CHAPTER 227: CHAPTER 227: JOINING

When Herag said this, the people of the Wind Sword Adventurer Group showed varying degrees of disdain on their faces.

Adventurers?

Are you three ordinary people shamelessly calling yourselves adventurers? With your skills, even a wild beast could wipe out your entire group.

Pier’s eyes also held some contempt, but he managed his expression well, and said with a hearty laugh, "Oh, so you are also adventurers. You might consider joining my adventurer group. As you can see, we are very strong."

"Indeed, very strong," Reese said seriously, putting special emphasis on the last three words.

Pier turned around and waved, calling over a skinny man driving a carriage.

"This is an unused carriage, you can ride in it," Pier said with a smile.

"Thank you," Herag said politely, then stepped onto the carriage first, with David and Reese following closely behind.

When Reese got on the carriage, her figure was very alluring. Watching her shapely form, Pier suddenly said, "Miss Reese, would you like to ride my horse? I’m quite skilled in riding and can show you what speed really means."

Pier wanted to see if he could win Reese over without resorting to forceful means.

In his eyes, it should be hard for an ordinary woman to refuse an invitation from a Great Knight, especially such a young and handsome one.

Reese turned back with a charming smile, "No thanks, I don’t like men who are too fast."

Hearing her words, Pier wasn’t angry; instead, he thought Reese was teasing him. Just as he was about to speak, Reese already got into the carriage and lowered the curtain.

Inside the carriage, Reese waved her hand to cast a Sound Insulation Spell, hugged Herag’s arm, and said, "Are Great Knights this stupid now?"

Herag laughed, "It’s not that they’re stupid, they just believe their strength far exceeds ours, so they feel invincible."

"Sometimes it’s fun to mess with fools," Reese giggled.

Herag spoke up, "Don’t tease them any more. From the looks of it, they probably haven’t been with a woman in a long time. Let’s just travel safely. Of course, if they seek death, there’s not much we can do."

"Got it~ When will you hold me then? You’re always pampering that little girl at home," Reese said with a hint of jealousy, bluntly expressing her thoughts.

After spending so much time together, Reese increasingly felt Herag’s tremendous potential and was determined to cling onto him.

Reese had long wanted to enter Herag’s wooden cabin, but halfway through, Herag captured a little girl, preventing her from having the opportunity.

Now that they’re out on a mission, Reese believed the time had come.

She looked at her long legs, the deep cleavage, and her perfect face, none of which were inferior to Asuna.

Herag didn’t expect Reese to say such things in front of David. He said half-jokingly, "I’d love to, I’m just afraid you can’t handle it."

"Whether I can handle it, we’ll know after a try."

David simply closed his eyes and began meditating, as if he heard nothing of their conversation.

Herag was taken aback by Reese’s boldness, coughed, and said, "Ahem, let’s not joke around. We don’t even know if we’ll survive this mission, let’s get serious."

Reese giggled without saying anything, moved closer to Herag, and leaned her head on his shoulder.

Feeling Reese’s warm body, Herag was quite comfortable and didn’t bother further. He closed his eyes and began meditating.

Outside the carriage, a bearded adventurer rode up to Pier, glanced at the carriage at the end of the line, and whispered, "Leader, should we take care of this lot? These three can walk through these deserted lands, they might be carrying something valuable."

Pier, with an expression of complete confidence, smiled and said, "No rush. Those are just ordinary people, they don’t have even a trace of a Life Seed within them. Take it slow, I’m quite interested in that chick, don’t spoil my excitement."

The Big Beard nodded and said, "Alright, they can’t escape anyway."

The fact is, this Wind Sword Adventurer Group wasn’t decent, or it could be said most adventurer teams and groups were like this.

When there are tasks, they earn rewards. When there aren’t, they make some extra money on the side; killing and arson are just routine.

In the eyes of the Wind Sword Adventurer Group, those three were peculiar, but they just didn’t say it aloud.

This area was deserted, yet the trio could travel unscathed.

Either their strength was very strong, handling all encountered dangers.

Or they were simply lucky, having encountered no danger along the way.

This was the reason Pier refrained from acting initially; he feared Herag and the others might be masters.

However, after some conversation, Pier realized they were truly just ordinary people, seemingly fledgling adventurers, the typical greenhorns, which put him at ease.

From the first moment Pier saw Reese, he considered her his type.

With a backward glance, all the adventurers understood that the leader had his eye on this woman, so they silently kept their heads down.

Pier had had enough of the tough ones and now found Reese quite interesting, thus wanted to try a softer approach.

In his view, once these three joined their group, they’d be easily manipulated.

Yet what they didn’t know was that their conversation was entirely overheard by Herag.

Herag sighed, and Reese, who was leaning against Herag and sleeping with her eyes closed, asked when she heard him sigh, "What’s wrong?"

"Someone’s courting death," Herag said helplessly.

Reese instantly understood what he meant and laughed, "No worries, I’ll handle it. You just relax then."

At dusk.

The adventurer group stopped by a lakeside, planning to camp here for the night.

At the current pace, they won’t reach Nightfall City until the following afternoon.

A group of people started a fire and began cooking by the lake, and several adventurer group members jumped into the lake for a swim.

Herag and his companions also got off the carriage, lit a campfire beside it, and prepared to cook some salted meat from the pot they took out of David’s backpack.

After a while, as night gradually fell and the sky filled with stars, everyone began eating and resting.

Pier, carrying a large pot, came over to Herag and his companions, set the pot on the ground, and said with a smile, "This is fish soup made from the fish they just caught in the lake. I brought a pot over for you, have some."

He then lifted the pot lid, and the aroma instantly wafted out.

Inside the big pot were several fish with tender white flesh, along with some dried mushrooms, and the fish soup presented an alluring creamy white color.

Herag and Reese exchanged a glance and said with a smile, "Thank you, thank you. It’s one thing to hitch a ride, but freeloading on food too makes us feel guilty."

Pier laughed and said, "No problem, no problem. As fellow adventurers, we should help each other out. It’s nothing."

After he finished speaking, he didn’t leave but instead engaged in casual conversation with the trio.