Chapter 3: Strange Fellows

The Tavern Ode to Joy in the Temple of the Gods is lit up every night, and many clergy and devotees choose to spend a crimson night here. However, during the day, the tavern is lonely, and there are not necessarily two or three customers a day, and sometimes the tavern owner does not even open the door, and rests until the evening.

Today was an exception, though, and today, half of the dozen or so tables in the tavern hall were full.

There were only six people here, but each one occupied a table individually, as if it was almost full.

Six people, each with a weapon, some even brought more than one, even wearing a robe, in addition to weapons, the various armor on the body is also particularly conspicuous, and there is a backpack that looks very heavy, if nothing else, everyone is ready to travel.

Not only did they not sit together, but there was no communication between the six of them, and they barely even made eye contact, even if their eyes accidentally bumped into each other, those with a better attitude nodded in greeting, and those with a bad attitude directly turned their heads and ignored the existence of the other party.

There was no one else in the hall of the tavern except the strange guests, and not even the innkeeper and the waiters knew where to hang out, and they didn't know how they could safely leave the tavern to these eccentric fellows.

In fact, the people in the tavern don't care at all, formal battles are strictly forbidden in the temple of the gods, this is an iron law set by the gods, no one dares to violate it easily, no matter how tense the atmosphere between these guests is, it will not fight, let alone affect the store, the boss is still very relieved.

And the people in the tavern knew that they couldn't fight even if there were no rules strictly prohibiting fighting, and although these guys didn't know each other, they were all employed by the same person, and the alienation was only because of the innate rejection between the strong, and there was nothing but malice.

The silence spread, the grinding of glasses against the table, the pouring of wine, the shaking of the wine in the bottle, which was particularly clear in the silence of the tavern.

"Click", the door opened again, the eyes of the six people looked at the same time, meeting everyone's sight, the priest in the black robe walked in slowly, and a girl about twenty years old shrank behind him and followed closely, as if she was afraid that if she took a step slower, she would be exposed to everyone's sight.

Of course, it was Shul and Saf who came in, and the two rushed over after reaching an agreement in the morning, and it seemed that it was quite in time, at least not late.

Fingers circled on his chest, Shul bowed slightly in front of the six, and everyone withdrew their gaze as if they had lost interest, but Shul could feel it, although he no longer paid attention, but the six people still divided part of their attention on themselves and Saf behind them.

"This way. After looking around, Shul took Saph to a corner, and thoughtfully blocked Saf inside, replacing the role of the book in Saf's arms.

From an angle that Shure couldn't see, Saf grimaced at him with a mischievous wrinkled nose before sneaking his head out from behind him, silently observing the strange people in the tavern.

Red mage robes, long red curly hair, and gorgeous human women propped up their chins with lazy expressions. Two skeletons stood by her side like loyal retinues, one gently shaking a folding fan for her, the other filling her glasses.

"Well, this must be a necromancer, and it's not very normal. Saph made an accurate judgment in his heart, "At least a normal necromancer wouldn't use his mental power to direct a skeleton to do such a boring thing. ”

White wings, noble temperament, a common travel outfit, don't ask, this is a wingman explorer, and there is no shortage of this kind of guy who doesn't know what stability is in the winged people. However, the strange glove on her desk was a rare magic guide, the kind of weapon that could directly build its own magic power into a specific magic project? If it was really a magic guide, then this winged man was a rare combat-type magician recorded in the book.

Looking at the next one, Saf suddenly withdrew his gaze, this man had a fierce look in his eyes.

It was a man who had wrapped himself in a straitjacket and covered his face, emaciated, his fingers swaying nervously, with two daggers hanging from his waist and two strapped to his legs, and his expression and dress had indicated that he was a human thief. The thief's eyes were very strange, and he looked at anything, whether it was a person or an object, full of suspicion, maybe it was just his habit, otherwise Saf really couldn't explain why anyone looked at the table legs and doubted.

The fourth is also human, but it's different from everyone else.

It's summer, but it's too much of an exaggeration to walk around the market wearing only a pair of shorts. The man had bronzed skin, high bulging muscles, a metallic cyan sheen on his skin, and two curved scimitars hanging from his waist. Coincidentally, Saph had seen similar people when he was a child, they were scimitar warriors from the western wilderness, most of them believed in Kaeya, the Earth Mother, and could not use any magic, but their skin had super magical defense. It is recorded that they are the descendants of the pioneers who penetrated into the western wilderness during the pioneering era, but after nearly 10,000 years of reproduction, they have become significantly different from the humans in the east.

Fifth person...... Well, that's not a human, it's an orc.

Orcs are an interesting race, with a large number of beast traits on their humanoid bodies. According to the different types of beasts, orcs are also divided into many races, and live in racial and tribal units.

The range of distribution in Pavatiga is not smaller than that of humans, jungles, grasslands, mountains, plains, and tribes of orcs can be seen everywhere. Orcs and humans, the two races have a similar living environment, similar reproductive ability, and similar combat effectiveness, and it is inevitable that conflicts will break out between them. Since the end of the Pioneer Era, the war between orcs and humans has not stopped, and the blood has been shed more and more, and the hatred has deepened, and the vicious cycle has not been reluctantly ended until the Age of the Temple of the Gods.

However, even so, between the two races, there are constantly small-scale wars between countries and territories, not faith wars and race wars, and the gods are not easy to intervene to stop them, so they can only let the two sides fight and merge, and simply pretend not to see it, and it is better to think that it is a fierce competition that will kill people.

The Jade Empire, where Safu is located, has a deep contradiction with the steppe orc tribe in the north, so that she has a deep prejudice against orcs since she was a child, and although she has let go of her prejudices when she grows up, she will inevitably be a little awkward whenever she sees orcs.

However, it is undeniable that the strength of the orcs is very strong. Their physical strength is stronger than that of humans, and with the bonuses of beast traits such as claws or haste, humans tend to lose more than they win when fighting one-on-one at the same level.

And a tiger orc like this one in the tavern is considered a strong race among orcs, and often has stronger combat power than other orcs, which should definitely not be underestimated.

As for the last one, with long black hair, pale green skin, tall and slender figure, and wooden scale armor made of special wood, there is no doubt that this is a wood elf who came out of the forest. It is said that wood elves are natural hunters, and even young children can ...... in dangerous jungles

"Not wood elves. Shure's voice suddenly rang in Saff's ears, "Look closely at her scales and pay attention to her skirt armor. ”

Saf looked at the other party's waist down, is there anything wrong, it's normal. No, there is a problem, the front hem of the skirt is normal, hanging down to the knees, but the back hem is much longer than the front hem, dragging all the way to the ankle, and the back hem is obviously folded at the waist, and the actual length is wider and longer than it seems. I understand, this is the special skirt armor of the forest elf, in order to cover the deer body after becoming a deer form, this person is not a wood elf, it should be a forest spirit who lives in symbiosis with the wood elves.

"That's right, it's Lin Jing. Shuer's voice was very gentle, "Listen more, see more, observe more, the truth is often hidden in the details, it depends on whether you can find it, whether it is dealing with things or taking risks, this principle is applicable." ”

Guess what I'm thinking again!' This is Saf already coming out of the morning's injury, puffing out his mouth and glaring at Shul secretly, but then nodding anyway. Well, you're right, I'll pay attention to it later.

I don't know if I heard the whispers of the two or sensed the eyes of the two, the black-haired Lin Jing suddenly turned around and squeezed his eyes at the two.

Seeing Lin Jing's gaze, Xiuer couldn't help but be stunned.

In the two years since he came to Pavatiga, he has also met Lin Jing who wandered around a few times, but the distance was very far away and he couldn't observe it closely, and today, it was the first time he observed Lin Jing's eyes up close.

Cunning, smart, full of curiosity about everything, in the vigorous vitality, lurks the untamable wildness and rebelliousness, which belongs to the wilderness and the forest, and compared to her eyes, the eyes of the vast majority of human beings are as lifeless as dead fish. That's right, only with such a look can he be worthy of the energetic race of Lin Jing.

Finding that Shuer was staring at him, the black-haired Lin Jing blinked, licked his lips and slowly lifted the fork on the side of the skirt armor, revealing his fair and smooth calves. As she moved, Shul and Saf's eyes widened wider and wider, Saph was surprised, and as for why Shul was like this, it was indescribable.

The skirt was lifted up little by little, and it was about to reach the thighs, but in the next moment, the crystal white and tender, round and slender, inducing infinite reverie calves, suddenly turned into ugly roots with rough and dry skin, and the full of anticipation was shattered, and the gap from heaven to hell was enough to make every man cry out in despair.

Xiu'er didn't wail, but he couldn't help but roll his eyes, he had long heard about the special features of Lin Jing's race, and when he saw it today, it was even more terrifying than the rumors.

"Hee", who seemed to be very satisfied with his prank, the black-haired Lin Jing smiled sweetly, and his smile was full of pride.

However, Shuer didn't care about talking to Lin Jing now, because footsteps had already sounded from the stairs, and a female mountain elf dressed as a mage was walking down the stairs accompanied by two old human mages.