lcionline Chapter 248 Do you have time?
Chapter 248 Do you have time?
(Today’s 6k, if the plot wasn’t split and coherent, I really want to post words six times)
Abeth's eyes locked on the hunter's figure.
It was a human hunter wearing leather armor and holding a longbow.
A strange feeling also came out with his words.
Just the right time? What does that mean?
His movements were not clean and neat, and could even be said to be full of loopholes.
In terms of aura, he is definitely just an ordinary person who has undergone training and cannot touch the body of an extraordinary person.
However, that calmness gave people a kind of reverie, a calmness that did not seem like he was worried about not being able to hunt prey, and was definitely not the calmness of a king of fish, a reverie that would be full of deadly aura if he had power.
He jumped down from a high place and made almost no sound when he landed, like a swift cheetah.
"You are a hunter, you don't hunt animals, how did you catch up with the ogre? It's dangerous here, come to my side."
Abes realized that if he met a hunter in such a place, there was a high possibility that the other party was the "little phoenix" he was looking for.
So, he immediately issued the order, watching the movements of the ogre with a hint of caution in his eyes.
With Anivia's abilities, saving an ordinary person from a sudden attack would likely involve some risks.
So when necessary, you have to take action yourself.
As for the ogres, they also started to act after the hunter landed.
His mouth opened wide and he let out a vulgar laugh.
Was that a mockery of the hunter's missed arrow?
However, he could have chosen not to use this arrow. The announcement of that arrow was just to attract attention.
Moreover, from a common sense perspective, it would be abnormal for a hunter who looked like a young man to attack from behind, and the target was almost within eighty feet, to fail to hit it.
But the ogre's brain obviously doesn't support them to think so.
Their empty IQ and violent nature made them think only in this way -
Under attack!
But it didn’t work!
In other words, it is very weak! And its size is also very small!
Huha!
Then, the ogres shouted loudly, split into two groups, and rushed towards the young hunter who had landed, and the two people in the direction of Abes.
"Has your thirst for blood reached the point of selflessness? You are indeed a dangerous prey."
The hunter confirmed this and smiled, saying something strange.
At the moment the ogre moved, Abes was also quickly assessing the situation.
The speed and strength of the ogre are extraordinary. Even if the opponent has a simple brain, its violent nature and powerful body are still a great threat.
If he took action himself, it would be easy to deal with them, but it would be troublesome to deal with them and protect ordinary people; letting ordinary people deal with them would be an insane idea.
only……
The hunter in front of him seemed so calm and composed that it even gave Abes the illusion that he should be on guard against this guy instead of the ogre.
"Can you handle these monsters? Come here quickly."
Abes asked, his voice urgent.
However, the next moment, the opponent's actions shocked Abes again.
"Hehe... But I have time, because time is on my side - ah! Sir, please save me!"
All it takes is a stick from the ogre to transform him from a cool and aloof man with his arms around his chest into someone running away in a panic.
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Soren Phoenix.
The "Little Phoenix" of Carterburg.
It’s just a pity that fundamentally, Sauron has nothing to do with him, and Phoenix has nothing to do with him either.
Soren was a name he got after being adopted, and Phoenix was the last name of one of his three and a half fathers.
However, he could not remember his previous name, and even his memory before the adoption was not very clear. He could not force himself to find his biological parents and know the name he should have had when he was born.
So, in Carterburg, or anywhere else, if someone called him Soren Phoenix, he would have to admit that it was him.
His family environment is so strange.
The three fathers refer to the three veterans who adopted many children.
The remaining half is Ivan, who has not yet retired from the army.
Maybe it's because he hasn't retired yet that he can't be considered a father.
And now, Alvin has to shoulder the heavy burden of Carterburg in such a chaotic world. I'm afraid it will take a long time before he can become a father who has the time to adopt a child.
In Soran's family, besides him, there are two older brothers, two younger sisters and a younger brother.
They were all poor adopted children like him.
Unfortunately, after losing his biological father and mother, Soran also lost his two older brothers.
Two brothers died on the battlefield.
This is of course true. Although it is not a mandatory requirement, how can children raised by veterans not have certain aspirations for the military?
It’s just a pity that in Soran’s opinion, the death of his two brothers…
is incorrect.
General Paddy, the leader of the seven powerful generals, frequently launched sweeping raids on the alien species in the Eastern Wilderness.
The two elder brothers died as servants in a meaningless raid.
There is no strategy, no tactics, no technique or art at all.
Just like a consumable, its death is meaningless.
After receiving the news of the death of his two brothers, he voluntarily retired from the army.
It was not that he was opposed to the idea of defending his country, he was just disappointed with the army of the small kingdom, which was controlled by seven generals with a large part and by local prominent families with a small part.
Ten years ago, General Paddy’s attack at that time could be said to have brought peace to a generation.
Ten years later, General Paidi is going to attack again. He is almost going to break through the entire Eastern Wilderness and touch the Kunwu Snow Mountain on the border of the three eastern countries. Can it still be said that it is for peace?
It is probably because they are reluctant to give up the ever-increasing official positions, powers and the passage of special bills.
If this continues, perhaps the entire army will become bloody currency in the hands of those people.
So he returned to his family, became a hunter, and now all he wanted to do was take care of his family.
However, things did not go so smoothly.
The three fathers, along with their younger brothers and sisters, lived in Qiusuo Town. Their lives were passable, but not suitable for being hunters.
"If you want to hunt, you need a suitable ecological environment. Go to the area around the Central Great Mountain Range. The mountains block the cold winds from the Kunwu Snow Mountain and retain the water-bearing monsoons from the North Ocean. Apart from the fertile land in the south, it is the only place that is most suitable for prey breeding and hunter development."
One of his adoptive fathers, who gave him his last name Phoenix and was known as "Old Phoenix," suggested.
At the same time, he also told Soran, "It just so happens that your uncle Ivan has been transferred to Carterburg. You can go there to join him."
"That should be the guy's last transfer before retirement. I hope everything goes well."
Yeah... everything is fine.
If everything develops normally, then of course everything is fine.
Because there is a forest nearby, and Carterburg itself is a fortress city with a stable market inside, the prey caught should be able to be easily processed and sold in a one-stop service.
With Uncle Ivan around, he wasn't too worried about getting into any trouble.
But the result would not let him feel so relaxed.
The result was that after his two elder brothers died at the hands of General Paddy, he and Uncle Ivan almost died at his hands.
Using the war law, the army was mobilized frequently, and the invasion of alien species in the Eastern Wilderness was ignored.
With everyone feeling insecure, the entire small kingdom changed in an instant.
Robbers and bandits, rioters and disaster victims who gathered spontaneously, forces of all sizes trying to rob people and supplies, and even outside the national border, those northern countries that have never been bound by moral constraints.
All of a sudden, Fort Carter, located on the border and an important national transit point, became a dangerous place.
Under such circumstances, the pedantic bureaucrat from Carterburg was naturally incapable of taking on such a big responsibility.
After several actions that almost cost their brothers their lives, the soldiers' anger had accumulated to the extreme.
They want neither kingship nor glory.
"The goal that ordinary people's universal values can think of is just to get a little bit better after survival."
So, Alvin stood up and killed the bureaucrats who knew nothing about war.
With strong force, Carterburg was nailed back to the central axis of the small kingdom.
Although Carterburg has become a small kingdom of Wommza that has been ravaged by war, it still retains the role that a fortress city should have played.
That is to guard the national borders and protect the internal market trade.
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And what did Sauron do during this process?
He was still that lousy hunter, but he began to have some unrealistic fantasies.
If only there was power...
If they had power, my brothers would not have died in the Eastern Wasteland.
If he had power, he would not have been influenced by General Paddy when he chose to be an ordinary hunter after losing his brother.
He was lucky. He had left the army before the national turmoil, and did not become the kind of cannon fodder that could be mobilized without limit and then bombarded to death by the magic troops at their leisure.
But even so, weren't Uncle Alvin and myself still affected?
Isn't it that there are people you care about who you want to fight danger for?
Just like, Uncle Ivan is already very old, and this is clearly his last transfer before retirement, but he still has to bear the blame for murdering his superiors and treason.
Although he is already very old, he still shaves off all his beard and hair to make himself look like a middle-aged man.
And when the political situation in the small kingdom of Wommza stabilizes, will Uncle Ivan's experience give him a chance to have a good end?
Therefore, compared to prey such as animals and beasts, he prioritized hunting down more powerful beings, such as monsters, anomalies or magical beasts.
He needs these things to prove that he has power.
But in the end, apart from successfully killing a few goblins, Sauron did not have the power to fight against those terrible creatures.
Throughout the entire process, the only thing he was able to verify was his talent for perceiving time and speed.
Some tips... that are better than nothing.
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Turn on the stopwatch, then close your eyes, count to sixty seconds in your mind, and then open your eyes.
Can you make it to exactly sixty seconds?
Perhaps just a slight disturbance, or some lack of confidence in one's own rhythm, will make the silent counting become a little faster or slower.