Chapter 509 The Tree Guard is here to give you a pat on the back

While Vann Yuffie was fighting White Mask.

Savis City, Tavern.

"Sister Luluwo, I lost the invasion again. Can you tell me how to fight again?"

A local hunter from Red brought two glasses of fine ice beer with an unwilling look on his face, squeezed through the crowd, and sat in front of Luluwo who was surrounded by everyone.

This adventurer named Luluwo has been very popular in Reed recently. As for the reason, it is naturally because she is willing to selflessly teach people extensively the techniques of fighting, especially how to invade and counter-invasion.

Being invaded is an essential part of everyone's new experience in Sean. The people of Red have been annoyed by the invasion these days, and they can't fight back. They were just looking for someone to ask for advice when Luluwo showed up and naturally won people's welcome.

Thanks to her, the strength of the Red people has improved by leaps and bounds to the point where they can no longer be easily manipulated. She is truly a great benefactor.

"Lost again? Really, don't tell me I'm your master when you get out of here," Luluwo drank the ice beer in one gulp, snorted with satisfaction like a female man, and smiled confidently, "Then I'll teach you a forbidden technique. All of you come over and listen to me. Today I'll only teach it to the destined person, don't pass it on to outsiders."

Everyone came over excitedly, and she shook her slender fingers and said:

"What I'm going to teach you today is a derivative technique of long-distance running, and its name is—"

She paused deliberately, and seeing that everyone was already intrigued by her, she smiled and said:

"Dive into the monster pile!"

The Dungeon of Thane, Nimgefu.

“Crack—”

Vann loaded his pistol with bullets, aimed at White Mask and was ready to shoot. He was confident that he would hit the man, or at least hit him in the back.

But just before he could fire, a long gun was placed in front of him, blocking him from pulling the trigger.

"What's wrong?" Fann looked at Yufei.

"Don't attack yet. Do you see that heavily armored knight?" Yufei stared at the tree guard and was quickly assessing his strength.

"I saw it, but I have a good aim and I won't hurt him by mistake."

"No, that's not the case."

Yufei shook her head. "That guy is watching us. I think if we do something out of the ordinary, like if your bullet hits the white mask next to him, even if we don't hit him, he will still attack us."

She went on to say, "That knight looks like he's on patrol. He may have his own range. As long as we don't step into his patrol range, we may not be attacked - provided we don't take the initiative to provoke him."

Yufei did not infer this out of thin air, but heard it from some adventurers who were studying the behavior habits of monsters in the Sen Dungeon. The example used by the adventurers was the Kalia Knight Mugram.

They are all knights, and she thinks this rule may also apply to the tree guards.

So they chose to stay put and even took a few steps back.

So, something that adventurers loved to see happened.

"Hiss!" The horse under the Big Tree Guard's crotch neighed, and the Big Tree Guard turned around suddenly, his eyes fixed on - the White Mask!

Along with the roar of the golden halberd hitting the ground, the tree guard chased the white mask and rumbled away, soon disappearing from people's sight.

The angry voice of White Mask came from not far away.

Monsters fighting each other is a scene that adventurers love to see.

Yuffie smiled with a smug look on her face.

Not knowing what the consequences would be if he had fired the gun just now, Vann felt that everything was fine now.

"When did you come here?" He looked at Yufei, who said:

"Not much earlier than you. You can guess it from the battle just now."

The two returned to the top of the cliff, where there was a ball of golden light floating quietly. This was called blessing.

When the two people get close, a stream of light will extend towards them, as if guiding them over.

Yufei knew more information than Vann. When she saw the blessing, she immediately thought of something, such as the bonfire, one of the signature features of the Sean dungeon.

So she touched the blessing without hesitation, and the golden light splashed out dazzling light all around. She took out the holy grail bottle and saw that it was automatically filled.

"It's really a bonfire with a different look," she said to herself.

"What?" asked Vane.

So Youfei told him everything she had speculated, and Fann took some time to digest it, thus bridging the information gap between the two.

"So this is the Thane Underground City."

Looking at the scenery of Nimgfu that he had never seen in his life, Fann said regretfully: "I think the scenery in other areas of this underground city must be very spectacular. It's a pity that I couldn't explore it during that time because of illness."

Is it spectacular? Yufei thought of the Fran Fortress full of poisonous mud, but ultimately did not say anything to break the other party's beautiful fantasy.

After all, to some extent, the Fran Fortress is quite "spectacular", isn't it?

"Since we can meet here, Isa and Mr. Basque should also come here," she sat down before the blessing, letting the warm light shine on her body, "Rest here for a while."

The two chatted while waiting, and the topic of conversation naturally revolved around the underground city, especially the images just now.

At the beginning, the discussion was quite serious, such as where the border might be in the outside world, when the Shattering War was most likely to occur, and what the Supreme Will and the Elden Ring were.

However, when they found that they could not discuss anything, the topic became more and more off-topic, such as:

"General Starbreaker must be the strongest. He looks so brave and handsome."

"Don't you think the bad omen sounds super awesome?"

"I think the dung eater is also quite good-looking."

At the end of the conversation, there was really nothing more to say, so Fann asked the question he had been wanting to ask since a while ago:

"Are you sure the white mask just now was an enemy and not an afterimage or something like that?"

Yufei was silent for a while, her face slightly red, and she whispered in a rare low voice:

“It’s hard to undo what’s been done.”

Well, she seemed to be coming to her senses a little.

At this moment, the door was opened again, and Tepi staggered out. When he saw the two people intact, he almost fell to the ground.

"What's wrong, Mr. Basque?" Vann supported him in time.

"I, I..." Tepi took a deep breath and said, "I saw too many things today, both good and bad, and my brain is a little tired."

Only after seeing him sit down and rest for a while did Youfei ask with interest: "Mr. Basque, what are you going to do with this underground city?"

"What should I do? Just don't let Sean deal with me!" He cursed, "I am so unlucky that I built my mansion on top of Sean's underground city."

"You also know that this is Sean?" Fann asked puzzledly. Why did it feel like he and his sister were the only ones here who didn't know that this was Sean?

"Of course. The one we fought at the beginning was the limb-attached noble. The one who told us the story was Princess Lani of the Moon. The nameless portrait that looks exactly like Latan is still hanging in Rhea Lukalia. If it weren't for Sean, I would have donated all my property!"

He said this with confidence, as if no one present knew Sean as well as he did.

Although he said that he hated Leon and Sean, he still studied Sean carefully and thoroughly, and his understanding of him was even deeper than that of Yuffie, after all, the latter only spent most of his time in Lake Lienia.

In short, he was now a Thane know-it-all—just in terms of paper intelligence.

"Do you know him?" Yufei pointed to the tree guard who had returned to patrol at some point.

"I know him. He's the monster that appeared on the day when the monster went berserk in the Senn dungeon." Tepi recognized him at the first sight.

He looked around, stood up and said, "The Great Tree Guardian is a monster that only appeared on the day of the rampage in the Thane Dungeon and has never been seen since. There is not much information about him, but according to the testimony of those who witnessed everything at the time, a girl with a giant sword was able to fight a Great Tree Guardian alone. The girl was later confirmed to be the brave Elsa."

"There is also a small amount of information saying that the two elite captains of the Light Eagle Group and a group of mercenaries can resist a tree guard for a short period of time."

Tepi changed the subject and said, "We should wait here for the girl you are traveling with. In that case, why don't we find something to do? How about the three of us take care of the tree guards?"

Are you so brave? Fann was surprised and turned to look at Yufei, who actually nodded and agreed!

"I can beat two captains of the Light Eagle Group with one hand."

Yufei stood up and said with a heroic look: "I just happened to have nothing to do, so let's get rid of the tree guard!"

"Don't you want to think about it any more?" Fann thought it would be better to be cautious.

"Don't worry, the tree guards are very strong, but," Yufei gave herself a thumbs up and said confidently:

"The monster placed just after the adventurer enters the dungeon can't be that powerful!"

A moment later.

The tree guard rode his horse leisurely on the path.

"Bang!"

There was a gunshot, and the mercury bullet exploded on his helmet, and some debris rubbed against the gap in the helmet and penetrated into it.

It stung a little and he got mad!

The tree guard immediately rode his horse towards Vann, who was alone and shooting at him not far away, like a speeding tank out of control, with his golden halberd raised high.

“Boom!”

A big hole was smashed into the ground in an instant. Before Vann, who had successfully dodged, could catch his breath, the mud raised by the halberd had not yet completely fallen down when the attack from the tree guard came again!

Vann flew high up into the air, and luckily he grabbed the pole next to him and didn't fall flat on his face.

The tree guard chased him relentlessly, and he quickly dodged the fierce attack, looking for a chance to chop him once or twice, but there was no chance at all.

"Are you guys ready?" He could hardly hold on any longer.

In an instant, arrows formed by a mixture of magic power and fighting spirit fell like rain. This was an attack that could really hurt him, so the tree guard immediately raised his shield to defend himself.

Not only did he raise his shield for defense, but a golden glow even shone from it, and his combat skill [Golden Return] was activated at this moment. The cannonballs formed by absorbing magic instantly smashed into a bush nearby that looked like it could be used to hide people, and the explosion razed the place to the ground.

But no one was hiding in the bushes.

"Now!" Tepi's voice suddenly came from the other side.

“Drink!”

A strong gust of wind blew from behind the tree guard. The tip of the gun was extremely large in both size and lethality. If it hit the enemy, it would surely cause considerable damage.

The tree guard only had time to turn around and raise his shield before the tip of the spear was already in front of him.

Success! Tepi clenched his fists, his tactics were successful!

Using Vann to attract his attention, he released a rain of magic arrows at full force to launch a sneak attack, forcing the opponent to use the Golden Return, and then let Yuffie release the long-accumulated move to attack the tree guard.

As common sense says, there must be a gap between the use of combat skills. If you use the Golden Return in advance, you don't have to worry about Yufei's charged attack being blocked!

This attack will definitely hit the target!

When a smile appeared on Tepi's face.

“Buzz!”

The buzzing sound of combat skills suddenly sounded.

The golden shells rushed in front of him in the blink of an eye, and the light of the explosion completely enveloped him and Yufei!

"Hello!"

Vann was shocked by this unexpected situation. What did he just see? Did the Tree Guard use the Golden Return for the second time in a very short period of time?

Yuffie's attack was completely eliminated!

"Ahem, what's going on?"

Yufei jumped out of the dust, covered in dust, still holding the seriously injured Tepi in her hand. She was shocked at the speed at which the tree guard released his combat skills.

Moreover, the power of the Golden Return seems to be much stronger than Bitpi described! ?

That’s right, because of the abundant military power in the Warrior Country, and in order to let adventurers truly experience the feeling of going out to meet the king, the tree guards here are stronger than the original ones!

Before Yufei could recover and reorganize his tactics, a new round of arrow rain formed above the heads of the tree guards.

This was a timing magic set up by Tepi in advance in order to repeat the planned attack process.

But now, good plans have led to bad results.

Golden Return cannot be released continuously, but the interval is very short. The tree guard only needs to control the angle slightly, and then under the blessing of the rain of arrows.

The golden Gatling gun was formed!

“Boom boom boom—”

The "bombs" chased after everyone and everyone ran away in panic, and for a moment the air was filled with a sad and happy atmosphere.

Tepi couldn't understand how the tree guards had become so strong.

The fleeing Fann was just thankful. He felt so embarrassed now. Fortunately, Isa was not here.

“Ouch!”

Hearing a few wolf howls, Fann was startled and almost thought that the Fran guards had come again.

But when he looked up, he saw three azure blue spirit wolves suddenly appearing from nowhere and biting the arms of the tree guards, finally stopping the golden return.

But where did the wolf come from?

"Brother? Why did you two start fighting?"

The person that Vann least wanted to see appeared at this time. Isa ran over from the direction of a church with a soul-summoning bell in her hand.

Apparently, these three wolves were the ones she summoned, and their identity was something unique to Thane—ashes!

"Isa!?" Vann had the idea of ​​burrowing into the ground. "Why are you here? Where did the thing in your hand come from?"

Isa blinked, raised the bell and said:

"Obtained by defeating a blue-skinned monster with four arms."

"What?"

"Just kidding, a big sister gave it to me~"

She stuck out her tongue and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Why did you fight with this guy? You can't beat him. Run!"

People immediately followed the advice and ran until they reached the cliff where the blessing was, and only dared to breathe a sigh of relief after making sure that the tree guards had not caught up with them.

At this moment, Isa looked at the empty cliff and asked doubtfully:

"Where is that kind old man in the white mask?"

Hearing this, Yu Fei's body stiffened immediately.

In the tavern in the city of Saviss, Luluwo is imparting her exclusive experience to people.

"Do you know what's the stupidest thing an adventurer can do?"

Facing people's puzzled eyes, she said solemnly:

"That means attacking anyone who looks like an afterimage!"

(End of this chapter)