The Hidden Knight of Mystra Chapter 24: Gray Dwarf
Longya Village.
A house dotted with green plants.
The room was surrounded by people with anxious looks.
An old voice came from the room:
"Slow down, slow down."
"Don't let her bleed too quickly. Who knows if there's any neurotoxin in it."
She was an old woman with hundreds of braids on her head.
Roger noticed that at the end of each braid, there was a leaf of a different kind pinned to it.
Under her command.
Several young men clumsily placed the injured person on a wooden bed.
"Please hold this down. I need to take care of my wound first... Damn it, that's not how you press it!"
"Can't we have a clever and skillful young man?"
Seeing a young man pressing the wound until blood splattered, the old woman trembled with anger.
"Let me do it."
A gentle voice sounded from the crowd.
Roger took advantage of the situation and pushed away the young man whose face was covered in blood and who was at a loss. Then he picked up a roll of bandage and quickly performed pre-treatment on the injured man's wound.
"You look strange, young man. Why haven't I seen you in the village before?"
The old woman's expression eased slightly.
"I am a traveler. I have been waiting for news from Master Rachel outside the village these past few days."
Roger told the truth.
"Oh, you are the outsider who single-handedly wiped out the jackal settlement."
The old woman staggered over carrying a bunch of jars that smelled of rot.
"Do you know medicine?"
Roger shook his head:
"I only know a little about herbs."
The old woman nodded and said:
"That's better than this crap."
"Help me hold the wound in place while I take care of the arrows first."
"All of you, get out!"
"This is not the place to watch the fun!"
The others looked at each other and could only leave the room filled with the smell of herbs one after another.
…
Not long.
With Roger's cooperation, the old woman successfully pulled out all the arrows in Rachel's body.
This process caused Rachel to bleed a lot.
She is currently in a coma.
Fortunately, the four arrows that pierced her body were located in her shoulder, waist, hip and arm, and none of them hit any vital parts.
The arrows themselves were not poisoned.
After obtaining the old woman's consent, Roger applied some "primary hemostatic ointment" to Rachel.
Based on Roger's limited experience, this thing is very effective for arrow wounds.
After all, if you need help from others, you have to do something.
After treating the wound, he chatted with the old woman for a while.
He waited until the old man began to yawn because he was not in good spirits before he said goodbye and left.
…
Because of this little incident, Roger temporarily gave up hunting the Lei Ze whale.
He wandered around Longya Village for a while and found that the atmosphere had changed.
Rachel's attack caused panic among people.
The original tranquility and peace in Longya Village is gradually being replaced by anxiety.
This sentiment did not infect Roger.
He just instinctively hates risk and trouble.
"Looking at Rachel's condition, even if she wakes up, she won't be able to control the flying dragon beast for a while."
“I wonder if there’s any other way to cross the southern part of the swamp.”
Roger put his hands behind his head boredly, thinking about his next move.
Through his exploration in Yellowstone Island over the past few days, he has already found out everything.
The southern part of the "Great Wetlands" is the most dangerous area!
There, lakes and swamps are everywhere, undercurrents and monsters lurk. It is truly a place where no one should venture.
If you enter it rashly, you will definitely die.
Currently, only Rachel's flying dragon beast is known to be able to cross that area relatively safely.
This is also what Roger is most worried about.
Even Rachel, who was protected by Flydramon, suffered such serious injuries.
The one who attacked her was probably a fully-fledged army!
"I heard from Eric that Longya Village has been peaceful for more than ten years. Will there be a war as soon as I arrive?"
"No way, no way?"
The more Roger thought about it, the more unlucky he felt.
…
At sunset.
Cindy finds Roger and brings the good news that Rachel is sober.
Roger quickly followed her to the medical hut.
In the room.
The old woman was nowhere to be seen.
Rachel lying on the hospital bed had obviously regained some color.
Roger was secretly amazed at this recovery ability.
He had already examined the other party when he was unconscious before.
The real profession of this short girl in front of me is "Marsh Druid", not "Beast Tamer".
This is an uncommon profession, and there is no one else in the village who has this profession.
This means that she must have had an adventure.
"I heard from Angelina that you saved me."
The girl on the hospital bed said seriously.
Like her height, Rachel's face is very small.
I don’t know if it’s because she has been living in seclusion for many years, but the girl’s delicate facial features look like they are lacking expression when put together.
Roger shook his head gently:
“I just did some small things.”
"This ointment is very good. I can feel it working. Thank you."
Even when she was expressing her gratitude, her stern face remained unchanged.
If you are not sure that you are not hard of hearing.
Roger felt that this expression would not feel out of place even if the other party's lines were changed to "When will you pay me back the money you owe me?"
He is indeed a solitary animal tamer.
Roger knew that at this moment he just had to keep smiling.
"I heard you were going to the South?"
Rachel asked.
"Yes."
Roger nodded.
"I can't ride a flying dragon now, but Mishasi knows the way. She is the leader of the flying dragon beasts. I will ask her to take you to Paramount Manor. Then you just need to prepare some rations for her, and she will fly back by herself."
Rachel said it smoothly.
Roger couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
So simple?
Not that Rachel's request would be any more troublesome...
Roger's eyelids jumped, and he realized that he was still deceived by Cindy.
Everything this woman said was true, but she hid this lie.
As expected, the dragon priest beside the bed couldn't help but complain:
"Can't you just tell a lie?"
Rachel still had a stern face, but her tone was obviously a little timid:
"I can't lie."
"My Dragon Express is always free."
"And he helped me."
Cindy glared at Rachel helplessly.
The relationship between the two seemed to be pretty good, and Rachel actually showed a rare look of embarrassment on her face.
Roger felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere.
He quickly said, "Thank you very much."
"If there's anything I can do to help, I will..."
Cindy interrupted, "Help kill Humphran!"
Roger coughed:
"Next time, for sure."
The dragon priest was furious again, his chest heaving up and down, and the sight was shocking.
"By the way, what happened to your injury?"
Having reserved the head dragon, Roger thought he needed to care about how Rachel got injured.
"It's the Duergar."
Rachel says:
"Hanfran is colluding with the gray dwarves of the marshland. This is a crossbow arrow of the gray dwarves. Hanfran's men used it to attack me and my flying dragon beast."
"I saw their route, and they were very close to Yellowstone Island."
"They are coming for Longya Village."
"It is wise for you to leave now. Soon, this place will become a new battlefield."
"How about this, tomorrow I will... Never mind, help me up, I will go find Mishasi now and let her take you away."
Rachel struggled to stand.
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