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The turmoil of the academy incident gradually subsided, and Stevenson Magic Academy's additional investigation measures for extraordinary powers were put on the agenda.
The Edge of Night has added a special team for beings like flesh and blood that do not have extraordinary power but have great hidden dangers. These members who were separated from the scavenger troops and merged into the action team rely on their post-war battlefield cleanup and investigation. With his rich experience, he is well qualified for this position.
After that, the royal city became calm again, but the undercurrent was still surging. All the major families and forces were preparing for the redistribution of seats in the next Elder Council. The alliances and divisions of various forces were ongoing, but at least, On the surface, the royal city has returned to its former stability with some chaos.
More sabotage plans against the royal city from Severtan seemed to have come to a temporary halt due to the failure of the academy incident. Although both the Night Blade and the City Guard took this incident very seriously, they increased the intensity of inspections after the incident. , but no longer captured the movements of those dark particles from Seventan, which were definitely numerous.
The battle situation on the front line was still so tepid, and the battle reports that came to the royal city only told how many battles had been fought, and what the losses and gains were. The residents of the royal city had long been numb after hearing this news that made almost no difference for a year.
In the early days of the war, newspapers that relied on battle reports were selling well, but now they are somewhat unnoticed. The weekly battle reports are not even discussed when they reach the royal city. The discussions between adventurers and guild members in the tavern It has become like before the war, the weird gossip about how much money one made and some nobles.
Under at least superficially peaceful circumstances, the day was postponed for about half a month, and this day was quite special for Wang Yu, Aviya, and even the Night Church.
On this day, members of the three special operations teams Edward, Wang Yu, and Charles arrived at No. 7, the Black Street of Shadow in the Royal City.
When they came here again, both Charles and Edward were a little shocked. Large and small buildings were built around this street. Most of them had different styles. It would be like this if various races were mixed together. After all, vampires and dwarves It is definitely impossible to live comfortably in the same kind of building.
Looking around with some surprise, Charles had a question mark. He couldn't distinguish between the Night Church that had occupied the entire Black Street No. 7 and the previous one that Wang Yu said could only be found on the cliff at the end of Black Street No. 7. Connect with small churches to expand their church space.
Although the last time Edward and I came to the Church of Night was before the Hell Gate invasion, it seemed like it was only a few months ago. The territory belonging to the Church of Night had been turned over, and there seemed to be a lot more people. .
"Let me go, what is that, Bugbear? Doesn't that thing say in the book that it is brainless? Why is he holding a sign and writing!" Ciel's eyes widened as he looked at the one in front of him using a bear claw on the sign. The Bugbear, who was holding a brush and writing something like a store slogan on it, pulled Edward's shoulder armor next to him in disbelief.
"Don't pull me, that's a matter of your own knowledge, but... I remember that it seems to be like this." After Charles grabbed his hand and knocked it away, Edward also noticed the writing hand under Charles's shouting. Although bugbears are not as startled as Ciel, it is indeed strange for bugbears to write.
"Well, let's see..." Wang Yu's memory was the same as what Edward and Ciel said. Bugbears are no different from bears. As for why they are called bugbears, it is because they have some bloodline of goblins.
This makes their limbs somewhat similar to goblin characteristics, and the whole thing is a slightly human-shaped bear. However, they have not inherited the pretty good IQ of goblins... let alone writing, I don’t even know if it is because of the flexibility of their limbs. , the brain is harder to use than the average bear.
"Oh, that bugbear has a goblin hidden on its neck. It's not right. I can't say it's hidden. It's just sitting on its neck. It's too small and its fur is too long to cover it, so it's invisible." Wang Yu suppressed the ripples by the increase in the void. It was very small, so I swept around and found the female goblin who should be the bugbear's master, sitting on the bugbear's neck and commanding it to do its work.
"Well, how come there are goblins who like to live in this dark underground? Oh, I understand..." Charles was inexplicably disappointed after hearing Wang Yu's explanation. He didn't know if this guy was disappointed that he didn't see him. To a cherished and intelligent bugbear.
He made a joke about how come elves, an elegant and beautiful race similar to elves, came to the royal city. However, Ciel quickly realized that the residence of the Church of Night was not dark at all.
The members of the Night Church made their own lights and placed them on both sides of the street. Various types of lights flashed with light of different colors, and the mixture made the Night Church's residence very bright. Magic crystal lamps, luminous stones, gas lamps, Fire flowers and some off-the-beaten-path lamps may even sell for a lot of money to people who have never seen them.
After all, the Church of Night is really weird. They believe in the Lady of the Night, a god who represents darkness and night, but there is nothing related to darkness in the church's premises. The whole place is so bright.
"I remember that this place should have been occupied by a gang from the Shadow of the King City at that time. Although this place was relatively remote and next to the cliff, it was not developed much, but now it seems that it completely belongs to the Church of Night?"
Edward's focus is much more serious than Charles's. When he came here last time, the Night Church still relied on the hidden protection of the Lady of the Night to build the church on the small place at the end of the cliff, or simply built its own structure to expand the space under the cliff. Come, but at this moment, the entire Black Street No. 7 obviously belongs to the Night Church.
With a tone of admiration, Edward looked at the prosperous street scene around him while walking, and asked Wang Yu casually. I have to say that Edward found this street where various races were mixed together, which made Edward very interesting.
"Well, in fact, the combat power of the Night Veil Church is really not low. The aliens who were hunted because they were alone are not weak. In fact, the combat power should be above the average level. After gathering in the Night Veil Church, the overall strength will be It’s impossible to be weak.”
"When I was not here before, the Church of Night was discovered by the gang that occupied Black Street No. 7, and a conflict broke out. The result was that the orc Eamon led everyone to fight, and the gang on the opposite side was beaten. The members were immediately crushed.”
Wang Yu felt a little funny when he thought of the scene of dancing demons conveyed to him by Lady Night.
A large number of magical plants emerged from the ground under the influence of druids and fairies. Thick-skinned orcs and swamp monsters with no intelligence rushed to the forefront. Werewolves, vampires and some night tribes were hidden in the ground. Waiting for an opportunity in the darkness to drag gang members into the darkness and annihilate them.
Some goblins were hanging out with the elves, the elves were shooting arrows, and they were throwing alchemy bombs. In fact, these guys did the most damage. The black street was not big, and the narrow terrain allowed these unreasonable alchemy bombs to work to their full potential. good.
Not to mention the lady who sits on a recliner all day long and wanders around in front of Wang Yu or Aviya's alchemy shop. The result is completely one-sided. The black street has changed its owner, and the Night Church has also changed its owner. It has become a well-known organization in the realm of King City Shadow.
Later, due to the promotion of the Night Blade's belief in the twin gods, some members of the Night Blade even came here to settle. On the one hand, it was to expand the influence of the Night Blade in the shadow of the royal city. On the one hand, I am really attracted by this faith or this interesting church. There are many prosperous church towns, but there is no faith atmosphere at all. The only one is the Yemu Church.
"Just ahead, the old place." Wang Yu pointed to the end of the black street near the cliff. Wang Yu was more familiar with the situation here than Edward and Charles. After all, he still had the title of archbishop. Although some situations It's a false name, but I'm still very concerned about the development of the church.
"Hey, I'm really curious about what's in Miss Aviya's alchemy shop. I promised a discount. Don't break your promise." Charles ran to Wang Yu excitedly, emphasizing that Wang Yu had casually agreed. of discounts.
"Okay, no problem, you and Edward will always get 20% off, but...well, maybe it's no longer appropriate to call it an alchemy store. Should it be called an alchemy grocery store? It sounds unfashionable, but in fact, that's what it is. By the way, Charles, it’s just the right time for you to come this time, I have something for you, you deserve it.”
Wang Yu nodded casually and agreed to Charles's request for a discount. Then he remembered something he was going to give to Charles and told Charles the news.
"What? What you gave me and this good thing, you're not lying to me..." Charles looked at Wang Yu's expression suspiciously, but of course he didn't see anything, which only intensified his confusion. Suspect.
"Okay, since when did Wang Yu trick you? If you doubt what he did, hurry up and leave!" Edward slapped Charles hard on the back from behind and made him take a few steps forward.
"Well, I actually did trick him..." Wang Yu didn't say anything. In fact, he did trick him. Once he tricked the "one" who possessed Ciel, and once he did an experiment with Lady Night Sky Tree on Ciel. object.
Ciel, who was just about to refute Edward, closed his mouth, because when he arrived at his destination, a lot of people gathered in front of him, including many familiar faces, including the orc Eamonn, the elf Wenna, the goblin Elliot, the dark elf Hollo and His family and several old figures who joined the Early Night Church when it was established.
"Oh, Your Majesty the Archbishop."
"Mr. Wang Yu."
"Mr. Wang Yu is here."
"Okay, okay, get ready."
A group of people looked at Wang Yu in confusion. Most of the believers did not know the identity of Archbishop Wang Yu because it was not publicized. Those who joined early still knew that Wang Yu was the Archbishop. For him, These people have a strange sense of respect.
“Congratulations on the opening!”
"congratulations!"
“Remember the discount when it’s newly opened!”
"Yep!"
"What can I say, but I agree!"
…
There were a lot of congratulations, mixed with some strange content. In short, they all expressed congratulations for the opening of the alchemy shop where Aviya is the owner.
"Thank you, haha." Wang Yu smiled and walked towards the store, which was almost established last year and was only opened today due to many delays due to many things.
"Kakakaka..." The metal door of the mechanical shop opened under the drive of the mechanism, revealing a very good-looking shop inside, with neat shelves, stacked with various completed products, placed in different categories, clearly marked. The price is listed and its functions are introduced in detail.
Wang Yu was the first to walk in and saw Aviya with a bright smile, "Welcome!" With a vibrant welcome, the Aviya store manager sent greetings to Wang Yu, the "customer".
It could be seen that the girl was really happy. The alchemy shop that he and Wang Yu had planned for a long time finally opened today.
This not only means that Aviya can use her alchemy skills to bring income to Wang Yu and her, but more importantly, the value of the alchemy knowledge that girls especially like can be obtained in this not-so-big shop. accomplish.
For Aviya, it is very satisfying to be able to continue alchemy, a subject she is good at and passionate about. Many of the alchemy items here were completed by Aviya herself in the alchemy workshop below the alchemy shop. of.
"Well, if you have any needs, you can talk to our clerk directly." With a slight smile, Aviya introduced the store to Wang Yu, and showed the newly opened store to the members of the Night Church who were watching outside. Check it out with Edward and Charles.
"Uh... are you sure these clerks won't scare anyone or cause problems?" Wang Yu glanced at the clerk who was walking by in a suit and tie, with hesitation in his tone.
"No problem. Although these clerks are all basic skeleton soldiers summoned from the plane of the undead, after the special undead magic circle is engraved on their bodies, they can fully meet the requirements of customers. After all, I also I can’t stay here all the time, so I’m dependent on them when I’m not here.”
"Besides, Wang Yu, don't you think that in our night church, these clerks are actually very ordinary." Blinking her eyes, Aviya looked at Wang Yu who was face to face with the skeleton clerk, and she couldn't suppress the smile at the corner of her mouth. .
"That's right." Wang Yu glanced at the well-dressed skeleton in front of him with a welcoming gesture, and then at the group of monsters and monsters outside the door. Well, in a place like the Church of the Night, where various races are mixed, the undead clerks are also completely Not something worth caring about.
"Please show me the new alchemical weapons here." Wang Yu knew that Aviya would find a clerk who would help run the store when she was away, but he really didn't expect that it would be a skeleton as a clerk, and he also wanted to satisfy his curiosity. , Wang Yu told the skeleton clerk his request.
The two balls of soul fire in the skull's eye sockets vibrated. He must have understood the meaning of Wang Yu's words, and led Wang Yu to one of the shelves in the store.
Sighing that magic is really amazing, undead magic can create skeleton soldiers similar to robots. Wang Yu followed the skeleton clerk. Aviya also welcomed others outside at this time. Everyone who received the invitation also entered the store. Follow several other skeleton clerks to browse the products in the store.
Looking at the alchemy weapons in front of him that were not difficult to identify from top to bottom, Wang Yu felt that it would be good to sell these things to the Night Church to increase their combat effectiveness.
Revolvers, shotguns, rifles, these alchemical firearms that are no longer driven by gunpowder but are driven by special alchemical fuel are stacked in the cabinet. The upper rows are alchemical firearms, and the lower rows are placed with ordinary alchemical firearms corresponding to different alchemical firearms. Ammunition and specialized special ammunition, flame bombs, armor-piercing bullets, acid-etching bullets, magic-breaking bullets...
This alchemy firearm with a strong sense of power in the cabinet is a work completed by Aviya after modifying and upgrading the semi-finished firearm in the academy incident. It no longer requires the user to provide power to drive the ammunition, and can be used as long as the ammunition is filled.
In the army, when facing a large number of enemies, these alchemical firearms that require special ammunition to exert sufficient lethality will not be popular considering cost and efficiency.
But in the shadow of the royal city, there are constant conflicts, and most of them are small-scale street fighting.
As long as it is loaded with ordinary ammunition or special ammunition, without affecting its own strength, it can have an additional alchemical firearm that is enough to threaten middle-level formal knights and below, which should be very popular.
In the same way, Wang Yu felt that Night Blade would also welcome this thing.
"Wang Yu, the things you sell in your store are quite miscellaneous. Why do tree people have wooden puppet hearts? Moreover, the quality of the lucky stone produced by fairies seems to be very good. It is indeed the same as what you said. , it has everything, it’s like a grocery store, and generally it’s all good stuff, so it’s really hard not to be tempted.”
Edward walked up to Wang Yu, who was looking at a cabinet of alchemical firearms, and expressed his discovery to him.
Wang Yu and Charles were right when they said that this store was more like a grocery store. They said it was an alchemy store. Only when Edward came in did he realize that the items sold here were so miscellaneous that alchemy items actually only accounted for a small part.
There are also many other magical materials, such as the wooden puppet heart that can summon tree people, the lucky stone that improves elemental affinity, the dwarf's special volcanic egg that makes the holder extremely immune to the fire element, etc., etc. in the royal city. There are a lot of rare and imported goods here.
In fact, some of the potions that Wang Yu refined himself are also placed on the corner container. A series of physical potions with high side effects and high pain levels, such as spiny cardiotonic pills, acid fusion regeneration mixtures, and blood boiling bottles, are placed there. , these potions are definitely good things in the hands of those who use them...
"This is Aviya's suggestion. She thinks it is a waste to use this shop as her own alchemy shop. The members of the Night Church actually have a strange sense of identification with this shop."
"Of course the reason is not us, but the Saint Darkness who has been sitting in the rocking chair at the door. She often conveys God's will on behalf of Lady Night."
For some reason, Ms. Heiye especially likes to stay at the door of Wang Yu's stronghold hut, which is where she shapes a recliner to lie down in front of the current alchemy shop. She accidentally gives this shop a different meaning.
"So it is better to use this store to provide a platform for those believers who need to sell things in the Night Church but have no trustworthy channels. This should be of great benefit to both them and the church."
Wang Yu glanced at the goblin boss who vigorously praised the items he sold in this alchemy grocery store in front of a group of people. So far, it seems that the effect is not bad, and it can provide the believers of the Night Church with a sufficient reputation guarantee and The free platform should be able to better help the church develop.
"Indeed, there are a lot of things and they are very good. There were many Night Church believers outside the door who were watching the excitement, and they were all attracted, so can I sell my tarot cards to you?"
After shopping around, Charles found a lot of interesting goodies. After checking the prices, he dug into his pocket and found that he couldn't afford these goods, which were not expensive based on the cost but actually required a lot of money. There were some affordable ones after the 20% discount, but he didn't really take the 20% discount seriously.
"Don't..." Edward just wanted Ciel not to cause trouble. After thinking about it carefully, he found that the tarot cards that Ciel made that can release special magic are actually very useful. Whether it is the star tarot card that can move through space, it can The Wheel of Fortune tarot cards that show traces of the past are very useful consumables.
"Okay, just talk to Aviya if you need to. We don't collect consignment fees from the middle."
Wang Yu nodded and agreed to Xia Er's half-joking request.
"It's really possible. Then I have to think about it carefully. By the way, what is this you are looking at? The shape is really strange."
Charles scratched his head. He didn't expect that Wang Yu would really consider his request seriously, so he had to think about it carefully. However, even if he didn't know what they were for, these things in front of Wang Yu made people instinctively feel a sense of power. The firearm made Ciel very curious.
"Alchemy firearms, just in time, come with me, this is related to what I want to give you."
"ah?"
…
In the spacious alchemy workshop below the alchemy shop, Aviya, Wang Yu, Charles, and Edward came here on a mechanical elevator. Aviya brought Wang Yu and the others here with a box to test their power. shooting range.
The girl opened the box and took out a very special-looking revolver alchemy firearm. The overall size was larger than the revolver in the container. Especially at the muzzle, there was a very conspicuous metal block. It looked like It's like adding a hammerhead to the barrel of a revolver.
There are very detailed metal carvings on it, which are not decorative, but are used to facilitate the engraving of magic circuits. This is also different from the firearms sold in stores that simply use the strength and structure of alchemical materials and ammunition. This is A magical alchemical firearm.
"Come on, it's called Furnace of Fury, try it." Wang Yu took the revolver from Aviya and handed it to Ciel.
"Uh, let me try? Okay, but how to use it." Ciel didn't know how to use this novel gadget.
"Load this ammunition into this wheel, then input the magic power and then aim at the dummy and pull the metal piece." The girl pointed to Ciel from the side.
Ciel clumsily loaded the special ammunition into the revolver one by one, found the interface for injecting magic power, and injected his own magic power into it.
Soon, Charles discovered that the strange alchemy item in his hand was reacting. The magic power was running along those magic circuits, and started to operate according to the magic circle that had been carved in advance. Inside the "hammer head" of the revolver, a high fever High-energy reactions are taking place.
"Bang!" Charles, who has a keen sense of magic power, pulled the trigger at the moment when the energy accumulation was completed. The muzzle did not erupt with a strong and diffuse fire, but a red light track started from the muzzle of the gun. , extended rapidly in the air and directly hit the metal dummy.
A dazzling explosion appeared on the dummy. The special bullet, which was designed to withstand enough energy, absorbed enough energy at the "melting furnace" at the muzzle, becoming extremely dangerous and unstable. When it hit the dummy, In an instant, all the absorbed energy was released with concentrated terrifying high temperature and impact force.
"Oh my god..." Charles looked at the dummy whose metal head was directly blown off in shock. The cracks were exaggerated, which showed how amazing the sheer destructive power of this shooting was.
And the metal neck that melted under the high-temperature aftermath of the bullet also told that the "gift" of this bullet was not so easy to tolerate.
"It's so powerful. If it is hit without paying attention to defense, a high-level official knight will be seriously injured."
Ciel looked at the "Rage of the Furnace" in his hand and was a little shocked. This not-so-large alchemical firearm actually had such powerful power. It should be said that it was the work of Miss Aviya. It was really powerful.
"It's really good. It seems that the ones in the cabinets above can also be sold well." Charles smiled and handed the Furnace of Wrath back to Wang Yu. To be honest, it was really enjoyable.
Regardless of whether he is a man from Earth or not, as long as a man touches something like a gun, he will feel an inexplicable sense of comfort...
"It's a gift for you. I have one too." Wang Yu waved his hand, but without taking it, he pulled out a revolver with basically the same shape from his waist.
"Give it to me?" Ciel was a little stunned. Alchemy items of this strength sometimes cannot be explained in terms of money, but even if they could be measured, Ciel would definitely not be able to afford it anyway.
In fact, this is also the case. The existing materials are refined using the special environment of the Royal City's Shadow. Aviya has only completed the refining of two "furnace of fury". If she wants to refine it again, she still has gold coins, and the materials are in the Royal City. It can no longer be collected for the time being...
"This... this is not good." Ciel scratched the back of his head hard, feeling very uncomfortable and his face was a little hot.
Although he always said he wanted to take advantage of Wang Yu and Edward, when it came to actually doing it, Ciel had never done it before. He usually said he was happy, but at this moment, this guy became "cowardly" again.
"Take it, this is what you deserve." Wang Yu looked into Charles's eyes seriously.
"Indeed." Edward also nodded. He seemed to remember something. Wang Yu mentioned something to him that he should not talk to others.
"Thank you." Seeing the calmness in Wang Yu's eyes, Charles' eyes flickered, as if he understood something and accepted this precious gift.
The role played by Ciel in the college incident should currently be only "One". Wang Yu knew that Edward and Aviya knew part of the situation. Because of "One" and Ciel's plan, Ciel's memory was incomplete. , his contribution in the academy incident could not be known to others, and no one rewarded him like Wang Yu. He was even scolded by Siege and the captain for being "offline".
But...now that Wang Yu already knows Xiaer's contribution, then he will not sit back and watch Xiaer only pay without getting anything in return. As for whether it is worth it, who cares, just treat it as a gift to a friend, at least he willing.
