In front of the tall stone monument of the Wolf Tomb, the Necronomicon suddenly appeared and took away four church stone slabs, making the atmosphere here almost solidified.

Moonlight Maid's eyes were full of surprises and surprises. She admitted that she had underestimated Crow Girl, who had more tricks than she imagined.

Moonlight Maid and Crow Girl stood side by side, opposite the five members of Team Worm, headed by Team Worm, staring at the three members of Team Crow.

Among the Crows, Krank, no, it must be the Duke who was deep in thought. Although everything happened just for a moment, he noticed the flash of surprise on the Crow Girl's face.

The Duke's judgment is that this matter must be done by someone disguised as him. As for who the other party is, there is no need to think about it. A few hours ago, the Duke could faintly feel that the Iron Apostle was fighting with someone, but the battle only lasted less than

In just one minute, the Iron Apostle died, which was too fast.

Therefore, the Duke determined that the person who killed the Iron Apostle was most likely Su Xiao. On this basis, a few hours later, someone showed up in the appearance of the Duke and gathered the other two teams to gather the church slates together.

In addition, when all the church stone slabs disappeared more than ten seconds ago, there was a flash of surprise on Crow Girl's face. The Duke was sure that the person who planned this matter must be Su Xiao.

The Duke calmly raised his hand and touched his chin habitually. This was a habit he had developed all along. A few years ago, after his jaw was replaced by a metal prosthesis, he had not been able to adapt to it for a long time.

This has become a habit.

Not far away, Su Xiao casually pressed one hand on his waist. This was actually his habit of pressing the handle of a knife with one hand, but there was no knife on his waist at the moment.

The Duke noticed Su Xiao's inadvertent movement. The five fingers of his left hand relaxed naturally, and the index and middle fingers of his right hand were slightly bent. This was a subtle question, whether Su Xiao was going to deal with the five-person Worm team, or two.

The Ravens of the People.

Su Xiao did not respond in a cryptic way, which meant that he would watch the show and watch the Crows vs. the Worms, but if possible, choose the opportunity to take action.

"Duke, let's join forces and get rid of the three of them."

Stigmata instructor Worm spoke, and the real Duke opposite him naturally couldn't respond. He was now the image of his eldest son, Krank. These words were spoken to Su Xiao, who was disguised as the Duke.

"Um."

Su Xiao approached the five members of Worm's team at a not too fast speed. Unfortunately, Worm himself was very wary. Su Xiao could only stand next to a new academic tutor. As for why he was a new tutor

, the previous mentors of the Academic Sect all followed the great sage Turzi to fight against the God of Sin and died.

If the current academic sect is still headed by people under the great sage Turzi, Su Xiao will have to give some face. In any case, when dealing with the God of Sin before, the great sage Turzi paid the price with his life.

The God of Sin was seriously injured, and more than 80% of the damage to the God of Sin was caused by the great sage Turzi who devoted everything he had.

It is a pity that the current academic sect has nothing to do with the great sage Turzi. Not only that, the new teachers of the academic sect have also released the great sage Turzi's mortal opponent, who is also Worm.

"Do it."

The moment Stigma Mentor Worm spoke, Su Xiao's entire right arm climbed up to the crystal layer, and he punched sideways at a speed that the academic mentor beside him had no time to react.

Bang!

Blood and broken bones splashed to the side. Even if Su Xiao didn't hold a knife in his hand, he was still a master of melee combat, plus some passive bonuses, which were not only effective for sword skills, but also for both melee combat and sword skills.

Large shards of bloody blades mixed with bone fragments flew towards Stigmata Master Worm and his three subordinates like shotgun bullets.

Worm raised one hand, and the flying bloody blades stopped in mid-air. His robe flew up, revealing his body that was so skinny that it was wrapped in bandages.

On the opposite side, Crow Girl and Moonlight Maid, who were just about to take action, were confused by the scene before them. They didn't understand why the Duke was on their side, but no matter what the reason was, this was definitely good news.

"Take this opportunity to surround and kill them..."

Before Crow Girl could finish her words, she heard the buzzing sound of energy storage coming from behind her. She reacted quickly, and a black sand-like substance appeared behind her and Moonlight Maid.

Boom!!

When the gravity cannon was activated, Crow Girl and Moonlight Maid both felt severe pain in their backs, as if they were hit by a giant steel beast. They couldn't figure out why Krank would stab him in the back at this moment.

However, their teammate Krank is no longer the master of this body at this time.

What is particularly interesting is that the original owner of this body was actually the Duke's wife. Because of the Duke's transformation of his unborn child, his wife was disheartened and gave the body away, leaving the transformed body behind.

He gave it to his daughter Chloe and kept his soul alive.

In other words, the body at that time was dominated by the consciousness of the eldest daughter, Chloe, and her mother's soul was present and accompanying her.

As a brother-sister rivalry ensued, in order to get rid of Su Xiao's pursuit, Krank chose to use soul technology to seize this body. An embarrassing scene occurred. After seizing the body, Krank discovered that not only his sister's soul

Yes, his mother's soul is also there.

This became that Crank's consciousness was dominant, and the souls of the eldest daughter Crow and their mother existed together in the consciousness space of this body.

To this day, the Duke took this body in order to escape the situation of certain death. He was surprised to find that the souls of his eldest son, eldest daughter, and wife were all in the consciousness space of this body, and the whole family was gathered together.

.

This gave the Duke an idea. If he could escape the Dead City alive this time, he would "quantify" the souls of his eldest son, eldest daughter, and wife, and create a core to hold their three souls.

In this way, he only needs to create three more half-biological, half-mechanical bodies, and then put the cores of his eldest son, eldest daughter, and wife into them respectively. Wouldn't the family be reunited again?

Not only that, the Duke also needs a body. He must use all the knowledge, power, resources, etc. he has mastered to create a body that he is most satisfied with to accommodate his core. By then, he will be almost reborn.

's transformation.

The impact of the explosion spread to the surroundings. Crow Girl and Moonlight Maid had already arrived at the entrance of the high ring wall, while Su Xiao and the Duke were standing on the east and south side of the high ring wall respectively.

On the wide field, Wurm was hesitant about who to chase at this moment. The Duke suddenly took action and killed one of his men. Naturally, he wanted to take revenge. And Krank attacked Crow Girl and Moonlight Maid. As Wurm watched,

Come on, this seems like internal strife, but it doesn't look like it. It's very confusing.

The last two people, Crow Girl and Moonlight Maid, were even more confusing to Worm. He felt that these two people had obtained all the church slates, and he also felt that these two people were being calculated. But if these two people were calculated,

Then why did the two of them run? Just running away would be the same as admitting that they were the ones who took away the slate.

After thinking for a short time, Worm made a decision. Regardless of other considerations, whoever runs away will feel guilty, and he will chase and kill the group that ran away.

After a while, the auras of Crow Girl, Worm and others disappeared in the distance. Seeing this, Su Xiao rushed towards the "Cathedral".

After jumping between the roofs of the building for a few minutes, Su Xiao stopped and looked at 'Krank' behind him.

"Congratulations on all the church tablets."

As 'Krank' approached, his body gradually changed, and finally transformed into a burly, oppressive Duke.

Su Xiao was not surprised that the Duke came for him on his own initiative. This was part of the plan, and it was for this reason that he killed one of Worm's subordinates in disguise.

In Worm's eyes, he saw the Duke kill one of his subordinates with his own eyes, and the feud was dead. From another perspective, this cut off the possibility of the Duke joining Worm.

In this case, the Duke will not have many subsequent choices. In any case, the body the Duke has now is not his own, and this body cannot bring out the Duke's full combat power.

In this way, it is inevitable that the Duke will find someone to cooperate with in the future. Worm, who is also from the High Wall City and has a grudge against the Great Sage Turz, is the Duke's best choice.

Unfortunately, this cooperation was blocked by Su Xiao before it even started, leaving the Duke with only three options: 1. Come to Su Xiao to cooperate, 2. Stay with the Crows, 3. Complete the follow-up plan by himself in the Silent City.

The Duke made a choice. He attacked Crow Girl and Moonlight Maid brazenly, just to reduce the range of choices. This also showed his sincerity, indicating that besides going it alone, he could only join Su Xiao's side.

As for why Su Xiao asked the Duke to join his side, he didn't want to cooperate with the Duke in fighting. The current Duke does not have the previous combat power, at least until the other party builds a satisfactory body, he will not be able to regain his previous combat power.

Su Xiao didn't believe it. The Duke arranged so many plans to trap the Iron Apostle just for the sake of the opponent's "quantifiable" technology. This guy must have other agendas.

"Bai Ye, let's make a deal. As the chosen one, the mark of the gods recorded on the stone tablet is not very attractive to you, but for me, if it is transferred to my core, I will have a way to

The path of the demigod."

"..."

Su Xiao said nothing, lit a cigarette and signaled the Duke to continue.

"I have been the leader of the Steam God Cult for so many years and have accumulated a lot of wealth. How about..."

Su Xiao raised her hand and signaled the Duke not to say anything, but he didn't feel sincerity.

"Wait a minute, the Iron Apostle's laboratory, I will share the knowledge there with you."

Hearing what the Duke said, Su Xiao felt sincerity. He also wondered why the Duke went to great lengths to kill the Iron Apostle because he was concerned about the knowledge left by the other party.

Su Xiao raised his hand and pressed it to his face, a wooden mask appeared, and large scarlet tentacles retracted into it. After taking off the ancient mask, his disguise was lifted.

"This secret treasure is really good."

The Duke opposite looked at the Ancient Mask.

"Are you interested? I'll give it to you."

"Not interested."

The Duke didn't come to pick up the ancient mask at all. Although he felt that this thing was a secret treasure, the smell of it made him feel panicked.

"This way."

The Duke walked in the direction of the "Holy Ten Church" and soon arrived at an underground passage. After walking along the underground passage for ten minutes, a metal door several meters high blocked the front. This metal door was severely rusted and was already

No one has opened it for many years.

The Duke calibrated the lock plate on the door, and the door leaf opened with a rumble. Walking inside, Su Xiao found that this was a small laboratory, with only a few laboratories, most of which stored various books, experimental data, etc.

"These are not ancient books. Their value will remain unchanged after being reproduced. The original manuscripts belong to you and I will reproduce them."

The Duke spoke. After hearing this, Su Xiao took out the scanning equipment and said: "No, I will just scan a copy."

Su Xiao asked Bu Bu Wang to show up. He and Bu Bu each held scanning equipment and began to copy various data.

After scanning for a while, Su Xiao was attracted by one of the documents. This was the collection of the Iron Apostles and was compiled by the "Apothecary Guild" in the age of gods.

In the age of gods in the Dark Continent, the status of the "Apothecary Guild" was only lower than that of the "Divine Cult". Although the "Apothecary Guild" was not as old as the alchemical civilization, there was a soul library in the Dark Continent at that time.

So far, Su Xiao doesn't know much about the Soul Library. She only knows that it is not owned by a certain force. It once existed in the Dark Continent and later disappeared. It feels like a low-key, ancient, and sparse member.
To be continued...