On the Gobi Desert, the sky is full of yellow sand.

A yellow lizard crawled on the ground, staring cautiously and cautiously at a spotted snake not far ahead.

That's its prey, and it's been staring at the spotted snake for a long time.

The yellow lizard cautiously climbed a few steps forward, and the spotted snake seemed to notice something, and suddenly coiled up.

At such an instant, the yellow lizard swooped out like lightning, opened its mouth and bit the seven inches of the spotted snake, and the intense pain made the spotted snake twist its body wildly, and it wrapped its entire body around the yellow lizard's body, but the size difference between the two was too great, so that the spotted snake's movements were just doing useless work. After a while, the Spotted Snake finally stopped moving, and the yellow lizard spat out the Spotted Snake and prepared to start enjoying its meal.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, the yellow lizard raised its head to the side, watching it warily. After about a few seconds, the yellow lizard picked up the spotted snake on the ground in one mouthful, turned around and fled far away towards the depths of the Gobi.

After a while, maybe a few seconds, a dozen seconds.

Where the yellow lizards were staring, the black silhouette of the shadow finally appeared.

The strong wind blew, as if a hand was waving wildly in the air, and the yellow sand flying in the sky was roughly swept aside by this hand.

The black silhouette is finally revealed.

It's a convoy.

Leading the way were five riders, all wearing black hooded cloaks. The hood has been pulled up, and there is a layer of black tulle on the hat that is lowered to cover the faces of the riders, this layer of tulle is made with a very special technique, and its biggest function is to shield the wind and sand blowing on this Gobi wasteland, but it will not affect the sight of the person wearing the hood.

The horse's crotch has an iron shield on the left rear and a scimitar on the left front, which can be pulled out if necessary to make a cameo appearance as a cavalryman. However, the weapons they relied on in real battle were the long sword and iron shield that hung from their waists. It's just because of the hood and cloak. Only a small section of the scabbard could be faintly revealed.

Behind the five riders was a crimson carriage.

The carriage is very well maintained, but it is also vaguely visible that it has been very old. This carriage is a little different from ordinary carriages, that is, its area is nearly half a meter wider than ordinary carriages, and the length is more than one meter above the normal standard. This semi-circular arc blocks the direct sunlight from the driver's face, but does not interfere with the driver's view.

This is the standard long-distance carriage on the Miracle Continent, specially adapted for long-distance travel, so not only has the body been specially modified, but the wheels have also been modified, except for the inability to walk on the water and in the forest. It can be said that it can be adapted to almost any terrain.

Of course, the number of horses pulling the cart will be increased to six.

The coachman's attire was similar to that of the riders, still a hooded cloak with tulle, but the sword hanging from his waist was much more evident because of the way he sits. Next to the saddle, there is also an iron shield, but it is missing a scimitar compared to the rider.

In this convoy. There were three such carriages in total.

After the carriage. That's five flatbed trucks. There wasn't a lot of stuff on the truck, because of the sunscreen on it. It didn't even bulge. However, on the second truck, there are some metal round objects poking out of the truck, and from the subtle point of view, these metal objects are likely to be spears or similar things, and this method of furnishing is also very conducive to the people around to pull these weapons out of the truck in the first place, without first uncovering the sunscreen.

At the back of the wagon, there are still five riders, and they are exactly the same as the front five, both in terms of outfits and other configurations. In addition, there were three riders on each side of the carriage and wagon.

There were sixteen riders and three drivers.

The team wasn't fast, but it was solid and the defensive force was very evenly distributed. Although the number of people is small, but it is a regular escort formation is arranged to the point that the six riders in the middle, whether there is an enemy in front or behind, they can form a support force at the first time, although the offensive ability is slightly insufficient, but relying on wagons and carriages to resist, it is enough.

This convoy was naturally Sean and the group of veterans who came to him from Tindersburg.

They set out from the village of Seroda, took a shortcut to the border of the Kingdom of Portoroa, and then traveled all the way south, and it took almost half a year to cross the two kingdoms before finally coming to this Gobi Desert.

In the past six months, they have experienced countless battles. There were bandits, bandits, local soldiers who came out to fight wild food and robbers, and even a group of villagers who had to pick up farm tools such as forks, pickaxes, and shovels because of famine. There are victories and defeats in battles, and the most dangerous thing is naturally the local army that encounters cameo robbers, with only the strength of nineteen people's guards, how can it be possible to win a regular army of 100 people, but Sean still fought with them fiercely.

For no other reason, after taking half of Sean's property, the regular army of cameo robbers still wanted to get involved with Cecilia and Sheena, which was equivalent to making Sean and Alfred have the consciousness of fighting to the death at the same time. Therefore, the outbreak of the battle is naturally inevitable.

In that battle, Sean and others can be said to have won miserably.

The combat effectiveness of the regular army is by no means comparable to that of Sean and others, and as soon as the two sides start a war, Sean and others have already felt strong pressure. If it weren't for Sean and Alfred, two relatively perverted people in the team, if it weren't for Cecilia, a magician, Sean and the others would have died in that battle - in that battle, Alfred forcibly killed the opponent's commander at the cost of serious injuries, wiped out one-third of the opponent's troops at the cost of Cecilia's fainting, and blocked the opponent's onslaught at the cost of the veterans' serious injuries and dying.

And Sean became the last straw that crushed the other party.

The enemy is the last to flee rather than be destroyed. But Sean and the others were almost wiped out - the reason why they are not dead now is because Sean spent the price of a gold scroll to ask the priests of the temple to save everyone's lives, and then they hid and recuperated for two whole months before recovering.

This is also the reason why it took Sean and others nearly half a year to arrive in this Gobi Desert.

But that battle to the death was not without gains.

The biggest takeaway is not that these veterans are more loyal to Sean, nor that the veterans are stronger. It's not that these veterans have faith. As a result, it was promoted to a third-level army, but the strength of Cecilia and Alfred both had a leap forward.

The first is Cecilia, who has found herself officially a magician, and her control of magic is much more precise, at least now that she casts magic, her magic will be more condensed. And not because the magic is not condensed enough and wasted. In addition, at Sean's suggestion, she did not delve into the second series of magic of the same kind like other formal magicians, but developed in the direction of more advanced magic of the fire type.

Today's Cecilia already has enough combat power to be compared to the fourth-order profession. What she lacks is only a sense of battle. As for combat experience, with such a bug as Sean, she will never be lacking, and it only takes a few actual battles to master.

As for Alfred, Sean can already be very sure that this thing is definitely M physique.

The scars on his body were too numerous to count, like countless centipedes crawling and winding around him. It looks unusually hideous and terrifying. Even after that war. Sean sought out the priest to treat him, and he was also in a coma with a high fever. Even the priest couldn't do anything about this, just said that whether he could wake up or not was up to his own will, and then left.

During that time, Sean was really worried that Alfred wouldn't survive.

But as it turned out, Sean's worries were unnecessary. Three days later, Alfred finally woke up, and his stamina had increased by as much as ten points to forty. This endurance value is completely equivalent to Du Ruen, you must know that Du Ruen is because he has had extremely excellent and balanced nutrition and targeted cultivation training since he was a child, and he may not be able to cultivate such attributes in ordinary nobles.

After all, once any attribute exceeds forty points, there will be a qualitative change, because that is already a silver-level strength.

Like that battle with the demonized Mario in Tindesburg, Sean was almost burned to death just by being brushed off, but Durune was punched in the front and only broke a few bones, which is the difference in attributes.

It's just that Alfred, a wrestler profession that focuses on strength, actually has a higher endurance than strength, and Sean really doesn't know what to say about him. Even now, the agility value of this product is still stuck at seventeen points, and this obvious gap will definitely become his biggest weakness. Moreover, Alfred's situation has obviously reached the growth limit of bronze strength, and unless he is stepping into the fifth order of the lower rank silver now, even if he experiences a tragic situation like that battle with the regular army, he will not have the slightest increase in value.

In the same way, Cecilia has basically reached the growth limit of her bronze-level strength - her wisdom and will attributes are as high as thirty-two and thirty-six points respectively without the increase of the Blood Pattern Hex Ring.

And the growth limit of bronze strength is forty.

Forty-one, which already belongs to the strength of the silver level.

At this time, Sean, who was in the first carriage, was thinking hard about how to make these two become fourth-order professions as soon as possible, Cecilia may still have some time, but Alfred has become the current urgency, and he has been staying at the peak of the lower bronze for a long time. And in addition, Sean himself actually has a lot of troubles, he is still a little bit of experience, he can be promoted to level five and obtain the first spell mark.

Curse Mark Swordsman, at level 5 and level 10, can each gain a spell mark right. And only the spell seal swordsman who has mastered the spell mark is the real spell mark swordsman, otherwise, it is a swordsman who can cast magic, or a mage who can use swordsmanship.

And Sean's current problem is that the first spell seal, what kind of force does he want to seal.

After all, a curse seal swordsman can only have two spell seals at most, so what kind of power to seal has become a question that every curse seal swordsman needs to think about carefully. This amount of power accompanies the life of the curse seal swordsman, and once the seal is completed to form the curse seal, it can no longer be changed, and depending on the amount of power of the seal, the fighting style and method will also change.

At the beginning, the mainstream spell marks of the curse swordsmen in the game were mainly based on strength, after all, they used light body skills as the core tactic, so there was no problem with the advantage of speed at all, and what was needed was naturally more powerful attack power. But after the battle that almost ended, Sean had a completely different view.

In this world, attack power is indeed very important, but because there is no restriction such as a health bar, as long as it hits the vital point, it is a one-hit kill, so the attack power can actually rely more on the sharpness of the weapon.

And what Sean is currently lacking is actually the ability to save his life.

Just as Sean was thinking, there was a sudden knock on the carriage, followed by a deep voice: "Sean-sama, we're in a little trouble. (To be continued.) )

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