Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Bandits of the Wilderness
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The door to Gretel's inn was pushed open, and Green and Sakia walked in.
Since it was dinner time, the restaurant on the first floor of the inn was bustling with some guests eating.
"Ah, guest, you're back." The hostess of the inn greeted Green with a smile, "Have you had dinner?" ”
"Not yet." Green glanced around the restaurant, "What about the three ladies with me?" ”
"They should be in the room."
Greene: "Well, thank you. ”
"Guest, are you eating?" The innkeeper asked.
"Hmm...... Wait a minute. ”
Green walked upstairs and knocked on the room next to him.
"Knock knock~"
"Who?" Shivina's voice came from the room.
Greene: "It's me. Have you eaten? Let's go down to dinner together? ”
"Ahh It's the voice of the prophet! The door of the room suddenly opened, and Arya got out of it and threw herself into Grimm's arms, "Prophet Arya is hungry~"
"Alright, alright, Arya, let's go down to dinner." Green touched the little girl's head.
"Green, are you done?" Shivina also stepped out.
"It's done, let's get out of here in a carriage early tomorrow morning."
He led everyone down to have dinner and rested for the night.
The next morning, when the sky was just beginning to lighten, Green and his party got up en masse and came to a street not far from the hotel.
On the street, eight wagons are parked there, forming a small convoy, waiting for the time to leave.
Green took a few tickets and walked towards the convoy: "Hello, we are passengers who are departing with the convoy today, and this is our ticket." ”
"Oh~ let me see." One of the coachmen looked at Green's ticket and said, "You should take the carriage in the back." ”
Greene: "Okay, thank you. ”
Green walked over to a carriage carrying passengers, handed the ticket to the coachman, and climbed into the carriage with his companions.
There are two types of carriages in the convoy, one is a cloak carriage for carrying goods, and the other is a passenger carriage in which Grimm and his party ride. Although it is a horse-drawn carriage carrying passengers, the roof of the carriage is also loaded with a lot of things.
Wild trips are not safe, so some small chambers of commerce usually form teams and then spend money together to hire adventurers or mercenaries to escort the convoys. In addition, they will also accept requests from ordinary passengers to ride - although the price is not cheap, the food and safety along the way are all taken care of by the fleet.
Not long after Grimm and his party climbed into the carriage, it was time to leave.
"It's time to go! It's time to go! ”
With a burst of shouting, the wheels of the carriage "gurgled" and turned, driving the carriage slowly forward.
Green looked out the window in a daze, and Arya lay on her mother's arms in a daze.
The carriage swayed "squeak~squeak~" through the city gates, through the fields, through the fields, into a barren hill.
"Huh?" Green stared into the distance.
Green's perception is as high as 25 points, which allows him to see very far away in the open field. On the endless loess hills, Green seemed to see a puff of dust flying in the distance, as if something was running this way.
"Something seems to be running its way to us. Sakia, can you see what those things are? Green asked Sakia.
Shakia's perception attribute is even higher than Green's.
"There seems to be a group of ...... Birds, chocobos, and a flock of people riding chocobos are rushing this way. ”
Hearing Shakia's words, Green raised his eyebrows and hurriedly said to the coachman driving the carriage in front: "Hey! It's not good, it looks like a group of people riding landing birds are rushing this way! ”
"Riding a landingbird?" The coachman was startled when he heard Green's words, "Is it a robber?" Where is it? ”
"Over there." Green pointed in one direction.
"That'...... Side? The coachman squinted and looked in the direction Green pointed. After looking at it for a while, the driver finally realized that something was wrong.
"It seems like there's really some smoke...... It does look like something is running this way. ”
Green squinted into the distance.
Dare to make a move against such a large convoy, and the attackers will certainly not be too weak. But in Green's view, this is a good thing - Green is not afraid of fighting, but if he has no experience after fighting, it is maddening.
At this moment, the rest of the convoy also seemed to notice that something was wrong.
"There's something wrong with that, those people don't look like good people." An adventurer jumped out of the carriage and said, "Stop!" Fence off the wagon and get ready to fend off the enemy! ”
After a brief panic, the coachmen quickly took control of the carriage and formed a circle.
"Adventurers, please!" The driver said to a group of people in the convoy.
With the sound of the coachman, six adventurers, armed with weapons, stepped out of the convoy.
"Leave it to us!" The adventurers said confidently.
This is an elite adventuring squad consisting of three Silver Warriors, a Silver Archer, a Mage Apprentice, and a Probationary Priest, and the enemy ......
"Thirty-one people in all." Sakia reported the exact number to Green.
"What about strength?"
"It's too far away to see clearly."
“…… Notice how many of the enemies are extraordinary. Green commanded Shakia.
If there were no supernatural powerhouses among the enemies, Green would not be able to gain experience even if he made a move, and six elite adventurers would be enough to deal with them. If there is an extraordinary strong person among them...... In order to avoid scaring the other party away, Green felt that he should also wait until the other party showed his head before making a move.
As the enemy got closer and closer, Shaqiya finally saw the enemy's strength clearly: "Master, there are two transcendents, and the rest are ordinary people. ”
"Oh, got it." A hint of disappointment couldn't help but appear on Green's face, "Is there only two of them?" ”
After all, the transcendent is not a cabbage, there are many ways to make money, there are very few transcendental people who are willing to be robbers, and even fewer are willing to go to the bandit group to be a "little brother". Therefore, it is quite remarkable that two extraordinary powerhouses can appear in a small bandit group like this.
"There is only one transcendent among the enemies, and the others are ordinary people!" An adventurer stands on the roof of the carriage and reports the results of the investigation to his companions.
"Oh! Show the robbers how good we are! A fighter who is nearly two meters tall said with high morale.
4 Transcendents VS 1 Transcendent + 30 Ordinary Bandits, although they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, but not so in terms of strength.
If you are in a state of siege, then 1 transcendent will feel very difficult against 5 black irons, but if it is such an organized and cooperative situation, 1 transcendent has a great chance of winning even against ten times the black iron! What's more, there are many merchants and passengers behind the adventurers, although they are all ordinary people, but if it really comes to a moment of crisis, they are still a force to be reckoned with.
However, hearing the conversation of the adventurers, Green's eyes narrowed slightly: "...... It seems that there is an extraordinary powerhouse who hides his strength. ”
The soul of the transcendent is highly integrated with the body, so most people distinguish between the transcendent and the mortal through the light of the soul on the surface of the skin. If the transcendent person takes his soul power back into his body, he can hide his strength to a certain extent, but there is also a flaw in doing so, that is, he will lose the resistance bonus of the silver level, and at the same time, his "extraordinary attributes" will also decline to a certain extent. As a result, few people do this, except for assassins and thieves.
However, although the risk of concealing strength is high, if it is successfully sneak attacked, it can also bring great benefits.
Green couldn't help but glance at the adventurers' situation: "It feels like these adventurers are going to capsize in the gutter." ”
"Green, I'll go down and help them too." Shivina suggested.
"No, wait." Green stopped Shivina, "Don't scare the enemy away. ”
The carriage was surrounded by endless wilderness, and there was no hiding place except for the convoy in front of him. And the enemy is riding chocobos, and the speed is definitely much faster than these horses pulling the carts, so they will definitely not be able to escape, so they can only stay put! Not only that, but since the surrounding wilderness meant that if the enemy wanted to escape, it would be difficult for Green to keep them as long as they rode on a chocobo.
As a player, Green saw no reason to let go of the experience.
Looking at the experience points outside, Green ducked into the carriage and said to Sakia and Shivena, "Hide and don't let the robbers find you." ”
Shakia's presence became even more indifferent.
Shivina seemed a little unhappy, but eventually obeyed Green's orders and hid by the car window.
"Misleading!"
Green cast a misleading spell on himself to hide the magical aura on his body - the soul light of the transcendent warrior usually only covers the surface of the skin, but the soul light of the transcendent mage spreads out from the body, thus bringing the space around the body into the control of the soul. If the mage advances to the Golden Rank, a small "field" will form around the body!
Therefore, if a mage is just hiding behind a plank, he will not be able to hide himself completely.
After using the "Misleading Technique" to conceal his magical aura, Green also lurked, waiting for the opportunity.
Soon, those who rode the landing birds approached the convoy and dispersed around it, and then surrounded it.
"Who are you?" The leader of the convoy spoke.
However, the men did not speak, but only looked at the convoy with a grin, like a wolf watching its prey.
"Tsk! It seems that he has encountered a robber. The leader of the convoy pulled out his weapon from his waist, "Everyone cheered up, it looked like they weren't going to let us go." ”
The businessmen and drivers who were hiding in the convoy pulled out their weapons. Although the merchants were not as skilled as the adventurers in combat, they were not without resistance.
However, to everyone's surprise, the robbers did not attack the convoy, but surrounded it and stared at it from a distance.
The robbers rode the Landing Bird and stood at a distance, neither attacking nor leaving, and just like that, they were in a stalemate with the convoy.
The attitude of the robbers made everyone feel a little uneasy.
"Not good! Are they waiting for reinforcements!? A businessman couldn't help but speak.
"This ...... It's unlikely, right? "Robbers will also have reinforcements?
The attitude of the robbers also made Green feel a little unusual.
"That's not right! Something is wrong! Green couldn't help frowning, "It's not going to do them any good if it drags on like this." ”
If it is a powerful demonic beast, it may exhaust the prey strength through harassment, and finally launch a fatal blow! But that situation is clearly not suitable for the moment. The robbers rode the landing birds, while the merchants and adventurers hid in the wagons, and it was clear that the robbers had a higher physical exertion than the people in the wagons.
Green couldn't help but hide and cast an eagle eye spell to observe his surroundings from high in the air.
It is surrounded by endless wilderness with occasional views of rolling hills.
Suddenly, Green noticed a puff of smoke coming in the distance! It was too far away for Green to see what was beneath the smoke, but it felt a bit like a large group of centaurs running.
Are there really reinforcements!?
Green's mood couldn't help but tense.
"Such a big smoke...... To say the least, there must be hundreds of people! ”
Are you kidding!? That's too much, isn't it? How can there be so many robbers here!?
Green couldn't help but reach out and touch the potion on his waist...... Although he didn't understand why there were so many robbers, Green felt that if he dragged it any longer, he would get away with it.
“…… Forget it, don't be greedy. ”
Green cast a "misleading spell" on the carriage to prevent the people outside from discovering the anomaly in the carriage when he cast a spell in the carriage.
"Shakia, I'm going to get ready to cast a spell. Help me keep an eye on the outside and notify me immediately if the enemy starts attacking. ”
"Yes, master."
Green took out the little yellow book and began to cast a spell: "Summon dragon creatures!" ”
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Summon a dragon creature (Tier 2, Blue Dragon)
Mana Cost: 32
Cast Time: 10 minutes
Effect: Summons a Level 22 Blue Dragon to serve you for 20 minutes.
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It is a ritual spell that takes up to 10 minutes to cast and has an extremely powerful magical reaction.
Green had just started casting spells, and the concentration of magic around him instantly increased!
The powerful concentration of magic began to gather around Green, and at the same time, a magic array visible to the naked eye appeared at Green's feet.
As the spell progressed, the mana concentration became higher and higher, and by the time the spell had been carried out for a minute, the misleading spell applied to the carriage could no longer conceal this powerful magical reaction!
The magic visible to the naked eye began to converge on the carriage, and the entire carriage was surrounded by visible magical brilliance! At this time, even ordinary people noticed that something was wrong.
"This is ......"