Chapter 1: The Terrible Girl
"Donglong, according to the old rules, these furs will be given to you."
In the fur trading market in the northern region, a strange scene is being staged, a slender, tall and sturdy cold-faced beautiful girl with long water-blue hair about fourteen or fifteen years old will be as many wolf skins as a mountain under the gaze of everyone. Bearskins and tiger skins were casually thrown in front of the largest fur trading shop in the bazaar.
"The price is as good as before."
Although the girl's voice was nice, her tone was not gentle at all, and her beastly eyes and unmistakable tone made anyone who wanted to come up and talk to him gasp.
"Miss Estes, did you hit this large number of prey again today? And adult brown bears? It's so nice ~ And cut all the fur? …… Why is this so painful? With our relationship for so many years, this kind of work can be ......."
"I've said it so many times, cutting prey is my hobby, and I can bring back as many prey as I can...... Okay, settle my money. ”
Although the owner of the trading house repeatedly made this and hinted at Estes that her cutting method was too rude and would reduce the purchase price and the quality of the fur, Estes did not care about this.
"Can't we discuss it? After all, it's all good for us. ”
Although he said many times that it was useless to know, the boss still nagged again and again in the hope that Estes would change his mind
"As I said, I don't hunt prey to save, it's just part of my practice."
Her purpose in hunting and hunting was not to make money, but simply to exercise and entertain herself.
"Well, anyway, you're my regular customer, and I'll give you more salt, pepper, spices, and brand-new new hiking boots and warm clothes from the capital area in addition to the old price, which are free of charge, and have been patronized for six years."
For six years, Estes has been in this mountainous northern region where dangerous animals are frequent
For six years, she climbed mountain peaks when the snow covered the mountains in winter, knocked on the surface of the river when the ice froze, fought herds of wild wolves and hungry brown bears and tigers in the ice fields, and constantly challenged herself with hunger, cold, killing, and extreme climbing.
"Lately, I see that you have been disappearing for a few months, have you gone somewhere else?"
While packing up the furs, the store manager was talking to Estes about homework
"Well, a trip to Draguma to the north, where the dangerous species are more enjoyable than ours, and I've been there several times in recent months."
For some reason, she liked to fight in such a purely wild place, and the beasts of Amistolis were too weak, so she ran to the neighboring country of Draguma to hunt the more dangerous and powerful dangerous species, and when the dangerous species in one area were killed, she went to another area, which was staggering in number thanks to the sparse population and endless wasteland and undeveloped land of the neighboring country.
"Draguma's dangerous species?! Those dangerous species are fierce beasts that are several times more dangerous than brown bears and tigers! ”
For the creatures of the country next door to the tall mountain range, the manager of the fur shop is also very clear, those creatures are either extremely fast or extremely strong, and many of them can wipe out a squad or even a small army of humans when they launch a raid according to the terrain.
There are monitor lizards, dragon-catchers, saber-toothed tigers, and other more terrifying creatures.
This girl actually said that she went hunting over there, and it was very enjoyable? Is......
"Monsters?"
From the store manager's eyes, Estes saw what the other party meant, unlike other girls of this age, Estes's mind is surprisingly mature and sensitive, with beast-like insight and a very intelligent and clever brain, just she is also very competitive and confident and powerful, so she has never shied away from this kind of topic involving her own personality and reputation
"No, no, I didn't mean that."
Looking at the girl's beastly eyes, the store manager hurriedly shook his head and explained
There were already more than a dozen hunters who saw that Estes was hunting too much prey and seized their market, so they took shotguns and set traps to ambush Estes, and since then, Estes has been here once a week as usual, throwing down as many furs as mountains, and the dozen hunters ......
Since then, it has disappeared as if it had never existed
God knows how this girl killed more than a dozen experienced old hunters in one go, and there was no word at all.
The store manager knew that he had learned about this from the family of the missing person, and the family members and relatives who had come to settle accounts with Estes had all disappeared without exception.
Now the whole town knows the law - anyone who goes against Estes will disappear without exception.
The store manager didn't dare to touch the moldy head of Estes himself.
"You don't have to worry about what Solt store manager."
Estes understood very well what the old man of the town was thinking at this time, and as he gathered his materials, he tied the money bag to his body, pulled out the saber that he had not taken out for a long time, polished it, and tied it around his waist together.
"You have been very attentive to me all these years, I know what to do with my friend and the person who cares for me, Estes knows what to do, you are telling the truth and what is in your heart, I understand what you think, you don't need to say anything else."
Finally, put on the brand new leather boots, and Estes prepared to leave.
"Estes never cared and cared about the words of the weak and fools, Estes only cared about enemies and friends."
Then he turned over the fur as much as a mountain, and despite the surprised eyes of the store manager, he used the simple and tough saber to cut all the furs that had been traded.
The true face of the inside is revealed.
"This is?!"
Unless he was blinded by old age, Sauter didn't believe his eyes
"Fifteen saber-toothed tigers with complete jaws, twenty claws of quick-grasping dragons, and a lot of intact skins of monitor lizards"
The price of these things is sky-high in the capital, enough for Suter to live a very wealthy life in the capital and buy a luxurious house to spend his old age in peace.
"Thank you for taking care of Estes when she was eight years old with a cold and fever, alerting me when I was eleven when someone was plotting against me, helping me get a secret map to Draguma when I was thirteen, and the birthday present I was given every year."
As he spoke, he knocked on these precious things under his feet
"The prey I hunted when I crossed the border last time, I didn't keep it much, I hope it can be of some use to you, I'm going to the army from today on."
The hunting efficiency of dangerous species is too low to satisfy Estes's desires. What she craves is more exciting and exciting fights.
"Aren't you coming back?"
Seeing that the little girl who had come here since she was less than seven years old in front of her had unknowingly grown into an excellent hunter and warrior, Suter, who had no children and no daughters, suddenly felt like a grandfather.
And today, his granddaughter is leaving
"Well, I'm afraid so."
But seeing the sadness in the old man's eyes, Estes suddenly changed his words
"I won't be serving in the Northern Army's Bluguz Fortress for a considerable period of time, and we will still be familiar with it when the time comes."
It is less than 100 kilometres from the iron-walled Bligguz in the north, and is the closest town to the snow-capped Isthmus of Ghutz.
The soldiers there are all here to buy food and supplies, so there is no need to worry about not seeing each other in the future
"Yes, that's good, haha~ Sure enough, people will have some messy ideas when they get old, haha~"
"Nope."
Looking at the old man's irrepressible emotion, Estes denied
"Affection and nothing bad habits and weaknesses of human nature. Proof of whether it is a person or a person. ”
Thinking of his father, the president who always wore a blindfold and looked fierce, and his mother, who always limited himself to becoming a shackle, Estes felt that he still wanted to see them, that he was still a human being.
"Take care of yourself, I'm leaving."
After saying that, the girl wore the boots given to her by Old Man Suter, pinned the saber given to her by her father, and walked up the hill in a very ordinary Orion's costume. Walk towards the fortress of the Miracle Gang, Blliguz, which was erected on the northern border.