In the evening, a dilapidated carriage slowly moved along the path. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Some wild beasts in the woods hesitated when they saw that humans wanted to hunt, and finally left with a reluctant expression and gave up hunting.

They seem to be afraid of old horses pulling carts in front.

Little Wood, who saw the jackal leaving, was a little puzzled, and asked Mary curiously, "Why do they seem to be afraid of Old Oak?"

Mary smiled and replied, "Because Orc is not an ordinary horse, your father bought it from another adventurer, and it is said that it was hatched from a pet egg dropped from a dungeon. ”

"Oak won't get lost yet, your father told me that their team got lost in the forest and the pointer broke down. In times of desperation, it was Oak who led them out. When your father left to fight the Holy War, he left the Orc in the small town of Vahens. At that time, it was still a prosperous town, and Oak would help the townspeople from time to time, transporting things to Kena City to sell, and the people of our town were very grateful to Oak. ”

"Later, monsters counterattacked at the entrance to Kena Castle, and monsters that escaped from the castle attacked the town. Although the number is small and the level is low, this town does not have any adventure groups stationed in the first place, and even if all the people in the town who have been to the dungeon take up arms to resist and kill those monsters, they will not escape the fate of most of the dead and injured. After that, the survivors of Valence walked and died, leaving very few people behind, and it was considered an abandoned town. ”

Mary said as she walked out of the forest.

As soon as he came out of the forest, Little Wood saw a tall wall in the distance, and the walls were dotted with lights.

Mary looked at little Wood with a surprised look on her face and smiled.

At that time, the Leah brothers and sisters also had this expression when they saw it, Kena City was built around the entrance of an underground city, and it was one of the several big cities in the south, which could be said to be very prosperous. ”

I don't know if I felt Little Wood's excitement or because night was approaching, and Old Oak became faster, and soon he was under the city gate.

After paying a green experience stone, Wood Jr. and the others entered the city of Kena.

There are lights everywhere, and the streets are full of people, and many people can tell from their costumes that they are adventurers.

On both sides of the street, there are stalls selling items obtained from the dungeons, some selling potions, weapons and armor made by their subclasses.

At the corners of the alleys, there are either naked women standing to solicit customers, or signs full of color, don't look at Little Wood, who is only 10 years old, but those uncles who come to eat in the store have already given Little Wood science these things.

These things didn't appeal to him at the moment, so he glanced at them and went to focus on something else.

After turning a corner, I saw some iron cages.

The chained children were under 20 years old, most of them only a little older than Little Wood, and each cage was marked with a price.

This is a slave!

Prices range from dozens of experience points to thousands of experience points, and some people have as much as 10,000 points per cage.

Little Wood was uncomfortable to see these children his age being sold as goods.

He buried his head in his legs and stopped looking. The excitement of entering the city has disappeared without a trace.

Mary stroked his head and said nothing, and Old Oak walked faster.

......

At night, in an inn called Bai Yang.

Little Wood lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, so that instead of the excitement of seeing the big city, he kept thinking of the children in the iron cage.

Empty eyes, barely covering the rags of the body. Many of the children had signs of being beaten and it was not known how their scrawny bodies had survived.

He couldn't help but feel glad for himself when he thought of those children.

I'm glad I met a mother-like woman like Aunt Mary, otherwise I would have disappeared into this world, or I would have been tormented like those children.

Thinking about all this, his gratitude to Mary deepened. Try to put yourself to sleep, for Mary promised him that she would take him to Leah and them to-morrow.

The moonlight shone through the window on Little Wood's face, the corners of his mouth slightly curved, and in his sleep he dreamed of the time he had played with the Leah siblings, smiling like the crescent moon.

The next morning, little Wood got up with the sun, as usual.

I stretched my waist and remembered that this was in Kaina City, and I didn't need to exercise in the morning today, but there were a lot of things going on today. Hurriedly got up and ran to wash.

After washing and dressing, he still put the dagger on his belt and covered it with his clothes, and then went to breakfast.

When you're away from home, it's always a good idea to be careful.

Maybe if something happens, I'll have to protect Aunt Mary myself.

Naïve little Wood.

The lobby of the inn in the early morning was quite crowded, but it was quieter and not as noisy as last night.

Eating breakfast in groups, he glanced around and saw Mary waving to him, and walked briskly past.

"Aunt Mary morning. "Little Wood is still in good spirits.

"Morning, little Wood, come, drink porridge quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold. Mary said with a smile.

In order to finish his business and meet the Leah brothers and sisters as soon as possible, Little Wood drank porridge as quickly as he fought, and drank it in a few sips.

Mary also knew what he was thinking, smiled and asked, "How does it taste?"

"It was ok, but not as good as Aunt Mary did. He replied with a serious face.

When Mary heard this, she suddenly got up and hugged him with both hands.

He kissed him heavily on the forehead, and then let him go.

Little Wood always felt that this kiss was different from the previous ones, but he couldn't say that there was anything wrong with it, and shook his head and hurried to follow Mary, who had already left the hotel.

......

Walking down the street, everything around you is new to Little Wood.

There are many adventurers on the road.

Many of these adventurers wore inauguration medals, accompanied by at least one slave or servant.

Last night, at dinner at the inn, little Wood also inquired with Mary about the alleged slaves.

Some powerful adventurers only need to go to the underground level to adventure, whether it is a team or an individual, they will bring slaves or minions with them.

Adventurers can open a Servant Slot and a Slave Slot when they reach level 5, and then a second Slot can be opened for every level 5 after that.

Servant contracts are not enforceable and can only be signed by mutual consent.

Adventurer Death Minion Death, Servant Death Adventurer Loses a Lot of Experience, and even Death, Servant Contract Position Seal One.

The particularly detailed information Mary is not clear, but she roughly knows that there is basically no difference between a servant and an adventurer, and many people who have a difficult life want to find a strong adventurer to sign a contract and then rely on it to survive.

Slave contracts, on the other hand, are unilateral and compulsory, and the contract is transferable.

If you become a slave, you can't become a job, and at most you can open a subclass system.

Even if a slave dies, it will only deduct some experience points for the master, and will not cause other effects, which is nothing for the adventurer who gets a slave.

Looking at the children who walked by like walking corpses, only a little older than themselves. Little Wood sighed inwardly, but he also understood that he could not change the world now, and could only accept his rules.

Following Mary to an adventurer's stall, Mary pointed to a bag of colorful powder on the stall and asked, "How do you sell this?"

The stall owner is a muscular man with a giant axe on his back, and his stature looks on par with the big man last time, and there are indeed elites everywhere here.

Now Little Wood is looking forward to the world of adventurers more and more.

The muscular man glanced at Mary and Little Wood beside him, and replied, "1 point of experience is worth 5 grams, and there are 500 grams here, if you want, you can buy them all." ”

Mary nodded, this price was the normal price, enough for her to use it for a while, if she didn't encounter any more big business.

After paying 100 points to take the bag of powder from the stall, Mary continued with Little Wood to a butcher's shop.

Although Valence is a poor country, the group of traveler adventurers are still detained to death, basically except for compressed rations, compressed rations, there are not a few meat eaters a month, but they still have to buy some in case of emergency.

Yes, now Valence is a backcountry in Little Wood's mind.

After buying half a backpack of meat, the two of them were ready to go shopping for some daily necessities.

Just turned a street corner, and the scene in front of me can really only be described as a sea of people.

There were more adventurers piled up than all the streets they walked combined.

In the crowd, Wood Jr. also noticed that there were some adventurers wearing two medals.

One of them is a professional medal, and the other is probably a team medal.

Adventure parties can be divided into two types, one is the adventure group after the team system is registered, and all members of this team will be awarded team medals and belong to the regular team.

There is also a wild group, which does not meet the opening conditions or the experience points required for registration cannot be given, basically no different from ordinary adventurers teaming, but the number of people usually reaches more than 10 people.

Last time, the team of the handsome blonde guy belonged to the wild group, and the wild group did not have a medal given by the system.

As for the difference between a regular team and a wild group in the dungeon, Little Wood is not clear.

The crowd of people around continued to pour in the same direction, and Little Wood asked Mary on the side curiously: "Aunt Mary, is it the entrance to the dungeon over there?"

When Mary, who was picking out the teacup, heard this, she turned her head to look in the direction of the crowd.

"It is said that the city of Kena was built around this entrance. There are also two master adventure groups in this city, which are very strong. I heard them say that there is also a high-level adventure party that passed the fourth stage last year, and I don't know if it has been upgraded to a master adventure party now. ”

After listening to Mary's words, he looked at the adventurers who looked a little majestic in the sun shining on their armor.

Little Wood's face flushed with excitement and clenched his little fists.

He now wants to be a few years older, put on his armor and go to the dungeon to fight those monsters, and finally become a character like the legendary knight in the story, St. Lotus.

If someone asks him what he wants to do after becoming a legend?

With little Wood's head now, all he can think of is to make a good life for himself and Aunt Mary, buy a big house in the city of Kena, and then marry a wife, no, two is fine, have a few children, and so on.

As for the bones buried in the dungeon.

Travel to the darkness of the Path of Legends.

The heaviness of the crown.

Little Wood will slowly experience it in the future.

......

After buying daily necessities, it was already noon, and the two returned to the hotel.

I put my things back in my room and went downstairs for lunch.

Little Wood also gobbled up this meal, because Mary promised him that he would go to see the Leah siblings after eating.

Mary took a few casual bites and looked at him with a smile on her face.

"Don't eat so fast, no one will grab it from you. ”

Little Wood was almost finished eating when Mary spoke, and he burped to see that Mary still had more than half of the food in her bowl.

"Aunt Mary doesn't think the food here is delicious?"

Mary smiled and said, "Auntie, I'm losing weight, and you'll understand when you have a girl you like in the future." ”

After saying that, he patted his little head.

"Let's go, let's go see Leah and them. ”

Little Wood heard that he was running faster than the wind, and waved Mary outside the door to hurry up.

A twisted expression flashed across Mary's face as she got up, and little Wood outside the door didn't notice it.

Now he was defenseless against Mary.

......

The two walked around the city, and little Wood still looked around for something new to him.

"Little Wood, do you like this city?" asked Mary suddenly.

"yes, I like it. Although he didn't know why Mary suddenly asked, he still subconsciously answered.

"I like Valence too, but the city should make our lives more comfortable. Little Wood added.

It's not that he doesn't like the backcountry of Valens, it's just that the city is more full of life than Valens.

"So will you stay here all the time?" said Mary, earnestly.

Little Wood thought that Mary was going to be like the brothers and sisters of Leah, entrusting her to others for his future and training her to be an adventurer.

"No, I'll go wherever Aunt Mary goes, Aunt Mary is no different from my mother to me. ”

Mary listened, but was silent.

Little Wood looked at her back, thinking she was worried.

After thinking about it in his mind for a moment, he continued, "Even if no one teaches me how to survive in the dungeon, there will be no problem at all...... There may be a little bit of a problem, but after all, as Aunt Mary said, my father is a very powerful adventurer! ”

Before he knew it, Little Wood had followed Mary into an alley.

At this moment, Mary in front of her suddenly stopped, and the cells in Wood's whole body suddenly rioted at this time, as if to warn him of danger.

But he didn't pay attention, he decided only yesterday that he would no longer use his intuition to doubt others.

Mary, who had stopped, did not wait for little Wood to approach her, and then returned with a very penetrating smile.

It was the ugliest smile Little Wood had ever seen on Mary's face in his life.

Just as he was pausing at the smile, Mary suddenly covered his mouth and nose with her right hand.

It was then that he discovered that Mary had a cloth in her hand that smelled of medicine.

Mary tied little Wood with her arms, and he was still trying to trust Mary until this moment, even though her current behavior had said a lot.

Even as his consciousness grew more and more blurred, Little Wood struggled to look up at Mary's face, the face he thought was the most beautiful in the world before entering the alley.

Tears fell from Little Wood's eyes to Mary's hand, but the hand did not let go even a bit.

Consciousness was already on the verge of being overcome by drugs, and until the last moment he wanted to ask Mary.

"Aunt Mary, even if it's just for a moment, do you treat us like your own children?"

It's a pity that he didn't ask this sentence in the end.

Mary looked at little Wood, stunned on the ground, and stroked his tear-soaked face.

At some point, it started to drizzle, and she looked up at the sky.

"When did it start? After the town was attacked, after he left, when he knew there was such a deal, or when he married the woman?"

She muttered to herself at the sky.

"At the age of 35, 1400 experience points will be deducted every month, forgive me. Even if I survive, I want to live. ”

Mary no longer seemed to dare to look at Little Wood's face.

"You have to live, even if you survive. ”

After looking at the sky and saying the last word, she picked up the child who had been with her for ten years and walked out of the depths of the alley.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier.