As a local snake, Katje naturally would not arrange for Leo and the others to rest in the sewers. After she handed over the black market matter to her deputy, she led Leo and the others back to the surface and to the most upscale hotel in Tranquility City.

, and arranged the three of them in the hotel.

It was nothing at first, but after learning that this hotel turned out to be Cattier's property, Robert's face became a little ugly.

Previously, Katje said that vampires and werewolves had forced the black market in Asa County to change its business content and model. Robert thought that the black market here might be doing very badly, even though Katje mentioned that they were making a lot more money now than before.

And there was no need to risk his life to fight, he just thought Katje was being tough.

However, after seeing this luxurious hotel now, he realized that what Katjie said before was indeed correct. After the black market in Yasha County changed its model, it made a lot more money than before. It was just a black market in a small border town like Katjie.

The person in charge can already have such a big industry, but what about the black market leaders in other big cities?

With this feeling of envy and jealousy, Robert looked very ugly for most of the day, muttering from time to time about abandoning the black market tradition.

Compared to the changes in the business model of the black market in Asa County, Leo is more concerned about what has happened in recent times.

He did not look for the newspaper to read because the contents recorded in the newspaper were incomplete, but asked Katje directly.

Although Tranquility City is a small town on the edge of Yasha County, because it relies on Yasha County, news circulates very quickly here, especially the news transmitted by the black market. Most of it has not yet reached the northwest, and it has become old news here.

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From Katje's mouth, Leo learned that the situation in the Kingdom of Maris was really bad. The civil war in the Kingdom had already left the prosperous counties and provinces in the central, western and southern parts riddled with holes, and the people were in dire straits. Suddenly, various

All kinds of monsters are like the straw that breaks the camel's back, completely crushing the people's livelihood in the already overwhelmed central, western and southern regions.

Now the suburbs of these places have become almost deserted, and everyone has hid in the cities protected by high walls and soldiers, further disrupting the order of the city.

The west is a grassland desert, vast and sparsely populated. Even if people's livelihood is destroyed, it will not matter to the Kingdom of Maris. In the northwest, government troops and rebels are fighting there, but both warring parties are restraining their destructive power. The cities in the northwest

and the villages and towns on the outskirts of the city are still intact, and the impact on people's livelihood is not great.

As for Yasha County in the north, although a wave of monsters also broke out here, it quickly calmed down, and both the rebel army and the government army had a tacit understanding not to enter this area, making this the only part of the Maris Kingdom.

A land of peace, which also caused a large number of southerners to escape the scourge of war and fled to Asa County. Most of these people were wealthy people. The arrival of these people made Asa County become the entire Kingdom of Maris in a short period of time.

The most prosperous place.

Take Tranquility City as an example. Among the many people Leo saw in the black market before, most of them were rich and powerful children from the south who had fled here. They had seen the power and danger of monsters, so they were also curious about the mysterious power.

, knowing that there is a black market will naturally generate curiosity and go to investigate.

The government army and the rebel army also realized that the situation had become very bad. If the fighting continued, the Kingdom of Maris might really be over, so both sides had the idea of ​​​​negotiation. Except for the western part, the battlefields in other places were temporarily suspended.

During the battle, each of them was dealing with various things in the area under their control, mainly dealing with the monsters that had occupied the suburbs.

Because the army needs to protect the city, the job of hunting monsters in the suburbs is left to bounty hunters. Now the main task of cleaning up monsters is divided into three forces that are working at the same time. One is the special bureau recruited by the government army and the rebel army, and the other is the special bureau.

In the black market, the last one is naturally the Church of the King of the Hill.

Although the temporary cleanup of monsters in the suburbs is not very smooth, at least it has not worsened the current situation. It will not take long for various forces to sort out a method of dealing with monsters. By then, the monsters entrenched in the suburbs will no longer exist.

It's a problem.

Leo doesn't care about those dependents who have lost control due to the changes in the world. Among the various news provided by Katje, he is most concerned about the fog on the sea, because there is news that the fog entrenched on the sea has not weakened and dissipated these days.

, on the contrary, it is getting thicker and thicker, and is spreading towards the land. Three coastal cities have been engulfed by thick fog, and news has been lost.

"Don't the government and rebel forces just ignore those cities?" Leo frowned and asked.

"They can't control it even if they want to. The things in the areas they control now are enough to keep them busy. There are no extra manpower to deal with these matters." Katje shook his head and said, "However, they all use the shunting few

The city's loss of contact was treated as a bounty mission on the black market. The bounty was extremely rich and had attracted many people and forces. In addition, they also asked the Church of the Hill King for help. As far as I know, the Church of the Hill King launched a

A team of knights led by three paladins has been sent into the fog area, but there is no news from there yet."

"Didn't you send someone there?" Leo asked.

"No." Katje answered affirmatively at first, but then said with some uncertainty: "Maybe."

The news that thick fog is spreading is not only bad news for the world of Velen, but also bad news for Leo, because this thick fog is likely to come from the abyss, which means that with the return of the gods,

The abyss has also arrived, and the whole world is sliding towards the abyss.

However, Leo thought about it calmly and felt that it was unlikely, because if the world really slid into the abyss, then those returning true gods would definitely be the most worried, and they would definitely use the shortest possible time to take countermeasures to prevent the abyss from coming.

Instead of issuing an oracle such as forming a knighthood.

Judging from the reaction of the church after accepting the commission, it is obvious that the Church of the Hill King did not receive any inspiration from their gods, and they did not know what was in the thick fog, so they were so bold as to send only a few paladins and ordinary people.

The knight enters the thick fog.

"Where are those cities?" Leo suddenly asked again.

Katje quickly took out a map, and then only showed it to Leo. The cities covered by thick fog were all in the southwest corner of the Maris Kingdom. One of them was an offshore island city. They were all seaside cities, and carefully

If you look at the map, you will find that they are not very far from the Sea of ​​Falling Stars.

"Is the fog heavy in the north?" Leo suddenly asked again.

"I don't know about this," Katje shook his head, thought again, and said, "But I heard that there are ships in Dalyat that can sail along the coastline. I guess the intensity of the thick fog cannot be compared with that in the south.

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After hearing these words, Leo breathed a sigh of relief, because according to his understanding, if the world falls into the abyss, the thick fog in the abyss will appear at the same time, and the concentration will be about the same. It cannot be stronger in the south and weaker in the north.

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However, this is just Leo's speculation. He still needs to see the thick fog on the sea with his own eyes before he can make a judgment.

After nightfall, everyone returned to their rooms to rest. After Leo returned to the room, he did not fall asleep, but opened his mental network. However, he slightly changed the perception accuracy of the mental network and expanded it.

With a single coverage, the entire Tranquility City was shrouded in the perception of his spiritual network.

Although on the surface Tranquility City looks very peaceful as its name suggests, in fact it still hides some out-of-control Familia who can control their own power but cannot control their own mentality. In one night, he sensed at least five battles, and there were no traces of them.

The only exception was the fight with the werewolf officers of the garrison stationed here.

Even though Leo adjusted the sensing accuracy of the mental network, he was still able to clearly sense the details of the strength of the two warring parties after watching the five battles.

As he had guessed before, those werewolves whose energy fluctuation level reached level three psykers were unable to control their own power. Not only did they not have corresponding combat skills, they were also unable to control their own power well.

, all the destruction at the battle site was caused by these werewolves who had no control over their power.

Compared to those werewolves, those out-of-control clansmen who have lost most of their sanity control their own power more subtly. They use their power just like using their own arms, although the energy level is lower than that of werewolves.

There are more than one level, but he is still able to fight the werewolf back and forth, and in the end he even used a little trick to escape the werewolf's pursuit.

After several battles, it finally ended with the out-of-control family members escaping from Tranquility City, and the werewolf officers gained rare practical experience.

However, their battles have hurt the ordinary people who are around the battle zone. When most of those ordinary people see the twisted and weird figures of the out-of-control family members, their own wills have been affected by these out-of-control family members.

A few of them survived the impact of some unknown spiritual energy, but most of them fainted from the impact, and almost all of them went crazy when they woke up.

These crazy ones, as well as the sane ones, were pretty lucky. Even more unlucky were those who happened to be in the middle of the battle field. They were either eaten as food by the out-of-control family members, or they were uncontrollable by the werewolves.

The attack was torn apart. All in all, only a few people who happened to be in the center of the battle zone were still alive, and these people were all crazy without exception.

The two ethnic groups in Yasha County seemed to have a quick and effective process for dealing with this situation. Not long after the battle ended, troops immediately went to seal off the area and then divided the survivors into two groups.

After witnessing the battle, those who can still stay awake will be absorbed by the special department, because this means that those people have the potential to become bounty hunters, or even extraordinary beings.

As for the remaining lunatics who had collapsed, they were taken away and sent to public sanatoriums outside the city for treatment.

The damaged buildings in that area were also quickly cleared, and a construction team began to transform the land early the next morning. In less than half a day, a residential area was transformed into a public square.

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Leo had already taken back the spiritual network while the local government and military were dealing with post-war matters.

After this incident, he already had a preliminary understanding of the werewolves in Yasha County, and through the strength of the werewolves, it would not be difficult for him to deduce the strength of the vampires who have been fighting against them for many years. If his inferences did not make too many deviations

, then no matter what kind of accident occurs during this trip to Moonlight City to participate in the auction, he will not be in any danger.

This inference also made him relax a little. In this state of mind, he quickly entered a state of rest.

At noon the next day, Katje came to the hotel and informed Leo and others that the rail car had arrived. She handed three afternoon tickets to Leo and the others, and then asked Leo if it was still possible.

Sell ​​some rune traps.

It turned out that the battle in the city last night did not end because the out-of-control family members escaped. One of the out-of-control family members went into the sewers to avoid being chased by werewolves, and happened to enter the area where the black market was located.

But before the out-of-control Familia was besieged by the guards of the black market, a rune trap that Katje randomly set during the day was activated. The spiritual energy stored in the rune trap was attached to the dozens of blades that were revealed after the trap was activated.

, instantly cutting the out-of-control family member who looked like some kind of mollusk into pieces, killing him on the spot.

The powerful power produced by the rune trap combined with the mechanical blade shocked Katje. At that time, she asked the black market craftsmen to carefully study the manufacturing method of the rune trap.

Then not only did she fail to figure out the reason for the Turing characters in the rune trap, but she also didn't understand the principle of the ejection blades of purely mechanical devices, because they imitated the installation of a blade but the ejection blade was smaller than

The blades used to create rune traps are not even ten times weaker, so the black market craftsmen blame the exaggerated power of the blades on the incomprehensible runes, believing that the tower wizard's unique skills cannot be imitated.

During the day, Katje focused on wizard potions. She only bought some rune traps and mechanical traps by the way. More importantly, she wanted to take the opportunity to build a good relationship with Leo.

However, she never thought that the rune traps and mechanical traps that she had ignored during the day would have the power to easily kill an out-of-control Familia. Even though the situation at that time was somewhat special, the out-of-control Familia had no time to defend itself.

But it is undeniable that the power of rune traps far exceeds all the weapons that can be used now to deal with dependents or extraordinary people. More importantly, these rune traps can be used by ordinary people. Katjie naturally
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