"Hey~ you're awake."

As soon as Alu opened her eyes, she saw a strange face, not a black-robed wizard with cold limbs, but another person. Her warm palms made her feel at ease, a living person.

Instinct drives Alu to open her mouth until her lips move a few times without sound, then she remembers that she could not speak when she was caught by the mage.

"Where is your family?" Klein, who deliberately woke the little girl up, began the first step of coaxing.

Alu looked around and found that she was still in Bere Village, but the trace of the black-robed mage disappeared. When she touched her waist, the weapon that her brother had defended herself disappeared, leaving only a piece of sword hilt. Because she could not speak, she had to hold the hilt and write on the soft ground.

[Have you seen a mage in black clothes?]

"No." Wrapped with the cloak peeled from the body, the demon shook his head repeatedly, without blinking when he lied.

[Then how did you find mine?]

"You are lying on the ground."

[Can you send the temple outside my village?] Alu, who suffered a loss, decided to go to the temple for help, which was at least safer than other places in the village.

"It is my honor to help a lady, but do you know the way to the temple?" The temple? I didn't realize it. It should be a neutral god. Klein decided to go there and take a walk, maybe the little girl's brother is there too.

[Yes, I know the way, please help me to send me to the temple. I was injured.] After experiencing the incident of being caught by the evil black robed mage, Elu learned her lesson and no longer used her previous aggressive attitude. But she didn't expect that this kind-hearted kind-hearted person who treats others was in the same group as the bad guy she thought was.

Passing by a tavern with beer signs, it was as usual full of adventurers. Near the bartender, a tall man was asking what the bartender was asking.

As soon as his eyes touched the familiar back, Elu immediately grabbed the arm of the man who was holding her walking.

"Acquaintance?"

Nodded repeatedly, and her eyes turned red when she thought that she could reunite with her brother soon.

“Elu!”

Noting the bartender's weird eyes, Hawke turned his head suddenly. He thought he would see the lich but found that his sister was safe and sound. However, this relief was quickly replaced by uneasiness. He looked at the man who covered his cloak and couldn't help but touch the sword with his hands behind him.

He screamed a few times in a hoarse voice. Alu was about to pounce on her brother for comfort, but was firmly held by a big hand.

"Your sister is injured, I think she needs to go to the nearby temple for treatment."

"I will take her there, first of all, you let him go." Hawke was not blind, he saw that Elu was controlled by the man who was as tall as himself.

"Ah~ Sorry. My purpose is to go to the temple, but I cannot easily see the priest in my appearance, so I would like to ask you for help, especially if there is a wounded person..."

Hawke dared not take risks. He walked out of the tavern cautiously. The narrow space was not suitable for fighting, and Elu was still in the hands of the other party.

"Tell me outside the village, I don't want to cause riots." The more mysterious Klein said, the more nervous Hawke was. He was afraid, his appearance and voice were all pretending to be a lich.

Following the person holding his sister to the outside of the village, Hawke was extremely nervous.

When she went to the temple for help, the female priest said that her sheltering ability outside the temple was greatly weakened and she could not take care of the orphans and herself in the temple at the same time. For the sake of Ellu, Hawke had to return to Bere Village and happened to meet the demon Klein.

As he gradually walked into the uninhabited area, Klein took off his hood that covered his face and revealed his elf's face.

Although he is not a lich, his dark skin and silver hair still have the same thrilling effect. Hawke screamed and pulled out his giant sword with both hands.

"Let go of my sister!"

"If you are smart enough, don't yell." Klein wouldn't take this strong man seriously, but obviously he is much more patient than Victor and will not have the will to kill because of the other party's incooperation.

"What do you want to do? Where is the lich?" The god-like facial features were enough for Hawk to guess randomly.

"I just want to make a deal with you. Oh~ I'm more excited to put down the weapon in your hand. When I get excited, I'll be a little disobedient. You don't want to see the little girl's head and head at a young age?" He swayed the short sword obtained from Elu on the girl's neck like a magic trick, so that Hawke understood more deeply the result of his random actions.

"Don't hurt her." Although he understood that the Dark Elf's words were not credible, Hawke lowered his two-handed sword.

"Very good, I prefer humans who are willing to cooperate." Seeing that the threat was effective, Klein began his second step of seducing: "I am different from a lich. I prefer to find people to cooperate. Because of the characteristics of undead creatures, it always wants to kill people who see him true face. Hey, don't be nervous, I have convinced that guy. You can't kill you to silence, but the premise is that you have to join our mercenary group."

"What?" This statement is ridiculous, and Hawk simply doubts whether he has hallucinations.

"You heard it right, I officially invite you and your companions to join my team." Klein squeezed out a sincere expression.

"This is really unacceptable, let alone believe it..." This is the truth. Hawke doesn't understand why a dark elf would come to invite him to join, and he still wanted to kill his silenced lich companion.

"There are many reasons, and it is impossible to explain clearly for a while. You only have two choices now. One, agree, we will be friends from now on. Two, disagree, and then die here. Oh~ Of course, there is your little sister." When he said the last three words, Klein specially used a dagger to slash Elu's arm, and bloodstains appeared and completely destroyed Hawke's reason.

"No! Don't hurt him, you can do whatever you want me to do."

"Sign this soul contract with blood to prove that you will not betray." Klein inserted his short sword back into the scabbard and pointed it in the air with his empty fingers a few times, and a complex spell immediately emerged.

Hawke cut his fingers skeptically following the demon's instructions. As soon as his bloody palm touched the spell, he immediately felt a huge pain, as if his entire arm was bitten by a beast.

"Welcome to join, I am the leader of the group, Klein." The smiling demon said his name.

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When Klein brought two new companions back to the warehouse, Victor still maintained his attitude as he left, as if he was trapped in Henggu's thinking.

"That's the deputy commander." The demon who was used to talking to himself strode to Victor and shook his eyes with his hands; "Return to the soul~ Hey! Are you wrong? I've been away for so long, and you haven't tried to blackmail the owner of this warehouse. No matter how much you say, you have to get some travel expenses to leave."

"Shut up." The lich lifted his stagnation.

"It seems you've figured it out." Klein nodded in approval when he noticed that Victor's eyes were no longer dull.

The dumb guy finally figured it out...

"I've found someone for you, let's decide what to do next." Pointing at the brother and sister with a stiff expression, Klein pushed the trouble to Victor.

"I have no respect or mercy for living things. I don't silence because I have more value in letting you survive than death. Any attempt to betray will die. Do you understand what I mean?" The lich obviously didn't know how to use his advantages. He kept threatening Klein on the side shook his head repeatedly.

"I'll do it." The demon finally realized his mistake and was determined to correct his new companion's despair of the future: "First of all, the Lich and I are evil people. We will not abide by secular dogmas and norms, which are the moral norms in your cognition. My and his code of conduct are entirely out of our own will and likes and dislikes.

Don’t think that all evil people must kill and kill all the non-my races. Just as humans will conduct research on a certain race, the lich and I are just entering human society to observe you. In order to complete this task, he and I need real humans to cover up because they are easy to be exposed. To put it so bluntly, you should understand, right?"

Hawke slightly shook his stiff cervical spine and showed that he understood.

"A adventurer lives a life of blood licking from a knife. He should not care whether the collaborators are good or bad people in the process of making money? You guys, continue to be your mercenaries. I and this lich named Victor, continue our research and take our needs." Seeing that Hawk had nothing to say, Klein threw Victor with a proud look: "Look, they fully understand. Next, it's time for you to summarize the arrangements later."

"There are two more people who have to find them before they go to the temple to expose my existence. Once this happens, don't blame me for taking measures to annihilate the evidence." The implication is that if the other two have exposed the identity and whereabouts of the lich, they will only have a dead end. After a slight pause, Victor shows that it has no extra time to help Klein, and the formation of the mercenary group depends entirely on himself: "I have to explain that my current identity is a student of Jingyao Academy, and I have no extra time to rush into your mercenary group."

What it is most worried about now is not the custody of the puppet corpse, but what kind of response the news of its exile by Ke Lin will make Mendel make.

"The capital...is not bad, it meets my standards." The devil stroked his chin, as if he was trapped in a beautiful vision for the future.

Ellu cast a worried look on Hawke, and as his brother, he could only sigh. There were so many people in this world, and such a bad thing actually made them encounter.

"By the way, that female priest..." Victor did not forget the priest who had met in the Tower of Shadow. She was also an insider. Should she deal with it?

"Don't always think about using murder to solve the problem. Your undead is too bloodthirsty to destroy the reputation of the demon." Klein always teases Victor whenever he gets the opportunity.

"The demons kill no fewer people than the undead." The lich chose to ignore his sarcasm.

"That... there is no need to kill everyone." Hawke thought for a while, and finally chose to express his point of view.

"Look, two to one, you lost." Klein hooked Hawk's shoulder and said in a voice that everyone could hear: "Good job, I'll give you a raise when paying for your salary."

"I will still solve this problem. Brother Victor, since you are anxious to return to Jingyao, why don't we take action separately? Hello~ What are some good contact places?" Klein said to Victor in the first few words, and the last two words were asking Hawk, who was stunned because of the word "salary increase".

"Ah? Fairy Bar. Rena and Dunan agreed to meet at the end of one month." The premise was that we could escape, and the last sentence choked in Hawke's throat, and he obviously couldn't run away.

The only thing that can be done now is prayer. I hope that Rena and Dunan have not leaked the traces of the lich, and he really doesn't want to see his friend die.

"It's a killing two birds with one stone. Let's just say that. You go back to Jing Yao first to deal with the things you haven't handled. I will accompany him to find two other subordinates who may still be wandering around nearby, and let the priest forget the fact that you met by chance. A month later, Jing Yao will meet." Victor left with the demon's promise. Although he had only been in Bere for two days, including the time to use the Realm Gate, the fifteen-day period has passed, and it's time to return to Jing Yao.
Chapter completed!