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After giving his brief explanation, Li Cheng waved his hand, and the group stepped forward and stood at the edge of the tower.

As the cold wind howled, a dozen or so members of the Seven Stars Society leaped from the top of the towering clock tower.

Their arms stretched out, and the deep black wings that had been folded behind their robes unfolded.

Once the Valen region's shop opens, players of the Seven Stars Guild will be able to purchase this engineering enchanted equipment, which allows for low-altitude flight.

It is said that the dwarves devised this device to reduce the mortality rate of steam airship operators falling from the sky. Although it does not actually lift people off the ground, it can help users land from high altitudes.

Under the cover of night, a dozen or so Seven Stars players flew across half a block of sky like birds and landed silently on the roof of Brodinan Mansion.

There were a few musketeers patrolling the rooftop, but their positions and routes had long been known to them. Before they could even notice the strange situation above, they were all taken down by the players who had dropped down and used poison needles coated with paralysis drugs.

Nowadays, the highest level among ordinary players is already at the master level, not to mention the members of the Seven Stars Guild who, under Ella's care, have no shortage of universal points and gold coins.

The mansion's floor plan is shaped like a concave "U", with a tower on each side leading to the lower level.

After securing the rooftop sentries, Ye Xiao and Li Cheng split into two groups, each leading a team to continue their search downwards.

Ye Xiao took out a short knife from his sleeve and went down the marble steps to the lower level. It was late at night, and there were not many people in the dark corridor. Only the faint moonlight cast the shadows of the carved window railings onto the soft carpet.

He released several rats from his sleeve, which scurried out along both sides of the corridor. After assessing the surroundings, he led the players behind him down the stairs and continued onward.

Although it appears quiet, there are actually trigger-activated magic circles and alarm mechanisms scattered around the corners of the corridor.

Occasionally, there were also some elite guards deliberately hidden in the shadows, but fortunately, they were all discovered in advance by the rat familiars and, under Ye Xiao's command, were brought close by the players using Shadow Step and knocked unconscious with a needle.

【The Saintess's Dog 2: The Fourth Floor, East Zone, Completed】

After Ye Xiao finished dealing with the guards on the east corridor, Li Cheng's message also popped up in his field of vision.

[Late Night Snack: The West District has also been cleaned up; rooms searched]

After sending the message, Ye Xiao made a gesture, beckoning the players around him to gather in front of a door.

He silently counted to three, then turned the handle and pushed open the door.

Inside was a spacious and luxurious bedroom with the curtains drawn, and a large bed with a lace canopy placed side by side against the wall.

Perhaps the slight sound of the doorknob startled the sleeping person, who groggily sat up and saw a figure bursting into the doorway in the darkness, instantly widening their eyes.

However, before she could open her mouth, Ye Xiao stepped forward and covered her mouth with his hand.

"Be quiet, and we won't hurt you. Do you understand?"

Ye Xiao spoke in Tedeh. The girl on the bed, dressed in a white silk nightgown, nodded palely. He then lowered his hand, but his other hand still held a short knife against the girl's throat. "Who are you?"

“Doris…I am the daughter of Viscount Brodinan’s cousin.”

The girl spoke in a trembling, low voice.

"Have you ever seen a girl with long, light blonde hair, dark brown eyes, a beauty mark under her left eye, and an expressionless face, who looks to be around sixteen years old?"

"No...no...who exactly are you people?"

The girl's voice trembled.

"All you need to do is answer."

Ye Xiao said in a deep voice, and pressed the short knife a little further into the other person's fair neck.

Although he used the back of the knife, the girl was unaware of this. Feeling the cold touch, her voice immediately turned into a sob, "No, don't kill me..."

"Has anyone other than your own family members seen this month, or anyone else?"

The girl stared wide-eyed at Ye Xiao, whose face was covered by a high collar.

"...Of course, that doesn't include me."

Ye Xiao was speechless. "Tell me the truth, or else..."

As he spoke, he pushed the knife in even deeper.

"No! I, I, I..."

The girl was momentarily incoherent, but after a short while she seemed to remember something, "Three, three days ago, my uncle seemed to have received a group of people wearing cloaks..."

"where are they?"

"I don't know, I, I... I just saw them go to the second floor..."

"Okay, is there anything else?"

Ye Xiao feigned a fierce expression, "Don't let me find out you're hiding something."

"It's gone, it's really gone! Please don't kill me..."

The girl started crying and begging again.

Ye Xiao stared at the girl's face, paused for half a second, and then sheathed his short sword.

"Alright, you forget thousands of things every day, why not forget this too?"

After saying that, he snapped his fingers, and the player behind him immediately stepped forward and inserted a needle into the girl's shoulder.

The girl's crying immediately subsided, she shook herself twice, and fell back asleep on her pillow.

"Have a sweet dream."

Ye Xiao covered the other person with the blanket and left the room.

Chapter Fourteen: Straight to the Snake's Den

The infiltration team acted swiftly, quickly searching all the rooms on the fourth floor of the mansion under the leadership of Ye Xiao and Li Cheng.

[The Saintess's Dog 2: Search completed in the fourth-floor east wing. Two servants' quarters, two drawing rooms, an observatory, and a storage room were found. A maid revealed that the Viscount has a special sacrificial site in the third-floor hall.]

Li Cheng's message popped up in the guild's small group chat. Ye Xiao glanced at it and then shared his own information with him.

[Midnight Snack: I found some information. The Viscount may have received the Dark Shepherd in a room on the second floor. You continue searching the third floor. I'm going to the second floor.]

The Saintess's Dog 2: No Problem

Ye Xiao led his men down to the second floor immediately, and at the same time, the rat familiars he brought also quickly spread out on the lower floor.

The number of guards on the second floor was also quite large. Several rats were perched on the beams, watching. In addition to the musketeer guards along the way, there were even two steam golems at the stairwells at the ends of the corridor.

These alchemical creations of Tedhurs are assembled from brass fittings, powered by magic ore, and their core of magical circuits, encased beneath layers of armor plates on their chests, grant them a simple intelligence, much like elemental golems.

This wasn't something that could be dealt with quietly, so Ye Xiao had no choice but to have the rats crawl through the door cracks of the rooms in the corridor one by one to search for the target.

The second floor has a master bedroom and a guest bedroom, but both are empty; Viscount Brodinan does not appear to be on this floor.

The empty gallery displayed some artworks by famous artists, presumably from the Viscount's personal collection.

In a study, the mice found what appeared to be a book of teachings of the Dark Shepherds in a desk drawer. It was covered in strange symbols and was taken away by a spatial portal that Ella opened remotely using the mice as anchors.

But after looking around, Ye Xiao didn't see anything particularly suspicious.

Could it be on the third floor?

Just as he was pondering this, a sudden volley of gunfire came from above his head.

[The Saintess's Dog 2: The Dark Shepherds are at war in the third-level sacrificial chamber!]

"boom"

A deafening roar followed immediately, causing the entire mansion to tremble slightly.

All the windows on the three-story corridor were shattered, and countless dark tendrils filled the passageway, even overflowing from the broken gaps along the outer edge.

Li Cheng led the group of players to step back, their eyes wary.

Clearly, these damp, oily tentacles were not Ella's summons; they writhed like snakes and surged forward, following the footsteps of the Septians.

Having already made a commotion, Li Cheng no longer hesitated and immediately ordered his team to lift their shirts and pull out alchemical bombs, which they then threw at the target.

The successive explosions blasted the writhing tentacles into shredded flesh, revealing the bewildered Dark Shepherd followers behind them, cloaked and looking completely lost.

Why are these people carrying bombs and carrying out assassinations?

But he only paused for a moment before grabbing the snake-shaped staff stuck in the ground again, using magic to continue activating the black staff that had spread out on the ground.

Countless new tentacles emerged from the magic array. Li Cheng saw this, raised his hand, drew the revolver musket tucked at his waist, and fired a shot.

The flames ripped through the air and struck the chest of the Shepherd's followers.

A burst of blood erupted, the staff standing on the ground tilted over, and the tentacles that had grown out paused.

The other players immediately rushed forward, but unexpectedly, several heavy footsteps sounded, and a huge shadow emerged from the dust at the end of the corridor.

It was a metal puppet with a bronze sheen, its arms extending long, sharp blades, its body bent and knees bent, and a torrent of flames spewing from its back like a mad bull charging out.

"Beware!"

Li Cheng shouted and charged forward, while the other players stopped and rolled to the sides of the corridor.

The steam golem stomped on the ground and brought down its blade with unstoppable force.

Li Cheng roared, forcefully flapping his sleeves to reveal an enchanted arm guard radiating fluorescent patterns.

"Keng"

Metal clashed, sparks flew.

Li Cheng crossed his arms and managed to block the steam golem's incredibly powerful slash.

But the puppet's enormous body also stood like a city wall across the middle of the corridor, shielding the black-robed believers who were emerging from the door behind it.

"Dark Shepherds, this way!"

A group of mansion guards rushed over from the surrounding area, lifted up the believer who had been shot first, and led the other men in black robes toward the stairwell at the end of the corridor.

"Damn it!"

Li Cheng swung his numb arm, then quickly bent down and turned to the side, dodging a knife that grazed his scalp.

Just as the group of Dark Shepherds were about to disappear at the end of the corridor, a blinding flame suddenly shot into the sky.

The guard squad led by the Dark Shepherd was instantly blasted away, and Ye Xiao, carrying a magic staff, leaped out from the opposite stairwell.

It turned out that while the two sides were fighting on the third floor, he went directly from the second floor to the other side of the stairwell and blocked the retreat route of the Dark Shepherd.

Several believers dressed in black robes saw the tall, thin figure and, seemingly steeling themselves, pulled out snake staffs from under their cloaks to cast a spell.

However, Ye Xiao only glanced at it, then lifted the hem of his robe, and his silver-white longsword was drawn without hesitation.

In an instant, the blade flashed, and the arms of these believers were severed at the root.

But the gust of wind from the longsword blew off the opponent's hood, revealing a series of withered and gaunt faces.

Its withered appearance clearly indicated that it had lost its vitality long ago.

Corpse manipulation?

Ye Xiao frowned, realizing that something was wrong.

They were lured away from their mountain stronghold!

"Ah ah!!!"

Guards kept pouring in, and Ye Xiao swung his staff to casually knock two away, while simultaneously scanning the rats' field of vision on each floor.

Soon, a rat familiar perched on a second-floor window saw a short figure, cloaked and concealing his face, boarding a carriage under the protection of the mansion's guards in the garden below.

[Late-night snack: The target is downstairs, disengage quickly]

With a flick of his staff, Ye Xiao swept aside the guards in front of him, rushed through the crowd, and with a somersault, leaped out of the third-floor window.

Ye Xiao was confident in Li Cheng and the others' fighting ability; these guards and steam golems couldn't stop them. Therefore, he decisively broke away to pursue the target.

The staff summoned the wind and lifted his body.

Ye Xiao spread his arms and used the glider to glide over the garden, weaving between buildings, and soon approached the carriage speeding down the street.

Hearing the whooshing sound from the sky, the musketeers guarding the carriage looked up and saw Ye Xiao following overhead like a giant bat. They quickly raised their muskets and pulled the triggers.

"Pa pa pa pa"

A series of gunshots flashed across the dark streets.

Ye Xiao pulled his arms back, his body suddenly accelerated, and he rushed through the hail of bullets, turning around and kicking a guard off the galloping horse.

The other guards quickly turned their guns around, and at the same time, Ye Xiao took the reins and yanked them, turning the horse's head and knocking over the guard next to him.

The two horses neighed and rolled together, but Ye Xiao had already jumped up again.