The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

"No problem, chief priest, leave this matter to me." Haldane said with a slight smile, his face full of confidence.

"Well, please forgive me for the offence. I think I still need to remind you."

"Your Excellency Haldane of the Secret Snake Cult, please do not underestimate the opponent's fighting power." Raksul was a little worried for no reason when he saw the confident expression on the opponent's face.

After all, the other party is helping their church to complete a task on their own territory. If it is completed successfully, everyone will naturally be happy.

But if something happens, it will most likely affect the relationship between the two churches, because the Secret Snake Church thinks that it is trying to trick them.

Therefore, it is better to say ugly things in the front.

"Don't worry! Haldane was given the blood essence of the Shadow Serpent, and assassination is his specialty." The chief priest of Cannon of the Secret Serpent Cult seemed to sense Laxul's worry, and turned to him and said to him with a smile.

"Besides, if nothing can be done, it won't be a problem for Haldane to escape intact."

The Shadow Snake?

Laxul nodded. He had also heard of the name of this strange snake. It could control the power of shadows and had the innate ability to become invisible in shadow environments. At the same time, it was highly poisonous.

If the opponent is really integrated into the Shadow Snake, then the opponent is really a born assassin.

There should be no problem with this assassination!

"Well, don't worry, I'm a professional in assassination! Lord Raksul, then I'll set off now." Haldane bowed slightly to Raksul and said.

"So fast? Well, surprise is the best effect." Raksul thought about it and nodded with a smile.

"By the way, Lord Haldane, we have an agent in the Earl's Mansion. I think he will tell you exactly the room where Ren is located."

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The county town of Meister.

In a room in the residence of Earl Habbs.

Suddenly, the lively leather-armored young man from the Sword Bearers Branch of Nome Province came in shouting and said:

"Captain, I have already learned about the beautiful young woman from the Munster branch. You must not believe that this Viscount Rennes is just a newcomer!"

Because the hammer that Renne used in the conference room was too powerful, Langer and the other three were naturally quite curious about Renne.

However, as the captain of the swordsman, Langer maintained his own identity, so it was naturally difficult for him to ask around and find out anything.

But young people are different, they don’t have so many scruples.

Langer didn't need to take the initiative to arrange it. Fry, who was curious, went to find out.

"Newcomer?" The strong man Langer couldn't help but look at his team members in surprise.

"Yes, it's absolutely true!" The young man in leather armor nodded firmly and said.

"Fry, what do you think of the newcomers? Those who joined the Swordsmen later than you are considered newcomers, right?" Another young man holding a gilded book closed the book, looked up at his companion, and smiled. He joked.

Frye is the youngest of the three to have been with the Blades for only two and a half years.

"Less than two months! Alex, do you think we are new?" Faced with the teasing, Frye's face turned red and he said with a pinched neck.

"Huh? Two months?" Alex, who had always been calm, suddenly widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "Really or not? This... this is too exaggerated!"

"Tell me in detail!" Langer became increasingly shocked and curious, and immediately asked Frye.

"Okay, Captain."

"Ren, captain of the gold-level swordsman, nicknamed 'Meister Battering Ram', is also the captain of the team 'Meister Battering Ram'." At this point, Frye seemed to realize something was wrong and paused. .

"Wait, why does it sound so difficult to pronounce?"

"My nickname is the name of the team. It seems that the other team members have absolute trust in the strength of their captain." Captain Langer's interpretation was completely different from Frye's.

He quickly noticed this from the perspective of captain and team members.

"Fry, go on."

After listening to Frye's story, Langer and Alex looked at each other for a while.

They knew that this young Viscount Rennes was very powerful, but they didn't expect him to be so powerful!

"But, boss, don't belittle yourself. Although this Viscount Renne seems to have mastered the advanced secrets of hammer technique and is better than you."

"But don't forget, in addition to swordsmanship, you have mastered the intermediate mysteries, and shield defense has also mastered the intermediate mysteries. With the combination of the two, your combat power is no weaker than this Ren's." Fry comforted his captain.

"You brat, who is underestimating yourself? It's just that even though the opponent's strength is about the same as mine, you don't look at the opponent's age. He is the same age as you. This is the most terrifying thing." Langer couldn't help but I can't laugh or cry.

"If you can make friends, you should make friends." Alex rarely agreed with Frye.

"However, Frye is right. After all, he is alone this time, and boss, you still have my witchcraft blessing, so your overall combat power is still better than that of Viscount Renne."

"By the way, have you asked the people in the Earthshaker team? Why do they look so respectful to Ren?" Alex suddenly thought of something and asked.

"Ask me, this is even more unbelievable. That's because Ren saved the lives of two of their team members!" Frye's mouth went dry as he talked, and he took a gulp of water.

Frye became even more enthusiastic when talking about this matter.

Because speaking of it, although Ren is a member of the Sword Bearers Branch of the Münster Province, and they are members of the Sword Bearers Branch of the Nome Province, no matter what, they are all Sword Bearers.

And the one who shook the earth was an outsider in comparison.

Frye felt a sense of pride when his own family saved outsiders!

Just when the three sword-wielding teams from Nome Province were shocked by Ren's resume in the room, Ren was in the bedroom, preparing to take the 'strengthening secret potion' given to him by the maid Xia Dia.

Previously, since he was the only one guarding the Earl's Mansion, Renn felt that it was not the right time to take the medicine.

But now, it was different. A whole five-man team of Earthshakers, plus a team of sword-wielders from Nome Province, were here, so he could take it with confidence.

Soon, Ren opened the wooden box and saw a transparent square glass bottle filled with blue liquid inside.

However, there is something else going on inside the wooden box. There are slightly complicated patterns on the inner wall. Obviously, this is some kind of array pattern, and its function should be to preserve this bottle of 'strengthening secret medicine'.

This made Renn curious about such a well-packaged strengthening secret medicine. He picked up the square glass bottle and looked at it carefully.

There is a conspicuous black label on a white background on the bottle, which reads:

"Strengthening secret medicine, a training auxiliary medicine, will comprehensively enhance the user's physical fitness to a certain extent within half a month after drinking it. The degree of increase varies from person to person, generally ranging from half to 10%."

"How to take:"

"Note: The effect will weaken if taken multiple times. It is recommended to take it once every 1 to 3 months according to personal constitution. - Produced by the Royal Pharmacists' Association Austin."

"Full enhancement?"

"If it is comprehensively enhanced, it will be a good thing!"

"In addition, this is also produced by the Royal Apothecary Society. Austin should be the name of a certain master pharmacist." Renn thought to himself.

Without much hesitation, Ren pulled out the cork of the bottle with a "pop~" sound. Suddenly, a faint smell like a stew with star anise and cinnamon came out.

It smells great and makes you very appetizing!

Due to his experience in taking other potions, Ren immediately drank the secret strengthening potion in one gulp!

As soon as he took his mouthful, Ren's expression changed. This taste.

Although it smells fragrant, as soon as it enters the throat, the taste is a bit spicy, as if the white wine is mixed with a little mustard.

A few seconds later, Renn felt an irritation in his stomach, and then his whole body began to heat up rapidly.

Soon, beads of sweat began to appear all over Ren's body. After a while, his whole body was dripping with sweat!

The whole person seemed to be fished out of a sauna.

But after a while, Renn felt relaxed all over his body!

I feel completely refreshed.

This process lasted for about half an hour, and the effect of the medicine began to gradually weaken to a relatively gentle and subtle level.

At this time, the system prompts:

【Congratulations! Your physical attributes are improved! 】

【Congratulations! Your agility attribute is improved! 】

"Huh?"

"Physique and agility have improved, but strength has not."

"Is it because my strength attribute is already very strong?"

"But it's pretty good!"

"The effect of this strengthening secret medicine is even stronger than the powerful strength mixture I drank before!"

Renn checked the attribute panel:

Physique: 39

Strength: 43

Agility: 36

Spirit: 52

The agility attribute, which has not been improved for a long time and can also be said to be a shortcoming, has been increased from 35 to 36 points.

Physical fitness has also improved from 38 to 39, and will soon reach the 40 mark.

"Will it last half a month?"

"Then we can improve further in the future."

"The strengthening secret medicine is very good. Is this the heritage of the hereditary earl family?"

"It's actually better than some of the potions in the Sword Bearer Branch!"

"Yes, the potions of the Sword Bearer Branch are mass-produced after all. This can be seen in the signature, which is written as the Munster Branch of the Royal Apothecary Society." Renn recalled.

"But this powerful secret medicine is signed: Made by Royal Apothecary Society Austin. This Austin should be a master pharmacist, and this medicine should also be made by the other party himself."

"It seems that the background of the great nobles of the empire cannot be underestimated." Renn glanced at the label on the bottle again and thought to himself.

Renn, who stank of sweat after taking the medicine, naturally wanted to rinse off.

There is a small bath in his bedroom.

The naked Ren was just about to walk into the bath when he suddenly saw the ten hardened adamantine ingots that Olena had brought him today and placed them in the corner of the room.

Suddenly, this made him have a thought in his mind. He walked over, transformed it into a metal ball weighing about fifty or sixty kilograms, and held it in his hand.

After entering the bathtub, Ren turned it into a huge metal basin and poured water over himself.

After a while, he turned it into a large colander and placed it on the top of his head to rinse, and he had a lot of fun.

at the same time.

Haldane, the chief priest of the Secret Snake Cult, has also arrived at the residence of Earl Habbs.

At this moment, he was standing in the shadow of a garden bush.

Standing in the shadows, Haldane seemed to have a special innate ability that prevented the patrolling guards who were close at hand from spotting him even if they passed by a few meters away.

And he followed the secret mark provided by the Black Flame Church and calmly walked into a room in the annex building.

"Which room is Renne in?" Haldane's voice suddenly sounded in the room.

"Sir, you are here."

Nai Ying, who was scared to death, turned around and suddenly found a man in black robe standing in the shadow behind the door of the room.

I don’t know how the other party got in.

"Ren is in the third south-facing room on the second floor of the main building of the villa." Nei Ying had already received a notice from above that someone would come to see him, so he calmed down relatively quickly and replied.

Hearing this answer, Haldane nodded. This information was enough for him.

He planned to finish his work early and go back early.

Just as he was about to leave, Neiying quickly added:

"However, sir, I can't guarantee that the other party is definitely in the room, because the other party may also be in the training room. Recently, the other party goes to the training room more often. By the way, the indoor training room is the first south-facing room on the first floor of the main building of the villa. room."

"In addition, there is another latest news. Many masters with strong auras came today."

"Um."

The next second, the man in black robe disappeared into the shadows.

Um?

Nei Ying rubbed his eyes!

He looked at the doorway with disbelief. The other party had indeed disappeared into the shadow of the doorway.

Did you leave before you finished speaking?

If the other party fails in the mission, will he take his anger out on himself?

In fact, this is the innate ability that Haldane obtained from the essence of the Shadow Snake bloodline - the 'Shadow Skin Technique'. The effect is to merge himself with the shadow, which cannot be detected by ordinary people's naked eyes.

It can be regarded as the "invisibility technique" of the shadow system, but it requires a shadow area to achieve the effect of the invisibility technique.

Rather than the awesome witchcraft of 'short-distance teleportation'.

In Haldane's view, as long as he knows the specific location of Renne, the rest will be simple.

As for what master?

It doesn't matter at all.

He used the Shadow Snake to sneak attack and kill with one strike. Others had no time to react. When the other party reacted, he calmly evacuated.

The chief priest Ganon can also perform the earth snake control ceremony early.

Soon, Haldane, who had made up his mind, came to the garden in front of the main building villa under the cover of night.

As for judging whether Lane was in the room or not, Haldane had his own way.

In an instant, Haldane's eyes turned into vertical pupils like snake eyes, with dark yellow pupils. At this moment, everything in Haldane's field of vision had turned red and blue, and those with high temperature were red. The lower ones are blue.

This is also an ability that senior members of the Secret Snake Cult will master after integrating the essence of snakes - infrared vision.

For a time, Haldane could see the dynamics of the people in this three-story villa with a large area of ​​​​large space very clearly.

"There is someone taking a shower in the third room on the second floor. It must be Renn, but what is he doing with his hands waving around?" Haldane nodded, and then looked confused again.

"Haha, this guy is taking a shower. Isn't that the best opportunity? I was worried that if the opponent was wearing special inner armor and taking a rest, the shadow snake might not be able to bite him."

Haldane couldn't help but laugh and was in a good mood.

"There seems to be a woman in the fourth room on the second floor. She is also taking a shower. Huh? She has such an amazing figure!" While observing Renn, Haldane saw the room next to him from the corner of his eye.

Even through infrared vision, you can see the unevenness of the other person's figure, and your eyes can't help but stay there for a few seconds.

"The one in the last room on the second floor seems to be a woman from the figure. Hey, the other person is actually here."

"So horny?"

This immediately made Haldane's heart burn with fire!

Although their Secret Snake Cult worships devouring snakes, the doctrine itself has nothing to do with things like reproduction and heirs.

However, they usually integrate the blood essence of various strange snakes into themselves to enhance their strength.

But this also makes them have a particularly strong desire for that aspect.

Because after the followers of the Secret Snake Cult absorb the essence of snakes, they will naturally be affected by part of the snake's nature. This is the result of being controlled by various secret techniques.

Haldane tried to calm down and thought to himself, ‘Let’s finish the work first. ’

I saw him walking in the shadow of the garden, and stood still in the shadow of the corner of the main wall of the villa. The next second, two small black snakes crawled out of his wide sleeves.

These two little snakes naturally have abilities similar to the shadow skin technique. After submerging into the shadow, they disappeared in a whoosh.

In Haldane's infrared vision, he could clearly see that the two small shadow snakes were still crawling towards the target person quickly.

Why was Haldane so confident about assassination?

The reason is that his Shadow Snake has two special talents: stealth and poison. Once he launches a sneak attack in the middle of the night, it can be said to have excellent concealment.

In addition, the target of his assassination this time was a senior knight.

No matter how many mysteries the opponent has mastered, as long as he is a great knight, even a peak knight, according to the poisonous nature of the shadow snake, if he is bitten, he will die.

No matter how quick and cautious the opponent reacts, as long as a small bit of skin is bitten, the poison will be severe.

At most, he could just give him one more blow at the end.

Unless the opponent is an official wizard, it will be much more difficult. With innate magic defense and super high perception, it is easier to spot the approaching shadow snake.

Of course, if the enemy was an official wizard, Haldane would not use the shadow snake sneak attack method.

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inside the room.

After finishing the bath, Ren wiped himself and prepared to get out of the bath.

At this moment, he suddenly sensed something

Suddenly, a small black shadow was like lightning, biting towards his calf.

Ren immediately kicked the black shadow into the air with a flick of his leg. The next second, the hardened adamantine that transformed into spikes was pierced into the head and nailed to the wall.

But almost at the same time, another black shadow came out from the side and rear, biting Ren's other calf.

"clang!"

The next second, the black shadow suddenly started, and saw that its two fangs were broken directly, and it was twisting and rolling on the ground in pain.

Ren looked at his calf and saw only two white marks.

The hardness of the venomous snake's fangs is actually not very high, because the inside is hollow for injecting venom. Facing Ren's intermediate steel body, it is equivalent to biting an iron plate!

Ren flew up and kicked the second shadow snake in the head with a strong air flow.

Snapped!

Although the shadow snake was not kicked to pieces, this blow directly turned the shadow snake into a dead snake the next day.

"Two snakes?"

"No. This kind of snake." Renn immediately noticed the problem.

The next second, the greyhound war dog "Cookie" who was sleeping soundly on the first floor immediately woke up, and the blood-feathered hippogryph "Xueyu" quickly flew into the sky from the outdoor training ground.

Haldane in the garden felt a stabbing pain in his mind!

"Huh? Why is the other party's body so hard! Is it some kind of talent?"

"Also, how can the other party's perception be so sharp?"

"Fuck! The Black Flame Church is so rubbish. What bullshit information. Something that was supposed to be foolproof actually failed."

But without any hesitation, the angry Haldane turned and left.

And Renn immediately opened the 'Eye of the Beast', overlooking the entire Earl's Mansion from the sight of the blood-feathered hippogryph.

Suddenly, a black figure flashed past the garden.

This made Ren narrow his eyes.

Before he could put on the knight's armor again, Renn picked up the hardened fine gold on the side and transformed it on his body, simulating a half-body armor similar to ancient Greece, covering his vital parts.

Immediately afterwards, he picked up the skull warhammer beside him, and with a "bang!", he rushed out of the window and quickly chased after the black shadow.

The sound of the broken window obviously alerted other people around.

When Haldane turned around, he sneered.

"Still want to catch up with me?"

"Hey, that's not right!"

Haldane looked back again and saw that Renne, who was supposed to be taking a shower just now, was actually wearing a half-body armor.

Immediately, he couldn't help but curse in a low voice:

"Fuck, who the hell wears half armor in the shower?"

"It's so weird!"

The next second, his figure disappeared into the shadows.

Renne, who was approaching rapidly, suddenly lost track of the opponent, which made him stop immediately and observe carefully.

However, although Ren stopped.

But the Greyhound War Dog 'Cookie' did not stop. After sniffing the ground, the dog's eyes widened and it immediately looked in a certain direction and continued to rush quickly.

"Woof woof!"

"Bang!"

Cookie was kicked away, but Haldane's figure was exposed again!

"Fuck! Dead dog!"

"Whoosh!"

This made Ren, who had been paying attention, immediately seize the opportunity and throw a short spear transformed from hardened adamantine!

Facing the incoming short spear, Haldane naturally would not choose to resist and dodge, but this caused his speed to drop again.

This quickly brought the distance between the two closer.

Under another interference from the spiritual war dog Cookie, Renn quickly bit Haldane.

As a result, two figures suddenly started fighting fiercely near the gate of the mansion.

Haldane used two metal spikes more than thirty centimeters long. This cone-shaped weapon is best at breaking armor. Although Renn has the talent of "intermediate steel body", he is not willing to try it. Consequences of stabbing.

When the opponent was wielding the metal spikes, multiple python-like black air lingered all over his body. Not only did he have defensive capabilities, but he would also suddenly attack Ren from time to time, almost instantaneously sending out a black air impact, which was very powerful.

This is the first time Renn has encountered this kind of fighting style.