Chapter 82: Afra the Timid
Lear rushed over and held the blonde woman before she hit the ground, placing her on a chair to cover her slightly revealing body, which was not as revealing as her bikini suit.
When he was so close, he realized that this woman had a delicate appearance, but the twin peaks on her chest were full of charm. He felt that something was wrong with his body, his whole body was hot, and the fighting energy in his body seemed to have turned into magma that was about to erupt, surging along his body.
He immediately realized that this was a sign that a high-ranking warrior was about to become a swordsman—he had not cultivated the Dou Qi instrument at all, and this change was unusual.
"Could it be that the power of the sword remains in me?"
Without allowing him to think too much, the men in black armor rushed over with a chirping voice in a language he didn't understand.
Lear was already uncomfortable because of his fighting spirit, and his mind was hot, so he rushed forward without hesitation and used the top split style on the nearest person.
This slash condensed all his strength, and with a flash of sword light, his sword cut off the opponent's long sword, and then slashed into the man's head.
There was a muffled "poof", and Lear actually split the man's head in half, and blood splattered his face.
Stimulated by the double stimulation of fighting spirit and blood, he was full of fighting spirit, slashed sideways, and avoided the second person's long sword at an extremely dangerous angle, and the long sword in his hand accurately slashed through the opponent's neck.
The man clutched his blood-spurting neck, took two steps back, and fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion.
Lear decisively rushed to the third man, using his sword manipulation technique, and quickly plunged his sword into the man's heart at the cost of a minor injury to the abdomen, and then kicked the corpse away.
There were only twenty-three black-armored soldiers who rushed into the hall, including the Baron's son, who were killed by Lear in a row, and the rest looked a little timid and slowly approached.
A middle-aged woman in a tattered dress suddenly shouted something that Lear couldn't understand, and said in a stiff lingua franca: "Senior Warrior, please be careful!"
Lear nodded slightly, and even took the initiative to kill the black-armored soldier, because he was full of power in his body, and he had to vent it.
The difference between a swordsman and a warrior can be best reflected in a battle with many enemies, and a junior swordsman can be at ease under the siege of ordinary warriors, but a warrior cannot.
Lear is far superior to the black-armored soldier in terms of strength and skill, but he is only a high-level warrior, and his strength, agility, and reflexes are only the limits that ordinary people can reach, and once he is besieged by four people, his body will inevitably be hit.
But Lear doesn't care, the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes, and every wound he adds to his body can inflict two damage on the enemy.
The woman in the tattered dress spoke loudly something that Lear didn't understand, and then saw the noblewoman who had been fighting passively just now besieging the black-armored soldiers as if they had taken a chun-drugged mass, so that the soldiers besieging Lear could not exceed four people.
Lear could clearly feel that his body was undergoing a drastic transformation, and at first the heat was still surging wildly, but as the battle continued, the heat gradually became orderly, using his lower abdomen as its source, and surging evenly throughout his body.
Slowly, everyone noticed that Lear's body was becoming more agile and stronger, and the sword in his hand had even been shattered by slashing three long swords in a row, and he had to lean over and pick up another intact long sword to continue the fight.
"Drink!" he seized on the enemy's brief flaw and unleashed a precise thrust, cutting a large hole in the neck of the black-armored soldier on the opposite side.
At the end of the shouting, the fighting energy in his body was surging, and the long sword in his hand appeared with five-colored light.
Dou Qi finally completed the transformation of his body during the battle, injecting a long sword along his arms.
At the same time as the sword shone brightly, so the people stopped fighting, or looked at him in horror or joy, and shouted the same word aloud.
Because the official languages of the countries of the Star Continent are derived from the ancient Lomba language, and many of the words are pronounced very similarly, Lear guessed that they were all shouting the word "swordsman".
Lear took advantage of the victory to pursue, leaping high and striking again with a ferocious split, slashing the black-armored soldiers in front of him. The long sword infused with fighting energy in his hand was like a hot knife cutting butter, effortlessly splitting the sword and body of the black-armored swordsman in two, blood splattering everywhere.
Lear's ferocity and cruelty shocked everyone, and the black-armored soldiers finally broke down and ran away crying, while the noblewoman's men went after them, beating the water dogs.
A middle-aged woman in a tattered gown came over panting and said in a stiff lingua franca: "Great Herman Envoy, Mokel salutes you." ”
Lear secretly thought that he still didn't know enough about the Starry Sky Continent, and he should have seen at a glance that the other party was a housekeeper just now.
Just five hundred years ago, women in the Starry Sky Continent were not allowed to wear pants - they could only wear long skirts, and even female combatants had to wear long pants and skirts, except when riding horses, of course.
But this custom is gradually changing, and now women warriors and swordsmen are free to wear trousers, women in battle can also wear trousers, and only butlers can wear trousers on formal occasions.
Even now, if a noble lady wore pants to a banquet even though she had not practiced swordsmanship, it would be considered immoral and provoke the ridicule of the other nobles - even Audreyna, as a magician, had to wear a skirt all the time.
There is also a custom in the Starry Sky Continent that if a woman inherits the title, then the chief housekeeper of the family must be a woman.
Lear put his right hand on his chest, bent down slightly, and said, "Hello." What kind of place is this?"
Mokel, the housekeeper, said: "Belém Mountains. ”
Lear quickly explained, "I'm asking which state or county. ”
The housekeeper said a little strangely: "Magadan region." ”
Lear thought about it for a long time, but he didn't find this state from his memory, realized that he was not in the Horman Empire, and hurriedly asked, "Then which country is this?"
The housekeeper looked at him for a long time before she said, "This is the great Crorus Empire. ”
Lear suddenly realized and said, "It turned out to be Crous...... Empire. "He almost said he was the Kingdom of Crus. The Crousian Empire was also a powerful empire hundreds of years ago, but it was constantly encroached upon, many territories were unclear, and many kingdoms became independent, so the Crousian Empire existed in name only, and was named the Kingdom of Cerusa by other countries according to custom.
Only the Corrupine royal family and the people of the northern regions of Corrucia used to call Coruse an empire, and if they dared to call it a kingdom, it would be considered an insult to Corus.
The housekeeper listened to him talk about "Empire" before she restrained her hostility, but she remained vigilant and asked, "Listen to the accent, you are from Homan, may I ask who you are?"
There was no complete map of the Starry Sky Continent, and Lear vaguely remembered that Corus was in the northeast of the Homan Empire, and it was a mountainous area, so it was impossible for anyone to discover his true identity, so he said: "My name is Lear, and I am an earl, and when I was practicing swordsmanship, I heard that the sword god asked me to save a woman, so I appeared here." ”
The housekeeper looked like she didn't take me for an idiot, thinking that she shouldn't think that the old lady didn't know that there was such a thing as teleportation magic.
However, the housekeeper was quite educated, and did not expose him, but said: "I see, thank you for saving Viscount Afra." ”
Lear looked at the woman he placed on the chair in surprise and said, "She's the Viscount of the Fief?"
The housekeeper hurriedly helped Afra up and said proudly, "Yes, all the mountains in the north as far as the eye can see belong to the great Viscount Afra. ”
Lear was unimpressed, he knew very well how poor Corus was, and how unlucky these "mountain nobles" were—in fact, the nobles whose fiefs were mountains were not liked by the objects of their allegiance, so they were given mountains full of monsters and beasts that were almost untouchable.
Judging from the furnishings of the castle and the attire of his subordinates, the baroness could not keep up with the corrupt officials of Port Lear at present, and it would be good to have ten estates on hand.
He even suspected that it was deep in the mountains, and that he probably couldn't even find the way to Port Lear.
Looking at the unconscious baron, he put his hand on the dimensional bag, injected magic power, and put an extra bottle of potion in his hand.
Not only is the Dimensional Bag larger than the Magic Bag, but it doesn't need to be fully opened to pick up things casually.
The housekeeper's eyes widened, and she slumped into her tattered gown, looking at Lear in embarrassment. Although she is the housekeeper of one of the poorest countries, poorest states, and poorest viscounts in the Starry Sky Continent, she is the viscount housekeeper after all. She recognized at a glance that Lear's hand was a dimensional bag that was rarer than a magic bag, and she knew that it would take magic to open the dimensional bag, so she was sure that the other party was really an earl.
Not to mention the count in Crous, even the marquis can't have a dimensional bag.
"Dear Earl Lear, what do you need? The housekeeper immediately put on a smiling face. She wasn't afraid of an ordinary swordsman, but she would never dare to offend a terrible figure who was both a swordsman, a magician, and an earl.
Lear handed her the potion and said, "It's a potion that wakes people, you put a drop on her forehead and she'll wake up right away." ”
The housekeeper hurriedly placed a potion on Afra's forehead, then held it in both hands and returned it to Lear.
After a while, Afra woke up. When she saw Lear, she exclaimed, grabbed the butler's sleeve and asked what in Corrusque, which Lear didn't understand.
Lear noticed that Afra was stammering a little, and she didn't know if she was doing it because she was afraid or because she was scared, but she felt a sense of intimacy.
He stuttered a little at a lesbian table in elementary school, but he was a good person and had a good relationship with Lear, and he didn't have contact until he went to different high schools. Lear's tablemate was bullied because of his stammering, and he couldn't see this kind of thing, so he took the initiative to help her, and slowly no one dared to bully her. And she would secretly bring some snacks such as beef jerky, potato chips, and jelly on his desk to thank him.
Lear looks at Afra and thinks of his elementary school tablemates, and although everything is vague, it is nostalgic.
When the housekeeper had finished telling what had just happened, Afra stood up in a panic, curtsied Lear, and said in the standard lingua franca, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency Law, Lord Lear, ...... Afra greets you. Then he stretched out his hand with his palms downwards and trembling.
She was almost on the verge of crying as she spoke, and the twenty-year-old woman was too ashamed to forgive herself for making a fool of herself in front of a noble Holman count.
Because of her stammer, Afra has been very inferior since she was a child, timid and crying. Every time she saw someone, she was at a loss, and when she was a child, she often secretly cried in the bed. Today, she stammered rudely in front of a guest of such high status, and she wanted to die headbutting.
Although many Corrutians consider themselves to be an empire, they subconsciously worship the people of the Homan Empire, after all, the Homan Empire is now more powerful than it was in the heyday of the Crooks.
Lear held her fingers and then bent down to kiss the back of her hand—veneers were popular in the Holman Empire, while Crousian men and women revered the kiss on the hand.
Lear let go of her hand, smiled kindly, and said in a soft voice, "It's a pleasure to hear you add your own notes to the music of the language, which may not be a merit, but it is definitely not a disadvantage, but a characteristic of yours." We can't decide what other people like, but we don't hate our own characteristics, you say, and I like that one of you so much, I think you're just a natural singer. ”
Afra's lips trembled slightly, and she was speechless with excitement.
"This is the most beautiful word I have ever heard since I was born, he is really a kind nobleman, elegant and powerful, simply a perfect nobleman, a perfect knight......" She was extremely grateful, and her heart seemed to be warmed by Lear's words.
Lear stepped forward and said, "Allow me to greet you with the courtesy of the Homan Empire." With that, he enthusiastically used the veneer offer, and Afra obediently accepted.
The housekeeper put her hand on her forehead and thought to herself, "It's over! This count who fell from the sky is simply a woman killer, damn it, Afra will definitely be charmed by him! But, who says no, if I were twenty years younger, no, even ten years ago, I would have been fascinated by his honey-smeared mouth." ”
Lear blocked Afra's view just now, but when she was facing Lear, she saw the corpses all over the ground, let out a frightened scream, and quickly fainted, while Lear subconsciously hugged her.
Lear looked helplessly at the housekeeper.
The housekeeper was even more helpless than him: "Afra is so cowardly, but if she sees these corpses every day and faints once a day, after about three years, she will no longer be afraid—this is how she overcame her fear of bugs and rats in the castle." ”
Lear took out the potion again, but the housekeeper Mokel said, "It's better to wait for the people to clean it up before using it, or she'll continue to lie in your arms." ”
Lear realizes that she is unhappy with her actions and is about to put Afra in the chair, but the housekeeper laughs and winks, "I suggest you carry her to the bedroom instead of throwing her on the chair." ”
"Okay, but are you sure that Lady Afra doesn't need to take any medicine for it? fainting too often is not good for your health. Lear said.
"No, no, no......" the housekeeper waved her hand, "she's used to it." Also, you should call her Miss Afra, not Lady or Madame. ”
"Really?" Lear looked a little surprised, "it's not easy for her to manage a viscount as a girl. ”
"Poor Afra......" the housekeeper kindly stroked Afra's face, "Let's go, I'll take you to Afra's bedroom." ”
Lear had barely taken a few steps when there was a sound of messy footsteps at the castle gate, and a young man rushed in and shouted, "Afra, my dear cousin Afra, I have come with reinforcements to save you." ”
The housekeeper's face turned cold, and she snorted disdainfully, then turned around and said coldly: "Young Master Bartlet, the battle is over, I want to send the young lady back to rest, please leave." ”