Under the moonlight, the Yanfeng Manor in front of him was probably the most humble marquis' mansion Arthur had ever seen.

The tall manor courtyard gate can barely fill the façade, and behind the courtyard gate, there are not like other mansions with continuous buildings and courtyards, but there is nothing left. The walls of the manor on both sides of the courtyard gate are only more than one person high, and first-class martial artists can easily jump over. Although the courtyard wall is low, it stretches for several miles, almost enclosing half of the front of Yanfeng Mountain.

This is a manor built on the mountain, covering an area of several tens of square kilometers. From a high place, there are only a few man-made buildings in such a large manor, and the other large areas still maintain natural topography, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard are not pruned and maintained, maintaining a natural growth state.

In such a large manor, the guards were so weak that apart from a group of guards standing guard in front of the gate and a group of guards patrolling along the courtyard wall, no other guards were seen.

If anyone really thinks that this marquis's mansion is almost unfortified, it is a big mistake, a great magician does not need to rely on the strength of these guards on the surface, and the magic array is more reliable than people.

"I now suspect that the thief who stole the Lord's seal might not have something to do with the Marquis of Selenda?" Joan muttered as she lay beside Arthur.

"Why? The muskrat is looking for the smell that is directed to the inside of the manor. Arthur said as he pulled out a delicate tube from his bosom, which contained a pink mouse no larger than a child's fist.

It is an extremely rare small beast, and its ability to distinguish various scents is more than a thousand times that of the human race. The Terrans have not been able to tame it so far, but they have tried their best to capture it and use this characteristic to track and investigate. It was also by virtue of the people of the Imperial Authority that they tracked all the way to Yanfeng Manor.

"It's almost unguarded, and if I were a thief, I'd run around the manor and come out somewhere else, so that my eyes would be completely shifted to the marquis. ”

Arthur looked at Joan meaningfully, "With your head, it's a pity not to be a thief." ”

"Am I wrong?"

"You may be right, but now that we're here, we have to go inside and see what's inside?"

Spence interrupted the argument between the two, "You two stop bickering, hurry up, are you going to go in from the side or from the back?"

Huey also took the rare initiative to speak, "We're here to help you create some chaos and attract the attention of the guards." ”

At this moment, a fire suddenly broke out outside the courtyard wall on the left side of the Marquis's Palace, and many guards immediately ran to the fire point.

Arthur smiled, "Huey, it looks like someone is thinking of going with you." However, such a clumsy method can be done by the mercenaries, so it is better for them to explore the way first. ”

Arthur and the others lay on the spot and did not move, and after a short time, three figures appeared in everyone's field of vision. The movements of these people were very fast, and their figures jumped in from the low courtyard wall in a flash.

Arthur got up lightly and quickly followed, and in a few leaps he was under the courtyard wall that several people had jumped into before.

Arthur clung to the courtyard wall and didn't move, and Gru, the ice elf, stepped on his shoulder and climbed in first. There was no movement for a long time, and Arthur followed closely and flipped in.

Gru hid behind a rock more than a dozen meters away, and only tiptoed forward when Arthur came in, and the three people who had come in before were gone.

Arthur found a shadow spot and curled up in a ball, and began to observe his surroundings. The surroundings are overgrown with weeds, and the nearest lighted building is three hundred meters away, which looks like the residence of the guards.

Arthur lay in place for a long time, and must be patient to infiltrate. Gru was a latent master, and he was also lying in a small pit and didn't move, but he had already released several ice clones around.

A burst of flames suddenly rose from the northeast corner of the manor, and there were faint screams.

This is someone who has fallen into the fire magic trap, and there is indeed a hidden danger in this manor. Seeing that the location of the flame outbreak was not the three people who jumped in before, it seemed that the three mercenary groups wanted to go together and arranged their actions for tonight. ”

Arthur became more cautious, following the line that Gru's ice clone had confirmed was fine, and it took almost half an hour to reach the vicinity of the first building.

As Arthur had guessed, this was the residence of the Marquis's guard, and Gru walked around the building without finding any valuable clues.

Arthur continued to dive deeper into the manor, and more than a hundred meters ahead was a continuous cluster of flowers. Even though the ice clone passed through the flowers, Arthur stopped alertly, and suddenly appeared a neat flower bush in the unmowed manor, which in itself seemed a little strange.

Arthur began to cautiously observe the flowers, and soon he saw that something was wrong. He saw three corpses in the midst of the flowers, the same three men who had jumped into the courtyard before him. The soft flower branches wrapped around the corpse, and the thorns on the flower branches pierced deeply into the corpse, and it was not long before the corpse had already appeared visibly shriveled.

These flowers are actually sucking the energy of the flesh!

Arthur couldn't help but be afraid for a while, these three people at least had the strength of a warrior, and they died quietly in this flower, and if he stepped into it rashly just now, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Arthur knew that there were many carnivorous plants on the continent that only attacked flesh and blood, so even if there was an ice clone to find the way, it was not 100% safe.

Luckily, with the Flying Ring on his body, Arthur picked up Gru and flew low above the flowers.

After landing on the ground, there was a sparse wood, and Arthur cautiously walked in......

......

In the deepest part of the manor, at the foot of Yanfeng Mountain, there is a seven-story magic tower. There is not a single grass or tree in the hundreds of square meters around the magic tower.

An old magician with a long beard with a pointed hat looked out of the window on the seventh floor of the Magic Tower at night at the manor.

The old magician seemed to say to himself, "I just wanted to find a quiet place to study the mysteries of magic, but there were always some annoying things that came to me. ”

A voice suddenly came from behind the old magician, "Respected archmage, I'm sorry to disturb you, if it weren't for the fact that several trade routes in the Orlando Mountains are very important to the trading house, the head office would not have asked me to ask you for help, you are the biggest support of the trading house in Isaac." ”

If Arthur was here, his jaw would definitely drop, and the person who spoke was none other than Glored, the senior steward of the Sky Firm.

"Don't mind, I don't mean you. It's strange that the little thieves who have visited the manor recently don't know why there are so many of them all of a sudden?"

Crored still felt a little embarrassed, and always felt that the Marquis of Serenda meant something, so he had to say, "I'll go down first to help you clean up these intruders." ”

"Don't bother with it, if someone really can break into here, I've been studying magic here for more than twenty years? ”

"You know, the situation in the Necronomical Heights is too complicated, the trade routes there have always been too dangerous, and since the Great Rift Valley cut off the trade lanes along the cedar forest, these trade lanes in the Orlando Mountains have been extremely important to us. ”

"To the point, what does the head office want me to do?"

"The head office hopes that the Grand Magician will take your hand to reopen the trade routes in the Orlando Mountains. ”

Grand Magician Serenda muttered: "According to what you said before, the trade route was cut off because there was a problem on the orc side, and a new orc force completely cut off the golden lion's passage through the Orlando Mountains, do they want me to cross the border to attack the orcs?"

Clorid immediately laughed and said, "The information from above says that with your prestige and means in Isaac, you can settle the matter over there without your personal intervention to provoke a small dispute between the two clans." ”

Grand Magician Serenda's face gradually sank, "Don't you think it's a bit too much to ask?"