After the battle, the corpses of twenty jackals were piled up like a hill in front of everyone.
Fighting nearly a hundred jackals, not only did he not die, but he also killed a dozen... This kind of achievement is probably not achieved by many people in the kingdom's army.
Although Zen Bert had said that he did not need a guard when he was initially recruited, but that he just found it troublesome, the adventurers did not expect that the other party would be able to fight to this extent.
"The tiger man plus the druid, this is really a perfect match." Arosel murmured, seeming to be comparing the other party with the wood elf druid in his hometown forest.
"What's appropriate? After transformation, the physical attributes follow those of ordinary animals. Races with high physical fitness and low intelligence are in conflict with druids."
Theoretically, races with weak bodies but developed senses are the best candidates for druids.
"Don't stay in the forest for too long. The jackals may not come back." The fox demon descended from the Shadow Road warned, "We'd better stay in a place with a wide view from now on."
Hearing this, Chen nodded, turned around and left towards the main road.
In this battle, he verified several application methods of the magic of the Cuili School, and it was time for further practice.
Although the gnolls are escaping with a bunch of hyenas and wargs, they are cunning and insidious, and they might find an opportunity to come back for a sneak attack.
But if not... I'm afraid a nearby village would suffer.
Considering this, Stein frowned and said: "Let's hurry up and report the matter about the jackals. I think the people of the star will be happy to destroy them."
But before that, they still need to remove evidence from these corpses, otherwise it will be unconvincing to say that there are nearly a hundred jackals.
Having said that, in the end, this "they" became Stein alone.
Lebet is a noble spellcaster who doesn't do menial work. Aroselle has to take care of the baby he saved - a rare half-elf baby.
As for Geta, who was supposed to help, he searched for clues and valuables at the scene of the bloody tragedy.
"Look at this piece of cloth that was torn from the clothes. It has the coat of arms of the nobles. I'm afraid they are not the caravan we imagined, but members of a certain family."
Seeing this, the adventurers looked at each other, they seemed to be in trouble.
"Bring it to me and see."
Stein took the clue found by the halfling and looked at the coat of arms on the cloth.
Then his face darkened. This coat of arms was not just a noble coat of arms, it was a symbol of the royal family of the Kingdom of Gajelan!
"Royal family?"
Hearing this, Arosel looked at the half-elf baby in her arms and couldn't help but worry about the future of this child.
The human royal family has a very subtle attitude towards mixed blood, especially mixed blood with elves.
If she read correctly, the baby's elf blood comes from the sun elf, a high elf in the elf family.
If it's a girl, she can still be a princess or something, and use it for marriage in the future.
But...she took a look and saw that this was a boy, and it would probably be difficult for him to be tolerated by the Gajelan royal family.
If he is sent back to his own family, it will be difficult for him to grow up smoothly.
"The traveling route of this group of convoys is from south to north, from Yanri Pass to Silam Fort."
After thinking for a moment, Lebet deduced the baby's possible identity: "Do you remember the Iron Princess who went to the Elf Kingdom a year ago?"
hiss! It would be incredible if this was the child of the Iron Princess!
Gajelan's royal family carries the blood of the red dragon, and the princess Meta Draka, known as Iron, is the most talented member of the royal family.
When she was only 10 years old, she activated the blood of the dragon and became a professional known as the "Iron Bloodrager".
※Variation of blood rager.
Therefore, this princess has always been regarded as the hope of completely defeating the Kingdom of Kalos.
It is a pity that in order to learn the secret "spell" technology of the elves and to exchange some benefits in trade, the Iron Princess went to the southern elven country a year ago.
"Is he the son of Princess Meta?"
Such speculations arose in the minds of four people at the same time.
Thanks to the existence of magic, this guess is easy to verify. It only requires a prophet to use "Detect Dragon Blood" to identify it.
The question is what happens after the identification?
Stein felt that there was nothing wrong with entrusting him to the royal family: "Princess Meta is deeply loved by the king, so she should not harm this child."
However, Aroselle was tit for tat, using herself as an example to prove that half-elves would not have complete personalities in either human or elven society.
Geta is dedicated to searching for clues, while Lebet is too lazy to get involved in the affairs of the human royal family.
In the end, the stalemate had no choice but to give up and leave the forest and return to the road early before the jackals returned...
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"I almost thought the jackals came back to kill them."
Hearing this, Stein's face became solemn, as if he had changed into a different person: "I've kept you waiting for a long time, let's keep going."
Although everyone except Geta had experienced a battle, they were very tired, and the caster also consumed more than half of his resources.
But in order to avoid being attacked by jackals, he could only force himself to march to the next settlement as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the fight against the gnolls didn't end with nothing but trouble.
In the limited time, Geta found a lot of property in the chaotic wreckage.
These elven-style and royal-style jewelry further confirmed their speculation about the identity of the half-elf baby.
In addition, there is even a rare magic item among these belongings-the replicating staff.
This smooth scepter, with two convex gemstones of amber and emerald green on the top, has a "copy" effect.
By pressing down on the emerald green gem and rolling the scepter across a flat surface, words can be stored in it.
If you press the amber gem in reverse and roll the scepter across another surface, the previously stored text can be copied.
There was no doubt that when Geta found it, some document had been stored inside.
As long as the emerald green gem is not pressed again and the content inside is overwritten, the cloning scepter can continue to copy the content inside.
This thing was given to the Druid who theoretically made the greatest contribution.
"So have you tried copying the contents?"
After hearing Lebet's introduction to this magical item, Chen became curious again.
"I've tried it, and it doesn't contain anything important, but a story."
"story?"
Lebet nodded: "Yes, the story is a fable of Gajelan."
He was also very surprised why it was neither a letter from home nor the spell-writing skills of the elves, but a story.
Considering that this move must have a profound meaning, Lebet copied it on paper.
"Can I take a look?"
(End of chapter)
