Chapter 19: A Journey to the Northlands
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The incident of the Shield Horn Cliff occurred in the middle of the night on a little-known day, and the huge movement and obvious tremor may have disturbed the sleep of a few residents near the foot of the mountain, but for the perception of the disturbed, it was probably just an unexpected natural disaster, and they would not have thought that the Earl of the Northland happened to be involved, let alone the Thorn Squad who were far away on the outskirts of Sword Castle at the same time.
Urs focused on the current operation, killing the entire gnoll cave without accident, cutting off the heads of many monsters to be brought back to the village as evidence, and rescuing three children from Merar Village who were fortunately still alive in the dungeon in the deep cave according to the clues provided by Raldak before his death, and by the way, he looted a magic laboratory set up in the cave by Raldak along the way, and handed over a lot of spell casting materials and several enchantment trap devices seized from it to Berelith and put them in the space ring and take them all.
Although Raldak is a half-mage, half-thief magician, in order to study magic, as long as the conditions are not too bad, the casters will generally build a private magic laboratory for themselves, from the small dilapidated utility room, to the grand mage tower, and even the arcane floating city of Castano in the first age of mythology.
After rescuing the children captured by the gnoll robbers and taking away a lot of loot from the tricker's magic laboratory, the young man made sure that the gnoll's cave had almost been swept clean by himself, so he joined up with Thea, Dorothy, the fire knight Karpasia, and the heroic knights of the Lion of Thorns, led by Shappel, to join the cave to end the maintenance of the summoned creatures, and return to Merar Village the same way they came.
The gnolls crisis in the countryside on the outskirts of Sword Castle has since been resolved. The villagers were surprised and delighted to see the group escorting back the children who had disappeared some time ago with the heads of monsters, and unanimously decided to hold a grand bonfire to entertain the triumphant heroes, so that everyone could stay in the village for a day of rest and wait until the day after tomorrow to embark on a new journey to the Northland.
In order to minimize the planned surprise, Urs declined the villagers' gratitude, and finally chose to leave the next morning with the merchants trapped in the village due to the Gnoll incident.
He took Thea, Bellelis, Dorothy, and the blessings of the villagers into an empty carriage distributed by the merchants, and he drove behind the merchants' convoy as a makeshift coachman, arranging for the wolf-eared girl, the little girl, and the warlock lady to sleep on the back board.
The air was slightly cool on the morning of the twentieth day of the harvest month, and the rear wheels of the carriage made two stretches of mud on the dirt road, and the bumps along the way shook like ripples on the surface of the lake, shaking slightly, and Dorothy's red hair that had fallen loose on the board after she lay down on her side, and Bellingeris...... Hmm, a string of saliva dripping from the corners of my mouth in my sleep.
I have to say that the future Miss Archmage sometimes sleeps really badly.
In contrast to Dorothy's baby-like conservative sideways sleeping position, Bellinglis's appearance is almost as "wide open" as Urs's fighting style. She sat down with her little head tilted, her back against the wooden railing on the edge of the car board to reveal a smirkling sleeping face, her two little short legs seemed to be split into a scissor-like shape without scruples, and the crooked neck made the corners of her smirking mouth dripping like an untightened faucet, and the culprit who lured this "faucet" to keep dripping No matter how you look at it, it should probably be a crockpot that she is holding into her arms with both hands at this moment, right?
The sycamore-colored jar was a gift from the merchants to the team, and the jar under the lid was full of honey.
Bellinglis, who clearly remembered Cotor's promise to make honey-pickled peaches for her, got two of the honey, the peaches, and the pickled container in one fell swoop, and couldn't help but look hungry in her dreams at the thought that she could try it as soon as she found the rest of the peaches.
The dwarf girl's innocent and optimistic lively personality always inadvertently reduces the stress of tension for everyone's journey.
Thea doesn't seem to have a very much need for sleep after her beast angel Asmo bloodline awakens to the point where she can complete the transformation of a giant wolf. She only rested for a moment, and then regained her spirit after a night of sleeper, and then sat down at the front of the carriage and turned her head to look back, and looked at Miss Warlock and the little girl with a meek smile in her amber eyes, and then let her eyes catch a certain outline at the end of the field of vision along the road that the wheels had run over, and could not help but sigh softly:
"The village is getting smaller and smaller in our eyes."
"After all, it's getting farther and farther away from us." Urs took the reins lightly and sat in the driver's seat and responded as a matter of course, "Why, reluctant to leave so soon?" ”
"No...... I just thought it would be nice if the villagers of Meral could show the smiles they had last night every day. The silver-haired, wolf-eared priest girl shook her head and turned her cheeks and gaze back to look ahead.
Her eyes were in the direction of the Empire's north, and the car in which she and the young man were riding was undoubtedly in front of a small group of merchant carriages that had been trapped in the village of Merar some time ago.
The merchant's carriage was heavier, the grinding marks under the wheels were deeper, and the goods carried protruded a few ridges of hard objects under the linen tied with ropes, and some of them were accompanied by the bumps of the carriage and the sound of metal colliding with them, which was a proof of trust to hear into the ears of Urs, so that the young man knew that these little merchants, who had escaped triumphantly by their own blessings, must have indeed not deceived themselves.
They are all equipment merchants, and they don't know how or how they learned about the recent need for armaments in the Northlands, so they plan to take this opportunity to go to the north of the empire to make some money - but unfortunately, small merchants are small merchants after all, and the weapons and armor they ship are all ordinary goods, even if there is no enchantment level of tabula rasa full-body armor is too expensive for them to consider risky goods.
Limited by the small merchants' business funds, Urs's idea of purchasing a set of full-body armor from them at a friendly price naturally fell through again.
He sat in the car and came back to his senses, looked down at the chain mail he was wearing, smiled helplessly, and said that the problem of armor should be found to take his time, if he is really anxious to replace it, it is a big deal to spend money to buy one more in the big city, anyway, he has already been very high with inhuman physique attributes with self-healing characteristics are still very resistant to beating......
In addition-
"Thea."
"Huh?"
Urs turned half of his face to the side, and his big rough hand suddenly rose to cover the girl's head, and his thick palm pressed the light silver hair and two fluffy white wolf ears and gently pressed on his legs.
Thea seemed slightly startled by the young man's impromptu move, and two white wolf ears twitched slightly on the top of her silver hair, but the startled reaction quickly turned into kitten-like submissiveness, so that she did not show resistance to the behavior of her loved one.
She closed her eyes, leaned over, and let Urs's hand push her head down and caress it.
Urs's large hand relaxed the pressure, and the four fingers other than the thumb interspersed a few shallow grooves between the light silver hair, and the touch of the fingertips reciprocated to the softness of the wolf's ears at the edges of the silver hair. He lowered his gaze sideways, the expression on his face reflected a kind of non-combat tenderness, and a little curiosity appeared under the gentle surface and asked, "Don't hide this time?" ”
"Don't hide." The corners of Thea's mouth turned up slightly, and her head lay on the side of the young man's lap and squinted her eyes.
"Didn't you use to be afraid of itching?"
"Actually, I'm scared now, but ......"
"But what?" Urs immediately understood the meaning of the girl's words, but a long-lost evil taste made him not hurry to continue, but continued to look at her half-bowed with a smile that was about to succeed in his mischief.
He looked at the girl's face lying on his lap, and his big hand stroking the silver hair and wolf ears consciously slowed down.
The silver-haired wolf-eared priest girl opened her eyes, her shy face flushed unconsciously after paying a little attention, and suddenly she couldn't help complaining in her heart about the young man's teasing, and after a while, she replied softly in a thin voice: "But...... Who makes you like it? Touching your ears or something......"
"Ahhhhhhh
"Huh?"
"I mean, I didn't hear it clearly, could I ask this beautiful lady pastor to repeat it again?" Urs grinned, laughed and blinked, the look on his face falling on the girl's eyes and suddenly stiffened.
Thea turned her head on her side on Urs's lap, her amber eyes looked upward, and she wanted to say what the wind had just now, but she immediately realized something, and then blushed and hurriedly raised her hand and hugged her head and sat up again-
"Stupid, stupid Urs! I have to inch in, and I won't touch you! ”
She covered her ears on the top of her head, and her head, silver hair, and wolf ears left the young man's legs like springs in an instant, and while turning her face away from the young man, she puffed out her cheeks slightly and shouted loudly as if she was angry, thinking that she was really trying to overcome her weakness of being afraid of itching in order to please this fool.
This stupid brute, stupid slave knight, if it weren't for himself, he would still be a stupid and illiterate fool and reckless......
Hum!
Urs saw the girl beside him cover her head and ears and turn her face away, and for a moment she didn't hold her mouth, and burst out laughing, and I really wanted to tell her that I was sorry, Miss Thea, and that your reaction was so cute.
Hahaha...... Oh really, sorry, it's so cute, it's so cute every time I'm teased, hahahahaha- uh?!
Ahh
I went, choked on saliva......
Ahem!
The young man grabbed the reins of the car with his left hand, and his right hand quickly took time out to slap his chest, and the smugness of a few seconds ago turned into a slight embarrassment.
Xia put down her hands, quietly moved back to half of her side face to observe Urs's embarrassed appearance, her flushed face suddenly forgot to hide her face and snickered as if she was angry, and then heard Bellingis's surprised voice suddenly come from the car behind herself and the young man-
"Brother Urs, Sister Thea, Sister Dorothy! Mr. Abel has sent a message, and there must be some good news for us from His Royal Highness the Prince! ”
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