Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 321 The First Demigod
Backlund, Pacefield Street.

At the secret request of the Church of Night, the police blocked some sections of the road and did not allow anyone to enter.

Hazel, who had already been examined by the Church of Evernight and confirmed to be not infected, led a whole team of Night Watchmen into the sewer and headed for the excavated passage she had mentioned.

When passing the fifth corner, Hazel stopped and pointed ahead:
"Just ahead, there's a secret door."

"Captain, let me go."

Leonard Mitchell said in a deep voice as he looked at the wall in front of him that was covered with moss and had obvious corrosion.

The man Leonard called the captain looked to be in his thirties, with a straight nose and grey eyes that gave people an indescribable sense of depth, like an unvisited lake in an ancient forest.

He was wearing the black windbreaker and red gloves, the uniform of the Nighthawks. It was Dunn Smith!

He glanced at the team member who seemed to be in a casual manner but had a serious look in his eyes. After a moment of silence, he nodded slightly:

"be careful."

"it is good."

Leonard agreed readily, stood up and walked towards the wall at the end of the corner of the sewer.

When he turned his back to the crowd, his expression was no longer as solemn as before, and his mind was filled with thoughts.

In Tingen, Dunn was still a "Nightmare" of Sequence 7. Although his strength was comparable to some Sequence 6 due to the extra Beyonder characteristics he absorbed, his condition was very poor due to the excessive Beyonder characteristics he absorbed. His progress in digesting potions was repeatedly delayed, making it difficult for him to advance for a long time.

However, in that incident, Dunn Smith, who was resurrected from the dead, turned out to be a blessing in disguise. His potion was digested quickly, and not long after joining the Red Gloves, he was promoted to a Sequence 6 'Requiem Master' and became a 'Deacon'.

A few months later, he was able to quickly digest the potion through role-playing. Coupled with the merits he had accumulated during his fifteen years of service in Tingen, he successfully obtained a Sequence 5 potion and was promoted to a Sequence 5 'Spiritual Wizard' not long ago.

It took him three years to go from Sleepless to Midnight Poet, and nine years to go from Midnight Poet to Nightmare. And it took him three years to go from Nightmare to Sequence 6, and that was only with the help of 'Resurrection from the Dead' that he was able to digest the potion, otherwise it would have taken a long time.

With the help of role-playing, he went from Sequence 6 'Requiem Master' to Sequence 5 'Spiritual Wizard' in just seven months!
In contrast, although Leonard is now a Sequence 6 Requiem Master, he still has a long way to go before he can digest the potion. Even if he finishes digesting the potion, his merits are not enough to exchange for a Sequence 5 Spiritual Wizard potion.

Leonard saw it all and was anxious. So he was eager to accumulate merit quickly, at least when he finished digesting the potion, he wouldn't have to worry about the sequence 5 potion. Because of this, he would not miss any opportunity to accumulate merit.

And now, his self-promotion would undoubtedly make him be specially noted, thus gaining more merits than others.

Although it is not much more, it is worthwhile to waste the merit given for free. After all, there is no danger in this mission.

Although the church took this very seriously and sent out an entire Red Glove team to deal with it.

But Leonard knew there was actually no danger here.

After all, it was the angel Yu Jin who took action personally, so how could he leave any danger for them who were the ones to finish off the task?
click!
According to Hazel's previous description, Leonard successfully found the mechanism to open the secret door.

With a slight noise, he pushed open the secret door on the wall and rolled inside!
He was guarding against a possible attack in the darkness, even though he knew there was none.

Dunn and the others followed closely behind, entering through the secret door in a line. Almost all of the Beyonders present were sleepless. In their eyes, there was no difference between day and night, so there was no need to worry about not being able to detect sneak attacks from the dark.

When they passed through the maze, what appeared before their eyes was a semi-natural and semi-artificial cave. There were tools such as shovels wrapped in oilcloth on the ground, and a large amount of soil and gravel. In front of them were two secret passages extending diagonally downward.

Hazel, who was protected by the Nighthawks, pointed to the right and reminded:

"The one on the right."

Leonard and Dunn looked at each other, took a step forward and stood at the entrance of the passage, and were stunned.

Because what appeared before his eyes was not the narrow passage that Hazel had mentioned, which was only ten meters deep, but a deep tunnel that was bottomless!

Leonard's pupils shrank sharply. With the vision of the Beyonder of the 'Sleepless' path, he had excellent vision even in a completely dark environment. And at Sequence 6, Beyonders of the 'Sleepless' path could easily see scenes thousands of meters away in the dark!
But now, he could not see the end of this tunnel. This tunnel was at least several thousand meters long, or even deeper!

Judging from the smooth cut on the tunnel wall, this was clearly just a casual attack by the opponent!
If a casual attack had this kind of power, how terrifying would the angel's full-strength attack be? What puzzled Leonard even more was, which path of angel was Yu Jin from?
The old voice in his mind also sounded, with a tone of deep confusion and puzzlement:

"It looks like the Chanter and Universalist paths, but neither of these two paths is possible... But are there similar abilities in other paths?"

With the strength of any angel, it would not be too difficult to achieve similar destructive power. The only difference is that they use different abilities.

And in Pales Zoroast's impression, there shouldn't be any Beyonder abilities in those paths that can cause destruction with embers? Could it be that he is not a Beyonder in those paths?
Dunn Smith looked at the deep tunnel and said slowly:

"Report it. This is beyond our ability to handle."

Leonard nodded solemnly, but in fact he felt extremely relaxed inside.

Under such horrific destructive power, the demigod that the thief passed through would definitely not survive. The only problem was that the tunnel was too long and it might run through the Backlund subway, so it might be a bit troublesome to deal with it afterwards because they needed to check the nearby subway lines.

Of course, they don't need to do these things themselves, just leave it to the police.

Hazel asked softly:

"what about me?"

Dunn looked at the anxious girl and said:

"You can go home."

"Go home?" Hazel suddenly felt like she was dreaming. After such a big thing happened, she was just asked to go home?
"Correct."

Dunn nodded slightly and explained, "You have been assigned to the Night Watchmen now. Go to St. Samuel Church tomorrow morning and someone will tell you the details. As for now, you can go home and explain everything to your parents to prevent them from worrying."

Hazel pursed her lips. Explain? How should she explain?

She couldn't tell them what had happened to her, so she could only make up an excuse.
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At 160 Böklund Street, Klein stood on the balcony of his room, holding a glass of red wine in his hand and taking a sip from time to time.

In Klein's sight, a long cordon had been set up on the street not far away. Several police carriages were parked outside the cordon. More than a dozen police officers had blocked off the street and did not allow anyone to enter or leave.

Anyone who saw this scene would realize that something must have happened on that road. Fortunately, Klein's house was far away, perfectly avoiding the blocked road, so he could leisurely stand on the balcony and observe what was happening not far away.

Klein had some guesses in his mind, and thought silently:
"This is obviously related to Miss Hazel."

Miss Hazel sneaked into the sewer in the middle of the night, most likely because she was caught by Yu Jin. Yu Jin personally took action, and there was absolutely no chance that the demigod could escape.

The reason why Miss Hazel surrendered herself to the Church of Evernight this morning was probably due to Ember's "persuasion", so an official Beyonder from the Church of Evernight came to clean up the mess.

The police blocked the streets to cover up the actions of the night watchmen. There is a saying that when you want to cover up something, you have to use a bigger thing to distract people's attention in order to achieve the purpose of deceiving others. In science, this is called the recency effect.

Although such a large-scale operation will inevitably cause panic among the residents of Böklund Street, the police will certainly do a good job of calming them down in advance.

By tomorrow morning, the newspapers will probably publish headlines like "Police arrest serial killer in the sewer of Böklund Street", which will both comfort the public and provide a reasonable explanation.

Klein was already quite familiar with this process. After all, when he was a night watchman in Tingen, he often disguised himself as a policeman to handle cases, and often used similar news to cover up the facts afterwards.

Of course, the police would not directly bring up the case of Congressman Macht and his daughter, but would only say that the information was provided by an "informed person". In this way, Congressman Macht's family would not be implicated, and they could continue to sing and dance as usual.

The only problem is that Miss Hazel has seen Yu Jin's true face, and Yu Jin probably doesn't have the habit of disguising himself before doing anything, so Hazel must know who caused all this.

As the 'culprit' who brought the embers to the party, Dwayne Dantes will definitely be the focus of Hazel's attention.

But this may not be a bad thing.

A wealthy man who is on good terms with the Church of Night, or even knows some inside information, can actually integrate into the upper class better.
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Backlund, Queens, the luxurious villa of Count Hall's family.

Audrey, who had been taking Susie for a walk in the garden, had just returned to the hall when she saw her father, Earl Hall, coming in with an unconcealable look of joy on his face.

"Dad, what happened?" Audrey asked with concern.

This was a basic observation, and she had nothing to hide.

Earl Hall smiled and said:

"Alfred has finished digesting the potion and will be promoted in two days."

Audrey understood that although Alfred was very talented, it was not easy to digest a sequence 5 potion, even if he had mastered the role-playing method. However, in the "dream world" proposed by Audrey, this process could be greatly accelerated.

Not only were the Low-Sequence Beyonders trained by the family able to digest the potion with the help of the dream world, but Alfred and Hibbert also benefited from it.

Of course, in terms of the exploration progress of the 'Dream World', Mr. 'World' is still far ahead.

Low-Sequence Beyonders couldn't even defeat Guda, the Judge of Ashes, and could only obtain pitiful 'souls' by killing those wandering souls day after day. Among the mid-Sequence Beyonders, most of the Sequence 6 Beyonders were trapped in 'Bordeaux in the Frigid Valley', while Sequence 5 Beyonders were trapped in 'Cursed Tree' or 'Crystal Elder's' -

This presupposes that they have mastered the skills taught by Mr. World, otherwise they will not be able to defeat even Guda, the Judge of Ashes.

However, although the skills taught by Mr. World were quite practical, allowing them to kill those incomplete demigods in the dream at the mid-sequence level, the difficulty was still very high, and it was difficult to succeed without sufficient combat literacy.

After all, those demigods can make countless mistakes, but if they make one mistake, they will be killed by these demigods, with no chance of a comeback. Even Audrey herself is now trapped in the "Crystallized Elder" stage - she has died at the hands of the Crystalized Elder no less than ten times.

Compared to them, Mr. 'World' has already arrived at the Fran Fortress, killed the 'Rogue Demon', and started exploring the Deep Cathedral.

Since Alfred has already completed digesting the potion, it means that Alfred has killed the 'Crystal Elder'. Together with the demigods he defeated before, the amount of souls he obtained exceeds 100 million, which is just enough to speed up the digestion of the Sequence 5 potion.

The girl's eyes turned slightly, and she asked deliberately with 'curiosity':
"Why wait two days? Can't I get promoted now?"

Earl Hall shook his head and explained:

"The potion is ready, but the royal family still has to prepare the ceremony."

After a pause, Earl Hall continued:

"Although I don't know what the ceremony is, according to Alfred, the ceremony requirements are very strict and cannot be arranged in advance."

Audrey's eyes showed understanding, but she was thinking about something else.

In fact, she could definitely advance to Sequence 4 now, as she had no shortage of Beyonder characteristics or potion formulas.

The only problem now is that Carla asked her to slow down her pace of becoming a Sequence 4.

Because the current dream world cannot accommodate demigods, once she becomes a demigod, she will not be able to enter the dream world. This restriction will not be lifted until the first 'Lord of Fire' is brought back to the Firelink Shrine.

In other words, we have to wait for Mr. World to defeat the first Lord of Salary.

Although Mr. World's progress was fast, it would still take a long time to defeat the first Salary King. Although Audrey was not so eager to improve her strength, it would undoubtedly be a good thing for the Hall family if Alfred could become a demigod.

(End of this chapter)