The Void Walker Starting from Xumi

Chapter 3, The Gilded Brigade

The terrain of Aru Village is very rugged, with the main living area located on an independent sandstone rock and surrounded by moats.

In the early morning, Aru Village was bathed in the sun. Several mercenaries who had obviously just finished their shift stretched their backs and watched.
"Stop!" Several mercenaries hired by Aru Village stopped Fuget who was about to enter the suspension bridge.

"Is there something wrong?" Zimofuget asked in a hoarse and emotionless voice.

Although he felt that Fuget was a little strange, the mercenary still asked under the supervision of the village guard: "Where are you from, where are you going, what are you doing, and what are you going to do."

"He came from Kanreya and went to Xumi. He is a scholar and went to study at the Xumi Teaching Academy." said Fugate.

Several mercenaries seemed to have never heard of Kanreya, but the village guard obviously knew something and nodded, and the mercenaries stopped bothering Fuget.

Then they made way, and one of the mercenaries pointed out to Fuget where the only inn in the village was.

Fugate thanked him stupidly.

It seems that because the Great Tree King is still in power, the commercial trade between the desert and the rainforest is still relatively prosperous at this time.

Therefore, there is still a small inn in Aru Village for passing caravans to rest. The most common room in the inn is a large dormitory room, which is also the cheapest. You can stay there for a night for only 2k Mora, and only the most basic clean water is provided.

The second thing was a single room that Fuget wanted. There was only a bed (without bedding), a table without drawers and a chair in it. The space was relatively small, but of course it was relatively cheap. It only cost 8k Mora for one night. Fuget paid for two nights directly. This small room provided clean water and two small meals (breakfast and dinner).

The more luxurious ones seem to be suites, which are usually rented by larger caravans. It seems to cost around 3 Mora per night.

Fuget didn't know what the use of collecting this information was. Fuget quickly became familiar with the situation in Aru Village, then returned to the house and started today's training.

According to the guidance of his consciousness, he needed a stronger body, but it obviously took time to hone it and required resources to nourish it. Night began to fall, and the moonlight was not good tonight. Dark clouds that came from nowhere blocked the moonlight.

The self-destructive Fugate began to stare at the oil lamp in a daze. He didn't know how long he had been in a daze, then he put the package under his head and prepared to sleep.

It seemed like he had just fallen asleep not long ago.

[Wake up, there is danger.] The system urgently reminded.

To be honest, after following such a host, the system feels that its intelligence growth rate has exceeded the average of the system family.

Zimie Fuget woke up from a deep sleep almost instantly, and then put his hand on the knife. The knife had no scabbard. Fuget had just maintained it before the sun set in the afternoon, so he could directly intervene in the battle very conveniently.

Fugate heard roars and the sound of weapons clashing in the distance.

Then there were a few curse words mixed with desert slang and the common language of Teyvat, as if to ask those who were staying in the hotel to behave themselves.

But then these sounds turned into screams of pain and anger, and then Fugate felt the sound of weapons clashing around the hotel.

"..." Fugate raised the knife.

Then, after about dozens of breaths, an axe hit the door of Fugate's small room.

After two or three hits the door's bolt broke, and Fuget struck the mercenary on the head as he tried to break in.

Then there were a few more dodgers, flashes of knives, and the sound of weapons clashing stopped. The bodies of the two bandits in front of Fugate's door proved what had just happened.

Fugate closed the door again and sat on the bed in a daze. He had a plan in mind. In this situation, it would be best for him, an outsider, not to get involved.

I think those two corpses are enough for Fuget to intimidate others.

No matter whether these two men were bandits taking advantage of the situation or were part of the bandit group that attacked Aru Village tonight, Fuget was not afraid. It was nothing more than death. Fuget, who was in a state of self-destruction, had no attitude towards it.

Fuget could hear the roars of the village guards of Aru Village. The village guards were the elite armed forces unique to Aru Village and had very strong combat effectiveness. Of course, there were not many of them and they usually commanded the actions of the mercenaries.

The sound of weapons clashing continued until the second half of the night, as Fuget reviewed the night's battle.

In fact, the two opponents tonight are stronger than Fuget in terms of level. After one and a half months of training, Fuget's current level is only LV7, which can only be regarded as an ordinary person who has undergone certain combat training.

Among the other two people tonight, the one who opened the door was at level 13, which makes him a veteran among the bandits.

The other one is also at LV9, and is much stronger than Fuget in terms of physical strength. The reason why Fuget was able to win is entirely because he abandoned all his emotions, and acted as coldly as a machine, coupled with his systematic swordsmanship.

After confirming that there was nothing else going on, Fuget fell asleep normally. The next day, Fuget woke up as usual.

The bodies at the door had been cleared away by the mercenaries from Aru Village.

"Sir, the village chief wants you to come over." said a mercenary at the door.

"I need to wash up first," said Fugate.

The mercenary nodded. This was a distinguished guest, and their Aru Village could still meet his request.

After Fuget finished washing up, he was invited to the village chief's house.

Actually, it was nothing, just to thank Fuget for his brave help last night. However, Fuget looked difficult to deal with, so the chief of Aru Village only provided some Mora, waived Fuget's hotel fees for the past few days, and raised Fuget's food standards to the highest level.

Although this hotel has an owner, strictly speaking it is still a property of the village.

"This guy is really difficult to deal with." The village guard complained.

"He doesn't trust us." The village chief said, "But to be honest, although he doesn't look very strong, his swordsmanship is really good. He only used seven strikes last night and those two guys were dead."

They were surprised when they checked the two bodies this morning. There were not many wounds on the two bodies. The guy who broke into the door was stabbed three times, once in the face, once on the neck, and finally once in the heart.

The other one was stabbed in the neck and in the heart. After using two moves to deflect the opponent's weapon, Forget directly killed the opponent without the opponent even having time to react.

"He's a tough guy." The village guard also admitted that Fugate was not easy to deal with, and that his eyes were scary. He looked at him like a dead person.

"I'll talk to him later," said the village chief.

"That guy's information is wrong." The village guard frowned and said, "Although he said he was from Kanreya, he didn't have the natural star pupils of Kanreya. But the clothes he was wearing were indeed the clothes of the lower nobles of Kanreya."

"Don't worry about it. He has no ill intentions towards us for now." The village chief said nonchalantly, "By the way, have you found out where the guys who attacked last night are from?"

"Someone has already interrogated them. It was a joint action of several mercenary groups that believed in the Red King." The village guard frowned. "Have those guys forgotten the teachings of the Red King and the kindness of the Great Kind Tree King?"

"No, let me go and ask in person," said the village chief.

···The dividing line between Fugate's sword practice and his purchase of supplies···
In the evening, Zimofuget encountered the best situation in consciousness deduction.

That is, they met a caravan that could give them a ride. Of course, the caravan was not found by Fuget himself, but was found by the village chief of Aru village after he came to talk to Fuget.

By the way, he tested Fuget's swordsmanship. After learning that Fuget learned the swordsmanship from the wisdom of his ancestors (the instructions of consciousness) and perfected it himself, the village chief shut up.

However, upon learning that Fuget's purpose was to go to Xumi to study, the village chief took the initiative to contact the caravan staying in the inn. The caravan had lost its guard last night (the guard was injured and needed to recuperate in Aru) and was very happy to have an extra temporary guard who was not easy to mess with.

However, as a price, Fuget needs to rest here for one more day. The main reason is that the caravan's pack animals were not only frightened last night, but also slightly injured and needed to be comforted. Otherwise, Fuget would have been able to leave with the caravan long ago.

Of course, settling the wounded is the most important thing. The wounded can no longer live in the big bunk bed, and they need someone to take care of them. These caravans are jointly established by several tribes, so the human touch is still strong.

However, time soon came to leave, it was still evening, and this time was indeed a good choice to leave.

Fugate was not qualified to ride a pack animal, or rather, pack animals were not meant to be ridden. Most people in the caravan walked on their own, and pack animals were used more to transport goods. These big guys were very strong and had outstanding endurance, and could transport a good amount of goods.

According to the conversation between Fuget and the caravan members, these desert beasts of burden are called camels. The desert people have started to domesticate these big guys a long time ago, and it is said that it can even be traced back to the time of the Red King.

In comparison, rainforest people began to domesticate camels and their cousin yaks only in the last two hundred years.

In addition, the caravan members corrected a mistake made by Fugate. The official name of the bandits is not bandits. Like mercenaries, they are called the Gilded Brigade.

This is the general term for all desert people's armed forces. All desert people who have undergone desert training and killing can be called the Gilded Brigade. As for why no one refutes the term mercenaries, it is because most of the Gilded Brigade are indeed doing the work of mercenaries.

The Gilded Brigade can be further divided into mercenaries, escorts, and guards, and there are also different divisions of duties within the group, including commandos, priests, dancers, falcons, etc.

The guard even joked that some small groups within the Gilded Brigade could even be called the Gilded Women's Group, but the guard still warned Fugate in a low voice that some of the women in the desert may be pretty, but these women in the desert are all cacti with thorns.

The women who dare to join the Gilded Brigade are all very powerful.

Many women have mastered the power of the Eredi. As for what the Eredi guards are, she said she is not quite sure. The Eredi weapons in their tribe are kept in the hands of the elders. However, even if there is only a broken Eredi power, it is still very terrifying.

Zimiefuget also knew something about the so-called Erling weapons. Just as he was about to say something and continue to obtain information, the guard in front of the caravan suddenly shouted that the enemy was attacking.

The caravan guards shuddered suddenly, complaining about how unlucky they were as they encountered two attacks in such a short period of time, and picked up their axes and rushed forward.

Fugate also went forward with the knife in his arms, but soon a flash of lightning appeared in the night.

A flash of fire also appeared on the caravan's side, and the two sides soon engaged in a fierce battle.

Although Fuget, who was in the self-destruction state, did not feel any emotions such as shock, he still felt a tingling sensation on his scalp (it was the static electricity generated by the Erling electric field).

Soon, Fuget came into contact with a sword dancer. The opponent's swordsmanship was unskilled and not as sophisticated as Fuget's, so he was soon injured by Fuget. Just when Fuget was about to expand the victory, he killed him.

But Fuget didn't expect that his opponent was actually a captain. He saw this guy suddenly retreat a few steps and shouted, "It's a difficult idea. Come and help me."

Suddenly, three warriors separated from the surrounding battles and headed towards Fuget.

No matter how skilled Fuget's swordsmanship was, he could not help but feel a little dangerous. After all, two fists are no match for four hands. What's more, there were four people on the opposite side, and one of them was a crossbowman. This guy posed the greatest threat to Fuget.

From time to time, he would shoot a cold arrow to interrupt Fugate's offensive and defensive rhythm.

Suddenly, Fuget's eyes froze, and at the critical moment, he regained consciousness. His body instinctively picked up a piece of sand with the knife. Unfortunately, under the protection of the red silk, the opponent's vision was still intact, but Fuget still widened the distance between the two.

The emotionless Fugate thought about how to get out.

The opponents had no intention of delaying time and rushed forward to cut Fget into pieces. Suddenly, a desert voice was heard from the battlefield where explosions were heard everywhere. The faces of the opponents changed and they began to retreat instantly.

Fuget had no intention of chasing them. He let out a long sigh. A flash of fire passed by, and several enemies were killed on their way to escape. The other enemies ran even faster.

Fuget then followed the other guards back to the surrounded caravan. Several elders of the caravan were applying medicine to the guards. Fuget had no wounds on his body. He was as cold as a machine, and his first priority in the battle was to protect himself.

If he was willing to risk getting injured, he could actually take down one or two of the four men, but it would be a loss for Fugate himself.

I'm just a temporary worker, why should I risk my life for him?

However, his behavior of holding back four people by himself was reported by other guards. Then Fuget received another sum of Mora (about 2). Fuget asked if he could exchange it for raw stones. He had seen several people using raw stones for decoration before.

The original stone is actually not very big, only about five millimeters in size.

It was only when he saw this that Fuget remembered that the raw stones were not actually precious in the eyes of the local residents of Teyvat. They were just a kind of low-end gem that was difficult to process. Fuget exchanged those Mora for nearly two hundred raw stones. Well, there were still about 3k Mora left.

[You are finally back] The system's words seemed to be full of grievances.

"Ha, don't worry about this kind of thing." Fugate said in his heart.

"Are there enough raw stones for the lottery now?" asked Fugate. The raw stones were quickly absorbed by the system.

[Enough prayers, the number of prayers is 3]

"Then let's start the lottery."

[Please select a wish, please note that you can only select fuzzy instructions]

"Does this function still exist? Please describe it in detail."

[Wishing Pool: You can pray for items, knowledge, concepts, etc. The current range of the wishing pool is the multiverse of the Earth and the Tree and Sea multiverse]

Fuget's consciousness fell into a long thought, but he soon realized that what he lacked most now was not something else, but his brain that was almost unable to work.

"Pray for 'Brain Development', give me all in! Three draws are enough, everything! Or nothing!"

[Host, please do not add drama to yourself. It will only waste time and serve no purpose. ]

[Praying...]

【Pray for success】

[NZT-48 (small bottle, 20 tablets)]: A three-star drug from "Limitless" that can open up the nerve endings in the brain, greatly improving learning efficiency, but has serious side effects.

[Ritalin (box, 10 tablets)]: A one-star drug from "Earth OL" that can activate brain activity, improve attention and learning efficiency, and has mild side effects.

[Collection of introductory brain science books (21 books)]: A two-star book from "Earth OL", containing introductory knowledge of brain science in the st century. After fully mastering it, there is a chance to comprehend the two-star ability·Photographic Memory, the two-star ability·Memory Palace, the two-star ability·Lucid Dream, the one-star ability·Deep Sleep, and the one-star ability·Meditation.

Without saying a word, Fugate swallowed a NZT-48.

"Great! The hardware has been upgraded." Fugate began to optimize the plan he had made before, and added more instructions to himself in the self-destruction state.

Fuget ate a few candies, which were sundries he purchased in Aru Village.

Under the brain overload provided by NZT-48, Fugate could even predict that he would fall into a state of self-destruction again in half an hour.

"What a huge improvement, isn't it?" Fugate rubbed his temples and began to recall the books he had read about the human body and the videos about martial arts, and then mixed these books, videos and the like with his own swordsmanship.

Then a sword technique that only existed in theory appeared in Fuget's brain. Fuget believed that his self-destructive state would be able to perform this sword technique that only existed in theory.

"I almost forgot about monsters." Fuget said to himself. Fuget once again added several models of common monsters such as hillbillies and mushroom beasts to optimize his swordsmanship.

It’s not that Fugate didn’t want to add the data of other monsters, but he had seen the figures of these monsters, and he knew the figures of those monsters in the game.

However, the monsters in those games can only serve as a reference at best. There are still big differences between real monsters and the monsters in those games.

(End of this chapter)