Chapter 177 - Rumor (2/2)

“You can’t owe me too much. I’m a level-five warrior. I won’t be able to take out too much of a loan…” Lin Li considered, and said a number. “If not, you’ll owe me 500 gold coins. You can say that I sold you a batch of herbs last time, but you haven’t had time to pay yet.”

“Alright, 500 gold coins it is then…”

“Oh, right…” Lin Li thought for a moment, and took out three bottles of Bull’s Strength Potion he had long prepared from his pocket. “This is the reward I promised at the beginning.”

“Thank you, Mr Felic.”

“Right, Elijah, how’s your relations.h.i.+p with the Rising Sun Mercenary Corp?”

“Rising Sun Mercenary Corp?” Elijah put the three bottles of Bull’s Strength Potions in his pocket gingerly. “I don’t have many dealings with them; I’m not exactly on good terms with them, but we’re not exactly on bad terms, either. We’d probably just greet each other if we meet, and then turn around like strangers…”

“Then, are you familiar with Thuzadin?”

“I know a little about this.” Elijah mused for a moment, then continued, “Thuzadin joined the Rising Sun Mercenary Corp last year. As far as I know, this man has quite an unordinary relations.h.i.+p with Glavev, the captain of the Rising Sun Mercenary Corp. He helped Glavev clinch several big deals just after joining the mercenary corp. And I heard that this man fled from the Ledin Kingdom…”

“Ledin Kingdom?!” Lin Li started. The Ledin Kingdom in Elijah’s mouth, as he had heard, was one of the strongest military powers in Anril. It bordered with Felan in the north. In recent decades, the contradictions between the two countries had been constant. Perhaps a war would be completely triggered between the two countries next time.

The Ledin Kingdom was a typical country of faith. There were numerous churches in the Kingdom, and their dominant religion was so powerful that the whole kingdom had almost become a theocracy.

If this Thuzadin was really from the Ledin Kingdom, then his escape was quite logical. The Ledin Kingdom was not the Felan Kingdom. Although Necromancers in Felan were abhorred, they could at least appear openly in front of people. If it were the Ledin Kingdom, Necromancers would be regarded as blasphemers, and burned on the cross.

A person from Ledin Kingdom coming to Felan to tell me ‘so it’s you’… The more Lin Li thought about it, the more confused he was. The initially puzzling matter became even more confusing with the information that Elijah brought him…

“By the way, Mr Felic, why have you come to the Fire Plume Ridge? And even… even…” Elijah looked at the red leather armor on Lin Li, and then s.h.i.+fted his gaze to the crossbow on the latter’s back. After uttering “even” for a long while, he couldn’t find the words that would follow. This get-up was too bizarre—bizarre to an extent that Elijah couldn’t imagine the fellow had been wearing the long, black robe a few days ago and was going in and out of places like the Alanna Guild of Magic.

“It’s a long story…” Lin Li did not try to hide it in face of Elijah’s confusion. He recounted the incident at Blackhills Town, choosing only to tell him the crux of it.

“The Rising Sun Mercenary Corp wanted to kill Captain Serena?” After listening to what happened in Blackhills Town, Elijah opened his eyes wide, and was stunned for a long time before he finally said, “Are they looking for death?”

“Who knows…” Lin Li shrugged, and smiled indifferently. The two mercenary corps could kill all they wanted. As long as it didn’t hinder him, Lin Li was willing to stand by and be part of the audience.

“I didn’t expect Glavev to be so brave, daring to lay his hands on Captain Serena. Is he not afraid of revenge from the Silver Hand?” Elijah contemplated for a long time with mixed emotions on his face, but he still couldn’t understand it.

“Let’s not talk about it.” Lin Li was totally uninterested in this kind of fighting and killing. After a few casual words, he took the topic elsewhere. “Elijah, what’s your mission this time? Why do I feel that all of you seem to be mighty nervous…?”

“This…” There was some hesitation in Elijah’s eyes.

“Never mind, I was just curious.” Seeing the look on Elijah’s face, Lin Li guessed that it was probably some secret mission this time, so he didn’t force it. “If you can’t say it, you don’t have to tell me.”

“It’s not that we can’t say…” Elijah gritted his teeth as if he had made up his mind. “Mr Felic, to tell you the truth, this mission was actually entrusted to us by the president personally…”

“The president?” Lin Li was a little stunned at first, but then remembered that Elijah was an adventurer. Then, wasn’t the president in Elijah’s mouth the legendary warrior who was at the same level-21 as Aldwin, the president of the Adventurers Guild, Sword Sage of the Storm, Al’Akir?

“You mean, Sword Sage of the Storm?”

“Yes.”

“No wonder there are so many people…” It was then that Lin Li finally understood—the mission this time turned out to be issued personally by Sword Sage of the Storm. This old man was a legendary level-21 warrior, and was the one in charge of all the adventurers in Felan Kingdom. Which mercenary corp in Alanna would not rush up to him desperately with a mere word from him?