Chapter 1: The Bone Crusher
"You got such a heavy stab in the face, and you can still escape?"
The one-eyed hunter who spoke held a glass of ale in his hand and looked at the bearded man opposite, his face full of curiosity and disbelief. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"You have no idea how lucky I was to get my life back. The bearded man muttered with apprehension as he touched the horrible scar on his face that stretched from his ears to his lips, raised his glass and touched it with his hunter friend, and drank it down.
This tavern is one of the most prestigious points of contact for the Bounty Hunters' Guild in the North, and is known for the difficulty of the missions it distributes. Many hunters and mercenaries see the completion of missions here as a kind of capital to boast about for years and a litmus test of their strength.
"We besieged one of his ten good players, I thought we could win with difficulty, but I didn't expect this guy to ......"
The bearded man narrowed his eyes, as if recalling the scene of that day, and One-Eye noticed that his hand holding the wine glass was trembling slightly: "This guy has wiped out our entire team with just a long knife in his hand, and only I have fled back to the town, and the others have been chopped to pieces." ā
"Hiss......" One-Eye gasped: "Is he really that powerful?"
The bearded man raised his hand and called the bartender to refill the wine for the two of them, he raised his head and took a big sip, wiped the wine stains on his beard, and then put the glass on the table, stared at the only remaining eye of the other party and said word by word:
"Don't try to provoke the Bone Crusher, he's ten times more powerful than you think!"
Resel the Bone Crusher is a giant thief who has been roaming the North for many years, and although he always goes alone without looking for an accomplice, he is extremely strong, and has escaped more than once from the search and arrest team personally sent by the Duke of Snow Wolf, the guardian of the North. The mercenaries and hunters who wanted to exchange him for bounty were also killed and wounded.
He also has a very cruel penchant for chopping up all the bones of his opponents and inserting a dagger between the eyes of the dead.
This horrific death scared off many who wanted to hunt him down, and the nickname "Bone Crusher" spread far and wide.
As a result, the quest to hunt Resel the Bone Crusher has been hanging in this tavern for more than a year, and the value of the quest rewards has been rising, but it has never been completed.
Half a year ago, the unbelieving bearded man gathered nine other veteran hunters who were short of money to spend, and squatted in the area where they guessed that the Bone Crusher might come to commit the crime for a month, and finally blocked the fierce god.
It's just that after a fight, they were all wiped out, and only the bearded man was seriously injured and survived.
Now that the scar was healed, the bearded beard who had not forgotten the pain sat in the noisy tavern, looked down at the yellow, cloudy liquid in the glass, and sighed in fear and rejoicing. If he can come back alive, he is already blessed by the father of all gods, and in this life and this life, he will never want to fight with the long knife of the bone crusher again.
At this time, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a young man walked in, carrying a large bag in his hand, and looked around, and did not find a seat to sit down, but went straight to the task counter in the innermost part of the tavern.
The one-eyed hunter glanced at him, puzzled.
This contact point hasn't released a new mission for a long time, and the only task in progress is to hunt the bone crusher, but the bearded people who are looking for reinforcements to form a team have been wiped out, and this looks like a guy who is younger than himself dares to go next?
The bearded man looked at the young man's back with disdain.
I saw that this kid was wearing the most fashionable brown low-necked long coat at the moment, the chain mail exposed inside was shiny, and the wolf skin boots on his feet were estimated to have been oiled several times, and almost all of them could reflect the human figure, and he was not the same as the sloppy hunters and mercenaries who were full of wine in the room.
"Hmph, I guess it's a cub from a little nobleman's house," the bearded man commented contemptuously.
He has seen a lot of this kind of oily and powdery rookie, learned a little martial arts, took the family's money to buy a good piece of equipment and ran out to take risks, a simpler task may be done by mistake, and if you want to pick up the difficulty of the bone crusher, it is estimated that you will be scared to pee when you flip through the task briefing.
"Come, drink. The bearded man took another big sip from his glass, touched the hideous scar on his face, and smiled smugly at the one-eyed hunter opposite, "I wonder how I escaped back then." ā
This is an extremely valuable experience, not everyone has the experience of escaping death from a fierce god of the level of the Bone Crusher, if you are lucky enough to hear the person who witnessed it describe the situation in detail, if you face the Bone Crusher in the future, you can have one more chance to escape.
One-Eye had been born and died with him before, and even saved his life, plus he did drink too much tonight, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to confide in such an important information, even if he took one or two golden dragons to make a trade, the bearded man would not necessarily tell the other party.
But he waited for a long time, and he didn't see the look of pricking up his ears and listening carefully from his one-eyed face.
On the contrary, the creature stared blankly, staring fixedly behind his back, his mouth open as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't pronounce a syllable like a fish bone stuck in his throat.
The bearded man turned his head suspiciously, and saw that the young man who had just entered the door was standing in front of the task counter, pulling something out of the large bag he was carrying.
He narrowed his eyes and looked at the young man's hand, and he froze.
It was a bloodstained human skin and a long mutilated knife.
The skin of the human body is not large, the edges are neat, and it looks like it has been cut directly from the human body with a short weapon, and a face with extremely distorted facial features and a dagger between the eyes is vividly tattooed.
The long knife next to it has a wide back and a pronounced curvature, and the craftsmanship is extremely good, but the blade has been cut off from the tip of the blade, leaving only a flat fracture.
The bearded man stared at the knife deadly, the horrible scar on his face writhing with the trembling facial muscles, like a dying snake.
One-Eye was the first to recover from his extreme shock and sluggishness, he reached out and patted his beard, and the two looked at each other, and at the same time saw that the other's eyes were full of horror that could not be concealed.
At this time, more and more eyes in the tavern began to focus on the young man, and many people recognized the long knife and the emblem on the human skin, and the chatter and exclamation were already ringing out.
The young man did not realize that he had become the focus of the audience, he completely ignored the louder and louder voices behind him, slowly placed the human skin and the long knife on the counter, slowly pushed them forward with both hands, and said to the people in the counter in a voice that was both light and gentle:
"Excuse me, I'm here to claim the reward for the Bone Crusher mission. ā