"You." Ryan said angrily after hearing what Seres said: "You are committing murder. You actually found a group of ordinary mercenaries to kill Hydra."
Seres had an innocent look on his face, and he said in a low voice: "This really has nothing to do with me. It's your human mercenaries who are bragging in front of me, saying how powerful they are. I think they also have magicians, and some Priests, warriors, thieves, and shooters are all available, and their equipment is very good, so I trust them. In order to hire them, I paid the price of 200 level 6 magic cores, which cost me a full 2 Months of time to collect.”
Ryan was at a loss for words. He also knew that some people like to boast, especially mercenaries and businessmen. In order to take over a task or a business, they would not hesitate to exaggerate their own strength or the quality of their goods. Obviously those mercenaries did not understand Hydra's The scary part was that they thought it was an ordinary high-level monster, or they had heard about the power of Hydra, but thinking that their own strength was not bad, and they had such generous rewards, they ran into it.
"Oh, forget it, as long as you didn't lie to them, I don't think you should be blamed." Ryan sighed and said angrily,
"Do you think I can deceive you humans?" Seres also said angrily: "When have you ever heard of elves deceiving humans? It's all you humans who deceived us elves."
Ryan smiled bitterly and said nothing more.
Seres seemed to be still a little aggrieved, and he said again: "Speaking of it, I am not more unjust. I spent more than two months carefully preparing, but it only took a few minutes. What is that 'Invincible' mercenary group?" They only lasted 2 minutes in front of Hydra, and then they collapsed. Their mage tried to run away, but was sprayed with poisonous mist and rotted on the spot. The priest, too, was not prepared for a magical spell to dispel the poison. I was poisoned first, but I kept harassing the Hydra with bows and arrows, which made the remaining people run away. Unfortunately, they were all poisoned. I saw a mercenary with my own eyes. As he ran, the poisoned lower body began to rot, and in the end only bones were left. If he had cut off his thigh cruelly, he might have been saved, but he was frightened to death by his own miserable state... "
After listening to Seres's complaint, Ryan could only keep smiling bitterly. He didn't know whether to sympathize with the self-righteous mercenary group or Seres, but since this elf man was determined to kill the Hydra, , there must be a very important reason, so Ryan waited until Seres's complaint came to an end and asked: "What body are you looking for? Judging from your tone, that body has been dead for several years. Are you sure?" Can also be found inside Hydra’s lair.”
Seres hesitated for a moment, but he still chose to believe in Ryan. After all, he had just seen Ryan's strength with his own eyes. Seres had dealt with many humans in the past three years, and Ryan's strength was something he had never seen before. The most powerful of all, not to mention that Ryan's magic is more like a performance than an all-out effort. Maybe he can really help himself,
So Seres lowered his voice again and said: "That body is a thief. He stole something very important from me, so I had to get it back."
"Can you tell me what it is?" Ryan asked,
"Does it matter?" Seres said.
"Of course." Ryan explained: "If its value is not worth challenging a level 9 Hydra, then I would rather use other methods to solve it, such as finding a replacement in some way."
"Impossible." Seres shook his head vigorously and said, "Unless you are powerful enough to be a demigod, it is impossible for you to recast an artifact out of thin air."
"Artifact." Ryan didn't know that this was the first time today that he was shocked by Seres' words. He took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and slowly relaxed his tone and said to Seres: "Does an artifact really exist?"
When Seres saw that his words had reached this point, he simply stopped being secretive and made it clear to Ryan directly: "It is a semi-artifact of our elves. Its quality is higher than that of a holy weapon, but it is inferior to other artifacts." The artifact made by God is just a little bit worse."
"Semi-artifact, what is that." Ryan is very unfamiliar with this name. He has only heard that ordinary items become magic items if they are blessed with magic. And quite powerful magic items can be called sacred items. This is basically the most powerful item that humans can make, and artifacts are things that only the gods in legend can make. However, now that Seres said the word semi-artifact, he felt very confused.
"What is an artifact?" Seres saw that Ryan seemed a little confused about these names, so he asked, "I know what you humans say, only those made by gods are called artifacts."
"It should be like this." Ryan said with some uncertainty: "In the history of mankind, there are too few people who have owned artifacts. Moreover, many artifacts exist in legends, and there are not many written records to tell. Proof that they are truly among us.”
"You don't know the difference very well, and that's normal." Seres said, "Because the production of magic items is not very popular among you humans. In fact, the so-called artifacts are a very wide range. Once a magic item has a certain power, it can be roughly considered to be an artifact, but for the sake of distinction, we call artifacts that are not made by gods semi-artifacts to show our respect for those superior gods."
"Oh, so that's what it looks like." Ryan nodded thoughtfully,
Serres continued: "Well, of course some people call them quasi-artifacts, which actually means the same thing. There are also many powerful semi-artifacts among you humans, such as General Fernando's weapon 'Holy Avenger' 200 years ago. There is your Archbishop's 'Praise of Light', and the Archmage Meren's 'Guardian of the Earth', these are existences comparable to artifacts."
"Ah, the Guardian of the Earth is also a divine weapon." Ryan interjected and asked. He had missed that staff before. He didn't expect that an ordinary-looking thing could be so powerful.
"Of course." Seres didn't know what Ryan was thinking, so he said casually: "That's using the branches of the Tree of Life. After bathing the holy land of our elves in the moonlight of the bright demon moon, it was then injected with the Archmage Plum. Lun's powerful magic power, I have read about it in books. This semi-artifact can allow a person who does not understand magic at all to be promoted to the level of a great mage in a very short time, and learn to remove forbidden spells. All magic, isn’t that powerful enough.”
"I didn't expect that I missed a quasi-artifact." Ryan murmured to himself, "Is it because I'm too stupid, or my vision is so high that I can't even look down on a quasi-artifact."
"What did you say?" Seres didn't hear what Ryan said clearly. He asked, but Ryan just blurted it out. Then Ryan asked Ceres in turn: "Can you tell me about that?" What exactly is the semi-artifact in Hydra's lair?"
"I thought you might have heard of it," Serres replied.