In fact, Mu En has not been in a good mood recently, because he saw his senior brother in the magic prism before, and it is true that he will have to take some detours to pass through Aldan from Avalon to the western part of the empire, but according to his character, he should not give up the opportunity to do so.

Even if you take a few steps back, it's been so long since the inauguration ceremony ended, why don't you come to see me?

Although the Grandmaster disliked his senior brother, he was actually used to hearing Ansher's voice when he was lost.

So after getting through the pain of bereavement at the beginning, his heart has been empty, and he actually hopes that there can be some distractions at hand, and the quarrel with Simon is just because he simply wants to go to the fishman.

He had recently suddenly realized that he was talking a lot, and it seemed that he was uncomfortable because he was missing the people he knew about every day. In fact, when I think about it carefully, it turns out that I have already been carried by them a lot more often, but I didn't realize it at that time.

"Your Excellency. Mu En looked in the direction from which the voice came, and the young bard appeared at the end of the long qu in a silver robe with vertical stripes, and it had to be said that he was indeed a person who could attract girls, and his grasp of the smile seemed to have been deliberately practiced.

"What's the catch?"

"In the tacit understanding of the rebellion, the Fujiken family once secretly united with the old nobles to use evil powers, but given that it seems that every family with bad deeds will have such a description, I am not sure if it is true. ”

"Have you seen the war record?"

"No, the war records of the Fujijian family have been burned, if you want to see the empire, you may have to go to the imperial library in the imperial capital. ”

Mu En nodded, and things became more and more unsettling.

Simon walked up to him with some hope in his eyes, "You're coming out a lot sooner than I expected." ”

"It's true, but the circle is a little far from there, and according to what Master Wilk said, the big circle can't be perceived if it's not at the level of the Magus or above. ”

"Don't you get to the Magister, then we should be able to handle it. ”

"Not necessarily, it's possible that there is a magic circle in the castle that shields prying eyes. Besides, I don't think even if I was really a magister, I wouldn't be able to force the nobles of the old city to the point of asking the lord for help, and I didn't find any abnormal magical dynamics that I knew of during my exploration of the circle. ”

"But you're wrong, there are only two mages in the province of Aldan, one is Lord Medanzo, the other is Mage Wilk, and the others are stinky fish and shrimp, not to mention that a mage is a great mage who can make them anxious. I've heard that you were sent to the Tower as a child and you were able to finish fourth in the competition, so I don't think it would be too difficult. ”

"The Tower is more of an academic place, and it's not necessarily very good at fighting, but the attention to detail may be better than that of the average mage. Generally speaking, mages will not go head-to-head with the four types of opponents I mentioned before, and when those four types of people meet, the victory or defeat is the foundation of pure competition ability, which is why the Pope is so feared, I don't have the ability to cross the border to kill. ”

"But I know that geniuses like you who can enter the top ten of the academy are basically able to kill evil magicians or demonic creatures of the same level alone. ”

"Wouldn't it be nice if it was just me at this level, how could there be such a headache. The lord will spare time for dinner and solve it easily, or let those old nobles take their lives to pile up, and if they can't win a dozen or five a fight, they won't be able to win. Muen took off her coat and began to walk back down the street.

Simon hurriedly caught up, "My lord, that's all for today?"

"Something happened in the first place, and going to the door at night would scare people to death, so be it. ”

"I mean—haven't eaten yet. ”

Muen stopped and looked back, and Simon looked like a dogleg with a sneer on his face.

"Okay...... Find a restaurant for dinner first. ”

It was nearly eight o'clock when I got home in the evening.

"Young master, the servant from the Lord's Mansion sent some documents before, saying that they were for you, and I will put them in your room. The butler bowed to Muen.

"It's hard work, please help me prepare a room, Simon lives here today. ”

Mu En's parents left after his birthday, and I heard that they were going to buy a chamber of commerce for the province, but Mu En didn't care, but he thought it might have been too long since he saw him, and his parents said a lot less to himself, maybe they couldn't talk to each other anymore.

At night, the lights in the mansion were not turned off, and Muen was looking through the materials, but Simon said that he had found and read most of the files in the library before.

"The most important thing about this matter, but it is estimated that the old nobles deliberately stumbled, and I have not analyzed what it was from their confused descriptions. Towards midnight, Simon pulled out a stack of papers, which recorded the investigation of the old castle by the provincial soldiers so far.

Mu En put down the provincial chronicle in his hand and motioned for Simon to show the paper to himself.

After taking the investigation file, Mu En casually took out a blank piece of paper from his side, and wrote something on the paper while looking at it.

Half an hour later, "I probably analyzed five demonic creatures from their descriptions, and three of them are more likely, namely vampires, night demons, and beaters." All three are photophobic, and they say that this kind of thing only haunts at night, and judging by the situation, it should not be a werewolf. My current thinking is that there might be more than one source of commotion in the castle, so I'm thinking that the vampire family and the Daredevils are even more likely. Muen stood up and handed Simon his guess.

"My lord, what is a watchman? I haven't even heard of it. ”

"A solitary demonic creature that can't get inside the door, but can lure people out of their homes. ”

"Can't get in?"

"Actually, you can't say that, it's just that when people's body temperature is covered by the house, they can't get in, but that door must have a threshold. ”

"How could there be such a strange demonic creature? ”

"There are all sorts of strange costs to be paid for gaining power, but there's a good chance that we won't meet a fighter this time, so don't worry too much. ”

"I, we, you mean ......" Simon's state of mind suddenly changed slightly.

"Your circuit level is stronger than mine, do you want to be a vase?"

"The problem is that I'm a vase! I'm a dancer, and I practice magic just to make myself live longer and write more, so that I'm too embarrassed for demonic creatures. ”

Mu En patted him on the shoulder comfortingly and said, "It's okay, the vampire is not particularly strong, you can contain it." After saying that, he paused and said, "Although it seems that this situation is more likely to be the night demon, because only the night demon likes to take its prey away." ”

"The Daredevil ......"

"At most, there are two, and if you have more, you will fight, but you probably can't stop it. ”

Simon feels like he's in the mood for cursing right now.

Early the next morning, five sergeants in armor seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"Master Muen, there was something strange yesterday night, and the lord ordered me and the other five to drive you together, hoping that you will find out the situation as soon as possible. ”

"Dead and people last night?"

"The missing person was a beggar, and the witnesses were a group of guards who were watching the night. ”

"I want to meet them. ”

After meeting with the soldiers defending the city, Mu En summoned the six people under his command, "Simon, you go and check the interpersonal relationships of that group of people, see if they are entangled with the old nobles, and by the way, find out what happened before." When Simon had taken the order, he turned his head to look at the five armorers.

"What do you five know about this?"

"I'm the first person to witness strange things, lurking in the old town on the orders of my lord to observe the movements of the old nobles, and the other four are robes in a squad with me. ”

"Do you know the range and timing of that monster's movement?"

"I saw it at two o'clock in the evening, and I was up for a shift change. I don't know the scope, but I've heard that some of the livestock are missing, but I don't know exactly when they were lost, only that there was no looting during the day. ”

Mu En found a lot of unreasonableness in this matter, and he frowned and asked, "Then why do they say that the source of the strange thing comes from the abandoned castle?"

"I've heard that a dark shadow was seen flying out and back to the castle. ”

Judging from yesterday's information, there is no pattern in the black shadow's movements, which makes Mu En very troubled.

"I need a map. ”

For the next two days, Simon was nowhere to be seen, but Muen was not in a hurry, and he asked the five armorers to secretly go to the clearing around the castle during the day to look for any traces of certain demonic creatures.

"Your Excellency!" On the third day, Simon returned to the Muen family's manor near noon.

"I hope there is good news. "Muen is trying hard to find those spiritual channels again, but with little success.

"People are fine, they are all good families, and there should be no possibility of collusion with the old aristocracy. As for the previous situation, it feels like they have seriously deviated from reality in their mouths, and there are all kinds of nonsense. ”

Mu En sneered, obviously thinking that such a statement was interesting.

"What are you going to do?"

"I decided to take a trip to the old town myself. ”

The old city will always be the most flavorful place in a city, because most of them retain the unique flavors that do not belong to the present, prosperity and loneliness coexist, and the deep tones seem to lock the time they witnessed.

Mu En walked deeper from the edge of the old city, and the new city and the old city seemed to be opposite towers on both sides of the river, looking at each other from afar. And these ordinary people are like rivers. This is not a place of material abundance, people are always in flux, but the noisy voices of people and children running freely make this the most humane place. The aristocracy is always in pursuit of popular and convergent tastes, and the people here may not have the right to choose, but they make the onlookers who come here look at them satisfied and envious.

What happiness is? Probably the things you can't get.

It's like a besieged city.

On the bluestone in Mu En's palm, there was an engraved magic circle circuit that he had chiseled all night, and he had previously scoffed at Ansher's sixth-order magic guide several times, but now he did experience that kind of hardship.

It was just a relatively ordinary probe in his eyes—though it was also blown into the sky by Simon.

When I arrived at the place where the nobles lived in the old city, it was too close to the abandoned castle, so it was basically out of the range of the tower.

"My lord, I heard that many old nobles have bought houses in the new city, and these noble lords are really afraid of death. "Simon walks beside Muen and has nothing to do, he only exists to prevent some blind fellows from coming to him for trouble when they think Muen is young and has a low circuit—although he will definitely not be able to beat him, but it will waste precious time, and there may be other messes.

"That's a good thing. Mu En was so engrossed in searching for possible evil aura that he didn't have time to talk to Simon.

But nothing was found.

"It's weird. Mu En frowned.

Simon wondered, "Isn't that good? ”

"No, we just passed by the place where the accident happened a few days ago, and there is no trace of any evil force left there, which is not normal. The people who lived in the old city, except for the nobles, were basically commoners with no magical talents, and beggars could not enter the door of the noble lord's house. In other words, there is no magic rushing, and all the places are very clean, which is a very abnormal thing. Mu En quietly released a calm spell not far away, and the magic circle immediately reacted, if he didn't do this, he would think that the magic circle was broken.

"You mean someone is covering for them?"

"I didn't mean that, I just didn't think it was that simple. Mu En looked around, "You've lived here for a few days, haven't you?" Go, find a place to stay, and wait for the murderer to commit the crime again." ”

"It's a human life. ”

"Then let's rush in now, and use your soul to kill this monster who doesn't know how to be merciful?"

"Then let's stay in the hotel. Simon's face became very fast, but when Mu En asked which store was better, he was hesitant, and after several pressures, Simon said that he lived in the 'Zhaoshi Building' a few days ago, and the so-called Zhaoshi Building was actually a place for fireworks, which made Mu En very speechless.

"Beware of dying young. After Mu En finished saying this, he casually picked a hotel to stay in.

Although it's casual, but in fact, there are not many choices, the economic center is cheap, and it is not a place with beautiful scenery, so it is usually with the old aristocracy on economic exchanges, and the number of hotels is not much, but fortunately, the quality is relatively good.

Mu En walked into the hotel, the decoration can be seen for some years, but you can see the glory of the rattan sword family in the past, and it is also a unique flavor to decorate some bright golden handicrafts.

"There is no threshold in this place. Mu En sat in his room and looked around, and suddenly said.

"Didn't you say there wouldn't be a watchman?"

"It's just probably not, because I've seen records of burglaries, and I'm not sure if I actually walked into someone's room, but at least it's a possibility, otherwise I wouldn't have told you. ”

"What then?"

"It's simple, I'll just draw a magic circle, and if he dares to come, I'll just blow him up. ”

"Your Excellency, you're mighty...... But when it comes to circles, I'm reminded of an interesting fact, though it probably isn't that interesting. ”

"Oh?" Mu En thought that there was nothing to do now, so he asked Simon to come and hear about it.

"It is said that there is a village in the human empire that has been poisoned by an unknown curse, and a mage passing by happened to recognize this breath, so he lived in this village, and helped every household of the villagers draw a charm to ward off evil spirits in a hidden place. But then he was accidentally bumped into by the villagers, but he said that he was cursing the village, and then tied him up without saying anything, and did not report to the official, so he was burned alive. In the end, an unknown plague appeared in the village, and everyone in the village died, leaving only a child who drew the sigil on his palm out of curiosity, although the sigil was erased, but still resonated with his magical talent, allowing him to escape. ”

"How do you know?"

"I once went to the Human Empire, and this was the first narrative poem I ever wrote. I think that kid might be a spell genius if he was able to react to spell marks without being conscious. However, the ignorance of the villagers killed themselves, and it can be regarded as self-inflicted, so they still need to read more books. ”

Mu En was a little curious and smiled, "How do you know how to exorcise evil spells?"

"Many ladies from aristocratic families believe this, and I will definitely do what they like. ”

"I should have let them break your leg at that time, so that you wouldn't have to harm others later. ”

"Feelings are all what you and I want!"

Mu En pretended to snort coldly, looked out the window with his arms crossed, and slowly retracted his smile.

"Actually, this kind of thing happens everywhere, and you can't expect everyone to be well-informed, so you can't blame them for their ignorance and extremism. After speaking, Mu En sighed and continued, "The deviation of human nature and cognition is the root cause of the contradictions in this world. ”

When Simon heard this, he said with a hippie smile that he didn't expect Lord Mu En to think so deeply at such a young age, I really admired it.

"That's why I kept you by my side, and I didn't want future generations to speculate about me. He stood up and turned around, the setting sun shining on his back that made it difficult to see his face, but he looked firm and spoke confidently.

It was a moment that really made Simon emotional.

"Don't worry, my lord, Simon will use the rest of his life and all his soul to let your deeds be sung in every corner of the continent, but maybe my life span will definitely not be as good as that of adults, if one day I can't follow your side - you don't have to blame. ”

The corners of Mu En's lips twitched, and she seemed to smile.

"What to do so sensational, life is an expedition, don't admit defeat so easily. ”

After saying that, little Mu En turned around, he suddenly felt that he had grown up, and he looked at the fiery red remnant sun in the sky, as if Karna threw a magnificent spear at the end of the sky.

"I wish you could do something like this one day...... Karna. ”

Thinking of this, he bent down, his head slightly lowered, and suddenly asked Simon if growing up meant that he would be more and more sentimental.

"I guess I can feel those complex emotions. ”

The last bit of afterglow shined through the window, no longer dazzling but still wisps, like Muen's long pale blonde hair fluttering behind her.