Seeing Ivy lost in thought and not speaking for a long time, one of the bounty hunters asked, "General Manager Ivy?"
"Oh." Ivy looked up: "You go first, you've worked hard."
These people were Level 3 and Level 2 apostles hired by Ivy from other places at a high price to monitor her targets. Ivy did not tell them that the people they monitored were all related to the furnace.
If they were told the truth, they would not be hired no matter how high the price was. No one dared to go against the furnace that had become a legend in Fabro City.
Since her father and brother died at the hands of the furnace, Ivy tried every means to avenge her father and brother.
She had a hard time for more than a year. After her father died, the Thor Trading Company almost changed hands, and Abel wanted to hand over the trading company to his people to run.
"Ivy, you can't keep the Thor Trading Company. Many people are eyeing the trading company. I will give you a huge sum of money. Let the trading company go and give the shares to another congressman." This is what Speaker Abel said at her father's funeral.
Ivy still remembers the congressmen standing behind Speaker Abel. They all stared at Ivy with greedy eyes. They were not interested in Ivy, but regarded Thor Trading Company as fat meat, and they wanted to have it in their mouths immediately.
They didn't even want to wait for their father's funeral, and found Ivy at the funeral. At that time, Ivy understood why alchemists were said to be greedy. She herself couldn't stand Abel's cold-bloodedness.
If Ivy hadn't used some means to drive away Abel's people, she wouldn't even be able to keep Thor Trading Company.
Speaking of this, I have to thank Furnace. Ivy secretly murdered the second general manager, still in the name of Furnace.
When Abel saw the white rose on the body of the second general manager, cold sweat soaked Abel's shirt.
Even Abel was so afraid of Furnace, and Abel eventually died in Furnace's hands.
Ivy couldn't resist a wizard like Furnace head-on, so she chose to start with the people around Furnace. What made her more and more depressed was that after monitoring for a whole year, she found that Furnace was really gone.
The next time she heard the name of the Crucible was in the intelligence of the Inquisition. Last month, the intelligence agency of the Inquisition in the southern continent sent back news that the Crucible had become a level 5 wizard.
She thought, and even Abel thought, that the Crucible would not move so quickly. But the Crucible suddenly appeared in Fabro City, catching everyone off guard.
A level 5 wizard... Even if Ivy secretly became a level 4 alchemist, even if she risked her life, she could not be the opponent of the Crucible. Therefore, she had to find a new way.
Ivy stood up and walked to the basement.
Entering the vault of Thor Trading Company, it was heavily guarded and the safest place Ivy could find. No one knew what Ivy was doing here.
After opening a secret door, Ivy went into the secret room. In the secret room was a forearm-high statue of a god. There was no face on the statue, only a smooth oval face.
There is no image, and it cannot be guessed.
"Great goddess of wisdom, your fanatics pray for your guidance, and pray for you to grant me the ability to solve my dilemma."
This statue belongs to the evil god Fraud, whose name is the goddess of wisdom. Ivy actually dedicated herself to Fraud for revenge.
The evil god Fraud is the most special existence among the seven evil gods. He does not need a temple, nor does he have a parish. The number of his believers is the smallest and most secretive. Fraud's believers hide in various forces, and even other evil gods are sometimes deceived. This is Fraud's bad taste.
I don't know why, but the statue, which never responded every time, actually gave Ivy feedback at this time.
Ivy's pupils flashed with excitement, and the eyes of the goddess of wisdom noticed this!
Looking at the faceless statue of Fraud, Ivy felt the power of Fraud in her body.
According to common sense, everyone can only master the ability of a certain type of apostle. The only exception is to become a believer of the evil god Fraud.
Fraud fate, fraud others, and fraud yourself. With the blessing of the evil god Fraud, a person's soul can master the power of two apostles.
Ivy is now both an alchemist and a fraud priest. The statue turned into dust, and Ivy left the secret room with excitement.
A few days later, two carriages arrived at the outskirts of Fabro City.
The patrolmen spotted two suspicious carriages from a distance, but found that the carriages stopped in the distance.
When they stopped for inspection, the patrolmen keenly realized that there must be something wrong with the two carriages. When they got on the carriages to search, they found that the carriages were empty and there was no one inside.
"Someone should have sat here, and the seats are still warm."
"But where are they? I was very sure that the two carriages were coming towards us."
"Where is the driver? Why is there no driver?"
"Forget it, don't bother, just pretend that these two carriages didn't appear."
The weakness of the Alchemy Council made the lowest-level patrolmen unwilling to work. Even if they found any criminals or heretic apostles, the police station and the trial office were unable to detain them. The meaning of the superiors was to concentrate on fighting the furnace and put the others aside in advance. The so-called concentration on fighting the furnace means to concentrate on protecting the rich area, the Brown District.
As for the inspections outside, they were just a show, to show the citizens of Fabro that Fabro was not completely out of control. These inspection posts were machine gun positions and bunkers filled with sandbags, and they looked very lively.
Not far from the inspection post, Rudolph met Yvonne and Cooper.
"Welcome back to Fabro!"
Cooper asked in confusion: "Rudolph, is the inspection in Fabro so strict now? Why are there so many inspection patrols at this post?"
"It's a little strict. I just sent away their speaker Abel and the vice speaker. Some of these people overreacted. It will be fine in a few days."
"What do you mean by 'send away'?"
"Send away in the physical sense."
"Take me with you next time there is such a good thing."
Cooper also wanted a level 5 bat wing. He felt that he had missed a lot of good things.
The three of them first came to the South City Cemetery, where Cooper's circus was buried.
Tiger, bear, leader, trainer... Cooper checked them one by one and reapplied the preservative fluid.
Rudolph was frightened, he asked: "Cooper, if I die, will you dig me out every one or two years to maintain me?"
"Wouldn't it be good? You see they are lifelike, then you will be lifelike too."
"Oh! Shit! I refuse! Damn zombie preservation technique! If I die, please let me sleep quietly underground like Claude."
"Okay, I remember, I will let your body rot naturally when the time comes."
"Thank you so much, you are so kind to me."
Cooper did not take his circus away, but buried it in the ground again and carefully prepared the ground. This was the most tender place in Cooper's heart.
"Rudolph, what are the next arrangements?" "Kill the werewolves, clean up the werewolf tribes around Fabro City, especially the Red Wolf King who created the wolf tide. Help Yvonne get promoted, and avenge you."
The wolf tide destroyed Yvonne's farm and Cooper's circus. Now that they have grown up, it is time to take revenge on the wolf tide.
Controlling the werewolf tribe can also isolate the Ruhr mining area and Fabro City, and increase bargaining chips with the Alchemy Council.
After visiting the cemetery, the three did not enter Fabro City, but headed towards Leman Town.
There are some farms around Fabro City. These farms are well managed and monopolize the food supply of Fabro City.
Once you get close to Leman Town, the farms along the road are all abandoned, and the good fields are full of weeds. The weeds are in the shape of blocks, and you can only see from the neat gaps in the weeds that there used to be fertile, rows of farmland here.
Paying attention to food and vegetables is the habit of every ordinary person. Yvonne asked: "It's a pity that so many farms have been abandoned. The price of food must be very high."
"How should I put it? Thanks to the bloody night, there are many blood servants in Fabro City, and food is not so needed."
Entering Leman Town late at night, Rudolf saw ruins. After being occupied by werewolves, Mang Town suffered several blows from the Constitutional Army.
Rudolf and his three companions, wearing robes and hoods, walked in the once familiar Leman Town.
The news of Fabro City spread here, and Abel's death must have made the Red Wolf King cautious. Rudolf did not see werewolves in Leman Town, only several wolf servants proved that this place had been occupied by werewolves. When
the wolf servants saw the three people who suddenly appeared, they did not dare to approach one by one. Like the blood servants, wolf servants are also pitiful people among werewolves.
Every few meters on the street, there is a skeleton of an animal or a person. These are the skeletons left by the werewolves after eating. They don't know how to clean up after eating, and they are not hygienic.
Rudolf found the most familiar bathhouse, which has become a slanted building. Bass built an underground well for the bathhouse, pretending that it was a deep well hot spring. Now the underground water caused uneven subsidence in the bathhouse's foundation, causing the house to tilt.
The church was destroyed by werewolves. Werewolves hate things of the vampires the most. The church was full of the smell of vampires.
There were some remnants of bonfires on the square. The werewolves seemed to have held a bonfire party here.
Rudolph even found a stake in the square. For some reason, the werewolves did not tear down the stake, but thoughtfully replaced it with a new stake. Do werewolves also need to burn wizards?
This is too much. If Rudolph finds Butcher the Butcher, he will definitely let Butcher chop off a few werewolves.
The police station is relatively well preserved. It should have been requisitioned by a high-level werewolf.
"Rudolph, I want to go back and see No. 15 Pudge Street."
That was the first house Yvonne bought and her second home after leaving the farm.
When they entered Pudge Street, they unexpectedly found that the streets here were very clean. There were no skulls of people or cattle and sheep rolling around on the streets.
"Stranger, please leave here."
An old man with a pipe in his mouth walked out of a house and stood on the side of the road.
Seeing that the stranger was unmoved, the old man was a little irritated. He took off his pipe, exhaled a puff of smoke, and suddenly turned into a werewolf.
"Strange traveler, go quickly, this is the territory of werewolves now."
Rudolph looked at the level 2 werewolf and asked, "Shouldn't you pounce on me and fill your stomach?"
The werewolf suddenly took a step back, not because he had seen through the identities of Rudolph and the other two, but because he was looking for the pipe he had just dropped on the ground. The werewolf form was very large, making the pipe look very small, and it accidentally fell to the ground.
Still thinking about the pipe, Rudolph felt that the werewolf's humanity was well maintained.
After searching for a few seconds without finding it, the old werewolf turned back into human form and finally picked up the pipe from the ground: "You are very lucky. The Red Wolf King issued a wolf king summons order, otherwise you would have been bitten to death by other werewolves to fill your stomachs."
"Aren't you a member of the Red Wolf King's tribe?"
"Of course, all the werewolves here have to submit to the Red Wolf King."
"Then why are you still here?"
"I forgot whether I locked the door, so I came back to check. I am old and my memory is very poor. What was I going to say?" The old werewolf thought for a while before saying:
"Leave here quickly, strange traveler. If you hadn't met me, you would have become food for werewolves. I also want to see the Red Wolf King. I don't know why the Red Wolf King summoned all the werewolves."
"Your name?"
"Martino."
"Thank you for not eating us, Mr. Martino."
The werewolf named Martino shook his head and ignored these ignorant travelers. He left silently and disappeared in the distance.
The level of the burial cloaks of Rudolph and the other two was very high, and this level 2 werewolf could not see through it.
Rudolf and Yvonne said, "We need to control the werewolf tribe outside the city of Fabro. If we encounter the werewolf just now, we can spare his life."
The three of them came to No. 15 Padget Street and found that the house could still be repaired. The roof frame was not broken and the load-bearing wall was not crooked.
Yvonne still liked this place very much, even though the house became a little dilapidated: "When we stabilize the situation in the future, we can repair it and live here."
"Okay."
Two hours later, outside the farm that was once the most remote in Leman Town, Yvonne stood in the moonlight and looked at her former home from afar.
Only the base of the wall of the first layer of the original two-story wooden house remained. The warehouse was still there. I don't know if the werewolf also stored something in the warehouse. The wall was intermittent, leaving only a few useless short walls.
A small river separated Yvonne from the farm. Yvonne felt that everything here had become unfamiliar, only the sound of the flowing water in the small river was the same as when she was a child.
Listening to the sound of the flowing water in the small river, Yvonne seemed to remember the time when her father first taught her to ride a horse and walk slowly along the small river.
"Grandma, Dad, Mom, Brother, and Little Brother, I will avenge you tonight."
Rudolph and Cooper stood behind Yvonne, also looking at the collapsed house on the farm.
If there hadn't been the werewolf incident, perhaps Yvonne would have married the son of the neighboring farmer and become a good accountant.
Yvonne would often go back to her home to help her brother choose a beautiful and hardworking bride. The two farms would often hold family banquets, have fun together, and laugh together.
All of this has become an illusion. Tonight, the lucky girl who survived hiding in the cellar will avenge her relatives with her own hands.