LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 16
Chapter 16: Redhead Allen.
After all, Alice wiped away her tears, and it didn’t take long before she became a decent mercenary.
Three years later, everyone who had heard of Undead Roma knew that there was a red-haired Allen by his side.
The red-haired Allen is a powerful young mercenary. He has red hair like flames and a girl-like beauty. He uses a thin sword, light in posture, and swings the sword as if dancing.
All the tavern waitresses liked him, surrounded him, teased him, and called him a pretty little sweetheart. Every time, he blushed and said nothing, making the big sisters in the tavern love him. But if someone saw him killing someone, they would never think he was a “little sweetheart”. This young man is an immortal Roma’s high foot. Although young, he has excellent swordsmanship. He is cruel and merciless, making the enemy afraid .
If anyone who knew the young girl Alice saw the red-haired Ellen now, he would definitely not be able to imagine that the cold mercenary in front of him was the weak child back then. In the past three years, this girl has experienced many things that people would never experience in a lifetime, and witnessed many particularly terrifying scenes, which made her almost become another person.
When she just started to study with Roma, in order to make her adapt to the life of a mercenary faster, Roma first accepted some private commissions that had nothing to do with combat. In fact, these orders are not easier than operations, but they are more flexible and free. They sometimes had to risk their lives to cross the battlefield where the two armies faced each other. Occasionally, at dusk, I would pass the hillside where I had just finished a battle. The fields were full of dead people, and those relatives of the dead who wore black robes wandered like crows among the dead corpses under the **** setting sun, using necromancy spells to drive the corpses away.
If it wasn’t for Roma who cared about her like a father, she would definitely not be able to survive.
In the first six months, Alice woke up from nightmares countless times. But this kind of thing will always get used to it over time. Later, she slowly learned to seal her fear and hide the pain in the depths, even if she used a sword to pierce the opponent’s chest, she would not change her face. Her girl’s heart gradually became cold, and the mother’s teachings of the past were blown away like a gust of wind, forgotten, and nothing remained.
After years of transformation, the former girl finally became a cold-blooded mercenary red-haired Allen.
Although he has not experienced a particularly cruel battle so far, nor has he completed any unusually difficult commissions alone, so he has not been promoted to a special mercenary for the time being. But he has been recognized by many people, thinking that he has the ability not to lose the super mercenary. He is only a third-level mercenary but already has the title of “Red Haired Allen”, this is a clear proof.
A special record and a resounding title are two necessary conditions for promotion to a super mercenary.
Like his master Roma, he became famous in the battle called “Winter Meat Grinder”. The war was extremely tragic, blood flowed into rivers, and both sides who participated in the war suffered heavy losses. Roma crawled out of the dead, without any damage except for the scars on his face. Since then, he received the title of “immortality” and was promoted to a special mercenary at that time. Now the conditions for the red-haired Allen to upgrade are actually ripe, except that he has not taken over enough tasks alone. Ordinarily, it is not difficult to achieve this goal, but the red-haired Allen has always only teamed up with his master to take over tasks, so he has never been able to upgrade.
The price of hiring level three mercenaries is much lower than that of level mercenaries. Red-haired Allen is currently the most popular level three-level mercenary in the mercenary union, so some clients will specifically name Red-haired Allen. However, whenever encountering such a situation, Undead Roma always declined his client’s love on behalf of his apprentice:
“Let’s find someone else, he is still a kid. If you want him to take over the task independently, you have to wait at least for him to turn seventeen years old.”
In fact, the notion of Immortal Roma is somewhat untenable. Many young mercenaries began to take on simpler tasks independently when they were fourteen or five. Even Roma himself took over tasks alone when he was sixteen. It can only be attributed to the overprotection of Undead Roma, who refuses to let him out of his sight. Redhead Allen is still young, and some people speculate that he is actually Roma’s illegitimate child. But as he gets older, everyone can see that the two look very different, and this kind of guessing gradually decreases. However, as he rises to fame, some people may be out of jealousy, or just plain wretchedness, and some more nasty rumors spread. However, there is no market for such rumors. Anyone who has seen them can judge that they are just pure mentorship.
Someone once suggested that the red-haired Allen could get rid of the master’s control and secretly take on the task by himself. Hearing such advice, Allen often just smiled and didn’t answer aloud.
No one knows that staying with Roma until the age of seventeen is actually the request of the red-haired Allen himself.
When Alice had just cut her hair and changed to menswear, the two masters and apprentices had made such an agreement. Until the age of seventeen, Roma, as a master, had to provide her with equipment and food. In contrast, Alice, as an apprentice, had to follow Roma and assist him in completing the commission. Although she now has the ability to act alone, she decided to wait until the agreed time expires before she truly acts as an independent mercenary.
Rohm usually says:
“By then, I will almost retire.”
Roma is already in his forties. Although he has far more experience than young people, his agility is still beginning to decline. This kind of change is hard for outsiders to see, but it will take a toll on my mentality. Therefore, Roma has been saving money a few years ago and plans to retire for a few more years. If his plan can be realized smoothly, he will probably become the only mercenary on this continent who has survived until retirement.
In the nearly 30 years since Roma was 15 years old and now forty-three years old, it seems that wars on this continent will never end. Although there is no national distinction on the whole continent, The nobles and city masters who dominate everywhere seem to be always not satisfied with what they have, and they must grab it from others.
It was only after becoming a mercenary that Alice knew that she was actually lucky.
The city of Potzta where she was born and raised, although the location is relatively remote, it belongs directly to His Majesty Wang Ji. The city lord there is not a noble with a fief, but an official sent by His Majesty the King, who is directly responsible to His Majesty. The lords from different places like to fight with each other, but they dare not directly attack Wang Ji. After all, attacking Wang Ji is tantamount to rebellion. His Majesty is a descendant of the God of Light. His majesty and solemnity cannot be offended. Although he is unable to stop the war between the lords, if anyone dares to risk the world’s unrest, he will attack Wang Ji. The noble lords will send troops to conquer. Therefore, although Alice’s childhood was very poor, it was still much better than those who had been displaced by the war and had to flee everywhere.
When she first learned about this, Alice asked Roma why the lords always fight with each other. Roma told her a rumor that was widely circulated among mercenaries. They all said that the curse-like, endless disputes on this continent were actually provoked by the heroic gods. He loves war and enjoys it. As long as the war never stops, the number of his followers will continue to grow. The Wangji area has always been stable and rarely caught in the flames of war. That’s because Wang Ji is the sanctuary of the God of Light, and even if the God of Heroic Martial Arts is arrogant, he does not dare to make trouble in front of the God of Light.
Taking into account the careful eyes of the heroic god, this rumor is probably not made out of nothing.
Now that Alice is close to seventeen years old, Roma plans to start her preparations for promotion to a special mercenary. In this way, after his retirement, Alice can act independently as a super mercenary. Alice doesn’t care much about the name of the super mercenary, but she has decided to disclose her female identity when she becomes a super mercenary. In any case, as she got older, it became more difficult to pretend to be a boy, and she didn’t want to be a boy forever. The mercenary guild may not hire ordinary girls, but it is absolutely impossible to give up a special-grade mercenary because of gender. After all, there are too few special-grade mercenaries surviving in the world today.
Alice spent a lot of time thinking about this, but never thought of the promise she made with the **** of the future.
What should I say? Alice was no longer the innocent child back then. Back then, she lived in the small house on Dark River Street. All she heard every day was the prayers of her mother. The gods occupied almost all of her life. leisure. But now, the content in her life is so rich that it is difficult to think of things related to the gods. What’s more, her master, Immortal Roma, does not believe in gods, and those mercenaries who believe in Beltrchi usually only hold Buddha’s feet temporarily before the war, praying for the heroic **** to give them the courage they usually lack. In such an atmosphere, it is normal to not be able to remember the God of the future.
Besides, since she talked to the future **** in the prayer room of the temple, that **** never appeared again. As time went by, the conversation that had been held in the temple at the age of twelve became particularly dim and vague in Alice’s heart, almost like a dream. Sometimes she even wondered whether that happened, or a false memory she made up for herself in her mind.
Ordinarily, the fact that she became an undead Roma apprentice should be a clear proof that she had talked with the God of the Future, and should not be doubted in any case. However, Alice and Undead Roma have lived together for too long, and his luck seems to be something not unusual. Alice has almost forgotten that her ability to live in the shadow of the sword and the shadow of the sword until now is not what she should have done, but is closely related to her master’s unparalleled fortune.