Age of Empires From Scratch

"Can I ask carefully, what happened to the series of Orion disappearances before Captain Daqi entered the Forest of Eternal Winter?" David did not rush to take over the task, but asked a series of questions: What is the general situation of Captain Qi's subordinates?"

David used these questions to keep talking to the sheriff, and quickly confirmed that the sheriff named Shane in front of him was not a purely brainless NPC, but a living 'person'.

The other party has his own life and ideas, and is not a mechanical tool just to complete the work of posting tasks.

As for why the sheriff would trigger a conversation similar to an NPC in a game when he saw him, it was all based on the basic common sense of this continent.

By the way, David learned from Sheriff Shane, some basic common sense information that he didn't ask from Asegos.

There are many cities in the entire Yaneira Continent. These cities are their own countries and have no relationship with each other.

That is to say, the Yaneira continent is still in the city-state era, and there are large areas of disorder between forces.

At the same time, there are various races such as humans, forest elves, dark elves, alpine dwarves, crypt dwarves, half-orcs, half-demons, etc. on the continent of Anela.

Some of these races are scattered all over the mainland, and some are gathered into tribes, and villages and towns form their own forces.

Generally speaking, the family is in charge of their own affairs, and no one will take care of things that are not within the scope of the territory-this has given birth to a special group of people: adventurers.

Adventurers are similar to mercenaries, and there is almost no difference between the two. They all earn rewards by accepting various commissions, and the composition of adventurers is very complicated, and they can be of all races.

But adventurers have a few things in common: they have extraordinary abilities and like to wander around!

Generally speaking, nine out of ten unfamiliar faces who are not locals and seem to have never encountered any trouble are adventurers.

"By the way, are you a bard?"

"Your vision is really sharp, how did you see it?"

"I've been a sheriff for many years, and I've seen some adventurers. Handsome young men like you who can speak well are basically bards."

David smiled, and drank the drink invited by Sheriff Shane. After looking around again, he entered the Everwinter Forest to investigate what happened to Captain Dach and his men.

"Good luck!"

David nodded, smiled and left the small hotel with a tavern together with Laura.

Standing on the largest gravel road in Everwinter Town, David ignored Laura's question: "Bard?"

"What? Can't I work as a bard part-time?" David pointed to his face. Is there any problem with pretending to be a bard because of his charm?

"Can you play the piano? Or sing?"

"You want to hear me sing?"

"Speaking of which, I've never heard you sing... Maybe you can sing to cheer me up when I meet enemies or beasts later."

"Good suggestion, that's it!"

After a brief tour of Everwinter Town, according to the information David asked from Sheriff Shane, he headed towards the depths of the Everwinter Forest.

These two men were brave enough not to rest in the town for one night and wait until the next morning before entering the forest.

They didn't think there was anything in the forest that could threaten them. As for the element that caused Daqi and his team to disappear...

"Do you think we'll meet the Predator? Or the Alien?"

Laura looked at the portrait of Captain Dach that she got from Sheriff Shane in her hand. The Terminator's sense of sight finally reminded her where she had seen this 'drama' before.

"Should be the Predator?"

The team led by the Governor of Forest State is obviously the plot of the Predator. Although there are some changes in it, the general direction has not changed.

"If it's an alien, we shouldn't be contacting Dutch, it should be Ripley."

"Is Ripley on the list?"

"No."

The two walked through the forest freely, and the thick snow did not make them feel any difficulty. Neither of them needed to observe carefully, and they could find the most correct route by relying only on peripheral vision and sense.

Both David and Laura have rich experience in wild survival. With the improvement of their respective qualities and the learning of a lot of 'hunter' knowledge, their abilities in this area have been greatly strengthened.

It can be said that both of them are experts in wild survival, which is why Laura stays with David here, not only Laura is more adventurous.

"It's getting dark." Laura looked up at the night sky with the beautiful aurora. She didn't expect to see such a beautiful view here: "Go on or rest for a night?"

"Go ahead, I have a hunch that I will find something soon."

"Hope you feel right!"

David's feeling was very accurate, and after another hour of walking, David and Laura found clues to the Dutch team.

Those were a few soldiers who died in a terrible state. The broken corpses were just thrown there, and one of them was stripped of its skin and hung on a tree beside it.

David scanned around, but he didn't find Dach's body, but he found the Predator hiding in the dark and preparing to rape him, and Dach's head hanging by his waist.

"..."

David felt very speechless. This Predator thought he couldn't find him because he was invisible? Innocent!

Winking at Laura at the side, Laura secretly replied with an expression of "I found out too", then without warning, she held the mechanical bow that had deformed into her hand, and took out an arrow from the ring.

Draw the bow!

Infuse the Holy Light!

Holy Light Shot!

boom!

The whole set of movements was done in one go, and the moment Laura let go, the Predator had already been hit firmly by the holy light shot. Inflicted heavy damage and also lifted the Predator's invisibility.

Looking at the flickering light and electric current on the Predator, it seems that this powerful arrow broke the stealth function of the Predator.

The fallen Predator did not lose consciousness, and his excellent combat awareness allowed him to launch a counterattack immediately. The plasma cannon on his shoulders emitted beams of light. Although they missed David and Laura, they formed a barrage of bullets. Dust, snow, and sawdust from tree trunks were blasted everywhere, trying to cover his next move.

The Predator's response can't be said to be bad, if it is an ordinary adventurer... well, ordinary adventurers may be directly attacked by him, just like Dach's team.

Facing David and Laura at this time, his resistance was all meaningless dying struggles. The barrage formed by the plasma beams, as well as the dust and snowflakes in the sky could not stop Laura at all.

The Predator, who was completely unaware that he had been 'marked', was hit by several arrows one after another, one of which accurately shot the shoulder cannon.

Unable to stand anymore, the predator kneeling on the ground looked at the approaching humans. The woman who looked neither tall nor strong knocked herself down so easily. My doubts: Are women on this planet so powerful?

However, in the next second, his doubts were shattered by a strange and loud voice:

"You are my little apple, I can never love you too much..."

The loud, high-pitched voice was heard far away in the silent night, but this is not the point. The point is that the Predator and Laura fell into a state of confusion at the same time, and Laura even killed the Predator in front of him. They all shot crookedly.

"..."

Taking out the arrow again, it was still an arrow filled with holy light. After perfectly controlling the strength, the arrow exploded the Predator's chest, killing the enemy while leaving the whole body behind.

"Fill up the wine and let you stay... Huh?" David was singing happily at the side, and suddenly felt something, and looked at the Predator who had just been shot by Laura in surprise: "It seems that this plan has something wrong .”

"You upgraded?"

"I'm so powerful, it's not so easy to upgrade." David closed his eyes and felt it carefully: "It just feels like I finally have a connection with the land under my feet, and they no longer resist each other like they did at first."

"This is good news." Laura just remembered that David should have killed the Predator, but just now her whole mind was buzzing. David's singing was terrible, but fortunately it didn't affect anything: "In addition , you sing very well, don't sing again in the future."

"..." David had just decided that he would act as a bard on the continent of Yaneira.

I didn't expect that I would be forced to be laid off as a bard after less than a day: "I just used shadow magic to sing, but it didn't have any effect?"

"No, the effect is so good that even I was affected." Only then did Laura understand why the Predator became sluggish and why her mind suddenly became inflexible. Influenced by Wei's singing voice: "However, when did you master the shadow magic power?"

"Temporarily extracted from the shadow space." The joint effect of learning to sneak is to let David know how to'connect' the shadow space.

Now that he knows where that world is, it is not difficult for a spellcaster like him to draw some energy to come here.

He didn't plan to store shadow energy in his body, and he used it immediately. Anyway, it was no difficulty for David.

However, unless I can solve the problem of not distinguishing between the enemy and the friend as soon as possible, I will have no chance to continue singing with the shadow magic.

Especially when David and Laura returned to Everwinter Town with the corpses of the Predator and Dutch, and learned that the entire town had a collective nightmare last night, he knew that his career (bard) was indeed Come to an end.

Speaking of which, I had an idea before that the main character was a bard...