With the passive attributes of [Astral Form] and [Regeneration], plus the grand master-level healing potion, Chen Rui's injuries quickly recovered.
The bonus effect of the Snow Dallet Tree could only be used on the faith power automatically generated in the Super System's [Galaxy Territory]. The stolen "foreign goods" couldn't benefit from the conversion. Since the conversion speed of faith crystals wasn't very fast, it might take 1 or 2 months to reach a total of 1 million according to this speed. Fortunately, the time of the Divinity Knight Selection this time was greatly compressed. There were still 4 months before Isabella's [Light Annihilation Seal] would reach the final moment. There was still enough time.
Shura was an avatar. Although he was annihilated by the power of the Bright Temple, his body would never be destroyed as long as he didn't die. After paying a lot of auras, the system prompted that the resurrection time was 12 days.
After painstakingly planning to sneak into the Holy Mountain this time, he finally succeeded in getting the Snow Dallet. The next step was to wait for the faith crystals to convert to the required number. Compared with the previous scary days, it seemed a bit boring now. Since he couldn't go back for the time being, he could take this time to wander around and gain experience in the human world.
Although part of Arthur's consciousness in the fused memory had a strong desire to return to the Long Huang Empire and return to the side of the "eyes", Chen Rui didn't intend to do so. This body had too many fetters in the Long Huang Empire. In addition to the mysterious woman, there were relatives, status, power, and territory … Chen Rui didn't want to have any intersection with the past "Arthur". Just like when he left Yerodisha resolutely, since he had already passed by, he shouldn't look back.
As one of the places where the "Black Death Apostles" appeared, the Garton City Church became the focus of the inquisition's investigation. The Yangshao Kingdom also ordered all territories and cities in the country to fully cooperate with the church's operation to eliminate the Black Death Apostles.
From time to time, the Church's Knights of Light and soldiers could be seen patrolling the streets. Chen Rui was no longer a rookie who had just returned to the human world. He hung the mercenary badge on his chest and turned into a tall, strong man with a strength of E, carrying a sword, and walked boldly forward.
The mercenary badge had Richard's finger marks on it, but Richard's' heroic deeds' in the Sacred Mountain had not yet spread to Garton City. In the eyes of the pope and the others, this was likely an enemy of the Black Death Apostles who had deliberately snuck into the Sacred Mountain and destroyed the holy tree. Once his identity was exposed, all traces that he had left behind should have been destroyed. There was no way he would be stupid enough to use his original identity.
As expected, Chen Rui passed the interrogation smoothly. In this Kingdom of Mercenaries where mercenaries were everywhere, there were too many small fries like him. He would not attract any attention at all.
Recently, Garton City had been discussing two major events. The first was that the assassination organization Chen Rui had encountered, the Dagger Brotherhood, was suspected to be related to the Black Death Apostles and had been uprooted by the Inquisition. Other than a few leaders who had gone missing, the rest of the members were all captured and publicly burned at the stake in the capital.
Although the Dagger Brotherhood had considerable power in a few countries, and their actions were rather secretive, they were still vulnerable in front of the colossus that was the Church. Whether it was the Dagger Brotherhood or the Black Death Apostles, they had actually helped Shura take the blame. In fact, Chen Rui had guessed from eavesdropping on Elisa and Paul's conversation that the Dagger Brotherhood was very likely one of the forces that Elisa or even the Saintess had secretly manipulated. The purpose of killing Mana should be for the position of the Bishop of the Yangshao Kingdom, so as to weaken the power of Pusmir's faction in the upcoming reshuffle of the Church's power. It was laughable that Mana had thought that Elisa was his savior, but in the end, she had become a killer. However, this time, the Dagger Brotherhood had inexplicably gotten involved with the Black Death Apostles, so Elisa or Udora had decisively sacrificed their pawns to protect their chariot, completely destroying the Dagger Brotherhood. With any of their methods, they would definitely not leave any future trouble.
The other matter was that Lord Wally had reported to the capital that the fat City Lord Kraut had colluded with the Black Death Apostles, assassinated Elisa and Mana, and a series of other misdeeds. As a result, Kraut was immediately removed from his position and investigated. He was currently being escorted to the capital, and the affairs of Garton City were temporarily handled by a special envoy sent by the capital. The root of this matter should be the internal political struggle of the Yangshao Kingdom. Chen Rui was not sure if the fat man was a Black Death Apostle, but what was certain was that Lord Wally's stab was quite fatal. Especially during this sensitive period, and with the previous well-known assassination, it would be difficult for the fat man to make a comeback.
Where there were people, there would be underworld. No matter which plane it was, it was the same.
These things were related to Chen Rui's facial features. He was now going to the largest pawnshop in the city, which was the pawnshop. Last time when he was Elisa's tour guide in Garton City, he had been to this consignment shop. He remembered that there was a batch of fire ores. This batch of ores had a high content of fire elements, even higher than the crystals sold in ordinary magic shops. However, because the impurities were extremely difficult to deal with, it caused the cost of refining to increase greatly, so it was sold to the pawnshop at a low price.
At that time, Chen Rui did not fancy this batch of ores, but it was different now because there was a large demand for fire energy in the Space Ring – the phoenix egg.
This phoenix egg was obtained when he stole the power of fire. Originally, the power of fire was enough to provide the power needed by the phoenix egg, but Chen Rui wanted to leave the power of fire for Rolla. He could not use it all on the phoenix egg, so he kept it in the storage warehouse. As a result, the "hungry" phoenix egg would use a strange power to shake the Space Ring to "eat" every day, so Chen Rui had to find ways to collect fire energy. Who asked him to snatch the little baby's rations?
In fact, even if the phoenix hatched, it was difficult to bring it back to the Demon Realm, but Chen Rui did not want to leave it for Udora because Udora's purpose was even crueler. She wanted to use a secret technique to devour the phoenix after it hatched, which was to eat the little phoenix.
At present, it was better to take one step at a time. If it didn't work, he would find a safe place to place the phoenix.
When he came to the consignment store, the troublesome batch of fire ores had not been sold yet. When he heard that Chen Rui wanted this batch of ores that no one was interested in, the owner of the consignment store, Old Parbor, looked very happy. The 2 parties quickly negotiated the price, and Chen Rui bought this batch of ores at a relatively low price. Anyway, with the refinery of the Super System, it was only a matter of time to refine these fire ores into the purest crystal stone.
The currencies of the human world and the Demon Realm were common. The slight difference was that the crystal coins of the Demon Realm generally contained more dark breath, so they needed to be dealt with accordingly. When Chen Rui pretended to be "Charles" and performed the "fund-raising plan" on Obsidian, he had created related props, so it was easy to dispose of the dark breath.
After negotiating the price of the fire ores, Old Parbor tried his best to recommend more goods to Chen Rui, but unfortunately, nothing caught his eye. Until he caught a glimpse of something in the corner, he was immediately attracted.
It was an old piece of yellow paper, on which strange patterns were densely drawn.
"Customer, this is said to be a mysterious treasure map that records …"
"Alright, I'm not a rookie who has just become a mercenary for the first day. This is clearly just a blueprint. Moreover, it's incomplete and has no value at all. I'm just a little interested in its texture. This should be Yellow Cicada Leaf Paper. I have a friend who has a White Crystal rank quest that just so happens to need one. If you plan to sell it to me as a treasure map, then I don't want the fire ores. I hope you can find a better buyer. "
When Old Parbor heard that it was just a White Crystal level mission, he immediately put away the thought of hoarding rare goods. He was afraid that the fire ores business would be ruined, so he quickly shook his head and said, "Customer, you misunderstood … This is what happened. This scrap blueprint was pawned by the butler of the former city lord … That Fatty Kraut, Tucker. There were many valuable things at that time. The time was on the night that Fatty was removed from the city lord position. He seemed to be in urgent need of cash. You also know that the heretic's matter has spread all over the city. Fatty was removed from his position and investigated … It's all that damn Tucker's fault. He lied to me that it was a treasure map …"
City Lord Kraut's butler? Chen Rui had a look of realization.
In fact, this blueprint was not some useless piece of paper. On the contrary, it had an immeasurable value. It was the joint research result of the late Hill Dwarf Grandmaster Rick and the Elven Grandmaster Finoa. It was also the blueprint that had been stolen from the Thick Earth Castle in the Black Rock Mountain. At that time, there was also a batch of excellent armor that was stolen. It turned out that the theft was actually planned by the fat City Lord, Kraut. His real goal should be that batch of armor. Initially, Chen Rui had a trace of sympathy for the fat man being framed as a Black Death Apostle. Now that he thought about it, he deserved it.
"Guest?" Old Parber asked cautiously with an apologetic smile.
Chen Rui shrugged. "Alright, I'll take this batch of ores according to the price we agreed on. As for that trash blueprint from the White Crystal level mission, give it to me as well. I hope I can get a kiss from that chick."
Old Parbor knew that the price of the other party's ores had actually made him a lot of money. Even if the "trash blueprint" was given away for free, it was definitely worth it.
For Chen Rui, money was actually not a problem. It was really worth it to be able to find the precious blueprint. The Dwarf King Orfgar had once asked him to find this stolen blueprint. Then, he would bring the Green Badge to the Emerald Forest of the Elven Clan and hand the blueprint to the Elven Clan's Alchemist Grandmaster Finoa to complete a diplomatic mission.
Chen Rui agreed at that time, not only to win the favor of the Hill Dwarves, but he also wanted to meet the Elf Grandmaster Finoa, hoping to get some teaching or inspiration from this Grandmaster. It was not only for the improvement of his own alchemy skills, but more importantly for the life and death duel between his teacher Tetenis and that Saman.
If Chen Rui could become a Grandmaster, or bring back the understanding of the Grandmaster to let Tetenis break through to the Grandmaster realm, there might still be a possibility of winning the duel that was bound to be lost.
Counting it, the duel between Tetenis and Saman was less than 4 months away, so he had to rush back as soon as possible.
Then, the next itinerary had a clear goal: the location of the Elves, the Emerald Forest Sea.
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