Broad World - Chapter 364
Chapter 362 Maiwa
Maiwa’s union is very close to the pier, less than a kilometer away. Not far from it is the paradise of sailors, the Tavern of the Gift of the Sea. There are rumors that this place seems to be a secret stronghold for pirates, and there is also a large amount of looted property hidden inside. Occupying such a prosperous area, the protection fee alone has a large amount of money every year, not to mention such a convenient smuggling environment.
It is the sufficient financial resources that gave Maiwa ambitions he shouldn’t have, and he has been eager to obtain all the territory of Ascatla. However, he was also deceived to a certain extent, because when he first came into contact, the other party claimed to be the Night Blade Guild, and he couldn’t look back when he found out that he was a vampire. Especially the kidnapping of the son of Barr privately, if it is found that it is definitely a dead end.
In order to ensure that the entire organization will not suffer a devastating blow, the Shadow Council has issued a strict order prohibiting direct participation in all actions related to the gods, the children of the gods, and even the voters. The offenders immediately opened the union and sentenced them to death. It was this article that made Maiwa iron hearted and Bardi walked down in black, and even wrote a letter directly asking the vampire to take action to kill Renault Bloodhead.
He is now discussing countermeasures with several cronies in the basement of the union. Suddenly, a fat man ran down the stairs, panting and shouting in a low voice: “Old… boss, just now four people came to the door with the general… headquarters dispatch order, saying that they were assigned to help… help us Deal with vampires. Now that people are in the hall, what should I do?”
“Who are these people?” Maiwa asked with a frown. In order to keep it secret, he has never mentioned the rebellion to ordinary men, so most people think that he is still under the control of the shadow thief. This is an unstable factor. Bloodhead is likely to seize control here by infiltration.
“They are all fresh faces, at least they have never appeared in the union headquarters before.” The fat man thought for a while before he replied. He knows that his boss is a little offended with the boss. So be careful not to say some sensitive words as much as possible. After all, the name of Shadow Thief can still fool many people, and once caught in a fight between the bosses, it is very likely that there will be no dregs left.
McVar lowered his head and considered it for a while, and felt that it was not time to turn his face directly, at least not until Renault’s bloodhead died, otherwise it would directly cause direct interference from the Shadow Council and Ascatla’s army. He sneered and said, “Go ahead and bring them here. I want to see what they are doing.”
“Understood.” The fat man nodded slightly and immediately turned and left. He didn’t want to stay longer for a minute, because the prisoners in the cages on both sides here were screaming all the time, and he would definitely have nightmares if he listened too much.
Sit on the chair stool at the bar counter in the lobby. Henry silently watched everyone coming and going. He needs to find a breakthrough point and win some people before he starts killing. Suddenly, Feid leaned over to his ears and whispered: “Uh…I have to mention something to you. Maiwa knows me.”
“It’s nothing, take this deformed ring, change your appearance and features a bit, and make sure that everyone recognizes you.” As he said, Henry handed over a ring. He has already adjusted his face using magic techniques. To prevent being recognized.
Just when Feder had just turned himself into a human, the big fat man walked out from the back door. He wiped the sweat from his face and smiled and said to the four of them: “The boss said he wants to see you. Be careful, he’s not in a good mood recently. Go in through the back door and walk down the stairs. Don’t be messy. Run, otherwise you may step on the trap.”
“Don’t worry. We understand the rules.” Henry stood up and put a gold coin on the table and waved his hand. When Kogen saw it, he dried out the wine in the glass, wiped his mouth and jumped off the chair. Viconia pulled her hood and stood up, her eyes peeping around made her uncomfortable.
The group of people quickly came to the huge basement along the stairs, which was obviously a place where lynching was used. Generally speaking, there are only two kinds of people who can stay in this kind of place for a long time without going crazy. One is the abnormal mentality. They regard torture as an art. Therefore, no matter how to tortured the prisoner, there will be no feelings of guilt. The other is the absolutely cold-blooded guys, who see the victims as domestic animals such as pigs and sheep.
Maiwa obviously belongs to the latter, otherwise it would be impossible to manage such a large union. He stood still and stared at the four people who were approaching with cold eyes. He didn’t even look at the old man who was suffering “ ” beside him. He just gestured to his men to continue.
All fools could see that this was a threat, but obviously the wrong object was used. Among the four people, the most kind-hearted camp is the absolutely neutral Henry, but there is always a faint smile on his face. Feder is chaotic, neutral, and doing things entirely based on her mood, but it is a pity that her sympathy has not yet woken up.
As for the guys in the other two evil camps, they don’t even care. Viconia even has a kind of hands-on approach to let these superficial humans see what the real torture is. You must know that the dark elves are masters in this respect, and even the demons of the bottomless abyss have to learn from them.
“Good evening! Now let’s make it clear, what secret mission does the bloodhead give you. It’s better to be smart, otherwise don’t want to go out alive from here.” Maiwa couldn’t stop these people and began to try to use words. Intimidated, and secretly cast a detection spell. As a thief and mage, he has many ways to know if the opponent is lying.
Henry saw this little movement at a glance, but it wasn’t surprising. He has long discovered that people in this world seem to trust spells such as “detect lie”, but few people know that there are actually many loopholes. As long as the place where lies need to be lied is omitted, or another explanation is required. Can pass the customs smoothly. After all, it is only detecting whether anyone is lying, not the truth.
“We are just a group of people who have just been hired by the shadow thief, and Bloodhead has not assigned any tasks. Of course, if you can pay enough, we don’t mind changing employers.”
All Henry told the truth, he only took advantage of the Shadow Thief a few hours ago, and he really didn’t have much task on him. As for changing employers, I’m not lying, but whether they can pay “enough” prices is another matter.
“Well, it seems that you are not lying. But I will not increase the price at will before confirming the value.” Maiwa’s face eased a lot after seeing the result of the detection spell. He took a dagger and threw it directly into the heart of the old man still tortured.
“Understandably, no one is stupid enough to spend a lot of money on hiring a few wastes, but you will soon start raising prices because we are very strong.” Henry deliberately pretended to be confident. Look like. In fact, if it were not for gaining more experience points and recruiting manpower, he would have controlled everyone with a few seven-level magic “group charms”, and then slowly looked for evidence.
Maiwa rubbed the blood on the dagger, showing a playful smile. “Well… I will give you a test first. If you perform well, the price will increase little by little.” As he said, he took a note from his pants pocket. “The task is written on it, remember, there is only one chance.”
Henry opened it and looked exactly the same as he remembered. They were asked to steal from the temple of Talos, the **** of the storm, and the target was the necklace on the lady of the storm. Obviously, this is not an ordinary task, but a similar vote. But fortunately, he had already prepared and found someone in advance to pretend to be a believer to donate a lot of gold coins, so the necklace was already lying in the dimensional bag.
“Small, this kind of life is too easy for us.” Said Heng used the magic flame to light the note in his hand, turned and left. He wouldn’t be so stupid to take it out directly, it would be too suspicious.
Looking at the backs of several people going away, Maiwa whispered to one of his men next to him: “Send someone to check the background of these people, especially the guy who takes the lead. I can feel that he is very dangerous.”
“It will take some time, but there will be a detailed information on your desk before dawn.” After speaking, the thief dived into the shadows. Seeing his extremely proficient movements and silent footsteps, he is at least a fifteenth-level master of thieves.
As soon as she left Maiwa’s union, Viconia immediately yelled at Henry: “Are you crazy? Going to the temple to steal!”
“No, I just agreed to get a necklace of Maid of the Storm, not necessarily stealing it. See what it is…”
I saw Henry drew out a necklace made up of heavy discs from the dimensional bag. Each piece was engraved with chaotic symbols, and a steel wire pierced through the middle. This is a gift given by the body of the storm Taros to devout believers, and only a handful of people can get it. As long as you wear this necklace, you will not encounter natural disasters such as storms. It is a pretty good magic item for merchants.
Viconia showed a surprised expression on her face and hurriedly asked: “Damn! Where did you get this thing? If it’s stolen, it’s better to put it back quickly, otherwise we will all face a powerful god. Anger.”
“Don’t worry, the origin of this little thing is absolutely legal. You know it cost me ten thousand gold coins, but it seems to come in handy.”
Henry felt that the so-called holy objects were nothing at all. As long as the gods still need to maintain their own churches and believers, there will be no shortage of similar transactions. Basically, no matter if you donate more than two thousand gold coins in the temple of the good **** or the evil god, you will be given a blessing immediately. This has become a common practice in Faerun Continent.
Although it is not necessarily given by the gods, it also shows that the gods acquiesced to this kind of transaction. In his opinion, the gods in this world are not so high, they also have their own (desire) hopes, ambitions, and ideals, and they can be imprisoned or even killed by mortals. Of course, the premise is that you have to be strong enough, at least to the level of the Great Arcanist Karthus.
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