"..." Everyone tried to hold back their laughter, but it was really, really hard work.
Anita, laughing unrestredly, picked up the red long sword on the ground and threw it to Gasiah, then turned nimly and sat back beside LAN, and then everyone noticed the red-haired boy again, who seemed to have deflated the Tautaman's great axe just now.
"Have you had a hard time?" Seeing Garcia leaning back in his chair with a dejection look on his face, LAN smiled gently, "We are adventurers now. You don't need to cling to chivalry. You might as well experience things like taking advantage of others' misfortune. And this sword, as a bet, as a bet. If you lose, I'll make another one for you. Why hold on to it?"
"..." Gasiah lowered her head in silence, her disheveled hair covering her face, making it impossible to see her expression. Why would his actions seem so insignificant in LAN's eyes? He thought painfully and even had the thought of leaving.
"Even if I need someone to protect me, it's LAN's responsibility. Aren't you acting as if your brother doesn't exist?" "I know you can't bear to part with that sword, but isn't it too sly to say nothing yourself and ask someone else to confess? "!"
"I..." Garcia was somewhat at a loss.
"What you are!" Who cares to hear you say it! I knew it long ago!" Anita Talia, contrary to her gentle image, almost shouted.
After hearing LAN's almost absurd remarks, the four words "I already knew" at this moment were so contrary that Gasiah couldn't react for a moment, "I already know..." ?" All you know, why can you still walk with him so calmly? Aren't they believers of the God of Light? Gasiah suddenly felt confused, as if the whole world had suddenly changed.
Anita, satisfied with Garcia's reaction at the moment, laughed like a little cat that had stolen the fishy smell, twisted her slender waist and leaned against LAN. LAN's long, pretty fingers streaked across her long golden hair and held her in her arms. The mischievous hand of the girl tousled Garcia's blonde hair, "You're a big fool!"
There was something else Garcia wanted to say but was interrupted by a sudden voice, "Excuse me, do you have any intention of joining the adventure team?" The dark elf in front of him was the Night Wanderer's boss, and now he had put down the dagger in his hand.
"All right! "Good!" Before LAN and Gasiah could speak, Anita had already agreed directly.
The other side clearly did not expect it to be this seemingly underage girl, whose strength was obvious to all, but such an answer would be too hasty... "What do the other two mean?" This is a chance for them to change their minds. "The tasks offered by the Night wanderers basically require strength at level 15 or above." Add more details.
Gasiah's solicited gaze turned to LAN.
Is it the red-haired teenager who makes the decisions? The dark elf thought to himself: This girl is at least a level twenty-five warrior, and it shouldn't be wrong to be at the same level as himself; The blond boy beside him is only level 14, but not far from level 15, as can be seen from his ability to defeat the wolf-orc, and his ability to unload force is a bit poor, but it will get better with more practice. But the red-haired guy looks so weak... So young, it's unlikely to be a god-level master.
"Just listen to Anne." "LAN replied with a smile, not even thinking, completely ignoring Garcia's request.
"Well, once again, I am the boss of the Night wanderers, Shafinas, and the captain of the Night Dancer Adventure team, and this time I have invited you to join us because we have taken on a mission that is not suitable for aliens to complete, and your strength is obvious to all."
"You mean to say that my strength is obvious to all!" Anne suddenly smiled and said, a smile that seemed sweet, but the words that came out made the dark elves in front of him wish they could find a hole to hide in. "This big fool has lost. There are a lot of fourteenth-level warriors here. This one didn't even make a move. I wonder how you see his strength?"
"..." There was a deathly silence all around, and they were eager to know how Shafinas would respond.
Gasiah's gaze fell on LAN, and if I remember correctly, it seemed to be his tone.
Following Garcia's inquiring gaze, LAN looked somewhat helpless. This was supposed to be his way of dealing with Osireena and Emilia, to put it bluntly, to pretend to be stupid. Who would have thought that Emilia had actually imitated all his previous words to Emilia, the girl was curious about the world, and as a result, regardless of whether it was good or bad, she imitated them all.
"Those who can be companions with you will have some strengths, not necessarily strength, will they?" "Other strengths are hard to predict, such as poetry, painting, laundry, and cooking," said Shafinas, a bit far-fetched.
Anita Talia wanted to say something more, but LAN stopped her.
"That's because Your Excellency looks up to us, but I have a little request too." "If it's not a necessary task, we can refuse, and we reserve the right to withdraw at any time," LAN said.
"No problem." Shafinas readily agreed.
"Well, let me introduce myself first," LAN smiled slightly, "this is my oath Knight Gasiah, a fourteenth-level warrior, I'm sure you know him very well. This little beauty who has just won is called Anita, and she is my sister. My name is LAN."
"Just call me Xia Fei. LAN? It doesn't look like the name of a continent, rather like the name of an ice wheel." Schaffinas was puzzled that no one would give such a name...
"My elder brother who raised me is an Ice Wheel Man." LAN explained, though his name did not come from the habits of the ice wheel.
"So that's it. So let's talk about the tasks we want to assign to you next." "Beludandi has been in a bad situation recently," Shafinas steered the conversation to the point.
"Do you mean the theft of the 'key'?" LAN immediately thought of the previous theft of the artifact. Of course, these words were not suitable for public discussion. Most people might know about the artifact, but they wouldn't know that the lost artifact was the key to opening the path to another world.
It seems that you are also an insider. Shafinus nodded. "Let's talk somewhere else."
The three of them turned into the secret room behind the tavern with the dark elves, and Shaphinus cast another sound insulation spell before he began to tell the whole story.
The Sword of Judgment and the Ring of Judgment were stolen by the Dark race. To put it more clearly, they were stolen by the demons. The Hells Gatekeeper they had encountered before was a demon, the lowest of the high demons. Even so, the Hells Three-headed dog he raised was equivalent to a twenty-fifth level warrior. So it is unknown what kind of power the master has.
"The demons wanted to return to the ground with the power of the 'key', but they lost the 'Alex Heart'." Shafinas said this with a hint of relief, "Coincidentally, after the 'Alex Heart' was freed from the body, it was unsealed and turned into a transparent... The crystal ball, for some reason, is now in the hands of a student of astrology at Kotter Academy."
It's really a dramatic twist.
"Although we are all dark races, neither we Dark Elves nor the Abyssal dwarves would want to see them return to this plane," Shafinus paused for a moment, "To put it simply, their appearance will threaten our position. The undead are terrifying, but they can still fight when united, but the demons are opposed to the gods, with extremely high ranks and large numbers. Without the intervention of the gods, our chances of winning are very slim. Not to mention that the demons and the undead have always been good, and this time they really got the 'key'... I'm afraid that even if the gods come out, they won't be defeated, unless the king of the gods... It's a pity that the king of gods governs too many planes. I'm afraid he can't take care of our little star at all..."
"Then we... ?"
Looking up at the blond boy who spoke, "I need you to infiltrate Kotter Academy and find a way to get the 'Alex Heart'. I'll arrange your identity and transfer for you. Of course, it's not our adventure team, several teams assigned by each race, the key point is that you can't steal or rob, that will surely cause unrest in the academy. "Cause chaos."
"That is to say, we have to get the 'Alex Heart' through an open and honest relationship?" Although it was a question, there was no doubt in LAN's tone. "I would like to ask, what exactly is the current holder of it?"
"The only son of the court's first astrologer, Alex. Magger." "Though I'm not old, I can already see through a person's mind," Shafinus said with a wry smile.
LAN nodded, "then please complete all the formalities for us before the start of the school term. As for the target's information, nothing is needed except appearance."
Some strange LAN's request, as usual, for such a task, the more detailed the other party should be known, Shafinas even began to doubt whether joining them was the right decision, but for the alien race, the strength of a level 25 warrior was indispensable, and... Anita is pretty, too...
LAN looked penously at Anita, as if he had thought of the same thing as Shafinus, but he shook his head in the end. Although the beauty trick was a good strategy, it was questionable whether it could succeed for a star mage who demanded to be open-minded, let alone this Arius. Mageger should have achieved quite a lot.
Gasiah didn't quite understand why everyone's eyes were focused on Anne. He wasn't good at such things as scheming.
"Have you got a plan?" Shafinas looked at LAN, and he couldn't see what LAN was capable of, but could only hope in his mind, and everything had a plan, not necessarily detailed, but unfortunately LAN was a laid-back person.
"None." LAN didn't feel embarrassed at all. "Since the other person is going to be an astrologer, it doesn't matter at all whether there is a plan or not." But that's not what LAN thought in his heart. Plans always lag behind changes. If that's the case, then what's the point of planning... Even so, compared to the lazy man who never makes plans, LAN is a much higher level. Although he doesn't have the ability to make plans, he can come up with dozens of plans whenever needed in the process of achieving his goal.
Shafinas almost slapped his face. "Since there's no plan, then listen to my plan."
Anita, needless to say, had been huddled up beside LAN since she came in, not paying any attention to what they were saying; Gasiah was listening attentively, but for a knight lacking in mind, he couldn't understand the meaning of their conversation at all and was not at all off the tongue. LAN, the man who made the decision completely, lacked the importance of the task.
"Sneak into Kotter Academy," this is the opening line, a complete nonsense, "Anne is in charge of getting close to Shaphinus, and there will surely be many more foreigners coming close to him, but don't worry, these foreigners won't be too old, the class of teachers doesn't need you to be in charge, I'll assign someone to manage..."
"Veto." Before Shafinus could finish speaking, LAN made a statement, "First, Anne will not leave me. Second, although I have confidence in Anne's appearance, I also have confidence in this Alex. Magger is also confident in his composure, third, an astrologer who can grasp insight, do you think he will not understand this so-called plan?
LAN's rebuttal was all right, and Shafinas immediately breathed his breath, but was also somewhat pleased, after all, he had not made a mistake. This young man was indeed quite intelligent.
But LAN's intelligence is more than just "a little"? !
"Since I've agreed to this matter, I will definitely bring it back and get close to Alex. It might be difficult for Magger, but it would be much easier if the things weren't in his hands, wouldn't it? The reason why there is no such thing as unscrupulous means is that no one wants to expose something in their own hands." LAN said with a smile.
Insidious! Absolutely sinister! Shafinus roared in his heart.
"Besides, though the intelligence says it's in Alex. But no one has studied it carefully, and who can be sure that what he has is genuine?" LAN's hint was already very obvious.
"You mean..." Shafinas had an answer in his mind, and he had to admit that the young man was indeed much better than he had imagined.
"Make a fake and let the wind slip away a little more." LAN gave the answer, "The only thing we'll have to deal with next is the power of the demons. If we can get rid of it smoothly, do you think anyone else will be able to contend with us... "?"