What were you doing before the end of the world? Are you going to be an assassin?

Every profession has its own specialty. A thief who breaks into a house and picks locks to find things and acts as a scout in an adventurer's team is different from an assassin who specializes in killing people and also breaks into a house and picks locks to find things and acts as a scout. Of course, Connor, the assassin, is also different from a normal assassin. Although he has all kinds of assassin equipment, he only prefers the enchanted battle axe that he looted.

Not only does it have assassination capabilities, but its frontal combat capabilities are not inferior to those of several higher-level melee professions. After activating the skills, it can even become a berserker for ten seconds.

It is not realistic for Connor, an assassin who prefers combat, to find evidence of the lord's crime in such a huge mansion. He knows little about systematic defense systems such as magic mechanisms and traps, unless he is lucky enough to find the lord doing something bad when using Eagle Vision.

After changing into the master assassin's uniform, Connor made up his mind while standing on the tall building closest to the lord's mansion.

Since you are an assassin, you should use assassin's methods to do things.

Accompanied by an eagle's cry, when Connor opened his eyes again, he could already see the lord's mansion.

The mansion is not only where the noble lord lives, but also has administrative functions.

Just in the city center, a few blocks away from the church and the police department, on the north side of the road, there is a pointed arch with stained glass on top and stone steps below, and the reception hall of the communication department. After entering the front building, there is a back building, and the courtyard is full of square bricks and a sea-paved courtyard.

The first floor is exclusively for administrative use, with a corridor in the front, a building in the back, east and west wing rooms, east and west auxiliary rooms, east and west ear rooms, a library and a map room on the east side, and a VIP room and a banquet hall on the west side.

Looking upstairs, it is really a painting of an open-air machine, a different world.

The windows have open hinges and large glass that can be opened, and you can see what's real when you look inside.

The lords and nobles here, the people of Aldap, are still energetic even in middle age. They are busy with all kinds of affairs during the day and at night.

On the other hand, the room of the lord’s son who was rumored to be going on a blind date with Darkness was very clean, and he was sleeping peacefully in his bed.

But Connor looked at him for a long time, and the lord's son didn't move at all.

Suddenly, Connor felt as if he was hit on the head by something. His head was buzzing and he could not even maintain his [Eagle Vision].

"Oh no... there's something dirty!"

He just wanted to use [Gaze] to mark the lord, but the lord had a very powerful protective magic on his body, which alarmed the magic and triggered a counterattack, so Connor had to look away.

Pinching his temples, Connor endured the dizziness and immediately disappeared from the tower.

Not long after, a powerful monitoring spell flew up from the lord's mansion, scanned the area, and then disappeared again.

"This breath..."

Hiding in the shadows, Connor, with [Breath Blocking] fully activated, looked anxiously at the traces of magic in the sky, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before.

That is the same type of magic as the lich Wiz and the Dullahan, and is in the opposite camp to the so-called goddess magic in Aqua.

"Demon power?"

When Connor returned to the base, Aqua slammed the table and screamed.

Connor did not choose to sneak into the lord's mansion immediately, but chose a very practical method - reporting to the church.

The Eris Cult is of course the best choice, but the Eris Cult's goal is too big. Once it takes action, the lord will know and then hide all the disharmonious factors.

Well, since Eris’s cult isn’t working… the only cult left nearby is Axis’s cult.

Rather than reporting it to an Axis priest who is nowhere to be found, it is better to report it directly to the Axis goddess.

Connor's move did save him from having to go through all the layers of reporting, but...

"There is a devil, there is a devil!!!"

Huihui and Youyou were the first to shout out. They had encountered demons many times in their previous journeys and were deeply impressed by their power.

Under the influence of the two Crimson Demons, Aqua, who accidentally forgot her own identity, also shouted out.

Connor:…

“Hey! You’re a goddess! The goddess that the Axis Cult believes in!”

After being reminded by Connor, Aqua remembered her identity and sat back on the stool as if nothing had happened.

Normally, even if she wasn't facing demons, Aqua would always perform like a goddess in front of those undead monsters and liches, but today...

All I can say is that Huihui and Youyou were screaming too loudly.

Aqua picked up the coffee pot and slowly poured out the warm coffee, added some milk, and drew a landscape on the surface of the coffee.

The painting was finished, and Aqua purified the coffee into pure water. Aqua slowly picked up the coffee cup and drank the pure water in it, and then used the fan to create a stream of clear water to fill the cup.

Connor:…

Kazuma: …

"Ahem, this demonic power doesn't mean that demons exist, right?"

Aqua said vaguely as she stirred the holy water that could purify the demonic power.

Because of Aqua, there are always some reincarnated heroes in this world with all kinds of super powers and artifacts. Coupled with the creativity of the Demon King's army, it is not surprising that some people have mastered the power of the devil.

Especially in the country where Axel is located, because it is closest to the Demon King's Castle, the dependence on heroes and adventurers is very high. Even the royal family has the bloodline of heroes.

It is not surprising that a noble from a novice town has something tainted with demonic power.

Maybe it was a demon he had killed, or a demon weapon he had collected from an adventurer.

After explaining her reasons, Aqua held up Connor's hands like a goddess and said in an extremely gentle yet majestic tone:

"My devout believer, the task of investigating whether there is a real demon in the lord's mansion is now left to you!"

"Go ahead and make good use of your life!"

Connor was silent again.

“Can’t we call a high priest of the Axis Cult over? Wouldn’t that be much more powerful?” Connor calmly pulled his hand away from Aqua.

"Or... the goddess herself will show her divine power?"

"God's power is like a prison, and God's grace is like the sea, Aqua-sama."

After being touched by Aqua once, Connor already remembered who the devil in the lord's mansion was - the Duke of Hell, the devil who eliminates contradictions, the devil who distorts the truth, Maxwell.

No wonder he had such a vague impression of the lord at first!

119. Is it true that I am fighting the Duke of Hell?

As the area where the lord's mansion is located, this neighborhood, which has both administrative and aristocratic identities, even has much cleaner air than other places. Perhaps only the Eris Church, which is regarded as the state religion, can be compared with it.

But the Eris Church is really clean. Here... except for the devil's power, there is nothing else. It can be considered clean in another sense.

Looking at the police officers stationed at the gate of the lord's mansion, Connor rubbed his hands and exhaled a puff of white air. He saw the inspector who declared that He Zhen was guilty, Ms. Senna.

The defense force was so strong that even the kingdom could not detect any abnormality in Lord Alderp's family.

"How can a common man like you, Lord, command such a powerful demon?"

Demons are of different strengths, some are as strong as the monsters outside the city, and some are as strong as the Duke of Hell who can influence the entire Axel and even the kingdom.

The leader of the seven demons in hell is even more powerful than the devil, and is a great demon who competes with the gods for the world. The gods know that the leader of the seven demons is in hell, with a vast territory and many subordinates, but hell and the seven demons in hell still exist.

Before Connor came out, he asked Aqua. If his memory was not wrong and was not distorted by the devil, then the devil hiding in the lord's mansion at this moment would be one of the Dukes of Hell.

Although he is not as powerful as the leaders of the seven demons, he is still the Duke of Hell standing at the top of hell.

That is to say...

Aqua: Go and get rid of the Duke of Hell.

Connor: Am I going to fight the Duke of Hell? Really? Will I win?

Aqua: We will win.

From Aqua to Kazuma, from Megumin to Yunyun, the four of them stood beside Connor and clapped in a steady rhythm.

Connor:…

"As long as your body is intact, I can revive you!" In order to reassure Connor, Aqua used all her resurrection skills. "Then we can hire a thief to steal your body from the lord's mansion..."

Before Aqua finished speaking, Kazuma couldn't stand it anymore and covered Aqua's mouth. How could it be so reassuring? Can you spend whatever you want with the resurrection coins?

After Aqua agreed to help him do something, Connor went to stake out outside the lord's mansion.

Faced with the guards and high walls, he did not intend to climb over the wall, but instead planned to obtain more information about the lord.

The news spread in the lord's mansion that he was going to have a blind date with the daughter of the kingdom's noble family, Dustinis. How could the lord miss this opportunity?

The greedy lord had already hinted to all the forces in the city to come to the lord's mansion to attend the banquet.

The leaders of various forces and businessmen were all well-known figures, and they would not go to the banquet empty-handed. So, under the pretext of the banquet, Lord Aldap began a new round of plundering.

Compared to previous banquets that were held in the name of the lord's dog's birthday, the dog's birth of a baby, or the lord's extra steak, this time at least there was the name of the Dustinis family.

The level of the guests and the gifts have also been raised by more than one level.

The one who greeted the guests at the door was Alexei Banes Bart, the son of Lord Alderp, who was rumored to be Darkness's blind date.

Taking the son route, Connor is more familiar with this one.

In the previous world, Minister Lionest and his son had been reunited with the help of Connor.

But this time it was different. Bart was praised by everyone in the streets of Axel, and during Connor's investigation, he often distributed supplies to help the poor.

The reputation of this lord's son is much better than that of the lord. He is quite talented and does not look like the lord's son at all.

Just observing him from across the street, he has many advantages:

His demeanor was noble and superior, with a gleam of wisdom in his eyes; his approachable demeanor remained unchanged even when facing anyone who brought gifts. Barthes was of the right length as a whole, and his various parts were in perfect proportion to each other.

But for such a person...does he know that his father, Lord Alderp, is related to a devil, and a great devil at the level of the Duke of Hell?

Is he a knowing accomplice, or has his cognition also been distorted by the devil?

"I heard that he is a very good person. He never gets angry at anyone. Even if his retainers make mistakes, he will never reprimand them. Instead, he will think with them about why such mistakes happened..."

"He is very hardworking and diligent in his studies, just to gain more knowledge to help the people. He is smart and has excellent swordsmanship. He is the youngest knight ever to be knighted. There are no negative rumors about him. He often advises his father and asks the lord to correct his harsh policies..."

After observing for a whole morning, Connor returned to the base and announced the information he had obtained from the servants in the lord's mansion and the merchants who had had dealings with Bart, causing Kazuma to frown.

"If it's really that good..." Kazuma admitted that he did think that the lord's son, Bart, was a very suitable blind date candidate.

Darkness cannot be an adventurer all her life. She has the burden of her family and the reputation of her family to shoulder.

And her nature is so... perverted, shouldn't she find a reliable, trustworthy, and well-matched blind date with higher moral standards?

Kazuma was almost convinced when he heard Connor give Aqua a suggestion:

"If you want to confirm whether this Bart is normal, why don't you purify him, Aqua?"

Connor himself didn't know when the Duke of Hell had distorted part of his memory. In his opinion, Bart, who lived and ate with the lord, must not be clean either.

It would be better to just use an Aqua brand purifier to rinse the water. Even if one's cognition is really distorted by the devil, it is a piece of cake in front of Aqua, and the negative effects can be eliminated with just a few moves.

“Purify Bart? What’s the reason? Isn’t the lord’s family’s belief in Eris? Why would they let a high priest of Axis purify him?” Youyou looked at Aqua hesitantly. Don’t let a cleansing cause a conflict between Eris and Axis?

Aqua put her face on the table and said in a rather self-deprecating tone: "Why don't I just summon a flood in the lord's mansion?"

"That way, no matter who they are or what demon they are, they will all be purified."

Kazuma was shocked by Aqua's idea and choked on a mouthful of water: "Cough cough cough... Aqua, can you control the scope of the flood?"

Aqua asked in confusion: "Why do you need to control it? How embarrassing it would be if the goddess controlled the range of her attack?"

“In that case…” Huihui also joined in the fun, “Why don’t we cast an explosion magic at the lord’s mansion and say it was done by the devil from hell?”

"The demons are fighting among themselves, and the lord dies violently. How wonderful it sounds!"

120. Three types of lubricants

"Oh... sorry, sorry..."

Kazuma, wrapped in a hood, bumped into a guard. A shadow covered his face, making it blurry and unclear in the dim light.

The guard snapped impatiently, then stopped responding, not even noticing Connor slipping past him and beginning to climb the building he was guarding.

The dome of this classical building was obscured, and after Connor climbed up the dome, he began to crawl towards the circular opening, which he knew was its center.

This was a real test of the climbing skills he had learned throughout his life.

Once inside, he would find the civil servant and implement the next step of the plan. The civil servant he was targeting was of similar height to him, although not as strong as him, but if everything went well, Connor could put on a robe and disguise himself to be the real one.

The most technically challenging part is how to descend from the dome into the house.

He had inspected this antique-style public bathhouse before. Unlike the public bathhouses that Kazuma often visited before he gained a base, the customers who could accept the services of this public bathhouse had to have at least some wealth and power. Some people would often choose to negotiate in the different compartments here to show that everyone was honest with each other. The compartments had excellent soundproofing, so there was no need to worry about the conversation in the compartments being overheard by others.

Connor knew that there were many incense burners hanging on the dome, which had the functions of purifying, adding fragrance, and mixing with water vapor to create a hazy feeling.

If we can get there, if we can find a point where the three-dimensional mobile device can rest...