The rain still hangs over Minato, and it is getting worse and stronger.

The spire of the Belle Cru City Hall stands lonely in the dark night sky, the rain is like a myriad of steel needles striking it to the point of crumbling, and the three hands on the clock wheel are still turning slowly and dutifully in a clockwise direction, but in fact they have lost the meaning of timekeeping.

At least for now, it seems like this.

The town hall of Azur Harbor is located just north of the town, not too far from the port area, and you can hardly expect pirates to run around this conspicuous structure to raid other places, so it didn't take long for the city to be caught in a sudden battle.

Monroe was the lord of Aurorola, and instead of his usual office and nobleman, Monroe was the lord of Aurora, and he stood at the top of a staircase on the first floor of the Azur Harbor City Hall, holding a spear he had picked up from the corpses of the guards, and an elven maiden in his hand.

"City Lord, quick, let's retreat to the second floor." The elven girl held the hilt of a scimitar in her right hand and a small light crossbow in her left hand, staring vigilantly at the main entrance of the first floor of the town hall.

If Finn were here at this time, he would have discovered that the elven girl with the sword and crossbow was none other than Arya, who had teamed up with him in the Merol Mines some time ago.

The day before, Finn had invited her to the Adventurers' Guild in Dawnwind City, and the reason she refused was because she had received an invitation from Monroe that afternoon, promising Monroe and three other silver-tier adventurers to secretly serve as the lord's personal guard during the mission.

Redbeard Jackson had become very peaceful for the two months prior to tonight, which gave Monroe the illusion that this was an opportunity to negotiate with Jackson, so he traveled to Porto Azur on a business trip escorted by a small group of guards and four silver-level adventurers.

However, tonight's battle completely shattered the naïve delusions of the city lord.

Zhao'an? That heinous Captain Misty Isles?

Save it, that's impossible, unless your heart is as cruel and evil as that person!

Monroe's guards had died in the battle against the pirates, and Arya was the only one left of the four silver-level adventurers who protected him. The old lord of Dawne, who had used his wisdom to make outstanding contributions to the development of Dawnwind over the years, was now almost remorseful for his idiot-like foolish thoughts.

"Arya, am I old?" In the middle of the night, the old city lord used the spear in his hand as a crutch to prop himself on the marble floor tiles of the town hall, and looked at the elf girl beside him with a tired face, and the look in his pupils was as gloomy as death.

"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Arya raised her crossbow, and a magical arrow with attributes flew towards the head of a pirate at the main entrance of the town hall, smashing the pirate's head into several pieces of ice on the spot.

After shooting the hapless pirate minions, Arya saw the other pirates continue to pour in droves from outside the town hall trampling the corpses of the guards into the building, so she grabbed Monroe's wrist and turned and ran down the stairs to the second floor of the town hall.

Monroe is old, but the lord of Aurorroze has served in the army when he was young, so his physical strength can barely keep up with the pace of battle.

The old city lord in armor and spear followed the elf girl down the stairs at his feet and quickly ran up to the platform on the second floor. After confirming that Monroe had made it to the second floor with her, Arya immediately hung her scimitar and crossbow back on the belt around her waist, and then untied her exaggerated crossbow from behind her and aimed it at the valuable wooden staircase that connected the first and second floors of the town hall.

Redbeard's pirates were already climbing up the stairs at a rapid pace, but Arya pulled the trigger of the crossbow faster than they did, activating her specialty to create a massive arrow the thickness of her arm, and firing it instantly.

The magical properties attached to the giant arrow, it was burned with a thick flame made of magical power, like a powerful bomb crashed into the stairway, turning the entire staircase and the pirates above into a sea of fire.

The rustling of rain continued to be heard outside the windows of the town hall, but the staircase that Arya had struck with a giant magic arrow continued to crackle, and it didn't take long for the pirates above to let out a heart-rending scream in unison and fall from mid-air along with the half of the staircase that had been burned by the flames.

"Whew...... It's finally safe for the time being. After seeing the only passage from the first floor to the second floor destroyed by herself, the elven girl was relieved to prop up the giant crossbow on the ground with one hand, and wiped the sweat from her forehead with the other hand, "But staying on this is not a solution, I must protect the city lord to break through from here." ”

Muttering to herself, Arya hung the crossbow back behind her back, then re-removed her usual scimitar and crossbow from either side of her belt, intending to walk to the window to take a look at the outside of the town hall.

At this moment, Monroe's pain-filled voice once again came into her ears from behind her.

She heard the tired, self-reproachful voice apologize to her, "I'm sorry, Arya. ”

"It's all my fault...... If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have died, and you wouldn't have been where you are now. ”

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault......"

As he spoke, the old city lord shuddered slightly from remorse. He leaned against the spear in his hand and stood with his head bowed, a few drops of crystal water spoaching intermittently from the corners of his wrinkled eyes, and then dripping in a thin straight line through the air to his feet.

Arya looked back at the poor old man, and felt very uncomfortable.

"It's not your fault, my lord." The kind-hearted elf girl just wanted to comfort the old city lord, but she immediately didn't know what to say next.

After all, strictly speaking, Monroe is indeed responsible for the current tragic situation, but Arya can't bear to use this fact to further blow Monroe's already fragile heart.

She wanted to cheer up the lord in front of her, who had led Akewind City all the way up, and planned to make up a white lie to deceive the latter, but found that she was so stupid that she couldn't even make up a lie for a while.

Her blood comes from the Far South Forest, a distant forest kingdom where countless noble and artistically gifted elves live, and she is one of the very few artistic idiots.

It is often said that elves are born bards, but this word of praise is purely equivalent to farting when applied to Arya.

So, after thinking for a long time, the elf girl raised her hand and patted her light golden ponytail tied behind her head, and finally walked up to the old city lord and gently lifted the latter's face, and a pair of beautiful emerald green eyes looked at him and said, "All in all, it's not your fault, my lord. The culprit for all this is Redbeard Jackson, so... So ......"

Suddenly, as she continued to weave comforting words in her mind, several voices that sent chills down her spine suddenly reached her elven ears.

Arya was the first to hear the strange voice, and Monro was then aware of the movement.

The elven girl and the old city lord looked at the row of guardrails at the edge of the platform on the second floor, and immediately found that more than a dozen hook ropes had been hung up from the first floor of the city hall in a short instant.

The pirates hung the iron hook at the end of the rope from the railing on the second floor, and a group of people climbed up the rope with the back of the scimitar in their mouths, a continuous and uninterrupted set of movements as if they had used this method to board ships and kill people in naval battles.

Arya raised her crossbow to aim at the hook on one of the ropes, but after a quick mental time, she realized that she didn't have time to shoot all the hooks before the pirates could climb up.

The elven girl gritted her teeth and immediately took two steps back and grabbed Monroe's wrist again.

She said to Monroe, "My lord, let's flee to the rooftop!" ”

As soon as she spoke, she ran down the corridor on the second floor of the town hall towards the staircase overhead, and Monroe was a little too quick to keep up with her, and nearly fell several times on the way to escape.

Eventually, as a dozen pirates on the first floor of the town hall climbed up to the platform on the second floor along the hook rope, Arya also took Monroe's hand to the staircase leading to the top of the town hall.

The two sides looked at each other through a straight hallway, and Arya looked back at the group of bandits who had taken their scimitars from their mouths, raised her crossbow and fired an arrow at them, and then continued to run up the stairs with Monroe beside her.

The elven girl's arrow drew a decreasing parabola on the way to the pirates, and landed on the carpet of the corridor. Arya's choice of attributes for the magic arrow was that the small arrow immediately ignited the red carpet in the corridor, forming a small wall of fire in front of the pirates.

"Damn, that abominable female elf can enchant her arrows!"

"The son of a bitch, we have to find another way to get around?"

The pirates stomped their feet angrily at the wall of fire blocking them, but at this moment, a strange scolding voice came from behind the group, and scolded them: "What are you panicking, don't you see me here? ”

"Lord Mogordo?" A dozen pirates turned their heads to look behind them, and saw a hunchbacked man in a cloak and robe walking with a wooden staff, and their faces were full of joy.

The hunchbacked man named Mogodo came to the small wall of fire, he grinned sinisterly, and then the wooden staff with his finger stretched out cast a spell on the wall of fire, and the wall of fire in front of him was instantly extinguished as if he had received some kind of indisobedient command.

"Keep chasing, that female elf meets the captain's requirements." Mogodo raised his chin and looked viciously at the stairs leading to the top of the town hall, "They can get to the rooftop, I don't believe they can escape to the sky!" ”

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Thanks to the 10 starting coins rewarded by [Nianren, Heart] book friends.

Fourth, I feel that the writing is not very good, and I plan to push the rewrite and send it out later.