The dark-skinned female knight Abi held the sword with both hands and pulled it out from under the monster's skin. Dark red blood immediately poured all over her. She took a breath, wiped the blood off her face, and jumped off the monster's body.
"Damn it! How could we encounter such a difficult-to-kill intermediate monster?" She frowned and complained, "We haven't even entered the middle of the polar region yet."
The other two teammates in her team had just finished dealing with other monsters and sat down nearby, panting, holding their weapons.
Because the three of them were high-level knights, much more powerful than ordinary knights, and were notoriously difficult to get along with and kept to themselves in the temple, so in the usual team of ten, the three of them formed a team of their own.
Another short-haired female knight in the team, Fra, wiped the sword in her hand and picked up the bow placed aside. "It's hard for us to deal with them. I think a lot of those little bastards with their noses in the air will die."
"Alas, it's inevitable to come out and make money." Allen, the only male knight in the team, sat next to the corpse of the Warcraft. He was too lazy to move. He cut a piece of meat nearby and roasted it over a fire.
He didn't eat for a whole day and just killed monsters. He was almost starving to death.
The three of them were resting together when they suddenly heard the sound of running wildly in the distance. The female knight Abi thought it was another monster coming and yelled in dissatisfaction, "It never ends! There's no time to eat meat!"
He stepped on the monster's corpse in two or three steps and walked up to the top to look into the distance.
Unexpectedly, she saw a team of five or six knights left. She immediately slid down the back of the monster with a lack of interest and continued to eat her own charred meat.
The frightened Templar Knights who were busy escaping for their lives saw Abby's figure and the red cloak on her body that represented a high-ranking knight. They all ran towards them with shining eyes as if they had seen a savior.
When they got closer and saw three killed intermediate-level monsters, they became even more excited.
Unfortunately, the two female knights in the team were too lazy to deal with them, so they only asked the male knight Allen to talk to these weaklings who were about to cry. Allen smiled and asked these people to sit down and have a meal together, while learning from them what scared them so much.
This team of knights had pretty good luck, as they only encountered low-level monsters along the way and didn't lose any members. This made them bolder as they didn't know what the other knight teams had encountered, so they kept moving forward and accidentally came to a basin near the central area.
Because the terrain there is complex and remote, the Templar Knights rarely go there every year. This group of people didn't know whether they were lucky or unlucky, but they actually found the place, killed some low-level monsters there, and had a big meal by the water with great interest.
"At night, we... met in the lake, encountered that magical beast..." Thinking of what happened last night, the knight who spoke was still full of fear.
The female knight Abi, who was holding a sword and listening, heard them say that several of their dead companions were eaten by monsters that suddenly appeared because they went to the lake to bathe and play. She couldn't help but sneer, "Swimming in the lake at night, this is a unique way to seek death."
The lakeside has always been the most dangerous place, especially at night when it is difficult to see clearly. Even senior knights like them who are skilled and brave would not do such a suicidal thing. It would be better to say that those young knights died of stupidity.
The angry and embarrassed young knight did not dare to refute her and could only exaggerate the horror of his encounter with the monster.
"… It was as big as a house, with a hard, dark shell. Our swords could not leave even a trace on it, and we could not even cut its outstretched neck. It had no eyes, only a big mouth in the front. When it opened, it was filled with densely packed sharp teeth, so deep that you couldn't see the bottom…"
The female knight Fla, who had been silent on the side, suddenly stood up and asked, "A magical beast with a shell that lives in the water? Did you see it in a basin lake?!"
Abi pressed his companion's shoulder and told her not to get excited. Allen also put away his previous laziness and casualness and asked carefully about the nearby terrain.
They had been with Fla for several years and were good friends who trusted each other. Of course, they knew what had been bothering her - Fla's beloved brother, who was also a high-ranking knight, had died in the polar regions during a summer hunt a few years ago. The knight who had managed to escape told her that her brother had been eaten by a magical beast that lived in a basin lake and had a hard shell.
Since then, Fla had been trying to find the beast and avenge his brother. Unfortunately, the only knight who knew the location was seriously injured and died before he could wait for the summer hunt the following year. As a result, no one knew where the beast was.
The polar region is so vast that Fra has participated in summer hunting every year, searching everywhere but has never been able to find the so-called basin lake.
Abhi and Alan had been searching with her for several years, but they didn't expect to get the news suddenly today.
They grabbed a few knights who had managed to escape and took them back along the way to find the basin.
After traveling for most of the day, several knights who were almost exhausted pointed to the snow-capped mountains ahead and said, "That's it, that's over there."
They didn't dare to go to the lake again, and left in a hurry after pointing the way. The three senior knights saw their backs leaving and shrugged.
"They don't think we're going to die, do they?"
"We are just going to die. From their description, if it is really the monster that ate Brother Fla, it is definitely not a mid-level monster. It must be a high-level monster that we have never seen before."
"This place only has intermediate-level monsters at most. Didn't the old priests in the temple say that the high-level knights are all in the depths of the polar regions? We can't see them even if we want to. Don't scare us."
The three of them, along with the most anxious and vengeful Fula, did not act rashly. They chatted and moved carefully. They did not approach rashly, but chose a high place to observe the movement of the lake from a distance.
Upon looking, the three of them saw a black-shelled monster by the lake.
"Did this beast run to the shore?" Abi raised his eyebrows and asked when he saw the black shell motionless at the water's edge.
Fla touched his knife, suppressed his excitement and exhaled, "Maybe it's not as convenient on the shore as in the water. This is our chance."
Allen observed the most carefully and stopped the two sisters, "Wait, this is a bit strange."
At this moment, the three of them saw a person crawling out of the shell.
Three Knights: “…???”
The person was not wearing knight's clothes, and her slender figure showed that she was a woman. After she came out of the shell, a tall man came out of the shell.
This scene really reminds people of things related to spring.
The romantic knight Allen subconsciously wanted to whistle in a flirtatious manner, but Fla, who knew his true nature well, stuffed his fist into his mouth, blocking the whistle.
Abby touched his chin and suddenly exclaimed, "I remember now, it's her, the one with red hair!"
She still remembered this red-haired woman who was of the same race as her mother. After all, red-haired descendants of Lodite were so rare that even though she couldn't see her face clearly, she was almost certain that it was her.
How did she get to the Pole
Thinking of this, she jumped up and walked directly into the basin.
Allen and Fla didn't stop her. Seeing that she was exposed, they looked at each other and followed her.
Mary cleaned the inside of the big black shell and cut some hay nearby to smoke the inside of the shell to remove the bloody smell.
Since the original form of Murri couldn't fit into the small house, he transformed into a human form so that he could follow her in and out, helping or hindering her from time to time.
Before Abi and the other two came closer, Muri, who had just come out of the shell house, looked at them warily.
He was impressed by people wearing such clothes. Most of them were not as powerful as the monsters he ate, but they could not be killed, which was very troublesome.
Meili also remembered that Murray was being hunted by those Templar Knights, and she was equally alert. However, to her surprise, she knew the female knight leading the three approaching knights.
"It's you."
When the female knight Abby heard this and saw that she still remembered her, she laughed, "It's me. I guessed it was you when I saw the red hair. I didn't expect to see you here. Why did you run away without even saying hello last time?"
Seeing her friendly attitude, Meili couldn't just ignore her, so she explained, "Someone came to pick me up at that time."
Abby was talking to her, and the other two had already sized up Murray. Murray didn't react, and the two knights who had been dealing with Warcraft for many years couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines, and almost retreated under his gaze.
"This brother's eyes are so fierce. If I wasn't paying attention, I would have thought I had encountered a powerful monster." Allen laughed a few times, trying to liven up the atmosphere.
There were three people in a team, two of whom were very familiar with each other. Under such circumstances, the two parties who had met once started talking to each other again through the shelled monster.
"We came here specifically to find this monster. We, Fula, wanted to seek revenge on it, but we didn't expect to be killed by you, hahaha!"
The five people sat in two distinct groups beside the fire. Allen wanted to sit closer to the beauty, but the wild man opposite them stared at them with a fierce look, and the three of them felt their scalps tingling, so they wisely sat farther away.
Muri sat behind Meili, his head resting on top of hers, and used his eyes and actions to guard against the three humans opposite him.
Mary also acquiesced in his protective attitude. After all, she didn't know whether these three people would suddenly attack.
However, in the eyes of Abi and the other two, this attitude of the two had only one meaning: there was no need to show affection in front of us like this, it was really unnecessary.
Allen couldn't help but joke to Murray, who was staring at him, "Brother, you don't have to be so defensive. I'm just admiring you. I'm not planning on snatching you away."
Murray has recently become a completely sweet bear in front of Meili, but after the stranger appeared, he once again showed his attitude of not caring about others in the mercenary team. He looks very aloof and arrogant, which is unpleasant to the eye.
However, after knowing that he had killed the shelled monster alone, the three of them showed great respect for him and felt that it was normal for such a powerful guy to have such an attitude.
Fla thanked them once again.
When Meili heard that her brother was eaten by the monster, she was stunned for a moment, then she remembered something and stood up to get something. Of course, Murray followed her closely.
The three people who were left there looked at each other and said, "Do we look like bad guys? That man is so powerful, he doesn't need to be so wary of us."
"Abi and I are women, and we won't compete with him for women. Men like you who look like gangsters are the ones that make people wary. We are all implicated by you!"
Meili quickly brought back a bag of odds and ends and showed it to Fla. "These are all things found in the monster's stomach. See if there's anything from your brother?"
Fla didn't expect that she would think of this. She looked down at the pile of scraps and saw a gold pendant at a glance.
There was a flower on the pendant. It was hers. She had put it on her brother personally before he left.
The golden pendant was dull, the chain was broken, and some parts were corroded. She picked up the pendant and suddenly couldn't control her tears.
Friends on both sides patted her shoulders and comforted her silently.
After a long time, she finally calmed down, looked at Mei Li, and said again in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, thank you so much."
She knew very well that the three of them were no match for the shelled monster. Even though it was dead, they could still feel the terrifying aura sitting next to the shell. The two people on the opposite side killed the monster and avenged her, so she should be grateful.
"I will repay you for this kindness. If you need anything, you can come to me." Fla held the pendant tightly. "Can I take this pendant with me?"
"Of course." Mary also smiled at her comfortingly.
After this incident, the atmosphere between the two sides became much better. Murray finally stopped holding Meili in his arms all the time.
The two female knights were talking to Meli. Fla was good at archery and rarely spoke a word, giving Meli some tips. There were only two men present, and Allen consciously approached Muri to chat with him.
“Hey, brother, I saw you guys crawling out of that shell when I just got here.” Allen said softly, revealing a subtle and strange smile, “You are really skilled and bold. Bringing people to a place like this to cultivate relationships has a very good effect. You even set up a tent here... Hehe, you are really good at having fun!”
Muri stared at the winking human man in aloofness without saying a word, thinking that all human men are the same, just like the mercenaries he had worked with before, they like to say weird things.