Infernal Artist

The bartender took down a thick card book from the wall, placed it on the table and said:

"Please take a look."

Liu Ping opened the card book, flipped through it at a glance, picked out a few cards and said:

"that's it."

The bartender picked up the cards and murmured: "These are worth a lot of money."

"Let's settle the accounts," Liu Ping said.

The bartender called out a number.

Liu Ping took out the wealth card and pressed it against the opponent's wealth card.

Transaction complete.

The bartender had a smile on his face and said, "What else do you need? Whether it's slaves, bodyguards, intelligence, or even other things, I can sell them here."

"Are you collecting information?" Liu Ping asked.

"Of course, our Assassin's Guild often collects all kinds of intelligence and pays it according to its value." The bartender said.

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

"I wonder what concerns you have?" the bartender asked.

"That's right. I want to ask you to help deliver the message to the designated target, but you can't reveal my identity." Liu Ping said.

The bartender smiled and said: "This kind of special service is rare and is usually accompanied by a certain degree of danger, but we can also do it - it's just that the charge is higher."

"Money is not an issue." Liu Ping said.

The bartender placed the wealth card in front of Liu Ping.

A number appears on the card.

Libertas was surprised and said: "Why don't you go and grab it!"

The bartender said: "There is no way. Anonymous messaging is both simple and complicated. Sometimes nothing will happen, but sometimes it will bring huge danger to ourselves - we must ensure that our people can escape safely. .”

Liu Ping glanced at the number, pasted his card on the opponent's wealth card, and said, "I will pay double the price, and you will send the most powerful assassin to deliver the news."

A row of numbers suddenly jumped on the surface of the bartender's card.

Double pay.

The bartender took a deep look at Liu Ping and took out an envelope and a magic seal.

"There is a piece of letter paper inside. You can write your message on it, put it in an envelope, and seal it with a magic seal."

After the bartender finished speaking, he went out.

Liu Ping took out the letter paper from the envelope, picked up the pen and said, "Libertas, you go to the bar and have a drink. I'll be back in a moment."

"What the hell news, even I can't read it?" Libertas said dissatisfied.

"This is a private matter about a noble lady - when did you become so nosy?" Liu Ping said with a smile.

Libertas was speechless, relaxed again, and murmured: "I see, the lady from some family has taken a liking to you."

He stood up and walked out of the room.

Liu Ping then started writing on the letter paper.

Soon.

He put the letter back into the envelope and sealed it with a magic seal.

Runes lit up on the surface of the envelope.

These runes are connected to each other like countless iron chains.

Lines of small burning characters appeared quickly to remind you of this.

——The bartender didn’t do anything.

after awhile.

The bartender walked into the room.

"Is it ready?" he asked, looking at the envelope on the table.

"Yes." Liu Ping.

"Great, who is this letter for?" the bartender asked.

"Those customers on the third table from the left after entering the bar." Liu Ping said.

"Do you need to bring anything?"

"No need, they will understand after seeing it."

"When will it be given to them?"

"ten minutes later."

"Okay, don't worry, we will definitely complete the work."

"That would be troublesome."

Liu Ping stood up, nodded to the bartender, turned and walked out of the room.

He came to the bar, patted Libertas, and said softly: "I'll be out for a while. You go back in the evening, and I'll go back by myself later."

"What's wrong?" Libertas asked.

"Yes." Liu Ping said.

"Okay." Libertas said.

Liu Ping turned around and left the bar.

ten minutes.

Fleeting.

A letter suddenly appeared on the third table from the left after entering the bar.

"snort!"

Beside the table, a burly man snorted.

"It's an assassin." said an old man next to him.

"You're running very fast, do you want to catch up?" the man asked.

Several people around him were eager to try.

The old man smiled and said: "No need, the assassin is just an errand boy, there is no use in catching him."

He picked up the letter and murmured: "I haven't received such an anonymous letter in many years..."

The envelope was torn open.

The old man opened the letter and read it slowly.

His expression suddenly became solemn.

"Sir, what's the news?" the burly man asked.

The old man put the letter carefully and said softly: "It's not convenient to say now. We have to set off immediately to check something."

Several people around him stood up.

Under the leadership of the old man, they quickly left the bar and even left Cold Hammer Town.

…

Half an hour later.

Snowy mountains.

In a leeward mountain forest, the old man stood in the snow.

His men all scattered around, searching for something in the woods.

"Sir, I found it!"

The burly man said.

The white cloth covering the magic circle was pulled away, revealing the complete diamond-shaped summoning rune array below.

The rune array seemed to sense the presence of these people, and gradually emitted a hazy and peaceful light.

The light was full of rhythm, rising and falling like a beating heart, making everyone onlookers look confused.

The old man's expression changed and he roared:

"Cover that cloth! Quick!"

The burly man woke up from a dream and quickly covered the rune array with a white cloth.

In an instant, the strange fluctuation disappeared.

Everyone fell to the ground and gasped.

"Sir, what's going on!"

The burly man couldn't help but said.

The old man's expression had become extremely gloomy, and he whispered: "I have a guess, but this matter is too big and the guess is not feasible. We must call Her Majesty the Queen immediately."

"What! You actually want to trouble Her Majesty the Queen to come here in person?" The burly man couldn't help but lost his voice.

"You don't understand - if anything goes wrong, I will take full responsibility for it." The old man said.

He carefully took out a flower-shaped emblem, knelt down on one knee, kissed the emblem with his mouth and said: "Dear Her Majesty the Queen, I have made an extremely important discovery here. You must come in person to determine the level of the situation."

Buzz——

A soft chirp emitted from the emblem, and then it became brighter.

Night sky.

A meteor shot from the extremely distant deep sky.

It fell quietly in the mountains and forests, appearing as a slim woman with black wings on her back.

She has deep black eyes, and various strange shadows are constantly appearing behind her. Her voice is gentle and charming, with a natural coldness:

"The human nation is gradually becoming unstable. I am mobilizing troops and preparing to launch a tentative attack - I remember I said, don't use that emblem unless there is an urgent matter."

The old man kept kneeling on one knee and just held the letter high.

The woman waved and the letter was opened directly in front of her.

She scanned the contents of the letter at a glance, took the letter in her hand, rubbed it for a while, and said with a low smile:

"This is a trick of the Human Assassin Guild. It uses paper made from grinding twenty-four kinds of forbidden magic plants. No information can be traced."

The woman looked around and waved her hand gently.

The white cloth was immediately lifted, revealing a rhombus-shaped rune array that emitted a hazy light.

"The Soul Slayer, the Thousand-Eyed Demon King, the source of fear for the gods!"

The woman's expression changed, and a shadow emerged from her body, completely covering the diamond-shaped rune array.

"What happened... You are obviously trapped in the soulless abyss... Who set up a communication circle for you..."

The woman lightly snapped her fingers.

The shadow suddenly turned into a chaotic flow of light and shadow, and scenes from the past quickly appeared in front of the woman.

First came the wind and snow.

Then--

A group of believers appeared in the shadow and poured gems into the diamond-shaped rune array.

Conversation rang out.

After a while, the voice in the rune array agreed to the other party's request, provided that the soul was obtained.

"madness!"

The woman seemed very angry and cursed loudly: "That guy is trapped in an abyss where it is absolutely impossible to obtain a soul. Once he obtains the soul, he will regain his strength... Who dares to do this?"

The words have not yet finished.

A believer stepped forward and offered a secret deal.

This time I couldn't hear what he said.

Only at the end, fifteen believers were sacrificed to the monster.

The two sides seemed to have struck a deal.

The believer covered himself with a white cloth and left.

All shadows disappear.

The woman was silent for a few breaths, then waved her hand gently.

The white cloth covered it again.

There was silence.

"Your Majesty..." the old man said in fear.

The woman thought for a while and then said: "You did a good job. If you hadn't discovered what was going on here, it would have been really troublesome."

The burly man said in a rough voice: "Your Majesty, is that monster very powerful?"

"Of course, it once swallowed up most of our country, and now, there is another guy who dares to send human followers to trade with it - do you know what this means?" the woman said.

"I don't know," the burly man said.

"This means that the other guy who covets the human empire is not weaker than it." The woman said.

She walked back and forth and suddenly said: "Give me the order!"

Everyone knelt down one after another.

The woman said: "When all devils withdraw from the human kingdom, we immediately stay away from this area and find a safe place to build a country again."

The old man was shocked and said: "Your Majesty, you managed to conquer a piece of land with great difficulty. Are you giving up like this?"

"What do you know - the human kingdom here is being targeted by two such beings and is doomed. We can only escape quickly before those two monsters set their sights on us."

The woman didn't know what she was thinking of and sneered: "Their emperor dared to say that he had explored one billion square kilometers. What an ignorant lie."

The old man was at a loss and said: "Then - we are now -"

The woman said decisively: "Contact all personnel immediately and withdraw from the human empire. We will leave this area tomorrow."

"Where do we go from here?"

"Going north, the road is somewhat dangerous, but it is said that there is another civilization to the north - if it has not perished to this day."

The old man sighed, as if he was unwilling to do so.

The woman understood these subordinates, and her tone became slightly warmer:

"I know you are reluctant to part with this inheritance. In fact, I am even more reluctant to part with it. Unfortunately, in the eternal night, there is no reason -"

"In the eyes of those overly powerful unknowns, I am no different from you, I am just their food."

"Take action!"

Everyone responded in unison: "Yes!"

The woman nodded and turned into a starlight, soaring into the sky and disappearing without a trace.

The old man sighed again, then stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go fulfill His Majesty's order."

The burly man shook his head and murmured: "We have been fighting the Human Empire for more than a hundred years. I didn't expect that we would escape now."

"Because humans will die here, but we won't." The old man said.

He began to arrange his men to complete various specific tasks in preparation for leaving tomorrow.

When all the discussions were finalized, the demons divided into several groups and left the leeward forest.

It took about a few minutes.

One of them returned to stand in the forest again.

He looked at the white cloth that was gradually covered with snowflakes and spread his hands helplessly.

Lines of burning small characters still stayed in front of his eyes:

"You activated the Fishman."

"You have joined the devil's team and are walking with them on the snowy mountains."

"You left the team."

Liu Ping cast his gaze towards the wind and snow beyond the cliff, feeling a little confused.

original……

Still thinking about uniting with the devil to fight against the prisoners...

After all, in previous years' battles, large and small, the devils had been suppressing the human race. If the human race had not had a war sequence, they would have been eaten up by the devils long ago.

But who would have thought——

Just seeing this rune array, the queen of the devil country made a decision.

——The entire devil’s kingdom must flee from this area!

This decision was not easy to make, but she was so decisive and decisive.

So the current situation is actually self-evident.

Humanity……

What are humans going to do?

Liu Ping was silent for a long time, then suddenly ran towards Hanchui Town.