Chapter 22: The Hunt

A month later, Taruo, Blake and the others had cleared out at least five teams of water thieves. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info Blake, and they gradually became familiar with the work of bounty hunters, and formed a deep friendship with the bounty hunters present - after all, they also carried guns together. (on the battlefield)

"Taruo, Calradia hasn't been quiet lately." A merchant gestures to Taruo with a glass of wine in the inn. Taruo hesitated for a moment, and sat next to him with his own wine glass: "What? ”

"Do you remember the cult last time?"

Ta Ruo nodded solemnly: "Remember, what have they done recently?" ”

"Now they are all over the continent, attacking passers-by on the road, and tying them to the stake." The merchant said with trepidation, "Thanks to you saving me last time, otherwise I would have become a piece of pitch-black coke......

Taruo pondered for a while, and suddenly remembered the main quest that Ling Feng had told him a month ago—

[The dark Ones are about to move, and they are planning to perform a large number of sacrifices to pray for the arrival of the dark gods. 】

"I don't know if there's such a magical thing as a dark god, but in the end, let's stop the other party's actions." Ling Feng spoke after replying from the Three No Modes, "After all, it is our mission to fight against the dark forces. If the enemy is uncomfortable, we will be comfortable. ”

Taruo said that he could not agree more.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the square of Chanda. Taruo and the traveling merchant looked at each other and got up and walked to the square.

It took a full five minutes for Taruo to squeeze into the middle of the crowd, surrounded by mostly mercenaries and bounty hunters, and it looked like it must have something to do with Sheriff Harris's latest mission.

"Brother, what's going on up ahead?" Taruo looked at the dense human heads, and stabbed the mercenary on the side helplessly.

The mercenary glanced at Taruo and spoke, "Have you heard about the Dark Pilgrims lately?" Now they are wanted all over the continent. ”

"Oh!" Taruo raised an eyebrow, now there was a reason to run out to hunt the dark pilgrims.

That night, Taruo approached Blake: "Blake, do you know what happened in the square today?" "Clear." Blake took a sip of his wine, "What do you mean?" ”

Taruo smiled, sat down next to Blake, and beckoned Suke to a glass of wine: "You don't know what I mean?" When do we depart? Blake shook his head and replied, "Tomorrow." ”

Taro nodded, took the wine from Suke's hand, and drank it with Blake.

Suddenly, there was a sound of the harp, and Blake and Taruo turned their heads together, and a bard in a thick linen robe held his lute, and he began to sing:

"Far away on the Horn of the Continent,

The sparkle of the gem shines,

It was a gift from heaven,

That's the treasure of the world.

Ah, the shining light.

The knight longs for glory,

The King's Speech,

The five-colored gemstone is the best medal!

It's a pity that they are nowhere to be found,

Hidden on Calradia.

Ah, shining light,

As bright as the moon,

Like the tears of the legendary dragon! ”

Blake looked at the troubadour, and exclaimed as if he were excited and sighed: "O jewel of five colors...... I grew up listening to their fairy tales, but maybe they don't exist......"

"No, Blake." Micha on the side muttered, "People should always have some dreams, maybe even the legendary magic will exist......"

Taruo was silent for a moment, then asked, "Then why do you believe in the existence of these things?" ”

Mo Micha laughed: "My dream is to see these gems in person, touch them, and play with them!" ”

"Really......"

Taruo raised his glass and took a sip.

【Side quest triggered】

[Side Quest: Five-Colored Gems: Ancient legends do not come out of nowhere, and the five-colored gems are hiding in the shadows of Calradia, waiting for the destined brave to meet. Obviously, you're staying with the brave man right now. Look for the five gems of "Revelation of Fire", "Guidance of the Firmament", "Blessing of the Sea", "Guardian of the Earth", and "Inspiration of the Wind". 100 Resource Points are awarded for each gem found. Quest Complete Reward: Dragon's Tears Gem. 】

The corners of Taruo's mouth twitched: "Trust me Blake, those gems can't be ordinary ......" "Of course I know this......" Blake shook his cup depressedly, "How can one or two people want to believe in the existence of gems...... We're all adults already, okay? ”

Ling Feng smiled bitterly and said in his belly: Even the system god said that this gem is indeed something, and we people are not empty words.

"Ugh." Blake took a sip of the wine from his glass and got up to leave the table.

————I'm the dividing line the next day and a month later————

A month later, Taruo and Blake had eliminated nine teams of Dark Pilgrims.

Taruo looked at the makeshift camp on the plain, the figures of water thieves and dark pilgrims covering the entire plain, his black robes dangling from blood, and the traveling horses under him scarred, but still in good spirits, not at all like they had been through a great battle.

[Main Quest: Approaching Darkness, Completed]

[Resource Points: 2250 (+1500)]

【Main quest triggered】

After waiting for a long time, Taruo didn't hear the next notification from the system, so he turned his head and asked Ling Feng, "Did you bug the system again?" ”

Ling Feng waved his fist, revealing his little tiger teeth: "Am I the bug maker?!" ”

"Cut, I don't know who killed the system......'s AI in the first place," Taruo pouted, and then gasped because of the injuries on his body. The thieves actually smashed Taruo half to death with stones, and broke one of his ribs.

Taruo touched his staff, gathering his mana on his ribs. After spending a lot of mana (in fact, more mana was wasted in between), I was able to restore my ribs to their original state.

What the hell is that damn main quest? Why didn't there be any response for a long time......

"Enemy Attack !!!"

The sentry in charge of the guard screamed, and then fell to the ground in convulsions as he was shot through the neck by a whizzing arrow. Taruo turned his head and saw a human head in the distance—what looked like it had emerged from the woods beside the plains. The sharp-eyed Ling Feng even saw a few horses hidden in the woods.

"Retreat!!" Taro shouted, slapped the traveling horse's buttocks, and the horse neighed, leading Taruo out of the rain of arrows. The other bounty hunters threw down their loot and ran on their horses with their shields in one hand, but the five closed their eyes forever because of the enemy attack.

"Let's go!" Blake and Taruo quickly left the battlefield on horseback with the rest of the men.

Before leaving, Blake roughly counted the number of people on the opposite side, there were thirty or forty people, and Blake here is basically cavalry, although there is a fight, but after being raided, the morale cannot be raised at all, and if you have to fight, you will definitely not be able to fight.

"Anyway, get out of here first!" Taruo shouted, looking back at the light cavalry catching up, "Get out of the archers' range and finish them off!" ”

But the good times were short-lived, and they had only run a few hundred meters when a painful neighing was heard from the ranks - a horse's front legs sank straight into a pit in the ground, throwing one of the bounty hunters on its back.

The hunters exclaimed, "Trap! ”

Taruo's pupils shrank, and he shouted in his heart! The scientific name of this thing is called a trap, and digging a cylindrical trap with a diameter of about 10 centimeters in the ground can make a horse or human traveling at high speed suffer a big pain - due to inertia, a horse or human who steps into a trap will definitely break his calf.

This kind of trap can be mass-produced, and only a large cylindrical utensil is needed, which is pierced into the ground and then pulled out.

"Stop! It's all this trap ahead! ”

Taruo stops the others from trying to bypass the area (who knows how big it is), so everyone has to turn around and fight to the death with the pursuers who have come out of nowhere!