Chapter 402: Destination
Gondor's injuries were far from satisfactory, with a long, deep wound on each of his arms, under his ribs, and the scimitar used to fend off the attack was worn out to the point that it was almost broken, and it looked like he had to be replaced with a new one.
Lanaya's ring contained some potions from Grintor to heal her injuries, but she didn't know if the potions from the Realm could be used on Gondor. However, in an emergency, whether to find a doctor first or save yourself must consider the latter first.
After briefly cleaning the wound, in the process of applying the potion, Lanaya asked Gondor if she felt anything unusual, and Gondor said no, and Lanaya continued her healing work.
There were bandages and the like, and Lanaya was skillful in her movements, bandaging all the important wounds on Gondor's body without the help of anyone else.
However, Gondor's injuries were so severe that he was still unable to stand up on his own, so he had to carry Seventeen on his back and go to a crowded part of the town to find a professional doctor or priest.
It doesn't matter if the cost is high, it is the right way to recover as soon as possible and rush early.
"Awesome, Sixteen, you used to be a doctor?" Seventeen gave Ranaya an admiring look.
"No, alchemist. Lanaya was the answer she had told the innkeeper Zero Three.
The alchemist, if you don't take into account the incomparably skilled bandaging technique before, sounds reasonable, and it can be understood that these potions are all made by her.
In Seventeen's opinion, Lanaya was very absent-minded about his compliments, which gave the impression that she was used to hearing compliments from others. Seventeen frowned slightly with some dissatisfaction.
As everyone knows, Lanaya is thinking about something else, about Motriti.
She took out the assassination warrant she had snatched and looked at it.
Before the contract could be fully unfolded, Gondor's low, but distinctly angry, voice came from behind him, "Why didn't you attack her?"
Lanaya was stunned, obviously a little frightened, what she was holding in her hand was obviously just an assassination contract, but she suddenly felt that what she was holding was not this thing, but a meaningful letter from Motriti, and she had a sense of wanting to hide it immediately.
"Templar, I'm asking you, why didn't you attack her?" Gondor, who was lying on Seventeen's back, reached out and lifted the brim of his hat so that he could see Lanaya's back, and his red eyes stared straight at her, with some ferocity and reproach.
"She's the Assassin of the Phantom Veil, Motriti! Do you know what that means? If you don't know her legends or deeds, then I'll tell you, now she's in the Dire League, our enemy! Why don't you take action? Keep her, and she'll get her revenge!"
Lena was also puzzled and said, "Yes, Sanctuary, we have three ...... Four people, we are completely sure to win this battle, why did you let her go?"
Seventeen listened to their conversation silently, without interjecting, how terrifying Motriti was, he had already seen it, he himself was in front of Motriti, it was a life to solve with a knife, and he didn't deserve to be involved at all.
Lanaya kept her mouth shut for a long time, and the half-spread assassination contract in her hand did not open, and she looked at the ground in front of her toes, although she kept walking, she did not look at the road at all.
After a long time, she whispered, "I'm sorry. ”
There was another brief lull for the four of them.
"I'm sorry, it's over?" Gondor said angrily: "If you hadn't retained your strength, would I have been injured like this? Will Motriti run away? I would have asked you to kill her, and you would have said that you couldn't do it, I know, you don't have the ability at all, you don't want to kill her! Don't you think the bounty is too little? Lao Tzu is not lacking in gold coins, let you kill someone, not let you die......
Gondor's words were not finished for a while, and Lanaya ignored Gondor's words and opened the contract as she walked.
The first thing I saw was the line of "Assassination Contract" on the top, the pen was irregular, it didn't look like it was written by a human at all, with some weird meanings in it.
Then, there is the simple information of Gondor, the avatar, the places he has been recently, etc., similar to intelligence.
Bounty, 500 gold coins.
Having spent time in the real world, Lanaya knew how big five hundred gold coins were, but she couldn't imagine what made Motriti force to be an executioner for money.
What kind of place the Veil of Phantoms is, Lanaya doesn't know, let alone visit, and even whether it has a real stronghold, it's unknown.
What is certain, however, is that this time Motreiti came to Gondor and was not the result of following her so-called meditation.
Lanaya couldn't help but wonder what Motriti had been through in the two years she had been away from the real world.
What has happened to this world?
Walking all the way to the bustling part of the town, the expressions of the four people were different, Gondor was still talking at first, and later, Seventeen slowly began to calm Gondor's mood: "Sixteen is doing her best to protect you from harm! No matter what, she is out of kindness, she values you very much, otherwise, she would not take the initiative to help you bandage your wounds." ”
Seventeen also said all the way, a little tired from his back, but seeing that the nearest clinic was about to arrive, he gritted his teeth and pushed through.
Gondor gradually stopped talking, closed his eyes, and quietly put his arms around Seventeen's neck, lying on Seventeen's back to heal his wounds.
The physician was slightly surprised to see that Gondor was an orc, but he did his job dutifully. Seventeen stayed with Gondor, while Lanaya went out with Lena to the neighborhood to buy items that the inn didn't provide.
Lena glanced at Lanaya from time to time, as if she wanted to tell her something, but because there were so many people here, she didn't speak.
The orc's injuries recovered quickly, and in addition, Gondor was a relic contractor, and his physical strength and recovery speed were much higher than ordinary people, and with the help of the doctor, he was barely able to walk around on his own after resting for an hour.
The shadow of the small town of Saida was getting farther and farther away from them, and before they knew it, they had been walking for an afternoon, and the setting sun was almost sinking into the horizon, and the earth was glowing red.
Lanaya bizarrely felt that the sunset in the Alien Realm was much more beautiful than here, she was obviously born from reality, grew up from reality, and cultivated from reality, but she subtly regarded the Alien Realm as a belonging, because she had always wanted to "return" to the Alien Realm, not to "go" to the Alien Realm.
The map of the Gondor Belt was too abstract to be as detailed as the map in the Amethyst Ring, and they had no way of knowing where they were or if there was any place to rest nearby, only how far they had traveled from their own walking speed and time.
After the sky was completely dark, although the people still had the strength to continue walking, and with Lina, the fire magician, there was no problem with the lighting, but several people agreed to stop and rest.
The further west the Violet Plateau goes, the more desolate it becomes, with only barren dry land, and there are hardly any trees to be found, and if you miss it, you may have to walk for another two hours to meet the next one.
Set up a simple tent next to a tree and light firewood. The purpose of the tree is neither to shelter from the wind and rain nor to rest, but to give people a higher stepping point.
The place where they were now was, with the White Bone Empire to the west and the Burning God Mountain to the south, was desolate and terrifying enough for them, even if they didn't consider the danger.
It is not excluded that in the west or south, there are people like them who go to other places and happen to pass by their makeshift sites.
In this chaotic world, in this world of strife, the first reaction when you meet someone on the journey outside is to protect yourself, be vigilant, you must regard him as your enemy, if you naively think that he can help you something, it is a big mistake, the reality is often not so beautiful.
Gondor rested, and Lena propped up the barbecue underneath it, fiddling with the skewers and dry food with her head down with her own fire element.
Seventeen and Lanaya sat on a strong enough branch of the tree, looking in all directions to see if anything was going wrong.
Lanaya used psionic traps to place a shape similar to a world's gossip array in the farthest she could reach, and of course, these psionic traps soon became invisible.
"You always look into the distance, but there's nothing there. Seventeen looked over to where Lanaya could see and looked back, "Isn't it?"
If you have nothing to do, you might as well find someone to talk to. Lanaya withdrew her gaze from afar.
"You think there's nothing there?" asked Lanaya rhetorically.
"Is there one?!" Seventeen's eyes widened in surprise and his hands spread out in front of him, then he glanced into the distance: "I saw only a brownish-red sky, and a few stars so small that they could barely be seen glowing. And the wilderness, and maybe the cities, the mountains, and the forests, but I can't see them now. ”
"You've said so much and said nothing. ”
"No, no, I mean, I mean there's nothing meaningful there, something worthy of your attention. For example, an enemy who is not good...... Ah, I shouldn't have said this, change one. Seventeen symbolically waved in front of his mouth and said with a smile: "For example, a lost elf, two people who are arguing, such an intelligent being, or a light that you can't ignore." ”
Seventeen had been in the Thieves' Guild for more than ten years, and his night vision was very good, and as he spoke, he quickly noticed a subtle movement of Lanaya, and he saw Lanaya rubbing the amethyst ring on her middle finger with her thumb.
"A lover?"
Lanaya smiled and shook her head.
But at this moment she almost cried.