"Someone has been following us secretly?" Lilia couldn't help but stunned, and then she reached out and brushed away a strand of hair that affected her vision, and followed Thorne's gaze.

The night was dark, the wind was blowing, the canopy of the birch trees all around made a calm and pleasant rustling, and the branches crunched.

It was very quiet in the woods, there were no terrifying shadows, no screams, just a warm feeling around her, letting her know that someone was always with her.

For a moment, she wanted to gently put her body on it, and then spend a long night in such a peaceful manner, but in the end she forcibly endured it.

The half-elf girl sighed slightly in her heart, and withdrew her silent gaze towards the birch forest, looked at the calm profile of the ranger, hesitated for a moment, and said a little dejectedly, "I didn't find anything."

As soon as the words fell, she saw Thorne's face in the night suddenly turned red by the firelight, and two flaming flames flashed in the calm black eyes, and the surrounding air instantly became so hot that it burned her. Pale cheeks.

Lilia, whose expression changed slightly, immediately looked down at the source of the fire, and found that a small dark red fireball was quietly floating in Thorne's palm, spinning gently, like a fireball that had just been thrown into boiling water. The small ball keeps rolling back and forth.

"What is he going to do?" Doubts filled Lilia's mind.

Soon, Thorne answered her questions with his actions.

"Whoosh!"

With a soft sound, the small fireball dragged its slender tail flames, facing the night wind, dispelling the deep darkness, and submerging into the rustling birch forest at an extremely fast speed.

"Boom!"

When the small dark red fireball hit a sturdy tree trunk, it suddenly burst, causing pain in the eardrums.

A group of birds rushed out of the jungle, screamed in protest, and disappeared into the dark night, and bright lights flashed from the animal skin tents in the ruins.

"What happened?" The little wizard and the old troll housekeeper, whose fingertips radiated light, hurriedly got out of the tent and ran over quickly.

When the old troll butler saw the fire in the distance, he stopped suddenly, and the little wizard who couldn't react slammed his head into him, and then fell on his back on the ground covered with gravel, grinning.

The raging high-temperature flames and the impact of the explosion turned the quiet birch forest into swaying ferocious tree shadows, and the flames also climbed up the branches, crackling and bursting into blue flames.

At this moment, the dark shadow in the woods twisted.

Thorne's sword-wielding figure appeared eerily in the firelight and smoke of the birch forest.

"clang!"

Accompanied by the harsh metallic symphony, the fire that continued to spread was quickly quelled.

"It turned out to be you. I thought it was being targeted by something terrible." Seeing the figure whose face was blown up by the fireball in front of him, there was an unnatural smile on Thorne's face.

After speaking, without waiting for the other party to reply, he immediately put the two swords in the scabbard, and found an excuse to put out the fire to cover up the embarrassing atmosphere and avoid the two murderous eyes that seemed to be real.

At the same time, Lilia, the old troll butler and the little wizard Pardo also rushed over.

"Sister Sigaret, why are you here? Didn't you say you were going to the Underdark to do something very important?"

Seeing the blond girl who was cursing and grooming, the nervous Lilia relaxed, stepped forward to cover her vicious gaze towards Thorne, and then helped her sort out the chaos after being ravaged by the fireball. Hair and dust on pretty face.

The old butler of the troll who had been falsely alarmed looked at Thorne, and couldn't help but look at the uninvited guest who suddenly appeared. He frowned slightly, and then whispered a complaint that no one could hear clearly, and turned towards the tent. go.

The little wizard Pardo rubbed his forehead that was hurt just now and followed closely behind.

"That little goblin Malvasia asked me to go to Rezim King City to contact the dark elves to be your allies. Then I left halfway, and I didn't want to go, so I came back." The black dragon Sig in night clothes Lit sat on the collapsed stone wall, combing her long messy hair, and said.

"To find the dark elves as allies is to deal with the hobgoblins in the Serenity Forest?" Thorne walked over, clapped the dust on his hands, and couldn't help but wonder: "Since you agreed, why did you suddenly regret it."

"I'm happy! Can't you?" Sigrid looked at the strands of hair scorched by the flames wrapped around her fingers in distress, then looked at the initiator of all this, and said viciously: "Sleep in a tree. I'm fine, but I was suddenly smeared by a fireball on my face, do you think I'm in a good mood?"

Looking at the black dragon full of gunpowder, Thorne smiled helplessly and closed his mouth wisely.

"Then why are you here, and you've been secretly following us." Lilia covered her mouth and chuckled, sitting beside Sigrid, helping her carefully organize her slightly curly hair.

Sigrid looked embarrassed at Lilia's question.

In the dark of the night, no one noticed her blushing face, only the corner of her eye looked at Thorne secretly, and then she replied a little embarrassedly:

"That... the matter of contacting the dark elves was not done, and then Malvasia asked me to go to the bottomless swamp again."

Bottomless swamp?

Hearing that Malvasia asked Sigaret to go to the Bottomless Swamp, Thorne thought for a while and then understood her true intention.

There are a large number of lizardmen living in the bottomless swamp of the Emerald Field. This group of lizardmen is divided into two factions: absolute neutrality and chaotic evil because of their different beliefs.

Now, with the powerful ally of the Hobgoblin Heruk, the chaotic and evil lizardmen have gradually gained a firm foothold in the Bottomless Swamp, suppressing the absolutely neutral lizardmen.

It is very likely that the goblin wizard's intention was to have Sigritte persuade the suppressed lizardmen to backstab the evil lizardmen to join the hobgoblin camp.

In this way, when they attack the hobgoblins in the Silent Forest, the burden will be reduced a lot.

The main reason why Sigrid was sent there was that the other party was a black dragon.

The communication language of the lizardmen is the dragon language. They believe that they were taught by the ancient dragon clan. Therefore, the lizardmen are like kobolds, and have an instinctive blind worship and fear towards giant dragons.

Especially the black dragons who like to live in the swamps, the lizardmen are the most loyal raiders and predators of the black dragons.

Thorne could even imagine the scene when Sigrid turned into a black dragon and hovered over the bottomless swamp, and all the lizardmen, no matter what camp, looked out to show their loyalty.

However, seeing the other party's secretly scrutinizing his eyes, as well as a somewhat guilty expression. Thorne could guess that the little girl's rebellion against the lizardmen had also been smashed by her, and when she was returning by the way, she accidentally bumped into them.

But what made him more curious was what conditions the goblin wizard used to successfully instruct Sigrid to do things.

After all, Sigrid was very repulsive to Malvasia.

"Anyway, I want to thank you for your help." Thorne thought for a while, glanced at Lilia with a smile on her face, walked to Sigrid's side, and said seriously, "For the offense just now. , I hope you don't take it to heart, I'm very sorry."

"Forget it, then I won't remember the villain, and I won't have the same knowledge as your little pet." Seeing Thorne's sincere look, the anger in Sigrid's heart disappeared without a trace. He waved his hand and said without hesitation.

"Then you should rest early, and you will be on your way tomorrow." Then, Thorne explained to Lilia again, ready to turn around and leave.

"That... Thorne, wait a second." Sigrid hesitated for a moment, then stopped him again, feeling the gazes from the two of them, she wrapped her fingers around her hair, and said in a low voice a little embarrassed:

"You guessed it right, the matter of turning against the lizardmen was also smashed by me, but I really didn't mean it, I just wanted to..."

"It's okay, this is not something you should be involved in, don't take it to heart." Thorne interrupted the other party's speech and smiled indifferently.

In fact, he was very curious about what benefits the goblin wizard had promised her, so that the somewhat arrogant and domineering black dragon had a rare expression of guilty conscience.

At the same time, he also understood why the other party didn't show up when he met them, and he chose to follow them secretly, probably because he was too embarrassed to see him.

etc! It was clearly given to her by the goblin wizard, why did she not dare to see herself when she did it? Thorne suddenly had such a doubt in his heart.

"Does the transaction have anything to do with me?" Thinking about it, a bad premonition rose in Thorne's heart. Suddenly, he felt that he was being sold without knowing it, and he was helping the money with a smile.

Be sure to ask about this when you get back to Fallstown tomorrow, Thorne thought.

Hearing the other party's words without the slightest blame, Sigrid's pale green eyes flickered for a while, and then she wandered back and forth between Thorne and Lilia through her long eyelashes, and a sly smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth. , looking at the Ranger:

"Things have been messed up, and I have nothing to do. But I can compensate you. You didn't keep urging me to baptize you with dragon blood. Now that I agree, I will do it for you in advance."

Dragon Blood Baptism!

Thorne, of course, would not forget this, it was the reward he had won from Sigrid.

However, if this kind of baptism ceremony is used frequently for the dragon itself, it will easily lead to a decline in its own strength, so the other party has been shiing away until now on the grounds that its vitality has not recovered.

Since Sigrid agreed, he must be happy to see it happen.

But what puzzled Thorne was that the little girl's smile just now was too strange and too familiar.

When the other party forced the Red Dragon to sign an unequal contract, it was this familiar expression of a fool.

This made him involuntarily, and had a bad premonition.

Facing this temptation, Thorne suddenly hesitated, so he subconsciously asked tentatively, "Are there any special conditions?"

"Conditions? Special conditions?" Sigaret was taken aback by the vigilant ranger, and then she glanced at Lilia next to her with a smile, showing an impatient expression: "I will give you any chance I have. Now, if you don't want it this time, then it will be void, and don't blame me for breaking my promise in the future."

After speaking, he got up and pulled the half-elf girl to leave.

"Wait a minute." Thorne hesitated, but stopped her and said, "I agree."