Wizard: Gou adds some demon hunting in the Steam Age

Who are the parasites of bone worms?

Wayne covered his mouth and nose and looked around at the pedestrians.

The same hurry, the same ragged clothes...

Only a handful of people were still dressed cleanly and neatly. Even if their clothes were washed, whitened and patched, they still retained some dignity.

"What's wrong, Wayne?" Lacey asked after seeing his appearance.

"No, I've only been here a few times before, always in a hurry. I wanted to see more of this place."

"It hasn't been long since you arrived in Custer City, right?"

"It's less than half a year."

Wayne looked around and found no obviously suspicious people, so he had to give up, "The people here don't look like they are of Aldous descent?"

"of course not,"

Arianna on the side immediately denied it: "The blood of pride flows in the bodies of our Aldes people. We would rather die than stay in this place."

"These are damn Vazquez people, look what they've done to this place?"

Vazquez?

Wei En looked around again and determined from the memory of his predecessor that most of the people around him were of the Vazquez ethnic group.

The most obvious feature is their ears - which are round and resemble those of a teddy bear.

"I have read in the Custer Council newspaper before that news of Vazquez ethnic riots often spread from several city-states in the eastern part of the kingdom."

Arianna raised her head slightly and looked around in disgust.

"That's right, ever since the Kingdom's Iron Shield Knights broke through Lovelsa, the Vazquez ethnic group there began to wander around,"

"They pop up from time to time and are as annoying as flies... They should have been slaughtered twenty years ago!"

"Shut up," Lacey glared at him, "Arianna, your voice is too harsh."

"Don't look at me like that, Lacey," Ariana said dissatisfied: "In the original Battle of Black River, three of our Holmes family died..."

"Are you prepared to attribute the blood feud to them?"

Lacey looked at the increasingly hostile eyes of the Basques around him and said seriously: "Arianna, let me hear these words from your mouth again,"

"I will definitely send you to the committee for review in the name of the Logistics and Investigation Department!"

"If you don't say it, don't say it..."

Having said that, Arianna did not take the people around him seriously, as if he were looking at a group of ants, full of indifference and contempt.

Lacey shook his head and said, "Marco went to the City Guards and requested them to send a team of guards in the name of the Secret Service Department."

Marco nodded: "I'll be there right away."

"Others... speed up, find clues as soon as possible, complete the task, and get out of here." Lacey obviously didn't want to waste time.

At the same time, she secretly regretted agreeing to Yegor's suggestion to involve Arianna.

Then, several people quickly passed through and walked towards the middle of the Laos neighborhood.

Wei En followed the team and realized that they were maintaining a vigilant formation.

Lacey took the lead, Ariana fell behind, and he and Tina were in the middle.

At the same time, he also noticed that Lacey, who had been carefree in the Secret Adjustment Department before, had a solemn and serious expression on his face, as if he was ready for battle at any time.

Are ghettos dangerous?

With such suspicion, Wayne's eyes unconsciously glanced around.

As a few people went deeper, the environment on the street became worse and worse.

There was clearly scorching sunlight above the head, but the surroundings seemed extremely dim.

Dilapidated buildings line up in a row, with mottled paint peeling off the walls, showing a worn gray color.

There are fewer and fewer pedestrians around.

There were more skinny people with sallow faces, squatting in dark corners, staring at them with eyes full of hollowness and numbness.

Even some children are the same, lifeless.

In the atmosphere of silence among several people, accompanied by a hint of coldness, Wei En felt a little nervous without realizing it.

This is his first time going deep into the ghetto, and the same goes for his predecessors.

After they went some distance further, Lacey stopped and said, "We're here."

Arianna looked around and said doubtfully: "Lacie, it seems too..."

"It's too quiet, right?" Lacey glanced at him, "Well, I should have told you that there are more than three hundred people missing here."

Click.

Arianna almost gritted her teeth, "You'd better not tell me, my job is to track everyone!"

"Of course not. These people disappear in an instant. You only need to find one of them."

"Here you go, the smell here makes me feel ominous."

"smell?"

Lacey was stunned for a moment, looked around again, frowned and said, "Did you notice it too?"

Arianna's face lost its previous calmness and she said seriously: "It wasn't that obvious before, but now it's getting more and more... like the smell of rats in the sewer, it's disgusting!"

"That's right,"

Lacey raised her hand, and the two-handed ax was pulled out of nothingness by her. Her expression became serious, "It seems that our mission this time will encounter some hardships."

Wei En was stunned for a moment, then quickly pulled out the musket hanging on his waist and looked around.

"Lacie...Sir, what number of potions do you need to use? I'll prepare it in advance."

"Number five!"

Hearing this, Arianna looked at him in surprise, "Don't you know that the 'rats in the gutter' refer specifically to those bastards from the Eternal Life Society?"

Wayne didn't answer him, but opened the box in his hand, took out one of the bottles of potion marked "5", and loaded it into the musket.

I sighed secretly: It's just my first mission, can't it be more relaxed and simple?

The Eternal Life Society...that era relic was left by the people of the Eternal Life Society.

Did they really lose that piece of parchment accidentally?

Arianna's face turned ugly, and she said dissatisfiedly: "Lacey, he is still a newcomer. This is not good. I suggest you withdraw from here immediately."

"reject!"

Lacey had been holding an ax in both hands, looking around vigilantly, and listening to something.

"But……"

"I said, be quiet!"

"..."

Arianna pursed her lips. He was familiar with Lacey's style of doing things. She would not give up the mission until she encountered an enemy she could not fight.

"According to the work regulations, I must obey your command. However, I suggest that it is best to wait until the city guards arrive before taking action."

Lacey nodded slightly, accepting his suggestion.

"Okay, leave this to me."

Seeing her agreement, Arianna said no more and looked towards the way she came.

Then, he unbuttoned his coat, threw it aside, and murmured in a low voice: "Simon, Phantom, Hain, Sludane..."

Um?

Oath, the great guardian spirit - the heroic spirit of the Holmes family, following the ancient blood inheritance, please...

Wayne heard the familiar Gonzalez language and turned to look at him.

Following this low chant, Ariana's entire head began to swell as if it was inflated.

The veins and muscles on his face moved rapidly, and even his short hair began to lengthen and dance.

In just a few seconds, countless tentacles appeared around his head, expanding and contracting rhythmically, as if they were breathing the air here.

But Ariana's changes did not stop, and she let out a majestic roar: "Cerostar!"

The sound sounded like a war cry, like the chorus of two armies confronting each other.

Immediately afterwards, all the tentacles broke off and separated from his body, floating strangely around him.

……grass?

Wei En looked at him blankly, with question marks written all over his forehead.

Are you sure this isn't an aberration?

It was obvious that the language he sang was a guardian, a heroic spirit, and passed down by blood...

Why did such a scary monster appear?

"Lacey, I can't last long in this state, you'd better hurry up."

Lacey nodded and said, "Tina, spiritual vision."

As she said that, she moved directly to the white-haired girl and stuck her ax handles on the ground, "Kool and De."

Shield?

Wayne took his eyes away from Ariana and turned to look at Lacey and Tina beside him.

At this time, Tina let go of the hand that had been holding Wei En's clothes, covered her eyes with both hands, her long white hair flying in the wind, "Tina's vision!"

Wei En felt his eyes blurred, and the surrounding scene changed instantly.

All the surrounding buildings disappeared, turning into darkness and silence, with only the light shining from where the four of them stood.

Um?

As the darkness spread, several dim outlines slowly emerged around it.

This is……

"You trash, how dare you show up in Custer?"

Lacey's tone was even colder, with a bit of hatred, and she glared at these black figures.

As she finished speaking, a slow voice with a distinctly lazy ending sounded, "Ah, have you been discovered?"

Is it a woman?

Wayne moved closer to Lacey, his hand on the musket tightened, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

He was very sure that the location of these black shadows was not in a building, but in an open area very close to them.

Invisible?

Or some other ability?

"Did you do what happened here?"

One of the black figures tilted his head and seemed to be examining them, "Are you referring to the lovely slaves who lived here before?"

"Slave? Are you preaching here?"

Lacey looked at the black shadow and gritted his teeth and said, "Aren't you worried that the flames of dawn will burn you all again?"

"Oh hehehe..."

The shadow covered his mouth and smiled coquettishly, saying sarcastically: "The flames of dawn? They are just boring tricks made by poor people. How can they withstand the fire of eternal life?"

"Lacie, stop talking nonsense to her!"

Arianna leaned over, and the tentacles flying beside her opened their eyes one after another at some point, looking at different black figures in groups of three or two.

Lacey knew that his ability would not last long, so he tilted his head and warned: "Wei En, stay by Tina's side. When in danger, shoot directly at these 'cousins'!"

"Yes." Wei En nodded solemnly, leaned next to Tina, and blocked her behind him.

Even though he knew it was of little significance, he would not sit still and wait for death.

He is too weak now...

Damn it, just think of ways to improve your strength when you go back.

"Hey? Are you going to take action, broad-minded lady?" the black shadow said still unhurriedly.

Arianna shouted angrily: "I have nothing to talk to you trash from the Eternal Life Society!"

With that said, he rushed out directly.

The tentacles around him were ejected one after another, making a hissing air explosion sound like a hidden weapon.

It instantly penetrated the surrounding black shadows, forming one after another of exploding black shadows.

Lacey was almost in sync with him, sweeping across with his ax, "Aciliel!" (Seal: Strong Wind Blade!)

An ax blade more violent than the one seen before swept out.

Immediately afterwards, she stepped forward in one step and appeared next to the black shadow who spoke, chopping down with both hands.

"Aled!" (Seal: Broken!)

The black shadow stood motionless, letting the ax blade pass through his body, "Oh? Demon hunter...?"

"puppet?"

Lacey reacted instantly, ducked back to Wei En, frowned and looked at the shadow: "You are from the Eternal Life Society..."

"Do you recognize it?"

The black shadow's body that was split by the ax blade slowly came together, and still said in the long and final tone: "The Eternal Life Society, 'Thousand Faces' Claire, greets you."

"Damn it!"

Arianna cursed, and the abnormality on his head began to retract, and in the blink of an eye it returned to its previous appearance, "I just said why these 'people' are so fragile..."

Lacey ignored him, stared at the black shadow with frowning eyebrows and asked, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"I just came to say hello to you, and let me tell you to take good care of that era relic. We will get it back..."

The sound slowly dissipated, leaving only a long lingering sound.

Plop.

Plop.

Along with the sound of several objects hitting the ground, the black figures fell to the ground one after another.

"What epochal relic?" Ariana looked at Lacey in confusion, "You didn't tell me about this?"

"According to work regulations..."

Arianna raised her hands, looking aggrieved, "Okay, okay, I understand. I am here to help you investigate those missing people."

"It's good to know,"

Lacey retracted his axe, "Tina, release the spiritual vision state."

Tina nodded coldly, as if everything that happened before had nothing to do with her, "Tina's vision is lifted."

The darkness began to dissipate, and the surrounding ruins reappeared.

Only the two more ravines on the ground and the bodies scattered around made it clear to everyone that what just happened was not an illusion.

"Sir Lacey,"

At this time, Marco arrived, followed by a group of more than ten city guards wearing armor.

"Are you okay? Something terrible seemed to have happened here just now..."

"What do you think?"

Lacey looked at the corpses around him, frowned and said, "Marco, clean this place up, the mission continues."

Arianna was anxious, "You want to continue? Didn't she just say..."

"What did you say..."

As the environment recovered and the city guards arrived, Wei En also breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't care whether the mission continued.

The worst thing is... just run away!

Um?

It was only then that he noticed a new reminder emerging in his mind.

[You step into the collection of beliefs of an unknown existence. Comment: Is the coffin you threw away gold or silver? Reward: Survival Points +3. 】

[Because your spiritual level is greater than level 20, you successfully resisted the erosion of the power of despair! Special reward: Spirit level +1. 】

[You are scanned by Claire Yuri Biondini's mental perception. Reward: Survival point +1. 】

[You survived the battle with Claire Yuri Biondini. Evaluation: How does it feel to use the magical eye assist again? Reward: Survival Points +3. 】

Being ridiculed by the panel again...

What a magical eye assist?

PS: Thanks to Nan Ke Du Meng and Xin Bu Niu for the reward, thank you!