Chapter 24: The Way Home
"In the early spring of 4561 in the Magnolia calendar, Wright embarked on the road back to the academy."
"Last summer, Wright officially embarked on a journey of training, and he still seemed very immature. It's like a precious flower in a garden. ”
"A year has passed, and now he exudes the aura of a predator, and the flowers and plants cultivated in the academy in the past have now grown into reliable powerhouses."
"Sister Gabriella, have you had enough!" Wright rolled his eyes, "I'm just here to say goodbye to you, don't be so sensational." ”
"Little Wright isn't fun at all now, how cute she was when she was a child." Gabriela deliberately teased Wright, "Okay, don't talk about it, take care all the way, you must bring a girlfriend next time you come over, I think that little girl was good last time, understand!" ”
After saying goodbye to Gabriela, Wright went to the Headless Wolf Tavern to have a drink with Pig and Walker, and the three of them had a great conversation, and Wright made it clear to them where he was going, and promised to drink together again if they had the chance.
After that, Wright visited Master Hyde, and it seemed that his refining experiment was making good progress, and this time Master Hyde seemed to be much more enthusiastic. In fact, as an expert in refining, Master Hyde is very knowledgeable, and his attainments in the cultivation of warriors are also very high, and the two had an in-depth discussion on the use and maintenance of various weapons.
The time of reunion is always short, and the next day, Wright sets out on his way home. (Steward Fez: Master Wright, what about me!) )
"Ding Ding Ding" A pleasant ringing bell came. A white ferret with purple eyes with a string of bells around its neck, cocked its tail, and walked proudly down the wide avenue.
"Brother Kirton, your daughter is too cute, hang a bell for the purple-eyed ferret!" Wright rode a steed and said with a smile to a thin man next to him. A little girl sitting on the shoulders of the emaciated man grimaced at Wright.
Wright smiled disappreciatively, "Big Brother Kirton plans to go back to his hometown to live?" Don't know what it is? ”
"Haha, my hometown is a very beautiful place, have you heard of the place 'White Water Lake'?" The man who is called Cotton's man has a talkative attitude that does not match his serious appearance.
"Whitewater Lake, I want to think about it, is it from Han'o County, Gesa Province...
"Daddy, Daddy, you're never going to leave when we get home, aren't you?!" The little girl sat on her father's body, "Will we all live together as a family in the future?!" ”
"Yes, yes, my little darling" Kirton clearly doted on his daughter, giving Wright an apologetic look.
Kirton, a seventh-level warrior, a third-level wind magician, a former adventurer, and a well-known master of the bow and arrow, is known as the "Silent Arrow". It's a strong man who has earned enough gold coins to go back to his hometown to get married, well, although his daughters are six years old this year.
After appeasing their baby daughter, Kirton and Wright also continued to chat, from the white fish in Kirton's hometown of Whitewater Lake, which has a strange light in its eyes after cooking, to Wright's description of the Northland's iced snacks; From the power skills of a warrior to the self-cultivation of a magic archer.
The two are close in strength and status, and they are both sunny and talkative personalities, and they are both warriors, magicians and foodies, so they naturally talk happily.
Suddenly, someone on one side of the caravan shouted loudly.
"Be careful, there are robbers!"
"It's a quick thief, everyone be careful of their goods!"
"Son, be careful, it's okay if you're fine."
"My goods are all gone, woo woo woo, I'm going bankrupt!"
"It's okay, I'll raise you if you're bankrupt!"
"Honey, you're so good to me, but I'm a man."
"It's okay, I'm actually a woman (o@.@o)"
Wright and Kirton looked back, and although they seemed to insert some inexplicable words, the two of them also reacted quickly, and a group of robbers were relying on their speed to quickly snatch the caravan's goods.
There are several kinds of robbers who often rob on the trade road, one is the real powerful bandits, often with seven or eight levels of strength leaders, as for the ninth-level powerhouses, they generally do not fall into being robbers, and occasionally there is one, all of whom are particularly famous, such as the assassins and ghost thieves that Wright once heard of, even if they have been dead for hundreds of years, they have left their fame. This kind of robber is generally a huge organization, and even some nobles behind it, in addition to some necessary robbery and extermination, or valuing special treasures is too tempting, most of the time they charge protection money to the caravan, and the trickle is long-term, in fact, this kind of robber, the loss may not be very large.
In order to hinder the pursuit of the guards, they often set fire to the property that could not be carried away, or seriously injured the merchants, forcing them to leave people for first aid treatment, which is particularly annoying to this kind of robbers.
At this moment, Wright was in front of this kind of robber, Wright just wanted to say that he wanted to go back to help, but Kirton directly shoved his lovely daughter into Wright's arms.
"Brother Wright, please help me take care of my girl" Kirton settled his pouting daughter and walked away a few steps, clenching the longbow on his back with his right hand. Three sharp arrows in the left hand are wound.
With the longbow in hand, Kirton's temperament of the talkative brother instantly became cold and focused, straightening the arrow, putting the dragon tendon string on his left hand, and pressing the arrow with his right hand, pulling the longbow like a full moon.
There were faint fluctuations in wind magic, and Wright knew that Kirton had unleashed magic "haste" and "precision" for him.
The cyan fighting spirit ignited, and the fighting energy was infused into the special arrows.
"Whoosh" with Wright's hearing, at such a close distance, he could faintly hear the sound of arrows cutting through the air.
In an instant, three cyan arrows silently appeared behind the bandit leader like a breeze.
"Bell!" "Bell!" "Poof!"
"Boss!" "Help, save me!" "Run"
The bandit leader barely managed to block two arrows with a great axe, but was pierced through the heart by a third arrow.
This was followed by a rain of arrows with slightly less powerful speed, but more numerous, with each blow knocking a bandit carrying cargo to the ground.
Seeing that the leader was easily killed, and that the accomplices who were carrying the goods were attacked by arrows, the robbers who were robbing the goods quickly threw the goods down and fled into the jungle on both sides of the road.
The mercenaries rushed up and hacked to death a few robbers who were slow to escape, and the robbed merchants went to collect their goods and count the damage.
And on the other side.
"Anna, how is it, Daddy is amazing!" Satisfied, Kirton put away his bow and arrows, and then took his daughter from Wright's arms. And give Wright a little sassy look.
"Daddy is dirty, it's all dust!" The little girl Anna said with a grin as she patted her father's dust with her hand.
Wright said with some admiration: "Brother Kirton's bow and arrow are indeed powerful, the key is the ability to be silent, and it must be very terrifying to hunt demonic beasts." ”
Kirton grinned as well, he was very famous in the circle of adventurers in the homecoming city, and he had heard enough of some of the usual compliments, but he didn't care.
But the young man on the other side is a disciple of the powerhouse of the Holy Domain, and his strength is not inferior to himself, and more importantly, he is very young, and he is still very happy to hear the praise of this kind of young man with status.
"Haha, when Brother Wright was so young, I didn't have the ability to hunt seventh-level demonic beasts, and I wouldn't even take the initiative to hunt sixth-level demonic beasts."
Just as Wright and Cotton were blowing each other in the industry. Tom, the leader of the mercenaries, also came over, Tom was a middle-aged man with a mediocre appearance and a mediocre name. He is not a mercenary known for his strength.
A fourth-level warrior is barely excellent as an ordinary mercenary, but very weak as the leader of a large mercenary group. But his long sleeves are good at dancing, and his communication skills are extremely powerful, so he can control the entire mercenary group, and even several seventh-level powerhouses are also convinced by him.
Tom first slammed Colton, lamenting that Corton had protected a lot of goods and the credibility of their mercenary team. He also praised Wright on the side, what a young genius, the future Great Magister and other good words. Kirton was very experienced and calm, but Wright couldn't resist the praise of Tom's leader.
Seeing that Wright was a little overwhelmed, Kirton suddenly interrupted his praise: "Chief Tom, if you have anything, just say it." ”
Tom smiled shrewdly, "I'll be blunt, I've recently received news that there is a gang of robbers calling themselves 'Tkawi Thieves', who seem to be very active, and three caravans have been robbed on the trade route from Kualare City to Baya Hill City in front. Among them, the teams of the Doug Chamber of Commerce and the Golden Rose Chamber of Commerce were only extorted, but the caravan of the Obic Chamber of Commerce was directly attacked, and it is said that several important people of the Chamber of Commerce were in that caravan at that time, and the entire Chamber of Commerce was almost slaughtered, and only a few mercenaries fled for their lives. Tom also had a serious expression on his face.
Wright frowned, and Kirton asked directly: "Chief Tom, if that's the case, then it shouldn't be you who come to talk to me, it's the Geer Chamber of Commerce who cares most about this issue." ”
Tom nodded: "That's right, I'm here to represent the Geer Chamber of Commerce this time, in fact, in order to deal with the 'Tekawi Thieves', we do hide a few strong people arranged by the Geer Chamber of Commerce in our caravan, of course, I can't say who they are." In fact, as a mercenary, I don't want to let go of this group of miscellaneous people, I hope that the two of you will accept our employment, if the two of you are willing to accept the employment, the Geer Chamber of Commerce will not be stingy with money. ”
Kirton said he wanted to talk to Wright. Tom smiled and walked a few steps away.
"Since people are already in the caravan and may be attacked by the 'Tkawi Thieves', then if they really want to take action at that time, it is better to accept the hir."
"If the remuneration is satisfactory to us, we can accept the employment!"
Soon the two agreed, and the smiling Tom was called to accept the employment of the Gehr Chamber of Commerce.