[Location: Dragon Bone Grassland·Grace’s House]
"Dong dong dong~"
Along with the knock on the door, there was a burst of hurried footsteps, and the girl's anxious voice sounded:
"Dad, is that you?"
However, what he saw after opening the door was a piece of cold armor.
"Eh?"
Alice's figure appeared from behind the armor. She grabbed the scabbard and shook her head and said:
"Sorry, Grace, after we cleared the dryads at the border, we found no trace of your father."
The bright stars in the girl's eyes dimmed.
But she still tried to cheer up, opened the door and welcomed a few people in.
"Grace, who's here?"
A more mature voice came from the corner, and a peasant woman came out of the corner of the farmer's house.
Grace whispered: "Mom, it's the adventurer who came to our house today."
Then he added: "They are willing to help us search and rescue Dad."
The middle-aged peasant woman walking towards them glanced at Louis and his party with suspicion.
Grace looked at Louis carefully.
"Mr. Caesar..."
Louis stood there like a steel fortress, silent.
William said in a deep voice: "We wandered around the border and only found one herdsman who had turned into a living dead."
Grace panicked, and the basin in her hand fell down without grasping it tightly.
Before he even hit the ground, he was bitten by a black shadow.
Louis reached out and grabbed the water basin held by his tail, handed it over and said:
"The living dead are not broken legs."
The implication is that he is not your father.
Grace raised her eyebrows, with a bit of embarrassment on her face. After a moment, the embarrassment turned into pity.
Grace's mother, who came over, glanced at the three-person team.
Seeing Louis in armor, a flash of fear flashed in her eyes.
He frowned again when he saw the big wild cat Alice who seemed to be annoying at any time.
It wasn't until she saw William that her expression became better, and she said nervously:
"Excuse me, didn't you find my husband at the border?"
Louis turned around and finally said:
"No, we ran around carefully, and we didn't even see any wild animals at the border of Dragon Bone Grassland, let alone any living people."
It was already late at night when Louis and the others came back from the border.
The Dragon Bone Grassland is neither big nor small. After running around for a while, they finally completed the sweep in the afterglow of the setting sun.
After searching to no avail, Louis and his party could only choose to turn back.
The Dixinglong, who has always had outstanding endurance, has been pulling the carriage for a whole day, and now he is sticking out his tongue and rolling his eyes outside the house.
William asked Grace's mother for some water and was feeding the ground dragon.
The dragon lowered his head and drank heavily for a long time without raising his head.
Grace’s mother said worriedly:
"Usually, there are still some wild animals on the border. The child's father used to like to hunt there."
"Now the beasts no longer appear, and the living dead appear. This kind of strange thing has not happened in Dragon Bone Grassland for a long time."
When Grace heard this, she also turned her head and cried silently.
She was so worried about her father's safety.
Louis looked at Grace quietly and whispered: "If you want to launch a larger search, just the three of us are not enough."
Grace reluctantly said: "I, I know, but thank you anyway, Mr. Caesar!"
Their family is just an ordinary grassland herdsman. For a job like this that requires traveling long distances and deploying a large number of manpower for search and rescue, the remuneration is simply not something her family can afford.
In the end she could only let out a long sigh:
"O great God of glory and justice, please bless my father's safety!"
Louis shook his head and uttered a sentence in his dull armor:
"You pray to gods, why not pray to me."
"Grace, I have a way to save your father, but I don't know if you dare."
There were subtle changes in the eyes of several people looking at Louis.
What a good "You expect from God, why not pray to me".
There is a true god in this world.
What Louis said was somewhat treasonous.
But, this is indeed Grace’s life-saving elixir.
She said excitedly: "What should I do?"
"It's very simple. Come with us to the Imperial Capital tonight. Tomorrow morning, I want you to do this..."
Everyone looked at Louis, their eyes full of astonishment.
William finally couldn't bear it anymore and said loudly:
"No, Your Highness, this is absolutely not possible! When the time comes..."
"William." Louis said in a deep voice, "Do what you should do, and then believe me..."
William looked at Louis with eyes full of complexity and heartache.
Even Grace's eyes when she looked at Louis were full of astonishment.
late at night.
The carriage did not stay long, and rushed towards the direction of Tino City day and night.
Only this time, there was another girl in the carriage.
…
[Time: November 14470, Star Calendar]
[Location: Unser Empire, Imperial Capital Tino, Adventurers Guild]
Accompanied by a dull sound of armor clashing, the bell at the door of the Adventurer's Guild swayed slightly.
"Welcome to the Unser General Assembly..."
Seeing the armored warrior walking in, the front desk lady's eyes lit up.
The adventurers gathered in the guild quietly took a look at this man who was so well-equipped that he seemed to have difficulty moving.
Wearing cold armor and an iron helmet, the first impression he gives is more like a knight than a shabby adventurer.
The most important thing is... there is no adventurer level listing.
In other words, he is a pure newcomer.
I'm afraid that the eldest young master of an unknown family was deceived by the bard's mouth that broke the sky. He stole the family's armor and wanted to go on a big adventure.
There are several such fools appearing in the Adventurer's Guild every year.
They successfully used their actions and even their lives to entertain the adventurers in their boring afternoons.
"Mr. Caesar! Are you injured?"
The smile on the front desk lady's face bloomed like a flower under the warm sun.
The male adventurers in the guild were even more unhappy when they saw this man.
Louis ignored everyone's indescribable expressions.
Under the pseudonym Caesar the Adventurer, he said in a deep voice:
"I need to make up a few tasks."
"no problem."
The lady at the front desk said eagerly:
"Do you want me to make you a cup of tea?"
"No, I'll tell you, listen."
"Hey, good!"
Louis took out a bag of divided materials.
"First is the task of the sewer giant rat."
"While we were training in the sewers, we were attacked by a mixed group of giant sewer rats and giant prairie rats."
"This is the left ear of the 72 giant rats I killed independently. Please settle the task."
The front desk lady's expression gradually changed from confusion to astonishment:
"Eh? Were you the one who cleaned up the giant rat in the sewer before? I thought it was Lady Alice."
Louis faced everyone's astonished eyes and said, "It's me."
"Okay, distinguished white porcelain adventurer, under the witness of the God of Contract, please be responsible for your words and deeds."
The front desk lady seemed to be afraid that he would not know the process of completing the task, so she smiled and said:
"This is a method of borrowing the power of the God of Contract to confirm that what you say is true. It is the guild's process."
Louis understood, nodded and said, "I am willing to take responsibility for my words and deeds."
The lady at the front desk shook her ponytail energetically and planned to go backstage:
"Certification completed. Due to the unusual abundance of giant rats in the sewers, the difficulty of the task has been raised from porcelain level to orichalcum level. A total of 7 settlements, 10 silver each time, totaling 70 silver, I will help you get it..."
"Don't worry, there is more."
"Eh?"
Louis took out the left ears of 5 goblins, the front legs of 5 nightmare spiders, the heads of 11 evil centipedes and the fangs of 2 boar princesses, and finally placed the woody core of the dryad that had not withered.
"Let's settle these again."
Front desk lady: "Eh?"
"Eh!!!"
