prynovel Chapter 4071: Jinyue Merchant Alliance
Chapter 4071: Jinyue Merchant Alliance
Chapter 4071: Jinyue Merchant Alliance
Edward was very sensible. After he mentioned the Jinyue Merchant Alliance, he started to explain it without waiting for others to ask.
"The Jinyue Merchant Alliance is a merchant alliance that spans several major cities in the Yi World. Its logo can be seen in almost every city."
"When I was in the Yi World, I saw the logo of this Chamber of Commerce in several cities. But..." Edward shrugged: "I have never been in."
Satan mocked: "Poor people can't afford it?"
Edward shook his head: "The Jinyue Merchant Alliance only serves high-ranking nobles. Its affiliated Sanhui serves the common people."
The so-called ritual nobles actually refer to those extraordinary people who are good at ritual studies. Such people are called ritual aristocrats in the ritual world, or ritual nobles for short.
As a wizard, Edward has a certain understanding of rituals, but his application ability is very poor. But if you insist, you can barely be called a ritual noble, but only a low-level ritual noble.
The Jinyue Merchant Alliance only receives high-ranking dignitaries.
Although both high and low grades are considered noble, the difference between them can be compared as vast as heaven and earth.
Give a simple example.
The Ghost Rider in the Knight's Castle is a high-ranking ceremonial noble. How outrageous is his attainment in ritual? For him, normal walking, sitting and lying are all rituals!
Edward raised his hand to cast a spell, activating the spell model in the thinking space.
Ghost Rider raised his hand and cast a spell, which was equivalent to performing a complete ritual.
Under normal circumstances, the effect of a complete ritual is much greater than that of ordinary magic.
Moreover, there is no need for any pre-swing when high-level ritual masters cast spells, because all the preparations are integrated into their daily lives.
To some extent, Gao Lengyi is extremely powerful.
The Jinyue Merchant Alliance serves such a group of terrifying strong people...
And Edward was not their target customer at all.
Edward looked at the logo on the parchment with a slightly serious look in his eyes: "The key point of this matter is that this purchase order is undoubtedly from the Jinyue Merchant Alliance."
"And the purchase order came from this corpse. In other words, he is most likely from the Jinyue Merchant Alliance."
The Jinyue Merchant Alliance has a very high status in the Yi world. Because they specialize in serving high-level Yi nobles, their network of contacts is unmatched by any other organization.
Therefore, in Edward's impression, no one dared to provoke the Jinyue Merchant Alliance.
Even if they really provoke us, they will act secretly and refuse to admit it openly.
But now, a member of the Jinyue Merchant Alliance was hanged in front of the palace gate. This act of "public display" was a complete slap in the face of the Jinyue Merchant Alliance.
"As far as I know, the only people in the Yi World who have the guts to take action against the Jinyue Merchant Alliance could be... an evil sect."
"For example, the Blood-Losing Sect. Wherever they pass, almost all the places become bloody hells. They sacrifice blood and flesh, awaken the Blood God, and indiscriminately attack anyone they see."
"The powerful Blood God can even punch through an entire city with a single blow, and with his full strength he can sink a continent."
It can be seen how powerful and terrifying the Bloodline Faction is.
But the Blood-Swallowing Sect is only a well-known evil sect. There are many unknown but equally mysterious evil sects in the ritual world.
For example, the "God-worshipping sect" mentioned by Bubble before.
Edward didn't know much about the Fengshen Sect, but according to Bubble, there was a Fengshen Sect in Wanmengyun Port.
"Does this palace look like a church?" Edward suddenly asked.
Satan: "Why are you asking this all of a sudden? What the hell is this palace? Isn't this a church?!"
Satan's reply made Edward look at the huge palace again. It really felt like a church, whether it was the steeple touching the wall or the colorful windows and carvings, it had a religious feel.
Church is generally related to worshipping God.
So, could it be that the interior of this church is... the headquarters of the God-worshipping sect?
Edward's heart skipped a beat. If this guess was true, then wouldn't they have encountered the biggest villain as soon as they entered the ritual world?
The live broadcast continues.
Edward told everyone his guess and hoped to get their advice.
To advance or to retreat?
The Ice Girl said that both were fine. Coleman had no idea, but asked through Satan's mouth: If you don't want to go in, are there any other ways?
Edward: "Maybe we can wait, maybe there will be white whales and jellyfish appear in the sky..."
The more Edward spoke, the more guilty he felt. He also felt that this kind of vain waiting was not reliable.
"Forget it, whether there is an evil sect or not, let's go in."
Edward sighed, "Besides, we already got to the door and put this body down. If there was someone inside, we would have found it long ago."
"But there's no movement around right now, maybe there's no one inside."
Bingnv and Coleman also felt that what Edward said made sense. Now they had nowhere to go and this was the only way. They had to go no matter how dangerous it was.
However, Satan sneered at this time: "I only thought you were ugly before, but now I still think you are naive! If there is really no one, who hung this body? Could it be that this body flew out by itself and hung at the door?"
"Hehe, who knows, maybe those bastards are hiding behind the door, waiting to catch us once we open it!"
Edward curled his lips: "Stop talking nonsense."
As he spoke, Edward walked forward and opened the front door.
The door was opened little by little.
Then Edward saw a pair of leather shoes suddenly appear behind the door.
Slowly looking up, I saw a man dressed in a religious suit, with a mask with a strange smile on his face, and a knife raised in his hand.
Wof!
Edward cursed subconsciously in his heart and wanted to step back quickly.
But at this moment, the knife suddenly flashed, and the knife light circled around the fog outside the door.
"The ritual is complete." A devilish whisper came out of the masked man's mouth.
The next second, whether it was Edward, the Ice Girl, or Coleman, they all collapsed to the ground as if they were covered in cartilage powder...
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Heart space.
The image on the screen became dim and there was no sound.
"The current situation is that the Ice Girl is probably unconscious, so there is no way to use frost particles to show the sound..." the water clone explained.
"But they will wake up soon. Do we want to skip this part?"
Angel thought about it and nodded.
The water clone quickly jumped across the screen.
Although the screen jumps, the general situation is still simply presented in the picture.
When the masked man who suddenly appeared said "the ritual is complete", the three of them somehow all fainted, including Satan.
Then, the masked man threw out a piece of black cloth and wrapped it around the arms of the three people. Then he dragged the black cloth into the palace.
It was very dark along the way and I could only vaguely see a long corridor.
At the end of the corridor was the palace they had seen at the beginning.
The masked man hung the three people in the air with a steel cable, and he left through the small door next to him...
Time passed slowly, and about ten minutes later, the three of them woke up one after another.
That's it for now.
"So, now it's a live broadcast?" Angel asked.
The water clone nodded: "I guess so. There may be a delay of one or two seconds."
The main body will decode the sound, while the water clone will dub it in real time, so there will be a moment's delay.
But for Ingres, this delay was not a delay at all.
Back to the live broadcast.
The three men had woken up and were aware of their situation: they were suspended high in the air by rough iron chains, with a marble floor smooth enough to reflect light below them.
They tried to struggle, but the chains were so tight that they couldn't get free.
Most importantly, even if they broke free from the chains, they had no other place to land.
There was nothing around them, and the nearest wall was dozens of meters away from them. Even if they swung the chains with all their strength, they could not swing over.
With their current physical condition, if they fall from such a high altitude, they will be crippled even if they don’t die.
So, they really didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Satan, are you sure you don't have a bad mouth?" Edward said faintly.
As expected, there really was a dead body hanging upside down.
They said there was someone behind the door, and there really was someone behind it.
Such an accurate prediction, if Edward hadn't known that they entered the dungeon together, he would have suspected that Satan was a spy arranged by the enemy...
Satan's body instantly boiled and swelled: "If you keep saying your father is a bad guy, I will burn you to death when I get out!"
Satan's curse reminded Edward of something. His eyes lit up. "That's right. You are just a ball of fire. You are not tied up by chains. You can fly out!"
As soon as Edward finished speaking, Satan immediately complained: "Are you blind? Didn't you see Coleman was tied up?"
"Stop treating me and Coleman's grandson like separate toys!"
As he cursed and explained, Edward finally understood that although Coleman could usually hold Satan's flame in his hand and it seemed that it could be detached from his neck, that was all.
Satan and Coleman are one, and flames can come out from any part of his body, but it is not possible for him to exist directly apart from Coleman.
However, this "no" is also relative.
If Coleman's energy is sufficient, he can still make Satan leave his body for a short period of time. For example, in the Daytime Mirror Domain, Coleman can do this.
But after changing to a new body, the energy was directly sealed and he could not leave the body.
"Although he cannot leave the body, if Satan can emerge from any part of your body, does that mean that he can find a way to burn the chains..."
Edward had barely finished his words when Satan spoke up: "If I could burn this chain, the first thing I would do would be to burn you into charcoal!"
Although Satan cursed a lot, he also explained the situation later.
Coleman had burned the chains before it woke up.
However, no one knew what material the chain was made of, and it showed no reaction when burned.
Edward sighed: "If there is no solution, then our journey will probably end here..."
Edward felt helpless as he recalled this short journey.
He originally thought that with his experience of living in the Yi World for 2 years, even if he couldn't complete Main Mission , he should be able to survive for at least days.
Who would have known that just after entering the ritual world, one would face the risk of being forced to retreat.
However, although Edward felt a little regretful, when he carefully thought about his choice for this short journey, he felt that there was no big problem.
There was a vast sea of clouds near their landing point, and there was no place to hide. In order to avoid the moon, the only thing they could do was to come to this palace.
"The only thing I did wrong was probably putting down the body at the door, which facilitated the completion of the 'ritual'."
"Perhaps with more caution we can avoid the ceremony."
Just as Edward was sighing, a voice suddenly came into their ears.
"There are two rituals for the forbidden ceremony. One is to put down the body at the door, and the other is to approach the palace."
Footsteps were heard along with voices, and a man wearing a mask with a strange smile walked out from a corridor on one side.
"Completing either of the two rituals will trigger the forbidden ritual. If both are completed at the same time, even if it is a high-level ritual, it will be forbidden to perform it."
"But you... don't have a high-ranking ritual master, so you don't need a double ritual."
In other words, even if Edward did not put down the body at the door of the temple, they had already completed the ceremony.
Because, the moment they approached the palace and stepped into the mist, they had completed a ritual...
"You damn masked man, let your father down, or else..."
When Satan saw someone coming, he immediately started to attack. However, just as he opened his mouth, he felt a flash of lightning above his head, hitting his head directly.
Hiss--
Lightning shot into Satan's flaming body, and it rolled its eyes and fell into a coma.
"Satan? Coleman?!" Edward shouted hurriedly when he saw this, but neither Satan nor Coleman responded.
However, their bodies were not sent back to the Dream Crystal Origin, so they were most likely not dead, but may have fainted.
"Hey, even if you want to kill us, there's no need to torture us, right?"
Edward lowered his head and yelled at the masked man.
The masked man chuckled: "It wasn't me who did it just now."
"Attacking faction members in the temple, even with words, will complete the ritual and trigger the punishment ceremony."
In other words, Satan brought this upon himself.
After hearing what the masked man said, Edward felt more and more uneasy.
If it was really Satan who was attacked by the masked man, then it would actually be better.
But he said that this was an automatic trigger of the ritual, which meant that this palace had completely become the nest of the ritual!
There must be countless rituals already arranged inside!
The triggering conditions for these rituals must be simple, such as speaking, touching... or even breathing.
In other words, anything they do once they enter this palace has the potential to complete a ritual.
In this situation, they can hardly escape.
Most importantly, anyone who could set up a ritual nest of this scale must be a high-ranking noble, or possibly even stronger.
If we compare it with the level of wizards, the starting point is above the True Knowledge level wizard!
Thinking of this, the last bit of luck in Edward's heart was extinguished...