In this way, Leon, the leader of the Empire's Qinglong Knights, and his adjutant, Learte, and others lived in a hotel next to the road next to the village.
At this time, it was completely dark.
In this hotel, except for two soldiers wearing cloaks covering the conspicuous green imperial armor outside the door standing guard and keeping watch, the remaining 130 people all squeezed into this small hotel.
"Ha ha……"
"drink!"
"Look!"
"Captain Barth, it's also good to go around the distance. At least we can have wine and hot meals, right?"
"that is!"
"It's definitely right to follow Lord Leon. You are still too impatient during the day. Fortunately, you haven't heard of Lord Leat, otherwise you will feel better."
"Go and go! Drink!"
"Come!"
"cheers!"
"Uhhhh!"
“Come again…”
"Don't!"
"You can't drink any more. You have to get up early tomorrow. If you are seen by Adjutant Liat, you will inevitably scold you again!"
"You guys say that old-fashioned guy, he's just..."
"Shh!"
"Eat yours, Captain Barth, it's better to say a few less words!"
"Come on! Eat quickly!"
"I will have to change my duty later when I'm full!"
Then, naturally, except for those who had already squeezed into the rooms to sleep, the remaining imperial soldiers were gathering in groups of three or five in the hotel lobby to eat and drink, crowding this originally small place and quite lively.
“…”
At this time, the owner of the hotel was shuttled between the crowd and the kitchen.
She is very tired and busy now, and her expression is very complicated. She just listened to the conversations of the imperial soldiers unintentionally, but she didn't dare to take a look.
The food of these more than 100 people was almost emptying the wine, meat, food and other food in her hotel. Moreover, she was busy working alone inside and outside. From the evening to the present, she was almost exhausted. Although the other party gave her a lot of money from the beginning, she didn't have to worry about escaping the bill at all, she couldn't be happy when she thought that these people were soldiers of the empire.
She still didn't know what was going on between the Sallas and the Reygard Empire. Now a group of vicious soldiers from other countries were eating and drinking with her, but she couldn't understand the situation or report it to the lord, which made her very worried.
Of course, worry is useless!
Now she is the only one in the hotel. She can't pull herself away and doesn't even dare to escape, let alone do anything else.
“??”
(.)
“!!”
ヾ(^▽^*)))
At this time, a bad little girl suddenly rushed from the dark night outside the door to the hotel lobby where several lights were lit. Then, she was a little surprised at first, for some reason, not knowing why the group of monster uncles who came here in the evening had not left, but soon, she threw this little thing behind and jumped directly to the counter and lay down.
"Hey!"
(*)
"Aunt! They are back, all the monsters have been wiped out!"
(*^▽^*)
“Is there anything delicious tonight?”
(`)
Annie didn't care about the tired look on the boss's face who had just sat down at the counter, but just jumped over excitedly and asked.
She came here a week ago, and then, as she walked, she came across such a hotel, and then temporarily stayed here.
A few days ago, when she was chatting with the idle boss lady, the aunt at the counter, she learned that the other party had a daughter who was working as a waiter here, but she was attacked by a group of monsters one night last year and died tragically. Then she could only handle it alone, so she couldn't bear it for a moment, so she patted her breasts and promised that the other party would help clear all the monsters near the village.
So she cleared one of them last night and cleared the second contaminated cemetery again tonight, and finally she was done.
That kind of small thing is not difficult for her, it is just a little troublesome. Generally speaking, she must be disdainful to do that kind of thing specifically.
"ah?"
"Anne..."
"You...really going to that place?"
Hearing Annie's words, the boss's wife was slightly stunned, and then her tired eyes became a little awake.
"Of course!"
()
"If someone says he wants to help, he will definitely go and help. How could he not go?"
()
That's right!
What Queen Anne promised is usually done well, and similarly, if she is not happy, it will be useless for anyone to ask her!
"Here!"
☆(o*)
"This is the helmet of a very powerful skeleton monster. I'm giving it to you now. You can exchange it with the lord for money!"
()
Bang!
As she said that, Annie took out a rusty but extremely heavy plate armored horn helmet from her space pocket and threw it onto the floor inside the counter, making a dull collision sound.
“!!”
“Hmm?”
"What sound?"
"The basin fell off?"
Hearing the sound of metal collisions on the counter, the Imperial soldiers who were eating and drinking seemed a little sensitive, so they couldn't help but turn their heads and take a look.
"Oh, don't worry about her, she's a kid anyway!"
"Come on, let's continue drinking!"
"Captain Barth, why not drink it?"
"The last cup is really the last cup. Come on, let's do it together!"
“…”
However, when they saw that the boss lady was talking to the little girl during the day, they quickly turned around and continued their affairs, eating, drinking and shouting.
After all, it was just a village woman and a little girl who knew some tricks, and that was not worth the waste of too much attention from the Imperial Army men.
"ah!"
"So heavy!"
"Annie, did you really go?"
He leaned over and picked up the helmet on the floor, took the helmet that seemed to have magic, and weighed it for a moment, then hurriedly stuffed it into the counter and asked the fat boss lady who was lying on the counter.
"Of course!"
o(^')o
"Didn't they promise you?"
()
Anne asked angrily.
You know, Queen Anne keeps her word and says that she will definitely eradicate the monsters if she wants to eliminate the monsters! And if there are really no monsters, she will even create the monsters herself first and then destroy them!
(…)
(●￣()￣●)
"That……"
"What did you encounter there?"
The boss lady couldn't imagine that a little girl would dare to run to such a terrible place alone at night.
However, the facts were in front of her. The helmet just now was not only rusty, but also had a decayed smell of the undead. Coupled with what happened last night, she did not doubt whether the little girl Anne in front of her had really been to that terrible place where even the local lord could not do anything to.
"Um……"
(`)
"It's nothing, just some skeletons, the undead and the skeleton general wearing the helmet just now. They look quite powerful, but they are still a little better than him."
(-)
Anne didn't want to scare this fat aunt, so she lowered her own strength to an infinite degree, but even then, she wasn't as good as that kind of boring skeleton could reach.
“!!”
"Skeleton?"
"And the undead?!"
“It’s so scary…”
Sure enough, the boss's wife was instantly frightened by Annie's words.
She did not doubt Anne's words, because the noble lord of the local Sarras had led the soldiers to clean the two polluted cemeteries, but unfortunately, the monsters would appear again soon after the cleaning, and the monsters would not come out to move during the day and would not leave the cemetery too far at night, so she simply ignored them and did not pay any attention until her daughter heard about it after she had an accident.
However, because the accident happened to her daughter was just an isolated case, there was no sign of large-scale attacks by monsters in the nearby villages, so she has not seen the lord wanting to send troops to conquer.
"but……"
"Actually, it's useless even if you destroy them."
After being happy for a while, the boss's wife quickly became depressed again after screaming.
“??”
(°〼°〃)
"Why?"
く(＾_)ゝ
Anne was a little puzzled.
"well…"
"Isn't it because those two cemeteries were contaminated?"
"It is said that there was a battlefield that was a battlefield, and many people died, and there was a necromancer who had used terrible necromancers in that place, so that kind of thing happened."
"Although you cleaned it up this time, but..."
"In the near future, their terrible things will come out. There were a lot of corpses buried in those two places back then, and even the lord's priest, Lord Aifanze, could not purify them."
"I heard that at least one person like the Archbishop of the Great Temple of Light can have a solution?"
As he was talking, the boss lady couldn't help but shake her head and sigh.
She also knew that the lord was just talking about such a thing and would not really go to the temple to ask for help. After all, the archbishop of the Great Temple of Light is such a noble person, how could he come to a small village like them to help them solve that kind of dispensable little trouble?
There are so many monsters in this world, and the situation here is pretty good. Where can the Lord Lord take care of it?
"I'll just stop talking about those."
"Annie, you can solve those troubles for us, and we can at least be at peace for a while. Wait, let me see what else is delicious, and I'll get it for you."
As he said that, the boss's wife was about to find a place to wash her hands, and then she thought about how to prepare a beautiful late-night snack for a powerful little girl, mage, as a thank-you gift.
"oh……"
(⊙o⊙*)
"Okay, thank you aunt!"
(*^▽^*)
Anne smiled and thanked her indifferently.
However, she did not tell the other party that she had seen the two cemeteries being polluted by the necropolis magic, so she simply burned the glass there directly. Now there is nothing left, and there will be no monsters in the future!
And the helmet just now was specially left to her to use as a certificate, otherwise she would have burned it to molten iron and then turned into the magma pond.
but……
Although the terrifying undead monster was gone, she accidentally used too much force at that time, so that the flame elements there are now extremely strong. In addition, the world is also full of magic energy, maybe there will be any terrible fire element life in the future. Maybe it is not necessarily possible to be born there?
But even Anne was born with the Fire Element, she was not worried at all!
After all, fire element generally does not like to leave that kind of magma place, just like the flame kingdom she used to stay. Those fire element generally does not like the places where ordinary people live. If they are not modified, the normal room temperature will be a little cold for them. As long as the villagers here do not go to that place to commit suicide by themselves, it will be fine.
(…)
(●￣()￣●)
"You can wait a little longer..."
"You have also seen it. There are a lot of people here today. I have to look for it..."
After saying that, the fat boss lady turned around and walked into the cabinet behind the counter and started rummaging on it, racking her brains to think about what to do.
"Uh-huh!"
(=^▽^=)
"Then I'll go back to my room first. If it's done, aunt, please bring it up quickly!"
(′`*)
"Hmm~"
()
After saying that, Annie didn't even look at the Imperial soldiers who were eating, drinking and making noise in the lobby, and jumped straight towards a room on her on the second floor.
And at the same time...
In another village about half a day away from the village where the hotel is located, a trainee magician wearing a white cloak finally hurried back to their village.
"Not good!"
"Alvin! Something big happened!"
When the trainee magician who rushed back overnight saw his new friend he had known for a while, he hurriedly told all the things about the group of Imperial Army soldiers he encountered on the way to study magic.
“?!”
"More than a hundred imperial soldiers appeared here?"
"This is the Sallas Territory. Although it is a border, it is indeed a bit difficult to appear in the Imperial Army!"
When Alvin, who had been venturing on his sword for many years, was shocked by a little when he heard his new mage friend talk about such a thing.
"alright."
"Hain, don't worry too much, take a break and have a drink."
"A mere 100 imperial soldiers are probably only infiltrated to spy on the intelligence. When the lord of the Sarras tribe reacts, they might have run away long ago."
"Besides, even if the war really starts, they will never be able to fight here all at once. Don't worry too much. Let the village chief send someone to inform the lord tomorrow."
"Even if the Imperial Army really comes, there will definitely be time for the villagers to evacuate."
Alvin thought it was the Imperial Army that had killed Sarras and led the place here, but after hearing that there were only a hundred people, and they were all light-fitting soldiers, he quickly relaxed and smiled and comforted his mage apprentice Hain.
"By the way!"
"Have you found that great arcane wizard?"
"Has she taught you magic?"
While handing over a glass of water, Alvin asked curiously.
The matter of the Imperial Army was something that the lord of the Sarrath leader should care about. Alvin was just a passerby adventurer. He didn't want to get involved in the war between one country and another. Therefore, compared to those things, he was more concerned about his friends now.
"have!"
"Teaching a fire explosion technique..."
"but!"
"Before I learned it, she thought I was stupid and drove me out impatiently..."
When he heard his friend ask about the Arcane Master, Hayn was stunned at first, and then he became bitter.
"ah?"
"No way?"
"Hain, you are so powerful, she still dislikes you for being stupid?"
Alvin was a little surprised. After all, in his experience, there were very few people like Hayn who had such a level of magic at such age, otherwise he would not have made friends with each other specifically.
"I think……"
"Can it be that guy is not capable, so he doesn't dare to teach you?"
"It must be that!"
Then, Alvin punched hard and began to maliciously speculate, and tried to use words to comfort the intern magician friend who had been running far away to study in the next village but returned without fail.
Chapter completed!