"So you're just dropping by?"
Some time later, deep in the Gemenan jungle, a magician named Linyuan Duanshui asked with great interest: "You didn't save me specifically... No, you framed me?"
"..."
"If no one disturbs me, I might be able to deepen our relationship with the Imperial people there."
Looking at the other party's silent face, Linyuan Duanshui, who had been casually thrown to the ground by the other party just now, patted his gray robe indifferently: "It's better now, the other party almost regards him as a wanted criminal again...
I'm talking about you."
"It's fine if you don't repay me for selling you the blood bottle. What do you mean you came here and kidnapped me?"
He stood up slowly leaning on the tree trunk behind him. He looked at the figure of the woman in front of him whose face and expression were covered in a black cloak. The joking expression originally revealed on her face also followed her.
The continued silence was gradually withdrawn, replaced by his own subsequent question: "Is there any grudge between us?"
"...No, no."
As if she had just woken up from a dream, the woman who had been looking down from a high position finally spoke out and gave her own answer: "I'm sorry."
"Sorry? Just say sorry and that's it?"
The magician who rolled his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth then showed a stern look on his face: "Do you know what we are here to do? We are here to download the dungeon! We have gone through all the hard work to get it.
After solving the problem of Old One, I traveled thousands of miles to get here! Can you compensate our team's losses with just an apology? We can't continue the subsequent dungeon process, you know? We have brought the trial with us.
Come on! The Flamedramon people are still waiting for us behind... uh."
The blood-red long sword was placed between Linyuan Duanshui's neck in an instant, and his nose that was about to rise to the sky was quickly pressed back. Xue Ling Huanbing, who seemed to have finally woken up, also held the sword hilt with his hand.
He became extremely stable, and at the same time revealed his cold eyes from the darkness covered by his hood: "...Don't try to deceive me, I know how you got here, and I killed you before.
The team members have nothing to do with me, please don't blame me."
"You who can compete with people of that level should also understand that this is not a dungeon trial at all." Her gaze passed across the magician's face like the edge of a sword: "Knowing that there is such a danger, you still have to lead
When you break into this place, you must have been prepared for the failure you are about to suffer."
"Wait, wait a minute." Linyuan Duanshui shouted with a stern look: "You can't kill me, we Flame Dragon Beast people won't let you go!"
"Flame Dragon Beast? Just let them come." The woman with the bloody sword pointing flatly gave a disdainful sneer: "And...you are not members of their guild at all now, are you?"
"Okay, okay, since everyone is sensible, how about we just write off the debt this time?"
Feeling the killing intent gradually emerging from the edge of the blood-red long sword, Linyuan Duanshui, who did not dare to move, hurriedly put up a dry smile on his lips: "You, a max-level king, must have come here."
Are there any strange tasks that need to be dealt with? Why waste your time and life on me and make things difficult for little people like us?"
"You are the one who wants to make things difficult for me." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who still did not withdraw his sword edge and was still staring at the opponent, took a deep breath: "You think I don't know that you want to ask for a price?
Don’t worry, for a guy like you, I won’t help you.”
"Then why did you take me out from under those Imperial Guards?"
"that is because……"
because……
Why?
Because I followed the sound of fighting again and saw you fighting against the Restorationists?
Because I saw you standing with the Imperial soldiers who were chasing me?
The momentum that wanted to continue speaking was suddenly choked. Xueling Huanbing, who was still threatening the opponent with the tip of his sword, had a trace of confusion in his originally cold eyes. The trembling on his fingers then also appeared on the straight blade.
There was a trace of ripples, exuding a faint blood-red halo in the air: "Because... I... uh... I thought you were trapped by the Empire, so I wanted to rescue you..."
"Save me out?" The expression on Linyuan Duanshui's face became even stranger: "I am an empire player. Even if you don't know what happened, I have a friendly relationship with those empire soldiers."
"Who are you trying to save me from?"
"..."
The twinkling eyes were gradually hidden in the movement of the woman lowering her head. Xue Ling Huan Bing's breathing gradually became disordered, and her originally vacillating movements began to appear as she became increasingly unable to control her mind, along with becoming increasingly embarrassed.
The atmosphere gradually replaced the winter-like silence before - ever since she met this novice magician in Carlo Village, she who had been implementing her action plan in an orderly manner began to make things beyond her expectations one after another.
She had acted unexpectedly, and the reasons for these actions, she had not figured out until now. The contact with the strange magician in front of her also happened to her again and again as time went by, simple and accidental.
The several encounters always attracted her inexplicable attention, and it wasn't until she snatched this man away from the group of imperial soldiers who had been chasing her without thinking that she suddenly realized
She realized that her mind had changed a lot in the cold winter. She still couldn't tell the reason for this change. She looked at the man in front of her quietly, and then she still smiled dryly and was careful with her sword.
With a smart expression of confrontation, he took a deep breath.
Maybe it's just because of some similarities.
She thought to herself silently.
"...because of the strength you showed before."
Slowly removing his sword, Xue Ling Huan Bing finally said a reason that could be used to justify his lie after his emotions stabilized: "I saw the battle between you and the man in black... You seem to have
How to restrain the opponent?"
"Ah, you are talking about that bottle of potion." Linyuan Duanshui, who was stunned for a moment, nodded his head: "Why, do you want this thing?"
"I have some grudges that need to be settled between me and those - those mysterious men in black you fought before."
It seemed that he finally mentioned the purpose of his trip, and a pair of cold eyes were revealed again from under the hood of Xue Ling Huan Bing: "They have polluted my mind in the past period of time and tried to build me up."
It becomes a weapon they can use at will."
"Uh... Well, what are you talking about? I can't understand why." Blinking his eyes, the magician named Linyuan Duanshui pretended to look around the place: "What kind of weapons, what kind of pollution... …Aren’t you also a player? How could you be controlled by the characters in the game?”
"...You don't need to know too much, it's not good for a novice player like you."
Closing his eyes slightly, Xue Ling Huan Bing then turned around: "The high-level world is very dangerous. There are many things you can't imagine... If possible, I even want to go back. Go back to the past, when you didn’t understand anything.”
"If I had been a little more careful, I might not be like this." She lowered her head quietly, as if looking at her hands: "Things should not be like this." Today’s situation cannot be reversed.”
"..."
"Sorry, I said some unnecessary words."
Awakened by the silence of the other party looking at him quietly, Xueling Huanbing once again returned to his previous cold image: "Do you want to sell your white potion? I can pay any price."
"It's difficult to make powerful magic potions. I only have two or three bottles now."
I don't know whether it was because the topic was interrupted or because of the shortage of inventory, Linyuan Duanshui scratched his head in annoyance: "In my plan, I never planned to sell this kind of potion..."
"One hundred platinum coins."
Interrupting the other party's mutterings with even more ruthless words, Xue Ling Huan Bing raised her bloody sword again: "If it's not enough... I can add more."
"Um, um... I didn't raise the price on purpose." The magician quietly took two steps back and pulled the sword's edge away again: "I'm just explaining the situation to you, and this The effect of the medicine is not as obvious as you saw before, maybe it’s just a coincidence..."
"What a coincidence?"
What answered him was not the Snow Spirit Huanbing standing in front of him, but an elusive echo that suddenly sounded in the dark depths of the jungle: "This kind of nonsense is useful for deceiving laymen, but in front of me... It’s impossible.”
"who?"
The two people who suddenly woke up looked around. Xue Ling Huan Bing, who had turned around with his sword horizontally, shouted loudly with vigilant eyes. The voice that still echoed in the shadow of the woods ignored the woman's shout. Instead, he surrounded Linyuan Duanshui and asked, "Who am I? This little guy understands my name best. He almost ruined my good deeds just now, but now he has failed inexplicably." one……"
"Did you come after me specifically, Lord Dax?" The magician who put away his smile then lowered his eyes: "How did you track me down?"
"I have long said that this jungle is our territory." The surrounding voice began to get closer and closer to him: "You are intruders who have broken into our territory. Your every move..."
"There is no hiding in front of me."
Harsh whistling sounds began to surround this area with the emergence of dark winds, and even the towering trees that originally stood around the two people began to become blurred. The sound coming from the strong wind then It also turned into a wild laugh, and with the black air current that made it difficult to open one's eyes, it gradually approached the location of Linyuan Duanshui. He held the white medicine bottle in his hand tightly, and his face gradually became serious. Yuan Duanshui took two steps back slightly, and then while moving with the black wind following him, he leaned his back against the tree trunk closest to him: "Isn't it an attack in the form of a void... Humph, it seems that you are also a real person."
"Have you finally realized your own insignificance?" The voice of laughter brought an endless black wind and suddenly pressed down on the gray robe magician: "An alchemist without the strength of a strong man... even one who has the ability to restrain the void
What about strength?”
The black threads entangled in the biting wind finally turned into reality and continued to streak past Linyuan Duanshui. The torn cloth robes and shocking scars also broke through the magic of less than tenth level.
The earth wall suddenly rose up around him, with debris of earth and stone all over the sky and splashes of blood imprinted on his body. Gritting his teeth to hold back the pain that quickly spread throughout his body, the player named Linyuan Duanshui then lifted up
His arm was forced back to the tree trunk by the powerful cutting force. The next moment he wanted to throw out the potion bottle, he was suppressed by an even stronger cut. The bottle dropped because his hand was cut also followed.
He was swept up by the strong wind: "Wow hahaha! What a funny joke! Hasn't anyone taught you... what will happen to an alchemist who cannot use potions?"
"Now...the last threat has been eliminated." The voice suddenly became gloomy: "Go to hell, you idiot."
Boom!
The loud sound then covered the last light of the black wind that was about to tighten, and together with the sight of the bleeding magician being blown away by the powerful force, he drifted away into the dark night sky.
, the bloody light drawn by the blood-colored sword then tore the outermost edge of the black tornado, and the cloaked figure of Snow Spirit Huanbing took the place where he originally stood. A cold light flashed in his eyes,
Xueling Huanbing, who was holding the sword in both hands, then drew a bloody arc in the air, and then used a circular field like the moon to wrap up all the black wind that had not dispersed nearby: "Don't think that this is the case.
You can deceive me with blinders."
"Any magic is useless in front of me."
The blood-colored circles turned into blood-colored ripples, neatly spreading out around the jungle. The voice that had been wandering nearby seemed unable to resist the sword energy that neatly cut off the nearby trees, howling towards the jungle.
Linyuan Duanshui, who had been lying on the ground panting for a long time and making sure that he would not be affected by the sword energy, finally got up from the ground far away and covered his body with a grin.
While showing a scar, he stepped over the fallen tree trunks nearby: "Did you drive him away with one move? It's awesome, but you are better..."
The compliments slowly stopped, and his eyes gradually fell on the ground in front of him. At this time, the figure belonging to the woman was also falling in the center of the arc cut by the previous sword energy, hugging her tightly.
The bodies with arms folded tightly curled together: "Hey, what's wrong with you?"
"...I'm fine."
"Were you injured by that person just now? Where was the injury? He wasn't..."
"I'm fine! Don't worry about me!"
Pushing away the opponent's hand that was trying to help her, the woman gritted her teeth and stood up slowly. The sweaty face that had been hidden under the hood now turned her back to the magician.
He slowly moved away, staggering and disappearing into the depths of the jungle: "He should...won't come again."
"While it's now...safe, you...leave quickly." (To be continued)
This chapter has been completed!