In this way, Leon, the leader of the Empire's Blue Dragon Knights, and his adjutant Liat and others stayed in the hotel next to the road next to the village.

?

At this time, it was completely dark.

In this hotel, except for two soldiers wearing cloaks to cover the conspicuous green imperial armor standing guard and sentry outside the door, the rest of the more than 130 people were all crowded into this small hotel. Not a small hotel.

"Ha ha…"

"drink!"

"look!"

"Captain Barter, there are advantages to taking a long route. At least we can have wine and hot food, right?"

"that is!"

"It's definitely right to follow Lord Leon. You, you are still too impatient during the day. Fortunately, Lord Liat didn't hear you, otherwise you will feel better."

"Go, go! Drink!"

"Come!"

"cheers!"

"Ugh!"

"Come again..."

"Don't!"

"I can't drink any more, and I have to get up early tomorrow to hurry. If Adjutant Liat sees him, he will be reprimanded again!"

"You say Liat's old-fashioned guy, he's just..."

"Hush!"

"Eat yours, Captain Balter, it's better to say a few words less!"

"Come on! Eat!"

"When you're full, you'll have to change the guard later!"

Then, as a matter of course, apart from those who had been squeezed into one room to sleep, the remaining imperial soldiers were gathering in groups in the lobby of the hotel, eating, drinking, and shouting. It was packed and quite lively.

"..."

At this time, the lady proprietress of the hotel was shuttling between the crowd and the back kitchen.

She is very tired and busy now, and her expression is also very complicated. She just listens to the conversation of those imperial soldiers intentionally or unintentionally, but dare not take a second look.

The food for these more than one hundred people is about to empty out the wine, meat, food and other food in her hotel. Moreover, she is busy all by herself, from the evening until now, and she is about to be tired. Bad, although the other party gave her a large sum of money from the beginning, so that she didn't have to worry about escaping orders, but when she thought that these people were soldiers of the empire, she couldn't be happy at all.

She still doesn't know what's going on between the Sarrass Territory and the Reigard Empire. Now a group of ferocious soldiers from other countries are eating and drinking here, but she has no way to understand the situation or report to the lord. I am so sad.

Of course, worry is useless!

Now she is the only one in this hotel, and she doesn't even dare to escape if she can't get away, let alone do other things.

"??"

(???.???)????

"!"

ヾ(^▽^*)))

At this time, a certain sad little girl rushed from the darkness outside the door into the hotel lobby where several lights were lit. Then, she was a little surprised at first, not knowing why the group of monsters who came here in the evening The uncles hadn't left yet, but soon, she put such little things behind her, jumped to the counter and lay down on her stomach.

"Nah!"

?(???*)

"Auntie! I'm back! Those monsters have been wiped out!"

(*^▽^*)

"Is there anything delicious tonight?"

?('?`?)

Annie didn't care at all about the tired look on the face of the proprietress who just sat down at the counter, she just jumped over excitedly and asked.

She came here a week ago, and then, walking, came across such a hotel, and then temporarily stayed here.

And a few days ago, when she was chatting with the idle proprietress, that is, the aunt at the counter, she learned that the other party originally had a daughter who worked as a waiter here, but was attacked by a group of monsters one night last year and died tragically. , and then she could only handle it by herself, she couldn't bear it for a while, so she patted her small chest and promised the other party to help clear all the monsters around the village.

So, she cleaned up one of them last night, and went to clean up the second polluted cemetery again tonight, and she was finally done.

That kind of small thing is not difficult for her, it's just a little troublesome. Normally, she would definitely disdain to do that kind of thing.

"ah?"

"Annie..."

"You... really went to that place?"

Hearing Annie's words, the proprietress was slightly taken aback, and then her tired eyes inevitably became a little sober.

"Of course!"

?(￣??)???

"If people say they want to help, they will definitely help. How could they not?"

(???3?)

That's right!

The things Queen Anne promised will usually be done well, and in the same way, if she is not happy, it will be useless for anyone to ask her!

"Here!"

☆?(o*?ω?)?

"This is the helmet of a very spicy skeleton monster. Now I give it to you. You can exchange it with the lord for money!"

?(???ω??)???

bang!

As she said that, Annie directly took out a rusty but unusually thick plate armor and horn helmet from her space pocket, and threw it on the floor inside the counter, making a dull crashing sound.

"!"

"Well?"

"what sound?"

"Did the basin drop?"

Hearing the sound of metal clashing at the counter, those imperial soldiers who were eating and drinking seemed a little sensitive, so they couldn't help turning their heads to take a look.

"Oh, don't worry about her, she's a child anyway!"

"Come on, let's continue drinking!"

"Captain Balter, why don't you drink?"

"The last cup is really the last cup, come on, let's do it together!"

"..."

However, when they saw that the proprietress was talking to the little girl during the day, they quickly turned their heads back and continued their business, just eating and drinking and yelling.

After all, it's just a village woman and a little girl who knows a little tricks, so it's not worth wasting too much attention from the grandpas of the Imperial Army.

"ah!"

"So heavy!"

"Annie, did you really go?"

Bending down to pick up the plate armor horn helmet on the floor, and picking up the helmet that seemed to have magic power, weighed it for a while, and then hurriedly stuffed it into the counter. asked a sad little girl.

"Of course!"

o('^')o

"Didn't they promise you?"

??(??￣?￣)????

Annie asked angrily.

You know, Queen Anne always keeps her word, if she says she wants to eradicate monsters, she will definitely eradicate monsters! And if there were no monsters, she would even create monsters by herself first, and then destroy them with her hands!

(…)

(●￣(?)￣●)

"That…"

"What did you encounter there?"

The proprietress couldn't imagine that a little girl would dare to run to such a terrible place alone at night.

However, the facts were in front of her eyes. The helmet just now was not only stained with rust, but also smelled of decaying undead. In addition to what happened last night, she didn't doubt whether the little girl Anne in front of her had really been to that terrible place. , a place where even the local lords can't do anything about it.

"Um…"

(‘???`)

"It's nothing, just some skeletons, undead, and the skeleton general wearing the helmet just now. They look quite powerful, but they are still a little bit stronger than him."

(????-)?

Annie didn't want to scare this fat aunt, so she downplayed her own power indefinitely, but even then, she was not something that boring skeletons could reach.

"!"

"Skeleton?"

"There are still undead?!"

"terrible…"

Sure enough, the proprietress was instantly frightened by Annie's words.

She didn't doubt Anne's words, because the noble lord of the local Sarras land had led soldiers to clean up the two polluted cemeteries, but unfortunately, the monsters would appear again soon after the cleaning, plus Those monsters would not come out to move around during the day, nor would they leave the cemetery too far at night, so they simply ignored them, and didn't pay any attention to them until she heard about her daughter's accident.

However, because her daughter's accident was just an exception, and the nearby villages did not show any signs of being attacked by monsters on a large scale, so far, she has not seen the lord's intention to send troops to conquer.

"but…"

"Actually, it's useless even if you destroy them."

I was happy for a while, but after exclaiming, the proprietress quickly became depressed again.

"??"

(°-°〃)

"Why?"

く(＾_?)ゝ

Anne was a little puzzled.

"well…..."

"Isn't it because those two cemeteries were polluted?"

"It is said that there was a battlefield back then, many people died, and a necromancer used terrible necromancer magic in that place, so that kind of thing happened."

"Although you cleaned it up this time, but..."

"After a while, their horrible things will still come out. There were a lot of corpses buried in those two places back then, and even Lord Avanzer, the priest of the lord, couldn't purify them."

"I've heard that at least you need someone like the Archbishop of the Great Temple of Light to be able to do it?"

While talking, the proprietress couldn't help shaking her head and sighing.

She also knew that the lord was probably just talking about such things, and would not really go to the temple for help. After all, what a noble person the archbishop of the Great Temple of Light is, how could he come to a small village like theirs to help them solve such trivial troubles?

There are so many monsters and monsters in this world, the situation here is not bad, how can the lord take care of it?

"Let's not talk about that."

"Annie, if you can solve those troubles for us, we can at least be stable for a while, just wait, let me see if there is anything else delicious, and I'll get you here."

As she said that, the proprietress was going to find a place to wash her hands, and then she was thinking about how to prepare an exquisite snack as a thank you gift for a certain powerful little girl mage.

"oh…"

(⊙o⊙*)

"Okay, thank you Auntie!"

(*^▽^*)

Annie smiled indifferently and thanked her.

However, she did not tell the other party that of course she also saw that the two cemeteries were polluted by necromantic magic, so she simply burned the glass there, and now there is nothing left there. No more monsters!

And the helmet just now was specially left by her as a proof, otherwise, she would have burned it into molten iron and melted it into the magma pool.

but…

Although the terrifying undead monster is gone, she accidentally used too much force at the time, so that the fire element there is extremely strong now, coupled with the same abundant magical energy in this world, maybe there will be something terrible in the future It is not necessarily where the fire element life is born?

But even Annie, the fire element, is not worried at all!

After all, fire elementals generally don't like to leave that kind of magma land, just like the flame kingdom she stayed in before, those fire elementals generally don't like places where ordinary people live, if they don't undergo transformation, it's normal The room temperature is still a bit too cold for them, and as long as the villagers here don't go to such a place to die by themselves, they will definitely be fine.

(…..)

(●￣(?)￣●)

"Just wait for a while..."

"As you can see, there are a lot of people here today, I have to search hard..."

After finishing speaking, the fat proprietress went back to the cabinet behind the counter and rummaged through it, racking her brains to figure out what to do.

"Uh-huh!"

(=^▽^=)

"Then I'm going back to my room first. If it's done, Auntie, you have to bring it up quickly!"

?('?`*)

"Hmm~?"

???(?)????

After finishing speaking, Annie didn't even look at the imperial soldiers who were eating, drinking and making noise in the lobby, and went straight to one of her rooms on the second floor.

And at the same time...

In another village about half a day away from the village where the hotel was located, a certain trainee magician in a white cloak finally hurried back to their village.

"Oh no!"

"Erwin! Something big happened!"

When the trainee magician who rushed back overnight saw his new friend, he hurriedly told all about the soldiers of the Imperial Army he met on the way to study magic. .

"?!"

"More than a hundred imperial soldiers appeared here?"

"This is the Territory of Sarras. Although it's a border, it's really not good for the imperial army to appear!"

Hearing such a thing from his newly acquainted mage friend, Alvin, who had been adventuring alone with a sword for many years, couldn't help being a little shocked.

"alright."

"Hain, don't worry too much, take a rest and drink some water."

"There are more than a hundred imperial soldiers in the area. It is estimated that at most they infiltrated to spy on the intelligence. When the lord of Sarras Territory responds, they may have already run away."

"Besides, even if there is a real war, they won't be able to get here all at once. Don't worry too much. Let the village chief send someone to report to the lord tomorrow."

"Even if the imperial army does come, there will definitely be time for the villagers to evacuate."

Alvin thought it was a large army of the Imperial Army who had killed Sarras and brought them here, but after hearing that there were only a few hundred people, and all of them were lightly armed soldiers, he quickly relaxed and smiled. He comforted his friend Hai En, a mage apprentice.

"correct!"

"Have you found that powerful arcane wizard?"

"Did she teach you magic?"

While handing over a glass of water, Alvin hurriedly asked curiously.

The affairs of the Imperial Army should only be cared about by the lord of Sarras. Alvin is just a passing adventurer. He doesn't want to get involved in a war between one country and another, so, Compared with those things, he is more concerned about his friends now.

"have!"

"Taught a Pyroblast..."

"but!"

"Before I learned it, she thought I was stupid and kicked me out impatiently..."

Hearing his friend ask about the arcane mage, Hai En was stunned for a moment, and then directly turned bitter.

"ah?"

"No way?"

"Hain, you are so powerful~lightnovelpub.net~ She still despises you for being stupid?"

Alvin was a little surprised. After all, in his experience, there are really very few people like Hein who have this level of magical attainment at this age. Otherwise, he Nor will they specifically make friends with each other.

"I think…"

"Could it be that guy is not good enough, so he dare not teach you?"

"It must be like that!"

Then, Alvin punched hard, began to speculate maliciously, and tried to use words to comfort the trainee magician friend who went all the way to the next village to study but failed and returned.

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