The last time Luther had crossed a huge mountain range, reached the king's direct territory, and then met Xingge.

This time, Luther went in another direction and came to a stronghold.

This stronghold was eerie, like a vampire castle or an evil dragon's castle in a movie, with bats flying by from time to time.

At the entrance of the stronghold, there were two strange-looking knights guarding.

The two knights wore black cloaks with hoods, covering their entire bodies with only the knight swords at their waists exposed.

They saw the young man walking slowly towards them.

A handsome, well-dressed young nobleman, Luther Pompey.

"Who is it?" the knight on the right asked. His voice was hoarse and deep, which was very suitable for such an environment.

"I hope to be able to embrace the shadow." Luther bowed gracefully and replied. He reached into his pocket and fumbled for a moment, then took out a circular emblem.

The emblem is a dark bat.

The knight on the right took the emblem and fumbled with it for a while, then said, "The road to Shadow is very rough, and you will need to pay 30,000 gold coins."

"Of course." Luther nodded, and released 30,000 gold coins from his space ring, piling them on the ground. The knight on the right nodded, collected the gold coins, and then led Luther into the stronghold.

There were many people inside the stronghold, all dressed strangely, making Luther feel like he had entered a weirdo paradise. There was a huge magic circle in the middle.

Luther stood up and came to a new environment amidst the colorful lights.

"Shadow Council, Mercenary Star!"

This is a planet with the sun, day, night, and stars, but the environment is extremely harsh and not suitable for human survival.

There is only the magic city, desert and oasis on this planet. In the vast desert, there live many terrible monsters.

The city under Luther's feet is a magic city of "energy furnace" level, called Sidman City!

Although this planet is harsh, many mercenaries under the Shadow Council like to live here because the gravity here is very strong, ten times that of the original planet.

Living here, you can exercise your body invisibly.

When Luther walked out of the teleportation array and officially arrived on this planet, he immediately felt his body sink. The weight pressed on his body and internal organs.

But as a mid-level knight with an extraordinary physique, this weight is acceptable.

However, the knights who can come to this planet are at least elite intermediate knights or above, because the knights below cannot bear the weight of this planet.

This indirectly proves the strength of the people who are traveling.

The mercenaries in the Shadow Council were not the mercenaries or mercenary groups of the original planet. In the Shadow Council, mercenaries rarely trusted each other.

They will not form a group. If they must cooperate, they will only work with mercenaries they are more familiar with for a short period of time.

The mission of these mercenaries is to help the Shadow Council deal with things. For example, the Shadow Council discovered a very dangerous planet and needed to conduct a landing operation.

Recruit mercenaries.

For example, there is a wizard who needs mercenaries as guards.

For example, taking on an expedition mission.

The Shadow Council is essentially a mercenary organization. Each mercenary has a level and can accept corresponding tasks.

Some mercenaries, if they are short of money or want to increase their strength, can even sell themselves and provide human experiments for wizards.

There are too many lunatics in the Shadow Council.

The reason for this is that the powerful people in the Shadow Council are not very interested in reproducing offspring.

The Shadow Council does not have a strong sense of family, which leads to even weaker connections and trust between people. What matters most is money, and what they need to guard against most is betrayal and assassination.

This led to the prosperity of mercenaries.

Use money to drive mercenaries and get your own things done.

Therefore, the members of the Shadow Council are very strong in combat. Everyone is constantly in battle, betraying others and being betrayed by others, so it is difficult not to be strong.

But the structures of the magic city are mostly the same. There are many hovercrafts in this magic city.

Because the power of this Sidman city is the old "energy furnace", which cannot provide sufficient power for these hovercrafts.

Therefore, the power of the hovercraft is all elemental crystals.

There are also passenger taxis.

It was dark now, but there were still many taxis. To the riders, day and night did not matter much, as they were full of energy.

Luther called a taxi. The driver was a middle-aged knight with a strong build, a scar on his face, and looked very fierce.

"I'm happy to serve you. Where are you going?" The middle-aged knight was very kind.

But Luther knew that this was only on the surface. If the guest showed himself to be a fat sheep, then the middle-aged knight would be happy to kill the guest.

Luther saw the middle-aged knight glance at the ring in his hand, as if he was estimating its value.

In the city of Sterman, killing is not illegal.

Only the strong can survive.

Luther smiled, opened his hands generously, showed the knight his many rings, then opened the door and walked in, saying, "Let's go to the Crimson Bar."

Luther's confidence made the middle-aged knight withdraw his gaze.

The middle-aged knight was not very strong, he was just an elite intermediate knight. And those who could survive on the Mercenary Star were at least intermediate knights.

It is difficult to judge a knight's strength when he is not fighting.

If Luther showed any timidity, the middle-aged knight would be tempted and even take action, but Luther's confidence and generosity made him worried.

"Fifty gold coins." said the middle-aged knight.

This price is very expensive in the wizarding kingdom, but here is the Shadow Council, so it is a reasonable price.

If the charges are not expensive, who would be willing to drive a taxi?

"Okay." Luther nodded.

The car was going very fast, and about a minute later, Luther arrived outside the Crimson Bar, a very ordinary bar, like the old-fashioned bar in American western movies.

In this bar, Luther can find Newton.

Luther was delighted at the thought of meeting Newton soon. He paid the fare quickly and walked in.

The outside of the bar looks very normal, but the inside of the bar is very scary.

There were many, many fierce guests drinking, and they cast very fierce eyes at Luther, as if they wanted to eat Luther.

On this mercenary planet, it is like being in an ocean surrounded by sharks. Strange faces are especially liked by the sharks.

Luther was a strange face.

(End of this chapter)