Chapter 1 A Change of Plans

Su Lun didn't go to the North City where the fighting was intense; instead, he went directly to the West City.

Compared to Princess Mafa's side, the battle on the "Sun Slave Trading Company" side was baffling to many, and few paid attention to it.

After all, few people knew about the Luying royal family's plan to lure and kill Barrett and his men.

Su Lun hadn't quite understood why the Luying royal family was so determined to kill Barrett.

But recent news from Mr. Black had given him some understanding.

Alchemists had no faith in gods, so neither of the two great empires ever had, nor allowed, followers of any foreign gods to openly spread their faith within their territories.

But now things were different.

The Luying royal family, against all odds, issued a new decree allowing residents freedom of religion and permitting normal activities of various religious believers and sects within the empire's territory.

This was very intriguing.

All indications suggested that someone had manipulated the decisions of the Luying upper echelons, wanting to gather faith in that empire with its huge population base.

As for who it was, it was probably the "Outer God" who had cursed the valley to descend.

With Barrett alive, the "Outer God" felt uneasy.

But Su Lun didn't have the mind to care about that distant Luying.

Right now, he wanted to see how Barrett's battle was going.

...

West City, Narrachi District.

This was where several large slave trading companies clustered.

When Su Lun arrived, the battle was in full swing.

The power of high-level professionals fighting was terrifying. Even from a distance, the shockwaves and explosive blasts blew sand and rocks across the streets, and large swathes of buildings collapsed as if they had been bombed.

Su Lun cautiously approached.

He had come to scout the situation before, knowing that the hundreds of people from the "Sacred Judgment Legion" transported from Luying were usually held in the basement of No. 19 on the street.

The area was ambushed by sixth-order professionals around the clock.

Now, in his perception, he could sense three powerful flames of souls engaged in a fierce battle, which were three sixth-order professionals.

One of them was the familiar Barrett.

Su Lun wanted to find a place to see clearly, but he hadn't gone far when he ran into two mysterious guys lurking in the alley, observing their surroundings, who popped their heads out.

Looking at their sharp eyes, Su Lun didn't need to guess their identities.

Before they could act and send a signal, Hei Lian (Black Scythe) flashed twice, and two heads fell to the ground.

Su Lun reaped the "gray mist" from the corpses. After digesting it, they were indeed peripheral members of the Luying Military Intelligence Agency.

This was very close to the battle zone, so Su Lun didn't rashly approach.

He carefully cleaned up the communicators on the corpses, then found a three-story building and climbed up.

Through the window, he saw the Narrachi district in the distance, which had collapsed with a large hole.

Seeing the large pit on the ground, Su Lun finally understood something and marveled inwardly, "They actually dug a tunnel into the city; no wonder no one in the city heard any movement."

The bottomless tunnel had swallowed several buildings of the "Sun Slave Trading Company," apparently stuffing that batch of slaves into the hole. This also saved some trouble before the rescue, which was a good way to save mental energy.

However, the ground under the Moros City-State was solid limestone. It wouldn't be easy to dig such a large tunnel without being discovered.

Su Lun thought that Barrett might also have some special tunneling treasures.

However, those were clearly "bait."

The Luying wanted to eliminate was always Barrett.

The current situation was that the batch of slaves seemed to have fallen into the pit, and it was unknown whether they had escaped. But Barrett and several adjutants were fighting fiercely on the ground with several mysterious people in black cloaks, and the situation was not good.

Barrett was resisting two sixth-order professionals head-on, and because of his unparalleled combat power, they had reached a stalemate.

His several adjutants were also entangled with a dozen people and couldn't break free at all.

They didn't escape immediately, probably thinking of buying time for their companions in the tunnel. As long as they held these masters, it would be easier for those people to escape.

The most important thing was that they probably couldn't escape.

The Luying Military Intelligence Agency's long-prepared fishing plan was not so easy to shake off.

Su Lun could clearly see that Barrett and his men had obviously been sprinkled with tracking marks like "detection powder."

...

It should be known that none of the professionals who could advance to the sixth order were not favored by the heavens, and the people of the Luying royal family were even more so.

Su Lun looked at the faint blue cold flame rising from one of them, which was clearly the completed [Wu Shi] secret technique, which must be a top master of the Luying royal family.

Even so, Barrett's desperate fighting style made the two sixth-order professionals on the opposite side lose their temper.

Barrett didn't know whether it was because of the great changes he had experienced or the blessing of the [Silver Hand], but his combat power was even stronger than before the broken wall. The layer of power field he condensed on his body gave people the feeling that it was about to condense into a "domain."

His transformed giant ape fists swung airtight, and the fist wind was like a subwoofer, blasting the air waves one after another.

"Bang," "Bang," "Bang"...

It shook people's eardrums painfully.

Su Lun couldn't get involved in that kind of battle; he could only watch from afar.

He could also see that the two sixth-order professionals not only didn't gain any advantage, but also had a kind of helplessness that they couldn't take him down for a long time.

Gradually, the two sixth-order professionals became anxious as they fought.

It wasn't that they had a bad attitude.

It should be known that this wasn't the territory of the Luying Empire.

But the affiliated country of the North Sea King, Roman, their deadly enemy.

If the people of the Luying Military Intelligence Agency took action here, it would be fine if they took it down quickly and without warning.

If it dragged on, something might happen.

The North Sea Fleet and the "Frost Moon Princess" were not welcome to the Luying people.

But Su Lun guessed that the fact that the North Sea Fleet hadn't come for so long was probably not because they didn't want to intervene.

Those pirates were probably watching the show, waiting for both sides to be hurt before cleaning up the mess.

And this was what Su Lun thought was a "dead end."

In any case, Barrett seemed doomed to die today. Da Feng Novel

After all, the several squads of the North Sea Fleet's Eighteenth Fleet who were chasing Barrett and his men had "disappeared," and those pirates would never give up on Barrett, the only clue to the "Sacred Judgment Group."

...

Su Lun stared intently at the battlefield, wanting to find any opportunity to help.

At this moment, he heard a voice from the communicator in his hand, "Seven. Is it raining over there?"

As soon as Su Lun heard this, he immediately replied, "I brought an umbrella!"

This was the temporary battle code of the Luying Military Intelligence Agency, which had just been stripped out.

If there was no response, someone would immediately come to check.

"Eight!"

"There are no grapes in the fox's mouth."

"Nine!"

"..."

After a series of dialogues, Su Lun also discovered that there were seven other hidden posts nearby.

To ambush Barrett, the Luying seemed to have used all the spies they had planted for many years.

At this moment, because they had not been able to win the battle for a long time, a curse came from the communicator.

"Damn it, are you intelligence agents eating shit! Didn't you say that Barrett only had fifth-order combat power after his arm was broken? What's going on now? How could he be stronger than his peak?"

"I don't know! Logically speaking, even a mechanical arm wouldn't be so flexible. That silver arm is strange..."

"Am I blind? Can't I see that the indestructible [Silver Hand] is strange?"

"The undercover agents on the North Sea Fleet side have tried their best to delay it. News came from there that if we don't kill Barrett, they will take action!"

"Captain Grinton, it's useless to say more; we must make a quick decision! Plan B, logistics team, use the [Bow of Time]!"

"Yes!"

"..."

Su Lun frowned immediately as he listened to the transmissions in the communicator.

At this moment, his eyes turned, and he saw a few people popping their heads out on the roof of a small building about five hundred meters away.

In the blink of an eye, those sneaky guys took out a longbow with a radiant aura from a sealed box.

Su Lun narrowed his eyes and recognized this prohibited item at a glance, murmuring in his heart, "The [Chronos' Cursed Bow of Time] has also been brought..."

He had seen this bow once before, in Jadurant Port, in the battle where the Luying Military Intelligence Agency tried to intercept Mafa from purchasing the "Neuro-Mechanical Blueprint."

Both sides desperately fought, and that battle was extremely tragic.

This cursed longbow could ignore defense and take away the target's lifespan, which was the most troublesome.

No matter how strong Barrett was, if he was hit by a few arrows, he would probably die on the spot.

[Chronos' Cursed Bow of Time]

Quality: Legendary

Description: Time is like an arrow, fleeting in an instant.

Cursed Characteristic: An arrow of time shot at the target ignores obstacles at the level of laws no higher than the laws of the bow and arrow itself. After hitting, it takes away the opponent's lifespan; those who have not mastered the law of time need to consume the user's lifespan to condense arrows; the lifespan consumed by the target is related to their fate;

Detailed Explanation: If your fate is not as hard as the opponent's, then you need to consume more lifespan; this forbidden item can be activated with [Sand of Time];

When Su Lun identified this bow information again, an extra line appeared.

"Can be activated with [Sand of Time]? That is to say, I can use it?"

Su Lun happened to have a can of it.

An idea suddenly popped into his head.

.......

The people on the opposite side were also extremely decisive. As soon as they took out the bow and arrow, a suicide soldier unhesitatingly drew the bow and shot.

A beam of light green arrows condensed, and with a "swish," it shot out.

The curse characteristic of the bow and arrow instantly extracted the lifespan of the archer, and the guy's body visibly aged, instantly turning from a strong man into an old man in his twilight years.

At the same time, two sixth-order professionals from the Luying Military Intelligence Agency were also working hard to entangle Barrett, not giving him a chance to dodge.

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, an adjutant not far from Barrett shouted, "Captain, be careful!"

Without any hesitation, he jumped forward and stood in the middle of the trajectory of the light arrow.

Almost at the moment of drawing the bow, the light arrow passed through his chest.

The muscles on the adjutant's face also quickly withered, like dried parchment, and he fell to the ground and died on the spot.

Barrett watched his subordinate block a fatal blow for himself, and roared in grief and anger, but was unable to do anything.

And then he saw that after one arrow failed to kill him, someone on the opposite balcony picked up the longbow again and drew the bow and shot an arrow.

Su Lun frowned tightly as he watched.

Reality did not give him any chance to hesitate. If he did not act now, Barrett would die sooner or later. He might have a hard life and be able to resist a few more arrows, but these military intelligence agents, as seen before, would not hesitate to attack in a suicidal manner.

"The risk is not small, but... I can try!"

Su Lun's eyes turned fierce, and he made a decision in an instant.

He pinched the warlock's seal, opened the space in front of him with one hand, and then took a step out, already in the alley hundreds of meters away.

Two sixth-order held back Barrett, and Barrett also held them back.

The rest of the people were not a big threat to Su Lun.

This was also a situation Su Lun hadn't expected. Barrett was so fierce that he had reached a stalemate with those people. (I thought it was one-sided, so there was no room to operate.)

...

Su Lun had just taken a few steps out of the space crack when he saw two more military intelligence agents guarding under the small building.

It was not appropriate to kill people now, for fear of alarming the enemy.

He walked over directly with a serious face.

Before the two could cast an inquiring look, [Wu Shi] cold flames rose from Su Lun's body. He also took out a certificate from his pocket and showed it for a moment, quickly said the code word: "The night is eternal, and the starlight illuminates the way forward."

This was the exclusive code word and certificate of Yeger, the high-ranking military intelligence officer who had been stripped in the Cursing Valley before.

Su Lun now knew some of the basic operations of the Luying Military Intelligence Agency.

In this kind of mission, the people at the bottom would not know how many high-level people participated, and might not even know each other.

But they must know the "code word."

What's more, there was a special certificate and the Luying royal family's exclusive secret technique [Wu Shi], which could not be faked at all.

Sure enough, after hearing this, the two not only did not stop him, but also respectfully saluted and said, "Sir!"

Su Lun also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: He gambled right!

He ignored the two people and quickly went upstairs.

He saw seven or eight people on the second floor who were drawing bows. Su Lun walked over directly, showed the certificate again, said the code word, and then shouted sharply, "Give me the [Bow of Time]! I'll do it!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the longbow without waiting for the group to react.

The archers did not understand why a "high-level officer" would want to grab this life-gambling job.

But before the few could understand, Su Lun directly turned around with the longbow and turned around and went downstairs.

The few people who were left looked at each other.

The secrecy level of the Military Intelligence Agency was very strict. Subordinates must unconditionally obey their superiors, and low-ranking employees were not qualified to question any decisions of their superiors.

Although they also felt that something was wrong.

But... what if it was a secret plan?

But just a few seconds later, the arrows stopped, and the sixth-order professional on the battlefield roared again.

"Logistics team, what's wrong with you? Why don't you continue shooting arrows!"

"Sir! A 'Spade Group' officer just came and took the [Bow of Time]..."

"What 'Spade Group'? Our 'Spade Group' is fully responsible for this mission, and no other department is involved! Oh... damn it! You've been cheated! Hurry up and retrieve the cursed longbow!"

"..."

The faces of the people on the roof were all terrified, and they realized what had happened just now, and they chased out one after another.

But after going downstairs, where could they still see anyone?

...

Hundreds of meters away, Su Lun came out of the space crack again.

He looked at the longbow in his hand and was a little unbelievable.

He never thought that he could so easily get a forbidden item?

After identification, there was still a tracking mark on the bow and arrow.

Su Lun had expected it, pinched the warlock's seal, a black hole appeared in his palm, and he sucked the longbow in.

Because he had stripped the space law insights of more than a thousand people in the Eighteenth Fleet before, his casting speed was now more than ten times faster than before.

Looking at the black vortex in his palm, Su Lun's eyes turned, and he suddenly thought of a way to save people.

Although it would be a bit risky.

......

At the same time, all parties on the battlefield were confused.

No one thought that a mysterious "third" force would intervene in this battle.

Without being targeted by the [Bow of Time], Barrett also instantly felt that the death threat on his back suddenly disappeared.

Someone came to help himself?

While he was still wondering, he suddenly saw a space crack appear on the opposite side.

The military intelligence agent almost didn't get hit and screamed to avoid it.

"It's Su Lun!"

Looking at this familiar method, Barrett finally understood who was secretly helping him.

He should have thought that in this situation, only the Dawn Society would do it.

However, he also felt a sense of guilt in his heart.

At this juncture, no matter who came to help, it was an unsolvable situation.

Whoever helped would be implicated to death!

But thinking about it, Barrett still turned on the communicator.

At the last moment of his life, he sincerely thanked him: "Little friend Su Lun, thank you, and your Dawn Society! But don't mind me, leave quickly!"

Barrett didn't know that anyone else could escape, but he had to die.

Because, he had personally seen the "Outer God" descend, and had fought him head-on.

The heretic hidden in the high level of Luying would never let him go.

Su Lun didn't say a word of nonsense in the communicator, only said: "Find a chance to go north later, west exit of Coral Alley, only one chance, at most three seconds!"

Barrett was stunned in his heart when he heard this.

In this situation... he still had a way?

Su Lun's impression has always been very calm and will never do anything without certainty.

Thinking about the time at sea, he thought it was a desperate situation, didn't it miraculously solved.

Barrett replied again: "I have a magic mark on my body, I can't escape."

The tone on the other end of the communicator was still very decisive: "I know."

"..."

Hearing this, Barrett finally had nothing to say.

He had already had the will to die, thinking that he could delay for a while, and the brothers who escaped from the tunnel would have more chance to escape far away.

Now... it seems that there is a chance to escape.

He himself was not afraid of death.

But looking at the bodies of his companions on the ground, and the two remaining brothers who were struggling to support in the enemy's siege, Barrett's eyes showed unbearable.

If he can really live, he doesn't want to watch his brothers die.

Barrett was also a decisive person, and he made a decision in an instant.

He made a "gather" gesture, and the two subordinates who were still alive also instantly approached.

At this moment, Barrett exploded with a burst of energy and took out a high-explosive bomb.

The two sixth-order professionals thought they were going to self-detonate and instinctively avoided a distance.

"Bang!"

With a violent explosion, the surrounding houses were blown to rubble.

After the mushroom-shaped fire spread out, three figures were instantly blown away.

Looking again, Barrett's right arm was blown to pieces, but the three were obviously still alive. They found a direction and rushed over without any intention of fighting.

Seeing this, those in the Luying Military Intelligence Agency instantly understood.

"Not good, they're going to escape!"

"Humph! It's not that easy!"

"Notify the outer perimeter to close the net, always sense the target's location, and report the location!"

"..."

For a time, the battlefield began to shift.

In order to take advantage of the explosion just now to escape, Barrett's right arm was blown off. But the right arm, which had rotted into silver flesh mud, miraculously healed during the escape.

"Captain, you go first, we'll stay and block those guys."

"Yes, Captain, we can't escape like this!"

The two adjutants hadn't understood what happened and shouted anxiously.

Barrett didn't explain, led the two and ran wildly through the streets, shouted: "Follow me! Don't look back later!"

Close combat professionals have a great advantage in short-distance bursts. They ran in the winding alleys, and the enemy could not be seen for the time being.

At this time, they saw that the alley in front of them was completely covered by mist.

Since he wanted to rescue him, Barrett naturally knew the layout of the city, and the thing ahead was the West Exit of Coral Alley said in the previous communication: "Su Lun"!

Under normal circumstances, they would never rush into this kind of area where they couldn't see the situation.

But at this moment, Barrett rushed in without hesitation.

The two adjutants behind him also glared and followed closely.

......

In the alley, Su Lun, who had sensed Barrett's soul fire, had been waiting for a long time. When the three came, the space vortex in his hand happened to open a black hole the size of one person.

Entering the mist in an instant, Barrett saw Su Lun, and Su Lun also saw them.

Su Lun burst out: "Go in!"

A look of worry flashed in Barrett's eyes for Su Lun, but he knew that he could not have any hesitation. He twisted the two people next to him and rushed forward.

Su Lun watched the people being taken into the "Little Void Realm" without any delay, activated the space displacement alchemy array he had arranged nearby.

He took a step and the surrounding scenery changed, and he had appeared in another alley.

At the same time, a violent explosion occurred near the previous Coral Alley, and all the clues disappeared in the explosion.

After several displacements, Su Lun had come to the South City from the West City!

Su Lun walked quickly in the alley, took off his clothes, sprayed deodorant, and did everything to prevent tracking.

At this time, he let out a long breath: "Hoo..."

.......

At the same time, on the cliff outside the city by the sea, in the Agapanon Temple.

A mysterious priestess with a light veil covering her head was performing divination.

Opposite her, a handsome blond young man was lying back in a chair, drinking fine wine and eating delicious grapes leisurely.

This man was none other than Oleg's second son, Onis Popov.

Suddenly, the mysterious priestess seemed to sense something, and whispered: "I can't sense Barrett's location, he has escaped!"

Hearing this, Onis suddenly turned over and sat up, surprised: "How is it possible! Even if the guys in the Luying Military Intelligence Agency are useless, in this case, it is impossible for someone to escape, right?"

The priestess was obviously confused, and muttered to herself: "Barrett's traces have disappeared without a trace. This situation is very abnormal, unless... there is a treasure, or someone with a strong destiny, who helped him cover up and interfered with my divination."

Suddenly, she thought of something, and her expression became very solemn: "Maybe the 'person who will bring disaster to you' in the prophecy has appeared!"

"Oh, my mother, you are too worried. In Roman, can anyone pose a threat to our North Sea Fleet? Your prophecy is too vague, maybe you have interpreted it wrong?"

Onis's face was full of arrogance and disapproval.

But a trace of imperceptible yin and coldness flashed in his eyes.

He stood up lazily, walked to the side, picked up his golden spear, and said in a light tone: "However, since this is the case, I also want to see how hard the person in the prophecy is... can make my mother think that he will threaten me!"

As he spoke, he looked at the distant huge city, the muscles of his right arm holding the spear suddenly bulged and twisted, and then he took a run-up and suddenly threw the golden spear out.

With a "swish".

The spear pierced through the air.

Onis looked at it, and a smug arc overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

......

After a long time, no one came after him, and Su Lun felt that his preparations should have hidden him from the people of the Luying Military Intelligence Agency.

This was the line he had planned before in case he encountered danger, how to escape.

It was definitely not a good choice to leave the city now. It was easy to be detected in the wilderness. It would be safer to be in the city.

Su Lun strolled in the city.

But just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the heraldic bird on his shoulder "gaga" let out a rapid cry.

This was a fatal warning.

"Damn it!"

Su Lun was shocked in his heart, and did not notice where the danger came from. But he also instinctively used [Flash], and instantly moved a few meters away.

Almost at the same time, a golden light shot out, piercing the phantom he left in place.

Su Lun's cold sweat struck his back, and he stared to see that it was a golden spear.

[Tyr, God of War's Golden Spear of Causality]

Quality: Legendary

Description: Thinking of killing you is the cause, and your death is the result;

Detailed Explanation: The town treasure of the Agapanon Temple; the divine spear driven by the power of faith can automatically lock the target of causality from a super distance and cause piercing damage to the target; after attacking, the spear will automatically return to the user's hand; this item can only be used by those who have obtained the "Inheritance of the God of War" or the "Blessing of Tyr";

"Damn it!"

Su Lun cursed in his heart.

He had been worried before that some strange power users or treasures would appear.

Sure enough, whatever you think of, will come!

This spear was actually a causal weapon, that is to say... someone had locked on him, and he couldn't avoid it at all.

Just looking at this moment, the golden spear inserted on the ground collapsed into spots of light.

And the next second, the black crow "gaga" called again!

Obviously, the spear was coming again.

Su Lun suddenly felt a headache.

This kind of "tracking spear" was unavoidable. If he avoided this spear, what about the next spear?

What about the next contradiction?

He vaguely felt that the spear thrower did not seem to be aimed at Barrett, but at himself!

However, there was no time to think about it.

Su Lun stared at the sky intently. At this moment, he suddenly saw the golden light attacking again.

This time, he did not choose to avoid it, and a black hole condensed again in his palm.

The world is so big, there is everything.

Su Lun believed that he could not handle this kind of treasure comparable to forbidden items.

However, he could gamble.

He was also very curious whether the spear could be recalled by the user again in another space!

Although the golden spear was fast, it still captured a moment of abnormal trajectory in the eyes of the All-Knowing Eye.

Su Lun raised his hand and, with incredible danger, blocked the distorted black hole in front of him before the spear pierced him.

"Swish~"

The golden spear pierced into the Little Void Realm.

Su Lun immediately changed his palm into a fist and squeezed the black hole together.

Looking again, the crow didn't respond this time.

The whole world was quiet.

Su Lun's eyes lit up with joy: "It really went in!"

He didn't dare to delay and rushed into the dense buildings of the honeycomb board in the civilian area of the city.

.......

At the same time, in the Agapanon Temple on the cliff overlooking the sea outside the city.

Onis Popov, who had lost contact with his beloved spear, changed his face suddenly!

PS. I have something to go out today, so I wrote it all night and sent it out first.