LOL: Let me touch your steel

Under the dim candlelight, Sarah sat at the wine table. The dim light shone on Sarah's face, revealing a face full of tension.

Sarah just sat in the pub and waited quietly until there was an abrupt sound of a revolving door outside, which seemed particularly harsh against the backdrop of the calm atmosphere.

Sarah's heart tightened and she looked out the door.

The door of the tavern slowly opened, and a mysterious figure wrapped in a black robe walked into the tavern.

The figure simply glanced around the tavern and then looked up. Under the candlelight, the wrinkled old face looked particularly gloomy, and the slightly cloudy eyes also revealed a chilling light.

"Miss Fortune, sorry to have kept you waiting."

A harsh sound like frosting rang out in the tavern. Just listening to it was enough to give people goose bumps, and Sarah felt a strong discomfort in her heart.

But Sarah didn't show it. She took a deep breath and remained calm.

"Stop talking nonsense! Where did you take Dilias? Would a priest of the Baru Temple do such a despicable thing? Or... does the Baru Temple think I'm easy to bully?"

The priest that Sarah mentioned smiled slightly, but this smile on her face made people feel very uncomfortable no matter how they looked at it.

“Miss Fortune, you misunderstood. I didn’t mean to target you. It’s just that your second mate didn’t know the rules and offended Lady Snake. As for me, I naturally have good intentions, otherwise I wouldn’t be here to meet you.”

"Tell me, what are your conditions?"

Sarah didn't believe what the old witch said, and she was too lazy to waste any more words, so she spoke directly.

"What do you need me to do in order to let Dilias go?"

"It's very simple."

The priest shook the staff in his hand that was like a crutch, and a faint blue light suddenly lit up in the tavern. But if you look closely, you can vaguely see two blurry figures from this blue light.

"Drizzt and Graves, I need you to capture them. They will be the best sacrifice for Baru this time. As long as you can capture them and hand them over to me within three days, I will release your second mate as promised."

"This exchange is fair."

Drizzt and Graves?

Sarah frowned and quickly remembered these two guys.

The two are a notorious duo in Bilgewater, one a notorious con man and the other a well-known mercenary, gambler, and thief.

If I remember correctly, these two guys just returned to Bilgewater a while ago.

I didn't expect that the Baru Temple would target these two guys...

Recalling Zhang Xu's instructions, Sarah pretended to be thoughtful, then nodded reluctantly.

"Remember what you said. If we catch the two of them, and I haven't seen my second mate yet... I don't think you'll have an easy time."

"I swear in the name of the Snake Mother."

Seeing that Sarah agreed, the priest smiled again:

"Then I won't waste Miss Fortune's time. I will come to this tavern to find you at this time three days from now. Of course, if you have captured Drizzt and Graves in advance, you can also inform me at the Temple of Baru."

"Goodbye, Miss Fortune."

The priest paused with the staff in his hand, and slowly left the tavern as he had come.

Although the priest had left, the tavern did not fall silent. In the corner of the tavern, Zhang Xu walked out from the shadows with a smile on his face, and there were actually four other people walking out with him!

Kai'Sa, Janna, Sivir, and Ryze.

Except for Renekton, who was tidying up the environment in Bilgewater, everyone appeared in the tavern.

But the priest did not realize this.

"It's really interesting. I didn't expect that the priests of Naga Kaboros would have this kind of image."

Zhang Xu smiled. The image of the priest just now did not have any temperament of a priest of a god. Instead, he looked more like a vicious witch in a fairy tale.

He thought that the priests of the Baru Temple would all be as strong as Illaoi.

but...

Sacrifice? Sacrifice?

"Sarah, will the Baju temple still hold sacrificial activities?"

Most of these demigods in Runeterra have their own believers, and sacrifices are not uncommon, but this is the first time he has heard of a god like Naga Kabouros who sacrifices living people.

Even if Drizzt and Graves are bad guys, that is still human sacrifice which cannot be tolerated!

Human sacrifice...

He doesn't look like a proper god at all...

Instead, it's a bit like a terrifying evil god.

"The Baru Temple holds sacrificial activities every year. I don't know what the sacrificial activities in the temples on the Python Islands are like, but I have heard of the sacrifices in the port city of Bilgewater."

“But I didn’t know that their sacrifices involved human sacrifice.”

"Also, I don't know why the priest specifically chose Drizzt and Graves."

Sarah seemed to be afraid that Zhang Xu was not familiar with these two guys, so she explained seriously:

"I have some understanding of these two guys. Graves is from Bilgewater. Influenced by the environment here, he gradually became a bastard who craves adventure and excitement. And Drizzt is not a native here, but he and Graves are actually the same kind of people."

"The two of them hit it off right away and became best partners. However, they were not in Bilgewater most of the time until a long time ago, when Drizzt returned to Bilgewater alone. Graves returned here a few years later, and soon after he came back, he and Drizzt met Gangplank together."

"Because I have been following Planck, I have actually had some contact with the two of them."

"But I don't know why the Baru priests think that these two are the best sacrifices."

Ryze also noticed something unusual. He had been traveling in Runeterra for so many years and had come into contact with other gods. He had seen and heard a lot of sacrificial activities.

But this was the first time he had seen such obvious human sacrifice by Naga Kabouros.

In fact, these gods in Runeland more or less require a certain amount of faith. So this kind of sacrificial activity is just a way for people to express their faith, and the gods don't care what the sacrifices are.

But if it is a human sacrifice...

It is most likely Naga Kabouros's own request.

Chapter 184 Drizzt and Graves

"So, what are you going to do?"

Janna frowned. Even though she had never actually met Naga Kabouros, her impression of her had already fallen to the bottom.

Human sacrifice is absolutely intolerable for a guardian god like Janna who still wants to protect Zaun even when she is about to disappear.

This is simply a blasphemy to oneself!

"Do as the priest says. Capture Drizzt and Graves, and hand them over to the old witch. Whether it is a human sacrifice or whether Naga Kabouros will show up, we will know only after we see it."

Zhang Xu snapped his fingers. Although he said this, in his heart, he had already labeled Naga Kabouros as weird.

He was now more and more curious about Naga Kabouros. This deity that existed in the waters of Bilgewater seemed full of mystery. The birth of Nautilus was her work, and she seemed to be behind the Pike incident. Now there was also the matter of human sacrifice...

It's really becoming more and more worth looking forward to!

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"This is the largest casino in Upper Bilgewater. There's a high chance that Drizzt and Graves are inside. If they're not inside, we can wait here and definitely see them."

Looking at the brightly lit and magnificently decorated casino in front of her, Sarah explained:

"This casino is the largest in Bilgewater. Rich people like to come here for excitement, and those who are neither rich nor poor hope to get rich overnight... For Drizzt and Graves, this is simply their holy land."

“No skilled gambler can resist the thrill of emptying the pockets of the rich and walking away with a haul.”

As soon as the words fell, Sarah's expression suddenly changed:

"They're coming."

Following the direction of Sarah's gaze, Zhang Xu saw two figures on the street not far away - Trist and Graves.

The two were almost the same height, and even wore similar clothes. The only difference was their body shape and appearance. Graves was stronger, even burly, while Drizzt was thinner.

Graves had a big beard on his face, giving him a rough and wild look, while Drizzt was much smarter, with a treacherous aura, and even his eyes sparkled with an unfathomable luster.

Please forgive me for the fact that the only words in my mind right now are "body odor".

When Zhang Xu saw Graves, he silently complained in his heart, but his eyes were always fixed on the two of them.

Drizzt and Graves, who were only thinking about winning money in the casino, did not notice Zhang Xu and others beside them. This is Bilgewater, not other empires and city-states outside.

If they were in other places, they would be wanted criminals and would not dare to make such a big fuss. But in Bilgewater, they had no such worries. Gangplank, the only person they could be considered as an enemy of, was dead, and no one would bother them anymore.

Even though they were well-known gamblers who always won the money of the rich, they would occasionally lose some money under Drizzt's manipulation. Even if the rich suspected that the two of them were cheating, they had no evidence.

Trist's methods were covert enough that no one would discover them.

However...

Their plans tonight were doomed to fail.

Before the two of them entered the casino, Zhang Xu and others quietly approached them. They didn't even need to use any energy, just put two sacks over their heads and tied up Trist and Graves.

Playing with the blue card that Trist dropped on the ground, a hint of interest flashed in Zhang Xu's eyes.

Tsk...

If he had had the gambling skills of Drizzt back then, he wouldn't have lost everything after the final exam.

Feeling the struggle inside the sack, Sarah kicked the sack holding Graves twice in annoyance:

"Be honest and don't move!"

Hearing this, the movement on the sack soon stopped, but soon, Graves' voice came out from the sack:

"Hey! Man! You flipped in the gutter and got caught by a chick?"

"Hmm... Let me think, could it be Miss Fortune who caught us? Oh, Miss Sarah."

Drizzt, who was in another sack, immediately took up Graves's words. There was not much worry in their voices, but rather it seemed very normal.

The two of them had been caught and arrested many times, but in the end, thanks to Trist's magical abilities and the fate he talked about, they were always able to escape danger.

So the two of them had nothing to worry about, and instead just chatted as if nothing had happened.

"Hey! Girl! What's the point of arresting us? Are you going to exchange us for a reward?"