"What? you don't even know about the Ancient Era?" Lan Coco looked at Ayton in surprise, who shrugged helplessly, he had only heard of the Dark Age two thousand years ago and the Bright Age now. According to legend, people called the prosperity before the 2,000-year-old demon invasion era the Dark Age, and it was not until after the demons were expelled that people changed their name to the Age of Light, and until now more than 2,000 years have passed.

The books of the dignified Blue Kingdom must be much richer than the outside world, Lan Coco quickly suddenly explained: "The ancient era refers to the era that occurred before the Dark Age, about the Dark Age, although the current records are not very clear, but there are still a lot of documents, especially the two thousand years of demon wars, the long-lived forest elf books, the ancient murals of the orcs, There are many records of the Holy See of our human race, but the records of these records seem to depict something that even their time did not understand, so we call that era the ancient era. ”

"......" Ariel said that she was confused, but Ayton roughly understood, anyway, it was very ancient, similar to ancient myths, and now there is no way to verify the ethereal legend.

According to Ayton's proposal, the three of them came to a grocery store that was very old, the owner was a tall middle-aged man, he saw that the people were all wearing white robes, and through the bright blue mark on their shoulders, he knew that they were all noble mages who had come to the imperial capital to train, but he didn't show much enthusiasm, just let them take a look at random.

Ayton picked out some items such as mosquito repellent grass, sachets, waterproof bags, rope, flint and steel, and a map of the outer area of the Desperate Forest, and packed them into storage while no one was around.

After paying the money, Ayton felt that something was still missing, survival in the wild, what was the most important thing, medicine, food, weapons...

There is definitely no shortage of weapons, although there are drugs and the like that Bi'er follows all the way, but he is not ready to rely too much on magic, but remembers the survival knowledge of his previous life, bandages, ointments and anything, but the disinfection drugs are gone, but his body immunity is super strong, and wound infections rarely occur, but just in case, he still asked the boss about the nearest tavern...

Before she stepped into the tavern, the noisy shouts inside reached the ears of the three of them, including the vulgar invectives of some mercenaries, Lan Coco frowned, she had seen many such rude people when she was out alone.

"Ayton, what are we doing here?" she looked at Ayton puzzled.

"What else can I do, buy wine" Ariel walked in first, the crowd inside instinctively glanced at the comers, the atmosphere of the scene was invariably quiet, Ayton ignored their gaze, and walked straight to the tavern counter.

"Bring me a bottle of your highest degree," Ayton tapped on the wooden counter with his knuckles, bringing the stocky tavern owner back to his senses.

He turned his gaze to the Bright Blue Third-Order Magician logo embroidered on the chest of Ayton's robe, gasped, and said nervously, "Respected Magician, the highest degree of wine... The"

"Oh, it's the strongest wine, let's have a bottle first" Ayton suddenly explained, the tavern was not big, there were only twenty or thirty ordinary mercenaries, although they were initially amazed by the appearance of the two women, but when they noticed their magician logo, they instantly dispelled some thoughts in their hearts, and continued to whisper to their companions, the topic was nothing more than about the new students of the Bright Blue Academy of Magic and the ruins found in the depths of the rumored Despair Forest.

After a while, the tavern owner took a bottle of long-cherished wine and put it on the counter, he wiped the sweat from his face, "Venerable Magician, this is the most precious 'Drunken Dragon Incense' in the small shop, the market price is about 3 gold coins, in the entire Black Rock City..."

"Give" Ayton interrupted him unceremoniously, put the three gold coins on the counter, and out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that many of the mercenaries around him were eating food similar to baked cakes, and the smell seemed to be good, "Do you still have that kind of baked cakes?"

"Yes, of course, honorable magician, please wait. The fat boss stared at the gold coins on the table with bright eyes, and agreed with joy, and was about to leave when he was stopped by Ayton again.

"Let's start with three"

"Okay"

Ayton nodded lightly, and led the two girls to a corner and sat down. During this time, Ariel noticed that there were many eyes secretly looking at them, and coldly pulled out the 'Liuhua' hidden in the boots, and slowly swirled around at her fingertips.

Boredom, Ayton asked Lan Coco again about the city of San Gafila, but she didn't know too much, most of them were still very unfounded legends, although the destination of the Bright Blue Academy this time was to go there to investigate the truth of the rumors, but in fact, it was just to go around there and hunt the outer monsters. Why else would the Academy team be divided into seven groups when they set off tomorrow?

Suddenly, a red-haired young man about 20 years old in a black cloak walked into the tavern, covered in mud, as if he had just crawled out of the mud, and his face was extremely gloomy, full of people not to approach.

When everyone's eyes focused on him again, the originally small noisy movement immediately subsided.

Just as Humpty Dumpty Boss came out with a plate containing three freshly baked biscuits, he bent down and placed them on the table where Ayton was, "Master Magician, please use it slowly." ”

Ayton took the lead in picking up one, took a bite, and it tasted okay, so he ordered lightly: "Give me another fifty such baked cakes." ”

The short and fat boss was stunned for a while, but when he came back to his senses, his face was happy, and he agreed repeatedly, and when he stood up straight, his eyes met the red-haired man walking towards him. The former was stunned for a moment, then turned around and took out a small box in the deepest part of the counter.

Feeling that the atmosphere in the arena was quiet, Ayton also looked at the red-haired man suspiciously, and under his wide black cloak was carrying a dark longbow of nearly 1.5 meters, and the quiver contained more than fifty pitch-black arrows, many of which were stained with light blood.

The appearance seems to be no different from that of an ordinary adventurer, but for some reason, this person gives Ayton an instinctive sense of danger, which has only appeared in Clementine when he first encountered him!

With a click, Ariel withdrew her whirling butterfly knife and looked warily at Ayton on her right, who signaled her not to act rashly.

Lan Coco didn't seem to feel this way, and she didn't know if it had infected Cersylly's nerves, so she took out a baked cake with her bare hands and chewed it slowly. But then again, it's time for dinner....

Suddenly, a strange smell wafted in, causing the three of them to cover their noses in unison, only to see that the two people talking quietly in front of the counter seemed to have opened something, and after some bargaining, the red-haired man took out a small bag of gold coins and handed it to the tavern owner, and before leaving, the corner of his eye lingered on Ayton for a while.

After the man left, the taverns began to talk in small voices again.

"It's so familiar, it seems to be a very high-alcohol wine" Lan Coco inhaled the residual aroma of wine in the air, and Ariel pursed her lips and spoke.

"Who is this guy? ”

Ayton frowned, signaling her not to speak yet, listening to the conversation of the mercenaries around her with both ears, the voices of more than twenty mouths were chaotic, but they didn't deliberately hide anything, only then did they hear from the mercenaries that the red-haired man was named Zoro, and his profession was not a mercenary or an adventurer, but a self-proclaimed hunter?!

It's very famous in Black Rock City, but it's a withdrawn personality and doesn't want to take risks with people, but there are many people like this.

But what caught Ayton's attention the most was that the red-haired hunter named Sauron, who was known as Sauron, was not hunting monsters, but dark elves who had heard the sound of change...

It was only then that Ayton understood what the oppressive feeling was about him...

"Ayton, Ariel?" Lan Coco next to him naturally heard this key message, and hesitated to open his mouth tentatively.

"It's okay, we'll leave when things come up," Ayton replied in a deep voice. The tavern is a mixed place, and every time you come, you can encounter something good, so it's better to leave quickly, but from the conversation just now, he also heard something interesting... Dragon's droppings?

"Brother, what are you going to do?" Seeing Ayton get up, Ariel put Liuhua back into her boot.

"Stay here, I'll ask something," Ayton finished speaking, and came to the counter and hooked his finger at the Humpty Dumpty boss who was still parked in place, and whispered, "Do you still have that thing just now?"