The armor summoner will not be involved in the event

The emperor was somewhat dissatisfied with Qiongqi's cowardly behavior, so he took out the Sun Summoner and Tulanduo's Hurricane Key and handed them to it.

So Qiongqi embarked on his journey in despair.

【335】During the expedition, the young men's emotions were in conflict

Guarding work is generally boring.

This is Alcaide's experience in many of his jobs.

Stay close to your employer and pay attention to the surrounding environment, as there will be no changes. Even if there are any, they will only be changes for the bad. Occasionally, if you want to eavesdrop on your employer's conversations, you will only find long-winded and unnecessary nonsense.

It's not that he didn't understand the inner meaning, but it was because he understood it that he felt it was very troublesome to say ten or twenty sentences to do something that could be done with just one sentence.

The merchant who was guarded before was like this, and it is also like this for Ilitia now.

However, the scenery along the way was quite nice. It was his first time to take a giant bird for escort. At first, he was a little worried about what to do if he encountered a plane crash. However, everything went smoothly along the way, so now he was only concerned about where to eat later.

Of all things in the world, eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping are the only eternal truths for living things. He had never been to this country before, so he was sure that the local food must be very special.

Without worrying about the strange looks from the guards around him, he opened the travel brochure and searched for local features that interested him.

"Brother, why don't you have many food recommendations in your travel brochures?"

Faced with his question, the guard next to him hesitated and chose to answer.

"…Our country is a country where tourism is the core industry. The main attraction is the scenery, food, etc. In fact, it is enough to make do with it."

"Then what nice spots do you recommend? Preferably ones with fewer people."

"In this off-season, many of the attractions listed in the tourist brochures are not that great. Except for a few, I know some are still okay."

"Oh, then big brother, can you tell me? Here, it's just a map and a pen!"

"It's OK..."

The kind guard circled a few attractions in the travel brochure for him, and also circled a few places on the map handed to him by Alcade, and even marked the viewing times.

Illitia, who had just finished a conversation with the country's top leaders and was planning to take a break and then continue the battle at the table, just went out and saw her subordinates chatting happily with other people's guards.

"...Arcade."

"I'm here."

After all, she didn't say anything like "be careful about your status as a subordinate and at least don't chat casually with other people's guards."

"...let's go."

"See you again if we are destined to meet again."

After saying hello and goodbye to the kind guard, he followed Ilitia half a body length slower.

Back at the officially arranged accommodation, Alcaide excitedly spread out the marked maps and travel brochures.

"Tia, I found out a lot of good places! Where do you want to go?"

"...You seem to be more comfortable with this than I thought."

"Because no one in this place can beat me."

"Have you been here?"

"No."

"Then how can you be sure?"

"There is no dangerous aura within a ten-kilometer radius."

"Is this confirmation?"

"Isn't it enough?"

Is that enough?

It's not like Illitia hasn't seen other Protoss training before. Her talented sister was receiving the best training, and as an older sister, she could watch if she wanted.

Learning the essence of the Star Spirit Arts, combat training, battlefield response training...

Ilitia, who basically attended all the lectures, never heard a single word like "Just rely on your feeling."

But after all, it was prepared for a twelve-year-old girl. Even if Alice had the largest star mark in recorded history among pure-bloods, it would be impossible for her to receive the highest level of high-pressure training at this age.

Regaining her consciousness, she gave her subordinates a proper smile.

"do you want to go?"

"Yeah, so you wanna go?"

“Are there any attractions suitable for viewing at night?”

"Yes, there are two of them."

"Really? It seems like you get along well with that guard."

"Are you angry?"

"……No."

"That's just plain unhappiness."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because your smile is so fake."

"..."

My smile is fake?

Ilitia touched her cheek subconsciously.

The elegant smile that she had practiced countless times in front of the mirror, coupled with her beauty that could be described as stunning, and her enchanting temperament that made her look like a goddess, should not have anything to do with the word "fake smile" in the eyes of anyone.

"Since we met, you've been smirking more and more often, except for the day I said I wanted to be your subordinate."

This is especially obvious and frequent when Arcaid and Alice are together.

He didn't have a very good understanding of this aspect, he just felt that it was very similar to the feeling of the children of the same age next door who were already in kindergarten, who would choose to play with other children they didn't like very much over themselves because their favorite friends would give priority to playing with them.

If he had more experience interacting with people of Illitia's age, perhaps he could express his opinions more delicately.

However, since his mental age was just a fake eight years old, Alcaide would not even consider such an idea.

If you have something to say, say it. If you have questions, ask them. If there are conflicts, resolve them as soon as possible. Who are you going to perform for if you put them off until later?

Seeing that there was no false expression on his face, Ilitia pursed her lips and the smile on her face faded.

"...I am on an overseas expedition on behalf of the Imperial Court after all. As my only subordinate, your every move represents my reputation. If you have a good conversation with a group of guards, it will be easy for someone with ulterior motives to take advantage of you and attack you."

"Doesn't it indirectly reflect that your people-friendly attitude has even influenced your subordinates? And if you think things are difficult to handle because of your subordinates' mistakes, you might as well find your own mother as your subordinate."

"..."

"After all, the relationship between superiors and subordinates is a mutually chosen one, right? Giving and tolerating each other, sharing happiness and hardships - this is the reasonable and stable way to get along with each other."

"…That's not the kind of relationship that should exist between superiors and subordinates."

"?"

"…accomplice…"

"It's hard for me to hear clearly if the voice is so soft."

When I hear the word accomplice, how do you want me to understand your thoughts?

Ilitia kicked off her high heels, sat on the chair, hugged her knees with her hands, buried her head between her legs, and her low voice reached Alcade's ears.

"Go out and have fun by yourself. The diplomatic pressure is a bit great. I want to have a good rest."

"Oh, then I'm leaving."

Listening to the sound of the door opening and closing, the two words I had just said were finally spoken in their entirety.

"That kind of relationship... is complicity."

【336】Wooden Eagle Dream: Battle for the Flying Ring

【Listen, Wooden Hawk.】

The master, who was as tall and strong as a hill, looked at him with eyes as sharp as an eagle.

[I repeat this every time I train, and this time is no exception—]

[You don't have thumbs, so you are destined to be unable to use the most convenient weapons. Swords and knives are not as convenient for you as hand-to-hand combat.]

[However, the time, experience and resources required to reach the same combat power with bare hands as with weapons are several times that of the latter. Regardless of talent, every warrior in the tribe gets the same basic resources. Choosing to simply strengthen the body is nothing but a foolish act.]

[So I will teach you the fighting technique of the flying ring, a foreign weapon that does not rely on the five fingers being intact.]

[Remember, no matter how difficult the process is, you can't give up your desire for the result. ]

A flying ring with a sharp edge was held in the opponent's hand. Under the opponent's huge palm, the alien weapon of the same size as the flying ring in his hand seemed like a too small bracelet.

This wasn't the first time Alcaide had had this kind of lucid dream.

Occasionally, he would see such a scene in his dreams, where the master opposite him would teach him a certain skill or help him practice.

After he learned the Meditation Method·Watching the Sword and the Meditation Method·Appreciating the Scenery from his master, he saw them more frequently.

Although I really want to ask the other party for advice on how to use the hidden blade, the content of the teaching depends entirely on the other party's mood and my own learning progress.

Two flying rings of exactly the same style and size painted a magnificent scene in the air. Colorful sparks flew everywhere and quickly ignited some invisible substance, forming colorful flames hanging in the air.

[This flying ring is made of gorgeous burning wood, which is a strange wood that can only grow to some extent in the burning wind. Even if it is taken down and made into a weapon, it still retains some of its strange properties when it was alive. ]

[They are living weapons. Just by placing them there, they can take up to half a day and night on this planet (about 10 hours) to turn % of the air within a radius of one kilometer into special flammable gas.]

[I used to use this thing as an assassination tool, but for you, it is impossible to choose to use it in any other way except for high-speed attack in person, which means that if you want to use this thing well, you must learn to use it in direct combat.]

[Energy weapons have their own preferences. Not only do warriors choose their own weapons, they also choose their own masters. This pair of flying rings is a pair of proud little girls who are eager to have a skilled plunderer as their user. ]

[Since you are already proficient in using the flying rings in both hands, today I will begin to test your skills in using the double flying rings.]

[But before that, you have to take the complete weapon from me first. ]

[Whether it's the use of weapons or the wood-walking method I taught you, it doesn't matter which method you use. ]

[I only have one request for you, take the remaining half of the weapon from me, otherwise you won't even be able to conquer the guy in your hand.]

When the other party finished speaking and grabbed the flying ring for close combat, Alcade had already launched a sneak attack.

No, that was a trap created by the Wood Element Method that was buried under the opponent's feet when their bodies crossed each other. It would be too blatant to call it a sneak attack.

Green vines like the tentacles of a soft-bodied creature rose up and wrapped around the master's muscular calves.

However, the Wood Element Technique, Wood Stretching, which he had used all his strength to perform, had just entangled with the opponent, and before it could be closed, it was pulled off by the opponent's powerful force, and was destroyed before it could even entangle for half a second.

[You are so slow in launching the basic wood movement technique. Do you want the enemy to chop off your head before you realize your laziness?! ]

With a loud shout, the flywheel that was supposed to be a throwing weapon was held in the opponent's hand like a dagger and chopped down.

Alcade tried his best to unleash his physical potential but he just barely avoided serious injury.

But he was not unscathed. The flywheel should have been tightly held in the opponent's hand, but it was spinning and vibrating at high speed just now, cutting through the bark-tanned clothes on his body like a chainsaw, and even rolled up a part of it, causing scratches on his skin.

After seeing the opponent's move on living creatures and the tragic disintegration scenes he had seen several times before, Alcaide no longer dared to take the opponent's close-range attack.

By the way, when facing the Star Spirit of Sin that was immune to physical attacks, he relied on the power of thunder and lightning that he learned from his master's move without any star spirit magic.

The method of using thunder, known as the Zhen Gua, does not require any miraculous palm and finger skills, but is enough to make the weapon vibrate at an extremely fast speed, and at the same time enchant thunder damage and tearing damage.

However, due to the size difference, he did not let the flying ring spin at high speed in his palm, but accelerated the flying ring, so that the problem of insufficient power and accuracy after it flew out due to his own physical defects was solved.

The biggest problem with this technique is that it is difficult for him to ensure his own safety at close range.

The optimal killing distance of the flying ring is about two to two hundred meters, and it can reach maximum power at more than five meters.

However, the master always kept a distance of more than one meter from him, and the flying rings in his palms stirred the surrounding flames, turning them into a huge rotating circle of fire.

[Zhen Gua is not so monotonous——]

There is a faint flicker of lightning between the muscles. That is a technique that stimulates muscle nerves through the Zhen hexagram to achieve super acceleration of the whole body and temporary enhancement of physical abilities.

Alcaide had only learned that kind of thing once, and it ended in failure at the cost of paralysis of the whole body. He could not get correction except in face-to-face encounters with his master, so naturally he had no extra competitive spirit to try.

But if I don’t try now, I can’t tell what will happen!