At the end of June, the summer sun became more and more dazzling, and the spots of light falling from the shadows of the trees shone on people, making them feel vaguely hot.
The moment the sun rose, Sully decisively chose to drag the recliner he had bought from the grocery store back into the small building.
The small building has a small garden in the front and a three-story house in the back. When it was not so hot some time ago, Suli loved to bask in the sun in the small garden. However, the temperature has been rising recently, and he can't use the elements to isolate the temperature, so he just wants to complain...
"Life without air conditioning is really unbearable."
Cyril looked at Sully, who was lying on a chair, looking like a salted fish that had been sunburned to the point where not a trace of moisture was left. Cyril used the wind element to comb the ball of yarn in her hand and said, "What is air conditioning?"
Using the wind element to comb a ball of wool is a method that Cyril has recently learned to improve the precision of element manipulation, although she only thought of this after the Lions leader suggested it.
"An electric device." Suli turned sideways. The few months he had been in this world were enough for his hair to grow a lot longer. The fine strands of hair covered his eyes, adding a hint of melancholy to his air.
However, the next second, all his charisma was shattered, leaving only a mess: "Don't ask me what an electric appliance is. My IQ is not high enough to answer that."
Suli really wants to engrave the information that he is an ordinary person into the DNA of everyone he sees.
Although it is difficult...
But Suli firmly believed that it could be done.
Roy, who was lying on the sofa reading a book, pushed Sully aside with a decisive look of disgust when Sully got up from the sun-warmed recliner and came to his side.
The two-star mercenary with water element transformed into ice element hid to the side: "Don't you think you seem a little too lazy recently?"
"I thought you knew I was lazy all the time." Sully said innocently, "It's only a young person like Cyril who would do such a thing. For someone like me, laziness is engraved in the soul, just like people need to drink water when they are thirsty, eat when they are hungry, and sleep when they are sleepy. It's all natural."
"No, what I mean is, are you not going to work recently? It seems like you haven't been to Asa College for several days in a row." Roy showed a toothache expression.
Sully doesn't feel anything about what he says, but others always think about it.
For example, now.
Roy bets that Cyril and Mark didn't think much of it, just like there would be ale on the table today.
The result is undoubtedly that there is no ale on the table, and they think a lot.
However, these two people are not like Egbert, who would use paper and pen to record things frantically.
Back to the question of why Sully has been salting fish at home recently.
The person concerned was very satisfied.
"The long paid vacation is a miracle that all employees sincerely praise their boss as an angel," Suli explained, "although the reason is that a large number of students have been taken to the Monster Forest for training recently."
Without students, he is no different from a manager or a decoration.
Dean Asa couldn't possibly feel at ease leaving Suli, who had no elemental powers, in an academy without anyone in charge.
Therefore, paid leave becomes the best option.
As for Sully, he had only one idea about this matter...
Please make sure there are more paid vacations!
In that case, the two-month training of the students would be enough to provide him with a huge sum of thirty gold coins. By then, together with the previous savings, Sully would be able to provide Cyril with a stable supply of money to study at Asa Academy for a whole year.
But Suli is occasionally curious: "What will the experience of leading a team in school be like?"
"A group of people besiege a stronger monster to train their teamwork skills. Or a group of people disperse and compete to see who can kill more monsters." Roy's previous training in elements was with his deceased wife, and he did not join the academy for systematic study, but when he was a mercenary, he also took on many combat missions.
Sometimes, even on the hottest days of the year, you can see many college instructors taking students on training trips.
"But as a personal suggestion, I still hope you don't delve too much into those things," Roy said.
One is that Suli himself is not a person who likes to see blood. Another point is the way Euphia dealt with Henash's group of people from the Church of Light.
They definitely can't let him go. Once the news that Egbert had been to Sadina City is exposed, the Holy See of Light will suppress the Mercenary Alliance. The most likely method they will use is to directly brainwash the followers of the God of Light...
——Mercenaries are the source of disaster.
But there are believers of the God of Light in every place on the mainland.
Therefore, he cannot be released. But detaining someone for a long time cannot guarantee that the news will not leak out. Just based on the words of Heinash and his group that "Suli is a person abandoned by the God of Light", it is very likely that the fanatics of the God of Light will impose unilateral sanctions on him.
Therefore, Euphia's final choice is to kill them all and pretend the situation is an accident.
Everyone knows that the city of Sadina has been in chaos recently, right?
Several people from the Vatican died, and all we can say is that they were too weak and unlucky to have gotten involved in things they shouldn't have.
Euphia did not tell Sully that she had dealt with the group of people from the Church of Light. Roy had asked about the situation, after all, in the latter's view, the young master in his eyes should have some understanding of this world, no matter what aspects are good or bad.
Euphia told Roy at the time: "This is not what I think of as protection for Suli. I didn't tell him the news just because it was unnecessary."
The next successor to the Mercenary Alliance will have a strong ability to discern facts.
"Since I turned a blind eye to Egbert and allowed him to stay in Sadina, the Mercenary Alliance was destined to be on the same side with him. Choosing to kill those idiots was only for self-protection and the determination not to cause trouble for Suli."
The expression on Euphia's face at that time gave Roy the feeling that: Why do you demand some insignificant things to occupy the minds of people who are always thinking about the world situation?
So Roy didn't want Sully to know about those disputes that involved too many bad things.
In the past, before Euphia's reforms, mercenaries had always been a profession that walked side by side with death.
Looks cool, right?
You won’t think like that when you die.
But Suli was actually just thinking...
Will the style of their battles be similar to those in some online games, where everyone forms a team with hundreds of people to fight monsters together?
A bit exciting.
This is a real one-life game.
But Roy didn't intend to tell him, so Sully didn't try to find out more.
As a human being, you should give up when you should.
But when Sully was about to continue lying down, and use his instincts when his mind was blank, indulging in a happy and lazy life with a daily income of 5,000 yuan without working...
From the town of Jisuo came a message that moved the entire continent.
Monsters rioted and began to invade human habitats.
The Monster Forest is a place that many people have heard of since Suli traveled to this world. It is home to the largest and strongest monsters in the world.
In the past, Suli only thought that it was an experience pack area for the growth of human strength in this world. But when the news of the monster invasion came, he suddenly realized that the situation was not the case.
The explanation given to the public for this monster invasion is that the number of monsters has increased significantly in recent years, and the inner area of the forest is no longer sufficient for the monsters to survive. They need more living space, and the territory occupied by humans is the new territory they desire.
The casualties in Jisuo Town were heavy. After this sudden incident, the death rate reached 30%, which means that one in every three people died in this accident. Some people that Suli had seen or had not seen before all died in this sudden incident that was just an accident.
But in fact, the inside information that Euphia learned was not like this. Not only was it not like this, it was completely unrelated to the above information.
The matter of the bishops under the Pope at that time plotting against Egbert, the successor favored by the Pope, was more complicated than imagined.
The city of Sriqing, once guarded by Egbert, was invaded by monsters. The details include one of the strongest monsters in the Monster Forest, the Crystal Winged Dragon, an eighth-level monster cub. One of them was killed in its nest, and the other, an egg that had not yet been hatched, was directly taken to Sriqing City by the bishop.
One of the two children died, and the other was lost. For the eighth-level monster, it was undoubtedly a battle that angered its dignity and also a matter of survival.
It was that invasion that laid the foundation for the Son of Light to be labeled a traitor and hunted down by the Knights of Light.
The connection between that incident and this one is that the egg that the crystal dragon had previously taken back has hatched.
For humans, their understanding of monsters is only which parts are more valuable and which things are beneficial to cultivation. They don't know that the crystal dragon eggs have self-awareness during the incubation process.
When most people still believed the false news about Sri Qingcheng's conspiracy, the monsters had already learned the whole truth.
The theft and killing of cubs can be said to be for profit, or it can be said to be the inevitable struggle between races.
Monsters also eat humans to increase their strength, right?
But what if the starting point of everything is just humans plotting against other humans?
The Crystal Winged Dragon, who learned all the conspiracy from his own child, still rests at ease after discovering the existence he wanted to avenge, while the innocent became the traitor who was hunted down...
The existing conflicts among different races gave it a reality that was like a stack of buffs... The Crystal Winged Dragon did not hesitate to launch a unilateral revenge by monsters against humans.
Suli was shaking all over when he took the report about the 30% mortality rate in Jisuo Town that Yufia brought to the small building.
At that moment, Roy even revealed a ferocious look.
He suppressed his rage and forced himself to calmly ask, "Are you going? Apart from anything else, when your hired mercenary leaves Sadina City, the first stop should be the Monster Forest."
But Egbert still chose to go this time, just to improve his strength.
The author has something to say:
A new chapter. This is the story where I dug the most foreshadowing (I wrote down thousands of words for the foreshadowing in the first twenty chapters alone).