Merlin was on his way to the mercenary guild in White City, unaware that he was being targeted. The black flame www.biquge.info the pen was half hidden in the collar of the young man's coat, revealing a pair of small green eyes to look around, and the red and yellow flames on the edge of it swayed against the young man's neck, but it was not hot.

The mercenary union is a relatively loose organization, mainly based on issuing tasks and accepting tasks, and is considered an intermediary between the employer and the mercenary team, and will also do some certification and introduction of the strength of the mercenary team, but there is no too strong means of restraint.

No longer thinking about what happened in the tavern and the inexplicable dream, according to the direction described by the young waiter in the tavern, Morin, carrying a large brown bag, led Xiao Hei through several streets and alleys. Gradually, however, the boy realized that the scene around him was not the same as the young waiter's description, and his curious gaze about the surrounding buildings and inhabitants gradually turned into a solemn gaze.

Maureen felt as if he was lost.

"Do you remember the way?" said the boy to Blackie.

"Chirp...... Chirp ......" Heihuo replied blankly, not to mention that it still couldn't understand the young man's words, even if it did, with its confused memory, how could it remember the direction. It was only half-hidden in the boy's shirt, its slender arms tugging at his collar tightly, and it chirped anxiously, its small dark green eyes showing panic.

Morin finally became vigilant: "No, it won't be lost. ”

Although Daddy Pike always said that I was a little nervous, when I was in Harry Harbor, with my relatively strong mental strength and sense of direction, I never lost my bearing, the boy thought, his expression became serious, he looked up at the night sky, it was pitch black, there was a problem. Today is the middle of July, and on a clear night like tonight, the light of the moon god will touch every corner of the earth, and he will not feel the moonlight, let alone the stars in the night sky.

After trying to remember the route he had just taken, Maureen found that he couldn't remember anything, and his heart tugged.

There is only one possible explanation for the current situation: during the journey from the tavern to the present, he has been succumbed to illusions, and the illusions are still there.

Illusion is a very special kind of magic, they achieve the purpose of deceiving the senses through the virtualization and creation of light and shadow, most of which belong to zero-to-one magic, which is easy to master and use. However, because the magic structure of illusion is very loose and flexible, and requires a lot of intervention and adjustment from the caster, it is difficult for low-level magic to be realistic.

The young man quickly recalled the relevant content, and his face became a little heavier, as real as the scene in front of him, the person who released the illusion was at least an advanced mage.

He stood cautiously in place, motionless, cautiously observing the illusory scene around him with only a pair of dark blue eyes.

Standing still, this was the surest way his grandfather had taught him to deal with illusions. You can avoid being confused and going to other locations, which can lead to some dangers. In addition, because most illusions are loose and fragile spell structures, it is difficult to be compatible with offensive spell models, which means that they will not be attacked by magic in illusions.

"The first or second robbery, I broke the arms of those people, and the gargoyle did not appear, and the gargoyle appeared when the thieves attacked and was about to be seriously injured, so it only appeared when I was mortally threatened, and now the situation still needs me to deal with it alone. Morin secretly pondered the law of his "talisman".

Seemingly surprised by Morin's sophistication, the person who was secretly manipulating the illusion did not take any other action for a while.

Time passed, and Morin still stood cautiously in place, sweat soaking his back. Despite the protection of a gargoyle, the twelve-year-old still looks extremely nervous when he faces an unknown and powerful enemy alone for the first time.

Suddenly, the surrounding buildings and lights burst silently layer by layer, like a bubble, revealing the real environment. Xiao Hei chirped a few times and hid in a panic.

"It's coming!" Merlin was stunned, ignoring the black fire that was completely useless, he tried to calm down the pounding heartbeat and concentrate all his attention.

It's like a deep, dark alley.

Beneath the boy's feet were narrow black-brown dirt floors, and the alley was flanked by tall gray walls and scattered broken doors, abandoned doors and windows that swayed in the night breeze with an eerie creaking sound, and the smell of decay permeated the air.

It can be seen that this place has been abandoned for a long time and has long been uninhabited.

Even with the help of spiritual power, Morin could only vaguely sense the surrounding environment, and everything seemed to be swallowed up by darkness. The small amount of light was powerless to penetrate the silent space, it was the effect of forbidden light-type magic, and he couldn't tell which one it was.

At the moment, it is obviously not a wise choice to rush into an abandoned house with unknown conditions, and it seems good to climb the wall and rush to the roof, but once you are in mid-air, you can only borrow power from the wall, and if you are attacked in mid-air, you can imagine the end of the situation.

"What to do, what to do, if it was Grandpa, in this case- I guess I would have killed that mage a long time ago. If it's Daddy, the art of escaping, how to escape......"

Realizing that his empathy was useless, Morin remained standing still, or had not yet had time to find a suitable escape route.

The attack has arrived.

I heard the sound of dirt churning, and the black muddy ground began to become undulating, and something white appeared from the soil, and the dirt that had covered it slid down in a slump. Five white skeletons were struggling to break through the ground, scattered around Morin, trying to encircle him.

It turned out to be this magic, but it wasn't difficult to deal with.

Merlin immediately recognized this spell: Skeleton Summoning, Two-Ring Death Magic, which summons skeleton soldiers of varying numbers and equipment according to the difference in mage's strength. These skeletons are unconscious, and belong to the basic combat unit of the dead in the Order faction, the first order class.

Of all the first-tier classes, skeletons are undoubtedly the weakest of the individual, and the unconscious skeletons are surprisingly stupid, and all they need to deal with is agile - that's what my grandfather said about this class. Attack key parts at critical moments, and you'll find that dismantling a skeleton soldier is as easy as dismantling a building block.

Of course, Merlin was not going to sit still, and waited for the skeletons to completely surround him.

He saw the opportunity, jumped up with all his might, and with the weight of the huge backpack behind him, he stomped on a skull (or skull) that had not yet risen from the earth, and with a crisp click, its rotten spine broke, and the white skull rolled to the side, and the glow in the hollow eye quickly dissipated like dust. The place where the skull joins the body is the biggest weakness of this golem, and it is the only way to completely destroy it other than to break it into bones, while the rest of the structure is inconsequential.

Hmph, as the opponent of a genius boy, you bones are still a little too weak.

Solved one cleanly, Merlin did not pause, without raising his head, and drew the short sword at his waist with his backhand, accurately blocking a rusty knife from the left in the darkness. The rusty knife and the dagger collided in midair, making a piercing sound, and a few sparks burst out of the darkness, quickly engulfed by the forbidden light magic. This is a skeleton holding a rusty knife, and there are also several rusty metal equipment hanging on its body, covering relatively vulnerable places such as joints, indicating that the caster in the dark has reached at least the fifth order.

Feeling the power coming from the short sword, Mo Lin's right shoulder sank, and he took two steps back, although the strength of this thing is weak, but after all, it is still a first-order combat unit, and the strength of cutting with this fluttering rusty knife is also the level of a fifth-level combat apprentice.

But the boy was not afraid, there had been many similar combat experiences when he was a child, and his grandfather would often summon some low-level opponents as Merlin's actual combat sparring partners, of course, most of them were mechanical creatures or beasts, not the cold skeletons in front of him now.

"That's all, if you want to deal with the young man, why do you have to come up with something powerful!" Mo Lin shouted at the caster in the shadows unconsciously, his tone was quite sarcastic, and he thought proudly in his heart, hum, anyway, I don't need to take action when something powerful comes, we have a very ** gargoyle on our body.

I saw that while holding the rusty knife on the left, he flew up and kicked his right foot on the ribs of the skeleton that had just been unearthed on the right. A powerful kick not only kicked away many fine bones, but also kicked the skeleton on the right to lose its center of gravity. It staggered and slammed into the skeleton holding the rusty knife on its left, and the two skeletons were hilariously stuck together and rolled on the ground.

With his right hand, he pulled out the strange musket on his waist and aimed it at the skeleton on the ground, and with a smug smile on the corner of Merlin's mouth, he pulled the trigger.

The body of the strange musket glowed faintly, followed by a loud bang that echoed through the dark alley, and along with a skeleton still half-buried in the earth, the three skeletons were scattered into fragments. Even the skeletons, with a few pieces of metal gear hanging from them, were powerless to resist under their grandfather's strange muskets.

Raising his hand, there was another roar in the alley, and the body of the last skeleton fell backwards, and its head was no longer known where it had been blown away.

The dark alley was calm again, and if the light was strong enough, a teenager could be seen standing on the broken bones on the ground, and the scene was indescribably eerie.

The battle was over, but Morin's expression did not relax, and he felt a little tired after two shots were fired in succession.

"The power of the strange musket is indeed huge, but the cost is not small, and if I fire two more shots, I guess I will faint. ”

"It stands to reason that two loud bangs would be enough to attract the patrolling City Watch, but why didn't there be any noise in the distance? This area has even been planted with silencing magic. Merlin pondered, a little surprised at the other's caution.

Can't hesitate any longer.

Taking advantage of the skeleton that he had just solved his opponent's summon, he turned and climbed towards the wall.

For the sport of climbing walls, Maureen is really familiar with it. After a brief acceleration on the ground, he sprang to his feet, staggering diagonally against the wall towards the roof, leaping to the roof in the blink of an eye, even with a large backpack on his back.

But the roof was also dim, and he was still within the range of the forbidden light magic.

It's really unlucky, why did an advanced mage of at least the fifth order on the other side come to me for trouble, did he fancy the belongings on me, but I didn't bring anything particularly valuable, the young man thought depressedly. If you really can't do it, you can only wait for the gargoyle to appear, don't blame me if you want to die, and don't turn into a resentful spirit to come to me after being torn to pieces of flesh and bones.

Merlin is quite confident in the murderous gargoyle, don't look at the gargoyle as only a fourth-order class, but this one on his body has obviously been strengthened, and with the ability to suddenly appear, he can also kill the advanced mage when he doesn't even have time to activate the protective card. However, the boy felt that if the other party was trying to rob him of something, he would not be guilty of death, and there was no need to force out the gargoyle.

It's better to be able to escape or escape.

With the help of mental effort, Morin barely made out his direction and began to run on the rooftop.

Although the running training in the town helped him jump quickly onto the roof before, it has to be said that sometimes too skillful movements can also help.

I saw him run to the edge of the roof, and without thinking about it, he rose into the air, and was about to jump on top of another roof, and the man flew in the air, and Morin, who had come to his senses, had already cried out in annoyance: "The moon god is above!"

His grandfather's roar seemed to echo in his ears: "In battle, when you can't condense the Dazzling Barrier to borrow power, never let yourself be in the air, that will only turn you into a lamb to be slaughtered by others!"

Sure enough, countless pale yellow star dots appeared in mid-air, and then quickly converged to form a square stone wall two meters wide, and the black wall that looked solid and heavy was actually still in mid-air, which was the stone wall technique of the obstacle class in the two-ring elemental magic.

The stone wall of the elements was just halfway across the arc that Morin had crossed, and as he looked at the wall getting closer and closer, the boy closed his eyes in pain, his hands on his head, and tried to turn sideways to protect the vital point as much as possible.

At this moment, his mind flashed not the fear of the enemy, but the stern eyes of his grandfather.

"If I let my grandfather know that I am so stupid, I will definitely be punished for not eating meat for half a month......"

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The slate floor was damp, weeds grew in the crevices, the light of the moon god still couldn't penetrate the range of the forbidden magic, and the alley was pitch black.

Morin gritted his teeth and struggled to get up from the ground, feeling that there was not a place in his body that did not hurt. The gargoyle did not appear during the fall, because the other party cast a protective magic, possibly a ring of magic light feathers or something, and it seemed that the other party did not want to kill him, at least not immediately.

His mind was still in the dizziness of the impact, and he vaguely saw a figure in front of him, several white magic cards floating around the figure, and a few of them were releasing a faint milky white light, which should be the forbidden light silence type magic that was still maintained.

The cards corresponding to the magic of Ring 0 to Ring 2 are all white, depending on the crafting material. With the help of magic cards, mages can theoretically release magic with half the number of rings of their own rank.

"Could it be a friend of a few robbers I taught before, but it doesn't make sense, I'm really confused. ”

Mo Lin was a little puzzled, he didn't know where he had offended the other party, there was at least a fifth-order mage in front of him, an intermediate advanced mage, and there was no reason to come for his belongings.

He gradually recovered from the dizziness and pain, and saw the figure standing in front of him clearly, and his heart suddenly felt hairy, and even Xiao Hei in the ring marks also shuddered.

He had never seen an old man so old: his yellow hair was scattered, his face was wrinkled with layers of rotten wood, his body was almost curled up in black robes, and his withered hands were like bones wrapped in skin, and he held a twisted wooden cane.

What's even more terrifying is that the old man's eyes turned out to be cloudy yellow, like a cold-blooded animal, full of malicious gaze.

"Hey, don't mess around, I'm ......" Before he finished speaking, a pungent smell hit, and Morin felt dizzy, and his vision went black.

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