Chapter 961

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Jianhu City, the residence of the community "Knights of the Lake".

This place is located on the high ground on the left side of the Lake of Swords, covering an area of ​​more than thirty square kilometers. It is covered with ironwood that is several to ten meters high, bloated and almost as hard as steel.

Through the gift of 'plant manipulation', the fairies hollowed out the middle of the ironwood and made treehouses one after another, and spawned countless soft and hard turfs and vegetation to form roads connecting the treehouses, and at the same time linked them with roads. The earth veins form the "protective technique - Forest Protection" unique to the fairy clan.

This kind of protection method that is integrated with nature directly links the station with the terrain of the entire outer gate. When fully opened, it can even support four-digit legendary level experts to fight in the station with all their strength.

This fairy-like protective technique that is one with nature is exclusive to the 'Queen'.

More than 90% of the fairies in the Little Garden have sworn allegiance to the 'Halloween Queen' and serve as logistics personnel for various communities under her.

Because of this, the status of fairies in the Little Garden is very transcendent. Except for the crazy people, few people dare to take action against the fairies protected by the queen.

However, there are always exceptions.

"Did three goblins die this time?"

In the center of the station, in a tree house more than 20 meters high, in the reception room on the first floor, a blond beauty wearing bright silver knight's full-body armor looked at the palm-sized goblin floating in the air with an embarrassed expression.

The female knight has honey-colored hair, which is tied into braids at the temples and falls to her chest. She has a delicate face, clear eyes, and a knight-like fortitude.

This is Lancelot du Lac.

Su Jin brought back the Goddess of Steel from the world of Godslayer, the patron saint of witches.

Opposite Lancelot, the fairy with two pairs of transparent cicada wings on her back, wearing a dress made of flower petals, and with light red hair is Lancelot's attendant, the fairy Ove.

At this moment, both the master and the servant looked a little ugly and serious:

"In total, including this expedition and the past five expeditions, a total of seven of the fairies under my command have died and twelve have been injured. Right, Ou Fu."

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

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

Although the mission was completed safely, the casualties among her men made her unhappy.

"Yes, Your Majesty Lancelot." The attendant Fairy Ouffe was in a low mood, seeming to feel sad for her dead companions: "But please don't worry, my compatriots will be reborn in that holy and beautiful country. , please don’t mind.”

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

The goblin here does not refer to the sharp green-skinned monster in fantasy novels, but a kind of earth elf without a specific form.

This kind of earth elves are everywhere in the queen's kingdom. Only after hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation can they evolve their spiritual power and become the lowest six-digit elf.

Although his life was saved, all his past efforts were in vain.

After all, the attendant goblins around Lancelot are all carefully selected five-digit figures. Their strength is probably much stronger than her in the world of God Killer. But now, her life's hard work has been wasted. If she can't escape, she has to make a comeback in the heaven where the environment is even worse. Even if Ove persuades Lancelot not to care, she can't do it.

In a depressed mood, Lancelot took out the red wine from the wine cabinet on the side, directly pulled out the oak cork, and drank it in a gulp:

"Ha...Oph, when I first came to the 'Knights of the Lake', I heard you say that the combat mortality rate of fairies under the new knights' command remains high. Is that true?"

"Yes." Oph flapped the cicada wings on her back, flew to Lancelot's side, and explained in a low voice: "It is almost everyone's consensus that the death rate of the squire goblins under the new knight's command has reached two levels."

"So out of the thirty goblins assigned to me, six or seven died in battle. Is it normal?"

Lancelot recalled the previous missions, his brows gradually furrowed, but he didn't know where the problem was.

At this moment, a voice that sounded particularly familiar to Lancelot sounded:

"What is considered normal if you die in battle? Has anyone died?"

Hearing this voice, Lancelot was stunned.

Chapter 1359 The Perfect Knight

Hearing that familiar voice, Lancelot's body suddenly froze.

She slowly turned around and looked toward the door, only to see a man with a straight posture, wearing a black sweater, smiling eyes and slightly thin lips standing at the open door under the rays of golden sunlight.

"Su Jin...how did 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-like stairs one after another, and happened to be caught by Lancelot.

Seeing this scene, Lancelot became even more confused: "Your Excellency Merlin...and Sarah...what are you doing?"

Merlin, as the superior of the community 'Knights of the Lake', it is impossible for Lancelot not to have met him, and Sarah, as the Speaker of the Dragon Horned Eagle and Lion, is in the same South District, plus she once was at the Arcadia dinner. , somewhat familiar.

But now, with these three people who didn't seem to get along together, Lancelot was a little confused.

Hearing Lancelot's name, Merlin walked past Su Jin with a smile, entered the room carelessly, looked around, and said with a smile:

"Oh, I don't dare to let you call me "Sir". From now on, you can just call me Merlin. Of course, if you want to call me "Xiao Meimei", I don't have any objection."

As she said that, she saw the trembling goblin floating in mid-air, and her eyes lit up:

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

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

Seeing this, Merlin held the staff in one hand and put his hand on his hip. He sighed pitifully: "Oh, is the reaction so big? Don't I just want to see your growth? As for treating me like this?"

Hearing this, Oph became even more frightened. For a moment, she didn't even dare to look at Merlin, and she bumped directly into Lancelot's armor, blending into the armor like water dripping into a lake.

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

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

Seeing this scene, Sarah couldn't help but said speechlessly: "Your Excellency Merlin, it's not like you don't 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 dream demon and the goblin have a special relationship?"

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

"Oh, I can't say it's special!"

"If I really want to describe it, it's like the relationship between an ordinary woman without clothes and a goblin in heat. It's no big deal."

Isn't this a big deal? Su Jin complained bitterly in his heart, then rolled his eyes at Merlin, then turned to look at Lancelot, lingering on the opponent's armor for a moment, and said with a smile:

"I just heard you say that 'death in battle is considered normal', what's the matter? Have any new friends encountered misfortune? Do you need my help?"

"No, you misunderstood. He is not a friend, but a subordinate who has encountered misfortune. Moreover, it does not seem to be a big deal."

After Lancelot heard Su Jin's words, her ups and downs of emotions suddenly calmed down, and she said calmly:

"According to Ou Fu, my attendant goblin, under normal circumstances, a battle death rate of 20% for every five missions is a more reasonable range."

"I see. Did your subordinates die in battle while performing their missions? That is indeed quite normal. But then again, the death rate of the Queen's community is so high? It's actually 20%?"

After hearing Lancelot's explanation, Su Jin turned to Merlin for more information.

"Generally, that's true."

Merlin ran to the sofa at some point, picked up the green grapes on the table, and bit into one:

"You must also understand, Your Highness, that five-digit numbers are a special level where the gap 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 mission issued by the community to the five-digit selection can easily cause casualties. Therefore, generally speaking, each subordinate community under Avalon has a corresponding death indicator."

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

As he spoke, Merlin bit off a piece of green grapes, squinted his eyes, glanced at Lancelot and said:

"But Lancelot, I don't think you are someone who has no battlefield experience. Logically speaking, the death rate of the goblins under your command should be lower than normal... Oops, looking at it this way, it seems that we just happened to encounter a ghost. ”

"Have you encountered a ghost?" Su Jin frowned. He heard something was wrong in Merlin's words: "You mean, there is something wrong with this mortality rate? And it was our target that caused the ghost?"

"Don't frame me, I didn't say anything~ This is all your own thinking." 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 Not a bad idea.”

Seeing this, Su Jin snatched the green grapes from Merlin's hand, divided them between Sarah and Lancelot, and then said angrily: "Stop smiling so playfully, let's get down to business."

"Okay, okay, it's true. Young people are impatient and don't know how to savor things carefully. With so many beautiful women around, they are just thinking about business and have no interest."

Merlin whispered something in front of Su Jin. When he saw that Su Jin's eyes were wrong, he quickly changed the subject:

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

Having said this, Merlin waved his staff, and pieces of brown parchment appeared in the air, and finally floated into everyone's hands.

Su Jin looked down and found that there seemed to be something wrong with the data above:

"The death indicator is 30%, the actual number of deaths is 30%, the conceptual loss indicator is 13%, the actual loss is 122%, the strategic material loss indicator is 04%, the actual loss is 047%...this?"

Su Jin raised his head and said strangely: "The level of accounting is pretty good. Which school did he come from?"

Sarah was a little confused when she saw the numbers listed, but after hearing Su Jin's weird words, she suddenly realized what the problem was.

The accounts were done too carefully. Each indicator was just above the limit. Sometimes it exceeded, sometimes it didn't. It might be okay to look at it individually, but overall, it was a bit too abnormal.

Because it was too reasonable, it was the biggest unreasonableness.

Chapter 1360 Who is he obeying?

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

"He definitely embezzled, but I don't know how much." Merlin spread his hands with helplessness on his face.

Su Jin nodded, then said in confusion: "That needs to be dealt with, but why did he kill those goblins? Are there any special things about goblins?"

Su Jin is not unfamiliar with the problem of embezzlement, but the nature of killing is a bit different.

People.

It's normal to seek wealth, power and sex, but Su Jin is a little disgusted to kill for this.

If you are an enemy, you can kill him, but if you have no grudges, you kill people, which is really a bit immoral.

Facing Su Jin's question, Merlin raised his lips, smiled, and said mockingly: "My Highness, you may not know that the life of a fairy is very valuable~"

"What do you mean?" Su Jin looked like he wanted to hear more.

Seeing this, Merlin cleared his throat and explained:

"In the box garden, most fairies are born from nature, perhaps a ball of fire, perhaps a handful of soil, or even a weed. These natural materials with Celtic spirituality will give birth to spirituality after accumulating over time, thus producing the lowest level of 'elves', which are fairies."

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

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

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

"Then let me explain it to you." Merlin said this, his expression gradually becoming serious: "The so-called fairy tears actually refer to the spirit of the fairy. In essence, it is the liquid squeezed out of the spirit of the fairy. Because it looks like tears, it is also called fairy tears."

"This thing sounds good, and it is also very effective when used. It can completely accelerate a person's weaving power and condensing authority. The higher the level, the better the effect."

"Sounds good, right?"

Merlin's expression was mocking.

"But in fact, this thing is a sinful gift that was created by squeezing out all the life essence of a fairy. It is a contraband that the queen has explicitly banned from production and use."

"Because of the queen's majesty, since the end of the Dawn Period, no one dares to produce this thing except for the fairy tears produced before the Dawn Period."

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

"..."

Su Jin fell silent when he heard the source of fairy tears. What's the difference between using this thing and cannibalism? And he dared to do something that the queen had explicitly banned. Ha, he really wanted strength but not life.

Su Jin took a deep breath, turned his head and looked around, and found that Sarah and Lancelot were very silent. Even the fairy Oufu, who had just hidden, was sitting on Lancelot's shoulder with a sad face.

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

"So...Alan Lancelot is making the 'Fairy Tears'?"

"According to the investigation team's speculation, there is a 60% chance." Merlin said calmly: "Of course, for Her Majesty the Queen, 60% is absolutely possible. Her Majesty will never tolerate the existence of someone who offends her royal power, even if he is the future 'First Knight'."

"I understand."

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

"Where is Alan Lancelot?"

Lancelot was silent for a moment, and explained:

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

"Okay, lead the way."

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In the center of the community's 'Knight of the Lake' station, there is a huge tree with an unusually large trunk.