After staring at Rhodes for a while, the mayor replied, "If you're not in such a hurry, in a few days, a merchant group will come to the town, and you can follow them to the City of Sorrow." ”

Rhodes stood outside the mansion, and after listening to the mayor's words, he seemed to think of something, so he said: "In the town, there doesn't seem to be a freelance chamber of commerce. ”

The mayor replied: "There are not many people in the town, but they still have to live, and many basic materials need to be transported with the help of the merchant group. ”

The mayor of the town did not speak quickly, and did not become impatient because he was tempted by an alien necromancer, but instead used a soothing tone, and when answering Rod's question, he kept staring at Rod's eyes.

After listening to the mayor's explanation, Rhodes was more sure of what he was thinking, and then asked the mayor, "I want to leave immediately, does the mayor have a map of the area?" ”

Mayor Mare: "You should understand the value of the map. If you need someone to show you around, you may want to look for someone experienced in the town. ”

Rhodes did not choose to refute. After a moment of silence, Rhodes said to the mayor, "Then, don't bother the mayor." ”

After hearing this, the mayor reminded Rhodes, "The only inn in the town is located at the back of the town, in front of the forest at the back. If you plan to stay in the town and wait for the caravan to arrive, you can rest there for a few days. ”

Rhodes noticed something, but didn't say anything, just nodded to the mayor, and then didn't say a word.

The butler walked out of the mansion, turned and closed the door, and led Rhodes back down the path from which he had come.

Unlike before entering the mansion, when returning from the path, Rhodes had been thinking about the mayor's words repeatedly, although he didn't fully grasp the mayor's strength, but he also had a general understanding.

The mayor was extremely cautious in his words and did not reveal any key information, but due to the asymmetry of intelligence, Rod still saw a lot of clues just through the conversation between the two.

Through several responses from the mayor, Rhodes realizes that the mayor seems to want to be able to stay in town. Even though he expressed his intention to get the map and leave immediately, the mayor refused to give it to him on the grounds that the map was extremely valuable.

Under normal circumstances, even if the price of the map is high, the mayor of the town will not refuse it, but will put forward various conditions to Rhodes, so that Rhodes will pay a certain price to get the map.

But at this time, the mayor did not give Rhodes any chance and directly refused to provide the map. At the end, the mayor seems to be kind enough to tell Rhodes the location of the inn, but in fact he is more of a hint that Rhodes will stay in the town.

Since there is no freelance chamber of commerce in the town, it is destined that the business of the town will be difficult to develop, and not many business groups will choose to come to this town.

Weak merchant groups will not choose to go here for fear of encountering danger in the town. And the powerful merchant group, if it is to transport basic materials, will not look at the benefits obtained in the town, and will not choose to come to this town.

As for what the mayor said that there would be a merchant group coming in a few days, Rhodes could only think that either this was just a simple statement by the mayor, or the merchant group had agreed with the mayor in advance.

If this merchant group really had an agreement with the mayor in advance, it would arrive in a few days or so, and the ultimate goal of the merchant group was the City of Sorrows......

Rhodes felt a bit of a coincidence, but an idea stuck in Rhodes' mind, and Rhodes had to believe it.

It is likely that the original Silver Seal Merchant Group deliberately went to this town before heading to the City of Sorrow.

As for what agreement the merchant leader Yuser originally had with the mayor here, Rhodes couldn't simply deduce it. But if this guess is correct, the mayor wants to stay here because he wants to use the help of the Silver Seal Merchants to kill himself and reap the benefits.

The corpse of a necromancer, even if it is only at the apprentice level, can create a third-order Yin Soul if it is handled properly.

It's just a pity that although the mayor's idea is good, he obviously doesn't know that Rhodes joined the Silver Seal Merchant Group first, and with his own strength, he almost completely disintegrated the entire merchant group.

If the mayor of the town wants to hold off Rhodes and wait for the arrival of the Silver Seal merchant group, it can only mean that the strength of the mayor is worse than what Rhodes originally thought, or that the strength of the mayor has certain limitations.

Before entering the mansion, Rhodes did not take back the revenant crystal from the vampire, but asked the vampire to put the revenant crystal in his coat pocket, and the mayor could also feel the death energy emanating from the vampire.

Rhodes could feel the palpitating aura of the interior of the mayor's mansion. Whether it was the perception warning brought by the reconnaissance technique, or Rhodes' instinctive reaction, he believed that there were powerful undead creatures in the mansion.

But if the mayor is really strong, he won't let himself leave easily.

Rod concluded that this breath should come from a creature that was specially designed to defend. These creatures, while powerful, have a number of limitations and are often unable to leave a certain range.

In his words, the mayor did not try to introduce himself into the mansion, but only arranged for two rows of skeleton warriors to stand in the hall, and only to prevent the anomaly from being detected.

If Rhodes saw the Skeleton Warrior and went straight into the mansion to attack, he would obviously be attacked by this creature used for defense. Fortunately, Rhodes had seen this creature in his previous life, but through subtle feelings, he found the abnormality and chose to leave temporarily.

Following the butler in front of him, Rhodes and the vampire came to the place where they entered. The butler wanted to continue leading the way and take Rhodes to the inn that the mayor had mentioned, but Rhodes stopped him with a wave of his hand and walked towards the back of the town alone.

That's exactly where the mayor said the inn was.

After this trial, although it was only a few words, Rod almost completely probed the mayor's situation.

Rhodes couldn't help but be a little puzzled, after these situations were understood by himself, they were originally just separate sentences, as if something connected them all, the original doubts disappeared completely, and these answers seemed to appear in his mind on their own.

At this time, if Rhodes can open the attribute panel, he will see that the hero perk column in the second row, although it still shows: Unawakened (1/3), is flashing violently at this time.

Rod was obviously unaware of this, but went to the inn that the mayor said while observing the surrounding situation.

Rod obviously didn't plan to leave just like that, since most of the mayor's information had been tested by himself, he just had to wait for the mayor to reveal his flaws.

If the mayor's hole card is the defending creature inside the mansion, then Rhodes only needs to wait for the mayor to come outside the mansion and kill the residents before he can engage him.

Except for the unknown kind of defensive creatures, the rest of the low-level undead creatures are not too much of a threat to Rhodes except for some trouble.

Unbeknownst to the mayor, the merchant group he had been expecting was gone. If he knew that reinforcements would not arrive, the mayor was obviously more anxious than Rhodes.

Seeing that the inhabitants of the town had not yet fled, Rhodes knew that although the town was full of death energy, the creation of undead creatures had not yet been known to all the residents, at least not the entire town.

The townspeople will be terrified by the disappearance of others, but they will not all flee the place.

Rhodes knew that even if he was creating undead creatures, the mayor was doing it in secret, and he didn't go on a rampage to capture all the inhabitants in the first place.

Rhodes wasn't surprised by the mayor's approach, even if the mayor didn't take action against the townspeople, because of the proximity to the border and waiting for the war to begin, other necromancers would come here and transform all the people here into undead creatures.

According to Rod's perception, the concentration of death energy contained in the mayor's mansion is not much different from the tomb where the vampires slept before, and the mayor can kill all these residents, and then pile them up in the mansion for rapid transformation.

Since Rhodes didn't know why the mayor didn't choose such a way to improve his strength, Rhodes didn't do anything directly to the residents here, but chose to go to the hostel here and wait for the night.

If the mayor chooses to capture the town's inhabitants at night and convert them, Rhodes can kill the undead creatures sent by the mayor, weakening the mayor and confining him to the mansion.

When the mayor's strength drops to a certain level, even if there are guardian creatures in the mansion, Rhodes can force an attack.

Rhodes came to a building that was several times taller than the rest of the surrounding buildings, but still much smaller than the mayor's mansion.

Arriving at the door of the inn in the town, Rhodes walked in.

At this time, a sleepy old man was sitting at the counter in the hotel, and he didn't realize Rhodes' arrival for a while.

Rhodes looked inside the inn, the first floor was supposed to be a restaurant, but at this time it was empty, only a few tables and chairs, and some dust had fallen on them, and it was obvious that the owner of the inn had not bothered to clean the place.

Looking at the size of the inn and the rest of the scenes, Rhodes realized that in addition to being used as a hostel, it was also used as a tavern for the townspeople to entertain here, and it should be one of the few places where the townspeople could move.

Rod walked to the counter on the first floor and tapped twice.

The old man, who had been dozing off, suddenly woke up, looked at Rod in front of him, and showed some suspicious expressions, obviously because no one had come here for a long time, and someone suddenly came to the door at this time.

"I want to rest here for a few nights." Without waiting for the old man to react, Rhodes first stated his purpose.

Hearing this, the old man determined Rod's intention and said, "I'm sorry...... No one has been here for a long time, and I didn't expect to meet guests today. Two rooms, four silver coins a day. Some food is served every morning and evening. ”

Rod nodded, took out a gold coin and put it on the table, and said, "One room, no need for food." ”

The old man took out a key from under the counter and handed it to Rod, and at the same time took the gold coin in his hand, and did not say anything.

Rod took the key and walked to the room on the second floor.

Looking at the back of Rod walking towards the second floor, the old man opened his mouth, as if he wanted to remind Rhodes of something, but in the end he didn't say anything, put the gold coin in his pocket, and sat back in his seat.

Rod walked up to the second floor, went to his room, found a place to sit down, and began to meditate.

Due to the need for battle, coupled with the fact that his spell ability has improved a lot, Rhodes did not choose deep meditation that consumes mana, but wanted to rely on shallow meditation to recover some spirits, improve his mental state a little, and wait for the arrival of evening.

While Rhodes meditated, the vampire didn't need much rest, just stood aside and held the Revenant Crystal in his hand.

…………

At night, as if sensing something, Rhodes ended his meditation that had lasted for a long time and opened his eyes. On the side, feeling Rod's movement, the vampire looked at Rod.

Rod quickly got up, took the vampire, and walked out of his room.

It was pitch black all around, and Rhodes quickly walked downstairs, at this time, because it was dark, the original old man had obviously rested, and there was no one downstairs.

Rhodes walked to the door of the inn, removed the wooden bolt from the door, and walked out.

As soon as he walked out of the door, Rod noticed that something was wrong, when he was in the forest, no matter how tall the trees were and how dark the surrounding environment was, there would always be starlight shining on the ground through the trees, but at this time, Rod who came to the door found that there was only very little light around.

Even in the dense forests of Eri, the light around Rhodes was brighter than it is now.

Rhodes looked up at the sky. At this time, there was not a single light in the sky, but a layer of black clouds. It was this layer of black clouds that obscured all the starlight in the sky, making it impossible for Rhodes to see the scene in the distance.

"Dark Canopy ......"

Seeing this layer of black clouds, Rhodes seemed to remember something.

This layer of black cloud was like the dark canopy that Rhodes had seen in the large cities in the territory of Diya. Because these cities are shrouded in darkness, they cannot see the sunlight all day long, and it is difficult to distinguish between day and night in the city.

At this time, this layer of black clouds undoubtedly reminded Rod of the dark canopy he had seen. But Rhodes didn't know why there were so many black clouds that resembled a dark canopy here, and with the overall level of the town, it was impossible to make a dark canopy anyway.

Rhodes tried to sense the dark canopy in the sky, and sensed a strong burst of magical energy. If it is not released by a mage, it can only be crafted with magic items.

If the mayor had the strength to create a canopy of darkness that would envelop the entire town, he would not let Rhodes leave when he tried to test him, but would simply kill him.

At this time, before he had time to think about it, Rhodes suddenly sensed the danger and dodged to the side. A creature appeared behind Rhodes, who dodged its attacks.

On the side, the vampire saw that Rhodes was being attacked, and immediately met up with the creature.

Even though the surrounding light was dim, Rhodes looked carefully in the direction of the creature through his Eagle Eye. The tattered cloth robe, the skeleton-like face, floating and dodging in the air at will when attacking, is the third-order creature, the Yin Spirit.