The Sword and The Shadow

Chapter 38: Farewell, my brother

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Falling Star City, the headquarters of the Moon Shadow Thieves Guild.

"Sir, I have sorted out the information about Regnar." Annelotte said coldly. Her face should look like she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but everyone who knows her knows that if Annelotte is regarded as an ordinary person, It would be a big mistake to look at it as a little girl.

At least when she was helping the president deal with things, she showed composure and competence that was completely inconsistent with her age. Many people suffered because they looked down on her, the most typical one being Alex.

"Leave it to me." Villes stopped what he was doing.

Annelotte flipped through the information and pulled out a thin piece of paper.

The original information was a very detailed and even complicated record of Regnar's life, which even included what Regnar ate on that day. But Annelotte knew that most of the information on it was not needed by Villes, and what she had to do was to eliminate the unimportant information and select the useful content to report to Villes.

This job is easy to say and very difficult to say, but Annelotte has always done a good job. She has read this piece of information carefully several times. She spent half an hour making a rough summary of the information. Organize it, and then summarize the useful information and organize it all on that piece of paper.

Villeless read Annelotte's summary and then fell into deep thought.

"Balor is still with the orcs now?" Velez suddenly asked.

This question seemed a bit unexpected, but Annelotte was obviously prepared: "I think so. According to your request, we have already issued instructions to bring him back, but Balor seems not to obey. No trace of him has been found in the human realm, so he is probably still in the orc realm."

Villes frowned. Obviously, this person named Balor gave him a headache. He thought for a while and then said: "Contact him again and at least try to determine his location."

"Okay." Annelotte nodded.

Villes picked up Regnar's information and looked at it again, and then asked: "Based on your experience, how much time do you think it will take for Regnar to awaken his power?"

"I'm not sure, sir." Annelotte replied apologetically: "Regna has not received any training guidance in his previous life, so his situation will be a bit special. But according to his experience in Night Song Forest, In terms of performance, I think his potential will be fully unleashed in one year at the earliest and three years at the earliest."

"One to three years?" Velez held his chin in his hand and thought for a while, then looked at the frost girl in front of him with interest and said, "You have been in the guild for almost fifteen years. Bar?"

"Yes, my lord."

"Don't you feel bored after staying in a place like this for more than ten years?" Villes asked.

"My life was given by you, and it is my honor to serve you." Although Annelotte was a little confused about Villes' question, her tone remained calm.

"Are you interested in going out and taking a look?"

"Um?"

"Why are you looking at me like that? I won't eat you." Kordak noticed that Regnar always glanced at him with his panda eyes with huge bags under his eyes, and his voice was as hoarse as his throat. It's like rubbing steel.

"Boss, you almost ate us both last night." Regnar said with lingering fear.

"Then isn't this the sequelae of the Fall of the Moon? There's nothing I can do about it." Kordak was a little helpless.

Last night was Kordak's first full-moon night. The two of them tied Kordak to a tree trunk as thick as a washbasin as they had agreed before, and then followed it with great interest. Watch how the embarrassed Kordak transformed from a bear into a werewolf.

It didn't take long for something terrible to happen. The first thing to change was Kordak's teeth.

In just one minute, Kordak's two originally very thick tiger teeth grew by more than a centimeter again, and the sharp teeth were exposed from the corners of his thick mouth, flashing with a heart-stopping white color. light.

After that, his hair began to grow longer. Although he did not grow a coat of dog hair like a werewolf, Kordak, who was originally hairy, became like an unevolved savage under the stimulation of the alchemy potion.

The bloodthirsty desire soon completely invaded Kordak's reason. He looked at the two companions in front of him with greedy eyes. His instinctive desire made him want to jump on them and bite their flesh and blood, but under the strong and numb eyes, Tangled in the rope, he couldn't move at all.

The screams and violent roars resounded throughout the forest. At first, Vera and Regna were worried that such roars would attract some terrifying monsters.

But they have forgotten that the werewolf itself is an extremely terrifying monster. Other weak monsters have long been trembling in fear under Kordak's roar. Who has the courage to come over? So it was a scary night, but nothing unexpected happened.

When dawn came, Kordak gradually returned to his original state. The recovered Kordak was extremely weak - this seemed very normal to Vera and Regnar. Any creature in the forest would struggle every second and You should be tired from howling all night long.

So they were not surprised that Kordak fell asleep, but in addition to Kordak who howled all night, Vera and Regnar who were howled all night also didn't sleep a wink the whole night.

Because even if the two of them were absolutely assured of the toughness of the rope, it would be impossible for them to sleep peacefully in a super-noise environment of 100 decibels. So when Kordak fell asleep, Vera got into her sleeping bag for the second time on the pretext of sleeping for beauty treatment, while Regnar who was left could only slap him in the face to cheer him up and stand guard.

After all this struggle, the one who was most exhausted was the youngest Regnar. Look at the dark circles under his eyes that look like smoky make-up, look at the big bags under his eyes that look like they were swollen, and then look at his face that was really swollen just to cheer him up, Kordak took a rough look at Reg Na immediately understood his resentment.

At noon, Vera and Kordak finally woke up, and by this time Regna had become somewhat numb to fatigue. After the three of them discussed it, they decided to find Silenus' body first and then rest.

Although Regnar said that before leaving, he had sprinkled alchemical potion on Silenus's body to prevent it from rotting, and also sprinkled special powder around the body to drive away the surrounding beasts, but even Regnar felt that it was best to hurry up. In the past, after all, leaving the remains of their companions in the wild still made them feel very guilty.

To their relief, Silenus' body was still there and appeared to be undamaged.

"I'm back, my brother." Kordak slowly walked to Silenus and sat down, his hoarse voice making his tone heavier.

Regna and Vera also looked with red eyes at this companion who could never wake up. Although they pretended to be very relaxed along the way after leaving the Elf tribe, they also found that they could not escape the game no matter what. The fact of Lenos's death cannot forget this silent and handsome man.

"Brother Silenus..." Regnar looked at Silenus's body, tears already welling up in his eyes. Although they killed all the orcs to avenge Silenos, the joy of revenge could never make up for the pain of loss.

Vera patted Regna's shoulder gently, and then motioned to leave with her.

"Actually, Kordak was the one who suffered the biggest blow." Vera and Regnar said softly while setting up a tent: "Long before I met them, the two of them were together. I also asked When did Kordak and the two of them get acquainted, but Kordak didn’t answer.”

"..." Regnar looked at Kordak, who was sitting quietly over there, speechlessly. He was always used to Kordak's loud voice and activity, and it made him feel heartbroken that Kordak was so silent and quiet.

He must be very sad, right? Otherwise, how could this man, who laughs heartily even when he turns into a monster, be so silent

"You have been tired for almost two days. I will keep vigil tonight and you have a good rest. As for Kordak... let him stay with Silenos for one more night tonight." Vera sighed and said.

The seemingly endless tiredness made Regner sleep very hard that night, but when he woke up, he did not feel that full of energy and refreshment. The thought of Silenus's death filled his heart with sorrow.

Kordak's eyes were red, his hair was disheveled, and there were faint traces of tears on his face. Obviously, Kordak must have cried alone where the two of them could not see.

After paying their final farewell to Silenos' body, Kordak and others cremated Silenus's body. For mercenaries, it is very common for mercenaries to have their corpses exposed in the wilderness and become the excrement of wild beasts. Being able to completely disappear in the flames is a very honorable way for them to dispose of the body.

Kordak looked at the body burning in the fire and slowly said goodbye. He said softly: "Farewell, my brother."

The three of them disposed of Silenos' ashes and prepared to leave, but at this moment, four humans suddenly appeared in front of them.