What did you do with the dice?

Sanita: (Chill out, the Dual Blade Devilman can't handle this huge fireball.)

Chapter 24 The Big Killer

The next afternoon, when Rusalka returned to the villa in Pearl Tear Territory, he was in a good mood because he arrived just in time for dinner.

A little assistant to remind you of mealtimes - care and greetings from Phoenix: My Lord, would you like to have dinner now?

The familiar feeling is back, family. Rusalka was overjoyed to hear this.

However, after dinner, a piece of bad news was "pushed" in front of him.

To be precise, this pile of "bad news" was carried on a cart covered with white cloth, pushed by Custer, the armed messenger and the old swordsman.

When he lifted the white cloth, Rusalka was quite familiar with the contents inside. After all, he had seen them frequently recently and had even done quite a few of them himself - they were all corpses.

The corpses were not a plague, nor were they something as terrible as a natural disaster of the undead, nor was there a large-scale armed conflict breaking out in the settlement. I heard from Custer that the pioneers who had enough food to eat lived in harmony, the townspeople quickly accepted them, and the settlement was thriving.

But compared to ordinary corpses, these corpses are still a big trouble - because they are fully armed.

"It's non-standard light armor. The forging of the metal plates is very crude. The armor has no patterns and uses bare nails, but the welds are very strong. Its main purpose is to be cheap and durable." Sanita assessed the armor on the corpses, chin in hand, pondering, and whispered to Rusalka beside him, "This kind of armor is mostly sold in roadside blacksmith shops. It's a style favored by adventurers and mercenaries."

Rusalka searched through the bodies, confirming that there were both men and women among them. Even their equipment was still brand new. Some potions, arrows, scrolls, and consumable items whose effects were unknown were all intact. "In other words, this group of adventurers died suddenly in my territory?"

Sanitieta's mouth twitched. He pulled Rushakara aside and whispered, "Brother, wake up. Have you ever seen a fifteen-person adventurer team equipped with a full complement of supplies and consumables, and even with everyone wearing armor?"

Rusalka was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "So... you mean, they're going to start a raid? That requires 16 people, right? They're short of one person, haha."

Sanitieta: "Could you please speak more seriously? I'm often troubled by not knowing whether you're serious or joking, so I can only type a question mark to express my confusion. But now I can't type a question mark in our private chat channel, so could you please choose the right time before you get mad?"

Rushaka made an OK gesture to indicate that she understood, then turned around and looked at the body: (Then why should I send a notice asking the deceased's family to come and claim the body? They are not my subjects. If they die in my place, do I have to pay for it?)

Sanita: (That's not the point. Before you came, I had just looked at the list of people carried by the person who looked like the regiment commander among the corpses. There were 16 people on the list.)

Rusalka: (You mean, we need to find the missing person and find out what happened?)

Sanita shook his head: (No, let alone whether we can find it or not, even if we do, it would be a waste of effort. I think that person must be dead.)

Rusalka: (That doesn't sound like it's our business. We'll keep all this good equipment and consumables for them first. If anyone comes asking for it later, we'll give them half. Ding Zhen, at first glance, thought it was a godsend.)

So Rusalka ordered people to deal with the bodies. Dealing with corpses is a very common job in this world. Everyone knows how to do it. In addition, the deaths of these corpses were not so miserable. They were almost all intact. The wounds were all in the vital parts. They were killed in one blow. It was not as scary as Rusalka's previous behavior of always chopping people into pieces and scattering them all over the floor. Even the braver maids dared to come forward to help clean up the "relics", trying to show themselves in front of Rusalka.

After all, it is said that knights like to choose brave girls as their partners.

Unfortunately, Rukasa probably couldn't see their courage because he was dragged to the library by Sanitita.

This Rushaka was familiar. Every time Sanitieta pulled him into the library, there was always something important to discuss: "What secret have you discovered?"

Sanitieta frowned slightly. "The death of this mercenary group is not simple. It reminds me of something. Don't you think it's even a little bit strange?"

Rusalka thought about it, and nodded with an expression that said it was true. "Well, you're right. I found the problem. I guess what you're thinking is, besides me, is there anyone in our territory who can take down such a mercenary group?"

Sanita: "Well, although your guess is superficial, it's okay."

Sanita opened a private chat channel and said: (I have some doubts that this was done by Custer. His background is too suspicious, and his motive for coming to the Pearl Tear Territory is also very strange. The Kingdom of Sinidi is so big, why would he come to the Pearl Tear Territory, and at this very delicate time.)

Rusalka definitely wouldn't believe it: (That's true, but think about it, after being abandoned by the Holy Light, he even had a hard time fighting that red-haired chicken. With this level of skill, can he destroy a team going to a raid? I don't believe it.)

Sanita: (If you want to believe it wasn't him, then it could have been Phoenix.)

Rusalka: (Oh, so Phoenix is ​​so powerful? By the way, what kind of background did you give her? You haven't told me yet, and you've been keeping me in suspense.)

Sanitieta: (Oh, didn't I tell you? You must like the setting I gave her. An ace white-haired, silent loli killer exiled by MI7. Do you want to know the specific background?)

Rusalka: (I don’t want to read the paper, that’s fine. Or brother, you understand me, but she doesn’t seem to be a loli?)

Sanitita: (Nonsense, there's no MI7 in this world, and she doesn't look like she was exiled here, so her background settings have been changed. I can't say about her combat power. I originally thought that you only spent 10 points to create an NPC, and as long as the appearance meets the requirements, how could her combat power be high? But if you think about it in a worse way, it's still possible.)

Rusalka: "Okay, even if you say that, what's your motive?"

Sanitta: "I don't know. You should ask this group of mercenaries what their motive is for coming to the Pearl Tear Territory. But perhaps the only one who knows now is the murderer himself. I guess the person who disappeared was the first one to be captured and questioned about the mercenary group's specific purpose."

Rusalka: "Oh, what a headache! I don't really want to get involved in this matter. Why don't we think about it the other way around? Now that we've confirmed that the murderer is Phoenix, so what? Are you going to let me behead her in public? Even if she is Yang Yuhuan, it's not enough for me not to take this step earlier. We can't skip this step!

Besides, if she wants to kill me, then she can. After all, she is the catgirl of my Lord Pearl Tear. If anyone asks me to take responsibility, I will just say, "It's none of my business. I wasn't home at the time." So let's not always ask about everything. It will be relaxing to be ignorant for once. Let's end this matter here."

Sanita: "What if the murderer is Custer?"

Rusalka spread her hands and said, "What difference does it make? The most important thing is that when someone comes to us, we can consider their strength and decide whether to throw them out."

Sanitita sneered, "Phoenix is ​​determined to protect her, right? You're really indulging Phoenix. I think you're not a mermaid, you're a dog-licker, right?"

Rusalka was a little annoyed. "First, I'm human. Second, you know nothing. I didn't spend 10 points to create Custer."

Sanita: "Well, I have a ghost story, but I don't know if I should tell it or not."

Rusalka gestured "please".

Sanitieta: "I now feel that the sudden death of the former Lord Pearl Tear's family might not have been caused by Lord Luopa."

Rusalka felt very strange: "Who else could it be? Could it be me?"

Sanitieta shook his head and said, "Generally speaking, when a unit's death rate reaches 3%, morale will completely collapse. You saw it last time. You only killed five guards, and those dozens of enemies started to prepare to flee. If it weren't for that Third Son Mage holding them back, they might have fled even earlier. Even so, we didn't capture them all alive, and a few still escaped."

Rusalka: “Yeah.”

Sanitieta: "Then don't you find it strange now? When the former Lord of Pearl Tears went hunting, his entire family and guards were there. There must have been at least 20 people in total. All of them died, and not a single one escaped. How many people would have surrounded him to cause this? At least twice as many people, about 40 people, to kill them all."

Rusalka thought about it and felt that it was about the same.

"How could 40 people sneak into the Pearl Tear Territory and form a siege without being discovered?" Sanitieta shook his head. "And if we kill them all, we'll definitely encounter stubborn resistance. It'll be a horrific scene. But I've investigated, and the bodies of the former Pearl Tear Territory Lord and his guards are mostly intact. The battlefield is very small."

Sanitieta paused and continued, "Just like... this mercenary group."

Rusalka thought for a moment and said, "You mean, the murderers are the same group of people? Or the same person?"

Sanita didn't say anything, but nodded instead of answering.

Rusalka said in the private chat channel: (Do you suspect Phoenix?)

Sanita: (Not just Phoenix, everyone in Pearl Tear Territory could be a suspect. It's just that Phoenix is ​​a special NPC.)

Rusalka: (What’s so special about her?)

Sunny Tower: (Especially because you spent 10 points to make her.)

Rusalka: (Well, go ahead.)

Sani Tower: (No more.)

Rusalka: (Fuck, that’s it?)

Sanitita: (I really have no clue. After all, without knowing the motive, anyone could be the murderer. Think about it, if the murderer was from Luopa Territory, then we wouldn't be safe until now. We should have fought a life-and-death battle with him last night. On the other hand, he's not from Pearl Tear Territory either. So that's where our intelligence ends.)

Rusalka: (But according to Conan anime, the one who looks most like the murderer is often not the murderer, and the one who looks least like the murderer is the murderer, so I boldly guess that the murderer is Phoenix.)

Sanitta: (Huh? Where did you get this line of reasoning? I thought Phoenix was the most likely murderer. According to your logic, she who looks most like the murderer shouldn't be the murderer? Why do you say she is?)

Rusalka: (Shut up, because in my mind, Phoenix will always be a cute and greedy cat person, and it is impossible for her to be a murderous murderer. So according to the anti-logic, she is.)

Sanitita: (Uh, okay, then what about her motive? Why would she kill the entire family of the former Lord of Pearl Tears and then frame Lord Ropa?)

Rusalka: (It must be because the former lord wanted to marry her, which caused the Pure Love Warrior to be enraged and possessed by the King of the Great West. Heaven created all things to feed cats, but cats have nothing to repay Heaven. Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill.)

Sanitita: (Since you've already done this, I'll just obey you. Hey! I suddenly have an idea. Why don't you marry her and see if she kills you? If you die, I'll carve "You're right" on your grave.)

Rusalka: (Silly shabby.)

Chapter 25 God's Domain

It turns out that effective communication and analysis often do not result in a useful answer.

In most cases, it is better to be a little confused in life - for example, Rusalka decided to pretend that the annihilation of the mercenary group had never happened, so he didn't even consider going to question Phoenix and Caster, and fell asleep in bed.

It’s good to be young. You fall asleep in just a few minutes.

After killing the demon last time, Rusalka felt that his experience bar should be almost full. After killing so many assassins this time, he must have been upgraded. Rusalka couldn't wait to reach level 5.

This upgrade still gave him 25 attribute points. As usual, 5 free attribute points were added to experience, and the rest were all added to the enhanced characteristics of the Holy Slash. If this were a game, Rusalka might spend an hour or two analyzing the profit ratio of each point, but in the real world, he also had to consider the situation where he learned too much and was not good at anything.

I just used the noble Holy Slash. It doesn't require any chanting, posture or casting materials. It will explode directly when it hits. It looks extremely powerful and can restrain most evil forces. No matter how you think about it, it is the optimal strength solution in the real world.

Of course, all of this is based on the fact that he had already selected an exclusive growth talent when he opened the card:

[Path of Holy Vengeance] (100 points): All your Radiant damage and effect checks ignore the target's resistance/immunity/damage reduction/exemption. You lose your Paladin's Oath spell. As compensation, you gain a powerful talent of Vengeance Paladin every 5 levels. Your Holy Slash no longer only increases damage to undead, but doubles the damage to all evil factions.

100 points is the same as the cost of the invincible dragon man template mentioned by Sanita, which shows its strength.

The reason why Rusalka chose this template is not just because of sentiment, but more because he feels that the true damage + double damage to the evil camp is really beautiful with data strength.

What does doubling mean? Rusalka had a good idea before crossing over. After all, in the DND game, if you land a critical hit (a.k.a. a critical hit), the number of damage dice will be doubled again. Doubled and doubled again, the whole table is full of dice rolling, which is enough to knock the DM unconscious with one punch.

The original intention of Rusalka is to defeat ten opponents with force. No matter how strong the enemy you created is, I will use real damage to stack data. Except for creating a blood lock, no one else can do it.

You said this talent does not restrain the good and neutral camps?

This is easy, just kowtow to these two camps. These two camps generally won't take the initiative to mess with you, so just don't fight. Sani Iron Tower has the poet, so just go in and chat with him.

At that time, Rusalka thought that DM would definitely not be able to deal with her, but she didn't expect that there were still many ruthless people in the world, and they directly made her travel through time. Now she really couldn't use the heavy attack of the Holy Slash in reality, which greatly reduced the hidden strength of this incredible talent.

No matter how unwilling I am to accept it, I have already chosen it, so I have no choice but to go with this talent line.

[Holy Slash Mastery]: Your Holy Slash damage increases dynamically as your rank increases, taking the highest damage value among all area-of-effect spells at that rank. (20 points)

Gain exclusive talent [Revenge Shock]: The target that causes damage to you needs to make a perception saving throw. If the saving throw fails, it will fall into a panic state, and the duration is determined by its resistance to abnormal mental states.

Emmm, Rusalka thinks this is a very subtle exclusive talent. If it is used in a game where everyone can only move once in a round, the passive skill of making the opponent suffer an immunity judgment at no cost, and the debuff can last for at least one round. In a one-on-many situation, it can reduce the frequency of group attacks, which is indeed very useful.

In reality, there is dynamic time adjustment, but it can only be said to be very subtle. In contrast to the game, this feature is of little use in a one-on-many situation because the time is very short. Rusalka feels that it is just a moment of distraction at most, and it is difficult to judge who has been hit.

But if it is a one-on-one fight, and you meet an opponent of equal strength, once the trigger is triggered, this moment of distraction is almost equivalent to a life, and you have to use life-saving means equivalent to a life to resolve the problem.

Sure enough, 100 points are not in vain.

After easily spending all the points, Rusalka was just waiting to wake up and show off to her good brothers.

However, this strange lucid dream did not stop like the first upgrade. Not only that, the sound of rolling dice rang in his ears again.

The voices fell silent and the dust settled.

A black mist engulfed his body, and when he came to his senses again, he found himself suddenly sitting in an unfamiliar black-style hall.

There were extremely bright candles inserted on the walls on both sides of the hall, illuminating the entire dark place, which gave Rusalka enough vision to see the surrounding environment clearly.

He was sitting at a square table similar to a conference table, at the farthest left position from the main seat. The square table had 12 seats in total, six on the left and six on the right, and the main seat was a very imposing throne, shrouded in a black mist, making it impossible to see the real figure sitting on the main seat.

In addition, there are 10 human silhouettes beside him that are also shrouded in black fog. Although there is sufficient light around, this strange black fog can block all means of detection, including vision. 10 black fogs of the same size make it impossible to detect their existence.

However, the only advantage is that Rusalka himself seems to be surrounded by such a black fog. From his perspective, this black fog is more like some kind of fogged one-way glass.

However, there was only one exception on the field. She was a blonde girl who was standing barefoot on the conference table, stretching out her hands with excitement on her face, making a welcoming hug gesture to Rusalka.

Her presence seemed very subtle to Rukasa. Her whole body was emitting a milky white energy that resonated strongly with the holy light in her body. From a distance, she gave him a sense of sacredness and holiness.

However, her clothes were very... awkward.

It would be fine if she was barefoot, revealing ten crystal clear, round, and mouth-watering pink toes. Rusalka just thought she was here to earn traffic passwords, so she just looked at her a few more times and then silently gave her a thumbs up in her heart.

Yet she was also wearing a loose, arm-baring priest robe, the artistry of which was comparable to that of a certain red and white witch.

I can't stand it, what cyber burning is...

Although Rusalka could accept this outfit that exuded youthful charm, the crown with the sun pendant on her head really made Rusalka feel a little uncomfortable.

This tiara looks so damn familiar! Those who often watch hentai know that this type of tiara generally has no meaning other than to show one's identity and add interest. Wearing it is almost the same as not wearing it.

"Welcome, the last Gemini." The blonde girl retracted her arms and clasped her hands together in a prayer gesture. "May the light of the Light God dispel the confusion in your heart. I will guide you to the kingdom of God, where there is no darkness."

After she finished the prayer, all kinds of laughter came from most of the surrounding black fog. After hearing these bursts of laughter, Rukasha's frown immediately relaxed: I have confirmed that the laughter is from the person who doubled my Holy Slash.

Rusalka, completely unaware of the situation, asked, "Excuse me for interrupting everyone, but I have a question. Where is this place?"

The blonde girl seemed a little surprised by his reaction, but she still answered simply, "It's the kingdom of the great gods."

Rusalka nodded, then realized that she seemed to be wrapped in black fog and the people around her could not see her movements, so she could only say: "Oh, then how do I get back?"

"Since you have been chosen by the gods, it means that you have become confused about your original faith. You are doubting whether the god you have served all your life really exists? Will he really respond to your prayers?" The blonde girl's jade feet slowly stepped on the seemingly cold stone table, and Rusalka watched the two delicious foods walk towards her step by step.

The girl bent down, pointed at the main throne, and chuckled at Rusalka, saying, "We were once as confused as you. Now, on the throne before you sits a true god. He will help you resolve all your doubts, and then, like everyone else here, you will join us and become our partner.

Don't worry, this is the realm of God, and no means in the world can explore here. We gather under the throne of God, and the world will change because of us."

Rukasha looked in the direction of her finger, and saw that it was still a black shadow.

And why does this line sound so much like pyramid schemes and telecom fraud?