frightfiction Chapter 580 The Root Cause of the Disaster
Chapter 580 The Root Cause of the Disaster
"Huh? This should be a trade route, so how did a huge pit suddenly appear here?"
Kong pulled out the route map that Bonifaz had given him from his pocket, compared it with something in confusion, and then looked at Xu Ning with a bitter face.
"Brother Xu, could it be... that they've all gotten stuck in this huge pit?"
Xu Ning waved his hand, summoning a wisp of wind, and nodded, saying, "They should be trapped underneath. I can smell my wine in the wind."
Now that they were certain there were people below, the two of them didn't hesitate any longer and immediately deployed their wind wings to descend.
After descending about ten meters, Kong was marveling at how deep and wide the crater was when he spotted a figure standing upright like a javelin below.
Kong involuntarily fell towards that direction.
Xu Ning landed more slowly, but flew towards the location emanating the aroma of wine. In front of that small tent, a guy dressed in the robes of a scholar from the Order of the Church was half-paralyzed.
"Waaaaah, a bunch of useless stuff, all trying to fool me..."
Adults don't usually look good when they cry, especially when they're drunk. This guy's tearful appearance undoubtedly made Xu Ning frown deeply.
"I thought you would choose to buy my wine, since you must have some taste. It seems I was wrong."
A flash of white light appeared beside him, and Belial appeared outside the Dust Concealment Gourd. Like Xu Ning, he frowned slightly and glanced at the guy lying on the ground.
"Judging from the elemental aura emanating from him, he shouldn't have drunk much. How did he end up like this?"
Xu Ning shrugged. "Maybe I was born weak!"
Extending a finger and gently placing it on the side of the scholar's neck, Xu Ning gently drew out a faint smell of alcohol from the man's body.
Since seeing the dragon-shaped sculpture in Xiachuan, Xu Ning found that his control over the element of alcohol seemed to have reached a new level.
In the past, it would have been easy to deliver alcohol into an enemy's body, but to manipulate the alcohol element so precisely to extract it from another person's body was extremely difficult.
Flicking away the wisp of alcohol lingering on his fingertips, Xu Ning leaned slightly forward and asked, "Is your name Tirzad?"
Upon hearing the name, the drunken scholar raised his teary, intoxicated eyes and asked, "Who are you? Are you from the Adventurers' Guild, sent to rescue me?"
Xu Ning thought for a moment and nodded in accordance with the guy's expectations.
After all, it was our first meeting, so I couldn't very well say that I got the information from the god he revered in order to steal the key to the Red King's Tomb from his possession!
When Tirzad saw Xu Ning nod, he rushed over as if he had seen a relative.
"Then I'm your employer. I demand that you get me out of this hellhole immediately, right now, without a moment's delay..."
Xu Ning took a step back, making way for the guy's embrace, revealing the empty space he had just walked over to, and the little white hair that had just been released.
"Hey, you found Tirzad? Did you find out where Serius is?"
Paimon's primary concern seems to be the success or failure of the commission, as it involves a significant amount of Mora.
"We haven't asked yet. Have you found the rest of the team?"
Paimon gestured behind him, “We found Jade, and her cool, taciturn father. They are the mercenary group hired by the expedition. Jade said that Nahtigar was injured in a fall and has heatstroke, so his condition is not good. Now all that’s missing is our main target: Serius.”
Tirzad looked at Xu Ning, then at the little white-haired creature floating beside Kong, and asked somewhat bewilderedly, "What are you talking about, Serius? There are only four of us here, there's no one like him..."
Paimon explained earnestly, "It's the pack animal that Bonifacio rented to you. He hired us to find you, and that pack animal..."
"Carrying beasts? I've suffered such a calamity, and he's still thinking about those damned carrying beasts?"
Tirzad seemed to have been greatly shocked and began to wail again.
"I knew it! They're all liars, these unscrupulous merchants... There's a limit to how much you can bully people, sob sob sob..."