Pale Emblem

Chapter 86 Floating Memories

In order to please the Dragon King Fei Lumat, the three major forces of the Dragon Kingdom have sent people to collect all kinds of beautiful treasures.Whether it is the treasures they have worked hard to mine or the fruits of labor from foreigners, as long as they pay tribute on time and in sufficient quantities, they will be rewarded by the Dragon King Palace.

There is a common misunderstanding among the half-elves of the Disar Alliance. The adventurers are brave and industrious, earn wealth with their own hands, and use swords to resist the invasion of orcs and barbarians.In fact, the ruthless orc bone gatherers are the best at extracting natural resources, followed by barbarian raiders.As for the half-elf adventure groups, they prefer to rob the riches of the orcs and barbarians.

The reason is actually very simple. Orcs are naturally excellent in their ability to survive in the wild. They plunge into the depths of the wilderness and can't find a suitable target to loot treasures. Although barbarian warriors are brave and good at fighting, they have to protect the tribal territory and cannot run away. It is too far away, and there is a deep estrangement from the barbarians of other tribes; only the half-elf adventurers have been shaped by a civilized country and have formed a complete semi-military organizational system.

There are adventure unions, permanent adventure bases, and large and small adventure groups. They have a clear division of labor, share information, and conduct cross-regional flow cooperation.Well-equipped, proficient in martial arts and tactics, and with logistical support, adventurers cannot be said to be born for battle, but are always preparing for battle.

How could such a powerful half-elf adventurer not loot the treasures of orcs and barbarians?

If there are adventurers who detect the information of the Bone Collector Orcs, and they are not sure of defeating the Orcs, they will gather more adventure groups to act together. The armed forces of the gang.

The bone collectors have learned to be smart. When they encounter half-elf adventurers in the wild, they must eat them up. If they can't eat them, they will move quickly. Exposing their whereabouts means that danger is approaching.This fulfills the Bone Collector's reputation for being murderous, but from an orc's point of view, they're just there to survive.

The group of orcs Vertok met, at first, chased and killed them according to the behavior and habits of bone collectors.However, they are different from the normal gang of bone collectors, as can be seen from the items they leave behind.

Huck had buried the bodies of the two hobgoblins without moving their supplies.The quantity of these materials is large, and he can't handle it alone.

A total of eight large baskets woven with vines were neatly stacked on the edge of the fire.Each large rattan basket is filled with various things, including amber agate, animal teeth and horns, gold sand ore, and rough jewelry.These unprocessed treasures account for the vast majority of the materials, and should be the raw materials mined by the bone collector gang.

Their value is difficult to estimate, for example, rough jewelry is multiplied by skilled craftsmen.Otherwise, no matter how good the quality of the rough jewelry is, it is only a slightly more beautiful stone.

The most dazzling among these treasures is not the yellowish natural gold nugget, nor the rough blue diamond the size of a child's fist, but a few stalagmite-shaped mithril ore.

Huck deliberately picked them out and showed them to Vertok, and he said excitedly and emotionally: "Only bone collectors can find such good things, and the rest are not worth as much as these three mithril mines. "

Mithril itself is very rare, and it is also the favorite metal of the Dragon King Fei Lumat.The mithril mines of the Dragon Kingdom were exhausted hundreds of years ago.The Mithril of the Dissa Alliance now mainly comes from outside the territory.

It is impossible for the half-elf adventure group and the barbarian looting group to bear the consequences of the halving of their personnel, and they went out to find Mithril.Only goblins would do this kind of thing.The two years of their extraterritorial activities are worth the five or six years of hard work collected by the adventure group.It's no wonder that half-elf adventurers and barbarian raiders are particularly fond of robbing gangs of bone gatherers.

Vertoc played with the mithril mine for a moment and asked, "Huck, are you showing me these things?"

Although the mithril ore is precious, it can only show that this group of orcs just returned to the dragon kingdom from outside the territory, which is nothing special.

Huck brought another rattan basket, threw all its contents on the ground, and said, "Look, my lord, this is the stuff of the Whistleblower Corps, in addition to Anne and Katie's weapons, as well as swordsman Carl's alloy pendant. Sword. We didn't see Carl, he must have been poisoned by the orcs. As for Charlie and Thomas, I can't find their belongings. The two shield guards either died in the shadow forest, or they were separated from Annie and the others."

The big money of the whistle-blowing adventure group is a noble of the famous highland. The weapons equipped by the whistle-blowing group are all high-quality goods. No matter the material and workmanship of the weapons, they can be collected by the gnomes as treasures.Vertok glanced, and his attention shifted to the packs of medicine bags scattered on the ground.

"what?"

Vertok picked up a small medicine bag, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said in surprise, "Is this processed belladonna powder in it?"

"Belladonna powder? Isn't that a potion used for secret rituals?" Huck said, "My lord, I was startled when I saw so many bags, and thought the orcs had robbed a half-elf physician. But What do these potions do to orcs? They should have been thrown away long ago. So, I find it odd."

Vertok opened a few more medicine bags and found that there were sweet dream flowers, snake heart mushrooms, blue-striped herbs, Bucklean red scorpions and other pharmaceutical products in them, which can basically be classified as hallucinogens, among them Gao Cheng Addictive poison.

Vertoc was no stranger to these medicinal preparations, having seen them much in Dr. Cole's alchemy workshop.Bags containing medicines are also very common. The inner core is made of moisture-proof deerskin, and a layer of fine cotton is sewn on the outside. The workmanship and specifications meet the professional requirements of pharmacists.

But in terms of value, neither the potions inside nor the bags containing potions are treasures that can be paid to the Dragon King Palace.

Under normal circumstances, the orc bone collectors seized this batch of potions from the hands of the half-elves, and they would definitely throw them away.

But that's normal.

This gang of bone collectors is not normal. They even enslaved two half-elf women with these potions, and they are also professionals.

Preparing potions is the specialty of the Dissa Alliance, and Vertoc can be sure that the batch of potions in front of him comes from the half-elf apothecary.

The potions produced by the Disa Alliance are not useless for the orcs, but the orcs will not use the finished potions at all.

Hobgoblin medicine is nothing more than to collect some wild flowers and weeds, or eat them raw, or apply them to wounds, or throw them into the fire and burn them into ashes.I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to do it if they dispensed the medicine first and then the medicine like the half-elf apothecary did.

Unless a half-elf apothecary taught them!
The source of this batch of potions must have come from the Disa Alliance.Judging from the quantity of medicines, the half-elf adventure group will not carry so many medicines when they go out in the wild.Taking into account the special situation of Annie and Katie being enslaved by orcs, Vertoc thought of a possibility:
"It seems that there is a collusion with the Goblin Kingdom within the Dissa Alliance."

Huck looked back at the two female professionals who were tied to a tree and twisted around, and murmured, "Could the Hobgoblin abduct and sell them to a certain force in the Alliance, and deliberately turn them into idiot?"

"Otherwise? What's the use of the orc bone collectors keeping them, it's only reasonable for the gnolls to eat them." Vertoc shrugged his shoulders.

"The highland nobles are so bad, they actually collude with the dirty orcs to torture two beautiful little girls like this!" Huck said through gritted teeth.

He didn't have a good impression of the famous highland families, and he took it for granted that the highland nobles colluded with the hobgoblins to do indescribable evil acts against the young and beautiful half-elf female professionals to satisfy their perverted hobbies.

Vertoc said disapprovingly: "The nobles of Highland City don't have to collude with goblins for any woman they want. Those who collude with goblins should belong to the underground forces that cannot see the light."

Huck immediately woke up and explained sincerely: "My lord, I'm talking nonsense... I was wrong, please punish me."

Vertoc shook his head and said, "I don't even remember whether I'm a noble in Highland City, and my guess is not necessarily correct... Hobgoblins can 'mind reading', they can use body language and voice to transcend. Interracial communication is only very effective for the wisdom species of civilized countries. The minds of the Dissa half-elves are complex and changeable, and it is difficult for the Hobgoblins to use 'mind reading' to grasp their true intentions. If the Hobgoblins first turn the half-elves into simple-minded The idiot of the idiot may be able to remove the communication barrier... It is difficult to say the true intention of the hobgoblins to enslave Annie and Katie. But..."

He paused, then said, "This batch of potions is a clue to trace the truth. But I'm not interested in tracing the inside story right now."

"Well, it's none of our business." Huck nodded, he would only agree with Vertok and think it was a matter of course.

"Oh, yes. My lord, I also found two very precious treasures." Huck turned around and pulled out two long swords from another rattan basket, and handed them to Vertok as if they were treasures. "I promise, they are A real treasure!"

These two long swords are of exquisite workmanship and are three feet six inches long.Huck held one of the swords, his arms shook up and down, and Mingyao's blade hummed and vibrated, like rippling water waves, layer upon layer, endless, that kind of sharpness seemed to cut through the air.

Huck waved casually, the sword light turned, and the short tree on the side slipped slowly from the middle of the trunk without any warning.

"Magic weapon!"

Huck is also a part-time blacksmith. He said excitedly: "That guy Rhode's adamantine sword and spear is a farm tool made by a hillbilly blacksmith compared to this sword. I have never seen such a good long sword, even the material I have I can't fully recognize it. It must use fine gold and fine iron, and I don't know the other ingredients... I am afraid that only the full-time blacksmiths of the Zhumingmen can master the forging method, and only the big figures in the Zhumingmen are qualified to use them. Sir, you Look, there are emblems and cursive characters on the sword, but I don't recognize these cursive characters. They should be the secret scripts of famous families... lord, lord, what's the matter with you?"

Vertok stared at the long sword in his hand absentmindedly. He saw that the circular emblem on the sword was a bird perched on a thorn bar, singing loudly. Its background was unknown whether it was the sun or the moon.And the swashes next to the emblem are the ancient alphabets he knows.

"Sword-wielding maid, Ruth Randall."

Virtok read out the content of the text softly, his mind was in a trance for a while, and a broken memory emerged from the depths of his mind, and he muttered: "The sword-wielding maid ... Ruth ... Ruth Randall? The sword-wielding maid Ruth ? I seem to remember, this is the fine gold Thorium sword, which belongs to the sword of Ruth, the sword-wielding maid."

"Ah?" Huck was dumbfounded. The long sword he regarded as a weapon of magic actually belonged to a maid, and Vertok knew her.

What is the relationship between the maid named Ruth Randall and Vertoc?
How did her saber end up in the hands of the Bone Collector gang?

There are too many questions here, Huck didn't react for a while, and looked at Vertok blankly.

Vertok's face was particularly gloomy. He took another long sword from Huck's hand and found that the specifications and emblems of the two swords were exactly the same, and the inscription on the sword body indicated that the owner of this sword was another. A sword-wielding maid named Jessie Randall.

Ruth and Jessie may be dead, and their Adamantite Thorium swords are the spoils of the Orc Bone Collector!
Vertoc took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed his inexplicable anger, and said categorically: "It's not safe here, and the remaining claw goblins and fierce gnolls may run back. Let's go now and bring what we need to bring. Take it, first meet Max and the others, and then find a safe place... I need to sleep."

(End of this chapter)