Chapter 12: The Sideburns Adventure Party
After completing the ritual of advancing to the Shadow Knight, Finn chatted with Versidis about his future plans.
The new knight, who had just completed his career advancement, was cautious and did not share the information of the Obsidian Codex with the older generation of Shadowlight Knights, but he did tell Vercidis about his thoughts on the Violet Kingdom, his predictions about the Dark Alliance, and some of the dogmatic ideas of the Templar Church.
Vercidis expressed his approval of many of Finn's ideas, but of course the leader of the Shadow Knights' secret party could not have known that the other party's charm attribute that had been strengthened to 24 points by the 'Inheritance and Revelation' talent had inadvertently affected his impression of the young man, and that what the young man in front of him had just said to him was nothing more than a gourd drawing a gourd based on the memories of his previous life.
The young paladin and the older generation of the Shadow Knight had a good time together, but the thought of having to travel through the dagger forest to the northern Scorpion Valley with Lilith, Arya, and Camussa early tomorrow morning, Finn had to say goodbye to the middle-aged knight who had presided over the advance ceremony for him, and then left the small monastery hiding in the dagger forest and rushed back to the adventurers' guild in the logging village.
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It was already early in the morning, and considering his current 21-point physique attributes, Finn was not too worried about his lack of sleep, so he calmly stretched out his hand and pushed open the main entrance of the Adventurers' Guild from the small monastery where Vercidis was secluded all the way back to the Logging Village.
He pushed open the door of the room and entered the hall on the first floor of the association, thinking about something that might need attention in the dagger forest, when he suddenly heard a noise from the hall that looked like several people gathering together.
The voice of the person made him raise his head and subconsciously glanced into the room of the association hall, in addition to finding that the uncle standing behind the front desk of the association during the day had been replaced by another person in charge of the association on night duty, he also saw several familiar figures arguing with a dozen other unfamiliar faces around a log table.
The familiar figures were Lilith, Arya, Camusha, and the young doctor Sheen and the paladin Pseudo-Nyalia that he had met during the day, and the other dozen or so unfamiliar faces seemed to be members of a team of adventurers.
A bald man who looked like the head of the regiment sat on a stool in front of the table with a heavy two-handed tomahawk on his back, his elbow against the table to support his chin, looking at the young doctor and the elf lady sitting across the table and chattering towards him.
A young paladin named Leah stood behind Sheen and Arya, unable to interject. Camussa was now standing with her hands folded next to the members of the adventure party behind the bald man, listening to the quarrel that had not ended for a long time, and only Lilith was left to stand expressionless and watch them out of the twenty or so, as if the black-haired warlock girl was just a passerby who had accidentally walked on the wrong set.
"What's going on?" Fein immediately walked through the door of the guild hall to the crowd.
He had thought that what he had just heard was nothing more than the bragging of some adventurers who had stayed up late drinking and drinking, but now it seemed that this was not the case at all.
As he uttered a question, and walked briskly to the table, people he knew and those he didn't knew turned to look at him in unison, and Arya stood up angrily and told him the situation: "This party of adventure has come to us at night, and will come with us no matter what." ”
Fein was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the bald man sitting on the stool, and then heard the bald man look at him with a smile on his face as if his face had changed, and said, "Hello." Friend, we are adventurers of the Sideburns Adventure Group, my name is Randolph, and I am the leader of this adventure group. You don't have to worry about our strength, I can responsibly assure you that the average strength of our team is definitely above the Silver level. Combining our strength with your intelligence, finding the Holy Avenger is a matter of skill for all of us. ”
Finn's brow furrowed slightly, and he looked at the bald man with a hint of questioning.
In the middle of the night, he looked at Camusha, who was standing with her hands crossed over and standing beside the adventurers. He looked back at Arya at the other end of the table, and for a moment he seemed to have guessed something, so he turned his eyes to the dark elf girl who had only officially joined his team since the battle of Hulengel and asked, "You promised them?" ”
"Of course." Camussa and Finn looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders with a look of course. "Isn't it good that someone is willing to walk with us?"
"But this could well cost you, and a group of people, your lives!" The young doctor named Sheehan also stood up with Arya at this time, and strongly objected, "I am a doctor. The beasts in the jungle have been very wrong lately, and I won't allow you to be irresponsible for your own lives! ”
"Then you can try to believe in Liv, the goddess of life, the responsible doctor." Camussa dealt with him as if she were a child.
Sheehan shuddered. Momentary aphasia.
"But even so, why don't you consult with us?" In the next second, Arya immediately stared at Camussa again and continued to question, "Why are you making your own decisions?" ”
In this regard, the dark elf girl still maintained her cynical attitude: "Lilith is too reserved, you are too timid, isn't discussing with you equivalent to letting go of this opportunity for nothing?" ”
"You-!"
Miss Elf looked really angry, and suddenly opened her two emerald green pupils in extreme dissatisfaction and glared at Camussa, and at the same time raised her slap and slapped the table, but the words in her mouth were stuck in her throat for a moment and couldn't get out.
The two pairs of eyes of the elf lady and the dark elf girl seemed to collide with two invisible currents, and the young paladin who had just finished advancing to the Shadow Radiant Knight profession and rushed all the way back from the Crypt looked at such a scene with a little headache, and after a few seconds, he walked up to Arya's side and patted her on the shoulder to let her dissipate her breath first.
Then he shifted his gaze back to the bald man named Randolph and asked, "What did you just say to combine the two of us?" ”
"Our strength." The leader of the Sideburns Adventure Regiment looked proud, "And, your information. ”
"What information do you think we have?" The young paladin sat down and looked at the man.
"What information do you have, Miss Paladin—"
"Yes sir!" Leah stressed loudly.
"Ahem, sir—this Paladin has already told us." Randolph cleared his throat in embarrassment, then spread his hands to Leah as if the master of ceremonies were introducing guests. (To be continued.) )