Volume 4: The Winds and Clouds of the Western Blue Sky Chapter 13: Battle
Femont stopped his men.
Qi Ji uttered a "fearful" sound, and lightly swung the wolf sword on his shoulder forward, shaking off the blood on the sword from the big man, and then returned the sword to its sheath without comment.
He put away the posture he had already taken, ready to kill.
"Take him to get bandaged, and ask if there is a fourth-level healing master. If there is, you can try to reattach his hand. If not, just let it be his own fault."
Femont stood up, waved his hand, and spoke to the mercenary next to him.
Several mercenaries immediately did as they were told and rushed forward to carry the mercenary whose right hand was cut off by Qi Ji and the right hand that fell to the ground and took them out.
Then he walked towards Qi Ji and the others step by step. As he walked, all the Eagle Corps mercenaries made way for him.
Femont, dressed in white and with silver hair, walked slowly towards Qi Ji with his azure eyes, and said politely, "What an amazingly powerful force. My subordinate was rude just now. I apologize to you on his behalf."
Qi Ji spread his hands indifferently: "So?"
Femont smiled and said, "In order to apologize, I am willing to agree to one condition within a reasonable range. What do you think?"
Qi Ji is just like this. When others give him a hard time, he can handle it very easily and just fight back.
As a result, the White Eagle played this trick on him and hit him in an area he was not good at.
In response, he could only shrug and say, "Alright, then remember, you owe me a favor, and I'll come to you if there's anything."
After saying that, he waved to Melina and Gawain and prepared to take them away.
Femont did not stop Qi Ji, but smiled and said goodbye to Qi Ji politely.
After watching Qi Ji leave the tavern, two mercenaries from the Eagle Group came up to him and asked in confusion: "Captain, letting provocative enemies leave is not the style of the Eagle Group. What are you doing?"
Femont was not angry at the two's doubts. Instead, he smiled elegantly and said, "This man is strong enough to defeat all of you at the same time, except me."
One of them asked in shock: "Him? That young man? He was able to cut off Tono's arm with one strike. He is indeed very powerful, but we are here, besides you, the leader, there are four second-level warriors and eight first-level warriors..."
"He wants to deal with us. Does that mean he has reached the third level like you, the captain?"
Femont shook his head, his blue eyes shining: "You don't understand."
If the timing is not right, some destined people cannot be defeated by any means.
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Qi Ji took the lead and led the three people back to the hotel, where they planned to take a short rest first.
Before returning to their respective rooms, Melina stopped him and said, "The Eagle Group is a newly rising upstart in the mercenary world. Obviously, the White Eagle Femont already has enough strength to occupy a small city and become a dashing city lord, but he still leads his subordinates to fight again and again. It is said that he has great ambitions."
Qi Ji didn't really care. He smiled and said, "No matter what the White Eagle is planning, it has nothing to do with me. I estimate that I will only be in this Xicang Continent for about a month. I will leave once the curse is lifted."
He scratched his head again and said, "To be honest, this Western Cang Continent seems a bit too shabby to me. Not only are there demons everywhere, but cities also seem to be on guard against each other. Moreover, the human society here feels a bit uncivilized, and it's all about the law of the jungle."
Qi Ji straightened his face and said, "I don't really like it here."
Melina listened carefully to Qi Ji's words and immediately smiled and said, "It is indeed as you said. This place is not very beautiful, but it is still worth exploring in the extraordinary realm."
She thought for a moment and continued, "As for the Fermont I mentioned just now, I mainly want to remind Mr. Qi Ji that this Fermont suddenly showed his kindness to you. I'm afraid he has some unknown intentions. It's better to have less contact with him."
Qi Ji smiled and said, "That's natural."
In fact, there was something he didn't tell Melina. He used the "aloof" attribute of the wolf sword technique to keenly discover that Fermont was hiding some evil item with the breath of the abyss.
The feeling that object gave him was exactly the same as the "Abyss Egg" that he had seen and decomposed a few days ago .
However, without seeing the other party commit a crime with his own eyes, he did not want to take the initiative to find trouble and create unnecessary trouble.
As a result, the two people had just finished saying the above words at noon.
I got slapped in the face in the afternoon.
That was when the four of them finished their lunch break and went to the Shande City Chamber of Commerce to make an appointment for a business trip.
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"You mean, for the next week, except for the large caravan that will leave early tomorrow morning, there will be no more brigades crossing the desert, right?"
Gao Wen supported his chin with one hand and gently asked the receptionist of the Shande City Chamber of Commerce with a sunny and cheerful smile.
The girl looked at Gawain's face, and there seemed to be stars in her eyes. She nodded and said stutteringly, "Indeed, there are no more. I heard that there have been frequent movements of demons in the wilderness recently, and many caravans have suffered losses, so it is difficult for the Chamber of Commerce to gather a large caravan with enough people."
The Chamber of Commerce is a united association of merchants with branches in every city on the Xicang Continent. Its main purpose is to coordinate the exchanges between merchant groups between cities and facilitate business.
The organization of a small brigade can sometimes be accomplished by the leader recruiting people and hiring guards.
However, once it comes to a large merchant group that requires more than a hundred people and needs to camp overnight in the suburbs, many merchants can only register with the Chamber of Commerce and entrust the Chamber of Commerce to organize the group.
"Okay, thank you very much." Gao Wen scratched his head, gave the girl a silly and hearty smile, and then turned around to convey the message to Qi Ji and the others.
The girl at the front desk looked at Gawain with shining eyes as he left. Then she couldn't help but glance at the cold and handsome Lancelot beside Gawain. Finally, she took a serious look at Qi Ji, who had black hair and black eyes and was standing next to Melina.
I couldn't help but feel extremely jealous of Melina.
This woman is so lucky!
There were actually three handsome knights with different styles escorting her.
It really makes me feel unbalanced.
Qi Ji, on the other hand, was not in such a good mood.
Gawain truthfully reported to him the situation of the caravans that could participate.
It would have been a great thing to be able to set off immediately tomorrow.
But he and Melina had just decided to have less contact with the Eagle Group in the future, but it turned out that the escort team hired by the merchant group tomorrow happened to be the Eagle Group.
This is indeed a bit of a headache.
The two looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.
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The next morning, Qi Ji woke up in his hotel room.
He had been working hard on the Secret Record of Rebirth these past few days, concentrating on attacking the enemies in Arthas's world view.
The harvest was quite special. For five consecutive days, I crushed and killed five enemies from the Secret Record of Rebirth. I didn't get any skills, but instead got five rings.
[Green Flower Ring (0/100): Increases the user's energy recovery speed by 5% after wearing it]
[Blade Ring (0/100): Increases the wearer's attack power by 5% after wearing it]
[Stone Ring (0/100): Increases the wearer's attack power by 10% after wearing it]
[Ancient Lion Ring (0/100): Increases the wearer's stabbing attack power by 10% after wearing it]
[Clear Blue Stone Ring (0/100): Increases the wearer's magic casting speed by 20% after wearing it]
According to the function description of the transcendence panel, except for the latest ring that is said to increase the magic casting speed, the four rings obtained previously are quite useful to him at present.
Now all these rings are on his hands, and judging from Qi Ji's self-perception, there is no difference from his normal state.
But after testing it a little, he discovered the effect.
When testing, he directly used the full-power enhancement of Sun Breathing with all his strength, and then desperately squandered his physical strength for a while in this state.
Then after stopping the outburst, he could clearly feel that his energy recovery speed was indeed faster than before.
This shows that at least the Green Flower Ring's function of accelerating energy recovery is effective.
The improvements that these rings bring to him are a bit like game equipment, which take effect directly from the result level in a rule-based manner. For example, improving his attack power does not increase his strength or physique, but directly adds an extra power to the damage caused by his attack.
If you look at it from this angle, the effect of these rings can be considered quite overbearing.
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Outside the west gate of Shande City, nearly a hundred merchants were ready to go.
Their merchandise has all been packed and organized, and is now securely hung on the back of the herbivorous dinosaur via specially made shelves.
Herbivorous dragons are a common large creature in the outside world and are also the largest large creature that is widely domesticated and tamed by humans. They can be used as meat livestock and as a convenient tool for long-distance ground freight.
Roughly equivalent to the cattle and horses on Earth.
As they were about to enter the desert, Qi Ji and his group naturally could no longer ride in the relatively comfortable carriage.
So they also rented a herbivorous dinosaur for manning.
After being trained, this herbivorous dinosaur can carry a specially made spacious and lightweight carriage and move smoothly, and people sitting in the carriage can hardly feel the bumps of the journey.
Qi Ji and Melina sat in the carriage, while Lancelot and Gawain were still the coachmen outside.
Under the organization of the Upper Chamber of Commerce, a group of people followed the merchant group and calmly waited for departure.
Then, inevitably, Fermont came looking for him.
The handsome man in white with silver hair and blue eyes rode a white horse and came to the side of Qi Ji's herbivorous dragon accompanied by two of his subordinates. He said loudly, "My friend from yesterday, I didn't expect you to be in this caravan. Would it be convenient for you to come out and chat?"
Inside the carriage, Qi Ji and Melina looked at each other helplessly. What is coming will eventually come.
So Qi Ji jumped down from the carriage alone and walked up to Femonte: "Femonte, what can I do for you?"
When Femont saw Qi Ji coming out, his eyes lit up and he said with a hearty smile: "Let's have a competition. If I win, you will be our comrade-in-arms and help us protect the caravan. If you win, I will give you half of the reward for this employment."
He was riding on a white horse, his figure facing the sunlight. At this moment, it seemed as if the sun was so bright that it was impossible to look directly at him.
