Chapter 2: Smooth
Three days earlier, at the end of a five-day hunt, Andrea had dragged her tired body and her friend Tamira to sell furs and fangs.
The standard team for an adventurer squad should have been five people, a mage, a sword and shield, a meat tan, a thief, and a hunter.
This kind of team ratio is the most reasonable, the ability is complementary, and it belongs to the standard squad configuration that has been popular for a hundred years.
Andrea was also in a full squad, and she was a good friend who graduated from De El College with her.
It was supposed to be the beginning of an adventure story full of youth and blood, but I didn't expect that in less than half a year, the team was already in pieces.
Hunting dangerous monsters in the jungle is also different from what they imagined when they were at the academy, with bad weather, dirty mud, and creepy bugs.
There are more and more complaints, and there are more and more contradictions.
As everyone got used to this kind of life, Andrea's friends gradually rose to the bronze level, showing great talent, and left the team one by one, leaving only her and her best friend Tamira, who is a thief by profession.
When the fruits of a hard day's hunting were exchanged for thirty silver coins, Andrea smiled tiredly and contentedly, and she wanted to give half of it to Tamira, because it was the result of their joint efforts.
But the kind friend did not accept it, but bowed and apologized.
"I'm sorry, Leah! I have to go! ”
Andrea can still recall the far-fetched look on Tamira's face when she kept the other party......
She must be in a difficult situation, right? After all, Tamira is also about to reach the silver level, and can follow the larger adventure party and go further afield.
If you keep staying with someone with poor talent like yourself, staying on the edge of De'er City, and grabbing the leftovers of others with those "old men", there must be no future!
Haha, there's no way around it......
Da-da-da-da!
The sound of tapping on the table woke up Andrea, who was in a daze, and her drunken face slowly lifted. Finding that her vision was blurry, she raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, and only then did she return to her normal vision.
A man with black hair stood in front of him, looking quite young, and he ...... What are you here for?
Xiang En looked at Andrea, who was still a little confused, her hands flashed with soft white light, and she took out three square pieces of bread and handed them to Andrea.
"Eat something to sober up, and we'll move on to the rest of the conversation."
Andrea was like a person who had just woken up and subconsciously took the bread before her brain turned a corner, with a confused expression on her face.
Xiang En sat down across from Andrea and looked curiously at the red-haired woman in front of her.
The bright red hair is tied together by a simple strap that does not affect the movement, let alone the appearance.
The camel-red cheeks are not rough, the eyes are also red, the facial features are no more, no less, just a pair of eyes and ears, a nose, and a mouth!
Xiang En feels that she is quite eye-catching, like artificially carved facial features are very exquisite, there is no stiffness of forced modification, no matter which direction you look at, she will feel good-looking.
As long as the temper is not very bad and there are not too many bad problems.
The touch of the bread in her hand made Andrea finally get out of a little drunk, and her eyes looked back and forth between the bread and Xiang En, who was sitting on a wooden chair in front of her, and finally she bit down on the bread.
The taste of bread that has been upgraded to the third level is not much better than that of high-quality white bread, and the impression of Boss Mike is still in the period of Xiang En's first-level bread skills, and Xiang En's current bread is really not so difficult to swallow.
At least Andrea ate quickly, five bread buns, stacked on top of each other, and gnawed in half a minute.
After eating, he raised his head and drank the remaining half of the dark beer in the wooden wine glass, and finally let out an unladylike hiccup, and the whole person looked decadent and confused.
"Hmm...... I'll pay, just need to wait a while......"
"You don't have to pay." This person is really honest, the corners of Xiang En's mouth twitched, and said: "I'm a support mage, you can understand it as a mage who can't attack spells, I need a teammate." ”
The words stopped here, and did not mention "long-term", after all, he also needs to be assessed.
If the person in front of him doesn't meet his minimum requirements, he won't want it.
With such a good auxiliary ability, as long as you are willing to take the time, even a pig can slowly cultivate into a gold-level magical beast!
If you can't find a teammate...... Then he can only find an obedient dog and feed it to the gold level with the magic crystal.
"Teammates?"
There was a moment of confusion in her eyes, and then Andrea snapped her head, remembering that she had asked the tavernkeeper for help finding her teammates.
Knowing that Xiang En wanted to come to his teammates, Andrea sat up straight, tried to make herself more energetic, and introduced herself: "Andrea, graduated from the Warrior Department of De Er Academy, is currently at the bronze intermediate level, and the weapon she uses is a sword and shield. ”
"My level is Bronze Advanced, but I don't have any attack ability, so I can only give you support."
Xiang En nodded, people in this world can't judge strength or weakness by physiological structure, magic is a magical energy, even a young body, after blessing a large amount of magic power, can burst out with powerful power.
The bronze intermediate level, which represents Andrea's magic content and physique, has reached the stage of qualified cannon fodder, and it is no longer a problem to resist low-level demonic beasts.
Xiang En's own magic content is equivalent to that of a low-level professional in silver, but his spirit is only equivalent to a high-level bronze, and his spiritual power is one of the important indicators for judging the caster's level, so if his magic power reaches the standard, if his spiritual power is not up to standard, he cannot be recognized as a silver level, which is the standard that has been used in this continent for a hundred years.
Because he has no attack ability and his skills are too weak, the bronze low-level warrior beats Xiang En like a child, and naturally he will not dislike Andrea's low level.
Again, give him time, even a pig can be promoted to the gold level with his assistance!
Once promoted to the gold level, it can be regarded as a high-end talent, no matter what kind of profession.
"Hit... Auxiliary? ”
Andrea heard a somewhat peculiar combination, showed a puzzled expression, and asked the waiter passing by for two more dark beers.
"I've learned a total of five spells now, and none of them have any attack power. During the battle, I can only help you increase your healing skills, and restore a small amount of mana, and after the battle, I can also heal you, and make a little bread to restore your strength, that's it. ”
Xiang En rubbed his hands very seriously, and in the soft white light emitted by his hands, he made a square slice of bread again and handed it to Andrea.
Taking the bread handed over, Andrea showed an undisguised expression of surprise, she was still dazed when she just sobered up, she thought that the bread was taken out of her backpack or pocket by Xiang Eun, but she didn't expect it to be made with magic!
This......
Spells never seen before!
She took a gentle bite of the bread, it tasted good, with a malty aroma, and she hadn't tasted white bread of this quality for a while.
After eating the bread of the white prostitute, although Andrea still felt a little hungry, she was too embarrassed to ask for it again, and got down to business: "Do you want me to hunt to feed you?" ”
How can you utter such outrageous words?!
Xiang En was stunned for a moment, looked at Andrea speechlessly, and said: "I will also have low-level retardation techniques and wind blessings, although I can't help you too much in battle, but with my words, you can save a large amount of money to buy healing potions and scrolls, if you can accept eating bread every day, you can even save money for meals!" ”
At this point, the waitress put two glasses of dark beer on the table.
After Andrea pushed a glass of dark beer in front of Xiang En, thinking that what Xiang En said also made some sense, she nodded in agreement, but she was still a little puzzled, "Obviously you have a very convenient ability, why don't you become a scroller?" Or...... Selling bread? ”
She now drinks in the tavern every day and has nothing to do, and the weather has been particularly bad lately, and she wants to go out hunting, but if there is only one person, the daily harvest can only barely support her life, and it is even more difficult to improve herself.
If the man in front of him really just wants to find someone to team up with, and not have other plans, it doesn't matter if they are together.
I just hope the team lasts longer......
Gollum!
Take a big sip of dark beer.
"My magic is special, I can't burn it into a scroll, and bread is time-limited, and it will disappear if you don't eat it in ten minutes. My conditions are simple, listen to me in tasks and actions, and reap equal points. ”
Xiang En continued to tug at the corners of his mouth, as of now, he was quite satisfied with Andrea, and he spoke much better than those old fritters.
Those who cut the door even had to calculate the cost of each meal, not only to let him make bread, but also to get a pitiful amount of money.
Tut......
It's still a rookie who has just come out of the novice village, and he still has a little bit of innocence in the academy, and he loves face more, and he doesn't care too much about the details.
Although it doesn't matter, Andrea still thinks about the comparison between the two sides' efforts and shares, she provides military support, and Xiang En provides logistical support.
As for the task, it is obvious that the man on the other side knows more than himself, a rookie, and such conditions are not unavoidable.
On top of that, she's running out of money.
"No problem, though...... I hope we can work together for a long time. ”
Before proposing a long-term cooperation, Andrea was still very hesitant, after all, Xiang En was already a bronze senior, and he was only a little short of reaching the silver stage. Reaching the silver stage is already considered the mainstream level of adventurers, and many adventure groups will absorb people from the silver stage to join and get better development.
But she didn't want to be abandoned as a burden anymore, and if she was still abandoned, then she might as well be promoted to the silver level alone and find another adventure group.
If Xiang En knew Andrea's thoughts, he would definitely laugh, laughing like a chicken thief!
In the rather anxious waiting, Andrea saw the smile on the corner of Xiang En's mouth, and felt inexplicably panicked, thinking that he was laughing at his whimsy, so she picked up the wine glass and took a big sip to relieve the panic in her heart.
"Of course, I hope we can understand each other and cooperate with each other."
Xiang En didn't expect it to go so well, and he called it exactly what I wanted!
Andrea's eyes widened slightly, and then her slightly tense body slowly relaxed, and her nervous mood relaxed a little.