Volume IV Behind the scenes XIV

The other mercenaries didn't neglect any of their targets, their swords, scimitars, and flails beckoning the demons and Nia from time to time, causing a lot of trouble for Ness, halflings, and gray dwarves in the fight. Ness was pleasantly surprised to find that the fat on the halfling did not hinder his movements at all, Edel was as agile and fast as a normal halfling, and there were already three mercenaries lying at his feet, one more than Ness had cut down, and the two gray dwarves were significantly less effective because they regularly jumped next to the demon and Nya to block their attacks, but they also DD an opponent each.

"These may just be newcomers to the mercenary team. Ness secretly thought to herself, in addition to the head of Red Fish Village and the mandarin duck-eyed mercenary, there were about ten mercenaries around them, "As long as those two mages don't make a move, maybe ......" Ness thought as she used the long dagger in her hand to hold the mandarin duck-eyed mercenary's long sword, and the force on the long sword shook Ness's long dagger almost out of her hand. Ness's wrist was slightly numb, but that didn't stop her from taking the time to throw a knife at the crook of a mercenary's foot, and the mercenary who was holding up a giant axe with both hands to slash at the halfling's head fell to the ground, and Edel jumped forward to make up for him. "There are nine more. Ness counted.

Edel wielded a short scimitar, about the length of a normal long dagger, which he had drawn from the waist of one of the mercenaries as he walked through the mercenary bushes, and stabbed the mercenary in the flank. Edel wasn't as optimistic as the dark elves, and he knew very well that mages were usually reluctant to be in the company of knights, warriors, or mercenaries, but he wouldn't let them go lightly, and as Edel expected, more than half of the mercenaries they faced were killed or wounded. One of the mages began to point their staff at him, and began to murmur magic spells. Edel, who had secretly screamed in his heart, struggled to pull away the harpoon that had been stabbed in his chest from the head of Redfish Village. The halfling's arm was already scarred, and it made a streak of blood splatter from his wound; A snow-white light shot out from the mage's staff, striking the halfling chef's shoulder, and the last thing Edel saw as he fell to the ground with a scream was a few feathers floating in the demon's hand towards the mage's face. Edel fainted.

"Yo, it turns out that this demon still has the ability to cast magic. Finally unable to bear any longer, the mage, who had seen his companions laughing maniacally under demonic magic, raised his staff and shouted, "Stop, you all stop, and I'll deal with them." ”

The mercenaries took the mage's words as a deaf ear, partly because of the irreconcilable contradictions between the warrior and the mage, and partly because many of their companions had fallen to the ground, and some of them seemed to have lost their breath, while their opponents were still alive. The red-eyed mercenaries paid no attention to the shouts of the mages next to them. Wide-eyed trying to find a flaw in their opponent's moves, the halfling, the dark elf, and the two gray dwarves were already covered in blood, but they were in a dilemma: they wanted the mercenaries to obey the mage and stop attacking for a while, so that they could catch their breath, and if the mercenaries did stop, how to resist the mage's magic?

"Let's take a break and let the mages deal with them. However, after calming down a little, Anthony Kema, the head of Redfish Village, made a decision, seeing that he could not attack for a long time, and that he might lose more of his men if he continued to forcibly attack, the village chief decided to compromise with the mage for the time being. Seeing that the situation was not good, the dark elves and their companions hurriedly waved their weapons and tried to drag their opponents to their side, but they retreated slightly under the mutual cover of each other. So. The location of the barn was now a small clearing, with the halfling, the dark elf, the gray dwarf, and the two lying underground guarded by the mercenaries around them. Become the best target for a mage to cast magic.

The mage began to chant the incantation, and in the blink of an eye a huge fireball began to condense at the end of his staff, and the mercenary with the mandarin duck eyes looked at the mage, and plunged the long sword in his hand into the ground, spitting on the ground fiercely, while whispering, "Hmph, it's cheap!"

The mage had finished chanting the incantation, only to see him staring at the fireball at the end of his staff, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned: "Don't worry, it will never be more comfortable to die under my fireball than to die under your sword." And I promise your corpses will never be intact, demonic, you don't have to expect a miracle!"

"Who said that?"

A voice from nowhere suddenly reached the ears of everyone present, and along with this voice came a dazzling lightning bolt, which instantly pierced the mage who had prepared the fireball magic, and while the fireball flew uncontrollably to the heads of several mercenaries next to him, only the charred corpse of the mage and the staff that had turned into black charcoal were left in place.

A circle of light suddenly floated on the ground beside the demon, and I saw the circle of light gently float upwards and then fall again until it gently fell to the ground, and then there was a "poof", and at the same time as the circle disappeared, a man wearing the same white robe as the two mages appeared in the place where the original aperture was. The man was pale, had tousled hair, and held a strange-looking staff in his hand, with a little starlight floating near the crystal ball at the top of the staff.

Seeing the face ......of the person who came, a smile appeared on Ness's face, and then she let go of her hand, and the long dagger landed with Ness herself, and she couldn't support it anymore.

It's been five days since I left Redfish Village.

Eder, a halfling sitting by the window, silently counted the days. The injuries on the body of the demon Amtils, the dungeon lord who accompanied him, had improved, but it was unknown whether it was the effect of the herbs in the sea that Archmage Aqiman had collected along the way, or the careful care of the dark elf Niss, and Ness's sister, the mage Nia, had been frowning since she left Redfish Village and boarded the fishing boat that had carried them all the way to the southern sea, and no one knew what she was thinking.

However, the most worrying thing in the group was the halfling chef himself, though he didn't realize it. Along the way, two gray dwarves. Morgan and Carey had neither metal to craft nor ore to look at. I borely counted what the halfling had said in the past few days, and the results were quite shocking: in five days, the halfling had only said three words: "Morning." "Okay. "Good night. ”

to create such a situation. The biggest reason for this is, of course, the death of Edgar, the elder brother of the halfling cook and the elder of the Thieves' Guild, as if the death of his brother had also drained Eder's inexhaustible topic, as well as his spirit. Edel grew more and more emaciated by the day.

Elder Edgar was killed in the home of Anthony Koma, the head of Redfish Village. The Elder had dealt with the Chief of Redfish before, and when Ness reported to him that the traitor Isaac had entered the Chief's house, he decided to bring the Dark Elf Sisters directly to the door, a decision that led the three of them into a trap of speculation. The village chief with a smile on his face welcomed them into the living room, where Isaac slammed a dagger into the body of the halfling elder from behind, and a large number of mercenaries surrounded the remaining dark elf sisters. Just as the mage Nia's magic was about to tear Isaac apart, two mages from the Mage Guild hit Nia at the same time. The mortally wounded halfling elder made a way for Ness, and the dark elf thieves carrying her sister Nia fled to the barn where the demon and the two gray dwarves were hiding.

"Alas. Edel sighed, he had always believed that if his brother was in the thieves' guild, such a fate would one day, and that had happened, and that had happened to him, and Edel looked out the window, and in the setting sun, on the wide docks, several small merchant ships were heading west along the shoreline, and the halfling cook easily recognized the one that had brought them here.

This is the port of Bor, an important port in the south of the Principality of Sumerland, and the dungeon of the demon Amtils is at the foot of the Mount Thor, not far north of the port of Bor, and the city of Thor, which needs to be a little further north. Port Bor is the largest port on the continent of Vista. The docks were large enough to accommodate hundreds of the largest ships, but the number of merchant ships anchored in the port of Bor usually did not exceed ten, and ships were as rare as the gods that roamed the continent of Vesta.

Legend has it that it was probably more than 800 years ago. The Duchy of Sumerand was once one of the most powerful kingdoms on the continent of Vista, and even the town of Heihe, the hometown of the Klein family, who held the throne of the Holy Asyr Empire, and now located in the Duchy of Mrian, was under the jurisdiction of the Duchy of Sumerland. This was followed by the largest war in the millennium, which resulted in the defeat of the Duchy of Sumerland and the occupation of large territories by the Kingdom of Aser, which was later given the fiefdom of a member of the Klein family, now known as the Duchy of Mrian. The port of Bor, once the largest military port of the Principality of Sumerland, has gradually decayed to the present day, but despite this, it is still one of the most important ports of the Principality of Sumerland. From the port of Bor, merchant ships sailed west along the coast to the port of Dragon's Tooth, and then along the Lena River to the north to the capital of the Holy Asyl Empire, Onyx, from which countless weapons and supplies were exported each year, one of the important sources of economy for the Principality of Sumeland.

Every room in the Bad Mars Hotel in Port Bor has an unobstructed view of the entire dock, and Eder and his companions are in the Bad Mars Hotel at the moment, and they plan to rest for the night, and tomorrow they will find a carriage to carry the demons back to the dungeons of Tor Volcano, despite their injuries. Ness dragged her sister along into the streets, and even though it had been days, they often couldn't help but cry out in pain in Eder's presence, the archmage and the demon seemed to be studying something in the demon's room, and the two gray dwarves had gone to the blacksmith shop in Port Bor to observe the local weapon-crafting techniques. Eder was left alone, staying in his own room and looking at the seaside pier, feeling the helplessness of life alone, "alas" Edel sighed again.

"Why sigh?" a crisp voice suddenly sounded at the door of the room: "Sighing can't change anything, but smiling can." ”

Edel turned back in horror to find a smiling halfling standing outside the door of his room, and the halfling was standing on a long table in the hotel dancing happily as Edel and his party entered the Bad Mars Hotel. Seeing Edel ignore it, the halfling jumped to the center of the room, "You can't see your dead relatives, but they can see you." Only a smile is the best way to comfort them. ”

Edel opened his mouth. But he was speechless for a while. So the halfling man continued his speech: "You stupid halfling, why did you forget your own direction? Come with me. Let's go and bring laughter to people, and you will have joy from your heart. The halfling had walked up behind Eder at some point, gently tugging at Eder's coat.

Inexplicably, this was Eder's only thought, and Eder stood up and without hesitation pushed the halfling out of the room, closed it with his hand, and tied it shut, just then Edel suddenly remembered that his door had been locked from the inside. Edel quickly pulled the door open, but the halfling was gone. Only the gray dwarf Carey was walking down the hallway towards him: "They're waiting downstairs for you to eat with." ”

"What about the halfling?" Edel hurriedly asked, "What about the halfling who came out of my room just now?"

Carey looked at the halfling chef in confusion: "Halfling? there's only one halfling I've seen, and that's yourself." ”

"......" Eder didn't know how to explain it.

In the lobby of the Bad Mars Hotel, there were three long tables side by side, and the halfling who had broken into Eder's room had been dancing and singing at the middle table. Edel looked around as he walked into the hall, but couldn't see the halfling, the demon, the archmage, and the Dark Elf sisters were sitting at one of the tables, and Morgan the Grey Dwarf was already pouring ale into his stomach, and Carey joined him. As soon as he sat down, Edel pulled a waitress who walked past him: "What about the halfling who danced here this afternoon, and why didn't I see him?"

"You mean Tyce, isn't he right next to your companion?" the hostess looked incredulous.

Edel quickly turned around and found the halfling standing beside the demon, staring intently at the wound on the demon's chest. When he walked into the hall, he definitely didn't see the halfling. The halfling, whom everyone called Tyce, raised his head and smiled at Eder, "Hello, little Edel of the Ye Tea Family." ”

"Samia is on top. How did you know my name?" Edel scrambled to his feet, his sleeve accidentally scraping the spice bottle on the table, pepper fluttering everywhere causing sneezes in the hall.

"I know everything. Tess replied with a smile, himself the only one in the hall who was not affected by the pepper, "You can't even heal this wound, I know." ”

"Hello, what, there's no cure?" the demon Amtils struggled to suppress his desire to sneeze, fearing that he would accidentally shake off the mask on his face, "I'm not going to be so unlucky, right?"

"Hah, you're so unlucky, only the Blue Mist Grass can heal this wound of yours, you know what I mean. Theis pointed at Archmage Aqiman, "This thief mage should know what Blue Mist Grass is, right?"

The archmage's face immediately turned red and green, in a sense, Aqiman's stealing was usually just a subconscious act to save trouble, or a whim, such as the oil lamp, plate or even blanket that the archmage took in the city of Thor and the final homecoming hotel, and the most typical act of conscious stealing was the phantom star staff in Aqiman's hand at this time. When the archmage's teacher, Fa Qu Yeaman, went to the national parliament to listen to the princess's instructions, he left the Phantasmal Star Staff in the room of the Mage Guild, Fa Quyer Yeman, and Aqiman, who happened to have just received the room key from the teacher, did not hesitate to go to the Phantasmal Star Staff, and used the power of the Phantasmal Star Staff to remove the protective magic that the princess had placed on the Book of the Moon, and finally eliminated the mages of the two Mage Guilds and more than a dozen mercenaries in the farm outside Redfish Village. At this moment, the archmage coughed in embarrassment: "Blue Mist Grass, that's just a legendary magic herb, who has ever seen it on the Vestal continent?"

Tess jumped to his feet with ease and sat down on the edge of the table, "I've seen too much. Tess picked up a pot of strawberry wine on the table and poured it directly into his mouth, staring at Aqiman's face as he poured it: "Just give me those few small stones in your pocket, and I'll tell you that you can find Blue Mist Grass there, this deal is not bad, right?"

The faces of the demon and the archmage changed immediately, the archmage did not have a hobby similar to the dwarves, and he only had two "small stones" in his pocket: the ruby taken from the leafy chapel and the breastplate of Prince Agu Klein, and the obsidian that had fallen into the hands of the Chancellor and then stolen from the Chancellor's study. Akiman unconsciously clenched the staff of the illusory star in his hand, and the demon looked at the halfling who was picking up a piece of stew from the plate on the table with puzzled eyes, and Tyce waited until the stew was completely swallowed before he spoke again: "His wound is incurable except for the blue mist grass, poor child, when the wound that is accused on the outside but extending on the inside opens again, you should also go back to your god, what is that gram, gram?" (To be continued......