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-- The beginning of a chapter in "The Heroic Epic, Arcanis".

"You don't have an entourage. Tim said in lingua franca, "Please don't dislike me, let me be your retinue." ”

"Followers?"

"Beneath the hero's steed is a bard who proclaims his heroic deeds. The halfling jumped out of his dirty bed, put on his bowler hat, excitedly picked up his worn-out lute, and played a note, "Let me sing your heroic deeds beside you." ”

"Uh.."

Tim's enthusiastic attitude made Alina a little overwhelmed.

"You have to understand that you have. Danger to life. ”

"Where is there a safe place around a hero?" said Tim, dressing into his coat, "There is an old saying among bards that adventure is a prerequisite for the birth of beautiful poetry. ”

"Actually, you can be a guide. Alina continued, not trusting Tim. She's wanted by the entire Empire. Of course she didn't say it, she was afraid that Tim would report her directly.

"Listen, it's old, but it still makes a pleasant sound. Look at my fingers, they're thin, but they swing the slings with a lot of power. ”

"That's not what I meant. ”

"Please, Arcanis. "I'm having a terrible time, since the Shadow Church attacked the Empire, few taverns have been willing to hire a bard from the West. I managed to get a job at a tavern, but it was blocked. They see me as a bad thing and don't want to accept me. Kazakhstan is a great city, but no matter how many songs I sing in praise of it, there is no place for me here. ”

"To make matters worse, I haven't been inspired for months. Tim continued, "Good God above, you must have been fate to save me. I need an epic adventure, and I'm willing to give it my life. ”

"Then why don't you venture out on your own?"

"Because you are Arcanis, only a legendary person will have a legendary experience. His sorrow will be bitterer than the sea, his victory will be like a trumpet in the sky, his... Oh my. Tim paused, scratched his beard, and muttered, "How do you rhyme?"

"In short, mortal adventures are also mundane. So if you want to write an epic, you must at least follow the hero. ”

Tim finished speaking, still grinning and looking up at Alina.

"Okay. Tim's eager gaze touched Alina.

"Yay. He jumped for joy, his fingers popping a few pleasant notes, "How about playing the song 'Destiny Encounter' now? ”

"They're coming after them. Alina said quickly, "Take me to the entrance to the underground waters!"

"Okay!" Tim grabbed a bag containing his few possessions. The little short legs waved, and ran out of the door with a puff of smoke, "Farewell, dear landlady, farewell, cockroaches and mice." ”

Alina followed him out of the wide and narrow alleys, plunging headlong into smaller, more tortuous and darker alleys. Fortunately, the halfling has a good chance of seeing the cat at night.

The whole area of chaos, at this point, really lives up to its name, chaos. The guards carrying green magic lamps poured into the chaotic area like a torrent of green. Everywhere there were green lights, shrill whistles, the sound of iron boots hitting the ground, and the terrified cries of the poor. Those who didn't know thought that there was a war, so the citizens who woke up from their dreams mistakenly thought that the despicable and shameless believers of God in the West had come in, and some began to nail the doors and windows with wooden boards.

The two men at the center of the storm were running fast. Tim couldn't help but ask Alina, puzzled,

"Arcanis, I wonder if you're going to kick the Speaker in the lower body?"

"It's worse than that. Alina replied, "The elven envoy said I was an assassin, and in short, I became a thorn in the side of the Empire, a wanted man in the whole country, and I guess my bounty should be enough to buy a house next to the Kazakh academy." ”

"That's a lot! Sure enough, I didn't make the wrong choice. ”

Despite Tim's thick beard and bowler hat, the shimmer of Aliana saw the excitement on his face, red as if he had drunk a spirit.

"Cheers to our great adventure, I'm sure they won't find it here. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar voice sounded, as if it came from hell.

"Alina!"

After that, at the corner of more than ten meters in front, the green light shone through, and Alina's eyes widened, and she saw a pale Frogissa, who seemed to be holding some crystal ball in his hand, and behind him were several guards in blue vests.

"Stop!"

"Run!"

Alina was much quicker to react, grabbing Tim by the collar. The muscles of her legs burst out with extreme strength, and the two of them and the cat were like being ejected by a slingshot, and they crossed a high wall, and she used her feet against the wall to cross a river of sewage.

"Wow! you're amazing. ”

They had just landed in an alley, Tim sighed.

The white-haired girl gave up on her feet and fell into the puddle of sewage.

"Damn, why do they always find me. ”

Her legs were so weak that she couldn't run for a short time, and Alina knew it was only a matter of time before she was caught.

"Could it be...."

It was like a flash of lightning flashing in her mind, and several images flashed quickly in her mind.

Frogissa has a crystal ball in his hand that he doesn't know what to do,

When she climbed over the wall, Christina's face was stunned,

While looking for the lair at the Academy, he bumped into Flogisa,

When sneaking out of the academy and coming to the chaotic zone, the swarming guards,

When I first got the magic pattern, I felt a little familiar,

The magic pattern seen when she untied the weed-filled bell for Melly.

"Melly!" Alina immediately lifted the mongrel cat in her hood and mentioned it to her, "Then you asked us to untie the bell, is there magic on the bell that can locate you?"

The mongrel nodded, and the half-elf girl looked pained, like an ice pick falling from the nine heavens and piercing her heart.

"Kazkaz, prepare a stray dog for me, quick!"

"Okay, a copper coin. ”

"Quick!"

She almost roared, leaving Tim to look at Alina in bewilderment. Even more strangely, Aliana rolled up her sleeves, cut off a few strips of cloth, tied her arms tightly, and placed a scimitar on her elbow, looking like she was going to cut off her forearm.

"Arcanis, what are you going to do?"

"Help me tighten the strip of cloth! quick!" the expression on her face was terrifying, and Tim quickly tightened the strip.

Something terrible happened, and the sharp blade cut through the junction of the forearm and the elbow with unmistakable accuracy, slicing the forearm open. For a while, the red blood flowed out at a terrifying speed.

Alina gripped the roots, tears welling up from the corners of her eyes. Her heart pounded in panic, pumping the precious source of life out of her body. Ah, this cold night, in the filthy darkness, cold like a poisonous snake burrowing into her wounds, she felt like she was going to die. In a trance and pain, she suddenly understood—I actually had a slight hemophobia. This doubt from the gladiatorial battle with Kukaron has been answered.

The stray dog arranged by Kazkaz arrived, its fur was covered in filth, and it was a little emaciated, but it looked big enough to snatch food and run away under the dog's stick.

"Let it take my hand. Her words were addressed to two "people", and the wild dog took a snow-white hand in his mouth and jumped into the "dog hole" on the side. Natural passages like these are everywhere in the Chaos Zone.

At this moment, an explosion sounded not far away, and the walls were shattered by a powerful fire elemental spell.

"Tim, run!" Alina leaned weakly against the wall, red blood mixing into the dirty puddles on the ground, "we meet in the nearest farmstead, town, or something barn to Kazakhstan. The code is a cat meow!"

With that, her form vanished in front of Tim.

"Take care. ”

Tim pulls his legs and runs,

"Kazkaz, heal my wounds. ”

"I'm not a pastor. ”

Alina closed her eyes, trying to stay awake. She stopped to the sound of her feet on gravel and the guards yelling at Tim.

The girl's heart was beating with fear, and blood gushed out of her body even as Alina tightened the strip of cloth. Fatal weakness ensued, and she was confused. The footsteps grew closer, and she cursed everything in the world until a familiar, somewhat frail male voice rang out.

"It was a trap, they split up and ran with me. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency. ”

The footsteps walked away, and Alina finally couldn't hold on, and showed her figure, crouching on the ground against the wall.

She tilted her head, feeling that her life was short.

"Since it can't heal, let me stop bleeding. ”

She commanded Kazkaz.

"Vascular closure, a silver coin..."

The latter words, she couldn't hear, she was confused, in her body, something was slowly dying.

The pain in her heart was worse than the pain of a severed limb, and in a blur she began to blame herself for being so clever and causing her so much pain, why couldn't she enjoy the false warmth?

Yes, Alina is too smart.

When she saw the crystal ball in Flogisa's hand, she figured something out.

Christina wasn't bad, Alina believed that she was only trying to persuade her, that she hadn't called the guards, and that if she wanted to catch Alina, she could have turned to her own family guards for help.

While searching for the lair at the Academy, it was not Frogissa who was following her, but a member of the Scroll Society. Otherwise, how could the nest be closed and abandoned?

When I sneaked out of the academy, I just came to the chaos zone, and the guards suddenly arrived, which is too coincidental.

And all this happened after she went to the speakeasy and was understood by the blonde elf.

In addition, the magic pattern on her arm, she had admired it hundreds of times, and at first she felt that some places were somewhat similar to the magic pattern in Merry's bell.

Therefore, she guessed that the magic pattern on her forearm, in addition to fighting, also had the function of positioning.

So Alina cut off her forearm and let the stray dog run away with it.

"It was a trap, they split up and ran with me. ”

This sentence echoed in Alina's head, and it confirmed the suspicion, and it was also a fatal blow. She closed her eyes and fell into the endless darkness.....