Half-elf Ranger

At dawn the next day, the light was gray, the air was humid, and it smelled of night rain and morning fog.

Thorne felt like he hadn't slept much at all, his head resting on the weedy wall for a minute, and it was dawn.

Immediately afterward, the group packed their bags and set off towards the waterfall town.

The old troll butler and the little wizard drove the carriage to talk and laugh together. From time to time, the sound of Sigrid and Lilia frolicking could be heard inside the carriage. Only Thorne walked silently at the forefront.

They followed the bumpy path, through the green grass and bushes, across the silver puddles left in the middle of the night, and over the soft ferns, all the way unobstructed.

A frightened deer disappeared into the bushes, and the black and white patterns flashed by, but behind him, a leopard whose muscles reciprocated like waves was quietly following behind him.

The birds were flying off the branches, the colorful grouse and bee-eaters, and the screeching wild peacocks dragging their tails, which was hilarious.

Two kobolds who tried to steal eggs were fighting a fierce old hen in the bushes. But no one bothered them, and no one was going to bet on them.

...

I have to say that this safe and worry-free trip is very comfortable, so that the little wizard and the old troll housekeeper burst into hearty laughter from time to time, but all of this is simply bad for Thorne who led the way. .

Yep, that sucks.

Now his impression of this wilderness suddenly turned extremely bad.

From the moment he woke up, everything left him in a bad mood.

When will this bad mood start?

That's the moment you leave the car.

When he leaned against the collapsed wall and looked at the cold moonlight, although he didn't know how to appreciate it, he just wanted to take a look, but after a while, the large dark clouds were very shameless and directly took the only moonlight. Covered tightly.

As he couldn't see the moonlight, he planned to lean against the wall and close his eyes to rest and spend the long night.

Who would have thought that a black bird with brown spots all over his body has been hovering above his head and chirping non-stop,

Annoyingly, the **** bird was still pooping on his head, but fortunately he reacted in time and ducked.

However, he escaped the bird **** but failed to escape the collapsed wall caused by his sudden rise. A stone the size of a grinding disc fell and hit the back of his foot, causing him to hold his injured foot and jump around. He grinned for a while.

Fortunately, the pair of dimensional boots that Andrina gave him is a magical equipment made of flashing dog fur that is strong enough, so there is no damage, and the baptism of dragon blood he just experienced, his body is strong and resistant to beatings. , not to become limping.

Thorne thought that all this unpleasant factor was finally over, but he didn't know it was just the beginning.

The black bird that had finished pooping was still hovering above his head, very annoying, and even threw small stones at him with his small claws, as if this person and bird had some kind of blood feud.

In order to enjoy a moment of peace, the ranger caught this bird, which was even more nasty than the copper dragon, and planned to reason with it, so that it would know that what he did was wrong.

This is a relatively rare tea falcon in the wilderness.

Although its life and death were in the hands of the Ranger, the hawk was still making the last stubborn resistance, trying to poke and scratch his palm with its pointy mouth and its poor little claws.

Perplexed by the hostile yellow eyes of the Hayabusa bird, Thorne finally uses the "Animal Conversation" technique to find out the real reason.

After all, he is a ranger, and he also has an animal domain, which means that he has a high affinity for small animals, so this abnormal bird aroused his curiosity.

It's okay if he doesn't understand, but when he understands the reason, he feels even more depressed.

It turned out that when he was dealing with Sigrid who was hiding in the birch forest, he accidentally burned the tea falcon's spouse and children with the fireball technique.

How to do this?

Wouldn't it be possible to apologize to this tea falcon for committing suicide?

The ranger who tried to persuade to no avail had no choice but to let the poor uncompromising bird go, and the tea falcon, who wanted to avenge the annihilation of the family, was stubborn. Seeing that there was no hope for revenge, he directly hit and died next to Thorne. on the wall.

This stern and iron-boned appearance made him unable to help but exclaim: FUCK!

After a while, the dark clouds that blocked the moonlight played their role, and the drizzling rain responded to Thorne's mood, and it kept falling until the dawn was about to break.

It was finally dawn, and he was about to talk to the black dragon Sigrid for a few words. Before he could finish a sentence, he was hit with an old punch in the abdomen, which hurt him like a boiled crayfish.

"You are the worst man I've ever seen in this world!" Thinking of the words the other party left, Thorne was so angry that he couldn't beat her, and the other party got into the carriage of the carriage, making him He shied away.

Then the old butler of the troll walked over with a smile like a thousand-year-old fox, patted him on the shoulder very affectionately, and stared at him for a long time, and then he turned around and packed his things, while muttering "it's better to be young". class discourse.

He looks like he is an old man who is twilight, but he does not know that his troll age is not much different from his own.

Immediately afterwards, the little wizard Pardo also came over to join in the fun. A pair of innocent eyes stared at him as if he didn't know anything, and kept asking for help, asking himself if he needed help.

Originally, Thorne thought that as long as he set off, nothing would happen.

Just a few minutes after walking, he noticed the movement of the bushes when he was driving ahead, and he naturally chose to check it out of vigilance.

Immediately, I found two little goblins who were naked and were preparing to fight in the field. The female goblin was pulled into the bushes by the male goblin, and then the mother goblin pretended to be incongruous and yelled there, like a new goblin from the river. Like a fish caught in it, it wriggled and trembled on the ground.

So, the half-elf who was fed dog food by the goblins did not disturb the good affairs of the two goblins, and left with a gloomy face.

Not long after walking, he found another surprising thing on the road leading to Horn Town not far away.

An ogre wearing the standard equipment of Horn Town did not know who he learned from. Holding a few mandrakes, he knelt down on one knee in front of a goblin bear wandering in the wilderness, muttering words.

As for what he said, he couldn't understand it. After all, he didn't know either the giant language or the goblin language.

The slightly shy and shy goblin bear was moved, and he deliberately shied away a few words, and then the short-tempered and impatient ogre saw that the other party did not agree, and threw the mandrake in his hand and flung himself. Go up and wrestle with the bear goblins...

Facts have proved that the taste of traveling with a depressed mood is indeed not very pleasant, because as long as there is a little disturbance around him, he can't help but want to go over to check it out, and then in exchange for a more depressed mood.

So Thorne used ranger magic to summon a horse.

Not long after he walked on horseback, he once again sensed something was wrong.

Accompanied by the occasional splash in the puddle with horseshoes. Thorne found that the mount he summoned from the upper planes by using the Ranger Magic was jumping up and down, and he looked absent-minded.

After asking carefully, I realized that this little guy had fallen out of love, and he begged himself to help him come up with ideas, how could he successfully catch a little mare in the animal town of the Ten Thousand Beast Garden...

In short, his bad mood finally got better when he saw the city walls, waterfalls and towers on the West Cliff.

So, as the owner of the town on the waterfall, Thorne didn't realize that the two behind him came here for the first time to introduce them, and he didn't pay any attention to the two looking around like curious babies, and then he stopped because he slowed down. urging.

He silently led them through the lively streets and came to the vicinity of the steps where the upper city and the lower city meet.

Then Thorne hesitated before walking to the carriage.

Surprisingly, he just saw Lilia coming out of it, so he stretched out his hand.

The half-elf girl looked at the ranger in front of her through the strands of hair that blocked her vision, then glanced at his lips subconsciously, smiled slightly, reached out and brushed the falling strands of hair behind her ears, showing a smile on her cheeks, and then put on him His arm jumped down nimbly (although the help of this arm was not necessary for her), he put his body in his arms and left quickly.

An impressive young girl's fragrance soothed Thorne's nervous and restless heart, and then he glanced at the carriage with an unpleasant expression, thinking of the face of the little black dragon, he felt as if his abdomen was still aching.

"Sister Sigrid said that she saw a group of bamboo rats dancing, so she sneaked off long ago." Lilia shook Thorne's arm and explained.

"Let's go." Thorne, who was a little depressed, greeted, turned and walked towards the upper city.

The four of them crossed two tree-lined paths in the upper city and came to a fork in the road.

"Then... I'll go back first." Lilia, who was standing beside Thorne, had a strand of hair wrapped around her fingers, and a pair of smiling pale blue eyes stared at him, as if with thousands of meanings .

As to how much meaning this unresponsive ranger can understand, it is unknown.

Seeing the girl's sweet smile, Thorne felt uncomfortable for no reason, and even had the urge to take her into his arms, but he finally endured it.

I saw him hesitate a little and wave goodbye: "Go."

Under the gaze of the ranger, this lively-looking half-elf girl took light steps and gradually disappeared into the depths of the jungle.

"It's gone." After a while, the old troll butler stood behind Thorne, coughed deliberately, and reminded with a smile.

The little wizard Pardo also retracted his gaze and smiled secretly.

The recovered ranger shrugged and led the two of them along a path shaded by weeds, gradually entering the depths of the chattering trees.

They passed through the sleeping places of many half-elves in the town of waterfalls, walked through a wide open space, and came to the gate of the Emerald Tower.

"There will be time to study slowly in the future, let's go first." Thorne took out a talisman to open the door, reminded the two of them, and walked in directly.

The little wizard Pardo reluctantly withdrew his gaze on the tower and followed closely behind.

The old butler looked at Thorne's back with gratification and followed.

Immediately afterwards, Thorne took the two of them all the way without any stop, directly to the top floor of the tower.

When the three reached the twelfth floor, the sight in front of him made him stunned for a moment.

He found two unexpected visitors, and both of them were dark elves.

Thorne took a closer look and found that one of the drow women was shrouded in black wizard robes, revealing only a pretty face of ebony and a few strands of long dry white hair.

is her!

"Sorcerer Herist of Warlock Academy." Thorne recognized the identity of the woman. The other party was standing right in front of the goblin wizard. The two seemed to be talking about something, but they were interrupted by their arrival. .

Thorne turned his gaze to another man, a drow man in sackcloth.

Seeing the appearance of this drow man, Thorne's expression became strange.

This man was the same barbecue wizard he had met in Beacon Town in the Underdark.

The wizard who sells barbecue looks like a condescending man. He stands beside Heliste very casually. From time to time, his pale red eyes look at the decorations and magic runes around him, smacking his lips in amazement.

Just when Thorne wondered why the two appeared in his own territory, he noticed that Andrina, who had appeared, had come to him.

The long black hair scattered like a waterfall, the red tunic and the smile on his face let him know that this is still the familiar Andrina.

With a familiar fragrance lingering in his nostrils, Thorne's whole body seemed to be refreshed, and the boredom of the whole day was completely dispelled.

Andrina smiled slightly, gave Thorne an affectionate look, and then gently wrapped one of his arms, first nodding to the old troll butler, then looking at the little wizard, surprised: "You are Winter City. What is the name of the little wizard in the wizard tower, Pa?"

Hearing Andrina's question and the mention of the Wizarding Tower of Winter City, the goblin wizard Malvasa who was sitting on the chair turned around, raised the pointy hat that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and looked at the little one more. Wizard eyes.

"Yes, my name is Pardo." Feeling everyone's eyes on him, Pardo nodded nervously.

"Pardo? Why don't you call yourself afraid of a wife?" Suddenly, an inappropriate voice said with a bit of yin and yang.

"Shut up for me!" The black-robed female Drow Herist threw a fat chestnut on the male Drow's head and scolded.

"Sister, how many times have I said it, I'm a noble wizard, you can't knock me on the head, it will affect my intelligence, what should I do if I knock it stupidly." His head covered with short white hair retorted with dissatisfaction.

"Don't you sell barbecue? When did you become a noble wizard." Thorne looked at Andrina next to him and said.

Thorne was a little surprised that this guy turned out to be Harister's younger brother.

"You think I think, how comfortable I am selling barbecues in the lighthouse town. But what can I do, I haven't been forcibly dragged up by my old sister's ears."

The drow wizard looked at his sister indignantly, noticed the unkind look she cast, and shrank back in fright.

Then he trotted to Thorne's side, came to Pardo, and patted the little wizard on the shoulder, startling him, and then he said in surprise: "Little brother, do you remember brother?"

After speaking, he deliberately stroked the non-existent spectacle frame on Pardo's nose.

"You... who are you?" Seeing the familiar faces and familiar movements of the drow elf, Pardo blinked hard and pointed at him, as if he could put a duck egg in his surprised mouth.

"That's right, I am, now my name is Aamir." After the drow wizard finished speaking, he put his arms around Pardo's shoulders very intimately, and said with a wicked smile:

"How about it, are spells easy to learn? Let me ask you, is it the goddess of magic's belt that is easy to solve, or is it our math Olympiad problem. In fact, both are the same, and the goddess of magic's belt is the same as the Olympiad problem we usually do. If you can't solve it, you can't solve it, and you can't even cry."

"..."

The little wizard Pardo silently looked at the familiar side of the other party and continued to remain silent.

"What did the two of them come here for?" Thorne asked Anderina when he saw the two whispering to each other.

"It was Malvasia who invited them, because when dealing with hobgoblins, the wizard tower needs to rely on the power of many spellcasters, and we have too few spellcasters in the emerald field, so we found these dark elves." Ender Lina explained to Thorne with a smile.

"What's the price?" Thorne asked again.

"Some magical knowledge of the Arcane Empire, and then let Malvasia take this male drow as an apprentice and stay in the town of Falls forever."

"It seems that these people are also moving frequently in the Underdark." Thorne glanced at the female Drow Herist, who had finished talking with the goblin wizard, and thought to himself.

Then, Thorne, accompanied by Andrina, came to the female drow.

"Hello, half-elf ranger, the tower owner of the Emerald Tower, Thorne, we meet again." Seeing the ranger approaching, Heliste was not surprised at all, she extended her right hand generously, and was the first to speak. road:

"Re-acquaintance, I am the warlock leader of the fourth natural disaster family in the Royal City of Rezim, Herist. By the way, our family ranking has been raised to 45, thank you for your challenge in the arena for us. saved capital."

"You're welcome, this is a mutually beneficial transaction, and there is nothing to be thankful for." Thorne shook hands with the other party briefly, and said with a smile, "We have more to do with the Heruk Hobgoblin in the Emerald Wilderness. Rely on you, the warlock chief."

"Don't worry, all the casters of the Fourth Calamity Family will do their best to help you win this war, just like we did last time." Heliste glanced at the silent goblin wizard and said with a smile: "I won't bother you anymore, farewell."

After speaking, he walked over to his brother and explained a few words, then turned and left.

Seeing the female drow leave, Thorne held the space ring obtained from the Insight Plane in the palm of his hand, and explained to everyone: "Please go out first, I have something important to discuss with Malvi. Ms. Sha to discuss."

When everyone heard the words, the male Drow Alamir immediately pulled the little wizard and ran out, obviously they didn't want to stay here for a long time.

The old troll housekeeper glanced at Anderina and left.

"You also go out first, I'm sorry, this matter is related to some secrets, and it is easy to have problems with more people who know it." Thorne looked hesitant, patted the back of Anderina's hand lightly, and stared at her eyes, said seriously.

Andrina was stunned for a moment, and suddenly recalled in her mind that the two of them had seen the phantom of the Space-Time Insight in a bottle together, and seemed to understand what he meant.

Then, she glanced at the goblin wizard who was sitting very calmly there, then smiled at Thorne, turned and walked down.

"It seems that this trip has taught you a lot of things." Goblin wizard Malvasia slowly raised her head and looked at Thorne, who was expressionless.

"That's right, so I think it's necessary for the two of us to have a good talk, otherwise, I'm really worried, I hope you can understand." Thorne pulled out a chair and sat opposite the goblin wizard, playing with his hands space ring.

"What if we can't agree?" Malvasa looked at Thorne with interest, and asked back with a smile.

"Then I will take the people I think are important to leave the Emerald Wilderness forever." Thorne was silent for a while, and said with a firm expression.

"Don't you even want the waterfall to go to town?"

"That's right!"

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