We hiked west along the mountains and trails on the border between the Kingdom of Dottir and the Shelureista Alliance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, according to my meaning, horses were used as a substitute for travel, anyway, the knights of the "Imperial Dragon" left a lot of good horses, as long as two were left, and the rest were disposed of, not in vain.

But Teacher Vitan said, "Aren't you afraid of meeting bandits?" If you ride a horse, people will think that you are a lonely nobleman, and you will be robbed at that time. ”

"Wouldn't it? A magician like you is afraid of thieves? I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

"This ...... I can't use magic! Teacher Vitan replied helplessly.

"How many times have you broken your vows!?" I said huffingly.

"When you have to do it!"

"I'll take care of the thieves!"

"That'...... Not quite right? There are groups of bandits, and if you can't handle any of them, I can't help you...... Besides, isn't it too much trouble to deal with bandits all the time? Teacher Vitan hastened to dismiss my opinion.

I smiled "hehe", stared at Mr. Vitan's slightly changing face and said, "I'm afraid that's not the real reason, right?" Teacher, if you can't give a convincing reason, the students won't agree! ”

"This ......," Mr. Vitan's face changed, "because I can't ride a horse!" How can I say such a humiliating thing......"

Dizzy! I was overwhelmed by it all at once - the traffic on the mainland was mainly based on horses, and Mr. Vitan couldn't ride a horse! He said, "Then let's share a horse." ”

"No...... As soon as I get on horseback, I vomit! ”

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After walking through the mountains and forests and paths for more than ten days, there was no human figure on the way, and the food scavenged from the mission had already been eaten, so I had to hunt some wild beasts and roast them with magic to eat, but because there was no salt, they were light and tasteless, and at night I could only sleep near the fire with the terrible cries of wild wolves and other fierce beasts.

Of course, in these days, my magic and sword skills have improved to varying degrees, and I have constantly summarized the valuable experience and lessons of this battle with the "Imperial Dragon" cavalry, and seriously asked Mr. Vitan about magic. Of course, the terrifyingly rich experience of Mr. Vitan fighting with the swordsman was also of considerable help to me.

But such days are too boring and boring!

Later, I couldn't take it anymore and said to Mr. Vitan, "Isn't there any magic you know that can teleport us to our destinations?" Like space conversion or something? Don't tell me that ridiculous reason you can't use magic! ”

"Yes, yes," Mr. Vitan said in embarrassment, "but I can't remember the exact location, and if you use space to transmit magic, you may get lost in the abyss of time and space." ”

"And where are you going?" I finally couldn't help but ask.

"This ...... I have forgotten the name of the place, I haven't been there for a long time, and the person is old, so it is inevitable that he will have a little amnesia...... However, Alex, you don't have to worry, I still remember the general direction, so walk it! ”

I was a little mad and began to wonder if I had made the wrong decision to go with this bad old man in the first place.

After a full 20-day trek, we finally walked out of the uninhabited mountain forest and saw the smoke appear in front of us.

Finally, you don't have to be neighbors with fierce beasts anymore and sleep in the open air! Teacher Vitan and I both ran excitedly to the smoke......

We were surprised by the presence of a village of more than 1,000 families, and the fact that there were so many people living in such a remote place. But the village didn't feel carefree and peaceful, and the villagers we met along the way were all sad and hateful and fearful when they saw us.

"It's strange that we are so unpopular." I was looking for someone to rest in, but I was wondering to myself. This should be the border area of the Dotir Kingdom, could it be that the flames of the Dotir Civil War have spread to the distant mountain villages here?

"What are you doing here?" At this moment, an old man with a short stature and a gray mane stopped our way.

Teacher Vitan said, "Old man, we are just ......"

"Needless to say! You insatiable demons! You have all looted all the food in the village! We don't have any more food for you to plunder! The old man angrily pointed at us and yelled.

At this time, several children in the village threw stones at us. Then more and more villagers came around grinding their teeth and rubbing their palms. The stones that are thrown at us are getting bigger and more numerous.

I dodged for a while, and finally I couldn't bear it anymore, thinking how could I have ever been so birdish? I withdrew my sword and slashed the stones into small pieces of uniform shape and size, scattering them in front of me in a beautiful circular ring, which frightened the villagers and children into retreat.

I pushed the long sword to the ground, and the linked sword qi carried the stones on the ring belt to spread out in all directions, and the radius of the arc also expanded outward by three meters. Then, I said coldly to the crowd standing far away, "We're just two passing travelers, can someone tell me what happened now?!" ”

After some "communication", the villagers finally cleared up their misunderstanding of us, and I also learned the ins and outs of the matter from the old man's mouth. Originally, although this village called Medonna was located in the territory of the Kingdom of Dotir and belonged to the jurisdiction of Baron Akabuyi, because it was located in the border mountains, there was little contact with the border, and it had no strategic value, so it was not affected by the war in the kingdom's civil war.

But a few months ago, a group of fierce bandits dressed in strange clothes suddenly gathered in the mountains and forests to the north, and attacked the mountain village, looting food, and finally the villagers reached an agreement with them to provide them with a certain amount of food, and the invasion of the village was stopped. But recently, the bandits have been sending people down more and more often to ask for food, and even need to ask for too much, and the villagers are really unbearable, but they have no choice but to swallow their anger, and now they can no longer afford it.

The old man's name was Mla, and he was the chief of the village of Medonna, which had a population of about 6,000. He asked us where we were coming from, led us to his home, and while repeatedly apologizing to us, he greeted us warmly with his treasured food.

The food that is said to be treasured is not really a good thing, and it is probably a vegetarian food: some snow beans, wild vegetables stir-fried with minced meat, some common pan red fruits on the mainland, a few hard breads, and a pot of home-brewed pine nut wine. But we ate with relish, after all, we haven't smelled the food for many days.

My eating appearance can be described as gobbling up, and I no longer have the demeanor of a rich boy, and Mr. Vitan's eating appearance is a little more reserved, but it is not much more elegant than mine. The village chief of Mla on the side was stunned by our bad image, and should be secretly wondering: These are the two wild men who ran out of there?

After I had eaten and drunk, I burped and slowly sipped the tea that the old man had made. Although the food is not very good, this unknown tea is the best, and the fragrance seems to be light and strong in the mouth, and the fragrance is left on the teeth and cheeks after drinking, and there is a faint sweetness. How could this poor and remote place have such a good tea comparable to the royal tribute? So I asked about the village chief.

"This is the land of our village, and the surrounding hillsides are full of these tea trees, so every family picks them to make tea, and the tea trees that grow in the Valley of Lovers are of the best quality. We named this tea 'Lover's Kiss', and legend has it that a couple in the village had a secret tryst in the Valley of Lovers, and when they exchanged their first kisses, a miracle happened - this strange tea tree suddenly grew in the place where they had a tryst. It is said to be strange because it has a unique function, that is, whenever couples and lovers quarrel, the family will serve a cup of this tea, so that they can quickly eliminate each other's grievances after drinking it, and reconcile as before. The village chief of Mura spoke carefully, but a beautiful and moving legend from the mouth of a shriveled old man was a bit of a tragedy.

It is a pity that such a good tea has not been spread on the mainland, probably because the village of Madonna has little contact with the outside world and the villagers lack business acumen. If it is shipped to Haynes to be sold, it will definitely be sold out immediately, because in the Shenglun Continent, the best tea is more precious than gold! Thinking of this, I couldn't help but cry out for the villagers of Medona, who were in Baoshan without knowing it.

At this time, seeing that we were all satisfied, the village chief of Mla said cautiously: "Two guests, is one of you a swordsman and the other a magician?" ”

"It's not!" As soon as I saw the village chief's expression, I guessed his intention, and said simply before Mr. Duitan answered. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch! Dead old man, you want me to die for you for a meal? It's not that cheap! Actually, I'm not lying, I don't even have the qualifications to be a swordsman, not to mention that I not only know how to use a sword but also know magic, so I can't be considered a swordsman, and Mr. Vitan usually can't even use magic, but he's just a painter.

Hearing my categorical repudiation, Old Man Mla was momentarily confused as to how to continue what he wanted to say.

The old man hesitated, swallowed his saliva, and said stubbornly: "I know that both of you are capable people, otherwise you wouldn't dare to walk in this kind of poor mountain and bad water...... So...... So I'd like to ask you two for a favor...... Intercede with the bandits for us...... The thief master should let the village live and reduce the share and frequency of food supply...... The village is overwhelmed! If this continues, the old people and children in this village will not be able to live......"

"No way!" I replied immediately. Joke! Want me to negotiate with a bunch of thieves who kill people without blinking? My tutor didn't teach me to do a loss-making business.

"Dear guests, do you help...... Well, we'll get paid. ”

After saying that, Mla quickly ran into the inner room, and after a while, he took out a long object wrapped in yellowed silk segments, solemnly spread it on the table, and then said to me with sparkling eyes: "I know that what a swordsman needs most is a good sword in his hand, which was given to the ancestor by a seriously injured swordsman who the ancestor once cared for. ”

Mula carefully untied the silk, and a long sword in its primitive form appeared before me.

It was an unsheathed sword, three points longer than an ordinary three-foot long sword, the body of the sword was black, there was a deep blood stain in the middle, and the handle was covered with some rough rings. This sword seems to be inconspicuous on the surface, but if you look closely, you find that the seemingly rough design reflects a kind of ingenious and natural beauty, it is different from all the gorgeous famous swords on the mainland, and it does not have the kind of fierce momentum embodied by the seven weapons known as the artifact, but it shows the extraordinary in the ordinary, and achieves the most ingenious in the clumsiness! What kind of earth-shattering swordsmith should be the person who can make such a sword comparable to an artifact! However, I couldn't name the sword! Hasn't this sword really appeared on the continent yet?

I gently held the sword and lifted the sword, and suddenly there was a feeling that echoed the heart of this sword, there was a mysterious power shaking my heart, and the black sword body seemed to have a faint phosphorescent light jumping and circulating! I suddenly felt the "heart" of this sword strongly! A desire to be recognized, unwilling to be buried!

I turned my gaze to Mla and asked lightly, "What's the name of this sword?" ”

Mura hurriedly replied, "This sword is called 'Weiming', only a hero like you can recognize the value of this sword, and only you can be worthy of such a good sword!" ”

Sure enough, it was a divine sword that had been buried before it could be used! "Unnamed", you are a sword that does not have a name yet, right? I stared at the sword in my hand lovingly, deeply touched by this "unnamed" name. Unnamed, unnamed, we are really sympathetic! You are a sword without a name, and I am a man without a surname......

Mura seemed to see the eager glint in my eyes, and lost no time in saying, "As long as you promise to do our village a favor, this sword will be given to the hero, and in addition, we will raise a thousand gold coins as a reward!" ”

A thousand gold coins is definitely a lot of money, equivalent to half a year's expenses for a hundred mercenaries, and even more so for a famous bounty hunter for two years! Moreover, that "unnamed" is a priceless treasure!

I took a deep breath to soothe the excitement caused by seeing "Weiming", put the sword back on the table, and said coldly, "Still not good!" ”

By this time, Mla had already knelt down and begged hoarsely, "Two, please help us...... Help us! ”

"Teacher, let's go!" I said to Mr. Vitan. After saying that, ignoring the old man Mla who was still kneeling on the ground and pleading, he walked out of the door.

I'm not a compassionate person who doesn't do anything beyond my power because of someone else's plea, especially if it's a life-threatening thing. Although the conditions offered by Mla were quite attractive, they did not sway my mind. As history has taught us, so-called heroes usually don't live long, and I don't want to be such a short-lived hero. There is no such thing as a strong head in my rules of existence, and what I have been taught so far has been about how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages - it is undeniable that this kind of businessman-style tutoring is deeply imprinted in my outlook on life and the world to some extent. What's more, my beauty career has just begun, and there are still many beautiful things in the world that I need to discover, but the premise is that I must have a destiny to enjoy, such as beauty.

Life is a kind of beauty. If life itself is the most beautiful thing created by the Creator, then beauty is the most critical and intense catalyst for the sublimation of my life form. Therefore, if I love beauty, I must first cherish my own life, and I don't want my seventeen-year-old life to end in such a meaningless way.

What's more, a mountain village with 6,000 people succumbed to the threat of a small group of thieves and had no will to fight, so it was impossible to survive in this chaotic world, and even if I helped them this time, it would be difficult to ensure the bad luck of the village's demise in the future.

When he left the house of the village chief, he was taken aback by the scene in front of him.

A large number of villagers surrounded us and knelt in a ball, their faces pitiful with a look of despair and desolation.

"Honorable guests, please save us!"

"Hero, just have mercy on us!"

"We can't live......"

"Woo, big brother, help us! Help us...... Okay? ”

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Among them are the cries of children, the sobs of women, the wails of old people, and the hopeful eyes of young people...... All of this is directed to me, the object of expectation!

This situation is enough to make the stubborn stone nod and the thousand-year-old ice melt for it, and no matter how cold and hard my heart is, I can't help but be moved...... I'm cold, but I'm not cold-blooded.

"Alex, maybe we can help with this......" Mr. Vitan said, looking at me.

I finally nodded......

At this time, Mla had already come to me with "Weiming" in her hand.

I held the "Weiming" in one hand and said to the villagers: "In an hour, all the young and strong men in the village will be gathered in the village square, I have something to say!" But I thought in my heart: Maybe protecting life is also the price I must pay in my beautiful life, right?

Then I asked Mla why he didn't ask the mercenaries for help, and when I found out, most of the cities were reduced to ashes or devastated by the war in the Kingdom of Dotil, and the mercenaries were either caught up in the war or forced to relocate. In these troubled times, the smoke is everywhere, and under the army of warlords, mercenaries are either absorbed or eliminated, and they are all facing an existential crisis. Due to the remoteness of the village of Mecca, there is not much contact with the outside world, and the source of information itself is very scarce, so it is even more difficult to find mercenaries for help.

I took the village chief aside and took a closer look at the thieves. When I inquired, I was really surprised!

Mla told me that the bandand of thieves numbered nearly two thousand, and that they had swords and horses, wore tattered armor, and even helmets, and spoke the standard Wantu language of the kingdom of Dotir. My initial suspicion was that it was an army of the Kingdom of Dotir, but for some reason it turned into a roaming bandit. The villagers of Megana, who had always been unrivaled, could not recognize this ragged and unkempt army, mistaking it for an ordinary group of thieves.

Dealing with the regular army - I'm really a hot potato!

Standing in the village square, my gaze coldly swept over nearly two thousand men, and under my cold gaze, there was only silence in the room.

"My name is Alexander......" I paused before I continued, "Alexander St. Karen Dominis!" Today, I am entrusted by the head of your village and the villagers to do a little bit for your village and solve the problem of thieves in your village! ”

Nearly two thousand men immediately burst into eager cheers.

I raised my left hand to stop all the cheers before I continued, "But there are some things that cannot be resolved peacefully!" If there really is a way to solve the so-called peace, your village will not fall to such a state! Reasoning with robbers is tantamount to seeking skin with tigers! And this tiger's appetite is very large, and the greater the supply can only bring greater demand, and finally when you have no more food to provide, you will become food, and the fattened tiger will unceremoniously devour you! The so-called raising tigers for trouble, it is this timeless truth! If you could solve the problem in words, I believe your village would have solved it long ago! If language doesn't solve the problem, even if I am willing to stand up for your village today, the result will still be the same! In the end, your village will inevitably fall! ”

There was a look of despair on everyone's faces.

I swiped the "unnamed" into the air, drawing everyone's eyes to it, and continued: "Who of us does not yearn for peace? Who of us doesn't want to live a life of peace and well-being? But can a peaceful life be obtained by begging? Is it possible to live in peace and contentment by handing out alms? If the answer is yes, then why is your village in such a desperate field today?! ”

Seeing the thoughtful looks on everyone's faces, I continued: "Happiness is earned by yourself!" Destiny is in your own hands! Peace is sometimes won by bloodshed! Today, the state of the Kingdom of Dotir should be understood even if it is closed - continuous civil wars, beacon fires in the sky, countless towns and villages have been turned into slaughterhouses of blood!

"Is there a nest under the so-called nest? If you don't rise up and fight, but just blindly indulge and be insensitive, sooner or later you will be swallowed up by the flames of troubled times, and swallow the consequences of your cowardice - today's predicament is proof! So I'm not here to fight for a compromise for everyone today, but to lead everyone to fight a bloody way for their own survival!

"If people think I'm not right, I can leave immediately! But if you are willing to stand up and fight, if you still have the dignity of being a man, if you are not willing to be humiliated and humiliated, if you are willing to believe me! I, Alexander, a foreigner, am willing to fight with you with enthusiasm and blood, and will not hesitate to throw my head and spill my blood! For the sake of this peaceful village, for the sake of our kind villagers! ”

Thunderous cheers immediately rang out - "Alexander, we believe in you!" ”

"Fight for survival! Fight for happiness! ”

"Take control of your own destiny and no longer be at the mercy of others!"

"Alexander, please lead us into battle!"

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When the excitement of the crowd had subsided, I continued: "But war is not child's play, it is not a simple matter! If my estimate is correct, this time we are facing an enemy not ordinary thieves, but a stray army! In contrast, we didn't have any combat experience, just ordinary villagers. But the advantages and disadvantages were relative, and the enemy, with more than 2,000 men fleeing here, without any supplies, and to sustain so many people, they consumed a great deal of food every day - which is why they had to loot our village, and as a fleeing army must have lacked the purpose and will to fight!

"In contrast, we have the fighting spirit to defend our homeland, and we have the determination to fight to the death! And, most importantly, the enemy is completely unfamiliar with the terrain here, and this is our home! It is where we were born and raised! We know everything about every plant and tree here! So, as long as we are well prepared and calm, then we will surely win! Besides, we have the help of a magician! ”

I pointed to Mr. Vitan beside me and said, "Believe me, I promise in the name of the swordsman that we will be able to defend our homeland!" "Hehe, poor Teacher Vitan, I'm afraid you're going to have to do it again!

After I finished speaking, I exhaled softly and ordered the still agitated people to disperse before I and Mlama inspected the surroundings of the mountain village without stopping.

The "thieves" outpost is located on a mountain called "Torma" ten miles away from the mountain village, the dense jungle stretches to the foot of the mountain, and there is a river about 20 meters wide but less than one meter deep - the Maoyi River, according to Mla, this is a river connected to the underground river, so although it is shallow, it does not dry up all year round. It is precisely because of the shallow water that the thieves' horses can easily cross the Maoyi River and attack the mountain village at will. On the side of the village of Megana, the river is led by a two-metre-wide three-mile curved road, flanked by towering hills, which are not high but have a steep slope of nearly 70 degrees on both sides of the road.

After carefully observing the surroundings of the village of Megana, I asked some key questions: "Chief Mura, how many men do you have here who can hunt and know archery or martial arts?" ”

"Most of us here have been engaged in hunting, there are more than 400 full-time hunters, nearly 1,000 who know archery, but only more than 100 people really know a little martial arts. The mink skins we produce here are very popular in the town markets of the nearby kingdom of Dotir, and although our village is mainly self-sufficient, every once in a while, we organize villagers to sell animal skins in towns thousands of miles away in exchange for some daily necessities that cannot be produced in the village. Now, though, the town is in ruins. The village chief of Mla replied.

"When do the robbers usually come to get food?"

"I used to come once a month, then once every half a month, and once every ten days or so, and if we didn't give it, they looted it themselves and set fire to our house. The most recent arrival was two days ago. ”

I thought to myself: these villagers have been happy for so long that they have no sense of resistance.

After inquiring about the situation, I asked the village chief to convey my orders to the villagers: I asked the village blacksmiths to work day and night to make arrowheads, organize a thousand men to cut down wood with all their might, make a large number of wood and ten-zhang long pointed wooden poles, and organize the women and children of the village to remove the door panels and bed boards and process them into wooden shields, and collect the resin of the hibiscus tree, a flammable product commonly used on the mainland for lighting, which is less dense than water, so that ordinary farmers can float on the water are mostly filled with slim water cups to make "water lanterns" for night lighting.

On the other hand, 500 hunters armed with hunting knives and bows were organized to practice day and night, and 100 men who had practiced martial arts were trained in rapid attack. Finally, a thousand men were asked to conduct infantry-like drills after they had been made with pointed wooden poles and shields, and men were sent to keep watch day and night on the hillside at the entrance to the village. In the past year, I have carefully studied the art of war and the biographies of famous mainland generals, and now I can only speculate and sell them on the spot.

In the midst of intense preparations, time flies by, and it is rare that the day of the robbers entering the village will come.

During this time, in addition to preparing for combat-related matters, I spent most of my time getting along with the "unnamed" and trying to familiarize myself with the characteristics of the "unnamed".

At this time, I gently stroked "Weiming", and there was only one voice in my heart silently shouting: "Weiming!" Someday, I'll vindicate you! Then your name will be heard in all the world and in the earth, along with my name! ”

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