To the northwest of the city of Sardinia is a hilly and undulating land. At the end of the horizon, you can see a lonely mountain range, which winds and turns, and the peaks are separated by each other to form a valley, which is the Valley of the Dead, known as the Empire. The Valley of the Dead is perennially dense and foggy, and from the sky, the valley is almost shrouded in a cloud of gray-white mist, and only some scattered shadow outlines can be faintly seen.

There is only one road from the Valley of the Dead to the city of Sardinia, the name of which is no longer remembered, and it is now known only as the Death Beginning. It's a fitting name, and since the Empire opened the Blood King's Graveyard, the mortality rate in the Valley of the Dead has remained high. Once you set foot on the road to the Valley of the Dead, you are undoubtedly standing at the beginning of the road to death.

Even so, every year, countless teams of adventurers flock to the Blood King's Graveyard, exchanging their blood and even their lives for every step of the way into the Blood King's Graveyard. There is a very famous saying in the Blood King's Graveyard: whether you are a brave man or a coward, only those who survive to the end here are the real victors.

It's the most common phrase on the lips of every adventurer who goes to the Blood King's Graveyard, and as long as you go and return, you can become a hero in your own circle, whether you have anything to gain from the graveyard or not.

Pass through the Death Beginning and arrive at the Valley of the Dead. You will find that the Hell Mountain, where the cemetery is located, is surrounded by a circle of military camps, and every adventurer who enters the Blood King's Graveyard must pass through this military camp, which is the Thornhorn Deer Legion in the Jade Buck Army, which is led by the twenty-seventh-level general Iron King Gangde, who is responsible for monitoring the Blood King's Graveyard. The army guarding and monitoring the cemetery changes every three years, and this year is the last year that the Hornhorned Deer Army has guarded the cemetery.

Past the camp where the Thornhorn Deer Army is located, you will see the entrance of Hell Mountain to the Blood King's graveyard. The first 10 floors of the Blood King's Graveyard are now public spaces, especially the 1st to 5th floors, which are where the Empire's supply points for adventurers are located. There are also a variety of shops, blacksmiths, auction houses, and other places for adventurers. In addition to this, there is also a field hospital opened by the Empire on the first floor of the cemetery. Unfortunately, since the opening of this hospital, the mortality rate in the cemetery has not decreased much.

After all, now that the adventurers have entered the cemetery under the tenth floor to explore, once there is danger in those unknown areas, it is often fatal, and few injured people can return to the first floor to enter the field hospital for rescue.

As for the sixth floor of the cemetery, it is the headquarters of the Adventurers' Guild, the large mercenary group resident in the cemetery, and the Ancient Ruins Investigation Society. In general, the cemetery can be freely entered and exited from the first to sixth floors, but from the seventh floor, idlers are not allowed to enter. That meant that to go to the seventh floor, you needed to have a pass issued by the Empire to enter.

The 7th to 10th floors of the cemetery are the research sites of the Ancient Ruins Investigation Society. To get to the bottom graveyard, the team of adventurers still needs to pass through a specific passage when passing through these floors, and if they enter the research site of the investigation council at will, they may be questioned or even arrested by the Thornhorn Deer Army.

At night, a shirtless middle-aged man on the sixth floor is banging on a sword embryo in a blacksmith's shop near the entrance to the lower level. Every muscle in the man's whole body shook regularly with his movements in the firelight, and the beads of sweat all over his body seemed to coat him with a layer of oil, and his every movement was full of masculinity and strength beauty.

When the final blow was struck, a large canopy of sparks erupted from the furnace and fell on the man's body, sending up clouds of green smoke. The man put down his hammer and tongs, picked up a clay cup that was placed next to him, and wanted to drink water. The glass was raised to find that there was not a drop of water in it, and he shrugged his shoulders, and was about to fill himself with a glass of ale, when he heard footsteps outside the door. Then a timid voice asked, "Excuse me, is this Mr. Loewen's blacksmith shop?" ”

The man put down the pottery cup, turned around and said with an indifferent expression: "I am Luo Wen." ”

At the doorway stood a young man and woman, both of whom were warriors judging by their attire. Slightly different, the young woman was carrying a musket on her back. It was the woman who asked the question, and when she heard this, her face was overjoyed, and she said to her companion: "Look, I will say that this must be Mr. Loewen's blacksmith. ”

The man named Lowen frowned and asked, "What's the matter with you?" It's so late, and I don't take business. ”

There was a pang of disappointment on the male warrior's face, and the woman begged, "Mr. Loewen, please help us." We're going to join an expedition organized by the Reaper Mercenary Regiment tomorrow, but not long ago, my friend's sword broke. Please be sure to fix it for him, we will pay you enough. ”

Rowan smiled playfully: "Pay me enough?" How many, I want a thousand gold coins, can you take them? ”

He saw that the armor on the two of them was mostly painted and damaged, and the musket behind the woman was wrapped with strips of cloth, and the clothes of the two were practical and simple. He has seen too many such adventurers, mostly some newcomers or unsatisfactory guys. Judging by their situation, it should belong to the latter. Since the mix is not satisfactory, naturally he will not be able to take out a thousand gold coins.

Sure enough, the male warrior's face suddenly turned red, and he pulled his female companion and said, "Let's go, he is clearly blackmailing." For a thousand gold, I can buy a better weapon! ”

The woman shook her head and said to Luo Wen sincerely, "Sir, we have heard of you. You used to be a warrior, weren't you? I think you can understand that every weapon is the most precious companion for a warrior. The sword in his hand had been with him for seven years, and it was important to him. If we had a thousand gold coins on hand, he would be willing to give it to you. But we don't have it now, can you please consider it cheaper. We only have about two hundred gold coins in our hands, and this is all we have. ”

"Two hundred gold coins?" Luo Wen smiled, he narrowed his eyes and said, "That's it, I don't want money." If you're willing to put that gun on my back, then I'll help your friend fix the weapon, how about that? ”

"Nope." The male warrior shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's go and have a look elsewhere." ”

"You listen to me." The woman smiled lightly: "Here, there is no better master than Mr. Loewen." If he wants this gun, I'll give it to him. Then she said to Loewen, "I agree with your proposal. ”

Luo Wen nodded and beckoned: "Then you come in and show me the sword." ”

The woman first handed the gun on her back to Luo Wen, and when she put it in Luo Wen's hand, her eyes were full of reluctance. The man sighed and handed a long sword to Lowan. Luo Wen pulled it out, and sure enough, only half of the long sword remained, and the fractured surface was covered with fine lines. Lovan examined it carefully, and said, "It's badly damaged, and if you want, I can give you a new sword, guaranteed to be better than this one." Your sword, to put it bluntly, has no value to repair. Even if it is repaired, the quality is not as good as the original, not to mention that you are not a good sword. ”

The male warrior seemed to be deliberately making things difficult for Luo Wen and said, "I want this!" ”

Lovan shook his head and said, "Whatever you want." However, young people, although people have to have their own principles, if they insist too much on their principles, they are stubborn. That gun is also precious to your companion, and you could have traded it for a better sword. But out of your stubbornness, you will only get a sword of worse quality than the original, which is a waste of this young lady's hard work. ”

The man was stunned, looked at his female companion, then lowered his head and said, "Thanks for the advice, then listen to Mr. Lowen." Please give me a better sword, as for her gun. I wish I could leave it with you for the time being, and I will redeem it with a thousand gold coins! ”

Rowan didn't answer, and went straight into the house. After a while, he brought a sword, the style of the long sword was very ordinary, but after the male warrior tried it, he felt that the sword was of moderate weight and very easy to use. The blade of the sword flowed like a flame under the fire, and the material was much higher than his original one. While the male warrior was trying his sword, Lovan handed the gun to the woman and said, "Since you cherish it, don't hand it over easily." You know, sometimes once you lose it, you can never get it back. ”

The woman was stunned and said, "The thousand gold coins ......"

"Forget it, I'm not short of money. Besides, the sword in the boy's hand was originally made by a guest. It's just that the guest went to the eleventh floor cemetery and never came back. Putting it is also putting it away, giving it to your companions, but it can make it work from the starting point. Lovan yawned and said, "Okay, you can leave, I'm going to close the door and rest." ”

"Disturb ......"

The two adventurers were about to say goodbye, when suddenly there were several exclamations outside the iron shop, followed by a string of beast roars, and the faces of the three people in the iron shop changed. Lovan ran out, just as a man hurried past his iron shop. Lovan grabbed him and asked, "What happened?" ”

The man pointed behind him, and said in a trembling voice, "It's the red wolf, it's coming, they're coming!" ”

Then he broke away from Luo Wen's hand and shouted as he ran: "Oh no, the red wolf is coming, killing is coming......"

Rowan looked into the shadows of the entrance to the seventh floor, and he could feel that something was staring at him. Then a shadow burst out of the shadows, its galloping posture full of wildness, and swooped straight for Lowen by the iron shop. The man screamed and rolled into the iron shop. The thing pounced, its body spun on the ground and stopped, then lowered its center of gravity and slowly walked towards the iron shop.

The fire in the blacksmith shone on its body, and it could be seen that it was a wolf-shaped beast, the size of a calf. Nothing is everywhere. Hair, only a red mane grows from the head to the back. The monster's head has four eyes, fangs all over it, and a long tongue that spits out of its mouth is covered with shrinkable flesh spines. It ploughed the ground with four paws, drooling as it watched a few people in the blacksmith's shop.

The eyes of the two adventurers were about to bulge, and the male warrior couldn't help but say, "Why are the red wolves here, aren't they the sentinels of the eleventh floor?" ”