Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

The coat of arms under the stone slab was very small, no bigger than a palm. The image engraved on it was something Esther had never seen before. It looked like a town surrounded by night, but the town was made up of twisted black strands. The thin lines make the whole picture look distorted and weird.

Thomas's eyes lit up: "Is it the Kingdom of Darkness? This is the ruins of the Kingdom of Darkness!"

Alexander had already put on his gloves. Seeing that Hamel made no further move, he motioned for Aaron to step aside. He carefully picked up the coat of arms.

Esther also looked a little confused: "Is this thing useful?"

Alexander nodded and put the coat of arms into the box that contained the key: "At least it is definitely more valuable than that key. As a relic of that mysterious country, it can be used for divination and guidance of many related secrets."

Aaron's smile was obviously uneasy and kind-hearted. He leaned over and picked up the heavy backpack he had just put down. It was not very convenient to move rocks with this thing on his back before: "Of course, there are certain risks, but we can let others bear it. This risk."

It means to use this thing as a trading item with the Secret Order, and then exchange it for better benefits.

Esther's eyes swept around the "bath": "It's a pity that there is only this... There seems to be no other special items here."

"This is not such a special room to begin with, so it would be nice to get something out of it." Thomas said.

Esther's perception was suddenly touched.

The next moment, the flames in the lanterns around the people surged. Amidst a burst of shattering sounds, a twisted figure jumped out of it and rushed towards Alexander from behind. The man threw several pieces of paper from his hand, like It flew straight to Alexander's head like a flying knife.

It goes without saying that the opponent's goal is a bronze square box containing a coat of arms!

Esther left the light spot in the passage to support their retreat. At this time, she could not directly use the power of "restart". The action of using body interception would take longer, more rapid and instinctive response——

She opened and closed her five fingers, and a grasp stole the other person's thoughts, stopping the man's forward momentum, and Esther herself took a step forward.

She was too late to stop the flying knives turned into pieces of white paper.

The moment the enemy appeared, Aaron was standing on the other side of Alexander. His actions were completely a subconscious reaction when encountering an enemy: raising his hand and turning around.

Aaron's hand was holding the heavy backpack that he had grabbed by the shoulder strap before he could pick it up again.

The backpack rose up with his movements, and by a coincidence that no one could predict, it hit Alexander's head directly, giving him a hard blow that knocked Alexander's whole body to the side.

It was such a sudden change that the backpack was extremely lucky to block several paper knives, and only one cut Alexander's shoulder, staining it bright red.

The moment the opponent's body stopped, Toma had thrown off the backpack on his shoulders and rushed forward. He grabbed the opponent's arm and twisted him over his shoulder.

If it were another more leisurely situation, Esther would definitely complain about this in her heart - why Thomas, as a scroll mage, can master melee combat skills so easily! Even looks so skilled!

But with Thomas's gesture, Esther could see the other person's face clearly. This was the middle-aged man she and Alexander had met in the bookstore before!

The man who was hit by the fall and felt pain in his chest and abdomen instantly regained his consciousness and suppressed the discomfort of coughing. Before Toma's fist fell towards his face, he activated his extraordinary ability.

"Magician", "paper double"!

His figure immediately appeared next to Alexander, reaching out to grab the box in Alexander's arms.

However, when Alexander rolled to the ground, he had already protected the box with his left arm, and took out the charm from his arms with his right hand. The moment a figure flashed beside him, Alexander recited the ancient Hermes without hesitation. Words: "Storm!"

A bolt of lightning shot out, tearing apart another paper figure in the air and slamming it against the wall. The entire room was shaken, and a large amount of dust and gravel fell from above.

After activating the paper man's stand-in, the man realized that the strength gap between the few people was too big. He simply gave up and continued to entangle with everyone, and his figure jumped out from the still burning candlelight.

Esther seized this opportunity and reached out to grab her again. This time, what she grabbed was not the opponent's thoughts and ideas, but the extraordinary ability - she stole the ability of "air bullets" and took away the opponent's most suitable long-range attack method. .

Her thoughts even coincided with those of the other party. The middle-aged man's lips moved slightly and he uttered a word based on his last thought: "Bang!"

The man himself just wanted to use this to hurt the opponent and delay their pursuit, but nothing happened. He realized that his ability had been stolen!

Aaron raised the long-barreled revolver, but the moment he aimed and tapped, the man's figure disappeared again.

Esther's perception was touched, and she immediately shared the information she learned with others: "He left a match in the passage, and he jumped directly from there before."

Alexander had already gotten up from the ground. Although blood was oozing from his shoulder, the wound was not deep enough to cause heavy bleeding: "We will leave immediately. If the other party tries to destroy the passage, it will be in trouble. There may not be other exits here."

Thomas helped Alexander: "I thought Aaron would make you faint."

"If it weren't for the Sequence 8-enhanced physique, maybe I would have been killed by him." Alexander stood up and shook his head, "Maybe he has a slight concussion."

Aaron looked apologetic: "I'm sorry, I didn't think about anything at the time, it was completely subconscious..."

Thomas was quite impatient: "Good luck and bad luck cancel out, right? We know, don't say any more."

Alexander didn't even have time to stuff the box into his backpack. The four of them quickly ran towards the entrance of the passage, hoping to get out of here before the other party made other moves.

However, what they didn't expect was that the other party was waiting for the four of them at the entrance of the cave.

The middle-aged man in a tuxedo kept tapping the edge of the hole with a stone. At his feet were several inferior explosive tubes stacked together. When he saw several people stopping three meters away, his expression became even more gloomy, but he never stopped knocking on the wall.

The man kicked out an explosive pipe towards several people: "Choose for yourself."

He controlled his strength very cleverly. The explosive rolled twice and stopped just in front of the four Esthers. The choice given by the other party was very clear, either hand over the thing or let the other party detonate the explosive.

He stared at Esther and further said: "If you stop me again, my companions outside will not hesitate to manipulate the flames to ignite them."

That's why the men kept banging stones on the wall, which was a signal to their accomplices outside.

Esther was also vaguely aware of the strangeness, so she didn't take action immediately. Her premonition was never missed.

Thomas sneered very fiercely: "Ha, it seems that your relationship with your companion is not very good. He doesn't care about your life or death at all."

"Yes, the mission goal takes priority in everything." The middle-aged man opposite replied indifferently, which made Toma choke on this sentence.

Esther was standing at the back of the four people. She was calmly retracting the light spots that were stuck with the black lines in the passage, letting them slowly fall back to the top of her head along the direction of her back.

Because the other three men were blocking her, there was very little light falling on her, so her small movements were not noticed by the others.

Aaron moved his neck twice, but did not turn his head. He just asked the people around him: "Shall we just give him the things like this? Nothing is as important as our lives."

He deliberately said this to the other party, but Esther keenly sensed that Aaron had other thoughts. The current "show of weakness" was more like wanting the other party to relax their vigilance.

Alexander didn't have much expression on his face: "We don't seem to have any good ideas."

Esther could tell there was something wrong with the tone of his voice. Alexander would never speak in such a high-pitched voice. This was obviously a hint of some kind of "other plan", but because she had only been with a few people for a short time, she didn't have the tacit understanding to quickly understand the action instructions.

Toma swore a few curse words and glared at the opponent more ferociously, as if he wanted to make up for the punch he missed before. He looked particularly irritable, which was not much different from his usual reaction, but Esther could vaguely feel his emotions.

Thomas was far from being as impulsive as he appeared. Unlike Esther, he understood Aaron and Alexander's hints very well and was ready to cooperate with them.

Aaron sighed: "Oh, it seems there is really no other way. Are we so unlucky? We are so unlucky..."

The man standing next to the explosives raised his chin at a few people: "It's good to know what's going on."

Thomas suddenly rushed over, grabbed Aaron's collar with force, and glared angrily: "Damn you! How many times have I told you, stop talking about your bad luck!"

Esther was stunned by such a sudden change, and the middle-aged man opposite also had doubts in his eyes, but he did not stop tapping on his hands.

Of course he didn't dare to relax, this was also a sign that his own life was at stake. Even if he said "mission target first", he didn't want to die because of such a small mistake.

Thomas grabbed the bronze box in Alexander's hand, kept the thing in his own hand, and shouted loudly to the other side: "You want this garbage, right? I don't want to die in this miserable place, so what if I give it to you?" !”

"Wait, Thomas! We have to talk to them!" Although Alexander tried to dissuade him, he made no attempt to reach out and hold Thomas down.

"What nonsense! What else is there to talk about? If you want it, I'll give it to you!"

After cursing angrily, Toma suddenly shook his arm and threw the box in his hand in the direction of the man.

"They threw things over! I'm going out right away!" The other person's face still didn't have much expression, but when he shouted outside, Esther could clearly hear some anxiety in his tone.

Aaron suddenly turned his head and made a mouth gesture at Esther, and Esther instantly understood what he was talking about.

"theft"!