Chapter 65: The Fairy’s Treasure Bag
Due to the past Fence Wood Battle, there were quite a number of mercenaries within the Black Dragon Territory. They were not accepted by the army, lacked legal status and employment, and mostly made a living as bandits or by doing dirty work for the rich and powerful. The Black Wind Fangs mercenary group that Li Wen had seen before was one such example.
But what mercenary group would be audacious enough to slaughter an entire village? Were the lord’s private army and the Kingdom’s army just for show?
“The corpses were all taken away, right?” Li Wen said with a grim expression.
In the field of mysticism, corpses were typically consumable materials, with the corpses of intelligent beings being the most sought after. They could be used for most rituals and sacrifices, as well as the refinement of various spells and potions, or even as food for monsters.
A group of illegal mercenaries committing a brutal massacre within the Kingdom of Order and taking away all the corpses – Li Wen certainly didn’t believe this was done without the instigation of a Transcendent.
Perhaps behind these mercenaries was a necromancer from the Path of the Soul of the Dead, needing a large number of corpses to create ghoul monsters or to feed packs of ghouls.
But no matter who or what the opponent was, Li Wen had now decided not to let them get away.
With a myriad of thoughts swirling in her mind, Li Wen closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her expression had returned to calm.
“Do you have any other relatives? Or, are there any villages or towns nearby?”
She decided to send Machi to a safe place first before going to find those mercenaries.
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According to Machi, the nearest town was a town called Black Sand, about half a day’s journey from here.
The Black Dragon Territory, under the rule of Lord Sir Wilson, had a total of seven towns, and Ark Town and Black Sand Town were among them.
Li Wen spent some time sending Machi to Black Sand Town, and then conveniently left some money for her, enough for her to get by in Black Sand Town for quite some time and find a satisfactory job.
As for whether wasting time on these matters would cause the investigators from the Disciplinary Bureau to find her faster, Li Wen had no such worries. Ark Town was too remote. It would definitely take more than ten days for the news to reach the Candle Sun Church in the big city, for the Candle Sun Church to urge the Kingdom’s Disciplinary Bureau to act, and then for the investigators to arrive in Ark Town.
Moreover, even if the investigators from the Kingdom’s Disciplinary Bureau did find her, Li Wen wouldn’t be afraid. She had dealt with them before; she just didn’t want to waste her precious time on them.
After all, her time as a Player was only a year. In another year, there would be the Great Convergence, and all Players would lose the ability to revive after death and gain experience to level up. She had to maximize her gains during this period.
After leaving Black Sand Town, Li Wen pondered how to find those mercenaries.
The Ghost Fairy Martha appeared like a ghost in the shadows of a corner and said with a grin, “If you could use Whispers of the Dead, you could call upon lonely souls to guide you.”
Li Wen was very suspicious of the Ghost Fairy’s intentions. If she had saved Machi’s life purely out of a desire for amusement, then what was her purpose in waiting for her here now?
“Don’t you need to guard the Fairy Market?” she asked directly.
The Ghost Fairy chuckled, said nothing, but threw a bag at Li Wen.
Li Wen reached out and caught it. The bag felt slippery and cold, as if sewn from the skin of the dead.
This… was the Fairy’s Treasure Pouch?
It was said that every Fairy had their own Treasure Pouch to store and hide the treasures they found or stole. Their function was similar to magic pockets, but the capacity and preciousness were vastly different. The Ghost Fairy’s Treasure Pouch was rumored to be an independent world, though such a seemingly false claim should not be taken seriously, it was enough to indicate its power.
Why would the Ghost Fairy give her this thing?
“The Fairy Market is inside.”
Li Wen was slightly stunned, then understood what it meant. So, the Ghost Fairy had packed everything from the Fairy Market inside?
“That Knight burned the entire ruin to ashes.”
So that’s how it is.
Li Wen nodded in understanding.
The entire Fairy Market existed around the alchemist master’s laboratory. With the laboratory destroyed, the Fairy Market naturally had no reason to exist.
But why did Moria do this? No, thinking carefully, Moria’s purpose in traveling all the way from Canaan was related to this matter, wasn’t it?
Then what about the Ghost Fairy? For what reason did it allow the Eldest Son of the Holy See to act like this? Or perhaps this was exactly what it intended.
Li Wen thought of the potion in the Dwarf’s hand. The method for refining the low-level Ghost Spirit Solution had been lost for a long time. Due to its short storage time, the potion must have been recently refined. And the Dwarf Jotes obviously didn’t have the ability to refine potions; it must have been refined by someone else.
The entire Fairy Market, or rather, the entire Black Dragon Territory, perhaps only the Ghost Fairy before her had the ability to refine such a long-lost potion.
The Fallen Shadow Potion was the same.
The Ghost Fairy refined those precious and rare potions and placed them in the laboratory. The Dwarf Jotes used them as bait to lure the greedy, thereby using their flesh and blood to cultivate the creations of the Great Blood.
If Li Wen had not intervened, Moria would have gone to the Ghost Fairy to ask for the route to enter the Underground Ruins. The Ghost Fairy would naturally not tell him, but would likely hint with words that someone in the market knew. Then Moria would seek out that person and find Jotes.
Since Moria recognized the Fallen Shadow Potion, he would naturally recognize the Ghost Spirit Solution refined with the same method. As long as his intelligence was not offline, he would eventually understand the problem.
After that, the events would be similar to Li Wen’s experience. Moria killed Jotes, who was trying to conspire with the Great Blood, destroyed the alchemist master’s laboratory, and in another way, erased all traces left by the alchemist master, taking away the Great Blood.
As for the relationship between the Ghost Fairy and the Dwarf, the relationship between Moria and the Ghost Fairy, and the relationship between the Holy See or the Secret Church and the alchemist master, these were not things Li Wen could know.
After thinking through these things, Li Wen looked at the Fairy Treasure Pouch in her hand and immediately had a different idea.
Perhaps Grandma Martha had orchestrated all these events precisely to legitimately pack the vast Fairy Market into this bag.
“Let’s go, time waits for no one.”
Martha uttered this sentence, and her figure merged with the darkness, slowly shrinking until it transformed into an ugly, pure black raven.
That appearance was not much different from the image of the prophesied raven that Li Wen had seen during the ritual to promote her to Witch Disciple.
