Late at night, Manda sat on the top of the mountain and looked up at the stars in a daze.


    The lioness sat beside her, pinched Manda''s face and said, "why, it''s soft to kill?"


    "No, I''m just a little tired."


    The lioness sighed: "I have been with the count for more than 20 years, and my hands have been stained with a lot of blood. They all call me a female devil. I also think I am a murderous devil, but compared with you..."


    The lioness smiled bitterly and didn''t know how to describe Manda.


    Manda glanced and said, "this is a helpless move. Although these enemies are weak, they are far more ferocious than you think. As long as we are kind to them, we must regret it."


    The lioness shrugged and said, "don''t get me wrong. I don''t sympathize with them."


    Manda stretched herself and said, "I didn''t sleep well these days. I finally slept a little more yesterday and had a nightmare. I dreamed I was going to cut off a person''s head, but I didn''t hit it. That person almost killed me. I was..."


    Before Manda finished, the lioness suddenly yelled at Manda, which scared Manda almost to fall under the cliff.


    "What are you doing? Crazy woman!" Manda said angrily.


    The lioness got up, patted the snow on her body, and pinched Manda''s face: "as long as you hear my voice, it proves that I''m by your side, and you don''t need to be afraid of anything."


    With that, the lioness kissed Manda''s lips and disappeared into the night.


    The next day, Manda asked the lioness and moaira to take a group of slaves to complete an important task and send the adults who were "close to the gods" home. There were skinned cemetery lords, ghost assassins who were cut into meat, life seekers whose heads were opened, and the most troublesome jungle demons. He was cooked by Manda.


    "Be careful, don''t spill the soup! I knew you were unreliable. Where''s the butcher?"


    Moaira said, "the butcher is crazy. From last night to now, he has been eating at the table. After eating all the food, he bit his fork. He has bitten two forks."


    "If you''re crazy, you have to take him. If he doesn''t want to go, take the body. Where''s Miss yewei?"


    Eudora said, "she''s fine. She can talk, but it''s a little hard to walk."


    "Bring her here!"


    With the help of the two slaves, yewei walked to Manda with difficulty. At the first sight of Manda, her feet were soft and lost her ability to move again.


    "Don''t be so nervous. I won''t hurt you. I just want you to do something and send these adults home..."


    Seeing the adults, yewei fainted on the spot. Yodora frowned and said, "I comforted her all night. I said she couldn''t do such a thing!"


    Finally, when yewei woke up, Manda arranged another task for her: "you don''t have to send these adults. Go back to your master and tell him that the new year is coming. I invite him to Weixing mountain. If he doesn''t want to come, I''ll go to Touxing mountain to find him."


    Yewei immediately agreed to come down. She wanted to fly down the mountain.


    There was no need to do the rest. Exhausted Manda returned to Weixing mountain, lay on the bed of "the master of the sky" and fell asleep.


    The bed was hard and tasted heavy, but it didn''t affect Manda''s sleep quality. He slept from dusk until dawn. When he woke up, he welcomed a guest, the Rose Angel verlock.


    Rose Angel, worthy of its reputation, has to admit that this is the most handsome man Manda has ever seen, slightly higher than Brooke''s appearance.


    He has long blond hair and a delicate ponytail tied behind his head. His deep set eyes are inlaid with a pair of dark blue eyes. His eyelashes are very long and the corners of his eyes are upturned. He is more charming than yodora.


    Manda rubbed his forehead. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he tried not to look at the man''s face.


    Verlock was not a talkative man. He knelt down on one knee and saluted Manda respectfully. With Manda''s permission, he presented Manda with three gifts.


    The first gift was all the wealth of Touxing mountain. It contained 12 wooden boxes, including gold coins, jewelry and some low-level gods. Manda nodded with satisfaction. He saw verlock''s sincerity.


    The second gift is the heads of two bandit leaders on the right-wing Xingshan. They didn''t attend the party last night. Except verlock, they are the only survivors. Unfortunately, they didn''t survive for too long. Obviously, verlock is a smart man. He knows what Manda wants.


    The third gift was two living people wearing the robes of God''s Punisher. The silent verlock finally opened his mouth: "master, they are looking for a man named Craig munchke in the seven star mountain. I''m worried that this matter has something to do with you, so I caught these two people."


    Look how natural the master''s voice is. He knows not only what Manda wants, but also what to do at the critical moment.


    Manda asked people to put the two punishers in the dungeon, and asked people to take all verlock''s property into the stronghold. Verlock took a deep breath and prayed silently, and finally saved his life.


    Manda picked up verlock: "come on, friend, let''s go in for a drink and tell me which God''s blood is flowing on you first?"


    "My God is Artemis, the goddess of hunting."


    "Your arrow technique must be good."


    "It''s OK in the mountains, but I''ve never been on the battlefield."


    "There will be a chance," said Manda, taking off her blouse and holding out a finger. "I want to do something. It will hurt a little. You can bear it."


    Verlock was surprised. He didn''t know where the finger was going, but he knew he could not refuse.


    "Master, I can endure." verlock closed his eyes. Manda took his left hand and exclaimed, "it''s so delicate. It''s softer than a woman''s hand."


    He cut a hole in verlock''s hand, and the tingling made verlock open his eyes.


    Manda took out a coin and dipped some blood from the palm of his hand. He improved Stanley''s method and created a messenger spell. Unlike the underworld spell, this spell will not kill verlock, but can sense his place and what he is going through in a certain range.


    With this spell, Manda no longer worried about verlock losing control. He asked verlock to stay in Touxing mountain and help him implement the new rules.


    ……


    With half a month left, it was the new year. A father and son drove ten sheep to the foot of Touxing mountain. His father wiped his sweat and sat quietly on the stone. These sheep were brought back from Blackwater city. When he returned to the village, each sheep could sell for almost 15 silver coins.


    But he knew that it was impossible to take all these sheep back. A small businessman like him had to walk back and forth on this road several times a year. Naturally, he understood the rules of seven star mountain. Fortunately, the sheep in Blackwater city were very cheap. Each sheep only needed six and a half Silver coins, even if only half of them could be taken back. It was driven by interests that he had the courage to take risks in seven star mountain.


    Not long after, a group of people appeared on the mountain road. The father and son immediately stood on the roadside and bowed their heads respectfully.


    A man came to the father and son and asked, "are these sheep yours?"


    The father nodded, then asked his son to come to five sheep and sent them to the man: "this is for the gods."


    The man said angrily, "don''t talk nonsense! Blasphemy will cut your tongue! These sheep are good. I want them all!"


    The father''s body trembled, and the son panicked and said, "but..."


    The man frowned and said, "why, you won''t?"


    The father covered his son''s mouth, bowed and said, "no, no, we all give it to the gods."


    The father and son turned to go, but the man stopped them: "wait a minute!"


    The father quickly hugged his son. The father and son trembled like leaves in the wind. His father wanted to beg for mercy from the man, but he couldn''t lift his head or open his mouth. He had to close his eyes in despair.


    The man said slowly, "I don''t know what the price is on your side. Here, a goat is only worth twelve silver coins, and ten sheep are worth one gold coin and twenty silver coins, but you have to pay 20% of the tax, so... It''s really hard to calculate!"


    The man took out a gold coin and handed it to his father: "lucky for you, no change."


    Father shook his head desperately. He dared not take it.


    The man said angrily, "is it too little? A sheep only needs more than six silver coins in Blackwater city. It''s only ten days away from here. I''m just too lazy to go! Take it quickly!"


    The man put the gold coins into his father''s hand and let his men drive the sheep away.


    The father took the gold coin and couldn''t return to God for a long time. The son asked, "what''s this?"


    The father weighed the weight and looked at the color: "this is a gold coin."


    The son was surprised and said, "I''ve never seen a gold coin."


    The father murmured, "now you see."