Chapter 22: The Oath
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After removing her cloak, Darius paused, "Then before I treat you, can you discuss our compensation?" ”
A playful smile appeared on Andrea's delicate face, and her pink red lips hooked an arc, full of fatal allure: "It's worthy of a soldier in Noxus, what a realistic guy, what do you want, wealth?" I've kept a lot of gold in the basement of the manor in the west of Annor, and I can give it all to you, and I guarantee you won't earn that much in ten years in the Legion. ”
"Or do you want status? Although we have no involvement in the military, I can promise you that if you want to make a living after leaving the army, I can introduce you to the city-states of the southern provinces as sheriffs. ”
The wounded Andrea's voice seemed a little languid, but the soft and glutinous voice was quite nice, and Darius said to her: "Lady Andrea, although your reward is good, to me these things are like clouds in the sky, and they have no meaning. The war is about to begin, and who can say what will happen next? What you said, I have to have my life to enjoy. ”
"Then what do you want, just say it."
Darius stretched out his finger with a serious face, pointed at Andrea who was lying down, and said word by word: "I need you, Andrea." ”
Andrea was stunned for a moment, and then two blush quickly covered her face, which was a little pale from blood loss, her black eyebrows rose upside down, and her voice became sharp: "You are playing with fire!" Darius, greed is the greatest original sin of mankind, do you really think I have no power to resist? Don't underestimate the means of a shadow walker. ”
Darius's expression didn't change, and he shook his head, "I'm afraid you've misunderstood me, ma'am." Your beauty is fascinating, but I'm not a fool of the brains, I need you as a shadowwalker, not as a woman. We're stationed here to monitor the lizardmen's movements, and if we have a shadow walker as a helper, then the safety of our entire team will be greatly guaranteed. ”
The anger on Andrea's face subsided a little, and her deep blue eyes looked at Darius suspiciously, as if they were about to penetrate people's hearts, "Impossible, I still have important things to do, how can I have time to be your helper." ”
"Nothing is more important in this world than life, Lady Andrea, I save your life, you protect mine, it's fair."
Andrea thought about it for a moment, then whispered, "Ten days." ”
"A month."
"Impossible, fifteen days at most."
Andrea thought that Darius would continue to bargain, but she didn't expect him to suddenly show a sly smile: "Deal." ”
Seeing that Andrea was a little puzzled, Darius explained: "Actually, I didn't think about asking you to do much, but I just subconsciously felt that it would be much safer to have a shadow walker next to me, and it was possible that in less than fifteen days, the comrades who changed the guard would come over, and then our transaction would be over." ”
"Ma'am, please make an oath to Goddess Nona, forgive me for being cautious, after all, when you recover, our whole team will not be able to do anything about you."
Oaths have a kind of moral binding force for people, as long as they are not capricious villains, ordinary people will not easily break their oaths, especially in a world like Valoran, which has gods, and the binding force of the oath will not only be reflected in the moral level.
Powerful spellcasters may be able to deceive other people or even other gods, but they can't deceive the most just gods of approval, especially since Nona, the goddess of judgment, is also in charge of the priesthood of death. Anyone who dares to break his oath in the presence of Nona will definitely be judged by Nona after death, and that tragic end is definitely something that no one wants to face.
Andrea stretched out the middle and forefinger of her left hand, took the rest of her fingers, put them on her chest, and read in a solemn tone: "In the name of Nona, the goddess of justice and divine judgment, and the ancient spirits and gods as witnesses, I, Andrea Katia Oleg of the Shadow Walker, will keep my promise to the person in front of me, and do my best to guard him until the end of the appointed day." ”
The sacred oath came out of Andrea's mouth, and the words began to emerge in the air as if they had substance, and a gentle but firm force descended from the sky into the small tent, and in a trance it seemed that Darius saw a huge thread of law running through the canopy into the vast starry sky from here, and when Andrea finished reading, these illusions slowly disappeared.
Darius knew that the oath was made under the witness of the gods.
The sound of the hot water coming in brought Darius back to reality from the sight, and he motioned for West to put the hot water down, and once again drove the resentful West out.
Even though Darius had a will of steel, his hands trembled when he took off a girl's clothes for the first time in his life, especially such a beautiful girl.
He placed his hand on Andrea's neckline, then unscrewed the metal clasps one by one, and the leather armor, which consisted of two parts, the front and back, was detached.
Andrea was terribly silent, but fortunately Noxus did not have the cruel concept of etiquette like feudal society, so she quietly watched Darius and let him strip her of her shackles.
The woman's beautiful upper body was exposed in front of Darius like this, with round doubles ~ breasts, slender waist, and fair skin, all of which broke into his eyes without concealment, facing the delicate body as white as snow and flowers in front of him, Darius felt a little dizzy, just like the feeling after riding the roller coaster for the first time, but he knew in his heart that this was just an illusion, and now his body would not necessarily be like this even if he rode the roller coaster ten times, it was just a psychological reaction.
Trying to distract himself by trying to distract himself from the science he had learned in high school, he picked up Andrea and helped her roll over, turning her injured back up. Then Darius saw a shocking wound extending from her shoulder blade to near the left side of her lower back, and the muscles near the wound were already stained with black blood, like a line of ink stained on white rice paper.
Darius picked up a towel from the hot water, cleaned her back briefly, and then picked up a sanitized knife.
"Madam, your wound is not an ordinary cut, the flesh near the wound has been corroded, I must cut off these carrion, and then apply medicine, although the medicine has the effect of relieving pain, but it will hurt a little with a knife, I hope you can endure it."
Andrea, who had been silent for a long time, said "um", which was a response to him.
So Darius faced the terrible wound and began his work.