On the morning after the banquet, Xia Zina and her group had to stay overnight in the Lizard Clan Village due to a shock caused by discovering some of the truth about the legendary Seven Warriors. After all, no one can travel long distances and ensure safety during a chaotic time in their minds.
Xia Zina sat alone under the tree, enjoying the morning sunshine revealed through the cracks in the forest. Her lazy posture and melancholic gaze really don't match her seductive appearance and figure.
"Miss, you have something on your mind!" Kuta walked out of the nearby forest with a stick.
Xia Zina did not answer, either she did not hear the questions from Kuta or did not know how to answer. Perhaps only she knew best.
"I can see it, Jack and Sally can also see it," Kuta slowly walked up to the beautiful woman sitting under the tree.
Xia Zina's gaze shifted to Kuta, but immediately moved away. At this moment, a different aura appeared beside me. Xia Te appeared next to Xia Zina, with a wary and hostile gaze.
Kuta shook its head and said. "Young man, don't worry, I won't hurt her. Besides, you two won't be my opponents when combined, it's useless."
But Charlotte did not reduce his hostility at all. Until Xia Zina grasped his hand on the handle of the knife.
"Why are you so friendly to us?" Xia Zina finally spoke out.
"Because you are friends!"
"..." Xia Zina looked at Kuta in confusion. "Is it because of Jack's relationship with them?"
"Yes!"
"But it's also too good for us!"
"Are you afraid?"
Xia Zina didn't answer, she had to shift her gaze to the other side.
"This is the philosophy of life that Jess taught me. Trust everything in friends, everything is easy to negotiate. Treat strangers with reluctance. Treat enemies with all your might, so that he can never have another chance to feel bored."
"Really! It's hard to believe that this is the philosophy of life possessed by the Seven Samurai people."
"Me too!"
Xia Zina cast a curious gaze this time.
"Haha! It wasn't until last night that I found out the Seven Samurai that humans have passed down are those seven fools. People who know them can't make such associations."
"Is it really that bad?" Xia Zina frowned.
"Their common belief among the seven is not to fight anyone stronger than themselves, and not to forgive anyone who offends them. Such people are far from the great and noble image of the Seven Samurai passed down by you humans."
"Really?" Xia Zina still doubted.
"Forget it! Let's not mention those seven silly birds. If you have any worries, let's talk about them. It would be better. Maybe I, who has lived for over a hundred years, can give you some advice."
Xia Zina tilted her head and considered for a moment. As she turned her gaze towards Kuta again, her lips parted slightly, and a soft and firm voice flowed out. "Actually, I am..." "Miss!" It's rare for Charlotte to have such a fierce reaction. But it was still stopped by Xia Zina.
In fact, I am the daughter of the Duke of White Lenin in Garden City. During the Black Sheep Cataclysm, I was able to escape due to the protection of a group of retainers. However, when the Seven Samurai resolved that catastrophe and returned to Garden City, the owner of Garden City was replaced by the retainer Black Jigu who had betrayed my parents and opened the city gate to let the Black Sheep invade. Garden City is a place with memories of my parents and me. I didn't want it to fall into the hands of traitors, so I ran with the escaped retainers for the counterattack. Unfortunately, all the feudal lords I know have been exterminated or have fallen into similar situations, and they have no ability to help us at all. We can only rely on our own strength or find adventurers on the journey to help. It has been ten years since I calculated it, and the only retainers I followed were Charlotte and KK. The others died on the journey, and no one left or betrayed me. It can be considered an arrangement. And now the rest are just adventurers willing to help us. Although they are all capable individuals, there are still too few of them to confront the army organized by the traitors
"You forgot to include Jack and Sally."
"Will they help me?" Xia Zina looked at Kuta in surprise.
"You didn't ask! How do you know the answer? And as for our lizard tribe, although we can't travel with you, let me know when you need help, and I will be there."
"Elder Kuta..." Xia Zina was about to say something when she was blocked by the Kuta.
"Don't call me the Elder of the Cave Pagoda. If you want to express gratitude, it would be better to call me the 'Little Treasure of the Cave Pagoda'."
Suddenly, a sentence frightened Xia Zina and Xia Te, and they stood there dumbfounded.
"Haha! The goal of life is to live easily and not succumb to aging. If you call it intimate or sweet, I will live a happier life. Haha!"
She truly deserves to be a woman who has traveled on the mainland for ten years. She is accustomed to all kinds of things and can quickly react. "Really. It's hard to imagine someone like you living in such a place."
"A thousand years ago, various races existed everywhere on the mainland."
"Really?"
"Yeah! Lizards, fairies, orcs, dwarves, and other races can be seen everywhere. Even you humans are divided into black, yellow, red, and white, each developing your own culture and language."
"Why can't we see other races on the mainland now?"
Because you humans were the earliest to integrate, you drove other races away from easy places to live. Although our abilities improved in harsh environments, we were unable to reproduce in large numbers. In addition, when you humans encountered us, they would directly slaughter us. Although we are strong, you humans have more numbers than us. This is the reason why we can only escape to places with worse living conditions, and cannot make comprehensive retaliatory actions against humanity. Moreover, our living areas are scattered by humans, making it difficult to easily integrate them, and our strength is even more insufficient
"Have you not considered contacting all races together?"
"Yeah! More than a decade ago, the dwarves had connections with various tribes to invade the human world. At that time, I also led my tribe to join. Because the dwarves had craft abilities that were on par with humans, they used the call to support weapons from various tribes and recruited warriors from all tribes. It was at that time that I first met Jess."
"What was the situation at that time?" Xia Zina showed a little girl's attitude of wanting to listen to the story.
"Because I was going to deal with humans at that time, I found that Jess followed me into the forest. At that time, he was also very confident in his skills, so we had a fight."
"What was the result?"
"I was completely defeated. When I asked the bird what to do, he said, 'What! A talking lizard, then you can't eat it!' I was completely stunned."
"Eating lizards?"
"As he said at the time, it was only because he saw me and wanted to eat lizard meat that he followed me."
"Oh my goodness!"
"After the conversation, I gave up the idea of invading humanity and led my tribe away."
"What about the others?"
"Disbanded. Because the most defensive lizard tribe has run out, which tribe is willing to be the vanguard or shield?"
"What about afterwards?"
"We took Jess back here and celebrated for three days and three nights. Jess was only alone at the time, and meeting the other six was something that happened afterwards."
"Wow..." Xia Zina seemed to be lost in that period of time.
"By the way! What should Jack and Sally do?" Kuta reminded the drunken beauty of nostalgia for the past.
"What should I do?"
"Do you need their help or don't you?"
"But I don't know if they're willing to help yet?"
"Hey! You two! What do you say?" Kuta turned and asked loudly.
"Anyway, I've been idle lately," Jack walked out from behind the tree.
"Wow! The hero helped the beautiful princess restore her country! What a clich é d story!" Sally appeared from the other side of the tree, leaning her hand against the tree and saying.
"Find something to do! It's been a long time without any activity."
"That's good! Finally, there's a good reason to fight."
"However..." "However..." Jack and Sally both extended a finger and said. "Three meals a day!"
"There should be three meals a day!" The two of them looked at each other. "You can't starve me!" "You can't starve me!"
"You!" Xia Zina looked at the two people who were laughing and looking at each other. Suddenly turned around and walked away, nodding and saying. "Why don't you starve and eat once every fifteen days? The cost of the meal is relatively low!"
"What!" "What!" Jack and Sally chased after Xia Zina. Xia Zina, who escaped, wore a rare cheerful smile on her face. Xia Te had already jumped onto the tree, and although the sunlight from the branches and leaves made the man in black unable to hide his figure, his upper body remained in the faint shadow, only the blurry smile on his mouth could be seen. Kuta stayed in its original place, pestling his staff and shaking his head.
"Hey, Jess!"
On an ordinary street, a beautiful woman dressed in cool clothes pounced on the back of a person dressed as a minstrel, with her hands hooked around his neck. People passing by on the road all thought it was just flirting with their little lover, but that girl was just too eye-catching.
"Who! Who is it?!"
The girl turned Jess around and realized that he had a mouth full of food and was holding all kinds of food in his hands. "Can you finish what's in your mouth first before speaking," the girl stomped her foot and said.
Jess didn't speak anymore, but quickly finished everything in his hands and mouth.
"Mifa, it's you," Jess said coldly.
"Mmm~! No way! You're going to call me my dear Xiaomifa~!" Mifa pulled Jess's hand and was using a woman's strongest coquettish technique.
At the same time, Jess's eyes and neck were facing a woman who had just passed by on the street, with an ordinary appearance, until she disappeared at the corner. Jess then closed his eyes and nodded, saying. "Barely 69 points."
"Ah~! You really hate it! This is too impolite to the beautiful woman in front of you!" Mifar continued to hold Jess's hand, making a coquettish protest.
"Don't make any noise! You're a guy who can only get zero points." Jess grabbed his hand and hit Mifa.
Mifa, who had dodged Jess's attack, crossed her waist with both hands, kicked her right foot, and straightened her chest, shouting loudly. "I have such a perfect figure, what do you have to be dissatisfied with?"
Mifa, who was not tall, looked up at Jess. Because of the hair tied in a ponytail and the movement of raising her head, Mifa's sparkling earrings and delicate and tender neck were displayed. Lowering your head can clearly see the cleavage covered by cool clothing. Upon closer observation, it was even more noticeable that the small and firm double peaks had slight ripples due to the forceful chest thrusts. A slender figure, a prominent willow waist with a navel exposed, bare arms, and a tender white skin all reveal the beauty that a bony beauty should possess. The word beauty was originally invented for this type of person. But Jess's sleepy eyes turned to shine elsewhere.
"Ah~! Why did you turn your head again! Look at me! I've changed a lot!"
"The biggest change you need to make is to have a new pregnancy, and see if you still have this congenital imbalance," Jess said, continuing to move in the direction he was originally heading.
Mifa quickly chased after Jess, while the people around were all secretly glancing at Mifa with their spare eyes. It seems like looking at her directly would offend a beauty.
"Hey! Do you know? Jack and Sally joined someone else's adventure group and appeared on the mainland again." Mifar rested her hands behind her head and followed Jess.
"Oh."
"Is that the only answer you have?"
"Oops!"
Mifa tried to make a very frustrated gesture with one hand and face to attract Jess's attention. By the time she regained consciousness, Jess had already walked a distance. On the contrary, all the men and women on the road stopped and looked at Mifa. A few people seemed to muster the courage to comfort the beautiful woman, but after walking a few steps, Mifa ran away.
Mifa chased after her. "Do you have no thoughts at all?"
"Is that fun? Maybe it was because they had some leverage in their hands that they helped out. It's not a big deal!" Jess finally said something.
Mifa was about to say something more when she was knocked down by a person rushing forward.
"Sorry! I'm sorry! I have an urgent matter!" The young man who knocked down Mifar only paid attention to the direction he was rushing towards, and didn't pay much attention to anything else.
"Ah~! You really hate it! Is knocking down a lady enough to solve this problem?" Mifa still sat on the ground, touching her falling area.
"There's no need to escape anymore, our people are already surrounding the area." The voice came from the direction of the young man, a knight wearing golden armor.
People wearing blue armor emerged one by one from around, surrounding Jess, Mifar, and the young man. The inner circle stared at the outer circle, the outer circle stared at the inner circle, and the people and horses on both sides looked at each other with different expressions.
"Kid! Hand over that little guy and you'll be unharmed," said the man standing next to the Golden Armored Knight in a disdainful tone.
"Okay!" Jess nodded without thinking and walked out of the circle.
Mifa sat on the ground and shouted at Jess. "Hey! You're too cruel too. Don't help the weak!"
"What does it have to do with me? I'm not a righteous messenger," Jess answered as he walked.
"Yeah! It's none of our business. Let's go then!" Mifar stood up as if she had figured it out and was ready to leave.
"That's not possible!" said a man on the other side of the circle. "We've been chasing after each other for so long at least. It's been a while since we last touched a woman. You'd better stay and accompany us!"
"Thank you! I'm not very interested, I'll just forget it! Right! Dear Jess," Mifar said as she walked towards Jess, shaking her hands.
The golden armored knight reached out and rested his hand on Jess's shoulder, saying. "You should leave alone if you want to. That woman must stay."
"Wow!"
"What... what! A heartless man!"
"Anyway, you can handle this situation alone, there's no need to drag me down!" Jess shook off the knight's hand and left.
"Up, catch the girl alive and the little ghost." With a command, everyone around gathered around.
"Damn it!" As the young man spoke, he took out an iron pipe with a handle from his pocket. Then he pointed towards the direction with fewer people. With a loud sound, the opponent fell down and blood suddenly flowed out of the hole in the armor.
"What is this thing?" The young man who was about to rush out bumped into Jess who suddenly stood in front of him, and Jess was carefully examining what the young man had just used.
"You...! Be careful of the back!"
Several swords swung towards Jess from behind, and the other soldiers surrounding used whatever weapons they had. The golden knight also swung his sword sideways towards Jess. Mifa jumped up and spun her legs, all kinds of weapons inexplicably falling to the ground.
"You owe me once!" Mifa stopped and patted Jess on the back, saying.
"I can avoid it myself," Jess said, staring straight at the thing that looked like an iron pipe.
"Hmph, if I had known, I would have let them chop it off!" Mifa turned around and complained as she looked at the bewildered group of people.
I saw the knight crouching on the ground, holding the wrist that had just been wielded with a sword, and there were indentations on the armor of the wrist. He stared at Mifa with angry eyes, as if trying to swallow her alive.
"Damn it! Give it to me again!" The people around who didn't get hit rushed towards Jess and the others.
"What a noisy guy!" As he spoke, Jess reached out and pulled a wooden bucket flying over. In the next moment, he flipped his palm and patted the barrel, causing it to shatter into countless thin threads, each shooting towards the people around him in different curved tracks. The screams and piercing sounds kept coming and going for only a while. Afterwards, apart from Jess, Mifar, and the young man, no one was able to stand.
Mifa, whistling, was so frightened that he pointed something at the young man in Jess's hand, and the armor covered in thin threads all over the ground. The bright red liquid spread all over the ground, and no corpse's face could be recognized. Jess still maintained his expression.
The next second, Jess lifted his head and asked with a smile. "May I ask what this is?"