Edge of the Apocalypse

Gullit reached out to touch the dagger on his waist, but the other party was even faster. Lightning reached out with one hand, grabbed his throat and lifted it up. The other hand swept away the dagger that Gullit had pinned to his waist. Then, he withdrew his shoulders and waved his fist. There were several ribbons of Origin Energy wrapped around the tip of the fist, and the tip of the fist slammed heavily into Gullit's lower abdomen. Instantly, a fierce Origin Energy pierced straight into his body. With this punch, Gullit flew backwards!

Gullit slammed into the mirror on the wall of the bathroom. The mirror was torn apart, and Gullit's eyes widened. A trail of blood slid out from the wall and he fell to the ground powerlessly. With a tilt of his head, there was no sound left. Robert's figure was reflected in the fragments of the mirror on the wall. He wiped his bloodstained fist with a handkerchief, then silently drew out a tactical dagger, stabbed Gullit's corpse, and left it on his corpse.

He picked up the banknotes from the killer's pocket and deliberately left one or two at the window before leaving through the front door.

Half an hour later, Anna and another man were standing beside Gullit's corpse.

Anna put on her gloves and squatted down to examine Gullit's corpse. Then, she sneered, "What a clumsy method. She clearly used her fierce fist to kill him. Look at the bones and organs inside, they are almost burnt to pieces. Yet, she still stabbed him with a short knife. Do you intend to disrupt your vision?"

She went to the window and picked up the two bills. "You want to make it look like a robbery? You must be careful to keep your mouth shut. But the more careful you are, the more fishy it will be."

'"Grey Eagle, check the origins of these people. If they arrive at Black Street only this year, I want the exact date of their appearance on Black Street. Oh, right. And the details of their three months. If they are newbies, there will definitely be a middleman to help them. I hope that those fellows will not be slaughtered." Anna said.

The man who came with her nodded silently and pushed the door open. Anna left the two banknotes in her hands in their original positions, shook her head at Gullit's corpse, and walked out of the room.

Not long after, the Chamber of Commerce soldiers who belonged to this area quickly arrived. They packed the corpses and carried them away in an orderly manner. No one asked anything during the whole process. Apart from the two bills by the window being stuffed into the pockets of a soldier, they did not even care who had died.

After all, this was Black Street, and people would die every day. Who cared about this?

A week later, Hawes stood in the study and watched Alan get into the car and leave the castle.

Behind him was Anna and butler Helsing.

Horn turned around and said, "In other words, three hyenas died in Black Street this week?"

"Yes, Master. All our clues are broken." Anna replied.

Hyenas, nicknamed killer brokers, are similar in nature to Walter, the boss of the old oak bar. However, it was far from Old Ward's qualifications. Furthermore, these brokers did not ask about the identity of their employers or targets. They adhered to the principle of "interests first" and had no principles at all. That was why they were called hyenas in the outside world.

"Looks like the other party did a pretty clean job. Then, what's your next plan?" Horn looked at his secret warrior and asked.

Anna smiled and said, "After the last hyena was killed, I knew I wouldn't be able to find anything on Black Street." After all, the assassins who attacked Young Master Sun were all newbies. Their relationship in Black Street was too shallow, and very few people knew them, except for those hyenas who had been silenced. If the plan failed, killing people and silencing them would not be a special matter. But the other party is so fast that it's like knowing what we're going to do every step of the way and getting ahead. "

"You mean, maybe it was someone from the clan?"

Anna shrugged, "I can't rule out this possibility, so I entrusted Mr. Helsing with the investigation of the family's income and expenditure in the past six months. Mr. Helsing seems to have some clues."

Horn looked at the butler.

Helsing nodded and said, "After Mrs. Anna gave the order, I secretly checked the family's income and expenditure statement for the past half year and found that one of the transactions was very lucrative."

"Oh, I'd like to hear more about it." Horn said.

"That 's that account of one of our mold-based pipeline factories in the seventh region of the earth' s surface. One of their purchases of raw materials in the last quarter was about 20% higher than the rest, and I secretly pulled out their production reports and related information for that quarter and found that one of them was not up to standard in terms of testing. The materials used in that batch of mould bases fall far short of our standards of conformity, and the mould bases are now stacked in the warehouse of the factory. According to the warehouse manager, they will be treated as defective. "

"In other words, someone used substandard ingredients to buy the ingredients and stole the huge difference between them?" "That's right," Horn smiled. "He's a cautious guy. That way, if we just look at the income and expenditure of the family, it's hard to tell what's wrong."

"Being able to do this means that you are very familiar with our business dealings and operations." Horn nodded. "Mr. Helsing, you and Anna will continue to dig for this clue. But don't alert them. The difference in price is a clue. But the other party won't swallow it openly. After all, it will leave too obvious traces. There will definitely be some operations that will turn it into reasonable income."

"You guys need to investigate carefully. Perhaps, you'll dig out some other interesting things." Horn said softly, "It's time for the clan's granary to be cleared of some rats and ants."

Alan returned to the Blade of Dawn as Beth Cod's Patriarch revealed his glory. Hearing that he had been attacked in Black Street, the friends of the academy greeted him one after another. Especially Green. After all, he was the one who invited Ellen to Black Street. Otherwise, Ellen would not have been attacked. Green blamed himself for this, and Allen naturally wouldn't blame him until there was conclusive evidence linking him to the attack.

Afterwards, Allen threw himself into the exploration of the sea of knowledge, and because of his comprehension that night in Black Street, all subjects were part of the knowledge system in Allen's eyes, and there was no longer any so-called difference in emphasis. He absorbed and integrated all the knowledge he could come into contact with.

Finally, on the night of the last month of midsummer, Allen transformed the knowledge he had learned over the past year into a Magic Cube Sequence design, combined with his occasional inspiration. He worked hard to finish the plan overnight and delivered it to Hughton the next night.

'"Let me see, the Thorned Sword Armor. The components are Silent Guards, and the Straight Saber is Dark Destruction" Hughton glanced at the design plan. There were illustrations of the Silent Guards of the Mana Armor and the Dark Destruction of the Straight Saber inside. He put down his plan and asked doubtfully, "What the hell are you doing, Ellen? Aren't these two magical weapons of yours?"

"Keep looking, teacher." Alan smiled.

Only then did Hughton continue to look down. Behind the two magic energy weapons was a sequence diagram. The pivot array used in this sequence was not one of the basic pivot arrays, and its energy conduction circuit carried an indescribable flavor. Hughton began to carefully look at the circuit design of the pivot array and the arrangement of its source points. Finally, his gaze fell on the name of the sequence: Fusion Matrix!

The old drunkard looked back fiercely and discovered that the sequence of Silent Guardian and Straight Blade's destruction had also been adjusted to some extent. Their energy conduction circuits and source arrangement were slightly different from before. Combined with the fusion matrix below, Hughton suddenly realized, "Damn, so this is a serial kit?"

However, he shook his head and said, "No, the ultimate ability of your Thorned Sword Armor, the Thorned Sword Array, is the product of combining the energy absorption of the Silent Guardian and the Origin Energy Saber Light of the Straight Saber. In other words, two single abilities constitute the final ability of the Sequence Set without consuming any additional Origin Energy!"

"This is very different from Monroe's set concept." Hughton put down Allen's design, stumbled into the study, and then came out with a book.

This paper book, which had obviously been in print for years, was pushed in front of Allen. The title of the book was "On the Possibility of Sequence Set," and the author's name was Monroe, the father of the Devil Martial Arts. Hughton patted the book with his hand and said, "This is Monroe's work in his later years. It is also an important key to opening the Sequence Set. Monroe devoted his entire life to this field after proposing the replication of the Origin Tool to create the first magical energy weapon."

The emergence of magical weapons is an important milestone in the history of human weapons development. It represents the beginning of a new era in the development and creation of weapons. However, magic power also had its limitations. For example, the single ability and the power that was far inferior to the Origin Tool made Monroe, the father of magic power, extremely regretful. In Monroe's later years, he raised the possibility of a serial kit.

The concept of this set was similar to Allen's, but it was different.

Monroe's idea was to split a high-level sequence into several low-level sequences and implant them into different weapons components. When equipped with these magical components, activate all low-level sequences to activate high-level abilities. This concept prompted the birth of the Sequence Set in later generations, allowing low-level Origin Energy practitioners to use their abilities that exceeded their rank.

However, in Monroe's Sequence Set, all of the magic weapon components served the final ability, and the sequence of the components did not carry their own abilities. In fact, they can be seen as components of a high-level sequence. Moreover, after the improvement of the later Sequence Masters, they were still unable to avoid one of the disadvantages of the set, and that was the extra Origin Energy they needed to pay for their ability to surpass the next level!

Turning back to Allen's design, Silence Guard and Straight Blade Dark Destruction were originally two unrelated magic energy weapons, but after inserting the fusion matrix, they were integrated into the Thorned Sword Armor's set. Of course, its set ability was defined by the level of its martial equipment, but the Thorned Sword Formation didn't need to pay extra Origin Energy for its set ability.

From the perspective of the plan, the Thorn Sword Formation was only a combination of the two magical components, and its power wasn't particularly outstanding. He could activate two demonic martial arts' Origin Energy, but he could obtain three abilities. The additional ability was the value of the set.

The key to this was that Allen had personally designed it, and it had never appeared on the fusion matrix of the known sequence map! Hughton realized that Allen's new Magic Cube sequence could bring about changes in the entire Magic Martial Domain!