This time, Sauron left after making complete preparations.

Before leaving, he drew out a blueprint for the planning of the overseas archipelago. According to his initial layout, the population limit of Modo City was about 50,000, which was already a considerable city in the current era. The port part was still left to the Wealth Church and the Marine Church to operate. Soren paid more attention to land and his future focus would also be on land. When his strength accumulates to a certain extent, he may directly switch to Treasure Island, where the wealth is enough to easily replace overseas trade.

After all, no matter how profitable the trade is, it is not as good as digging gold mines by oneself. In the future, it will be quite difficult to transform from a pirate to a higher class without gold mines as support.

[Note: As mentioned in the previous article, Treasure Island, overseas archipelago has rich mineral resources.]

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Traveling alone is much more convenient.

Sauron drove the ghost ship Death Speaker directly and arrived at the shipwreck bay along the overseas route. He didn't need to replenish supplies on the road. After a little inspection of the slave black market outside the shipwreck, he headed to the north.

The Northland is located in the northwest of the mainland.

The Ice and Snow Country is located at the northernmost point, so Sauron's voyage route this time is quite long. If you want to get the other three elemental crystals, you need to walk almost half of the entire continent. From the south to the north, from the north to the east, and finally cross the Death Desert and enter the dark area, ww︽w., because the last elemental crystal is located somewhere in the dark area.

A place where you might encounter an eye demon.

Returning to the North again, Sauron's mood was already very different. He landed from the Deepwater Port and left the ghost ship Death Speaker in the nearby waters.

The port is still so prosperous and lively.

However, among the noisy crowd, there were many more people wearing weapons, and even some half-aged children had a dagger hidden around their waists.

Sauron couldn't help but frown slightly.

He walked out along the road and saw many wanted orders as he approached the gate of Deepwater Harbor.

There are humans, dwarves, and lizard men.

The public security here seems to have worsened a lot than the last time I came here. A signboard was posted with dozens of wanted orders of all sizes. The guards in charge of patrol were much more nervous than in the past, and they looked lazy and lazy in the past. The location of the Adventurers Guild was more lively than before, and there were even billboards outside that wrote many tasks in bright red characters.

For example, these pieces in front of you.

"One hundred miles south of the deepwater port, Ancient Tree Town was attacked by the Dark Scale Lizardmen. The number of enemies was small, and the level of danger was level C. The mission reward was 1,200 Jindler. Emergency missions, with additional rewards after completion."

"There are wandering ogres near the town of Farkna. Recently, there are people missing one after another. The mayor wants to ask someone to investigate this matter and determine the number and traces of ogres. The mission is rewarded with 300 Jindler, and there are additional rewards for assisting the town guards to kill ogres."

"The Deepwater Port discovered a strange fog in the nearby waters yesterday. A merchant ship sailor said he had seen the traces of the ghost ship. This task is a special task. Anyone who has clues can get rewards. The task difficulty is level B."

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Maybe it's because the timeline is getting closer to the turbulent period. The Adventurers Guild has also issued a lot more tasks than in the past.

However, what made Sauron a little amused was that the more than ten billboards standing outside had a task difficulty ranging from level F to level C. The only task with level B difficulty was to investigate the strange fog that appeared yesterday in Deepwater Port. Needless to say, it must be because of Sauron's arrival, because before getting close to nearby, he activated the summoning fog ability of the Dead Speecher before he could not have seen a trace by nearby sailors. Therefore, the special investigation task of level B difficulty was found today.

It's really surprising to think about it.

Sauron also received tasks from the Adventurers Guild back then, but he never thought that after experiencing so much, he would one day become a difficult survey task.

There are gathering teams outside the city gate.

Before leaving the town, Sauron saw the militia training camp. Most of them were adult men, and many of them were 15 or 16 years old. In previous years, militia training would not be conducted in March. In that is, during the busy farming period, training was also the slack season after harvesting wheat. So those who are interested could guess that there was something wrong with the public security nearby. When training militia urgently, something big must have happened nearby, otherwise why did there be that time for sowing spring wheat?

Sauron did not stay here.

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

If nothing unexpected happens.

Sauron should have arrived in the Ice and Snow Kingdom tomorrow, but just after he left the Deepwater Port, a small accident happened.

He saw a pile of corpses.

Strictly speaking, there are a bunch of dead bodies for a while, and the bodies have basically begun to decay. The reason why Sauron was alarmed was the foul smell emitted here.

Corpse is not rare in this era.

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

However, these corpses had a distinct feature, which made Sauron stop and all their eyes were dug out.

Strictly speaking, it should have been taken out!

The bloody eye sockets, all the corpses' eyes were taken out, and there were traces of fighting on them. Judging from the traces of struggle in some places, some people were even dug off their eyes when they were alive, and then their throats were cut off by the enemy.

Very familiar killing method!

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

The eyeless person.

A church of evil gods that is not very powerful but not weak.

What they believe in is an evil god without eyeballs. These people like to dig out their eyes after defeating the enemy, or sacrifice the evil god they believe in with a killing, and finally dig out the eyesballs of the people they kill as sacrifices. The reason why Sauron knew them was very simple. He had accepted the task of investigating another evil god church.

That evil god church is called [Blind Eyes].

The two fallen evil organizations have certain similarities. When Sauron investigated the blind, he encountered the believers of the blind.

"Since death! Evil!"

Just when Sauron looked at these corpses and pondered for a moment, he was about to leave, a spell that made him extremely uncomfortable suddenly appeared, and then the Paladin's signature spell "Detection of Evil" fell on him.

It seems to have triggered a landmine!

In an instant, an extremely rich blood-red light appeared on Sauron's body. As the most powerful pirate king in charge of the South Coast, Sauron is not an exaggeration to say that he is full of blood. Although the order he brought to the South Coast made the lives of ordinary merchants much more stable. But it is undeniable that he controls the black market trade and slave trade, and squeezes out the protection fees of other merchants. Therefore, from any angle, the evil spirit on Sauron's body is very strong!

There is only one kind of person who throws "detecting evil" at others without asking questions.

That's the Paladin!

A trace of murderous aura appeared on Sauron. If there was any behavior in this world that made him most disgusted, the paladins who undoubtedly threw "detecting evil" littered must be in the top three.

So at this moment he had the urge to kill!

But what he didn't expect was that the first person to shout "Die" was actually the paladin in front of him.

It was a handsome young man.

He looked like a noble child. Because he was wearing gorgeous armor, he threw a "detecting evil" at Sauron, and then he had a righteous expression on his face, swinging his sword and slashed over. The paladin seemed to have no much combat experience. Before the two were close, he had already started to sprint. Sauron could even close his eyes and capture the trajectory of his attack.

This is a noob who lacks experience!

It is estimated that the profession level is around level 3, but if nothing unexpected happens, the profession level is around 12.

Judging from the color of the spell aura reaction, Soren was unintentionally a person with great sin! Therefore, after seeing such a rich blood-red light, the paladin launched an attack without hesitation. In his opinion, Soren was the kind of sinner who could be judged directly!

"Don't be impulsive!"

"return!"

"You're crazy! Don't throw and detect evil!"

A female voice came from behind the young paladin, and two or three mixed voices, which seemed to be a team of adventurers.

The paladin seemed to take over the duties of the warrior.

They looked like a team of adventurers who had taken on a certain mission. After seeing the pile of corpses and Sauron standing next to them, their first reaction was not to ask, but to throw out a detective of evil.

Mom!

With a clanging sound, Sauron instantly pulled out the scimitar Bingde, and then a series of steps simulated monks rushed forward at high speed. After swinging the sword to drive the paladin's attack, he slashed at his head with one sword!

"don't want!"

A scream rang out.

Three figures rushed out of the woods on the side. One of them had a female voice that made Sauron feel a little familiar, and there were quite few people who could make him feel familiar, so after he hesitating for a moment, he twisted his knife back and changed the blade to the back of the knife.

clang!

thump.

The young paladin was knocked unconscious and fell to the ground like a backward planting onion.

Sauron turned around and looked at the four adventurers approaching. He glanced at them and immediately discovered a once familiar figure.

An Yali.

The girl priest who once helped them in Amber City!

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(ps: That's all today.)
Chapter completed!