Five soldiers patrolled the forest, and the direction they were responsible for was the southwest of the valley, which could already be regarded as a dead end of the valley, and those who entered from this direction would not be able to detect the valley at all, but would be suspicious because there were people patrolling here. It's just that their commander may really be a fool, so he will arrange manpower patrols here, and in the capacity of these soldiers, of course, they are not qualified to give opinions.

"What are we going to patrol here?" A young soldier said with some frustration, "This corner is a dead end, this is a waste of time." ”

"Okay, don't say it, the captain didn't speak, what are you talking about." An older soldier interrupted him with some dissatisfaction.

So, the young soldier stole a glance at the leader of their squad, a veteran of about forty years old, who was said to have participated in two large-scale battles, and had won hundreds of battles, and was already qualified to be a squadron commander in terms of qualifications, but was demoted because he offended his superiors.

The teenager was a little disappointed.

He felt that his luck was terrible. The direction that the other patrols are responsible for is the area where the enemy is most likely to be found, and this also means that the achievement of combat merits, if you want to get ahead in the army, you need to accumulate enough combat merits as quickly as possible, only in this way will you get the attention of your superiors, then it is possible to get promoted. And the higher the position, it also means more power and more salary, and he didn't come to join the army for the honor and prestige of any nobleman, he just wanted something more practical.

But now, he was actually assigned to this team, and he suddenly felt very disappointed.

"Did you inadvertently offend someone?" The boy couldn't help but think with some frustration.

But no matter how much he thought about it, he never remembered whether he had offended anyone, or what he had missed. It had been less than three days since he had been transferred to the reserve unit after completing his training and had been transferred to the unit, and during that time he had been in contact with the recruits who had arrived with him, and it was not until last night that he knew which team he was going to follow.

It was this morning that he realized that his captain was so amazing. Then I realized how unlucky his captain was. At the same time, I also understand how bad my situation is. With such a captain, it is impossible for him to accumulate combat merits, unless a large-scale war really breaks out, but how can this kind of thing happen so easily.

Sighing helplessly, the young man was a little sad, he looked up at a forty-five degree angle, but he couldn't see the blue sky. There is only a large canopy that obscures the sky.

Just then, there was a rustling sound in the woods.

A girl with long brilliant blond hair suddenly burst into the eyes of the patrol, wearing a black and white Gothic outfit, which was obviously not as luxurious as the average person. The most eye-catching thing is the girl's facial features - blue eyes full of smiles, golden eyebrows raised. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a playful and smug smile - as beautiful as the heirloom of a master of carving.

She clasped her hands around her chest and held in her arms an exaggerated book, which was certainly worth a lot of money, judging by the intricate textures depicted on the book's exposed cover, and the golden frames of the four corners.

The girl was not very old, she looked like she should be about fifteen years old, and she had a happy smile on her face.

Soon, though. The smile froze on her face. There was a look of horror in his eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, she immediately turned and ran. Several soldiers who were also surprised by her appearance reacted at this time, and immediately subconsciously stepped forward to catch up.

"Don't chase!" But at this moment, the captain of the team suddenly shouted, "This thing is strange." ”

At the sound of his voice, several soldiers also stopped, and they were willing to believe the captain, because he was much more experienced than them. On the battlefield, experienced veterans are often more popular and loved, because these experiences may become their own life-saving notes at some point, so since this captain said that he would not chase them, then he must have a reason.

"Smack."

The little girl's book fell to the ground, attracting the attention of the soldier again, and the little girl ran a few steps forward before she stopped. She looked back at the soldiers, and seemed to see that they had no intention of catching up, so she ran back with courage, and immediately turned around and ran away after picking up the books, but because of her nervousness, the little girl fell twice in the process, but on both occasions she did not drop the books, nor looked back, but hurriedly struggled and ran away.

"What's weird! Captain, you're too cautious! The boy finally couldn't help but say something, and then chased in the direction of the girl, "I'm going to catch her!" That's a feat! ”

The teenager felt a burst of excitement from the bottom of his heart, both psychologically and physically, and there was an impulse. Maybe this doesn't just mean combat exploits, but what it is, I'm afraid only he knows what it is.

"She's just a kid!" Seeing this teenager's actions, the captain of this team couldn't help but shout.

"Soon it won't be!" The echo of the boy, resounding in the forest, completely exposed his desires.

The other soldiers looked at each other, and then finally abandoned the captain's warning and chased in the direction of the girl, fearing that if they fell behind, there would be nothing left. Looking at the anxious appearance of these people who can be regarded as subordinate to his command, the captain was a little uneasy in his heart, but where this uneasiness came from, he didn't know what to say at all, and only felt a chill rising in his heart.

There seemed to be an unusual noise coming from behind him.

The captain bowed his head alertly, flew forward, and as he rolled on the spot, he glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye.

No one!

The veteran slowly stood up, and secretly laughed that he was too nervous: "There shouldn't be anyone in this corner, that girl is probably really going the wrong way......"

Before he finished speaking, he felt a sharp pain in his back, and this pain spread extremely quickly, and it spread to his chest at once. The veteran looked down in some surprise, and saw a small section of the tip of the sword coming out of the body, and the blood was flowing down the edge of the blade to the tip of the sword, and then dripped down drop by drop, and countless bright red flowers bloomed on the ground.

The veteran turned his head with difficulty. It was directly in Sean's cold eyes. He made a holistic sound out of his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything. Sean quickly drew the side of his sword, let a blood arrow spurt out, and a not too faint light shot out from the veteran's body and submerged into Sean's body, adding a lot of experience points to Sean.

And then soon. Four more balls of light, slightly dimmer than this one, flew back from the direction Cecilia had run away.

Sean knew that the four soldiers who were chasing Cecilia were dead.

But when the last bit of light did not enter the body, Sean felt a feeling of surging power in his body, and this feeling of force almost breaking out of the body, Sean had not had it for nearly half a year. At this time, I experienced it again, and there was an indescribable feeling of comfort all over my body. It's as if the pores that have been blocked for a long time have been dilated, and the whole body is full of joy.

Soon, Alfred and Anno escorted Cecilia back.

"How?" Alfred asked.

Sean nodded and smiled, "It's ready." ”

"Then it's better to hurry, we've cleared all the patrols, and if the other party suddenly changes shifts at this time, we will be exposed immediately." Alfred spoke.

"I know it." After Shaun said again, he swung his sword and swiped it on his palm. Push slightly. Blood continued to drip from his hands.

On the grass, Sean used his own blood to quickly send out a strange magic array. This magic circle is not registered in any magic manual. Although it doesn't seem complicated, the magic array does not judge the supply of magic power by the number of strokes, but the power of a magic array by the number of magic nodes.

Cecilia could see at a glance that there were as many as eighty-eight magic nodes in this magic array in front of her, which was close to an intermediate-level magic array!

When he finished drawing this magic array, Sean's face had become a little pale, not because of excessive blood loss, but because the consumption of magic power was slightly high, he simply bandaged his left hand, and stretched out his hand to Cecilia. And Cecilia quickly handed the page of the Demon Book to Sean, only to see Sean throw the paper without hesitation, and the paper that should have fluttered lightly in the wind fell as if it were a thousand pounds.

When the paper hit the ground, white smoke came out of the paper, a sulfur smell and a continuous heat rushed towards the face, and the hot magma continued to roll on the ground, piling higher and higher, like a tumor bag. In the next second, the magma exploded violently, and a demon with silver scales and red and black stripes on its body appeared in everyone's eyes.

Because the position where Sean waved his hand and threw it happened to be in the magic array, the place where this demon came out at this moment was in this magic array.

The magic array was not large, less than half a meter in diameter, but it was definitely more than enough to have this silver-scaled demon about the size of a human standing inside.

Almost at the moment when this demon appeared, Sean had already begun to chant the incantation in a low voice, and when the demon completely revealed his body, Sean's incantation had just ended, and he calculated the time for a second. When the magic nodes on the magic array lit up one after another, the consciousness of this silver-scaled demon finally descended into this body, but when it realized something, the eighty-eight nodes on the magic array had all lit up.

The Silver Scale Demon suddenly let out a crazy roar, but strangely, this roar did not sound in the forest at all.

The only thing they could see was the demon's hideous and roaring appearance, but they didn't hear its sound at all, as if it had been subjected to the magic of silence. Immediately after, everyone saw that the demon's body suddenly moved, and it was about to pounce towards Sean, but it had just jumped to the edge of the magic array, and a blood-red crystal suddenly appeared in the air, with a faint purple-blue electric light shining on it, and it bounced back the demon's momentum fiercely.

[Bio-Silver Scale Demon Detected, Attack Effect: Range Extension, Defense Effect: Demon Armor, May I Ask if it is sealed? ] 】

"Seal!" Sean said in a deep voice.

I saw a circle of magic halo suddenly rise from the magic array on the ground, spinning and floating into the air. The blood-red light was not strong, but the magic fluctuations emanating from it were not weak, but people who did not have a keen sense of magic would never be able to detect such fluctuations - and when the magic halo stopped in midair. The originally transparent blood-red crystal wall completely appeared in front of everyone. This made the silver-scaled demon inside even more irritable.

But all his attacks were in vain.

As the upper limit of the magic array began to compress, this red pillar of light like a test tube gradually became stronger, and even the blood-red crystal wall could be seen becoming more and more vivid, and there was a faint sound of bones being crushed. When this pillar of light was finally compressed into a flat magic array floating in midair, the red brilliance on it was so thick that it almost dripped out, the fate of the demon inside. I'm afraid anyone can figure it out.

Please select a seal type. 】

Sean actually hesitated, he didn't expect that the attack effect of the Silver Scale Demon would actually be an extension of the range, which can already be regarded as a judgment effect of the space system, and this effect was only possessed by a few curse swordsmen in the game. However, his combat rhythm is based on speed, and the damage of this attack extension does not play much role for him, but he lacks sufficient defense. It was a hard wound for him.

And almost all demonic creatures, if used as a defensive mark, will generate the effect of "demon armor", which can temporarily cover the body with a layer of demon skin, which can not only effectively resist a certain amount of damage, but also immune to fire damage. Only a very small number of demons have defensive effects, and some of them are stronger than demon armor. There are also those that are less effective than the Demon Armor.

But judging by the results so far. The defense effect of the Silver Scale Demon can only be regarded as mediocre, but the attack effect is relatively good.

If it is more conducive to their own long-term development. Then naturally, you should choose the attack effect. But judging from the current situation, the value of the defensive effect is naturally higher, and Sean does not need to be forced to readjust his tactical rhythm for the sake of this offensive effect. The most important point is that after having the "Demon Armor", even temporarily possessing the demon's defense is enough to greatly improve his survivability.

"Defense!"

The moment Sean's words fell, the scarlet magic array shrank rapidly, shrinking and changing from the initial diameter of half a meter. At first, there were still some traces of the magic array, but as the range narrowed to the last centimeter, there were no traces of the magic array at all, and even the magic nodes seemed to have disappeared completely.

When this magic array became only a few centimeters in size at its worst, it suddenly turned into a rainbow light and shot into Sean's left hand.

A burst of white smoke suddenly emerged from Sean's left hand, as if it had been burned by a soldering iron, and he endured the sharp pain in his hand, and a slightly strange rune appeared on the back of Sean's left hand.

The rune looks like an "X", but on each side there is a red texture that looks like a bull's horn, and then the two nodes below the X make a bend and extend under the arm, but instead of merging with each other, a gap is revealed. At the top of the X, there is also an imprint, which looks more like a Y, but the two corners of the Y extension are sharper and more tortuous.

【Curse Seal. Silver Scale: Defense effect, when activated, it can cover a layer of demon skin in a local area of the body, which can effectively resist weapon damage with a sharp and piercing value of less than 30, and is ineffective against strike damage, immune to all fire damage, duration 10 seconds, cooldown time 1 hour. 】

Looking at the mark on the back of his hand, the corners of Sean's mouth were slightly raised, and there was a hint of excitement in his eyes.

Although the effect is only for a short period of ten seconds, if it is used well, Sean is even sure to fight against the master of the next silver strength. With this basic guarantee, it is enough for Sean to do a lot of things, and he is no longer afraid of being assassinated by others, because the activation of the spell mark is immediate, which means that as long as the mind moves, it will have an immediate effect!

"Success?" Neither Alfred nor Cecilia understood the situation, so they asked with some curiosity.

Sean didn't answer, he showed the back of his hand to the three of them, but when he saw the other party's slightly blank eyes, he had to nod and speak: "It's successful!" ”

"So what are we going to do next?" Cecilia asked.

"What to do?" Sean asked rhetorically, "When William comes, we'll get out of here." …… Our commission with Paro is to help him find the goods and then signal to him, right? ”

Everyone nodded.

So, Sean laughed: "Now that the thing is inside, isn't the rest of his business?" (To be continued.) )

PS: I can't log in to the background just now, I don't know what the road is...... Is it because it's Sunday? A big chapter of nearly 5K+ words, no laziness! It's easy to write for a while, so I'm too lazy to delete it, anyway, the number of words is not exceeded, isn't it...... So for the sake of my hard work, do you want to have some more monthly passes?