The blade of the sword seemed to blend into the dark night and cut through the air, and then swept past the front the moment it was retracted. The silent shadow of the sword formed a sharp contrast with the sudden sound of metal collision, and then suddenly lit up in the distance. In the light of the fire, a fully armored black shadow that rushed in front of him was thrown back into the dazzling light. The figure standing with the sword sheathed did not pause at all. The movements of his hands and the windy footsteps approached the front illuminated by the fire at the same time. Then, before the fallen shadow could get up, a sword passed over his face. Door.
I don't know how many times the same scream sounded. Duan Qing retracted his black dagger, then took two steps back, blocking the exit of the passage again: "Thousand-fingered Crane! Don't use fire spells, this is not a warning. Has it passed you?"
"Huh? Oh..."
The girl standing at the back of the passage took back the staff in her hand, then puffed her cheeks and retreated behind him: "But it's boring to stand here..."
"You can use flame illumination with spells of that level."
Without looking back, Duan Qing pointed in front of him: "No matter how strong the magic is, it won't work. The terrain here is too narrow. If large fireworks are really set off, we will all be roasted." What should I do?"
"Woo..."
The girl whimpered in response, then stretched out her hand forward, and suddenly a stream of flames shot out. A black figure touching from the side was immediately burned on the face by the flames, and then she covered her head and shook her back: " Ah ah ah ah ah"
A bright sword shadow passed over his head, ending his painful life at the same time.
"It's been a long time since I felt the help of a magician."
The aqua blue sword passed in front of the two of them, and then flashed to the side of the passage as the woman turned around. On the contrary, the long sword followed her movements and was placed in the middle of the darkness again. He blocked the two guards in full armor and said, "Although I turned out to be a magician..."
"Miss Qian Zhihe's magic...is released very appropriately."
The voice belonging to Shadow Ninglan immediately sounded somewhere in the passage. Although her specific location could not be heard, the head of one of the two guards who rushed in front of Duan Qing had already followed these words. Flying into the mid-air: "As expected of a team member who has returned from the battlefield dungeon."
"Yes." Holding the hilt of the long sword with both hands, he murmured and took a step forward. Then he picked up the sword sideways and knocked away the weapon of another guard who looked frightened. "Given time, maybe I can become a powerful one." Magic player."
"Hey hey hey." As the vision darkened again, the girl's silly laughter could not help but come from behind Duan Qing: "No, it's not, it's just that the master has trained well, so..."
"Okay, okay, stop bullying her."
Reluctantly retracting his long sword, Duan Qing put his arm across Qianzhihe, interrupting the conversation between several women, and at the same time watched the last guard who rushed over being killed by the two women in front. He cut out of the passage and fell into the darkness in the distance. In the passage further ahead, Queen Maggie's men are still interfering with the seemingly endless reinforcements, but the Fool Adventure Group standing here has no intention of continuing to entangle with them: "Okay, we've finished drawing our swords to help, it's time... Huh?"
"Why are you back?" Looking back at the beautiful woman who had gone and returned, Duan Qing asked with surprise: "Why have I been blocking you for so long for nothing?"
"They have already hid in a safe place." The woman brushed her temples needlessly: "So I came back to take a look."
"It's very dangerous here, Queen Maggie. Before those city guards go completely crazy, quickly find a place to hide." Duan Qing made a retreat gesture to the others, and took the woman back together. , while explaining impatiently: "It is also possible to go outside the city, it will definitely be safer there..."
"You...know my identity?"
"I've been given so many missions by you, and if I still can't guess that you are Her Majesty the Queen..." Duan Qing spread his hands in the darkness: "That would be too underestimated of the adventurer's IQ."
"Huh... okay then."
I don't know what she thought of, but an inexplicable smile appeared on Maggie's lips: "Your judgment... is very accurate, just like the rescue this time."
"We just happened to be there...just passing by, if you don't understand."
Pointing to a certain direction in the dark passage, Duan Qing replied with a smile: "By the way... do you know where the President lives?"
"...Which entrance did you come down from?"
Maggie had a strange look on her face: "Your Majesty the President...why did you let you in?"
"He's no longer there."
Duan Qing replied: "He seems to have given up on that old house. Ever since something happened to him... ah no, after he got sick, he never went back."
"……is that so?"
As the woman beside him muttered, there was a faint cry of killing coming from the fork in front of him. Duan Qing, who slowed down his pace, looked at each other with the whispering man next to him, and then watched the other person take a few steps, holding the sword. Disappeared into the darkness in front of him: "What are your thoughts? Or plans?"
"I'm sorry...for dragging you into such a whirlpool."
The woman who didn't look back said slowly: "And what happened before..."
"Those things should have nothing to do with you." Duan Qing shook his head: "According to my speculation... maybe I violated the domain of some people in the process of helping you complete the commission and investigation, so the expulsion happened. Yeah. They thought I knew too much, so they used the power of the city guards..."
"What happened tonight...seems a bit similar."
Maggie smiled and replied: "Maybe... we also know a little more."
"Are you referring to...the changes in the city?"
"It is almost impossible for the underground black market to cooperate with this change. After all, our existence is inextricably linked to the above world, so..." The Qingli woman returned to her silent movements: "Clean up And change may be more suitable for us now.”
"Where did you get the news?" Duan Qing suddenly asked: "Your helper...who is your backstage?"
"...I have no helpers."
The woman glanced at the other person, then lifted her shorts indifferently: "I found out these myself."
"...If you don't want to say it, forget it."
Looking at the direction of the sudden clash of swords from the side, Duan Qing withdrew his gesture slightly helplessly: "Anyway, the result now... is not that we are on the same line."
"So you and I should help each other more."
In the darkness, the woman blinked at Duan Qing, and then showed a strange smile: "We will handle the crisis in front of us, right?"
"It's not about coping, it's about solving it."
Duan Qing emphasized: "And... it is very difficult for adventurers to solve this level of difficulty. Uh... I wonder if you can understand..."
"I know, I know." The woman raised her forehead: "The reward...isn't it?"
"That's right! You still owe me three hundred and sixty-four gold coins for those previous commissions..."
"what do you want?"
The woman looked away from the direction of the guards' screams coming from the passage, and asked with a smile: "Adventurer, please be more patient."
"I want to know some... news about that furnace." Duan Qing replied in a low voice, while pointing at his back: "My original weapon... you should have seen it, it is that long knife. , it’s broken, so...ahem, I want to find a place to repair it..."
"..."
Maggie looked at Duan Qing with a strange look for a long time, and finally lowered her head: "Kazak and Sumili... may not agree."
"We'll keep it a secret!"
Before Duan Qing could speak, the girl Qian Zhihe who had been following him excitedly answered first: "We don't want more people to share the wealth we have gained, right?"
"As long as you treat us as yours... the power of the black market will not change." Duan Qing also explained: "When the time comes... we will also handle the other two parties' troubles for you."
"……All right."
When Xuyu Liushang and Enyu Ninglan appeared again, Queen Maggie finally nodded in thought: "Since we also need a master like you... then let's make a deal?"
"Deal." Duan Qing nodded with satisfaction: "This...well, what should I call you? Maggie, or...Kasha?"
"Whatever you want." The woman stopped, then stretched out a white hand: "Happy cooperation, Mr. Qingshan."
"It's a pleasure to work with you, Miss Kasha."
"How is the cooperation with Arashiyama going?"
"not so good……"
"Oh? Do they still disagree as always?"
"It's not so much that they disagree, it's more that they still act that way."
In the final venue of the league headquarters, Freefly, who was dressed in a suit and leather boots, watched the progress of the team match on the stage intently, and replied in a low voice to the side: "He is indeed known as the toughest person in the professional circle... "
"When the principality is really defeated by us, they won't be so harsh." Liangchen Meiyu's eyes did not turn at all: "My people have already ambushed outside the city. As long as there is a slightest hint of wind... we will action."
"It's probably just in the past few days. The specific evolution... none of us can tell clearly."
"Yes, since what happened with Liao Zhishan... there is no one in charge of that aspect."
Involuntarily looking in the direction of a woman in the corner, Liangchen Meiyu continued to whisper: "Fortunately, we still have the advantage in the game."
"Hey, it's best for us to meet in the finals." Freefly said with a low smile, "This way we can limit their actions to the greatest extent."
"Things like drawing lots are originally a matter of face." Liangchen Meiyu spread her hands helplessly: "And... Duan Shanhe has already traded with you in the team competition, and we want to restrict them in the way we planned. …”
"Then use the individual competition to restrict him."
Freefly smiled nonchalantly and said, "We lack everything except people."
"..."
Liangchen Meiyu did not answer any more, but laughed softly, as if what the president said before finally touched their point of contentment. Several players sitting around the player seats also laughed. One of the female secretaries sitting next to Free Flying even laughed so hard that she threw it at Liangchen Meiyu who was sitting opposite. A look that seemed to be hinting at something. Sensing this provocative gaze, Liangchen Meiyu lowered her head unnaturally, and then was attracted by the exclamation that suddenly burst out from the center of the stage: "Yun Jingbu was knocked back to his lineup again. Hit! Both sides have reached the point of running out of ammunition and food! Although the four of them dragged the game into the endgame with good formation and hand-to-hand combat, the situation is still very unfavorable for them... Huh? "
"Yun Jingbu's blood volume...is rising? What's going on? Does he have any equipment that can restore his blood volume?"
The loud shout belonging to one person in Prosperous Brocade rang in everyone's ears, and correspondingly, there were the same exclamations from many viewers: "No...no! It's Nan Zhi Qinghan! His spell... "
"This is a spell that restores blood!" Blossoms' voice suddenly rose in pitch: "I read that right! This is the first spell that restores blood in the free world!"
In the battlefield image in the center of the stage, the four best members in the world who were divided into four directions and surrounded the white-robed mage suddenly shrank, and instantly stood in a standard cross, and were then blocked by a white magic spell filled with runes. The formation was completely enveloped in it. Nan Zhi Qinghan, who inserted the end of the long-handled staff into the soil, closed her eyes tightly and stood solemnly in the center of the magic circle. Then, just before several players in black around them rushed up, she paused with her hands and smashed the magic circle's ends. The white light exploded completely: "Heal!"
The breeze, like the clear sky after the rain, centered on the white-robed mage and blew away in all directions. Along with it, there were four players who were originally covered in scars but were now full of life and vigor: "Holy crap! This bad tactic actually worked. !”
"It's not all my fault! Look at what you did before. You almost killed the medic..."
"It's not like you missed two people!"
"If you hadn't placed the wrong skill, could I have rushed to fill the position!"
Amidst the accusations, several players who had been resurrected with full health once again fought with the black-clad team led by Lu Bench, but this time even he knew that the starting line between the two sides had opened up like a gap in the sky. distance: "I thought... you were indeed a team that wanted to really compete with us, but now it seems..."
"I made a mistake."
"Sorry." The demon who exchanged palms with the opponent again came back to life and bared his teeth, showing a proud smile: "We are in a hurry to win the championship, so..."
He ignored the punch coming from the front and slapped the opponent in the face: "I'm sorry!"
boom!
In the scene where the weeds were scattered, the other contestants sitting around the stage stood up involuntarily and wiped their eyes at the same time to confirm that the scene of resurrection from the dead they saw was not just a stage performance. The illusion that comes out. Only Liangtatsu Meiyu, whose mind was not here, reacted half a beat slowly and stood up behind Free Flying, but this also made him notice the difference of another member of the Wings of Freedom in the corner where they were. :"well……"
"Captain, it's our turn in a few minutes."
"I know."
Looking at the word "Online" still displayed in the friend list, Xueling Huanbing silently put away her communication ball, then looked at the members standing up around her and showed a plain smile.
"Then...get ready."
