Chapter 961：

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Sword Lake City, the residence of the community "Knight of the Lake".

This place is located on the left highland of the Sword Lake, covering an area of ​​more than 30 square kilometers. There are iron woods that are several meters or more than ten meters high, bloated, and similar in hardness to steel.

Through the gift of 'plant manipulation', the fairies hollowed out the middle of the iron wood to make tree houses, and spawned countless turf and vegetation with moderate hardness and softness, forming a road connecting each tree house, and at the same time using roads to link The leylines formed the 'protective spell, the protection of the forest' unique to the fairies.

In this way, the protection method that is integrated with nature directly links the station with the terrain of the entire outer door. After it is fully opened, it can even support four-digit legend level powerhouses to fight in the station.

This fairy-style protection technique that is one with nature is the exclusive use of the 'Queen'.

More than 90% of Hakoniwa's goblins swear allegiance to the "Halloween Queen" and serve as logisticians for each community under it.

Because of this, the fairies have a very detached status in the little garden. Except for the crazy, few people dare to take action against the fairies sheltered by the queen.

However, there are always exceptions.

"Did three goblins die this time?"

In the center of the station, in the tree house more than 20 meters high, in the reception room on the first floor, the blond beauty in the bright silver knight's full body armor looked embarrassedly at the slap-sized fairy dancing in the air.

The female knight has honey-colored hair, and the hair on the temples is tied into a braid and hangs down to her chest. She has a delicate face, clear eyes, and a knight-like fortitude.

This is Lancelot du Lark.

Su Jin brought back the goddess of steel, the patron saint of witches, from the world of godslayers.

On the opposite side of Lancelot, there were two pairs of transparent cicada wings on the back, wearing a dress made of petals, and a fairy with light red hair, it was Lancelot's attendant fairy Ove.

At this moment, the expressions of the master and servant are a little ugly and serious:

"In total, including this expedition and these five expeditions, a total of seven servant fairies under my command died and twelve were injured. That's right, Oufu."

Generally speaking, new knights who join the Queen's banner need to complete the 'five mandatory tasks' before they can become official knights.

Lancelot is no exception after joining the 'Knight of the Lake', and today is the day she completes five expeditions...

Although the mission was completed safely, the casualties of her subordinates did not make her happy.

"Yes, Your Majesty Lancelot." The attendant fairy Ove was depressed, and seemed to be sad for her dead companion: "But please don't worry, my compatriots, will be reborn in the kingdom of Halloween. , please don't mind."

Lancelot sighed at this time: "But after the rebirth, they are no longer goblins, but more first-class goblins. It is basically difficult to restore their original strength."

The goblin here does not refer to the spiky green-skinned monsters in the fantasy novels, but a kind of earth spirit with no specific body.

This kind of earth spirit is everywhere in the queen's kingdom of God, and only after hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation can they evolve their spirituality and become a low-level six-digit fairy.

Although it was said that his life was saved, the efforts of the past were also paid in vain.

After all, the attendant goblins around Lancelot are all carefully selected five-digit numbers, and their strength is probably much stronger than that of her who used to be in the godslayer world. However, she has to make a comeback in the heaven where the environment is even worse. Even if Ove persuades Lancelot to not care, she can't do it.

In a depressed mood, Lancelot took out the red wine from the wine cabinet on the side, pulled out the cork, and poured it down:

"Ha...Ouf, when I first came to the 'Knight of the Lake', I heard you say that the elves under the new knight's command have a high mortality rate, right?"

"Yes." Oufu flapped the cicada wings behind him, flew to Lancelot's side, and explained in a low voice: "The death rate of the attendants under the new knights has reached two levels, which is almost everyone's consensus."

"So among the thirty fairies assigned to me, six or seven died in battle. Is it normal?"

Lancelot recalled the previous missions, frowning gradually, but he didn't know what went wrong.

At this moment, a voice that Lancelot sounded very familiar sounded:

"What is normal to die in battle? Has anyone died?"

Hearing this voice, Lancelot was stunned.

Chapter 1359 Perfect Knight

Hearing the familiar voice, Lancelot's figure suddenly froze.

She slowly turned around and looked towards the door, but she saw a man with a straight posture, wearing a black sweater, smiling eyes and slightly thin lips under the golden sunlight, standing at the open door.

"Su Jin... how are you..."

Lancelot was startled when he saw the person coming, and stepped forward with a puzzled look on his face.

At this time, behind Su Jin, Merlin and Sarah walked up the branch-shaped stairs one after the other, and Lancelot just happened to see them.

Seeing this scene, Lancelot was even more confused: "Mr. Merlin...and Sarah...what about you?"

Merlin, as the superior of the community 'Knight of the Lake', naturally Lancelot could not have seen it, and Sarah, as the Speaker of the Dragon Horned Griffon, was in the same South District, and once at the Arcadia dinner party. , is somewhat familiar.

But now, with these three people who don't seem to be taking advantage of the bar together, Lancelot is a little confused.

Hearing Lancelot's name, Merlin crossed Su Jin with a smile and entered the room carelessly. While observing left and right, he also said with a smile:

"Oh, I dare not ask you to call your Excellency. You can call me Merlin in the future. Of course, if you want to call Xiao Meimei, I have no problem."

As she spoke, she saw the trembling goblin floating in the air, and her eyes lit up:

"Huh? This is a fairy with the sword attribute? This attribute is rare. Come, let my sister see how you are developing?"

"Please stay away from me." The little goblin with transparent cicada wings was instantly frightened, and quickly hid behind Lancelot, looking at 'Aunt Strange' with a look of fear.

Seeing this, Merlin held the staff in one hand and akimbo in the other, and sighed pitifully: "Oh, is the reaction so big? Don't I just want to see your growth? As for me?"

Hearing this, Oufu was even more frightened. For a while, he didn't even dare to look at Merlin, and slammed directly into Lancelot's armor, like water dripping into a lake, merging into the armor.

Seeing this scene, Merlin scratched his cheeks, tilted his head and said:

"I was so scared that I used my talent to hide in the armor? Am I so scary?"

Seeing this scene, Sarah couldn't help but said speechlessly: "Mr. Merlin, don't you know what the dream demon means to the goblin?"

Hearing that there was something going on here, Su Jin couldn't help but wonder: "What? The relationship between dream demons and goblins is very special?"

Hearing this, Merlin touched his cheek and said with a smile:

"Oh, it can't be called special!"

"If you really want to describe it, it's like an ordinary woman without clothes meeting a goblin in heat. It's no big deal."

Is this no big deal? Su Jin groaned fiercely in his heart, then rolled his eyes at Merlin, then turned his head to look at Lancelot, stopped on the other party's armor for a moment, and said with a smile:

"I just heard what you said, 'It's normal to die in battle', what? Has a new friend suffered misfortune? Do you need my help?"

"No, you misunderstood, it's not a friend, but the subordinate suffered misfortune, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal."

After Lancelot heard Su Jin's words, her originally fluctuating emotions suddenly calmed down, and she said calmly:

"According to Oufu, my attendant fairy, under normal circumstances, it is a reasonable range for every five missions to have a death rate of 20%."

"So that's the case, did the subordinates die in the battle? That's quite normal, but then again, the death rate of the community under the Queen's command is so high? It's actually 20%?"

After listening to Lancelot's explanation, Su Jin turned to learn from Merlin.

"Generally, that's true."

Merlin ran to the sofa at some point, picked up the green grapes on the table, and took a bite:

"Presumably, Your Highness, you also understand that the five-digit number is a special level where the difference in combat strength is very large, but at the same time, the means of life-saving are not rich enough. The gap between the strongest and the weakest can be described as a world of difference. "

"In this case, the task of the five-digit choice issued by the community can easily cause casualties, so in general, each subordinate community under Avalon has a corresponding death indicator."

"Well, after careful calculation, this year's target should indeed be around 20%."

With that said, Merlin bit down a piece of green grapes, squinted his eyes, and glanced at Lancelot and said:

"But I don't think you, Lancelot, don't look like someone with no battlefield experience. Logically speaking, the goblins under your command should have a lower death rate than normal... Heh, looking at it this way, we seem to have just bumped into a ghost. already."

"Did you bump into a ghost?" Su Jin frowned, he heard something wrong in Merlin's words: "You mean, there is a problem with this mortality rate? And is it our target?"

"Don't frame it, I didn't say anything~ It's all your own thoughts." Merlin stuck out his tongue, and then said with a smile: "Of course, if you want to use this as an excuse to attack the target, it feels like a Nice way."

Seeing this, Su Jin snatched the green grapes from Merlin's hand with one hand, gave Sarah and Lancelot points, and then said angrily, "Stop smiling, let's get down to business."

"Okay, okay, really, young people are impatient and don't know how to taste carefully. With so many beautiful women around, they are thinking about business and have no fun."

Merlin beeped a few times in front of Su Jin's face, and when he saw that Su Jin's eyes were wrong, he quickly changed the subject and said:

"In fact, when Lord Skaha ordered the execution of the target, I investigated the situation of the 'Knight of the Lake' and made some unexpected discoveries."

Speaking of which, Merlin waved his staff, and in mid-air, sheets of brown parchment appeared, and finally floated into everyone's hands.

Su Jin looked down and found that the above data seemed a bit wrong:

"The death index is 30%, the actual number of deaths is 30%, the conceptual loss index is 13%, the actual loss is 120%, the strategic material loss index is 0%, and the actual loss is 0% or 70%... This?"

Su Jin raised his head and said strangely, "This is a good level of accounting, which school came from?"

Sarah was a little confused when she saw the numbers listed, but after hearing Su Jin's strange yin and yang, she suddenly realized the problem.

The account is done too carefully, each indicator is just pressing the line, sometimes it exceeds, sometimes it does not exceed, it may be okay to look at it individually, but in general, it is a bit too abnormal.

Because being too reasonable is the biggest irrationality.

Chapter 1360 Who is to obey?

"He embezzled?" Su Jin glanced at the data on the brown parchment.

"I'm sure I'm greedy, but I don't know how much." Merlin spread his hands with helplessness on his face.

Su Jin nodded, then said puzzled: "That's to be dealt with, but what did he do to kill those goblins? Is there anything special about goblins?"

Su Jin is no stranger to the problem of corruption, but the nature of murder is a bit different.

people.

It's normal to seek money, power and sex, but for the sake of killing her life, Su Jin responded with dismay.

If you are an enemy, if you kill it, you will kill it. If you have no hatred and no resentment, you will kill people. It is indeed a bit wicked.

In the face of Su Jin's question, Merlin's mouth curled up, smiled, and said mockingly, "My Highness, you may not know that the life of a goblin is very valuable~"

"How do you say?" Su Jin looked like he was willing to hear the details.

Seeing this, Merlin cleared his throat and explained:

"In the little garden, most fairies are born from nature, perhaps a fire, a handful of soil, or a weed. These natural materials with Celtic spirits will pass through time. After the accumulation of spirituality, spirituality will be born, resulting in the lowest 'elf', which is the goblin."

"So, it can be said that fairies are completely natural fairies, an extension of a part of this world."

Speaking of this, Merlin asked Su Jin, "Your Highness, have you heard of the Tears of the Fairy?"

Su Jin answered very simply: "No, I have heard of Phoenix's tears."

"Then I'll explain it to you." Merlin said this, his expression gradually became serious: "The so-called fairy tears actually refers to the essence of the fairy, and its essence is to materialize the spirit of the fairy and squeeze it out. The liquid, because it resembles tears, is also called fairy tears."

"This thing sounds good, and it has great effects when used. It can completely speed up a person's weaving of power and condense authority. The higher the level, the better the effect."

"Sounds good, doesn't it?"

Merlin's expression was mocking.

"But in fact, this thing is completely a sinful gift created by extracting all the life essence of a goblin. It is a contraband that the Queen has clearly ordered to prohibit production and utilization."

"Because of the queen's majesty, from the end of the dawn to the present, no one has dared to produce this thing except for those fairy tears that were produced before the dawn."

"But as you should have guessed, someone is suspected of violating the ban."

"..."

Su Jin fell into silence when he heard the source of the fairy's tears. What is the difference between using this thing and **** and eating people? Moreover, she dares to do things that the Queen expressly forbids, oh, it really takes strength to kill.

Su Jin took a deep breath, turned his head to look left and right, and found that Sarah and Lancelot's expressions were very silent, even the goblin Ove, who had just hid, was sitting in Lancelot's sadness at this time. shoulder.

Seeing this, Su Jin slowly exhaled turbid air, then frowned and said:

"So... Aaron Lancelot is making 'Fairy Tears'?"

"According to the investigation team's speculation, there is a 60% chance." Merlin said calmly: "Of course, for Her Majesty the Queen, the 60% possibility is absolute. Her Majesty cannot tolerate the existence of people who offend her Wang Wei, even if he The future 'First Knight'."

"I understand."

Su Jin sighed, turned his head to look at Lancelot, and then said:

"Where's Aaron Lancelot?"

Lancelot was silent for a while and explained:

"Generally speaking, at this point in time, he should be in the gym."

"Okay, lead the way."

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There is a huge tree with an unusually large trunk in the center of the community's 'Knight of the Lake' station.