Chapter 493 Holo: Slurp, it smells like a lie!
Two days later, a towering undulation stood on the ground line.
This is a dwarf city. The architecture is magnificent and spectacular, with its back against a solitary peak and facing the plain. The whole city is built according to the undulating terrain, and the houses are scattered at different heights, almost hollowing out the entire mountain.
Finally here, Turin!
Seeing the destination right in front of them, everyone in the caravan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and their hearts finally settled down.
Among them, the performances of the three goddesses Galadriel, Rose, and Belldandi were particularly obvious. They even moved outwards at the same time, further distancing themselves from Lorne in the team.
There was no way. I was not careful and ended up owing the other party seven requests.
Naturally, they had to avoid this creditor.
Loen smiled jokingly at the three people's little actions and didn't take them seriously.
I gave these three women a little education just to make them quieter on the road so that I wouldn't have to compete with them every other day.
As for the seven requests of each person, they were unexpected gains.
In this regard, Loen was not in a hurry to put forward conditions. After all, nuclear weapons are most deterrent only when they are not used.
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Thanks to the golden signboard of the "Chamber of Commerce", the caravan had an extremely smooth journey from inspection, tax payment to entering the city.
Led by old Gandalf and Belldandy, everyone soon arrived at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
Even in the Dwarf Capital where every inch of land is valuable, the Chamber of Commerce still has a strong presence.
Not only does it cover an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, the architectural style is also majestic. There are also two giant wolf sculptures made of cast iron at the door. Judging from the style, they are the works of a dwarf workshop, and there are also the signatures of the seven major dwarf clans on them.
Every detail is enough to show the good relationship between dwarves and humans, as well as the potential influence of the Chamber of Commerce.
As soon as everyone walked through the door, a figure as swift as the wind threw itself into Bellandi's arms, followed by a cheerful and pleasant voice:
"Belle, I can smell you from so far away. Come on, let's see if you've grown any size lately~!"
Belldandy couldn't help but look embarrassed. He held down the head that was rubbing and sniffing in his arms and reminded with a stern face:
"President, there are still people!"
Hearing the displeasure in that voice, Holo ended her daily playfulness, looked up at everyone, and showed a smile that made people feel like spring breeze:
"We have received the letter sent by raven. You have done a good job along the way. For this escort mission, all victims will receive ten times the pension, which will be sent to their homes by a special person. The bonus for the survivors will be tripled, and they will also receive 20 days of paid vacation. It's a rare trip to Turin, so you should have some fun and relax."
"Thank you, President!"
The voices were unusually uniform and loud; they were a kind of excitement and support that came from the heart. Almost everyone had an expression as if they were ready to die for the president.
Holo saw this and was secretly pleased with herself.
Sure enough, what my dad said was right. As long as the money is in place, even if you are not a talent, you will become a talent, and even if you are not a Warrior, you will become a Warrior.
pity……
Shaking her head to dispel a certain figure in her mind, Holo, who was in a bad mood, was about to sigh, but she suddenly sniffed and looked at a certain figure behind Belldandi in confusion.
It was a man with long silver hair and handsome features.
Then……
There was nothing else.
Yes, apart from these two characteristics, she seemed unable to capture the rest of the person's characteristics.
After a brief thought, she couldn't even piece together the other person's facial features in her mind, as if this person was like an undefined fog.
Something is wrong!
Holo frowned, stepped forward, and sniffed the man with her nose.
Such a strange behavior immediately attracted strange looks from everyone.
Holo didn't care at all. Her amber eyes narrowed slightly, and her gaze instantly became sharp: "What's your name?"
"Loen." Loen introduced himself with confidence.
Hearing that extremely affirmative tone, Holo began to murmur in her heart.
Did I guess wrong?
"Cough~~"
At this time, Belldandi coughed slightly, raised his hand and pulled the corner of Hero's clothes.
Holo came to her senses and saw that Ciri, Galadriel, and Rose, who were accompanying her, were alert and had their hands on their weapons. She suddenly realized and put on a formal smile again:
"You are the warriors who stepped forward in times of crisis, right? On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, we would like to thank you for your heroic deeds. A dinner has been set up in the hall. Let's have a meal together."
As the atmosphere eased, Ciri and the other two gradually let down their guard and turned their eyes to Lorne, ready to wait for the team leader to make a decision.
Luo En smiled and accepted the invitation: "Then I'll have to trouble you, President, to entertain us. We've been traveling for several days and we're hungry."
The reason he came to the Dwarf Kingdom this time was to check on the situation of his adopted daughter Holo, so there was no reason for him to run away as soon as he saw her.
However, considering his delicate relationship with the Nordic Gods and the lesson of Hela, he was not going to reveal his identity directly and play any father-daughter reunion drama with Holo, so as not to get too deeply involved emotionally.
The four followed the guidance of Holo and Belldandi and came to the magnificent hall.
The table is filled with fragrant drinks and a wide variety of dishes, which makes people salivate at the sight of them.
In addition, there was an acquaintance waiting in the hall in advance.
——It was none other than the old wizard Gandalf who had accompanied them all the way.
"Formally introduce, Gandalf the Grey, one of the five members of the Warlock Council. We specially invited a helper from the North to help with this dragon disaster. I'm sure you have met him on the way?"
Holo took the initiative to introduce them, and the old man who had been laughing and cursing along the way and could chat with anyone took off his hat and saluted, cursing with a smile:
"You are finally here. If we hadn't started the feast, my old bones would have starved to death."
Seeing an acquaintance, Ciri immediately trotted over to greet him.
After some discussion, she learned that the old man who was as kind to her as an elder on the road was actually an old acquaintance of her teacher Yennefer.
Because her teacher is also one of the five members of the Warlock Council, his color scheme is [black], and his status is even higher than Gandalf.
Listening to the conversation between the old and the young, Loen gradually frowned.
The Brotherhood of Warlocks is the oldest organization of warlocks in the northern countries of Cintra, Norway, Iceland, Finland, etc. It has autonomy and is independent of the kingdom's politics. The Warlock Council is its decision-making body, and has the power to manage and restrain almost all the mages in the atrium.
In other words, for this dragon disaster, Holo, who represented the divine authority of Midgard, actually got in touch with the "Sorcerers" who possessed mysterious powers among the human community.
Is it necessary to mobilize such a large force?
With a doubtful mood, Lorne finished the meal absent-mindedly.
As the dinner came to an end, Holo, sitting at the host's seat, clapped her hands.
A team of maids came in with trays filled with heavy gold bars.
"To thank you for your righteous deeds, we will pay you ten times the salary of a caravan leader. Please accept it."
Since even Gandalf only took this amount, everyone had no objection and accepted the reward.
Seeing that the [Price] had been paid, Holo's eyes flashed with a cunning light, and continued:
"You are here for the dragon disaster, right?"
"Yes, my teacher Yennefer was cursed, and it requires the blood of a superior dragon to break it."
Ciri stood up and responded, answering honestly.
Holo smiled and said, "High-ranking dragons, that's easy to deal with. There are three dragons at the source of the dragon disaster. The [Guild] and the dwarves have just locked onto their nests through recent analysis."
analyze?
Luo En thought about it for a moment, and suddenly realized:
"The dragon-slaying missions issued by the tavern are not intended to rely on the adventurers to succeed in slaying dragons, or to fight against the upper dragons. You want to use these people to attract the attention of the dragons, determine the number of dragons, and then infer the location of the dragon's main nest?"
"good!"
Holo nodded happily and said frankly,
"Three superior dragons are not something that ordinary adventurers can handle. Let them attack from all sides, use different encounters to collect intelligence, and test the number and strength of the dragons in different places. In this way, the caravan can follow the clues, lock on to the main nest of the three superior dragons, and then send special people to kill them with one strike.
Comprehensively judging, this approach is the most effective strategy.”
It's also the most economical, right?
Luo En secretly complained and couldn't help but sigh that his good daughter was becoming more and more like a lamp pendant.
By just issuing a bounty order, she could get thousands of adventurers to act as human detectors for her and clear the trade routes for the Chamber of Commerce. And in the end, the dwarves would pay for it, and she didn't have to pay a penny. She was so ruthless.
However, apart from him, no one present condemned Holo's capitalist behavior. Instead, they admired the wisdom of the president.
Loen once again secretly complained about the darkness of ancient society, while listening attentively.
Because according to his understanding of Holo, the more honest this girl is at the beginning, the more harmless she seems, and it is often because she has bad ideas in her mind.
I'm afraid the highlight is what's coming next.
As expected, Holo changed the subject and showed Ciri an embarrassed expression:
"Although we have locked onto the main nest of the three-headed dragon, for safety reasons and to prevent more weak people from dying in vain, only teams that have been specially invited are qualified to go and slay the dragon. I really want to help, but slaying a dragon requires strength. If I let you in directly, it might harm you instead, and I would be too sorry."
"What should we do then?"
Ciri was very anxious and a little overwhelmed.
"Simple."
Holo reached out and took out a gold-stamped post from the magic circle diagram, placed it on the table, and gave the answer straightforwardly:
"This is your certificate for participating in the dragon slaying. If you have the ability, just take it from me."
When Xili heard this, she walked forward without thinking and reached out to grab the gold-embossed post on the table.
The teacher is still suffering from the curse. Whether we can obtain dragon blood to cure the teacher depends entirely on it.
However, at the moment when her fingertips were about to touch the post, her body flew backwards like a cannonball, smashing several tables in succession.
In the thick smoke and dust, Holo held her chin with one hand and played with the gold-stamped invitation on the table with the other, shaking her head helplessly:
"Little girl, it seems that your strength is not enough."
Then, she looked past the fallen Ciri and hooked her finger at the other three people in the team:
"How about it, do you want to come together?"
Seeing the teasing in Holo's eyes and the particularly spacious hall, Loen immediately realized that a fight tonight was inevitable.
At the same time, the arrogant Galadriel and Rose could not bear such provocation. One drew her bow and arrow, and the other drew her dagger. They attacked Holo in front of them at the same time.
Gently turning sideways, shaking his head, and moving his steps, three elven secret arrows wrapped in emerald green light missed one after another. Holo stretched forward two fingers as if foreseeing the future, clamped a purple-black dagger that emerged from the air, and snorted disdainfully:
"If that's all your strength, it's not enough for you to get the dragon-slaying ticket from me."
Galadriel snorted coldly, her lips and teeth moving.
Under the guidance of her will, the three elven secret arrows that had originally missed actually flew back and shot towards Holo's back in a triangular shape.
Rose, who was attacking from the front, also launched an attack suddenly.
She mobilized the power of the gods, and the red and black divine power spread like a spider web, entangling Holo's limbs and making her unable to move.
More importantly, spider silk also contains a powerful divine poison that is invisible and intangible, making it difficult to guard against. Once an opponent is touched by it, they will immediately fall into a state of paralysis and weakness, becoming a prey to be slaughtered.
“Interesting…”
Holo showed some seriousness, and golden-red divine power gushed out from her body, turning into a blazing flame, instantly burning the poisonous divine spider silk and the flying elf secret arrows. The rich power of abundance also flowed through her body, purifying the divine toxins that had invaded her.
"when!"
With the sharp sound of metal clashing, the red and black dagger in Rose's other hand that was stabbing towards Holo's throat was held down by a wolf claw that was glowing with golden light.
Holo easily blocked all the attacks and said with a joking smile:
"Anything else?"
"And me!"
A loud shout came from under the messy tables and chairs. Holo was looking in the direction of the sound when a silver-gray figure suddenly appeared from behind her, holding a silver sword and slashing down swiftly.
"Bang!"
The sword hit the ground, and more than a dozen marble floors shattered instantly, and a few brown wolf hairs fell in the wind.
Holo touched the damaged ends of her hair and looked at Ciri with some doubt.
Just a moment ago, the little girl disappeared from her perception field. It was incredible.
You didn't expect that a mortal would have such a rare thing as the blood of time and space, right?
Loen's eyes were full of teasing, and he was very happy to see his good daughter suffer a setback.
Since he hadn't been pressing her down for so many years, Holo had obviously become more relaxed.
From her attitude towards Rose and the other two, it can be seen that she does not take them seriously at all.
But these three have long gone beyond the category of miscellaneous soldiers.
One of them is a genuine female evil god who was hunted down by Odin, who led troops to quell a rebellion, but is still alive and well; another is the future queen of elves, with both strength and speed, and is proficient in both magic and martial arts; the last one is called the "Daughter of Time and Space", the ancient blood in her body can slightly disturb time and space, and is most suitable for catching the opponent off guard.
Just as Loen was gloating, Holo glared at him as if she had sensed something.
Loen immediately stopped his unscrupulous smile and acted as if nothing had happened to avoid exposing himself.
After Holo's eyes swept over Lorne's face, she snorted coldly, "Are you done fighting? Now, it's our turn!"
Upon hearing this, the three women felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and they all chose to move closer together and be on guard.
Just now, the three of them joined forces and only made the president, who only defended and did not attack, lose some hair.
Now she has to fight back with all her might, the consequences will be disastrous.
Seeing this, Holo raised the corner of her mouth slightly, rushed to the dining table in the corner, and stabbed the throat of a spectator with a wolf claw as fast as thunder.
mean!
The incident happened suddenly. The three women were stunned by the unexpected rhythm. They could only curse inwardly. It was too late for rescue.
As the claws got closer and closer to the target, a sinister smile of success appeared on Holo's face.
The invitations are not important, she just wants to get as many as she wants, and that is her real purpose.
Humph, you liar, let us see who you are!
"puff!"
The golden wolf claws pierced through the tabletop, causing dishes to fly everywhere.
Looking at the figure whose chest was pierced and whose body turned into light spots and shattered into pieces, Holo's face turned black and she looked behind her with gritted teeth.
"Thank you for the invitation, Mr. President." Luo En shook the invitation card he had just picked up from the table, smiling as before.
(End of this chapter)
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