The kingdom's borders near the Pale Mountains are rarely populated except for fortresses, but there are several human settlements like Locketown that serve as intermediate stations connecting the various fortresses, serving as both supplies and messengers, such as Greenwood.

The town has no more than 500 inhabitants and has a tavern and a few small shops for the entertainment and consumption of the residents.

One of the shops was a little bigger, and there was a fairly complete range of goods, so early in the morning there were four young people standing at the door, whispering something about something.

"I said, let's buy some clothes, look at me and Leon, the clothes are so torn that we don't want to wear them or not, we are not barbarians on the tundra who want to show their muscles at any time, and I have been dark in the past two days!"

It was Jeff who spoke, and he pointed to the backpack on Leon's back and said, "I know you don't have any money, but I still have a few silver coins in my bag!"

The cute priest girl attracted most of the attention of passers-by, her face flushed, and she whispered, "I think it's better to prepare some ingredients, so that you can make us delicious food every day." ”

Caterina also has her own opinion, "See if there is any suitable equipment......"

Before she could finish her words, she heard Jeff say, "Miss Katarina, how can there be regular weapons and armor for sale in such a place, even if you have a few silver coins of mine, you can't even afford a belt." ”

The knight girl, who had been robbed of her white, snorted and said no more, staring intently at the few townsfolk who were focused on her face.

"We still have opals to exchange for," Leon reminded.

"No, one is that the shopkeeper of a small place may not have seen this kind of thing, and the other is that we have some unknown origins, and the opal will be suspected in the eyes of those who are interested, and it will not be good to attract the attention of the garrison. ”

The sophisticated Jeff denied a few of them, and in the end Leon decided to buy clothes first, and as for Sophia's suggestion, he also ignored it, and the ingredients were not all in the forest, on the side of the road, and in the river.

Soon, the rags on Leon and Jeff were replaced with new ones...... Coarse linen, because this most rudimentary clothes are worthless, as for the rest, in addition to buying some hot oil, it is still invincible to Sophia's gaze and chooses a few ingredients.

Jeff was mainly doing the selection of supplies, and Leon talked to the shopkeeper seemingly casually, and soon found out the general situation of Greenwood Town, and unexpectedly found that such a small place actually had a target he needed to find.

After coming out, the four-person team returned to a state of extreme poverty, but the state was not bad, Li Ang weighed the only dozens of copper coins left in his hand and decided to go to the tavern, not to find out any rumors, but it was said that the target would often appear there, and he just tried his luck.

The taverns in Greenwood are about the same size as Locketown, and when you push the door in, there is only one empty table left, and the rest is filled with mercenaries or townspeople.

Sitting down at the empty table, Leon asked for the cheapest ale, and Jeff shrugged his shoulders and seemed not happy with the tavern wine, while the remaining two didn't drink at all, which made the only male waiter look ugly.

Leon didn't care about these details at all, his perception had already locked on to a figure in the corner, it was an elderly man, his hair was gray, his face was deeply scarred, and his left arm was empty from the base of his left arm, and judging by his dress and the half-glass of ale on the table, his financial situation was in dire straits.

Leon winked at his companion and walked over with his glass.

There weren't many people in the tavern, so Leon's movements caught the attention of the others, but seeing that his target was the man in the corner, most of them withdrew their attention with some disapproval.

"Old Jack?" Leon sat down across from the man.

The man was staring intently at the remaining half of the glass in his glass, as if nothing else could catch his attention.

Leon raised his hand and gave the waiter a gesture, and soon two glasses of ale were brought to the table.

He gently pushed the wine glass over, and the man slowly raised his head and stared at the strange young man opposite him with somewhat cloudy eyes.

"Who are you, the people around here should have lost interest in me a long time ago," the man's voice was a little hoarse.

"I'm a person who is very interested in the warrior's path, and I've heard that you're a very good warrior, so there's something I'd like to ask you about. Leon kept his focus on the strange pair of eyes.

"Excuse me!" the man seemed to hear something ridiculous, "I'm just a piece of rubbish, what's the matter to find someone else!"

His tone was full of resentment and unwillingness, and it was obvious that he was not doing well.

"There's no need to belittle yourself so much," Li Ang said calmly, "A figure who used to be the captain of a squadron in the border guard will never become a waste no matter what." ”

Jack Hodi looked up, "You inquired clearly...... But you know what! The garrison doesn't need a disability like me, and the people in the town look down on me, not a piece of waste!"

After saying this, he poured a large sip of wine, and then choked and coughed.

"The value of a veteran is immeasurable, and this value is not only on the battlefield, but also in his incomparable experience, his old eye, his keen and accurate intuition...... Many people can't see these things, because their life experience can't reach this level at all, so why care about other people's eyes, you can sit here alive, in fact, it represents the glory of a veteran. ”

With Leon's words, Jack's expression gradually changed, and after a while, he muttered to himself in a deep voice: "It's true, it's like what he said......

This sentence was adapted and fused by Leon from a certain passage in his previous life and some fragments of the old earl in his memory, although he did not hear the other party's whispers clearly, but he noticed that Jack's feelings seemed to be loosened, so he waited quietly.

Jack didn't speak, just drank the wine one by one, and after drinking half a glass, he naturally drank the two glasses that Leon pushed over, and then raised his head and said, "Okay, I owe you two glasses of wine now, for the sake of your words to me, if you need me to do something, just say it." ”

"I wanted to hear your story," Leon said with a smile, "but I'm about to leave the border, so I've chosen to ask you to use all the warrior skills you've mastered, and I don't know if I can fulfill my wish." ”

Jack looked up and down, and said with some gloom, "It turns out that you are already a second-order professional at such a young age, I think I was almost 30 years old when I reached this point, and the young man now is really capable." ”

He thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "Just do it once, for the sake of the wine, I can tell you some tips." ”

"I've seen the essentials in books, and now I have to see people do it with my own eyes to understand it. ”

Leon himself admitted that this sentence was made up very unreasonably, but Old Jack only showed a little strange look in his eyes, but he didn't ask any more.

"Come with me," he said, pulling out a simple wooden cane from under the table, and braced himself to his feet, only then did Leon realize that his left leg was not too forced, and that he should have suffered some irreparable injury.

"Yo, old Jack, what can you do with a waste body like yours, why don't you give me the opportunity to make money!" a strong man thought that Leon was a money-paying man, and laughed.

Old Jack ignored him, limped to the door, pushed open the door, and walked out, only Leon noticed that the fingers he held on the handle of the crutches had turned white from too much force.

Leon passed by the strong man's table and said in a calm tone, "It's true that a dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth. ”

After speaking, he didn't look at the other party's reaction, and beckoned the other three to leave the tavern after Jack.

A few seconds later, a burst of laughter erupted in the tavern, and someone said, "This unheard metaphor is very vivid, the fangs of a white elephant are indeed much more expensive than the fangs of a dog!"

After another ten seconds, the strong man stood up with an angry roar, and he listened to the explanation of the people around him before he understood the malicious intent hidden in Li Ang's words just now.

"Bob, you really dare to chase them out, those little ghosts don't look easy to deal with!" someone half-truthed and half-truthed reassuringly.

Sure enough, Bob was so excited that he immediately stomped his foot and rushed out, and then he shouted in a loud voice, "Damn it......"

Before he could finish his sentence, a black shadow in the double door that had not had time to close rolled back at a faster speed, knocking down a few tables before stopping castration.

Bob was smashed, and he had the impression that the young man who had just spoken had punched him, and then he was so violently shocked that it seemed that the heavens and the earth were spinning in front of him, and he sat up, staring blankly at the door, and never had the courage to go out again.

There was silence in the tavern for a while.

......

"Still too impulsive, Captain," said Jeff angrily, "you said you couldn't get too many people's attention, and you made a big fuss when you turned around." ”

"I can't control it at all when I meet such a person......" Li Ang touched the back of his head and said with a smile.

"Don't be afraid to bring in the guards," Jeff shrugged.

"The news won't spread so quickly, Locke Town is not a short distance from here, well, but you're right, I'll pay attention next time. ”

Leon knew that Jeff was thinking about the team, so he apologized in the end, but it was a natural reaction to the punch just now, and he felt that he was in a much better mood after the fight.

He also felt that this reaction was quite strange, and he didn't know if he was tossed by a terminal illness for four years and then bizarrely, and his personality seemed to be very different from before.

"It's close to the border anyway, we bought everything we should have bought, it's a big deal to run away," this reaction must have come from the nervous Sophia.

Although Old Jack never looked back, he listened to what had just happened, his eyes were a little sparkling under the reflection of the sun, he clenched his cane tightly, and walked towards the outside of the town at an accelerated speed.

Greenwood also has a road passing by, and Jack stopped near the sparse woods on the side of the road, leaned against a tree, and said, "Alright, here it is." ”

"You take a break," Leon said, noticing that for the old mercenary, the stretch had already made him gasp, and one of his intact legs was trembling slightly.

"Don't look down on me, like you said, I'm a veteran too!" Jack snorted, threw away the cane in his hand, and said, "Give me your sword!"

Li Ang looked at the other party silently, and handed over the "spider thorn" with very formal etiquette.

"Oh, it looks like he's still a nobleman, it's really rare......" Jack's experience was really rich, he looked at the long sword, his eyes gradually confused, as if he was remembering something.

"The sword is good...... Boy, look at it, with my body, these combat skills can only be used once," Jack slowly opened his long sword sideways after a while, and looked at Leon and said seriously.