Volume 2 Chapter 172 No Trace
It didn't take long for the door of the hotel room to be slammed open, and several heavily armed members of the Dark Cross rushed in, led by the captain Gerodiel, who was fully armored and carrying a heavy shield.
The original plan was for Lorna to take care of the timing of the poison attack and leave the battlefield at the right time, so as not to fall into the possible battle next and be affected.
And if there is no suitable opportunity to poison, it is better to give up poisoning, as long as the target is delayed.
At this moment, looking at the empty and quiet room, the remaining food on the table was still steaming, and the captain Gerodiel's mood was a little complicated for a while.
Obviously, the plan has failed, and once these evil and mysterious enemies are alarmed, it will be difficult to catch them.
The end result of the mission is likely to be that everyone will return home without gain, and those who should bear the responsibility for failure will be held responsible. As for Lorna, she may have fallen into the hands of the enemy, or she may have been sacrificed.
The rescue must be carried out, but only if there is a trace of the enemy's whereabouts.
On the other hand, although Lorna is not a very good combat mage, she also has a third-order strength placed there after all. Since the opponent brazenly attacked and subdued Lorna, this shows that the previous prediction of the enemy's various dangers was accurate.
But invisibly, Jerodiel also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The corners of his eyes had been beating non-stop, and there was no reason for some uneasiness in his heart, as if everyone was going to attack the dragon's lair.
This inexplicable premonition often has no source, and the missions solved by the 3rd Squadron of the Dark Cross are enough to hang an entire wall, but few missions can bring such an inexplicable sense of oppression to Gerodiel before the war.
Now that the mission has failed, it may not be a bad thing.
The members of the Dark Cross who entered the room dispersed, conducting a meticulous routine search of the room, and some pushed open the windows to observe the surroundings outside, or waved to those left behind on the street.
"How did you go?" asked Captain Gerodiel with a solemn face, the enemy and Lorna naturally did not disappear for no reason, and some special methods must have been used.
"There's been a lot of magic fluctuating here lately, but it's impossible to determine if it's teleportation or some other special means. Serena, the female mage in the team, came to a conclusion after some probing.
"Can you track it?" asked Gerodiel.
"The whereabouts are full of magical turbulence, and it's no longer clear. Serena shook her head with some regret.
"What's that, evil medium?" Gerodiel's gaze suddenly rested on the skull on the bedside table, where evil enemies used the likes to cast their weird spells in many ancient tales.
"No, I've probed, it's not magical, it's just an ordinary skeleton. Serena replied.
"Can you bring it back with you?" asked Vice-Captain Walliston expectantly.
"It's useless, it's not magical, even if it used to be an instrument, it's no longer valid, otherwise it wouldn't be discarded here, you can pick up a bunch of them just by walking around in this kind of skeleton cemetery. Serena explained as she hovered her hand over the skeleton.
On the cupboard, Timo looked nervously in anticipation, the little white hand on top of his head. Smelling the faint fragrance and feeling the faint temperature on the little hands,...... Damn, you touched it, Teemo felt like he was sweating.
Finally, the slender fingertips of the little hand swept over his skull, and he left with nostalgia, and for a moment Timo felt that his soul trembled, and he almost couldn't help moaning.
"Since there is no direction...... Let's close the team first. After everyone was in a hurry, Gerodiel finally had to give the order with difficulty.
The team members left in silence, and no one asked about Lorna's whereabouts or follow-up. It's not that they are ruthless, but they all know very well that since they are involved in the mission, life and death will come at any time, and unnecessary feelings are meaningless.
When the surroundings were quiet again, Timo breathed a sigh of relief.
Originally, Thor did not arrange for Teemo to stay, and the original plan was for Teemo to close the door of the secret realm and open the window to escape, but Teemo thought that adventure should also be a part of his life, so he took it upon himself to stay.
Anyway, even if someone casually stuffed it into a bag, he would have enough opportunities to escape quietly on the way.
Thinking about the encounter with that soft little hand just now, Teemo suddenly understood why the boss would rather die on the road than take a desperate risk, it seems that taking risks is indeed a very meaningful thing.
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On the first floor of the reincarnation dungeon, Thor carried Lorna, a whining monster, all the way to the wild.
He didn't run too far, giving up the three doors he had encountered in the aisle along the way, and after finding the fourth door of someone else's secret realm, Thor rushed in with Lorna's head on his shoulder, regardless of where it led.
After a flash of vision, the surroundings suddenly became dim, and it seemed to be ...... It's a cellar again? Oh, I love a cellar!
Thor lowered Lorna off his shoulders and held her in his arms, then climbed the cellar stairs and opened the cellar door with his head, observing the environment on the ground. It seemed to be an abandoned barn, with a structure of grass and trees, and the smell of pig manure wafting through the air next door.
Walking out of the barn, it seems to be a very dilapidated village, and I don't know which territory it is in, and the lights are sparse. As far as the eye can see, there may be twenty or thirty households in the whole village, and there are no ornate large buildings.
Looking back at the barns behind him, it seemed that only the pig farmer next to him seemed to be inhabited, and everything else was dark.
This is in line with Saul's long-standing impression that the loss of people due to the hardships of life, disease, the plundering of profits among the same kind, the danger of coming from the dark wilderness, or dying at risk are the main reasons for the depopulation of such small towns and villages.
Most of the houses in the town are probably empty, or even never full.
Although he didn't know where he was at the moment, Thor was extremely satisfied with the environment, remote and inconspicuous, poor and backward, and even gave Thor a sense of intimacy in his heart to return to Grey Curtain Town.
He turned back to the barn and picked a cellar, but he smoked Thor back with piles of rotten vegetable leaves that had been in the cellar for an unknown number of years, and searched again, and finally found an empty and clean one.
"You'd better stay here and wait for me to come back, of course I don't have a problem if you want to run around, there will always be some hungry strong men wandering around in this kind of backcountry, and a gorgeous lady like you is as eye-catching as a night light. ”
"You're just an ordinary person with no magical powers, and if they find out and knock you down, I won't be able to stop you, you know, some primordial powers are usually very strong. ”
Thor instructed as he groped the important parts of her body under Lorna's shocked gaze, and then took away her rings, earrings, and necklaces, not even the brooch of her dress.
"I won't touch anything in your space, and I can't actually move either, so, wait until I get back. Saul concluded.
Lorna whined and glared at him, eventually nodding reluctantly.
Next, Thor visited a local farmer as a down-and-out traveler, bought some of his family's homegrown food called bean paste cakes, and also found out what he wanted.
It's a village called Luosha Town, but it's been a long time since it became the size of a town. Now it doesn't belong to any territory at all, it's just a small and desolate village, and the whole village is nestled deep in the Rulda Desert.
No wonder you can always feel the sand grains when walking on the muddy road between the villages, and Thor looked at the map, but he couldn't find this place on the map. There is the Rulda Desert, which is located due east of the southern border of the Sarvinian mainland.
There was nothing to worry about when he couldn't find it, and after figuring out the approximate geographical location, Thor returned to the cellar of the barn.
"Now I'll help you remove the cloth, but you'd better keep your lady quiet and don't scream or make extra noises, or I'll gagged you with something else, understand?" Thor patted Lorna on the head.
After she nodded, Thor ripped the cloth off, then raised the food in his hand.
"Would you like to try this local specialty made from beans?" asked Saul.
Lorna coughed and shook her head.
Thor shrugged his shoulders and didn't care, then looked left and right, only to remember that there wasn't even a place to sit in the cellar. With a flick of his hand, a single bed appeared in the cellar.
This bed was brought by Thor from the Gravekeeper's Cottage in Grey Curtain at the time, mainly because he was afraid that he would not be able to sleep in other beds during the journey, but unfortunately there was no chance to use it on the way.
He originally wanted to steal the gravekeeper's hut when he left, but his mental strength didn't seem to be enough to support the hut's retraction, so he had to retreat and take a bed with him.
"You...... What are you doing with the bed?" Lorna curled in the corner and looked at Thor a little nervously.
"Who knows??or do something more meaningful than sleeping?" Thor turned his head a little amused, he had just taken it out and sat down, not wanting to do anything at all, but it seemed that Lorna's associations were rich.
"You'd better ...... The oracle asks women to remain chaste throughout their lives as a sign of piety. Lorna weakly made up the story.
"Hah, means you're very religious, and according to you, if every woman on this continent were a believer, it wouldn't be long before humanity would be extinct because there were no offspring. Thor burst out laughing, it was funny.
Lorna opened her mouth, unable to refute it for a moment.
Thor slowly swallowed the bean pastry as Lorna watched in silence, oh, a little rough of grains, but the overall sweetness was still strong.
"Don't worry, that's after the original game, and now it's the most interesting story part. Let's get to know each other a little better. Thor wiped his hands and smiled as he walked over to Lorna.
"Oh, don't you come here......" Lorna screamed and panicked back into the corner.
"Are you sure you want me to gag you with something else?" Thor gently put his arm around her shoulder.
Lorna blushed, and although she didn't know what something else was, she could probably guess part of it.
Eventually, Thor pulled Lorna to the side of the bed, and pressed Lorna chest down on his lap.