Chapter Ninety-Eight: Brethe
Opening the passage to Breisser, Alan expected that they would be greeted by a bustling city or a few heavily armed soldiers, all of which he guessed correctly, but the first thing that caught his eye was a few pairs of crossbow arrows with arrows on them!
The cold edge was close to Allen and the others, this arrow made of Nadek steel was very sharp and deadly, and if it was shot down like this, it could shoot through Allen's skull.
The incident happened suddenly, and Allen's eyes widened and he wanted to fight back, but he didn't dare to move because of the arrows that pointed straight at him.
He believed that if he moved and provoked an attack, the iron arrow in front of him would explode instantly before he could draw his weapon or cast a spell, and then pierce his head!
Because gifting skills is not completely instantaneous, it still needs simple guidance.
The thoughts in his heart were spinning rapidly, the beating of his heart involuntarily accelerated a lot, and the noise around him was spontaneously ignored by him.
The others were also in the same situation, the Andrew brothers didn't seem to have much reaction at this time, but just stood there, and the Amis father and son were a little stunned, probably frightened, but fortunately they didn't scream, so as not to be ashamed.
Looking at the state of his group from the corner of his eye, Allen's heart was a little heavy, and it seemed that everyone was helpless about it?
Then, just as he pondered how to get out of the situation in front of him, the voice of the bald head Andrew came from his side: "Two capable warriors duel one-on-one," the Grand Lord said as he stood up, his scaly skin soaking up the sunlight. "Armed with equipment that suits their nature. ”
This sentence was a bit inexplicable, but it was quite effective, and the crossbow bolt in front of Allen and his party was slightly lowered because of this.
"Sounds good, has the competition begun?"
"It's going to be an extremely glamorous show!"
It seemed that this was a code, and after Andrew's back and forth, the crossbow bolts were finally lowered from Alan's face, and several soldiers in standard leather armor immediately came into view.
Like the kind of ordinary militiaman, with his hair disheveled and sloppy, and the sharp-eyed Allen even saw a little dark red on the collar of the soldier in front of him;
"I can't believe I was almost killed by a sloppy militiaman. ”
Walking down the streets of Breisser, Alan touched his forehead, still feeling palpitations.
After Andrew finished saying those codes, the soldiers briefly checked a few words and let them go, which didn't last long, but Alan felt like a world away.
After a long aristocratic career, he has not faced such a situation of being completely controlled by life and death for a long time, especially this kind of powerless ordinary person.
In this situation just now, if he wants to fight back, there is still a certain chance of escaping the danger, but the chance is not large, when the arrow made of Nadek steel is pointed at his forehead, all the spells he has mastered seem to be useless, and what can have an effect is still negotiation.
"The wilderness is not like the territory, an ordinary person can kill me if he is in a corresponding situation, do they want to tell me this?"
Sighing and annoyed, Alan looked at Brother Andrew. This kind of interrogation seems to be a routine here, but the Andrew brothers did not explain it in advance, and directly caught Alan off guard.
It was hard for him not to suspect that Brother Andrew had deliberately not told him, but when he looked at them, he suddenly wavered in his thoughts.
He hadn't noticed the others because he was meditating before, but now he looked at them and found that the two guys seemed to have been caught in a quarrel, which attracted the attention of others.
"Forgetting is forgetting, why can't I forget? It's not a big deal, do I need to remember it so deeply?"
"You almost started at that time, how could you forget?"
"I've been doing it for a long time, how can I remember this time, didn't you say that you were so frightened that your face turned white and you almost didn't beg for mercy?
"Nonsense, when did I almost beg for mercy?"
"Hah, you haven't begged for mercy?
"Each other, you idiot!"
"Yes, yes, my brother is an idiot!
“.......”
stared at the quarrel between the two brothers for a long time, and Alan couldn't tell whether the two bald heads were really arguing or pretending to be like this, and couldn't help but be a little speechless.
"Or maybe they wanted to pretend and ended up with a real fire?"
Thinking of this, he was a little ridiculous, and his anger dissipated a lot unconsciously.
If they were disguised, then the situation that the group was facing just now must have been deliberate, and they wanted to teach Eren a lesson? There was no motive for this, although it was his father's subordinates, Alan didn't snub them much.
Or is it a lesson in another sense? a reminder? a blow to the head? Let him be vigilant at all times and not be careless?
It didn't seem possible, and he believed that guy would have thought of doing it if it had been Tyron, but Brother Andrew...
If it's not disguise, then they really forgot, or ignored.
In short, no matter what, things have happened and passed, and Alan doesn't intend to delve into them after pondering for a moment.
After all, it really gave himself a reminder that he seemed to be less vigilant?
"Every danger is the first to be discovered by the guards, is that really the reason for experience?"
Asked himself rhetorically, but Alan couldn't get an answer. But I hid this question deep in my heart, and my eyes when I looked at my surroundings were not as casual as I had been at the beginning.
The quarrel between the two brothers did not last long, and they did not go far after coming out of the Braider entrance inspection site, so the sound of the quarrel attracted two soldiers.
The Andrew brothers also seem to have an inexplicable awe of this place, or are they following the rules, in short, the child's play between the two is over.
And only then did they begin to make their official journey.
Although Breser is an underground city, the light is not very dim, but very bright, walking here, the cracks in the walls of the stone shops on both sides of the road are faintly visible, it seems that there are some insects living in it, and the tiny figures are shuttling and moving from it, bringing the shadows of the gaps to sway, clearly visible.
Overhead was a large black stone rock, on which the inverted triangles resembled stalactites glittered, and the light here was emitted from these regularly distributed stalactites, and Alan observed this for a while, and the material inside seemed to be all huge pieces of luminous stones?
There were few pedestrians at the entrance, but as they went deeper, more and more figures appeared in front of them on this wide road paved with bluestone paved roads. Heavily armed soldiers, adventurers dressed in different costumes, and hawkers who look like ordinary people.
"Sir, do you need supplies? The food in our workshop in Crooked Horn Mountain is good and cheap, and if your weapon needs maintenance, you can also leave it to us, and it only costs 10 silver coins to make your weapon shine sharper. ”
This is a vendor who came to the front of him when passing by a store, a delicate-looking, thin ordinary person, about the same age as Allen, and seemed to be a skilled salesman.
Alan and his party were indeed here for the supply of horses and the hiring of thugs, so Alan was quite interested, but Andrew patted his arm from the side, so Alan nodded silently and declined the peddler.
The vendor was slightly disappointed, but instead of dwelling, he looked at the others who had walked here and continued to sell.
"This kind of active promotion is generally not a good choice, and the store with good things does not need to be promoted at all, and customers will take the initiative to come to the door in an endless stream. ”
Andrew imparted lessons to Allen about this.
"Is there any difference between good and bad goods?"
Andrew scratched his head and thought about it, and said: "Well, the main reason is that the price is different, and secondly, weapon maintenance is not a simple manual work, it requires strong skills, and poor maintenance will only make the weapon more and more dull, which ordinary people can't see." ”
Nodding, Alan listened silently.
"Secondly, some vendors will also sell deceptive food, such as black bread, which is not worth much at all, but there will also be people mixed with fishy wheat flour, which is a dregs that Beagles don't eat, although the taste is similar, but eating it will hurt your stomach. ”
"And then the price was more expensive, once I had a ..... with Andre"
Andrew gushed about some of his experiences about the place to Allen, and it seemed a lot more serious to teach by word and deed.
In the end, he smacked his lips and summed up a sentence: "I know a store with a good conscience, but it's not on this main street, come with me, we'll go there now, and then go to the mercenary bazaar to hire mercenaries." ”
"Okay. "Allen, who doesn't know anything about this, doesn't have any objections, and no one else will.
So the group turned left and right under the leadership of Andrew, and turned away from the main road, turned to a place that I don't know where, and then, after a while, Alan suddenly found that they were lost....