The young girl stood with one hand on her hip.
Her expression was arrogant!
The beastman mercenaries opposite watched the scene silently, cautiously surveying their surroundings, suspecting other ambushes.
It would be strange if there were no ambushes.
There were over a hundred beastman mercenaries here, and more were still arriving.
Looking at the girl's slender arms and legs,
Alone,
Where did she get the confidence to provoke so many mercenaries here?
Even Giles frowned slightly.
His sword-like eyes subtly scanned the surrounding wild grass.
"Stop looking."
Unexpectedly, the girl with her hand on her hip smiled proudly, raising her delicate chin.
"I am here alone. You have been surrounded by me." she whispered arrogantly, a hint of pity in her eyes. "It's your bad luck to have encountered me! If you don't want to suffer, hand over your valuables. I only seek wealth, not lives."
Tony, tied upside down in the air, his face flushed and the veins in his neck bulging, roared with concentration.
"You little slut, let me down quickly."
"Who are you calling a little slut?" Immediately, the girl wearing the grass mask's eyes turned cold, and violent magical fluctuations emanated from her body.
"I'm talking about you!"
Tony roared, his eyes red.
Whoosh!
A watery slap landed directly on his face, the crisp sound echoing clearly throughout the cavern.
"You dare to hit me!" Tony, his entire head soaked with water, his eyes instantly turned red. "You dare to hit me, you know who I am?"
"Whoever you are, even if your father were here, I'd still hit him."
The girl sneered. "What era are we in, still bringing up background? If we're talking about background, do you really think you're capable? I advise you to keep your mouth shut, lest disaster strikes from your words and your family suffers!"
"You... mmmph..."
Before Tony could speak again, a water whip wrapped around his mouth.
"Shhh!" The girl raised a finger to her lips. "Don't make any more noise. I can forgive your ignorance, but my elder sister has a terrible temper. If she finds out you dared to scold me, you'll be shredded into meat paste and fed to deep-sea blue whales. Can you be quiet for a moment?"
All of this fell into Giles's eyes.
"An expert."
Giles murmured in his heart.
The watery slap the girl had just unleashed, or the water whip she had conjured, were done without any incantations.
Instant cast!
Furthermore, her control over water elements was as natural as breathing.
"Mmmph mmmph mmmph—"
Tony, bound and with his mouth sealed, thrashed his body in the air.
"Tsk, so energetic."
The girl raised her eyebrows slightly and flicked her finger.
Instantly, several more threads condensed from water elements appeared in the void, binding Tony like a zongzi.
After doing all this,
The girl admired her work with satisfaction, clapped her hands, and extended her right hand.
"I'm robbing you. Hand over the money!"
Her aura changed drastically!
Even though the beastman mercenaries had a clear numerical advantage, their spirits seemed to be completely suppressed by this single girl.
The beastman mercenaries all looked at Giles instinctively.
A Golden Realm expert.
At this moment, he was still a reliable presence.
"My lady, you can have the money," Giles said after a long deliberation, taking out a pouch from his embrace. "There are two hundred gold coins in here. You can take them, and we'll let this matter rest."
Two hundred gold coins.
For those on the outskirts of the cavern, it was already a substantial sum.
From the looks of the beastman mercenaries, they were all impressed by Giles's generous offer.
However—
"Huh?"
Seeing the cloth pouch, the girl let out a cold sneer.
"Two hundred gold coins? Do you think I'm begging? Don't you understand what I'm saying? I'm robbing you. Please show some respect for my profession and put all your money on the ground."
"My lady, don't be too greedy," Giles frowned.
"Hey, is two hundred gold coins considered greedy? My New Year's gift money alone is hundreds of thousands. Is two hundred gold coins even considered money? Are you not able to live?"
"Little girl, you'd better be careful. This is a Golden Realm swordsman!"
"What?"
The girl wearing the grass mask turned her head and reached out to scratch her ear.
"Golden Realm, wow... how scary." The girl pretended to be surprised, but the moment her words fell, she let out a cold sneer. "Golden Realm, what the hell is that!"
Suddenly, a biting cold wind swirled around her.
Within moments—
Frost condensed beneath her feet, and the temperature in the entire cavern seemed to drop significantly at that instant.
"Ice element!"
Seeing this, Giles's expression became stern.
Ice element.
It belonged to water element magic, yet it surpassed it.
Just as Giles was in shock,
A crystal-clear trident of the Sea God condensed in the girl's hand. The moment she grasped the trident, her feet slowly left the ground.
The trident pointed directly at Giles and the beastman warriors.
"Keep your money, keep your lives. I'll give you three breaths to consider. Time waits for no one!"
...
The bonfire burned.
The orange-red flames warmed the cavern, which had cooled down in the deep night.
More than a dozen barrels of roasted meat were placed around the bonfire, glistening with oil.
Chen Yu sat on his throne, drowsy.
Suddenly—
Chen Yu, who had been dozing, twitched his head. He, who was almost asleep, instantly woke up.
With groggy eyes,
He looked around blankly, at the dark world outside the camp, and then raised his hand to check the time on his wristband.
It was past midnight.
"Is it coming or not?" Chen Yu muttered, then kicked the centaur who was sleeping with its knees hugged.
"Who!"
The centaur, startled awake from its sleep, shouted in concentration. When it saw Chen Yu's eyes, it involuntarily swallowed and lowered its head subserviently.
"My... my lord..."
"What's the situation? How long have I been waiting?" Chen Yu frowned. "Where are the mercenaries? Did they get lost? Why haven't they arrived yet?"
"That's not right!"
The centaur also looked confused, scratching its head.
"According to the time, they should be here!"
"So where are the mercenaries?" Chen Yu spread his hands. "I made such meticulous arrangements, and now the roasted meat is cold, and the mercenaries still haven't arrived!"
"Let me... ask?"
Facing Chen Yu's questioning, the centaur hesitantly whispered.
"Hurry up!"
Chen Yu gave him no pleasantries.
He had gone to great lengths to deal with those mercenaries and the Golden Realm experts. He had finally sorted everything out, but the mercenary group still hadn't arrived by midnight.
How could he waste so much time?
The centaur did not dare to delay, poking at the wristband projection with his finger and sending messages. However, his messages were like stones sinking into the sea, with no response.
"My lord, they... they didn't reply to me."
"Huh?" Chen Yu's eyes widened, and he grabbed the centaur's collar. "Little pony, you'd better think carefully about your words. My temper is really bad."
"My my my..."
The centaur was so scared that its soul was about to fly out, and it couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
Whoosh!
A black shadow darted in from outside the camp and stopped in front of Chen Yu.
"Boss!"
The newcomer was none other than Hei Dou.
His eyes, as dark as gemstones, were filled with excitement, and his little paws seemed to be holding something.
"What were you doing just now?" Chen Yu raised an eyebrow. Hei Dou grinned, "I was just scouting the enemy, of course, that's not important, what's important is—"
Clatter!
Hei Dou's little paws opened, and what he was holding spilled onto the ground. He then looked up, excitement in his eyes.
"Boss, quickly look, what is this!"
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Author's Say:
Good evening, have you eaten?