The next day, when the morning sun was getting higher and brighter, brighter and more dazzling, Little Anne and the team she followed who planned to go to the deep mountains and wild forests to collect herbs were almost reaching one of their final destinations.
This can be judged by the increasingly relaxed pace and breathing of the so-called temporary "teammates" walking around her, even if she was swaying in the wooden carriage.
Of course, the undead bones, whose original name was "Anziwuergong", now called the warrior "Momo", were the other party's companion Nabe! Because, the other party was breathless at any time, and his pace would always be like that.
“…”
(＿＿*)zzZ
To be honest, Annie hasn't figured out what the purpose of joining the team preparing to collect herbs in the forest...
If they were short of money, she knew that there were a lot of gold coins in the underground grave of the other party, and the other party’s family might just be less gold than what Queen Anne carried with her? Since she was not short of money and wanted to improve the level of adventurers, why not learn from her and make a beautiful brand of dazzling diamonds for herself?
Even if the other party doesn’t have diamonds, it is impossible to make a brand that carved countless reflective surfaces like you and can emit beautiful light. But a little simpler, it is still very simple to make a steel brand. With the other party’s strength, why do you have to look at the face of the verbose ragged adventurers guild?!
So, Annie couldn't figure out what the other party wanted...
So, since she couldn't figure it out, she had to continue to follow the other party and continue to mingle in the team, preparing to observe and study it carefully.
'Hello!'
‘Everyone, we will arrive at Kahn Village soon. There will definitely be no monsters here. We don’t need to continue to move forward nervously according to the alert formation like this, right?’
'No……'
‘Luclot, please don’t let go of your guard and keep driving the way ahead!’
'But Peter, it's really safe here...'
‘Huh! Luclot, it’s better to be careful, because maybe a dragon will suddenly attack us…’
‘Oh! Please!’
‘Nia, is this unreasonable thing possible? We haven’t heard of dragons in our city of Yelantire for many years?’
‘Why is it impossible, what if it really comes out?’
‘Impossible! Absolutely impossible!’
‘Luclot, you know that in ancient times, there were powerful dragons near the city of Yelandir! And you also saw that in the north of the Angelicia mountains there, there were still a large number of frost dragons living in it, and no one could guarantee that they would suddenly fly to the dense forest here to predate!’
'this……'
‘Don’t just quibble, Luclot, you should go ahead and explore the way and guard it!’
‘Tsk! But Peter, if there are really frost dragons here to prey, what’s the use of our guard?’
‘Why didn’t there?’
‘Where is it? Peter, do you think our team can beat a Frost Dragon? That thing requires at least steel-level adventurers to have the ability to fight against it?’
‘At least, we can run away early, maybe we can wait for it to eat the old horse and let us go?’
'Well……'
Luclot was so choked by their captain Peter's assumption that he couldn't say much to refute. He opened his mouth, and after a long time of confusion, he still didn't say much. He just turned his head awkwardly and continued to open the way and move forward with a warning.
“!!”
(っ-)
"Who said just now that there was a dragon? Where is it? Where is it?!" !(Д≡д)!?
Little Anne, who was napping in the carriage, suddenly woke up, stood up from the carriage, and began to turn her head mentally to search the sky and the ground around her, wanting to see what the dragons were like just now.
Because she is now disgusting that the broken carriage is too slow and bumpy. If there is really a dragon, she might be able to pretend to fight with the other party, then win the victory almost, and finally catch it as her royal mount?
‘…’
'Oh……'
‘Oh ~!’
Captain Peter, Nya and Dain were speechless for a moment, and just looked at each other and smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say to each other. Since they set off before dawn in the morning, they have never stood up from the car. Look at the sun in the sky, how long has she slept?
"Okay!"
"Little guy, get on your car. There are no dragons here! You'd better pray that those terrible creatures will never come out. We silver-level adventurers really can't deal with that terrible thing!"
Seeing a little girl suddenly become energetic, the captain Peter, who was following the black sword next to the carriage, persuaded him with some amusement.
Until now, Peter, the captain of the Black Sword, has not figured out where the little guy in front of him is from, nor does he know why the other party's elders are assured that the other party came out alone to make a move... In other words, they meet their "Black Sword" team with faith and pursuit. If they meet another team, they may be sold for money and still don't know what happened, right?
"I'm not afraid of dragons!"
o()o
"You just want to worry. They are now super adventurers at the 'Bright Diamond' level. They can definitely protect the safety of you guys!"
()hey-hey!
Annie patted her little chest and promised to the other party.
Because she is indeed very powerful, she can even guarantee that if the attacking dragon is too ugly, she will definitely burn the other party to death! And if it is too beautiful, she may eat the other party? As for those who are neither ugly nor beautiful, such as those who are hideous and big, she may directly enslave the other party and then treat it as domineering means of transportation to show off to the indigenous people?
"Ha ha!"
"Let's forget it, don't think we don't know how your 'Bright Diamond' adventurer level came from, that's you, the Adventurers Association and we won't admit it!"
'well!'
"But Peter, don't say that Anne's diamond brand is pretty, it looks like that?"
"Isn't it? But, thanks to her, she also found a crystal brand of such a suitable shape, and that kind of craftsmanship, even if we spend money to hire someone to work, it may not be possible?"
"hehe……"
“…”
As he spoke, the captain of the dark sword Peter joked with the forest priest Dain, and he didn't mind that the angry little guy standing in the wooden carriage in the carriage was staring at them with angry eyes.
"You guys!!"
o(*'　〼)o
hateful!!
Wait, Annie said that if she had the chance, she would definitely show her skills and let them, the silver-level adventurers, know that her super adventurer at the level of "Bright Diamond", is not a false reputation, even if she is self-proclaimed!
(…)
(●￣()￣●)
"ah!!"
"Everyone!"
"We're about to reach Kahn Village after climbing over that hillside. Let's work harder... Hey? Strange, when did a circle of guardrail be built there?"
The Enfreya, who was sitting in front of the carriage and driving the vehicle, suddenly exclaimed, because he looked over from a distance from here, and found that at some point the Kahn Village had built a whole circle of wood fences outside the village with logs along the farmland and the houses in the village?
“!!”
(“▔□▔)
"Damn it! Why are you back here again..."
(╭╮)
Unlike the unreasonable excitement of Enfirea, Anne's little baby face collapsed after seeing the slightly familiar village.
“??”
"Annie, what's wrong with you?"
The Enfreya heard the exclamation and complaints of a little girl behind her, so she couldn't help but ask sideways strangely.
"It's nothing, I just don't like the people in that village very much!"
(￢д￢.)
Anne promised that if anyone had been hostile to those guys, and had deliberately refused to sell her things, or even threw them into mud, he would definitely not be happy to stand up.
"ah?"
"Why? I think the people in Kahn Village have always been very good..."
This is not the first time that Nfireya has come to Kahn Village. He has always thought that the people here are very good, and of course, the girls here are better too!
When he thought of the figure that made him dream of, his originally stable heart couldn't help but accelerate and beat "thump" and "thump".
"Because they had arguing with some bad guys in the village here before, they bullied them fiercely before leaving!"
华华
"Oh! It's not a big deal anyway, so you should stop asking!"
o(^)o Humph!
Annie looked at the warrior "Momo" behind her who was still silent, and then remembered someone who dared to throw herself with mud, and finally was thrown back by herself. She almost turned into a mud monster Slime and the other party's young lady. She couldn't help but secretly became happy.
“…”
“???”
He looked at Peter, the captain of the Dark Sword, and had no idea what the little guy was talking about and what the weird expression was about. They shrugged and did not intend to continue to entangle the other party with that kind of irrelevant little thing.
‘!!’
‘There is a situation!!’
However, when the Kahn village in the distance was already far away, everyone had not been able to go far forward. After just crossing a hillside in front and walking around a small forest, Luclot, who was exploring and leading the way, exclaimed directly.
‘What’s wrong, Luclot?’
‘I don’t know how to describe it, you should come and have a look!’
‘!?’
‘What the hell is wrong?’
‘You guys come and have a look!’
‘??’
‘Look, what exactly left the traces here?!’
‘!!’
'This is……'
As everyone accelerated their pace, they soon saw the terrifying scenes displayed by the place blocked by this hillside and the dense forest:
At this time, what was being presented in front of everyone was a large area of ​​land that caused the desertification of the land, as well as the charred tree trunks on it, the melted and solidified magma pools, and some even burnt pits that were even burned to vitrify. At this time, they were emitting strange and beautiful colorful lights under the reflection of the sun...
And this strange scene looks very abrupt and weird compared to the green grasslands and dense forests around and in the distance!!
'this……'
‘What the hell is going on here, what’s going on?!’
'I have no idea!'
‘Ni, Nya, what do you think?’
'I don't know either……'
'But I think it seems like some extremely terrible spell and the traces left by the flames, but I don't know what level of spell it is. Anyway, it must not be accessible to magic singers of my level...'
‘!!’
‘Hey! Look here and there, even the earth is burned into sand, which leads to desertification. Look at the sand, there is no soil at all. This is really terrible...’
'indeed!'
‘But look over there, there are the cooled magma pools that have been burned out, and the glass-like ground!’
‘Tsk!’
‘…’
Everyone stood on the edge of this road and this strange desert area and observed carefully. After a while, Luclot, Nya, captain Peter, a bad little girl, and two guys who basically didn't say a word throughout the whole process, after confirming that there was no danger, he raised his legs to the field and began to observe carefully.
‘It’s incredible…’
‘Look, there are also huge footprints here that don’t know what kind of creature it is! Dain, you are the forest priest, come and take a look!’
‘!!’
‘Did you see it?’ Aiwei
‘See…’
‘Dyn, then do you know what kind of monster this is left behind?’
“Um…”
‘From the shape, it seems to be... a giant bear?’
‘Giant, giant bear?’
‘Yes! Look at the footprints here and there, the places where there are footprints outside the desert area, and the charred plants around the footprints... It is not difficult to guess, it is probably a terrifying giant bear with a huge size!’
‘How big is this kind of footprint?’
‘It’s very big anyway!’
‘…’
‘Look, I also noticed that everywhere outside there were footprints, there were charred plants and trees... Maybe it was a giant bear with its own flames?!’
‘!!’
‘Dain, you mean…that’s a terrible monster?!’
‘Yes, there is that possibility!’
‘…’
‘Hey! Nya, what do you think?’
‘I don’t know, I just know…our mission this time may become very dangerous!’
'ah……'
‘Mon Momo, what do you think?’
The players of the dark sword discussed for a while, and then their faces became increasingly ugly, they all looked at the two soldiers who were thinking about something but stood not far away without saying a word.
As for a little girl who was digging out glass-like pieces of glass from the pits on the ground and shining them on the sunlight to reflect the beautiful "rainbow", they were directly ignored.
‘Well…’
‘I just observed it for a while and got a few guesses…’
‘It is very likely that two or more people have fought here…and at least several more spells were cast here, and eventually some terrible spell caused the desertification of the land here and another flame spell that led to the glazing of the earth…’
‘Also, look at the footprints that solidified in the magma pool can at least determine that there are two or three people fighting, and those footprints are all from different threes... As for the flame bear you just mentioned, I guess... it may be a monster summoned by which flame caster?’
‘Of course, that’s just my guess…’
The warrior Momo said this in a hoarse voice, and then he looked at a little solemnly with his companion Nabe before looking at a little girl squatting in the glass pit in the distance.
What happened here is apart from him and Nabe knowing very well. Obviously, the heartless little girl not far away who was in a mood to play must also know more than them! Of course, many people in the Kahn village in the distance probably witnessed the battle between him, Anziwuergong and the little girl that happened with their own eyes.
‘!!’
‘Yes! Look, it seems that there are really three types... no! They are four different footprints, and there are many traces of destruction of different magics?’
'What?'
‘You guys look at this side again!’
‘??’
‘This footprint is a little smaller, it should be a female warrior, and she is wearing steel plate armor. She steps on this magma pool and leaves the pattern at the bottom of the metal boots!’
‘It’s true!’
‘Conia, what happened to that smaller footprint?’
‘I don’t know, maybe it’s a dwarf? I’ve seen the information, it seems that there is indeed a dwarf country in the Angelicia Mountains, and there should be dwarfs inside?’
‘Well! It makes sense…’
Captain Peter and Luclot squatted beside smaller footprints, reaching out to gesture and guess, trying to guess the approximate identities of the powerful figures who fought here at that time.
However, at this time, a little guy suddenly jumped in front of them and stepped on the small footprint they were studying.
"I'm not a dwarf!"
()
"Look, those footprints are just right to others. Maybe this is the traces left by others at that time!!"
()
Anne proudly used her pair of savage-headed leather boots to step on the two shoes that seemed to fit the soles of her shoes and formed by the solidification of the magma, and then continued to smile proudly, waiting for the other party to praise and amaze him.
'Oh!'
‘Little Annie! Come and play, don’t disturb us from doing serious business!’
'that is!'
'But Peter, look, Anne's shoes and footprints are almost the same. Wouldn't that mean that person might be a small man?'
‘Well…’
‘There is that possibility!’
‘…’
After waving his hand impatiently to repel a little girl, Peter continued to seriously discuss some new possibility with Luclotte.
"hateful!!"
(ψ｀╭╮′)o
‘…’
‘…’
Warriors Momo and Nabe looked at each other speechlessly, but in the end they still didn't say anything.
Because they knew that the two humans were actually very, very close to the truth of the matter just now, and the little girl also gave each other enough tips, but the two stupid humans chose to ignore it. Don’t they think about why the little girl’s shoes fit so well with the footprints? And wouldn’t they take a look at the sole of the little guy?
When the patterns and sizes are tightly matched, isn't the answer coming out?!
Unfortunately, Momo, a soldier who is also one of the participants in the matter, must not dare to remind the other party like that. He could only continue to stand quietly with his companion Nabe on this battlefield, commemorating or imagining how terrible and painful the battle was...
'alright!'
‘No matter what, things should be like that!’
‘But Momojun is really amazing. He only observed a few glances and made it well-founded. It was like seeing that battle with his own eyes, pointing out all the key points we hadn’t noticed before...’
‘But, Momojun, do you think it was the one who won?’
After looking at it for a while, the people who could not see the reason and could not get a better conclusion soon gathered together again and asked Momo, a warrior who had hidden his whole body under the armor.
“…”
"I guess you have noticed that the other two footprints suddenly disappeared, and the smaller footprints and the giant bear's footprints were walking towards the village. I guess it must be the flame caster who won, right?"
Although I really want to say that I am a "strategic retreat", given that a little girl in the initiator is by my side, Momo, who dared not over-stimulate the other party, could only answer based on his "observation" so much and admit his failure.
"Ha! I've guessed it right!"
(-)
"Brother Momo, you are so amazing. You guessed it all, just like you saw it on the spot?"
()
Didn’t you just see it on the spot?
In fact, Annie also knew that the other party not only saw it with his own eyes, but also experienced it personally, and even experienced it personally the sour feeling when it was burned into a skeleton by the terrifying flame magic and the "Evil Knight"?
‘…’
snort!
However, in the face of the repeated provocations of a little girl, the warrior Momo, who felt that he had no chance of winning in a fight, felt that the other party put too much pressure on him, had to turn his head gently and get out of sight.
‘!!’
'I heard Mo Mo Jun say this, it seems that it is really that way! Mo Mo's observation is really meticulous!'
‘But, Peter, who will that winning guy be?’
'I have no idea.'
‘Hey! I really want to see the true face of that guy who can cause such destructive power…’
‘Forget it, Nya… Let’s pray that it’s better not to meet such a guy, that one is really not a good thing!’
‘Ah! Sorry, Captain, you said so!’
‘…’
‘…’
After the warrior Momo and his companion Nabe looked at each other again, they stood aside and stopped talking! The reason why his analysis was accurate was natural, because he was not only a witness, but also a victim... Moreover, the desertification of the land here was also part of his contribution. In addition, the matter has not been passed for a few days, how could he not remember it deeply and observe it carefully?!
‘!!’
‘Wait! What happened to him, Nfirea?’
‘??’
‘Hey! Nfireya! Where are you going?!’
Suddenly, the captain of the Dark Sword Peter, Luclot and others discovered that the employer who had been silent before, the pharmacist, Enfreya Barreare, suddenly jumped into the carriage, then whipped the old horse pulling the carriage, accelerated directly and ran towards the direction of Kahn Village not far away?
‘I’m a little worried about Angel…’
‘You don’t have to worry about me, I’ll go to Kahn Village to see the situation first!’
After saying that, without waiting for everyone to answer or agree, the carriage was already moving further and further away, and a burst of smoke and dust were brought up behind it...
'Oops!!'
‘Let’s keep up! That terrible little guy is probably in Kahn’s village!’
‘No way?’
‘It’s best if you don’t know! Stop talking, Nia, keep up!’
'Um!!'
‘??’
‘Mr. Momo, Nabe and Little Anne, aren’t you here?’
When the people of the Dark Sword were about to follow, they turned around and found the three people standing behind and motionless, and then asked in confusion.
‘…’
Nabe didn't say anything, but just stood aside coldly, still acting like her iceberg beauty.
‘No!’
‘Let’s go to the woods ahead to check and wait for you. If there is anything, you can call us immediately!’
The soldier ‘Momo’ shook his head gently and said dullly.
There is nothing good in Kahn's village. Apart from the remaining villagers and a small group of goblins summoned by the human girl Anli, there are no terrible little guys at all! Because that 'terrible little guy' is not anyone, and he is just staying by their side at this time!
"I won't go!"
(*^▽^*)
"I also want to go to the woods with these two guys to see. Maybe there will be something fun inside?"
(-)
How could Annie fall into the village of Kahn?
You know, she is not as good as the big bone-shaped Ainz Urgong who can wear armor to cover it up. Her clothes are exactly the same as that day. If she enters the village, she will have to be recognized by the villagers, especially a little girl who has been bullied by her!
(…)
(●￣()￣●)
‘That’s good!’
'We follow him to Kahn Village. You can first go to the forest ahead to check the details, and leave a mark. If there is nothing in the village, we will go back to you later!!'
Captain Peter, who had no time to say too much, said after he told the three people who were unwilling to follow, hurriedly ran forward with his team members and chased towards the chaotic employer in front, fearing that something would happen to the other party to cause their escort mission to fail.
If that happens, they will have to be downgraded by the Adventurer Guild to the same bronze level as some bad little girl!
Chapter completed!