[Agility: 252]
After this enhancement, his attributes have been improved to a fairly good level, but the strange thing is that his magic and spirit data still remain unchanged.
Are these two values not included in the total attributes? This is a problem. Summoning evil creatures is a racial skill that consumes magic power to activate, and controlling evil creatures also consumes mental power.
But both of his values were shockingly low, even lower than that of ordinary people.
The operation just now had used up all of his magic power, but he only summoned some small evil creatures.
Although it is good at torturing people, if a real fight breaks out, I'm afraid even a C-rank adventurer won't be able to subdue it. If you want to use this skill in actual combat, it's impossible without a large amount of magic power as a backup.
Just as Isidor was feeling distressed, the dark elf beside him suddenly slapped the drawing board and shouted, "This is really weird!"
"What's wrong?" Isidor asked casually.
"Look, the internal organs of these corpses are gone, but there are no wounds on their bodies." The dark elf said, pointing to a corpse that had been dissected.
"Maybe it's necromancy. The owner of this place is a necromancer, so it's normal for him to know some evil magic." Isidor said disapprovingly.
"No, necromancy doesn't have the means to remove internal organs from a distance, and judging by the traces, it doesn't seem like some creature drilled in and ate them. The manuscript's description of this place is extremely vague, as if it's trying to cover something up." The dark elf said with a frown.
"It sounds so scary." Nimega shuddered when she heard it.
"Considering these murals, the bodies here are not buried alive, but sacrificed." The dark elf said as he flipped through the picture book he copied.
"Maybe it was sacrificed to the necromancer." Isidor said, and told the dark elf exactly what happened here.
"Does he want you to read the words on the parchment? Strange, this is absolutely too strange. If it is a spell to bind the undead, there should be no difference whether a living person or a dead person reads it. Could it be that the object of his sacrifice is a higher-level existence?" The dark elf said to himself.
"That's all we know." Isidor shrugged, indicating that he was helpless.
"Anyway, thank you for your help. I have other things to do, so I'll leave you for now." After the dark elf said this, he disappeared from the spot like a shadow.
Chapter 38: Keep Your Troops Still
"Well, it's about time for us to go back to town. Now that our great revenge has been achieved, we can sleep more peacefully in the future." Isidor said, stretching lazily.
"Aren't you going to stay out of the spotlight?" asked Nymega.
"No need. I asked for some information when I hypnotized the circus owner. They just contracted the warm-up performance of Godot Troupe and have a cooperative relationship with the troupe. The troupe will not stand up for them. People die every other day in Grimdor now, and no one will pay attention to the case without a victim." Isidor said.
"That's good. After working so hard for so long, I also want to take a break." Nimega said with a smile.
So the two of them left the tomb with brisk steps and headed towards the town.
However, after walking for less than half an hour, a whistle suddenly sounded, and five or six thieves armed with machetes emerged from the bushes and surrounded the two men.
"Stop! Robbery!" the leader of the thieves said ferociously, brandishing his scimitar.
The thieves looked half-naked and were wielding their scimitars in a disorderly manner. At first glance, they looked like small-time villains.
"Robber us?" Nymega couldn't help but chuckle, drawing her dagger and preparing to go up and attack.
"Wait a minute, this place is not far from the town. This group of people actually dared to rob in broad daylight. This is a bit unusual." Isidor said.
"Then, let's not kill them first and try to get their words out?" asked Nymega.
"That's not necessary. It's enough to keep one person alive for questioning," said Isidor.
The leader of the thieves was furious when he saw that they were not taking him seriously and asked and answered him questions. He said, "What are you talking about? We are robbing now! Be serious."
"Gentlemen, are you robbing people for money or women?" Nimega asked.
"Today we are not going to rob you of your money or your body, we are only going to rob you of your life! Woman, are you a virgin?" The leader of the thieves asked, pointing at Nimega.
Nymega blushed, remembering the joke Isidor had told her before, so she answered: "What should I say? If I say no, it's embarrassing; if I say yes, you won't believe me if I'm with such a cruel master. So let's compromise and call me deputy director."
The thief leader frowned and said, "A virgin is a virgin, and if she is not a virgin, then she is not a virgin. What is a deputy director?"
Nimega spread her hands and said, "Yeah, I don't know who you are to talk to me like that."
After saying that, there was a flash of a knife, and one of the bandit leader's men was chopped to the ground.
The other thieves hurriedly swung their knives at Nymega. In the flash of swords and sabers, the thieves fell to the ground one after another, leaving only the thief leader standing there alone.
"This, this, this... Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Our boss is the famous 'Silver Moon Scimitar'. If you kill me, the boss will not let you go!" The leader said tremblingly.
"I can spare your life, but you have to tell me why you dare to rob in broad daylight near a town? Also, you just asked me if I was a virgin. What did that mean?" Nymega asked, holding the dagger against his neck.
"Because...because now adventurers don't dare to leave the town, so we thought of doing a few tricks nearby. As for the virgin, it was the boss who asked us to capture her. I don't know what the use is." The thief leader was so scared that he quickly answered.
"You didn't lie to me, did you?" asked Nimica.
"No, no! If I lie, let me have a sore on my tongue." The thief leader swore.
"Well, you will never get sores again." Nymega said, and cut his neck with a knife.
"Master, the Silver Moon Scimitar he mentioned, if I remember correctly, should be the leader of the thieves group in this area. I heard that the guy is a former A-level adventurer and is usually very cunning. I wonder what he is up to this time by having his men capture virgins." said Nymega.
"Do whatever you want. I just want to have a good sleep now." Isidor said as he opened his mouth and yawned - after a night of revenge, his nerves were a little overexcited and he continued to rest.
"That's true. As long as she doesn't harm us, she can do whatever she wants." Nymega smiled and went back to the town with Isidor to rest.
The next morning, Isidor secretly inquired around and found that indeed, no one cared about the disappearance of this small circus.
The performance of the Godot Troupe continued as usual, but the warm-up performance was temporarily replaced by a passionate dance by the bar girls, which made the audience watch more enthusiastically.
"It looks like everything is calm now. Let's take on some more bounty missions. My strength has also improved a bit. It's time to find some stronger opponents." Isidor said.
"That's true. I have this top-grade dagger in my hand, but I've never used it in actual combat." Nymega said with a smile.
So the two of them came again to the hall that was specifically responsible for issuing bounty missions. Usually this place was always crowded, and adventurers who couldn't find suitable missions often came here to accept bounty missions.
However, today, no adventurer came here. Doramei, who was in charge here, even played flying chess with her colleagues in front of the counter.
"Miss Dora Mei, why are there so few people here today?" Isidor asked curiously.
"Are you here to take on a mission? Unfortunately, the bounty mission has been suspended." Dora Mei said while rolling the dice.
"Suspended? But doesn't the guild still rely on that mission to keep the road into the mountains open?" Isidor said in surprise.
"Yes, the taxes from that mountain road are an important source of income for Grimdor, but by comparison, the current crisis is more urgent," said Dora May.
"What crisis is there now? I see the auction is going quite smoothly," said Isidor.
"It's not going smoothly at all. There have been many monster attacks in the city recently, and we still haven't figured out how these monsters got into the city. Last night, even the circus that was warming up for Godot's troupe disappeared. Due to the tight security, we haven't been able to assign anyone to look for them yet." Dora Mei said with a frown.
"Who on earth would attack an unarmed circus? They're such cowards." Nimega sighed.
Isidor glared at Nymega, but couldn't say anything because of Dora May's presence.
"In fact, we suspect that it was a gang of thieves outside the city who did it," Dora Mei judged.
"Why do you say that?" Isidor asked curiously.
"Because the circus members' property and the animals they raised were all intact, it's clear that the person who did it was not after the property. Killing the circus members who were performing the day before, and releasing monsters in the city, all of this is probably to convey a certain message: they have planted a large number of people in the town." Dora Mei analyzed.
"That makes sense." Isidor was secretly happy after hearing this. He didn't expect that someone would take the blame for him.
"In fact, we know very well that the thieves' group must be planning something, but the auction is still going on, and we can only concentrate our manpower to ensure the law and order in the town. The thieves' group is playing an open conspiracy, and we can only accept it." Dora Mei said as she rolled the dice again, but only got 1.
"Please save my daughter! I am willing to pay, no matter how much! Don't you have many powerful adventurers? Please help me!"
At this moment, a man's voice with a crying tone was heard outside the hall.
"Sir, we're really sorry. We would like to help you, but we are also responsible for protecting the townspeople. We can't just abandon them," another voice explained.
"Protect? Thieves openly kidnapped my daughter in the city, and many other girls were also arrested, but you just left it alone. Aren't you protecting nothing?" The man's pleading had turned into angry accusations.
The more Isidor listened to the voice, the more familiar it seemed to him. He was about to get up and go outside to take a look, but Nymega had already run out before him.
"Uncle, why are you here?!" Nimega asked in surprise as she rushed out of the hall.
Chapter 39: The Thieves Who Prefer Pure Girls
Isidor walked out of the hall and saw a bearded middle-aged man lying on the ground on all fours, looking haggard.
Looking more closely, he realized that this was the caravan master who had brought him to Grimdor. Could it be that Nymega also knew him?
The uncle himself obviously had this question. He looked up blankly and looked at Nymega who had just greeted him: "Miss, do we know each other?"
Nymega turned to look at Isidor and said with pleading eyes: "Master, can you help him? I will explain the reason to you later."
Isidor nodded. The uncle had been nice to him along the way, and even his first weapons were given to him by him. Even if Nymega hadn't said it, he had already wanted to help.
"Uncle, let's talk somewhere else. These adventurers can't help you." Isidor came forward and said.
The uncle looked at Isidor in astonishment, feeling that he looked familiar, but couldn't remember where he had seen him. But his intuition told him that the two people in front of him were the ones who were really willing to help him.
So the uncle said goodbye to the adventurers, went to a nearby tavern with the two men, and asked for a private room to sit down.
"Uncle, can you tell us how your daughter was arrested?" Isidor asked.
"Early this morning, I took her to an auction to watch a theater performance, but a scaly bear suddenly rushed out and caused chaos. Although the scaly bear was subdued by the adventurers, my Tina disappeared in the chaos. I had bound a positioning scroll to Tina before, and I followed the location, only to see a carriage running out of town. When I came back and asked around, people said that that was the lair of a thieves group, and most likely she was kidnapped by them." The uncle narrated with regret.
Hearing this, Isidor couldn't help but frowned: the leader of the thieves outside the town once said: their boss ordered them to capture virgins. Could it be that the kidnapping of the uncle's daughter is also related to this incident?
What on earth do these thieves need so many virgins for? Is this what the leader of the thieves likes?
"Actually, I knew an A-rank adventurer in town. If I had asked her for help, maybe there might have been some solution. But when I asked at the guild, I learned that she had been missing for a while. I had no choice but to beg other adventurers for help, but you all saw the result. No one was willing to cause trouble for the thieves' group even if they paid." The uncle sighed.
"Uncle, let us help you." Isidor said, drinking the beer in the glass.
"It's certainly a good thing that you are willing to help me. But excuse me, you give me the feeling that you know me, but I don't know you two. Is it because I am old and a little forgetful?" The uncle asked awkwardly, scratching his head.
When the uncle asked this, Isidor was stunned.
I haven't been with the uncle for long, and my figure is much different now, so it's normal for the uncle not to recognize me. But Nimica obviously knows the uncle, so why can't he recognize me?
"Uncle, actually I am the A-rank adventurer you found." Nymega suddenly spoke in a somewhat rough voice.
"You are...Kameni?" the uncle asked in surprise.
"If you're not wearing a mask, you really can't be recognized," Nimica said with a smile.
"It's you, but why aren't you wearing a mask and your voice has changed?" the uncle asked.
Isidor also looked at Nymega. Although he had never asked about Nymega's past, he was curious about it.
"Uncle, I'm sorry I didn't tell you before: my real name is Nymega, and my voice is deliberately disguised. Because I often do some tomb-robbing and grave-digging work, I don't want to use my real name." Nymega said a little embarrassedly.
"I see. But keeping your identity secret is nothing for an adventurer, so you don't have to apologize for it," the uncle said cheerfully.
"Master, let me introduce you formally: this is the traveling merchant uncle who had been kind to me before. I used to spend money lavishly and owed a huge amount of money due to excessive spending. All my weapons and equipment were taken away by my creditors. It was thanks to the uncle that he lent me money that I was able to resolve the crisis." Nymega introduced to Isidor.
"Uncle, let me introduce you: this is Mr. Isidor. For some reasons, I am now his maid." Nymega said shyly.
"Isidor? You are..." the uncle said in surprise.
"Uncle, I am the dwarf who took the bus that day, do you remember?" Isidor said with a smile.
"Oh! I remember now. No wonder you looked so familiar to me. It's you! But why did you..." the uncle said in surprise.
"Uncle, I have a secret about this matter, so please keep it a secret. Anyway, we will try to rescue your daughter, but you may need to provide some funds for the operation." Isidor said.
"Please rest assured, I will keep the secret. As for paying, of course I am willing to do so, but the current situation is that I cannot hire adventurers even if I pay." The uncle said dejectedly.
"No, I don't want you to hire adventurers, but to pay for intelligence. There are many intelligence dealers operating in the gray area in this town. They are all profit-seeking guys. As long as you are willing to pay enough money, you will definitely get news about the thieves' group. Nymega and I are outnumbered and can only use a surprise attack to get the people back, so intelligence is crucial." Isidor said.
"Yes, yes, yes! I was so confused for a moment that I didn't even think of spending money to buy some information! Mr. Isidor, thank you so much. As long as you can save my daughter, I will do anything for you!" the uncle said excitedly.
"You're welcome. Without further ado, we will split up now. Uncle will be responsible for collecting intelligence in the town, and Nymega and I will go outside the town to inquire. We will meet here early tomorrow morning." Isidor said.
"Yes, yes, I'll mobilize the caravan members right away to collect intelligence in the town." The uncle shook Isidor's hand gratefully. The originally chaotic situation suddenly became clear because of his appearance.
After saying goodbye to the uncle, Isidor left the tavern with the maid and headed straight out of the town.
"Nimega, I didn't realize you were an A-rank adventurer before. No wonder your stats are so high." Isidor said with emotion.
"I'm sorry, master. I didn't mean to hide it from you. My strength has declined now, and I would be ashamed if I continue to call myself A-level." Nymega replied with her head down.
"I'm sorry... It's because I absorbed my sister's power that your attributes have declined." Abe whispered inside Nymega's body.
"It's not your fault. After all, you had no control over your body at that time. And in the final analysis, it was my own greed for the treasure that led me to take risks alone, which led to this outcome. But then again, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have met the master." Nymega said affectionately, hugging Isidor's arm.
The next morning, Isidor met the uncle again in the tavern.
The uncle's hair was messy and he had dark circles under his eyes. It was obvious that he had not gotten enough rest.
But despite this, his spirits were very high.
"There are several hundred thieves outside the town, and their strengths vary. They usually rob merchants everywhere. Their leader is a former A-rank adventurer, and they don't have a fixed lair." The uncle said this, picked up the glass and took a sip of beer, then continued:
"In addition, I also know that they have captured many children recently, but have not demanded ransom from anyone. There are rumors that they have locked the children in an abandoned village. Some people have seen them transporting various supplies to the village, including many magic props. It seems that they are really preparing for some large-scale ceremony."
