CH.21 Recruitment
Duo'er was stunned when she heard this, and she couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence for a while. The patriarch immediately explained in detail, and Do'er realized that his mission was just to monitor An Rui and hunt monsters.
"Don't worry, patriarch, I will watch him well to prevent him from asking others for help." Dol swore by it.
"Well, I don't have to worry about you." The patriarch nodded.
This matter was settled.
An Rui held out his hand to Doer, the monitor, and said, "Nice cooperation. ”
Duo'er looked at An Rui's hand, but didn't hold it, and stretched a small face.
An Rui shrugged, but didn't care, and took his hand back.
The two of them set off for the forest that day, and An Rui was fully equipped and brought some extra food with him. Na Duo'er grew up in the forest since she was a child, and she is used to forest life, the forest is her home, and she doesn't need to prepare anything at all, even if she is bare-handed, she has a way to find food in the forest to fill her stomach.
Once in the forest, Anrui began to look around for the monsters, and in order to expand his vision, he released the bee glasses and let the little thing fly in the sky, acting as his third eye. At the same time, he also spreads his soul perception to the maximum, which can also help somewhat.
The area of this forest was very large, and he couldn't find any of the ten monsters after searching for a long time, but he did encounter many other kinds of monsters.
Duo'er, who was accompanying her, couldn't stand it anymore, and pointed to a footprint on the ground and said, "Do you see this footprint?" This is the footprint of the thunder monitor lizard, follow the footprints to find. Naturally, you will be able to find the Thunder Lizard. With an aimless search like yours, I don't know when I'll find the Thunder Lizard, and I don't have time to wander around this forest with you. ”
Only those who know these monsters well. In order to determine what kind of monster left these footprints on the ground.
Even if An Rui is very familiar with all kinds of monsters, he can't reach the point where he can judge the type of monster based on footprints alone. Do'er, the overseer, did him a small favor. He said thank you, followed the footprints, and after a long walk, he finally found a thunder monitor lizard.
This monster has a huge character in its name, and it is quite large. Counting the tail up to five yards long, it's almost a small dragon. Its skin is blue, and electric sparks are surging on it. There will be occasional flashes of electricity in the mouth.
The thunder monitor lizard's greatest ability is to release thunder and lightning.
An Rui was in good spirits, pulled out his twin swords, and without saying a word, jumped directly towards the Thunder Monitor Lizard. He was in mid-air. Slash down several swords downward. Unleash a storm flow skill.
Strangled against the wind!
The wind blades intertwined into a spiral-shaped shroud, enveloping the thunder monitor lizard, instantly tearing through the blue scales, causing the flesh below to explode with a little blood. The Thunder Lizard let out a scream and swooped forward, fleeing the Wind Blade's attack. It roared to the sky, pinpointing Anrui's attacker.
An Rui's blow was followed by another blow. Volleyed towards the Thunder monitor lizard, its body spun in a circle. A huge wind blade was slashed, more than ten yards wide!
Like an oversized kitchen knife, the Wind Blade slashed at the Thunder Dragon's head, which quickly dodged, but failed to dodge completely, and was struck in the tail by a blow. The man's tail, which was the thickness of his legs, flew up with blood, and landed not far away.
The thunder monitor lizard let out a terrible scream.
Duo'er stood on the tree, watching An Rui's battle, her eyes lit up slightly, and she muttered, "What a powerful sword!" ”
After the thunder monitor lizard was injured, it shook its injured tail vigorously, and with a sudden force, the severed limb quickly recovered and grew a new tail!
Ordinary lizards can be reborn with broken tails, let alone this kind of monster lizard. The Thunder Lizard's ability to regenerate its tail is far higher than that of an ordinary lizard, and it takes a few seconds to grow a completely new tail.
"Roar!" The thunder monitor lizard shook its head and tail in anger, and the lightning flashed all over its body, shooting out arcs of lightning. The arcs struck the surrounding trees, instantly breaking them off and igniting, causing a raging fire to ignite around them.
An Rui looked at the intact tail and thought it was very interesting, and slashed it with another sword.
In a flash of coldness, the monitor lizard's tail broke in two again.
The thunder monitor lizard was so painful that it was almost crying...... With tears in his eyes, he "squeezed" a new tail.
Tail docking and regeneration become a cycle, and Anrui cuts off the tail of the Thunder Lizard one after another, and the latter grows new tails one after another. After seven times in a row, the Thunder Lizard finally couldn't hold on.
"Hmm...... Hmmm......" The thunder monitor lizard made a sound similar to that of constipation, but it couldn't hold out its new tail, it just held out a small pink tail tip. The huge body with such a small tail tip looks particularly funny.
Anrui decided to be kind and stop playing the game of tail regeneration, and a heavy blow slashed over, cutting off the thunder monitor lizard's head. He put away a severed tail of the Thunder Lizard as a proof, and then extinguished the fire around it, so that it would not spread and plague the entire forest.
The strength that An Rui showed just now changed Doer's opinion of him, and Doer's attitude towards him obviously changed, and there was even a little more respect when he spoke.
The Tiger Stripes Tribe is a tribe that respects the strong.
"Let's shake hands again." Duo'er stretched out her small hand at An Rui, with many calluses and a few shallow scars on the palm.
An Rui grabbed Do'er's hand and shook it lightly.
For the next two days, Anrui and Duo'er traveled through the forest, sleeping in the open air, searching for those monsters. Every time you find the corresponding monster, it will trigger a fierce bloody battle. An Rui is strong and victorious, and finally killed these ten monsters and set out on his way home.
Tiger stripe tribe, patriarch's mansion.
"This is the stump and severed arm of those ten monsters, please take a look." An Rui opened the spatial package and threw out the stumps of the ten monsters.
Blood stained the ground red.
The patriarch's eyes widened at this, and then he looked at Duo'er next to him, and Duo'er nodded. It means that Anrui has always been fighting alone and has not relied on anyone's help.
The patriarch kept his promise.
"Anrui, you are a mighty warrior. The Tigerstripes Tribe is willing to follow you, as long as you're willing to give us some extra money. Halfway through the speech, the patriarch changed his words and showed a philistine smile.
Anrui's proof of his strength is only the first step in the cooperation between the two sides, and it is the premise of all cooperation, but it does not mean that as long as he is strong enough. The Tiger Stripes tribe will throw his head and spill blood for him, and in the end he will still have to give money. An Rui didn't expect the empty glove white wolf either, and immediately talked to the patriarch about cooperation. A detailed commission was set.
"Patriarch," Do'er interjected in the middle of the conversation, "I am willing to follow the strong." Anrui's strength is very strong. I want to go to sea with him! ”
The patriarch was reluctant to agree to this matter at first, because Duo'er was his right-hand man, but Duo'er insisted on it, and he finally had to compromise and agree to it.
An Rui knew Do'er's strength, and he was happy to recruit such a strong man under his command.
A few days later, the fleet left with a group of warriors from the Tiger Stripes tribe, who were very combative. Among them, there are some strong people who are level 10 or even higher, and they can be regarded as a group of new forces.
An Rui is still going to recruit troops next.
Red Continent. The headquarters of the Secret Rite Society.
This is a magical organization, not as large as the Academy of Tears of the Stars, with a total of dozens of members, of which a dozen are official wizards, and the rest are apprentices.
With Anrui's current power, he can only cooperate with this small force.
He approached the president of the Secret Rite Society and expressed his desire to hire these wizards to work for him.
"No, I'm not interested in your proposal, the Secret Rite Society is an organization with no ambitions, and it doesn't intend to get involved in disputes between various forces. The people of our society just want to study magic in peace, that's all. The president shook his head, his gaze still locked on the front, he had been looking ahead since An Rui came here, and his gaze had barely taken his eyes off.
In front of the president, there was a huge ball of yarn, from which hundreds of threads stretched out and wound around the spools. As soon as you turn the spool, the yarn ball and all the threads will move together.
Anrui knew that this yarn ball was called the "Thread Puzzle", which was left by an ancient person, and the content of the puzzle was to find the thread, which is the starting point of the whole yarn ball. Legend has it that whoever can find the thread of this yarn ball will become the king of a country in the future.
Ever since the president of the Secret Ritual Society got this riddle of threads, he has been trying to solve this puzzle, and he has spent a lot of effort on it, but he has not succeeded so far.
And this is the breakthrough point for Anrui to get the help of the Secret Instrument Society.
"Mr. President, I know you won't agree to me easily, so why don't we make a bet? If I can solve the puzzle in front of you and find the thread, you will take the Secret Ritual Society to fight with me in the north and south, and if I can't find the thread, I will immediately turn around and leave, and never bother you again. Anrui suggested.
"I've been looking at it for three years, but I still can't find the thread, how long are you going to spend finding it? I'm not going to give you too much time. The president looked at An Rui with contempt, he didn't believe that anyone could solve this puzzle casually.
"Don't worry, I don't need too long, one minute is enough."
"A minute?" The president smiled, "Okay, I'll give you a minute, it won't be long anyway." If you can't find the thread in a minute, just leave. ”
If An Rui proposed a gamble in other aspects, or set a long time for decryption, the president would definitely not agree. It was only this kind of gambling that could arouse his interest.
"Then it's decided, if I can solve this puzzle within a minute, you will take your wizards to my allegiance." Anrui reiterated this point.
The president took out a pocket watch from his bosom, shook it three times, and said, "I've started the timer." ”
Anrui nodded, and turned towards the riddle of the thread.
The president looked at An Rui's back with a smile, waiting for An Rui's failure. One minute is only enough to earn a few spools, and it is impossible to find the thread.
Under the watchful eye of the president, An Rui drew his bloodthirsty sword and slashed it over.
The puzzle of the thread, which has been inherited for hundreds of years, has been split in half, and the broken threads are scattered all over the ground, and a handful can be grabbed at a time, not to mention just one thread, even a hundred threads can be found.
"What!" The president stared widely, and he had always treated the riddle of the thread as a treasure. An Rui actually cut off the riddle of the thread in front of him! He was in a hurry and grabbed his staff, which was going to fight with Anrui.
"President. Rest assured, I think I've found the answer to the puzzle. An Rui leaned down and grabbed a handful of threads, "These are the threads you're looking for." Cutting through the mess with a quick knife is what it means. ”
The president was dumbfounded, looking at the thread in An Rui's hand dumbfounded, and it took a long time to come back to his senses. He slowly lowered the staff in his hand.
Anrui did find the thread. And with the simplest and most straightforward method.
"Original...... This is the answer to the riddle of the thread. The president said dryly.
Anrui won the gamble.
The president is a man of his word, and he took someone to clean up. A few days later, he boarded Anrui's ship. Since then, the Secret Ritual Society has become a vassal organization of the Overlord Chamber of Commerce.
Next, Anrui took the fleet to a place called Gunsmoke Island.
There is a group called the Gunsmoke Mercenary Regiment stationed on Gunsmoke Island, which is smaller than the Shadow Mercenary Regiment. Fees are also lower. The predecessor of the Gunsmoke Mercenary Regiment was the army of a small country. The regiment members are all former soldiers, well-trained, and relatively excellent. The small country was destroyed in the war, and the army lost its effectiveness, so it became a mercenary group and began to work for money.
Compared with the two groups of people An Rui found before, this group of mercenaries is easier to buy, as long as they give money. There is no need to take any tests. You don't have to solve any puzzles.
"Are you willing to die for money?" After finding the group of mercenaries, An Rui spilled a large handful of diamond coins on the ground.
He answered in the affirmative.
That's it. Through different methods, An Rui gathered three groups of people and injected them into the Overlord Chamber of Commerce. Absorbing these forces, at the beginning, will inevitably rub some sparks, and it will take a certain amount of time for these forces to merge into one and turn them into their own use.
He believed that sooner or later, these forces would be completely digested, so that these people would serve the Hegemon Chamber of Commerce wholeheartedly.
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At the same time as the Overlord Chamber of Commerce collected people everywhere and headed for Red Diamond Island, a coalition of pirates also set off for the legendary New World in a wolf-like manner.
The number of sailing ships of this group of pirates was as high as thirty, but the good and the bad were a little different, and there were all kinds of ships of all sizes, including special ships with full firepower, and ordinary ships that were fragile.
The flagship of this coalition is the Giant Whale of the Demon Soul Pirate Regiment, a large fish-man ship, made entirely of whale skeletons, filled with a large amount of fish bones and wood, which can dive forward or sail normally. On the deck of the Whale, several pirate captains gathered together, drinking and chatting about the voyage.
"Cruise, are you sure we'll find a new continent on this trip?" An eccentric man in a clown costume squints at Cruise with a wine glass in his hand.
Cruise, the leader of the Demon Pirate Band, was the inspiration for this operation.
"Don't worry. I'm 90% sure about this. In order to confirm this matter, I deliberately arrested several people from the Overlord Chamber of Commerce, and their confessions were similar, saying that there really was a new continent in the Endless Sea. And that new world was full of gold, silver, and jewelry. Cruise took a sip of wine and wiped his mouth, "When we get there, we're rich!" ”
"Okay. I believe you once. But there's still a problem......" said the clown again.
Before he could finish speaking, another winged "eagle man" snatched the conversation over.
The Hawkmen are a special race, and the number of races is very small, much smaller than the large races of Humans, Orcs, Elves, and Dwarves.
"Another problem is that the strength of the Overlord Chamber of Commerce is too strong, they have a lot of great achievements, and it is said that the president of the Overlord Chamber of Commerce is also a dragon warrior who can summon dragons from his body. If we go to the New World with great fanfare, we will definitely clash with the Overlord Chamber of Commerce, do you think we can win? Hawkman said scrimbly.
The clown nodded, and that's what he was going to say.
"I've thought about this problem and I've already found a solution. If we go head-to-head with the Overlord Chamber of Commerce, it will be really difficult for us to win, and even if we win, it is estimated that we will lose a lot of money, and we will definitely lose the lives of many brothers. As for cooperating with the Overlord Chamber of Commerce, it's not realistic, we are pirates, they are maritime merchants, and we have never seen wolves and sheep cooperate. ”
Cruise laughed and said happily, "Fortunately, I heard an important news, that Anrui is now rushing to Red Diamond Island with people after buying Red Diamond Island. Red Diamond Island is the opposite of the New World, and we will definitely be able to reach the New World before he does, as long as we move fast enough to avoid Anrui and not have to confront him head-on. ”
"That's really good news." The Eagle Man nodded in agreement, "But the Overlord Chamber of Commerce is not the only one in the Overlord Chamber of Commerce, he must still have a lot of people in the New World." ”
"Those people don't have to be afraid at all, they can't all be as good as Anrui. Moreover, the area of the continent is so large, the probability of us encountering the Overlord Chamber of Commerce is not high. Cruise raised his glass, "Let's be optimistic." I wish us all the best on our trip and a full return. ”
"Smooth sailing, full load." The Hawkman echoed and raised his glass.
"Smooth sailing!"
"Loaded back!"
The rest of the pirate leaders also raised their glasses and shouted.
The wine glasses of several people clashed together, making a crisp sound.
An alliance of more than thirty ships sails rapidly towards the New World, and what awaits them is both opportunity and danger. (To be continued......)