"It's actually the Battle Priest and the Orb Spellcasting, it's interesting. Pannis wandered on the edge of the umbrella cover, nimbly dodging every monster that pounced, but his eyes were fixed on the battle of the girls, and finally condensed on Catherine: "And, actually, it's also a guardian knight, hehe." ”

"Mr. Pannis. Catherine, who was already at ease, saw that Pannis had been walking around the outermost part of the world, and shouted a little nervously: "Come here, it's easier to support each other here." ”

"Well, that's okay. Instead of approaching the position of the three maidens, Pannis jumped a few steps back and jumped onto the umbrella of another mushroom: "I have the ability to protect myself." I won't participate in your gold-level battles. I listened to it just now, there are only more than nine hundred of this rock wall beast community, and there are only a dozen silver-level ones in it, and the others are all bronze ranks, so it won't be a problem to be careful. ”

"Well, be careful yourself. Seeing the light of the hedron representing Pannisy constantly beating on the umbrella cover next to him, and indeed there was no danger as he said, he let go of his worries and focused on the battle in front of him.

The Rock Wall Beast is a bronze-level ordinary magical beast, herbivorous, usually living on the cliffs in the mountains, and living by eating the moss and vines on the cliffs. They move on the cliffs by jumping, with sharp claws allowing them to run smoothly on the cliffs, and their strong limbs making their jumps extremely impactful, allowing them to cross a distance of up to 30 meters horizontally in a single jump. Rock wall beasts are mostly social and extremely timid, and rarely take the initiative to approach other creatures, but when they are attacked, they will become extremely fierce, and would rather die out of the entire colony than kill the attacker, which makes all carnivorous monsters unwilling to provoke. When the Rock Beast is polluted by demonic energy, it will transform into a Demon Rock Monster, inheriting all the characteristics of the Rock Wall Beast, and is one of the few species of food monsters. In the eyes of veterans of cave adventures, the Demonized Rock Wall Beast is a harmless monster, provided that it simulates traces of demonic energy on its body with camouflage powder.

By the time the battle had gone so well that Lina had enough time to repeat the words recorded in the Monster Atlas, it could no longer be called a battle, and perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a forced massacre. As for when the slaughter will end, it depends on the number of monsters left. At this time, Lina's retelling not only made the girls understand the characteristics of the monster in front of them, but also made Vivian very annoyed, which was manifested in the behavior that the ice arrows flying in the sky became denser.

Pannis, who had already changed four or five canopies in his position, no longer moved to dodge. Although he was still surrounded by many monsters, and there were monsters attacking him at all times, he only managed to make all attacks miss by twisting his joints and contracting his muscles. His attention was not given to the monsters in the slightest, all the dodging was done completely by the instinct of the body, his eyes were completely focused on the girls, the look in his eyes was complicated, and he didn't know what he was muttering in a low voice.

A flash of light.

Countless flash spores, spewing out from the top of the mushroom without warning, lit up the cave once again. There were only about a hundred of the Rock Beasts left alive, and at the moment of eruption, they let out a piercing scream and leaped out in all directions, trying to escape from these deadly spores. But unfortunately, they were too close to the spores to attack on the umbrella cover, and they had no chance to escape, and as soon as they jumped, they were swallowed by a sea of spores covering all directions, and each of them was stained with countless points of light.

The spores-stained monsters were like crazy, rolling on the umbrella cover, their limbs desperately scratching all over their bodies, their sharp claws tearing the skin and muscles on the surface of their bodies, black blood spurted out of the wounds, and landed on the surface of the mushroom umbrella cover and umbrella handle with a pungent fishy smell, but it was strangely absorbed by the mushrooms, and after a while, there was no trace of blood.

As more and more spores were contaminated on their bodies, the screams of the rock-walled beasts became weaker and weaker, and finally they slowly stopped rolling. Some slipped off the edge of the canopy and fell to the ground, while others became silent directly on the canopy.

Compared to the annihilated rock wall beasts, the cave apes on the ground are much luckier. Far away from the mushroom umbrella cover, they turned their heads and ran away when the spores erupted, and most of the burrowing apes survived, except for a few monsters that penetrated too far into the spore carpet on the ground due to gluttony. As Pannis had just said, the frightened burrowing apes quickly disappeared into the darkness of the cave, and only the sound of frightened squeaks and panicked running could be heard fading away until they disappeared completely.

The sudden and inexplicable end of the battle made the girls a little stunned, and after three or four seconds, Vivien was the first to lift her guard, leaning on the staff to feed a little panting, and muttering: "Senseless battle, really senseless battle." If I had known, I wouldn't have let that magic go. ”

Catherine stared at the corpse in front of her in a daze, and sighed in disbelief: "Is such a beautiful spor so powerful?" ”

"The beauty that is shown is often false. The relaxed Pannis, who jumped a few times on the umbrella cover, returned to the girls, leaving not even a trace of blood on his clothes, and said as if with deep meaning: "The more beautiful, the more false, and there is often a deadly danger hidden under the falsehood." ”

"Mr. Pannis. Catherine's face became very serious, and she said in a solemn tone, "Why didn't you come just now?"

"I told you before. Pannis examined the hedron on his helmet and replied indifferently, "I can protect myself, so why bother here." ”

"It's not a question of self-preservation. Fighting side by side and helping each other is what a team member should do. Catherine pursed the corners of her lips in a rare show of anger: "Even lack of combat effectiveness is not a reason to wander outside of battle. I hope you'll join the fight next time. ”

Pannis, still staring at his helmet and checking it over and over again, said without hesitation: "I'm sorry, I refuse." ”

"What? you refuse?" Catherine looked at Pannis in surprise, "Why?"

"I only do the work that I agreed to do. Pannis put on his helmet again, raised his eyes to look directly at Catherine, and said with a blank face: "You are hiring explorers, then I only need to do the work of explorers, and I have no obligation to participate in battles." ”

"No obligation? Won't you take part in a battle even if your companion is in a bitter battle, even if his life is in danger?"

"Of course. And I think you're mistaken about one thing, Miss Catherine. Pannis smiled mockingly, but his eyes fell to his toes, and he said softly: "You pay to hire me, and I will collect the money to complete the work, and the money and goods will be cleared." We are not companions, we were not, we are not, and we will not be. ”

"Okay, I see. Catherine let out a long sigh, but her eyes, which should have been filled with anger, were full of pity, and she shook her head lightly and sighed, "Do as you wish, Mr. Pennis." Is it time to go, we've already lost too much time. ”

"Yes, it's time to go. Pannis quickly turned around, jumped off the mushroom in a few steps and returned to the ground, and the voice came from below: "The ground is safe, you can come down." ”

Lina poked Catherine, snickered, and jumped down. Catherine didn't have any angry or depressed look on her face, just a little helpless, and picked up Vivien and returned to the ground.

"Mr. Pannis. Catherine seemed to have completely shaken off the shadow of the argument she had just had, and had completely returned to her former tone: "Is there still time to clean up the battlefield?"

"It's better not to. Pannis closed his eyes, tilted his ears to carefully distinguish the distant sounds, and replied, "It is not necessary that the next wave of monsters will appear at any time, so it is better not to stay in one place for too long." ”

"That's a shame. Catherine couldn't hide the disappointment in her heart, and looked at the monster corpse on the ground with a reluctant face: "The claws of the four pairs of demonized rock wall beasts are one gold coin, and there are at least more than four hundred gold coins piled up here, it's a pity." ”

"Let's go, big sister. Lina pulled Catherine and left: "Gold coins or something, Miss Ben doesn't care." ”

"I care. Cather replied angrily, still moving forward, but turned his back to Pennis and asked, "Mr. Pannis, do you remember the first time we met a few days ago?"

"Of course you remember, what's the problem?" asked Pannis, slightly confused.

"Then do you know why we trusted you so much when we first met, and let you take us to this dangerous world with confidence? Although we have understood your professional ability, but we do not know your person, even so we still entrust our lives to you, such a decision, is it a bit hasty, do you know why?"

"I don't know. Pannis frowned, seeming a little impatient: "I don't want to know either." ”

What Pannis could not see was the smile on Catherine's lips, a sly smile that a knight should not have at all: "Because I don't believe that a person who is awakened by nightmares every day because he carries painful memories on his back, a person who constantly tortures himself with pain because of the past, a person who is self-exiled because of decadence due to remorse, I don't believe that such a person can be a bad person." The most important thing is that even if you want to close yourself off, if you want to exile yourself, even if you wrap yourself in a shell, but you use being hired as an excuse to get how many teams out of the situation of certain death. For commissions, which run out in a few days, and then let yourself be tortured by hunger and cold again, do these commissions really make sense to you?"

"What do you know?" asked Pannis, pausing and staring at Catherine's back in a cold voice.

"I don't know anything but what the town can hear. But haven't you heard of that saying, 'Finding out people's hearts is a gift engraved in the soul of a nobleman from birth'. Anyway, I'm also from a big aristocratic background, hehehe. Your every move, word and deed has revealed to me what is on your mind. As if in revenge for the dispute over the mushroom just now, Catherine let out a string of presumptuous laughter like silver bells: "So I don't believe a word of what you just said!"

Listening to Catherine's laughter, Pannis's face became more and more gloomy, but he felt someone gently tug at his clothes. Looking down, he saw Vivien standing beside him.

"You're crying. ”

"What are you crying about?" said Pannis.

"You're crying. Vivien repeated, and a mysterious smile suddenly appeared on her immature face, which was completely different from her age, and she pointed lightly at Pannis's chest, and with a wink, she turned to catch up with Catherine. The mature movements appear on the young body, making her look indescribably weird.

Pannisy stood stunned as the three of them slowly walked away on the glowing spore carpet, only to close their eyes in despair and let out a sigh that seemed to come from their souls.