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Meeting Minsk was half a coincidence.
Lu Yuan was not sure whether this person really existed, because judging from the timeline of this world, when he was about to leave a few months ago, this person didn't know where he was, so how could he just appear?
Because this time he picked up another poor guy, Mu Xing could only take Minsk to buy some necessary equipment.
Lu Yuan walked towards the Helm Temple. If he said something nice, he might be able to trick... ahem, he could buy some healing potions.
Dealing with the temple is a very troublesome thing.
Because the transaction object is not a simple businessman, he has faith. Moreover, the location of the transaction is in the other party's temple. You must not cause any offense to the other party's beliefs in your words and deeds. You must not be opposed to the other party in terms of belief. Your thoughts must have enough respect for the other party's god. Respect - this is very important. In the temple, especially the temple of the white-faced Heim, under the gaze of the big eyes on the holy symbol, "nothing will be hidden", which means that the other party can know what you are thinking. .
Even so, even if you do your best in everything, there is no guarantee that you will achieve your wish.
The temple is not a merchant, they would rather give away potions to their believers. Nor are you willing to sell to non-believers unless you have enough value. Fortunately, Lu Yuan still has some status in Naxikai, and they, the heroes who "saved Naxikai", are currently popular. What's more, he is familiar with most of the people here, and there are always some inside channels of acquaintances. After some setbacks, he got a few bottles of potions from the priest in charge of the warehouse. Of course, it cost nearly a thousand gold coins!
If it is a normal situation, it is of course best for the priest in the team to take action when dealing with the temple. Unless it is a hostile god, the servants of the god always start with a polite relationship. But...ahem. Alona and Heim's relationship. Not very good. Therefore, Evening Star generally does not go near the Helm Temple. The reason is said to be that Nana's oracle contained the sentence "Heim's coffin face", which triggered an ongoing conflict between the two churches...
Helm's Temple of the Helm God is the tallest and most majestic building in Naxikai, occupying one side of the entire street facing the river, with a nearly ten-meter tall main entrance and layers of columns. Boasting the glory of Heim to passers-by. certainly. Lu Yuan's private business. Taking the main entrance is seeking death. He went in through the hidden back door on one side, and after he was done, he came out through the small door at the back. It happens to be in a small alley that seems to be a dead end.
The secret door on the wall behind him closed with a loud "bang", and it fit together with the wall of the alley so tightly that no gap could be seen.
Lu Yuan looked back at the wall inexplicably, always feeling uneasy about being brought up.
"Don't blame me, Lu Yuan. Business is business, but Heim is on top! I hate everything related to Ms. Alona!" On the other side of the wall, his "good friend" from childhood to adulthood is now in the temple The trader who serves as a trainee priest shouted loudly through the secret door, "Good luck to you!"
The "former" friend who just now was reminiscing about the past, patting his chest and generously selling him potions with generous discounts, actually turned around and sold him nothing. Faith, it’s really...I can’t say it. Lu Yuan lacks faith himself, so he is certainly not qualified to evaluate people who have faith.
He just wanted to say, "No wonder a simple deal took so long."
Lu Yuan touched the ring with Alona's mark on his finger, looked up with a wry smile, and saw four fully armed women blocking the direction of the alley exit.
Four strong-looking women surrounded him in a semi-surrounding formation. The two in front wore metal armor and carried war hammers and flails in their hands. Two women in leather armor walked behind, one holding a longbow and the other holding a dart. They all looked at him with unkind expressions, especially the lady holding the war hammer. The hatred in her eyes was almost burning, as if she could pounce on him and bite him at any time.
"You will also have a day when you will be full of evil! I have been waiting for this day for too long!"
The woman said through gritted teeth. The woman next to her tore off a piece of paper from behind the shield and compared it carefully with Lu Yuan's appearance, "Yes! It's him!"
Lu Yuan held his forehead, damn the wanted order, damn the issuing authority.
"Hey, ladies, relax and don't raise your weapons. My name is Lu Yuan, a local! The guy on the wanted poster is named Chanem, from Candlekeep. That wanted poster is wrong! You want to find Chanem? I happen to know his whereabouts. Turn left out of the alley and walk two hundred meters..."
"No!" The woman holding the hammer and staring at him with hatred interrupted him, "The person I am looking for is you! I have been chasing you from the north to the south, and I have been looking for you for more than half a year! Lu Yuan !”
Her voice was full of resentment, both towards Lu Yuan and seemingly towards herself.
Oh, Lu Yuan, who was interrupted, shut up in embarrassment and began to look at this woman for the first time. She wore a heavy half-body armor made of full metal and stood at the front with a war hammer. When she spoke, the other women closed their mouths and waited for her to finish. Obviously, she is the leader of this group of people. If this were a group of mercenaries and killers from the Iron Throne, Lu Yuan would have fired a fireball without hesitation! But when he saw that woman, that not-so-pretty face, the deep hatred and traces of weathering, he hesitated for the first time.
None of these women are beautiful, but their equipment is very good - the leather armor of the woman in the back is shining with a faint magical light, and the metal armor in the front is also military supplies. A weapon of magical aura. A team has several pieces of magic equipment, and it is core equipment such as weapons and armor, which is considered good among adventurers. Lu Yuan didn't know when he provoked such a senior person.
"Can you tell me why?" For the first time, he wanted to know what these "NPCs" would say.
That woman. She took a deep breath, as if to suppress her hatred, and then said: "I will tell you! I want you to die clearly!"
"My name is Ramaha, and I am the leader of the 'Amazon Girls' adventure group. We come from the east, further than the High Forest. The second year after I came to the Sword Coast, I met my husband Serui Well, he was a well-respected druid in the area, and he was a good guy. We traveled together, went on adventures together, and fought the orcs east of Baldur's Gate. Two years later. Seren and I Started a family. Had a lovely child..."
Lu Yuan listened silently. He was not familiar with any of the names of people or places. Looking at the gentle expression on the woman's face, she probably recalled something.
"After that. I put down my war hammer. I left the 'Amazon Girl'. Like an ordinary woman, I ran the house, took care of the children, and waited for my husband to come home. Once... once, the orcs attacked. Our children, unfortunately... ...Unfortunately...died young. I didn't protect her well, yes, it's my fault! I can no longer use the warhammer, and I don't know where I lost my armor. When the orcs rushed into the village, I was completely panicked. If, If I can still fight, then the child will not die! Serien will not die either!..."
The woman named Ramaha began to choke and shed tears.
The woman behind raised her bow, arrows and darts, threatening to land far away. The woman holding the flail stared at Lu Yuan and knocked Ramaha's shield with her shield. "Don't be weak, continue, my sister."
"Ha," Ramaha let out a long breath and sharpened his eyes again, staring at Lu Yuan, giving him a vague feeling of foreboding. Maybe there really was an inextricable hatred between him and Ramaha.
"My husband and I tried to resurrect our children. But we were very poor at the time and couldn't afford the diamonds needed for resurrection. So my husband accepted the hire to move the lair of a group of wyverns deep into the Cloak Forest. Before leaving, he said that if he couldn't come back soon, he would copy the resurrection of the dead into a scroll and send it back together with the casting materials. But I didn't wait, and the child's death time was about to exceed the end of the resurrection. limit……"
"Did he move the flying dragon's lair near an iron mine? He accepted employment from the Iron Throne, right? I remember that man. He was wearing clothes made of leaves. He was very powerful. I almost died in his arms that time. In hand..."
Lu Yuan spoke slowly, recalling the life-and-death battle he experienced with Mu Xing in Cloak Forest. Lu Yuan has completely figured out the cause and effect of the matter. "His name is Serien?"
"Serion Imbas, a second-level oak staff bearer of the Darkwood Druid Order. 'Dark Hope' is his title. In the area east of the Darkwood Forest, his teachings maintain the balance of nature. , his bravery also protected many villages from the invasion of orcs!"
Lu Yuan shook his head, feeling that things were a bit ridiculous. My first adventure actually killed a hero? !
That was the first time he was so close to death in a battle, but nearly a hundred years had passed and he couldn't even remember the person's appearance. But it was only today that he knew his name. He still remembered that the man did carry two diamonds and two scrolls of "Resurrection of the Dead". Lu Yuan and Mu Xing themselves had no use for these things, and Mu Xing later gave them to the Lady Temple for distribution.
Unexpectedly, it was actually prepared by him in order to resurrect his own child. It was a reward for the Iron Throne's employment.
"What happened to your... child?" Lu Yuan asked dryly.
"The Iron Throne paid to resurrect our children at the cost of all the 'Amazon Girls' being loyal to the Iron Throne!"
"You shouldn't be like this. Go back," Lu Yuan said in the most sincere tone for the first time, "Lamaha, go back! Go and accompany you and Serien's children, and continue walking on the road of kindness and salvation. , stop thinking about revenge! It was really just an encounter. As a mercenary, you should understand. There is no hatred between us. My partner and I have also helped many people. We should be We are on the same road, but fate puts us on opposite sides of the battlefield.
Even if I survived in the end, it doesn't mean anything, no one is right or wrong! "
"Don't you think it's too late to beg for mercy now? Did you ever try to understand him after his death? No, you didn't. Because you won, and the winner is always right.
Therefore, I must avenge my husband, this is the oath of an easterner! "Lamaha pulled down her mask. It seemed that she had regained her composure and was ready to end it all.
"By the way, I also changed the image on the wanted poster so that I can catch you! Moreover, even if you escape today, don't think about peace! The Iron Throne and Savrok already know that you destroyed their iron mine. You sabotaged the interception of Gillian, and it was you who killed Mulla in the Naxikai Mine! You are now the number one enemy of the Iron Throne!"
"How did you..." He stopped as soon as he finished speaking. Lu Yuan was still very surprised and wanted to ask, "How do you know I did those?"
Regarding the iron mine, there may have been people who escaped at the time, or there may even be someone lurking nearby to spy afterward; regarding the killing of Mulla, everyone went to collect the bounty in an open and honest manner, so of course there is nothing that cannot be said; but at least The only people who knew about the Candlekeep incident were Jasira, Khalid and Gillian. How could anyone else know the inside story? But then he stopped talking, because he figured it out - the other party didn't know that she was just trying to pin all the charges on Lu Yuan out of hatred...
Damn, women are terrible.
Lu Yuan was a little stunned and at the same time, his fighting will was weakened again, "Lamaha, your husband has left. So, if you are killed by me, what will happen to your children?"
"Death in battle is the honor of the Easterners. My partners will collect my bones for me, and my daughter will be proud of me! And she will be well taken care of by her grandfather..." Ramaha raised her She lowered her head and kissed the holy symbol tied to her wrist. She was a priest. "Stop delaying with words, Lu Yuan! Fight with me just like you faced my husband Serien! If I die in the battle, let our hatred end here! I promise that my sisters will not come back again. Your trouble. But now, we are going to do it together. My Lord Guilun Storm, I wish you..."
"Wait a minute!" Lu Yuan shouted and took a few steps back, interrupting Ramaha's prayer to her god. "Isn't your child named Jill?!"
"No", since her prayer was interrupted again, Ramaha did not continue. She supplemented the prayer silently in her heart, and then got into a fighting posture, "Her name is Leah! Oh no~!!!! "With a cry of war, blue light descended on her body and the war hammer.
The companions around her also launched an attack at the same time. Behind her, the arrows shot from the long bow drew a line of fire, and the burning long arrows shot into Lu Yuan's chest. The two darts circled across the arc, sealing off the space on the left and right. The woman holding the flail next to her was also a priest. She began to chant the magical "Human Immobilization Technique" and prepared to end the battle.
"I'm sorry." Lu Yuan bowed sincerely. The arrow passed over the top of his head, and the horizontal staff knocked away the darts on the left and right. He seemed to be doing nothing, but then a dozen black tentacles rose from the ground, reaching out from the hem of the ladies' clothes, entangling and stirring...
The natural enemy of women, the secondary black tentacles of Afak!
Regardless of the lady whose magic was interrupted, Ramaha who tore the black tentacles from her body angrily, or the two people who had their bows and arrows tied up. Lu Yuan maintained his apologetic posture, retreated to the stone wall of the alley, kicked his heels, and rose up, then turned over slightly and disappeared on the other side of the wall.
There were only a few Amazon girls left, gritting their teeth in front of the three-meter-high stone wall.
Alas, Lu Yuan ran away depressed. I really can’t do it!
Although she is not Jill’s mother, neither can Leah! He thought of the lonely little girl he met who was lost in the woods when he first came to this world. He had already caused her to lose her father, and he couldn't hurt her anymore no matter what.
She is so lonely, she must be waiting for her mother to come home...
"", Lu Yuan wiped the moist corners of his eyes, and for some reason, he thought of his mother.
Right and wrong in this world are so damn confusing!
ps: I'm taking a day off today to rest at home. There may be a chapter in the afternoon. (To be continued...)rt
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