You and Me Under The World Tree

After all, Hoder is a veteran of the Nine Realms, and he can handle anything that happens in the scene with ease, and now, the anomaly that happens in the town is obviously an event, and it can be seen that this is just the beginning of a mission.

So when he saw the golden exclamation mark on the head of the goth warrior, he was not surprised, but it was strange that he was not on a mission now.

However, before he could say anything more, the golden exclamation mark disappeared, and there was no silver-gray question mark on his head to represent progress, so he just glanced at him casually. 

"Specifically, you can ask the others." 

The eyes of the two sides met, and at this moment, Hoder was a little stunned.

He did receive this task, because the task shown by the golden exclamation mark was already on his task list: 

[Mission: Border Scourge][Introduction: The newly expanded territory of the Gothic Kingdom is not stable, investigate what happened] 

[Objective: Talk to someone in the know about this (0/1)]

But of course, the starting NPC is only used as a starting point, not the delivery object of the mission, and this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, and Hoder can understand it completely, what really makes Hoder a little concerned is the eyes of the goth warrior he sees.

He hadn't been facing him before, so he hadn't noticed it, but when he noticed it, he had a strong sense of disobedience, and his blood-red eyes ...

To be honest, "Nine Realms" has been in operation for more than two years, and there are many NPCs and even passers-by who have left a deep impression on players, some because of their personalities, some are beautiful or handsome appearances, but among them, the eyes of these NPCs have always been normal, and this gothic warrior is probably the first 'red eye' he has seen.

And it's not a pretty ruby red, it's a dull blood red that is rare in the casual pinch of players - that's the color of his wife eyes.

"Wait, you're going to leave like this?"

Seeing that the goth warrior took a direct step, Hoder couldn't help but ask.

However, the goth warrior ignored him, and although he looked at him again, he did not speak.

The warrior simply took a horn from his body and blew it.

 "Woo woo woo"

With a monotonous sound that was not crisp, but not too low, the doors and windows of the closed houses were opened, the women and children remained in the house tremblingly, while the men cautiously looked out, and when they saw the corpses of the demon bull and the giant on the street, the men's originally slightly frightened faces appeared with joy.

"The giant is solved? That's great! We'll be able to settle down for a while! "

 "Long live His Royal Highness the Prince!"

That's what they said, and at this moment, a man in a coarse cloth shirt also walked over quickly, and he looked like the person who was talking here.

Although he did see Hoder and his party, he only glanced at it, and although he hesitated for a moment, he still walked directly in front of the goth warrior. 

"Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to be here..."

"It's not over yet."

The warrior who greeted the middle-aged man, known as His Royal Highness the Prince, just spoke.

On the surface, he seems to be reticent, so his words are cold and blunt, but in fact, from the moment he says it, some of his qualities are exposed—he is simply not good at words.

From those few words, Hoder knew that the Goth prince should not have been in such a border town, and that he must have had some other reason here.

"That... His Royal Highness the Prince."

Eventually, in front of the taciturn prince, the middle-aged man finally turned the conversation to Hoder and them, "... these two?"

"Of course, the people of this town would not know Hoder and the others who had just crossed the border to Goth, so they could only ask their Royal Highness the Prince, but the attitude of the interrogator was obviously very interesting, and he trembled, as if he was afraid of something. 

"He helped a little before."

"Oh..." He finally turned his gaze to Hodder after hearing His Royal Highness say that, "thank you, stranger. " 

Then, the tone became brisk...I have to say that this is actually a very interesting thing, obviously so afraid of the prince of his country, but he gradually became bold and even enthusiastic about the stranger of Hoder.

"I'm the mayor of this town: Hergrim." He didn't name himself, he just called his position here, "Anyway, thank you for your help."

"While the mayor was facing Hoder, His Royal Highness the Gothic Prince was not idle, grabbing the giant by the hair and dragging the unconscious giant away.

"No, I can't actually do anything, and even if I hadn't, your Royal Highness would have been able to deal with this giant."

"Hmmm..."

Maybe the Mayor had something else to say, but when Hoder shifted the subject to their prince at the first point, the Mayor was suddenly speechless, and he stopped talking.

There's something hidden in that...

Seeing the mayor's constipated expression as if he had seen a ghost when he went to the bathroom, Hoder had such a thought in his heart, but there were some things that could be dug later, and the top priority was to figure out what was going on here.

"Uh-huh, anyway, I'm curious about what's going on here, it's not too late, but when I came, it didn't seem like there was anyone here."

Because Hoder knew that there was no need to beat around the bush in this regard, the question was obviously a little simple and crude, but it was like a lifesaver for Mr. Mayor, who didn't care about Hoder's blunt diversionary skills, and for him, it was good to be able to change the subject.

"You see it, too, because the giants ...," sighed, and the mayor recounted the things, "These giants have been harassing us for some time. "

[Objective: Talk to someone in the know about this (1/1)]

"How long?"

"Three years ..." the mayor was visibly humiliated at the mention of this number, "Since the establishment of this town, Hegrim, these giants have come like locusts and demanded that we hand in our offerings, or else they will destroy this place."

Hearing this, Hoder understood that this was actually a very cliché task, probably like the simplest tasks issued to adventurers passing by, nothing more than being harassed somewhere, hoping that the adventurer could handle it.

However, this is the border of the Netherlands from the previous version, and Hoder remembers the assignments he received in this area. Giant Bandit..."It's kind of interesting."

Listening to the mayor's words, Hoder couldn't help but set his eyes on Siegfried and them, and the gaze of the old dwarf was also quite complicated.