Freeman, the owner of the Yorktown Inn, was in an extremely bad mood. He looked at the broken tables and chairs scattered on the ground and frowned without saying a word. However, the tense confrontation between the fighting parties made him dare not say anything.
After running an inn for decades, he actually looked down on those adventurers who would fight if they disagreed. He was still struggling for a living but he boasted that he was like a dragon-slaying hero.
"That indecisive good-for-nothing Sheriff!" Freeman cursed in his heart.
Yorktown is located at the intersection of the Oasis Trail, close to the southern border of the empire. After the war with Odin, the trade routes on the east side of the empire were almost paralyzed. Trade goods could only flow in from the United States of Commerce through detours, and the Oasis Trail, as one of the main routes, made the already
A prosperous town is even more prosperous.
The empire has rebuilt a garrison fortress in the Gale Canyon in the south, controlling most of the main routes and severely cracking down on smuggling activities colluded by some nobles inside and outside. However, the fortress does not have any good means of blocking the vast wall of wind and sand. The empire believes that it is
There's not much need to cordon off that place.
The Wall of Windsand is a thorn forest, which is made up of layers of desert thorn trees, a specialty plant of the Quicksand Empire. Some thorn trees that have been around for many years can grow to more than 40 meters high, and their root systems can reach nearly 100 meters underground. This forest
It extends from the southeast of the Gale Canyon to the territory of the Odin Empire, effectively preventing the northwest wind and sand from spreading to the east and south.
The wood of the desert thorn tree is sparse and porous, but extremely tough. There is a lot of sap stored in the holes. The sap is poisonous and volatile. The thorn tree can kill people even if they light a fire, so it can be said to be worthless.
Its leaves are made of sharp thorns, and the tips of the thorns are connected to the holes in the trunk by pipes. If you are accidentally stung, the horny tips will fall off immediately, and the venom in the holes will evaporate into the body. In fact, most people
It's no big deal if you get stabbed a few times, but it's very difficult to cross a large thorn forest. Only some dangerous creatures in the desert like this kind of place.
This windbreak forest is also a natural barrier for the empire. The Wind Fortress only needs to regularly dispatch desert giant eagle knights to patrol the sky above the forest to prevent air smuggling. Since transportation tools cannot cross the thorn forest, the empire is too lazy to deal with individual smuggling activities.
Take care.
The garrison army has released a large number of highly poisonous sand lizards in the thorn forest, specifically to deal with those who use space equipment to smuggle valuables. Those expensive space equipment generally only have an internal space the size of a cabinet, and the things they can carry are limited, no matter how valuable they are.
The Oasis Trail extends southwest along the edge of the Sand Wall for a short distance before entering the United States of Commerce through the Windy Gorge. Therefore, smugglers traveling through the forest often take this route, and these people bring a large number of people to Yorktown.
Security issues.
The town's sheriff was also a member of the adventurers in the past. After successfully activating his bloodline, he found a stable job and no longer lived a dangerous life without guarantees. Over the years, he has been steadily promoted to the third level.
level, but he still has not forgotten the life of blood and tears during adventures. He is well aware of the hardships and is relatively tolerant to the adventurers. As long as they do not cause any loss of life, he will punish them casually.
"Grason, you haven't activated your bloodline yet?" An elf woman wearing tight-fitting leather armor put her feet up on the broken table, casually holding a crossbow in her right hand and pointing it at the opponent. The green light condensed on the crossbow arrow showed this.
It is a piece of magic equipment. She is actually quite beautiful, and no elf is ugly. But she does not have the quiet and elegant temperament of the elves at all. There is an obvious scar on her left cheek, and the pointed ear on the left side has also been shaved off a little.
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"That's enough to make you unable to get out of bed, Sally, you are so sweet..." A sand dwarf with a tangled dirty beard laughed loudly, and he licked his lips as if he had tasted
Same. The hometown of the sand dwarves is in a windsand land rarely visited by humans, bordering the northwest border of the Qiyan Kingdom. They also believe in the King of Quicksand.
"You can try..." The female elf Sally straightened her slender waist in an ambiguous manner, and touched her lower body with her left hand as she spoke. Everyone around her was used to it. It seems that even elves will change after being in contact with humans for a long time.
It's extremely vulgar.
There was a table of people wearing sandproof robes sitting in the corner. They kept staring at the venue quietly.
Freeman turned his head and glanced at the people at the table, then looked away. The dispute was caused by those people. As soon as they entered the hotel, they found a corner to sit down and kept gesturing on the table. Then
Asked to hire a team of guides to take them into the windy sand
Wall. They said they wanted to hunt a special kind of sand scorpion... Not only did they offer a high price of one hundred gold coins, but they also poured the gold coins on the table on the spot. The temptation of the shining gold made the adventurers start immediately.
After fighting for it, those still standing in the field are ruthless characters.
Based on his rich experience, it seemed that those people were probably smugglers. However, he did not dare to make any mistakes. This kind of people were more dangerous than adventurers. Smuggling was none of his business, so there was no need to get into trouble.
A young man took off the hood of his dust-proof robe and stood up. He had dark chestnut hair and was quite handsome, but he looked a little thin. He slowly walked towards Sally, hugged her from behind, and put his left hand on her chest.
Keep stroking. "You are so charming... Madam. It may be most appropriate for your team to serve as a guide."
The female elf Sally raised her head slightly and opened her mouth slightly. It was obvious that she enjoyed this action.
"Sir, if you just want to find a prostitute, there is no need to spend a hundred gold coins." The sand dwarf Golasun said in a deep voice. "I am very familiar with the Sand Wall and often hunt some wild beasts in it. If you don't want to
While walking through the forest, I can completely guarantee your safety."
Hearing these words, Sally didn't even lower her head. She squeezed the trigger with her right hand, and the green arrow shot towards Grason's head with the power of her blood.
"Bloodline of the Wind Rider!" Grason had no time to react and could only watch the arrows shoot towards him rapidly. Although he knew that Sally had become an official bloodline archer, he had not seen her ability with his own eyes. In his opinion, it was the most powerful one.
At most, it was the common eagle eye. Just when the arrow was about to touch his forehead, a huge palm stopped in front of Grosun. With a pop, the arrow penetrated the palm fiercely, sliding in the bones to create
The grinding sound that made people's teeth sore, then gradually stopped.
Grason was so shocked that he took a few steps back, with fear in his eyes... He murmured: "Wind power?"
The Wind Rider is a bloodline that only exists for the elite bloodline shooters of the Elf Empire, but it appears in an adventurer. Why do you want to be an adventurer if you have this ability... Go directly to join the Elf Empire's garrison officer
Selection is countless times better than living a homeless life.
Elf bloodline families do not have the bad habit of incest. They have always followed ancient and conservative marriage customs. Therefore, their bloodlines are very scattered and are much more difficult to activate than humans. Fortunately, elves have a much longer life span than humans, and they have accumulated fighting strength as a result.
It’s also very impressive.
And due to the dispersion and cross-combination of bloodlines, various mutant bloodlines have been produced. Some bloodlines have useless abilities, while others are very powerful. Therefore, in the elven bloodline family, there are often members of various bloodlines.
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The human bloodline family members are all highly pure and single bloodline, but different people show different abilities of the same bloodline. This can also show the huge difference in the concepts of the two races. It is easy for humans to do anything for power and commit incest.
There is no pressure on human bloodline nobles. But for elves, this kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable. They would rather give up the purification of bloodline and maintain tradition.
"Wind Rider" is a brand-new bloodline created during the process of blood mixing. The several abilities it comes with are very powerful. If you activate any of them, you can become an excellent bloodline shooter.
Sally activates the power of the wind, which is second only to the blast blast ability in the "Wind Rider" bloodline. The power of this ability is that not only does the air resistance not become an obstacle to shooting, but it can also be increased several times or even several times.
Ten times the power converted into arrows.
Those mid-level bloodline shooters with the power of the wind, the arrows they shoot have no trajectory at all, and the advanced ones can make rapid turns in the air at will. These shooters are undoubtedly terrifying snipers on the battlefield.
The hotel seemed to be stagnant for a few seconds... Even the young man's hand stroking Sally's chest stiffened. Except for the members of Sally's team, everyone else in the hotel felt a sense of absurdity.
——You still need to take risks if you have this kind of ability?
They looked at Sally with complicated eyes. This female elf who always brags and laughs with them... has now become a bloodline shooter with unlimited potential.
"No matter from which aspect, I will satisfy you..." The female elf leaned back on the young man's shoulder, turned her head and breathed softly into his ear.
"My name is Kido, and I am now your employer." The young man moved his hand away from Sally's chest and looked towards Grason. Next to the sand dwarf stood a one-eyed ogre, and now the ogre
The human demon was pulling out the arrow embedded in his palm, as if he didn't know the pain.
"Help Arua!" The sand dwarf came to his senses and ordered behind him. A strong man immediately pulled out a knife and began to help the ogre pry out the arrow.
Grason was extremely lucky. Although he did not activate his bloodline, he picked up an ogre cub during his adventure. After raising it for a while, he found that its body was extremely tough, and most first-level professionals could not easily harm it.
With this ogre, he could repeatedly steal business from his competitors. But it was obviously not possible today. He could not guarantee that the ogre could stop Sally's next arrow in time.
"Charming lady, where is your companion?" Kido asked, he was a little more honest now. Sally then pointed to a few people on the left and introduced them to Kido one by one.
"Including you, there are four ladies and one gentleman." Kido nodded lightly.
Then he looked at Golason, took out another bag, and poured out the gold coins inside. Golason's eyes straightened, and he swallowed subconsciously. Quito's casual voice came to his ears: "I
Preparing to hire you both at the same time, Grason, where are your companions?"
Grason waved his hand back in hope: "They are all!"
"Four men, one woman, well, if that ogre is a woman..." Kido sniffed, and his tone towards Grason was obviously not so polite.
Then his eyes glanced at the table of burqa people in the corner as if unintentionally, and one of them shook his head in a subtle way...
"Grason, I have to give you one thing first. Find a young, beautiful and energetic prostitute. I want a young one! We don't want to be too lonely when hunting." Kido continued.
Grason nodded doubtfully. The four women in Sally's adventure team are all part-time prostitutes, and they are pretty. Why do they need to find another one? Sally alone can handle them all. But the money spent is not his.
Money, he didn't bother to ask.
Quito took out two agreements for them to sign separately, and then went to the town meeting hall to notarize and record them. If the notarized agreement is violated, double compensation must be paid, otherwise you will be wanted by the empire. After signing the agreement
, Sally and Grason were both relieved, and the faint worries in their hearts were completely eliminated. If these people were really smugglers, they would definitely not dare to go to the notarization. The notary office has the wanted information of most smugglers.
Seeing the adventurers signing the agreement and discussing the departure time and various details, Freeman was in a terrible mood. They were legally hired, and if he reported it to the Sheriff now, he would undoubtedly get into big trouble. Regardless.
No matter how legal and reasonable the procedures of those burqa men were, he vaguely felt that those people were dangerous. As for the loss, he could only bear it himself...
After the guests returned to their rooms to rest, Freeman cursed and began to clean the main hall of the hotel. While cleaning, he cursed the Sheriff's incompetence. If it weren't for the gloomy hooded men still upstairs, he would have wanted to curse those people too.
Just after clearing away the broken tables and chairs, he saw a gold coin handed to him. Freeman looked up in shock and found a young man with black hair and black eyes looking at him with a smile. The young man was wearing a gold chain.
Wearing a monocle and wearing a dust-proof windbreaker that was popular among the upper class of the empire, he looked like a scholar or businessman.
Freeman had an impression of this young man. He arrived at the hotel early this morning and has been sitting on the bench in the corner with his eyes closed since then.
"Hello, sir, the hotel needs to be renovated. If you want to stay overnight, please wait a moment before going through the formalities." He did not dare to neglect, because the other party's temperament did not look like those wild and rude adventurers at all.
"I do have to take a night's rest, but before that I want to ask a few questions." Heras put the gold coin in Freeman's hand and said with a smile.