Colin Iliad glanced at Lovia and didn't respond directly. Only when he pulled out the two swords from the ground did he nod.
"Alright."
The quintet circled the periphery of Nois City. They attempted to enter a few times, but they were scared off by the seemingly normal but silent "daily life" in the city. They didn't dare to rashly explore.
With the frequency of the lightning in the sky decreasing, and the darkness gradually ruling over the World, Colin stared deeply at Nois City for a few seconds.
"Let's set up a small camp and continue during the day."
The so-called day was a period when the frequency of lightning was high and the interval between darkness was short.
The other members of the expedition team didn't have any objections. Soon, they used a pile of rocks by the riverbed to set up a simple camp.
At the end of the camp, in a place that was covered by a boulder and didn't need to worry about the rain, a bonfire was burning. All sorts of strange creatures' remains were piled up beside it, occasionally being thrown in as firewood. Colin, Lovia, and company sat around the fire, eating the rations they brought along and the monster corpses that had been proven not to cause too much damage.
As the grease sizzled from the roasting, the Chief of the six-member council, Colin Iliad, looked at Derrick Berg and said, "Let's patrol the camp first.
We'll swap when they're done eating. "
If it were in the past, Derrick wouldn't have any additional thoughts, but at this moment, the first thought that flashed through his mind was:
The Chief has something to tell me in private …
"Alright." Derrick stuffed the remaining piece of meat in his hand into his mouth and picked up Thunder God's Roar beside him.
The piece of meat was clearly cooked, but it was still a ghastly green color.
After arriving at the dim camp's periphery, Demon Hunter Colin said in a deep voice without any change in his tone, "Nois City is much more sinister and dangerous than I imagined.
"Nois City is more sinister and dangerous than I had expected. I wonder what your opinion is on our next course of action?"
I don't know much about this place, nor do I have much experience. Why would the Chief ask for my opinion? Derrick was momentarily taken aback as he instinctively wanted to raise his left hand to scratch the back of his head.
He immediately recalled the few conversations he had with the Chief in the City of Silver. He recalled Mr. The Hanging Man's analysis of the hidden meaning behind their words. His heart suddenly stirred as he came to a realization.
"The chief is hinting at me!
"What he means is that Nois City is even more bizarre and dangerous than we had imagined. It will be more difficult for the shapeshifters to hunt there. I wonder if it's possible to change the target?
He wishes for me to pray to Mr. Fool to obtain a revelation and give "advice"?
Is that so … Mr. World is truly a wise man. Along the way, he told me how to hunt Bizarro Bane in a relatively simple manner and obtain its blood. Uh, in this situation, it seems like it can be used!
As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Derrick sincerely replied,
"Yes, Sir Chief, I have some suggestions."
Colin Iliad heaved a silent sigh of relief. He swallowed his more straightforward words and nodded slightly.
"Speak."
"Since Nois City has changed, it will be very risky for us to enter. Perhaps we can consider luring the shapeshifters out." Derrick didn't copy "The World" German Sparrow's method. Instead, he made some modifications based on the current situation.
Demon Hunter Colin didn't directly deny it.
"Then how do we lure the Shapeshifter out?"
Without hesitation, Derrick said, "That's right.
"I have an item that is extremely tempting to Shapeshifters. As long as you place it at the edge of Nois City or somewhere further away, you will be able to lure Shapeshifters out."
Colin, whose hair was white and messy, was not surprised by his words at all.
"What item?"
He had long known that Derrick Berg had secretly held a bestowment ritual while he was on night watch.
Moreover, if it wasn't for his help, Lovia, League, and Gonluen would have known about it.
Derrick didn't know how to address or describe it. He directly took out an iron-black box that was completely different from the City of Silver's style and removed the wall of spirituality on its surface.
Then, he didn't lower his head. Instead, he turned his head and opened the box purely by feeling it with his hands.
Inside the box was a palm-sized humanoid object. At a cursory glance, one could see that it was filled with a transparent liquid that bubbled from time to time and emitted a faint black glow. Upon closer inspection, one could see that it was made up of wriggling things that looked like worms, and the fine parts were filled with indescribable patterns that represented various abstract concepts.
This was the true soul body of the Spirit World Plunderer that Klein had previously obtained!
He believed that this Beyonder ingredient was incomparably attractive to the Bizarro Bane. This wasn't only because of the law of Beyonder characteristic convergence, but also because once the Bizarro Bane obtained it, they would become a complete Bizarro Sorcerer. They would be freed from their current limitations and obtain a qualitative upgrade in life's natural order, truly becoming a demigod!
Therefore, in order to make the hunt for the Bizarro Bane simpler and clearer without wasting any time, Klein took the risk of losing it and lent the Spirit World Plunderer's true soul body to Little Sun.
Colin Iliad looked at it carefully for a few seconds before retracting his gaze.
"It should be effective.
"Close the lid. Don't add any more walls of spirituality. Just wear it and see if you can attract them to the camp."
"Them?" Derrick subconsciously asked.
Colin's face, which had several old scars, revealed a smile.
"Do you think there's only one Shapeshifter in Nois City?
"If it wasn't for the fact that this item's rank isn't high enough, I'm worried that it would attract even more terrifying monsters."
Derrick felt ashamed. He scratched the back of his head and followed the Chief's instructions to close the black box and stuff it back into the hidden pocket inside his clothes.
For the rest of the patrol, he was always on high alert, but there was no attack from the shapeshifters.
After a while, Lovia, League, and Gunelune took over, and he sat back down by the warm fire.
At this time, a cawing sound rang out, and seven or eight black-feathered, red-eyed crows flew over, circling in the air.
This brought about an indescribable sense of terror. Colin Iliad pulled out his sword and looked up.
Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly turned his gaze to where Derrick Berg was.
On the opposite side of the fire, two yellow-haired youths, who were nearly 1.9 meters tall and had childish faces, stared at each other in astonishment.
Colin narrowed his eyes and immediately shouted,
"Shine!"
One of the youths was stunned at first, but then came to a realization. He let pure and warm sunlight emit from his body.
With a swoosh, an afterimage flashed past. Colin's sword had slashed through the fake Derrick.
It was a shadow, a blurry and transparent shadow!
At the same time, a red-eyed crow suddenly descended from the sky. Its body swelled up, turning into a pitch-black shadow.
On this shadow, there was a single transparent eye that shone with a faint blue light. Around the eye were eyes that had the same characteristics but were smaller.
A shapeshifter!
A shapeshifter that could disguise as a crow!
The moment the pitch-black shadow landed, Derrick's head went numb. His body was petrified, unable to move. All he could do was watch as the other party pounced at him.
Pa!
The shapeshifter slammed into an invisible wall and was unable to advance any further.
At the edge of the fire, Colin Iliad stabbed the sword in his hand into the ground and pulled out the other one he carried on his back.
The surroundings lit up, as though the legendary dawn had descended on this abandoned land. Endless rays of dawn erupted, forming an illusory ocean that swallowed the pitch-black shadow and all the crows from the bottom up.
At the entrance of the camp, an illusory knight that was more than five meters tall and dressed in silver armor appeared behind Shepherd Lovia.
A dark red flame burned in each of the knight's eyes, and he instantly locked on to a position.
"He" suddenly took a step forward and appeared a few hundred meters away in a flash.
Streaks of sharp silver light shot out, slicing everything in the surroundings into neat pieces, including the various monsters that were hiding there, as well as the shapeshifters that had escaped the Demon Hunter's fatal blow with some ability and moved here.
The monster still wasn't dead. It had once again moved its true body, but the pure and clear dawn descended once again, completely drowning a large area.
When the dawn faded, Colin Iliad, wearing a brown coat and holding two swords, appeared there. He calmly looked at the cracked ground in front of him as light gathered bit by bit. He watched as blackish-red blood that had mostly evaporated slowly seeped out.
Success! Amidst his joy, he hurriedly used a wall of spirituality to seal the iron-black square box again.
Demon Hunter Colin then stabbed his two swords into the ground, took out three empty metal bottles, and filled them with the blood on the ground.
While waiting for the materials to take shape, he said to Lovia and company with his usual expression, "The materials left behind by the shapeshifter are useful to me.
"The materials left behind by the Shapeshifter are useful to me. I want to exchange them directly."
In the City of Silver, there were typically two ways to deal with the spoils from such explorations. One was to bring it back and return it to the city, exchange it for the corresponding contribution points, and distribute it according to the degree of contribution. The second way was if it wasn't particularly important, and a particular member had taken a fancy to it, they could use items or contribution points to exchange for it on the spot.
"I have no objections," League and Gonlun said at the same time.
Lovia didn't say a word, indicating her tacit agreement.
After the illusory silver-armored knight returned, she turned her head and indifferently glanced at Derrick Berg beside the fire.
…
East Balam, in the temporary office of the Red Gloves team.
Sostel looked around and said to all the team members,
"Her Excellency Goddess's Eye wants us to investigate the sale of Hunter pathway Beyonder ingredients locally and in the surrounding cities, as well as the disappearance or death of the corresponding Beyonders.
"She agrees with Daly's guess, and from the death of the Intis spy, she suspects that it's an evil spirit from the Hunter pathway.
"Of course, we can't ignore other anomalies. After all, it's just a possibility.
"Also, there's one more thing. We only need to gather information. We don't need to worry about anything else. There's no need to investigate too deeply. This is an order from Her Excellency Goddess's Eye!
"Do you remember?"
"Got it!" Cindy and the others replied.
Sostel looked at Leonard and Daly before withdrawing his gaze and saying in a deep voice,
"Move out!"
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