Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

In his luxurious mansion, Mayor Gillen was sitting with his feet up, waiting for his subordinates' reports.

He waited and waited, but nothing came. Angrily, he lit a cigarette, took a puff, and puffed out the smoke, then he calmed down a little.

Not long after, his men arrived and reported to the mayor that a figure resembling a black-clad archer had appeared, but the other party seemed to be able to use magic, generating a large amount of white smoke.

Under the cover of white smoke, they failed to catch the archer and instead let him run into the Trial Gate.

"I see... come here for a moment."

The mayor beckoned his hand, and his subordinate, not knowing what was going on, stepped forward obediently. As a result, the mayor suddenly pressed the burning cigarette in his hand against his eyeballs!

"Ahhhhh!!"

The subordinate rolled on the ground in pain, but the mayor didn't take it seriously. He just stood up, stepped on the subordinate and spat on him.

"You're so slow... If you weren't so slow, I wouldn't be smoking this cigarette, understand?"

·

After a few minutes, the man finally recovered and knelt on the ground, covering his injured eye.

The mayor looked at him coldly and had some ideas in his mind, but before that, he still had some questions to ask.

"Is the archer the only one who showed up?" asked the mayor.

"Yes, it is……!"

"What color trial gate did he enter?"

"Purple, purple trial gate."

"Purple……?"

The mayor widened his eyes in disbelief, then slapped his thigh and burst into laughter!

"This idiot, panicked and committed suicide? Hahahaha!!"

5.27 - First Trial (Part )

In the Prison Star World, anyone with a little common sense knows that in the Purple Trial, there is a ninety-nine chance of death.

In the Kingdom of West, the Purple Trial is a death trial with no chance of survival, and no one has ever successfully challenged it.

However, although he was happy, Mayor Gillian did not think that the matter was over.

First of all, the note that Charles brought back was very suspicious in itself, and the mayor only sent people to check it out as a last-ditch effort.

Therefore, it is hard to say what happened to this archer who broke into the purple trial and committed suicide.

Secondly, even if this guy really killed the mayor's son, his death would not stop the mayor's next plan.

Revenge for his foolish son was just a side job. The mayor's real purpose was to take this opportunity to eliminate the disobedient quest guild and then support the adventurer's guild that he controlled to replace it.

To be on the safe side, the mayor does not plan to let the people sent to the trial control area return for the time being. He wants to see what tricks this force secretly operating in Sunny Town is playing.

Then, the mayor no longer planned to use this subordinate who was not doing his job well.

However, in line with the principle of not wasting, the mayor must squeeze out the remaining value of this subordinate before getting rid of him.

"Oboka, let me give you a chance to make a contribution," the mayor said with a smile.

Upon hearing what the mayor said, the subordinate named Oboka ignored the pain in his eyes and immediately knelt in front of the mayor like a dog.

"I-I'm willing to do anything!"

"Well, listen carefully... There's a fox girl named Emilia in the Quest Guild, the blonde one. You know her, right? With her looks, it would be a waste to leave her in the Quest Guild. Go find Charles to lead the way, and bring a few more people with you to get her for me. Go now."

"Okay! I'll go right away!"

Oboka immediately ran out crawling. The mayor was satisfied with his loyalty, but unfortunately, a stupid dog is a stupid dog and no matter how loyal he is, it is useless.

Mayor Gillian had a unique method of "dog training." All the men who stayed by his side were tamed into obedient dogs. No matter how much he insulted or scolded them, these dogs would not and dared not complain.

Now, the mayor plans to train Emilia as his dog. He believes that Emilia, who has a close relationship with branch chief Oleg, will definitely be able to provide him with a lot of useful information.

"Mr. Mayor, the carriage is ready and we can set off at any time."

At this moment, the butler's voice brought the mayor back to reality from his thoughts.

Earlier today, he had told the housekeeper to prepare to go out.

But now, the mayor has no plans to go out. He vaguely feels that the black archer and the mysterious note are attempts to trick him from Sunny Town to the suburbs.

——(Trying to trick me out of the city? No way.)

For the mayor, it is safest to stay in this heavily guarded mansion.

"I'm not going out tonight, so please leave."

"As ordered."

As the housekeeper left, another servant came quickly and respectfully reported to the mayor.

"Mr. Mayor, a gentleman who calls himself 'Albert' has arrived. We have received him with the highest honors, as you instructed. Would you like to see him?"

Hearing the name, the mayor stood up excitedly.

"Take me there immediately."

After saying that, the mayor walked out quickly and impatiently.

This "Mr. Albert" is a third-level combat professional master who was invited from Gude Town by the mayor Ji Lian at a large expense. It is said that he also holds a position in the Feiqi Family, one of the four major families.

The key to whether the mayor can deal with the branch chief Oleg this time all depends on this Albert.

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When Jiang Ran came to his senses, he found himself standing on a rocky wasteland.

Overhead was a gray sky without a cloud.

The wasteland beneath my feet stretches infinitely in all directions, as if this world has no end.

And on the ground in front of him, there stood a tall stone pillar with a text engraved on it.

"Face your fear and live towards death"

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(Is this the interior of the trial...?)

Jiang Ran recalled that when he entered the trial gate, a dazzling purple light appeared in front of his eyes, and then he lost consciousness for a short time.

The so-called trial gate is probably something like a teleportation magic circle... ?

However, judging from the world he was in now, this place was more like an independent space, and as rumored, there was indeed no passage back to the Prison Star World.

Branch Chief Oleg had previously told Jiang Ran that what would appear inside the trial was random, but in most cases, the content of the trial was to defeat various monsters.

(So, where is the monster?... I'm not supposed to find it myself, am I?)

Just as Jiang Ran was puzzled, a huge black magic circle slowly emerged on the ground in front of the stone pillar.

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Jiang Ran immediately took a few steps back cautiously, but nothing happened. He then had time to see what was going on with the magic circle.

As soon as he saw it, he was immediately fascinated.

Just by taking a quick look, Jiang Ran could feel the outrageous energy contained in this magic circle.

Such a complex and meticulous structure of the technique far exceeded what Jiang Ran had learned from the magic book. He could only roughly understand a tiny bit of it.

(The basic structure is a hexagram array... but the derivative structure based on the hexagram array is too complicated...)

(The spell of the twelve phases...)

(The core hexagram of the sun-moon-satellite structure...)

(Asymmetrical high-level deconstruction of the ritual...)

(Nested loops of yin and yang…)

(Distributed unspecified rune configuration...)

(There is also a hidden evil eye center...)

Jiang Ran's ability to understand can no longer keep up with the reading speed of his eyes.

The more carefully he looked, the more he felt as if his consciousness was being sucked into the magic circle.

(No, this magic circle is too weird. It doesn't seem like something a human could create...!)

Jiang Ran forced his eyes closed with his hands to free himself from this terrifying attraction.

Then, at this moment, jumping numbers appeared in the sky above the dark magic circle.

"60"

"59"

"58"

"..."

Jiang Ran understood that this was a one-minute countdown. He estimated that the monster he was about to challenge would appear from the magic circle in one minute.

So, he took the opportunity to retreat and retreated to a place fifty meters away from the magic circle. This was the distance at which Jiang Ran could stably hit the enemy with his bow and arrow.

Jiang Ran watched the countdown decrease second by second while he drew his arrow and set up the Fir Tree Spirit's long hunting bow.

He could feel his heartbeat gradually accelerating, and the large amount of adrenaline secreted made him enter a tense and excited fighting state.

(Come on, let me see what kind of monsters appear.)

And just like that, the countdown came to the last three seconds.

"3"

"2"

"1"

As the countdown reached zero, a dark figure emerged from the magic circle and then stood firmly on the ground.

At the same time, the magic circle quietly sank into the ground and disappeared.

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5.28 - Shadowy Enemies (Part )

(A humanoid monster?... Looks like he'll be a tough one...)

Jiang Ran aimed at the shoulder of the human-shaped black shadow, waiting for the shadow to fade away and reveal its true form before shooting.

Considering that he had just seen the counter-injury skill today using "Foreseeing Future Death Scenes", Jiang Ran did not plan to attack the enemy's head or heart right away.

As a result, when the black shadow faded away, Jiang Ran was unable to shoot the arrow when he saw the true appearance of the humanoid "monster".

(Hey, hey... you must be kidding.)

(How could this be a "self-defeating" tactic?)

The humanoid monster under the black shadow looked exactly like Jiang Ran.

And not only the appearance, but also the clothing, weapons, armor and props carried on his body were all perfectly copied from Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran didn't believe it and immediately checked the other party's basic information and status information. The values ​​he saw were exactly the same as his own.

The longbow held in the opponent's hand was also identified as a Fir Tree Demon Long Hunting Bow.

The long sword hanging on the opponent's waist is also called Black Sword Flame Horse.

Jiang Ran acted decisively, immediately activated the "Heart of Concentration" and shot an arrow, but the enemy was also very fast, only one second slower than Jiang Ran, and immediately shot an arrow back!

Relying on the red light in his vision, Jiang Ran successfully avoided the arrow. Almost at the same time, his arrow successfully hit the enemy's shoulder.

(I actually won?)

(I was a bit too quick, but I should have been able to dodge it...?)