This time, I won't be the devil.

"Since you helped me with the glue, I'll let it go this time."

"That's it for now, let's eat first."

Frey picked up the magical stone bowl and poured a bowl of glowing blue soup for himself and Noelle respectively.

The ink sac of the blue squid is edible, and the fluorescent substance inside is harmless to the human body.

Rather, the ink sac itself tastes very delicious, so although this bowl of soup looks strange, it tastes very fresh and delicious.

However, the fluorescent substance in the ink sac is very strong, resistant to high temperatures and corrosion, and will not be absorbed by the human body at all.

So after eating it, it will produce a harmless side effect.

After a hearty meal, Noelle looked very satisfied, but she soon noticed something unusual.

My stomach is emitting blue light.

Seeing Noelle's panicked expression, Frey explained:

"Don't be afraid, just wait for them to be excreted naturally."

But Frey still overlooked one problem.

Over time, the location of the glow on the belly shifted from the stomach to the intestines, and then continued to move downwards.

Frey was wearing full-body armor, so it wasn't noticeable, but Noelle only had a breastplate, and the clothing on her lower body couldn't block the strong light.

After a while, the luminous substances finally arrived at their final destination.

At this moment, Noelle was almost crying because her current state was too weird.

Although Frey wanted to comfort her, he couldn't hold it back any longer and laughed out loud.

"Brother, why is your Binzhou glowing?"

……

After struggling for several hours, Noelle, who had finally expelled the luminous substance from her body, was exhausted, so Frey let her sleep and rest.

After confirming that Noelle was asleep, Frey collected the removed blue squid ink sacs.

He mixed the luminous substance with the explosives and magic stone powder he carried with him to make small spherical flash bombs.

He learned the technique of making bombs from a book left by Jacob in the basement of the orphanage.

While making the flash bomb, Frey also used water magic to extract and purify the juice of the green lily, creating a hallucinogenic potion.

To test the effects, he created four preparations with concentrations of 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% respectively.

The reason there are four concentrations is because he just happens to have four suitable experimental subjects.

After making these preparations, Frey took his equipment and returned to the rocks at the entrance of the Shining Lake.

At this time, the other end of the cave entrance had been sealed by him using earth magic. Frey silently drilled through the cave entrance and then broke through the rock wall in an instant.

The four people guarding the cave entrance were shocked to see Frey suddenly appear.

"You've been following me since we entered the maze. You're quite persistent."

Long before entering the maze, Frey noticed that a team of four adventurers was staring at him, and after entering the maze, they kept following him closely.

The four of them were all fully armed silver-level adventurers, around level 20, and their roles were two heavily armored warriors, a swordsman, and a scout.

The silver-level adventurer team was considered elite in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Frey's eyes today, they were just a few miscellaneous soldiers.

Too lazy to remember their names, Frey simply called the four of them F4.

"Don't slander others out of thin air, we just happen to be on the same route as you." The thin scout in the lead said with a ruffian smile.

"Then why are you still standing guard at the cave entrance when I've rested for several hours?"

"Why? The maze isn't yours. We can stand wherever we want. What's it to you?"

Frey was too lazy to beat around the bush with them. He took out his dagger and said:

"Who sent you here? If you tell me voluntarily, I might consider letting you go."

The moment Frey pulled out his weapon, a flash of panic crossed the F4's faces, but they quickly regained their composure.

"Who are you trying to scare? If you can stab someone, stab me."

Through observations along the way, F4 has more or less understood that Frey's skills are not simple. The reason why they dare to be so arrogant is that according to the contract signed in the Adventurer's Association, adventurers cannot attack each other within the maze, and stealing and looting are also prohibited.

Although this contract protects the rights and interests of adventurers to a great extent, it can also cause some trouble.

For example, now, facing the F4's perverted pursuit, Frey couldn't attack directly, so he continued to test:

"Your employer should be the Hayek Consortium."

F4 did not answer, but from the changes in their expressions, Frey was sure that these four people were hired by the Hayek Consortium.

As for the reason why the Hayek consortium hired people to track Frey, it was naturally related to Petrarch's legacy - the missing gold.

Thirty years ago, after the end of the Great Crusade, the Vatican prepared 30 tons of gold to reward the heroes of the expedition, and the gold was kept by the Hayek Consortium.

According to the information Frey learned, the gold on the Aiden continent is also a high-value precious metal, but because the total amount is much higher than that on Earth, and there is no capital for speculation, the price of gold is relatively low. Despite this, these one million taels of gold are also an astronomical fortune.

The purchasing power of one ounce of gold was about 30 rupees 1000 years ago, but today it is 3000 rupees.

Thirty years ago, Jacob, who had just returned from the Demon Territory, heard the news and decided to take back the part that was supposed to be distributed to the 30th Company. So he took advantage of the night of the gold delivery to sneak into the Hayek Consortium.

After entering the consortium's vault, Jacob used [Return] on the piles of gold in front of him. According to the characteristics of the skill, he should only be able to obtain gold worth the same as the 86th Company's pension.

However, unexpectedly, after the skill was activated, the golden mountain in front of him immediately emitted a golden light and then disappeared out of thin air.

There is only one possibility for this situation to occur, that is, the gold in front of us was stolen.

After the Golden Mountain disappeared, only a safe remained on the ground. Jacob found a black box in the safe containing a map of Petrarch's tomb.

At the same time, the guards of the consortium also discovered something unusual. In a hurry, Jacob took the map and a bag of banknotes and left the consortium.

According to Jacob's principles, he would not take what did not belong to him.

After asking around, Jacob learned about Petrarch, but since the rich man had no heirs, he didn't know to whom to return the money.

Since Jacob himself was not an adventurer, he did not follow the instructions on the map to go to the maze, so the map was kept in the basement of the orphanage.

According to rumors, Petrarch was a millionaire, but because the rumors were vague, no one knows exactly how much money he had.

Perhaps his inheritance was not a million rupees, but a million taels of gold.

Although Frey felt that such a level of wealth could not be accumulated by a wealthy man whose name was not recorded in history, combined with Jacob's experience, the Hayek Consortium should have reached a deal with the Vatican at the time and embezzled Petrarch's inheritance in some way, so the gold in the vault disappeared.

If this is true, then it makes sense that the consortium would hire someone to follow Frey. After all, the news that he accepted Didoris's commission had already spread throughout the city. With just a little surveillance, they would understand that they were going to conduct a long-distance exploration this time.

If this continues, during this long-distance exploration, this F4 will probably follow Frey like a dog-skin plaster throughout the entire process.

Although it is not difficult to get rid of them, these four people are still useful at the moment.

Looking at the F4 in front of him, Frey imitated the words of Galaxy Hunter Sam and said coldly:

"I'm saying this one last time. Just leave now and no one will get hurt."

"Otherwise... you will all die."

Having done this, Frey has done his best.

If this F4 still doesn't know what's good for them, then we can't blame him.

Seeing that F4 was unwilling to leave, Frey first sealed the cave entrance with earth magic to ensure Noelle's safety, and then threw the flash bomb he had just made from his sleeve.

After the bomb exploded, a blue light quickly formed a light curtain, blocking F4's vision.

Frey immediately ran at full speed, leaving them behind. Seeing this, F4 hurriedly chased in the direction he fled.

Frey's speed exceeded F4's expectations, and the distance between them grew larger and larger.

But every time F4 thought they were about to lose Frey, his back would appear in their sight again.

So he ran away and they chased him for more than half an hour.

Finally, they came to a wide space with high rock walls.

"Where are the people?" the scout asked breathlessly.

They looked around but could not find Frey anywhere.

At this moment, the howling of wolves suddenly came from afar, and the howling echoed along the rock walls of the maze.

"Plan pass."

Looking at F4 on the ground, Frey, who was hanging from the ceiling with a grappling launcher, smiled.

This hook launcher, made using magic technology, was the equipment that Jacob left in the Hall of Judgment. After the operation, it fell into Frey's hands.

With his extremely high agility and the skill of Poet's Grip, Frey has mastered the use of the grappling hook launcher. He can now climb walls and jump like Spider-Man in the maze.

As early as the beginning, when the Nether Wolf urinated on him, Frey had already figured out how to deal with F4.

The reason why the Nether Wolf urinated on Frey was not just to humiliate him.

The Nether Wolf, with its extremely sensitive sense of smell, marks through urine, and Frey has been marked as an enemy.

Frey deliberately did not wash during his breaks in order to keep the smell on his body.

And in the chase with F4 just now, he had attracted wave after wave of Nether Wolves.

According to the contract, he really couldn't attack F4 directly.

But what Frey is doing now is just avoiding the monster. It was F4 who insisted on catching up.

At this moment, as F4 arrived at this wide space, a large group of Nether Wolves followed closely behind and surrounded them.

As the wolves howled, more and more dark shadows continued to emerge from all directions.

Soon, the first Nether Wolf launched a tentative attack, and the two warriors quickly raised their shields to defend themselves.

At the moment when the Nether Wolf was bounced away by the shield, the swordsman behind him swung his sword and killed the Nether Wolf.

A Nether Wolf on the side wanted to take the opportunity to attack the swordsman, but just as he was about to bite, the scout threw a flying knife and accurately blinded the wolf's eyes.

Frey was hanging on the ceiling, watching the battle below. For an experienced silver-level adventurer, dealing with a few Nether Wolves was more than enough.

But due to Frey's crazy hatred, there were hundreds of Nether Wolves surrounding them.

The shields of the heavily armored warriors kept making dull thuds, which were the sounds made by the Nether Wolf when it pounced.

As time went on, the warrior's hands holding the shield began to tremble, his breathing became heavy, the swordsman's sword became duller, and the scout's props were slowly used up.