After Chen Rui came to the demon world, he stayed in the laboratory most of the time. Since he was used to staying at home in his previous life, he didn't feel very uncomfortable. Now, because of the spiritual energy, he really wanted to go shopping.
Aldass didn't care about it, waved his hand, and told him to do whatever he wanted. Anyway, humans are also special apprentices, which is better than staying and taking poison as a tonic.
Chen Rui thought about it and took Sly, who was familiar with the city environment. In the past, he occasionally came out twice as a follower of the little princess or Athena. This is the first time to go shopping with a follower. Walking on the street, the human without any costumes immediately became the focus of everyone.
Along the way, many demons pointed and talked, mostly about the challenge in the last arena. Chen Rui's performance in the Master Challenge more or less made a small part of the demons recognize him, but most people still showed a certain degree of vigilance and hostility towards humans.
"Hey! Human, your meat looks delicious." Finally, an ugly demon couldn't hold back and blocked the way and provoked.
"Hmph! You blind thing," Chen Rui was no longer the weak human being he used to be. He quickly glanced at the demons watching from the corner of his eyes. He was not panicked. He sneered calmly and said, "I'll tell you a fact. After the last challenge, my body has mutated. My flesh and blood are full of toxins. If you want to be poisoned to death, you might as well try it. But before that, you should try the poison I gave you."
As he said that, he flicked his fingers in his robe and a pinch of powder flew out. His strength was no longer the same as before. The force of this flick was like a machine gun. The demon was covered by the powder and immediately felt itchy all over his body. He scratched desperately. Soon, he scratched his body with terrible blood marks. He rolled on the ground, but he couldn't stop the itchy feeling.
"Do you still want to eat my flesh?" Chen Rui asked deliberately, and the guy shook his head desperately.
"Want to detoxify?"
The demon nodded quickly. Chen Rui waved his hand and some liquid fell on his body. The guy felt the itch gradually disappear. Just when he wanted to take revenge, his body suddenly became soft and he had no strength. Then the itch turned into pain, as if every inch of muscle was being torn apart. He howled miserably.
"Those who dare to offend Aldass Lab will pay the price!" Chen Rui deliberately showed a weird smile, and then said loudly: "The princess issued an order not long ago. I am already a member of Dark Moon City. This guy deliberately came to provoke, which is to despise the princess and Master Aldass! Compared with poisoning him to death, I prefer to hear this wonderful scream. Let him scream for two days and two nights. If he dares to mess with me again next time, I will leave him no bones!"
Two days and two nights! The demons watching the unlucky guy howling were all palpitating. The few guys who were eager to try immediately gave up the idea. It seems that this human is more vicious than ordinary demons. He is worthy of coming from Aldass Lab.
After the last Master Challenge, the heroic deeds of Sandru who was poisoned to ashes by the Dark Elf Master's fart had been widely circulated in the Dark Moon Territory. Some even exaggerated and claimed that they had witnessed Master Aldass poisoning a dragon with some kind of gas from his buttocks.
Contrary to Aldass's own feeling of shame, the awe of the Dark Elf Master in everyone's heart has reached a new level.
Chen Rui's means and words for poisoning were prepared long ago, and he also deliberately got some poisons from Aldass. This trick of killing the chicken to scare the monkey was indeed effective. Under the promotion of live advertising, the image of the human apprentice who was full of poison and insidious and cruel was quickly spread. Along the way, no more demons came up to ask about the taste of human flesh, and Chen Rui became more and more natural under various gazes.
Seeing that his master was showing off his power to intimidate the demons, the little inferior demon felt proud and introduced the situation of Dark Moon City to him while walking.
There were seven royal families in the demon world. In the struggle, only Lucifer, Mammon and Asmodeus were left. The rest either disappeared or surrendered to the strong to preserve their bloodline.
The Dark Moon Territory was originally one of the most prosperous territories of the Fallen Angel Empire. However, four hundred years ago, the Beelzebub royal family, which had disappeared for many years, suddenly revived in the Dark Moon City, led by a strong man named Glorfin Beelzebub. Glorfin possessed the artifact "God Devouring Mask" of the Beelzebub family. With strong power, he openly killed the Dark Moon Lord and several strong men, quickly controlled the entire Dark Moon Territory, and began to encroach on the nearby Red Nether Territory, and then subverted the entire Fallen Angel Empire.
Emperor Bai Ye Lucifer led his army to attack Dark Moon and entered Dark Moon City. Holding the Lucifer clan's artifact, the Sword of the Fallen Angel, he challenged Glorfin in the arena. The severely injured Glorfin used the power of the artifact to escape and then disappeared. The rebellion was quelled.
After this war, the Dark Moon Territory was no longer as prosperous as before. After Emperor Bai Ye died in the war, the regent Hei Yao drove his nephew Green, who was originally going to inherit the throne, to Dark Moon to become the lord. He also used many means to monitor and control, making Dark Moon more and more decadent. Although Princess Xia succeeded to the position of lord and worked hard to govern the country and made many rectifications and reforms, she could never fundamentally get rid of poverty and decline.
Joseph Alvin, the treasurer of Dark Moon City, is the eldest son of Lord Zhuoqie of Red Ghost. On the surface, the Alvin family has provided a lot of financial support to Dark Moon Territory, but this kind of financial support is only on the surface. In fact, it is to control the economic lifeline of Dark Moon. Now the only chamber of commerce and half of the shops in Dark Moon City are in the hands of Joseph. Even the food supply of Dark Moon mostly comes from the support of the Alvin family. Obviously, this is a sinister means for Obsidian to use the Alvin family to control Dark Moon Territory.
In terms of military, although Athena, the daughter of the first general George Wells, is in Dark Moon, the territory guard army is in the hands of Allen of the Caron family. Originally, the Caron family still supported Prince Green, but later turned to the Regent Obsidian. The real military force belonging to Xia is the palace guard headed by Kagulon.
This is the mess left by Prince Green when he was here, but it was also forced by the situation at that time, which caused the two most important things, economy and military, to fall into the hands of others. Xia is still powerless.
Athena had not explained many things clearly. Chen Rui did not understand until now that Xia's situation was worse than he had imagined. He suddenly understood why the princess was so cold and strong. Perhaps only in this way could she support the burden left by her father.
There are many burdens in life that you don't want to shoulder, but you have to shoulder them.
If Emperor Bai Ye was still alive, if Green could have ascended the throne, the little princess's gentle sister would not have to wear that cold mask. But now that mask may have become a part of her, and it is likely that she will never be able to take it off again.
Chen Rui collected his thoughts and asked the little demon: "Sly, is there a store in the city that sells those strange things? For example, some special materials or ores?"
"A store for strange things..." Sly showed a thoughtful look, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "It seems that there is such a store, but that store... If the owner just wants to see the ore, there should be one in the blacksmith shop in front."
"Okay, let's go to the blacksmith shop first."
This is one of the only two blacksmith shops in the city. The name is a bit scary, called "Broken Head", which is very characteristic of the demon clan. The owner of the blacksmith shop is a strong horned demon, and the three guys who are forging iron in the shop are also horned demons, and there is also a little demon who does odd jobs.
The strength of the horned demon is famous among the demon clan. In addition to exerting powerful power in battle, some horned demons can also become highly skilled blacksmiths.
Seeing a guest coming, the eloquent little demon immediately went to greet him. After seeing Chen Rui's appearance, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Human... You are the human in the arena!"
The Master Challenge has always been a hot topic in the Dark Moon Territory, so Chen Rui was immediately recognized.
Seeing the surprised look of his fellow tribesmen, Sly felt a little proud and introduced, "This is my master, Lord Chen Rui, the apprentice of Master Aldass."
"You became a servant of a human?" The little demon was even more surprised, and then showed contempt. The demons worship strength, and this human is said to have no power, and his strength is weaker than the little demons at the bottom of the demons. I didn't expect this fool of the same tribe to recognize humans as their master! If I can become a servant recognized by Master Aldass, it will be worth showing off.
"Kakan, what are you talking about!" The boss of the horned demon came out, looked at Chen Rui for a few times, and said contemptuously: "Weak human, what are you doing in Zach's blacksmith shop? There are no herbs you want here!"
Last night's battle gave Chen Rui strong confidence. Naturally, he didn't care about the contempt of these guys. He said: "I got the order from Master Al that I need to pick some special ores to refine poison, so I came here."
The title of Master Fart King is really useful. Although Zach didn't understand the connection between ore and poison, he didn't dare to neglect it and immediately took Chen Rui to the place where the ore was piled.
Since the Eye of Analysis couldn't play a role in this selection, Chen Rui activated the skill of "Aura Conversion" and selected them one by one by touching. Aura conversion consumes 1 aura each time, and the time limit is half an hour.
Chen Rui spent a long time selecting, but didn't get anything. When Zach was watching impatiently, he suddenly saw a strange look on the human's face. He grabbed a piece of ore with pits and crystals on it and asked, "What kind of ore is this?"
Zach looked disapproving when he saw it: "This is almost a semi-waste ore, because those dark yellow crystals are very troublesome, and it takes a lot of effort to get rid of them, and the residue that is not cleaned up will affect the purity of iron during refining."
Waste ore? Chen Rui's mind moved. When he touched the ore just now, the corresponding prompt appeared in the conversion skill, but he didn't know what the effect would be.
He thought of an idea and said, "I'll do a small experiment first to determine whether this strange crystal is what the master needs. If it is really damaged, I can compensate you."
Zach nodded. Anyway, this ore is also semi-waste.
Chen Rui took out some powder, sprinkled it on the crystal, and then put his hand on it. Zach only saw the crystal slowly disappear, and finally turned into a pool of powder, while the ore was intact. His eyes almost popped out: the stubborn crystal that was difficult to peel off even with strong knocking was so easily processed by humans? And not even a bit was left!
In Zach's eyes, the abilities of pharmacists became more and more mysterious. Even an apprentice had such a strange ability!
The powder used by Chen Rui was actually a trick. What really worked was the aura conversion skill. What made him ecstatic was that what could be converted was not the ore, but these crystals that were regarded as waste, which actually provided 25 points of aura!