wandering fairy

The druid left two soldiers to accompany Plague, and went around the carts alone, and seemed to be using those strange abilities to detect something.It was only then that Praeg noticed that the back of his clothes was embroidered with a skull-sized, black and white interlaced circular pattern. The middle of the pattern was divided into two parts by an "s" shape, with white on the left and black on the right.But there is also a small clump of black in that white part, and a small clump of white in the black part on the right, forming a symmetrical abstract pattern.

"What a strange sign," thought Praeg, who, relying on his years of business experience, quickly made friends with the two soldiers.After a few words, he won the favor of the two of them, so he took the opportunity to ask: "Who is that guest? Is he a priest?" He deliberately used the priest to draw the topic, because druid is a very unpopular profession after all. , nor high social status.

"Of course not." One of them replied: "He is a very powerful druid master who came to us a few years ago. And his medical skills are very good. Our baron..."

Before he finished speaking, a person next to him bumped into him lightly, and interrupted forcefully: "The baron often asks him to teach us about herbal medicine. Although the healing speed is faster than many priests, the effect is not bad if you take it slowly."

Praeg continued to smile and let out an "oh", obviously there are some things here that are inconvenient to tell him as an outsider.

The druid walked to a carriage, and an extremely thin man was trapped on the wooden box of the carriage.

He frowned and stared at the skinny half-drow like a skeleton. After turning around a few times, he suddenly called out to Praeg, "Can you untie this man's rope?"

Praeg was really taken aback this time. Could it be that this guy wanted to buy this sick wood that was only half-breathed?

The smile on his face froze, and he was taken aback for a moment before he said, "Are you going to buy a slave girl? Yes, untie it immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, the druid broke the rope by himself, and then started to grope for the half-drow's shoulder!He touched very seriously, starting from the shoulders, he kept pinching his arms, palms, and even fingers like dead branches inch by inch.

Then he made an even more amazing move!

He began to feel the completely meatless chest, to be precise, the ribs, and he groped slowly one by one.And with a serious look on his face!

Praeg was dumbfounded.

God!This guy can't be a necrophilia!

A sick guy that normal people avoid, but he couldn't put it down? !

Wow, he actually showed a satisfied look!

Gods!He went to touch the thigh again!The dry legs, which were uglier than old branches, he touched so carefully over and over again!

hell!He started touching his feet again, and he picked up that smelly foot and kept touching it!

Praeg was really frightened this time, he was going to go over to bargain, but now he dare not even move a step!

"Tymora!" He muttered to himself in his heart: "Don't let me meet this kind of guy again, it's too disgusting. I would rather be beaten to death than do this kind of thing."

In the past, he also heard that those high-ranking mages and priests of certain gods lived a life of luxury and luxury, so they developed a lot of weird and shameful hobbies. Have the druids caught up with this trend?

But the druid called out: "How do you sell this female slave?"

"1 gold coin!" Praeg shouted, in fact, he wanted to pay some money back, let this guy take the lead and get out as soon as possible, he is a very normal man after all!This fact is intolerable.

"Yeah." The druid nodded, and said directly without paying the price, "I bought it." Then he came over to pay the money, and asked the two reluctant soldiers to carry the half drow slave girl away.

A dozen or so women who were about to be sold as military prostitutes had gathered around, and they all came together after being woken up.As soon as they reached Wilwach City, their dark and miserable days would begin, so after seeing this well-dressed spell caster buy the most unlikely person to sell, they scrambled for the last chance to break free. Opportunities shackled by fate begged the druids one after another.

"Master, I can do a lot of work. I can do laundry, cooking, and planting flowers and plants. I have also raised small animals before. I am very experienced. Buy me." A middle-aged woman who was dressed reasonably begged .Praeg recognized her, she was a city freeman, but her man was a gambler, owed a lot of debt, and had to sell his wife after ruining the family business.

"Wise man, wise man," cried another ragged young woman eagerly, raising her dusty face, "I am in good health, and I have learned some tricks, and I can do many things for you, and I am willing to You do anything!" Apparently she still couldn't tell the difference between a mage and a druid.

"You can buy me, and I'm willing to die as a cow or a horse!" Someone shouted in a crying voice.Yes, even being a cow or a horse is more "promising" than being a military prostitute.

There were also people kneeling, begging with tears while kowtowing: "I don't want to die! I know you are a druid, a noble person like you who can even pity animals, please do me a favor, save me this poor woman"

Um?Haven't you heard that druids are also evil?Praeg sneered in his heart, could this perverted Druid be a good person?

The druid looked up and down one by one at these women with miserable faces and eyes full of eager hope.

After a long while, he shook his head, and led the two soldiers, amidst the desperate cries and angrily scolding of the women, they gradually walked to the gate of the city. The soldiers guarding the gate had already opened the gate and sent them out of the city very respectfully. .

Plague felt chills in his heart, who the hell is this guy, who is only interested in a sick person, but ignores normal women.This kind of place is too evil, it's better to avoid it, leave immediately tomorrow morning, and resolutely never come again.

Determined to pay attention, he immediately returned to his tent, and before going to bed, he had to pray to Timorah, the goddess of fortune, for a while, otherwise he would not be at ease all night.

Under the desolate night sky, beside the swaying bonfire, dozens of female slaves cried miserably and helplessly, and drifted to the distant desert along the cold wind.

"Am I going to die?" Lelin was struggling in a semi-conscious state, and she felt that someone was unceremoniously cutting her wrist and ankle with a sharp knife again.

"Have I arrived at Fimulika's kingdom of God?" Her heart was filled with despair, thinking desperately, "Could it be that the slaves of the God Queen are trying to torture me in another way?" But she was so weak that she couldn't even open her eyes. I didn't even have the strength to open my eyes.It seems that those guys are applying ointment to the open wound again!

"O Eilistraee!" cried her heart, a final, helpless cry. "Why did this happen? Why did you never answer me? Why did you never show me the way out of this endless doom?" She began to complain: "Are you also afraid of this vicious god? Do you just watch your followers suffer eternal torture like this?"

There was still no response to her anger, and those guys turned her over again in a daze, and suddenly felt a piercing pain on both sides of her back, spreading down one by one from the height of her shoulders, like a sharp knife The extremely sharp needle pierced deep into the muscles and bones, and it kept beating, as if tearing the surrounding muscles, and the whole back felt a burning and sore feeling.Then there were waves of weird heat waves from the wounds on the wrists and ankles, rushing straight to his heart.

The shock of "Boom" bombarded the whole body, and there was a sharp pain in the heart, as if it exploded at that moment.

She passed out from the pain again.

Lelin struggled to open her tired eyes.

"Where is this place?" She was full of doubts.

This is a spacious stone house. There are no gaps or traces of rock joints on the surrounding walls, as if all the walls, ceilings, and floors were hollowed out from a single huge rock.And she herself was lying on a single wooden bed, covered with a cup made of several layers of animal skins stitched together, under her body were coarse sheets and animal skin mattresses, as well as straw and the bottom plank.There is a small open window sill on one side of the wall, and the soft sunlight shines in, forming a peaceful scene.

There was a strange medicinal smell in the air, but the quilt was warm and comfortable.Lelin thought.In the city of Kaska in the underground world, I have never slept in such a warm and comfortable bed.It was like a damp cage there—cold and damp. Whenever I covered myself with a thin quilt, I always felt like a little mouse curled up in a damp straw pile, feeling uncomfortable all over.

Um?The pain in my body is gone!The severe pain that had tortured me for more than two years and made me unable to live or die was gone!She tried to move her hands and feet in surprise.

By the gods!

Really no pain at all!

My own strength seems to have recovered a little!

There was no one around, and she shouted out to the wooden door of the room with some gratitude: "Where is this?"

After several calls, no one responded.

She held up her still weak body with great effort, and wanted to go out to see what this place was, and she wanted to thank the person who saved her.

She put her legs on the ground, trying to stand up with that weak strength.

After a plop, she couldn't hold it anymore and fell to the ground.But unyielding, she held onto the edge of the bed and stood up slowly. "I can stand up!"

She was so excited that she wept slightly, because she could feel that her body had stopped failing and started to recover instead!

Suddenly, a "chacha" sound came from the small window sill on the other side.Lelin leaned on the thick and rough wall to move her steps inch by inch.Slowly came to the window sill, and looked down.

Only then did she realize that she was on the third floor of a building.Looking down, a group of people gathered in an open space not far away. In front of them, a man in a dark blue knee-length robe was pointing and explaining something.These people listened very carefully, and a few literate people were still recording something on paper.Several soldiers were coming over one after another to join the spectator team, and they were the ones who made the "chacha" sound of the armor moving.

Here, it seems to be a remote village.

As Lelin thought, she looked up at the wilderness in the distance, surrounded by sparse trees and barren land mixed with yellow and green, and the gray-blue cloud in the sky was like a thick curtain, spreading endlessly to the far end.

A few rays of golden sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the clouds and shone onto the mottled earth, like a desolate and powerful picture scroll.

The skinny Chad Lelin stared at the ray of soft golden sunlight in the distance obsessively, and suddenly an uncontrollable emotion made her cry.

Sunlight!Golden sunshine!She covered her face and fell to the ground weakly, sobbing unconsciously.

Fimulica's divine kingdom has only purple suns!This is still the world!

I'm finally free from that vicious Queen of God!I am free!

It must be the blessing of the goddess Eilistraee!Le Lin was grateful, but soon panicked again. A few days ago, she complained about the goddess in despair. Will this kind of disrespectful behavior cause dissatisfaction of the goddess?

She knelt down anxiously and prayed devoutly to the goddess: "Benevolent Eilistraee, please forgive my offense. I will follow in your footsteps to the death and save my compatriots from darkness. May our compatriots survive the difficulties Be strong and endure, and the ultimate freedom will come."

During dinner, the weak Lelin sat up at the small table, watching the druid bring a bowl of unusually delicious thick soup.

"Drink it, you have been in a coma for 5 days." Druid said, then scooped up a bowl for himself, and then took a piece of bread and sat down: "The meat of this soup is completely rotten, and it all melts." I put it into the soup. Because your body is very weak, I did this specially so that the nutrients can be easily absorbed. I also put special medicine in the soup, which can suppress the curse on your body." After speaking, he ate and drank on his own .

Le Lin silently picked up the hot soup, the rich meaty aroma pierced her forehead, it was really delicious, I had never smelled it in my life!

She tasted it slowly and in small sips, the fragrance seemed to permeate her whole body, she began to heat up from head to toe, and her strength began to recover.

She stole a glance at the man.

The dark blue robe on this person was rare, the hem was just below the knees and a pair of wide sleeves only extended to the elbows. The robe was embroidered with emerald green lines that were two fingers wide, and they were stacked together to form a square symbol.There is also a black and white joined round logo on the back. Although Lelin doesn't recognize it, she guesses that it is a "balance" logo.

The man claimed he was a druid, and druids tend to be neutral, and the "balanced" sign seemed to suit them well.

But is he really a druid?

Lelin was a little skeptical, because she hadn't seen a single animal since she woke up at noon!Didn't even see a spider or mouse!

"Are you saying that the curse on me hasn't been removed yet?" She asked tentatively.

"Yeah." The man raised his young face and said unhurriedly: "The delay is too long, the curse has already entered your internal organs through the muscles and bones, and the spell to remove the curse has no effect .Now as long as your hands and feet are too hard, you will feel pain all over your body. If you want to get rid of it, you need to use both medicine and spells to recuperate slowly. But the local herbs are different from what I have learned in the past, and many medicinal properties need to be re-identified, which will take time. "

"By the way, have you practiced martial arts before?" He asked.

Le Lin was a little sad, the shadow of failure when she defected still lingered on her, so she replied in a muffled voice, "Practice a bit."

The man raised his eyebrows and asked: "Just a little? I think your bones are different from ordinary people. If you don't practice for many years, you shouldn't have those changes."

Le Lin's heart tightened, she raised her head and asked, "Have you also practiced martial arts?"

After years of practice, warriors will indeed experience great changes in their bodies, but only warriors can experience and feel these changes.Ordinary spellcasters, even professions that are closely related to warriors like priests, don't know much about it. They only know that the bodies of warriors have become stronger, and their reactions and movements have become faster and more coordinated.As for the specific changes in body structure, they don't know.Especially the changes in the "skeletons", most people don't even understand the significance of such changes to warriors!

The man smiled and took a sip of the soup slowly, and said unhurriedly: "I used to practice with people for a while when I was in the mountains, so I know a little bit."

"Learned from the ranger?" Lelin asked.Knowing martial arts and staying in the mountains is the only ranger.

The man smiled: "No. Well, in your terms, he is barely a killer."

"Assassin?" Lelin was very surprised, and said: "Assassin is a profession, not a warrior profession. Because anyone can be a killer, fighters, rogues, even mages, warlocks, as long as they are good at assassination, they are killers. Don't you druids Have there been many killers? You said that person is a wanderer."

"No, no." The man quickly replied, "In other words, he should be a fighter who is part-time a rogue."

Le Lin continued to drink the soup silently. This person spoke strangely. How could he learn other people's martial arts but not even know their profession?It's better to be careful yourself.She didn't want to be used again.

At the end of the delicious but dull dinner, the man took out a necklace made of rattan and a wooden sign, stuffed it into her skinny hand and said, "You are a slave girl I bought with money. According to the rules here, I I have the right to brand my personal logo on you, but I don't like to do that." He paused and continued: "But after all, you are a slave girl, and you need to identify yourself as the master. Wear this necklace on your body, here's People will know that you are my servant here. Then they will not make things difficult for you, a foreigner."

"I..." Le Lin eagerly wanted to tell him that she would never be a slave!I want to live freely!

However, he was indeed bought by him, and he also healed his wounds. Without him, the current self would either be dead, or he would still be suffering from that hellish torment.It's not easy to refute emotionally or rationally.

"What about you?" the man asked.

"I accept." Lelin sighed, put on the rattan necklace and said, "If you have anything to do, please tell me, my master."