The seedling was crystal clear and full of vitality. Luo Ling took a step forward and blocked the seedling behind her heels.
Seeing her struggling several times but unable to stand up, Lada sneered, "You can't even stand up?"
She waved her hand, and two black rays pierced out from the darkness, but were still blocked by two ice shields in front of Luo Ling's forehead. These two ice shields were much smaller than the previous ones, and they shattered after blocking the black rays.
Rada thought that her mental strength had reached its limit and could not even support a larger ice shield, and was about to run out of steam.
However, Luo Ling felt as comfortable as if she was taking a bath. The seedling had grown into a vine, wrapped around one of her feet, and the abundant vitality was pouring into her body like sweet spring water, nourishing every cell. In just a dozen seconds, her body went from a near-death state to a state where she could fight.
The two ice shields were just a bait, and Rada, who had already been impatient, took the bait secretly.
Luo Ling raised her head, her face pale with pain. She tried to stand up again with difficulty, but failed as expected. This time she couldn't even maintain basic balance and was about to fall to the ground.
Opportunity! Lada saw the moment when she lost her balance and turned into a black shadow again, stabbing at her neck with a knife. As a high-level assassin, she was extremely careful. Even when facing Luo Ling who seemed to be on the verge of collapse, she still used all her strength. She wanted to break the last palm-sized ice shield in front of Luo Ling in one go, and then cut off her slender white neck.
However, when her dagger touched the ice shield, she found that the ice shield was harder than ever before and the dagger was stuck inside. Just when Rada wanted to pull out the dagger, the ice shield did not shatter like before, but grew rapidly, extending along her wrist and arm, all the way up and freezing her right arm inside.
Lada wanted to turn into a shadow and escape, but the frozen part could no longer turn into a shadow. In a panic, Luo Ling grabbed her ankle and her lower body quickly froze. Every inch the ice crystals extended, an inch of her body was dragged back to reality from the shadows. When the ice crystals converged on her chest, she completely lost her ability to escape, revealing a cyan face, which was the color of frozen blood.
"You are so insidious... Why didn't you use this trick at the beginning..." When she asked this question, ice had already covered her head and neck.
"I'm sorry, this is my first time dueling with someone, and I'm not very experienced yet." Luo Ling said, but at this time Rada could no longer hear anything, and she turned into an ice sculpture with a weird posture.
The barrier disappeared naturally after Rada's death, and noisy sounds from the surroundings came in. However, the first thing Luo Ling saw was Elena kneeling on the ground with her hands folded in front of her. Under the care of her hands, a small seedling was also swaying gently.
Seeing Luo Ling struggling to get up, Elena hurried over and held her hands. A vitality several times stronger than that of a seedling flowed into Luo Ling's body.
"Thank you!" Luo Ling felt like she had been trudging through the desert for countless days and now she had finally stepped into an oasis. She looked at Elena gratefully and found that her eyes were actually red.
"Do you know how amazing you are?" Elena turned her head away a little embarrassedly, looking at the ice man lying on the ground and said, "She is definitely a high-level magic assassin. Such a person can be called a mage killer. I really thought you were in danger. I didn't expect that you could defeat her alone in a close combat."
"Not alone. Not alone." Luo Ling hugged her gently, "You will never know how I felt when I saw a seedling growing out of the ground at that moment. Thank you!"
"Lord Luo Ling. There's fire everywhere."
"Teacher Luo. I heard that bandits are coming to attack our camp."
"Lord Luo, there's a fight going on over there!"
The people who gathered around pulled Luo Ling back to reality from the peaceful and secure atmosphere. Fire, chaos, and shouting slowly entered her world from far to near.
Luo Ling stood up, glanced at the people who had gathered around her, and said loudly: "Don't panic. I'm here!"
The crowd suddenly fell silent. Luo Ling pointed at Lada who had fallen to the ground and said, "Someone wants to make things difficult for us and ruin our lives. There are more than one such person. There are slave owners who bear grudges, lords who want to curb us, swindlers who cheat in the name of gods, and all kinds of villains who want to steal from us. This assassin is their representative. She has been lurking in our camp for a long time. Some of you even know her. Just now, she wanted to kill me, but I defeated her in a one-on-one duel."
"But what about you? Are you just waiting for me to sort everything out?"
"No! Teacher Luo! We, we just can't see you and we have lost our backbone." A young man shouted.
"Yes. We were all very worried when we saw you covered in that black hood just now." said another middle-aged man.
Amid the discussion, Luo Ling continued, "I tried my best, but what else did you do besides waiting? Think carefully about what you should do! Your hands can be used to fight, or to beg for mercy. Your feet can be used to move forward, or to escape. How you choose today will determine how you live tomorrow! Tell me, what is your choice?"
"Of course I'll fight those guys!"
"We have to continue living a good life."
"Lord Luo Ling, we just need someone to tell us what to do!" Everyone responded enthusiastically.
"Then what are you still doing here? Take action! Can't you put out fires, maintain order, and catch the troublemakers?!"
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Camp One
"Bang"
A rioter who ran to the door was shot in the back and fell to the ground.
"The last one." Qin Mu carried the rifle on his shoulder, looking like a cowboy in the sunset. But there were no appreciative eyes around him, only some trembling locals.
"Don't panic, don't be afraid! All the rioters have been eliminated." Zhang Sicheng said to the people around him, "Now, everyone should clean up the ruins and remove the bodies according to their usual cleaning areas."
"Report anyone you find acting suspiciously to me, do you understand?" Qin Mu shouted again.
"Alas, if we had been given a few more hours, the situation would have been much better, at least a few fewer people would have died." Zhang Sicheng sighed as he looked at the body of an intelligence team member on the ground. This poor guy was stabbed to death by the rioters who suddenly broke out.
"Humph, Zhou Xiaoren has stirred up a hornet's nest this time." Qin Mu's eyes showed no sympathy at all. "Luckily Luo Ling asked us to come and stabilize the camp in advance, and we just happened to run into this. Otherwise, there would be chaos here."
“I wonder where those armed men from the camp management office went?”
"I believe in Luo Ling's arrangement. She must have asked them to stay in a more important place." Qin Mu said confidently.
"Old Qin, you came here to protect the flowers today, but the flowers are not here. What a pity." Zhang Sicheng put the bow on his shoulder and joked.
"What I'm protecting is not the flowers, but waiting." He then laughed, and the two of them high-fived and walked towards the camp together.
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Camp No. 2
Wild Mage Andrew is now the deputy leader of the magic team. He moved his increasingly plump body and stood at the door of the camp management office, cursing. There was a charred pit on the ground with two charred bodies in the middle.
There were seven or eight rioters kneeling around, and behind them were camp residents holding sticks.
Andrew kicked each of them with two legs, but he couldn't kick any more and cursed, "You bitches! Luo Ling asked me to guard here for three days and only gave me three scrolls as reward, but a fireball scroll was wasted by these two dogs! Bastards, a bunch of bastards. Come on! Beat them up!"
A burst of sticks were hit at those people.
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Camp No. 4
Most of the people living in this camp were factory workers, who were very organized. Before the rioters could take any action, they were caught by the patrol team and brought to Liu Wan, who was in charge of managing the camp.
"Well, how about we lock them up first?" Liu Wan looked at the more prestigious team leaders around her. Now she finally felt relieved. It seemed that what Luo Ling said about trusting the masses, trusting our work, and trusting everyone's choice was quite reasonable. She was even a little moved. She didn't expect that once she was threatened, so many people would be willing to stand up and stand in front of her.
"Hey, Mr. Liu, these people want to ruin our good life. It's too easy for them to be locked up like this. I say we should teach them a lesson, brothers, don't you agree?"
"Brother Kalma is right! But that's not the point! The point is that they also want to kidnap Teacher Liu, which is even more intolerable!"
"Well said! Teacher Liu is our goddess!"
"Beat them, beat them!"
"Beat him until he's dead!"
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Camp No. 5
The dwarf Farrell looked at the rioters in front of him who were broken into dozens of pieces. He glared at his two sons and said, "What's going on? What about leaving them alive? What about using hammers? This is what Master Luo Ling ordered!"
"I just want to try out my newly enchanted dagger." The eldest son said shyly, "When Mistress Luo Ling gave me instructions the day before yesterday, didn't you say that I could test new equipment as long as I didn't use weapons that were too violent?"
"My brother has tried it, so I want to try the new dagger too." said the youngest son weakly.
"Assholes! What the hell are you talking about? Daggers and daggers? Whose dagger is longer than an arm? Whose dagger is thicker than a palm? Why don't you make a Green Dragon Crescent Blade as written in the book? If you swing it a few more times, you can get a dozen more pieces of flesh!"
"Really?" The young dwarves' eyes were shining.
"Stop! You two idiots!" The old dwarf punched his son on the head.
The camp's residents were left staring in horror at the three unreasonable dwarves.
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Camp No.3
Rhode kicked Thorin in the abdomen, and the latter fell to the ground and twitched, unable to get up again. Two residents rushed forward, tied him up with ropes, and tied him up with several other prisoners.
After dealing with the last wave of rioters nearby, Catalina could finally call on the people around her to put out the fire. She stopped many people and told them not to run around, but to grab their tools and go put out the nearest fire together.
While they were putting out the fire, Catalina suddenly looked into the distance and said, "Rod, look! It seems that the burning houses in the distance have been put out."
Rhode looked around and said, "They must have organized themselves. And they are much faster than us. I guess it's Master Luo Ling who showed up."
Sure enough, when they had almost put out half of the fire, Luo Ling and Elaina appeared here surrounded by many people. Rhode and Catalina shyly reported to Luo Ling about Lorenzo's escape.
Luo Ling asked Elena to heal the two men as soon as possible, and comforted them, "If Lorenzo is so powerful that even a warrior like you can't defeat him in close combat, it means that his position is much more important than we thought before. It may not be a good thing to keep such a person. Once he gets into trouble, they may retreat into the dark again because of this setback, which will be troublesome for us."
She patted Katarina who was treating her leg injury and said, "It's the best thing that we have defended the camp. And you have inspired fighting spirit, which is double happiness. As for the rest, let's trust our companions."