Chapter 442: Hiring
The black-robed man is called Samuel, a high-ranking priest of the Mother Tree Sect, responsible for the defense of this area. He was just promoted to a third-level sorcerer in the prayer ceremony, and he was very proud of himself.
If everything goes well for the sect this time, he estimates that his strength can still rise, and he may be able to become the head of a provincial region by then.
At first, when he found someone rushing in quickly in the sorcery array, Samuel didn't pay much attention.
It was not until several waves of flesh and blood creatures failed to stop the other party that he realized that the other party seemed to be very strong. However, Samuel had just been promoted, so he would not retreat without a fight.
But until now, when he stood in front of the other party, he found that he seemed to have underestimated the difficulty of the young man in front of him!
Just when he was about to ask "Who are you", he suddenly saw a high-speed rotating silver metal ring in front of the young man opposite.
The diameter of the silver metal ring was more than two meters, and it was making a buzzing high-speed rotating sound!
At the same time, strong metal particle energy fluctuations spread. Obviously, this is an advanced and rare metal witchcraft, but the problem is that Samuel didn't hear the other party's chanting at all.
The next second, the silver metal ring suddenly disappeared, and the warning sign in Samuel's heart rang like a huge bell.
"Damn!"
Samuel didn't understand that he had encountered a tough guy!
He immediately cursed in his heart, and rolled sideways in an extremely embarrassed manner to avoid it.
Then, Samuel, whose hair stood on end, saw a blurry silver light circle, brushing the hem of his robe that was still in place, and "whoosh" cut through.
Suddenly, the cloth fell, and then the two people behind him who were hugging the tree also made a "chi" sound!
Even if he didn't look back, Samuel knew that the tree behind him must have been split open by the sound.
Samuel, who was still in shock, reacted quickly, and immediately released his innate witchcraft and some kind of prayer evil magic.
A layer of blood-colored light film suddenly appeared on the surface of his body, and then it was immediately covered with a thick defense like dead tree bark.
"Crash! Crackling!"
At this time, behind Samuel, there were the sounds of big trees falling and numerous branches breaking!
"Fortunately I dodged it, I almost got hit! Damn!"
Just when Samuel was a little relieved, he was extremely angry at Ryan's unannounced attack.
Samuel, who had just straightened up and was about to launch a counterattack, suddenly felt a tingling pain in his lower body. Then, he looked down and saw a silver light circle that seemed to jump out from under him and returned to the front of the young man.
"Huh? Jumping out from under me? Can this thing return?"
"But don't I have the protection of 'bark defense' and 'blood and flesh light'? Why didn't it work?"
"How is this possible?"
Samuel looked at it with an unbelievable look on his face, and immediately saw that the black robe was cut off from the base of the thigh and fell to the ground, and a line of blood oozed from the exposed thigh.
"Ah!!!!"
Samuel, who understood what happened immediately, screamed!
He could hold his ground if he didn't move after his legs were cut off by the Sawtooth Ring, but he panicked and immediately fell to the ground with a "thump", and then his two legs fell down.
"Ah!!!"
Samuel was lying on the ground, howling heartbreakingly!
Not far away, Ryan had a calm face. He waved his hand, released the newly mastered third-level metal witchcraft "Sawtooth Ring", and walked over slowly.
A few minutes later.
Ryan got the first-hand information from the mother tree sect priest named Samuel.
Ryan frowned slightly, crossed his chest and thought.
"So, the incident in Ferdinand Forest this time was really a feast. Not only did most of the cults come to share a piece of the pie, but there were also several human slave-hunting teams participating."
"Under the coordination of the Mother Tree Cult, the various cults basically made a preliminary division of the area except for Ferdinand City, and the one that was assigned to the elf town of Basharlan was the Secret Snake Cult."
"Using the long-lived and powerful pure-blooded elves as sacrifices to obtain the special gift of the gods' arrival?"
"No wonder it attracts so many cults. This speed of strength improvement is even more buggy than the system."
Ryan couldn't help but shook his head slightly and sighed.
Now that he knew the information, Ryan would naturally not keep the other party.
"Puff!"
The hardened fine gold in his hand instantly transformed into a sharp dagger and directly sank into the other party's head, and then quickly returned to its original state.
Although Ryan knew that the core base of the Mother Tree Cult to maintain the huge evil magic array under his feet was about 30 kilometers away from here, he did not choose to go to destroy it, but took Cookie and rushed towards the direction of the town of Basharlan!
Because from what Samuel said, the members of the Secret Snake Cult who were assigned to the town of Bashalan had already left a day and a half earlier.
Although Ryan was very confident in Lambert's strength, that was at the legendary level. Now, there was an epic-level strongman among the enemies, and the situation was hard to say.
If you look down from the perspective of Blood Feather in mid-air, you can see that Ryan's way of moving forward is quite unique.
His overall moving path is zigzag, bypassing all the giant trees in front of him. This way of moving seems to bypass, but in fact it does not hit any trees, and the moving speed is better than rushing straight.
If you adjust the perspective to the Greyhound behind Ryan, you can see that Ryan's figure does not seem to be fast, but in fact, the multiple figures left in an instant are actually phantoms.
The real body has already bypassed the obstacles of various trees and vines and moved forward dozens of meters away.
So, Blood Feather in the sky is fine, but Cookie, who is following Ryan on the ground, is really tired!
Soon, Cookie was running and panting with his tongue out, and white heat was emitting from the surface of his fur. Obviously, he was trying his best.
But even so, Cookie found helplessly that four legs could not outrun two legs, and he was getting farther and farther away from his master.
Fortunately, whenever Ryan encountered a remnant of a campfire or a trace of a camp, he would stop and observe for a moment, which gave Cookie time to catch up again.
At this moment, Ryan saw a trace of a camp.
There were traces of seven or eight campfires on the ground, which were obviously different from the traces of the camps that had been covered up on the road before.
The traces of this camp were not covered up at all, and around the campfire that had long been extinguished, there were a lot of food scraps and various wine bottles scattered around.
Obviously, this place was most likely left by a slave-hunting team.
The relatively scattered discipline and rich food combination showed that the other party had a lot of logistics personnel.
The slave-hunting team and the cult team that had just arrived in Ferdinand Forest to carry out a mission had obvious differences in mentality and preparation, which was easy to identify.
Ryan followed the traces left by the other party and looked deep into the dense forest. He saw that the other party's route was not to Basaran, but to the northwest of Ferdinand Forest.
"In this direction, it should be another elf town, Bellames." Ryan compared the other party's direction of travel with the map in his mind and quickly came to a conclusion.
"Sure enough, just like what that guy said, the slave-hunting team and the cult have reached a certain limit of cooperation, or formed a kind of weird balance, and each of them divided a piece."
At this time, the thin slice in Ryan's arms vibrated again.
Ryan immediately took out the thin slice and injected a trace of mental power.
"Captain Ryan, please reply if you hear me!" Claire's slightly anxious voice came from the thin slice.
"I'm Ryan, Claire, please go."
"Captain, great! I finally contacted you again!" Claire was relieved!
"It's like this, you have to be extra careful with the Secret Snake Cult. Their deputy pope Quileute is an epic strongman, and the specific information about other cults is still being collected." Claire seemed to be worried that the communication would be interrupted again, and spoke quickly.
"I know. By the way, Claire, I have two situations here. You ask Olena to report to the headquarters."
Ryan simplified the information obtained from the torture and said.
"Lord Ryan, I am next to Claire. The situation you said is very important. I will report it to the headquarters immediately." At this time, the voice of the capable young woman Olena came from the thin slice.
"Well, that's it for now."
"Okay, Lord Ryan, you must be careful!"
Just as Ryan hung up the thin slice, the greyhound war dog Cookie finally "huffed and puffed" out of the dense forest and caught up with his master.
But the next second, it was dumbfounded again!
Because Cookie saw his master Ryan, and seemed to have finished checking and rushed forward again, leaving several afterimages at the original place again.
This immediately made Cookie bark and then ran away.
However, such a rapid advance was not without benefits.
Normally, a journey of one or two days was compressed into less than two hours by Ryan.
At this moment, Ryan and his dog had arrived at the outskirts of the elf town of Basaran, but the huge dog following behind him seemed to have been fished out of the water, with wet hair and sweat all over his body.
It is conceivable how fast Ryan was rushing to make a ferocious species known for its speed so tired.
In fact, Ryan did not rush forward at full speed, and he paused several times in the middle to observe the enemy's traces.
The Basaran that Ryan saw in front of him was completely different from the peaceful and beautiful elf town he had expected. At this time, it seemed as if it had encountered war. Most of the houses had signs of damage, and many exquisite spires had collapsed.
At the end of the main road, the statue standing in the fountain in the square was also severely damaged, and the ground was bumpy everywhere. Obviously, the town had experienced fierce fighting.
This made Ryan feel depressed!
Suddenly, Ryan looked up at the street.
He saw four people in black robes walking towards him. There were different snake marks on their robes. Obviously, they were followers of the Secret Snake Cult, and they stayed here for some reason.
"Huh? I thought they were the fish that slipped through the net of the elves, but they turned out to be the slave-catching team."
They belonged to a small team, responsible for catching the fish that slipped through the net in the town of Bashalan.
"Boy, this is not the place you should come to." Two members of the Secret Snake Cult raised their hands casually and drove them away.
And Ryan only raised his eyes and clearly sensed the strength of these people. They were level 2 and level 1 peak sorcerers. Obviously, from the information he learned, they were at the level of minions.
This kind of people is not even worth interrogating.
Because there is no need to ask about the traces of the other party's large army, Ryan can track them.
So, Ryan raised his hand casually, and four silver upright metal rings suddenly appeared, and disappeared into the air immediately with a "whoosh".
"Chi! Chi!"
The sound of flesh cutting rang out one after another!
Several people immediately felt bad, but they didn't even have time to shout. Four high-speed rotating silver rings passed through them vertically like a whirlwind!
Each person was assigned a sawtooth ring.
"Plop! Plop!"
When Ryan and Cookie passed by several people without looking back, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard!
All four of them were split neatly in half from head to toe, and then their bodies fell to one side like two slices of bread in a sandwich.
As for any innate witchcraft, they were all broken in an instant under the attack of the 'serrated ring'!
However, when Ryan was about to leave, he suddenly stopped!
Because he just felt a vague sense of being watched.
This feeling was not like the gaze of a threatening enemy, but more like the gaze of a harmless, weak little animal, like a deer spying on him in a hidden corner.
This made Ryan feel even more strange.
Could it be that there is something else in this deserted elf town?
Ryan concentrated and sensed it carefully, and then he smiled and walked towards an exquisitely carved wooden house on the street. The arched spire of the house was broken, but the general structure was intact.
Ryan soon came to a room on the second floor and walked slowly to the closet by the street window. Just now, he sensed the vague prying eyes, which seemed to fall on him from this window.
The closet in front of him was about two meters high, with intricate carvings, all soft curves and groups of plants and animals, full of the style of the elves, and the door was half-closed. From the outside looking in, he could clearly see everything, and there was nothing inside.
But Ryan was very sure that the faint eyes staring at him came from here.
"If it can't be seen with the naked eye, it should be because of some kind of cover here!"
Ryan stretched out his hand and opened the closet door with a "creak", and it seemed that this action immediately alarmed a hidden weak life.
With Ryan's strength, he could naturally detect the movement in the empty space in front of him.
He waved his hand and immediately broke the certain covering witchcraft shrouding the closet. At this time, a little elf girl about six or seven years old appeared in the closet, and the other party was looking at Ryan with a pair of terrified big eyes.
It seemed that she had never expected that Ryan could actually find her.
"Hello." Ryan did not continue to approach, but took a step back and smiled.
But the other party still had a horrified expression on her face, holding the hula doll in both hands and shrinking back, but at the same time, her big eyes showed a trace of confusion.
Ryan immediately reacted that this little elf girl should not understand his common language. Children of this age should probably have only learned the language of their own tribe.
"(Elf language) Hello, I am not an enemy, I am here to find my friend, named Anna, a half-elf!" Ryan said in the not very proficient Elf language.
He learned part of the Elf language from Anna. Although he was not proficient, he spoke it clearly.
Ryan's words obviously startled the little elf girl, but then she hugged the slender body of the hula doll tightly, relaxed a little, and heard the other party answer in the same Elf language:
"Hello, are you really here to find Sister Anna?"
"Yes." Ryan smiled slightly and nodded.
"I believe you." The little elf girl looked at Ryan, then looked at Cookie beside Ryan, and nodded.
Cookie approached with curiosity, sniffed the little girl again, and felt that she was very kind. The little girl smiled, stretched out her white and slender little hand and touched Cookie.
Cookie immediately showed a very comfortable expression.
"Do you know where Anna went? Was she captured by those bad guys?" Ryan asked when he saw that the little girl was a little calm.
"No, a human with a big sword came and rescued Sister Anna, and then took her to that direction." The little elf girl shook her head and pointed to the northwest.
Carrying a big sword?
Ryan's face was full of joy!
Obviously, the other party should be Lambert.
At the same time, he looked in the direction of the little girl's finger.
But this was the direction to the center of Ferdinand Forest.
This made Ryan a little confused. After all, Lambert should protect Anna from leaving Ferdinand Forest. Why did he go to the center of the forest where the situation was more complicated?
Ryan was a little puzzled.
But now is not the time to think about this, he just needs to catch up with the two.
The greyhound Cookie naturally remembered Anna's smell, and Ryan immediately asked Cookie to use its extremely sensitive nose to find Anna's trace.
Soon, Cookie, who walked around the area twice, barked twice, indicating that he had found Anna's trace.
Ryan looked at the elf girl in front of him and hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to take her with him.
The other party should have some kind of treasure that can cast concealing witchcraft, but it is not safe for the other party to stay here. First, after the treasure's energy is exhausted, it will naturally not be able to cast this kind of witchcraft. Second, if the newcomer is strong enough, he can still find the little girl.
After thinking about it, Ryan felt that he still couldn't let such an elf girl stay here alone.
The other person's eyes are very similar to his sister Mint, just as innocent.
"Let's go find Anna together, okay?" Ryan smiled and stretched out his hand to the little girl, saying.
"Yeah," the little girl blinked her big eyes, stared at Ryan for a while, and then nodded heavily.
"Come, I'll hold you!" Ryan picked up the little girl, who was almost weightless, with one hand, and then he leisurely followed the spirit war dog 'Cookie'.
One person and one dog, once again quickly passed through the forest.
But this time, the dog was in front and the person was behind.
The dog was not tired and panting.
"Big brother, you are so awesome!" The elf girl lying on Ryan's shoulder said while feeling the wind and lightning.
"Thank you!"
"Big brother, I heard that you humans have mercenaries, the kind of people who can help complete tasks for a reward, right?" The other person suddenly asked.
"Yes, why do you suddenly ask this?" Ryan couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Big brother, can I hire you?" The elf girl continued.
"Hire me?" Ryan was a little surprised.
"Can I give you this pendant as a reward? Mom said it's a magic weapon that can release a concealing magic array, so it should be worth a lot of money. Can you help me kill those bad guys?"
"Those people killed my big brother Damon, Uncle Severn, Sister Elinde, and my father, who were very kind to me, and also captured him."
As the little girl narrated, her mood was a little low, and her eyes were red.
"They are the same as the four people you just killed, and their black robes have various snake patterns."
"Can I?"
For a moment, Ryan didn't know what to say.
Obviously, the elf girl in front of him saw through the window that he used the new magic 'serrated ring' to kill four people in seconds.
However, Ryan lowered his head slightly, looked at the little girl's red and hopeful eyes seriously, and nodded immediately, saying: "Okay, I promise you."
"However, this pendant is given to you by your mother, you have to keep it well."
"Can I exchange something as a reward?" Ryan said gently.
The little girl was a little restrained, she didn't know what this powerful human brother in front of her saw in her.
Ryan gently wiped the little girl's hair and took off a natural wood-colored hairpin, saying, "Use this as a reward, okay?"
"But this is not worth much." The little elf girl was a little confused.
"It's enough."
"You don't understand. There is actually a principle of equal exchange in employment. Because the people you mentioned are not worth much, so it is enough to kill them and use this hairpin as a reward."
"Oh, thank you, brother." The little girl looked a little confused.
She was a little sensible. Although she didn't know how to refute Ryan's words, she could feel the kindness in the words of the human brother in front of her.
"Big brother, my name is Aixia, what's yours?" The little elf girl took the initiative to tell Ryan her name, although her mother had told her not to talk to strangers, let alone tell strangers her name.
"My name is Ryan."
(End of this chapter)
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