Chapter 2: The Storm and the Lionheart
During the time that Leo was unconscious, a big change took place outside the cave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
A group of civilian armed groups, commonly known as mercenaries, came to the mountains on a mission.
The armed groups of warriors are generally divided into two kinds, one is the knight order directly subordinate to the country, with regular armament and magic props, which is the most excellent kind of armed group, usually for the royal mission, rarely dispatched.
The second is a non-governmental organization, which generally relies on a relatively strong personal prestige and is a mercenary group with a small number of people as the core, with mixed personnel and activities in the mercenary guild.
And the "Storm Lionheart", which is centered on the storm archers of the elves and the former deputy knights of the Lionheart Regiment, is a well-known mercenary group nearby.
"The grandeur of the Astaire Mountains has been heard for a long time, but it is another thing to see it with your own eyes."
Looking at the rolling green hills, the tall Adonis said with a look of amazement.
"Your Excellency was once the deputy of the Lionheart, and it stands to reason that you have been in and out of a lot of missions, will you still feel spectacular because of this view?"
A crisp female voice sounded, and her green eyes carried a hint of doubt.
Adonis put away his exclamation and put on a serious expression at the group of members whose eyes were all focused on him.
"The mountains are the heart of the kingdom of Astaire, where the great gods have given the royal family the supreme totem, so that the country can grow. So this scenery is exactly where Astaire is magnificent. ”
"Okay, got it."
The helplessness shown by the sorceress made Adonis stop the meaningless preaching, and he had to smile in response.
This woman is a mission inspector named Alina, and she is a collaborator sent by the mercenary union, but judging from her stunning appearance and unusual conversation, her identity may be more than that.
"Speaking of business, it seems that you are the only main member, will it be dangerous?"
Alina is seizing and speaking out the doubts that have been pressed in her heart.
"The goal of this mission is just a ghoul, and the monitoring makes the adults feel at ease."
Adonis didn't hide the confidence in his voice, for ghouls were like ordinary creature in his eyes.
"It seems to be almost there, and there is a remnant of the breath of monsters here."
Alina's turquoise eyes shone with a faint light, and vague fluctuations of magic power gradually became clear.
Monsters generally like to be active at night, this is the consensus of the mercenaries, and the monster breath can be detected during the day, which seems to be a little bad.
"The magic emanates from a cave, and there are faint fluctuations around it, and it is not clear further down."
Alina breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from her forehead, although the detection process was simple, but the load on the magician himself was great.
Adonis nodded, but didn't particularly pay attention to the latter sentence, and motioned for his subordinates to open the magic barrier they had prepared in advance, then took out a light blue bead from the gray bag he carried with him, and slowly placed it on the grass in front of him.
This is a magic item given to Adonis by the Mercenary Guild, and according to the lady at the front desk, it has the effect of attracting ghouls.
Not long after, there was the sound of objects breaking through the grass in front of them, and the group of the Storm Lionheart suddenly tensed their bodies.
A red glow of warning lit up, and a pale magical barrier opened around the beads, enveloping the group and the person who triggered it.
"It's now! Capture the net! ”
The two squires in silver-white armor immediately opened the silver capture net prepared in advance, and the ordinary capture net was easy to break free from by the extremely powerful ghouls, so a special silver capture net was used.
"Si, Si, quack."
I thought I would be relieved after the capture was successful, but suddenly a monster sound came from the left side of one of the attendants.
Completely unable to react, the black shadow struck the squire with a powerful impact, very suddenly, but his good combat qualities allowed him to raise the light shield he carried with him in time.
The powerful impact instantly knocked the attendant away, but the fast-moving figure was also clear.
A hairless humanoid body, dark red fangs, sharp claws, and a long, dragging tongue.
"Commander, be careful! It's a ghoul! ”
"Strange, ghouls hide in the woods?"
Adonis frowned, in his years of mercenary experience, he really hadn't met a ghoul who could ambush.
He reacted quickly, and the moment the ghoul crashed into the guard, he swung out the silver greatsword that had already been drawn.
A simple swing slammed into the ghoul's body with a solid coercion, as if it had been blessed with magic.
The force crushed the ghoul's sideways directly, and it was bombarded like a cannonball on the nearby giant tree, making a deep pit, and then collapsed to the ground like a puddle of mud.
"Quack, quack, quack."
As the sound reverberated through the dense forest, Storm Lionheart and his party gradually came together to form a defensive ring against the approaching ghouls.
It is very dangerous to fight ghouls in the dense forest, because the visibility of the demonic energy is very low, and the ghoul's minions have very tricky rotten poison, once it is cut by its claws or teeth, the rotten poison will play a role, affecting people's sanity, and even making people with weak resistance hallucinate and become bloodthirsty.
After making a judgment about the current situation, Adonis made up of his mind.
"A protracted war is unfavorable, take away the mission objectives, and prepare for a forced breakthrough."
"Use that."
"Captain, capturing the target... seems to have failed."
“?!”
The awkward voice of the squire startled everyone, and after shaking away an incoming ghoul with his greatsword, Adonis turned to look at the captured target.
Surprisingly, a male human in a cloth garment!
Too bad, there's no second capture net left, and you're still surrounded by monsters, so retreat first, and then make plans.
Having made a plan, Adonis, raised the silver greatsword, and then swung it down, and the surging magic power erupted from his body, wrapping around the greatsword, activating the hidden magic patterns, and the light blue mist danced on the sword.
Knowing the meaning of Adonis's actions, Alina unleashed a level 1 magic to cover, the fire snake spell, and the burning orange fire snake surged precisely towards the ghouls who kept pounced, exploding countless sparks on them, and the smell of scorching was pervasive for a while.
"Drink!"
After a short period of accumulation, Adonis roared, the giant sword full of blue magic power fell like a tall building, and slammed into the ground, countless cracks spread out, feeling the powerful impact, the ghoul in front of him hissed and ran, hurriedly avoiding the huge half-moon sword qi.
The sword qi broke through the dirt, and finally left a deep mark on the giant tree, and a smooth path was suddenly opened.
"Keep up!"
The magic of the tip of the sword was still swaying, and Adonis took a breath, grabbed the capture net, and carried the unidentified youth on his shoulder, and said loudly.
Without the slightest hesitation, the group ran out of the ghoul encirclement, kept running wildly, and after a while, they ran out of the dense forest.
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It feels like centuries have passed, and the body is like an empty shell filled with water, floating in the abyss-like sea.
But suddenly a light poured down, shattering the darkness and awakening the sleeping, confused consciousness.
"Little brother, you can sleep very well."
Leo opened his eyes, and what appeared in front of him was a middle-aged uncle with a stubble face, tall and wearing bright silver armor.
However, he graciously handed Leo a washed white towel and motioned for him to wipe his face and sober up.
A dazed Leo took the towel and looked at his surroundings suspiciously, the night outside the window, the ordinary wooden floor, straw mats, and the humble bonsai.
"Well, where is this?"
"A makeshift inn, now in the village of Bethes."
"Hah, Bethes?"
Suddenly, Leo realized that he spoke a strange but familiar language, but definitely not any Chinese he knew.
Strange costumes, strange village names, strange encounters, are you still in the game?
With that in mind, Leo tried to call out the system interface, but failed again.
"What's wrong?"
"No, by the way, Bethes Village, the hotel, where is this?"
"The center of the continent, the country of Astaire, the villages in the mountains, the village of Bethers, you have amnesia?"
"What's that? Big brother, this is the game! Or are you guys filming?! ”
Leo almost didn't jump out of bed, the plank under his ass creaked, and he spoke Mandarin in a hurry.
"Ah, little brother, calm down, please use the lingua franca."
The middle-aged uncle was a little surprised, took a few steps back, and waved his hand again and again.
After some verbal exchanges, Leo temporarily accepted that this was not Chinese mainland, nor was it a game world, in short, a place that he had never heard of.
"Little brother's language is very strange, maybe it's not from the Astai country, is it possible, amnesia?"
How can you not remember, the descendants of Yan and Huang in the Middle Earth Continent, the Qihang Enterprise in Zhejiang Province is just an employee, with parents, girlfriends and craftsmanship!
He still remembers that when he was making the expansion film, the imported rice cooker outside was still cooking!
After tossing for so long, the rice should be cooked.
Even if the storm was raging in his head, he had to nod with a wry smile.
"Speaking of which, little brother, the wound on your left arm was caused by a ghoul, and the rotten poison has invaded the body, so it has been dealt with briefly, but it is better to go to the nearest city to find a pharmacist to clear it, otherwise it is possible to recur."
"Wait, ghoul, rotten poison?!"
Hearing such a mysterious thing, Leo was stunned, couldn't accept it for a while, and said with a glare.
Suddenly, the memories in the cave awakened, and Leo's pupils shrank.
By the way, I seem to have woken up in the cave first, and I also met the monster, the big claw, which hurt a lot at the time, and finally seemed to pass out.
The middle-aged uncle was about to say something, but then a crisp female voice entered the room interrupted her speech.
"Adonis wants you over."
"Okay."
He bowed respectfully, then exited the room.
Leo met a pair of turquoise, curious eyes.
"I heard it all outside, don't you remember anything?"
"Me."
"You don't have any impression of this thing?"
The curiosity on the sorceress's face faded, her eyes became solemn, and she spread out her palm, an irregular, fragmented piece of blue ore emitting a faint glow.
Leo was stunned again, he didn't understand what the beautiful woman in front of him said, but he recognized the ore that saved his life, it was originally only the size of a fist, but for some reason there were only fragments in her hand.
"This, this."
Leo didn't know where to start, and he slurred and said.
His brain teaser was spinning, the beauty in front of him cared so much, it was likely that this ore was very valuable, and he obviously played the role of amnesia, but he said that he had seen this kind of ore, it would be inappropriate, so it was better to pretend to be stupid now.
"Very few people recognize this ore, but the vast majority of people in this country have heard of this ore, and it's called the Luna Mine."
At the last three words, the sorceress almost muffled her voice to the point where only two of them could hear her, and leaned her pretty face closer to Leo, staring at him with wide eyes.
"Luna, mine?"
Leo looked confused, but he quietly wrote down the name, and he couldn't help but have a hot face on the female magician who was so close.
Looking at it so closely, it's so beautiful, ah, I'm going to kiss it, oh my God, I have a girlfriend.
"I've never even heard of the Luna Mine, to what extent have you lost your memory?"
The sorceress also blushed slightly, and immediately shrank her head back, but she frowned because of Leo's words, the people of this country believe in the moon god, and almost everyone will have respect after hearing the great name of the moon god, including the sorceress herself.
But the young man in front of him seemed to have forgotten everything, and was indifferent to the Moon God, let alone the Moon God Mine.
"I remember my name, Leo."
In an instant, the name Li Ao came to mind.
But there obviously can't be such a name here, and after a moment's hesitation, Leo said with a red face.
"Your name is Leo..."
Seeing the look of the sorceress who was puzzled, as if she was recalling something, Leo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly remembered what his girlfriend had said, some beauties looked very simple, but they were actually very scheming.
What's more, as a standard social youth, he should have a cautious social mentality and not trust others.
Leo's heart moved, the previous middle-aged uncle obviously didn't know him, and he saved people for no reason, how could there be such a good thing.
And as soon as this beauty came, she asked about this stone, and she hid outside and eavesdropped, which was very boring.
Then again, they are willing to save themselves, is it because of this ore?
If you think about it like this, you still have to say it, let's save your own life first.
"Leo?"
Alina stared at him suspiciously, and before she knew it, she was getting close again.
"Oh wait, I remembered the previous thing."
Leo swallowed his saliva and looked at the sorceress with a surprised expression, serious and authentic.