Chapter 72: Backpackers
As the holder of the legal principle of the frostfall land north of the grassland, under the indoctrination of Kyle and other courtiers, Chen Zhou has the most basic understanding of his neighbors.
This includes the situation, history, and resources of neighboring countries such as Prairie and Norton, as well as the superior combat power, special institutions, and secret knowledge of these neighbors.
Therefore, the moment he saw the token on the orc raider in Tira's hand, he recognized the true identity of the other party.
"Those orc sandworm knights just now are not just scouts or raiders, but the Fangs Society, an organization similar to the thieves and assassins in Lionheart."
There are also some people who call it blade teeth.
These members were largely tasked with the royal family and certain intelligence agencies, using their combat power or skills to carry out sabotage work in different regions, or to defend the descendant of the emperor's declining power.
"Why would such a special profession attack a caravan?"
After hearing Chen Zhou's explanation, Xiao Hei, the most rational of the three, quickly realized the strangeness: "Could it be that the caravan is actually not an ordinary merchant?" β
However, judging by the reaction of the caravan members and guards after the attack and the heavy casualties, the caravan may not be unusual.
Case......
Xiao Hei mechanically turned his head to look at Chen Zhou, and made the sound of gears running rapidly.
Maybe it's their teammates' special status that attracts these people!
"Asta is nothing more than a mediocre ...... Well, the small broken plane with low combat power, I don't think anyone will come forward to assassinate me after knowing my identity. β
"Are you really sure?" Xiao Hei became more and more convinced of his guess.
Who do you think Mayor Berau is going to assassinate?
"Rat Rat, I think there are a lot of people on this plane who are looking forward to your death."
"Why? Shall we confront them face to face?'
"How can you have that time, instead of wasting time on such meaningless things, it is better to take the time to upgrade to a level......"
Then come back and jump through the ranks and take out those enemies.
"Ahem, I don't think the real target of these Fangs is me."
After all, the old emperor had already made his attitude clear, and Chen Zhou's high resistance and resistance to the effects of spells also made it difficult for others to see through his true identity (with spells).
"Don't forget that we have a special big man by our side."
Hearing this, Tira was even more puzzled: "Who?" Where did the big man come from among the three of us? β
Xiao Hei looked at the roof of the carriage and sighed, not only feeling the penguin man's brain circuit, but also feeling helpless for the truth of time.
"That person is you!"
"Huh?"
In any case, realizing the truth, Blackie decided to let Tila immediately use the "Pony of Smoke Bottles" to leave the caravan that was still resting, and further increased his safety level.
As the trio left alone on their final journey to North City, it pointed out to Tila the most likely reason why the Fangs attacked the caravanβ
Snipe alchemists from the Astral Plane who have forged a partnership with the Kingdom of Norton.
"So, they're here to assassinate me?"
At this point, the penguins, who are intellectually qualified but have little common sense, reacted: "Because I cooperated with the Alchemy Society and decided to conduct an academic exchange in North City and participate in their secret plan?" β
Xiao Hei nodded, it was nothing more than a harmless automatic dwarf in itself, and before the identity of another teammate did not explode, it was most likely that Tira, the lamp holder who was proficient in alchemy, was the biggest threat.
Once the alchemy of the outer realm is allowed to flow into this world, the Norton Kingdom, which is the first to obtain its technology, will rapidly develop its national power.
At that time, with the strength of personal bravery and the advantage of the blade against the alchemy technology steam knights, the battle between the two sides that has lasted for hundreds of years can easily come to an end!
Based on this, it is obvious why the orcs would come to assassinate Tira......
"But they're too rough, aren't they?"
Tila has never heard of such a straightforward "assassination", is it okay to come up and a group of sandworm knights appear from the ground and burst out of their faces?
"After all, it's an orc, and it's more straightforward when facing people who seem to be able to fight." Chen Zhou explained that losing your brain is much easier than calculating.
"And what if they fail in the first wave of assassinations?" Tila looked worriedly at her teammates who knew her kindred, "Could it be more dangerous?" β
Chen Zhou, who only knew what it was, had to spread his hands: "I don't know, I'm not from the Grassland Empire." β
Tila was thoughtful and stopped, and finally hurriedly opened her backpack.
They were two days away from the northernmost city, and she didn't want to stay on the road at all!
I saw that she easily concocted a bottle of potion and drank it in one gulp, and it continued to shrink from only half the size of Chen Zhou's body to the size of Lily.
"I'm a non-combatant, I'm going to take refuge in a Howard convenience bag, and I'll be called out when I get there!"
As soon as the words fell, Tila, who had shrunk several times, jumped directly into the backpack and closed it with great skill.
Immediately, a "click" sounded, and she locked the backpack directly from the inside......
"As for it, aren't you a long-experienced astral adventurer, and you still need to be frightened by ordinary people whose general strength level on the main material plane is not as high as that of Shi La Toad?"
"Say whatever you want, I'm not going out anyway!"
Hearing this, Lily, who has often hibernated in her backpack for some time, poked her head out and patted the other party's space backpack curiously.
Look, it looks like the "backpackers" alliance has one more member today?
"This strange thing looks interesting, if we had one too, Lily would be able to set up a simple little nest in her backpack."
Although Chen Zhou barely contained anything in his backpack in order to make Lily more comfortable, the convenience bag, a strange object that provides extra space, made Long feel more relaxed.
"I'll make one later, you can put some of your favorite things in it, and you can stuff a dimensional bag full of snacks and snacks into it and eat it as you go?"
As soon as these words came out, both Lily and Xiao Hei looked at Chen Zhou in surprise.
"No, Cen, you must not put the dimensional bag in the convenience bag!"
Xiao Hei hurriedly dissuaded: "The convenience bag is a miniature space-like strange thing created by a mage named Howard on the Gray Eagle Plane using the rules of space, and the dimensional bag also opens up a small half-plane, if the space overlaps with the space, a very dangerous folding phenomenon will occur!" β
In a nutshell.
If you put the Dimensional Bag into the Howard Convenience Bag, it will tear open the Astral Rift, sucking the contents into the Astral Plane and disappearing.
If you put the convenience bag into the dimensional bag in turn, the objects near the two strange objects will be sucked into the astral plane at the same time, destroying the strange objects and the items inside......
(End of chapter)