Love And Fate

Lie

Is it good luck or bad luck? Asa thought as he sipped his broth.

The meat was good meat. The meat was dried with high-quality beef and hammered into a compact meat floss. The meat of a cow could be packed in a small bag.When eaten boiled up in water, it is reduced to delicious beef. This was the usual dry food for the noble warriors on their expeditions.

The soup was good soup. Even the river water in the lizard swamp, under the effect of the purification charm is as clear and sweet as the purest mountain spring, used to cook a pot of beef soup, plus salt, even the city's chefs can not pick anything wrong. It feels like this purification charm is really worth a silver coin.

Eating such good meat and drinking such good soup will lift the spirits of even the most moribund people. Asa knows his health very well, one more night of good rest and he can put down a bull with his empty hand.

The campfire is stacked with many large logs, stacked well with a mixture of dry and wet wood of solid and fine texture, which is guaranteed to burn until the next day. The heat of the campfire will cover the human body temperature, the bipedal flying dragon can not detect, no longer in the cold tree caves and holes in the ground to hide, and other beasts and poisonous insects do not dare to approach. In such a campfire next to sufficient peacefully sleep, physical strength will definitely be fully recovered.

Even if you can put down five cows with your bare hands, Asa is still not sure to fight head-on with the hunters.

"You're really good. It's the first time I've seen someone dare to navigate through a lizard swamp with just a weapon." The girl who claimed to be an apothecary showed an admiring look.

Asa didn't feel worthy of admiration in the slightest. He had surprisingly missed the fact that the leech was still bleeding after shedding its skin, and just a few drops of blood had almost attracted all the predatory fish in the entire swamp waters. So he had to go on the bank and push a dead tree that had been vaulted over by a brute into the river and stand on it to float down the water to avoid the countless mouths below that were looking forward to his descent. But when several large crocodiles joined the ranks, he had to wretchedly go to shore. The time was already dusk, and he was about to find a place to hide when he saw the light of the fire, and then he met this kind of completely unexpected to meet.

The girl is probably about the same age as Asa, although dressed as an explorer, carrying a large package, all wrapped in a dirty blanket, but the white and delicate skin shows that it is not a civilian identity. Carrying with her the kind of efficient dry food, and the price of a water purification charm is enough for a family of commoners to live comfortably for a month, this girl is probably noble.

"Originally, I thought it was remarkable that I could explore the swamps alone to pick medicine. The terrain and climate are unique, and many plants only grow here, so although my father has always disapproved, I snuck in on my own." The girl spoke like a heartless child, speaking as she pleased. It was probably because she hadn't seen her own kind in a long time, and in such a treacherous environment, so the girl was not the least bit wary of him.

The sword at her waist was an Anka thin sword, thin and long, hard and tough, light and dexterous, mainly for stabbing. Asa recognized it, that was always displayed in the most prominent place in his father's store for customers to tsk at the sword and the price tag below.

The sword was at a good angle around her waist and precise enough to enable her to draw it as quickly as possible. The hilt was wrapped very tightly with thin twine, a wrap used only by experienced soldiers to keep the hilt from slipping when it was soaked in blood. Although the color of the twine is still not soaked in blood, but from the numerous grip marks left by the grip swing, this sword will not just for people to make a slurping sound with.

But even if she was added in, it would not be enough to deal with hunter. The most important thing in life and death combat is not skillful kung fu, but spirit and fighting spirit. Even if you are well-trained from childhood, you have never heard the cracking sound of an axe splitting into human bones, never heard the wails of people who have been cut in two, but have not died for a while, never felt the sharp pain of the enemy's weapon running through their own muscles, tearing the flesh, and that is only a half-key after all. When faced with the threat of death, feel the kind of pain that can immediately drown the sanity, are afraid, cower, and thus lose the ability to fight.

If only there was another magician or priest, even if it was only the most basic blessing, a few of the simplest fireballs ......

Asa found himself so comfortable by the sudden arrival of the broth and campfire that he forgot a little. It has been almost unbelievable luck to be able to meet humans in the middle of this dense forest swamp for hundreds of miles, and comfortably drink broth around the campfire to replenish their strength.

Chew a piece of the girl gave the adventurer cookie, with broth sent down the belly, feel the warmth of this luck of the campfire, Asa satisfied and helpless sigh.

The pursuer should be in a tree hole at this time to peer at the fire here. Even he, in the bipedal flying dragon still in the night sky hooting for food when it had to hide. But as soon as the dawn appears in the east, after the bipedal dragon back to the nest, he will spare no effort to follow the instructions of this luck to dash towards here at an alarming speed.

Whether it is good luck or bad luck, since it has already happened, it is necessary, and only, to try to develop things towards where it is hoped to go.

"How far is this place from the Dorno River?" Asa asked.

The Dorno River just began to pass through the lizard swamp section of the water is so swift that even the fish can not swim back, Asa is there was forced to shore into the lizard swamp. But the river is gentle after bypassing the lizard swamp, just float downstream for a day to the western town of Bracada in the Empire.

"It's not very clear, but it's not far, maybe a day or two of walking up."

After half a day of running with all his strength, he could reach it.No, although it is much closer than expected, but without the exact distance there is no exact certainty. He was sure that the hunter could catch up with him in half a day. The chance of escaping directly was too small.

It is better to tell the girl the truth and ask her to deal with the hunter together with himself. Although the chance of winning is not very good, but with the wait for the other way, it is much better than the other way. Asa mentally mulled over how to phrase it.

"At the risk of asking, would you mind accompanying me for a moment? I plan to go deeper into the swamp tomorrow to look for new herbs, and it's the first time I've been this deep into the swamp." The girl suddenly asked, "Sure, I'll pay you." She brushed a few strands of black hair that had fallen out with her hand, dark hair pressed against her thin lips, which pursed up into a slightly constricted curve. Her heels rubbed gently against each other. These were rather large feet for a girl, about the same size as Asa's, and wearing a pair of leather shoes commonly used by adventurers like Asa's.

Asa suddenly found a way to escape. It was a very efficient and opportune way. There was no need to set up any more traps, nor to set up any illusions, no need to exert physical strength, and no need to waste precious time, just take advantage of just now, a little while next to this campfire, so that the pursuer can waste considerable time and physical strength.

This discovery made his heart beat violently and violently.

"Is it okay?" The girl blinked, her eyes were not large, her eyelashes were long, the corners of her eyes hung down a bit, probably even when she was angry there was a kind of hazy smile running through them.

The campfire was bright, the eyes were dark, and the firelight reflected from it looked soft and warm, but Asa did not dare to look directly at it. He averted his gaze, took a deep breath, and tried to sound as natural as possible. "I'm sorry, no, I have something very important and urgent to do."

"Oh, yeah?" The girl didn't know how to conceal the disappointment in her tone and expression.

"About half a day's walk west from here, there are several herbs unique to this swamp that grow and probably have unique healing properties." Asa felt his face twist, his voice go off, and the meaning of his words slurred. This was the first time he had told an extremely malicious lie to a very friendly person. And it was to a girl.

"Probably? What do you mean?"

"Um... Hey ..... I saw a barbarian bull, no, two barbarian bulls ..... It was the brute fighting with each other, and one of them had a wounded hind leg, hey .... No, it seems to be the front legs ..... No... It seems to be .... Anyway, in short, it was bitten, badly injured. It was lying on the ground dying. Then it went to eat several kinds of grasses, put on their wounded place, and then after a while it was healed." In the heat of the moment, Asa from the old adventurer when young to hear a dog fighting story copied, the meaning is not very through, the words are still more and more fluent.

"Oh? Really? You tell me what kind of grass?" The girl's eyes widened and her gaze made Asa feel as if he had seen the crossbow arrow that came streaking in five nights ago, and almost made a dodging motion of bending down and flipping forward. The girl nimbly fished out the paper and pencil from her backpack.

"It's the pale yellow flowers ......." Asa mixed the characteristics of several wild herbs stirred up a nonsense. The girl wrote it down carefully.

"If you're going to go deeper into the swamp again, make sure you grind up two herbs, water mint and pyrethrum, and apply them to your clothes and skin. Even if you have insect repellent oil must also be applied, because there are several poisonous insects inside only afraid of the smell of these two grasses." Asa said to the girl in a very solemn voice.

"Just these two grasses? There are everywhere, this is not?" The girl casually found it from around the campfire.

Of course, these two herbs do have the effect of repelling insects, since entering the swamp Asa has been coated with, only these two herbs are by no means as effective as the Adventurers Guild's special repellent oil. The first thing Asa did when he woke up at dawn in the cave was to pick out the poisonous insects like centipedes that were sometimes still in his hair in his armpits and pants with as little movement as possible.

Of course, there is nothing deeper in the swamp that is only afraid of these two herbs of poisonous insects.

It seems that no matter what skills are exercised. Even the most difficult and contrary to human nature as soon as more practice, you will get used to it, and then skilled, and even immersed in it. With the previous opportunity to rehearse, Asa uttered the most vicious part of this extremely malicious lie when the phrase has been very smooth, and the voice is smooth, just keep afraid to look at the glowing eyes. He used the action of picking the campfire with a tree branch to hide his sight.

"Thank you really. If I find these herbs and understand the medicinal properties, it will be enough to embarrass those old guys in the Potioneering Institute."The girl was a little excited. She probably felt that the two of them were already friends, and even spoke to him amiably."I've long known that the world is so big. There will definitely be medicines that haven't been discovered yet.But those old guys always knew to chew on the books of the people before them."

There was nothing to feel guilty about.Even if I didn't tell her, it wouldn't be a good outcome for her if I were to send myself to my death alone.Once the pursuers found any traces of other humans in the swamp, pursuers would never let them go.

There was nothing to feel guilty about. Even if I didn't tell her, my own very manly and solitary death would not have turned out well for her. Hunters will never let go of any other human traces once they are found in the swamp.

Even if the two fight together, or more than likely to send death just, and maybe she will also get in the way, or even not help at all. This method just makes her death more meaningful just to get more chances of escape. Asa searched his mind for any reason to make his sinister trap righteous.

"Once my results are recognized, not to mention the Potions Institute, even the Academy of Magic will pay attention to me, and maybe the Lord Bishop will even personally ask me about these new herbs." Because of the excitement, the girl's round face flushed with two red clouds. Pointing to a tree next to her, she said, "Look, it's this tree, and it's one of my discoveries. There was never anything written in the book, but I knew by asking around to many retired adventurers that it was common inside the swamp. And I also found out that its sap is very irritating and toxic, if a person or animal's eyes are splashed ......"

Your life is actually exchanged for the death of countless other other lives, so never give up every shred of hope of staying alive.

The main trunk of the tree had many small roots twisted around it, very straight and thin, much like the pen used by the old adventurer behind the village. Thus Asa suddenly remembered that he once said a very deep-sounding words, this sentence undoubtedly just the plot to a philosophical depth. Asa felt he could already be at peace with himself. But a sudden wave of disgust swarmed over him, making him feel a million times more fatigued.