Chapter 445

Returning to the City Lord's Mansion in North Wind City, Anthony looked at the exquisite alchemy hearts before him and asked: "Are these your Soul Caskets?"

"Yes, this is mine, this is Silver Coin's, and this is Luokesi's. It records all our memories. If the soul connection between us is interrupted, it will be activated to resurrect us," Du Luo Ken said.

Before delivering the vegetables, for the sake of safety, Du Luo Ken had refined Soul Caskets for everyone separately. He already had one, so he only needed to refine two new ones.

Silver Coin didn't care, but Luokesi excitedly hugged hers and wouldn't let go: "Is this for me? Really? Really for me? A Soul Casket, a Lich Soul Casket, can I really take it? I haven't made any contributions, is this okay?"

She said it wasn't okay, but she held it tightly and wouldn't let go.

This was a Lich Soul Casket, what did it equate to? It equated to a life, an insurance policy that allowed her to be reborn even if she died.

Although Luokesi had long known about such things as Lich Soul Caskets, she had never thought that she would one day possess one. She was just a small lich from a remote town; even if she sold herself, she wouldn't be worth a Soul Casket.

Du Luo Ken said irritably: "Yes, yes, yes, it's for you. Don't give it back to me."

"I want it, I want it." Luokesi hurriedly hid the Soul Casket behind her back, her face blooming with smiles. These thighs were truly thick.

Du Luo Ken turned to Anthony and said: "Now we just need to find a safe place to put them away. Do you want one? Shall I help you refine one?"

Anthony smiled and shook his head: "That won't be necessary. I have a Holy Substitute and backup bodies."

He wasn't a lich; using a lich's Soul Casket required reincarnation. It was better to stay alive.

Each of them put away their own Soul Caskets, and everyone sat in a circle to start a meeting.

Anthony said: "The information gathered this time shows that the Warlock Alliance does not have enough space to grow vegetables. I suspect they don't even have enough space to grow food."

"What they brought out for disaster relief is a kind of block-shaped pastry they call 'Convenient Rice Cake.' Privately, they call it 'Snot Cake.' It's small but very filling; eating one piece can satisfy the needs of a meal, similar to our rapeseed cakes."

As Anthony spoke, he took out a piece of Convenient Rice Cake.

Naigelis took a small bite and said: "The taste is okay, not bad. Why call it 'Snot Cake'? Is it made of snot? Whose snot is so delicious?"

Except for Ang and a few others, everyone else showed expressions of disgust: "Lord Naigelis, can you please not describe it so disgustingly?"

Anthony explained: "According to those goblins, they eat this kind of rice cake every day, from childhood to adulthood, and they are long since tired of it, so seeing it is as disgusting as seeing snot. Moreover, eating this thing for a long time easily causes constipation."

Naigelis slapped his waist: "I see, so they are willing to pay a high price for fresh vegetables."

Anthony shook his head: "Paying a high price is one point; the other point means they are not short of magic crystals."

Du Luo Ken also added: "All their construct airships and flying cars are magic constructs that use magic crystals as energy, so they have many magic crystals—so many that they can use them to trade for vegetables. But they don't even have a place to grow vegetables, so where did they dig up the magic crystals?"

"Either they dug them from the ground, or they dug them from other planes. Otherwise, could they dig them from the sky?" Naigelis said.

Silver Coin, Anthony, and Du Luo Ken all had their eyes light up: "Dug from the sky?!"

Regardless of where the magic crystals were dug, the Warlock Alliance was not short of them. They used magic crystals to buy things, used them for constructs, and paid with them when drinking. They soon became "big spenders" in everyone's eyes.

The people of North Wind City all pushed their goods to the outskirts of the city to sell to the generous "big spenders."

The prices offered by the Warlock Alliance were at least three to ten times higher than the usual purchase prices, but they only accepted raw materials or semi-finished products.

For example, with wood, they bought logs and planks but did not accept finished products like wooden furniture or canes. The same went for minerals; they bought raw ore and refined pure metals but did not accept crafted items.

Besides these, they also accepted people.

They accepted sentient beings under ten years old, whether human or goblin, regardless of their origin. They called it providing a better growth environment, but in reality, it was human trafficking, and the prices offered were also very high.

The slave traders in North Wind City went crazy, contacting sources of "goods" all over the world, not hesitating to use teleportation arrays to transfer "goods." A large number of slaves under ten were transported to North Wind City via teleportation arrays.

According to the slave traders, it wasn't just North Wind City; in the other places where the Warlock Heavenly Ladder had descended, slave traders were also "clearing out" their stock.

Because for slave traders, the most valuable were strong males and young females; the old and young were considered money-losing goods, and as for the sick and disabled, they were usually disposed of.

Now that the Warlock Alliance was willing to take all the small slaves, they didn't have to spend money to raise them before they could produce returns, which naturally made everyone go crazy.

It was just that North Wind City was a bit strange; only slave traders were exerting effort. In other places, it was more often parents and relatives bringing their children, and even if they didn't receive money, they would hand their children over to the Warlock Alliance.

The entire plane was suffering from famine. Rather than starving to death with them, it was better to hand them over to the Warlock Alliance.

"This has led to supply exceeding demand, and we can't even raise prices. Those damn poor wretches." A slave trader who had been to another Warlock Heavenly Ladder was cursing in a tavern, and he was overheard by Anthony, who had come to gather information.

The next morning, someone discovered that this slave trader had drowned in his own urine in the back alley of the tavern.

John, who was temporarily acting as the security captain, came to check and said very firmly: "Drunk, fell over while urinating, and his mouth and nose happened to be submerged in a urine pit, causing him to suffocate to death. Does anyone know him? Does anyone know him? No one knows him? Then drag him away. One nameless drunk male corpse. If no one claims it in seven days, burn it."

Silver Coin and Anthony continuously collected procurement information from the Warlock Alliance and inferred a lot of key intelligence from it, but that was about it; they couldn't do anything else.

The landing points chosen by the Warlock Heavenly Ladder were very particular; they were all strategic passes that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. For example, North Wind City: the North Wind Mountains spanned the southeast, and the territory was entirely desert, with only one main city.

As long as the undead guards in the main city were cleared out, it was impossible for large-scale undead creatures to appear here.

The Warlock Alliance even dispatched airships and constructs to repair the interrupted roads. This meant that even if there were large-scale undead creatures, they didn't worry that the other party could enter North Wind City from a road and pose a threat to them.

"Having strength means being this confident." While analyzing the intelligence, Anthony couldn't help but complain.

Du Luo Ken spread his hands: "No way around it. Their Annihilation Spheres are too powerful. On that main road of North Wind City, no matter how many undead creatures are crowded there, they are just coming to die."

"How is your research on the Annihilation Sphere going?" Anthony asked.

"Research finished. The power range is very large. Undead creatures within a diameter of one hundred meters will be impacted. The closer to the blast point, the greater the impact. I used several Soul Hearts to test it, and they couldn't withstand it," Du Luo Ken said.

The Soul Heart was already at the level of a high-ranking undead creature. Golden Skeletons, Iron-Skin Zombies, Lich Kings, and Undead Saints all only possessed Soul Hearts, and Du Luo Ken only had a Soul Heart, which meant he couldn't withstand it either.

"Can it be defended against?" Anthony asked.

"Yes, it can be defended against a little, but if you are hit directly, it won't work. And they usually don't just throw one Annihilation Sphere," Du Luo Ken spread his hands.

Anthony had a headache. Possessing such a great weapon against undead creatures as the Annihilation Sphere, a frontal confrontation was unwise. How could he complete Ang's order?

Just as Anthony was at his wit's end, Silver Coin rushed in and said urgently: "It's bad, it's bad, my lord has infiltrated the Warlock Heavenly Ladder."

"What!?" Anthony and Du Luo Ken were both startled and jumped up: "What's going on? How did my lord get in? What happened?"

This is a long story, and it's all because the little angel is too cute.

Today was their third time delivering vegetables to the Warlock Alliance, and the amount of vegetables delivered was very large, reaching six thousand kilograms.

To meet the Warlock Alliance's requirement for "cleanliness," Ang had to follow along every time, only hiding in the carriage to fill the cargo hold after reaching the outskirts of the city to reduce contamination on the road.

It was already the third time. Anthony and Du Luo Ken were too busy, so they didn't follow, letting Silver Coin lead the team.

Just as they were waiting to deliver the goods, a team of classical light female priests happened to be coming on shift. Seeing the little angel kicking stones boredly beside the convoy, they all excitedly surrounded her.

They asked this and that, reaching out to pinch her cheeks and touch her head, which made the little angel howl in anger, staring indignantly at the pretty faces of these female priests.

Before she could take action, Ang picked her up.

"Your daughter is so cute. Hello, we are light priests. My name is Yunika. It's a pleasure to meet you," a beautiful female priest wearing classical sacrificial robes, with her fair neck and collarbone exposed, said to Ang with a smile.

Ang tilted his head.

"Hehe, won't you introduce yourself? What is your name?" Yunika asked with a smile.

"Ang." Ang followed his habit and gave his alias.

"And you?" Yunika half-squatted down, her eyes curving into crescent moons: "Cute little girl, what is your name?"

"Ao~" Being picked up, the little angel knew she couldn't hit anyone, so she responded pitifully.

"Ao? This name... is quite special. May the light bless you." Yunika cast holy light to stroke the little angel's forehead.

This was a blessing; Yunika liked this cute little girl too much.

But the moment her hand touched the little angel, her expression changed drastically. She widened her eyes, looking at the little angel in disbelief, and then looked at her own hand.

Her companions noticed her abnormality and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"

"Holy light affinity, holy light affinity. She has the qualifications of a saintess," Yunika said excitedly.

Naigelis, who was projected onto Ang, almost laughed out loud. Saintess qualifications? This is a six-winged archangel; she is the holy light itself!!

But these classical priests didn't think so. After hearing Yunika's words, they all excitedly surrounded her.

Ang vigilantly picked up the little angel and moved her behind him, blocking these women who seemed to want to snatch her away.

Yunika shouted loudly: "Back off, back off, don't scare people."

After stopping her excited companions, Yunika said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Ang. They didn't mean any harm; they were just too excited. How about this: you and little Ao come with us, go over there to have something to drink and chat, okay?"

Ang looked back at Silver Coin.

Silver Coin nodded. He could see that the status of these priests was quite high, much higher than Deputy Manager Wrench-Headshot, who purchased the vegetables.

Wrench had already cast pleading and threatening glances at him, as if saying: Hurry up and deal with these grandmothers, otherwise we'll all die together.

Anyway, it was just going over to chat; there shouldn't be any danger.

Ang picked up the little angel and followed Yunika and the others to the place where they worked.

Yunika and the others felt a bit heartbroken, turning back from time to time to say: "Mr. Ang, it's uncomfortable to carry her like that, isn't it? Why not put little Ao down?"

If I put her down, I'm afraid she'll hit you...

Ang put the little angel down and solemnly instructed: "Ao!"

"Ao~" The little angel nodded dejectedly.

Yunika hurriedly said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Come, I'll treat you to some sweet water." As she spoke, she reached out to hold the little angel's hand.

The little angel had just been instructed by Ang, so she helplessly let the other party hold her hand.

Naigelis whispered in Ang's heart: "Has the little angel shrunk again? Why does she look shorter than before?"

Ang nodded. With the growth of her strength, the little angel's body size would shrink. She was now the height of a genuine six-winged archangel, about 1.4 meters tall, shorter than Luna.

Arriving at the treatment area, this team of priests was originally here to hand over their shift, but the original priests heard about the "holy light affinity" and rushed over, forgetting about the shift change, surrounding the little angel and kneading her.

These people clearly liked the little angel, taking out their small snacks and candies for her to eat. Yunika even took out a clean cup, poured in clear water, and then cast a purification spell.

When treating patients, they usually couldn't bear to use divine arts, but now they were using a purification spell to purify the water.

After purifying it, Yunika added some dried fruit slices and sugar, and a cup of delicious sweet fruit tea was made.

Naigelis whispered: "Fruit and sugar are very expensive things there. They probably can't bear to drink this kind of fruit tea themselves."

Indeed, they couldn't bear to drink it; Yunika only brewed one cup, and the others drank clear water.

The little angel just had a bad temper, not that she was stupid. She also realized that these people had no ill intentions toward her, so she took it and drank a big gulp.

Seeing that she accepted everyone's kindness, everyone smiled and came over for another round of kneading.

After petting her for a while, everyone finally remembered the "holy light affinity" Yunika mentioned, and they all came over to give her a head-touching blessing, personally experiencing the so-called holy light affinity.

"Where is the person with holy light affinity?" A magnetic voice sounded from outside the crowd.

"Lord Monica!" The crowd parted, and a plump, beautiful woman walked in.

This was a tall and plump woman with a curvaceous figure that even loose sacrificial robes couldn't hide, but a large birthmark and a scar on her face ruined her beauty.

"Too cute. Do you have holy light affinity? May the holy light bless you." Monica smiled kindly, squatted down, cast holy light, and pressed it onto the little angel's forehead.

The little angel curled her lips; she was a bit annoyed. Just as Monica squatted down, her line of sight was level with hers, so the little angel also cast holy light and pressed one hand onto the scar on Monica's face.