Name: Starlight

Scale: Small

Leader: Rhodes. Elant

Members: 1 person

Location: None

Level: 1

Prestige: Obscurity

Facilities – Training Room (unbuildable), Bedroom (unbuildable), Hall (unbuildable), Tower (locked), Study (locked), Alchemy Room (locked), Forge Room (locked), ............

Looking at the system prompts that appeared in front of him, Rod couldn't help but feel a little helpless, this is much lower than the game's. In the game, players organize guilds, and the system will pass the application after determining the other party's arrival requirements, and at the same time give away a stronghold. It's good now, I don't even have a stronghold. But if you think about it carefully, players in the game are qualified to apply by completing several tasks, and they are pure white wolves with empty gloves, and it is not surprising that in the original game of the Dragon Soul Continent, the mercenary groups of NPCs have very few strongholds. And now............

As a matter of urgency, Rhodes needed to purchase a stronghold to serve as the center of the mercenary group.

Of course, this costs money. Luckily for Rod, though, he wasn't completely out of the question.

There was a crisp knock on the door, and Lijie walked into the room. After a night's rest, the girl who had changed her clothes again was also much more energetic. With a lively and sweet smile on her face, she greeted Rhodes.

"Mr. Rhodes, I'm ready."

"Okay, let's go."

Rod said, standing up, and walking out the door. Lijie looked at the young man in front of her with a mixture of curiosity and doubt, and then followed.

Lijie was completely unaware of Rod's idea, and although she did not agree, she did not object. Because before talking about those practical problems, there is a more practical problem to deal with——— there is no money.

Combined with the payment Mace had given them and the harvest they had received from the two gargoyle safes in Mist Town, Rhodes and Lizzie now had a thousand gold coins in their hands. Although after coming to Deep Stone City, Rhodes entrusted Lijie to sell most of the gems and crystals in his hands, and finally had a harvest of 2,500 gold coins. But it's not enough to buy a house. Not to mention, Rhodes also hit the idea on the ground at the top, you must know that Lu Dao is an aristocratic district, even if it is the most marginal place, the price of houses is sky-high, where can anyone buy it?

But now, following Rhodes on the road to the upper district, looking at the confident expression of the young man, Lijie couldn't hold back the curiosity in her heart, she also wanted to see how Rod would use the money to buy a house in the upper district? But if you're just buying a property, why would you ask yourself to prepare supplies in advance? There's not much to explore in Deep Rock.

I guess I was going to rob it.

Reflecting on what Rhodes had done before, this possibility seems to exist.

Upper area, southwest corner.

Different from the clean, tidy, and gorgeous mansions around them, what appeared in front of Rod and Lijie was an old house that had been corroded by time. The walls were littered with dense vines crisscrossing each other, and the weeds that no one had dealt with were almost knee-long. The once large courtyard now looks like a mess, littered with garbage and the droppings of wild cats and dogs. The whole sky was also overcast and gloomy, without a single ray of sunlight.

The cold wind blew, accompanied by the barking of wild dogs from nowhere, which made Li Jie shiver.

The moment she walked into this courtyard, the girl was very keenly aware of the changes of ice and fire, and the upper area outside was quiet, tidy, quiet and peaceful. But this courtyard was unusually cold, cluttered, and deadly silent. The gap between the two is as stark as a glorious palace and a mass grave.

"Rowe, Mr. Rhodes, are you really going to buy here?"

The girl subconsciously hugged her body and asked in a low voice.

"Not intended."

But unexpectedly, Rod just waved his hand without looking back.

"I've already bought it."

“………………………”

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

"Hey?!!"

Lijie's eyes widened in surprise, completely unable to believe what she had heard.

"You, you've already bought it?"

"That's right, the other party only needs five hundred gold coins, which is really a good deal." …,

"Five hundred gold coins?!"

Hearing this, Lijie froze for a moment, and then she covered her mouth in surprise.

"This is the Ceril Murder House!?"

When it comes to the Cerrell Murder Mansion, almost everyone in the entire Deep Rock City knows about it. Cyrull was formerly a third-rate family in Deep Rock. Unlike other families, this family started with art sculpture——— in other words, they relied on the craft of stone carving to grow and develop.

And the best of them is the former patriarch of the Cyrell family, Martin. Cyril, who has a talent for sculpture that is unimaginable, especially when it comes to the human body. The carved figures are all lifelike and vivid. And he was once known as the master of Deep Rock City.

But all this has changed because of one stone.

When Seril was twenty-nine years old, he was given a piece of white stone that had been dug out of the mines of Deep Rock City. I don't know what kind of madness the master of art was, so he actually moved this stone home on the spot, and said that he wanted to create a timeless and perfect work of art.

At first, everyone didn't take it to heart, after all, as a master artist, this is what he pursued. On the contrary, the aristocrats had a lot of talk in private, and began to talk about what kind of masterpiece the master of art would appear. And Ceril's performance was normal at first, he locked himself in his room and kept watch for the stone for a whole week, which also made more people start to look forward to the new work of the master, and they thought that if the master could work so hard, he would definitely carve the most perfect work.

But then things started to get weirder.

One after another, Seril's maids began to disappear, and no one knew where they went. As a noble family, the Cyrell family also sent a lot of people to search, but what is strange is that these people seem to have evaporated from the world and disappeared.

Not only these maids, but even the news of someone missing from time to time came from the surrounding area, and for a while, people in the upper area were panicked, and after that, something big happened to Ceril's family, and Ceril's wife and the pearl in his palm were also missing.

At this moment, the people in the family could no longer hold their breath, and they didn't care about what perfect works of art Master Cyrell was carving, so they came to the door one after another, hoping that he would come forward to investigate the matter. But when the door to Serrell's room was opened, everyone was stunned.

I saw that the whole room was full of stumps and broken arms, and Ceril's wife and daughter only fell to the ceiling at the moment, turning into two cold corpses. The master sat serenely in his chair, stroking a sculpture of a woman beside him.

The rest is simple.

Serrell was quickly arrested, and he admitted that he had killed the missing women, but he believed that their deaths were worth it, and that they had given their lives for the sake of artistic enhancement and perfection, which was a noble and respectable act.

This explanation is not satisfactory to anyone, so soon, the Lord of Deep Stone sentenced Seril to death, and the next scene left everyone stunned, and when he learned that he was about to die, Seril actually escaped from the prison like crazy. And in order to capture Seril, the Deep Rock City Garrison, the Mercenary Association, and even many nobles have sent people to hunt down. But what everyone didn't expect was that the art master, who was originally powerless, actually killed more than a dozen advanced powerhouses and hundreds of soldiers, and finally collapsed in exhaustion in the carving room of his home under the round-up, and stopped breathing.

The tragedy shocked Deep Rock City, and the conversation of the curse began to spread, and many people believed that the stone was full of magic, that it had seduced the master of the arts, and turned him into a devil who killed people without blinking. And the sculpture, which everyone called the culprit, actually disappeared from the guards' eyelids for some reason the day after Seril's death!?

For a while, the entire Deep Rock City began to become unstable, and the sculptures of Seril before his death were smashed by many people, and after that, this matter was selectively forgotten by everyone.

But unfortunately, although Seril is dead, he still doesn't seem to forget to attract other people's attention. …,

First of all, a nobleman with whom Cyrell usually had a good relationship came to take care of the property, but a month after they moved in, the family was found starving to death in the dining room, and the rotting and smelly food in front of them was not touched.

The second victim was a wealthy businessman who moved here from out of town two years later, and in order to integrate into the local high society as quickly as possible, he bought the property despite dissuasion. But his ending was not much better than that of his predecessor - half a month later, it was discovered that the whole family of rich merchants and the servants they brought with them had hanged themselves in their rooms, as if everyone was so emotional that they even had to count down the time when they went to heaven.

And the terrible incident that connected twice made everyone subconsciously stay away from this murderous mansion, and even Deep Rock City was very tricky for this property, so they had to put it there at the lowest price, and whoever likes to buy it will buy it......... Not to mention, selling such a property for 500 gold coins is really a great temptation for many people who have no money and yearn for it, so another person has the courage to buy the property, but this time the owner is a little more shrewd, he not only spent a lot of money to buy the property, but also paid to renovate the whole house inside and out, and spent money to hire a team of smart and strong mercenaries, so he swaggered into it.

But this time it was even more unlucky, maybe even the house itself was angered by this cheap sale, and even a buffer period was not given, and there was no one in or out, and the next day the owner moved in, there was no light in the house——— as for those mercenaries, they were naturally silent.

This time, everyone didn't even want to confirm it, anyway, the result must have been lice on the bald head, an obvious thing.

Li Jie has been in Deep Rock City for so many years, she naturally understands the rumors of this murderous mansion, and now she knows that Lu Dao Rhodes actually did such a dangerous thing behind her back, and she immediately jumped up.

"Mr. Rhodes, do you know what this place is? It's ......... here."

"Of course I know."

Rod waved his hand, thinking to himself that I not only know the cause of the road, but also the consequences of the road, and even know the hidden rewards and who the boss is. Cyrell's Mansion is one of the top ten exclusive missions in Deep Rock City, and it is also the first hidden mission that Rhodes completes, so he is naturally impressed by it. However, unlike when he was in a hurry and couldn't catch the move, now he is prepared enough to deal with this hidden mission and boss.

"Don't worry, it's just a house, and ......... I'm ready. ”

With that, Rod and Lizzie had already walked through the cluttered garden to the gate, through which the darkness was clearly visible. Rhodes reached out and placed it on the door, then he turned his head to look at Lizzie, who was nervous.

"Are you ready?"