(Half of the things that have been dealt with recently have gone well.,Send this chapter first.,The time of the next update is undecided)

Lance and Noeva sat in the dining room, sipping the wine and food on the table and talking about what had happened that day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I heard that the master suddenly broke into the magic guild and brought an investigation warrant, saying that the magic guild was hiding a slave trader who kidnapped people. The high-level leaders of the Magic Guild and even the president were shocked, in terms of power, the power of the president is no worse than that of Master Sweed, and everyone knows that the president also serves as a magic advisor in the court. The president was very angry and was ready to protest to His Majesty, and went to the palace, but fortunately he met the eldest prince before meeting His Majesty, and the eldest prince persuaded the president to go back, and the president was able to relieve some anger. ”

"So much else is going on?"

Then, the second time the master came to the Magic Guild, it was three days later, and when he came, he brought a list with him, saying that he had obtained the permission of the Great Prince. He took all the magicians who appeared on the list, as if there were twenty-five in all. It is said that the face of the elder at that time was really terrifying than seeing a dragon. ”

"Is that the whole process?"

Lance whispered.

"Cousin?"

"No, nothing. ”

"Hey, sure enough, I'm sorry cousin, I wasted this glass, I tried to taste it, but I still can't get used to it. ”

Noeva frowned, and pushed the glass with half of the wine left, and a glass of fresh juice was served.

"It's not a waste, it's an honor for you to taste it, but it's a pity that you can't get used to it. ”

"It's better not to say this kind of thing lightly. ”

"You don't take it seriously, it's just a joke, isn't it?"

After chatting with Noeva for a while, Lance felt a little better.

"By the way, that's what is rumored to be ...... Sword of Thunder?"

The juice that Noeva called came to me, lowered her head slightly and took a sip of the cup, looking at the purple sword at Lance's side, her eyes flickered, and there was a hint of joy on her lips.

"I can get closer...... Check it out?"

"It doesn't matter. ”

Lance placed the Sword of Thunder on the table for Noeva to take a good look at.

"It's kind of weird. ”

Lance muttered to himself on the way back, and after separating from Noeva, he began to feel that something was not natural.

"Sword of Thunder, no, forget it. ”

Although he wanted to ask about the Sword of Thunder, Lance knew that he couldn't rely on it too much, and even if he did, he wouldn't get an answer so easily.

Back at Jeppel's house, Lance thought that the training plan had been seriously delayed, and that if he didn't touch it for a day, he would waste a point, what about ten days? What about a month? Even if he couldn't recover too much, he had to make up for at least one point, not to mention that this period of time also affected his sleep and rest.

He went to the training room, where there were ten puppets, each of which was the height of an adult, and each puppet was equipped with a different weapon, a bow and arrow, a broadsword, an axe, a long sword, a short sword, and so on. The puppets are connected by a special magic array, the first one is activated, the second one is activated ten seconds later, the third one starts to move ten seconds after the second one is activated, and so on.

Lance's first training was to keep the puppets from touching his clothes and successfully overtaking all the puppets.

On weekdays, this training is done in the morning to train your reflexes and speed. In the afternoon, there was another kind of training, this training was very simple, to exercise physical strength, Lance carried a weight-bearing iron plate for four hours of continuous long-distance running, and if he could not hold on, he would use magic potions to replenish his physical exhaustion. In addition to the benefits of instant recovery of physical strength, magic potions also have disadvantages, and you can't do any training for eight hours after using magic potions.

Therefore, the evening time is usually used to rest and read books to replenish some knowledge about magic circles and magic traps.

After training, Lansko returned to his room, pulled out a book and began to read. When I read that my eyes were tired, I stopped and remembered what I had seen in the place where I went with them.

"When will I be able to reach the level of his level, I can see the problem at a glance, I only know the most basic part of the knowledge related to magic, or should I hire a magician...... by the way, isn't Noeva the best candidate?"

Lance decided to go to Noeva if he had time, and tomorrow the head priest of the Suzaku Temple would come to Marlene, probably to make some preparations. As he thought about these things, the voice of the butler came from outside.

"Master Lance, there is a guest coming, the master is not at home, and Master Field is not here, so you are the only one who has gone to receive the guest, and the guest is waiting in the conference room. ”

"Guest, visiting at this time?"

Lance muttered, according to the housekeeper's habit, every time he encounters this kind of thing, he will consciously report the origin of the other party, if this is not the case, then the identity of this guest is more special.

"I see, tell the kitchen to prepare some food. ”

Lance arrives in the conference room, where he had met with Mr. Swider and his father. In that room, a man of higher rank than him stood in front of the window, not knowing what to think.

"What's the matter?

The man turned around and saw that it was Lance, and his expression was suddenly a little unhappy.

"Your Royal Highness, I'm very sorry, father, he went out, and I bother you to come here in person. ”

Lance thought that the other party's identity would be more special, but he didn't expect it to be so special that even himself came.

"Forget it, you're pretty much the same, there's something for you. ”

His Royal Highness sighed slightly, "You are free these days, you go to the palace tomorrow morning, and I will tell you the details at that time." ”

"The Imperial Palace?"

To be honest, Lance was tempted to refuse the request.

But there was no way to refuse, the person His Highness was looking for was his father, and he replaced him with himself when his father was not there. In other words, His Royal Highness originally wanted to convey something to his father, but now he can only have reservations in the face of himself.

"What? What do you think?"

"No, no, I just thought it was a surprise that it was my honor to meet His Highness. Although I am not qualified to enter the palace now......" The second half of the sentence turned into a whisper, not that I looked down on myself, but just recognized this fact.

Even though he was a dragon slayer, he had never officially experienced a crusade against dragons, he had not really been recognized by some people, and he only had a resounding title.

"Let's stop here, it's not good to stay here too long. ”

"I'll send you out. ”

Lance tried to send him to the door, but was refused, so he had to find an honest servant and tell the servant to send the prince to the door.

“…… Ah, I forgot to order the food to be prepared in the kitchen. ”

"Well, if it's Your Highness, it's my honor to stay for a while. ”

Lance walked out of the conference room and looked at the night sky.

"Tomorrow...... It looks like I can't go to the scene anymore. ”

******

Lance stepped into the palace with a lot of regret, speaking of which, this was the first time he had been summoned by the eldest prince, and when he went out, he was told by his father not to be conceited, because the eldest prince hated guys who were inconsistent with his words and deeds.

He remembered what his father had told him, and he felt that he had become a little nervous since he had returned, and that he was nagging more than usual.

Lance felt that if he continued like this, he would become nervous.

Sweeping away those troublesome thoughts, he followed the servant to the courtyard to wait for the communication, and it didn't take long for the eldest prince and his wife to be found in his vision, and they were walking this way, beckoning from afar.

Without waiting for them to come, Lance walked in their direction, walked up to them, and performed a standard aristocratic etiquette.

"His Royal Highness the Great Prince, and His Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine. ”

"Excuse me, I came to you because I have something to hand over to you, so I'll just say it. ”

The imperial concubine glanced at her husband, and for some reason was a little uneasy, and said, "You have a job, you don't need to accompany me, let me tell him." ”

"It doesn't matter, those things can be postponed, this matter is more important. Turning his head, the eldest prince said to Lance, "Here's the thing, you know that the members of the royal family have a royal coat of arms, and this badge is a symbol of the royal family, and in appearance, it is a round necklace. Recently, that Norn kid actually lost it, I hope you can get it back, that badge must not be lost, very important. ”

Lance, armed with the news he had heard from the Grand Prince, began to search for the lost badge necklace.

"Looking for something, that bit of information is not enough at all. ”

He stared at the sky and muttered to himself, but after staring for a while, he covered his forehead with his hand, the sun was too dazzling today.

There was no way, Lance inquired about the residence of His Highness Norn from the people nearby, and it was not far from here, about fifteen minutes away. After arriving at Norn's residence, Lance knocked on the door and told the people inside what he was coming from, and when he heard a voice from inside, the door opened.

Norn is the only son of the Great Prince, a few years younger than Lance, Lance has been in contact with him a few times, and is a person who is very keen on all kinds of adventure legends, yearning for the legendary kind of life, hoping to become a person as great as the Dragon Slayer Knight, and his personality is too naïve.

Legend has it that when he was five years old, he made a wish to live a wandering life like a bard, and his parents would never agree to it.

Seeing this highness, Lance explained to him his intentions.

"Your Highness, where have you been these days?"

"I've been here for the past few days, and the badge is inexplicably gone. ”

"Then you can only consider the possibility of being stolen, in which case things will be tricky, so you really don't have any impression at all, even if it's a slightly strange detail?"

"Nope. ”

"Alright, Your Highness, what have you done in the past few days? Your father has given me a lot of time to help recover the lost badge, so tell me about it today. ”

"Must?"

"Yes. ”

It seemed that this highness was unwilling to cooperate, and Lance felt a little distressed.

Time passed quickly, and the morning turned into evening as if it happened in an instant, during which Lance did not know how many questions he asked, how many words he spoke, only that his throat was about to dry up, and no matter how much water he drank, he still felt uncomfortable.

"I'll come back tomorrow, so I'll be here today. ”

Lance said goodbye to His Highness Norn and left the palace.

Walking out of the gate of the palace, the blond youth quickened his pace and walked in the direction of the temple branch.

When the building of the temple branch came into view, Lance saw several priests standing in the doorway. As soon as it passed, a few people came out inside, and those people were exactly what Lance was looking for, and Lance immediately waved his hand to arouse their attention.

"Finally caught up. ”

The priests had seen Lance and knew his identity, and when they saw him approaching, they moved out of the way.

"You're late, Master Sharisa has returned. ”

Rederick told him about this fact.

"Wouldn't I'm going to run all the way from the palace, so soon?"

"I'm leaving. ”

Roque didn't say much, and the first thing he said was to say goodbye to them.

After Roque leaves, the father and son return to Jepéry's house, and Lance explains why the Grand Prince called him there.

"That badge seems to be important, what does it represent? inheritance?"

Redek shook his head.

"It's not something you should know, Your Highness will leave this matter to you, so let's do it. ”

"Of course I do. ”

Lance regretted that he was not present when the chief shaman arrived, and he couldn't help it, so he hurriedly asked about the situation.

"There will be results tomorrow. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The chief shaman came, and Mr. Swider told the chief shaman what he had found, and the chief shaman said that he would reach a conclusion at noon tomorrow. ”

"I don't understand, what kind of conclusion it is, when he said goodbye to us, Mr. Swided's expression was very serious, what happened, what was the bad conjecture...... Or is it?"

“…… If you really want to step into it, you have to carry a big enough amount of enlightenment, can you do it?"

This sentence resounded in Lance's heart, things are not as simple as imagined, he, is he ready?

It's not just about the effort.

That night, Lance didn't sleep, didn't have the heart to rest, and his head was like a mess.

The next day, Lance wrapped the Sword of Thunder in cloth and went out to wander around the streets where the magic shops gathered, buying some things. After that, I found a restaurant, asked for a room and ordered a few foods.

Before the food came up, Lance took out a bunch of things he bought, invisibility potions, heightened magic shoes, hair discolorers, magic stickers that conjured birthmarks, magic fruits that changed the color of his pupils, and so on.

Lance used this pile of things on himself, his height grew by ten centimeters, and his height of 1.8 meters became 1.9 meters, which was a little conspicuous, but it was much better than Lance's original appearance. After a disguise, Lance becomes a different person, a reddish-brown-haired young man with a birthmark on his neck, at least not so easily recognizable.

Before the waiter came in, Lance left some gold coins, took a sip of the invisibility potion, and went out of the window to quietly leave the restaurant.

Then, trying to avoid the passers-by who might bump into him, he walked a few streets, found a remote alley, drank the recovery potion that removed the invisibility effect, and officially came to the street.

He walked in the direction of the National Library, and although he promised to go to the palace today, he might as well postpone it, after all, there was something he was more concerned about to investigate.

In the library, Lance paid a hundred gold coins to get a library card, the name of which was fabricated by hand, Jace Lamped. With this pseudonym and library card in hand, Lance began to wander through all kinds of old books. This library, which is said to have a million books, has a wide variety of books, including magic.

Here, people can borrow magic books with money, and for ordinary civilians, a library card that can borrow magic books is unaffordable. Originally, the value of magic books is understandable to pay a high price of money, in addition to the nobility, this also makes many merchants become magicians, one after another, more and more magicians, and it is also an important reason why Carranslan gradually became a magic empire.

There were quite a few people who came to borrow magic books, and Lance struggled to get his hands on some of the ancient documents that looked valuable.

There was a magic spell in the library that made the environment quieter, and Lance borrowed ten books, and if he wasn't in a hurry, he would definitely find a separate room here to read quietly.

After borrowing these ten books, the person in charge of the library wrote the titles of those books on Lance's library card, and was surprised that Lance saw so many at once, but the person in charge didn't have the heart to chat with Lance, and there were many people waiting in line to borrow books in the back.

Lance threw the book into the storage bracelet, and before he knew it, counting the time in line, it had already taken more than three hours in the library.

If you don't hurry up and go to the palace, noon is almost over, Lance quickly found another restaurant nearby, undressed himself, came out to find a carriage as a substitute, and rushed in the direction of the palace.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, but I'm late this time. ”

Lance arrives at the palace and meets Norn Rupert.

Face to face with the young man in front of him, take out a notebook, this is the result of yesterday, recording all the things that happened to His Highness Norn on a certain day, whether big or small, as well as including what His Highness Norn said to the servants, etc., the record is very, very detailed, even full of ten sheets of paper.

"I found out that the badge was missing three days ago, so let's start four days ago. ”

The contents of the book began four days ago. The most important piece of information at the moment is the day before the badge was lost, and it cannot be ruled out that the murderer who stole the badge is still here. What can be assured is that this highness is heavily guarded, and it is impossible for anyone to sneak in, so the focus is on losing all the people who had been in contact with His Highness Norn the day before.

"The maid who waits for His Highness, the knight who guards the door, the etiquette teacher, the sword teacher who passes by, the history teacher, the gardener who takes care of the courtyard, the servant who helps in the kitchen. In addition to these people who can be seen everywhere, there are also several friends of His Royal Highness Norn, who are also teenagers, and their status is not low. One was the son of a court knight, and the other was the son of a treasurer. ”

Lance summed up the contents of the book, asked Norn to look at it and confirm that there was no problem, then said goodbye to His Highness and went out to investigate these people who had been in contact with Norn.

Lance first met Lis, the maid who served His Highness, and Lid, the knight who guarded the door, and asked a few ordinary questions, but couldn't see anything, so he went to Norn's etiquette teacher.

While looking for the etiquette teacher, Lance passed by the garden of the palace and saw some maids, so he couldn't help but stop and ask the maids about the gardener, and went to inquire about the maids.

"Take care of the flowers and pay so much attention, thank you, I don't want to waste too much of your time, do you know the gardener who always appears here in the afternoon? ”

When asking other people's questions, it is always necessary to find some appropriate opening statements, so that the topic can be easier to develop, which is also to not alarm the real prisoner and turn around to inquire about information.

Gathering information about the gardener, Lance separated from the maids and continued to find the etiquette teacher.

Walking out of this garden, the surroundings suddenly darkened, the atmosphere became eerie, and he and everything nearby were shrouded in huge shadows, and the sword of thunder around him was trembling violently, as if he was desperately trying to break free from the sheath.

Lance looked at the sky, completely shocked.

"How can this be ?!!?"