"Mr. Finn, this elven lady's name is Arya, and she is the silver-level adventurer looking for a partner."

"Arya, this is Mr. Finn, and those two over there are his companions Lilith and Arroyo."

After a while, Ina returned to the lobby on the first floor with a girl who looked to be about Lilith's age, introduced the girl named Arya to Finn, and then went back to the front desk to continue some business.

"Hello, my name is Finn." Finn turned and looked squarely at an elven girl named Arya.

The elven girl was about a hundred and sixty centimeters tall, wearing a tan leather armor jacket on her upper body, a pair of scimitars and a pair of crossbows hanging from her belt, and a giant crossbow about the height of her body on her back.

She had a few strands of light blonde mid-length hair tied in a simple crisp ponytail with ribbons on the back of her head, a pair of elven pointed ears on either side of her head, and two beautiful emerald green eyes that looked at Fain with interest.

"Are you the rookie adventurer that Ina said she was talking about? Not...... It's still a paladin. Arya's gaze quickly moved over Finn, and she soon saw the paladin badge that Finn was wearing on his chest, "But then again, Anderson Beast Hitomi isn't a guy to mess with, was that villain really killed by you and your two companions?" I'm a little skeptical. ”

As she spoke, Arya turned her eyes slightly and glanced at Lilith and Arroyo, who were sitting on the side.

"We ended him with our own hands." Finn spread his hands and admitted, "If you don't believe me, you can assume that I paid for that head." According to the words of the merchants, wealth is also part of strength. ”

"Hehe, I thought all paladins were wooden-headed, but I didn't expect you to talk quite funny." Arya looked into Finn's eyes and smiled, "Okay, I've heard from Ina about you. Now, let's get down to business. ”

With that, Arya turned around and walked to the bulletin board on the side of the hall, removed a to-do list from it, and then walked over to Arroyo and Lilith, and pressed the to-do list on the wooden table with a "snap".

"Well, this is the task I want to receive." She said.

After Arya slapped the to-do list on the table, Arroyo, who was sitting at the round table, immediately lowered her head and looked at the contents of the list.

"The undead event in the Merol Pits?" Arroyo glanced at the title of the to-do list and subconsciously pronounced the name of the title.

"Melol Pit?" Hearing Arroyo's words, Finn also walked quickly to the wooden table, leaned down to check the contents of the list, and found that the name of the task was very familiar.

He remembered the task.

The Melol Pit is an underground mining site located northeast of Aurorawind City, and a gold vein is buried deep in the cavern, which is the main source of Aurorawin's gold resources.

However, the Merore Mine is ostensibly a gold mining site under the jurisdiction of Dawnwind City, but in fact, it was secretly infiltrated by the forces of the Dark Alliance half a year ago, and the deepest part of the pit has long since become a catacomb of wandering undead creatures.

The name of the catacomb, as it is called, is an early quest suitable for players below level 10 to team up to challenge.

"According to the list of tasks, the miners of the Melol pit seem to have found moving skeletons in the pit, so they guessed that there were undead creatures hiding in the depths of the pit, and stopped all mining operations in the pit." Arya stretched out her finger and swiped a few key sentences from the checklist to explain to Finn, Lilith, and Arroyo, "Undead creatures tend to be generally skewed towards evil, and they are usually overtly hostile to all living creatures in the non-evil camp. Due to the lack of clarity on the types of undead in the depths of the mines, the Adventurers' Guild has been classifying them as silver-level missions since receiving commissions from the mines. ”

"Simply put, the Merol pit is haunted, right?" Arroyo frowned, then outlined.

"That's right." Arya nodded, "Since this quest belongs to the silver level, according to the rules of the Adventurer Association, as a silver-level adventurer, I can team up with you and receive this task as the captain." Mr. Finn, the undead have always been your paladins' old enemies, and I don't think your weapons will be merciful to those skeletons, right? ”

With that, Arya raised her eyes to look at Finn, and raised an eyebrow at Finn.

"Of course not." Finn smiled and replied, "I'm willing to accept your invitation. Arroyo, Lilith, do you two have any questions? ”

"Don't worry, sir." Arroyo confidently patted Finn's chest, "Where you dare to go, why should I not dare to go?" ”

"I don't have a problem either." Compared to Arroyo, Lilith's answer was very simple and her tone was calm.

……

After discussing the time of departure with Arya, Finn asked Lilith to go back to the Brewery Tavern to rest, and then went to the armor store in the city with Arroyo to buy a protective chain mail and leather armor for himself and Arroyo, and then went to the magic shop and the grocery store to buy some adventure items.

After finishing the preparations for the adventure, Finn didn't do anything more, but chose to rest for the day.

Early the next morning, the four of them assembled in the Adventurers' Guild and took a horse-drawn carriage to the Melol Pits, where they finally arrived at their destination by noon.

The Merlor Mine is located in a grove on the outskirts of Aurora. When the carriage arrived at the entrance to the pit, Arya, Finn, Arroyo, and Lilith jumped lightly from the carriage to the surface, and found a middle-aged uncle with a stubble on his face and several miner-looking men waiting for them for a long time at a lift at the entrance of the pit.

"You're the adventure party sent by the Adventurers' Guild, right?" The middle-aged uncle with the beard Lazar stepped forward, looked at Fain and the others and asked, "I'm the person in charge here, Jefferson, and the Adventurers' Association has already sent someone to inform me yesterday evening." ”

"Hello, Uncle Jefferson, I'm Arya, an adventurer belonging to the Dawnwind Adventurers' Guild, and these three are my companions." Arya stepped forward and kindly extended her hand to Uncle Jefferson.

"Oh, it's Miss Arya. One of the few silver-level adventurers in Dawnwind City, I've heard your name. Jefferson was overjoyed and hurriedly shook Arya's hand, "But then again, your team members, counting you, are there only four of you?" ”

"Just the four of us." Arya smiled confidently.

"Oh, they're all young people......" Jefferson glanced distrustfully at the group behind Arya, "Forget it... Come with me, those skeletons are deep in this pit. ”

After speaking, the uncle in charge turned around and lifted an oil lamp, instructed several other miners to guard around the pit mouth, and then waved his hand to signal Fein and the others to step on the elevator platform with him.

After Arya, Finn, Arroyo, and Lilith were all standing on the lift platform, Jefferson reminded the group to stand still, and then expertly pulled down the lever of the lift, and the group sank into the underground pit along with the lift platform.

After about a minute of descending from the elevator platform, Finn's image finally changed from the vertical shaft wall where the elevator was running into a pitch-black underground cavern.

Through dark vision, Finn can easily see his surroundings.

After the elevator stopped, he followed Jefferson down the elevator level, and found that there were many traces of artificial mining in the cave.

"Is this a haunted place? It's so dark. Dressed in leather armor that he had bought from the city yesterday, Arroyo held up a crystal stone that glowed pale silver in his hand, whispered a grumbling, and then walked down the elevator after Finn.

The glowing crystal in Arroyo's hand is a cheap magic item called it.

In the game setting of Ferdia, the visual of creatures is divided into three types: , and .

Arya's race is an elf, and she only needs a little light to see her surroundings. Finn and Lilith are ostensibly human, but in reality, they don't know which clan they inherited some of their bloodline, and both have more practical than that.

Arroyo, on the other hand, was an ordinary human who lost his vision when he ran out of light, so Finn asked him to go to a magic shop in Aurorwind City to buy a glowing stone for lighting before he set out.

Illuminated by Jefferson's oil lamp and Arroyo's glowing stone, Jefferson led the way at the front of the line with the lamp, quickly leading Finn and his party into an artificial tunnel dug with miniature explosives.

After a few minutes, Jefferson counted the time, relying on the light of an oil lamp to find a notch mark on a tunnel wall in the corner of his eye, then stopped, and turned to face Arya, Finn, Arroyo, and Lilith.

"I'm so sorry, but I can only take you here." Jefferson shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "The tunnel we dug seems to connect to a terrible place. I've just found the mark I left on this rock face a few days ago, and from here you can get to the place where my co-workers and I found the skeleton. ”

"Understood." Arya looked at Jefferson and said, "Leave the rest to us, and we'll definitely investigate the cause of the undead." ”

"Well, then I'll trouble you." Jefferson nodded at Arya.

Suddenly, as soon as Jefferson and Arya's conversation ended, Finn blinked and saw several dark green fires in the distant darkness behind Jefferson, and five skeletons with soul fire burning in their eye sockets jolted into his field of vision from the depths of the tunnel.

Four of the five skeletons each held a rusty sword and a worn-out log shield, while the remaining skeleton held a short bow.

The skeleton with the short bow took an arrow from the quiver hanging from his waist, placed it on the bowstring, and the two bony hands awkwardly pulled the short bow, and the dry fingers that were gripping the bowstring loosened.

The arrow then came out in the direction of the back of Jefferson's head!

"Danger!" Finn yelled, kicked his feet and immediately pounced on Jefferson, reaching out to push the uncle in charge to the side.

However, after pushing Jefferson away from the trajectory of the arrow, Arroyo, who was standing in the same straight line as Jefferson, was suddenly exposed to the arrow again.

Arroyo has a limited field of vision and is slightly slower to react.

At that moment, Finn noticed that Arroyo had not had time to dodge, and hurriedly turned around and tripped him over his ankle with a kick.

"Wow!" Arroyo screamed and sat on the ground.

The arrow then flew over Arroyo's head with a "whoosh", and then slammed into a rock wall behind Arroyo, and flew to the side with a "ding".