When we arrived, what we saw was a small, simple, makeshift camp. In the empty space in front of the camp, a dozen people dressed as mercenaries were crowding around a cold, expressionless loli. Although the loli's face didn't show any expression, I knew that Pandora was currently quite impatient.
I already knew what happened from Sandora.
Pandora killed the demonic creature that appeared in front of her purely out of her instinct to destroy the power of the Abyss. She also saved the lives of the dozen mercenaries. However, she obviously didn't expect these mercenaries to be so passionate. As a profession that dealt with death all year round, mercenaries knew more than anyone else how precious life was. Therefore, the members of the Fire Blade Mercenary Group expressed great gratitude to Pandora for saving their lives. Moreover, due to Pandora's powerful strength, these mercenaries who had average strength but were just as martial as all other mercenaries were now completely convinced. Now, they practically worshipped Pandora like a hero. They warmly invited Pandora to their camp as a guest, even though their camp was as simple and crude as a slum.
Pandora hated to waste her time on such meaningless social activities. In the process of dealing with these enthusiastic admirers, her patience was worn down bit by bit, even to the point where she wanted to hit someone.
According to Pandora's personality, no matter how passionate these people were, she wouldn't pay attention to them. Her first thought was to turn around and leave without a care in the world. However, there was a saying in a certain person's training plan for her: You must always be polite to others. Pandora always treated that person's words as an imperial edict. Therefore, this time, the little loli unexpectedly chose to accept the invitation of these boring carbon-based lifeforms.
But now, Pandora had already begun to regret her choice at that time …
Just when Pandora was about to explode, I appeared and saved those mercenaries from the fate of being beaten up.
Without the slightest hesitation, Pandora left the mercenaries behind and quickly ran towards me. Then, with a swish, she slipped behind me.
I had never seen Pandora lose her head like this.
It had to be said that those mercenaries could make the iceberg-like Pandora so helpless. They could be considered as another kind of powerful existence.
"I never thought that the humans of this world would worship the strong to such an extent." Sandora appeared beside me out of nowhere with a face full of schadenfreude. "After those mercenaries were saved, they became Pandora's die-hard fans. Right now, they are crying that they want to be her underlings. This time, the little girl is going to be in trouble."
When did Sandora learn these words?
At this moment, the leader of the other party, the middle-aged man, came in front of us. He gave us a salute that should be exclusive to mercenaries and asked, "Excuse me, you are …"
"I'm Pandora's brother." I replied with a smile. Then, I pointed at Shallow shallow and my older sister. "This is my fiancée, and this is my older sister."
Qian Qian moved her hand at lightning speed and pinched my waist. She whispered, "Since when did I become your fiancée?"
After the mercenaries heard my introduction, they immediately grabbed my hands with excitement and said with admiration, "So you are Miss Pandora's older brother. I am Lake, the leader of the Fire Blade mercenary group. Your younger sister is our savior. Her kindness and strength have deeply convinced us. As mercenaries, following the strong is our highest ideal. I hope that you can allow us to become your younger sister's followers. We can swear to God that we will become her most loyal warriors …"
"Sou!" Dingdang flew in front of him and said in a soft voice: "Alright, swear it!"
"Don't cause trouble!" I accurately pinched Jingle's wings and put her back on my shoulder. Then, I turned to Lake and said, "It's obvious that my younger sister isn't interested in you becoming her followers."
I could guess what these mercenaries were thinking. Worshipping the strong and thanking them for saving their lives were naturally one of the reasons. But more importantly, they wanted to find a strong backer that they could rely on. It was certain that Pandora had great power. Although she looked like an unremarkable loli, in this dangerous world, power was the only thing that could be relied on. As long as you had enough power, even if you were a loli, you would still be respected by others. This mercenary group was obviously not doing very well and was on the verge of disbanding. For these mercenaries, who had no other strong points other than fighting ability, it would be extremely terrible if they didn't have a place to stay. Thus, they urgently needed to find a strong person that they could rely on. Naturally, Pandora became their target.
There was nothing wrong with this plan. Everyone had their own considerations. Moreover, their main reason was to repay the favor of saving their lives.
Unfortunately, no general of the Empire would be interested in playing such a boring game with a few mercenaries. It was just like how no god would be willing to become friends with a mortal for a lollipop.
Jingle flew past me with a lollipop in her arms …
Cough cough, in short, Pandora would never agree to such a boring thing.
Hearing my words, the middle-aged man called Lake hurriedly replied, "Then, please allow us to follow you. You are Miss Pandora's elder brother. We are also willing to become your followers!"
The legendary strategy of saving the country in a roundabout way?
"I don't need followers." I shook my head. "I think that Pandora didn't save your lives for the sake of repayment. You can hide your gratitude in your heart. In the future, when you meet someone you can help, help them. Just treat it as passing on Pandora's kindness."
Look, look, what a good speech! What a perfect image of a righteous and righteous elder brother!
Lin Xue ruthlessly looked down on him from the side. "Act, continue acting! Cheh … "
"Are you unwilling to accept us because we are not strong enough?" Lake was obviously unwilling to give up such a chance to revitalize his mercenary group. "Our strength is indeed lacking. We can't be compared to Miss Pandora, but we will definitely try our best to increase our strength. Moreover, I am a fifth-grade warrior. I believe …"
"Boring."
Pandora commented calmly from behind me. Then, a transparent circle of light that looked like water ripples appeared beside her. The circle of light swept from the bottom to the top, and a tall heavily-armored Xi Ling Warrior appeared out of thin air.
This ordinary heavily armored soldier of the Xiling Empire raised his arm and a Particle Cannon appeared on his shoulder. After a dazzling white light flashed, a huge rock in the distance turned into dust that filled the sky.
I shrugged. "You see, even the most ordinary soldier under me has the strength of a seventh-grade human mage. So, I don't need you guys."
I knew that Pandora was a little angry because Lake had actually suggested to become my follower. In Pandora's heart, this position was hers alone. No matter who tried to snatch this position, she wouldn't agree. So, I had already decided to quickly get rid of this group of troublesome mercenaries.
Looking at the huge rock that had turned into dust in the distance, Lake subconsciously licked his dry lips and said, "Powerful …"
I originally thought that these mercenaries would give up, but I didn't expect them to become even more fanatical.
In this chaotic and turbulent world, people's worship of the strong far exceeded our imagination, especially now that the strong had a slight connection with them. Lake and his subordinates followed behind us with astonishing persistence. It seemed that not only did they want to become our followers, but they also hoped to obtain the kind of power that could instantly kill powerful magical creatures under our guidance.
It was such a pity that the technology of the Xiling Empire wasn't specially prepared for carbon-based life forms … Err, perhaps Alaya's Secret power was closer to their magic and battle spirit?
Just as I was having a headache over these surprisingly tenacious mercenaries, Sandora used an explosive piece of news to attract my attention …
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