Purgatory Artist-Chapter 196: Affairs of a noble lady

(TN: I'm not home and it's impossible to do anything with phone sorry.)

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The bartender took down a thick cardbook from the wall and placed it on the table.

"Please take a look."

Liu Ping opened the cardbook and flipped through it. He picked out a few cards and said,

"all of them"

The bartender picked up the cards and murmured "These are worth a lot."

"Let's settle the bill" Liu Ping said.

The bartender said his price.

Liu Ping took out the Wealth Card and pasted it on the bartender's Wealth Card.

The transaction was completed.

The bartender smiled and said, "What else do you need? Whether it's slaves, bodyguards, information, or even some other things, I can sell them all here. "

"Information?" Liu Ping asked.

"Of course, our Assassin Guild often collects all kinds of information and pays according to its value" the bartender said.

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

"What are your concerns?" the bartender asked.

"It's like this. I want to ask you to help me pass a message to the designated person, but you can't expose my identity." Liu Ping said.

The bartender smiled and said, "This kind of special service is rare and usually comes with a certain amount of danger. However, we can do it, but the price is higher."

"Money is not a problem." Liu Ping said.

The bartender placed the Wealth Card in front of Liu Ping.

A number appeared on the card.

Libertas was shocked. "Why don't you just rob me!"

The bartender shrugged, "We have no choice. Passing a message anonymously is both simple and complicated. Sometimes nothing will happen, but sometimes it will bring great danger to ourselves. We have to ensure that our people can escape safely."

Liu Ping glanced at the number and pasted his card on the bartender's Wealth Card. He said "I'll pay double. You have to send the best of your Assassins guild to pass this message."

A line of numbers jumped on the bartender's card.

Double payment.

The bartender looked at Liu Ping deeply and took out an envelope and a magic seal.

"There's a piece of paper in here. You can write the message on it and seal it with the magic seal."

The bartender finished and left.

Liu Ping took out the letter from the envelope and picked up a pen. "Libertas, go to the bar and have a drink. I'll be there in a while."

"What kind of message is this? Even I can't see it?" Libertas said unhappily.

"This is about the private affairs of a noble lady. When did you become so nosy?" Liu Ping laughed.

Libertas was speechless and relaxed. He murmured, "So that's how it is. Which family's young lady has taken a fancy to you?"

He stood up and walked out of the room.

Only then did Liu Ping start writing on the letter.

A short while later.

He put the letter back into the envelope and sealed it with a magic seal.

Runes lit up on the surface of the envelope.

These runes were connected to each other, like countless iron chains that were connected together.

Lines of small burning words quickly appeared, reminding him of this.

The bartender didn't do anything.

After a while.

The bartender entered the room.

"Is it ready?" he asked, looking at the envelope on the table.

"Yes." Liu Ping said.

"Very good. Who is this letter for?" the bartender asked.

"The few customers at the third table from the left after entering the bar." Liu Ping said.

"Do you need me to say anything?"

"There's no need. They'll understand once they see it."

"When will you give it to them?"

"In ten minutes."

"Alright, please rest assured that we will complete this task."

"Then I'll have to trouble you."

Liu Ping stood up, nodded at the bartender, and walked out of the room.

He came to the bar counter, patted Libertas, and said softly, "I'm going out for a while. You go back first tonight. I'll go back later."

"Is something the matter?" Libertas asked.

"Yes." Liu Ping said.

"Alright." Libertas said.

Liu Ping turned and left the bar.

Ten minutes.

It was fleeting.

On the third table from the left after entering the bar, a letter suddenly appeared.

"Humph!"

Beside the table, a burly man let out a cold snort.

"It's an assassin." an old man beside him said.

"He ran very fast. Should we chase after him?" the man asked.

The people around him were eager to give it a try.

The old man smiled and said, "There's no need. That assassin is just an errand boy. It's useless to catch him."

He picked up the letter and murmured, "I haven't received an anonymous letter like this for many years ..."

The envelope was torn open.

The old man opened the letter and slowly read it.

His expression suddenly turned solemn.

"Sir, what's the news?" the burly man asked.

The old man carefully put the letter away and said softly, "It's not convenient to say now. We have to set off immediately to investigate something."

The people around him stood up.

Under the old man's lead, they quickly left the bar and even left Cold Hammer Town.

...

Half an hour later.

Snow Mountain.

In a mountain forest against the wind, the old man stood in the snow.

His subordinates were all scattered, searching for something in the forest.

"Sir, I found it!"

The burly man said.

The white cloth covering the formation was pulled away, revealing the complete rhombus-shaped summoning rune formation below.

The rune formation seemed to sense the existence of these people and gradually emitted a misty and warm light.

The light was full of rhythm, rising and falling like a beating heart, making the onlookers confused.

The old man's expression changed, and he roared.

"Cover that with the cloth! Quick! "

The burly man seemed to wake up from a dream and quickly covered the rune formation with the white cloth.

In an instant, the strange fluctuation disappeared.

Everyone fell to the ground, panting heavily.

"Sir, what's going on!"

The burly man couldn't help but ask.

The old man's expression became extremely gloomy, speaking in a low voice: "I have a guess, but this matter is too big, guessing won't work, we have to call Her Majesty the Empress right away."

"What!? To trouble Her Majesty the Empress to come here herself? "the burly man couldn't help but exclaim.

"You don't understand! If something happens, I'll take full responsibility." the old man said.

He carefully took out a flower-shaped emblem, knelt down on one knee, kissed the emblem with his mouth and spoke: "Your Majesty the Empress, I have made an extremely important discovery here, so I have to call you here to confirm the level of the situation."

Oong.

The emblem let out a light chime, then became brighter.

In the night sky.

A meteor shot over from the distant deep space.

It silently landed in the middle of the forest, revealing a slender woman with a pair of black wings on her back.

She had a pair of deep black eyes, countless eerie phantoms appeared behind her, her voice was gentle and charming, but also carried a natural sense of coldness.

"Humanity's empire is gradually becoming unstable, I'm currently mobilizing my forces to launch a probing attack. I remember I told you not to use that emblem unless it's absolutely urgent."

The old man maintained his kneeling posture, only raising the letter high above his head.

The woman waved her hand, opening the letter in front of her.

She skimmed through the contents of the letter, held it in her hand for a bit, then chuckled:

"This is a trick of humanity's Assasin Guild, using a piece of paper made from 24 types of anti-magic plants, there's no way to trace any information."

The woman looked around, then lightly waved her hand.

The white cloth was immediately lifted, revealing the diamond-shaped Runic Magic Array that was emitting a misty light.

"Spirit Slayer, Demon King of Ten Thousand Eyes, the source of all Deities' fear!"

The woman's expression changed, then a phantasm appeared around her body, completely covering the area around the diamond-shaped rune circle.

"What happened ... you were clearly trapped in the Soulless Abyss ... who set up a communication formation for you ..."

The woman lightly clapped her hands.

The phantasm instantly turned into a chaotic flow of light, quickly displaying the past in front of the woman.

First, it was the snowstorm.

And then ...

A group of believers appeared from the phantasm, pouring gems into the diamond-shaped rune circle.

Their voices resounded.

A few moments later, the voice from the rune circle agreed to the other party's request, but only if they obtained the soul.

"Fools!"

The woman seemed to be furious, loudly cursing: "That bastard was trapped in the Abyss where there was absolutely no way to obtain any souls, once he obtained a soul, he would regain his power ... who dared to do such a thing?"

Before she finished.

A believer stood up and proposed a secret deal.

This time, his words couldn't be heard.

But in the end, 15 believers were offered to the monster.

Both sides seemed to have reached a deal.

The believer covered the white cloth and left.

All the phantasm disappeared.

The woman went silent for a few moments, then lightly waved her hand.

The white cloth was covered again.

Silence.

"Your majesty ..." the old man fearfully called out.

The woman thought for a bit before replying: "You've done well, if you hadn't discovered the situation here, it would have been truly troublesome."

The burly man spoke with a gruff voice: "Your majesty, is that monster very powerful?"

"Of course, it had once devoured over half of our empire. And now, another bastard dared to send human believers to make a deal with it, do you know what that means?" the woman asked.

"This subordinate does not." the burly man replied.

"This means that the other bastard who covets the human empire isn't any weaker than it." the woman replied.

She paced back and forth, then suddenly declared: "Send the order!"

Everyone quickly knelt down.

The woman spoke: "All evil creatures are to withdraw from the human empire, we are to leave this area and find a safe place to rebuild."

The old man was shocked: "Your majesty, you've only managed to conquer this place after so much effort, are you going to give it up just like that?"

"What do you know? Two such entities are already targeting the human empire here, it's already doomed. We can only take advantage of the fact that those two monsters haven't set their sights on us and run away."

The woman seemed to have thought of something and coldly scoffed: "Their Emperor dared to claim to have explored 1 billion square kilometers, what a blatant lie."

The old man didn't know what to do: "Then what do we do now?"

The woman resolutely declared: "Immediately contact everyone and have them withdraw from the human empire, we will leave this area tomorrow."

"Where do we go from here?"

"North, the path is a bit dangerous, but I heard there's another civilized country to the north, that is, if it hasn't been destroyed by today."

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The old man sighed, as if he wasn't willing to give up.

The woman also understood her subordinates, so her tone became a bit warmer:

"I know you guys don't want to give up this territory, I'm even more reluctant. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as logic in Evernight."

"In the eyes of those powerful unknown entities, I'm no different from you, only their food."

"Let's move out!"

Everyone replied in unison: "Yes!"

The woman nodded, then turned into a streak of starlight and shot into the sky, disappearing without a trace.

The old man sighed again before standing up: "Let's go, we'll carry out Her Majesty's orders."

The burly man shook his head and muttered, "We've been fighting against the human empire for over a hundred years, who would've thought we'd have to run away now?"

"The humans will die here, but we won't." the old man replied.

He began to arrange his subordinates to carry out specific tasks in preparation for their departure the next day.

Once the discussion was settled, the devils split up and left the mountain forest that was sheltered from the wind.

After a few minutes.

One of them returned to the forest and stood still.

He looked at the white cloth that was gradually covered by the snowflakes and shrugged helplessly.

Lines of burning words remained in front of his eyes:

[You activated Fishmonger.]

[You've joined the army of devils and are traveling with them on the snowy mountain.]

[You left the team.]

Liu Ping looked at the wind and snow outside the cliff, feeling a little lost.

Originally ...

He even wanted to ally with the devils to fight against the prisoners ...

After all, in previous battles, big and small, the devils had been suppressing the humans. If not for the fact that the humans had a battle order, they would have been eaten up by the devils long ago.

But who would have thought ...

Just by seeing this Runic Array, the Empress of the Devils made a decision.

The entire Devil Empire was going to escape from this area!

This decision was not easy to make, but she was really decisive.

Therefore, the current situation was self-evident.

Humans ...

What should the humans do?

Liu Ping was silent for a long time, then suddenly ran in the direction of Cold Hammer Town.