Chapter 365: Upgrade and change clothes to fight the BOSS
"That's it. I have already confessed everything, let me go"
Because of the pain, the muscles all over the man's body were violently twitching uncontrollably, and the facial features on his face were all twisted together.
His voice was even more trembling, with a cry in it.
"Are you sure you have confessed everything? If I wake up your companion later and he says something that you have not confessed, you will not want your left leg." Gothe said expressionlessly.
"I'll think about it again. I'll think about it again." The man suddenly panicked, his eyes widened, and he shouted incoherently.
His body trembled even more violently. He thought anxiously for a moment, and added some scattered information.
"Shut your mouth next." Seeing that the other party had nothing to say, Gothe scolded him.
Then he raised his foot again, randomly selected one of the unconscious men on the ground, and stepped on his chest hard.
With the sound of slight bone cracking, the man bowed his head like a shrimp, and then immediately began to retching, and the rancid green water was spit out gurglingly.
His body was still twitching slightly, and the former man, whose face was pale due to a large amount of blood loss, turned a little pale when he saw this scene.
After he finished vomiting the sewage in his stomach and regained consciousness, Gothe pointed to his companion's right leg that was no longer flesh and blood:
"You can answer whatever I ask, unless you want to be like him."
Hearing this, the former’s facial muscles spasmed involuntarily.
In fact, he wants to be a monkey rather than a chicken.
With the tragic situation of his companion in front of him, Gothe's interrogation of the second person went extremely smoothly.
He repeatedly inquired about some details, and after confirming that there was no logical contradiction between the two people's confessions, he took out the parchment he had prepared and wrote down the general outline of the whole thing based on the two people's confessions.
Henceforth, Gothe followed the same pattern again, "awakening" all the remaining people, and asked seven people to press their blood-red fingerprints on the confession. Then he rolled up the parchment with satisfaction and took it back into his arms.
Leaving a mark on everything is a good habit at work.
The whole thing is actually not complicated.
The seven of them were originally members of the Xiuding Gang.
The so-called Nail Gang is actually a profit-based gang in Lagos that uses rusty nails as its gang symbol.
Such gangs can be found in basically any city, and they are of various natures.
There are survival gangs composed of poor people, homeless people and even the unemployed. These people are struggling to survive at the bottom of society and have to stick together for warmth.
In addition, there are resistance gangs composed of the oppressed and idealists, faith-based gangs with a certain belief or mysterious power as the core, and interest-based gangs with the goal of acquiring wealth and power.
The reasons for the emergence of these gangs basically revolve around the following reasons: "economic inequality, aristocratic oppression, racial and cultural discrimination, power vacuum, and faith."
And usually take illegal trade, violent crime, intelligence trading, resistance activities, beliefs and rituals, protection and services as the main activities.
The relationship between gangs and cities is particularly complex.
On the surface, mages and nobles, as the city's ruling class, should try their best to eliminate gangs, which can lead to unstable public security.
They seem to do the same.
But the fact is that the nobles, as the ruling class, are not only indifferent to these gangs, but even acquiesce in supporting these gangs.
Because these gangs often have inextricable cooperative relationships with nobles and businessmen.
They will provide some illegal services such as assassination and smuggling to the nobles in exchange for the nobles' asylum and funds.
Alternatively, it is possible to make annual contributions on a fixed basis and establish a solid benefit transfer relationship with the nobles.
This is the case with Xiuding Bang.
It has cooperative and beneficial relationships with many nobles and even chambers of commerce in the city.
To put it bluntly, the Nail Gang is actually equivalent to the black gloves of the big shots, helping them handle some dirty work that they cannot do due to their status.
The reason why the seven of them came to the Makoko District to release the larvae of rancid water salamanders into the waters here was because the gang had received a long-term deal. They were only responsible for executing it, and the specific details were not clear.
It's just that many things can be speculated.
The purpose of letting them release rancid water salamander larvae was to create panic in the Makoko District and force these poor people to move away.
The only ones with vested interests in driving away the poor people in Makoko District are the nobles and rulers of Lagos City.
The existence of Makoko District has always been a cancer that is difficult to eliminate and is growing day by day for Lagos.
From the perspective of the overall development of Lagos City, the existence of Makoko District seriously hinders it from attracting businessmen to invest and develop industries.
Because the image of Makoko District is a huge negative label for the overall environment and development potential of Lagos City.
The nobles own a large number of industries in the city, and the city of Lagos cannot develop, which means that their wealth cannot grow or even shrink.
In addition, due to poverty and lack of opportunities, poor people in Makoko District tend to have higher crime rates and frequent criminal activities.
This has seriously affected the public security situation and social stability of Lagos. It not only requires the nobles to invest more manpower, financial and material resources to maintain public security, but also lowers the evaluation of them by the higher-level nobles and even the royal family.
Coupled with the poor sanitary conditions in Makoko, this not only affects the environment, worsens the water environment around Lagos, poses a potential threat to the safety of urban drinking water sources, but also easily causes large-scale spread of diseases.
These will lead to a significant decrease in the attractiveness of Lagos to foreign populations and talents.
For the nobles of Lagos, the prosperity of the city of Lagos is closely related to their wealth and status.
Hence, they have always wanted to eliminate the cancer of Makoko in order to improve the city image of Lagos and increase the value of urban land and investment.
But this is not easy?
It’s not like Lagos officials have never tried.
For example, carry out large-scale renovation projects, such as implementing forced demolitions.
However, large-scale transformation involves many parties, and it is difficult to coordinate the demands of all parties, especially the interests of many nobles, so progress has been hindered.
And the funds required for large-scale renovation are astronomical and difficult to allocate.
It was to be expected that it would end without any problem.
Forced demolition will trigger violent conflicts and resistance.
If the scale of the conflict is smaller, the nobles can indeed suppress it.
But the poor population in Makoko District is more than 200,000. No matter how powerful these nobles are, they cannot cover the sky with one hand.
Hence, the Makoko District has always existed amidst the dissatisfaction of the nobles, and has grown stronger.
If the bright method doesn't work, then use some yin moves.
This is normal for nobles.
Of course, these are all guesses.
So Gothe simply made a note of it in his confession and did not expand on it in detail.
There are two big bosses in the entire Xiuding Gang.
There are eight small leaders left, dozens of key members, and more than 300 ordinary members. It is considered a medium-sized gang in Lagos.
The most powerful person in the Nail Gang is their gang leader, Ansel Biden, a senior second-level mage.
The second in command is Aldrich Shaw, who is also a second-level mage, but according to their explanation, he was only successfully promoted to level in the middle of this year.
In order to show their strength, the Xiuding Gang also held a grand banquet to celebrate their promotion to the ring.
Then the remaining eight small bosses are all first-level mages.
The person who entrusted them with the task of herding water animals was Aldrich Shaw, the second-in-command of the Nail Gang.
Aldrich Shaw Gothe recalled the contents of the confession and thought about it for a long time.
There is no doubt that Aldrich was not the initiator, but just a person who handled the task.
The real mastermind should be, as these seven people guessed, the nobles in the city.
Although the impact and harm of the Water Beast Rebellion in Makoko District was not particularly great, it affected more than 200,000 people. Even if it was only poor people, it was still a major incident.
If Gao De can solve this matter in one fell swoop, he will receive first-class merit.
However, this has already involved the ruling class in the city of Lagos, and it is obviously not something that he, a sea sentinel trainee mage, can handle.
Gaode did not attempt to get to the bottom of this matter on his own.
His target was only Aldrich.
Get Aldrich, and then go back to deliver the mission.
Aldrich's mage level is the second level.
In fact, among the Sea Sentinels, the reward for the task of slaying the second-level water beasts is also the third-level merit level.
But don’t forget that Gaode is still only a first-level trainee mage.
The rating of merit and the strength of the completer are also a very important indicator.
A first-level sea sentinel mage, while performing an ordinary mission, if the first-level water beast becomes a second-level water beast due to incorrect intelligence, let alone eradication, even if he only drives away the second-level water beast, considering the level of the first-level sea mage, there is a high probability that he will obtain a second-level merit.
This is especially true when Gaud unexpectedly discovered the inside story of the mission when he was performing the task of expelling water beasts, and he captured Aldrich, who was a second-level mage.
There is a high probability that you will get more than one second-class meritorious service.
It's just that a first-level mage fighting a second-level mage is too risky.
Even though Sunaifa can fight four rings and five rings, he is Sunaifa. He is a sturdy existence with a series of titles such as "The Controller of [Blizzard], Awakener of Perfect Ice Spell, Daughter of Boreas, The Last Pure-Blooded Iceborn in the Contemporary Age, Born of Ice and Snow".
In this vast northern territory, Sunaifa is the only one.
And Gaode is just a sea sentinel trainee mage.
Although he is also known as the "King of the North", which is resounding enough, this title has nothing to do with strength.
Gaode knows how much he weighs.
With his current strength, under normal circumstances, there is definitely no hope for him to defeat the second-level mage.
Hence, if the opponent is Ansel, the boss of the Nail Gang, Gothe will definitely not think about anything and just go back to Dorne and report the confession.
No matter how great the credit is, it must be taken with a life.
Under normal circumstances, these gangs would definitely not dare to offend the Sea Sentinel Mage easily and would not cause trouble for him.
But if he had knocked on the door, he would definitely not be a soft persimmon and would really kill him.
But this Aldrich is not a normal second-level mage.
He was promoted to the second ring in the middle of this year.
The time is now in the middle of the Ice Month (November), less than half a year has passed since Aldrich ascended the ring.
The strength of a mage is determined by many aspects. In addition to the mage level and expertise, the most important three aspects are spells, experience and equipment.
Spells account for the highest proportion among them.
It is not as easy for other mages to learn spells as Gothe.
不是天赋异禀之人，构建一个法术模型所需耗费的时间都是小半年起步的。
Aldrich can be the leader of a gang with no future, so how talented can he be?
In other words, Aldrich, who has only been promoted to level for half a year, has at most mastered a second-level spell, not necessarily a combat spell, and may not even have mastered a second-level spell.
Equivalent to a second-level mage who has not changed jobs and learned new skills.
Compared to a first-level mage, Aldrich has three more abilities: "expertise", "level-up spell casting", and "elemental incarnation" brought by high levels, as well as more abundant magic power and stronger mental power.
To be honest, with these, it is enough to absolutely crush the first-level mage.
However, although the current Gaode cannot compare with the unique combat power of the same realm as Sunaifa, he is definitely not an ordinary first-level mage.
Leave aside his bottomless arsenal of spells.
First of all, the power of [Frozen Blade+] is already infinitely close to that of a second-level spell. With the further strengthening of [Intermediate Ice Blessed Body], it is enough to threaten second-level mages.
The second is his [North Wind], which was once a seventh-level ice magic weapon. Even though its power has dropped significantly with the passage of time, it still retains its power.
II After taking Wolf Blood Ginseng, Gaode's magic power surged to 39 drops of liquid, which allowed him to barely use [North Wind].
In addition, the third-level Mandora Magic Eye also has a strong auxiliary effect in combat.
More importantly, Gaode can also upgrade himself to a level and get himself a "new equipment" before going to "fight the boss".
His current magic power is 39 drops of liquid.
The progress of the 40th drop of liquid mana has actually been advanced by more than half under the power of Wolf Blood Ginseng, although it has not completely condensed out.
According to the current progress, it should only take three or four days to completely condense out with the proper use of magic potions.
Once the 40th drop of liquid mana is condensed, he can break through to the middle of the first ring.
The first-level mage is also divided into three small levels: junior high, middle and late.
Every small level breakthrough can bring a considerable improvement to the mage's strength.
Then there is the first-order rune structure that Gothe prepared for himself, and the design has already been drawn.
Now that he also has money, he only needs to purchase the corresponding materials to turn the design drawings into physical objects.
Once he puts on his own tailor-made first-level rune structure, his combat power will soar to another level.
If we can bring the battlefield to the water, we will be more confident.
However, this requires long-term planning and may not be realized.
After taking stock like this, Gaode gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
There are risks, but you can rush!
(End of this chapter)