Legendary Hero

At noon on the third day of the march, Luo Lin and his soldiers walked to the middle of the wetland section, and a dozen miles ahead was the mission destination, Mire Town.

Mire Town is located in the depths of the wetlands, like an isolated island overseas. She rose due to a gold mining boom, but as the gold mines were gradually mined, the town also slowly declined. In the past ten years , this small town is almost deserted, and its only function is to provide a temporary settlement for wetland adventurers.

However, her location is too remote, and not many adventurers are willing to settle here.

The wetland is very wet, with swamps and puddles from time to time, and the only passage is also full of mud, making it very difficult to walk.

'Papa, papa', the horse's hooves stomped on the ground, splashing out black muddy water. There was continuous clapping of 'pop' in the team, it was the soldiers who were driving away the annoying mosquitoes.

It is already May, Vendôme is located in the south, and today is even more sunny, and the weather is getting hotter, especially in this wetland, it is even more sultry.

"Ah~" Dai Wei suddenly called softly, Luo Lin was startled, turned his head to look, and saw a spider the size of a fist hanging down in front of Dai Wei. The color of the spider is black and red, and it has fangs. It is a black widow, a specialty of the swamp. If bitten by this thing, it will immediately develop a high fever, and even cause death in severe cases.

Luo Lin shook his hand slightly, and he had pulled out the long sword. With a flash of sword light, the black widow spider was cut in half and flew out.

"Close to me, don't go far away." Luo Lin instructed softly.

"Okay." Dai Wei replied, and drove the horse to follow Luo Lin's side as much as possible.

After walking like this for a while, she raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and couldn't help but gently scratched the red spots on her neck, cheeks, and arms. They were bitten by mosquitoes and were very itchy. She suspected that if she was bitten by this hateful mosquito when she was casting a spell, her magic power would become disordered and she would have to stop casting spells. The murdered magician.

She has not been able to take a bath for three days, and she feels sweaty, sticky and extremely uncomfortable. If she had just left Vendôme, she would never have been able to bear it, but during the few days of marching, she has also adapted to this difficult life a little bit. Although it is extremely uncomfortable, at least she can hold herself back from screaming.

While walking, Luo Lin who was beside him suddenly stretched out his hand, and she soon found that he was holding a ball of white flower mud in his hand.

"Silver star flower, the first batch of flowers to bloom this year, it relieves itching and calms the mind, take it and rub it on the neck and hands." Luo Lin said softly. This is what he specially ordered the scouts to collect.

Dai Wei nodded, took it and tried it, and immediately felt a cooling sensation from the itchy and painful red spot, and immediately felt refreshed, and her whole body felt much more transparent and comfortable.

"Thanks."

"Hehe~" Luo Lin smiled lightly at her, then turned to continue listening to the scout's report.

"Sir, there is a gentle slope ahead, and the terrain starts to rise continuously, and the ground will become drier and drier. About five miles further on, you will arrive at Miwei Town."

"How's the situation in town?"

A trace of doubt appeared on the scout's face, and he shook his head and said, "It's strange, no one saw it, many houses were dilapidated and collapsed, and looked like ruins from a distance, the whole town seemed to be completely deserted."

"No one?" Luo Lin was a little surprised, and asked again: "What about the situation around the town?"

"We circled around and there were weeds everywhere, and we didn't see any traces of people living there."

Luo Lin nodded: "Oh, I see, you go drink some water first and rest."

Judging from this, the town has been deserted, and it is very likely that the Destruction Sect retreated early after knowing that the news had been leaked. But that's just one possibility, and it's also possible that these sects deliberately made the town look deserted so that no one would notice, while they lived in secret.

In any case, they have already come here, and they have to go and see for themselves.

"Speed ​​up and move on." Luo Lin ordered loudly.

Urged by the riders, the horse began to trot. In less than twenty minutes, they walked the last five miles and arrived at the outskirts of Mire Town.

The scene seen here is just like what the scouts said, dilapidated, depressed, and declining.

The streets of the town paved with black slag are covered with green weeds, the walls of the wooden houses on the side of the road are black in color, covered with honeycomb-like wormholes, and moss grows in the damp and dark corners. There is a big windmill mill, and the blades of the windmill have been damaged and are covered with green vines.

All signs indicate that this town has been deserted for at least half a year.

"Sir, look!" A scout suddenly shouted, and he pointed to the grass on the side of the road ahead.

Luo Lin looked over and saw a rotting corpse lying quietly in a patch of weeds, with a large number of flies buzzing around the corpse.

Without Luo Lin's orders, the scouts had already rushed over to check. Several people looked through it, and then the scout leader came back to report.

"Sir, judging by his clothes, he should be a passing adventurer. Judging from the degree of decay, he should have been dead for less than a week. There are many wounds on his body, the fatal wound is on his back. Judging from the appearance of the wound, it should be with a dagger It was poked out. He should have been attacked here."

One week? Sneak attack? Luo Lin narrowed his eyes, he smelled something unusual.

After thinking for a while, he issued an order: "Listen to my order, a group of ten, and explore the town separately!"

"Yes, sir."

The soldiers dispersed and began to search for unusual clues in the town. Luo Lin also got off his horse and walked over to the corpse to look at it.

The scout captain was still examining the corpse. He looked through it very carefully, hoping to find more clues.

"Stop!" When the captain of the scout opened the pocket of the corpse, Luo Lin called to stop him, then knelt down and looked carefully.

The pocket looks clean, but if you look closely at the bottom of the pocket, there is some white powder left. Luo Lin dipped some powder in his hand, and looked carefully. These are some crystals, highly transparent, and each one has the same color. Sloping quadrilateral, sunlight penetrates these small crystals and is easily divided into various colors, showing the high refractive index of this crystal.

"It's the fragments of the magic crystal." Dai Wei's voice sounded, and she also came over, recognizing it at a glance. She is a magician and often deals with spell crystals.

Luo Lin's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

"Sir, this adventurer should have been a thief during his lifetime." The captain of the scout also made a new discovery: "Look here, there is a small mark between the fingers, which is a pattern of a butterfly knife. There are many small thieves who like Mark their members at this spot. And look at his fingers, there are calluses on the middle of the index and middle fingers, thieves like to hold their blades between them to cut open the pockets of their targets."

So Luo Lin came to a preliminary conclusion: "In other words, it is very likely that this thief accidentally discovered some secrets here. He came to steal these expensive spell crystals, and was discovered by some people, and was finally attacked to death."

In fact, there is another possibility, that is, the thief stole the magic crystal from somewhere and traded it here, and then the crystal was robbed and the person was killed.

But this possibility is relatively small, because Mire Town, as a hidden meeting point of the Destruction Sect, cannot be used as a semi-public trading place. The people of those sects are very cunning and would not do such stupid things.

Dai Wei also noticed it. She pointed to the wound on the thief's back and said, "Look, Luo Lin, the degree of rot around the wound is extremely high, but there is no pus. This strange rot can only be the result of the erosion of shadow magic power .”

Indeed, Luo Lin nodded, stood up and said: "I am sure that there are terrible dark secrets hidden in this small town. We must find and eliminate them."

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Outside Mire Town, the dwarf Saledo turned out from behind a big tree, looked at the army in the town in the distance, and sneered.

"A bunch of fresh and strong souls, isn't it, Ertu?"

A voice came from behind the big tree. A tall and strong alien from another world was sitting there. He said in a muffled voice, "I don't mind killing them all now!"

"No, no, no, they are on full alert now. It is too dangerous for you to rush out. We will sneak attack at night."

"Danger? Ha, danger?" Ertu's voice raised involuntarily, as if he had heard something extremely ridiculous: "A group of bugs gathered together, and you told me that this group of bugs is dangerous. This is really the worst thing I've ever heard. Ridiculous joke. Shorty, you're making me laugh."

The dwarf was not angry, he insisted: "You just listen to me, Ertu, you can't be wrong."

"Well, you are the master who gives orders, we signed the contract, oh, that damn contract, I can only listen to you, a dwarf." Ertu muttered dissatisfiedly, his strong body moved, Boringly waved the giant sword in his hand.

At this time, a lizard came out of the bushes and looked at Ertu in awe. The latter glared at the lizard, then stuck out his tongue and licked his lips. The lizard man was his fellow villager. In their world, his favorite food is the lizardman's tail, which is fluffy and crispy... oh, that's really delicious.

The lizardman shivered, then stepped forward and reported to Saledo in a low voice: "Master, that human is about to be tormented to death by us."

"Then did he give in?"

"No...no, but he can't continue to toss, his body is almost broken."

This news made the dwarf very unhappy. He waved to Ertu who was on the side. Ertu's eyes lit up, and he rushed up immediately, pulled off the lizard's tail, stuffed it into his mouth and began to chew.

The lizardman was in pain, but he didn't dare to move, waiting for the master's next order.

"Let him slow down, and then continue when he recovers." Saledo said. He didn't expect that the noble young master would be such a tough guy, this is really not a pleasant thing.

Ertu looked at it and laughed: "Haha~~ dwarf, when you also made a mistake, if you knew this earlier, wouldn't it be better if I cut him to death with a sword?"

The dwarf didn't speak, he looked at the small town in the distance, thinking about how to get rid of these troublesome bugs.