Chapter 157 The Lazy City

The morning mist gradually dissipated.

In a secluded garden courtyard, Xiao En's figure was suspended thirty centimeters above the ground. He was wearing a loose black robe, and around him were energy balls that materialized from the real world, namely earth, water, wind and fire.

These energy balls gathered and danced around his figure for a whole night, until he opened his eyes and then gradually dissipated into the air.

Meditate overnight.

Xiao En slowly opened his eyes, a faint divine light flowed, making his eyes look like a deep abyss, as if absorbing the light from all around. He gently raised a finger, and the stone table in front of him automatically floated in the air at a height of one meter.

——Telekinesis.

Xiao En's destiny has entered the second stage. As his extraordinary level gradually approaches the upper limit of twenty, he also needs to further improve the power of arcane and spiritual paths and make himself perfect. Only in this way can he survive the final "heavenly calamity".

Of course, this is just his own opinion. There is no so-called "heavenly calamity" in the weird kingdom, but if you want to prove your destiny, you must integrate the laws of the world.

Currently, the law of destiny is in the hands of the Old Ones, and this process is similar to overcoming a tribulation.

——"Thought Probe (6th level spell): You can learn all the memories and knowledge of the target, including those that are deeply buried."

Eight hours of meditation.

The psychic stone in Sean's palm shattered into powder, and he learned a new psychic spell.

The ability of a psychic scholar is somewhat similar to that of a wizard, and is very resource-intensive. Psionic stones can be used as materials for learning new spells, but such items are relatively rare in the weird kingdom, and can only be obtained in large quantities on planets ruled by monsters.

Most of Xiao En’s current resources come from Abyss City.

"Am I capable of interstellar travel with my current strength?"

"Can you steal a strange interstellar battleship?"

Xiao En carefully deduced and finally decided to wait a little longer. The threshold for becoming a Star Realm Master was the Legendary level. His strength was close to the Destiny Legendary level, but he lacked sufficient foundation. However, robbing a strange interstellar battleship could make a qualitative leap in his foundation, but the risk was too great, and he might need to find some help.

It is too arrogant to challenge a strange interstellar battleship alone without forming a team or starting a group.

"Su En is not in the distant country at the moment. This is the best opportunity."

"If Suen comes back."

"It will be difficult for me to steal another strange interstellar battleship."

Some things require luck, and more importantly, you need to seize the opportunity.

Building something yourself is not as fast as robbing it. Amon once said that in this galaxy, there is a strange interstellar fleet stationed somewhere in space.

Sean must act before his old consciousness returns.

There was a sound of soft footsteps.

In the corridor of the villa garden, a charming veiled woman slowly walked over. She was wearing a black tights and a bandaged dagger on her thigh. Her figure was completely integrated into the shadows. After seeing Xiao En wake up from meditation, the mistress bowed her head respectfully and said, "Lord Eamon."

"This is a selected list. They are all slaves."

The mistress's promotion was very fast.

People who have experienced the baptism of death will transform and grow rapidly.

Xiao En raised his hand lightly, and the list fell into his palm. He glanced at it calmly and said, "Very good. I will leave these people to you to lead. Organize the Shadow Guards as soon as possible."

He still needs a group of his own people in the real world.

Among the many career paths, there are only a few types of extraordinary people that can be mass-produced, such as warriors, thieves, rangers, etc., all of which are concentrated in the melee system. Spellcasting is difficult to mass-produce because spellcasters consume too many resources.

Xiao En prefers to train rangers and thieves. The former are good at firearms, and after being equipped with the Inferno Roaring Cannon, their combat effectiveness is quite amazing. The latter are good at stealth assassination, and are the first echelon for spying on information.

Currently he is studying attribute templates, which is to test other people's basic attributes in a digital way.

Both rangers and rogues need to meet the requirements of strength, agility and constitution. Constitution can be slightly lower, but agility is really not good. People who are not agile enough will find it difficult to exert sufficient strength after being promoted to rogue.

"If we can't specifically test our basic attributes, many people are going in the wrong direction for advancement. Only by playing to our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses can we unleash our potential."

There are twelve people on the list, all of them are from the lower class.

Xiao En plans to recruit some assassins.

From the perspective of raising assassins, orphans, slaves, and people of low status are definitely more suitable.

It will take some time for these people to grow up.

Fortunately, the promotion of the extraordinary people in the Weird Kingdom is a leapfrog, and as long as there are enough resources, they will be promoted very quickly. The promotion system of the Weird Kingdom is too resource-intensive, and with Xiao En's current family background, he can't support too many extraordinary people.

Xiao En stood up and said, "I'm leaving today."

"I'll leave things here to you for now. If you have any questions, please contact Doctor Monster."

Upon hearing this, the mistress bowed her head respectfully and said, "Yes, Lord Amon."

The entire Twilight Town has been completely reorganized by Xiao En, but the original smuggling channels have not changed much. The only difference is that all the smuggled people have fallen into Xiao En's control. He does not want to alert the enemy for the time being, and is ready to select potential targets from these teams to train them into extraordinary people. This time, Xiao En has cleared out most of the powerful and wealthy classes in Twilight Town, and the wealth he controls has reached an astonishing tens of millions of dinars. If he hadn't confiscated their property, he really didn't know that these people were so rich.

No wonder ancient emperors liked to confiscate property.

In fact, this is very normal. The old powerful people in Dusk Town have been running the business for decades, doing all kinds of things such as robbery, fraud, smuggling and trafficking. They are almost the same as the local gentry in ancient times.

Xiao En planned to open up a smuggling channel, not to the Dorne region, but to the Abyss City, because that is where there are a steady supply of low- and mid-level extraordinary relics.

The spirit world has infiltrated the real world, and an era of change is about to begin.

As long as they have the resources, ordinary people can also become extraordinary people.

“Population, resources.”

"We can find ways to obtain resources, but we can only obtain population from the real world. The population of the weird world is too small."

Dusk Town is just a small place with a population of tens of thousands. It is not worth Sean wasting too much energy on it. The changes he brought about have just begun, and it is not yet time for them to fully erupt.

A luxurious convoy left Dusk Town at noon.

When the carriage passed the city gate, a mature and charming lady lifted the curtain and looked at the crowded notice board, "Madam Yvonne, her husband used to be a skilled tailor, and later became a wealthy cloth merchant. But all this is in the past, her husband was bankrupted and committed suicide by someone, and she herself became a plaything of others."

The beautiful lady looked down at the devil tattoo hidden on her abdomen, her face revealing a sense of satisfaction after revenge.

That lord helped her to become a transcendent in the demonic path, and then handed over to her the culprits who had caused her family to be destroyed. No one knew what happened in the room that night, but the man's miserable screams never stopped. When the beautiful lady came out, she looked like a vampire countess soaked in blood.

"Lord Eamon." In the darkness of dawn, Lady Yvonne knelt on one knee and prostrated herself humbly before the lord.

The adult had a calm look, he was gazing at the bright moon in the sky, quietly waiting for others to come out. Soon a pair of charming sisters walked out slowly, with a cruel smile of revenge on their lips, and the elder sister was holding a piece of human face skin peeled off alive in her palm.

A hunchbacked beggar, a lame groom, a fawning servant, and other figures emerged in the darkness.

Xiao En looked at them calmly and said calmly: "From today on, you are part of the Doomsday Circus."

Too bad there's no clown.

Not everyone can play the clown.

The Doomsday Regiment under Amon was reorganized once again, but this time the candidates were selected by Xiao En himself. Some of them could survive to the end, and if they failed to be promoted, someone would inherit their title.

"What's written on it?"

A traveling merchant's question startled Ms. Yvonne from her scattered thoughts.

She sat up straight again, smiled and reached out to gently stroke the sleepy little girl beside her. In her hand was a piece of strange leather with some weird tissues on it. She was slowly threading the needle and sewing it into a piece of leather armor.

"It seems that the city hall is ready to increase investment in education. They have finally done something about personnel."

A middle-aged man wearing glasses answered: "They plan to rebuild a school next to the lake in the villa area."

Spread knowledge.

Starting with the mortals, Sean did not make drastic reforms to Dusktown. He just used part of the town's expenses on the education of ordinary people. If it were a peaceful era, Sean might be able to complete the cohesion of knowledge laws by educating everyone, but now he obviously does not have so much time, and that would take decades to complete. However, not having enough time does not mean that you can't do it. Any change is a good thing.

"Mom." The little girl curled up and leaned in her mother's arms.

The experiences during this period seemed like a nightmare to her. In her drowsy eyes, a strange glimmer was condensing in her pupils.

Lady Yvonne caressed her daughter's back lovingly and said gently, "Go to sleep."

"It's passed."

The convoy quickly moved on. The lame coachman waved his whip and whispered a few words to the horses pulling the carriage. Soon, the group passed through the dilapidated city gate under the sunlight.

Xiao En left the seeds here, and how they will grow into something only time can tell.

However, he gave 'guns' to ordinary people.

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Around the city.

This is the most densely populated city in the Dagon region, with a population of nearly one million. However, it is different from Dorne, because even from a distance you can smell the stench of feces, and the river surrounding the city is full of filth and garbage, so that the city's residents have to find other ways to get drinking water. The population is too dense, the environment is seriously polluted, and there are no supporting public facilities, so countless dark corners have grown under the towering city walls.

In the early morning, the air here is filled with the smell of urine because some residents empty their chamber pots directly from upstairs into the streets.

Xiao En's figure strolled among the bustling crowd.

From the moment he stepped into the city, his brows were furrowed, because he felt like he had entered a cesspool. The whole city was like a huge open-air toilet, but everyone here seemed to be accustomed to it.

Flies were flying all over the place and gathering in the corners of the sewers to lay eggs. The feces along the way had even dried up, with no signs of anyone taking care of it. A ragged beggar was lying in the pile of feces and urine with a lazy expression on his face, and he even seemed a little nonchalant when begging from people, as if he didn't care whether he would starve to death or not.

lazy!

How lazy!
Compared to the hardworking and busy working people in Dorne, the people living here are incredibly lazy, and the whole city exudes an atmosphere of despair and decay.

People's expressions were extremely numb, they were skinny and there was almost no life on their faces, as if they were left with only an empty shell after a long period of repressed life. They worked hard every day for three meals a day, and when they had barely completed the necessary work to survive, they once again fell into an extremely lazy and numb state.

The devil's laws are at work.

Xiao En saw an old beggar lying in the corner basking in the sun, he looked strong but thin, with the outline of muscles showing under his wrinkled skin. He must have been a manual laborer. His right leg was rotten and festering, but he didn't care. He just looked at the passers-by with a very strange, numb and satisfied expression. He even sucked some pus and blood from the wound, licked it in his mouth, and finally revealed a silly smile.

With such injuries, he should be in pain or even dead.

But he seemed to have lost consciousness.

There are so many flies and maggots here that it is a bit disgusting. You can even see rats flying through the streets, but pedestrians nearby completely ignore them. Only hungry beggars will suddenly reach out their hands, grab the rats with skills that are somewhat uncommon for ordinary people, and then put them into their mouths to chew them.

In an equally dirty hotel.

Akdina Duer stood in front of Xiao En with a serious expression and said in a deep voice, "Master Xiao En."

“The Ring City wasn’t like this in the past.”

"All these changes started two years ago, and they are gradually getting worse."

Xiao En stared at Akdina in front of him, who looked haggard, with slightly dry hair and dark circles under her eyes. She no longer had the radiance she had in Abyss City. Her beautiful face was like a withered flower, revealing a trace of extreme fatigue and numbness.

Sean stretched out his hand and stroked Akdina Du'er's long hair. Suddenly, he pinched out a lively head louse in a flash. It had been full of blood. With a "snap", the head louse was crushed and blood splattered.

Xiao En looked deep and said calmly, "How long has it been since you had a good wash?"

Akdina Duer trembled all over and stood there in a daze.

Xiao En reached out and stroked her cheek, and said calmly: "Go take a shower. If you have anything to say, we can talk about it after you wake up."

He flicked his hand and opened a secret door leading to the wizard's mansion.

Akdina-Duer was also infected.

After sending her figure into the wizard's secret door, Xiao En turned his head and stared at the towering black spire in the distance, whispering: "In the old days..."

under night.

Sean's figure flew out, and after leaving the area where ordinary people lived, he smelled a pungent, sweet scent of perfume, as if the entire upper city was soaked in perfume. Under the cover of the rich perfume, Sean smelled a foul odor of decay from within.

——The fragrance is a diluted stench.

Xiao En landed slowly on the ground. He saw a luxurious dinner party being hosted by a noble. A large number of guests gathered at the dining table and feasted on the food. They had fat bodies, pale skin, and eyes full of hunger for food. From their eyebrows, one could vaguely see their handsome and beautiful faces when they were thinner.

There are many extraordinary people among them, but their bodies tend to be more sturdy, like a small mountain of flesh compared to ordinary people.

Everyone was used to all this. They sprayed perfume, applied powder, and dressed themselves up the same as before. However, in Sean's spiritual vision, their fat heads reflected the hideous faces of pigs.

At this moment, Xiao En also felt a little hungry.

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(End of this chapter)