Chapter XVIII Escort Tribute
"Alan, you're wrong. We don't know if the team escorting the tribute www.biquge.info saw the dragon or not, but it is true that no one from the team that escorts the tribute into the mountain every year has ever come back alive. Within the Mercenary Guild, everyone said it was a mortal mission. Tens of thousands of mercenaries have died on escorting tribute for hundreds of years. ”
"If it's so dangerous, is anyone willing to go?"
Alan was shocked by this result, he did not expect that the great benefactor of the Gosas would sacrifice the lives of the mercenaries to the dragon.
"Of course no one wants to go, but this is a matter of the rise and fall of the Ogu family, and the Ogu family is our benefactor, we can't and have no right to refuse, so every year we can only recruit the dead in turn by several mercenary groups, although every year everyone hopes that someone will survive, but the miracle never happens. ”
Bloom said with a sigh.
"Which mercenary group will be the turn this year?"
"We, the Tigers. ”
"That's right! Big brother simply don't let the other brothers take over, just take over this task for me. ”
Alan thought for a while and said, anyway, he was going to see the dragon, so he simply took the task of escorting the tribute next, saving others from sending them to death.
"Alan, are you really going to die?"
Bloom asked, surprised.
"We must go, but it may not be necessary to die, and many people think that the original task of exterminating the Bolsma bandits was to send them to death, and the final result is that we have not come back safe and sound? ”
Alan replied calmly and confidently.
"What strength can you improve in more than half a year, Allen, are you kidding?"
Bloom couldn't help but retort that he couldn't figure out where Allen's confidence came from.
"When have I ever made such a joke?"
"Then you have to tell me the detailed reason, otherwise I won't help you, it's not that I don't believe you, it's that what you said is too outrageous. ”
"Well, I'll tell you!"
Alan was forced to put his mouth to Bloom's ear and whispered the secret of the Fountain of Life to Bloom.
"What! Do you really have that kind of thing?"
After listening to Allen's words, Bloom barely jumped up, his Adam's apple shook violently, and he looked at the boss in Alan's eyes, which were full of disbelief.
"It's still fake, look at this. ”
Looking at Bloom's eyes, which were about to fly out, Alan took out a small wooden bottle containing the diluted fountain of life water from his robe and handed it to Bloom.
Staring at the vial handed over, Bloom's eyes were as big as an egg, and the trembling muscles of his cheeks were full of incredulous taste, he licked his lips before carefully receiving it in his hand, looked at it carefully for a long time, and finally opened the cap of the bottle, sniffed the smell, and it took a long time to move his nose away, and his face was full of intoxicated expressions.
"I'll just say how could you have made such a decision, it turns out that you have such a divine object in your hands. ”
Although Bloom didn't know what the Fountain of Life should look like, he just sniffed it, and felt a vigorous vitality released along the mouth of the bottle, as if the bottle was not filled with a little liquid, but a forest full of life, this strange feeling was definitely not something that any other item could pretend to be, so the liquid in the vial could only be the Fountain of Life.
"This is just a dilution of the Fountain of Life, and pure Fountain of Life can't get so much. ”
Alan explained.
"The dilution is already amazing. ”
"Big brother, this matter is a secret, and it must not be known to others, understand?"
"Understood, understood!"
Bloom nodded repeatedly, he understood the value of the green liquid in front of him and the chain reaction that could be triggered, and Alan told him that out of trust in him, he must not divulge half a sentence:
"If this kind of artifact is really as magical as a legend, Alan, your plan is really feasible, I will negotiate with the head of the regiment later, and it should be no problem to take this task next, Harvey and Stanny are both one-in-a-million martial arts wizards, with the help of this kind of artifact, the future is simply limitless." ”
Bloom's tone was full of envy for Harvey and Stanny, these two boys were lucky enough to meet Allen, the magic swords of the two people had already made him salivate, and now with the help of the spring of life, I am afraid that I will be able to break through to the same realm as myself in a short time.
"Big brother, don't envy them, I believe that with your talent and current strength, with the help of the Spring of Life, it is not impossible to break through to the Great Swordsman. ”
"Even if I can see this kind of artifact with my own eyes, it is a life in vain, and I don't dare to have more extravagant hopes. ”
Bloom closed the cap and handed it back to Alan.
"This bottle of spring water has been given to the eldest brother. ”
Alan didn't take the vial.
"No, I can't afford such a precious thing. ”
Bloom's eyes lit up when he heard that Eren was going to give him the spring water, but he quickly regained his composure and shook his head in refusal.
"It's the reward for this trip up the Cullen Mountains. ”
Alan smiled as he looked at Bloom, whose gaze was always glued to the vial and couldn't take it off.
"Really, but it's a bit expensive. ”
As for the Fountain of Life, Bloom had only heard about it in some legendary novels, and he even doubted that such a thing really existed in this world, but he did not expect that he would one day have a bottle, albeit only a bottle of dilution.
"My eldest brother risked his life to accompany me to the Kulen Mountains, and such a small reward is nothing. ”
"Haha! Since you say that, you're welcome. I never thought my life was so valuable. ”
Bloom's face glowed red with excitement, and after carefully putting away the wooden bottle, he asked:
"Alan, how am I going to use this liquid?"
Since Alan said that the effect of this thing is unpredictable, it is obvious that there are high requirements for the method used.
"This bottle of liquid can be taken at most once, and then the energy in it will be used to digest the energy and stimulate one's own potential, as for how much effect it can have, it varies from person to person, I don't know. But when this bottle is gone, I still have it here. ”
"Okay, I see, I'll go back and taste the fetish. ”
With that, Bloom couldn't wait to leave.
"Steven, find me a separate room, and send the alchemy materials over, and then I may have to prepare for a period of retreat. ”
After sending Bloom away, Alan asked Steven to call him and instruct him that he no longer dared to refine and manipulate the magic array in the building, although with his ability, there would generally be no accidents, but he was afraid that in case, especially once the large magic array was out of control, the destructive power would be incalculable, and he was very worried about hurting the other people living in the building, so he asked Steven to clean up an independent warehouse in the backyard for his own use, although Steven didn't want him to move out, but at his insistence, he could only agree.