Infernal Artist

The young men set off one after another towards the village at the foot of the mountain.

Liu Ping was halfway there when suddenly a shout came from not far away:

"Knight? Alone?"

Liu Ping stopped and said, "What's the matter?"

The young man ran over and said: "I am an assassin, how about we team up and fight together?"

Liu Ping glanced at him.

One more person means more strength. Besides, this kid looks smart. When he blocks the monster in front, he can attack from one side——

"Okay, let's fight together." Liu Ping nodded.

"Your stick is not good enough. Come here, I will help you cut it into a spear. This will improve your combat effectiveness." The young man said.

"Thank you." Liu Ping thought the same and threw the stick over.

The young man took the stick and suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face.

"I heard that you died while robbing a woman. So this time, do you know why you died?"

As he spoke, he threw the stick behind him.

In the darkness, several teenagers came out.

One of them grabbed the wooden stick, cut it in half and threw it to the ground.

Liu Ping looked at the few people and then at the man who broke the stick. He suddenly remembered and said:

"It turned out to be you. I took a fish from your table during dinner."

"Yes, I clearly told you to put down the fish, but you didn't listen." The young man said.

He holds a statue in his hands.

Holy light emanates from the statue, as if it can heal people around it at any time.

The teenagers gathered around him.

"Because of a fish, I have to break my only weapon?" Liu Ping asked.

Several teenagers fell silent.

Liu Ping's brows slowly furrowed and he continued: "Surveying lives for quarrels, is this what you do?"

"Without weapons, you just wait to die." The young man said lightly, turned around and ran towards the village down the mountain.

Several other teenagers followed immediately.

Liu Ping was left alone, standing alone.

A minute passed.

Two minutes.

The third minute——

"Idiots...will killing you lower my rating? Forget it, be careful and figure out the rules later."

He shook his head and walked straight to the side of the woods.

A few minutes later.

He walked out, wrapped dozens of wooden sticks with rattan, tied them to his back, and strode towards the village down the mountain.

…

There were flames burning everywhere in the village.

The old man said that he would kill all the lost souls.

But what is the Lost Soul?

Liu Ping chose a remote location, climbed over the fence, and stopped in front of a farmhouse.

The door was ajar, and a low roar came from inside.

Liu Ping pulled out a wooden stick from behind, pressed it against the door, and pushed hard——

The door creaked open.

The roar disappeared immediately, and a black shadow jumped out of the door and landed in the yard.

——But he was a skinny man.

He lay on the ground and looked at Liu Ping warily like a wild beast.

Lines of burning small characters appeared quickly:

"The lost soul."

"Being used as food by some kind of monster, it eats up the essence of the soul, leaving only the body and endless negative emotions. It will actively attack everything that comes close."

Liu Ping looked thoughtful.

It seems the enemy of the Empire is some kind of monster...

Eternal Night is obviously the place where the dead sleep, but it is not peaceful at all.

"Hey, can you tell the origin of these things just by looking at them?" Liu Ping teased.

Lines of small words responded: "This sequence has been activated. Please do not look at this sequence with the same eyes as in the past."

The Lost Soul let out a wild roar and rushed towards Liu Ping!

"now it's right."

Liu Ping praised, raised the wooden stick high, until the opponent's claws were blocked by the shield, then he swung down hard!

Click.

A crisp sound.

When the wooden stick was broken, the neck of the lost soul was also broken.

It fell to the ground and kept struggling. It wanted to stand up again and attack Liu Ping, but it couldn't do it.

Liu Ping pulled out another wooden stick from his back and slashed it down with all his strength——

The monster finally fell silent.

And the second stick also broke.

Liu Ping shook his head and sighed: "Weapons are too rubbish."

He was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and went back into the farmhouse.

The environment in the room was quite simple, with only a bed made of hay and some rough and crude farm tools.

——Not even a pair of scissors.

Liu Ping was a little disappointed.

He simply untied the vines and threw all the sticks on the ground, leaving only one in his hand.

——These wooden sticks can only be regarded as ordinary wooden branches, not suitable for fighting at all. Carrying too many sticks is a waste of physical strength.

After doing all this, he exited the farmhouse, only to find that there was another person in the yard.

It was another boy.

In the whole class, he was the third person to introduce himself. His name was Libertas. It was said that he accidentally killed the youngest son of the family owner during a duel, and was killed by the family owner with an axe.

"I remember you, you were the Liu Ping who died trying to snatch a woman."

Libertas looked at him and said suddenly.

"I remember you too, your name is Libertas." Liu Ping said.

——There was no such person among the group of teenagers just now.

Libertas looked at the corpse on the ground and said with a smile: "How about it, do you want to fight together? After all, two people are more powerful than one."

"Okay." Liu Ping said calmly.

"Here, give me your wooden stick, and I will cut it into a spear for you. This way, your combat effectiveness will be improved when we fight." Libertas said.

Liu Ping threw the wooden stick in his hand.

Without saying a word, Libertas took out a fruit knife from his waist and quickly sharpened the stick.

"What is your occupation?" Liu Ping asked.

"Apprentice Assassin," Libertas said.

He raised the sharp wooden spear and looked at it carefully for a moment, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"Actually, I have never seen a guy as fierce as you get beaten to death for robbing a woman - that woman must be very beautiful."

Libertas winked at Liu Ping and threw the wooden spear to him.

Liu Ping took the wooden spear with a smile on his face.

"If you want to say beautiful, she is indeed very beautiful." He recalled Yana's face and said seriously.

"Then it's worth it," Libertas said.

"That's right. Should we continue chatting, or go out and kill some lost souls?" Liu Ping asked.

"Let's go, it's idle to be idle."

Libertas turned the fruit knife into a streak of flowing silver light, turned and walked out of the yard.

The two walked through a path and met a lost soul again at the end of the alley.

"Do you have any objection if I block your killing?" Liu Ping said.

"Is it a shield defense skill? Okay." Libertas said.

Liu Ping stepped forward and was about to raise his shield to block the lost soul, when he saw a bloody light suddenly emitting from the lost soul's eyes.

--not good.

He flashed, passing by the lost soul, and slapped his wooden shield back——

Snapped!

The head of the lost soul exploded and he fell straight to the ground.

Libertas's eyes lit up, but he said jokingly: "You don't give me a chance to play at all."

"No, there seems to be something wrong with it." Liu Ping said.

"What's wrong?" Libertas asked.

"It gave me a sense of danger just now." Liu Ping smacked his lips.

"With our current pitiful strength, it is normal for them to give us a sense of danger." Libertas shrugged.

"...I can't tell, let's have another look." Liu Ping said.

The two of them walked out of the alley and onto the road, one behind the other.

Only twos and threes of lost souls were seen wandering aimlessly on the road.

"I'll stop you from killing me," Liu Ping said.

"no problem."

Libertas walked towards the nearest lost soul.

The Soulless Man sensed someone approaching and immediately roared and rushed towards him.

when!

The wooden shield made a dull blocking sound.

Liu Ping blocked the attack of the Lost Soul on behalf of Libertas. Libertas clenched the dagger and stabbed the opponent directly in the neck.

puff--

A head was cut off and blood spurted out from the neck.

"The attack was too harsh," Liu Ping said.

"In order to avoid being contaminated with their blood, after all, we don't know whether their blood is poisonous." Libertas explained.

He suddenly said with some regret: "If I could get a short sword, it wouldn't be so troublesome."

"Maybe after the upgrade." Liu Ping said.

The two of them walked forward along the road, and soon the area was cleared of the lost souls.

"Is this the entrance exam? It's too simple."

Libertas said a little disappointed.

"I don't think it's that simple." Liu Ping said.

"How can I see it?"

"intuition."

"Your intuition is always accurate?"

"allow."

"Then how did you get killed while robbing a woman?"

"That was an accident."

As Liu Ping spoke, he suddenly noticed a metallic light flashing in a blacksmith shop on the roadside.

"Wait for me here."

He turned around and walked into the blacksmith shop, only to see that the place had obviously been evacuated, and large areas of blood were scattered on the ground.

A short sword lay on the chair next to the iron felt.

Liu Ping took the dagger, withdrew and walked towards Libertas.

"Look, the harvest," he said.

"That's right. Although this dagger is of average quality, it is still better than the wooden spear in your hand." Libertas showed an envious look.

Liu Ping threw the dagger to him.

"You don't have to? I remember that knights can use all cold weapons." Libertas asked.

"I have always specialized in defense. This sword will be even more powerful in the hands of an assassin." Liu Ping said.

Libertas looked at him, suddenly smiled and said, "Okay."

The two of them suddenly felt something, and turned to look towards the corner of the street.

I saw a lost soul whose figure had expanded several times, lying on the wall, his eyes blood red, staring at the two of them.

"This guy looks different from other lost souls." Libertas said in confusion.

"Be careful." Liu Ping said.

In the void in front of him, lines of burning small characters appeared quickly:

"The lost soul after eating."

"It has mutated."

"Explanation: It has eaten enough human flesh and blood and has become stronger."

Libertas held the dagger in one hand and the dagger in the other, and asked: "Escape or fight?"

As soon as the words fell——

The lost soul jumped up with all his strength, and immediately crossed the long street, landing in front of the two people with a "dong" sound.

The Lost Soul first looked at the simple wooden shield in Liu Ping's hand, with a look of ridicule on his face, and then looked at Libertas.

Libertas is different, he not only has a fruit knife, but also a dagger!

The Lost Soul stared at Libertas and let out a low roar.

"It seems to be conscious - it seems the only option is to beat it," Liu Ping said.

"Then?" Libertas asked.

"Come on." Liu Ping said.

The two of them ran up side by side and quickly approached the lost soul.

Liu Pingyuan was holding a shield in front of him, but he saw that the lost soul didn't even look at him, only stared at Libertas——

He simply pulled out the wooden spear from his back, shook it casually twice, then bypassed the opponent's hurriedly raised hand and stabbed it into the opponent's body.

Click!

The wooden spear was too fragile and broke again.

"Do you still dare to recognize people by their clothes?" Liu Ping asked.

The Lost Soul swung his palm fiercely and hit the wooden shield.

Liu Ping was immediately knocked away.

While this is happening——

A short sword pierced the back of the lost soul's neck and protruded from its mouth.

The lost soul immediately fell to the ground.

Libertas put away his sword and asked from a distance: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, the shield is just a little damaged," Liu Ping said.

He looked at the wooden shield in his hand and saw a few cracks on it.

If the kind of attack just now happens a few more times, the shield will be finished.

Libertas came back and said: "We have been killing for so long, why don't we rest for a few minutes."

"Okay." Liu Ping said.

The two sat down on the street.

After a while, several people appeared on the opposite street.

Liu Ping took a look and stood up slowly.

"What?" Libertas didn't know why.

The teenagers opposite recognized Liu Ping at a glance, and one of them was surprised: "He is still alive?"

They stopped, whispered for a moment, and walked towards Liu Ping.

The young man at the head said:

"Hey, that guy named Libertas, you go first."

"Huh? Why?" Libertas asked.

"We have some personal grudges with him," said the leading young man.

"You? There are so many people who have a personal grudge against him?" Libertas laughed.

The young man saw his posture and took out a statue from his arms.

Holy light emanates from the statue, as if it can heal people around it at any time.

“Our family has a legacy of healing professions.”

"Although I fall into the eternal night, I will still become a powerful healer. If you are willing to retreat now, I will definitely reward you in the future." The young man said.