Chapter 28: The Undercurrent That Gradually Swells I
"Atasu, there's a guest coming."
“?”
In a swamp in the eastern part of the Dagger Forest, as the Crystal Beasts attacked the camp of Finn and the adventurers, a lizardman warrior with a spear in his hand dragged his large three-foot-long tail behind another lizardman who was stronger than him, and the other lizardman named Atasu then turned his head with a puzzled expression, and saw a figure familiar to him approach.
"Oh, Lezed, friends of the Green Paws, welcome to my tribe."
Atasu recognized the guest who had followed the lizardman warrior as a female Tieflin wearing a cloak and a hood.
The female Tieflin who came with the lizardman warrior was none other than the old witch Barthera.
The so-called Greenpaw is the name of the lizardmen tribe in the eastern part of the Dagger Jungle, with Atasu as its chief.
As for Lezed, it was the lizardman god of Ferdia, but it did not exist before the creation of the gods, but an acquired mortal god whose godhead rank was several orders lower than that of the owners of the dwelling of the gods.
But that doesn't stop the lizardfolk of the Fourth Age from believing in him.
After all, in the mythology of the lizardmen, Razed is a great hero, and there is nothing wrong with that.
"Atasu, Lord Versidis, has something to ask you." The old witch Buthera lifted the hood that covered her eyes a little, revealing a pair of large horns on her forehead, "Besides, your lingua franca is still so lame. ”
"Oh, don't worry too much, learning always takes a process." The chief of the Greenclaw tribe blinked the two withered yellow snake eyes on his head, and spat out the long tongue in his mouth in some embarrassment.
Although the lizardmen are not too closely related to the dragons, these six or seven feet tall and covered in blue-brown scales have grown up speaking dragon language since ancient times, and Atasu's ability to speak the lingua franca like the poetry performance of a demented person standing on a stage is not all his fault.
"But then again, U... Wei... Welch ......"
"Vercidis." The old witch watched speechlessly as the lizardman chief spelled out the Shadowlight Knight's name in awkward pronunciation. After a few seconds, I finally couldn't take it anymore, "You still speak dragon language, I have learned your native language and can understand it." ”
"Oh, that's a lot easier." Atasu raised his paw a little stupidly and scratched his head, "So...... Friends of Greenpaw. Can I and my people help you? ”
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"Huh... Ha... Call...... These beasts are really hard to deal with. ”
In the adventurer's camp deep in the forest, Leah gasped and steadied the silver sword in his hand, a bead of hot sweat slid down his forehead, which was hidden by his maroon hair.
All around him, Finn, Lilith, Camussa, and the Sideburns Adventure Regiment looked up to watch the dozen or so gray-sideburned wolves that had survived the battle flee back into the pitch-black bushes at the edge of the camp.
The campfire in the night lit up the bloody place, the corpses of the wolves that had been turned out of the entrails were scattered to the ground, several of the sideburns were slightly injured, and one of the badly wounded thieves was carried into the tent by the other adventurers, where the young doctor treated the wounds and bandages, and the outcome of the battle was not too bad because no one died.
"I don't know how you came up with the idea of a counteroffensive." Randolph hung his two-handed tomahawk back behind his back. He walked up to the young paladin and accosted, "But your approach worked, and I think I have to thank you on behalf of the Sideburns Adventure Party." Without you, I'm afraid some of us would die. ”
"You're welcome, Captain Randolph." Finn's shoulders rose and fell to the rhythm of his breathing.
He lowered his head and looked at the iron sword in his hand, which was already covered with wolf blood, exhaled a hot breath from his mouth, and then turned his head to the leader of the adventure group beside him and said, "All of you stay here first." ”
"What do you want to do?"
"Didn't you notice that one of my companions was missing?"
"The elf lady named Arya?"
"Yes." Finn nodded, "I'm going to find her now." Go alone. ”
With that, he turned his head around. He was going to go to Camussa, Lilith, Leah, and Sheen and repeat what he had just said to Randolph, in order to make sure that the people he knew didn't run around with their brains burning because he had started it.
Know that curiosity kills cats.
In the original concept of the Paladin Youth, there was not much to worry about in the low-level area of the Dagger Jungle, but the current situation obviously did not allow him to think so.
He feared that one of his companions and collaborators would die in this haunted place that had become dangerous.
Although the life and death of the Sideburns Adventure Group has little to do with him, he has hated witnessing the tragedy of innocent people being killed since he was a child. Whether in the game of the previous life or in the reality of this life.
So he wanted his fellow campers and adventurers to stay, and at the same time, he couldn't make himself not care about Arya, who had suddenly left the camp alone for some unknown reason a few minutes ago, so he made this compromise and risked all the risk on himself.
Finn turned and walked past Randolph's side towards the two young girls and a teenager who looked like a young girl.
That's when it happened. He felt his arm sink, and suddenly turned around to find Randolph holding a hand on his shoulder.
"Do you have any questions, Captain?" He looked back at Randolph with a puzzled expression.
Could it be that the other party is worried about himself?
"With all due respect, friend." Randolph also looked at Finn, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I suspect you're going to leave us behind to find the Holy Avengers, after all, you probably know where that weapon is hidden." ”
“……”
Well, it seems that I was making myself amorous. - he thought.
"So, do you want to take someone with me?" The young paladin asked the bald leader of the adventure group.
"It's safer than you going into the jungle alone, isn't it?" Randolph replied in a circle.
The meaning of this sentence is clearly that he still believes that Finn wants to find the rumored treasure.
Thinking about it carefully, the elf girl left the camp on her own initiative, maybe it was deliberately arranged by this young man. - The leader of the Sideburns Adventure Group speculated in his heart.
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Because I'm a little busy tomorrow, I'll have one less chapter tomorrow, but there will be one more chapter before one o'clock in the morning after twelve o'clock tonight, and the total number of updates won't change. (To be continued.) )