Noble Emblem

The mercenary world is always a world where strength is respected.

Although Orideas was somewhat resistant to Judy's Silver Wings mercenary group at first, after getting along with them for a while, these people also obeyed Judy's command. After all, Judy is strong and extremely beautiful.

Most men are more tolerant of beautiful women.

With nearly twenty people joining the team, Judy has more manpower to deploy the defensive circle. Although these people are average in strength, they are still much better than having no one available.

Beta continued to enter the barrier. He was still looking for traces of Jessica and others, but there were still no clues.

However, while searching, he found some skeleton warriors in iron armor wandering around. After easily killing dozens of them with magic, under Jeanne's high-altitude vision, he was surprised to find that hundreds of skeletons suddenly appeared around the city, surrounding him.

"Is this a monster spawn?"

Beta looked a little surprised. This situation had to remind him of the 'monster spawn' mechanism of some old games. He felt as if he had entered the dungeon alone.

But this is not a game, but reality. In other words, these skeletons must have been hidden in the city before, but they were activated because of something. The ones he killed were only a small part of them.

What did Jessica and the others do?

Beta came to this conclusion based on intuition. Although there was no basis for it, he was quite confident in this intuition.

So, is it because Jessica and the others are hiding?

To be honest, these skeletons are really troublesome. Most of them are LV3-LV5, which is not a problem for Beta. As long as there are not more than a hundred at the same time, it won't be a big problem.

But for Jessica and the others, if two or three of these skeletons charged together, it would probably put a lot of pressure on them.

Undead creatures have a characteristic that once they find an enemy, they will track it until the enemy dies, otherwise they will not return to their resting place. They are still wandering in the city, which shows that Jessica and others are indeed hiding.

With the number of these skeletons, it is not difficult to find Jessica and the others in the city, unless... they are not in the city.

For example... sewer?

Before the skeletons merged together, Beta used secondary invisibility on himself. This magic is also effective for undead creatures. It can reduce the distance from being discovered by undead creatures. Of course, the effect is naturally not as obvious as for human creatures. .

After entering the secondary invisibility state, Beta found a sewer entrance nearby, went inside to look for a while, and came out again.

It's too big, twists and turns, and too dense, like a spider web, extending in all directions. If you don't have a map, you might still get lost in it.

He thought for a while, took out a few scrolls from the mansion's magic space, and threw them into the sewer.

These scrolls soon turned into several small celestial wolves, scattered in the sewers according to Beta's will.

It's hard to find one person, so find a few more 'people' to help. This is a very reasonable idea and action.

Afterwards, Beta looked at Waking again, and he was still somewhat interested in Gru.

But when entering the Temple of Wealth that was built more than 300 years ago, Beta was surprised to find that Gru, who was still praying in front of the goddess statue, had aged a lot, as if he had aged more than ten years all of a sudden.

Time has been pushed back so fast?

Beta was a little surprised. He had been staying in the barrier before, and the time of the barrier seemed to change according to the normal time.

But this time, the time was pushed back more than ten years?

He was a little surprised. He walked around the Waking Temple and saw a few slightly familiar faces, and then discovered that they did look older.

Has time really been pushed back? What's the reason, or what's the trigger. Or simply...every few days, the memory of this city is pushed back a little further?

Beta decided to wait in this city, firstly to see if he could find Jessica, and secondly, to see if he could find the reason why the memory of this city was pushed back a lot.

Then he stayed in the barrier for three days. Apart from killing some skeletons, he only spent time near the Waking Temple and the palace's ceremonial stage.

Of course, he was not alone. He would occasionally let Angel out of the mansion to chat with him.

Three days later, he still didn't notice that the city's records were moving back. At a strange moment, in Jeanne's field of vision, he suddenly saw a woman in white clothes and skirt walking in the waiting room.

Presence is a very mysterious thing... Some people can just make you see them in a crowd.

This may be a kind of temperament, or it may be the right eye.

Beta just shared Jeanne's vision as usual, and then saw this woman walking on the street near the palace, as if she was independent from the world, or... a ghost.

She is obviously different from other 'memories', and has a human flavor about her.

Beta rushed here and followed the woman in the white dress.

For some reason, this woman gave her a familiar feeling. Her face seemed to be masked and she couldn't see her face clearly, but Beta was sure that she had never seen this woman before.

For a professional like Beta, you don't have to look at the face to recognize someone. You can recognize a person by looking at the body's skeleton, the temperament revealed by the whole body, and the way the other person walks.

Instinctive movements are sometimes easier to identify than faces.

The woman in the white dress was also translucent. She walked into the opposite palace and came to the ceremony stage.

The ceremony platform is the core of the entire barrier. Beta can confirm this. Is this woman the creator or maintainer of the barrier?

Just as Beta was thinking this, 'Gru' suddenly walked in from outside.

He walked to the woman in the white dress and talked to her.

Beta remembered that Gru said that the vampire true ancestor puppet next to him was given by a white-haired woman, but this woman was not. The other person's hair was flaxen.

As the two talked, Gru became more and more excited, and finally walked away.

Unfortunately, the reappeared 'memory' had no sound, and Beta couldn't lip read, so he had no idea what they were saying.

After Gru left, the woman patted the snake head on the ceremony table a few times. A hidden compartment appeared under the ceremony table, and the woman put something in it.

At this time, the image produced by the city's memory was distorted. The woman disappeared into the air, and Beta did not see clearly what the woman had stuffed into it.

Beta walked to the ceremony table, lifted a female mummy with the hands of a mage, and put it aside.

Then according to the woman's method, the hidden compartment of the ceremony table was reopened.

There was nothing inside.

It seemed like someone had already taken the stuff away.

Just when Beta was a little disappointed, he suddenly heard a faint noise coming from behind.