Chapter 33: Strange Phenomena
Sanders' face turned pale, and he felt a little weak in his legs.
The reason why he became like this was because he saw a strange scene: his subordinates fell at the same moment as if they had lost their souls, and then the demon stood in front of him at some point and put the black sword around his neck.
He could even see what the other person had done...
It reminded him of an epic sung by a certain bard:
When darkness descends, countless cruel evil spirits emerge from the darkness, they wander the land like ghosts, smiling evilly and harvesting innocent souls one after another...
Although the epic ending is that the saint Slyer leads the paladins to fight off the evil spirits and shine the warm sun on the earth again. And it was morning, but in his mind, there were only ghostly evil spirits, bloodthirsty and evil.
The shadow of death hung over my heart, and cold sweat soaked my shirt at some point.
With difficulty, he looked at the black pupils of the ancient well, and asked in a trembling voice:
"You... Who is it? β
Hearing this, the demon turned his head and looked at the red-haired girl who was walking down the steps.
"Ophelia Setika RatnitΓ©." The girl's silver bell-like voice was pleasant, but it sounded like a death knell to Sanders.
Ophelia Setika Ratniat!
There is only one person in the entire Duchy with this name, and that is the Head of the Duchy, the daughter of Grand Duke Kenser Orendsay Galea Ratniat, and Her Royal Highness Princess Ophelia.
Ophelia's voice was not loud, but it was heard by the people hiding in the corner not far away, as well as the adventurers in the guild who were looking through the windows.
"Ophelia Setika Ratniat? That's a familiar name. β
Someone chewed on these words, showing a puzzled look.
"Stupid! That's Her Royal Highness! Don't you even know the name of Ratnit? How did you survive in the Principality all these years? Someone next to him scolded at the man.
"It's Her Royal Highness the Princess! I heard that Her Royal Highness the princess came to Conteseno, and I thought it was a rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true! β
"I didn't expect to see Her Royal Highness the Princess in Contesino!" Some people excitedly said that for some principalities who have never been to the capital, this is indeed a rare experience.
"Male... Her Royal Highness the Princess..."
After learning the identity of the other party, Sanders trembled, his legs weakened, and he knelt down directly.
"No... No way... How could Her Royal Highness be in Conteseno..."Sanders muttered to himself, as if he hadn't yet come to terms with reality.
And at this moment, a small silver-white sign fell in front of him, engraved with a few words, although small, but in Sanders's eyes it was quite glaring.
Ophelia Setika Ratniat.
He wanted to look away, but the words seemed to have a magical power that he couldn't take away.
And just now, he insulted the owner of this name as a slut, and slandered her for colluding with the demons...
Demons... Demons!
"Impossible! You are not Her Royal Highness the Princess! How could Her Royal Highness become a lowly adventurer! How could Her Royal Highness be with the demons! You must be a fake! β
Sanders suddenly stood up as if he had thought of something, pointing at Lu Kaifeng and yelling at Ophelia. His eyes were scarlet, and he threw the spear in his hand towards Lu Kaifeng.
It's just that he just made a move when his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
"Don't you even know that demons have magic patterns? How did such a guy become the captain of the patrol guard. Ophelia muttered, took the identity card picked up by Lu Kaifeng, and said dissatisfiedly: "It seems that it has to be really rectified." β
"Let's go, let's do the mission."
...
About 10 kilometers from the west gate of the city of Conteseno, you can see a village where the commission was issued.
The commission is to destroy the goblins.
It's weird. Generally speaking, monsters like goblins are the lowest level among Warcraft, and even if they live in groups, there will not be many of them, and they will not be very threatening to low-level adventurers. With good coordination and care, three Black Iron adventurers can wipe out a small tribe of more than a dozen goblins.
Due to the low level of danger, the task of destroying the goblins was completed by the adventurers of Black Iron. Occasionally, when the tribe is relatively large and the number of goblins is relatively large, the bronze level quest will be released.
Even for a Bronze-level mission, the number of Goblins would not exceed fifty or sixty, which was relatively easy for a five-person Bronze team.
However, this mission level is rarely designated as silver, and the rating is five stars.
When they asked the waiter, the reply they received was:
"This mission was originally only a five-star black iron-level mission, but there are several teams that have never returned after taking this mission, and there is even a five-person team of pure bronze-level adventurers."
"It stands to reason that even a five-star Black Iron mission is not enough to pose a threat to them, but in the end, like the rest of the team, they didn't come back."
So the union moved the task up to the five-star bronze mission. After that, two teams of pure bronze adventurers accepted this mission together, but the fifteen of them, all of them were the same as before, and they did not return. β
"Then the guild raised the mission level again. However, the general adventurers above the silver level will not take on this kind of task again, they think that their strength is easy to kill the goblin, so they disdain to do it. And in order to attract adventurers to do the task, the guild will raise the rank again and again. β
"It's going to end up that a mission to destroy goblins will be that high."
After hearing the explanation, Lu Kaifeng immediately said that he would take over this task. Based on years of experience in online games, there must be something hidden in a quirky mission like this, and maybe a huge conspiracy plan will be pulled out, and the epic quest chain will unfold, and then the player will gradually reach the top of the player in the rich rewards...
Ahem, digress...
Although this commission will not have a system to reward the next artifact or something, but this abnormal phenomenon alone is worth Lu Kaifeng to take a look at, maybe there is really something good to hide?
Ophelia was concerned about the safety of the village that had been harassed, so she did not object to Lu Kaifeng's proposal.
So the two of them took over the task and went straight to the entrusted place, intending to ask some information before making a decision.
After explaining their identities to the villagers on duty, they were soon taken to the village chief.
However, Ophelia did not reveal her identity as a princess, but only called herself an adventurer. And at home, the servants also let themselves call themselves eldest ladies instead of princesses, I don't know what the situation is.
Lu Kaifeng was a little curious, generally speaking, no one would refuse this identity. Could it be that there is some secret hidden in this?
Look at the time to gossip... Oh no, find out, maybe what's to gain. This is also a routine of the game's quests, but before that, let's complete this current one.