Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 434 Paladin Nolan

Chapter 434 Paladin Nolan

The scorching sun outside the window sent golden light through the cracks in the window sash and shone into the quiet bedroom.

Anderina instinctively raised her hand to block the light, then picked up the black cloak hanging on the hanger and put it on her body.

"Let's go." Thorn, who had packed up, hung the two sheathed swords on the sword belt wrapped around his waist again in case of emergency, and opened the window while talking.

Last night's rain made the salty air outside the window much fresher, and the sun was still shining on my body, making it warm and very pleasant.

"This is the place where I have lived for the longest time in this world. When I think about leaving again, I may never come back again, and I suddenly feel a little reluctant." Anderina looked at everything in the room with nostalgia, and smiled slightly. sigh.

She walked to Thorne, enjoying the warm sunshine with him, looking at the small puddles on the street that shone with faint luster.

A small man with wicked eyes and mischievous eyes sneaked away along the corner of the wall, and suddenly a grinning little black cat jumped down from the roof. splash.

The little black cat took a step that the six relatives did not recognize, jumped and disappeared on the eaves again.

Looking at the sorceress who suddenly became sentimental, Thorne reached out and stroked her long black hair that fell on her shoulders.

For some reason, he liked to touch her smooth and smooth long hair very much.

And Anderina also seemed to know that she had this hobby, and she liked to loose her long hair casually every time.

Thorne looked out the window.

Just in time, a childish boy with messy long hair appeared and disappeared into the alley. Behind the boy, a middle-aged man with a calm demeanor walked towards the north calmly.

"This city is no longer safe. Let's go to the Wizard's Tower today. Let's go back as soon as possible. We can't stay here too long." Thorn put Anderina's soft little hand in his palm, which was a little cold, and he patted He clapped the back of his hands and comforted him.

Of course, there is another main reason.

The time for the decisive battle with the Hobgoblin Hruk in the Forest of Tranquility is getting closer and closer, and time does not allow him to stay here for too long.

After all, this is a battle to determine the fate of all territories in the Emerald Field, and there must be no mistakes.

Failure means that they have become a group of real bereaved dogs.

"I know." Andrina stretched out her hand to fiddle with the disobedient hair on her forehead, smiled slightly, and responded softly.

Then, she looked up at the ranger's face again, and said in a low tone, "Thorn, do you miss home?"

Thorne couldn't help being taken aback by the sudden question.

"I've forgotten it a long time ago. I think it's pretty good here. What else do I want it to do?"

Immediately, he smiled at her insincerely, and then took the sentimental sorceress into his arms, gently rubbed her palms against her soft shoulders, feeling the warmth of the touch, and said slowly:

"During the journey of our life, if we can't make a break with the past and always let the past worry about it, it is tantamount to carrying a heavy burden on ourselves, and we will live very tired in this world and become mentally atrophied. If you are exhausted physically and mentally, the boat of life will be lost in the vast sea, and there is even the danger of capsizing. If you can have the courage to say goodbye to the past, I think life will definitely give us a new start.”

"If you forget the past, you will be selfless, right?" Andrina put her head on Thorn's chest, listening to his steady and rhythmic heartbeat, and her heart gradually became quiet. down.

"Uh... that's what it means." Thorne thought about it carefully, and felt that what she summed up made sense.

So he nodded, and then pulled her from his arms to his front, brushed aside the waterfall-like long hair with his fingers, held her delicate cheeks, and stared at her beautiful eyes quietly until the other party raised his long eyelashes, Rolling up her beautiful white eyes, she chuckled lightly:
"Why do you suddenly become sentimental? This is not like the you I used to know."

Although a sentimental sorceress has a delicate beauty, he can't help but raise a heart of protection, but Thorne thinks that Andelina was not such a person before.

Every time the two were alone, what he felt the most was the faint smile and the tenderness that radiated all the time.

"To tell you the truth, in fact, this is one of my quirks, and I have countless quirks. I will stop pretending, and now I have a showdown with you. I want to return to my original self, so that you can slowly understand my true appearance. "

Andelina patted off Thorne's hands that were holding her face, and turned into his familiar look again, with a very embarrassing tone: "I'm a little regretful, but it's too late."

Thorne shrugged and smiled, without arguing or refuting.

He understood that there was no point in arguing with Anderina. If he refuted it, it would be troublesome if he quarreled, because arguing was a very dangerous thing.

"Then can we go?" Thorne looked at the sorceress who had returned to normal.

"Let's go." Anderina nodded with a smile, and took the initiative to embrace Thorn's right arm, as if they were a newlyweds.

"Put the hat on." Thorne looked at her charming face, and moved his eyes to the hood behind the cloak.

"It's too uncomfortable, I'm not used to wearing it."

"obedient."

"Oh……"

Due to the blockade of the port leading to the Southern Kingdom, the streets in the lower city seemed empty, and it was difficult to see busy people.

However, when Thorne and Anderina walked out of the bar, a familiar figure made them stop at the same time.

Under the bright sunshine, a half-elf woman with a beautiful and refined appearance came into the sight of the two of them. She stood with her hands behind her back, quietly standing on the opposite side of the street, looked at the two of Thorne with a smile on her face, and nodded slightly. .

Thorn and Anderina looked at each other, and when they were about to go up to talk to each other, the half-elf who behaved strangely seemed to have evaporated into the world, disappearing without a trace.

"Crazy..." Thorn muttered under his breath, preparing to lead Anderina towards the Wizard Tower.

He had just raised his footsteps, and his inadvertently looking at the ground made him have an unexpected discovery, so that he shrank back again.

"What's the matter?" Andrina asked curiously when she saw Thorn stop and frown at the messy footprints on the ground.

"I found some unexpected situations. Wait a moment and don't make a sound." Thorne withdrew his gaze, turned it to the empty alleyway, and signaled her not to speak.

Seeing this, Andelina immediately kept quiet, watching the pensive ranger with a slightly nervous expression.

She also found the messy footprints in front of the tavern. When Thorn signaled her to keep silent, she also seemed to hear some kind of sharp blade hitting sound in a vague way. Unfortunately, the sound was too weak and was quickly overshadowed by Sea of ​​Glory. The howling sea wind extinguished.

——"Steel Soul Pai (Stance Skill): Listening and Discriminating Device!"

Thorn, who stood still, was silent for a moment, and with a thought, he launched the move of the Steel Soul faction.

Under the effect of the posture technique, his hearing has been significantly improved. The quiet and desolate alleyway filled with various small water pools seems to come alive, and various sounds fill the period.

He heard the screams of cats fighting, the laughter and shouts from the inn, the shouting and singing in the sailor's tavern, the deep trill of the lute and the obscenities of the bards.

Thorne even heard the snoring of a sleeping man and the muffled moaning of some peculiar movement in a small house far down the alley.

Soon, he caught the sound of sharp blades hitting, crossbow bolts galloping, and the screams of injuries.

Thorne glanced at the messy footprints on the ground, and then looked at the alleyway where the sound came from. He found that these messy pursuit footprints disappeared towards the alleyway.

"Do you still remember the paladin Nolan you mentioned earlier?" Thorne looked away, looked at the sorceress beside him, and said, "It is very likely that she was going to enter the tavern just now, but for some reason, she was blocked by unknown forces." Chasing and killing, and now fighting with the enemy in the depths of the alley."

A paladin coming to the awkwardly located Winter City is indeed easy to attract the attention of evil forces.

If she acts in a low-key manner and doesn't ask about many things she is not used to, no one is willing to provoke them, but if they want to try to uphold justice here and use the interests of gray organizations, then it depends on what these local snakes are willing to do. I don't want to let it be slaughtered.

What's more, this is a lower city that has been ravaged by demons and almost no one manages it. If you kill a few people casually, no one will take care of it.

Otherwise, the closed area of ​​this port would not have become so desolate.

"Then why are you still standing there, go over and see if you need help." Anderina said without thinking with a startled expression.

"Let's go." Thorne no longer hesitated, and pulled her into the depths of the alleyway.

Probably because of the heavy rain last night and the destruction of the sewer, the road deep in the lane became muddy, and it was a bit difficult for the two of them to walk.

Thorne and Anderina followed the sounds of fighting and the clear footprints on the ground.

Soon, the two came to a relatively wide dead end, and at the same time found a group of people fighting.

Just as Anderina, who was hiding in the shadows, was about to go to help, Thorne suddenly grabbed her right hand, preventing her from moving forward.

Andelina looked at Thorne with a serious expression in doubt.

Thorne gave her a wink, and she followed her gaze, and instantly found that the two were in a very dangerous situation.

Four people dressed in black and fur came out of an alley and walked straight towards the two of them. Seeing these people, Anderina immediately became vigilant.

Then, four more people walked out of the same alley, but they did not approach, but lined up to guard the entrance of the alley.

They all held poisoned light crossbows in their hands, and daggers and short swords hung from their waists.

Thorne looked around, moved his shoulders, and straightened the two sharp swords hanging at his waist.

"what!"

A mournful howl came from the fighting area, and the eight men in black and Thorn all cast their gazes.

A man in black with fur on his head fell to the ground and died. Scarlet blood flowed out, and soon merged with the small water pool on the ground, shining faintly.

This was caused by a sharp sword in the hand of a human woman.

I saw that her weather-beaten plate armor was still shining in the sun, and the sharp sword full of holy energy made the besiegers tremble with fear.

The number of corpses on the ground is increasing with howls. If there is no accident, this battle will end soon.

At this time, Thorne knew very well that the eight people guarding the alley were the new reinforcements, but because of his sudden disturbance with Anderina, the man in black who didn't know the strength of the outsider was in a dilemma.

Seeing this situation, Thorne was not in a hurry to launch an attack. He exchanged a glance with Anderina, signaled her to be at ease, and then looked at the eight men in black with interest.

During the confrontation, a short man came out from behind the man in black. He was wearing a white tight top and a gray short coat. The gold chain around his neck swayed with his steps, shining with golden light like the sun.

"This is the leader of the Poison Rose Thieves Guild. It belongs to one of the gray forces in the lower city. It has assassinated many of our compatriots who tried to develop organizations in the lower city." Seeing the appearance of the visitor, Andrina used a spell to send a message to Thorne. Introduced.

"Poison rose?" Thorne whispered, and sure enough, he found a black rose flower with a faint green glow on the shoulder of this short man, so he asked in a low voice, "How is your strength?"

"It's a third-level shadow thief, be careful." Anderina solemnly reminded him.

"Third level." Thorne felt a little relieved when he heard that.

The fighting behind him continued, and another member of the Thieves Guild fell under the sword of the human woman. He died unhappily, prostrate in the mud pit, his fingers firmly inserted into the soil on the ground, and moaned for a long time.

Following the appearance of the union leader, the eight men in black began to slowly and silently approach Thorne and the others.

Thorn had already touched the hilt of his sword, and Anderina silently put a protective force field on herself.

The leader of the Poison Rose Thieves Guild walked towards the two with firm steps, and the eight men in black spread out behind him, blocking every possible escape direction.

Thorne looked intently at the leader of the Thieves Guild, his back slightly arched.

Just when the leader of the thieves' union was about to touch Thorne's attack range, he suddenly stopped vigilantly and began to look at the two of them carefully.

Thorne noticed that the unusually cold eyes of the leader of the Thieves Guild reflected the color of metal, and his stern face was morbidly pale.

"The Poison Rose Guild is doing business, and the idlers leave as soon as possible!" The leader of the Thieves Guild made a strange gesture behind his hands, and said coldly to Thorne.

Just for a while while talking, there was another scream of infinite nostalgia for life from the fight behind him, and then there was the sound of blood-red water splashing.

Through the footsteps and the sound of fighting, Thorn judged that there were only two men in black fighting with the human woman.

At the same time, with the blessing of the "Sound Discriminator", he also heard the soft cat-like footsteps on the eaves, and the crackling sound of the crossbow being loaded, and his hand holding the sword was a little harder again.

"what!!!"

With a scream, another man in black was killed, and the bloody head rolled to the corner before stopping.

Only the last person is still struggling.

The thieves leader, whose expression changed slightly, made a hand gesture that was familiar to all the thieves with his hands behind his back.

Immediately afterwards, eight men in black holding light crossbows protruded strangely from the eaves, and the men in black who were pressing behind the bandit leader also raised their poisoned crossbows, all locked on Thorne and Anderina. On the two uninvited guests.

"Zheng!"

The moment Thorne heard the last man in black being killed by a human woman behind him and the sound transmission of Anderina's spell, his slightly bowed body suddenly shot towards the eight approaching people like an arrow from the string. The man in black rushed up.

——"Steel Soul School (Strike Skill): Ejection Slash!"

In the shadow of the alleyway, Thorne's figure turned into afterimages due to his excessive speed. Every time the afterimages stopped around the eight men in black, one of them dropped his light crossbow, clutched his neck and fell to the ground to die. The remaining bandit leaders who were farther away survived.

The two faced each other coldly, neither of them moved a bit.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

At the same time, the eight men in black on the eaves all poured poisonous crossbow arrows at Anderina who was alone.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

It's a pity that when the sharp crossbow was about one meter away from Anderina, it either deflected directly and flew in another direction, or exhausted all its kinetic energy and landed at her feet.

On the eaves, the men in black who had poured their crossbow arrows did not delay any time. They pulled out their weapons one after another, jumped forward, and rushed towards Anderina, who had a dim protective force field.

The three men in black were hit by the "Arcane Missile" the moment they jumped down, and either died tragically, or fell to the ground and howled in pain.

The man in black who was the first to approach was enveloped by the "colorful spray" that bloomed from Anderina's fingertips, and fell to the ground unconscious.

The No.2 man in black was precisely hit by a dark green acid arrow, and he was holding his thigh that was corroding at a speed visible to the naked eye and screaming.

The remaining three men in black.

The two were stopped by the human woman who had ended the battle. The moment the last one was about to get close to Anderina, the dark shadow twisted, and a figure blocked his way.

——"Stone Dragon Sect (Strike Skill): Ancient Giant Mountain Break!"

Feeling the power of the earth rushing through his body, Thorne hit the frightened face of the man in black with his fist. The fragile head was like a crushed watermelon, and the red and white water flowed all over the ground.

——"One Ring of Magic: Hunter's Mark!"

Immediately afterwards, Thorne threw a magical mark at the retreating thief leader without stopping.

Looking at the figure of the other party who disappeared using shadow tricks, Thorne moved his mind, and also disappeared without a trace in the alleyway.

Suddenly, there were only two standing figures left in the bloody alleyway.

"Sister Anderina! It turned out to be you!" The paladin girl wiped out the last enemy with a sword, and said pleasantly to the familiar face who just took off her hood and flicked her long hair.

Then he walked up to her and gave her a warm hug.

"Long time no see, Nolan." Anderina, who was a little uncomfortable under the cold plate armor, didn't care, but greeted with a smile: "Didn't you go on a long journey? Why did you come back suddenly. "

"Originally, I had already left Winter City. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen, so I was worried and returned again, only to find that most people were gone, and you disappeared, and then I went by boat After training in the Southern Kingdom, I came back here half a month ago."

Paladin Nolan wiped the blood on his armor, looked at Anderina apologetically, and told her about his experience.

"Oh, that's right." Suddenly, the paladin in front of him seemed to remember something, and asked curiously, "Who was the man in black who was with you just now?"

After finishing speaking, she looked at the eight union members who were instantly killed not far away, secretly startled.

"My... lover." Andrina pondered for a moment, thought of a suitable word, and said to the paladin in front of her.

"Love?" Paladin Nolan looked at the smiling Andelina in surprise, looked up and down again, then smiled slightly, and sighed:
"It seems that Bai Fumei in the lower city has finally found her true love. I don't know who is so lucky. What's his name? Do I know him?"

"Of course you know each other." Before Andelina could answer, the shadows in the alley flickered, and Thorn appeared beside the two of them, and then walked up to the paladin with a smile on his face, and stretched out his right hand: "Nolan, long time no see gone."

Paladin Nolan, a clergyman who believes in Irmaat, the god of suffering.

For the paladin in front of him, he still has a very good impression in his heart.

In any case, Nolan was also a very good friend before he met Anderina.

Seeing her appear in front of him again, looking at those still clear and flawless eyes, the sacred image of the moment when this strong girl became a paladin once again appeared in Thorne's mind.

It was her rare sense of justice that made him have a good impression of Nolan, and he couldn't have any unreasonable thoughts about her.

Because this kind of paladin who devoted himself to the cause of justice never considered personal feelings, which was why when a paladin fell, it became something that people talked about.

Even many love masters like to seduce a paladin as a proof of their charm.

Therefore, the vast majority of paladins will never marry or marry for life, and they will not let themselves fall in love. They always put their responsibilities as paladins first.

One sentence: A paladin never dies!Justice lasts forever!

It seems to have endless power, even people like Thorne who are not paladins will become excited when they hear it.

This is no longer a simple game, but the real world. A strong belief is also an indestructible force for everyone.

A paladin is a group of people who use the power of faith to the extreme.

"Thorn, it turned out to be you! I didn't expect us to meet again so soon."

Seeing a familiar person appearing, paladin Nolan's eyes flashed a look of excitement, he subconsciously glanced at Anderina, then stepped forward and stretched out his arms wrapped in thick gauntlets, giving him a long goodbye Reunion hug.

"This is not a place to talk, let's leave first." Thorne glanced at the surrounding corpses and a passerby secretly watching, and said to the two.

 Chapter 96 is overturned, as expected, so be it, lifting the ban is impossible, and those who are interested can go to other places to read it.

  Well, that sounds a little sarcastic.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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