the power of the intermediate fireball spell in this world, which was basically the same as in his previous life.

After watching the scene.

Li Heng finally remembered the reward he had recently acquired: a Tier 1 Wizarding Robe.

The robes were hooded and all black, with a very ordinary style and nothing particularly special about them.

However, the workmanship and texture are excellent, visibly so.

He touched it, then probed into his mind, quietly sensing the robe.

Not long after.

Regain your composure.

Li Heng looked excited.

The zero-tier magical artifact only has one magic array inscribed on it because the materials of this level of artifact have limited capacity, allowing only one magic array to be inscribed.

A first-tier magical artifact can be inscribed with two to three magic arrays.

Because the more magic arrays are inscribed, the higher the material requirements for the magical artifacts become.

Therefore, although magical artifacts with two or three magic arrays are collectively referred to as first-tier magical artifacts, first-tier magical artifacts with three magic arrays are actually more valuable, more expensive, and more powerful!

His first-tier sorcerer's robe was of the three-array type, with "Cleanse", "Protection" and "Swiftness" arrays engraved on it.

The "cleaning" magic circle is easy to understand; it means that it can clean itself anytime, anywhere, removing dust and dirt.

The "Swiftness" magic circle is easy to understand; it makes the wearer's body lighter and faster.

Finally, there is the "protection" magic circle, which is the shield that comes with the robe. As long as the external damage exceeds the robe's own tolerance limit, the shield will automatically open, and as long as the wearer's internal elemental energy can support it, it can remain open indefinitely.

Of course, if the intensity of the attack is too great or too high, exceeding the protective array by too much, it may be directly broken.

Of these three magic arrays, according to the market of the previous life, the most expensive magical artifacts were those with the "Protection" array, followed by those with the "Swiftness" array, and then those with the "Cleanse" array.

Among the lower-level wizard apprentices, when their mental strength and physical elemental energy are limited, having an extra aid is the key to victory in battle!

This demonstrates the preciousness of a first-tier magical artifact that integrates three magic arrays.

"That's great!"

"As expected of anything produced by the 'Book of Omniscience,' it's bound to be a masterpiece..."

Feeling the texture of the robe on his body, Li Heng was pleased. Then, with a thought, he put the robe away.

Turning around and going down to the lobby on the first floor, Li Heng looked at the shoulders on either side and instructed, "You two can hide now."

"squeak..."

"Gah..."

The two little ones responded and immediately and nimbly slipped into the black trench coat.

Then, Li Heng walked to the gate and opened it.

"Click..."

When the door was opened from the inside, Harvey, who was waiting not far outside and wearing black-rimmed glasses, immediately noticed and looked over.

Upon seeing Li Heng appear, Harvey immediately glanced at his watch; only thirty-five minutes, or about half an hour, had passed since Li Heng went in.

This speed isn't particularly fast, but it's definitely not slow either.

Considering that this was the first time the other party had accepted a bounty, and recalling the terrifying explosion that had come from inside the villa earlier, this seemingly young Asian wizard should be quite skilled.

"Mr. Li..."

Suppressing his inner turmoil, Harvey smiled and went to greet him: "Are you alright?"

"not bad..."

Li Heng nodded: "The evil spirits have been dealt with, but your information was incorrect..." He then changed the subject, adding with displeasure, "There weren't just one evil spirit inside, there were two!"

Harvey was startled by the sound and asked in surprise, "Two?"

Li Heng nodded: "Besides the one you mentioned, the other one is the priest who died inside. He also turned into an evil spirit. If I hadn't reacted quickly, I'm afraid I would have suffered a lot this time."

"Your information contained a major error. Shouldn't I receive some compensation regarding the bounty?"

"kindness..."

Upon hearing this, Harvey frowned immediately. After a quick thought, he said, "The client only told us that the priest went in and never came out again. We also did not go in to evaluate him. If the priest really became an evil spirit, it was our oversight. Our research institute will give you a certain reward as compensation."

"But where is the priest's body now?"

"I need to go see now, you know, corpses that have become evil spirits are different."

Hearing this, Li Heng wasn't surprised. He had researched on the forum that the bounty for two evil spirits was different from that for one. Since something had gone wrong, it was reasonable for him to offer compensation. So he nodded, "It's on the third floor..."

"Come with me..."

Knowing that the other party wanted to check the authenticity, he turned around and led Harvey back into the villa.

Then I saw the other person come in and take out a completely black stone, and hold it in their hand to look at it.

"What is this?" Li Heng asked curiously.

"Spirit-testing stone..."

Harvey said, "It can detect whether there are evil spirits in a place. Before, whenever I stepped into this house, this thing would glow. It's perfect for detecting evil spirits."

"By the way, this thing was created by your wizards..."

Seeing that Li Heng wanted to see it, he handed it over.

Li Heng took it, examined it carefully, and then used his spiritual sense to probe it. He only found that the material of this thing was a little different, but he couldn't see anything else that was different, so he returned it.

It's normal for wizards to create something like this; it would be strange if werewolves or vampires did.

"Is this expensive?"

Li Heng then asked another question.

Harvey laughed, "Expensive! This small piece alone cost us ten thousand dollars from the 'Sisters of Witches' shop!"

Ten thousand dollars!

Li Heng was somewhat taken aback, but then he thought that since the world's currency was linked to reality, it was normal for such extraordinary items to be a bit expensive.

However, he was more interested in the "Sisters of Witches" Harvey mentioned. He had seen the name of this organization on the "New World" website before, but didn't know much about it, so he asked, "Mr. Harvey, could you tell me about the 'Sisters of Witches'?"

"Just call me Harvey..."

Upon reaching the second floor, Harvey looked at the unresponsive "spirit-testing stone" in his hand and chuckled, "You're really quite 'new,' not even familiar with the 'Sisters of Witches.' Their New York branch is on the top floor of the Chrysler Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan..."

"Of course, their shops are there too..."

After the introductions, Li Heng thanked Harvey and led him up to the third floor of the villa, gesturing to the headless corpse in front of him, saying, "It's over there..."

Harvey strode forward, examined the body, then went to the side to make a phone call. He then looked at Li Heng and smiled, "Li, our boss has said that, given this accident, we are willing to compensate you with $100,000, plus the bounty, for a total of $300,000."

"But we have one condition: you can't take this body with you. What do you say?"

After a moment's thought, Li Heng nodded: "Okay..."

After half an hour.

The entrance to the "Carl Paranormal Research Association" company.

Harvey handed Li Heng a gold card and then smiled, "Li, it was a pleasure working with you this time. I hope there will be a next time."

Taking the gold card, Li Heng smiled and nodded, "Me too..."