Under Harvey's silent gaze, Ove took a deep breath and spoke, "I need your help, Harvey. ”

"I'm happy to oblige. ”

"Can you come over a bit?" Orvis whispered, bowing his head.

Ovis's sudden shyness made Harvey wonder if he was hallucinating, but he walked over with Drew anyway.

"He'll be there, I'll tell you to come alone. "Orvis's head is buried even lower.

Looking at Orvis like this, Harvey was even more puzzled, and turned his head to look at Drew behind him.

Drew didn't move on, he honestly stood still.

Harvey shook his head and walked on.

Seeing Harvey coming to his side, Orvis asked in a low voice, "What's his name?"

"Who?" Harvey paused and immediately reacted, "You mean Drew?"

"Drew, could you please turn around?"

Orvis looked up at Drew who was standing in place.

Drew heard Orvis's words, didn't say anything, and turned his body around.

"You ......"

Harvey was about to ask Orvis what she meant, when her hand had already pulled the knotted strap from her dressing gown. Harvey immediately turned around, turned his back to her and stammered slightly, "You, what are you going to do?"

"Don't get me wrong, it's not what you think, I just want to show you something. ”

"What's in your dressing gown?"

Harvey suddenly realized that there was something wrong with what he was saying, and immediately shut his mouth.

"Ugh. When Orvis heard Harvey's words, he was stunned for a moment, and his face flushed. However, she did not stop her movements, she turned her back to Harvey, exposed her back, and said again, "Harvey, you turn around." ”

"Do you want to turn around?" Harvey struggled, worried that he was seeing something he shouldn't see, but he felt that Orvis didn't seem to have any intention of seducing him any longer. After struggling for a while, he decided to turn around, and at this moment he had made up his mind that if he saw something he shouldn't see, he would immediately turn around and leave with Drew.

Harvey, who turned around with apprehension, saw a strange pattern similar to a magic circle tattooed on Orvis's back, and the size occupied almost the entire back of Orvis.

"Is this a magic array?" Harvey muttered to himself uncertainly, "It's so weird, I can feel its power, but I've never seen the words and patterns on it." ”

Harvey stared at this strange magic array pattern tightly, his eyes became blurred, as if this pattern had some kind of magic power, so that Harvey's spirit fell into it all of a sudden, and he slowly raised his hand, wanting to touch the weird magic array.

Orvis didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. Harvey's body shook like an electric shock as Harvey's hand touched the skin on her back, and she screamed.

"Ahh

Orvis's cry suddenly woke up Harvey, who woke up and saw his finger on Orvis's back, and he quickly withdrew his hand.

Sensing Harvey's hand leaving, Orvis immediately put on his dressing gown and whispered, "I'll go change my clothes." Then he clutched his chest and fled as fast as he could.

After a while, Orvis walked out again in a long white dress, and by this time, the flush on her face was gone, and she looked very calm and returned to her seat.

Harvey was already standing with Drew, and he had thought about explaining, but he didn't know how.

"Is there anything you can tell me about that pattern?"

Orvis spoke first.

"Sorry, I don't know the graphics or the words. ”

Orvis didn't show a disappointed expression, she was used to it.

"According to our family's records, one of the children of each generation of the Nok family, when he was ten years old, would suddenly appear on his back with this strange magic array, and this child who seemed to be chosen, his life would end at the moment of his twentieth birthday. In a month, it will be my twentieth birthday. ”

There was no sadness in Ovis's tone, as if she had accepted the matter calmly.

"I ...... I....... Harvey had already guessed that this strange magic circle was not a good symbol after he had calmed down, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

"Orvis, why do you think that a magician above level 5 can solve your problems? ”

"No, I don't have that thought, among the ancestors of the Nok family, there was once a great mage, and he was not able to save his own child, and I would not expect anyone to save me. ”

"And what do you want me to help you?"

"I need you to help me open a box that has been sealed by magic for hundreds of years. ”

"May I ask what's inside?"

"I don't know, my father only told me about the box before he died. ”

"I'm sorry. ”

"It doesn't matter. ”

"Haven't you been looking for another magician to open it?"

"I can't. ”

"Why?"

"Father said that the matter of the box must not be known to the magicians of the Wizards Alliance. ”

The Mage's Alliance, Harvey guessed in his mind that this alliance should be the same as the nature of the Mage's Guild.

"Aren't you worried, I'm also a member of the Wizards' Alliance?"

"You're not. ”

"Oh?"

"The Magicians Alliance stipulates that the magicians in the alliance must not have any dealings with alchemists. If a mage in the alliance violates this rule, he will be immediately put to death. ”

"Why?"

"I don't know, this is the secret of the Wizards' Alliance. ”

"Then there are no magicians above level 5 who have not joined the alliance?"

"No, once it is determined that a person has a talent for magic, the League of Magicians will immediately find him, and then they will use any means available to him to join the Alliance. ”

"You think I'm an exception?"

"Yes. ”

"Well, I don't want to waste your time, Orvis. Take me to see the sealed box. "Harvey already has a general idea of Orvis's situation, and also knows a little bit about the magicians in this world.

Orvis led Harvey to a secret chamber beneath the castle.

Harvey glanced around and asked, "Where's that box?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know. ”

Ovis's father didn't have time to tell her exactly where the box was. Orvis also tried several times to find it. But after all these years, she lost count of how many times she had searched for this secret room. Every corner of this secret room had been engraved in her mind, but she could not find the box that her father had said.

Harvey didn't say anything, and directly began to search in the secret room with Drew and Ovis.

The night passed, and the three people who had been looking for it all night found nothing. Orvis still had a lot to attend to as the lord of the city, so she dragged her tired body away as soon as it was dawn. Of course, after she left, she also arranged for a servant to bring breakfast for two to the study above the secret room.

"Drew, where do you think the box will be hidden?"

Harvey, who was sitting in a chair and was recuperating with his eyes closed, asked.

"Here, Harvey. ”

"What?

Harvey opened his eyes and immediately stood up.

"No, I'm sending us the letter here. ”

"Wait, what does that mean, how can there be a letter to us here?"

"I don't know. With that, Drew handed Harvey a letter he had found on the bookshelf in the back room.

Harvey, who was confused, did not hesitate after taking the letter, and opened the letter directly,

Dear Harvey and Drew,

Long time no see.

Welcome to this world again, you may not understand what I'm talking about, but trust me, it won't be long before you regret knowing everything.

Like last time, my friends, you only have three months, and I hope you don't try to save me again this time, that was a stupid decision. And I'm also convinced, you two aren't stupid, are you?

The clock is about to strike at thirteen o'clock in the night, hurry up your pace and do what you have to do. When the bell rings, you will get what you want, and the world will be redeemed.

Of course, this is the only way for you to leave.

Good luck to you, my friends.

———— Ben Hanes