Blue Sword

"I'm sorry, we don't have the brandy you asked for." The bartender at the bar said politely, "There is fruit brandy, but there is no brandy containing 10 kinds of fruits at the same time, because different fruits have different sugar contents and are mixed together. It will affect the taste level of the brandy. If you don’t mind, I can prepare a cup of pure brandy with the specified fruits for you.”

"This won't work." Asik said regretfully. The recipe clearly states that it is fruit-stuffed brandy, so it is naturally not possible to mix it with fruit after brewing.

Nora's pretty face was also full of frustration. The two of them had visited no less than twenty taverns in the city, but none of them had the so-called "10 kinds of fruit cognac" in the recipe. They even gave the same explanation as to why.

"Do we really have to find a winery to make our own wine?" Nora messed up her hair like crazy, "If it would be more convenient at my winery, I can find a winemaking expert to find a way. The winery here For designated brewing, it would take at least a week according to the normal process.”

Ask ignored her unconscious words about "my winery" to show off her wealth and said:

"Well, actually a week is not too long. It is normal for a normal transcendent to spend two or three years searching for formula materials."

Of course, "normal" here refers to NPCs.

"I know." Nora said distressedly. It was just because Eleanor became the first to become a level 1 transcendent that she had a sense of urgency that time could not wait for us.

"In this case, we can only use a more radical approach." Aske said.

"What can I do?" Nora's eyes lit up.

"Take this." Asik threw the topaz ring he picked up from last night's corpse to her, "Let's go find the people from the Life Sect."

"Is this a token of identity of the Life Sect?" Nora caught the ring, turned it over and looked at it, and saw two sentences engraved on the bottom of the crystal ring.

Beware, druids.

(Beware, druids.)

Continuous swings of a tiny ax can chop down the strongest oak trees.

(Many_strokes_through_with_a_little_axe, hew_down_and_fell_the_hardest-timbered_oak.)

"Oh." Ask also saw that sentence, "That is the introductory commandment of the Life Sect: the oak tree is the sacred tree of the Life Sect, which refers to the Life Sect itself; the continuous swing of the tiny ax refers to the inconspicuous, but There are constant dangers from the outside.”

"I understand." Nora felt that this sentence was very powerful, so she took out her precious notebook and copied this sentence on the title page of the notebook.

"What kind of people are the Life Sect?" Reading this famous quote repeatedly, Nora seemed to see an ancient secret organization with a long history. After wars, changes and vicissitudes of time, countless extraordinary people sacrificed one after another, just to let people Sects can stand firm in the long river of time.

"If we really want to label them," Asker thought for a moment and said, "Farmers, poor people, vegetarians, old-fashioned people, a bunch of old men and women."

"Uh." Nora felt that some fantasy in her heart was severely shattered.

After taking the Junbao Metro for a few turns, the two of them soon came to a building. Nora looked carefully and saw the house number hanging on the building:

Municipal Garden Construction Association of Constantinople.

After passing through the porch, the two entered an open-air courtyard with countless flower beds separated by gravel paths, in which a variety of exotic flowers were planted.

Beside the flower bed, there were researchers in white coats and gardeners in blue overalls. There were also some who could tell they were aristocrats just by looking at their clothes. They were pointing at the flowers and talking incessantly.

Asker took Nora and went directly to the oldest old lady at the scene and took out the citrine ring to show her.

The confused old lady:? ? ?

"Sorry." Ask said, then found an old man next to him, took out the ring and waved it in front of his eyes.

The old man looked puzzled:? ? ?

"Sorry." Asik said, then turned to look for the next target. Finally, a middle-aged man in a gardener's uniform couldn't stand it any longer. He came out and held down Asik's shoulders and said:

"Sir, who are you? Our association does not allow non-members to come in and out at will."

He dragged Asik to the corner where there was no one around. Nora saw this with a bitter smile and anxiety on her face, so she could only follow him quickly.

When he came to the corner, the middle-aged man lowered his voice and said:

"Who are you? How come you have this ring?"

"That's it." Asik spent 40 pounds at the Extraordinary Party to buy a piece of paper leading to Dorok No. 44. Then he was attacked in the house, and he confessed everything about how he killed him in the end. said.

As for how he found this place, he speculated that he found dirt on the soles of the corpse's boots in the house, so he suspected that it was someone engaged in flower-related work in the imperial capital.

"I see." The middle-aged man took the formulas of Life I and Light I, as well as the topaz ring, "Thank you very much for bringing back these things. These are indeed the things of our Life Sect."

He sighed faintly: "The deceased are also our church members. Recently, the Spiritual Body Sect's attacks on us have become more and more frequent, and we have had several conflicts in Constantinople."

"Your Excellency, aren't you worried that we are spies of the Spiritual Body Sect?" Nora asked cautiously. She originally thought that the other party would have to be wary of all kinds of suspicions and use all kinds of clever tests, just like what was written in legendary novels. Unexpectedly, Aske just told the truth, and the other party immediately believed it.

"Don't worry." The middle-aged man said with a smile, "The Spirit Sect is all spirit body capable users, and the spirits all around are their informants, so they don't need to hire secret agents or spies at all."

"You are here probably for the materials of Life I or Light I, right." He looked at Aske again.

"Not bad." Ask said frankly, "This companion of mine hopes to obtain the potion ingredients for Life I. Currently, he still lacks the auxiliary ingredient, fruit brandy."

"The main material comes from our sacrificed church member, right?" the middle-aged man asked solemnly. For a moment, Nora thought that the other party was about to attack, but Asik also asked seriously:

"Yes, you want to buy it back?"

"200 pounds." The middle-aged man said, "Or the equivalent main material, 3 Flowers of Eden Tree."

"Deal, let's choose the main material." Asik nodded and then explained to the confused Nora, "The extraordinary qualities harvested from the corpse will contain the spiritual will of the deceased. If it is made into a potion If you take it, the probability of losing control will be greater. For the Life Sect, they can obtain information from the remaining spiritual will and find clues to the murderer of the deceased, so this deal is beneficial to both of us."

"Is this young lady an ordinary person?" The middle-aged man looked at Nora with interest.

"Yes, I'm about to get started." Ask said with a smile, "A lot of secret knowledge still needs to be spread to her."

"I have a proposal." The middle-aged man said seriously, "I wonder if you would like to join our Life Sect?"

"Me?" Nora asked in surprise.

"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded, "Join our Life Sect, and you will have the opportunity to gain access to more life sequence formulas, as well as redeem and purchase corresponding main materials. If you have enough merit, our 'Tree Shepherd' bloodline route I can give it to you too.”

"Why did you choose me?" Nora looked at Asker in confusion, and then at the middle-aged man. She felt as if a huge pie had hit her head. For a moment, she even had an unreal and illusive feeling. .

"Because the Life Sect is in urgent need of fresh blood." The middle-aged man said with a smile, "Do you think that our sect's membership is just like the legend? It still implements strict long-term political review, careful and cumbersome character examination, and one-way connections to ensure confidentiality The master-apprentice system? This was true in the past, but that system has been proven to be outdated. At least in the past hundred years, the expansion of our Life Sect has lagged far behind that of the Spirit Sect."

"The Spiritual Body Sect released low-level recipes of the undead sequence, using the gimmick of becoming extraordinary people to attract new people. This method will certainly attract many people with impure minds, but the rapid expansion of the scale can make up for these shortcomings. On the contrary, we used to The elders of the sect use the old method of managing the family to manage the sect, and the final result can only be that the development speed is far behind." The middle-aged man took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, "You two, can you add me as a friend?"

Your sect is a bit too advanced with the times! Ask wondered why this was different from the Life Sect that he knew in his previous life? The two had no choice but to take out their mobile phones and exchange CM's friends with the middle-aged man.

(CM stands for Community, a mobile social software in the world of "Iron and Fire", similar to a combination of WeChat and Renren. CM is located in Solomon City, Italy, and is an international Internet company)

I saw that the other party's nickname was directly "Killian Bonnet", Asker's nickname was only "Asker", and Norah's CM nickname was "Princess.Norah" (Her Royal Highness Princess Norah).

Killian and Ask were stunned for half a second, and then both turned to look at Nora. The latter's face immediately turned red, with an expression of shame and embarrassment, and he waved his hands in a panic and explained:

"That! The nickname of the CM account was given to me when I was a child! Because the nickname cannot be modified once it is decided, and there are too many friends in the address book and I can't bear to delete it, so I have been using it until now..."

She could hardly speak anymore and covered her face as if she was about to cry. Who would have thought that just by joining a secret organization, I would actually have to exchange CM friends!

Asker said expressionlessly: "It's okay, Your Highness, I was once in the second grade of high school."

"That's right, Your Highness." Killian said seriously, "I often call my daughter 'little princess', and she seems very happy."

"Don't call me Your Highness." Nora said weakly, with a self-defeating and "whatever you say" expression, "Please forget it."

"Ahem." Killian coughed, "I will send you a small program first. After you click on the link, fill out the application form inside. Once the application is approved, I will pull you into our life sect's group. inside."

With a gray expression on her face, Nora pressed her phone and started filling out the form. Asker chatted with Kilian for a while, discussed and exchanged some secret knowledge, and then left with Nora.

Kilian looked at the application form submitted by Nora on his mobile phone. Her name was "Nora Valenius Licinius", which is a classical Solomonic name, which is now given in Italian and Canadian city-states. There are not many names left. He didn't have any extraordinary family background, which was also expected of him.

So he clicked the approval button.

About two hours later, while working hard in the flower bed, he suddenly received a call from the great elder Borian.

"Where is the new applicant?" the great elder said seriously.

Killian rushed to the door of the association building: "She should have left."

"Okay, if the other party has any needs, please contact me as soon as possible." The great elder said.

"Is that young lady really some kind of His Highness?" Killian heard that something was wrong in the Great Elder's tone, and he felt that he was being overly serious, and an incredible idea suddenly came to his mind.

"She is not His Highness." The Great Elder said in a strange tone after a while, "But she is far better than that."