Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 422 Dragon Blood Baptism
"Someone has been following us in secret?" Lilia couldn't help being startled, then reached out to brush away a strand of hair that interfered with her sight, and followed Thorne's gaze.

The night was dark, the wind was blowing, the canopies of the birch trees all around were rustling calmly and pleasantly, and the branches were creaking.

It was very quiet in the woods, there were no scary ghosts or screams, only a warmth radiating from her side, letting her know that someone was always with her.

For a moment, she wanted to gently press her body against it, and then spend a long night peacefully like this, but in the end she forcibly endured it.

The half-elf girl sighed slightly inwardly, she withdrew her silent gaze from looking at the birch forest, looked at the calm profile of the ranger, hesitated for a moment, and said a little dejectedly: "I didn't find anything."

As soon as the words fell, she saw Thorn's face in the night suddenly flushed by the flames, and two groups of burning flames flashed in his calm black eyes, and the surrounding air instantly became so hot that it burned her. Pale cheeks.

Lilia, whose expression changed slightly, immediately lowered her head to look at the source of the fire, and found a small dark red fireball quietly floating in Thorne's palm, spinning gently, like a fireball just thrown into boiling water. The little ball kept rolling back and forth.

"What is he going to do?" Doubts filled Lilia's mind.

Soon, Thorne answered her question with his actions.

"Whoosh!"

With a soft sound, the small fireball dragged a slender tail flame, facing the night wind, dispelled the deep darkness, and sank into the rustling birch forest at an extremely fast speed.

"Boom!"

When the small dark red fireball hit a thick tree trunk, it suddenly exploded, shaking people's eardrums with pain.

A group of flying birds rushed out of the jungle, screaming in protest, and disappeared into the dark night. The animal skin tents in the ruins also shone brightly.

"What's going on?" The little wizard and the old troll butler, whose fingertips were glowing with light, got out of the tent in a panic and ran over quickly.

When the old troll butler saw the flames in the distance, he stopped suddenly. The little wizard who couldn't react in time bumped into him, and then fell face up on the gravel-covered ground with grinning teeth.

The raging high-temperature flames and the impact of the explosion turned the quiet birch forest into frantically swaying ferocious tree shadows, and the flames also climbed up the branches, crackling and bursting into blue flames.

At this time, the dark shadow in the woods twisted a bit.

Thorn's figure wielding his sword appeared strangely in the flames and thick smoke of the birch forest.

"clang!"

Accompanied by the screeching sound of metal clanging, the ever-spreading fire was quickly quelled.

"It turned out to be you. I thought I was being targeted by something terrible." Thorne had an unnatural smile on his face when he saw the figure in front of him who was disfigured by the fireball.

After speaking, without waiting for the other party to reply, he immediately put the two swords back into the scabbard, and found an excuse to put out the fire to cover up the awkward atmosphere and avoid the two murderous eyes that seemed to be real.

At the same time, Lilia, the old troll butler and the little wizard Pardo also rushed over one after the other.

"Sister Sigrit, why did you appear here? Didn't you say that you are going to the Underdark to do something very important?"

Seeing the blond girl who was cursing and tidying her appearance, the nervous Lilia relaxed her expression, and stepped forward to cover her vicious eyes looking at Thorn, and then helped her tidy up the mess after being ravaged by the fireball. Dust on hair and pretty face.

The old troll butler, who had a false alarm, looked at Thorne, and couldn't help but look at the unexpected guest who appeared suddenly. He frowned slightly, and then murmured a complaint that no one could hear clearly, and turned towards the tent. go.

The little wizard Pardo rubbed his brow that had been hurt just now, and followed closely behind.

"The little goblin Malvisa asked me to go to Rezim King City to contact those dark elves to be your allies. Then I walked halfway, and I didn't want to go, so I came back." The black dragon Sig in night clothes Lite sat on the collapsed stone wall, brushing her messy long hair, and said.

"The purpose of finding the dark elves as an ally is to deal with the hobgoblins in the Forest of Tranquility?" Thorn walked over, patted the dust on his hands, and asked in confusion, "Since you agreed, why did you suddenly backtrack?"

"I am willing! Can't I?" Sigrit looked at the strand of hair scorched by the flames wrapped around her fingers distressedly, and looked at the instigator who caused all this, and said viciously: "Sleep on the tree I'm doing well, and I was suddenly smeared on the face by a fireball, do you think I can feel better?"

Seeing the black dragon full of gunpowder, Thorne smiled helplessly, and closed his mouth wisely.

"Then why did you come here and keep sneaking behind us?" Lilia covered her mouth with a chuckle, sat next to Sigrit, and helped her carefully arrange her curly hair.

Asked by Lilia, Sigrit looked embarrassed.

Under the night, no one noticed her reddish face, only to see Thorn sneaking a glance from the corner of her eye, and then replied a little embarrassedly:

"Well... the contact with the dark elves was a mess, and then Malvisa asked me to go to the bottomless swamp."

Bottomless swamp?

Hearing that Malvisa asked Sigrit to go to the Bottomless Swamp, Thorn thought for a while and understood her real intention.

There are a large number of lizardmen living in the bottomless swamp of the Emerald Field, and because of their different beliefs, these lizardmen are divided into two factions: absolute neutrality and chaotic evil.

Now, with the powerful ally of the hobgoblin Hruk, the chaotic and evil lizardmen gradually gained a foothold in the bottomless swamp, suppressing the absolutely neutral lizardmen.

The intention of the goblin wizard is very likely to let Sigrid persuade the suppressed group of lizardmen to backstab the evil lizardmen who joined the hobgoblin camp.

In this way, they will have a lot less burden when attacking the hobgoblins in the Forest of Tranquility.

The main reason for letting Sigritte go is that the other party is a black dragon.

The lizardmen's communication language is the dragon language, and they believe that they were taught by the dragon family in ancient times, so the lizardmen will have an instinctive blind worship and fear of dragons just like the kobolds.

Especially black dragons who like to live in swamps, lizardmen are almost the most loyal raiders and predators of black dragons.

Thorne could even imagine that when Sigrid turned into a black dragon and hovered over the bottomless swamp, all the lizardmen, no matter what camp they were in, surrendered to show their loyalty.

However, seeing the other party secretly looking at him, as well as a guilty expression.Thorne could guess that the little girl's instigation against the lizard people was probably also messed up by her, and then when he was returning on the way, he accidentally bumped into them.

But what made him even more curious was what conditions the goblin wizard used to successfully instruct Sigrit to do things.

After all, Sigrit is very repulsive to Malvisa.

"Anyway, I still want to thank you for your help." Thorne thought for a while, glanced at Lilia who was smiling on her face, walked up to Sigrit, and said seriously: "For the offense just now , I hope you don’t take it to heart, I’m very sorry.”

"Forget it, then I will not remember the villain's faults, and I will not be as knowledgeable as a little pet like you." Seeing Thorne's sincerity, the anger in Sigrit's heart disappeared without a trace, Then he waved his hand and said indifferently.

"Then you guys go to bed early, you have to go on your way tomorrow." Then, Thorn explained to Lilia again, and was about to turn around and leave.

"That... Thorne, wait a minute." Sigrit hesitated, and stopped him again. Feeling the gazes of the two, she wrapped her fingers around her hair, and said in a low voice, a little embarrassed:

"You guessed it right, I also messed up the matter of instigating against the lizardmen, but I really didn't mean it, I just wanted to..."

"It's okay. It's not something you should be involved in. Don't take it to heart." Thorn interrupted the other party's speech and smiled indifferently.

In fact, he was very curious about what kind of benefits the goblin wizard had promised her, so that this somewhat arrogant black dragon rarely showed a guilty expression.

At the same time, he also understood why the other party didn't show up when they met them, and chose to follow them secretly, probably because he was too embarrassed to see him.

etc!It was obviously a goblin wizard who entrusted her with the matter, why did she dare not see herself if it went wrong?Such a doubt suddenly popped up in Thorn's heart.

"Does the transaction have anything to do with me?" Thinking about it, Thorne had a bad premonition in his heart, and suddenly felt like he was being sold without knowing it, and he was helping count the money with a smile.

When we return to Fallstown tomorrow, we must ask this matter clearly, Thorne thought.

Hearing the other party's words without the slightest intention of blame, Sigrit's pale green eyes flickered, and then she wandered back and forth between Thorn and Lilia through her long eyelashes, and a sly smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth , looking at Ranger:
"The matter has been messed up, and there is nothing I can do. But I can make it up to you. You have been urging me to baptize you with dragon blood before. Now that I agree, I will do it for you in advance."

Dragon blood baptism!

Thorne will naturally not forget this, this is the reward he won from Sigrit.

However, for the dragon itself, if this baptism ceremony is used frequently, it will easily lead to a decline in its own strength, so the other party has been evading it until now on the grounds that its vitality has not recovered.

Since Sigrid nodded in agreement, he must be happy to see it happen.

But what puzzled Thorne was that the little girl's smile just now was too strange and too familiar.

When the other party forced Red Dragon to sign an unequal contract, it was this familiar deceitful expression.

This made him feel uneasy, and he had a bad premonition.

Faced with this temptation, Thorne suddenly hesitated a little, so he subconsciously asked tentatively, "Are there any special conditions?"

"Conditions? Special conditions?" Sigrit was taken aback by the vigilant ranger's question, then she smiled and glanced at Lilia next to her, showing an impatient expression: "I will give you the opportunity for whatever conditions I have. Well, if you don't want it this time, then void it, and don't blame me for breaking my promise in the future."

After speaking, he got up and pulled the half-elf girl to leave.

"Wait a minute." Thorn hesitated for a while, but stopped her and said, "I agree."

(End of this chapter)