The Adventurer's Guild Tavern in Fort Hofra.
Rogge arrived on time as scheduled yesterday. When he opened the door, he saw that the entire tavern was surrounded, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.
There is scrutiny, curiosity, longing, admiration, and trust.
"Captain Rogge, here." Melifa patted the chair next to her and greeted.
Ofina took the first step and sat down next to Melifa, separating Rogge.
The old woman's smile yesterday was very charming, but the young girl was very cautious.
Melifa smiled nonchalantly, and it was obvious that she was in a good mood after regaining the Lightfall Sword.
There were still a few empty seats in the venue, it was still early, and everyone was not in a hurry, just chatting and waiting.
After a while, the bell on the tavern door jingled, and the door was pushed open.
Three people arrived. The man leading them had sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. He was tall and strong, with the aura of a general.
There were two people behind him, one was a serious middle-aged man, staring at Rogge with vigilant eyes, and the other was the long-legged school girl An An, who winked at Rogge playfully.
The burly man sat next to Rogge, nodded to Melifa, Kawaju and other senior leaders of the major adventure groups, and said, "Sorry, there are many things in the group, so I'm a few minutes late."
He turned to look at Rogge and tried to force out a smile: "Is this Captain Rogge? I am Kalkas, the leader of the Sky Knight Adventure Group. Thank you very much for saving me in the space barrier. Member, this is 10,000 gold coins, please accept it."
"this……"
"Senior Rogge, just accept it. Our leader doesn't like to refuse politely." An An said.
"Okay." Ofina put away the gold coins with bright eyes.
"As soon as I spent all the money, someone gave me another gift. Sure enough, good deeds are rewarded."
"Hmph." The middle-aged man next to An An snorted disdainfully.
"Hey, what do you mean?" Ophina threw a strawberry at the man's head like lightning, "I saved your daughter, I helped her connect her beautiful legs, why don't you hurry up?" Thank me!"
"Senior Nana, how do you know this is my father?"
"Because I've seen his expression before. It's just like the way Sister Filia's father looked at his brother, fearing that his daughter would be eaten!"
Rogge: "...I don't eat An'an."
An An lowered her head in disappointment.
"Ahem!" Kalkas coughed heavily, "Andermel, Captain Rogge saved your daughter, you should show something."
An An's father, Andermeier, sighed after hearing this, stood up and bowed solemnly to Rogge and Ofina: "Thank you for saving An An!"
"Deputy Captain Undermeier, you're welcome. An'an is our school girl, and we should save her." Rogge stood up and accepted the gift.
"Okay, I have thanked you and given you the gift of thanks. Captain Rogge, we have repaid your favor." Kalkas said.
Rogge frowned slightly when he heard this.
Kalkas has a clear sense of grudges and doesn't like to owe anyone anything. He just gave gold coins and thanked him so simply to repay the favor. It seems that the plan of using favors as an entry point to persuade him to join the team needs to be adjusted.
Rogge looked at the man sitting upright, and suddenly felt that he looked familiar. He was wondering if he had seen him before somewhere, when he heard Ophina say:
"General Calkas, I admire you very much. Twenty-three years ago, you used 5,000 air force to repel 80,000 enemy troops. The shocking story of how you defeated the enemy with 80,000 troops. I have to read it every day!" Ofina's eyes were filled with tears. The little star looked at Calkas with admiration.
General Calkas... Rogge remembered that this burly man turned out to be the former Imperial Air Force Marshal Calkas! No wonder he has a fierce and killing aura, which has been honed in the battlefield.
As for how Ophina knew about it, the girl loved reading books the most when she was in the orphanage. Rogge and her first met in the library, and they began to spend half a year together reading together.
Later, Ophina was conquered by Rogge's feeding, and started calling "brother, brother", and then slept in the same bed...
She said that she read the war story of Calkas every day, which must be false. When they saw this story, they read it carefully ten times and marveled at the power of this general.
There is no record of what happened to Kalkas in the book. Rogge thought he was still holding an important position in the army, so he didn't recognize him. It was because of Nana's "vicious" eyes.
Ofina is a small one, extremely beautiful and cute. The girl's cheeks were slightly red, her lips were pursed slightly, her big eyes were shining, and she performed a natural reverence with a shy expression that was uncontrollable. Even Rogge, who was used to seeing her beauty, was heart-beating. It slowed down for a moment.
The whispering discussions among the adventurers in the entire tavern stopped instantly, and it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, because Ofina was so cute.
Kalkas was no exception. An old general who had experienced hundreds of battles, he grinned like an aunt at this moment.
Calkas realized the gaffe and stopped smiling, but looking at Ofina's lovely face, the memories that had faded under the baptism of time suddenly attacked, and his expression became sad.
He kept himself busy and chose to disarm and stay away from the battlefield just to forget.
Ofina was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "General, what's wrong with you? Why are you sad?"
"It's nothing, I just look at you and think of my daughter. She is so beautiful and cute."
"Then she..."
"She died. She was as old as you when she died. Even her body was not recovered."
"..."
Ofina, who was always eloquent, didn't know what to say, so she had to stand up and come behind Calcas, tiptoeing to touch his head.
Feeling the gentle caress on his head, the burly old general stared and tensed up, suddenly bursting into tears.
"My daughter also likes to touch my head like this." Kalkas just shed tears and did not sob. This shows that crying when he is sad is something he can easily control.
Ofina paused for a moment, but continued to touch Calkas's head until he wiped his tears and turned around and smiled gratefully.
"Girl, thank you. For so many years, I have killed without restraint. Later, I stayed away from the battlefield and kept myself busy, just to forget about her. I thought I succeeded, but it has been many years since I saw her shedding blood and tears in my sleep. I was embarrassed. But I was still wrong. That was my daughter, and I will never forget her in my life."
"Uncle Calcas, why did you forget her?" Ofina said softly, "Let her live in your memory. Although it will be sad, it is better than forgetting her. People are full of emotions. A creature, if you insist on forgetting it, it will break."
"You are still young and don't understand."
"Don't understand? Why don't I understand? My parents also sacrificed their lives. I miss them so much and clearly remember every scene from my childhood, but I haven't cried in a long time."
Kalkas stared at Ofina, his eyes a little dull.
"Now that I have my favorite brother, uncle, you'd better have someone to love, so... let's find a wife! You're quite handsome, so it shouldn't be difficult." Ofina smiled brightly.
"Pfft!" Andermeier squirted tea into Simmons' face, holding his stomach and laughing, "Hahaha!"
No one understood the humor in such a touching conversation, but since my own brothers were laughing so happily, they couldn’t help but cheer, right?
Then there was an awkward yet polite laugh in the tavern.
"Hahaha!" Calkas himself also laughed, "I never thought that at my age, I could still be educated by a little girl. It feels good! Haha!"
"Girl, tell me, what did you want to do when you complimented me so much just now?"
"Oh, everything they say is true." Ofina blinked her big eyes, and her sly eyes swept across Kalkas's face, "Uncle is so smart, he should have guessed it, right? An An also told you Bar?"
"Want our Sky Knight Adventure Group to join your brother's team?"
"Yeah!" Ofina nodded.
"To be honest, I was just casual. Anyone in the regiment who wanted to participate in this war could do so. I neither supported nor opposed it."
"what about now?"
"Oh, now I owe you a huge favor and I have to pay it back."
Ofina blinked innocently, "Then..."
"Andermel." Calkas slapped the old man on the shoulder, "Go and have a go."
"Okay, I've wanted to kill the green-skinned beast for a long time! What about you?"
"I'm going to see Emperor Charles. I believe he will be very happy to see me, a former Air Force Marshal. Girl, does this count as repaying your favor?"
"Forget it, uncle is so kind!" Ofina said sweetly, "Old Cha has to thank me again. Alas, Nana has paid too much for the empire!"
"Hahaha!" Seeing Ophina's clever look, everyone laughed happily.
The Sky Knight Adventure Group, which Rogge had the least hope for, "fell" under Ophina's sweet talk.
"Captain Meili, what's your result?" Rogge asked.
"I...the result wasn't very good." Melifa apologized.
"The Cursed Eye's operating style has always been steady. Many members joined the adventure group because of this, so they are more willing to cooperate with the army in defense."
Simmons added: "The leader has tried his best, but those people are so cowardly! Their experience in the barrier has left them with a shadow. If they want to go deep into the territory of the Orc Alliance, there is no way they can do it."
"So, including me and Simmons, there are only four people in the Cursed Eye. Captain Rogge, I'm sorry."
"It's okay, it's human nature. Thank you for your hard work, Captain Meili." Rogge said.
"Ha, we are different." Kawazu knocked on the table and spread his five fingers, "We have fifty people in Revenge Flame, all of whom are intermediate professionals or above!"
Following Kawaju's words, many adventurers in the tavern raised their heads proudly. They are all people of the Flame of Vengeance.
The Jiaoyue-level group is indeed extraordinary. With Kawaju himself, the flame mage, leading the group, these fifty people can become aces in any army.
"Not bad, Lao Zhu!" Ophina clapped her hands twice, "But we don't need so many people. My brother has said that there are fifty people in the team. It's not good to have too many."
"Indeed." Kalkas nodded, "When fighting behind enemy lines, the team is not very skilled. I recommend that you only bring senior professionals or above with you on this trip."
"General, what do you think about the wholesale of high-level professionals?" Kawazhu said disdainfully, "We can only produce fifteen of the Flames of Vengeance. Your Heavenly Knights are not that strong, right? How many more do you have?"
Andermeier thought about it and said, "We can provide ten people."
Melifa said: "The other two people in the Cursed Eye are both high-level professionals."
Rogge glanced at Loria, who said, "There are thirteen people in our Luo Soma Adventure Group."
"Thirteen? Are you the Golden Group? Are there so many?" Kawazhu said in surprise.
"Recently we have added some reliable partners."
"Then you are all invested in it, tsk tsk." Kawaju shook his head.
"That's not important. There are now a total of forty-two people, and there are still eight people left. Are we going to talk to other groups?" Luo Ruiya said.
"No need!" The tavern door was pushed open, "Rogg, I heard that you are going to the Orc Alliance to make a big splash? Take us with you!"
Rogge recognized him at a glance. "Thunder Sword" Celis, the former top ten of Charles Academy, should graduate with Rogge this year.
Behind him, exactly eight familiar faces appeared one after another, all of them were former top ten.
