Half-elf Ranger

"I'm very sorry, everyone, there was an accident in the tavern today and it's closed. Let's go."

The owner of the 'Little Frog' tavern looked apologetically at the several guests at the door, and explained with a slightly depressed smile.

Immediately afterwards, the rust-stained wind chimes tinkled together with the squeaking sound of the door closing, exuding a strange sound of expulsion. When the guests at the door saw this, they also turned away cursingly.

In the dimly lit tavern, the tavern owner took out a clean towel, ran diligently to the table closest to the fireplace, quickly picked up the towel to wipe off the overnight wine stains on the table, and placed the messy chairs. tidy.

Logs were then added to the fireplace, the embers in the hearth grew brighter, the dim flames rose, crackling and hissing, and the gloomy temperature rose in steps.

"Honourable Baroness, please." The tavern owner bowed his head, bent down and stretched out his fingers to the ready table and chairs, and said respectfully.

"Don't be so polite. The lord of Twin Towers Town has been changed. I'm alone now. You can call me Ms. Alvi in ​​the future."

Alvie glanced at the tavern owner who bowed her head and bowed, sighed slightly, then looked at the half-elf ranger who was standing by the counter to keep a distance from her and shrouded her body in shadow, and said with a smile, "Please, Mr. Ranger."

After he finished speaking, he noticed the corpse of the man in black with blood dripping all over the floor. He frowned and turned to the barbarian captain beside him and instructed, "Go clean up that corpse."

The barbarian captain glanced at the half-elf ranger vigilantly, hesitated for a moment, noticed the unquestionable tone of his master, so he leaned over slightly and turned around to deal with the dead body honestly.

Standing beside the counter, Thorne, who was holding the hilt of his sword, inadvertently glanced at the distance between the barbarian captain and Alvie, and roughly estimated how to deal with the worst emergency situation. Only then did he move his steps and slowly approached Alvie's direction.

After all, as a Tier 3 melee professional, Captain Barbarian can't guarantee that he will be able to avoid the opponent's instantaneous explosiveness. Although he once saved Alvie and his party, he also offended the opponent and made a fuss. scattered.

The most difficult thing for a person to guess is the heart, not to mention that the female player in front of her is still married to the original lord in order to survive. Said that she was an ignorant girl, and he wouldn't believe it if she was beaten to death.

And from the respectful attitude of the tavern owner just now, he could see something else, so Thorne didn't think it was a big mistake to be careful.

"Please." Alvey noticed Thorne walking over, smiled slightly, pointed to the opposite position, and took the lead in sitting on the chair.

Thorne glanced at the other party and found that Alvey was wearing a lavender embroidered dressing gown. The long brown hair was the same as last time, scattered on the sides, covering her white neck tightly. Her pretty face had long since returned to its original state, and she looked charming against the backdrop of the fire from the fireplace.

The last time there was a conflict and he left in a hurry, he didn't take a careful look at the other party's appearance. When he took a closer look today, Thorne was still amazed by the other party's appearance. However, this is understandable. Without a stunning appearance, how could a refugee from another world be favored by the noble lord of Twin Towers Town.

So Thorne involuntarily began to compare the other's appearance to the sorceress he knew.

Immediately, when Andrina's beautiful eyes as bright as water reappeared in his mind, the clear and dim light radiated when they looked at him, as well as the touching smile that swept across the eyes, as if they were frequently in front of him. pass.

Suddenly, in a trance, he immediately realized what the occasion was, and all the phantoms in his mind instantly vanished. At the same time, he muttered in his heart, "What happened recently, I always think of her figure."

Then, I saw the female player Alvey sitting opposite to cover her mouth and chuckle, as if silently mocking him for being obsessed with her own beauty.

A touch of embarrassment appeared on Thorne's face shrouded in the hood, and he immediately regained his composure. He pulled the chair lightly and leaned directly on it. The position of his right hand was still moved to a position where he could pull out the sharp blade at any time.

At this time, he noticed a few more magic accessories on the opponent's wrist, and his expression couldn't help but become a little dignified.

First, an antique bracelet set with pale blue diamonds on the wrist, then two rings on the fingers, one with a ruby ​​in the middle and the other with a large white pearl.

Thorne doesn't know much about mysterious knowledge. The antique bracelet on the woman's wrist in front of him has no other functions except that he can feel the flashing magic light.

The two rings on his finger can be roughly guessed. The magic rune on the huge white pearl ring is very similar to the protective ring he wears. It should be defensive magic equipment.

On the other ruby ​​ring, the runes like twisted flames, which he had seen on the sorceress Andrina's staff, were obviously more like storing some highly aggressive energy systems. spell.

"It seems that the last tragic encounter made her realize the importance of self-defense equipment, so she temporarily pieced together a few pieces of magic equipment." Thorne guessed secretly in his heart.

"Need something to drink?" Alvie noticed the silent ranger opposite, and a soft voice broke the silence.

"No." Thorne leaned on the chair and refused directly: "I have something to say."

The moment he walked out of the tavern, he met the woman in front of him who rushed over with the attendant and said that he wanted to make a deal with him.

Originally, he turned around and left after saying 'no interest', but he heard the other party say that the transaction was related to the 'deer feast' held by Mara worshipers, so he thought about it and stopped to look at the other party. What is the intention.

"Do you know where this is?" Alvie asked instead, not caring about the other party's attitude.

"Twin Towers," Thorne replied.

"Yes, this is the town of Twin Towers, and it is also the territory of Baron Stein." Alvie nodded and continued:

"You murdered for no reason in Baron Stein's territory, and you have already violated the laws here. It is reasonable to say that you will be arrested and put on death row. Don't you wonder why you can live peacefully for so long?"

"In that case, I would also like to thank you for your secret help." Thorne snorted coldly, with a hint of mockery in his tone.

"Yes, the believers of Mara belong to the chaotic evil camp, **** it. But their so-called evil deeds have not brought any harm to the town of Twin Towers. You kill them in the town for no reason, and you are nakedly challenging the twin towers. Authority of Tower Town."

Alvie explained to Thorne: "I didn't help you, it was the unintentional act of the dragonborn paladin who solved the trouble for you. What I really want to say to you is that this is not a free territory in the wilderness. It's not the town of waterfalls. Here, no matter what you do, you have to consider the consequences, you can't act on impulse, I hope you can understand. "

"If you're just teaching today, then I'm very grateful for your advice. If there's nothing else, I'll go first." Thorne's indifferent expression eased, and he turned his eyes to the direction of the door.

He naturally understands what the other party said, otherwise the few players who were not very strong a few days ago would not dare to sit in front of him and nag unscrupulously, because they thought that in the town, he would be concerned about the town. The garrison, but dare not make a move.

But for Thorne, if he wants to kill Mara's admirers, the tavern is indeed the easiest place to deal with. If it is in the wilderness, he not only needs to deal with the opponent in front of him, but also needs to be prepared for the helper that suddenly appears all the time. and if there are any pitfalls.

They are not like gnolls, ogres, kobolds and the like in the wilderness, who are often dominated by wildness, these guys are all brains.

Just like the Druid he just killed, if you let him go here, then this guy will quietly follow him out of town all the way, investigate his whereabouts clearly, and finally let his plan to fish in troubled waters shattered.

Moreover, he belongs to the power of the Temple of Merika, and it is his mission to kill Mara's believers. Even if he is arrested by the guards, he has reasons to defend.

"That's not true, I'm just reminding you." Alvie stroked her hair, saw the Ranger's relaxed look, smiled and shook his head: "Actually, I came today mainly to thank you for clearing the 'Tower of the Dead'. Threats, thus saving me from the trial of the Temple of Tyre."

After Alvey finished speaking, she got up and bowed slightly to Thorne, her long smooth brown hair pouring down, revealing a few burns on her neck that were left by Thorne's sharp blade a few days ago.

"Don't be so polite, no matter how respectful etiquette is, there is no bag of gold coins that rattles." Thorne waved his hand and said indifferently.

"So you are a bounty hunter wandering in the wilderness?" Alvie returned to her seat and asked curiously.

"The kind of visiting towns and fortresses, looking for small advertisements on the wooden stakes at the crossroads, and then accepting commissions to live freely is indeed enviable. If I have the opportunity, I will give it a try." Thorne looked stunned for a moment. , can not help but feel some regret.

"Small ad?" Alvey, who thought Thorne's words were interesting, chuckled and said, "Then I can fulfill your wish and let you act as a bounty hunter."

"You want to entrust me to kill." Thorne's expression sank, and he glanced at the surrounding environment, and found that the tavern owner had disappeared in the hall with interest, and only the barbarian captain was silently cleaning up the blood on the ground, from time to time. Look up here.

"That's right." Alvie nodded solemnly: "This person will appear in tonight's hunting ceremony."

"Is it the new lord of Twin Towers Town?" Thorne's eyelids jumped and he guessed subconsciously.

He had heard from the other party that after the lord of Twin Towers was killed by the demon, the successor was the lord's second son. As for why he was not the eldest son, it was not clear.

"In order to inherit the title, the current lord of Twin Towers colluded with Mara's believers and killed the lord's eldest son." Alvie explained to Thorne: "The price of killing the eldest son is to join Mara's church. 'Deer feast' he will definitely attend."

"If you kill him, does it mean that the entire Twin Towers Town is under your control?" Thorne immediately understood what the other party meant and asked calmly.

"How is this possible." Alvie shook her head with a smile: "Compared to facing a new lord who covets me all day, I think controlling a 5-year-old lord is the most correct choice. ."

"You are so sure that I can kill the lord of a town." Thorne said again, focusing on the magic jewelry the other party was wearing.

"The reason why the town of Twin Towers has been able to develop steadily to the present is not the lord's credit, but the regular army from Sept City guarding the periphery of the Desolate Skull Mountains. After all, no one wanted the blood blade to eat people fifty years ago. The tragedy of the Demon Tribe is happening again."

Alvie pursed her lips and smiled, "Besides, the other party is just a lord who has just taken office, and the collusion with Mara worshippers is only carried out in secret, so his personal strength is not as strong as he imagined. Few can resist the temptation to cling to the development of personal force."

"For example, yourself?" Thorne said calmly, looking at the other party.

"I'm just a weak woman, and I know that the way to live a peaceful and luxurious life is like a vine can climb higher only by attaching to a big tree. And I'm just using my own advantages. It's nothing. It's shameful, at least a hundred times better than those who survived." Alvie heard the meaning of Thorne's words, her expression fluctuated, and calmly defended.

"Then the big tree was strangled to death by the vines, and the vines almost fell to death as the big tree fell. So the vines set their sights on a few small saplings around, and planned to come to a young sapling. Tree cultivation plan, right." Thorne answered.

"You..." Alvie's full chest heaved and she glared angrily at the calm ranger: "Anyway, are you willing to accept this task, as a follower of the God of Tracking, a 'deer feast for worshipers of Mara' 'You should go. So it's just a matter of convenience for you. You get a lot of money for no reason. You have no reason to refuse."

"You tell me your ambitions so unreservedly, so you're not afraid of me going to inform?" Thorne looked at the other party's deliberately pretty face with playful eyes.

"Then I can only admit that I am unlucky and misread the wrong person. The believers of the God of Tracking actually cooperate with the believers of the God of Hunting. This is the most incredible thing I have ever seen." Alvey snorted coldly, with a tone of voice With a hint of irony.

"I can accept the task. After all, money is never too much for me." Thorne didn't care about the tone of the other party's words, but chose to nod and agree, and then asked his inner doubts: "However, for this Newly appointed lord, you seem to know too much detail."

There is a saying that Thorne is right, that is, there is never enough money. For him, he is really short of money.

The first is that it will cost a lot of money to convert his long sword to kill demons into an ancient weapon suitable for the nine swords, because this awakening ceremony requires a lot of precious materials and gems.

Just a few expensive diamonds overwhelmed him, and his short sword hadn't been replaced.

Ever since he had a fight with Storm Lord Albert and saw a war spear that could be sent and received freely in the opponent's hand, he had been planning to make a few powerful arrows with this kind of return feature, so that every time he shot the arrows All can automatically return to the quiver, without worrying about the consumption of arrows.

The premise of all this is that he needs a lot of gold coins to support, and he has no money to talk about, but now he has no stable money income, except for a few commissions, he can only rely on exploring unknown ruins.

"There's nothing to hide." Alvey said truthfully: "In the new lord's confidant, there is a player who is my admirer, and he took the initiative to inform me."

"Is it reliable?" Thorne's eyes flickered, and he couldn't help but doubt: "You are not afraid of the other party's design."

"After my secret investigation, it is absolutely reliable." Alvey nodded confidently: "Besides, even if it is false news, it will have nothing to lose to you."

"I just don't want to work in vain, so that the task is completed, but the employer is dead. I will find someone to reason with." Thorne changed the subject: "Then, how much are you going to pay to buy the head of the new lord."

"1,000 gold coins." Alvie hesitated for a while, and directly said the price in her heart.

"It turns out that the head of the new lord is so valuable, it's worth two of yours." Thorne smiled: "Is there no killer organization in Twin Towers Town?"

"In this remote town, there are some half-assed killer organizations, and it is easy to leak secrets. The murder of the nobles was investigated, and they were to be hanged. The new lord died for no reason, and it is easy to suspect me.

But if he died in the "Deer Herding Banquet" and was killed by the followers of the God of Tracking, then he deserved it. "Alvey seriously analyzed Thorne.

"You are so honest, but it makes me a little doubt whether your mind can manage the town of Twin Towers." Thorne glanced at her and said, "Bring me the information of the new lord."