Chapter 443: Thieves in the Forest
Light and delicate voices rippled through the quiet air, and Anderdun remained silent for the first time in a long time. Verafia did not pay too much attention. Her jade onion-like slender fingers brushed through her silk-like hair, and her raised snowy face was illuminated by the bright sunlight.
A pair of scorching gold eyes fell on the black-haired young man again, and the corners of her childish lips curved slightly upwards.
Verafia had imagined what the future held for her and Igter quite a few times already… Although, she felt it wasn’t bad being by his side now, Verafia did not consider the young man indispensable to her. It was why she had agreed to Igter.
What’s more, even though Verafia was currently in the guise of a young lady, having had male experiences, how could she truly be like some lovesick girls who couldn’t live without a certain person after leaving them?
“That’s why this young lady won’t care.”
As if to emphasize, a crisp young girl’s voice sounded.
Verafia shook her head slightly, no longer thinking about it. She slightly pulled up her skirt and stood up from the patch of grass. Raising her small face, she was about to call out to the young man and Ophi below when she suddenly seemed to sense something, and a ripple of surprise appeared in her lustrous gold pupils.
“Wait, that fluctuation just now, it seems like magic… and caused by combat?”
The girl cupped her cheeks with her small hand, her golden eyes filled with novelty. “Hmm… and it doesn’t seem too far from here…”
Just as Verafia was pondering, a huge explosion suddenly rang out, and the intense shockwave almost made her lose her balance.
Igter, who was still in the spring water, was clearly more affected. If Ophi hadn’t reacted quickly enough, he probably would have choked on more water. Igter forcefully wiped the water from his hair and face and looked up, shouting, “Young Lady, is someone fighting with magic?”
However, Igter’s voice was quickly negated by his own shaking head.
“But, such a fluctuation doesn’t seem to be caused by magic… rather, it sounds a bit like the sound of a magic crystal cannon misfiring.”
“Magic crystal cannon? Never mind, since someone is fighting here, it’s probably them who caused it… This young lady will go and see, and then I’ll know!”
With that, Verafia pulled up her skirt, waved her slender hand to grab the Blazing Flame Staff, and stepped into her small boots towards the direction she sensed.
“Young Lady, wait for me!”
Igter called out, quickly climbing ashore. His Dou Qi rippled, evaporating the water, and he followed behind the young lady.
Ophi and Flarn exchanged glances. At this moment, the two girls naturally had no more desire to play around. They quickly put on their outer robes, changed into their dresses, and then hurried to catch up with Verafia.
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The location of the battle was not far from the young girls. After walking a few steps, they could already faintly hear the shouts of combat, the fluctuations of magic being released, and the sounds of swords clashing.
Still under the shade of the forest, a clear road could be seen ahead. At the end of it, vehicles and a large number of shields formed a defensive barrier. The mercenary guards were blocking at the forefront, with explosion craters and scattered crystal fragments behind them; attacking them were bandits in tattered robes, but their swords, sabers, and arrows gleamed with a cold light, and their faces were contorted with ferocity.
“Hey, we’re almost at your Kingdom’s capital, and you can still see highway bandits?”
Verafia turned her head to look back at Igter and Ophi who were catching up, then raised her pretty face and exclaimed softly, “But, these bandits… they don’t seem simple, do they?”
The leader of the bandits attacking the merchant caravan exuded a powerful Platinum aura. Among his subordinates, there were nearly ten bandits with Dou Qi and magic fluctuations who had reached Gold Rank, and even included a Mage profession. Such strength could even dominate ordinary cities and small towns for many noble lords.
But Verafia was clearly not talking about such a place… Although they concealed it well, to Verafia, it was obvious that beneath their surface casualness, both their swordplay and spellcasting showed a sense of “discipline.”
And what could cultivate such strict discipline could only be an army, and necessarily, professional soldiers with rigorous training.
“Young Lady, you mean they’re an army from some lord disguised as bandits? Then their objective… could it be that there’s an important person hidden within the opposite merchant caravan?”
“An important person… that’s also possible.”
Verafia murmured. In her upward gaze, although it was the hired mercenaries of the merchant caravan who were resisting, there was no doubt that the one leading them was a young man in a long robe, not dressed as a mercenary.
Even without any distinctive markings, the man’s aura made her think of the word “knight.”
Suddenly, the young man’s eyes lifted, and his gaze, as calm as the blue ocean, fell into Verafia’s eyes. The girl’s fingertips could not help but clench, but as if by coincidence, the other party soon shifted his gaze away and continued to lead the mercenaries in defending against the bandits’ attacks.
“This person… did he detect this young lady? Also, was his action just now a warning?”
Verafia thought to herself. But in an instant, a sense of shame and anger surged. As if being petulant, the girl let out a soft哼 and resolutely turned her small face towards the young man beside her:
“This young lady doesn’t care what they want to do… In short, let’s just beat them up and then grab them to ask, won’t we know?”
Igter nodded in agreement, thinking that although such a method was a bit simple and crude, it was effective… and indeed, it suited his young lady’s temperament.
As for whether he would get into trouble with some formidable power, with this little phoenix here, what was there to fear?
Seeing Igter’s affirmation, Verafia smiled happily, revealing a satisfied expression. The gorgeous gold eyes in her snow-white pretty face curved into a gentle crescent moon:
“Good then! Igter, I’ll leave these guys to you, this young lady will provide support!”
As her voice fell, Verafia forcefully pushed the young man from behind. Igter, caught off guard, had just drawn End before being met by a similarly Gold ranked bandit swordsman!
The concealment of spiritual power around them disappeared. The aura that suddenly appeared behind him, and the girl’s crisp and pleasant voice, greatly surprised the bandit leader. However, upon seeing that the charging young man only had a Gold aura, his expression instantly turned into a sinister grin:
“A Gold kid, daring to interfere in my business, brothers, take him down!”
“This Young Lady, I knew it!”
Having just drawn his sword and fended off the attack from the enemy in front of him, Igter looked back at the golden-haired girl standing not far away, holding her staff, her beautiful little face revealing a sly smile with her big eyes blinking, and couldn’t help but feel like laughing and crying.
However, at this moment, Igter naturally would not complain about his young lady’s “good intentions.” He firmly grasped the sword hilt, raised the sword edge of End, and swung it. The bursting sword qi tore through the defense of the enemy in front of him the next second, heavily knocking him back to the ground.
Suddenly, a blinding sword light spread before his eyes. Heavy Platinum might, like quicksilver, poured down. Igter sidestepped, drew his sword, and the frost of End on his hand suddenly met it head-on.
The sword light pierced through the heavy pressure, and suddenly erupted in frost—”Flowing Sword”!
