Hotel on the mountain

"Record. Ichthyosaur species.

The whole body is brown; the forelimbs have evolved into double fins; the hind limbs have evolved into flippers with toes; the body is tapering backwards and becomes columnar; two eyes are on the top of the head; the head has a fleshy protrusion, which is an extension of the dorsal fin and contains a light sac. , glows under the action of biological enzymes; its mouth is as wide as the body and has double rows of fangs, which are the main means of attack; its flippers also secrete mucus for climbing forward, making it an amphibious creature; likes Extinguish fireworks and other luminous objects by swallowing them.

A brand new species of ichthyosaur was officially recorded in the Imperial Calendar 1800 and named 'Light Fish'. "

A group of hunters gathered in the forecourt of the Alpine Castle because there were rows of monsters they had never seen in the Old World. Next to each monster's cage was a sign describing their characteristics and the rewards for hunting them.

"Every time you hunt seven lantern fish, you will be rewarded 1,100 gold yuan with the light sac on your head as evidence, and if you catch it, you will be rewarded 1,750 yuan. If you find the nest of the lantern fish, you will be rewarded 5,000 yuan. Note: The lantern fish is a large social creature, and its existence has not yet been discovered. Leader monster."

Someone in the crowd read out the description and mission of the Lantern Fish, and someone else added: "Oh, look here, there's an asterisk on the cage, it's just a one-star monster."

"Wow, it's really a 150% reward. A one-star monster can get such a high reward. This trip to the New World is really the right one!"

"Do you have a room? If you include food and accommodation, the cost is actually very high."

"Who can afford that kind of aristocratic service and hotel? Even the cheapest room on the second or third floors costs 200 gold dollars a night."

"Oh? But, I heard that the room is already full, and many people choose to live together to share the cost. Moreover, many people are eager to live in this top-notch castle. I heard that the two A hundred years ago, it had the most advanced water supply and heating system, and I really want to live there.”

"Is that so...why didn't I think of that..."

"Well, let's go hunting together."

The crowd dispersed energetically, and a young man in a black cloak walked away from the others. He passed through the rows of cages, walked through the wide vestibule, and came to the northwest section of the city wall, where the city wall There is a watchtower standing on it, but obviously the manpower and material resources here are not yet able to repair the tower. Only the knight's residence connected to the watchtower has been repaired. The original knight's residence of the Alpine Castle was built against the city wall for a long time. One section is divided into upper and lower floors, all made of wooden furniture, with an antique feel. The now restored knight's residence has become the residence of all staff.

The young man in a black cloak searched among the floors of the knight's residence, and finally found his desired target - the residence of the blacksmith Simba. He stopped in front of the door and politely knocked on it twice. After a while, a bald head poked out the crack of the door and asked, "Who are you?"

"Hello, Master!" The young man bent down solemnly, "I am Qiu Guang from the Boyero Empire. I would like to ask you to help me forge equipment!"

"Qiu Guang?" Simba touched his bald head and suddenly realized something, "Oh! I remembered that you are a seven-star hunter. But haven't you been hunting in the no-man's land of the Boyero Empire? How could this happen? Coming to the New World on a Hebrew Empire ship?”

"Master Simba, I am now an eight-star hunter. Last year, I helped the Boyero Empire repel the invasion of Yanfeilong and Yanwanglong, and officially upgraded my star level." Speaking of this, Qiu Guang solemnly said He bent down and said sincerely, "Since I upgraded my star level, I have been looking for many forging masters in the Old Continent, but they are all very busy. The only one who may have time to forge equipment now is you who came to the New Continent. I took the liberty to come here this time just to ask the master to build a set of eight-star equipment for me!”

The dark-skinned Simba declined embarrassedly: "Yes, I am free at the moment, but that's because I don't have a blacksmith shop."

"Ah?" Qiu Guang was a little confused.

"That's it." Master Simba opened the door, leaned on the door and said helplessly, "If I just forge the following equipment including five-star equipment, then I can do it with just my hands, but equipment above five-star level requires large-scale forging. Facilities, large facilities need to be driven by water, and are usually located near waterfalls or rivers. I did bring facilities, but if I built the blacksmith shop in the wild, the current guards would not be able to spare the manpower to guard it day and night. It’s easy to be attacked by monsters.”

"I understand. I know that it is very rare for the master to take the time to forge equipment. I am willing to help the master guard the blacksmith shop for a year." Qiu Guang always bowed to greet him politely, "I hope the master can Set up a blacksmith shop and forge eight-star equipment for me!”

"Let the eight-star hunter guard the blacksmith shop for a year?" Simba scratched his forehead and felt that this business could be done, so he nodded, "Okay, you wait for my news."

Simba was about to close the door and go back to sleep, when his bare head thought of something else, and then asked: "By the way, what kind of equipment do you have?"

"Oh, shield axe, it's a horned dragon shield axe."

"Well, I'll call you when I build the blacksmith shop."

…

Hunter is a profession, like knight, graded from one to nine stars. However, after hunters surpassed the nine-star evaluation, they were collectively called "Blue Stars". The star promotion of all hunters is evaluated by the Hunter Guild. The rules are very simple, which is to defeat monsters with corresponding star levels.

At this time, in the dense forest near a lake to the east of the Alpine Castle, there was another eight-star hunter named Thorad - the hunting circle gave him a nickname, "Masked Swordsman Thorad" Virtue", also known as "Eight Star Nanny".

"Hey! Yeah! Huh! Ha!" Thorad's daughter Xibinai is 7 years old. She is holding a light wooden sword and is attacking a big tree like crazy.

Thorad wears light armor made of fire dragon material, but he always wears a helmet. He only opens the helmet's visor when he is alone with his daughter. At this time, he was standing aside, holding a bone-made Odachi, and said to Xibinai: "Xiao Nai, you must remember that when we use Taishou, we must have a rhythm. People like you are like 'heyahhuha' "There is no future for a tachi that is slashing randomly. Come on, follow dad's rhythm, hey-ah-hoo-ha-ha, you have to pause every time you use the sword to observe the monster's reaction." Because the Odachi is very heavy, it can't be used as flexibly as a one-handed sword or a one-handed sword."

"Learned it!"

"Then Xiao Nai, do it again."

"Hey ya hoo ha! Hey ya hoo ha!"

"Hey, Xiao Nai, let's go find a monster to fight. Monsters are hunters' best teachers."

Thorad, who was of average height, retracted the bone otachi into the scabbard on his back - the otachi was sheathed from the side. There was a small button at the top of the scabbard. Just touch the button lightly with the tachi. , an opening will quickly appear on the side of the scabbard, so that the entire Odachi can be retracted into the scabbard smoothly. There is also a button inside the scabbard, so the same goes for removing the knife.

Sibinai nodded heavily, pointed at Thorad's back, and said, "Dad, the teachers are here."

Thorad looked around in the direction of Sibinet's finger and found that they had been surrounded by a group of lantern fish without knowing it. These lantern fish swam up from the lake and quickly closed the distance.

"Xiao Nai, watch carefully and study seriously. When we use Tai Sword, when we encounter an enemy, we must stimulate your spiritual energy and apply it to the whole body - including your sword. To form a state of unity between sword and man, as long as the magic weapon appears on your Tai Sword The white air blade means you are in the right state."

Speaking of this, Thorad looked at the lantern fish surrounding him from all directions, paused and said, "If you don't enter the state where the sword and man are united, just call for help."

After that, the bone-made Odachi that Thorad pulled out was covered with a layer of white air blade. The color of this air blade is very obvious, and it can fill people's sight like water mist in the air.

"Have you learned it? Xiao Nai."

"Well, I learned it, dad." Xiao Nai put the sword back into its sheath and shouted in her immature childish voice, "Help!"

"Tachi - Continuous Dragon Slash!"

Thorad's whole body suddenly erupted with a burst of spiritual purple light, and his figure also pulled out an afterimage in an instant. Time seemed to have slowed down. Xiao Nai could only see the afterimage shuttled between the shoals of lantern fish. , the next moment, the afterimage returned to its original place.

Just like a playful purple light teasing the creatures on the ground, all the creatures teased by the light were separated from their bodies.

"Dad! I want to learn this!" Xibinai cheered, as if seeing a novel toy.

"Well, Xiao Nai, the essence of this trick is that you use your spiritual energy to instantly increase your speed, the strength of the knife, the sharpness of the knife, as well as your reaction ability and your vision. All the prerequisites are , your body must be able to withstand the explosive power brought by spiritual energy, and most importantly, you must enter the state of unity between sword and man. To put it simply, Xiaonai, you can’t learn it yet.”

As an eight-star hunter, Thorad was able to face a group of one-star lantern fish with ease. He was teaching his daughter while holding a knife to observe the situation. Suddenly, Thorad's eyes glanced, and a huge water ball struck from the side. He immediately swung his knife to cut off the potential energy of the water ball, and looked intently, and saw heads popping up one after another in the clear lake. They were all lantern fish, so densely packed that they almost filled the edge of the lake!

At this time, the lantern fish in the water were swallowing the lake water. They used the muscles of their whole bodies to spray out the swallowed lake water, causing the tree trunks to shake several times. Although a single water ball is less powerful, hundreds of shots are also very powerful.

Thorad asked Xiao Nai to climb on his back. He held the Odachi sword in both hands and slashed while retreating. Hundreds of lantern fish fiercely launched water ball attacks. Thorad had a little difficulty in dealing with it. The most important thing was, He must protect the daughter on his back.

And his hunter's danger alert suddenly sounded - he understood that a monster was attacking from the blind spot of his vision!

"Tachi - see the cut!"

This is a Tai Sword skill that risks one's life. The user will instantly clear all the spiritual energy in his body and be temporarily unable to act. This is used to create an illusory counterattack space that will only last 0.3~1 seconds. Once this counterattack space Being attacked within the duration, the attacking party will be affected by the reaction force and lose the balance of the body, and the mysterious spiritual energy will fill the user's body in an instant, and will enhance the user's "sword and man unity" "The state of Tai Sword allows the air blade of Tai Sword to be sublimated. At the same time, at the moment of sublimation, Tai Sword's attack will have a super explosive effect!

However, if there is no attack within the effective time of the counterattack space, the user will not only lose all spiritual energy, but also fall into a brief state of stupor due to the instantaneous loss of spiritual energy.

Hearing a crisp sound of "ding", the experienced Thorad knew that his counterattack space had been destroyed by the attack and took effect. He saw the white air blade wrapped in the sword in his hand suddenly burst into flames. . Thorad relied on his fighting instincts, held the knife in both hands and turned around to chop away!

Not even the sound of the blade slicing across flesh was heard, and a huge monster fish attacking from Thorad's back made no sound. This strange fish is about four meters tall, with a huge light bag hanging on its head, just like an enlarged version of the small lantern fish. At this time, its head and body had been separated, the incision was as smooth as a mirror, and no blood spilled out, as if it had been torn apart by space.

Thorad just took a breath and was about to say something to Xibinai. He saw Xibinai looking frightened, pointing tremblingly in the direction of the middle of the lake, and said in a trembling voice: "Dad... look at that... it's so big. Big strange fish... lots and lots of them..."

At this moment, the sound of a large number of horse hooves sounded behind Thorad - it was Jetro and the Men of Dreams who were looking for traces of the lantern fish nearby, who arrived. The two of them are the most special individuals in this world, and they are naturally inseparable.

The strange thing is that when a large number of people arrived here, the school of lantern fish turned over the white waves and retracted into the water.

"Hello! Are you injured?" Everyone who comes to the New World is a guest and always has to spend money on the island, so Jetro stepped forward to care for him very kindly, "We will give you the horse, and you will bring a child with you." More convenient.”

"Well, thank you." Thorad did not refuse, because his daughter Sibinai was indeed a little frightened. His mask has also been re-closed, and the voice came out through the mask: "The nests of these walking lantern fish groups may be in the water. The number is surprisingly large, not the size of an independent monster group. Moreover, a large lake It’s impossible to support so many lantern fish. There is probably a large water channel underneath.”

"Your information is very important. Let's go back to the hotel and have a rest." Jetro said to Sibinet with a smile. "There is delicious ice cream in the hotel, as well as all kinds of sweet food. The chef is from the Old World. Chef, do you want to try it?”

Sweet is the most widely accepted taste. Sibinai suddenly lost the frightened haze she had just received. Instead, she strangled her father's neck and pestered Thorad to eat ice cream.

The father and daughter walked towards the horses that Yetro gave them with relaxed expressions. Just as they passed by Mengzhi, Mengzhi's voice suddenly sounded in Yetro's brain: "Sorad Chiyo has been detected. There is a weak consciousness node signal and short-frequency communication is possible. Is it connected to the target? "

"Huh?!" Jetro looked at Thorad's back. He once again realized that the world might not be simple, so he thought for a while and answered, "No."