Can you become stronger without paying money?

"Sorry..." The man in military uniform walked to the table for two, with an impeccable commercial smile on his face. Before he could speak, he humbly apologized and opened up the topic for the next content, "... Under Peruvian Becasas, the commander of the City Guards of Karot City, if it is convenient, can I ask the two of you a few questions?"

"Of course, it's very convenient~" Before Safiley had time to answer, Riel immediately put on a perfect smile on her face. Safiley couldn't help but slander in her heart, but she was attracted by a detail as soon as she looked up.

The noodles that Riel and Sapphire eat are all with sauce. No matter how careful you are when eating this kind of food, the corners of your mouth will definitely get sauce. It is very rude to talk to others in this situation, but Riel had already wiped off the sauce from the corner of his mouth beforehand, and Sapphire didn't even notice when he moved his hand.

This careful attention to appearance is not what adventurers should have under normal circumstances.

"Then let me introduce myself first, Riel Orlande..." Riel pointed at himself, Safiley had no choice but to reply, "Safieli Orlom..."

"So..." Riel continued to smile, "Is there any problem?"

"Mr. Hollander and Ms. Olom? If I'm not mistaken, the two of you have been to the old city today, and participated in and stopped a possible armed brawl, right?"

"That's right, so, is there any problem with this? You don't come to Xingshi to inquire about crimes, do you?"

Riel used a question in his mouth, but there was no questioning in his tone, and his slightly teasing tone showed that he was just joking.

"Of course not, it would be better to say that because of the two of you, a tragedy that might turn into a fatal case was prevented, and you should be grateful to you."

Peruvian's answer was moderate, and there was no extra emotion hidden in his tone. It was impossible to tell whether his words were sincere or purely polite. Of course, it didn't matter what the answer was, because Peruvian's The answer has proved that he is not very interested in the brawl.

"So, in particular, I have to come here to ask in person, what is it for?"

Safili asked a word, but Peruvian did not answer directly, but closed his eyes and listened for a while before nodding.

"Sure enough, it's the accent of the Kingdom of Borea..."

A person's accent is a subconscious instinct that has been developed over more than ten years. Unless they are professionally trained, it is difficult for ordinary people to suppress their own accent, because in most cases, ordinary people will not even notice it. There is an accent problem.

So Sapphire didn't bother to hide anything, and answered straightforwardly, "Yes, I am a citizen of the Kingdom of Borea, so you shouldn't be suspecting that when the relationship between the Kingdom of Borea and the Grand Duchy of Sofia is so tense, The person who appeared in the Grand Duchy of Sofia... I, a citizen of the Kingdom of Borea, could be a spy or something?"

"Too serious..." Peruvian shook his head lightly, "However, this possibility cannot be ruled out after all, so please treat this as an ordinary inquiry. Excuse me, as an 'adventurer', Miss Olom, For what purpose did you come here?"

He deliberately added an accent to the keyword "adventurer", as if to clarify something, but Sapphire seemed to have prepared it long ago, and reached out and took out a handwritten letter.

"I am a swordsman in practice. I have traveled to various countries to hone my sword skills according to my teacher's instructions. If you doubt my identity, this is a letter written by my teacher. I hope it can eliminate some unnecessary misunderstandings between us."

Since Sapphire has talked about this, people with a discerning eye can naturally tell that her teacher's identity is different. Therefore, Peruwei behaved more cautiously. He took the letter from Sapphire carefully, and looked at the signed letter. I couldn't help but exhale subconsciously.

"This is... Alut? Master Kaxiu?"

"How about...any more questions?"

This time, Peruwei did not talk nonsense, but solemnly handed back the letter, "Where is it? Since he is the disciple of Master Arut Kaxiu, there is absolutely no problem with his character. My father once had a chance to discuss with the master. After swordsmanship, so far, my father has been full of praise for the master's character. There is absolutely nothing suspicious about a disciple who is personally guarantor by a man of noble character like Master Arut, please disturb me..."

After saying this, he turned around and left without saying a word. It can be seen that he trusted Sapphire's teacher very much. Well, no matter whether he really believed it or not, at least he did so in appearance.

Watching the other party leave, Riel couldn't help squinting his eyes, "Master Arut? Kaxiu, you are really a big shot..."

That master was born in the Kingdom of Borea, and he can be regarded as a top-ranked swordsman among all human forces. The power of the magic sword in one hand is superb. Although he is from the Kingdom of Borea, he is basically the kind of "hermit master". "The setting, I don't have any clear political inclinations, the Kingdom of Borea paid a lot of money several times to ask him to join the Kingdom's army to serve the kingdom, but of course he was declined.

Basically, this is a master who doesn't care much about anything other than the study of swordsmanship. In addition, the master has voluntarily helped to solve many dangerous international criminals, so his personal reputation is very good. Since he If she is willing to personally vouch for it, it is natural for Peruvian, who is two heads lower than the master, to doubt Safili's identity.

"...Your family is really amazing to be able to invite that kind of master to be your guarantor~"

Safili continued to fork some cold noodles, and snorted softly, "What's the matter, don't you suspect that I'm not the disciple of Teacher Arut, Riel?"

"No, they all took out their own letters, and the little brother in command of the city guards also recognized the authenticity of the letter, so there is nothing doubtful about you being a master's disciple, but disciples also have a part in it." Grades, such as personal disciples and named disciples~"

The difference between the two is also very clear. Personal disciples are naturally the students that the teacher personally seeks out. They have strict requirements on talent and character. Take Master Root as an example. He is from the Kingdom of Borea. If there is a nobleman in this kingdom, and he has two sons who want to worship the master, but the talent is really meaningless, then look at the other party's face. Well, as long as these two boys have no character that touches the master's bottom line, and they are not unattainable talents, the master will accept them, and then teach them a half way symbolically.

In fact, these people didn't go there to learn real skills, but to "golden" and get some emotional investment by the way, so that it will be of great use when they join the political world in the future...

What is it called?This is called the network bonus item!Regardless of whether you are a named disciple or not, you are still a disciple to some extent. The teacher may not be bothered to care about it, but we have so many brothers and sisters here, there are many paths for more people, and if something happens, ask the teacher for help as a disciple. Do me a favor, as long as the bottom line is not involved, how can an ordinary teacher not buy the student's family account?

"Sapphire, you are learning elf art, right? If my memory is correct, then elf art is not something to be learned casually. It can be considered as an ancient elf whose average talent surpasses the tenth street of human beings. To learn, it takes a hundred and 80 years to learn something that can be mastered. Once ordinary human beings learn, they basically don't have the spare energy to study other things, such as swordsmanship... After all, the master is a swordsman, so how can he not accept any of them? What about the direct disciple who will concentrate on learning the sword?"

Therefore, it can be inferred from this that Sapphire is probably the kind of registered disciple that the master accepts to save face.

However, for such a disciple, the master can actually write a letter to guarantee her. So, firstly, there must be nothing wrong with Safieli's character, and her temper is probably quite to the master's liking. Secondly...it must be Safieli The "face" of Fei Li's family is indeed big enough...

"So, that's how you came to the conclusion that I probably have a very powerful father, or a more powerful family?"

"Well, I think this is the reasoning of normal people under normal circumstances~"

Regarding this, Sapphire also sighed, "I don't want to deny it, anyway, there is nothing to deny, but I can only give four words for the specific truth..."

"...'no comment,' right?"

Looking into Ruier's eyes, Safili couldn't help laughing out loud, and lightly touched each other with a water glass.

"Well, long live the understanding~"

After all, from Sapphire's point of view, there are no less mysteries in Riel than hers, and there may even be more. Two people with such identities sit together and can understand each other. "I can't tell you too clearly", naturally, there will be no meaningless doubts like "are you deliberately hiding something bad from me if you don't tell the truth".

I don't know when it started, Safili already faintly felt that the fate between Riel, a man, and her might not be the same as before. She always had an inexplicable feeling that for a long time, she would Going to act with Riel.

"I said..."

After finishing his share of noodles, Riel leisurely put forward a proposal, "Once is a coincidence, twice is a coincidence, three times or four times by chance, it is better to say that it is fate. Since this is the case, are you interested? Let me form a team together, Sapphire~"

Chapter 18 Night of the Living Dead ([-])

"In this way, let's settle the original plot FLAG..."

Regarding Riel's invitation before, after thinking about it for a while, Sapphire gave an agreed answer.

Although it seems a bit abrupt, it makes sense when you think about it carefully. First of all, Riel claims to be a treasure hunter, and his purpose is to find the hidden treasures of the elves in the elven ruins, and Sapphire's purpose in searching for the elven ruins is to find the treasures in the ruins. The power of the elves.

Under such a premise, the two parties have the same purpose, and there is no conflict of interest between them. Riel said, "The power of the elves and the elf stones in the elf secret store belong to you, and everything else I get belongs to me." "For the distribution plan, Sapphire, who is not too short of money, naturally doesn't think there is anything wrong with this distribution plan.

Furthermore, along the way, Ruier showed his strength intentionally or unintentionally several times. His ability can indeed be said not to be a drag, and it will be convenient to have an extra skilled companion when going out. Not a lot.

As for why the eldest lady of a big family didn't bring an accompanying guard when she went out, and still used the identity of "adventurer"... I won't say much about the reason here, anyway, it has nothing to do with the current plot.

On the basis of the premise obtained before, Riel also saved Sapphire's life. From a personal emotional point of view, this is an extra two points of impression points. In the end, at the end...

Riel looked up at the huge floor-to-ceiling mirror in the room, and the image printed inside was a very refreshing and healthy young man. Although it may be a bit boastful to say this, Riel believes that before he became an uncle, he really He has the qualifications to rely on his face to make a living.

Under the circumstances of being equal in character, strength, and inner character, those who are good-looking will get more points than those who are sorry-looking. Although it is helpless, this is the fact.

Combining all the above elements, this adventure team consisting of two people was temporarily established.

To say it is temporary, it is naturally because Riel knows that Safieli is not completely at ease with his "temporary companion", and probably plans to make further observations on the way together, and if he finds anything wrong, he will immediately raise the issue. Parting ways, of course, if the cooperation is happy, it is also good to act together. After all, human beings are social creatures, and it is possible to have one more friend... Why not do it?

So, fate is such a wonderful thing~

Reminiscent of an important plot tonight, Riel decided to take a quick nap while it was still in the afternoon, so as to get enough energy to prepare for the next action.

It turned out that because I was so looking forward to the next plot in my heart, Riel was so excited that she didn't even feel sleepy at all. She closed her eyes and counted from sheep to chickens in her heart. Two full hours passed and she still couldn't fall asleep.

In the end, the helpless Riel could only get up with a headache on his face, and opened the door to go out to relax, but as soon as he went out, he saw a waitress pushing a dining cart passing by.

"Ah, good afternoon, guest, do you want to go out?" The waitress greeted Riel very naturally, but Riel couldn't help squinting his eyes.

"Ah, what a coincidence, we met again, you really worked hard, you are the only one working in the whole bellflower, right?"

The reason Riel asked that was because the waiter who brought Riel to the room, led Sapphire to the room, and took orders for the two of them in the restaurant... was all the girl in front of him.

"Hehe, you really know how to joke. Isn't this my company everywhere?" The data passed by.

When he passed the girl, he also said, "Hurry up and send the things to the guest's room, it's impolite to keep the guest waiting for a long time."

For this, the girl agreed, then politely apologized to Riel, and quickly pushed the dining car away, but Riel glanced at the girl's back with ulterior motives, thought about it, and still shook her head. shook his head.

(Well, don't trigger any FLAGs, especially the FLAGs of important NPCs, if you play them off, it will be troublesome. Sure enough... I'd better go for a walk to change my mood.)

Afterwards, Riel wandered aimlessly in the main city of Karot for a whole afternoon, and returned to the hotel when it was late in the afternoon when the sky was covered with a large sunset glow, and Safi who just left the room to go to the restaurant After Li Hui and I had dinner together, we went back to our rooms to rest.

Seeing that the sky outside was getting darker and darker, Ruier also knew that the plot was about to begin, but thinking this way, he somehow lost his initial expectation and nervousness, and instead felt relieved. The fatigue broke out in the afternoon, and this time he fell into a deep sleep.

So, it seems that fate has some kind of magical inertia, which pushes the plot directly to its original appearance. Riel, who planned to stay awake until the plot happened, is still like the game character he made back then. In sleep, ushered in the beginning of the plot.

Riel, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by a strange sound.

Fortunately, he knew what was going to happen early in the morning, so when he opened his eyes, he didn't panic, but took a quick look at what happened.

I don't know when, a faint mist filled his room. This mist seems to be very thin, but in fact it compresses the visibility to a radius of about one meter, and it is all hazy outside, making it hard to see. Really what happened.

And in this fog, there is something, with extremely stumbling steps, staggering towards the direction of Riel.

Accompanied by the movement of "that thing", the eardrums were stimulated by the sound of bone joints rubbing against the teeth, Riel raised his hand without saying a word, and immediately a slender knight sword decorated with black and purple patterns appeared in his palm , when the thing in the mist appeared, Riel immediately greeted him with a sword!

The moment the sword was swung, Riel could clearly see the real body of the thing...

...well, the truth is that Rael knew what he was going to see from the start.

That is, the human skeleton model that is more common in biological laboratories... However, the skeleton models in biological laboratories... can't move by themselves.

The strange-shaped thing with whitish joints rubbed against the upper and lower jawbones without vocal cords, making piercing friction sounds. Riel pushed out the long sword in his hand without even thinking about it. Suddenly, the light of the sword flashed, and the thing shattered into pieces. A high-calcium tablet in one place.

The broken bone fragments did not maintain their shape for too long, but decomposed into a black mist within a few breaths, blending into the mist in the room and disappearing without a trace.

"Hey, even though I'm mentally prepared, it's still unbearable for such a big skeleton to poke in front of my eyes~"

Riel made a self-deprecating sentence. After all, as a person who knew exactly what would happen, he still hesitated a little at the moment when the skeleton appeared. What makes you sick doesn't make it easier to accept.

At the same moment, exclamations and noisy voices came from outside the window.

It was supposed to be a time for people to fall asleep peacefully in the dead of night, but now the lights are lit one after another, and countless people in their dreams are awakened. It can be seen that what happened in Riel's room is not an isolated phenomenon. Looking out of the window, the whole city was shrouded in a mist. On the streets, inside the houses, and even on the roofs were those skeletons wandering around.

Most of these bone frames are unarmed, but they are more aggressive. Under normal circumstances, an adult can deal with them with a guy in their hands, but there are also some of them wearing tattered armor and holding blood-stained weapons. Just know that it is definitely not ordinary goods, and it must not be easy to deal with.

Therefore, after the residents outside got through the initial panic and bewilderment, the next battles were for self-protection. The city guards who also received the alarm removed several important facilities, such as In addition to the indispensable troops such as the fire enchantment tower, all other personnel were dispatched to quickly move around the city.

"Residents, please go back to your home and lock the doors and windows and don't go out. Repeat, please go back to your house and lock the doors and windows and don't go out. If you find monsters in your home, please immediately seek help from the nearest city guards. !"

In the city, several "captains" leading the city guards shouted so loudly, their voices flashed with blue magic crests, and spread throughout the city under the protection of wind magic, and heard the city guards The residents of the voice were determined, and quickly acted according to the instructions.

After most people left the street and hid back home, the city guards, who had no worries, immediately began to kill all directions, flying fireballs, whistling wind blades, and various elementary magics swept away those wandering monsters one by one.

But no matter how hard they tried to deal with it, the number of these monsters seemed to have no intention of decreasing, and monsters emerged from the mist continuously.

Riel watched the big scene outside the window, clenched the holy sword in his hand, and rushed out of the room without saying a word, just in time to hear a calm voice from the next room.

"Atmospheric explosion!"

As soon as the words fell, the door of the entire room was rushed open by an astonishing force, and at the same time, four or five skeletons were blasted out of the door together by an invisible force, and shattered into flying mist on the spot.

Sapphire, who was dressed as a swordsman, walked out of the room unhurriedly, and saw Riel holding a sword.

"What do you think, this situation?"

Sapphire didn't ask, "Are you okay?" A question that was obvious at first glance, but got straight to the point, and Riel answered calmly, touching his chin.

"Well, there are too many possible options. Maybe some anti-human lunatic magician secretly studied undead magic and got rid of it, or it could be a deliberate terrorist attack, and it's not even ruled out that it was with Sophia. A sabotage operation arranged by a country that is hostile to the Grand Duchy, such as the Kingdom of Borea."

"Indeed." Safiley did not show any unnecessary expression because of Riel's last judgment, but nodded affirmatively, "The situation you mentioned is very likely, so the question now is, is the other party in the end?" Who, what is the purpose of doing that..."

"Let me chew, usually before thinking about such a profound question..." Riel suddenly swung his sword, and a sharp sword light burst out, directly smashing the two nearby bone frames into high-calcium pieces. It is the special effect of the holy sword. According to the strength of the swing, it can produce different levels of magic power. Of course, the use of this special effect will consume the user's magic power.

"...Before thinking about such profound questions, don't you think we should clean up these nearby monsters first?"

Regarding this, Sapphire nodded affirmatively, "Indeed, then, half of the people on this floor... no problem, right? Partner!"

"Hehe, put it on me~"

As soon as the words fell, the two looked at each other and smiled, and rushed out at the same time...

Chapter 19 Night of the Living Dead ([-])

"By the way, when did you change to a new trick, where is the giant sword from before?"

After Sapphire and Riel easily cleaned up the entire floor of wandering monsters, the first thing Safili said when they met again was the question above. After all, in her opinion, the weapon Riel took out this time was not like Ordinary goods, as well as the giant sword before, how many treasures does this person have in his hand.

Ruier shrugged his shoulders calmly, "Sorry, this part is a personal secret, so I can't say more for now."

In this regard, Safili immediately accepted the statement perfectly, "Understood, I will not ask the same question again in the future."

"Hehe, long live the understanding~" Riel stretched out his right hand to Sapphire, and Safieli gave him a high-five. As I said before, Safieli has a secret that Riel cannot know, and Riel too Same, so both of them understand the difficulties that they can't explain clearly, and they won't doubt whether their companions don't trust them because of this kind of problem. This is also an important reason why Sapphire chose Riel as a companion, or that sentence... …

...Long live the understanding~

"Then, after tossing around for so long, if it's a criminal act with a purpose, it's almost time for the Lord to come forward and give an explanation..."

Riel watched the situation outside from the window, just as he said, if there was a certain purpose behind this attack, then it was almost time for the real master to show up and explain the problem.

Sure enough, not long after Riel's voice fell, the mist in the city began to gather towards the air, and the thin layer of mist gathered into a rather dense posture. The upper body image of a certain person is projected in the sky of the entire city.

After seeing the other party's appearance clearly, Sapphire was obviously stunned, and in order to cooperate with Riel, she also pretended to be surprised, because...

The one who appeared in the sky was a loli who looked to be in her teens, and both Riel and Sapphire knew each other.

It was Fei, the adopted daughter of Luoli, the boss of Baifengche, who led the way for the two in the old city.