James thumped his head and stumbled to his feet. It was a sealed cell, the air was turbid and thin, separated only by a door.

"I'll go ......" he leaned against the wall and rested. "Where am I?"

He tried to remember what had happened after meeting the Forsaken, but the memory was a blur in his brain.

James sat on the ground for a while, waited until his mind was fully clear, and began to analyze the situation around him. It doesn't look like it's on the ground, it's probably in a cave or underground. He saw the large chain locked in his hand, and James guessed that he must have been thrown into prison to fend for himself.

He reached out his right hand and touched the ground, trying to get up, but he touched something hard.

"This ......" James jumped up from the ground. Looking at the half-exposed skull on the ground in front of him, he had no choice but to retreat away. "Is there anybody? Anyone? Help!"

The voice was echoing.

"What's the noise?" a strong voice came from outside the door.

"There's ...... in this," James paused. He remembered what might have happened, and he clenched his fists. "Let me out. ”

A big man with a stubble on his face opened the door with a string of keys that jingled and rang.

"What do you want to do?" the big man yelled at James in a gruff voice.

"Let me out. ”

The man snorted coldly. "You're awake? Just in time, our boss wants to ask you something. Before he could finish speaking, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a gloomy man with black hair walked into the cell surrounded by a group of people. James saw that they all had weapons in their hands, and they were very alert, but the equipment did not seem to be very good, a little old, and not shiny.

"Are you awake?" said the man in the lead, with a blank expression.

"Do you look like I'm asleep?" James gritted his teeth. "Let me out now, and I may still have a way to live. ”

"I don't think there's any need to let you go until I find out who you are. The leader said, "Do you know how we found you?"

James froze for a moment, then shook his head.

"At the foot of a hill not far away, one of our teams saw you lying asleep on the ground, one of our men dead there, and a man in a black cloak beside him, holding a dagger as if trying to kill you. He said. "It was the group that saved you and killed that man. Originally, we wanted to take your belongings and end your life there, but we found this letter on you. ”

He pulled the yellow-tinged letter from his pocket.

"This ......," James saw the letter, and immediately thought of the scene when he had just come out of Kingsbridge. A middle-aged man with a mustache suddenly catches up with him and entrusts him with a letter to New Garand Farm. James hesitated for a moment and agreed, but he didn't know why the letter had made the bandits give up their intention to kill him. He frowned, then said, "And then?"

"You're not from the seventh room, are you?" said the man in the lead, tossing the letter on the ground. "We need to figure out if you are the messenger or the director of the letter. Now tell me why there is nothing on the letter. ”

"Huh?" James was dumbfounded. "Impossible......"

"Look at the letter for yourself. The man snorted coldly. "It wasn't us who saved you, it was this letter that saved you. ”

He opened the letter on the ground, and found that it was indeed only a blank piece of paper, and his heart suddenly turned over a huge wave.

"I've heard that the people of the Seventh Chamber often entrust some innocent victims to deliver letters, and then take the opportunity to kill and rob them of their belongings, it seems that this group of people has taken a fancy to you. The man said. "I don't want to have a bad relationship with Qifang, it doesn't mean that we won't give up such an opportunity to make money. Now tell us where you're going?"

"Do you know what's the use of this?" James gritted his teeth, sweating profusely. "Now it's time to let me go, my patience is running out. ”

"Look at your current situation, you are chained here, you have no equipment on your body, and you still want to escape? He smiled. "In addition, once we know the location of your message, we only need to send a team of people to deal with the wave of people who receive the letter on the other side, and if there are people who take the bait in the future, it will be us who rob them, not the group of thieves in the way of the seventh room. ”

"Did you capture a girl?"

"Huh?" the leading robber didn't seem to understand what James was talking about.

"I tell you if you are a girl you have captured, the daughter of the goldsbridge alchemist, named Constance. James sighed, lowered his head, and continued to lean against the corner.

"So what? And she's in a room next to you right now. ”

James nodded.

"So can you tell us the address now?" asked the man in the lead, still reluctantly.

"What if I say no?" James snorted.

"Then we'll have to take your possessions and cut off your heads and bury them in the ground, just like this skeleton. He kicked the skull half-buried in the ground at his feet. "I remember that this man was a rich merchant who would not tell him where his treasure was, so we had to cut off his head. ”

"Don't jump to conclusions so early," the corners of James' mouth rose slightly. "The future of who will stay underground is not yet certain. ”

"So you're trying to resist. He drew the dagger from his belt and said, "I'm standing here right now, you're coming to attack me!" and everyone behind him laughed wildly.

"You stand there and don't move. James looked up, reached out and palmed his palm at the group standing in the doorway. "That's right, that's it, stand still. ”

"Boom!"

In addition to the gate, the stone next to the door was also blown to pieces. James gathered the power of magic into the clasp on his wrist, and then heard a muffled sound, and the handcuffs were blasted into a gap. James' right hand came out of the gap.

He stood up, patted the dust off his body, and suddenly felt a wave of lightheadedness. He used a lot of power in that move just now, and James already felt a little overwhelmed. The magic apprentice's primer book recorded something about grinding power, and this time he finally realized it. While there were no other robbers rushing over now, James hurriedly rested against the wall for a while, so that his consciousness was fully replenished. After a while, he slowly walked out of the rubble room, then looked left and right for a moment, pulled a short sword from the corpse of a robber, removed the keychain that the big man had just held, and kicked open the door to another room.

A dark-haired girl in a long blue dress crouched in the corner, staring at James with trembling eyes. They looked at each other for a moment, and James didn't know what to say for a while.

"You ......"

"I'm here to save you. ”

"That ......," she said, gesturing to the ruins behind James.

"Well, I'm a magician and just made an explosion. James had barely taken a step before Constance curled back. "Don't be afraid, I'm an adventurer sent by your mother, and now I'm going to untie your handcuffs......" He tried several keys with the keychain in his hand, and finally opened the handcuffs in Constance's hand.

"You ......" Constance had just been freed when he stretched out his left foot and kicked James hard in the lower abdomen. Caught off guard, James fell to the ground, watching as she pulled a dagger from the corpse of a robber and stabbed herself in the chest.

"I'll go!" James reached out and grabbed Constance's wrist, oozing blood from the handcuffs, and slid sideways from one side to the other. "What are you doing? I'm here to save you. ”

Constance, as if he had not heard James' explanation, threw the dagger at James's face with all his strength, and James dodged the move sideways, but Constance then turned and ran out of the room.

"Hey, where are you going?" James rushed out of the room, and was about to run over to stop Constance, when he saw a dozen heavily armed robbers running in the other direction.

"Quick! Catch these two. ”

James gritted his teeth, glanced back at Constance who had disappeared around the corner, and rushed in the direction of the group of robbers with his short sword, stabbing the first robber to rush up with a single sword, and then pushing his body backwards, running in another direction.

James ran as he dodged the oncoming attack and finally stopped in front of a goal. He rushed into the room and found it to be a fairly spacious storage room. He didn't know if he would be able to spur the attack again with his current mana, so he pinned all his hopes on this iron gate, hoping that it would last until it was fully restored and had the ability to summon another attack.

He listened to the slamming of the door, remembered Constance's escape, and thought that he would lure the robbers to a desperate situation alone in order to buy her time, and he couldn't help but exhale against the wall.

"Huh?"

He stretched out his hand and opened a wooden box hanging in front of him, and found that it was his own space storage stone. James hurriedly turned around, and here he saw many weapons piled up in the corner. Among them, the top is your own equipment.

The iron gate is no longer holding on. James was trembling with nervousness. He opened the space storage stone and took out all the contents inside.

"This is ......," he said, looking at the scorching staff encrusted with red gems, and remembering what Giarold had said to himself. If what the master said is true, this staff can help him use the mana of his whole body, and maybe reduce the consumption.

Now, there is no better way to do it. He held the staff with two hands for the first time, then pointed the red gem at the iron door that was about to be kicked open, mobilized the magic power of his body, concentrated the flames on the top of the staff, and then recited a spell slightly.

At this time, a fireball that was even more dazzling and larger than usual appeared. At the moment when the robbers pushed open the iron door, James drank lightly, and the fireball flew at a very fast speed towards the first bandit who rushed in and stared wide-eyed.

"Ahh

Hearing a scream, the sparks ignited all the robbers gathered around the door, James used the space storage stone to arrange his belongings, then stood up and walked over the tumbling pile of burning robbers. Listening to the screams coming from behind him, James was even a little unbearable.

"Hey...... What adventurer am I like this?" James, trying not to distract him from the noises, left the cave as fast as he could. Sure enough, it was a bandit's den very close to Kingsbridge. James, who had just come out, saw Kingsbridge in the fog at a glance.

He looked around, but didn't see Constance, and could only comfort himself that she had arrived in Kingsbridge first.

"Seven Room ......" He knew that perhaps before that, there were countless innocent adventurers who lost their lives because of delivering letters. James puffed up his chest and stepped onto the road, keeping his eyes on the gates of Kingsbridge.