"Jen, you may not quite understand what this means!" Deep in the ruins, Eddie held the red-haired boy's shoulder with a solemn expression: "My teacher, Glen, is a very famous strong man in the entire Urenos continent. He just said that he is willing to accept you as a disciple! This is an opportunity that countless archers can't dream of..."

"Also, the teacher has been traveling across the continent all his life, from the rising land to the sinking sea, never stopping his pace. The length of a disciple's journey he can follow his travels represents his importance to this disciple! The teacher said he wanted to take you all over the continent just now, which undoubtedly shows that he is very optimistic about you!"

"Now I even envy you... Gene, I ask you, are you willing to travel to the mainland with your teacher and learn powerful archer skills?"

"I...I..."

A series of messages made the red-haired boy feel a little breathless. He breathed heavily, trying to calm himself down.

"Can I learn from His Highness Glen... really make me a very powerful adventurer archer? Just like the heroes sang in the poem?" Gene looked up at blonde Eddie with hope in his eyes.

That was his dream!

"I can't guarantee this. Whether you can become strong will always depend on yourself! A good teacher only increases this possibility." Eddie shook his head, "The teacher has received a lot of disciples, including powerful archers and mediocre disciples like me. But your talent is much better than me. As long as you work hard, you will definitely surpass me in the future. It should not be difficult to travel to the mainland to kill monsters and achieve your reputation."

Gene's breathing quickly became heavy.

He seemed to see scenes: he was walking slowly in the monster's nest with a long bow in his hand, free and cold, powerful and evil monsters fell in front of him, people began to dance and sing for themselves, children cast admirational gazes, and the poet compiled his story into a ballad...

Suddenly, a glimpse of the flashes of these scenes made Gene stunned for a moment.

It was a figure of a brown-haired boy, silently holding a shield, standing in front of him, as if the solidest wall in the world, striving for him to block the attacks of all monsters.

This scene looks familiar.

Just as half of Daren's imagination of the future have the figure of his good buddy Gene, of course, Gene has imagined more than once the scene of himself and his good brother Daren breaking into the monster's nest together! Half-grown boys like fantasy the most, which are exciting adventure stories about passionate, trust, support each other, and thrilling victory!

But now, Gene suddenly remembered what Eddie had said before:

"Your relationship seems to be good? If you can become teammates in the future, this is a good thing..."

"It's a pity that your talent is much better than him... In my opinion, he is unlikely to keep up with you in the future..."

As the sound continued to echo, Daren's figure suddenly began to fade away in the imagination of the red-haired boy, and in the end only Jean himself holding a longbow was left.

For some reason, when I looked at these exciting scenes again, Gene suddenly felt boring.

"Jen?Jen?"

His shoulders were suddenly shaken, and the red-haired boy suddenly came to his senses and found that it was blonde Eddie squatting in front of him, looking at him with confusion: "Jen, I'm asking you... You should be very willing to be a disciple of Teacher Gelan, right?"

"I……"

Gene suddenly ravaged his red hair with great force, as if he was making a very difficult decision, and seemed to be angry with himself! After a while, he suddenly looked up at Eddie, instead of answering, instead of asking questions: "Teacher Eddie... If I don't follow His Highness Glen to learn skills, you shouldn't be angry, right? You should still be willing to accept me as a disciple, right? You should still do your best to teach me seriously, right?"

"You have such a good talent, of course I wish I could have such a disciple..." Eddie blurted out, but he jumped up immediately and exclaimed: "Wait?! What do you mean? Shouldn't..."

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"Hey, come here, you all come here!"

Orwell's rough scream suddenly echoed nearby, causing the members of the Self-Defense Corps outside the Dark Valley to stand up in surprise and look around at the source of the sound.

"Damn it, don't stand there, come here to help!" It turned out that Orwell was standing on a small hill, jumping and waving to the villagers, "The three mutant demon species are dead, and I'm almost exhausted! Your children are on the trees here, come and work quickly!"

Hearing this, the people from the Self-Defense Corps suddenly felt excited and rushed to the depths of the valley.

Daren had already returned to the team at this time... He and the magician had explored far away before, but they didn't explore for long. Soon the magician said that he had insufficient magic power, so Daren had to return helplessly.

[Have you found Gene and the others?!]

Delan almost jumped when he heard the news.

Not long ago, ordinary heartless monsters rushed to the ruins deep to help their leaders, so the forest was empty and no longer full of dangers. People ran for a while and saw Orwell, panting and leaning on a giant axe, a large luminous forest behind him, and some strange broken walls.

"Here, here, here, here! Each of these three trees has a cocoon filled with humans, but I'm not sure which one is! I have to know when they all break." Orwell rolled his eyes, "You guys come out of the cocoon together, so hurry up."

"Are there only three people carrying human cocoons? What about the other children?" The self-defense regiment commander Antonio was stunned for a moment.

"I didn't see that I was the only one..." Orwell muttered, "The other adventurers went to find the remaining children separately. The damn tree fairy queen, hiding people very scattered! But don't worry, we have confirmed that the remaining children are still alive, and Eddie already knows the specific location and will be found soon."

After hearing this, people finally felt a little relieved, stopped talking nonsense, and immediately started the work of breaking through the cocoon.

[Are you all alive... so good!]

Daren took a deep breath, and a bright look appeared in his eyes. Since Lord Adventurer has confirmed, there should be no falsehood.

Poor Daren still doesn't know that Gene was the first to be saved.

While thinking, Daren kept cutting a white calluse with his blunt sword again. But the next moment, what was rolling out made him stunned:

It was a timberwolf.

However, it was missing an ear, and its hair was also mottled and unkempt, as thin as a beggar who hadn't eaten for half a month! As soon as it got out of trouble, it immediately got up, glanced at Daren, and limped away.

"Hungry and alopecia areata, lacking ears and lame..."
Chapter completed!