After a journey of thousands of stars, Rejin finally arrived in Najian City, but as soon as he landed, he received a summoning order from Black Eagle City.

He stood on the tower, holding the secret letter in his hand, looked at the western horizon and sighed secretly: "I didn't expect the royal family to be so anxious...... It seems that the task can only be put on hold for the time being. He looked into the distance with unwilling eyes, "But I'll never leave a record of not completing the mission, sooner or later I'll look for you, stinky boy." ”

On the far other side of the territory of the Hilfa Empire, the White Kite City, located on the eastern border of the Empire, has stood for thousands of years as the border between the Empire and the Eastern Old Kingdom. From here, further east, through the ancient forest of Sharjaman, you will officially enter the border of the Eastern Old Kingdom. And in the Wild Spirit Valley more than 300 stars northeast of this green border, bursts of roars of humans and beasts are being heard.

The strong wind in the Valley of the Wild Spirit did not stop for a moment, blowing the banners of the caravans.

If you listen closely, in addition to the roars of men and beasts, you can vaguely distinguish the roars of brute beasts in the wind.

This is not common.

Brute beasts are also different from monsters, and do not use any magic energy, but they are usually gifted. Some of them are huge enough to shake the earth with brute force alone, some have sharp cone spikes that are indestructible, some are athletic and far faster than ordinary creatures, and still others have hard carapaces that are invulnerable.

To them, humans and subhumans are like mollusks, and to weak humans and subhumans, every brute beast is a disaster.

The Eastern Old Kingdom has the longest history on the continent of Tivak, with a wide variety of species and mysteries, and it is said that there are still intelligent life that has escaped from the world and has not been published and recorded. But even so, brute beasts should be extremely rare in this mild era.

The mouth of the Wild Spirit Valley, littered with the mangled corpses of caravan guards and the parts of wagons shattered into sawdust, had apparently been in the midst of a fierce battle. A scarlet blood trail dragged across the ground fiercely, as if a big hand had made a heavy stroke on the ground with a pen dipped in blood, and this stroke went straight into the depths of the valley.

The blood has not yet dried.

This is a valley that not even the natural Titans will bless, and according to the words of the local elders, "there are wild wind spirits everywhere." ”

Walk a hundred meters along the narrow trail to the heart of the valley with a strong wind that cuts through the skin and gravel blown up by the wind.

There, several raccoon men dressed as Confederate merchants crouched behind a boulder, shivering, their blades curled up at their feet.

Not far away, there were two human swordsmen, a man and a woman, who were fighting with a group of brute beasts.

The two of them were dressed very strangely, and they knew at a glance that they were definitely not from this continent. Even the well-informed merchants of the Commonwealth could not recognize the country from which their outfits came from. But they were obviously accustomed to combat, and the spiritual power of the enhancement system was not jerky at all when used in battle blessings, especially the man, the sword qi he used was amazing.

It's just that every time he seems to take out his sword, he will shout.

"Jackdaw crosses the river!" a sword light swung out. The arc of the sword pointed to the rock badgers that pounced on the merchants' hideouts.

In the silver-white arc of the sword, the spiritual power conjured up a pitch-black mist. From this black mist, a vast flock of crows suddenly appeared, scrambling to flap their wings and rush forward, and there was a noisy and loud sound. Their blood-red eyes were only the rock badgers. As the crows swept by, the badgers were all cut in half, leaving only a dead stone corpse that was scattered stiffly on the ground.

"The moonlight is vast!" another silver light fell from the sky, as if the moonlight was pouring straight down, and a mountain bear fell to the ground with a wail.

"Ichiha knows ......" His next move was suddenly interrupted by a girl's slender but annoyed voice.

"Brother, can you be quiet!"

The man's sword move froze abruptly, and he looked at his sister suspiciously.

The girl's face turned red, but not because of the fierce battle: "It's really... What a shame!"

Not only his enhancement system, but also other psionic powers such as shaping and summoning actually don't require the user to shout any mantras when using them, let alone give each sword move a strange name. But the young man not only kept shouting, but also in front of so many people and beasts.

The girl keenly sensed the gaze of the people around her and felt very embarrassed. But the young man was unconscious, and he touched his head in confusion: "Sister, I've always been like this, don't you know......?

Stunned, the most dangerous mountain-shaking puppet in this group of brute beasts smashed into the young man with its huge upper limbs.

In the next instant, the golem's upper limbs and its body were separated, and the girl's figure swept out quickly and dexterously in the neat slice gap. Her blades and boots still shone with pale blue psionic power, but the sword was already unsheathed.

"Whatever you want!" the girl said angrily, "I told my master a long time ago, just let me come alone to investigate such a trivial matter as the activities of Warcraft and Brute Beasts!"

"Sister, the master also cares about you. ”

"It's hard to come out once, and I'm embarrassed to follow you!" The girl was still annoyed, "You just take advantage of this time to come out and practice well, how can you shut up and fight!"

Two mysterious and peculiar human swordsmen, who strengthened their swordsmanship with powerful psychic powers, saved the Confederate caravan that was ambushed by brute beasts. At this moment they were in the middle of the valley where the beasts roared, and you complained about inconsequential trivialities one by one, to the surprise of the fearful raccoons around them.

After that, the young man did not speak, but he never used any more psychic moves. The long sword he held was also different from the broad-edged and thin swords that merchants were accustomed to, the body of the sword was slender and straight, longer and thinner than ordinary swords, but thicker than the thin sword.

The young man relied on his swordsmanship and body shape to confront several brute beasts with rough skin and thick flesh, obviously much more difficult than just now.

A merchant saw that he had fought hard and was in danger, and his palms were sweating, for fear that he would make a mistake and he would not survive. So I couldn't help but shout: "You, you shout, we don't mind purring!"

The man's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he turned his head over, but met his sister's cold gaze, and suddenly fell silent.

After about a meal, the last brute in the valley finally fell at the feet of the female swordsman, and there was no more roar in the wind.

"Thank you two for saving us Purr!" a raccoon merchant came up to thank him.

"It's okay, it's okay," the young man tucked his sword into the scabbard behind his back, "we were looking for them." ”

"What's your name, please?"

"I'm Cang—" he changed his words suddenly, "Ah, the name of the continental lingua franca should be Elantra, and this is my sister, Valrhona." ”

After the merchants expressed their gratitude repeatedly, they packed up the remnants of their goods and hurried to the White Kite City.

Looking at their departing backs, Valrhona asked, "Brother, where are we going next?"

"Black Hawk City. Elantra replied without thinking.

"Shall we go with them, then?" Valrhona asked, "to the White Kite City first, and then ......."

"No," Elantra said decisively, "we're going straight to Black Hawk City." ”

Valrhona knew what his brother meant. To go directly is to walk in a straight line, there are mountains over the mountains, and bridges are built when encountering water. If you want to play in the big cities of the empire this time, I'm afraid you can only depend on the luck of this straight line.

At this time, in their far west, Ian and Sid, with their client Lena, are walking out of the inn in Babel and preparing to go to Oasis Town.

"Let's go!" Sid flicked his bag onto his back. The blades of his two-handed swords behind him were thickly wrapped in wrapping cloth, and only the end of the hilt shone brightly in the sunlight.

Lena walked behind Sid with a mountain of bags on her back. Ian wore a black cloak of corpse carp and a long sword around his waist, and Zack's spirit walked side by side at the end of the line. According to Lena, this is to escort her team, so she has to walk in the middle.

From Babel to Oasis Town, it is a two- or three-day journey at most, and it will be faster if there are horses, but unfortunately Ian and they are all penniless poor ghosts.

"Why don't you have a mount? What is that thing called......" Sid asked Lena behind him as he walked.

"Land rhinos?" said Lena.

"Yes, yes, didn't you say that it was the standard equipment for businessmen? You've all entered the Chamber of Commerce, so you shouldn't be short of this money, right?"

"......" Lena, who had always spoken quickly and reacted quickly, suddenly stopped talking.

"What's wrong?" Sid asked.

"It's a secret, you can't tell. ”

"Huh, that's a secret?"

"Everyone has a few secrets that they can't tell. ”

"Keep it a secret from us, we have to be honest with each other in a hurry these days!"

"Well, then why did you use a fake name, Sid?" Lena deliberately accentuated Sid's name.

“...... Uh, for security reasons. How do you know?" Sid saw that it had been exposed, and he no longer covered it up.

Ian said he slipped out. ”

Ian was startled. said that the leaky mouth was just Sid's name, but even her real name was discovered by her. Sid was even more confused.

"You underestimate the strength of the Federal Chamber of Commerce, and it is not easy to find out a few identities. Lena said proudly, and the speed of her voice returned to her usual speed, "Otherwise, how dare I let you escort me without going through the guild?"

"Rather than that," Lena's tone became wary, "don't you think it's been too quiet all this way, and why haven't you met a single traveler?"

"Let's not talk about Babel," Lena continued, "why isn't there anyone coming here from the direction of Oasis?"

As a raccoon people, Lena's hearing is not as sensitive as that of cat people, but she is also much better than ordinary humans.

Her ears twitched slightly, and she looked around nervously.

Sid stopped, too, and it was too quiet.

They had already walked a considerable distance from Babel, but they saw a messenger from the Babel government office riding up from behind them, and turning south at the first fork. Other than that, there were no passers-by, either on the same road or on the opposite side.

Ian didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, as most of his attention was still on his own training.

For the sake of convenience, he called the method of repeatedly switching the focus of his psychic power in an instant, as if playing against himself, "Flash", and called the previous dual-purpose training method "Harmony". Flashes and Harmony are methods that he can train at any time, and he can add Flash's practice at any time during the process of Harmony.

At this time, hearing Lina's words, he stopped switching at high speed and looked around, but he couldn't see any suspicious signs - except for what Lena said, it was indeed too quiet. On the long road between the wasteland and the hills, there was no traveler in sight except them.

For Lena, this path was all too familiar to her, and it shouldn't have been like this at all. Even on the low trees on the side of the road, there is no sound of birds. It was still early in the middle of nowhere, and the slightest insect chirping could not be heard in the bushes. The Water Dew Moon is supposed to be at their peak.

"Look!" Sid whispered, pointing to the road in the moor in the distance.

Ian narrowed his eyes and saw a small black dot approaching quickly.