Whispers of the Gods

Chapter 111 Hadgar V (2)

"You're the most outrageous person I've ever met." Foy took off her helmet and muttered.

"But I have this," said Hadgar triumphantly, mentioning his new scabbard. "You have none."

Faye's face was full of dissatisfaction, but she didn't refute. The girl knew that what he said was the truth.

Hadgar tore off the necklace from the soldier's neck. The wooden carving in the shape of the sun was a token of the saints.

"Take this on, and you can sell it to people from the Supreme God Cult." He threw the necklace into the helmet in Foy's hand, put on the leggings and fastened the dagger while asking: "How many stones do we still have?" necklace?"

"There are still more, we only sold two, have you forgotten?" Foy said, "You don't look like a priest or a farmer, and people don't believe what we say."

Hadgar picked up the soldier's purse from the ground, opened it and only found a few silver coins and twenty or thirty copper coins.He fastened the money bag on his belt. Although there was not much money in it, it would still allow them to find a tavern to eat and live well.

He took off the soldier's cotton armor and trousers and handed them to Foy, "Put these on."

Foy put the helmet on the ground and took over the soldier's clothes, her slender eyebrows frowned slightly, "Turn around."

Hadgar sighed, turned and walked to a pine tree.

The bark of the pine tree twisted and writhed on the rough trunk, and Hadgar bent down to pick up a pinecone, and rubbed its scales with his fingers. Perhaps this is what touching a dragon's wing feels like, he thought.

He noticed a squirrel with dark brown hair and a white belly. It ran out of the tree hole and stood on a branch looking at him with its thick tail sticking up.

Hadgar held up the pine cone in his hand and gave it to the squirrel. The squirrel stared at him with its small round black eyes. After a pause, it jumped up to a higher branch and disappeared while running.

"Let's go." Foy said from behind.

Hadgar turned around, and saw the girl who had changed clothes get up and pick up the helmet, and kicked the soldier in the crotch, which was stripped naked except for a pair of pants, before leaving.

Hadgar narrowed his eyes subconsciously, and led the girl through the woods, back to the oak tree where they stopped the horse, put the helmet into the bag on the saddle, got on the horse and continued on the road.

Foy put her arms around Hadgar's waist on the horse's back, leaned on his back and asked, "How long will it take us to reach the Kingdom of Vivalia?"

"Hurry up, it should be empty tide city after riding for a while." Hadgar replied.Empty Tide City is the last walled city on the Igmer Road, passing through it means leaving the territory of the Hastza Empire.

These days, they rode all the way north from Duck Forest Village, passing through Midell City and Melting Frost City. They were called sacred relics blessed by the gods and sold to people they met on the road in exchange for some food.

And the lone soldiers just now also provided them with a lot of help. Hadgar has his own weapons and armor, and with the horse abducted from Yalin Village, no one dares to provoke him in this outfit.

"What do we do when we get to the Great Plains?" Foy asked.

"I don't know," said Hadgar, "I know what I'm going to do, find a band of mercenaries, or a lord who recruits riders, and join them. If there's an arena in the north, I can go back to my old business. But you should What to do, I don't know."

"You don't speak Vivarian at all!"

"It's the same as you would say," Hadgar said as he jumped over a small puddle on his horse, causing Foy to hold herself tightly again in fright. "I don't need to speak Vivarian because I speak with a sword."

"You can't just leave me like this, we are together." Foy said, "We can continue to partner like this until we find Mrs. Shana.

I swear to the gods, when we find Lord Xana, we'll part, and I'll make him pay you handsomely, even a territory on the Great Plains. "

"You have a talent for deceiving people, Foy." Hadgar said with a big smile, holding the rein in his hand, "but you can't deceive me, and you know that these are far-fetched promises."

"I don't care about this, you have to accompany me to find Mrs. Shana." Foy said unreasonably, "You don't want to abandon me before that."

"I shouldn't have taken you away," Hadgar complained.

"It's a done deal, Hadgar, I can't go back now, and I don't want to go back."

He let Foy bear the crime with him and became a fugitive from the empire, and she also saved his life. He dismissed the so-called responsibility, but she was the first person to help him.

"Okay, I'll see what I can do when I get to the Kingdom of Vivaria." He pretended to smile helplessly.

"It's a deal, Hadgar," said the girl behind him softly. "You swear to the gods."

"I will not swear to the gods," said Hadgar. "I will swear only when I am about to kill, and I will tell the gods the name of the man I am about to kill."

The castle looms on the horizon in the distance, surrounded by high walls on three sides and facing the coast on the north.

Hadgalima stopped, looking ahead suspiciously.

"Why did you stop?" Foy asked.

"What's the matter over there?" he asked to himself. "Why are there troops stationed outside Kongchao City?"

The camp outside the city wall was dotted with hundreds of densely packed tents, they were neatly arranged in several rows, faint cooking smoke rose into the air, and there were heavily armed Hastza soldiers everywhere.

"What's that?" Foy asked.

"An army, obviously," Hadgar said, "but I don't know what they're doing outside of Airtide."

He didn't know what happened. Ever since the last emperor "Iron Hammer" Atakinu's Southern Expedition ended, Hadgar had never seen the empire gather so many troops. Judging from the number of tents, it seemed that there were at least three tents. 4000 people.

Could it be that there is a war about to be fought?If there is a war, it is not a bad thing for him. Mercenaries are not afraid that they will not find work during the war.

"Let's get out of here quickly, I have a bad feeling." Foy said with some anxiety.

Hadgar observed the front vigilantly, and after confirming that there were no riders patrolling, he kicked lightly with his heel, bypassing the stationed army and continuing to ride north.

They rode wildly all the way, through the rolling meadows and the villages beside the fields, until they arrived at the stone bridge of the Jingliu River just before sunset.

They dismounted to drink and hold water, then continued to mount their horses, cross the stone bridge, and then drive along the Igmer Road.

"We have passed the Still River," Hadgar slowed down his horse's pace, and said to Foy behind him, "There are Vivarian cities and villages ahead, we can find a Stay at the tavern."

(End of this chapter)