The Demonic Spirit Grass was an extremely precious Demonic Medicine. It was one of the important ingredients for Demonic Qi-related potions such as Demonic Qi-resistant, Demonic Qi-healing, and Demonic Qi-healing. However, because it was extremely rare and difficult to cultivate on a large scale, the market price of the Demonic Spirit Grass was as high as three thousand Demonic Stones.
According to the records in the ancient books, Demonic Spirit Grass grew in places related to Demonic Qi, or in the vicinity of underground magic beasts. The group of Evil Spirit Spiders that attacked Connor's group was a typical example of underground magic beasts. In other words, this meant that there was a certain probability that Demonic Spirit Grass would appear in the vicinity. This was also why Dezerby's expression had been so vexed just now.
Although Connor had taken out a jade box and told Dezerby that all the Demonic Spirit Grass in the vicinity were inside, Connor was only deceiving Dezerby. He wanted to make him believe that he had really been digging for Demonic Spirit Grass in the past hour. In fact, there was nothing in the jade box. Of course, that was the truth. In the past hour, Connor had been in the depths of the ancient tomb. How could he have had the time to look for Demonic Spirit Grass in the surroundings?
Moreover, because Varga was a Pharmacist, Connor's spatial ring rarely stored any Magic Herbs, even though there were many different kinds of potions. The Magic Herbs that he had obtained from battles were all given to Varga. Therefore, Connor naturally didn't have any Demonic Spirit Grass on hand.
After searching together for the past few days, Connor was certain that with Dezerby's steady character, as long as he said so, Dezerby wouldn't be so rude as to ask to see if the jade box really contained Demonic Spirit Grass. The final result was just as Connor had expected. Dezerby didn't ask to see the jade box, nor did he suspect Connor.
Therefore, this operation could be said to be a complete victory for Connor. Not only did he hide from Dezerby who was in charge of monitoring his movements, but he also obtained the Scarlet Cross Sword from the ancient tomb. Connor was naturally very satisfied with this result.
Two hours later, in the evening, Connor, Dezerby, and the rest finally arrived at their second and final destination in the Sierra de Campania. It was a swamp called Decaza. Decaza was closer to the outskirts of the mountain range than the previous location. Not only was it less dangerous, but it also produced magic herbs such as Cotlo Flower and Tomic Fruit.
Therefore, every year, during September and October, when the magic herbs matured, Magi would come here to harvest them. Therefore, outside of the swamp, there were wooden huts left behind by Magi harvesting magic herbs for Connor, Dezerby, and the rest to stay in. This way, they wouldn't have to live in tents or caves like before.
Because it was already late, the risk of exploring the swamp was very high. In addition, Connor and the rest had a fierce fight with the Ghost Spiders during the day, causing everyone to suffer heavy losses. After rushing for another two hours, they rushed to the swamp at Decaza. The group was already exhausted. Therefore, Connor and Dezerby came to a tacit agreement that they would rest in the wooden huts for the night. As for exploring the ruins in the swamp, they would talk about it tomorrow.
Because there weren't many wooden huts, only four of them, only Connor and Dezerby, the two official Magi, could stay in one. As for the rest of the Church's Arbiters, they could only bear with it for the time being and squeeze into the remaining two wooden huts.
Sitting in the cold and damp wooden hut, Connor lifted a crudely crafted iron wine flask and drank mouthful after mouthful of wine. He didn't use any magic to restrain the effects of the wine on his body, allowing the spicy liquid to burn in his body.
Even though Connor's eyes weren't looking at the wooden hut twenty meters away on his left, Connor's thoughts were all on it. That wooden hut was where Dezerby was staying.
Even though neither Cristante nor Dezerby had explicitly stated their intentions, everyone knew that Cristante represented the Church of the Storm and didn't trust Connor, who was a dark Magus from the Secret Society. Dezerby and his team of Arbiters were nominally helping Connor search for ruins, but in reality, their greatest purpose was to monitor Connor Ferguson!
The main person in charge of the "real mission" of monitoring Connor was undoubtedly Dezerby, who was an official Magus. During the day, when everyone gathered to work, Dezerby was naturally very conscientious in carrying out his mission, letting Connor feel that he was secretly watching him from behind.
However, at night, when everyone stopped working and was alone, Dezerby seemed to have forgotten his mission and stopped monitoring Connor. This made Connor suspicious of Dezerby by nature.
Connor naturally didn't think that Dezerby would forget his mission and stop monitoring him at night. In his opinion, Dezerby was just baiting him. It wasn't that he stopped monitoring him, but that he was using a different method to monitor him. He was trying to mislead him into thinking that Dezerby wasn't monitoring him at night so that he would let his guard down and fall into his trap.
Connor believed that there were two ways to continue monitoring him under such circumstances. The first was to use spiritual force. However, Dezerby was very clear that Connor was a spiritual-type Magus, and his spiritual force was much stronger than his. Hence, as long as Dezerby wasn't brainless and had a normal level of intelligence, he definitely wouldn't choose to display his slight skill in front of an expert and humiliate himself in front of Connor.
Hence, the possibility of using spiritual force to monitor him could basically be ruled out. The only possibility left was to use a magic artifact!
As an alchemist, Connor had long heard that five years ago, the alchemists of the Church of the Storm and the Religion of the Earth had each brought out their special skills. Both sides had joined forces to create a mysterious magic artifact that could be spied on without Magi noticing. Many dark Magi had unknowingly fallen for this mysterious magic artifact. Even until their deaths, they didn't know that they had fallen into the trap of the two great churches.
As the value of these mysterious magical artifacts was too great, and they were impossible to guard against, many dark adepts were actively searching for information about these magical artifacts in order to prevent themselves from being ambushed by these magical artifacts and falling for the schemes of the two major churches.
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