Uptown in the town of Falls.

The spring is bright, the wind is sunny, and the forest paths are filled with the fragrance of flowers and plants. Except for the joyful sound of birdsong, only bees and beetles are buzzing through the flowers and plants from time to time. Everything seems peaceful and peaceful.

"Little Lando, your mentor is a stern and taciturn orc swordsman, and he is also my friend, so you don't need to be afraid of his race, you just need to maintain a strong belief and focus on practicing your swordsmanship. "

Thorne pushed aside the willow branches that were showing fresh green in his sight, walked to the half-elf boy, patted his shoulder, and said with a serious smile:

"You stay at home honestly first, and think carefully about what you are guarding in your heart. When we come back, it will be the time to test whether you are qualified to become a Sword Saint. I hope we will not be disappointed."

"Brother Thorne, I have already thought about it, I want to protect..." The half-elf boy glanced at Thorne, a painful memory appeared in his mind, and he immediately replied firmly.

However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Thorne, and the other party said with a slightly dignified expression:

"Don't come to a conclusion so early, or the idea just now is just your whim, think about it carefully, you still have time, so you don't have to wait until you regret it and break your inner oath, then your life will be almost ruined."

"I understand." The half-elf boy clenched his fists and nodded in understanding.

"Brother Thorne, Sister Warlock, may the goddess of the forest protect you and your trip goes well." The half-elf girl Lilia crossed her hands on her chest, bowed slightly to the two of them, and gave a soft blessing.

"The price of growing up is..." Andrina looked at the back in the forest, and whispered to herself, "Killing the childish and hurting the innocence by mistake."

"Because in everyone's life, there is always an experience that makes you grow up completely. It is difficult for people who have not experienced the pain of life to talk about their understanding of life, and they cannot have a profound understanding of life." Thorne watched the two of them. The distant figure muttered to himself.

Then he turned his eyes to both sides of the road, standing on a large tree with vigorous branches in the spring breeze. The finely broken leaves were green and dripping, layer upon layer, and the penetrating sunlight cast mottled light and shadow on the ground.

Looking at this almost primitive natural appearance, Thorne sighed involuntarily, then took Anderina's hand, turned and walked towards the down town.

"What are you sighing for?" Andrina slowed down a bit, stared at Thorne's face covered by a few strands of hair, and said in a strange tone:

"You're young, you have to pretend to be an old man and make yourself sullen. You like to pretend to be somber."

"Is there?" Thorne stopped, rubbed his head, looked at Anderina's delicate cheeks, couldn't help but reached out and stroked her smooth hair, smiled and explained:

"I just saw that most of the upper city is occupied by trees, so I was thinking, if the population increases in the future, will it mean that large tracts of trees will be cut down and the environment will be destroyed? Well, it's just a pity."

"Then you mean, do you want to be a jungle guardian?" Andrina glared at Thorne and joked with a smile:

"That's right, you have 75% of the blood of the wood elves, and the wood elves are the race with the highest natural affinity among the elves, so it's normal to have such thoughts.

It seems that your character has gradually begun to be assimilated by your own blood. You said that you will become like an extreme druid in the future, shouting all day about who has destroyed the balance of nature. "

"Where do you want to go? It has nothing to do with the elf blood. It's because I liked the near-primitive natural environment since I was a child. This is my innate character." Thorne shook his head slightly and retorted.

After speaking, the two walked silently for a while, and Andrina struggled for a while, then grabbed Thorne's arm and stopped.

When she noticed Thorne's doubtful eyes, she raised her head and leaned in front of him, staring at him with gentle eyes like water, and said softly, "Sohn, have you ever considered our future? "

our future?

Thorne subconsciously met Andrina's tender eyes, and he could clearly feel the deep anticipation in the other's eyes, as if waiting for his perfect answer.

However, he was caught off guard by the question, but he hesitated a little and didn't know how to answer.

Because he really didn't think about it in this regard, although he could make up his mind temporarily and pat his chest casually to promise a few words, but he thought that this was undoubtedly deceiving her feelings.

After all, this is a decision related to the future of the two of them, and he can't be fooled by him with just a few words, which means that he himself does not respect this relationship.

Therefore, he must think carefully about this kind of thing. He couldn't answer for the time being, so he could only look at Anderina apologetically and choose to remain silent.

And at this time, his only goal now is to improve his strength as soon as possible, so that Chushangzhen can stand firmly in the wilderness, and at the same time have the ability to go to the Sigil City, known as the 'Capital of Ten Thousand Gates', in order to avoid the unknown catastrophe. , without any preparation.

For him, since the problem has come out, then he must start to think about how the relationship with Anderina can develop smoothly, instead of being chaotic.

"Although I had already guessed that you would look like this, I couldn't help but ask, because if I didn't take the initiative to ask, with your... character, I'm afraid it would be difficult to take the initiative to mention it to me."

The disappointment in Andrina's eyes flashed away, and then she grabbed Thorne's arm and smiled happily again:

"However, at least your attitude towards this issue did not choose to perfunctory me in order to please me, which shows that I still see the wrong person."

After finishing speaking, Andrina stood on tiptoe and took the initiative to sip Thorne's cheek, and then said softly, "Do you know Thorne? If you are really that kind of person, I will look down on you, after all, my eyes It's never been so superficial."

Feeling the soft heat on his cheeks, Thorne, who was floating in his heart, was silent for a moment, turned to look at her affectionately, and whispered his heart: "This is a very cruel and realistic strangeness for us. The world, because it makes us lose everything we originally had, but it gives us another form of new life.

In fact, I can't guarantee how far I can go, so I can't guarantee what kind of future I can give you. The only thing I can do now is that as long as I am alive, I will always be the one worthy of your trust. "

"It's really embarrassing for you to say such affectionate words." Andrina's beautiful eyes were bent into a crescent shape, and then she leaned on Thorne's shoulder, evoking a faint smile: "Thorn, then I'll ask you one more question. Will my appearance affect your speed of drawing your sword?"

"..." Thorne, who was speechless, touched the position of the sword hilt subconsciously, but in the end he still didn't know how to answer this question perfectly.

So he immediately changed the topic bluntly: "Don't make them wait for a long time, we have to explore the lost holy city of the dragonborn race today, let's go."

After he finished speaking, he forcibly pulled Anderina, who was pretending to be unhappy, and walked towards the lower city.

…………

In a certain box of the Unicorn Tavern, Torvey was leaning on a chair in the corner, breathing in smoke, the fire flickering in the pipe.

Although this cheap tobacco from Sept City can make him relax and keep his mind clear, but now he has been smoking non-stop, and his frown has never been relieved.

"Is it really reliable for these four people to go together with Thorne to explore the lost holy city of the dragonborn race?" Torway looked at the four people who were talking frequently, and couldn't help but feel a little worried about Thorne.

At this moment, in this room filled with second-hand smoke, the goblin wizard Malvasia was interested in confronting the indifferent Master Qingchen.

On the other hand, the Orc Sword Saint Kutaig looked solemnly and complimented each other with the two dragonborn paladin Peo who had just arrived.

"You are the Druid Master Qingchen. I met you twice, like a wooden man, and never said a word." Goblin wizard Malvasia stood on the chair and leaned on the backrest. , looked at Master Qingchen and said with a playful tone.

"Exactly." The plain-faced Master Qingchen in a plain cloth robe swept away the goblin wizard's pale red eyes and replied earnestly.

"Then what kind of 'de' do you belong to the Druid?" Malvasa smiled, revealing two cute little fangs on her upper jaw, guessing: "Bird De? Milk De? Xiong De? Qingyu De? Cat Virtue? Magic Virtue?"

"Isn't it all?" Malvasa, who kept saying a bunch of guesses, saw that Master Qingchen remained silent, stretched out her small hand to touch her chin, and joked with a smile: "Could it be that you are 'wicked'? "

"It's morality, Lord Malvasia." The indifferent Master Qingchen replied politely.

"Oh, I see, it's a nonsense 'Dao', right." Malvasa said suddenly.

"It's the 'Dao' of the Way of Nothingness, Lord Malvasia." Master Qingchen's expression never changed.

"It just means doing nothing, not doing anything, right." Malvasa, who thought the other party was very interesting, laughed and joked again.

"The so-called inaction is to act according to the 'Tao'. In this world, when you cultivate your self-cultivation in order to obey the mandate of heaven, you also need to abandon your own actions, be cautious in your actions, and pursue the realm of simplicity, frugality, purity and few desires." The original indifferent Qing Master Chen's expression became serious, and he solemnly defended the goblin wizard.

"Heaven? The gods above are high above, Xiaode, your natural inaction is useless." Malvasa pointed to the ceiling of the box and retorted.

"The existence and development of all things are natural. The so-called gods are only the spokespersons of the world's will. Existence is reasonable." Master Qingchen replied indifferently.

...

While the goblin wizard and the druid were chatting frequently, the orc juggernaut on the other side also chatted with the dragonborn paladin.

I saw that the two of them bowed to each other with serious expressions, and then took their seats at the same time.

"Mr. Kutaig, there is a question that I have always wondered about." The dragonborn paladin Peo glanced at the orc swordsman, and took the lead in speaking, asking earnestly:

"Are the two exposed fangs in your lower jaw out of the way when you eat? What is its attack strength, and can it be used as an attacking weapon?"

"Just get used to it." The Orc Juggernaut didn't care much and explained to him: "My weapon is only the sharpest sword in my hand. When I really use these two fangs in battle, then It means that I have lost my will to be a Sword Saint, which means that I am not far from death."

"It turns out that, I understand, but I see that the long sword in your hand is extremely ordinary, why can I feel a sharp aura and a heart-pounding feeling."

The Dragonborn Paladin looked at the Orc Juggernaut with respect, then locked his gaze on the Orc Juggernaut's long sword, and once again expressed another doubt in his heart.

"This is a standard longsword of the Heruk Hobgoblin. From the moment I became a Juggernaut, I had the ability to use life energy to condense it into the weapon, so this long sword will change with time. Precipitate, gradually become stronger." The orc swordsman stroked the body of the sword and replied truthfully,

"I see an indomitable fighting spirit in your eyes. As a warrior who inherits the blood of the ancient dragon god, I want to test how sharp the sword in your hand is. I hope you can satisfy my request, Kutai. Mr. Ge." The dragonborn paladin looked condensed, touched the position of the hilt of the sword, and said slightly solemnly.

"No problem, I accept your challenge!" The orc swordsman heard the words, stood up with his sword, and responded.

"Thank you very much, please give me more advice!" The dragonborn paladin also stood up immediately, and a strong fighting intent burst out from his pale red pupils.

"Wait a minute!" Torvey, who noticed that something was wrong, hurried over to stop the two, and comforted:

"It's about to set off, you two will stop for a while. Paladin Peo, isn't it important in your heart that the lost holy city of the dragonborn race has not had an impromptu challenge?"

"For thousands of years, my fellows have worked hard to build a territory that survives the malicious gaze of all civilizations, and the glorious city of Ginbatul is the last hope of the dragonborn race."

The dragonborn paladin said righteously, looked at the orc swordsman with apologetic eyes and said, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Kutaig, we can only discuss it another day."

"No problem, I'll accompany you at any time." A trace of disappointment flashed in Kutaig's sharp eyes, and then he sat back to his original position.

Tuk Tuk Tuk!

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. When the people in the room heard the knock on the door, Torvi and Master Qingchen, who was talking with the goblin wizard, were relieved.

"Mr. Thorne, you are finally here, thank you very much for helping to find the lost holy city of Dragonborn!"

When the door of the box was opened, the paladin Peo took the lead to greet him. As soon as he finished speaking, he solemnly put the silver-white holy emblem on his chest and gave a deep salute.

"..." Thorne glanced at Torvey and said, "Don't be so polite, there are unknown dangers in the underground ruins, and you will have to use your power more at that time."

"No problem! As a paladin of the **** of justice, it is my duty to purify evil." Paladin Peo said righteously.

"Is he... a player? Isn't this too deep into the play..." Andrina glanced at the paladin and cast her inquiring eyes to Thorne beside her.

Thorne, who felt the gaze, nodded to her and said to several people in the room, "We can go."

"Please wait a moment!" Suddenly, the paladin Peo stopped everyone from preparing to set off.

Thorne and the others looked at him suspiciously.

- "Spell-Like Ability: Spot Evil!"

"I'm sorry, everyone is offended." After the paladin Peo finished speaking, he held the holy emblem, accompanied by the flickering of divine light, in his eyes, the aura of the camp that flickered around several people was clearly presented in front of him.

As a vanguard against evil, the paladin profession can use this ability of "detecting evil" anytime, anywhere. Although it can cause disgust and hostility to take the liberty of using people, but the paladin can only do this in order to prevent the dance with the evil faction.

Accompanied by the flashes of magic auras, the Orc Juggernaut is a lawful neutral bright white aura, while the Master Qingchen is an absolutely neutral white aura.

Immediately after that, the goblin wizard's pale white light glowed with a hint of red light.

Chaos neutrality!

The paladin Peo looked surprised, took a deep look at the goblin wizard, and turned his eyes to Thorne and Andrina, and found that both of them were light blue chaotic kindness auras.

"Miss Warlock, please allow me to take the liberty to say a word." When the paladin Peo fixed his gaze on Andrina, he frowned and said.

"Is there a problem?" Thorne said, noticing the paladin's expression.

"The faction of this Miss Warlock has changed too fast. In just two or three months, it has changed from lawful goodness to chaotic goodness. I just want to remind her to pay attention to her behavior in the future and not to degenerate like this. That's it." Paladin Peo met Thorne's gaze and continued:

"Moreover, I felt the aura of negative energy in her, which means that there must be undead creatures with strong negative energy in the place where she lives. If it continues like this, she will be in danger of being eroded by negative energy."

"Is it so serious?" Thorne turned his attention to Andrina: "It seems that you will stay away from the elf girl who is a real banshee in the future."

"That's not necessary, I have taught her how to restrain the negative energy aura." Goblin wizard Malvasia said: "As for the faction changing too quickly, it is normal, because her little lover is chaotic and kind, It's called husband and wife, what does he know, a dead little lizard."

"Mr. Thorne, since this Miss Warlock is your lover, haven't the two of you been living together yet?" Paladin Peo asked seriously.

After paladin Peo finished speaking, the atmosphere of the whole box seemed to be a little stagnant. Torway peeked back and forth on the two of them, and Malvasa looked at them with a half-smile.

"..." Thorne glanced at Andrina, whose expression changed, frowned and said displeasedly, "Does this have anything to do with you? As a paladin, you seem to be too gossipy."

"Mr. Thorne, please don't get me wrong. What I mean is that you are wearing the paladin's ring. If the two of you have too much contact, the negative energy aura around this lady warlock will be slowly dissipated." St. Samurai Peo explained to Thorne solemnly without blushing.

"You just said let me wear this ring to her for a few days. Why did you go around such a big circle? Did you mean it?" Thorne glanced at the solemn paladin depressedly, and took the ring off his finger. Take it down and hand it to Andrina.

"Little girl, it seems that you are not attractive enough, let me teach you." Malvasa took it out of the way and said to Andrina with a smile:

"As a woman, you should comb your long black hair that falls on your shoulders into the most fashionable style, and add a fine gold and silver hair accessory to it, and then use the brilliance of jewelry to embellish the deep black.

Finally, dye your cheeks with the alchemist's special rouge, and then put on the most gorgeous pink or aqua blue dress. Only in this way, your extremely shining beauty will make people dare not face it. Of course, your little ranger will also be deeply attracted by the charm you exude and can't extricate himself.

Look at your outfit, a pure black cape jacket and loose black trousers, a long black hair loosely scattered like a madman, and not even a sparkling diamond earring, no wonder your The little ranger is not interested in you. "

"Don't listen to her nonsense, you are the most beautiful." Seeing Andrina, who was a little embarrassed by what was said, Thorne took her hand to comfort her, and then immediately turned his attention to Drew, who was always calm Yi: "Master Qingchen, we can go."

"Okay, let's go." Master Qingchen smiled gently, glanced at everyone, and walked out first, followed by the Orc Sword Saint and Dragonborn Paladin.

"Little girl, as a woman, you have to learn..." The goblin wizard who had not yet gone out again floated to Anderina with a mocking tone.

——“Second Ring Magic: Silence!”

However, before she said a few words, the goblin wizard was directly enveloped by an invisible energy, no matter how she opened her mouth, she couldn't make a sound, and finally glared at Thorne angrily, turned and left.

"Finally gone, I regret letting her go with me." Thorne saw Malvasia fling his sleeves and left, put away the wooden holy emblem with a headache, and said with concern to Andrina beside him: "You're all right Bar?"

"It's okay." Andrina, who seemed to be hit, straightened her messy hair and showed a reluctant smile to Thorne.

"Mr. Torvey, please wait a moment." At this time, Thorne noticed that the other party was about to go out, and immediately stopped him, then took out a piece of parchment and handed it to him: "Please help me buy these materials. one time."

"Why do you buy so many wizard materials?" Also as a spellcaster, Torvey saw the role of Thorne's purchase of materials at a glance, and said somewhat puzzled:

"You have this batch of alchemy materials and gems of various functions. If you want to collect all of them, it will cost a lot of money. You have to prepare in your heart to save time and collect them for you. You have no money to pay the bills."

"You can buy it with confidence, money is not a problem." Thorne glanced at Anderina, saw her nodding, and said with a smile.

These are the materials prepared for the installation of various devices in the tower and the production of the Eye of Insight. As for the cost, it is naturally Andrina who is beside him.

After speaking, the two walked out of the box, and after meeting with the four of them, they rushed towards the underground ruins that hide the holy city of the dragon-born race.

(Secretly asking for a recommended monthly ticket...)