Starting from the Dragon Tribe

Over the vast clouds and the surging river, a few solitary geese flew across the sky.

The Kral River, which spans most of the Sistine Empire, also passes through this ancient city.

Defias City is known as the Water City. The Kral River crosses it, and various tributaries spread through the city.

The people living here mostly travel by boat. Because water transportation is developed, this is also an important transit point for transportation communication between Noah's province and other places.

The Klar River is majestic, but it is surprisingly docile when passing through this city. In the past thousand years, there have only been three floods, which is very strange for the terrain here.

Everyone who lives in this water town, regardless of gender or age, even children as young as three or four, is a good swimmer.

In the city, the arrangement of buildings has a strange beauty, and every house has a sense of history.

On the small road along the shore, there are children laughing and playing, and old people taking leisurely walks. Different from the anxiety of Jinkelan City and the compact and bustling Ocalan City, this place is full of quiet atmosphere.

On the calm water, a small boat made waves. Standing on the bow was a young man wearing a black windbreaker. The cold winter wind was blowing his hair, and he was admiring the scenery of the city with his deep eyes.

Behind him, a petite girl with a single ponytail wearing a black tights was paddling a scull.

Two days have passed since I was assigned the task by Morning Embrace Church.

Because of the long distance, the Church of Morning Embrace arranged their schedule very tightly and passed through the Delivi Pillar twice before reaching Defias City.

It would be much faster if Lu Chen walked by himself, but this was a part-time job, so he didn't have to work so hard. Fully experiencing the mission process of Morning Support Church was also a kind of information acquisition.

What surprised him a little was that the Morning Embrace Church also assigned an "assistant" to him. He was said to be an assistant, but as far as Archbishop Guerra meant, he was here to take care of him.

Archbishop Guerra believed that Lu Chen had no experience in fighting monsters and still needed experienced night watchmen to guide him. He should at least clarify the task process and precautions for Lu Chen.

Therefore, Leng Yue was sent to participate in this mission. Leng Yue's current status in the Morning Embrace Church was that she was one of only thirteen high-risk night watchmen in Noah Province.

She is willing to guard the showroom, but she has the same idea as Lu Chen. On the one hand, it is to learn more about the secrets of this world, and on the other hand, night watchmen at high-risk level and above do not need to participate in the daily life of the church. Work, but if you perform tasks and attend work, you can receive salary.

Yes, the basic treatment of the night watchmen has always been just a subsidy.

Just like Lu Lin once said to Lu Chen, priests are usually very free. If he wants to teach at the seminary, of course he can get paid.

The same is true for night watchmen. In addition to receiving salary for extra attendance, there will also be high bonuses for performing tasks, depending on the completion of the tasks and the contribution to the church.

These things were explained by the taciturn Father Anderson when Lu Chen went to the church the next day.

By the way, he got a piece of equipment of mythical quality for free in the church's special showroom, which was a dark, broad-bladed weapon.

Of course Lu Chen didn't need to use this kind of weapon, but he wanted to choose one that was not much different from Regicide, and Regicide could change its form.

Although the targets he has come into contact with so far are not of a very high level, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. Regicide has not eaten meat for a long time.

Archbishop Guerra sent Leng Yue here not because he didn't believe in Lu Chen's strength, but because he was afraid that he would overturn the situation due to his lack of actual combat experience.

In the promotion process of night watchmen in previous years, if the church has spare capacity, it will send a night watchman of the corresponding level to serve as an "examiner" and insurance.

After all, they cannot treat promotion as a game, let alone the safety of the people. What if the Night Watchman to be promoted is not strong enough, causing the mission to fail and causing a disaster?

Therefore, it is extremely important to have a person who can deal with the aftermath and stay at the bottom of the case.

But at this time, in the suburbs of Noah Province, one of the only thirteen high-risk night watchmen, Miss Lengyue, as the supervisor and "examiner", was rowing behind the boat honestly.

In the eyes of uninformed bystanders, the relationship between primary and secondary is simply obvious.

Leng Yue had no complaints about this kind of thing. Anyway, it didn't take much effort to row a boat. It was just a matter of following the boss to open his eyes.

She didn't pay attention to the mission assigned by the church at all. Not to mention that the target this time was only high-risk, even if it was a special disaster, the person in front of her could definitely handle it.

She had seen that the other party's outrageous strength almost shattered the entire solar system in a battle with the perverts in the Tiandao space.

Even though this world was very restrictive, she didn't think it would be a problem for the other party to destroy a province in a short period of time.

The church thought this was a test for Lu Chen, but in fact, if they knew that there was such a monster walking in the territory, the Pope would probably not be able to sleep well.

"Leng Yue, can I ask a question?"

Lu Chen said casually without turning around.

"Mr. Lu, please ask."

Leng Yue followed the local customs and changed her honorifics.

"How much salary will you be given every day to guard the showroom?"

Lu Chen looked at the dazzling sun at noon and stretched unconsciously.

Leng Yue was stunned for a moment, not expecting the boss to care about this, "Ten pounds a day, I just don't have a main task for the time being, so I'm looking for something to do."

The main mission she was talking about naturally meant the main mission in space. Like Lu Chen, she had not yet received it after entering the world.

This is how the native world is, and she thinks it is normal, especially when opening up the native world, explorers need to be exposed to some key events before they can start the main mission.

The more powerful and excellent explorers are, the harder it is to activate them, because space has higher requirements for them, and they are expected to complete more difficult tasks.

"so little?"

Lu Chen whispered.

"High-risk night watchmen usually don't do this. They are usually guarded by dangerous-level night watchmen. Their daily salary is five pounds. In fact, showrooms are generally very safe, so it is a sinecure, and the church will not pay too much. High salary.”

Leng Yue explained that, in fact, it is a waste for the church to let people like her guard the showroom.

In daily life, the frequency of high-risk events is not that high, so most of the time, high-risk night watchmen are quite idle.

The identity chosen by Leng Yue is that of a high-risk night watchman who has just been promoted for less than two years. Her official age is thirty-nine years old. She is also considered a genius night watchman in this world, just because she was transferred from another district. , not counting the core personnel of the General Church of Noah Province.

For Archbishop Guerra, the only person he trusted the most was Father Anderson.

Hmm... He was said to be thirty-nine years old, but Lu Chen took a look at the other person and felt that it was hard to say whether he was nineteen years old or not.

But in the eyes of people in this world, these things can be explained, because the origin of the strange power obtained by Leng Yue's predecessor came from a strange person called the Eternal One.

The nature of that weirdness itself is not as beautiful as the name. There are two kinds of eternity, one is eternal death, and the other is eternal freeze.

Leng Yue's original body was only eleven years old when he gained that ability, so he stopped developing permanently.

In the past two days, Lu Chen and Leng Yue traveled together. No other night watchmen participated in this mission, because the superiors judged that two high-risk night watchmen were enough to handle this incident.

And those safety-level and dangerous-level night watchmen are too cumbersome, and can easily become weak-minded and fall in front of the ancient god's will, turning them into a drag.

The Church of Morning Embrace has experienced many lessons in the past, such as the emergence of dangerous-level night watchmen who were manipulated and stabbed the leader in the back, eventually leading to total annihilation.

Since then, incidents above high-risk levels usually adhere to two principles, one is the elite, and the other is the few.

Lu Chen and Lu Chen also exchanged the information they learned on the road. Leng Yue is indeed a veteran judge. Because he has always been alone, as a strong assassin, he often needs to use his brain, so he knows more than Lu Chen. Want more.

For example, the comprehensive attribute of a security-level night watchman is between 100 and 120 points, which is the category of a fifth-level explorer. However, the night watchmen in this world often have major shortcomings.

Their physical attributes, strength, and agility are usually not very high. They have been tempered for many years. The biggest improvement is their mental strength. When they use their abilities, they also use the source of weirdness to temporarily improve their physical abilities. In order to eliminate some invisible weirdness , most of their abilities are magic-oriented.

The comprehensive attributes of dangerous-level night watchmen are usually between 120-130, which is considered to be the strength of sixth-level middle- and lower-level explorers. But in actual combat, with the same attributes, generally speaking, these night watchmen cannot beat the explorers. , because the number of battles experienced is different.

Even if the Night Watchmen have been fighting all their lives, there is no age limit, but explorers at this level have been fighting in the mission world for many years, and they have definitely experienced more wars than "office workers".

The comprehensive attributes of the high-risk Night Watchmen were similar to what Lu Chen had expected before. Between 130 and 150 points, the span was quite large. That's why Archbishop Guerra was very confident that day and didn't think he could crush the curse to kill the baby.

Because Archbishop Guerra believes that even if he is truly a genius among geniuses, when he awakens, he has just reached the high-risk level at most, and there is a big gap between him and the top high-risk night watchman.

As for the special level, since Leng Yue has never seen it, the upper limit cannot be analyzed and can only be estimated based on the world difficulty.

Before going on the mission, both of them read the information about the target. The Death Note is not a high-risk secret item that is difficult to deal with, and is more suitable for promotion missions.

Records mention that the Huon Provincial Church next door tried to store the item seven years ago, but it was lost again due to improper handling.

As for the inside story of this "mishandling", they don't know. After all, the relationship between the various dioceses is not as good as the public imagines, and it is not easy to spread embarrassing things.

Lu Chen's priority task this time was to re-contain the Death Note. The minimum task completion goal was to destroy the Death Note.

Archbishop Guerra had hinted to him that containing mysterious objects or strange origins was a greater achievement and would bring additional bonuses.

Judging from the Death Note's level evaluation, if he can "capture" it completely, he can get an additional bonus of two thousand, which is equivalent to more than four months of subsidies.

According to the conversion method of Lu Chen's brain, it was equivalent to most of the equipment with a full rating of the holy object level. Although it was very cheap for him now, it was not in vain.

The boat slowly docked, Leng Yue put away the oars, "Mr. Lu, we're here."

They have arrived at the first stop of the investigation, which is located in a remote area outside Defias City.

After the two landed ashore, they saw an area of ​​dilapidated row houses. This area belonged to a relatively backward area of ​​Defia City. The people's hardship was certainly not more severe than that of the lower city of Jinkelan City, but it was not difficult either.

The smell in the air was not very pleasant, and not far away I saw a native dog defecating gracefully and jumping away happily.

Following the instructions from the mission intelligence, the two came to a house. It was said to be a house, but it looked like a large shed made of low-quality bricks and earth, with a tarp on top. Many houses in this area were like this. They were poor houses. They built it themselves.

The managers of Defias City turned a blind eye to this matter. Anyway, the corner area has no commercial value, so you can't force people to death, right?

"Dong dong dong——"

Lu Chen looked at the number on the door plate, No. 27, and after confirmation, he knocked on the door.

After a while, Lu Chen and Leng Yue heard the sound of footsteps inside. There was a small hole in the upper half of the door for viewers. It was similar to the cat's eye on the earth, but it was ventilated. Of course, it could also be used for viewing. Pull the plywood off the inside of the door.

The footsteps stopped, and an eye suddenly appeared in the small hole that was not blocked by the splint.

The pupils are slightly small, and the white areas of the eyes are large and bloodshot, as if observing the outside world from another world, giving people a gloomy feeling.

But the eye only looked at it for a moment, then retracted, and there was a sound of running, falling, and breaking things in the room.

Lu Chen frowned, "Leng Yue, come here."

Leng Yue stepped forward, tiptoed, and came close to the cat's eyes. She wanted to call her owner back with a gentle voice, but there was a chill in her words, "Open the door."

This feeling was like a cold-blooded agent coming to the door. If she didn't open the door in the next second, she would break in and kill him.

The people in the room seemed to be hurt by the fall. They remembered the notice from the church a few days ago and stood up boldly, wanting to go back and take a look at the situation outside.

Human eyes appeared again on the cat's eyes. After the owner saw Leng Yue's cold, expressionless eyes, which were colder than the depth of winter, he was so frightened that he backed away again and ran all the way to the inside of the house.

Lu Chen glanced at Leng Yue, Leng Yue turned back, and the two looked at each other, both speechless.

Lu Chen instantly understood that this guy's charm didn't seem to be that great.

He looked at it with his martial arts eyes, good fellow, six o'clock.

Lu Chen smiled, and the smile gradually disappeared.

Alas, fifty steps makes one laugh at a hundred steps, no... I seem to be the one who makes a hundred steps.