Chapter 1 Tuan Zhang!

"Tuan Zhang!"

Watching their own Tuan Zhang's head fall to the ground, the "Elemental Witch" Frida was filled with horror.

Originally, she was hiding in a tree waiting for Sert to join forces to attack the enemy, but she didn't expect that this combined killing move, which had been cooperated with many times and succeeded every time, would fail!

The enemy did not choose the response they had expected. Instead, because of this small mistake, they directly buried their own Tuan Zhang's life.

She wanted to rescue him, but it was already too late.

The puppet's large-scale frost spray made her afraid to approach. Once she was stuck, only death awaited her.

This time, she also understood what the means of killing people invisibly was all about.

As she had expected, it was definitely a [Sealed Item]-level weapon.

"Damn it, how could I provoke such a freak!"

Frida cursed angrily in her heart.

After fighting for so long, she also discovered that this was indeed a genuine Tier 3 professional.

Speaking of treasures alone, whether it was a mecha or a sealed item, some top nobles might have this heritage.

But this guy's own strength was the most incredible!

Puppet, Silk Control Secret Art, profound body techniques, spatial laws... the proficiency of each ability had reached a level that ordinary Tier 3 professionals could not hope to reach.

She had seen puppet masters before, but which puppet master could control hundreds of puppets at the same time?

Moreover, his own combat power was so strong?!

Rather than saying that this guy was alone, it was better to say that this was a one-man puppet army!

Moreover, the chilling killing intent made even a Tier 4 professional like her feel terrified.

Now that the Tuan Zhang Sert had been killed was a fact, Frida immediately had the intention to retreat.

She was very clear that she could not kill the puppet master not far away by herself.

Although she didn't know what means he used to sense her in the "Elemental Escape", all the signs indicated that she had been discovered by the other party.

Her intuition told her that if she stayed, she would die sooner or later!

...

Suren naturally sensed the guy who had escaped from the ground, and didn't plan to chase her down.

The "cocoon world" created by the witch's hair was physically isolated, and could not stop that woman from beginning to end.

She was determined to escape, and it was difficult for Suren to keep her.

Suren walked to the headless corpse and prepared to collect the "gray mist" first.

The surging manic emotions in his heart had finally subsided a little. He didn't dare to continue using the Reaper's phantom, and casually devoured the gray mist on the corpse.

But luck wasn't always good. This time, the effect of the blind box draw was not good.

There weren't many useful things in those scattered fragments. Suren frowned slightly and muttered in his heart, "Going from extravagance to frugality..."

He was used to the Reaper's phantom's precise harvest, and when he looked at the previous "blind draw" again, the gap was quite large.

He didn't dwell on it. After all, he had to find a way to solve the problem of mental distortion in order to fully exert the effect of the second-stage harvester talent.

Now that the two Tier 4s were gone, Suren could free up his hands to deal with these slave-catching Tuan people.

Of the seven or eight hundred people who came in, there were probably only a few dozen left under the strangulation of the puppet army.

Suren originally wanted to harvest them all, but unexpectedly, a ball of green flames suddenly appeared on the silk thread cocoon wall, burning through layers of silk thread and creating a hole.

The surviving slave-catching Tuan members rushed out like a swarm of bees.

"Oh... cursed object?"

Suren looked at the flames and immediately identified the source as a good fire-type cursed object.

It was not surprising that this large slave-catching Tuan had one or two good treasures.

However, Suren looked at the people who escaped and did not chase after them.

Away from the [Puppet Theater], the combat power of the puppets would be greatly reduced. Even if he went, he might not be able to escape to a bargain.

The most important thing was that the dark spirit power consumption had reached the warning value. If he continued to fight, the enemy had a large number of people, and he might have to strategically retreat first.

However, it seemed that he couldn't fight anymore. Listening to the movements of those people outside, it seemed that they had no intention of fighting him to the death. The people who escaped joined the one or two thousand people in the village, and hurriedly fled into the forest, ignoring the demihuman slaves.

"Hehe... quite decisive."

Suren raised his eyebrows and chuckled. He wasn't surprised.

As long as that dark-skinned woman wasn't stupid, she would definitely not pester him relentlessly.

She now knew that Suren knew spatial secrets, so she naturally understood that it would be difficult to kill him with just numbers.

On the contrary, in this jungle, if he couldn't kill the enemy, it would be a nightmare for his large team to be targeted by hunters.

Suren didn't plan to chase after them. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, the red light in his eyes gradually dissipated.

A bloody slaughter soothed those restless negative emotions.

He manipulated the puppets and began to clean up the spoils of the battlefield.

Don't underestimate the excellent effect of this Silk Control Secret Art's "cocoon world", but just setting it up cost nearly ten million Lisol of cursed crystals. Alchemist was the most money-burning profession, and the more he wanted to unleash big moves, the more he had to be willing to spend money.

Suren planned to recover some blood on these spoils.

The soul fragments of these hundreds of people were also a considerable harvest.

...

In the forest, the surviving two Tier 4s of the Sun Slave-Catching Tuan led the majority of the people to retreat in a panic.

The people who were previously in the mountain village didn't understand what had happened. They only heard the order to evacuate from the communicator.

On the road,

"Frida, what exactly is going on?"

"The Tuan Zhang is dead, let's go!"

"What! Could it be that the enemy is a Tier 5 professional?"

"No! But... there's no time to explain. That guy knows spatial secrets, we can't kill him at all. Also, that's just a madman. He's probably exhausted his spiritual power now and hasn't chased after us. If we really wait for him to recover, he will definitely kill everyone here!"

"..."

The surviving dozens of people were still in shock.

They told their companions about the terrifying battle just now, and when they talked about the overwhelming silk threads and puppets, everyone described a terrifying experience of walking through the gates of hell, which made the others' scalps tingle.

Just one person killed two Tier 4 professionals from their Tuan, and a quarter of the main force?

This was a huge loss that they had never suffered before, even when they had previously captured this demihuman village.

Everyone in the Slave-Catching Tuan fled even faster.

...

"What... what exactly happened?"

On the treetop of a giant tree, Yuta looked at the enemies fleeing in panic and was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

She originally wanted to help, but Suren had isolated her from the battlefield.

Looking at the silkworm cocoon-like closed space, she was anxious and helpless.

She originally thought that Suren was just mentally distorted, which led to those uncontrollable behaviors before. Yuta was still thinking about how to save people.

But there were too many enemies, and they had already surrounded the silk thread cocoon. She was alone and had no way to do anything.

She didn't expect the accident to come so suddenly.

The Slave-Catching Tuan suddenly became noisy. The Tier 4 warlock who was originally guarding the village hurried over, took out a strange oil lamp, burned through the silk thread wall, and then a group of people escaped in a panic?

Before Yuta could figure out what had happened, the enemies in the entire mountain village scattered and fled into the forest!

Yuta looked at the panicked expressions of those people and immediately realized that something major might have happened to Suren.

She didn't hesitate and rushed over, only to see a scene that she had never expected: the man was calmly cleaning up the battlefield.

...

Suren looked at Yuta who came in and greeted her with a smile.

Yuta was worried about his mental state and asked with concern: "Mr. Suren, are you okay?"

The two of them were now considered friends. She didn't avoid anything and condensed a green ball of light in her hands, directly touching Suren's forehead, as if she wanted to check.

Suren didn't refuse, and just shook his head with a smile, "I'm fine."

Hearing this, Yuta's brow relaxed, and she didn't find anything wrong with the examination. She breathed a sigh of relief.

In the blink of an eye, she looked at the corpses all over the ground, her blue pupils filled with shock.

Only then did she realize that Mr. Suren had really defeated the enemy with his own strength.

Although she found it unbelievable, she had witnessed everything with her own eyes, and Yuta sincerely exclaimed: "Mr. Suren is so amazing..."

Suren shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and asked: "Have those people left?"

"Yes. They all fled into the forest!"

Yuta thought of something, and her eyes suddenly lit up: "That's right, the people of the White Deer Tribe were not taken away!"

That also meant that the tribesmen had been rescued?

Suren wasn't surprised.

Naturally, it was impossible to take the slaves with them when escaping.

He said to Yuta: "Go and see your tribesmen, they should still be tied up. I'll clean up here."

Yuta saw that he was fine and nodded sharply: "Okay!"

She hurriedly wanted to run to the village, but thought of something and smiled brightly: "Our Dalu Tribe has a legend that the warrior who follows the ancient contract will save our tribesmen... I think Mr. Suren must be the 'warrior' in the legend!"

"Oh?"

Suren raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He had personally experienced the Dalu Tribe's ability to prophesy.

Hearing this, he also felt strange in his heart.

He had indeed saved the Dalu Tribe people a few times.

As for the warrior?

He just smiled, it should be referring to Mr. Jing.

A crisis that destroyed the tribe was resolved, and Yuta's tightly furrowed brows also relaxed, and her pretty face was full of excitement. She ran all the way and turned back to wave, "Mr. Suren, I'm going to the village to see the tribesmen first. I'll come back to you later ~"

"Okay."

Suren nodded at her and continued to clean up the battlefield.

The puppets helped to sort out the spoils from the corpses and put them into the storage ring.

Those damaged dolls were also collected. After repairing them, they could be used again in the next battle...

Incomplete parts and bullets dropped on the ground were not spared.

Suren wasn't rich now, and even had a very large funding gap.

If he wanted the Weird Puppet dolls to be strong in combat, in addition to manufacturing skills, the hardware materials must also be used well.

He now wanted to make a Tier 3 doll of "Black Iron quality", and the materials cost more than five million. The cost of the few Silver [Ice Dolls] that he had recently made that could engrave Tier 3 runes had exceeded ten million.

One hundred of them was one billion, which was still far away.

The Tier 4 and Tier 5 dolls in the back were even more expensive.

In this battle, he also experienced the usefulness of the puppet army, and he would definitely have to take the tactic of human sea in the future.

Without a little family background, he simply couldn't play the "Weird Puppet Master" profession.

Alchemical bullets cost money to replenish, and casting spells also cost money...

There was also the research on mechanical puppets, which was the real big money pit.

Apart from those few sealed items, all of Suren's current family wealth combined was estimated to be unable to build a complete [Lieutenant-Colonel Class Battleship Slaying Type 9 Mechanical Armor].

"Hoo... puppets burn money..."

Suren cried and laughed in his heart.

Now that the enemy was gone, he could safely count the spoils.

The Eight-Armed Spider Spear was controlling the spider spear to count the ordinary spoils.

In this large team, low-level professionals had almost nothing good on them except for standard equipment and some property.

He set his sights on the two Tier 4 corpses he had killed before.

The alchemical colonial equipment condensed on the corpses were not bad, they were both Silver quality, a set of [Gang Bear Needle Clothes] and a set of [Iron-Backed Centipede].

There was a high demand for melee colonial equipment on the market. Although there was some damage, it could probably be worth tens of millions.

Suren also looked at the storage ring. Sert, the "Thorn Bear", was the Tuan Zhang, and there were many good things in the storage ring. At first glance, he was pleasantly surprised. The storage ring wasn't big and didn't hold much. He glanced over it and saw a huge gemstone.

"This... should be a gemstone snatched from the village?"

Suren looked at the fist-sized, completely uncut sapphire and guessed the origin of this thing.

Even he had never seen one so big.

Such a large piece of high-purity gemstone was excellent whether it was used to make jewelry or as an alchemy material.

It was estimated to be worth at least 100 million at the auction house.

Suren put it away.

He didn't plan to sell it. It just so happened that he needed this thing to engrave runes on high-level puppets. The high-level gemstones on the market were monopolized by the great nobles, and he couldn't even buy them.

There were also some valuable alchemical items, but they were useless to Suren, they were all things to sell for money.

However, Suren finally found a rune box in the storage ring.

When he opened it, it was actually a very rough gold coin with a head printed on it.

In the memory he harvested, there were legends related to this thing. The All-Knowing Eye immediately identified it as a term he could understand.

[Black Sam's Cursed Gold Coin]

Detailed explanation: Legend has it that if you collect three gold coins, you can find the shipwreck treasure of the Pirate King Sam Bellamy; some incomplete ciphertext information is engraved on the gold coin;

"The treasure of the Pirate King?"

Suren looked at this thing and became interested.

The thing that a dignified large slave-catching Tuan Zhang treasured was probably reliable.

Moreover, the All-Knowing Eye also identified some hidden information.

Suren had also heard this legend.

This world had endless seas, and pirates had existed since ancient times. There were not many people who could be called "Pirate King".

The legendary Pirate King "Black Sam" Bellamy was the most recent pirate king recognized by the pirates and officials of the Four Seas.

The current "King of the North Sea" Oleg was just the King of the North Sea.

That Bellamy didn't engage in any power, he just liked to take risks, explore unknown sea routes, and then rob nobles.

That's right, they were "chivalrous thieves".

That guy had a very good reputation among the poor and his life was full of legends.

He himself was also a powerful alchemist, collector, navigator...

His pirate Tuan dared to rob anything, even the great nobles such as dukes and princes, and even the royal family.

Therefore, he had countless treasures in his hands.

However, thirty years ago, legend had it that he led the top pirate Tuan of the time to explore an unknown sea area, encountered sirens and storms, and the pirate ship sank.

It was said that a few survivors survived, and the legend of the "Pirate King's shipwreck" was also spread.

Legend had it that on that ship, in addition to gold and silver treasures, there were also various high-level cursed objects, [sealed items], ancient weapons...

This was also one of the biggest temptations that made countless adventurers in later generations flock to the sea.

...

Suren looked at it for a moment and put it away.

Regardless of whether the legend was true or not, even if it was true, how could the sea area that caused the Pirate King's ship to sink be easy to go to?

Besides, he only had one gold coin now. It was useless to fantasize if he couldn't collect three of them.

Suren wouldn't dwell on those intangible things.

He took out the corpse of the [Insect Controller] from before.

Looking at the storage ring, Suren was glad that his choice to kill him quickly before was the right one.

If this guy had really used those strange poisons and poisonous insects, it would be hard to say who would die.

[Insect Controller] was a mysterious alchemist, and Petra specialized in the poisonous insect lineage. His storage ring was filled with various poisonous materials and jars.

Even though Suren's poison resistance was now very high, he still felt a chill down his spine when he saw many of the poisons that were identified.

What surprised Suren a little was that he had also harvested a "cursed object"!

[Annis朵拉's Poisonous Incense Burner]

Description: I want to refine the most poisonous poison in the world;

Cursed characteristics: The fuel in the incense burner is the venom gland of the ancient poisonous snake 'Hydra'. Lighting it will attract poisonous creatures within dozens of miles to gather, kill and devour each other. After that, the poisonous creatures have a chance to advance to the Poison King and produce higher-level mixed poisons; this poison is transmitted through the air and is equally deadly to humans;

Detailed explanation: An alchemical item refined by a poisonous warlock named Annis 朵拉 in the last era to cultivate poisonous creatures;

Suren raised his eyebrows as he looked at the dark fuel in the incense burner.

According to the description, ordinary gas masks couldn't prevent the poison. He happened to have a [Plague Doctor's Crow Beak Mask] in his hand, which had the property of avoiding poison. He didn't know which of the two cursed objects was stronger.

But it didn't seem to be very useful for killing people, the poison diffused into the air very slowly and was easily discovered.

For high-level professionals, they could avoid it as soon as they smelled a little poison.

The purpose was probably just for refining poison?

Poisonous warlocks were not considered unpopular, this was a serious branch of the "Plague Law".

Suren looked at the incense burner and thought of something in his mind: "Why don't I make a poisonous doll?"