Sometime in the evening, under the beautiful night when the stars twinkled in the distance, the earth was not covered by the sun during the day, but by the deep full moon high in the sky at night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe heavy clouds gradually approached the moon, and after a while, the moon was blocked, and the moonlight scattered on the ground disappeared, and even the temperature of the wind changed, becoming cold.

In a quiet garden somewhere in the palace, with the cold night breeze, neat and regular footsteps suddenly sounded, and more than one person, passing through the garden, walked in unison to the inner place.

After a while, the panicked cries of the servants were heard, and their panicked voices broke the silence of the place.

"Go and call Ralph!"

The comers were violent, and the servants did not dare to slack off, so they hurriedly called the second prince out according to his instructions.

Yes, the eldest prince came to the residence of the second prince with his own escort.

Accompanied by Lance, Lance was the first to run out after learning of Danica's situation, running wildly, and was stopped by the Sword of Thunder on the way to run, and then met up with the eldest prince and his party who were chasing behind.

The eldest prince said to Lance, "There will be a time when it will be your turn to play, I can roughly understand your feelings, so let me deal with it later." I promised Master Swider that I wouldn't lose my word. ”

Lance had a calm face, his face was not good at all, and he did not speak, only clenched his fists hard.

"Ralph, you're finally here. ”

After waiting for a while, the second prince Ralph finally came out, staring at the other party's formation, his face was a little displeased.

"What's going on?!"

"To be honest, I didn't expect you to do such a thing. ”

The Grand Prince Bennett slowly walked towards Ralph and whispered, "Kidnapping, and collusion with the Shadow Mage......"

"This is slander!!"

Ralph glared at Bennett, his muscles exposed.

Lance walked out, expressionless, and said word by word, "Second prince, this is not slander, we have sufficient evidence, let it be...... The prisoner who kidnapped Master Swide's granddaughter is now hiding here. ”

“……！！”

Ralph was shocked, even trembling, not knowing if it was too shocked or for some other reason. Anyway, Ralph couldn't say anything, and watched as they began to search.

Led by Bennett and Lance respectively, it took more than an hour to rummag through all the places, and the results were surprising and found nothing.

"How could it be ......"

Lance was a little incredulous, coming out of the last room he searched, meeting up with everyone and getting the same answer, no gain, no Danica to be found, as if he hadn't been here at all.

"I seem to be late, it took a lot of time to submit the application and go through the formalities, and now ...... Don't seem optimistic?"

Kozmo's arrival does not change the fact that nothing has been gained.

"The chief shaman has finally arrived. The Grand Prince told Kozmo the results, and continued, "I have arranged for every servant here to be interrogated, and it just so happens that if it were you, you would surely be able to find something that we would not be aware of." ”

"Is that so...... It's a bit hard for me. Kozmo said, "There are hidden protective circles in many parts of the palace, large and small, and there are more than a hundred in total, and even if I am under the influence of those various protective circles, my knowledge of magic will decrease. Unless...... I mean, there are two options, one is to use my magic to forcibly break the palace's magic circle, which will consume almost all of my solitary mana, and it will also cause chaos among the mages who live in the palace. The second option is to communicate with the court mages and ask them to temporarily disarm the protective magic in this area, so that I can use the large-scale detection magic of the light system. ”

“…… This. ”

"That's enough, there's no other way, maybe...... Maybe it's ......."

The tone weakened, and his expression could only be described as gloomy and bleak.

Lance didn't dare to say that, he thought she was here, but she wasn't, so there was only one possibility, she had already left the palace...... In this case, where will she be, and the distance between them will become distant again!

The eldest prince touched his chin, glanced at Lance, thought about it for a moment, and agreed with the second option that Kozmo said.

"Then, trouble Your Highness and bring in all the court mages. As for Lance, you can take these priests and knights around me to the palace gate to investigate, maybe you will gain something. ”

That's right! And this trick! Lance, who was so shocked by the facts that he almost collapsed, didn't even think about this problem.

Lance quickly ran to the gate of the palace, it was not so easy to leave the palace, maybe he would be stopped, in short, there must be new clues there, thinking so, Lance regained some confidence.

******

"Hey, you remember to tap!"

Samuel frowned, pulled back his cuffs and stretched out his arms, watching Vivian help him with the medicine, and complained, "Is the princess of the cat clan crazy!!?

As he spoke, Samuel glared fiercely at Vivian.

"I'm sorry Meow, Hima is a straight meow!"

"Next time I'm going to stay away from you......"

Samuel began to understand that he was not polite in his speech, but he didn't really have to do that.

After evening, they came out of the temple branch, and everyone dispersed, and they had a small argument. After that, Jima chased after him, he could only run with his life, but he was still caught up, he was hooked by the neck and couldn't even breathe normally, the moment Jima let go of his hands, Samuel turned around and rubbed his throat and kept coughing, but he didn't expect that at this moment Jima gave Samuel a sharp claw, and he couldn't avoid it and could only resist with both hands, and the pair of cat's claws left a long wound on his arm. Luckily, Vivian arrived just in time to stop Hima's next move.

"Meow, Hima isn't bad!"

“……”

"Okay meow!"

Vivion returned the medicine he had received from the branch knight and left the room.

“…… Ay. ”

Samuel sighed softly, "It's so depressing." ”

Samuel was depressed by not just one thing, but two other things.

They waited for hours at the branch, and the shaman still hadn't returned.

"I don't know how long I'll have to wait. ”

Of course, the most depressing thing is the third thing.

They are now staying in a branch room, which means that all the money they paid for the hotel they had found was wasted because they couldn't get a refund!!!!

Samuel lost the money for the hotel's accommodation, which is like walking and accidentally falling into a stinky waterway with a silver coin on his body, trying to find it but not knowing where it was washed away, and the smell of the underground waterway is not ordinary.

Depressed and disgusting!

"It's unlucky, don't talk about innocent injuries......"

Samuel felt that staying here would only get more and more depressed, so he might as well go out for a walk, because if he didn't find something to do, he would keep thinking about the loss of his travel expenses. However, this departure must avoid Vivian and Hima, and Samuel does not want the evening incident to happen again.

Walking out of the room, Samuel cautiously looked at the people in the corridor, and when he met the knight or priest of the branch, he nodded lightly and said hello. Samuel also inquired about their location with the people of the temple, and when he learned that they were in the kitchen on the other side of the branch, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hastened his pace to leave the branch.

Coming out into the street, Samuel thought for a moment.

"It's very unpleasant, but it's a good thing to be able to find a temporary part-time job to earn a little money. ”

Samuel decided to walk around.

On the other side, Hima and Vivian are making kebabs in the kitchen.

"Vivian, I said you were too good to that Terran!"

Vivian looked up, not quite understanding, "Meow?"

"I taught him a lesson for you! I didn't expect you to stop me!

Himma's cheeks bulged out like a round apple.

"It's this, it's Himma's wrong meow!

"He's not bullying your meow, why do you still help his meow!!"

"Meow, bullying, no, meow! Vivian doesn't feel bullied, Meow! Vivian did wrong in the first place! Vivian was wrong in the first place!"

"Meow meow meow! Anyway, in my eyes, it's bullying!"

"That's not meow! Samuel isn't a bad meow!"

"What a justified meow!"

Hima pursed her lips and stopped talking, concentrating on continuing to prepare the kebabs, almost scorched from Vivian's words, unable to be distracted. After a few minutes, something flashed in her head, and Hima suddenly shouted, "Meow!"

"Meow ??!!"

Vivian was startled, his whole body trembled, and he almost let the grilled fish skewers in his hands fall to the ground.

"Why do you !! meow?"

"Meow meow meow ~ I understand meow ~ Hima understands meow!"

"Meow??"

"Uh-huh, it's like this, it's like this, it's like this, it turns out that Vivian you ......"

******

"What? You're just letting them go!!

Lance came to the gate of the palace, and many people entered and exited the palace every day, most of them were nobles of prominent status. He inquired about a few more attention-grabbing people, because they were not nobles, but just a few servants in the palace, and the reasons were very peculiar, so they were very impressed.

Lance was furious and asked why they hadn't stopped.

The clue that he had in hand was obviously gone, but he ran away again at this step.

The soldiers guarding the palace gate were innocent, they were more interested in the nobles entering and leaving the palace than the servants of the palace, and who cared about the ordinary servants. However, the reaction of the Templar Knights was different from that of the soldiers, and one of them stepped forward and said, "Well, I don't quite understand what is going on, but we have all seen the faces of those servants and have some impressions, Lord Dragon Slayer, if we can help you......"

"That's a way to do that, too. ”

Lance said slowly, still not looking good.

If you keep looking like this, when will you find it......? If she faces an unfortunate situation again......!

"Lord Dragon Slayer, I think I can help you find them right away. ”

Suddenly, another Templar said.

"What did you say?!"

The Templar pulled out a white stone in the shape of a butterfly, presumably some unknown magic item.

"Actually, I was suspicious when I saw them coming, and I was very concerned about the servant's words. No matter what the reason is for leaving the palace, it is generally forced to be helpless, but that guy explained the reason for leaving in such detail, which is very problematic. According to the practice of normal people, it is right to conceal the reason. ”

The knight felt that no matter who had something to say, the guy said the wrong thing so bluntly, even if the other party was a soldier he didn't know, it was completely unnecessary.

"What do you mean, don't say anything extraneous!"

"Well, to put it simply, I see that the niece he brought with him has a wound on her body, and she took the opportunity to use healing magic to take this thing on the niece's body. My lord, this thing has another one, it is a pair, as long as you take it with you and walk to a distance of fifty meters from the other, it will glow. ”

Lance was stunned, took the thing, and began to rejoice in his heart, which was unexpected news, exciting and exciting important information.

Lance left the palace and discussed with the knight priests around him, blindly looking for it is not a way, even if there is only one thing. In order to rule out the possibility of them leaving the imperial city, Lance asked two knights to go to the city gate to inquire about the situation. As for the other two priests, Lance told them to go to the temple branch to gather some men and search the streets for the red-haired girl.

Lance went it alone and met once an hour in the fountain garden near the entrance to the palace.

After that, everyone separates and acts separately.

Lance thought for a moment about where he should go, first of all, to eliminate the bustling streets, which were crowded and often patrolled by soldiers. If you change to the other party, you will definitely feel uneasy after leaving the palace, and you will want to leave as soon as possible, in which case you should choose a remote route. It is very likely that Danica, who fainted, will be regarded as a burden and find a place to leave it, so it is necessary to investigate at the city gate.

In fact, it is also possible that he has thought too much about it, but Lance decided to start looking for it in a less crowded and remote street.

Before Lance had left the street, he noticed a scene in the distance.

Under the street lamp stood a bard, a young woman dressed in a strange garment, a skirt with a hem cut in the shape of a bud. She sang a melodious song while playing with an instrument, and the rhythm of the song was light and full of joy, attracting onlookers of all ages.

Lance spotted her from a distance, looked a few more times, and walked towards her.

Just as he came to the crowd of onlookers, the singing ended, and to the applause of the audience, the bard smiled and took out a textile bag, ready to hold money.

Lance squeezed to the front and pulled out a few gold coins.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for someone, and I want to ask if you saw a down-and-out red-haired girl around here today?"

The bards on the street often stand all day long and often meet a variety of people.

Lance had not yet left this prosperous street, which was inhabited mostly by wealthy merchants or adventurers, and there were a few beggars and thieves, but not many. Because this street is the most patrolled main street, the only road leading to the palace in the entire imperial city.

"Thank you for the gold, I'm sorry I didn't see the person you were talking about. It's strange to say, the only one who runs out at night to find someone, this kind of thing is right to tell the servants to do it, I see you know at first glance that you are a nobleman. Is it really strange that the nobles like to ride in carriages?" the bard put the coins away, "and it is too easy to make people feel bad about getting something for nothing, so I will sing a few songs of blessing and pray that you will find the person you are looking for as soon as possible." ”

Lance shook his head secretly and came out of the crowd, the voice of the troubadour growing smaller and smaller as Lance left.

Although nothing was learned from the bard, however, the bard's words reminded Reims.

"Carriage!"

Lance called a carriage and hired it for fifty gold coins for the night.

The coachman was told the location, and the carriage sped away and began to make its way to the middle of nowhere.

The streets of the Imperial City prospered the closer to the Imperial Palace, and apart from the Imperial Palace and the five main streets, the remaining areas were roughly divided into three areas, with the upper districts where the nobility lived, and the upper districts were the first in size. The Central District, where various guilds and magical grocery stores and inns are concentrated, ranks third in terms of size. Finally, there is the plebeian with the largest number of plebeians, and of course the plebeian is second only in size to the upper district where the nobility lived.

Lance sets his destination in the civilian area, where most of the people are civilians, however, only the inhabitants of the Imperial City know that there are some people in the innermost part of the civilian area who are not very friendly. These unfriendly people were more paupers than civilians, and the slums where the poor were concentrated, dirty and messy, and even criminals hid in them, and the soldiers of the Imperial City were troubled by it.

******

When Samuel was still an assassin, for convenience, he registered in the Adventurer's Guild and became an ordinary adventurer.

Samuel's level as an adventurer is very low, and he has only completed less than three missions in the past few years, and the difficulty of the tasks is not high. However, the Adventurer's Guild has a series of rules, if an adventurer does not apply for a quest for a long time, the adventurer's level will be reduced, and the worst possible loss of the adventurer's qualification will be.

Samuel came to the Adventurer's Guild in the hope that his adventurer status would still remain.

"This is my adventure card, what's the mission?"

Samuel gets into a war of words with the person in charge of the assignment, and ends up choosing one of three low-level tasks with a modest payout, paid only five silver coins, and is tasked with retrieving his employer's runaway son.

"Obviously a rich businessman, the remuneration is so small. ”

Samuel complained casually, fortunately, the task was not difficult, and the employer had mentioned that the runaway son had a group of friends who were born in the slums. Just go to the slum and ask around, and when you find him, knock him unconscious and take him back to the Adventurer's Guild.

Walk out of the Adventurer's Guild, Samuel muttered.

"Slums are really everywhere, and this should be an indispensable feature of the town?"