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Truth be told, this "Dawn Paladin" who called himself John had a life that could already be considered legendary among wild Beyonders.
Most wild Beyonders are only able to stay at Sequence 8 for their entire lives. The potion formulas and main ingredients for Sequence 7 are rare, and without knowing the "Acting Method," the risk of advancing to Sequence 7 is also relatively high.
If John became a Sequence 6 before the age of forty, then he would have a small chance of becoming a demigod.
The Sequence 6 and Sequence 5 potions would make many modifications to the Beyonder's body. After becoming Sequence 5, most Beyonders of that pathway could live to be around one hundred years old without any accidents.
This gave wild Beyonders time to find demigod potion formulas and corresponding main ingredients, but the hope was still slim. For example, John's "Warrior" pathway, the potion formulas below the demigod level might be encountered in the Beyonder world with luck.
As for the demigod-level potion formulas, they must be firmly controlled by the God of Combat Church. Even if there are corresponding clues, they are very likely to be traps set by the God of Combat Church.
So, generally speaking, the demigods among wild Beyonders will have some background with the church or ancient Beyonder organizations, or their ancestors were prominent.
Almost instantly, a jumble of thoughts popped into Hobert's mind.
At this time, John's spirit body was already very faint, and he could only ask two or three not-so-complicated questions at most.
Hobert thought of the "Skeleton Lord" clue he found next to the ancient Death's corpse. With a try-it-and-see attitude, he silently recited in his heart: "The 'Guardian' potion's main ingredient clue."
"The 'Guardian' potion's main ingredient clue."
"…"
After reciting it seven times, a clear scene appeared in the gray mist. In a room that looked like a bomb had exploded, John pierced an old man's chest with the "Sword of Dawn" and found a key on the old man's body.
John easily found a small secret room among the furniture and walls that had been almost destroyed by the battle, and found a safe in the secret room.
Using the key he had just found, he opened the safe. There were some gold and Beyonder materials in the safe. After looting everything, John's spirituality seemed to sense something and discovered a hidden compartment in the safe, and found a delicate wooden box from the hidden compartment.
Opening the wooden box, inside was a crystal clear spider emitting a faint twilight-like light.
This made Hobert, who was "watching," couldn't help but be stunned. This John's luck was really good. He had done so many murders and robberies and hardly ever failed, and he could always "drop" potion formulas or main ingredients of the same pathway from his enemies.
The spider in the box, which looked like a crystal lamp in the shape of a spider to Hobert, should be one of the main ingredients of the "Guardian": the mutated Fire Rose Spider.
Then the scene changed, and Hobert saw a street sign in front of him: Bostan Cemetery, Conant City.
John killed a tramp, pretended that a friend had passed away, bought a plot in Bostan Cemetery, and even asked a priest to help the tramp's soul rest in peace.
But when the priest left, John pulled the corpse out of the coffin, put the wooden box containing the mutated Fire Rose Spider in the coffin, and then covered the coffin, filled it with soil, pretending to be an ordinary grave.
Hobert saw that the name on the tombstone was John, maybe it was the tramp's name, or maybe it was a name that the "Dawn Paladin" made up casually.
This shows that the "Dawn Paladin's" real name is not John. Explaining it with mysticism, the "Dawn Paladin" should not have used the name "John" in this operation. It may be that this name, which has a inexplicable connection with the "Dawn Paladin," made his luck very bad and he ran into Hobert.
The gray mist covered Hobert's eyes again. He seized the time and asked: "Does anyone know that you hid the mutated Fire Rose Spider?"
"Does anyone know that you hid the mutated Fire Rose Spider?"
"…"
The gray mist materialized a scene again. In front of him was a full-length mirror, and the "Dawn Paladin" was tidying up his clothes in front of the mirror.
Then the scene in front of him disappeared and turned into gray mist again.
Hobert understood, that is to say, this secret was only known to the "Dawn Paladin" himself.
Seeing that there was still a chance, he quickly asked: "The way to contact your superior, Gale."
"The way to contact your superior, Gale."
"…"
The gray mist rolled a bit, outlining a blurry figure that looked like Gale who had appeared before.
Because the "Dawn Paladin's" spirit body had become very weak, he could no longer see Gale's expression and clothes clearly. He only heard Gale say: "I will come to you when there is a need. Don't take the initiative to find me."
This scene ended here, and the "Dawn Paladin's" spirit body completely dissipated. Hobert automatically exited the psychic state.
He smiled: Others only ask a few key questions when they use psychic powers, but I usually ask the enemy until their "soul flies away and scatters."
However, the harvest of this psychic session was not small. Just that mutated Fire Rose Spider is worth at least 3,000 pounds.
The Beyonder characteristics of the "Dawn Paladin" had also been extracted. Over there, Carrie and Jessica had also completed the body search.
As expected, they didn't have any magical items on them, only some gold pounds and spiritual materials.
This made Hobert couldn't help but sigh: Poverty is the norm for wild Beyonders!
Carrie piled the four corpses together, took out a metal bottle, and poured the liquid in the bottle on the corpses.
In the "sizzling" sound, the four corpses were quickly melted by the liquid.
Jessica, who had already fetched a bucket of water, washed it away, and the four corpses were cleaned up just like that.
Then, under Hobert's instructions, Carrie and Jessica carefully looked for any hair that they had accidentally dropped, and then the three of them left the abandoned workshop in single file.
The sealing wax made of "Order Crystal" on Hobert's body has the use of anti-divination, and he didn't leave any clues at all, so he wasn't afraid of the "Tribunal" people coming to find the murderer.
In the carriage back, Carrie suddenly said: "Alex once commissioned me to build a Beyonder weapon for him, but I didn't find it on him. It seems that he built it for someone else, or it was a task for their organization."
Hobert nodded: "Their organization is called the 'Judgement Group,' and it has some of the characteristics of a terrorist organization. They don't dare to act openly. As long as you hide yourself well, you won't be discovered by them."
Back at Carrie and Jessica's place, they put all the spoils on the table. The most valuable were the four Beyonder characteristics, as well as 62 pounds in cash and some spiritual materials.
Hobert took away the Beyonder characteristics of the "Dawn Paladin" and the "Spirit Medium": "The rest is yours."
Carrie handed the "Provoker's" Beyonder characteristic to Hobert: "We didn't play too much of a role in the battle just now, so give this Beyonder characteristic to you too."
Hobert hesitated for a moment, but didn't stand on ceremony with them and took away the "Provoker's" Beyonder characteristic.
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