The rain that had been going on for days finally stopped. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Alan Maloster was walking on the path after the rain, and with every step on the road, he felt the nausea of stepping on the mud. The icy muddy water ran down her feet and clung to the skin under her feet. She was not wearing waterproof boots, but leather shoes made of rudimentary leather tied to her legs.

Alan is a novice adventurer, but she knows very well that she has to give up dressing comfortably in order not to lose her life due to minor errors in a critical moment, which is also due to the fact that she has a good teacher.

If you become famous and rich in the future, you will be able to afford shoes that are endowed with magical protection and have good waterproof and antiseptic properties. She looked around as she thought about something that didn't matter to the present.

In this way, she will be like the adventurers who are waiting with bated breath around her at the moment, all of them wearing well-maintained armor or leather armor, and the difference in equipment between the polished white and shiny armor and the tattered armor wrapped under the cloak is clear at a glance. It can be said that Alan is the most out of place among all the people present.

Alan pulled the brim of his hood down his gaze, and sighed as he hid himself under the wide cloak. It was extremely difficult for her to join the circle of these people. If it weren't for the theft of the wallet and the loss of luggage, you might have been able to squeeze into the circle of these people.

Then Alan remembered the reason why so many adventurers gathered here, the urgent order issued by the Archon as the lord's deputy: to annihilate the vampires.

During these months, many homeless people and poor people have been lost in the abandoned town beneath their feet. Originally, this was not something that could be a cause for concern, and in an era when most people were struggling to make ends meet, it was not uncommon for people to go missing. It is not uncommon for people to go to the middle of nowhere to dig weeds and be eaten by wild beasts, or to be sold into slavery for food, especially since the plague had broken out and became a breeding ground for the undead.

But then a survivor comes running back and says they had seen a vampire, and the nature of the matter changes completely.

The consuls immediately commissioned the royal army to investigate. As a result of the investigation, a suspected vampire figure was found operating in the ruins. Gather the army, unite the church, and finally urgently recruit adventurers on the day of the operation. While most people still don't know anything, the combat effectiveness of the entire territory can be described as overwhelming. The reason why the consuls are so nervous is that there is a precedent for vampires to conquer a country.

This is a famous bloody event in history. About 300 years ago, vampires, known in later records as thieves, managed to invade a small human nation. Vampires who have succeeded in seizing the entire country by hiding their bodies in the upper echelons of the country, and through coups, deception, wars, etc., they will eventually enslave the entire nation as blood slaves. The so-called blood slave is the food reserve of vampires. It was a nightmare creature that had survived through magic, and had almost completely lost its human form, becoming a deformity of flesh and blood. It was a tragedy on the scale of an entire country, millions of people. And the vampire's men are not just blood-suckers, there are also cannibalistic creatures.

In the end, the humans were able to defeat the vampire by forming a coalition army.

For the brave warriors of the Human Alliance, blood is nothing more than a spark on the fire, and they have long been accustomed to it. But when you go inside, you find that the place is hell at all, and nightmarish scenes are everywhere. The remains of what was once called a human being, the human body where monsters were wantonly destroyed for pleasure is everywhere. In the end, they had to kill the poor people who had been captured by the vampires in order to save them.

This incident has left a scar on the nation of mankind that will not heal. Therefore, in order to avoid such a tragedy from happening again, the rulers define vampires as dangerous monsters that must be eliminated once discovered.

Of course, as a novice adventurer, Alan did not have to fight vampires, and even the lowest-level vampires were by no means something that ordinary adventurers could handle. It is the powerful and well-equipped adventurers who need to go to war, the high priests of the Church, and the elite of the Knights. The elite troops of the Order and the priests of the Church are the main force to annihilate the vampires, while the adventurers are scattered around the area to guard against enemy reinforcements or escape. This is not to say that adventurers are not as strong as the former, but because adventurers are better suited to fighting alone in small groups than in groups. That's why it's so arranged.

As part of the Summoning Order, rookie adventurers like Eren only need to appear on the battlefield to receive a hefty reward of three silver coins. This made Allen, who was in an existential crisis, unable to refuse at all.

Alan lowered her head in thought, and a voice pulled her back from her musings.

"Oops, isn't this little sister Alan? Long time no see, long time no see, how did you think about what I said last time? ”

Hearing the voice, Alan was startled at first, and Allen, who was aware of the identity of the owner of the voice, immediately twisted his face hidden under the cloak in disgust.

“…… Hello, long time no see, Priest Wells. ”

Actually, I didn't see each other for two days.

"Don't be so cold, how did you think about what I said last time?"

The person who came was a middle-aged man with blonde hair, about thirty years old, high priest of the church. Wearing the white priestly dress of the church, even loose clothes could not hide his fatness, and his whole belly protruded. He wriggled his body, and without hesitation, the man known as Wells continued to ask again.

Alan squeezed out a stiff voice.

"Ah, what do you mean?"

Priest Wells reached out to grab Alan's hand, but was nimbly dodged. He embarrassedly retracted his outstretched hand and continued with a smile on his face, "That's it...... Stop being an adventurer. After all, a naturally delicate girl like you, rather than living a life of risking her life without a meal, it is better to be a competent wife at home. ”

"Thanks to your kindness, I, I ......"

Violence is the last option, and it is definitely the next resort to punch the past directly. Allen resisted the urge to respond with a fist, thinking about how to reject the old pervert so as not to incur resentment, when a new voice interjected between the two.

"Priest Wells!! You're here, there's something you need to confirm personally. ”

A young man, also dressed in a white robe, trotted over from the other end of the alley.

The disturbed Priest of Wells was dissatisfied, but when he realized that he could not continue the conversation with Allen, he immediately changed his expression, and smiled even more when he saw the face of the comer.

After Priest Wells gestured to Alan, the two priests walked over to a distance that others could not hear and whispered.

"What's the matter?"

"Yes, there is an ominous smell coming from the West, I hope you can go and confirm it for yourself."

“…… An ominous aura? ”

"Yes." Priest Clyde then spoke the name of another colleague. "His instincts were so brilliant that they were almost as close to prophecy. In order to avoid any accidents, I think it is better not to ignore them. ”

Hearing Clyde's words, Priest Wells touched his bulging second chin with his hand and made a thoughtful sound.

"Hmm...... I'm afraid the vampires have laid a trap over there. Speaking of which, Gerseph, the general of the Order, had said that the vampires lurking here were much stronger than expected, and that the adventurers hired to spy on the vampires had not heard from them so far, which was of course a signal for the beginning of the operation. ”

"Hire adventurers to spy on vampires? I remember that Wang **** didn't have a secret army dedicated to dealing with this situation, it stands to reason that those arrogant guys of the knights would leave this kind of thing to adventurers to do, right? ”

"There are exceptions to everything, and the next thing I'm going to tell you belongs to uh, the secret content...... But you have the qualifications to know. Wells glanced at the adventurers in the distance, making sure they couldn't hear the conversation before continuing.

"That unit was completely wiped out in the mission to monitor the vampires a few days ago, but at that time, the mobilization of combat power was not completed, and it took time for the kingdom to mobilize troops and our church to send priests, so we can only hire adventurers to confirm the situation of these vampires again."

Not all vampires leave immediately after being discovered, and some are plotting to stay where they are. This is not the first time this has happened, and the latter is more dangerous. Clyde, who understood the seriousness of the matter, swallowed.

"After all, it seems very suspicious that Wang **** hired adventurers, so it was commissioned by the church instead, and the guys above also made some kind of compromise because of this - I heard that there are suspicious monsters haunting the abandoned town, and I hope that adventurers can be sent to find out what it is - if the adventurers are all wiped out, it means that those vampires are still there, and Wang **** and the church will immediately attack the vampire stronghold the next morning."

Unexpectedly, there was such a dark curtain hidden behind this operation, and the young priest's eyes widened.

"This, what do you think of human life, if you just investigate, there is a better way, right?"

In response to Clyde's question, Priest Wells shrugged his shoulders and did not respond.

The action begins at noon, when the sun is at its strongest. Priest Wells estimated the time now, and it was still very abundant.

"I'll go west and join the adventurers there. For your father's sake, let me remind you...... You are still very young, so there are still many things in this world that you cannot see, and the powerless cannot change anything. But I think sooner or later you will get used to it, and sooner or later you will inherit the position and name of your father, and even your grandfather, and then all this will become your strength...... Then you're going to have to learn the practices you hate. ”

“……”

With a slight smile on his face, the fat priest patted Priest Clyde on the shoulder, then turned his head to say goodbye to Allen, who was a little distance away.

"Goodbye, Miss Allen, then—may the majesty of the Holy Spirit guide you forward, and you will never be lost."

After confirming that Wells's fat back was walking away, Alan covered his chest with a "whew" and thanked the blonde young man with peace of mind.

"Priest Clyde, thank you for coming in time to clear the siege, I almost don't know what to do with him."

Clyde had an expression of relief, but the expression on his face softened slightly when he heard Alan thank him.

"You're welcome, this is business. Yes...... You're alright, Priest Wells hasn't been very good, I hope he didn't pester you for anything. ”

"It's okay, just a little scared."

“…… Did he say something? ”

Alan couldn't tell that the fat man had a wrong idea about him. But seeing Allen's hesitant appearance and connecting it with Priest Wells's usual comments, Clyde roughly guessed what was going on.

"I'm sorry, it's my responsibility for this to happen."

"No, how could it be, it has nothing to do with Priest Clyde at all."

"No, there is."

Clyde stared in the direction Wells was walking.

Even within the church, it is not as noble as the world thinks, and even if they are all steadfast servants of God, it does not mean that they will have a pure heart and few desires, but that most priests cannot do such a thing as having no desires and no desires. Even so, there should be a degree of talent ......, but no matter how bad the reputation is, Priest Wells still has the top strength as a priest. That's why it has something to do with me, it's the soil that rots, not the flowers. ”

“…… I don't understand what you mean. ”

"Forget those words, then- what, what happened?!"

Clyde's voice was overshadowed by a sudden agitation.

The air is shaking. A massive, instinctive shiver of magic that made every cell in the depths of the body shiver through the air, and then suddenly disappeared without warning after a brief moment. It was as if nothing had happened, but the terrifying magic had already left claw marks in the hearts of the people.

Riots erupted.

Zooming in, you can see that birds have flown out of the ruined town, and animals such as wild dogs have begun to bark restlessly. Probably instinctively sensing that danger was approaching, so they scrambled to escape.

"What was that, just now! Clyde Priest?! ”

Panicked, Alan shuddered and asked Clyde questions in an almost pleading voice. The adventurers in the vicinity had to be said to be seasoned veterans, and they reacted immediately, drawing their weapons to deal with possible dangers - even their hands that were often close to death looked pale and trembling with their hard grips.

Everyone's faces turned pale.

Clyde shook his head.

"No, I don't know. By the way, it looks like the aftermath of some kind of failed spell launch, and although I think so, I think so, but ......"

It would be stupid to think so. It would be understandable if an ordinary apprentice failed to cast magic, but the scale of this magic can be said to be beyond common sense when it causes the aftermath of magic on this scale, how can it be that a rookie magician is playing with magic? I think this is something the vampires are doing. This priest, could it be that someone leaked this battle? ”

The conversation was picked up by a man in brown chain mail. His shoulders, which were not covered by armor, were full of bulging muscles, and he had tattoos of dragon wings on his arms, and he carried a giant sword more than a meter tall behind his back. He is the captain of a team of famous adventurers here, Dordogas.

Clyde looked like a dead rat had been shoehorned into his mouth, and he remembered the confidential information that had just been revealed by the Priest of Wells, and the advice he had been given. At this time, if it is admitted that it is likely that the information was leaked because of the hiring of those adventurers, then the church will also be jointly and severally liable, and even lead to a sense of distrust among the people. From a priest's standpoint, this is something that must be avoided as much as possible.

Damn, it's good that you don't know about this kind of thing.

“…… No way. This operation should be stealthy enough, even the adventurers were gathered through today's emergency summoning order, and you can see that the number of adventurers who were urgently summoned was only about one-third of the total. Therefore, a leak should be unlikely. ”

"Huh, really?"

Gargados looked at Clyde suspiciously.

“…… Of course. ”

"So what are you going to do next, those vampires are undoubtedly preparing something, and I suggest that it would be better to retreat. It would be stupid to know that the trap is still rushing in. ”

The Clyde priest stared at Gargados.

"Do you think we have the option of retreating?"

"No, of course not, I'm talking too much." Gargados apologized very dryly, "But what should we do next, should we join up with the adventurers on the west side or stick to our posts?" ”

In fact, Gargados had already decided on this, but out of respect, it would have been better to ask the young priest in front of him for his opinion. After all, judging by the way he talked to Priest Wells, this young man seemed to have a certain status in the church.

At this moment, the voice of the adventurer in front of me was suddenly heard.

"All men are ready for battle, there are multiple footsteps approaching - it's the enemy, be careful! There are huge numbers, and there is some kind of behemoth mixed in with them! ”