'Heh... This little fox is very childish when we get along. She doesn't look that important at level 2, but she lacks experience in all aspects. The Butterfly Sect not only sent such a person to the Dream Realm to perform a mission, but also pushed her out of such an important mission. It seems that there are really not many people left. This situation is really not optimistic...'
Dorothy thought in her heart while controlling the corpse doll Ed to return. Then she slowly got up from her sofa, walked to the balcony, held the balcony railing and looked to the north.
In the distance of Dorothy's sight, on the northern edge of the city of Mon Carlo, Dorothy could see a huge fortress built on the mountain and rising from the ground.
The walls of the castle are almost higher than the high-rise buildings in the city of Mon Carlo. Behind the walls is a highly excavated and transformed mountain with various towers and turrets standing on it. The watchtowers are connected to the walls, and the majestic and large stone buildings are built against the mountain. It is the carefully built fortress of the great pirate Edward, which was used as his base and headquarters in the once chaotic era. Now this fortress is still protecting the safety of the great pirate, and its solemn and terrifying image also shows Edward's absolute authority over the whole Mon Carlo.
Looking at the fortress in the distance, which was almost a symbol of Edward, Dorothy couldn't help but think thoughtfully in her heart.
'It is easier said than done to get the help of the big pirate to the extent of using his trump card. Needless to say, the cost is something I cannot afford and will not bear. And it is even more difficult to steal things from him. But if I don't borrow Edward's power, how can I find a 'shadow' of the level of a ninja on this island?
"Whether I want to negotiate with Edward or steal his things, I must first get close to Edward, and this alone is a bit difficult to do..."
Standing on the balcony, Dorothy stroked her chin and kept thinking. After thinking for a while, she decided to conduct a long-distance detection on Edward to see how much information she could get.
With this thought in mind, Dorothy began to control the corpse bird that was originally hovering over Mon Carlo, and let it fly towards the northern pirate fortress. While carefully maintaining altitude and distance, Dorothy's corpse bird flew over the fortress.
Above the huge pirate fortress, Dorothy opened her spiritual vision and looked down through the bird corpse doll's vision. Then she saw that the entire pirate fortress was shrouded in a very faint halo. After careful identification, Dorothy found that it was actually a very thin spiritual mist.
This spiritual mist, composed of two spirits, "lamp" and "cup", almost spread throughout the entire pirate fortress, and the concentration of the mist became higher the further inside the pirate fortress went. The highest concentration was on the inside of the building and could not be seen from the outside. But when Dorothy saw the spiritual mist, she immediately recalled the scene when she first came into contact with the two Cretaceous from the Abyss Cult on the White Pearl.
'This mist... is the mist released by the waterbender... Waterbenders at the chalk level can sense whether someone is sneaking in by sensing the humidity changes in the surrounding air. Back then, the two chalks relied on humidifying the air in the room to conduct counter-reconnaissance... The current situation in the pirate fortress looks like a super-enhanced version of the situation back then...
'This invisible spiritual moisture permeates the entire fortress. Any creature that enters it is likely to be detected. The higher the concentration, the greater the risk of being detected. This spiritual mist... is probably created and enhanced by Edward himself... It is an extension of his ability...
'Hiss... I'm in trouble. Previously, I was able to break through the moisture anti-reconnaissance of the two guys on the White Pearl, mainly because the moisture was not spiritual and had no connection with the people who created it. I used electrolysis to make the corpse puppet not touch the moisture, so I broke through the moisture anti-reconnaissance and eavesdropped on the intelligence. After all, the principle of this anti-reconnaissance method is to create a high humidity environment, so that the water vapor on the body of the hidden person moving in the environment increases, and the water technique can sense the change in water vapor and detect the hidden person. So as long as the corpse puppet is dry, it can break through such anti-reconnaissance.
'But now the situation is completely different. The moisture here contains a clear spirituality. Although it is also created by the water magician, it is connected to the water magician and can be controlled by the water magician at will, just like the water arrows that the water magician controls in the air. These mists are not the environment created by the water magician, but an extension of the water magician's ability. If I still break through the water vapor counter-reconnaissance here by means of electrolysis or evaporation of water vapor, I will be discovered soon. It's like my body being electrocuted or burned...'
Dorothy analyzed the situation of the pirate fortress by using the corpse bird to overlook it. As a half-elementalist, she was very experienced in the use of spiritual elemental power, so she could roughly judge what was going on with the spiritual fog covering the fortress. To put it bluntly, Edward used his ability to cast a fog spell, and then reduced the fog to the thinnest level, and then maintained it. Anyone who entered this almost invisible fog would be sensed by him, because it was part of his trick.
"As expected of you... You have been able to continuously release abilities over such a large area for dozens of days. You must have plenty of spiritual energy..."
Looking at the scene in front of her, Dorothy sighed and said that the spiritual mist's almost blind-angle and ultra-large-scale anti-reconnaissance made her most skilled corpse reconnaissance temporarily useless. If she could not get close to Edward to gather intelligence on him, Dorothy would have no way to steal things or negotiate with him.
"It seems... I can only start from other methods..."
Sitting in the chair on the balcony, Dorothy continued to ponder, and as she thought, she seemed to have some ideas in her mind.
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At dusk, in an alley away from the main road in Moncarlo, in front of a hidden tavern.
The setting sun shone on the floor of the alley, and dried blood seeped into the gaps between the stone slabs. The fierce conflict that broke out here not long ago had ended. The victorious Mon Carlo City Guards were guarding the key passes here, and the defeated members of the Hooked Shark Gang fell to the ground, either injured and tied up, or dead.
In Mon Carlo, the city guards do not show leniency when enforcing the law against gangs. They often attack without any explanation and use real guns and knives. Often, several people will die for minor crimes due to violent law enforcement. This extreme law enforcement style has been passed down from the pirate city days. Only in this way can the authority be established among the desperadoes in a city. The only way for local gangs to avoid violent law enforcement is to pay enough tribute to the city guards. However, the situation of the Hooked Shark Gang this time is unavoidable no matter how much money they pay as tribute.
At the entrance of the tavern, the dead bodies of the Hooked Shark Gang members lay, and the remaining wounded were writhing and wailing under the snatch of the city guards. The nuns in white were at the scene of the conflict, healing the wounded in the conflict, while inside the tavern, a torture was taking place among more dead and wounded.
Inside the messy tavern, in the ruins of the bar that was smashed into pieces, Glass, covered in blood and with a broken arm, was lying there. He looked at the familiar figure standing in front of him with horror. He opened his ugly mouth with several missing teeth and spoke almost crying.
"Master Shi... Master Shi, please spare my life... Please spare me... I know I was wrong, and I will never do this kind of business again... I will continue to give you a gift after I go back... Please spare us..."
Looking at Glass, who was covered in wounds and looked like he couldn't even stand up, Lauran had a cold expression. He put his hands behind his back and spoke slowly.
"Glass... This isn't a question of filial piety. Do you know what day it is today? You still dare to do this kind of business. Are you tired of living?"
"Day...day...what day?" Glass, lying in the ruins, continued to gasp, with a hint of confusion and trance in his expression, while Lauran spoke in a stern voice.
"Today is the visiting day of the pilgrim nuns from the church! Do you know what this means to Mon Carlo?! You idiot!"
Listening to Lauran's words, Glass's expression became puzzled, and he thought for a while before speaking.
"Meaning... what's the meaning of the famous nun in the church? Uh... uh... let me think about it, it means that the number of prostitutes playing nuns in all the brothels in the city will increase suddenly, and they will all wear white, which is unusual. Their exquisite makeup is based on the photo of the nun in the newspaper, and even wigs are prepared... hehe... it feels so cool to use it!!!"
With an obscene smile, Glass expressed his views on the significance of the church's itinerant nuns visiting Mon Carlo. His words made Lauran's face darken. He raised his foot and stomped on Glass's intact hand, breaking the entire arm. Glass let out a heart-wrenching howl of pain.
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