Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 427 The Request of the Fallen Paladin
The sky looked exceptionally clear, with only a few wisps of thin white clouds floating, and the red sun was hanging low, sprinkling the surging heat waves onto the golden desert.

At this moment, an irregular oval-shaped portal appeared on the yellow sandy land, and with the rainbow-colored light flashing through the portal, two figures came out.

"How did we come to the desert? With the help of Ta Ling, we can't make mistakes?" Anderina stood on the soft yellow sand surface, looking at the disappearing portal, with a nervous and puzzled expression.

"It's not wrong, this is near the west gate of Winter City." Thorne shook his head, and after adapting to the dizziness, he looked at the surrounding environment carefully, and finally said with certainty.

Since the failure of the teleportation spell last night, so that something very embarrassing happened, after they returned to the Wizard Tower, they were not in a hurry to set off, but decided to set off early the next morning.

Seeing that the second teleportation spell with the help of the tower's teleportation array and the assistance of Ta Ling did not fail, Thorn's heart finally fell.

After all, he has heard of many wizards who have lost the first half of their body due to a teleportation error, and the other half will never be found. There are even people who entered the door and never came out again.

Just thinking about it makes people feel nervous.

"Oh, I remembered." Hearing Thorne's answer, Andrina thought about it carefully, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, recalling: "Half a year ago, when we escaped from Winter City, we saw it in the wilderness. A deep blue meteor shower fell on this land.

This meteor shower is the light emitted by the magic energy crystal superconducting pulse cannon in order to clean up the huge wolf man army in the Wizard Tower of Winter City.This kind of destructive force that uses elemental energy to convert dark matter energy has strong radiation, and will destroy all living things and soil in the surrounding area, resulting in no grass growing. "

"Then do you feel that the magical energy around you is a bit chaotic." Thorne nodded to Anderina, stretched out his hand to feel the yellow sand blown up by the wind, and found that there was a violent energy that was interfering with the flow of energy in his body. run.

"I really feel that casting spells here will greatly affect my performance." Anderina's fingertips flashed a faint magic aura, and then she looked up at the red sun, and she couldn't help but wondered: "It's strange, the morning sun It’s obviously not that strong, why is the temperature here so high.”

"Look over there." Thorn pulled Andrina to a pile of stones the size of a millstone, and said, "I think the heat should come from these hot stones."

When the two approached the stone piles, they instantly noticed that the surrounding temperature had increased significantly, and there was a more violent energy floating. The root of all this pointed to problems with these stone piles.

"It turns out that these stones are some extremely special magic items, which were deliberately placed here to absorb radiation energy." Anderina bowed to observe carefully, showing a sudden expression, and then said with a frown: " Let's get out of here quickly, we will be affected by the radiation energy if we stay in this place for a long time."

After finishing speaking, she looked up at Thorn, just in time to find that the other party was also staring at her.

"What... are you looking at?" Anderina, who was stared at suddenly a little embarrassed, looked away from him.

"It's okay, I just think you look cute sometimes." Thorn reached out and touched Anderina's smooth and white face, wiping off the sweat from her forehead, and said inexplicably.

"Let's go." Then he took her little hand and walked towards the direction of Winter City.

cute?

Anderina, who let Thorn lead her forward, was a little depressed when she heard a sudden comment on her.Because she didn't want to associate herself with the word cute, that would be too childish.

Relatively speaking, she wants to be a mature and intellectual woman.

Could it be that Thorne likes cuter girls, Anderina thought to herself.

Immediately afterwards, a sly look flashed in her bright beautiful eyes, and then she quickened her pace and walked side by side with Thorn, and then asked with a smile on her face: "Thon, do you think I am cute, or is it a furry little girl?" An animal is cute, or a half-elf is cute."

Hearing the mention of a certain half-elf, Thorne's body stiffened for a moment, as if a hold technique had been cast on it, before recovering in an instant.

Did the old troll butler tell her all those things?Thorne thought about it uncertainly.

After thinking about it carefully, he thinks it shouldn't be. If he really wants to tell Anderina, he won't meaningfully hint that he should pay attention in the future.

So he stopped, turned around and looked at Anderina calmly, and found that she was smiling at him, the smile in her eyes showed on her lips, showing her white teeth, she looked gentle, kind, beautiful and charming.

"What does I like you have to do with being cute?" What a joke, no matter how slow his response is, he still knows that this kind of multiple-choice question that can be wrong no matter how he chooses cannot give the answer directly.

Therefore, Thorne thought about it very quickly in his heart, and uttered an ambiguous rhetorical question.

The question he answered seems to have many meanings, it depends on what the clever Anderina can understand.

However, Thorne also knew that it was not an option to keep this secret all the time, and he felt that he must clarify this matter when he had the opportunity.

Andelina snorted softly, making it impossible for Thorn to guess what she was thinking, but the next sentence put his heart at ease.

"Thinking about it, I actually think you were pretty handsome when you scolded the fat butler at the dance last night." The two walked forward slowly, and Andelina joked with a smile.

"Between the two of us, don't brag about business here, I'm embarrassed to hear it." Thorne coughed dryly and replied a little embarrassed.

In fact, he seldom swears. Last night, due to a transmission error and Anderina's semi-consciousness, he was very anxious.

After finally seeing her wake up, the fat butler pointed at him like a fly and kept chattering, so he couldn't help but curse a few times.

In the final analysis, the two of them were at fault for this incident. They not only overturned the drinks and food of these aristocratic gatherings, but also spoiled their interest.

"But I don't feel embarrassed at all. If I can hear you complimenting me in different ways every day, I won't be too happy. There is no embarrassment." Andrina looked at Thorne's unnatural smile , the smile on the corner of his mouth became stronger.

Thorne rolled his eyes at her without saying a word, grabbed her little hand, and involuntarily quickened his pace.

This is in a small desert with low sun and yellow sand, and the two soon came to the vicinity of Winter City.

"Stop coming! Cold Winter City is under martial law. Only exits are allowed! No entry is allowed! Adventurers who have come from afar, please go back, no one is welcome here."

Just when Thorn brought Anderina close to the city wall, a human soldier in black armor appeared on the battlement and scolded them.

Cold Winter City is actually closed?

"Is there a way to teleport it in directly?" Thorne patted the sand on his body, looked at Andelina, and asked.

"No, there is a wizard's tower in this city, and all the passages in different dimensions are blocked, otherwise the two of us would not be able to appear directly outside the city." Andelina shook her head slightly, and said truthfully.

"Why is it only allowed to go out and not allowed to enter? We are here to do a very important thing in Winter City. We will leave as soon as we finish. It won't take a long time." Thorn said, looking up at the black-armored soldiers on the battlements. .

"Only go out! Don't go in!" The black-armored soldier didn't answer Thorne's question, but repeated it again. When he saw that the two people under the tower had no intention of leaving at all, he waved his hand and said coldly: " Get back quickly, don't stay here!"

As soon as the words fell, rows of heavy crossbows that had already been loaded appeared on the battlements and locked Thorne and the two of them. The sharp crossbows shone coldly and persuaded them to retreat in the morning light.

"What's going on?" In the deadlocked confrontation between the two sides, a young man in casual clothes on the tower came over and asked the black armored soldier.

"Young City Lord!" Seeing the young man approaching, the black-armored soldier was startled. He didn't understand why the other party suddenly appeared here, so he bowed respectfully and said truthfully, "There are two adventurers outside the city who want to Entering the city, I stopped him."

Hearing this, the young man known as the young city lord walked to the battlements and took a look, then told the black-armored soldiers beside him: "These two are my friends, let them in."

"But, Lord City Master..." the black-armored soldier hesitated.

"Don't worry, I will explain." The young man smiled indifferently, but his tone seemed unquestionable.

The black-armored soldier immediately signaled his men to put away their weapons, and opened the city gate to let the two of them in.

"Boom!"

The heavy city gate was opened, Thorne and Anderina looked at each other suspiciously, and they walked in together without much hesitation.

"We meet again, the ranger from the wilderness, and the beautiful lady Andrina, welcome to Winter City."

In the dim corridor, a young man with long brown hair came out from the shadows, smiled and said hello.

It's him!

The young lord of Winter City, Brant Ironhand, is a fallen paladin.

"Long time no see, thank you for your help." Thorn, who recognized his identity, stepped forward and shook hands with the other party.

Andrina, who was behind her, also walked up to Thorne, nodded slightly, and continued to remain silent.

"Then... I'm leaving." Thorne felt that he had nothing to talk to, and he didn't want to waste time here, so he was going to leave directly with Anderina.

"Please wait a moment." The young city lord of Cold Winter City reached out to prevent the two from leaving, smiled apologetically at the two, and then showed a pensive look.

Seeing this, Thorne understood that the young city lord was probably planning something to say to him.

So he patted the back of Anderina's hand lightly, waited quietly, and then took advantage of this time to look around.

It's a pity, it's a pity that he didn't see the drow sword master from the Underdark.

However, he found a scene that surprised him. Looking into the cold winter city through the dim corridor, he found that the whole city seemed to reveal the color of depression.

If it was half a year ago, after he entered the city from here, he could go directly to the busiest business district.

But at this time, there was no one, not even the cries of shouting and shouting.

Thorne was relieved when he thought that Winter City had been closed at this time. After all, the closure of the city meant that something important had happened, and anyone with a little brain could figure out the reason.

Besides, the Winter City almost fell half a year ago.

"I want to ask you to do me a favor." After a while, Brant said straight to the point.

"Please tell me." Thorne didn't just nod in agreement, but wanted to figure out what he needed to do first.

"Help me send this holy emblem representing Irmat, the god of suffering, to Deep Rock City in the Silverpine Plain, and hand it over to the archbishop of the temple." The young city lord of Cold Winter City struggled inwardly, and reached out and took out the treasure that was kept close to him. A dull silver holy symbol: pale hands bound by red strings.

"Why?" Thorn didn't reach out to pick it up, but was silent for a moment, staring at the other person, and opened his mouth slowly.

"It makes you laugh, because I have failed the God of Suffering's expectations of me. Every time I see the holy emblem in my hand, it is like seeing the disappointed eyes of the God of Suffering watching from a distant kingdom of God. Facts have proved that I It really didn't make it radiate the hope of the Holy King again. So I think it's better to send it back to the Temple of the Suffering God, I don't deserve it anymore."

The fallen paladin sighed, looking at the dim silver holy emblem, his eyes showed nostalgia.

"You are giving up on yourself. Irmaat will not give you two chances, and the opportunity will not stay for a long time. Human talents will not be perfect when doing things, so the success of things mainly lies in the timing Time, not attachment."

After listening to the other party's words, Thorn was not moved, but instead consoled him earnestly: "As long as people are still alive, there will be hope. Give yourself a little confidence. I'm very sorry, I may not be able to help you with this. If you really want to return it, you have to go there yourself.”

After speaking, he left with Anderina.

It's not that he doesn't want to help, he just thinks that this fallen paladin may still have hope of regaining his strength, if he chooses to agree, he will undoubtedly kill the last trace of his obsession.

This kind of matter about paladins, let them solve it by themselves, he doesn't want to get involved.

"hope?"

The fallen paladin stared at the half-elf ranger's leaving back, and smiled wryly.

"Heaven is no longer with you, and time will stay for a long time. If you can't do two things, it's up to you."

Immediately afterwards, his mind suddenly recalled the strange exclamation of the drow sword master Ward who left voluntarily before he left. He shook his head in puzzlement, put away the holy emblem again, turned and left.

(End of this chapter)