This time, Søren left after making full preparations.
Before leaving, he drew a further blueprint for the outer islands. According to his original layout, the population of Mordor City was about 50,000 people, which was already a large city in the current era. The port was still operated by the Church of Wealth and the Sea Church. Søren paid more attention to the land, and his future focus was also on the land. When his strength had accumulated to a certain extent, he might directly go to Treasure Island, where the wealth was enough to easily replace the overseas trade.
After all, no matter how profitable the trade was, it was not as profitable as mining gold. In the future, it would be quite difficult to change from a pirate to a higher class without the support of a gold mine.
[Note: Treasure Island was mentioned before, and the outer islands have rich mineral resources.]
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It was much more convenient to travel alone.
Søren directly drove the ghost ship, Deadman's Voice, along the overseas route to Shipwreck Bay. There was no need to resupply on the way. After a little inspection of the slave black market, he went to the north.
The north was located in the northwest of the continent.
The Frost Kingdom was located in the northernmost position, so Søren's voyage this time was quite long. If he wanted to collect the other three elemental stones, he would need to travel almost half of the continent. From the south to the north, from the north to the east, and finally across the desert of death into the Underdark, because the last elemental stone was somewhere in the Underdark.
A place where he might encounter a Beholder.
Back in the north again, Søren's mood was very different. He landed from the Deepwater Port and left the ghost ship in the nearby sea.
The port was still bustling with noise and excitement.
However, in the noisy crowd, there were many more people with weapons. Even some half-grown children had a dagger hidden in their waists.
Søren could not help but frown slightly.
He walked along the road and saw many wanted posters as he approached the gate of the Deepwater Port.
There were humans, dwarves, and lizardmen.
The security here seemed to have deteriorated a lot compared to the last time he was here. Dozens of arrest warrants of various sizes were pasted on a notice board. The guards in charge of patrolling were also much more nervous than before. They were not as lazy as they used to be. The Adventurer's Guild was more lively than before. There was even a bulletin board outside with many tasks written in bright red.
For example, the few pieces in front of him.
"A hundred miles south of the Deepwater Port, Ancient Tree Town has been attacked by the Dark-Scaled Lizardmen. The number of enemies is small, and the danger level is C. The mission reward is 1200 Kindler coins. This is an emergency mission. There will be additional rewards after completion. "
"Ogres have appeared near Falkner Town. Recently, people have been disappearing one after another. The mayor wants to ask someone to investigate this matter and determine the number and traces of the Ogres. The reward is 300 Kindler coins, and there will be additional rewards for assisting the town guards in killing the Ogres. "
"Yesterday, the Deepwater Port found a strange fog in the nearby waters. Some merchant sailors said that they had seen traces of the ghost ship. This is a special mission. Anyone with clues will be rewarded. Mission difficulty: B rank. "
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Perhaps it was because the timeline was getting closer and closer to the Time of Turmoil, the Adventurer's Guild had issued more quests than before.
However, what made Søren feel a little bit dumbfounded was that there were more than a dozen bulletin boards outside, and the difficulty of the missions ranged from F to C. The only B rank mission was to investigate the strange fog that appeared in the Deepwater Port yesterday. Needless to say, it must be because of Søren's arrival. Before he got close, he activated the fog summoning ability of the dead man's voice, but he didn't expect that the nearby sailors still saw a trace of it. That was why today's B rank mission was a special investigation mission.
It was really surprising to think about it.
Søren also received missions from the Adventurer's Guild in the past, but he didn't expect that one day, he would also receive a difficult investigation mission.
There was a team gathering outside the city gate.
Before Søren walked out of the town, he saw the militia training. Most of them were adult men, and there were many fifteen or sixteen-year-old children. In previous years, the militia training would not be conducted in March, which was the busy period of farming. The training would be conducted during the slack period after the wheat harvest. Therefore, as long as someone took a look at the situation, they could guess that there was a problem with the security nearby. Something big must have happened nearby for the militia to be urgently trained. Otherwise, how could there be such a time to plant spring wheat?
Søren did not stay here.
In fact, he had already been mentally prepared for the arrival of chaos. A catastrophe was far more than what he saw in front of him. When the real chaos came, it would be the real outbreak of the disaster.
If there were no accidents.
Søren should arrive in the Frost Kingdom tomorrow, but just after he left the Deepwater Port, a little accident happened.
He saw a pile of corpses.
Strictly speaking, it was a pile of corpses that had been dead for a while, and the corpses had basically begun to rot. The reason why Søren was alarmed was the stench that came from here.
Corpses were not rare in this era.
If it were just corpses, Søren would not care at all.
However, these corpses had a distinct feature that made Søren stop. Their eyeballs were all dug out.
Strictly speaking, their eyeballs were taken out!
Bloody eye sockets, the eyeballs of all the corpses had been taken out. There were signs of battle on their bodies. Judging from the signs of struggle in some places, some of them had their eyeballs dug out while they were still alive, and then their throats were slit by the enemy.
It was a very familiar killing method!
Søren glanced at these corpses and could not help but murmur, "The Unseen!? Has this group of people appeared? "
The Unseen.
A Cthulhu Church that was not very powerful, but not weak either.
They believed in an Cthulhu without eyeballs. These people liked to dig out the eyeballs of their enemies after defeating them, or sacrifice to the Cthulhu they believed in with a massacre. Finally, they would dig out the eyeballs of the people they killed as a sacrifice. The reason why Søren knew them was very simple. He had received a mission to investigate another Cthulhu Church.
That Cthulhu Church was called [The Blind].
There were certain similarities between the two fallen evil organizations. Søren had encountered the followers of the Unseen when he was investigating the Blind.
"Die! Evil people! "
When Søren looked at these corpses, he pondered for a moment and was about to leave. Suddenly, a spell that made him extremely uncomfortable appeared, and then the Paladin's signature spell, [Detect Evil], fell on him.
It was as if a mine was triggered!
Søren's body exploded with an extremely rich blood-red light in an instant. As the most powerful pirate king on the South Coast, Søren's hands were now covered in blood. Although he brought order to the South Coast and made the lives of ordinary merchants much more stable. But it was undeniable that he controlled the black market trade, the slave trade, and squeezed other merchants for protection money. Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the evil aura on Søren's body was very strong!
In this world, there was only one kind of person who would cast [Detect Evil] on others without even asking.
That was the Paladin!
Søren's body showed a trace of murderous intent. If there was anything in this world that he hated the most, it was undoubtedly the Paladin who cast [Detect Evil] on others.
So at this moment, he had the urge to kill!
But what he didn't expect was that the Paladin in front of him was the first one to shout "die!"
It was a young and handsome man.
He looked like a noble because he was wearing a gorgeous full body armor. After he cast [Detect Evil] on Søren, he had a righteous expression on his face and directly slashed at him with his sword. At first glance, this Paladin didn't have much combat experience. The distance between the two hadn't closed, but he had already begun to accelerate. Søren could even see the trajectory of his attack with his eyes closed.
This was a rookie who lacked experience!
He estimated that his profession level was around grade 3, and if he wasn't wrong, it should be around grade 12.
From the color of the magic aura, Søren didn't belong to the kind of people who committed heinous crimes! Therefore, after seeing such a rich blood-red light, the Paladin didn't hesitate to attack. In his opinion, Søren belonged to the kind of sinner who should be judged directly!
"Don't be impulsive!"
"Come back!"
"You're crazy! Don't throw [Detect Evil]! "
A female voice came from behind the young Paladin, and there were two or three other mixed voices. It seemed that this was a team of adventurers.
The Paladin seemed to have taken over the role of a warrior.
They looked like a team of adventurers who had accepted a certain mission. And the Paladin in front, after seeing the pile of corpses and Søren standing next to them, his first reaction was not to ask, but to throw out [Detect Evil].
What the f * ck!
With a clang, Søren instantly pulled out his curved sword, Icingdeath, and then rushed forward at high speed like a monk. After swinging his sword to block the Paladin's attack, he slashed at his head!
"No!"
There was a cry of alarm.
Three figures rushed out from the side of the woods. One of the female voices sounded familiar to Søren. There were quite few people who could make him feel familiar, so after a moment of hesitation, he twisted his sword and replaced the blade with the back of the sword.
Clang!
Thump.
The young Paladin was knocked unconscious and fell to the ground like an onion.
Søren turned to look at the four adventurers who were approaching. He glanced at them and immediately found a familiar figure.
Annalynne.
The young priestess who had helped them in Amber City!
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