Chapter 18 The road is narrow
The core camp of the Arcana Theater of Operations, built on a hillside, is a sight to behold, with its cascading defensive walls and towers of arrows. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The construction of such a large-scale fortification in such a treacherous environment shows how much of a stimulus the imperial military department was to the imperial military headquarters when the imperial capital was almost breached.
Caesar and his party returned to the camp, and the team leader was immediately taken to the camp hospital for examination and treatment due to his injuries and physical exertion.
Caesar took pity and went straight to the military merit exchange office.
"Yo, Kaka, it's early today!" said a bright and attractive female soldier in her early thirties at the exchange office.
She stepped forward and gave Caesar a gentle punch in the chest.
The woman was wearing a tight military uniform, which perfectly outlined her tall and mature figure, and the sleeves on both sides were rolled up to her elbows, revealing two arms that showed a very healthy brown color.
She played with a small dagger in her hand, which swirled like the wind and seemed to fly out at any moment.
"Sister Jing. Caesar greeted with a smile.
The woman's single name is Jing, and she is the only person Caesar is familiar with in the Arcana now, and the old people in the war zone call her Xiaojing, Caesar naturally can't call her that, so she is generally called Sister Jing.
Basically, all the rules of the potential existence of this war zone were told to Caesar during this time, and Caesar was still very grateful to this rare warm-hearted senior. Moreover, Jing's strength is very strong, and he is one of the few people in the war zone who has the strength and qualifications to go out on a mission alone. She is a soldier of the Four Orders.
It is said that when she went on a mission a while ago, she was injured and besieged by the earth dragon group that inexplicably rioted, although she escaped by luck, but she will not be able to fight again in the near future.
Caesar and the other party have known each other for a short time, but they also know that this woman is an impatient person, so every day she can be seen wandering around the military merit exchange office, asking about the experience of the person who returned from the mission. It feels like a person who wants to go out but can't do it temporarily, and hears something from others to satisfy himself.
The nickname "Earth Dragon Killer" was given by this woman.
"Come on, come on, don't talk nonsense, show me your booty!"
Jing didn't treat Caesar as an outsider, she was very tall, almost the same as Caesar, she directly hooked Caesar's neck with her arm, laughed and said, "Yesterday was the single horn of the Earth Dragon King, and what about today? Ha, let me guess, it should be the Earth Dragon Queen's reverse scales or something......
She was originally just joking, but at this point she suddenly couldn't talk anymore.
Because the poor silently took out a complete pale silver scale from the backpack, and gagged all the jokes that followed Jing into his mouth.
"Ahem...... Caesar coughed with some difficulty, and said, "Sister Jing, can you ...... A little...... Loosen up, I'm going to be strangled by you!"
"Ah...... Oh, sorry, sorry. Jing then realized that she was too shocked and subconsciously tightened her arms, and the strength of the Sixun soldiers was not a joke, so she quickly let go of Caesar.
Then she stopped looking at the scalesβwith a quiet eye, she didn't have to look much to know what it was.
She turned her head and looked at Caesar seriously, the smile on her face had disappeared, replaced by seriousness and solemnity: "Nothing hurts, right?"
"No, I don't. β
"Don't worry about face in front of your sister Jing, the Earth Dragon Queen is not joking, if you are injured, tell me immediately, and we will go to treat it immediately." Speaking of this, Jing suddenly remembered something, and pulled her hair a little unfiguratively, "Hell, the Earth Dragon Queen's reverse scales are the most firm and hard, how did you remove them?"
Poor and silent, she rarely communicated with anyone other than Caesar.
Caesar smiled and did not answer the question, but said, "Let's go, let's go and exchange military merit together." β
Jing is not a person who studies deeply, obviously she is more interested in military merits, although this military merit has nothing to do with her half a dime, she still said with a twinkle in her eyes: "Yes, let's go together." Haha, I'm curious how much the Dragon Queen's body parts can be exchanged!
Because it is the off-season, this time point is when most people have not returned from the mission, and there are not many people in the exchange office.
It stands to reason that the exchange of military merits is very fast, everything is carried out according to the established procedure, and after the value is assessed, the exchange can be completed immediately.
But things soon took a turn for the worse -
"What do you mean you can't redeem?" Caesar looked at the staff in charge of exchanging in amazement, puzzled, "You don't think it's fake, do you?"
"Not really. The staff also seemed to be a little embarrassed, and they wanted to stop talking.
"Hey, don't ramble, I've been in the war zone for so many years, and I've never heard of anything that can't be exchanged. Jing was anxious, glaring at the young staff.
The staff laughed and said, "This, Sister Jing, don't worry, I don't want to do this, it's just ......"
"It's just?what?" Jing thought of something at this time, and snorted coldly, "Okay, did someone ask you to intercept the military merits? Damn, you kid, it's just a matter of doing something like this behind my back, and you dare to do it in front of me?" Don't you know that Little Brother Kaka is the person I cover?"
When Caesar heard the words "military exploits", his face moved slightly.
This world is like this, no matter how strict the rules are, there are loopholes, and there are shadows next to any light, and the Alcana Warzone is no exception.
The so-called military interception merit is actually very boring to say, that is, a person gives his spoils and gains, such as the body parts of the earth dragon, or the number of battle mages killed, to another person.
Intercepting a military merit before it is exchanged for the person who deserves it is a military merit that is given to another person.
This is an unspoken rule in the war zone, and if the ban is repeated, the superiors will turn a blind eye, as long as they don't go too far.
Caesar didn't expect such a thing to happen to him, but he really didn't expect it to come so quickly, and the other party actually did it in front of Jing.
You must know that although Jing looks arrogant and looks like a heartless eldest sister, her strength and medals are there, and she is considered the number one person in the Alcana war zone.
Neither Caesar nor Pity spoke, and the staff was already forced to smile bitterly, looking like they didn't know what to do.
This made Caesar feel even more strange, what kind of person wanted to intercept his military exploits, so that this staff member did not even dare to offend Jing at the expense of Jing and that person?
"Please don't blame him. β
A voice rang out at this moment, it was a young man's voice, "I asked him to do this-if Kaka comes to exchange for military merit, help me stop it." β
Jing frowned when she heard this, turned her head, and saw an extremely handsome young man.
He was wearing a uniform style of imperial military uniform, but the material was different from that of other soldiers, and he vaguely recognized that it was made of a very defensive material called "tough hemp", and his eyelids couldn't help but jump slightly.
"Are you?" asked Jing as she stared at the other party.
She'd never seen each other before, and was a new face.
The young man smiled and said, "Yes, although I have been in the Alcana for a while, I have hardly returned to the camp, and most of the time I have been sleeping in various parts of the war zone, and it is also true that Lady Jing does not know me." β
"Ma'am?" Jing couldn't help but smile and said, "Is Your Excellency the son of a big family? We have only warriors in the war zone, there are no ladies from the nobility circle. β
Although the other party is very handsome, Jing, who has always had a good attitude towards handsome guys, feels a little disgusted, she turned around and asked Caesar: "What, do you know anyone?"
β...... Well. Caesar was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.
In this world, there are some people and some things that really can't be avoided no matter what, just like the arrangement of fate, they will always be arranged by your side.
"Shiloh. Caesar looked at each other and called out their names.
"I didn't expect to see you here. Shiloh looked at Caesar indifferently, "Kaka, right? I'm curious about how a mere academy doorman turned into a dragon killer in the Alcana war zone?"
He spoke slowly, and as he spoke, a retinue of the clan brought by a family named Shiloh came out from behind him, and in an instant, surrounded the three Caesars.
When he was in Phoenix, Shiloh and Caesar had a big holiday, but he didn't know that Kaka and Caesar were actually alone.
Shiloh was about to enter the Phoenix Academy to find Long Qiqi, but was unceremoniously stopped at the door by Caesar, and then he has been holding a grudge until now.
Shiloh has been very irritable after the masquerade banquet, and coming to the Alcana did not really calm the resentment and resentment in his heart, but only allowed him to vent a little.
Today's Shiloh can be said to be unscrupulous, as long as it does not exceed the bottom line of the military department, he dares to do anything.
Obviously, he was planning to take advantage of this opportunity to find Caesar's trouble, so as to avenge the shame of being blocked from the cadet gate in Phoenix.
There were not many soldiers in the military merit exchange office, and they were all attracted by the movement here at the moment.
"Who is that person, even Sister Jing dares to offend?" someone looked at Jing who was surrounded by a group of people with ugly faces and Caesar, and asked in confusion.
"The young patriarch of the Twelve Round Tables, the youngest divine craftsman in the Empire. Someone next to him said.
"Uh......" The man immediately shut his mouth and stopped talking.
Jing is just a very important figure in the Alcana, but she is not really a big man, after all, she is not even a school officer, and with her natural potential, she will be at the rank of major in the future.
In comparison, Shiloh is a person from another world entirely!
Jing's face was very ugly, and she also knew that the other party was a character she couldn't afford to provoke at all, but her natural stubborn temperament made her feet nail in place like roots, she looked at the other party, and asked in a low voice, "So, what do you want?"
Shiloh looked at Jing a little unexpectedly, as if he didn't expect this woman to wade into this troubled water after knowing her identity.
"It has nothing to do with you. Shiloh shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "I'm a person who pities the jade, if you can, please get out of the way, okay?" I'm looking for the kid next to you." β
As he spoke, he looked at Caesar and smiled slowly, "I heard that you have a piece of the Earth Dragon Queen's reverse scales in your hand? Sell it to me, how about it? I'll ...... A gold coin. β