The distance between towns within the country is often not very far. Even if you just walk, you can go back and forth between two towns in half a day, even if they are smaller.
But Al has been walking for almost a day, but he still hasn't found any town. Fortunately, there are some scattered villages along the way, so he can still beg for a meal from the villagers.
In fact, this is quite normal. After all, it would be ridiculous if the armies of other countries could enter the territory of other countries with just one day of forced march.
Therefore, there are often buffer zones between countries. There are basically no cities in this zone, but the villagers are different. In order to survive, they can only live in this kind of place.
It is conceivable that if a war is launched, they will be the first to suffer, but fortunately there has been no large-scale battle between them.
As for small-scale frictions, they occur from time to time.
After all, their two countries are at the back of the human kingdom. Although there are still monsters in the country, there are not too powerful monsters, so they have extra energy to conflict with other countries.
But Al didn't know this at all, not even himself, that he had entered the Odili Empire.
The Austrian Empire, like the Kingdom of Faxlot, all enfeoffed territories to nobles of all sizes, and those nobles basically radiated outwards from the city as the core.
Even though it is well known that friction is likely to occur at the border between the two countries, it would still be a big expense to guard the army all the time, especially for those extraordinary ones. The stronger their strength, the higher their salary.
Normally, the army at the border should be funded by the big nobles in the area, but those nobles are unwilling to support those troops, and the royal family feels that since it is your fiefdom, you should be responsible for the preparation of guards.
Because the two sides are blaming each other, there is nothing on the border except a few observation towers.
The scene of Al carelessly walking across the border was naturally seen clearly by those on the observation deck.
But they didn't take it seriously, because civilians walked by here every day. As for the so-called spies, they didn't care and couldn't control them.
It took nearly ten days for Al to see the city wall.
It's just that he hasn't eaten well in the past few days, so Al looks very thin now.
Looking at the city gate, Al couldn't stop his tears from flowing down: "We're finally here. I didn't expect the two cities to be so far apart."
Then he looked up.
"???" Al said hello with a face full of greetings, because he found that he didn't even know the characters for writing the name of the city.
"Uh-huh!" Just when he was confused, a businessman said with a look of disgust: "Get out of the way, you stinky beggar, don't block the uncle's way."
Al glanced at him. Although he knew Al was just a child, the businessman still felt a little numb in his back after coming into contact with Al's cold eyes.
However, Al did not choose to take action. He stood aside obediently and opened the front door.
Seeing that Al took the initiative to get out of the way, the businessman continued: "You know what's going on, or else you will get the best of you."
While talking, he took out a few copper coins and threw them over: "I'll reward you."
Al quickly caught the copper coin and carefully put it into his arms.
Little did he know that someone had just recorded his actions.
After entering the city, Al quickly bought a piece of bread with the copper coins he had.
After eating a lot, he sat on the roadside to rest.
At this time, a woman passed by Al. She looked at Al's appearance, then sighed and said, "Poor child."
She threw two silver coins in front of Al.
Seeing the two silver coins on the ground, Al was very happy. For him now, this was a huge sum of money.
He was about to put the silver coin away when a tattered shoe stepped on the silver coin.
Al looked up and saw a man in tatters saying coldly to him: "Boy, do you know? Your behavior is robbing our Black Dragon Club of business."
Al didn't understand what the Black Dragon Society was, he only knew that the person in front of him wanted to cause trouble for him.
He said coldly to the man: "Pick up your feet, or I will make you regret it."
"Haha, make me regret it, come on... uh!"
Before he finished speaking, Al kicked him out with his left hand on the ground, and then picked up the two silver coins on the ground with his backhand.
The man stood up holding his chest: "Wardfa."
He felt that he was kicked out because of his carelessness. Now that he is ready, he will never be kicked out by the other party again...
When he just stood up and was about to fight back, Al ran directly towards him and kicked Tang San directly.
Although his physical strength has not fully recovered, three kicks are still not something this skinny man can resist.
He stood up slowly while holding his chest, and then said to Al: "Just wait for me, my boss will come in a while, watch him deal with you like this."
After saying those harsh words, he quickly ran away, clutching his chest.
Al looked at his back, but he didn't take it seriously. Now Al wanted to know where he was now.
Al is still too young. He doesn't know that there is a saying that the king of hell is easy to mess with and the kid is difficult to deal with.
After the man he beat went back, he told the boss of the Black Dragon Club what happened.
After hearing the man's explanation, the boss of the Black Dragon Club gave him a slap in the face: "You are so fucking useless? You were bullied by a little kid."
"Boss, don't blame me. That kid has some background. I haven't even touched him."
The boss of the Black Dragon Society said: "Although you are useless, at least you are my brother. How can you be bullied by others?"
Then he stood up and said, "Follow me, let's go see that little guy."
A group of twenty people from the Black Dragon Society followed the man to the place where Al was before.
Since the time was relatively short, Al did not go far.
The man taught: "He is the boss."
The president of the Black Dragon Guild patted him on the back of the head: "Stop yelling, it's not long until night. Wait for a while before attacking him. There are more people now."
"Okay, boss, I'll listen to you."
They thought they were perfectly hidden, but in fact their whereabouts were completely exposed to Al's eyes.
After all, his sixth sense, which was born in a place full of monsters, is very accurate.
Although he found someone following him, he still pretended that he had not noticed the other party because he felt that he should fight.
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As night fell, Al was blocked in the alley by more than a dozen people.
Looking at the dozens of people around him, Al felt for the first time that he was still: too young, too simple! Too young, too naive.
When he noticed the other party before, he found that they were all bare-handed, so he thought that these people didn't know how to use weapons.
Although the Black Dragon Society has never killed anyone, they are a group of gangsters, and they are not weak at all when it comes to fighting.
Although Al is just a child, accidents are bound to happen, and everyone who comes here has weapons in their hands.
Although these weapons were nothing more than wooden sticks, there was no room for him to hide in the narrow alley.
Although he took out the dagger, his advantage was gone when faced with the long stick.
Although he stabbed several people with daggers, none of them were fatally injured. On the other hand, Al was served with sticks by more than a dozen people.
In less than a minute, he was lying on the ground covered in blood. He didn't know how many blows he had received.
All Al knew was that now he could only breathe out but not in. It was said that people would look back on themselves before death, but when looking back, Al discovered that he had no past worth remembering.
At this moment, he heard the sound of "ta-da-da" footsteps coming from the alley.
The instinct of survival instantly brought him back to reality, and then he stretched out his hand towards a black robe in front of him with his seriously injured body.
And whispered to the other party: "Help me."
Seeing Al lying on the ground covered in blood, the old man passing by squatted down to check his injuries.
Then he said to Al: "I don't know if you are unlucky or I am unlucky? Meeting each other is fate, so I will help you once."
After saying this, he reached out and hugged Al.
After taking Al back to his home, he ran Al into some liquid.
Although Al is in a coma, he has not lost his sense of the outside world.
While Al was soaking in the liquid, he suddenly felt unbearable pain all over his body, but the injury he sustained was too serious, so even though he was in great pain at this moment, he still did not open his eyes.
The medicinal liquid soaked in Al at this moment is very expensive, because it is a medicinal liquid extracted from herbs with seven properties.
It can be said that the water in this pool is equivalent to condensing seven kinds of magic power and instilling it into a person.
However, throughout the ages, it has been possible for human beings' weak bodies to withstand one type of magic, let alone seven types of magic that restrain each other.
The reason why the old man chooses his lover is because he is like a blank piece of paper now, without any other power in his body. At the same time, his body is stronger than that of an adult.
It is for these many reasons that he chose Al as his guinea pig.
Al's current state is very dangerous, because if there is any deviation in the experiment, there will be only death waiting for him.
Even if a serious accident occurred, he might not even leave the whole body behind.
But nothing that happens here will be affected by Al's thoughts, because it is not the lover who decides whether the experiment continues.
Seeing that Al's body has reached its limit, he can no longer absorb any elements here.
The old man then pressed a switch on the side, and a giant hand slowly reached down and picked up Al.
Although Al, who was out of danger, was still in a coma, it could be seen from his expression that he looked much better at this moment than before.
The old man sat aside and murmured: "Well, as I get older, my heart becomes softer."
After a while, he stepped forward and drank a bottle of mid-level recovery potion for Al.
In fact, if it were the previous Al, using low-level recovery potions would be a waste. After all, although his previous injuries seemed serious, it was possible to fully recover by just treating the wounds and recovering well.
But after the old man tortured him with a bunch of messy medicinal liquids, only the use of mid-level recovery potions could save his life. This chapter has been completed!