Chapter 281 Triggering the Hidden Mission! Blood of Queen Medusa!
"Is that your brother?" Su Xuan asked Vernis.
"yes!"
Vernis replied in a dissatisfied tone, "My brother must have obeyed the orders of those old guys and asked me to go back and accept the punishment from the Punishment Clan!"
After a brief silence, Su Xuan immediately understood what mistake Vernis had made.
He said slowly, "If you have nowhere to go right now, I can let you live in the guild."
Vernis asked curiously, "Is there a soft swamp in your guild?"
"No."
"Then I won't go!"
“…”
Su Xuan couldn't help but feel speechless. Vernis's hobby was indeed unique.
However, according to records, black dragons do seem to prefer living in terrain such as swamps.
But he would never create a swamp for her in the guild. After all, the black dragon liked to immerse its entire body in the mud of the swamp, and there was no spacious enough space in the guild to accommodate her needs.
Besides, who would build a swamp at home? In addition, Su Xuan was somewhat curious that although Vernis liked to roll in the swamp, her dark scales seemed to have magical powers, so that her body was free of any mud and stench, but instead exuded a faint fragrance.
Soon after, Vernis dropped them off near the village.
As soon as she landed, she immediately transformed into a beautiful girl with long black hair.
When Su Xuan saw Vernis's human form, a hint of surprise flashed across his heart, and his eyes wandered over Vernis.
"Why are you looking at me?" Vernis asked with her hands on her hips, confused.
"Oh, nothing." Su Xuan smiled and shook his head, answering lightly, "I just didn't expect that a black dragon who likes to roll in the swamp would be a beautiful young girl."
After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the villagers who had gathered around him.
"Giant...giant dragon!" When the villagers saw the giant dragon form revealed by Vernis, expressions of fear and awe appeared on their faces.
At this moment, an old man with gray hair and snake scales all over his face walked out of the crowd. His scales were much denser than those of other villagers, almost covering half of his face.
He is the chief of this village. Although he is an ordinary person, according to Su Xuan's previous understanding, he has lived for more than 150 years.
The village chief hunched over and walked towards Su Xuan cautiously. He asked with a trembling voice, "Adventurer, have you eliminated the monsters in the swamp?"
"Well, the monster is dead." Su Xuan nodded and gave an affirmative answer.
"That's great! Our village can finally return to peace!" Upon hearing this, the village chief breathed a long sigh of relief, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to relax a little.
Then, he turned his eyes full of vicissitudes to Su Xuan, and asked with an expectant and grateful smile: "Excuse me, adventurer, did you find the treasure it stole while destroying it? If you can find it and return it to us, I will thank you for your kindness with a generous reward on behalf of the entire village."
"Treasure?" Su Xuan was slightly stunned and began to recall the situation at that time.
The snake man's body was completely burned by Vernis's dragon breath and turned into ashes, without leaving any treasure.
Su Xuan immediately replied, "I didn't find any treasures, and the snake man's body has completely turned into ashes."
"Turn to ashes?" The village chief's face flashed with disappointment and confusion when he heard this answer. "How is it possible? How could such a treasure turn to ashes in a battle..."
"I really didn't see any treasure." Su Xuan emphasized again, feeling a little strange in his heart.
He remembered clearly that when he landed and checked the snake man's body, there was indeed nothing but ashes.
If there really was the treasure that the village chief mentioned, it would be impossible that he had not noticed it.
"In addition, if you want the adventurers to recover the treasures taken away by monsters, you should clearly mark it in the mission description instead of hiding it. Could it be that you have some secret that you cannot tell others?" Su Xuan said in a deep voice.
Normally, after completing a mission, one would just need to return to the guild to submit it. However, Su Xuan chose to return to the village because he had sensed clues to a possible hidden mission.
After all, this village was founded by a human man and a snake-man woman.
The goal of the mission is to hunt down a snake man, and the connection between them is hard not to be suspicious.
The village chief's reaction further confirmed his guess that there was indeed a hidden mission!
"this……"
Facing Su Xuan's questioning, the village chief looked solemn for a moment. After a brief silence, he finally spoke, "Well, we concealed the truth of the matter."
"Adventurer, please listen to my narration patiently. This is what happened..."
The village chief began to tell Su Xuan the whole incident in detail. It turned out that the snake woman also had the blood of Medusa. She escaped from her tribe and came here with her lover.
As for the snake man who was just killed by Vernis, he was actually the fiancé of the snake man woman.
Of course, he did not come here to find his fiancée, because the female snake woman had passed away a hundred years ago.
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His real target was the heart of the snake-man woman. According to legend, snake-men who drank the blood of Queen Medusa would gain incomparable power, and this power would be concentrated in their hearts.
Even if a snake person dies, his heart will remain intact and be passed on to the next snake person.
The heart of the snake-man woman is even more precious.
The blood that other snake people drink is the weak power that remains after being diluted for many generations.
However, this snake-man woman was lucky enough to drink the pure blood of Queen Medusa that no one else had ever drunk! Although no one knew how she got this blood, her heart became a treasure coveted by everyone in the snake-man tribe.
This is also the reason why the snakeman woman chose to leave the snakeman tribe.
However, problems followed one after another. The villagers in the village also had no idea where the heart of their ancestors was hidden. They only knew that the snake man was searching for the whereabouts of the heart in the depths of the swamp.
As to whether the snake man had successfully found the heart, the villagers were more inclined to believe that he had succeeded.
Because a bright light once flashed in the swamp, as if it was a sign of the birth of a rare treasure!
But when they heard Su Xuan say that there was no treasure, confusion appeared on their faces.
At the same time, Su Xuan's thoughts turned to how the snake woman got the blood of Medusa? In addition, where was her heart hidden, so that even her descendants knew nothing about it? "Adventurer! Can you please help us find the heart of our ancestor? We are willing to provide a more generous reward!" The village chief pleaded with Su Xuan.
[Hidden mission has been triggered: Find the heart of the snake man! ]
[Quest Reward: 10 gold coins, 50,000 experience points, an epic equipment]
But facing this hidden mission, Su Xuan did not show any joy. The swamp was vast, and searching for the heart of the female snake man was like looking for a needle in a haystack!
unless……
【You received a message! 】
"Um?"
Su Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly and opened the chat interface in confusion.
[Xia Yu: Damn it! Su Xuan, don't go into the cave in the south of the swamp! I stepped on a trap as soon as I entered, and I was instantly petrified! I had no choice but to use the resurrection coin to revive. Fortunately, my adventurers are fine, but I can't bring the silver scale armor with me! It's really unlucky, and the loss is heavy! ]
(End of this chapter)