During this period, Richard traveled back and forth between the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood headquarters and Fana Villa.

The Jade Fire Cult, which was originally quite active in the Tug City area, disappeared again after several small-scale battles.

Later, with the help of a second-level wizard who specialized in prophecy, the officials of Tug City finally found a main stronghold of the Jade Fire Cult. It was said that the battle was fierce and the results were quite fruitful, killing dozens of cultists and several deacons, and even a cult priest.

When Richard heard the news at first, he was quite excited.

But after he read the battle report and asked the wizards of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood who participated in the battle.

Richard knew that the priest who was killed was not Nicole.

This made Richard feel both disappointed and a little relieved.

What is disappointing is that Nicole was able to escape from such a tightly organized siege. One can imagine how strong she is.

Fortunately, since the opponent is not dead, Richard still has the possibility to kill him with his own hands.

As for the Jade Fire Cult, due to the recent attention paid by the Gray Dwarf officials, some information was disclosed within the wizarding organization, and Richard also learned about it through various channels.

As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.

Since we already know that the other party is a powerful enemy, there is naturally no reason not to study him carefully.

But the result he learned surprised Richard. After more than a hundred years of recuperation, the Jade Fire Cult has now become a behemoth.

Originally, the officials of Tug City did not discover and did not regard the Jade Fire Cult as a major enemy, but after the sealing incident, they discovered that the cult had infiltrated every aspect of Tug City, such as bakery clerks, millers, innkeepers, etc.

Even some of the city guards, wealthy businessmen and even officials were lured by the Jade Fire Cult and became believers of the cult.

Otherwise, there would be no way the other party would be able to set up a large-scale wizard formation under the noses of the city guards.

However, one thing surprised Richard. That is, the Jade Fire Cult not only caused trouble among the gray dwarves, but also did the same in the night elf area. Therefore, the night elves also had the same attitude of eradicating the cult.

So, here comes the strange part, why did the spider women who tracked him last time get involved with Nicole, the cult priest? This question puzzled Richard.

As for the vengeful spirit abomination, Richard has successfully transformed it again. Just like last time, he has engraved a complicated witchcraft formation deep in the belly of the abomination to imprison all the vengeful spirits that are now and will be captured in the future.

However, since all the vengeful spirits were released last time and consumed in the battle, they have not been replenished. Therefore, the vengeful spirits now are only in name only and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced.

Unless Richard someday replenishes it with a large number of vengeful spirits or even evil spirits.

But in the short term, Richard has not considered this matter, because for him, his strength is still relatively weak.

Therefore, Richard did not participate in either the outbound mission or the suppression of the Jade Fire Cult.

Now everything is based on improving strength first.

Otherwise, just to avenge Desol and gain energy points by killing the cultists, Richard would have been involved long ago.

The fundamental reason for not participating is that they lack strength and are too dangerous.

This month, in addition to completing daily tasks within the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood step by step, Richard often visits the mission hall on the first floor. If he encounters some suitable tasks, Richard will accept and complete them.

Therefore, after more than a month, Richard currently has (18/27) flame crystals and (6/9) flame essences, which is a remarkable achievement.

Flame crystals are relatively easy to collect.

Part of Richard's flame crystal came from the spoils in the gray dwarf's waist bag last time, part came from completing the mission, and part came from the purchase of magic stones.

This means that Richard's pockets are almost empty every day, but his collection progress is quite encouraging.

As for the Flame Essence, Richard was able to obtain five of them within a month, which was obviously not obtained by completing the mission.

Instead, Richard sold all of his remaining 30% shares of the new beer to the wealthy woman Fana.

At present, the entire new beer business has been fully launched and the situation is encouraging.

It’s just that the person in charge has already sent Disol to become Fana.

Whenever he thought of this, Richard couldn't help but sigh! The old friend is gone!

But fortunately, little Bandy is still here.

Currently, little Bandy is being taken care of by Fana.

Perhaps subconsciously, Richard also considered this factor, so he sold all his shares to Fana.

Richard has even taught Fana the entire set of hop cultivation techniques.

However, to Richard's surprise, although Richard had sold all his shares, Fana still kindly left Richard 10% of the shares and gave Richard the title of consultant.

As if to make it easier for Richard to accept, Fana also proposed that Richard could not trade this 10% stake and would only have the right to profit from it, but not the right to make decisions.

Simply put, Richard exchanged 30% of the shares of the new beer for five flame essences.

In this matter, we can't really say that Richard is short-sighted.

For him, improving strength always comes first. Now the residual period caused by his last use of the swamp giant blood essence is about to end.

Therefore, Richard is currently pondering over a question: whether or not to sell the first-order crystal aggregation magic array to the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood.

But after thinking about it, Richard still felt that it was inappropriate.

After all, he was at the master level in both the potion branch and the explosion branch, which could be barely explained as the two branches were both within the larger system of alchemy.

But the first-level crystal aggregation magic array that he was going to submit this time was a magic array, and had nothing to do with alchemy.

If I submit this, it will be too conspicuous! People will definitely think he is a monster!

However, the three missing flame essences must be collected.

Therefore, Richard also made a decision to sell the improved version of the Fire Dancing Star to the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood.

He was sure that the other party would be interested because the Fire Dancing Star was the most important component of the alchemical combination bomb.

The explosive power of the improved Fire Dancing Star has been increased by 17%. If the combination bomb uses the improved Fire Dancing Star, it has been tested that the power of the alchemical combination bomb can be increased by about 12%.

Secondly, this is an improvement on the explosion branch of alchemy. Submitting it myself is reasonable and consistent with my identity as an alchemy master.

Now that he had made the decision, Richard was not the kind of person who would drag his feet and immediately planned to go to the headquarters of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood.

However, before leaving, Richard contacted Fritz through the mark on his chest.

After a while, Fritz responded.

"Master Levi, Lord Hawkins is currently at the headquarters. If you come within 20 minutes, I can inform you now."

"Okay, Fritz, I'll be right over now. I'll be there in fifteen minutes."

Richard, walking on the road, discovered that in the past two days, the number of pedestrians on the streets of Tuge City had gradually increased, and their faces were finally no longer as hurried as before.

Ever since the seal of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm was broken and the cult incident, Tug City has been in a state of panic.

However, after more than a month of easing, the patrols and inspections of the city guards were slightly relaxed, and the overall atmosphere in Tug City was finally not so tense, and it was considered to have slowly regained some popularity.

Richard walked towards the headquarters of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood.

At this time, a woman wearing a black hood and a black wizard robe walked in front of him. Although his face could not be seen clearly, from her graceful figure, he knew that she was undoubtedly a woman.

Somehow, the first time he saw her, Richard felt a sense of familiarity, and naturally thought of Stephanie.

When the other party was about to cross paths with Richard, he suddenly asked:

"Hello, how do I get to McDowell's Armor Shop?"

"Mike."

Just as Richard was thinking about the name of the store, suddenly, a dazzling black light from the right pierced Richard's chest! This cold light was as fast as lightning and as swift as thunder! "Swoosh!"

A black feather arrow flashed by.

"clang!"

Richard used the mimic metal shield on his right wrist to block the incoming arrow, but the arrow was so powerful that it collided with the hard metal shield in his hand, creating sparks, which made his body tremble.

“Good opportunity!”

The black-robed woman who was asking for directions across from Richard's side had her eyes lit up, and she thrust her sword hard at Richard's abdomen! This sword was extremely rare, and it glowed with a silver light!

There was almost no time to react, and Richard instinctively raised his hand to block.

"clang!"

There was a crisp sound of metal colliding.

Richard groaned. Due to the hasty defense, the metal shield transformed from the mimicry wrist guard in his left hand shook violently and he almost couldn't hold it.

At the same time, Richard felt a tingling sensation all over his body. He was knocked away by the collision and fell into the shop on the right side of the street.

However, while Richard was still in mid-air, alarm bells rang in his heart again, as two cold lights were coming from behind him!

"not good!"

Richard immediately used his innate witchcraft magic armor! But there was no force in mid-air, so he could only contract his muscles and twist his body to avoid the vital points.

“BOOM BOOM!!”

There were two consecutive bursts of sparks, accompanied by the sharp sound of metal cutting.

Richard looked down and found that although he was protected by the black bone armor, his side abdomen was still pierced in two places.

But fortunately, I reacted quickly enough and dodged in time, so the injuries were only minor.

However, there was still a trace of blood seeping out.

Richard rolled on the spot and quickly drank a bottle of antidote.

Who knows if the weapons used by the other party are poisonous? It’s better to be careful.

The entire assassination took place in just two seconds! "Ah!" Pedestrians around saw the fight and immediately ran away.

What little popularity the street had initially had was also wiped out by the fight.

But for this assassination, the fight just now was just the beginning. Although he failed, Richard was already injured.

At this time, the three killers no longer hid themselves and surrounded Richard secretly. The most threatening one among them was the killer with the bow, who was pointing the bow at Richard and locking it tightly.

The reason why the other party didn't shoot was probably because she was waiting for her companion's coordinated attack.

At the same time, this was another distraction, preventing Richard from concentrating on dealing with the attacks from the other two.

Richard had a premonition that the next wave of attacks would be a joint attack by three people! But before he could think about it, the black-robed female killer who had asked for directions in front of Richard said a word briefly, and the next second, the long sword in her hand shone with silver light, and in an instant, there was a "sizzle!" sound of arc explosion.

Richard's pupils shrank. No wonder he felt numb all over after taking the blow just now. He thought it was caused by the collision, but now it seems that it was caused by the electric current from the opponent's silver sword.

Now the opponent seemed to be performing some secret technique, releasing all the energy stored in the sword.

Richard certainly couldn't just sit there and wait for death, so he gave the other party a mental shock.

However, while the other party was casting the silver electric arc, he suddenly looked up and glanced at Richard. Richard only saw a pair of purple eyes like a whirlpool, attracting his attention.

"Oh no! It's the rare Enchanting Eyes!"

At the same time, the tall man in black robe behind Richard, holding two swords, swung them quickly. In an instant, several arc-shaped light green wind blades more than three meters long attacked Richard.

"Chiu!" A sharp sound of breaking through the air came from the side. The black light was faster than the sound! When Richard heard the sound, the black light was already close at hand! At this moment, he was still in a dizzy state due to the Eye of Enchantment!

Just when the three thought that Richard was doomed to die, a blurry figure suddenly appeared in the center of the venue, next to Richard.

Before the three attacks hit Richard, in an instant, Richard turned into a blurry shadow!

Although the three could vaguely see Richard, his entire aura had disappeared from this world, making the three feel as if this person was right in front of them, but they couldn't touch him!

This made the three of them stunned for a moment, their eyes filled with disbelief. How could this be possible?

“Boom boom!”

There was a violent explosion where Richard was standing! When the smoke and dust cleared, Richard appeared at the same place unharmed, with a veiled woman in a black robe beside him.

However, what surprised Richard was that after he and Stephanie returned to the real plane from the shadow world, the three assassins seemed to have disappeared without a trace along with the scattered crowd.

Richard looked around and found no trace of the enemy, but he remained highly alert and immediately contacted Fritz.

"Fritz, I have been assassinated and am currently on Morris Avenue."

After a while, the mark on the chest vibrated slightly.

Richard took a look and found that it was a message from Fritz, which only had one sentence:

"Master Levi, Vice President Hawkins has arrived in person!"

(End of this chapter)