When the last rainstorm of August fell deep into the rolling Gangdi Forest, Brand finally emerged from the chaos of the Black Forest. For most people, walking into the Black Forest beyond the flames of order is no different from returning to the embrace of the moon god, and even for those powerful professionals, it can be dangerous to go deep into the Chaos Forest for a long time, and those manic magic and twisted magical beasts are enough to make them embarrassed.

But Brand looked the same as he had been a little over a month ago, and there were no other stains from head to toe except for a few muddy stains on the hem of his black robe from the heavy rain that had just fallen—and his greasy, shiny black hair at the neck was no greasy any more than it had been before, and it was completely undeniable that he had wandered alone in the Black Forest for more than a month.

It's just that his expression is not easy at this time.

He was standing on top of a cliff, frowning into the distance—the two cold, blood-colored streaks in his eyes crossed the edge of the lush forest and fell in the dim twilight on the towering mountains to the north.

"Frost Mountain ......," Blood-eyed Brand whispered a few words.

It was difficult to judge the direction in the chaotic land, and it seemed that even he had not imagined that in the pursuit of more than a month, he had actually crossed most of the Gangdi Forest, from the southern border of Lothar, not far from the sea, to the foot of the barren and cold Frost Mountains.

But he knew that the towering mountain range was in fact only the last hill of the mountain range, and only when he stood on the highest peak at the end of his vision could he really see a corner of the Frost Mountains—the longest mountain range in the whole southern realm of Todel, the real moat, nine times out of ten the mountains were above the snow line, covered with a large number of glaciers and snow covers, cold like the eternal winter ice fields thousands of miles away in the north, so high that even the chaotic tides could not be crossed.

And the half-dead wooden cane in front of him was pointing at the mountain, not moving, and that was the direction he was going.

Brand looked up at the sky, a silver hexagonal ice crystal was already hanging high in the eastern night sky, it was the constellation of the frost giant Nightmir, legend has it that Nightmir would turn into a blizzard, freezing every continent he walked on, his breath was colder than the coldest north wind in winter, and even the hotter summer day would decay under his constellation.

And that meant that an already freezing place like the Frost Mountains would be even colder.

It's hard to compare which is more dangerous, the iceberg or the forest of chaos.

Brand didn't stay any longer, he took out an unknown twisted fruit and swallowed it, and then a light green magic card lit up in his hand, and after the surging magic fluctuations, a pair of huge blood-colored batwing slowly opened behind him.

With only half of his staff still floating in front of him, Brand leapt from the cliff, his huge blood wings fluttering in the air, and the next moment, he had turned into a small black dot at the end of the sky, and soon disappeared behind the towering mountains in the distance......

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Maureen is trapped in a nightmare.

He dreamed that he had returned to the ceremonial square in the royal capital of Lothar, and the aged Earl of Grey Mountain smiled strangely at him, and then a crystal arrow passed through the count's right eye, and shot at him with a bead of blood. Merlin tried to dodge but found that the giant wolf surrounded by him was screaming in a low voice, and as the arrow was about to pass through his chest, a slender black figure blocked the arrow.

Merlin was stunned for a moment, wanting to take a closer look at the black figure, he had dreamed of the slender black figure more than once, but the scene changed suddenly, the falling crystal feather arrow became the speaker of Augustus, holding a bleeding heart in one hand and a cane engraved with pupilless eyes in the other, and was walking towards him with a wild smile step by step.

The young man bravely drew his dagger and was about to step forward to meet the enemy, but the young Pike Daddy stepped out of nowhere, his armor held him back, and then kicked Speaker Augustus away. He breathed a sigh of relief, but saw the young dad turn around, sighed and said, Victor Academy keeps the record of the Battle of the Blood Moon, and you can check it for yourself if you have the chance, but remember, no matter what you see, I am your Pike Daddy, just remember this, but you must remember it.

The blue bear roared on the badge, and Pike's dark silver armor began to crack, and blood poured out uncontrollably.

"Papa Pike——!!!

With a pang in his heart, Merlin opened his eyes suddenly.

Before dawn, Yuehua landed on the white pillow through the small round window on the bulkhead, and the sleeping black fire pulled the small blanket on his body with his slender flame arm, and turned over very comfortably. There was the sound of Barron's teeth grinding in the lower bunk, and Marcus on the other side had his head buried under the pillow, and he was still half-holding an unactivated zero-order sound blocking card in his hand, and it seemed that the half-baked magic card was not as effective as the thick pillow in blocking the noise.

Merlin, who came to his senses, smiled, put the nightmare behind him, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Awakened from a chaotic nightmare, the boy lay on the bed for a while, and when he found that he was no longer sleepy, he jumped out of the bed and left the cabin lightly.

It was their ninth night on the airship, and by sunrise this morning, they would be in the small town of Bellamy, not far from the Iluvita Academy of Magic. Bellamy's town does not have an airport, and the professors of the academy will take them directly from the airship, after all, they can't condense magic dazzles or maintain light feathering skills for a long time at such a high altitude on their own.

Walking through the illuminated crystal-dotted passageway, seeing that the cabin where Emino and Tilna lived was still bright, and after thinking about it, Morin didn't bother them, and gently stepped on the passage blanket and walked to the deck.

The airship is said to have been specially commissioned by the academy to bring back students who are on exchange with other institutes.

Unlike ordinary goblin airships, this airship is more narrow and long, including the airbags are also streamlined fusiform, and there are only a few cabins in the cabin, so it can travel extremely fast, even if it goes around different academies along the way, it only takes less than ten days to cross half of the Todell continent, from the offshore islands of the southernmost Duchy of Lothar to the Sawa Plain in the north of the Gesok Empire.

The Divine King's Capital stands on the Plains of Sawyer, which is also the only route to the town of Bellamy.

Remembering that at the end of the school year three months ago, in order to facilitate the departure of students, the dean asked Professor Brand to preside over the space floating door to send students to different destinations, and now he has entrusted a fast airship to pick up students back to school, Morin felt that the mysterious Dean Fielding was not as harsh as the legend, at least much better than the old profiteer Wang Deer said 'a dime'.

Not to mention how much magic power is consumed for each activation of the directional space floating door, just look at the flickering magic channels all over the hull under the moonlight, you can know that this airship is worth a lot of money, as well as those rather extravagant paintings and blankets, maybe this airship is still a temporary modification of the private ship of a great nobleman of the Gesuk Empire.

The passage of the cabin was not long, and Morin stepped on the velvet blanket and quickly reached the tail ladder, where the low, regular turning of the tail rotor of the airship could already be heard, like a huge bird flapping its wings slowly, stubbornly disturbing the silence of the night.

The tail ladder led diagonally to the deck, and when he looked up, the hexagonal ice crystal constellation of the frost giant Nightmir landed diagonally in the young man's blue eyes, making him shudder.

The boy had always been a disliking of the constellation, known as the Frost Crystal, whose piercing silver glow reminded him of the harsh winter and occasionally accompanied by a strange hunger pang rising in his belly.

As a child, Maureen sometimes felt that he had experienced a particularly hungry and cold winter, but whenever he mentioned this feeling to Papa Pike, the baron always patted his chest and swore that he would keep little Maureen with good food and drink until the old man returned. The baron would also take out a magical image of Maureen digging worms in the yard when he was three years old, and look at the image of his own white and chubby appearance when he was a child, and the boy had to agree that it didn't look like he was hungry anyway.

Probably because he hadn't eaten serious food on the airship in the past few days, the boy rubbed his stomach while trying to drive the aroma of various barbecues out of his mind.

It was a little cold on the deck, and Merlin drew some magic from the small puddle of magic into his body, and he walked to the side of the ship to look into the distance.

Last year, around this time, he and Aeno traveled to the Holy Capital in an airship, where they became teammates with Tyrna, Marcas, and Barron, and before they knew it, a whole year had passed.

"Maureen, you didn't sleep either?"

A voice suddenly came from the other side of the deck, startling the boy.

He quickly turned around, only to see a young man about the same height as himself leaning on the shadow side of the bow of the ship, dressed in a neat Lothar attire, it was Strayer.

"Ah, Your Highness, Your Highness!" Morin said quickly, making a noble salute.

When I first came up, I was just thinking about the barbecue, but I didn't notice that there were other people on the deck.

I saw Strayer smile: "You don't need to see me like this, in the future, except for the official occasions in Lothar, just call me by my name at other times, even after I am crowned." ”

"Okay!" Morin nodded hurriedly.

Ever since it was confirmed that Strayer would be crowned King of Lothar early next summer, Maureen has been a little inhibited when it comes to the teenager in front of him who always has his trademark gentle smile on his lips. Although Papa Pike never attended aristocratic social events, the Callander family was still listed in the "Detailed List of Lothar Nobility Factions", and they were nominally and legally obligated to owe allegiance to the royal family.

And the father has such a serious accusation on him, and I don't know if His Highness has heard of it.

The young man couldn't help muttering in his heart, he hadn't finished reading the record of the Battle of the Blood Moon, who knew what kind of trouble Daddy had caused besides transferring troops without authorization......

Maureen watched Strayer approach with a little humility, and remembered that he hadn't answered his question yet, so he said, "I had a nightmare, and when I woke up and couldn't sleep, I came out to blow the wind, haven't you been asleep?" he looked at the slightly white sky in the east, "It's almost morning." ”

Strayer shook his head and didn't answer, standing beside Morin, leaning on the side of the boat, looking at the sea of clouds under the moon.

Under the colorful starry sky, there is a dark blue sea of clouds shining with moonlight, with undulating silver edges, and above the sea of clouds, other airships can occasionally be seen in the distance, and the pilot's lights flicker regularly outside the bow cabin. Glowing magical creatures can sometimes be seen, dragging long shimmering feathers to and from here in the sea of clouds.

"Maureen. Strayer said suddenly.

"Huh?" The young man was stunned for a moment, and then noticed that the other party was looking at him very seriously, so he quickly turned around.

"I was a little irritated by the Inheritance Codex before, and I never had a chance to ask you......," Strayer pondered for a moment and asked:

"Last term, when you were seriously injured, it was said that you had a conflict with the Cultist outside the boundaries of the Academy, and it was rumored that Professor Firth was listed as a dangerous person, and there were rumors that the Cultist was Professor Firth, you were on the battlefield at the time, can you tell me what happened?"

Maureen hesitated, not answering immediately.

Last year, they followed the clues of the lost cane all the way to the pharmacy professor Firth, and they didn't want to be led into the trap outside the academy by Fez's at the last moment.

Later, the Holy Law Enforcement Team arrived, and in order to avoid panic, they decided to block the news, and Mo Lin and several people were seriously injured and just recovered, and it was inconvenient for the curious classmates to pester them to get to the bottom of it, and the process of that battle did not spread.

However, Minerma didn't tell them to keep the news when she left, only that they should not mention the mysterious organization behind Fez, known as the Eyes of the Past, and that Raymond, the head of law enforcement, did not want their investigation to be too high-profile.

After thinking about it, Merlin defined Fez's identity as a cultist, and briefly told Strayer about the battle, starting from their help Minelma investigate, to the conflict between Fez's and another mysterious cultist who suddenly appeared during the battle, and finally the two died together, and he used Ed's defensive runes to weaken the deadly attack.

Of course, there is no mention of Blackie's "devouring" Faith arm during the battle and anything about the Eyes of the Past.

"So...... The law enforcement team later confirmed that the mysterious man was also a cultist, and that he and Firth had perished together?" Strayer asked, who seemed to be listening attentively and did not delve into the vagueness of Maureen's words, except to ask such a question after the boy had finished.

Merlin shook his head: "The law enforcement team also speculated from the situation at the scene, and they judged that the device detonated by the mysterious man was the Aurora Core, an extremely powerful magical machine, which was enough to completely wipe out him and Faith at that distance. Besides, if one of us is really lucky enough to survive, we will definitely not let go of us who are seriously injured and unconscious. ”

"Didn't the law enforcement team find any trace of anyone else?" Strayer couldn't help but ask, as if he realized that he was a little out of shape, and quickly turned sideways, turning the eagerness on his cheek into the shadows: "I mean, the location of that battle is just outside the boundaries of the academy, could there be someone else just passing by, maybe it can provide useful clues." ”

"Nope. Morin thought carefully and said, "The law enforcement team and the teachers in the academy have carefully checked the surroundings, and there should be no clues missing, Faith has arranged a special magic enchantment there, even if someone passes by accidentally, I am afraid that they will not notice anything." ”

Hearing Morin's answer, Strayer breathed a sigh of relief: "I see, now that cultists are active, most of the surrounding areas of our academy are remote forests or mountains, so it's better not to leave at will in the future." ”

Maureen nodded approvingly.

Strayer didn't ask any more questions, he covered his mouth and yawned, showing a little tiredness: "I have been talking for so long, I will go to rest first, and see you in Bellamy Town at noon." ”

He waved his hand and stepped off the deck.

The vision of the east had lit up, and only the faint shadows of the hidden stars shimmered in the blue sky, and Merlin stretched his waist to find that the airship had sailed out of the sea of clouds at some point, and at the end of the gray and green earth, a huge city could be seen gradually emerging its outline.

The majestic walls were joined into a gray ribbon in the morning light, and the deep and shallow buildings gradually awoke after the mist, and half of the ivory tower rising from the ground in the center of the city was reflected brightly, and the towering spires glittered in the sky.

The young man's heart throbbed inexplicably.

At this moment, the legendary High Priest, the legendary mage and prophet, and the greatest founder of the Fourth Age of Todder, is Mistress Phynex Eudora in the Tower?

If only he had that kind of prophetic ability, Maureen thought.

In that case, the next year will definitely be smooth......

In the warm morning light, the elegant, narrow airship carried the stunned boy and slowly disappeared into the mist rising from the Sawa Plain......

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