Pingxi Mountains, on the periphery.

"Brother, the demonic beasts here are so weak" Ariel pulled out the Nether Sword that was dismantled from the head of a timber wolf, shook the blood on the sword and said indifferently: "It's not enough for us to break through the third order."

After two battles between the Forest of Despair and the bandits, both Ayton and Ariel felt that they had reached the peak of the third order, and they only needed one opportunity to break through to the fourth order.

"Don't take it lightly, Ariel, remember that our target is the undead dragon," Ayton said lightly, glancing at Lan Coco and Iruli, who had become accustomed to the battle, the two of them no longer had the initial fear, and Lan Coco was in front of Eruli and unleashing his magic on the timberwolf.

And the battle between Ayton and Ariel is over.

"Got it" Ariel broke the timberwolf's head and said disdainfully, "It's rubbish, not even a crystal nucleus"

Ayton: "......"

For some reason, the demonic beasts of the Pingxi Mountains and the Luoxia Mountains were one point weaker than the demonic beasts of the Desperate Forest and the Land of Trials, and even the probability of producing crystal nuclei was much lower, although it was not too much, but it was enough to make the powerful Ariel despise.

In the eyes of the dark elves, except for Ayton, they will more or less look down on the weak, which may have something to do with their consistent tradition - the weak have no dignity.

'Icicle Technique'

The blue coco staff flashed, and an ice pick pierced the timberwolf's eye, ending her life, if it had been before, she would definitely have directly released an ice spear technique, but at Ayton's request, she wanted to save every cent of mana, so she used an ice pick technique.

"Well done," Ayton complimented, giving her a little encouragement.

Blue Coco nodded happily at Ayton, rejoicing in the results of her efforts.

"I hope that when the time comes to face the undead dragon, I won't fight back to the way I was," Ariel said leisurely.

Lan Coco's smile became a little embarrassed: "I, I'm sure I won't"

"Well, I'm sure Blue Coco won't," Elully whispered, originally Ayton wanted Ariel to stay next to Ilully and Blue Coco, but Blue Coco said that a powerful magician doesn't need to be protected by others, but can protect others.

In addition, Ariel said that she wanted to stay next to Ayton, so in the future, Lan Coco would protect Iluli, who had no combat ability, and it could be seen from her determined expression just now that she was still working hard, but she was facing ordinary magical beasts.

"You are...... Forget it, let's keep walking" Ravel had just wrapped a timberwolf with vines, but deliberately did not kill it immediately, but silently watched the other four behave in battle.

He was completely stunned when he saw that Ayton and Ariel each killed their respective timberwolves with a sword, and the blue-clothed mage killed one with only three spells.

This is not the strength that a third-order person should have at all, you must know that even some fourth-order high-level warriors have at least three swords to kill a timberwolf.

Then he noticed that the weapons of the two of them were faintly flashing with magic patterns and inlaid with magic crystal nuclei, and they were all 'epic' level weapons!

This is not something that ordinary people can take out at will!

He opened his mouth to say something, but he endured it, turned his head and strangled the timberwolf with a vine, since they didn't take the initiative to say it, it might break their relationship if he asked too much.

"Brother, is there really an undead dragon in this place" Ariel ignored Ravel and spoke to Ayton to herself.

"Since there are so many mercenaries here, it shouldn't be fake, if you don't even see the shadow of a dragon here, it will have a great impact on the reputation of the Marquis of Thorns" At this time, Ayton noticed that a small group of mercenaries was walking towards them not far away.

"Ayton, there's a crystal nucleus here," Lan Coco shouted happily to Ayton, who had an extra bloody nucleus in her hand, which she had just pulled out of the head of the timberwolf she had killed.

Originally, she was very resistant to touching such things as blood, or she was afraid of such things. Even if Ayton said that a powerful magician must be baptized with blood, she didn't dare, until Ayton just wanted to give up, Ariel smeared wolf blood on Lan Coco's face, and she screamed in fright, until it took a while to endure it, only to find that the blood was not so terrible, just a viscous liquid, and a little pungent. This made Ariel laugh for a while.

"Well done, Coco," Ayton took the crystal nucleus from Blue Coco's hand, wiped it with a cloth and put it in the backpack behind him.

"In the future, you can clean it with a water balloon technique or something, and you don't have to touch the blood so deliberately" Ayton looked at Lan Coco, who was wrinkling his nose, and chuckled, "Are you still afraid of what Ariel will say?"

"I'm afraid of wogan, I won't kill you," Ariel said briskly as she jumped up to Ayton's side.

"Why, I... I'm afraid of what she's doing" Lan Keke endured the discomfort in her heart, wiped her nose, and released a water balloon technique to clean her hands, even if she had been in contact with blood at zero distance, but in fact, she still didn't like to touch this kind of thing. She is not like the dark elves, who have been exposed to killing since she was eight or nine years old.

"Big brother, those people ......" Iruli suddenly walked over and whispered, her green eyes looking at the mercenaries who had already come in a circle. Judging by his expression, it seems that he is trying to do something wrong.

"Brother, 10 mercenaries, give Lan Coco training, or we ......" Ariel whispered to Ayton with a cruel smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Let's take a look first, if you can't fight, you won't fight" Ayton frowned slightly, in this wilderness, there are always people who take a fancy to the appearance of the three girls around him and want to do something bad to them.

Ravel stood in front of Ayton and them with a wary face, although he knew that Ayton and they were not ordinary people, he didn't think that they were stronger than him, a fifth-order powerhouse, as the strongest person in the team, this aspect of diplomacy must still be handed over to him.

"This brother, the Pingxi Mountains are too dangerous, and it is said that there is an undead dragon, otherwise we will go together," one of the mercenary leaders said to Ravel with a smile.

"Thank you for your kindness, but we can protect ourselves," Ravel replied politely.

"Yes, can you even deal with that undead dragon?"

"Don't worry, it's impossible for the undead dragon to appear here, and even if it does, we have a way to escape"

"In this way, then these wolves are all killed by you, can you divide us in half, for the sake of the face that we are about to hunt the undead dragon and eliminate harm for the people" The mercenary leader finally showed his fox tail and stepped forward and said.

"This is the result of our team's hunt, and I can't say yes," Ravel said warily, taking a step back, pulling away.

"Then are you forcing us to rob us" Another mercenary pulled out his weapon and said angrily, but was stopped by the mercenary leader Finger, who was embarrassed to say indifferently to Ravel: "I'm sorry, my brother has a bit of a personality... Straightforward"

Finger turned to look at the four behind Ravel, the threat in his eyes was undisguised, and there was a hint of a playful smile on the corner of his mouth: "But don't forget, you still have three delicate women, if something happens in this forest......"

"By the way, I forgot to tell you that the name of our mercenary group is 'Blazing'"

Blazing Mercenary Regiment!

As soon as these words came out, Ravel suddenly fell silent, and looked at the other mercenaries next to him, there were ten people on the other side, and four of them all pulled out their weapons in unison, and attached fighting energy to the blades, forming a series of colorful swords.

Ayton and the three of them may not know, but Ravel knows very well in his heart that one of the strongest mercenary groups in the Land of Thorns, although the number is small, but the average strength is extremely strong, there are four fourth-order powerhouses, five third-order peak warriors, plus he, the mercenary leader of unknown strength, Finger, should have come to the Pingxi Mountains to prepare to complete the undead dragon mission.

Ravel felt his heart sink in his heart, if he wants to fight with these people, it is uncertain whether he can beat or not, even if he wins, it will definitely be a miserable victory, there is no need to fight with this group of powerful mercenaries for a few crystal nuclei.

"It's just a few second-order crystal nuclei and timberwolf corpses, so there's no need to fight us...... Well, we're going to hunt that undead dragon," Finger sneered inwardly, thinking that after the half-elf let his guard down, he would carry out a sneak attack, seriously injuring or killing him, the leading magician, and the remaining young four would not have anything to fear.

They had indeed planned to hunt the undead dragon and earn 2,000 gold coins. But after seeing the postures of Ariel, Lan Coco, and Iluri, they immediately decided not to hunt any dragons, not to mention the danger. If you capture these three women, play with them for a while, and then sell them to some slave trader, you will definitely earn no less than 2,000 gold coins.

"Okay, we're ......"

"It's now!"

"Ahh

In fact, when Ravel stepped forward to negotiate, Ayton whispered to Lan Coco to prepare for battle, and was ready to take the lead in sneaking up and killing one.

Lan Coco was still a little resistant to this kind of sneak attack at first, but for some reason, what she said to Ayton now was an inexplicable sense of trust.

The ice pick was condensed with her right hand hidden behind her, and the blue magic element was silently accumulating in her palm, and the mercenaries were focused on Ravel, not noticing her small movements.

Finally, at Ayton's voice, he unleashed a magic attack and successfully hit the leg of one of the mercenaries on the side.

This is also what Ayton is asking for, wounding an enemy and rendering him incapacitated, but not enough to be lethal. It would be nice if they could have someone to take care of him, so that the enemy would lose one less combat power, but it would be a different story if it was a mage, who could sometimes release magic in pain even if he had a broken leg or hand.