354. Being Tracked
The world changes every day.
No one knows what is happening in the world. With the exception of a very fortunate few people or parties, no one knows what every change in this world means.
Therefore, naturally no one would know that just two months ago, an elven tribe located on the border of the Silver Moon Forest Empire was destroyed. Similarly, no one knew that a few days ago, an extremely bright silver meteor fell on the Northern Continent. Naturally, no one will know what forces like Fort Solomon and the Great Floating Library that have disappeared from the world for thousands or even tens of thousands of years are tossing.
Ever since Count Hecarrom signed a magical contract and became Emily's magical pet...... No, it was the Enchanted Entourage, and Sean and Emily only stayed at Black Iron Castle for two days before returning to the town of Donma. Because they have received news that the temple group from the Grand Sanctuary of Mars has officially entered the county of Hecalom, and will arrive in the town of Donma in ten days at most.
This means that time is running out for Sean and Emily.
"You're really not going with me to the Grand Sanctuary of Marz?" Emily looked at Sean, who was about to leave, with a pleading expression on her face.
"Nope." Sean replied, "In the past two days, I have taught you everything that needs to be taught to you, so you must master these skills before the people of the church group arrive." ”
"However, without your guidance, I'm afraid I won't be able to learn." Emily looks like a frightened fawn, which is really pitiful.
"If you can't learn, you have to learn." Sean said in a deep voice, "Because if you don't have a good grasp of it." Then you will most likely be found to be a deceitful, and what awaits you at that time is death. ”
"What about you?" Emily asked.
"I'm going to the Northern Lonely Tower to do something." Sean didn't have much to hide. He said, "We'll see you at the Grand Church of Martz." I'll go find you. …… The reason why the people of the church are coming so quickly is to make sure that you are safe, and when you meet you, your journey will start to slow down, but I estimate that two or three months should be enough time for you to reach the Grand Chapel of Marz, and I hope you can delay it. ”
"Procrastinating?" Emily was stunned for a moment, "Why?" ”
"I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it before you arrive at the Grand Church of Marz, so you'd better delay it for four months." Sean said, "I'll be there in four months." Whether it succeeds or not, I will definitely show up, you can rest assured. ”
"Okay." Emily nodded helplessly.
She kind of knew that her beauty really didn't have any temptation for Sean, and no matter what kind of disguise she made, it was fruitless. At this time, Sean must leave, she actually knew that most of it was related to the task of awakening her bloodline, but she still felt a little scared. It's not just because Sean can make her feel safe, many times, Sean's existence is like a guarantee for her. Dependence and security as if your parents were around.
"Pay attention to yourself." Sean thought about it, but still spoke.
For Emily, after all, it can be regarded as his first personal investment product, so Sean doesn't want this investment to fail. Because he's already put a lot of effort into it. He also helped Emily solve a lot of troubles, and if she failed at this point, Sean would really be so depressed that she vomited blood. If it weren't for the fact that the soul contract hadn't been completely stabilized by now. Sean doesn't actually want to leave, at least he needs to see Emily really get on her feet before leaving.
It's a pity. Because of the soul contract, Emily did not awaken the bloodline for a day. Sean can't really control him.
And Emily also knows a lot of his secrets, such as stealing divinity and being able to perform divine punishment, once it is revealed, what awaits him is a series of hunts. And it's not a one-sided pursuit by the God of War Church, I'm afraid that even the goddess of ice and snow and winter may not be able to protect him, let alone the Church of Life, for the Church of Life, Heatley is simply a piece of chicken.
But in Sean's eyes, this piece of chicken ribs is a huge treasure.
After reminding Emily of what she needed to pay attention to, Sean didn't stop any longer, and left the town of Donma and continued north.
Now his strength is still only maintained at the level of the upper bronze, which makes Sean a little unhappy, because the level of strength realm is too low, and it is very inconvenient to do things many times. Even if he does have the strength that is not weaker than the upper silver now, he can only exert his powerful combat power for a few minutes after activating all the hole cards as before, and if he encounters too strong opponents, Sean will become very dangerous.
After leaving the town of Donma, Sean did not go to Luofu City, and his instincts told him that this direction was somewhat dangerous, but he himself did not know why.
However, Sean decided to follow his instincts, so he chose to go east, intending to cross the Garuma grasslands into the Duchy of Northern Lens. Anyway, the location of the Northern Lonely Tower will not move, and it does not mean that he has to arrive as much as possible to find someone, even if it is a little later, so he will tell Emily to let him drag it for as long as four months, because taking the route of the Duchy of Northern Lens will take a week longer than normal, and the round trip may be more than ten days.
After all, the magic array teleportation also needs to rest.
Sean has always been a person who acts simply, so after making a decision, he didn't hesitate at all and set off directly.
Anyway, he only has one person, and as for the other reserve materials, he can put them in the storage ring, so the speed of light action is very fast. And ordinary people see that Sean only has the strength of the Bronze Realm, and he doesn't carry any materials on his body, even if the security of the Northern Duchy Federation is chaotic, no one will come to him for trouble, of course, even if someone really comes to him for trouble, usually the strength will not be strong.
It's just that Sean was leaving the small town of Donma. He still felt a slight strangeness in his heart.
It's as if it's being watched and watched. It's just that because it's too far away, Sean can't feel too real. It's just that. He has always been a very cautious person, so when he noticed this abnormality, Sean immediately became vigilant. Only this time, Sean noticed that the situation seemed to have become very delicate, because there seemed to be something extraordinarily powerful in this attention.
Along the way, Sean pretended not to notice anything unusual, and continued to drive at an unhurried pace, only stopping to let the horses rest when he passed a stream halfway through. At the same time, he also took out the bag of dry food from the saddle.
The dry food bag is actually just a prop used by Sean to cover up, and it is not actually dry food, but some straw, mainly to make the dry food bag look slightly bulging, so that Sean can take out dry food from the storage ring. He didn't want people to know that he had a storage ring, because it was not a good thing for a person from the Bronze Realm to have such a high-grade item, and it would easily cause some people to think about it, and then it would cause a steady stream of trouble.
So the necessary camouflage. For Sean, who is already very accustomed to walking in this world, nature is a must.
The horse is not a precious breed either, it is just a very ordinary bantam horse, except for the good leg strength. I don't have any special skills. And the horse itself is also a little old, although it is an old horse who knows the way, many businessmen like to use the old horse to pull the luck. Adventurers and mercenaries also like to raise horses. But in terms of price, it is not as valuable as a young and strong horse, but for the Confederation of the Northern Duchy, which is in a state of battle all year round. The bantam also cost Sean a dozen gold coins.
In the Duchy of the Void, bantams like this. At most, it is only worth ten gold coins, and this is still the case that Sean is in a hurry to buy, if he is willing to give up his face to negotiate, usually six or seven gold coins can be done. After all, this kind of horse is not as good as a war horse, and the domestication cost and cost of war horses are extremely large, and generally adult horses are bought and sold, even if they are a large transaction, they will not be less than three hundred gold coins on each horse, which is still inferior to some war horses.
Like the war horses purchased by the Knights, that is the real big expense.
In the early years, before the establishment of the Void Duchy, before the Southern Battlefield began, the largest military expenditure came from Reina's First Cavalry Regiment.
Sean washed the bantam a little, then fed some soybeans to quickly replenish the horse's body, and then continued on the road.
The sense of surveillance that Sean brought to him did not subside, but became more intense, which made Sean not dare to stay here for too long. Because the current environment is not very suitable for fighting, the combat environment that Sean needs now must be that kind of obstacle with more obstacles, so that he can exert his maximum strength - when the strength is enough to despise a qiē, the strong often do not consider the advantages and disadvantages of the surrounding environment for themselves.
But Sean now only has the strength of the upper bronze, so he has to take advantage of these circumstances. However, if the opponent is a strong person above the upper gold, Sean feels that he still has to wash and sleep, because this gap is too big, and both the soul and the requiem are now sealed, and Sean probably doesn't even have the ability to escape.
Soon, it was getting dark.
Sean looked around for a moment, and finally chose a place to rest for the night.
It was near the edge of the woodland, and the surrounding trees were sparse and not very lush. At least compared to the Dunma Forest, this forest is completely incapable of becoming a forest, and even a forest is quite reluctant. However, Sean likes this place because it is relatively dark, and with his good fighting skills, the environment of this forest is indeed very good.
Without much hesitation, after Sean tied the horse rope to a tree, Sean began to walk into the forest.
He picked up the firewood on the ground as he gradually went deeper.
Whether it is an adventurer, a mercenary, or anything else, as long as they rest in the wilderness, they will allocate people to collect firewood and then build a bonfire, which is already a common sense of behavior. Because the bonfire can not only keep warm, but also can be used to drive away wild beasts, although the monsters are not afraid of the bonfire, especially when they see the fire, they will come closer, but if the difference in the strength of the monsters is not very large, it will become the ration of adventures and mercenaries.
Experienced adventurers and mercenaries often use this method to lure the beast closer. Save them the time and hassle of hunting.
However, this requires a high level of eyesight and judgment for both mercenaries and adventurers. If you accidentally misjudge and attract too advanced magical beasts. Then there is a high probability that it will bring disaster to the team. Therefore, teams of adventurers and mercenaries often recruit a person with a certain knowledge of Warcraft to join the team, unless it is the kind of person who clearly wants to explore the ruins or other high-level areas, then it is likely to be a team of all strong people.
Like Emily's Rose Mercenary Group, Mary was in charge of the identification and command of Warcraft knowledge before.
It's just that a lone adventurer like Sean will definitely bring his horse with him even if he goes into the woods to collect firewood. In order to prevent the horses from being eaten by sudden beasts or monsters, or being led by other passing mercenaries and adventurers. In other places, this may not usually happen, but for the Northern Duchy Federation, it is a symbol of luck.
The mercenaries and adventurers of the Northern Duchy Federation agreed that if they could take the things of other adventurers or mercenary groups during the journey, this would be a symbol of Lady Luck's favor. Then, as is customary, when they arrive in the next city, they preach this luck in the tavern. And on the spot all the goods that were brought by the sheep, and at the same time, according to custom, the people in the tavern were to drink a round of ale.
Of course, for mercenaries or adventurers who are taken by the way, this is not lucky.
So often once you find that your things are gone. They'll rush to the next town destination as soon as possible, trying to redeem what they can get from the hands of those who are handing them out for a lower price. This is actually an unwritten rule, usually if this is the case. The people in the tavern don't rush to buy these things unless they really like them or are at odds with each other.
Of course. Resolving by force is also a way to get back what belongs to you.
However, this is also a premise. That is, the gang has not yet entered the tavern to start the auction, and if they succeed in intercepting it on the road, they will not be seen by others.
The one who destroys the favor of Lady Luck is a sinner.
This will cause public outrage among adventurers and mercenaries, and the end is often not very good. Therefore, most of the adventurers and mercenaries who have to spend money to redeem their things if they are smashed on the spot will often take revenge after the fact, and whether they can succeed is another matter.
Sean tied the bantam to the outside of the forest, which was not something a skilled mercenary would do.
As Sean's instincts had predicted, he was indeed being stalked and watched, and he was also two extremely skilled stalkers.
Stalkers are not a special profession, they are hunters' transfers, and the rank belongs to the fifth-order profession, but in fact, the real combat power is not much stronger than the upper bronze, because what they are really good at is arranging traps, chasing prey, and the cognition of Warcraft. Many teams of adventurers or mercenary groups will hire one or two stalkers, who can not only provide a stable source of food for the team, but also allow the team to avoid too dangerous troubles and difficulties.
Especially in the event of misfortune, they can use the clues to deduce the exact number of people in the team who took their loot, as well as the strength of the team.
The stalkers were all young, all over thirty-five years old.
The older the hunters, in addition to proving that they can never hope to break through again, they also prove that they have a lot of experience and skill. In this way, the two of them followed Sean for a whole day, but with Sean's strength now only the upper bronze, they didn't find it at all, which shows that the skills of the two are indeed very exquisite.
But now, when they saw Sean's actions, the two pursuers looked at each other and immediately took action.
Today's whole day of tracking has made both of them realize that Sean is a very seasoned adventurer, and his every move seems random but is actually full of deep meaning. It is even quite possible that the two of them had been tracked, otherwise the horses would not have been washed and fed on the other side of the stream, which was a quick way to remove the fatigue and regain the energy of the horses, a trick that only those who had spent in the army would have learned.
In Sean's situation, there was no need to rush to the road.
But Sean made this kind of move, which means that he is in a hurry.
For the two stalkers, they knew that Sean was aware that he was being followed and watched, but he didn't find out. At this time, tying the horse to the outside of the forest, but hiding in the shadows, is a very typical escape technique.
So the two pursuers immediately followed into the woods.
And when they entered the forest, they saw the firewood that had been thrown aside on the ground—there were a lot of firewood, and the traces that had been scattered when they were thrown on the ground were also scattered, and it was obvious that someone had suddenly thrown them aside. Immediately afterward, one of the pursuers found a relatively deep footprint.
"He ran after him when he threw down the firewood, this young man, very cunning!" After checking the footprints on the ground, one of the pursuers immediately got up and said, "Let's chase quickly, he should not be able to run far, and the marks on the ground are still obvious and clear." ”
With that, he ran up as soon as possible.
However, the other pursuer glanced at the ground a few more times, and it was these glances that made his expression change suddenly: "Don't chase, it's a trap!" ”
But the pursuer's words were too late, because a sword curtain as dark as an abyss suddenly completely enveloped the pursuer who ran out. (To be continued......)
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