Chapter Fifty-Three: Acquaintance

  "Ed! What's wrong? Has something happened?" Lant had been negotiating with the merchant group, but seeing Ed looking thoughtful, he rode back from behind the merchant group.

  "No! Nothing's wrong!" Ed thought for a moment: "Lan Te, you said that a warrior can knock someone flying with just a punch from ten meters away. Just how strong would this warrior be?"

  "Hmm! Fist Wind!" Lante asked strangely, this kind of thing is probably something that even ordinary high-rankers can't do, right?!

  "Bro! Is what you said possible? How come you suddenly remembered to ask this kind of thing?" Aisha was originally chatting with Linda on the side, and when she saw her brother return, she hurried over.

  "No, I saw it with my own eyes. Just now, the noblewoman's guard knocked five robbers flying with a single punch, and they were definitely more than ten meters away! And... "Edd paused: "I didn't feel any aura or magical presence!"

  Lan Te's eyebrows furrowed, he still understood Ed's character, and wouldn't shoot randomly. Could it be that in such a remote place, there was actually an expert of this level?

  "What a scam!" Aisha Nunu said with her mouth, very disbelieving: "How can it be done without using aura and magic, didn't you feel it, brother?"

  "Hmm! Ed, the person you mentioned has arrived!" Linda said, looking towards the rear of the caravan.

  "Hmm! Let me see if it's true!" Aisha turned her horse around and looked back. Lante and Ed didn't say anything, also turning their heads to look at the carriage.

  Francis's carriage slowly approached, the carriage was ordinary, and everyone just glanced at it roughly and didn't pay attention to it. Instead, the two men in front of them were very eye-catching. It has to be said that Aiolos's handsome appearance, paired with his elegant temperament, and next to him, Dis's face full of evil intentions, and his playful and arrogant smile, was indeed very attractive to people's eyes. The carriage didn't

  The convoy did not stop and drove away into the distance.

  "Ah! That handsome guy just now is so stylish!" Aisha turned her head and excitedly said to Linda.

  "Yes!" Linda also replied happily, and the two girls started chattering away on one side.

  "Land! That's the guy who was driving, and the one next to him didn't even make a move, but he doesn't seem weak either! What do you think?"

  "Hmm! Looks like I've been hit, huh? That young man seems to have matured a bit, but how old can he be? Probably around our age, I guess! Who would have thought that we, the promising young generation, are actually not up to par?" Lante said nonchalantly, as for what he really thought, nobody knew.

  "Haha! You're still the same, nothing matters to you!" Ed shook his head, this partner of his was always like this, never caring about anything except magic. Ed couldn't help but worry a bit for him, he and himself were different after all, being from an imperial family, with him being like this...

  "Eid, let's go!" Lant reminded aloud.

  "Alright!" Ed shouted loudly: "Hurry up, pack things up, let's get out of here as soon as possible! This place is not safe, there may be more bandits lurking around!"

  "Master!" The carriage came to a stop, and Ai'eros's voice carried over: "There's a lake over there. While the sky is still bright, let's rest there! There may not be a better place ahead!"

  "Alright! We'll stop here, anyway we're not in a hurry now! Is there a lake? Saber, are you interested in catching some fish?" Francis had been sitting in the carriage for a while and his body was getting a bit stiff.

  "Alright, young master! And where is Dolores?" Saber pointed at Dolores who was still sleeping.

  "Let her sleep! This little pig is getting more and more sleepy! Isn't Garry still there?" Francis lifted the carriage curtain and walked out.

  "Meow!" The tail of the saber-toothed tiger was tightly grasped by Dorothea, and it looked at Saber with a pitiful gaze. The majestic white tiger had directly become Dorothea's plaything!

  He silently got up and followed Francis out by lifting the door curtain.

  "Shall I go, sir?" Eriol asked, who was pitching the tent and heard Francis say he would go fishing.

  "No need, you and Dais can start a fire. Hmm! Go hunt some more prey back, fish is definitely not enough to eat!"

  On the lake surface, Saber held a branch carved into a sharp fork, aiming at the fish swimming under his feet and stabbed them directly. He lifted his hand, and there were three or four fish strung on the fork.

  Francis gazed enviously at Saber, who was walking on the water as if it were flat land. This ability was indeed very convenient! Looking at himself again, he could only use his light arrows one by one. Francis closed his eyes and saw that with his color vision combined with the light arrows in his hand, he could hit whatever he aimed for! However, after a while, many fish floated to the surface of the water.

  "Mother!" Dolores flew over from behind, hugging Gail.

  Francis turned around and looked at Dolores flying over: "Oh! Slept for a day, finally woke up?"

  "I haven't slept for a whole day, isn't it still not dark yet?" Dorothea rushed into Francis' arms. Gary jumped to the ground and looked at the fish floating on the water surface, drooling and asked: "Are we eating fish today?" But in his heart, he was thinking about how to eat these fish better "Compared to eating raw, wouldn't it taste better if roasted?"

  "Haha! I remember you're a tiger, right? How come now your appearance has become almost like a cat's and you also like to eat fish?" Francis looked at Gaili who was only the size of a domestic cat.

  "There's no such thing, I've always liked fish. Although it's a tiger, but I'm also a wise magical beast, of course, I will have my own favorite food!" Gare said with a matter-of-fact tone.

  "Listening to you, it seems that's indeed the case! I had actually forgotten that you're a Sacred Tier beast!" These days, Garei has been in charge of protecting Deloris, and Francis almost forgot that Garei was also a Sacred Tier beast.

  "This is helpless! Di's and their strength are much stronger than mine, many times on the battlefield don't even need me!" Gaili sighed, he was also a holy stage demon beast, but in this team, he was just a supporting role.

  "Gary can still play with me!" Deloris suddenly pointed at Gary "Mom, when Gary transforms into a big tiger, it's so fluffy and comfortable to sleep on its body!"

  "Haha...! Is that so? Then I'll try it next time too." Francis said with great interest.

  The merchant caravan slowly approached from a distance, and in front of them was the lake where Francis and his companions were.

  "Captain!" A swordsman riding a horse from behind hurried over and called out to Ed.

  "What's wrong?" Ed asked, turning around.

  "The people of the caravan said that there is a lake nearby, this is the best place to camp around here, let's spend tonight here." The swordsman simply explained the idea of the caravan.

  "Is there a lake? Good! Let them lead the way, and we'll rest here for today!" Ed thought for a moment. The caravan had been ambushed today, although no one was injured, but he estimated that everyone's hearts were still racing from the shock. It would be better to find a place to rest early while it was still daylight.

  "That's great, we don't have to rush today!" Aisha said happily. Meanwhile, Linda hastily hit her with a remark: "Not rushing today means making up for it tomorrow!"

  "Hmm, it's fine as long as we're not in a hurry now! But Linda, have you smelled that delicious smell?" Aisha twitched her nose and made sniffing sounds.

  "Smell! Is there?" Linda sniffed and found nothing.

  "It can't be wrong, it's the taste of barbecue!" Aisha said in a daze.

  "No way? Did you smell it wrong! I know, you want to eat barbecue now, right? Okay okay, the day is still early, wait a bit and catch a rabbit, roast it for you to eat! Look at your greedy face! Hehehe..."

  "Really! I did smell it! It can't be wrong!"

  "Hmm! I smell it too, just over by the lake!" Lant suddenly spoke up, probably referring to that group of people we met today.

  "Isn't that the noblewoman we met during the day!" Ed exclaimed, those two guards were truly unfathomable, the more he thought about it, the more he felt their strength was impossible to measure! He wondered what kind of background the noblewoman in the carriage had.

  "Brother! Look, it's the horse carriage from daytime!" Aisha pointed ahead, and indeed, Francis' horse carriage was parked not far away at the edge of the woods, next to a bonfire, where Francis and his companions were sitting around.

  "Let's camp here!" Ed said to Lant.

  "I don't care, you're the captain, just do what you want!" Lante said lazily.

  "Ai De reined in his horse and shouted at the merchant caravan behind him, 'Halt! We'll rest here for today! Set up camp!'"

  As Ed's words trailed off, the caravan slowly dispersed and set up camp around them.

  "Sorry to intrude. We're daytime mercenaries." Ed walked up, followed by Lant, Aisha and Linda.

  "Hmm? Anything wrong?"

  "I've troubled you all day today, these are not enough to show respect, I hope you'll accept them!" Ed took out the thing in his hand, it was a bottle of wine.

  "Oh! This is not bad!" Francis raised his head and saw the red wine in Ed's hand, he was very happy. The people from the church left some when they were about to leave, but it didn't take long for them to drink it all up. As for the wine of this world, Francis still quite likes it, at least its taste is still pretty authentic.

  As Francis raised his face, Ed and the others finally saw his face clearly, and were suddenly dazzled. Golden long hair fell on his shoulders, a delicate face, bright eyes and fine eyebrows, a red lip, and a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, in an instant, Ed felt himself conquered.

  "How beautiful!" Elsa murmured.

  "Hehe! I have something to say first." Seeing the four people's absent-minded appearance, Francis hastily declared: "I'm a man!"

  "Ah!" The four of Ed's group were stunned again "It's a guy!"

  "Yes, sir! Nice to meet you, I'm Francis." Francis stood up, the few people in front of him were not very old, but their temperament was not comparable to ordinary people, probably not ordinary nobles.

  "Ah! I'm Ed!" Ed exclaimed, still trying to process the shocking sight of Francis's appearance.

  "Rand! Haha, just now, I thought my goddess had appeared! Didn't expect... " Rand scratched his head, he really almost fell in love with a man just now.

  "I'm Aisha, and this is my brother!" Aisha said, pointing at Ed. The two of them did bear some resemblance, with similar facial features and brown hair.

  "I'm Linda, Francis is it? You really got me! Hehe..." Linda said with her hand covering her mouth.

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