Chapter 8: The Beginning
"Alonso the Dragon Slayer?" The middle-aged man standing across from me wrapped in silver chain mail spoke with a slightly gloomy face, "I feel deep regret for this heretic......"
That's right, this middle-aged man is Amom, a ranger who has important information about the dragon slayer Alonso. It's been almost three hours since we finished eating in the afternoon, and we've almost worn out the soles of our shoes after running for him, and he's still not revealing any useful information to us, just a stubble of sadness left alone. If it weren't for Hannah's reminder, I'd have gone crazy.
First, we found this retired ranger who was meditating here at the Abbey of Nisla, and then we started to get close to him. Naturally, he won't talk nonsense with you at first, and if you have to win his favor, you have to run errands for him. The first thing he will ask you to go to the nearby forest to get rid of the wild wolves, because these wild wolves will run out in the middle of the night to steal the sheep kept in the monastery. After killing a hundred of them, he will think that you are a bit interesting and send you to catch the thieves who frequent the vineyards. After waiting for more than half an hour, the thief showed up, and the rank was not low, fortunately we had a lot of people here, and it was very difficult to subdue him and twist him to the ranger, who knew that the ranger Amum only taught him a few words and let him go. We wasted three precious hours doing all this. And what's even more infuriating is that we still have to accept this old immortal's nagging here.
"The light of justice is omnipotent, but there are places where it can't shine......" He was still chattering, and I even felt the urge to pull out my knife and slash him to the ground.
"Alonso was a very good paladin before he became a bloody dragon slayer, and like me, he was a top graduate of Norton's Chapel of Light. He is a rare talent, with a passion for the best, a will to uphold the law, and a desire to repel the forces of evil, and everyone believes that he can surpass what Sir Gigza calls a new generation of paladin legends. However, this paladin's future star unexpectedly fell. "If any of the previous theories of the Holy Light are appetizers, the gossip story about Alonso the Dragon Slayer that Ranger Amum tells next is a bit nutritious, at least I don't yawn anymore when I listen to it.
"Why did Alonso fall unexpectedly?" Remia asked curiously, little P always had a strange enthusiasm for this kind of nonsense story.
"That's because when he defeated the Demon Lord Sith, he accidentally obtained the Sith's magic sword, the Soul Sucker." Ranger Amome stretched out a finger and gestured a few times, "He didn't expect the magic sword to have an independent consciousness and soul, and when he was carrying him back to the Chapel of Light, his soul was unknowingly corrupted by the magic sword. The magic sword has magical powers, and all creatures slain by this sword will have special abilities that will be absorbed by the sword and transformed into the body of the sword wielder. Although this kind of transformation will greatly help the sword wielder's ability to improve, there is no free lunch in the world, and the transformation will also cause great side effects to the sword wielder. ”
"What are the side effects?" He asked with a frown, I actually knew he was thinking about how to get the Demon Sword Soul Sucker, it sounded like a good thing.
"The sword-wielder will become extremely bloodthirsty." Speaking of this, Ranger Amome lowered his head and began to tremble, "Alonso came back just in time for the Black Dragon Legion to attack the Chapel of Light. When he wielded that magic sword and sliced through the flesh of the first Black Dragon Legion soldier, his fate could not be changed......"
The memory seemed to make Amum so painful that he closed his eyes: "He killed all the creatures present. All the black dragons, all the paladins, and ...... And also...... Cecil and Felicia. ”
Cecil...... Velicia ...... "Amome, as if having lost all her support, fell to her knees with a thud, covered her face with her hands, and began to weep bitterly, "My beautiful Cecil and Felicia. It's all my fault, if I hadn't sent Alonso, this tragedy wouldn't have happened......"
"Who are Cecil and Felicia?" I whispered to Hannah, who was standing next to me.
"It's his wife and only daughter." Hannah replied with red eyes.
I looked at the little girls around me again, all with red eyes and some still snorting. As for it, it's just a surreal version of the cutscene of a mission in the game, so is it worth putting so much effort into it? It's hard to say, it's like watching a movie, knowing that it's all made up purely to sensationalize, and it's all a trick used by unscrupulous directors to deceive the audience of the money in their pockets, and the majority of good men and women will still be moved by it, tears and snot.
Our next work naturally did our best to appease this sad middle-aged uncle, and this kind of heavy responsibility naturally fell on those girls who were fully devoted. I don't know how to persuade people at all, if it weren't for the red question mark on the Ranger Amom's head, I would really want to put the knife on his neck and force him to hurry up and leave the task to me.
The power of women's mouths is endless, this middle-aged man died, his wife and daughter are estimated to have not been close to women in their lives, and so many beautiful women hugging him at once, it is difficult to hand over the task quickly. Ranger Amome's expression quickly perked up again, and he continued: "Alonso slashed the entire Black Dragon Legion, relying on the magic sword he absorbed all their abilities, and now he is extremely powerful. But ......"
As soon as I heard these two words, my whole spirit lifted. Cunning nobles, evil sacrifices, brutal dragons, and sinister guilds are often difficult to defeat, but it is because of the existence of the word "but" that heroes are born. And what is the word "but" that is closely related to Alonso the dragon slayer?
"However, he has another weakness." Ranger Amum said mysteriously, "He was slashed by the Demon Sword during a desperate fight with the Demon Lord Sith. To this day, the wound has not healed. Haha, I think he must still be struggling in pain now, but it was all in vain, as long as he didn't destroy the magic sword with his own hands, that wound would never be erased. It's like an eternal curse until the hand of justice sends him to the hell where he deserves. ”
"Where's that wound?" I asked eagerly. Obviously, this wound is the key to whether or not I can complete this task, it is like the mantra that unlocks the treasure of Alibaba, as long as you read it right, endless wealth is at your fingertips.
"There was no way for ordinary people to see his wounds, and the heretic kept his wounds well hidden...... So, you have to have the eye of the mind to see it. Ranger said impassionedly.
"Where can I find this spiritual eye? What does the eye of the soul look like? I asked.
"Ahh The magical eye of the mind, only the great white-robed mage Ambaba knows how to find the eye of the mind. Ranger Amome began to shout feverishly, "The white-robed mage Ambaba is in peaceful Snedada, find him, inquire about the whereabouts of the Psychic Eye, and obtain it. Be sure to allow sinners to be judged by the Light, and the hand of justice will always sustain you. ”
After saying that, the ranger Amum roared, and I felt a faint red light covering my body, and my whole body had inexhaustible strength. The system prompt also sounded at the same time:
You have been blessed by the Righteous Hand to increase your health by 15%, mana by 15%, movement speed by 15%, physical and magical resistance by 15%, and physical and magical critical strike chance by 15% for three hours, and death does not go away. Justice is everywhere, and justice is incomparably powerful.
What a powerful buff magic, I turned my head to look around and saw that the other people were also covered with similar red light, Hannah looked at me in surprise and said, "Strange, why is there such a powerful buff effect?" I remember the last time we did this, it was only 1%. It's so unfair. ”
"Only 1%? No way. "I don't quite believe this Hannah.
"What are you lying to? It's true. If we had the same 15% kicker last time as we did this time, maybe we'd have passed the third step. Hannah snorted.
Could it be that I'm too charismatic, and the NPCs are giving me extra benefits? I thought to myself. I quickly dismissed this idea, if an NPC gives you a favor without asking you for money, then it is eighty percent that the system is buggy, or you will be unlucky in the future. So what about this time? It occurred to me that Elijah had told me that Nelia was a person who accomplished this task. "One person, a team of ten, a team of ...... hundred" I thought about it for a while, and suddenly it dawned on me. I clapped my hands and asked Hannah, "When you came to hand in this task, did you come with a whole team?" ”
"Yes, the last time we did this mission, we dispatched the whole regiment. However, the maximum number of people per team is one hundred. Hannah replied.
"That's right." I smirked, "I've already guessed why there's a difference in the buffs we get." I'm guessing that the degree of buff magic that this Ranger gives is judged by the number of people who hand in the task, and the smaller the number of people, the greater the buff effect. ”
"Quite possibly." Hannah exclaimed, "This mission is treacherous." The buff effect is placed according to the range, even if one person hands in this task, the surrounding people can still get this buff magic effect. But the magnitude of the increase is different. How did I not think of that? ”
"Who called me a turtledove, ahaha!" I'm even more proud.
Hannah saw that I was getting carried away, and poured cold water on me: "Don't be too happy." Even with such a powerful buff effect, this third step is still sad. The white-robed mage Ambaba will tell us to find the three shards. The first piece is called Fallen Dust, and in the hands of a demon named Zanoor, it is a difficult character. We just couldn't kill this boss, and we were forced to give up the mission in the end. ”
Zanoor? The fat demon who helped me take a shortcut to level up? I laughed and rolled on the floor. Lord God, you care too much about me.
I finally got up and patted Hannah on the shoulder: "Hannah, when the time comes, you will see how I single-handedly challenge this boss." ”
"Heads-up?" Hannah's jaw was dropping to the ground.
That's right, heads-up.