Transcendent Noble

In the depths of the Wharton Prairie, more than 30 men, women and children dressed as mercenaries pulled sledges around an bull and headed west along the shallow river.

Like most mercenary groups, they drag the family and support the old and the young. There are only 17 people with weapons and equipment, and they are the most common leather armor, bows and bucklers. , Wooden handle lance, only a few people are equipped with sophisticated chain armor, leather armor, helmet, throwing spear and long sword.

They are undoubtedly the core battle strength of this small mercenary group, the others are only auxiliary, and the young and old who are incapable of fighting are the hostages handed over to the employer by the mercenary group.

It is difficult for mercenary groups without family members to gain the trust of their employers, and they are often subject to repeated investigations by sentry guards. Of course, the family structure is a general phenomenon of the mercenary group, and the flags registered in churches in various places are the most important expression of identity of the mercenary group.

The shorthorn sledge carries all the belongings of the little mercenary group. There is a flag at the front end of the sledge, which roughly depicts a burning lion, so they call it the fire lion mercenary group.

It is now the end of February in the Season of Earth, and the spring is thick, and the endless green spread to the end of the sky. The transparent shallow river is like a pure and flawless jade belt, winding between the grass and the sky. The purple lilac flowers are dotted with dots. Looking at one of them, they are unremarkable. They are joined together to add a moving color to the spring prairie, and make the fresh and humid air with a rich fragrance.

The big prairie rabbits and prairie gophers are not afraid of the mercenary group driving the ox sledge, they are only wary of the goshawks hovering in the air. In the mercenary group, except for the half-old child who happily chased hare gophers, even the black-haired guard dogs ignored the prey close at hand.

These things that don't know how to be afraid of people are so easy to grasp, they are almost tired of eating.

Walking on the vigorous and wonderful prairie, the old man of the Mercenary Group of Fire Lions has a sad face. There are clean water sources, a variety of wild vegetables, and easy-to-catch prey. At the same time, it also means that there are no people around, no defensive footholds, and there will be monsters and beasts.

The little fire lion mercenary group shouldn’t be here. The old people in the team are all experienced old mercenaries. They can’t understand why the deputy commander of Theodore didn’t persuade Octavier. The leader chose to detour from the Whitewater Fortress to the Centaur Hills of Dodo, and then walk north to reach the Nether Soul forest development point.

Although the route is a bit far away, the transit fee must be paid to the lord’s sentry on the way, but the risk of the journey is also small. It’s not like going deep into the prairie, it’s easy to get lost, the terrain is very open, and there are no hidden spots all around. Once the Jackal tribe is staring at it, it’s hard to escape.

The old mercenaries only complained privately to the deputy commander of Theodore, and absolutely did not dare to make any comments to the commander of Octavir. Because she is not only the head of the mercenary group of the fire lion, but also the female knight-errant of the church, with the identity of the Knight aristocrat.

Actually, the original leader of this mercenary group is Theodore. The most qualified mercenary has followed him for six years. It is said that Theodore used to be the backbone of the mercenary group of the fire lion, because The old group leader died unexpectedly and was squeezed out by his companions. Only in a rage, he took his wife Ruth, younger sister Penny and brother-in-law Todd to follow the old group leader’s granddaughter Octavier, and set up another door, but still on fire. The banner of the lion mercenary group.

Octavil is not satisfied with being a mercenary. She took the savings of the mercenary group and registered the knight-errant status with the church. She left for a few years, but she didn’t get any fame. . Two months ago, Theodore received a message from Octavir in a church in the Kingdom of Dodo. She is already a female trainee Knight who has mastered Battle Qi, and she is about to recruit followers to Nether Soul forest to explore try one's luck. She left a message asking the fire lion mercenary group registered under her name to join her.

So, Theodore took his companions to the meeting point designated by the message and met Octavir and her three followers.

I haven't seen her in a few years, Miss Octavir has become more beautiful, if it weren't for her dark red hair, gray-green eyes, and the faintly familiar facial features, the elderly of the mercenary group would not dare to recognize her.

In any case, Octavir is now a real Knight aristocrat, and of course the fire lion mercenary group follows her.

However, this female knight-errant and mercenary group leader seems unreliable.

"The damn Shuitao Town Public Security Bureau, driving us out of the tavern is not a big deal, but forcibly conquering my carriage and horses.... A group of guys without a sense of glory, it's shameless! "Octaville walked at the forefront of the team, complaining bitterly.

She and the red lion mercenary group were driven out of the mercenary tavern by the sheriff of Shuitao Town. It has been a long time ago. At that time, I didn’t think anything. Now I don’t have a carriage, and I drove a shorthorn bull. The sledge hit the road slowly, making her more unconvinced as she thought about it.

Actually, the most important reason is that there is no money. The fire lion mercenary group bought this short-horn bull and purchased some supplies. Octavier became the head of the pauper. I couldn't get the transit fee, so I could only chop some wood to make a sledge, and take a bunch of men to the unpopulated field.

When did Miss Octavier be so suffocated, she used to not care about the money, but the first time she purchased supplies, she was severely slaughtered by a black-hearted businessman.

Of course, the head of the mercenary group and the knight-errant of the fire lion mercenary group would never admit that he had lost the last savings of the mercenary group. All the mistakes were due to the public security station in Shuitao Town.

"The people in the Shuitao Town Public Security Bureau are shameless bastards, more disgusting than green skin!"

Octavier knight-errant is the youngest subordinate Penny's follower, Penny nodded, responded and taught her master how to curse like a mercenary.

"en? Go on, go on... Penny, help me scold those bastards badly." Captain Vale beamed his eyes and encouraged his followers to speak foul language.

Penny was inspired, and she spouted all kinds of slang, swear words, and witty words in her small mouth, spraying the sheriff, tavern boss, black-hearted merchant, and even the bartender clerk in Watertown Town all over again. Without.

Header Vale opened his eyes, applauded and applauded. Her happy appearance made the Theodore and his wife who had always calmed down to join the ranks.

The members at the back of the team heard the head's silver bell-like laugh, and thought she thought of something worthy of joy.

Learning to curse people can also be so happy, this is the head of the fire lion mercenary group and female knight-errant Octavier.

She stopped abruptly, and Todd, the forward scout of the Mercenary Group of Fire Lions, ran back away with a subordinate. The deputy commander of Theodore made a gesture towards the back, and the mercenaries immediately grabbed the short-horned bull, recalled the playful child, took out the crossbow, and stood on guard.

Todd ran up to him with a solemn expression, and reported to Octaville in a low voice: "Head, I found a victim in front, like a young female knight-errant. "

"The victims? Will there be victims in this place, or will they be a female knight-errant?" Captain Vale was surprised and excited. Everyone stay here, stay alert, let’s go and take a look."

Two kilometers ahead, a girl dressed as a mercenary was covered by long blades of grass. It was hidden and it was easy to hide. Ignored by people or ordinary beasts, unless it is a ferocious creature with keen perception, or a Peak scout like Todd can see her from a distance.

This girl has short brown red hair, pretty features, healthy wheat skin, and wears well-maintained but worn old leather armor and cowhide boots. She has a long sheath on her left hand. The sword, right hand side is a small crossbow, and the edge of the cloak still pressed underneath reveals a hard bow and two sets of quiver. A leather travel bag fell next to the girl's head, bulging with a lot of things.

At first glance, this short-haired girl looks like an ordinary mercenary, but in the depths of the prairie where monsters and wild beasts are rampant, a lone girl mercenary appears. It was unusual, not to mention that she was lying unconsciously in the haystack.

Beauty is the most direct external feature that distinguishes Knight aristocrats from common people. However, there are many ordinary people with outstanding appearance. They have received the training of Great Family's attendants since childhood. Their manners and temperament are very close to real nobles. It is difficult to distinguish ordinary persons from their appearance.

The scout of the fire lion mercenary group, Todd, is a secret warrior carefully cultivated by the Faceless in Kite Castle. He not only ignites the fire of the soul, but also has the strength of the first-level Knight. He also masters many useful skills. Distinguishing between extraordinary bloodline and ordinary person is of course a compulsory course for the secret warrior of the faceless person.

The disguise of the short-haired girl is full of weak spots in Todd's eyes. Just looking at the almost perfect ratio of her facial features and figure, Todd concluded that this is a noble Knight lady from the bloodline.

As for her wheat-colored skin, the Faceless Man has dozens of ways to change the smooth and radiant complexion of a noble Knight girl to the appearance of an ordinary person.

The fire lion mercenaries at the scene without exception were from the Faceless Man in the Kite Castle. Theodore’s wife Ruth is the Peak’s healer and Potion Master. She stepped forward to check the girl’s condition. Calmly said: "Respiration and heartbeat are stable, there is no sign of poisoning or injury, the cause of sleep is unknown, but the eyes keep turning, either having nightmares or... dreaming."

"The skin is delicate , Firm, smooth, and not commensurate with the skin color, obviously it is a drug that changes the skin color..." Ruth put down the girl's wrist, lowered her head and sniffed gently, and wrinkled her modified willow eyebrows, adding: "It's weird. …I didn’t smell the pungent smell of insect-controlling potion, but she couldn’t even see an ant beside her, and she slept for at least a long time without being attacked by coyotes or vultures."

"I feel a dangerous breath, right around her body."

The deputy commander Theodore said solemnly: "It seems that some kind of violent wild beast has deliberately left a mark to Protect his cubs."

Theodore is a ferocious warrior who ignites the fire of the soul. He has the strength comparable to the junior silver Knight, and the dangerous aura that he can perceive is not from ordinary ferocious beasts. Or monster, it is very likely to be a powerful existence above the golden level.

Everyone looked towards the chief scout of the team, and Todd quickly raised his hand and said, "I promise that there are no powerful monsters nearby. In fact, I took people to search for nearby traces carefully, and found nothing. Footprints. I think there are two possibilities. One is that a few days ago, someone hid the victim in the grass. His weight was lighter, and the traces left by him were annihilated by the growth of grass; or the victim was a fly. Come here..."

"It must be man-made, not a monster or an orc." Assassin Penny showed the victims’ personal items and said: "Weapons and equipment are complete, but I can’t find any indication. Family crest of identity. She has dry food, raw sugar, healing medicine, flint and beef tendon rope in her luggage. The items are neatly laid out, and they have not been passive, just like someone carefully prepared for her. These things are enough for her to survive here. …If you don’t encounter the orc tribe."

"How do you say...like exile, she was exiled to the depths of the prairie, if she didn’t meet us, she would have to be alone when she woke up Find a way to survive and find a way to leave the prairie."

"You can go out by walking along the shallow river on the prairie." Ruth said with a faint smile.

"It's actually very difficult." Scout Todd took the topic, shook his head and said, "The Wharton River has many crooked tributaries in the prairie. The geomorphology map, just walking along the widest river channel based on experience, is likely to bring everyone into a large wetland. It will be very difficult to find a shallow river through the swamp wetland. Even the wetland is the end of the tributary and there is no exit at all. River."

"This noble victim is looking for a way out on the prairie alone, good luck, he can go out in a month, if he is not lucky, he may be trapped for two or three years."

Penny said in a clear voice: "In my opinion, she will probably die on the road if she runs blindly alone."

Due to the water source, the lonely victims are in a strange place. To find a way out on the grassland, you can only walk along the river. You may encounter pastoral herders, or you may break into the nest of a certain monster community. Unless he has the strength of the Silver Knight, discerns the direction and walks in a straight line, he can leave the prairie in two days and one night.

This girl who was in trouble was abandoned in the depths of the prairie, she didn't look like a silver-tier Dame.

Ruth thought for a while, and concluded: "This child was exiled to the prairie for some reason. The exiles of her were extraordinary. In a way that we don’t understand, Give a dangerous breath to prevent the intuitive monsters and beasts from hurting her while she is sleeping. This person does not want to kill her, nor does he want her to show up in public, but most likely, he deliberately arranges for us to rescue her."

Theodore looked around all around vigilantly, shaking his head in confusion, and said: "Miss changed the route temporarily and chose to go directly from the prairie to the Nether Soul forest development point. Who can know our whereabouts in advance, and even concealed it from the young lady. Perception? Is there a spy in the mercenary group? However, those guys have been with us for several years, and everyone is clearly aware of their details. The problematic people have been eliminated long ago. It shouldn't be a traitor. "

The head of Octavier's thoughts were hazy at this time, and he turned a deaf ear to the concerns of his followers.

Reluctant to kill her, and don’t want her to show up in public; I carefully arranged a back road for her, and exiled her to the depths of the prairie...There is a story in it...Octavil The more I thought about it, the more fun I felt, and I was secretly excited, and I almost danced. She stepped forward and opened the girl's eyelids, the expression on her face suddenly changed, showing contemplation and prudence.

Bright eyes? ! The descendants of Nahtigal, the noble gold bloodline?

As long as you contact Kite Castle, Captain Weier will soon be able to find out the true identity of the victim, and infer the whole sequence of events, but she has already chosen her own path again , Unless the Augustus family is in danger of extermination, she will not regain her past identity and strength. As a knight-errant who lives at the bottom, the victims encountered are only those who suffer, and the noble golden bloodline is without her.

However, Vale is certain that even though she is now a little knight-errant with a low reputation, few people in this world can arrange her encounter, except for Sylvia, only the power of fate.

"According to the rules of mercenaries, what should I do when encountering victims?" Captain Vale stood up, turned his head and asked his followers.

"The church requires mercenaries to help the victims who happen to encounter them, and take her to any church, so that she can be praised by the resident priest. This has many benefits to the mercenary group. But... miss, this It's the wild." Theodore replied and gave a reminder. He obviously didn't want his master to get in trouble, and said tactfully that the noble girl should be left alone.

The female knight-errant shakes her dark red ponytail and shows a narrow smile, instructed: "Feed her a bottle of face-changing potion, and then take her on the road."