Chapter Fifteen [The Eyeless]

Sauron left after making complete preparations this time.

Before leaving, he drew the blueprint for the further planning of the overseas islands. According to his original layout, the upper limit of the population of Modo City is about 50,000 people, which is already a big city in the current era. The operation of the port is still handed over to the Church of Fortune and the Church of the Sea. Sauron pays more attention to the land, and will focus on the land in the future. When his strength has accumulated to a certain level, he may directly move to Treasure Island, where the wealth is enough to easily alternative to overseas trade.

After all, no matter how lucrative the trade is, it can’t compare to digging gold mines by yourself. In the future, if you want to change from a pirate to a higher class, it will be quite difficult without the support of gold mines.

[Remarks: Treasure Island was mentioned earlier, and the overseas islands are rich in mineral resources. 】

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It is much more convenient to travel alone.

Sauron set off directly on the ghost ship Deathwhisperer, and arrived at the Shipwreck Bay along the overseas route. There was no need to resupply on the way. After a little inspection of the black market for slaves overseas on the shipwreck, he headed to the Northland.

The North is located in the northwest of the mainland.

The Ice and Snow Kingdom is located in the northernmost position, so Sauron's voyage route this time is quite long. If he wants to get the other three element spars, he needs to travel almost half of the entire continent. From the south to the north, from the north to the east, and finally across the death desert into the underdark, because the last element spar is somewhere in the underdark.

A place where beholders may be encountered.

Returning to the Northland again, Sauron's mood was very different. He landed from the deep-water port and left the ghost ship Deathwhisperer in the nearby sea.

The port is still so bustling and lively.

However, among the noisy crowd, there were many more people wearing weapons, even some half-grown children. Hidden in his waist was a dagger.

Sauron couldn't help but slightly frowned.

He walked out along the road, and when he was close to the gate of the deep water port, he saw many wanted notices.

There are humans, dwarves, and lizardmen.

The law and order here seems to have deteriorated a lot compared to the last time I came here. Dozens of arrest warrants, large and small, were posted on a notice board. The guards in charge of patrolling are also much more nervous than before, and they look a little bit lazy in the past. The office of the Adventurer's Guild is more lively than before, and there is even a bulletin board outside with many tasks written in bright red characters.

For example, these few pieces in front of you.

——"One hundred miles south of Deepwater Port, Gushu Town was attacked by Darkscale Lizardmen. The number of enemies is small, and the level of danger is C. The task reward is 1,200 Kindlers. It is an urgent task. After completion, there will be additional rewards. reward."

——"There are ogres running around Fakena Town, and people have been missing one after another recently. The mayor wants to ask someone to investigate this matter and determine the number and traces of the ogres. The task reward is 300 Kindler , there is an extra reward for assisting the town guard in killing the ogre."

——"A strange fog was discovered in the nearby waters in the deep water port yesterday. Some merchant sailors said that they had seen traces of ghost ships. This task is a special task. Anyone who has clues can get rewards. The task difficulty level is B."

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It may be because the timeline is getting closer and closer to the turbulent period, and the adventurer's guild has released many more tasks than in the past.

But what made Sauron feel a little dumbfounded. There are more than a dozen bulletin boards erected outside, and the task difficulty ranges from F-level to C-level. The only mission with a B-level difficulty was to investigate the strange fog that appeared in the deep water port yesterday. Needless to say, it must be because of Sauron's arrival, because before he got close to the vicinity, he activated the summoning fog ability of the Deathwhisperer, unexpectedly, a trace was still seen by the nearby sailors. That's why there is today's special investigation mission of B-level difficulty.

It's surprising when you think about it.

Sauron also accepted missions from the Adventurers Guild back then. But I never thought that after going through so much, I would one day become a difficult investigation task.

There is a assembled team outside the city gate.

Before Sauron left the town, he saw the militiamen in training camp. Most of them were grown men, and there were quite a few fifteen or sixteen-year-old children among them. In previous years, the militia training would not be held in March, which is the busy farming period, and it would be the slack period after the wheat harvest. Therefore, as long as a caring person takes a look at this situation, he can guess that there is a problem with the law and order nearby. The urgent training of the militia must be something serious nearby, otherwise how could there be such a time during the spring wheat planting season.

Sauron didn't stay here.

In fact, he had already been mentally prepared for the coming of chaos. A catastrophe was far more than what he saw in front of him. When the real chaos came, it would be the real disaster.

If nothing unexpected.

Sauron should arrive at the Ice and Snow Kingdom tomorrow, but just after he left the deep water port, a small accident happened.

He saw a pile of dead bodies.

Strictly speaking, it was a pile of corpses that had been dead for a while, and the corpses had basically begun to rot. The reason why Sauron was alarmed was the stench emanating from here.

Corpses were not uncommon in this day and age.

If it was just a corpse, Sauron wouldn't care at all.

However, these corpses had an obvious feature that made Sauron stop involuntarily. Their eyeballs were all gouged out.

Strictly speaking, it should have been taken out!

Bloody eye sockets, the eyeballs of all the corpses have been taken out, and there are traces of fighting on their bodies. Judging from the traces of struggle in some places, some people even had their eyeballs gouged out while they were alive, and then His throat was cut by the enemy.

Very familiar method of killing!

Sauron glanced at the corpses, and couldn't help muttering: "The Eyeless!? Have these people already appeared?"

Eyeless.

A church of evil gods who are not very powerful but not weak either.

What they believe in is an evil god without eyeballs. These people like to gouge out their eyeballs after defeating the enemy, or sacrifice a massacre to the evil god they believe in, and finally dig out the eyeballs of the person they killed as a sacrifice Taste. The reason why Sauron knew them was very simple. He had accepted the task of investigating another church of evil gods.

That evil god church is called 【Blind】.

Both depraved and evil organizations have certain similarities. Sauron encountered the Cultists of the Eyeless when he was investigating the blind.

"Die! Evil man!"

Just when Sauron had looked at these corpses, pondered for a moment and was about to leave, suddenly a spell aura emerged that made him extremely uncomfortable, and then the paladin's signature spell 'Detect Evil' fell on him.

It was as if a land mine had been triggered!

Sauron's body exploded in an instant with an extremely strong blood-red light. As the most powerful pirate king in charge of the South Coast, it is no exaggeration to say that Sauron's hands are bloody. The order made the lives of ordinary businessmen much more stable. But it is undeniable that he controls the black market trade, the slave trade, and extracts protection fees from other businessmen. So no matter from which angle, the evil aura on Sauron's body is very strong!

There is only one type of person in this world who throws 'detection of evil' on others without asking.

That's the paladin!

There was a murderous look on Sauron's body. If there was any behavior in this world that disgusted him the most, it would undoubtedly be the top three paladins who littered 'detecting evil'.

So at this moment he has an urge to kill!

But what he didn't expect was that the paladin in front of him was the one who yelled out "Surrender to death" first.

It was a young handsome man.

He looked like a son of a nobleman, because he was wearing gorgeous full-body armor. After he threw a 'Detect Evil' on Sauron, he had a righteous expression on his face, and he swung his sword directly to slash him. This paladin didn't have much combat experience at first glance. Before the distance between the two of them got closer, he had already started to sprint faster. Sauron could even catch the trajectory of his attack with his eyes closed.

This is an inexperienced rookie!

It is estimated that the occupational level is around the third level, and it is around the 12th level without accident.

Judging from the color of the aura of the spell, Sauron had no intention of belonging to that kind of heinous person! Therefore, after the paladin saw such a strong blood-red light, he did not hesitate to attack. In his opinion, Sauron belonged to the kind of criminal who could be judged directly!

"Don't be impulsive!"

"return!"

"You're crazy! Don't litter detect evil!"

A female voice came from behind the young paladin, and there were two or three other mixed voices. It seemed that this was a team of adventurers.

Paladins seem to have taken over the duties of warriors.

They looked like a team of adventurers who had accepted a certain mission, and the paladin who walked in the front, after seeing the pile of corpses and Sauron standing next to him, the first reaction was not to ask, but Is to throw out a detect evil.

Damn it!

With a clang, Sauron instantly pulled out the scimitar Ice Death, and then rushed forward at a high speed with a series of steps imitating a monk. After parrying the attack of the paladin, Sauron slashed at his head!

"don't want!"

There was an exclamation.

Three figures rushed out from the side woods, one of them had a female voice that sounded familiar to Sauron, and there were very few people who could make him feel familiar, so after hesitating for a while, he twisted the blade backhand and replaced it with a the back of the knife.

clang!

thump.

The young paladin was knocked out directly, and fell to the ground like a headlong onion.

Sauron turned to look at the four adventurers who were approaching, swept his gaze among them, and immediately found a familiar figure.

An Yali.

That young priest who once helped them in Amber City!

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(PS: That’s all for today.) (To be continued ~^~)