The mage quietly looked at the book in the elf prince's hand.

The nanmu tabletop has circles of light yellow and soft texture. It is covered with a withered leaf. Milkay opened a book, took out another leaf bookmark from it, and placed it next to this withered leaf. He said: "

The outpost you see has not always existed. Our people only established this outpost about a month ago, mainly to monitor a group of players from this direction."

He raised his eyelids, looked at the others with his slender eyes, and fiddled with the leaf bookmarks with his slender fingers.

"This place was built within a month?" Sophia asked in surprise, her eyes widened, "It's amazing."

"The hand of despair?" Ke'er asked curiously.

Xiao Fen narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Our enmity with the Hand of Despair did not start from the beginning, but I heard that they are related to the Rune Island Empire." Milkai said lightly. He raised a leaf and admired it carefully through the sunlight.

The dry context: "The king died in a long poem, and the elves rose up to resist; glory flows in the blood, and the heart should be free..." He sang in a low tone, and his charming voice penetrated the forest.

, as if echoing in the hearts of people.

The mage, Yun Na and the goblins all knew that the elf prince was involved in a tragic battle in the magic war. In the war between gods and mortals, the forest elves chose to side with the magic emperor, so they were driven into the forest after their defeat.

went and lost their greatest hero. From then on, the forest elves swore to be eternal enemies of the Rune Island Empire——

For this reason, they even broke away from their guardians and fell into the arms of Henna, the goddess of forest and nature. Although Henna also belongs to the Olas pantheon, her priesthood is inherited from Glax, the mother of the earth.

Her personality tends to be neutral, gentle, and aloof from the world. She is similar to the Black Moon Goddess, wandering on the edge of the gods of Rune Island. She neither supports nor opposes.

But the mage keenly grasped one detail. "The relationship between the Hand of Despair and the Rune Island Empire has only spread in recent days, so the original enemies of these elves are not the black knights." He raised his head and looked at it.

The other party's jasper-like eyes.

Milkay smiled slightly and put down the leaves in his hands.

"So, your opponent is not the Hand of Despair?" Xiao Fen raised his chin and asked: "The attack on us is just because of your opposition to the talent of the Hand of Despair, or you want to express your feelings about the runes.

An attitude of the island empire?”

The mage's words were a bit straightforward, but they got to the point. The Elf Prince apologized a little, but still nodded: "I hope you understand. This kind of hatred flows in our blood and will never be eradicated."

Xiao Fen shook his head for a while. He didn't expect that pretending to be a black knight in Hand of Despair's own territory would be so risky. What on earth do these guys do?

"Then, there's no Council of Ancient Trees here, right?" he asked, looking away from the book in the other person's hand. He raised his head and saw several green auras surrounding huge trees in the forest in the distance.

Flying up, and then blending into the tree trunk. The mage calmed down and looked at the hall. The forest elves were keen on making some wooden decorations - these small things were hung from the top of the hollowed-out oak hall with a string of beads, one connected to the other.

One, it has a unique and interesting flavor.

But what the mage was looking at were the mysterious mana runes on the ceiling, which formed a magic circle.

"Mr. Sergeant, your wisdom surprises me," Milkay said with an awkward smile: "There is no ancient tree council here. In fact, we are a force called the Alzhi Forest Guards, which is the forest."

The guards of the ancient holy objects of the elves. But a month ago, several players sneaked into our holy land and stole something very sacred to us. I led the guards to sneak up and found these people here.

There’s a long-term camp.”

"It's so abominable, these thieves." Sophia immediately asked: "Mr. Elf, are you the one who needs our help? Your enemies must be very powerful, right?" The little paladin princess took it for granted that the Lin Guards' opponent was too difficult to deal with.

That's why there has been no action.

Xiao Fen's face suddenly turned dark. Speaking of which, isn't this just the temperament of a player: he thinks that NPC's things are treasures in themselves, and he just takes them. Many times he does the same thing himself, but the little girl unintentionally

His own captain was bypassed, and our master nurse couldn't laugh or cry for a moment, and he had the urge to sew this dead girl's mouth shut.

The dwarves and goblins must have thought so too. He turned around and saw that Ke'er also had an unnatural look on her face.

The Elf Prince was silent for a moment, then a fallen leaf floated in from outside and fell on his shoulder.

"We followed and fought against these players," he replied: "They are not strong, but they are stubborn. They were ambushed by my guards and the whole army was destroyed, but they were unwilling to hand over the holy objects. The last time we attacked,

They threatened to move the sacred object so that we could avoid it."

"That won't trouble you, right?" the goblin asked.

Milkay nodded. "It is not difficult to eliminate them, but if the holy objects are transferred to the human world, there will be a lot of trouble. And according to my scout reports, these people seem to be enemies of the Hand of Despair. So I hope there will be better

To resolve the dispute between the two parties." He spread his hands and said: "But my guards cannot trust these players, and they will not trust us."

"So you thought of this as soon as you heard our proposal?" The mage pulled down the brim of his red robe so that the shadow formed an undulating line on his face, "The enemy of my enemy may not be my friend.

, they may not be good people fighting against the Hand of Despair, and it may also be a conflict of interest. But what does His Highness Milkay think? What do you want us to do, test or alliance? "

"Both, as long as you are not desperate." Milkay took the leaf from his shoulder, flattened it carefully, and placed it on the page of the book. He seemed to be very interested in it: "In short, I hope you will

Can help us retrieve the sacred object."

Everyone raised their heads and looked at Xiao Fen. This was not a simple task. Prince Milkai asked them to get something from other players, and it seemed that these things were very important to the other party. In addition to negotiation,

At present, the only way they can think of is to give the opponent five rounds, so that if the opponent does not have the Angel Stone to resurrect, he will naturally explode.

But what follows is an endless feud. It’s not that Shining Gold Coin doesn’t have this ability, but it’s worth it. Making a mortal enemy for a mission reward is not good for your own reputation. It’s too domineering, and many

The guild has made countless enemies for this reason. In fact, Xiao Fen has always believed that Torrential Rain set up such a task out of good intentions.

However, he pondered for a moment and replied: "I will try to negotiate, but I need you to give me the right to represent you. Specifically, you just need to regard me as an envoy. As for whether it will succeed, I cannot guarantee it.

.”

The elf prince turned over the book and placed a withered leaf on the bottom page. Xiao Fen noticed his action, but said nothing.

"In your human terms," ​​Milkai replied in fluent Common Tongue: "Deal."

…

Coming out of the hall made of twisted oak wood, Xiao Fen took a deep breath. To be honest, it would be much easier for him to kill a dragon or deal with several huge NPC forces than this task.

The player's mind is particularly difficult to understand in the game. He may feel happy if he sees you happy; he may feel unhappy if he sees you unhappy. It's not uncommon for him to get angry if he disagrees with you.

There are still traces of the big guild, but it is even more difficult for ordinary players to figure out. They may act entirely based on their personality and hobbies, but there are a thousand people with a thousand personalities, so even he dare not guarantee that it will definitely succeed. Although the mage has always been a bit

I'm egoistic, but I'm not so arrogant that I think everyone will have a favorable impression of me out of thin air when they see me.

"Are you sure, captain?" the goblin asked, pinching a few beards on his chin, with a frown on his face as if he was more troubled than he was. Paired with his cyan robe, he looked a bit like a dog-headed military counselor.

——Or should we say kobold strategist? You know, goblins and kobolds are actually difficult to distinguish in the eyes of ordinary people.

Xiao Fen shrugged.

"We'll see what happens."

In fact, he had a suspicion in mind when he said this. Human nature is changeable from time to time, but there are rules to follow. Otherwise, psychology would have been criticized as a pseudoscience hundreds of years ago. Speaking of which, it is nothing more than intimidation and inducement.

, it’s just that you have to grasp the degree of it yourself. Some people like hard things but not soft things, some people like soft things but not hard things, and some people don’t like hard things but soft things. How to influence these different people without creating too bad an impression?

.This is the difficulty of this task.

Although torrentialrain has set up this kind of interactive task between players, the rewards are generally very generous. Xiao Fen remembers that it should be calculated by adding one level (a to a+). However, there is actually a trick to this kind of task.

, for example, if you run over and find that the person you are looking for happens to be a good friend of yours, then congratulations - you are lucky!

However, there won't be too many such situations. Although there are many cases where players team up to deceive NPCs, NPCs in Canaan are not fools.

The mage pointed at Maali Bailey: "Meili, come with me."

"No!" The little female dragon immediately knew what Xiao Fen was going to do, screamed and ran back.

But the mage stretched out his hand out of thin air and created an invisible force field to restrain Miss Black Dragon. She was the most important part of his plan. Think about it, a magician riding a black dragon fell from the sky. What kind of deterrent is this?

Most people would feel timid, but as soon as Xiao Fen felt this kind of emotion, he could let go and do whatever he wanted. Of course, it was inevitable that some mages' bad tastes would not be included in this.

But everyone saw that Miss Black Dragon's eye circles turned red immediately.

"Despicable, shameful, only knows how to bully women!" Miss Black Dragon struggled and shouted, causing the elves passing by to look at her with strange expressions.

"This is part of the agreement!" Xiao Fen replied angrily, not knowing how this big brainless lizard could be so difficult to deal with.

"The agreement stipulated that I should be fed one person a day, but you didn't give me any." Miss Heilong pouted aggrievedly.

When Sophia heard this, she raised her eyebrows and looked at her captain. The vicious look in her big eyes made Xiao Fen tremble with fear. The mage made up his mind not to let this little female dragon speak randomly again.

Well, maybe some shocking inside story will be revealed, and it is estimated that both herself and her will be doomed.

He used a monster immobilization spell and simply let Miss Black Dragon temporarily transform into a sculpture. Unexpectedly, Miss Heilong used a silent magic to dispel the immobilization. She shouted: "No! I am from a noble family."

My bloodline will never accept being used as a mount by a humble little insect!" Xiao Fen was so angry that his veins were jumping, but the mage was also shocked - a young black dragon would never have such advanced spellcasting ability, he suddenly

I just thought if there was something weird here.

But Xiao Fen has no time to pursue this now. Miss Heilong has already started to make up random things to discredit him.

"As long as you agree to this, I will give you the same rights as Miss Vladis." He finally threw out this bait. The mage understood that this was the clever idea of ​​the two little female dragons in the past few days, and what they wanted was for him to make this promise.

, but now he has to accept it - not to mention that he actually regards Miss Black Dragon as his teammate, but this stupid lizard with a weak head has never been able to understand.

Sure enough, Maali Bailey's eyes lit up and she immediately asked: "Really?"

"no sooner said than done."

"Can I eat one person every day?" Miss Heilong pressed for more.

Sophia snorted from her nose.

Xiao Fen immediately gritted his teeth and said, "If you mention one more word, I will throw you into the endless maze."

Miss Black Dragon immediately shut up obediently and turned back to wink at Vladis, looking so proud that her tail was about to rise. However, the latter shook her head, held her forehead and sighed, red
To be continued...