Chapter Twenty-Six: The Pearl Caravan
With the strength of the elephant ox's feet, the daily journey can reach 600 miles, and it originally took two people to walk for seven or eight days, but now it only takes three days to arrive.
Gloomy and Sylvia sat in a cart covered with dry wheat straw in the middle of the body, surrounded by a pile of equipment, weapons and shields. The mercenaries hired by the caravan also sat with the two of them, and everyone sat around chatting.
The mercenary who took the lead was a veteran with eight years of professional experience, called Mason, a great swordsman rank, who was good at two-handed greatswords. Under Mason's leadership, everyone talks about what they have encountered, and the journey is not so boring in these humorous or thrilling stories.
“...... At that time, the situation was really critical, if it wasn't for my old captain taking the initiative to break off, none of us would have survived, the demon was too powerful. A mercenary named William told the story of how he once encountered a demon during a mission and how he escaped, and when he talked about the exciting scene, the other mercenaries were shocked into a cold sweat. William continued: "Those demons, I think they should be dream demons, no matter how much we hide, they always find us, like being targeted by wolves, do you know why?"
"I don't know. The mercenaries listened intently, and when they heard William ask questions, they all shook their heads.
"I don't know. William lowered his body, stretched out his index finger and turned around in front of everyone, bought a pass, and said: "Dream demons can find you according to your fear, as long as you are afraid, then they will never be lost, this may be the most powerful of the low-level demons, just now I said that it is like being targeted by wolves, this is not alarmist, they are really like wolves, attacking collectively, in groups, hugging ......"
The mercenaries shuddered en masse.
"And ......"
"Wow......" the mercenaries exclaimed.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey......" Seeing that his companions were all scared by himself, William smiled proudly.
"Oh, it's horrible. I hope I don't encounter a demon in my life. A mercenary said with some trepidation.
He laughed twice. I'm afraid this guy's wish won't come true, and his shadow demon is sitting in front of him openly. If he knew that he had partnered with Shadow Fiend, I wonder if he would have been scared to death? In fact, this is a huge boast of capital, and when the time comes, he will say to others-"What? Have you ever seen a little bad devil? Will you be satisfied?" I think I thought I had talked to the Shadow Demon back then! What is it to have seen a little bad devil...... "In exchange for a lot of envy and adoring eyes......
"Gloomy, tell me your story, anything. Mason said. This group of mercenaries didn't know the strength of the two for the time being, just thought they were ordinary travelers.
"My story, since you want to hear it, I'll tell you the story I read in the book. "First of all, I want to ask a question. ”
"Do you know who the one hundred and twenty-second king of the Kingdom of Seth is?"
"I know, it's Osborne Seth. A somewhat knowledgeable mercenary preemptively spoke. Gloom remembered that his name seemed to be Prince, and that he was a swift ranger.
"Very well, now that we know that the one hundred and twenty-second king of the Kingdom of Seth is Osborne Seth, the next question is, how did Osborne die, and where?"
This question is a secret, most people don't know it, but I still saw it in a very old codex: in the year 211 of the Resurrection Calendar, Osborne Seth, the 122nd king of the kingdom of Seth, died on his toilet bowl due to massive hemorrhage caused by a ruptured rectal tumor. The king of his life led the Terrans in a series of wars against various races, and achieved the strongest period in the history of the Terrans, and the kingdom of Seth has such a large territory as it is now, most of which came from Osborne Seth.
If Heaven gives you something, it will take some away. The "Iron King" Osborne suffered from a severe rectal tumor because he sat on horseback for too long, and the court physicians used countless methods to cure it, and even the priest invited from the church was helpless with holy arts, and the pain accompanied Osborne for the rest of his life, he thought that this was the punishment of the God of Light for too many killings in his life, until the last moment of his life, Osborne also issued a decree to reduce taxes. After his death, two million people in the royal capital supported his soul......
"What a tragic story of a great king who died like this. Mason sighed, "How did I not know about this before?"
"For twenty generations of kings, a thousand years, with the lifespan of the human race, it is difficult to say that such a thing has been handed down, and this is not a good thing. If I hadn't read a lot of books, I wouldn't have known about it. Gloom said.
"We elves still have a record of this. Sylvia said.
Mason shrugged, a thousand years is really nothing to the elves.
"I've always wondered, how did you two meet, one is a human race and the other is an elven race?" asked Mason, "As far as I know, the elves never travel with other races. ”
"The two of us had a friendship, her tribe was slaughtered by demons, and I wanted to travel to the mainland, so I dragged her along. Originally, I wanted her to teach me something, but now it seems that I taught her more, but there are still benefits, and it's easy to do things with elves. ”
"I've taught you a lot!" Sylvia sneered.
"Is it—?" said a long voice, "Are you sure you've taught me a lot?" you said you'd do more than eat, drink, and sleep? I don't know what else you've taught me. ”
“...... Anyway, it's taught!" Sylvia was hard-mouthed and refused to admit it. She kicked him in a huff, twisted her face, and ignored him.
The mercenaries were happy to watch these two guys bickering, and they thought that the young people were really energetic now.
"Brother Mason, what are the goods you are going to escort this time?" asked darkly.
"Oh, you ask about the goods. In fact, it's nothing, the Pearl Chamber of Commerce is the third largest chamber of commerce on the mainland, specializing in jewelry and magic accessories, and this time the caravan is to transport a batch of jewels to Boulder City. Mason said.
"Jewels?" Sylvia was immediately intrigued by the sight of jewels, her eyes shining like crystals shrouded in the morning light, amazed and enthusiastic, like a she-dragon—that's how dragons look when they see shiny things.
He patted his head helplessly, this is a common disease of women, and there is no cure.
"Hehe, girls are like that, they like these things, and my daughter is like that. Mason laughed.