I left all the girls to Kai to train, and only took the Willie quartet with Mamacha, Manid and Jamila, who were small in number, but fortunately they all had experience and were familiar with riding.

As soon as he crossed the You River, Willy said: "Boss, the situation is urgent, it is estimated that it is enough to run one by one, we might as well divide the troops into a few ways." ”

I thought it could, so they were assigned, and the Willie quartet went to Paraven to deliver a letter to Harlaus, Mama Tea went to Sargoth to find King Ragnar, and Manid went to Zhivadine to find King Yaroger. Jamira and I traveled to Djerkara to find King Griffos, and then to Halma to find Saiga Khan. When everything is done, Zen will meet.

After the assignment was decided, Mama Tea roared: "Boss, why are you in a group with Jamila, you are a fake public servant!"

I glanced at him coldly and said, "After looking for King Ragnar, remember to inform Nabal about this, in Nord, Nabal's words carry the same weight as King Ragnar." Then he whispered, "Give me some face, and go to Nabal so that he may receive you well, and say that I commanded you." ”

When Mama Tea heard it, her eyes lit up.

Jamila looked at me coldly.

I said, "Jamila, along the way, I just taught you how to ride a horse and shoot arrows, don't you want revenge, how can you do it if you don't practice your skills?" ”

Jamila was silent.

With the mission clear, we sped off in four directions.

Where I couldn't see, a pair of eyes flashed.

We galloped our horses all day, and at dusk we reached Fort Kerredan in the upper reaches of the Yu, the territory of the kingdom of Swadia, to the south of the village of Norma, and further south to the small valley where the Grey Cloaks had been burned at the stake.

Approaching this, Jamila became sad. I comforted her and encouraged her to take revenge on her parents until she felt like she was about to become a psychiatrist. We asked for a room at the mercenary inn at Fort Kerrydan, and Jamila was going to ask for two, but the innkeeper said in my eyes that there was only one single room left, and I didn't want to stay in the square, so I had to sleep in the square, and I gave him a thumbs up behind my back.

But when she entered the room, Jamila threw a bed cover on the floor and said, "Sleep on the floor tonight." ”

I was very upset, and I said, "Why, no matter how you say I'm your boss!"

Jamila said coldly, "Then I will sleep on the ground." ”

I said, "No, I'm still a gentleman." Then I went downstairs to drink in despair.

All the hotels in Calradia are almost the same style, with a raucous tavern below and guest rooms above, and the poor soundproofing often keeps the people upstairs from sleeping.

I asked for a glass of Aalto.

One of the guys in the tavern was drunk, and his beastly eyes were fixed on me.

I was in a bad mood and said, "Look at Mao." ”

The guy immediately went berserk, jumped on the table and drew his sword, and yelled, "Damn it, I'm going to duel you!"

I ignored him.

The guy jumped down with a roar and stabbed me in the back of the heart. I didn't say him, the sword was so crazy and so inappropriate that I didn't even have to strike it before he would trip over his boots.

I turned sideways, and the guy slammed into the table and fainted.

The boss immediately said, "This guy deserves it!"

I took out a purse from the drunkard's bosom, only fifty dinars, checked it, and smiled.

Then I finished my drink and went up to sleep on the floor.

In the middle of the night, I quietly woke up and stole a glance at Jamila, who seemed to be sleeping soundly.

I stood up cautiously and looked at her closely.

The moonlight shone in through the window, and Jamila's golden hair turned a soft silver in the moonlight, and her skin was fair and delicate, with the holy color of a moon goddess. Her brows were tightly knit, and her whole person revealed a melancholy and pitiful atmosphere.

I immediately couldn't hold it anymore and leaned down to kiss her.

With a flash of the blade, the sleeping Jamila suddenly pulled out the dagger under the pillow and held it upside down in her palm, and she slowly opened her eyes.

"What, hehe. I hurriedly said, "It's nothing, I'll go to the bathroom, I'm afraid to wake you, uh......" and pushed the door open and fled.

Ran downstairs to the tavern, which was deserted, the boss dozing off on the bar, three mercenary-looking men playing cards, and a cool, long-tan-haired guy drinking sullenly.

I woke up the boss and asked for another glass of Alto.

The cool guy suddenly put down his glass and walked over.

I felt the pores of my body shrink at this moment, as if I couldn't breathe.

This guy is full of devastating power. I don't know what he wants, but I know that if he's going to kill me, all he needs to do is stretch out a finger at this point.

He walked up to me, sat down suddenly, and asked for a glass of dragon breath wine. The boss was agitated and said, "We don't have such a precious thing as Dragon Breath Wine here." ”

He frowned and said, "Then give me a glass of aged Black Thorn wine." As he spoke, he threw out a palm-sized gold coin.

I glanced at it, and the gold coin was engraved with a dwarven relief on the obverse, and two crossed hammers and sickles on the reverse. This is the gold coin minted by the king of the dwarves, Muradin, and each one has a very high collection value, and now a gold coin like this can be exchanged for a set of sea-view houses in the nest car, and he actually threw it out for a glass of wine.

The boss was stunned for a while, suddenly picked up the gold coin, bit it, pinched himself, and finally believed that it was true, and poured the wine happily.

The guy suddenly turned around and looked at me: "Are you old G?"

I calmly said, "I am." ”

He said, "I'm Finreal. ”

I said oh.

He said, "You haven't heard of me?"

I said, "No." ”

He stopped talking, just drinking.

I don't know when, the three mercenaries playing cards disappeared.

Fenreal slowly drank a full glass of Black Thorn wine, and suddenly said, "You know, I was here to kill you. ”

I'm silent.

He continued, "But suddenly I changed my mind. I think it might be more fun to keep you. So saying, he walked away. The moment he stepped out of the tavern, I was covered in a cold sweat.

This guy is so strong!

I immediately ran upstairs, ignoring the dagger in Jamila's hand, and dragged her down, paid for the house, and fled like crazy. Jamila looked at me sleepily, and I said don't look at it, we're being targeted.

Jamila still didn't know what was going on, but she knew something was wrong, so she followed me and added a whip.

By daybreak, we had crossed the El Deg Valley to Fort St. Ruz Godda, a castle on the border between the kingdoms of Svadia and Rhodok, and together with Fort Rende, fifty miles to the south, formed the border defense system of the Kingdom of Swadia. Fort St. Luz Godda, with its heavy garrison all year round, was finally relieved when I arrived here.

Entering the city and resting a little at the Mercenary Hotel, I didn't care about the original plan to enjoy the time with Jamila, and walked around, planning to recruit some mercenaries.

Due to the perennial strife between the kingdoms of Svadia and the kingdom of Rhodok, the mercenary business in this frontline area is particularly developed. I made a round trip, and I negotiated seven or eight hired horsemen, all very well equipped, riding heavy hunting horses, wearing hard leather armor, riding spears, long-edged axes, military guns, and long-handled knives, and the price was three thousand five hundred dinars.

But I still didn't think it was enough, so I went upstairs to the mercenary hotel, generally speaking, the people waiting to be hired in the tavern are small fish and shrimp, and the real masters pay attention to the quality of life and their own taste, and will not squeeze into a pile downstairs with those hillbillies.

Sure enough, when I got to the third floor, I saw a guy in a pale red carved steel armor sitting in the doorway to polish his gun, which was different from the traditional style of riding spear, which I had never seen in Calradia, but like an oriental spear.

The fellow heard the movement and looked up at me, with short red hair like a raging flame, two large red hoops on his ears, a bright red scarf around his neck, and a scarlet cloak on his shoulders.

The red-clad guy smiled at me.

I subconsciously thought that this was a master.

I asked, "Do you want to come with me?"

He didn't say anything, and asked directly: "How much?"

I held out two fingers and compared.

He stood up with a thud on the ground, and for a moment he was majestic: "20,000 dinars?"

My face immediately turned red, and I said, "Two thousand at most." ”

He immediately wilted and said disdainfully, "There are no doors." ”

I said, "How many will you come with me?"

He said, "At least ten thousand!"

I shook my head: "Five thousand." ”

His eyes moved: "Eight thousand, it can't be less." ”

I said, "Six thousand, just do it, don't do it!"

He immediately struggled violently in his heart, and he wanted to speak several times, and finally seemed to give up, saying: "Six thousand is six thousand, but this is only the employment fee, and the monthly salary must be settled in cash, and it cannot be delayed." ”

I said, "No problem, what's your name?"

He was stunned for a moment, and tried to think for a long time: "I don't remember, I haven't used my name for a long time since I came out, but everyone in the rivers and lakes calls me a dryer." ”

I said, "Dryer? Why? What do you mean?"

He didn't speak, he reached out and tossed out an apple, and as soon as the odd-shaped spear in his hand moved, a scorching tornado appeared to hang in the room.

After the hot wind, the apple falls to the ground and has turned into a shrunken apple core.

That's what it means. He said.

I clapped my hands: "Awesome!"

He said, "Do you want to eat one too, it tastes pretty good." As he spoke, he gave me half of the freshly cut apple.

I said, "Thanks, no, I'm not a big fan of baked apples." "After lunch, we set out from St. Ruz Goddaburg and took the trail to Djelkhala, the capital of Rhodoc, eighty miles away.

But as soon as we got out of Fort St. Ruz Godda, we were surrounded by a group of men in black. In the woods, behind the stones, in the thatched piles, the cold light of arrows stretched out little by little.

From the bushes in front of me stood a girl, in her twenties, dressed in a black tight-fitting leather coat, which outlined her delicate figure very clearly, and my eyes immediately straightened, and the girl lifted her black hood, revealing her long hair as black as satin.

"You guys. She said, "Keep all the money." ”

Although it was only a sentence, I suddenly felt that this girl was much more handsome than Nabal when she spit it it out.

I was still sighing, and the dryer suddenly roared immediately: "Lao Tzu has only earned 6,000 dinars, so I want to cheapen you?"

The girl's eyes flashed, and she said with a smile, "Oh...... There are six thousand dinars...... before he could finish speaking, when he suddenly raised his hand, a black light shot at the dryer.

The dryer roared angrily, and the spear in his hand wrenched out a pale red tornado, and the black light entered the range of the tornado, and was immediately knocked to the ground.

The girl sighed: "Iron Spine Point Steel Gun, are you from the Eastern Hermit Valley?"

The dryer roared: "I don't remember any Oriental Hidden Valley, I only know that anyone who dares to snatch money from me will dry them all!" roared, and suddenly knocked the horse's belly, and the war horse neighed and rushed towards the girl.

I thought, this kid is so angry, I guess he touched the bottom line, and then closed his eyes, a little unbearable to see the girl trampled on.

"Hah!"

"Bang!"

"Ahh

When I opened my eyes again, I saw the dryer's horse whirling in place, and the dryer fell to the ground, so angry that he was hit by an arrow in the knee. But the girl had no bow or crossbow on her body.

"Despicable fellow!" the dryer roared.

The girl smiled and said, "How mean am I, I didn't say I wouldn't shoot you." ”

"Shameless, shameless!"

The girl smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment." Then the girl looked at me, "You guys, put down the money." ”

I scolded in my heart, isn't this dryer a very stylish look, how can it be cleaned up in one round. Before I could figure out whether to give money or break in, the mercenaries hired behind me suddenly shouted, and they all ran away.

I was stunned, and it took me a moment before I reacted and yelled at them: "Hey, hey, hey, hey, are you mistaken, I spent money, and now you just leave, and there is a little work ethic, I want to go to the Consumer Association to complain to you!"

No one paid any attention to me, and in a moment they were gone over the hill and were gone.

The girl smiled and said, "Well, no way, do you think mercenaries can be reliable?"

I immediately became angry: "You can insult them, but please don't insult my profession!"

The girl smiled and said, "You're also a mercenary?"

I said, "It used to be, but I'm now the mercenary's agent." ”

The girl didn't understand.

I said, "Forget it, you don't understand what I'm talking about." I continued: "In short, we are not businessmen, I have a very important mission this time, it is related to the warmth of the world, the peace of the world, the rise and fall of the universe, and I don't have any money with me, and even if I bring money, it is public money, and I can't bear to lose it." ”

The girl tilted her head to look at me.

I said: "I won't say anything else, I see that although you are here to rob the house, you should also be a person with a sense of justice and responsibility, a strange woman like you who is both talented and brave and resourceful, and a hundred heroes and heroes are not as good as you...... Oh, I forgot you don't understand, it's that with great power comes great responsibility. Now the Calradia continent is about to encounter an unprecedented catastrophe, once the catastrophe comes, it will be a river of human purgatory, as a woman with responsibility, courage and courage, would you like to see such a thing happen, you must know that this is not a disaster for one or two people, it is a disaster for the whole of Calradia, and bloody people will devote themselves to it at all costs to prevent it from happening, and now I am going to Djerkara to deliver the news, so that they can prepare to protect the innocent and weak, and deal with the great changes in the future, now you stop me, in case the time is delayed, the catastrophe is launched in advance, how many people will be homeless, how many people are separated from flesh and blood, and how many people's life's hard work is in vain. You have studied art for many years, practiced a good skill, do not think about helping the world for the people, but also should protect a side of the water and soil, in case because you block my way, resulting in the destruction of thousands of people, can you afford this responsibility, how can you bear it?"

I said so much in one breath, and my throat was a little dry.

The girl was lost in thought, and suddenly came to her senses, looked up, and said, "What you said is that I almost made a great mistake! Go away, I won't stop you. Also, my name is Melva, and if you can use me in the future, even if you come to me, I will definitely die. With that, she instructed her men to make a way.

I was so excited that I stepped forward to hold her hand tightly, but she avoided her, and I said with tears in my eyes: "It is a blessing for the people and for Calradia to have a heroine like you, and it is a blessing for Calradia, and your name will definitely be engraved into a pure gold epic by the bard, just like the holy king Leon, which will be sung through the ages!"

With that, I slapped my horse past Melva, followed by Jamila and the dryer.

Melva waved at me from behind, his eyes genuine. I turned around and waved goodbye.

The horse drove out of ten miles, Jamila was silent, and the dryer gave me a thumbs up: "God convince!"

I said, "Mean nothing." ”

As soon as I arrived in Djerkhala, I rushed to the palace and showed the Count's letter of introduction. I said I had an urgent matter to meet King Graves.

The guards told me that King Griffos had gone on vacation.

I said, when will the king come back?

The guards said that this is uncertain, sometimes for a week or two, sometimes for a year or two.

My head was dizzy, and I asked, "Where did the king go on vacation?"

The guards immediately asked me vigilantly, "What are you asking for, what are your intentions?" I hurriedly fled back.

I said, "King Griffos is not there, and it is said that he has gone on vacation, and I don't know when he will be back." ”

Jamila asked, "What then?"

The dryer said, "Is my mission over, and can I go back?"

I said you don't think about it.

Jamila said, "I'll ask." As he spoke, he took a small bag from under my saddle.

The dryer asked, "What's that?" Why is your face so ugly all of a sudden?"

I said, "That's a little money I have saved, not much, just a few thousand dinars." ”

The dryer's eyes immediately widened.

When Jamila returned, she said, "The king has not gone out at all, but is staying in the palace. ”

I hurriedly asked, "Where's my money?"

Jamila shrugged.

When we met Graves, who was eating grapes with his queen, he saw us coming, and pointed majestically to the chair in front of the great stone table: "Sit down." ”

We sat down. He asked, "I heard you have something to ask me for?"

I immediately handed over a letter from Count Arassis and told him about the Dark Order.

Graves frowned and thought for a long time. Finally, he said, "Dark Order, I remember those people, I was also under the Holy King at that time, and I also participated in the Battle of Chanda, and this wrinkle is left from that time, um. Sending an envoy to Dhyanda is no problem, but let go of the fighting...... You know, we Rhodok has been under a lot of pressure lately, there is Nord in the north, Djerkhala is less than a day's journey to the east, and there are three elite cavalry regiments in Swadia, which is not the most fatal, the most fatal is the Saiga Khan in the southeast, who often has nothing to harass me, rob me of a village today, plunder a caravan tomorrow, and now my Rhodok's main forces are concentrated in the three cities of Aaron, Djerkhara, and Viruga, guarding these guys who are ready to move, how easy it is to let go of the fight. ”

He stood up and paced back and forth a few steps, then suddenly sat down and said: "In this way, I still want you to run, I will write a letter to explain this matter clearly, you send it to Saiga Khan, I hope he can stop the war with my Rhodok, and we will prepare together for the upcoming catastrophe, if he wants, I, Rhodok, will immediately reorganize my men and horses and make every effort to deal with the Dark Order." ”

He then clapped his hands, and a figure walked in from outside the palace. He said, "As for the messenger, I will send it to you now, this is my chief guard of the royal palace, Eliya. ”

As he had said this, the figure stepped out of the shadows and walked over to the fireplace by fireplace.

The dryer gave him a blank look, then lowered his head to study the gin.

Jamila looked shocked.

I had a long mouth, unable to speak.

Mother! It's so beautiful! Otherwise, how can you say that Rhodok is a beauty!

If Jamila's beauty is as delicate as a golden laurel branch, then Illya's beauty is like a projection of moonlight on the great lake of Djerkhara, ethereal, holy, and far away.

My mouth was watering.

Illya glanced at the two of us in front of her, didn't say a word, and her face was expressionless.

Griffos said, "Illya, I'll give you a mission, from now on, follow this old Master G in front of you, protect him, and help him." He will take you to Zenda, and you will represent us in Rhodok to the Calradia Joint Enlargement Conference. ”

Illya nodded and said, "Yes!"

Griffos said, "You go and get ready, and you'll set off with Old G later." ”

Illya said, "Yes!" and turned and stepped back.

I haven't woken up from the shock yet.

Graves smiled proudly: "This is my chief palace guard, and my niece, as an emissary, she is enough to represent our Rhodok's sincerity." ”

I nodded hurriedly.