Novels online

Chapter 248

The one holding the tree branch was naturally Darr.

His snake eyes were filled with excitement.

This was the place where he met Negri three years ago.

He stood at the same spot, raised the tree branch to kill the enemy, then reached his hand out to grab the Gear that flew out.

It was exactly the same as three years ago. The only difference was that three years ago, when he obtained the ring, he obtained the capital to continue living, but now, he obtained even more.

"Sir Negri, was this within your expectations as well?" Darr felt his entire body trembling.

As soon as he discovered the location where the Gear appeared, he immediately noticed the abnormality, and after making a simple deduction, he became even more excited.

He knew that it would take a certain amount of time to fuse with the Gear, and other than the people of the church, the majority of people would have no choice but to run as soon as they obtained the Gear.

The three departments of the church weren't united, and the Saint Hunters' leader was a newcomer, so they weren't united to begin with, not to mention their lack of tacit understanding, which greatly decreased the chances of the church obtaining the Gear.

And with the surrounding terrain, the most suitable place to run was the moat.

After recalling the map in his mind, Darr found that the Gear was exactly the same as the place where he first met Negri.

Whether it was due to this perfect coincidence, or out of his admiration for Negri, Darr chose to wait at the same place.

Sure enough, a single person hurriedly ran towards this place, and from his current state, he could tell that he had given up most of his trump cards to obtain the Gear, so he was at his weakest.

Without any effort, a simple poke from a tree branch ended this person's life. In fact, Darr didn't even need to use any extra strength to obtain the Gear that everyone desired.

And this meant that everything was under the control of Sir Negri, and I was the one who was chosen!

For a fanatical worshipper, was there anything more delightful than the object of his worship remembering him and giving him the thing that he longed for?

Holding the Gear in his hand, Darr looked at the dead Saron, collected a bit of his blood, then kicked him into the moat. This person was the victor of the previous struggle, which meant that the only person they remembered was this person.

But if he dies without a complete corpse, the other party's attention will always be focused on this person, which will make it much safer for me to fuse with the Gear.

After kicking Saron's corpse into the moat, a few arms covered in mud shot out from the water like lightning, grabbed Saron's corpse, and dragged it into the murky water.

Darr didn't stay behind to admire the horrifying sight of the corpses being devoured by the moat monsters and quickly turned into the sewers. He didn't dare to underestimate his competitors. With their abilities, they would probably find this place very quickly. Right now, finding a safe place to fuse with the Gear was the correct choice.

As Darr had expected, Chromie arrived almost as soon as Darr left and jumped into the sewer without any hesitation.

"I wasn't the one who killed the spirit body I was fighting, but it suddenly disappeared. There are only a few possibilities that could have caused this, and the greatest possibility is that Master has died." As Chromie walked through the dark sewers, he noticed that one side had the blood of the spirit gymnast, while the other side had nothing.

"Someone killed the spirit gymnast and took the Gear." Chromie's eyes flickered, then chose the side without any traces of blood and quickly found new traces. After all, concealing one's tracks while moving through the sewers would be very slow.

After confirming his target, Chromie continued his pursuit. The reason why he wanted to obtain the Gear of Impurity this time was due to his own selfishness.

Ignoring the people of other organizations, the Hermit Order's inner circle worshipped the Gear of Impurity to an insane degree.

Chromie had obtained information from the Hermit Order in other regions, so he had a relatively clear understanding of the Hermit Order.

The Hermit Order was extremely united against outsiders, because the Hermit Order represented a community of benefits based on contribution points. As long as this system grew stronger and stronger, the Hermit Order's members would be able to obtain even more benefits.

However, the Hermit Order wasn't united either. They competed against each other for various benefits, forming several groups based on the control of resources.

For the sake of benefits, they also competed against each other.

Chromie had never been the type of person to follow the rules. If he obtained the Gear of Impurity, with how attractive the Gear was to the Hermit Order's members, he would be able to use it as a bargaining chip to obtain information about Auri, or even rescue her.

After all, the only person he owed anything to right now was Auri.

After sacrificing so many things, Chromie was no longer a normal person, or at least, that was what he believed. After fulfilling his father's dying wish, he no longer had any goals in life.

"Auri …" Chromie's gaze was complicated, but he quickly let go of these distracting thoughts, raised the sword in his hand, and cut a mutated creature that jumped out of the sewers in half.

As he turned a corner, he saw a large number of mutated creatures blocking off this section of the sewers. Seeing this abnormal number of monsters and their bloodshot eyes, he spent a lot of time and effort to kill all of these mutated creatures blocking his way.

These mutated creatures weren't particularly strong, but there were too many of them, and they had entered a berserk state for some reason. If it weren't for the terrain advantage of the sewers, Chromie might not have been able to deal with all of these mutated creatures.

After spending so much time, the person who obtained the Gear must've left already.

However, it wasn't too late yet. Chromie began to carefully observe his surroundings. In the dim sewers, if Chromie didn't have the observation ability granted by his Fearless Aura, he probably wouldn't have been able to notice these things stuck to the cracks in the walls.

"Some sort of medicine made from a mixture of herbs and flesh?" Chromie looked at these things, put them under his nose, and lightly sniffed them.

He couldn't smell anything, but he could sense a bit of lingering spirituality from these things. As he moved, it entered his nose and reached his mind.

Entering his Spirit Vision state, Chromie quickly saw the process of making this medicine.

"Found it!" Chromie looked at Darr through his Spirit Vision and chuckled.

The other party's methods were quite advanced, if he hadn't coincidentally fought against the Spirit Controller's spirit body and discovered the other party's death, as well as his Spirit Vision ability, he would've been misled and lost his target. After all, this was the sewers.