Regarding the trump card, both Helo and Byrne tacitly agreed not to mention it.
Taking the remaining head of the queen with him, Holo carried Byrne on his back and headed back.
"There was such a big movement down there just now, will they notice it?"
"I don't know. Anyway, there is only one queen ant left. There is no other use for it except to collect the reward."
When Hero walked out of the underground passage, he found that he was far from his original location.
"Huh? We were obviously following the original route, how could we go wrong? It's all your fault, Byrne. You must have just destroyed the passage."
Byrne, who was being carried by Holo, suddenly felt that he had lost the pleasure of talking.
They both walked in the original direction.
Not long after, the sharp-eyed Hero saw an invisible dandelion rolling past the corner.
"Look, it's Wright's Sentinel Seed."
The dandelion seemed to be conscious, riding the breeze and jumping in front of them, jumping up and down.
Hero bent down and picked it up, and a silver soul connection suddenly appeared.
Following the location of the silver thread, Hero searched for it.
"Here! Byrne, Piccolo, we are here!"
When he reached the shady side of a building, his soul line was suddenly disconnected, and a call came from above his head.
Holo used [Levitation] to float to the top of the building, and saw Nia and Norma observing their surroundings very vigilantly.
"Eh...what's wrong with Byrne? He looks paralyzed?"
"..."
"Well, he just lost his strength."
Holo put Byrne on the ground and helped him explain to everyone.
"By the way, what are you doing? Is there anything scary happening around you that makes you need to be so nervous?"
"Ah, by the way, haven't you met a man in black before?!"
Nia came forward at this time and handed over the vigilance task to Wright.
After all, scattering seeds is much more accurate than observing them with her naked eyes.
"That man in black is so fierce! He is definitely a high-level magician. He took down the two magician apprentices in just one encounter! He also went down, didn't you encounter him?!"
Holo pretended to be speechless and complained:
"What do you think, just the two of us, new apprentices, meet a magician of a higher level? Can you see us again?"
"That's right, but the sentinel seeds that Wright scattered before sensed the vibration of the soul energy underneath. Eighty percent of the men in black are also heading for the iron ants. If this is the case, our bounty mission will not be completed."
At this time, Hero didn't say much. He took out the incomplete head of the queen ant from under Byrne's apprentice robe.
"It was just a fluke. When we arrived, the mysterious man had already gone away, but he did not move the dead queen ant. If you are lucky, you can get the reward with this queen ant when you go back."
"Gah?"
Several people did not react at once.
Thanks to Wright's Sentinel Seed, the traces of the mysterious man in black were discovered in advance.
In fact, when the mysterious man entered the underground, the three of them no longer cared much about the life and death of Holo.
They even discussed that after the people left, they would go down and search for things missing.
Including picking up the corpses of Holo and the two, Byrne has a lot of good things.
"Stop it, let's go. The damn ones down there are dead, and the surviving ones are gone too. There's nothing left. This time, the information from the tower is wrong. It's good to be able to come back alive."
Byrne, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.
Several people, each with their own agenda, headed towards the tower.
only.
Holo inadvertently saw Wright looking back.
...
It was as lucky as Holo said.
Submitting the queen ant head actually allowed them to receive a bounty reward.
According to the original temporary team agreement, if divided equally, each person would receive fifty soul coins.
No more, no less, for the other three people, this mission was nothing more than a little fright.
But for Helo and Byrne, there was a price to pay.
"Should we really form a team?"
After everyone separated, Byrne pulled Hero over.
When performing bounty missions, Hero can always discover key information and deduce details.
Who doesn't want to find a big player to team up with, which is why he is eyeing Herro.
But the important thing is the trust that Hero entrusted to him!
Magicians are always selfish. Every magician has an extremely long lifespan. The baron rank can exceed the 200-year-old limit. If the system is special, some can even reach 300 years old.
The empire has thousands of years of history, and there are countless thousand-year-old monsters hiding in the dark.
Legend has it that even there are two or three old fossils left over from the Great Expedition.
Every old monster needs to be supplied with a huge amount of resources.
This is why the empire is still expanding outwards and exploring forbidden lands even today.
Can't afford it!
I really can’t afford it!
Whether it is the development and improvement of the system, the cultivation resources of soul skills, or the special spiritual objects when breaking through the ranks.
Thirteen towers are like thirteen furnaces.
Absorb everything, consume everything.
In the current situation where there are no external enemies, there are too many magicians.
Even some Freemasons in the tower are just seeking each other for common interests.
In the world of magicians, it is so rare to have a partner you can truly trust.
"Now?"
"Of course, we will start forming a team from now on. To be honest, due to resource issues in the past hundred years, the upper levels of the tower have allowed competition among apprentices to be allowed, just like..."
"Raising Gu?"
"That's right, it's the same as the cultivation method of the Zerg. This is why the tower has much less monitoring of the imperial capital. Otherwise, Hall wouldn't be spending a lot of flesh and blood to cultivate the iron ant colony near the imperial capital."
Hero didn't hesitate long before agreeing.
Compared to others, Byrne is considered a quality teammate, at least he doesn't have to worry too much.
But in the short term, Helo does not plan to issue any more bounty missions.
There is a conspiracy behind every random mission.
If he wasn't lucky this time, if Byrne couldn't explode this time, he would have to hide in the hole.
"Consume the trophies in the passage and improve the soul art structure. Compared with ten-year apprentices, our two methods are too lacking and our strength is not enough."
Byrne agrees.
"Then can you move now?"
"It's okay. You can go to the instructor for treatment, but complete healing requires the natural recovery of the soul circuit."
Hero touched his chin.
"Then you probably won't have time to get treatment."
"Ah, why?"
"Someone is trying to touch our things!"
"who?!"
Byrne's red eyes, which had just calmed down, suddenly revealed a fierce light.
Are you kidding me? Wealth gained through hard work and blood.
Haven’t even enjoyed it yet!
Someone wants to move? !
"Wright, I guess he is already on his way there."
Because there were a lot of things, it was not easy to hide them in the passage. Hero just blew up a pit.
Put the stuff inside and cover it with a layer of loose soil.
If you were just passing by accidentally, you would definitely not notice it.
But Wright's sentinel seeds spread all over the place.
There's no guarantee that something fishy won't be discovered.
