Chapter 8, Teresa Trovik
"Thank you, Teresa, I saw traces of battle about an hour away from here, are you... okay?" Ryan stood in front of the sorceress.
"It's much better than you can imagine." The sorceress said leaning on her staff, her bright silver eyes looked at Ryan through black-rimmed glasses with butterfly patterns, obviously dissatisfied with Ryan's publicity.
Lane fully understands this.
The female sorceress is very strong, very strong. Logically speaking, she who has stepped into the legendary rank will not be able to show this level of strength in this battle. As long as she is given enough time to prepare, let alone a beastman Even if there are two or three war gangs, she can eliminate them one by one.
The key issue is that the sorceress has already fought a battle. On the way here, Ryan found traces of using a lot of spells, which proves that the blood ax mercenary group led by Teresa has fought at least one beastman before. The gang fought, and it was played by the blaster, so before the battle started, Teresa was already in a state of empty blue.
Moreover, Teresa used a lot of mana to track the witcher during this period of time. The sorceress is not a hunter, so she can track the prey through experience. With her own magic power to bite the clues left by the demon hunter, Teresa's magic power has not been recovered enough, and she has been in a state of consumption for a long time.
In the case of empty blue, he also forcibly released a six-ring spell. Ryan knew that Teresa probably would be very reluctant to stand up now, and she might not be able to cast spells for several days.
"Better than I imagined? Do you know what I imagined?" Ryan complained. He brought his horse and hung the head of the Beastman leader on his horse: "Okay, during this time, I will protect you safety."
"This is what you were supposed to do. You almost killed a whole mercenary group because of an uncertain clue!" Teresa still stood still while leaning on her staff, panting heavily, bending slightly Waist, the proud figure is fully revealed, Ryan even saw a pair of plump trembling slightly.
"But I caught up with Bert's clue... Forget it, it's useless to say this now." Ryan saw the sorceress standing still, rolled his eyes, and immediately understood what was happening, and stretched out his hand: " Come on, get on the horse, I'll lead the horse for you, think about it, the 'Sledgehammer' Ryan of the Kingdom of Nord will personally lead the horse for you, it's not an insult to your status as a member of the Garland Council, is it?"
"...Let's find a place to rest first. The Bloodaxe Mercenary Group has no way to fight anymore, and Boris was also injured. This time, our Garland Council owes them a great favor from the Bloodaxe Mercenary Group. I I really doubt that it is worth paying so much to hunt down Belt." Teresa never moved, and Ryan knew that the last bit of physical strength of the sorceress was exhausted, and now he was holding on for his own face.
This is the talent of the warlock. When the magic power is exhausted, the warlock can forcibly overdraw the physical power to replace the magic power.
The mercenaries are cleaning the battlefield. It is very difficult to clean the bloody and frozen battlefield, but it must be done. In the case of heavy losses, the mercenaries hope to recover some losses by cleaning the battlefield.
Ryan had no interest in cleaning the battlefield. The broken things of the Beastmen were really worthless. Seeing Teresa still standing still, Ryan reluctantly pulled the horse closer, wanting to put the sorceress on the horse.
"What are you doing!" The sorcerer used the staff to open the hand of the knight of the kingdom towards Teresa's buttocks. The sorceress' pale face was a little angry, but because of using the staff, the sorceress, who had already exhausted her strength, almost fell over .
After all, she didn't fall directly into the snow, Ryan simply picked her up by the waist, and the two of them got on the horse together, and then patted the sorceress on the shoulder: "You must be happy if I do this, right? .
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After speaking, Ryan jumped off the horse again. He is now wearing equipment all over his body, and the horse cannot support the weight of two people.
"You bastard." The sorceress realized that she was thinking too much. Thinking about it, Ryan is not the kind of person who takes advantage of others, so she quietly rode on the horse. Burned it with fire, and then buried it hastily. Many mercenaries looked sad. The imperial businessman took his two guards to find his lost carriage, and the group was ready to start again.
The mercenary group suffered heavy casualties and remained silent, while Oliver and the others were lucky to have survived and recovered the goods, but seeing the bad atmosphere, they also remained silent.
The team was marching through the forest, and the moon was already high in the sky.
"There is no enemy that my blizzard can't freeze. If I hadn't blocked the action of the Beastman leader, you would not be the opponent of so many Beastmen. If you are frozen, anyone can go up and kill it. Humph, reinforcements It always arrives after the battle is over." The sorceress suddenly said to Ryan who was walking in front while sitting on the horse.
With a beautiful face, shimmering black long hair, a refreshing night fur coat and a noble white fox fur coat, the sorceress looks like a goddess under the moon.
"If I hadn't arrived in time, are you sure you can kill the Beastman leader? Oh, maybe you can set off another blizzard, and everyone will be able to kill all the Beastmen after they recover, don't you think so?" Ryan felt Speechless for a while, everyone knows how powerful the leader of the beastman is. Even if he was injured and his legs were frozen and unable to move, Ryan still tried his best to kill it. Under the premise of being able to move around, these mercenaries still delivered food when they went up.
Well, maybe the mercenary leader named Boris has a chance, but the fact is that Boris had already suffered serious injuries at that time, Ryan thought so.
Seeing the sorceress and the kingdom knight bickering, some people couldn't stand it anymore.
It was the young mercenary named Banda. He took the initiative to trot forward, helped Teresa lead the horse, and then whispered to the sorceress: "Ms. Trovik, you are right, you are blocking the action. Under such circumstances, that beast could not escape death in the face of anyone, what is there to brag about about that knight, if it was me at the time, I would definitely be able to take its head off."
After speaking, Banda smiled flatteringly at the sorceress.
"Hehe." Who knew Teresa just sneered, looked down at him, then looked at the two-handed sword behind his back, then looked away disdainfully, and didn't even bother to answer.
With a hot face and a cold butt, the atmosphere was a little awkward.
Ryan secretly felt amused when he saw this situation.
Teresa Trovik, from the Garland Council, is the daughter of Aurora Trovik, the elder of the Garland Council.
The Garland Council has another name, the Council of Female Spellcasters. This organization enjoys a high reputation throughout the continent.
One hundred and fifty years ago, the savior Ludwig led the army of order to defeat the army of chaos and chased them all the way to the northernmost chaotic wasteland. They chose to withdraw because the supplies could not keep up, and the female spellcasters were also in the alliance of order played an extremely important role.
After the second Chaos Invasion ended, eighteen female spellcasters whose strength was at or above the legendary level held a gathering in Sky Dome to discuss the various injustices against women in the spellcasting field. After a few days, these female mages reached a consensus. They jointly established a so-called female spellcaster council, which only accepts female spellcasters to join. Seek to counter the dominance of male spellcasters on the continent by speaking with one voice.
The Gloria is like a burning flame, gorgeous and elegant, representing the strength and independence of women, so the Council of Female Spellcasters was named the Gloria Council and was partially recognized by Emperor Ludwig of the Empire, becoming a formal organization, Skydome Therefore, it has become a holy place for female spellcasters.
Teresa is a sorceress from the Garland Council. She grew up in that environment and was deeply influenced, so her ideas can be imagined.
The female spellcasters of the Garland Council didn't look down on men. In fact, they never said something like "men are rubbish", and the female spellcasters who joined the Garland Council did not prohibit marriage.
They look down on "useless men".
Unfortunately, this mercenary named Banda was a "useless man" in Teresa's eyes.
Judging from his aura, Banda is just an ordinary fighter, because he has never seen him make a move, so Ryan thought that if he died, he would be an ordinary high-level fighter, even Boris's elite class and advanced Berserker The head of the mercenary regiment, the sorceress actually didn't take him too seriously, let alone an ordinary warrior.
Want to step on me to win Teresa's favor? I'm afraid you chose the wrong partner~ Ryan shook his head. He didn't want to be serious with Banda. Teresa was in a high level of fatigue, and the knight of the kingdom started talking to Oliver: "Mr. Oliver? We meet again."
"Ah! Yes, yes! We meet again, Mr. Lane, thank you very much this time!" Oliver said hurriedly with a look of rejoicing for the rest of his life.
"This time we are lucky, the power of the Beastmen is not great in the territory of Nord, we only encountered such miscellaneous fish as Chaos Warhounds, Razor Beasts, and Horned Beasts. They are all evolved from ordinary horned beasts. In addition to these, the truly powerful beastman tribe also has taller and more robust war horned beasts, trolls, cyclops, and even giant horned tauren and chaotic giants. This kind of beastman tribe, I can only turn around and run away." Ryan laughed straight, but the words that came out of his mouth made people terrified.
"What's there to be afraid of? Mr. Ryan, you know about the Battle of the Blood Pine Forest, right? Our emperor's new emperor, His Majesty Franz Friedrich, led an army of 100,000 into the Blood Pine Forest after he ascended the throne, and wiped out more than thirty It is said that there are 50,000 Beastmen in a battle group whose bones are piled up into mountains, if there is such a tribe of Beastmen, our great emperor will definitely roast them all again!" Oliver said triumphantly.
"Yes." Ryan said no more.
The Empire, located in the south of the Nord Kingdom, is the most powerful human country on the continent. The Nord Kingdom was originally a part of the Empire, but now it is a vassal state of the Empire. The main reason is that the Empire is tired of guarding against endless harassment from the northern barbarians and invasion, so the savior Ludwig appointed his adjutant Harald Frank as Grand Duke of Nordland, independent from the empire.
Ryan chatted with Oliver for a while, and after about two hours, Ryan estimated that it was almost seven o'clock in the evening.
At this point in time, it was almost time to set up camp and rest. The head of the mercenary group, Boris, was still injured, and the deputy head of the group, Wilt, was temporarily in charge of commanding him. Wirth was also a veteran mercenary with elite strength. A warrior advances to a great swordsman, wielding a two-handed sword, and Banda seems to be his apprentice.
The team found a place to camp near the stone mountain and close to the water source. Since the leader of the beastmen was dead, the tribe of beastmen in the forest must be in civil strife and there was no time to care about them, and everyone was not too worried about enemies.
All the people were busy setting up tents and setting fires. After two days and two nights, the heavy snow finally stopped. The weather was still very gloomy. The mercenaries took out pots and pans, boiled water, and took out dry food to soak To eat in hot water, at least some wild vegetables or other things should be collected in the wild to make soup, but in the middle of winter, there are few such things in the wild, so everyone can only make do with it and wait until we arrive in town tomorrow.
"Ms. Trovik, let me dismount for you!" Banda saw Teresa sitting on the horse and hadn't dismounted. The young mercenary immediately stepped forward and said respectfully.
Who knew that he was still given a cold face. The sorceress still held the rein in her hand, and she didn't even look at him. Instead, she took the initiative to say to Ryan who was checking the terrain in the distance: "Ryan? You can arrange it! "
"Okay, okay, I see!" Ryan approached after hearing the words, took the initiative to hug Teresa off the horse, and after confirming that the sorceress' high-heeled leather boots stepped on the ground, he let her go: "I want you to help me!" Looking for a more comfortable place?"
"Isn't this what you should do?" Although Teresa was very pale and even had to walk with the help of a staff, the woman still refused to admit defeat.
"Hehe, are you using the staff as a crutch? Well, it's okay to use more than one staff." Ryan complained directly when he saw this.
"Oh? Isn't your warhammer also used as a fire stick in your hand?" Who knew that the sorceress retorted, and Ryan couldn't stop laughing after hearing this: "Hahahahahahaha!"
In order to ignite the fire just now, he put the warhammer with the added fire attribute into the pyre to start the fire, and Teresa seemed to have seen it.
The way the kingdom knight and the sorceress made peace made Banda grit his teeth secretly. The damn knight knows how to please Ms. Trovik, and Ms. Trovik seems to trust him more, so she has to find a way to get him out. Otherwise, it would be difficult for me to have a chance to impress Ms. Trovik's heart.
"Master Wilt, can you do me a favor?" Banda sneaked up to his master, the deputy captain Wirth. Wirter looked to be about the same age as Boris, and his appearance was not as rough as that of the mercenary leader. He was arranging the location of the camp and arranging for everyone to boil water and eat. When he heard his apprentice's request, he smiled wryly and shook his head: "Banda, please find out your own situation. Ms. Trovik is a member of the Garland Council. Do you really understand the status gap between you?"