Lord Shadow

Chapter 1682: All Kinds of People Making their Move ”It is ironic indeed” Mister Moscow has seen many things in is life.

But he never thought he would see the day where the Crime Alliance is more like a bastion of freedom than a crime organization.

Decentralized organization, scattered all over the world, doing their own thing.

They all have their own desire and aspiration to fulfil. And the Red Table had to evolve to supervise and to adapt with these people joining in.

The world power is not always right. But they are mighty. And might makes right. But in the Crime Alliance, and in the world, there are people who would rather die than betray their ideal.

And some people might call them an idiot. How can a little songbird understand the ambitions of a grand swan ”And I could respect these people” Mister Moscow sighed.

He was about to go out of the cove when suddenly he hears the sound of a flapping of a bird. His eyes narrowed and from the giant entrance of the cove, he could see two birds flying in

And he narrowed his eyes even further.

Why?

Because nothing should be able to enter this cove without persimmon. Most brides, most animals, most sea creatures would find another road if the come near this cove.

There is an animal repelling scent around the cove. It could not be smell by human nose, and even Disk Formation leveler could not smell it.

Unless they truly concentrated, this smell is very subtle and only affects the animals

But now, two birds could fly through the invisibility formation, avoid all of the other measures.

Mister Moscow is ready to throw his weapon when he saw the birds.

It is a kind of bird he recognizes. Because he had seen these kinds of birds before ”Ravens” he mutters to himself. Two ravens, flying around

And then these two ravens landed on the table. It pecks at the stone table.

Mister Moscow could guess who send this raven. ”The Trickster” He look at the raven and then he holds the raven. The raven did not even seem surfside. Mister Moscow rub the back of the raven and something come off from the raven

A feather.

A very peculiar feather.

Because he could feel energy coming out from this one feather. ”Hmm?ʼ

This feather fall onto the stone table and Mister Moscow took the feather.

He look at the feather for a few second before burning it with his energy and then a sliver of silvery white thread of energy flew into his head and he immediately have information downloaded into him.

Mister Moscow was not surprised at all.

Instead, he seems to have anticipated it.

Itʼs not the first time he had experienced this kind of downloading of information straight into his mind.

He has seen these birds before and he has experienced this kind of magic before.

He closes his eyes and let the information fills his mind and a few second later, he opens back his eyes. ”The Baltic Sea?” he thought to himself. Loki told him to bring him a rock formation. He doesnʼt care how he does it, he just want the rock formation to be brought to him as fast as possible.

There is also some weird instruction in the information packet that has just been downloaded into his mind ”If it hums, donʼt knock on it?”

What kind of stone formation is this? And why is Loki changing his request. Before, he ask him to find a person not of this world.

Now, he is sending him to the Baltic Sea. The map shows a vaster sea than the Baltic Sea but Mister Moscow knows the Baltic Sea

He had been there. The area might be bigger but that was the Baltic Sea.

He sighed ”Loki has many demands” he just shook his head and decided to just follow what Loki wanted from him.

The ravens gurgling croaking sound bring Mister Moscow to his sense as he look at the raven the ravens look at Mister Moscow for a few second and Mister Moscow look at the raven

And he could feel like he is being watched and his eyes narrowed ”Is it you on the other side?” The raven nodded and Mister Moscow sighed ”Iʼll do it” the raven blinks and then both of the ravens raise their wings and flies out of the cove

Nothing impactful seems to happen.

Yet, those who plays the game of chess with the universe, knows that this simple move is changing another variable in the chessboard

A new chessboard has been brough into play. And so, new pieces needs to be acquired.

And Loki is trying to acquire a chess piece.

Loki makes his move! ....

In a distant corner of the world, concealed within the intricate embrace of an ancient forest, lies a cave that commands attention even from afar.

The forest seems ancient not only because of its tall trees that nearly reaches the skies, there is this certain aura it exuded.

The forest itself is like a maze and if you did not pay attention, you could get lost in it.

And then there is this cave that emanated an aura.

The entrance of this cave is, draped in shadow, betrays nothing of the mysteries concealed within.

The ominous exterior is heightened by the spectral glow of crimson eyes, belonging to the elusive denizens of the jungle, fixated upon this mysterious enclave.

Sinister hisses echo through the underbrush, accompanied by the disconcerting symphony of snapping branches, as an unseen presence stalks through the shroud of vegetation.

Every rustle, every whisper, contributes to the suspense that clings to the atmosphere.

There is someone that is walking through the jungle. And is approaching the cave.

An intruder to this jungle. But none of those beasts jump out to attack this intruder

This person look around and he could see traces of insects of gargantuan proportions

They skitter across the damp ground, their chitinous bodies leaving a haunting imprint on the observerʼs senses.

And above, there is many more of such insects.

The relentless hum of their wings adds a disconcerting cadence to the already eerie soundscape.

The aura enveloping the cave, far from inviting, exudes a mysterious malevolence. This person enters into the cave without fear.

Yet, there is still people who come here.

No, this person is the first human being that managed to find this cave.

And he is the first person to enter this cave.

This someone is covered in black robe and around him black shadows rises from the black robe.

Around him there is three feet scorpions carcasses. ”This beast is weak but useful” he thought to himself as he brought out a stone pestle.

This stone pestle radiated red and purplish aura.

He then goes to one of the scorpion carcasses and approach the scorpion stinger.

Using a dagger, he cut the stinger and then bring the stinger to the area of the pestle.

Tok!

Tok!

Tok! He began pummelling the stinger in the pestle. In just a few second, the stinger is mashed into paste and liquid poison fills the pestle with a bit of scorpion paste

Then he took a cloth and scoop the paste with some kind of spoon that is reinforced.

He poured the paste and the liquid poison that is already finely pummelled, pass through the cloth but some of the meats is stuck in the cloth.

Using his hand, he wring out the poison left in the meat.

The few liquids poison that did not fall into the pestle falls into the cold damp hard ground of the cave and the moment it fell, it immediately melted the ground.

This person only shakes his head.

He goes to another scorpion and repeated it until he get almost half of the pestle filled with the poison of these giant scorpions.

Then he flick his finger and wherever he flicks his finger there is a small fireball that is flicked off from his fingers.

These fire then burns all of these scorpions into ashes.

Waving his hand, these ashes scattered out from the cave.

Then he sit before the pestle and brought out a bag from his sleeve. This is a bag of holding, more like a pouch.

He then began bringing out things from his pouch.

There is all kinds of herbs.

Some of them is known to the world and some are so weird and unknown that one wonder where did this person find all of this

This person then added these herbs into the pestle and each time these herbs was thrown into the pestle it is immediately melted by the poison of the scorpions

But as more and more herbs is thrown into the pestle, the colour of the poison changes.

From dark red to purple, to gold, to grey, to white to bright red, to dark brown.

It changes every time a new herb is introduced into the pestle

And then after it reached a certain colour and emitted certain scent, creating a small cloud of dark red above the area of the pestle, a scent that travels all over the cave, this person finally stop.

He then took out a stone bowl. >.