"So you're just dropping by?"

Some time later, deep in the jungle of Gemenan, a magician named Linyuan Broken Water asked with interest, "Didn't you save me on purpose...... No, framed me? ”

“……”

"If no one bothered me, I might be able to deepen our relationship with the Imperials there."

Looking at the other party's face, Lin Yuanshui, who had been thrown on the ground by the other party at will since just now, slapped his gray robe indifferently: "It's good now, I was almost regarded as a wanted criminal by the other party again...... I'm talking about you. ”

"If you don't repay me for selling you a blood vial, what do you mean by running over and kidnapping me?"

Leaning against the trunk of the tree behind him, he slowly stood up, looking at the figure of the woman in front of him who shrouded her face and expression in a black cloak, and the joking expression that was originally revealed on her face gradually retracted as the other party continued to be silent, replaced by his subsequent question: "Is there a feud between us?" ”

“…… No. ”

As if she had just woken up from a dream, the woman who had been looking down condescendingly finally gave her own answer: "I'm sorry. ”

"Excuse me? Just say sorry and that's it? ”

Rolling his eyes, the mage who pulled up the corners of his mouth then showed a ruffian face that was difficult to speak: "Do you know what we are here for?" We're here to get a dungeon! We have worked hard to solve the old one, and we have traveled thousands of mountains and rivers to get here! Can you compensate our team for the loss of your sorry words? We can't go through the rest of the quest process, you know? We're here with trials! The people of the Flame Drake are still waiting for us behind...... Belch. ”

The blood-red long sword blade suddenly crossed the neck of Lin Yuan's broken water, and quickly pressed his nose, which was about to reach the sky, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword that seemed to have finally come to his senses became extremely stable, and at the same time, his cold eyes were exposed from the darkness hidden under his hood: "...... Don't try to deceive me, I know how you got here, I have nothing to do with killing your team members before, please don't blame me. ”

"If you can compete with someone of that level, you should also understand that this is not a dungeon trial at all." Her gaze crossed the mage's face like a sword: "If you know that there is such a danger and still lead someone to break into here, you must have been prepared for the defeat you are about to suffer." ”

"Wait, wait." Lin Yuan broke the water and shouted inwardly: "You can't kill me, we Flame Dragon Beast people won't let you go!" ”

"Flame drakemon? Just let them come. The woman with the blood sword pointed at it let out a disdainful sneer: "And...... You're not a member of their guild at all, are you? ”

"Okay, okay, since everyone understands people, then our account this time will be written off, how about it?"

Feeling the killing intent that gradually appeared at the blade of the blood-red long sword, Lin Yuanshui, who didn't dare to move, hurriedly hung up the corners of his mouth with a dry smile: "You have a full-level tuba running here, there must be some strange task to deal with, right?" Why waste time and life on me, and get along with us little people? ”

"You're the one who wants to get along with me." Still didn't retract his sword blade, still staring at the other party's Snow Spirit Phantom Ice took a deep breath: "Thought I didn't know what you wanted to ask for a price?" Don't worry, guys like you, I'm not going to help you. ”

"Then why did you take me out of those Imperial Guards?"

"That's because ......"

Because......

Because of what?

Because I followed the sound of battle again, and then I saw you fighting the Restorationists?

Because I see you standing with the Imperial soldiers chasing me?

The momentum that wanted to continue speaking suddenly choked, and the original cold gaze of Xue Lingphantom Bing, who was still threatening the other party with the tip of his sword, appeared a trace of confusion, which came from the tremor on his fingers, and then brought out a trace of ripples on the straight blade, emitting a faint halo of blood-red in the air: "Because...... I...... Belch...... I thought you were under siege by the Imperials, so I wanted to save you......"

"Get me out?" The expression on Lin Yuan's face became even stranger: "I'm an Imperial player, even if you don't know what's going on, I'm on friendly terms with those Imperial soldiers." ”

"Who do you want to get me out of?"

“……”

The flickering eyes gradually disappeared in the woman's bowing movements, and the breathing of the snow spirit phantom ice gradually became disordered, and the original wavering movements began to appear with more and more uncontrollable sanity, and the increasingly awkward atmosphere gradually replaced the silence like the previous winter-since meeting this novice magician in Karlo Village, she had been methodically carrying out her plan of action, and began to make one after another actions beyond her expectations, and the reasons for these actions, she didn't figure it out until now. The contact with the strange magician in front of her was also played out in front of her again and again over time, and a few simple but accidental encounters always attracted her inexplicable attention, and it was only when she had just looted this man from the group of Imperial soldiers who had been chasing her without thinking about it that she suddenly realized that she had changed her heart a lot from the cold winter. Still unable to say what the reason for this change was, she looked at the man in front of her quietly, and then took a deep breath in the clever expression of the other party, who was still smiling dryly and carefully confronting her sword.

Maybe it's just because of some similarities.

She thought to herself silently.

“…… Because of the strength you showed before. ”

Slowly withdrawing his sword, Xue Lingphantom Ice, who had stabilized emotionally, finally said a reason that could be used to justify the lie: "I saw the battle between you and the man in black...... You seem to have a way to restrain the other person? ”

"Ah, you're talking about the bottle of potion." Lin Yuan, who was stunned for a moment, nodded his head: "What, do you want this thing?" ”

"I have a grudge against those — the mysterious men in black you fought before — that need to be settled."

As if the purpose of his trip had finally been mentioned, a pair of cold eyes were once again revealed from under the hood of Snow Ling's phantom ice covering his face: "They have polluted my mind for some time and are trying to make me a weapon that they can drive at will. ”

"Uh...... That, what you're talking about, I don't understand. Blinking his eyes, the magician named Linyuan Broken Water pretended to begin to observe the left and right of the place: "What weapons, what pollution...... Aren't you also a gamer? How can it be controlled by a character in the game? ”

“…… You don't need to know much, and it's not good for a novice player like you. ”

Closing his eyes slightly, Xue Lingphantom Ice then turned his body: "The high-level world is very dangerous, and there are many things that you can't imagine...... If I could, I would even like to go back to the old days, to the time when I didn't understand anything. ”

"If I had been a little more careful, I probably wouldn't be where I am today." She quietly lowered her head, as if looking at her hands: "Things shouldn't have become as irreversible as they are today." ”

“……”

"Sorry for saying something senseless."

Awakened by the silence of the other party quietly watching him, Xue Lingphantom Ice once again regained his previous cold image: "Is your white potion for sale?" I can offer any price. ”

"It's hard to make powerful magic potions, and I only have two or three bottles right now."

I don't know if it was because the topic was disturbed or because of the shortage of inventory, Lin Yuan Shushui scratched his head in annoyance: "In my plan, I never planned to sell this elixir......"

"One hundred platinum coins."

Interrupting the other party's shredded whispers in an even more ruthless voice, Xue Lingphantom Ice raised his blood-colored sword again: "If it's not enough...... I could add more. ”

"That, that...... I'm not deliberately raising the price. The magician, who quietly took two steps back, pulled the blade of the sword away again: "I'm just explaining the situation to you, and the effect of this potion is not as obvious as you saw before, maybe it's just a coincidence......"

"Coincidentally?"

It was not the snow spirit phantom ice standing in front of him who answered him, but an unsearchable echo suddenly sounded in the dark depths of the jungle: "This kind of nonsense is still useful to deceive the layman, but in front of me...... It's impossible. ”

"Who?"

The two people who woke up suddenly looked around, and Xue Ling, who turned his sword back, asked loudly with vigilant eyes, but the voice that still echoed in the shadows of the woods ignored the woman's shouting, but surrounded Lin Yuan's broken water by himself: "Who am I?" My name is best understood by this little guy, he almost ruined my good deed just now, and now he is inexplicably left alone......"

"Did you come after me, Lord Dax?" The magician who put away his smile then lowered his eyes: "How did you track it down?" ”

"I've said a long time ago that this jungle is our territory." The surrounding voice began to get closer and closer to him: "You are intruders who have broken into our territory, your every move ......"

"There's nothing to hide in front of me."

The shrill whistling sound began to surround the area with the appearance of a yin wind, and even the towering trees that had been standing beside the two people began to blur, and the voice from the gale then turned into a wild laugh, with an eye-opening black air flow gradually approaching the location of the broken water in the abyss. Holding the white potion bottle in his hand tightly, Lin Yuanshui, whose face gradually became serious, took two steps back slightly, and then leaned his back against the trunk of the tree closest to him while moving with the black wind that was tracking around him: "Is it not an attack of the Void Form...... Hmph, it seems that you are also a real person. ”

"Have you finally realized how small you are?" The sound of laughter with an endless black wind suddenly pressed down towards the position where the gray-robed magician was: "Alchemist without the strength of a strong man...... Even if you have the power to restrain the void, what can you do? ”

The black silk threads entwined in the cold wind finally turned into substance, and continued to slash through the side of the broken water in the abyss, and the cracked cloth robe and shocking scars then broke through the earthen wall that the magician who was less than ten levels suddenly rose beside him, imprinted on his body with the shards of earth and stone and the splash of blood. Gritting his teeth and enduring the pain that quickly spread all over his body, the player named Lin Yuan Shui then raised his arm that was forced back to the side of the tree trunk by the powerful cutting force, and the action of wanting to throw out the potion bottle was suppressed by a stronger slash the next moment, and the bottle that was dropped because of the cut on his hand was also swept up by the wind: "Wahahaha!" What a funny joke! Didn't anyone teach you...... What happens to an alchemist who can't use potions? ”

"Now...... The last threat was also eliminated. The voice suddenly darkened: "Die, fool. ”

Boom!

The loud sound then covered the last bit of light that the black wind swept away, and the sight of the bloodied mage being shaken out by the powerful force fluttered towards the dark night sky, and the bloody light from the blood-colored sword then tore through the outermost part of the black tornado, and the figure with the snow spirit phantom ice in a cloak replaced the place where he had stood. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice, who was holding a sword in both hands, then drew a blood-colored arc in the air, and then used a circular field like the moon to envelop all the black yin wind that had not yet dispersed nearby: "Don't think that this kind of trick can deceive me. ”

"Any magic is useless in front of me."

The blood-colored circle turned into blood-colored ripples, and neatly spread out sharply around the jungle, and the voice that had been wandering nearby seemed to be unable to resist the sword qi that neatly cut off the nearby trees, and howled and fled towards the distance of the night sky. Lying on the ground and gasping for a long time, the Linyuan Broken Water that was sure that he would not be affected by this sword qi finally got up from the ground in the distance, grinning and covering the scars on his body one after another, while stepping over the fallen tree trunks nearby: "One move drove him away?" It's amazing, it's still ...... you."

The compliments slowly stopped, his eyes gradually fell on the ground in front of him, and the figure belonging to the woman was also falling in the center of the arc cut by the sword qi before, and the body holding his arms tightly curled up together: "Hey, what's wrong with you?" ”

“…… I'm fine. ”

"Were you hurt by the guy you just had? Where is the injury? He's not ......"

"I'm fine! Leave me alone! ”

Pushing away the other party's hand that wanted to support her, the woman who gritted her teeth slowly stood up, and the sweaty face that had been hidden under the hood was also slowly moving away with the movement of turning her back to the magician, and staggered and disappeared into the depths of the jungle: "He should ...... Won't come again. ”

"Take advantage of the ...... Safety, you ...... Let's go. ”