Chapter 444: Headwind
The crowd quickly dispersed, and the militia camp returned to its usual quietness, and some people who had not been favored by Gordon gathered together to make a noise, as if discussing the possibility of forming another team.
And this side is ready to go.
The adventurous convener was dressed in an old black tuxedo without a top hat, he was of medium height, looking like a down-and-out war veteran, with an old-fashioned dwarven shotgun hanging from his back—although the art of muskets had long since been passed down to human society, humans always preferred the sword.
"Gilnesians. ”
Isabella leaned over Loria and whispered.
"It's amazing. ”
Loria exclaimed slightly, people in this country are always rare abroad, and I don't know if they love their hometown too much, or if they are not very interested in the outside world.
Gordon had only wanted to recruit ten men, including himself, but now that he had an extra maid - perhaps given the scarcity of spellcasters, he and the others had little to do with the outcome of the slight expansion, and after a short stay and an agreement on an equal distribution of the proceeds of the adventure, the team of eleven headed south.
They had six horses, hired a wagon, and marched slowly toward the twilight forest to the south.
Loria and Isabella were alone at the back of the group, not at all familiar with their teammates, Loria just wanted someone to lead the way, and Isabella might have thought the others were dead long ago.
To avoid being too sad when they die, it's better not to be friends.
"Hmm. ”
Loria, riding a little red horse, pouted at the maid Nunu...... Her pony had been trained so hard that all that was left was unconditional obedience, or else the sensitive creature would have been scared away before she could get closer.
"Nothing special, they're all ordinary people. Isabella understood what Loria meant. Answering her question, "Maybe there are some interesting little things, but they don't want to get up." I have no way of knowing...... You guessed it, my ability and time have nothing to do with it. It's more like acting on and receiving from the human brain...... Well, that's what you said about what kind of meta and what kind of wave. ”
Since Loria put forward her own conjecture about Isabella's ability, the latter gradually accepted this conjecture, after all, the alchemy machine qì and the radio wave are really compatible.
"What about the lead guy? He's ordinary, too?"
"Gilneth's wife eloped with someone not long ago, leaving behind a daughter and a letter...... Poof!" Isabella suddenly pursed her lips and laughed, "The letter says his daughter is not his own. ”
Isabella often only learns a few simple and vague information, and it seems that the man named Gordon has an easy-going smile on his face. But it was very uneasy in my heart, if it weren't for it, I wouldn't have been discovered so many secrets by the mechanical maid.
"This ...... It's really ordinary, but it explains why he wants to take the risk. Loria glanced at the figure in the distance in front of her, "Poor pick-up man, may the Holy Light bless him." ”
To the south and east, the team moved slowly, and as the dense shade of the twilight forest obscured the heads of the people, the rest of the group became familiar with each other, camping at night. They would get together and laugh out loud...... Except for the priestess and Loria's master-servant.
The priestess, a young woman in her twenties, seemed to have won her trust because of Loria's deceptive, harmless appearance, and set off shortly after. The priest was always glued to Loria, and when the party reached Nighttown, she even forced herself into Loria and Isabella's room.
"Those people are rude, always saying ignorant things. The chattering priestess was teasing the rest of Loria's team again, "It's good that you're here too, or I'd have been driven crazy." ”
"yes, I'm glad you're here. ”
Loria's eyes were all fixed on the neck and chest of the woman in front of her, thinking about whether she should take the opportunity to suck her fill, and the other party didn't notice Loria's perfunctory at all. Perhaps noticed, the talkable* always had the upper hand...... Loria was eager to ask her if she was so reluctant. Why join the adventure.
The female pastor took Loria's hand, as if she was telling her good friend about her infinite grievances. "If it weren't for the old immortal of the monastery who asked me to observe the state of Karazhin, I wouldn't have traveled with these people, the other two women...... It's rude, but it's good to have you. ”
As she spoke, she burst into tears, and Loria stopped Isabella from pulling a dagger from under her pillow with her eyes.
Loria was still struggling with whether to attack the priestess, worried that someone else would find out what was wrong, but she finally didn't do it.
……
With the dark circles left by being harassed all night, Loria bought a small glass music box from a wandering dwarf engineer and gave it to Isabella, and bought herself a toy gun that sprayed dense soap bubbles, and when the team started moving again, she played with bubble guns on the pony with her sleepy eyes open.
Long rides are sometimes harder than hiking, and the body is not much less consumed, and the whole body will be extremely sore from bumps, not to mention the wear and tear on the inner thighs...... The rest of the group finally gave up on communicating with Loria, and always allowed her and her maid to follow far behind the group, and some people looked behind the soap bubbles and thought that the little mage was a child after all, but to their surprise, she was not left behind...... Obviously looks very squeamish from the outside, and even goes out with a maid.
Loria didn't feel much better, at first she was still sitting on a horse and chasing bubbles with her hands, she soon crossed the horse's back like a piece of jerky, using her belly to support the weight of her body, and after finding that her belly was more fragile, she tried many dangerous positions, and then simply used the power of the arcane to make her body float.
She wasn't good at riding in the first place, and now she would rather go down and walk, but in order not to show her strange speed, she could only endure the burning pain in her thighs, and even spend a lot of magic to maintain the levitation technique.
Thankfully, her horseback hell was over soon.
As the party crossed Nightshade, the dense forest that shielded her from the sun became more and more thin, and at a certain moment all the trees disappeared together, as if they had been destroyed, and the forest suddenly came to an abrupt halt along the neat section, leaving only a large expanse of hideous strange rocks exposed to the dark sunlight, and the wind made a sharp sound over the steep stone bridges and canyons.
A gray-black mist covered the sky, and although the sunlight could penetrate it, it was also dyed with a dull color.
They arrived at the upwind trail. (To be continued)
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