"Are you really a gnoll?"

Alice asked softly and coldly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This question has been pressing on her mind for a long time, because in Alice's opinion, although Hogg has the appearance of a gnoll, whether it is personality, intelligence or means of acting, it is fundamentally different from the gnolls she knows in books and the gnolls she has seen on the battlefield.

"Are you really a gnoll?"

Seeing the confusion on Hogg's face, Alice was afraid that the other party did not hear, so she took the trouble to repeat what she had just said again.

"Of course, I'm a gnoll, Lord Alice. ”

Repeating the words on both sides, Hogg was finally convinced that there was nothing wrong with his ears and that he had not misheard Alice's question. At this moment, though, Hogg couldn't read through Alice's intentions, and couldn't read any useful information from that delicate little face and playful smile.

But this does not mean that he has no other ideas, in a short moment, Hogg has decided to use the conversation to consume each other's time, as long as Alice is dragged here for every second more, then the war and the battlefield of Skahabeowulf will also be one more second of variable, maybe at this time, Artela and Famine in the camp have felt wrong, and are already on the way to support, maybe it will not be long before the situation on the battlefield will become three against three, and the balance that has tilted to the bottom will once again tend to balance。

"If you want to procrastinate, satisfy my curiosity. ”

In other words, Alice doesn't care about Hogg's procrastination, but if Hogg can't satisfy Alice's curiosity and give an answer that satisfies Alice during the next conversation, then the girl will end it all directly, and as a result, he will take his life and join the battlefield against this war, if that happens, then the greatest possibility is that before Attila and the famine come, the war will fall here.

As a smart beautiful girl, Alice of course saw through the other party's inner plans at a glance, but she was not in a hurry to join the battlefield of Skaha, so she simply stayed here to satisfy the curiosity of the girl that had existed since just now.

"Why are you so different from your compatriots, how can you be so ......"

After thinking about it, Alice found a word to describe it.

"Wisdom. ”

"You give me the feeling of being more like a human being than a gnoll, a human who has been educated, has experienced life, and has seen the world. ”

After thinking about it, Alice added.

"Not those who live in Scandinavia, but those who live on the shores of the Mediterranean, those who have been bathed in the splendor of the gods all year round, who have experienced countless baptisms of knowledge, and who have seen many great sages. ”

"Human? That's a nice appreciation. ”

Hogg looked down and smiled, a smile so mocking, anger mixed with sadness.

"Mankind is truly a blessed race favored by the gods. ”

"Obviously, everyone is a plaything created by the gods, and the sacrifices that everyone sacrifices to the gods are not much different in the beliefs they provide, but why do they get more favor from the gods than other races?"

When he said this, perhaps it aroused the anger in his heart, Hogg's face could no longer maintain the calm expression he had always had, his hands clenched, and his eyes glowed.

"Oh, it seems, you have a lot of grievances against humans...... Obviously, in this land, you three evils in the north are the real rulers, the real ones who dominate everything, even Atira, they have to [conquer] you. ”

Let Attila have to [conquer] instead of destroy, which also shows that centaurs, gnolls and orcs are extraordinary, after all, those humans and elves who are now only white bones are not treated like this.

"Forget it, I don't want you gnolls, or you, why are you so hateful to humans, those have nothing to do with me, there is only one ...... you need to do now"

As she spoke, Alice stretched out the middle finger of her left hand and tapped her heart.

"It's about satisfying my curiosity and answering my questions. ”

Hogg knew that the girl with the human appearance in front of her was indeed thinking as she said, and if he could really satisfy the other party with words, she really wouldn't suggest whether she had other thoughts, and she wouldn't suggest the passage of time.

"I'm a gnoll and haven't changed in the slightest since I was born. ”

"Neither the gifts of the gods nor the praise of the strong. ”

Whether it is the magic used to detect the true or false, or the sixth sense that comes from the girl, she unmistakably tells Alice that every word and every sentence that this gnoll man who makes her look at her differently is true.

And the magic she had secretly prepared in the spell book just now to seal the soul and bloodline also fed back the information at the right time, and the gnoll named Hogg in front of her was a very pure gnoll from blood to soul.

This made Alice breathe a sigh of relief and a little disappointed at the same time...... Why is there such a mood? Because Alice regards this jackal, who is not at all like a gnoll, as her [companion], as an unlucky person who also wakes up with a change in body and soul, and this is why Alice will talk nonsense with him for so long.

However, after the disappointment, the curiosity in her heart took over, and she raised her beautiful eyes, looking up and down Hogg's appearance and dress, and kept looking at the jackal embarrassed before withdrawing her gaze.

"Miss Alice, any questions?"

Swallowing his saliva and feeling the viscous liquid slip down his mouth and throat, moistening his dry tonsils, Hogg asked cautiously, if he could, he didn't want his life to end here.

"Well, yes, there are still problems. ”

Alice felt Hogg's gaze, smiled embarrassedly, and stopped such rude movements and behaviors.

"How you did it, how you did it, how you can change the situation on the whole battlefield alone. ”

Hogg smiled self-deprecatingly again, and took Alice's words.

"Miss Alice, what kind of method did I use to make the gnolls, who have always been weak, defeat the humans who have been favored by the gods in a frontal battle?"

"Smack"

Alice snapped her fingers with her free left hand, and she nodded, agreeing with Hogg's guess.

"Actually, it's not an incomprehensible tactic, it's just the use of our gnolls' hunting skills in the forests and grasslands, and the arrogance of the humans. ”

But if they put away their arrogance, put on their armor seriously, and take up the shields made of fine iron, then the outcome of the battle would not have changed much. ”

There will be no change, the gnoll whose weapon is just a stone weapon, facing the berserker who is already a lot higher in combat power than a single body, and now there are berserkers who wear it and use iron equipment, the result will definitely be the same as on the beach in Scandinavia before, there will be no change.

"There is no way to do it, after all, they have the blood of the god Odin in their bodies, and they carry the favor of the gods in their bodies, even their wise men (the wise man here refers to Sigourne, the princess of Barusenga, not Beowulf) felt that this expedition was not simple, and it was not a child's house, and it cost them a lot of money to equip them with sharp weapons and strong armor from my hands, and it did not change their end. ”

"After all, arrogance and arrogance have long set a trap for them to fail, the difference is only when and where they face who stepped in, but the only thing I didn't expect, beyond my expectations, was ......"

"What I didn't expect was that it was our gnolls who let them step in. ”

Hogg boldly interrupted Alice, and said the rest of the story.

“…… No, it seems that they will lose at the hands of the jackals, and it is inevitable that they will lose at your hands, and only by virtue of the current situation, you can still stay calm, and those brutes without brains will definitely not be your opponents. ”

“…… Thank you for the compliment. ”

Hogg opened his mouth, and finally could only squeeze such a dry sentence out of his throat, and after that, neither of them wanted to speak, and the atmosphere fell silent for a moment.

"What are you going to do with me?" Miss Alice. ”

"Looks like you're not going to kill me, are you?"

In the end, Hogg was the first to lose his breath, he twisted his body, soothed his already numb body, and asked.

From the beginning to the present, Hogg didn't ask why Alice's attack killed those berserkers as well, he didn't think that his strength had reached Alice's level, and he would make such a low-level mistake as accidentally injuring allies, but he also knew that if he asked this question and put the things under the table on the table, then his life would only be left in this place.

"For the sake of satisfying my curiosity, I'll let you go this time. ”

Alice waved her hand, with an inexplicable smile on her face, and flew away from the ground, leaving only a word, ignoring Hogg, who was still tied in mid-air.

When Alice's figure had turned into a small black dot in Hogg's eyes, the air that bound his limbs dissipated, and Hogg, who was standing on the ground again, patted the dirt on his body, and after standing quietly for a few minutes, he quickly ran towards Atella's camp without looking back.

It had been so long since Atila's reinforcements had not yet arrived, so the only possibility was that the news of the attack on the war had not been successfully transmitted, and the team sent for help had definitely been wiped out.

"Ah...... It's really the temper of the eldest lady, who knows that there is a danger that can kill me in front of her, so she is merciful and bypasses my life. ”

Hogg, who was running in the forest, easily caught the slight smell of blood in the air, the smell of blood with a strong smell of sweat unique to jackals and centaurs, the area of this forest is very large, the radius is almost ten kilometers, but fortunately, it is very flat, there are neither canyons nor mountains, it is very conducive to Hogg's running, if Hogg runs at the speed now, it only takes another 10 minutes, he will be able to successfully leave here and return to Attila's camp。

He was so fast that he did not dare to stop running, nor did he look back when he passed by the bodies of his companions, who had fallen to the ground without a sound, nor did he look back when a familiar voice called in his ears, nor did he be surprised by the strange sights of snow, desert, and sea that appeared around him.

The trees in the forest were becoming more and more scarce, and the distribution of trees was becoming more and more sparse, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and the blinding sunlight filled his eyes, and not far in front of Hogg, a simple camp made of wood came into his sight, and when he saw this familiar camp, Hogg knew that he was out of safety.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, where is Lord Atila, where is Lord Famine!?"

Without wasting any extra effort on the guarded soldiers, Hogg, who had just arrived in the camp, shouted loudly, and the characteristic voice of the gnolls echoed through the camp, attracting the attention of the lazy white bears who were basking in the sun.

"Hey, aren't you a gnoll who went out with the War Lord, why did you come back alone?"

"Quick, tell me where Lord Atila and Lord Famine are, Lord War has something important to tell me and let me convey it. ”

Faced with the sworn and eager Hogg, as Atira's Praetorian Guard, the White Bear people easily relaxed their vigilance and did not dare to slack off in the slightest, they quickly and carefully checked Hogg's situation, and after confirming that he was not carrying dangerous items on him, they took him to Atira's tent.

As Hogg's feet stepped on the soft carpet, he spoke something that made the two tall adults quickly rise from their seats.

"We have been attacked by the Scandinavian Army, and the War Lord is now alone against Alice Norregi, the lord of Skaha, Beowulf, and Jutland. ”