Chapter 496: Let's Draw the Sword in the Stone

"Looking at Xu Mo's expression, I think you probably misunderstood." Seeing the embarrassment on my face, Lucario smiled and waved his hand, explaining, "A lot of people have always thought that adventurers are looking for opportunities that are usually obtained by exploring ruins, going to the ruins left behind by a legendary hero, and so on, but that's not the case."

"After all, there is a danger in adventure, and if you think about it subconsciously, you will naturally think that every journey of adventurers will be full of excitement and thrill." I indirectly admit that I am unfamiliar with the life of adventurers, and it is better not to do such stupid things when I meet an adventure veteran like Lucario, who doesn't know how to pretend to understand.

"It's not wrong to think like this, and that's what is written in all the adventure books on the market." Lucario scratched his cheeks, with a slight embarrassment in his expression: "Let's not talk about myself, the brave is originally a high-level transfer of adventurers, and the thinking of high risk and high reward has been ingrained in the academy as early as when he was a student of the academy, because the strength conditions for becoming a lone brave are even higher than the level of being a high-level adventurer, so when he thinks that there is no problem of lack of ability, the brave generally runs towards the most dangerous place before his brain reacts...... That's why the protagonists of adventure stories like to choose the Brave class, because we can't sit idle, and basically every adventure doesn't take too long from the last one."

Following the logic of Lucario's words, I deduced, "Then what determines the greatest difference between a brave and an adventurer is the frequency of adventure?"

"Nope. Strictly speaking, it's not frequency, it's intensity." Lucario shook his head and said, "From a realistic point of view. Ordinary adventurers participate in adventures just to survive, so the time they take on the mission is not even much different from that of the brave, but most of the tasks they participate in are small missions such as hunting and breeding monsters, or guarding caravans, although there are bound to be risks on the way to the mission, but it will be compared to the behavior of the brave who often challenge the local forces alone, or form a group to find trouble with large monsters in person. Naturally, the level of thrill cannot be compared."

"That's the difference between a normal person and a hero."

sighed with emotion, what I insisted on saying was actually the former's thinking, and it was only because of the position of the demon king that I rushed the duck to the shelf.

"Don't talk about these things. What about the opportunity you just mentioned, which seems to be more like a trip than an adventure?"

"That's a long story." Lucario muttered, as if in the information the Order now had, and nodded his head at the end. Succinctly, he said, "Explain it in the shortest way possible. This seat in the border village has recently found a weapon that seems to be left behind by a legendary swordsman, and half of this weapon has been inserted into the stone seat, and the stone seat is engraved with a message that as long as the sword can be pulled out of the stone seat, you can obtain the legendary swordsman's lifelong swordsmanship inheritance."

I narrowed my eyes and asked, "I don't know the legendary swordsman, but in the past records, does the legendary swordsman have anything to do with the current border village?"

"It doesn't matter. However, considering the situation that the legendary swordsman failed to challenge the dragon species and was seriously injured and retired, he evaporated from the world. It can't be completely ruled out that he chose to leave a sword inheritance here." Lucario rubbed his temples with a headache: "The goal of a lonely person is such a trouble, because basically you can't get accurate information about the other party through other people's mouths, not to mention that this legendary swordsman has been dead for more than five hundred years......

More than 500 years, not to mention humans and orcs who have a lifespan of only about 100 years, even special monsters and elves with a long life, this is already a long time.

"In other words, the adventurers who come here are all in pursuit of that rare possibility, right?" After a pause, I added, "Even if I know that the source is quite unreliable."

"This part of Xu Mo, you are wrong again." Lucario laughed and told the information he had, "The news of the whereabouts of the legendary swordsman's inheritance weapon was actually spread a month ago, and the location of the stone seat where the weapon was placed was excavated before the news was completely spread, which is quite incommensurate with the name of the legendary swordsman, the place where the stone seat is located is just a stone chamber opened up with sword qi near the village, and it only takes half a day to walk from here to the location of the stone chamber."

"A stone chamber carved out with sword energy? It doesn't sound like an exaggeration even if the space is large, but is this inheritance test as simple as pulling out the sword?"

Lucario nodded in confirmation of my guess: "Yes, regardless of origin and strength, anyone who is the first to pull the sword out of the stone seat will be able to obtain the inheritance of the legendary swordsman, and there is no other trial content, the only thing to do is to go outside the stone room, buy a challenge ticket with the local villagers on duty at the ticket booth, and then you can enter the stone room to try the challenge, but because of the large number of adventurers who challenge, you have to queue for a long time before the challenge."

"The trial site is used by the local people as a museum that requires a ticket to enter, assuming that this sword is really left by the legendary swordsman, I am afraid that it will not be a hundred years before the inheritance weapon he kindly left behind will be used like this, which makes the style of the entire inheritance much lower......" I was speechless, and truly confided my inner feelings, and the actions I wanted to take later: "By the way, if I were to take over, I would simply open a square near the stone chamber, And let the local people be stationed as mobile vendors, specializing in selling water, drinks, and all kinds of snacks, after all, you just said that you have to queue for a long time, and with such a convenient existence as mobile vendors, you will definitely pay for it while waiting for boredom."

Lucario first looked at me with a strange look, and then said, "You actually thought of this in the first place, I think you might as well change your career and become a businessman."

Realizing that I had a problem with my thoughts, I coughed dryly, "Ahem, let's not talk about that, so the next thing we have to do is go to the stone chamber and draw the sword in the stone?"

"Yes, and given Katie's taunting skills and your sister's presence, we'd better get the mission done as soon as possible while one of them is unconscious and the other is preoccupied with something else." (To be continued......)

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