In this way, Leon, the leader of the Empire's Blue Dragon Knights, and his adjutant Liat and others stayed in a hotel next to the road next to the village.
☽
By this time, it was completely dark.
In this hotel, except for two soldiers wearing cloaks covering their conspicuous green imperial armors standing guard outside the door, the remaining 130 or so people all crowded into this small hotel. In a quite small hotel.
"Ha ha……"
"drink!"
"look!"
"Captain Bart, taking a long way has its advantages. At least we can all have wine and hot meals, right?"
"that is!"
"You are right to follow Lord Leon. You were too impatient during the day. It's a good thing that Lord Liat didn't hear you, otherwise you would have suffered a lot."
"Go, go! Drink!"
"Come!"
"cheers!"
"Uh-huh!!"
"Come again..."
"Don't!"
"You can't drink any more. We have to get up early tomorrow and go on the road. If Adjutant Liat sees him, he will be scolded again!"
"You said Liat is that old-fashioned guy, he is just..."
"Shh!"
"Eat what you have, Captain Bart, it's better to say less!"
"Come on! Eat quickly!"
"After we've eaten, we have to change the guard later!"
Then, of course, apart from those who had crowded into rooms to sleep, the remaining imperial soldiers were gathering in small groups in the lobby of the hotel, eating, drinking, and shouting, filling this small place that was not big in the first place. It was crowded and quite lively.
"..."
At this time, the proprietress of the hotel was walking between the crowd and the kitchen.
She was very tired and busy now, and her expression was very complicated. She was just listening to the conversation of those imperial soldiers intently or unintentionally, but she didn't dare to take another look.
The food of these more than a hundred people was almost emptying out the food, wine, meat, food and other food stored in her hotel. Moreover, she was busy working alone inside and outside, from the evening until now, and she was almost tired. Worse, although the other party gave her a large amount of money from the beginning so that she didn't have to worry about evading the bill, she couldn't be happy when she thought that these people were soldiers of the empire.
She still didn't know what was going on between the Sarlas Territory and the Reygard Empire. Now a group of ferocious soldiers from other countries were eating and drinking here, but she had no way to understand the situation or report to the lord. She could Very worried.
Of course, there’s no use worrying!
Now she was the only one in the hotel. She couldn't get out of her way and didn't even dare to run away, let alone do anything else.
"??"
(๑•̌.•̑๑)ˀ̣ˀ̣
"!!"
ヾ(^▽^*)))
At this time, a troubled little girl suddenly rushed out of the darkness outside the door into the hotel lobby where several lights were lit. Then, she was a little surprised at first. She didn't know why these strange people came here in the evening. The uncles hadn't left yet, but soon, she forgot about such a trivial matter, jumped directly to the counter and lay down on it.
"Na!"
ꉂ(ᵔᗜᵔ*)
"Auntie! I'm back. All those monsters have been wiped out!"
(*^▽^*)
"Is there anything good to eat tonight?"
ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
Annie didn't pay attention to the tired look on the face of the proprietress who had just sat down at the counter. She just jumped over excitedly and asked.
She came here a week ago, and then, while walking, she came across such a hotel, and then she temporarily stayed here.
A few days ago, when she was chatting with the idle lady boss, the aunt at the counter, she learned that the other party had a daughter who worked as a waitress here, but she was attacked by a group of monsters and died tragically one night last year. , and then had to take care of it alone, she couldn't bear it for a moment, so she patted her chest and promised the other party to help eliminate all the monsters near the village.
So, she cleaned one of them last night, and went to clean the second contaminated cemetery again tonight, and she was finally done.
That kind of little thing is not difficult for her, just a little troublesome. Under normal circumstances, she would definitely disdain to do that kind of thing specifically.
"ah?"
"Annie..."
"You...really went to that place?"
Hearing Annie's words, the landlady was slightly startled, and then her tired eyes became a little sober.
"Of course!"
୧(‾◡◝)୨ꔛ♩
"If someone says they want to help, they will definitely help. How could they not?"
(ʃƪ˘³˘)
That's right!
Lady Queen Anne usually did what she promised, and by the same token, if she wasn't happy, it would be useless for anyone to ask her!
"Here!"
☆ﾐ(o*･ω･)ﾉ
"This is the helmet of a very spicy skull monster. I give it to you now. You can exchange it with the lord for money!"
Ϡ(੭•̀ω•́)੭✧⃛
Bang!
With that said, Annie took out a rusty but extremely thick plate horn helmet from her space pocket and threw it on the floor inside the counter with a dull collision sound.
"!!"
"Well?"
"what sound?"
"Did the basin fall?"
Hearing the sound of metal clashing at the counter, the imperial soldiers who were eating and drinking seemed a little sensitive, so they couldn't help but turn their heads and take a look.
"Oh, don't worry about her, she's just a kid anyway!"
"Come on, let's keep drinking!"
"Captain Bart, why don't you stop drinking?"
"This last drink is really the last drink. Come on, let's all drink together!!"
"..."
However, when they saw that the proprietress was talking to the little girl there during the day, they quickly turned back and continued their business, eating, drinking and shouting.
After all, she is just a village woman and a little girl who can do some tricks. That is not worthy of wasting too much attention from the men of the Imperial Army.
"ah!"
"So heavy!"
"Annie, did you really go?"
She leaned over and picked up the plate-armored horned helmet on the floor, which seemed to have magic power. She weighed it for a moment, then hurriedly stuffed it into the counter. Only then did the fat boss lady get back to someone who was lying on the counter. A worried little girl asked.
"Of course!"
o(´^｀)o
"Didn't I promise you?"
₍₍(̨̡‾ᗣ‾)̧̢₎₎
Annie asked angrily.
You know, Queen Anne always keeps her word. If she says she wants to eradicate monsters, she will definitely eradicate them! And if there are really no monsters, she will even create the monsters herself and then destroy them!
(…)
(●￣(ｴ)￣●)
"That……"
"What did you encounter there?"
The landlady couldn't imagine that a little girl would dare to go to such a scary place alone at night.
However, the facts were before her eyes. The helmet just now was not only rusty, but also had the smell of decaying undead. Coupled with what happened last night, she did not doubt whether the little girl Annie in front of her had really been to that terrible place. , a place where even the local lords can do nothing.
"Um……"
(´◔‸◔`)
"It's nothing, just some skeletons, undead, and the skeleton general wearing the helmet just now. He looks pretty powerful, but he is still a little better than him."
(｡•̀ꌂ-)✧
Anne didn't want to scare this fat aunt, so she downplayed her own power to an infinite extent, but even then, she was not beyond the reach of that boring skeleton.
"!!"
"Skeleton?"
"And there are undead?!"
"terrible……"
Sure enough, the landlady was instantly frightened by Annie's words and her eyes widened.
She did not doubt Anne's words, because the noble lord of the local Sarlas territory had also led soldiers to clean up the two contaminated cemeteries. But unfortunately, the monsters would appear again soon after the cleaning. Those monsters wouldn't come out during the day, and they wouldn't go too far from the cemetery at night, so they simply ignored them. It wasn't until she heard about her daughter's accident that she paid more attention to them.
However, because her daughter's accident was just an exception, and the nearby villages did not show any signs of being attacked by monsters on a large scale, so far, she has not seen the lord's intention to send troops to conquer.
"but……"
"Actually, it's useless even if you eliminate them."
She was happy for a while, but after exclaiming, the landlady quickly became depressed again.
"??"
(°ー°〃)
"Why?"
く(＾_・)ゝ
Anne was a little confused.
"well…..."
"Isn't it because those two cemeteries are polluted?"
"It is said that there was a battlefield there, many people died, and a necromancer used terrible necromancy magic in that place, so that kind of thing happened."
"Although you cleaned up this time, but..."
"Soon, those horrible things will come out. There were a lot of corpses buried in those two places, and even the Lord's priest, Mr. Ai Fanze, couldn't purify them."
"I heard that it might take at least a big shot like the Archbishop of the Great Temple of Light to figure it out?"
As she spoke, the landlady couldn't help but shake her head and sigh.
She also knew that the lord would probably just talk about that kind of thing and would not actually go to the temple for help. After all, the Archbishop of the Great Temple of Light is such a noble person, how could he come to a small village like theirs to help them solve such trivial troubles?
There are so many monsters and monsters in this world, but the situation here is pretty good. How can the Lord control them?
"It's better not to talk about that."
"Annie, if you can solve those troubles for us, we can at least be stable for a while. Just wait, I'll see if there's anything else delicious, and I'll get it for you."
With that said, the proprietress was going to find a place to wash her hands, and then thought about how to prepare a delicious late-night snack as a thank-you gift for a certain powerful little girl mage.
"oh……"
(⊙o⊙*)
"Okay, thank you Auntie!"
(*^▽^*)
Anne smiled nonchalantly and thanked her.
However, she did not tell the other party that of course she had also seen the two cemeteries being contaminated by necromancy magic, so she simply burned the glass there. Now there is nothing left there, and there will be nothing left there in the future. No more monsters!
And the helmet just now was kept by her specifically as a voucher. Otherwise, she would have burned it into molten iron and melted it into the magma pool.
but……
Although the terrifying undead monster is no longer there, she accidentally overexerted herself at that time, so that the fire element there is now unusually strong. Coupled with the equally abundant magical energy in this world, there may be something terrible in the future. It’s not necessarily where the life of the fire element was born?
But even Annie, who was born with the fire element, is not worried at all!
After all, fire elements generally don't like to leave that kind of magma land, just like the flame kingdom she stayed in before. Those fire elements generally don't like places where ordinary people live. If they are not transformed, it will be normal. The room temperature is still a little too cold for them, and as long as the villagers here don't go to that kind of place to die, there will definitely be no problem.
(…..)
(●￣(ｴ)￣●)
"Please wait for a while..."
"As you can see, there are a lot of people here today, so I have to look carefully..."
After saying that, the fat lady boss turned around and rummaged through the cabinets behind the counter, racking her brains to think of what to do.
"Uh-huh!"
(=^▽^=)
"Then I'm going back to my room first. If it's ready, Auntie, you have to bring it up quickly!"
♪(′∇`*)
"Uh huh huh~♪"
₍₍٩(ᐛ)۶₎₎♪
After saying that, Anne skipped towards one of her rooms on the second floor without even looking at the imperial soldiers who were eating, drinking and noisy in the lobby.
And at the same time...
In another village about half a day away from the village where the hotel was located, a certain trainee magician wearing a white cloak finally hurried back to their village.
"Oh no!"
"Alvin! Something big happened!"
As soon as the trainee magician who rushed back overnight saw his new friend, he hurriedly told everything about the group of Imperial Army soldiers he met on the way to learn magic. .
"?!"
"More than a hundred Imperial soldiers showed up here?"
"This is the Sarlas Territory. Although it is the border, it is indeed not good to see the Imperial Army!"
Hearing his new mage friend talk about such a thing, Alvin, who had been adventuring alone with a sword for many years, couldn't help but be slightly shocked.
"alright."
"Hain, don't worry too much. Take a rest and drink some water."
"There are only a hundred or so imperial soldiers. They are probably infiltrated to spy on intelligence at most. They might have run away by the time the lord of Sarlas Territory reacts."
"Besides, even if there is a war, they won't be able to hit here all at once. Don't worry too much. Just ask the village chief to send someone to inform the lord tomorrow."
"Even if the Imperial Army does come, there will definitely be time for the villagers to evacuate."
Alvin thought that a large force of the Imperial Army had come here after killing Sarlas, but when he heard that there were only a few hundred people, and all of them were lightly-armed soldiers, he quickly relaxed and smiled. He comforted his friend Hain, the mage apprentice.
"correct!"
"Have you found that powerful arcane archmage?"
"Did she teach you magic?"
While handing over a glass of water, Alvin quickly asked curiously.
The affairs of the Imperial Army should only be concerned by the lords of Sarlas Territory. Alvin is just a passing adventurer. He does not want to get involved in a war between one country and another country, so, Compared with those things, he is more concerned about his friends now.
"have!"
"Taught a pyrotechnic..."
"but!"
"Before I learned it, she thought I was stupid and kicked me out impatiently..."
Hearing his friend ask about the arcane archmage, Hain was stunned for a moment, and then immediately grimaced.
"ah?"
"No way?"
"Hain, you are so powerful, but she still thinks you are stupid?"
Alvin was a little surprised. After all, in his experience, there are really very few people like Hain who have this level of magical attainments at this age. Otherwise, he would Nor will they go out of their way to make friends with each other.
"I think……"
"Is it because that guy is incompetent, so he doesn't dare to teach you?"
"It must be like that!"
Then, Alvin punched hard, began to speculate maliciously, and tried hard to use words to comfort his friend, a trainee magician who went all the way to study in the next village but failed to return.
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(✪ω✪) It’s the end of the month!
