The autumn color is cold in the early morning, with a hint of loneliness, faintly hinting that summer is coming to an end, and the coming of autumn blows a cool breeze from time to time, letting people know that autumn has come. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info old Sherlock looked at his son's figure gradually moving away, and the smile slowly disappeared on his face, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

The woods on both sides of the road were even more chilly, Kraser rode a blue steed galloping through the path in the woods, his long golden hair fluttering in the wind, the dense woods on both sides of the road, rustling in the breeze, and the scenery in the forest in the distance was so beautiful and mysterious.

But instead of looking too far on the sides of the road, he rode straight to Golder, the nearest city to the town! As the sun rose overhead, Krezer finally reached the first destination of his trip, Golder, the southwestern frontier of the Opdosben Empire.

Patting the cyan steed that was already snorting and panting under the seat, the long uninterrupted gallop made it show its tired state, Kreze stood at the edge of the woods, looking at the huge city gate from a distance, and his heart couldn't help but feel infinite emotion, when he and his father passed by here, they didn't take a good look because of their mood, and now they found that the city is so majestic, like a sleeping beast, silently guarding the westernmost part of the empire. Krazer couldn't help but sigh in admiration in his heart, and rode towards the city gate.

At this time, there was already a lot of traffic in front of the city gate, and on both sides of the gate stood more than a dozen guards wearing armor and holding weapons. The sun shone on the polished shiny weapons, reflecting a cold light, as if to warn the people that this was the territory of the Opdoth Empire, and if anyone dared to cause trouble in the city, they should taste it.

Kretzer turned over and dismounted in front of the city gate, smiling as he led the teal steed past the guards, and nodding slightly with his fingers on the brim of his hat, showing his respect to the guards guarding the place, who straightened their chests slightly, and did not make any other movements, but apparently the respect from a magician was enough to make them proud.

A burly man who looked like a captain took a step forward, his right hand smacking his chest through his armor and making a dull sound.

"Welcome to Gordes City, Dear Magician, this is the southwestern gate of the Opdoth Empire, and if you plan to make a long journey, I suggest you go into the city to replenish your food and water. If you're wondering something interesting, you'd better check out the Freelancer Bar in town, which has the freshest news!"

After saying that, the burly man quickly stood back in his original position before the chief saw him.

Krazer smiled and nodded, leading the cyan steed into the city gate. But at that moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves on the opposite side, followed by a group of cavalrymen in light leather armor with bows and arrows behind them. The leader of the leader, a young officer of Krezer's age, took a brief look at Krezer, then passed him, and then he tugged the reins, and the horses under him suddenly stood up, and let out the cry of Herod very mighty.

"Parker, get on your horse at once, and follow me out of the city to reconnoitre, the forest south of the city!" the young officer pointed with his whip to the guards standing in front of the gate. The man he was referring to was the burly officer who had just stepped forward to greet Krazer, and without saying a word, the latter took the reins handed by others, turned over his horse with great skill, and galloped away with this group of elite cavalry towards the forest not far outside the city.

At this time, it was the peak of the flow of people in and out of the gate, and many people were curious to see what was happening in front of them, and they couldn't help but stop and watch, and Krazer couldn't help but look at it curiously, but then they were driven away by the guards who followed closely.

The afternoon sun drove away the morning chill, and Frazer led his horse down the street. At this time, the streets of the city were already crowded with people, and the shouts of hawkers came and went. It is truly the southwest gate of the Opdosben Empire, and there are more pedestrians on the street than everyone in the town combined, and the shops of all kinds dazzle Kreeser and stand on the street. The sound of the blacksmith striking the iron and the shouting of the hawker formed a vibrant symphony, which was deafening.

Krizer looked at the sides of the street, asking the vendors from time to time, and slowly walked in the direction of the freelancer bar. When Krazer turned the second intersection, the Freelancer Bar came into view, and in front of the ornate three-story building, Krazer handed the reins to the waiter who came to greet him, and walked through the bar's door.

It was lunchtime, so the bar was full of people, from rugged mercenaries, plainly dressed bards, to hurried-looking merchants, who involuntarily gathered in the largest pub in Galder to inquire about their interests.

Krazer sat down in an empty corner when a scantily clad brunette approached him with a tray and a smile on her face.

"Dear Mr. Magician, what do you need?"

As he spoke, he placed the cup on the tray in his hand on Kraser's table, carefully adding a few transparent ice cubes for him.

Kratzer took a sip from his glass and smiled, "A medium-rare steak with a white bread." Get me another empty glass, thank you!"

"Okay, Mr. Magician, wait a minute!" the brunette smiled as she put away the tray and walked towards the bar. Kratzer picked up his glass and looked around. I saw a large group of mercenaries in the same clothes sitting on the side near the door, and they were spitting and boasting to the mercenaries at the next table.

"Hey!Beck!Have you taken on another big assignment lately!Tell me about it!," a strong man in a brown coat shouted to a group of mercenaries dressed in the same blue color.

I saw a thin mercenary stand up in response, holding a wine glass and replied loudly: "There are no big tasks, they are all unchallenging, you can see that we don't even have a little dust on our bodies, this road is very quiet, not even a beast has been touched." If you want to eat fresh meat on the road, you can't only gnaw on those dry jerky, no, the regiment commander went to the mercenary union to hand in the task, and we all came here to drink and eat meat. What about you!Do you have any advanced tasks?It is said that your mercenary group will be able to upgrade to one level after completing the commission of one million gold coins!" The thin mercenary's eyes were full of envy.

The strong mercenary in brown raised his arm, showing off the strong muscles on his arm and said proudly: "That is, we only need to complete one more mission worth millions of gold coins to upgrade to a master-level mercenary group!"

Because everyone present knew what this meant, as early as a thousand years ago, the level of the mercenary group established by the Elders of Teemo established in the United Principality of Conyatugai. In this level division, according to the strength of the mercenary group, the number of participants, and the completion of the accepted mission, it can be finely divided into eight levels of mercenary group. Among them, the junior mercenary group, the intermediate mercenary group, the advanced mercenary group, the master-level mercenary group and the master-level mercenary group are the main body of the entire mercenary world, they account for eighty percent of the number, and the remaining three levels are the legendary-level mercenary group, the legendary mercenary group and the top legendary-level mercenary group, they are the top forces in the mercenary world, and the combined forces of some of the mercenary groups can even easily subvert a country.

Perhaps it was the reason why it was about to be upgraded to a master-level mercenary group, the strong mercenary looked around proudly with his chest puffed out, and continued: "We didn't have anything in the first half of this mission, just like you, we couldn't even see a beast, but when we were about to walk out of the forest of Mistrekreises, there was a wolf cry in the distance, if it wasn't for our regiment leader's order to move forward at full speed, instead of facing us, you wouldn't have seen us." Speaking of the strange thing he had encountered a few days ago, the strong mercenary seemed to have palpitations.

"Isn't it just wolves! It's not like we've never met each other, so there's something to be afraid of, just brought us meat. The emaciated mercenary said disdainfully. Everyone around nodded in agreement.

"You know what! The wolves in general are just like you said, you didn't see the situation at that time, behind us, the mountains were full of wild wolves! The number was too many to count, as if the wild wolves of the entire Mystrekres Forest had come here! The horse I was riding couldn't control the scene at all, and according to our captain, there should be a fifth-level head wolf in the wolf pack, otherwise it would not have been possible to form such a large wolf pack. If we run more slowly, you won't see me anymore!Our regimental commander has already reported the matter to the city lord, and the corresponding mission should be down in two days, or let's cooperate!" The strong mercenary retorted dissatisfiedly.

When the thin mercenary heard this, he nodded and said, "Our regiment commander is also coming back soon, I believe he will make a decision based on the real situation." I said how calm our road was, it turned out that it was caused by this group of wild wolves. ”

Seeing that the two of them had no intention of continuing, the surrounding people also turned around and went to discuss various topics, but the most they talked about was the appearance of wild wolves outside the city. Upon hearing this, Krazer frowned curiously, he had heard a little about the possibility of forming such a large herd under certain circumstances, but he had only heard of it, and had not really seen it, he turned his head, and the brunette happened to come out of behind the bar with a tray.

"Steak and bread you want, Mr. Magician!" the furious brunette glanced at Krezer with a red face, and the latter smiled at her, and as if he had to take out a small barrel of wine, fill it to himself, and looked at the brunette and said, "Beautiful young lady, I have the pleasure of giving you a drink!"

I saw the brunette open her surprised little mouth, and just about to agree, an old voice came from the bar. "Betty, there's another guest. ”

Seeing the brunette pouting dissatisfiedly, twisting her waist and turning to walk towards the new guest, Kratzer smiled and shook his head, took a big sip, picked up the knife and fork on the plate, carefully cut the beef on the plate, and sprinkled pepper while savoring the tender steak. There was a look of satisfaction on his face.

After a while, the leaders of the two mercenary groups walked back with serious expressions, and after giving orders to their respective members, they walked out of the bar with their members one after another, and for a while, the lively bar became deserted, Kreizer finished eating the steak and bread, drank the rest of the wine in one gulp, cleaned up, and walked to the bar. "How much? boss!"

"Your horses are fed too, and they add up to three silver coins, Dear Mr. Magician! Steak and bread are two silver coins, and the horses are fed and brushed for one silver coin, look at it!" the boss at the bar pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose as he pushed the ledger in his hand towards Krezer.

However, instead of looking at the ledger pushed by the barkeeper, Krazer took out three silver coins from the ring, put them on the table, and turned to leave.

"Mr. Magician, are you going out of the city? You have heard that wolves are in the forest outside the city, and I advise you to wait until tomorrow morning, when the merchants going to the next city set out, that it is safer to go together, and now that the sun is about to set, the forest at night is even more dangerous. The brunette looked at him with concern.

"No problem, I'm a magician!" Kreezer smiled disapprovingly, and walked towards the door of the bar, where the waiter was already standing outside the door with the blue horse, and Kreezer took the reins and turned over on his horse, and as soon as his legs were forced, the horse galloped towards the city gate.

At this time, the sun in the sky has slowly set, Kreizer rode a cyan horse and galloped quickly on the road east of Gauld City, the tall and majestic city wall, gradually disappeared behind Kreze, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, Kreeser stopped in front of a fork in the road, he jumped off his horse and asked the pedestrians who were also in a hurry on the side of the road to ask for directions, he got two directions, one is to go from the main road on the left, but it will take four and a half days to reach the next larger town, Elrado, but the road is flat, there is no risk on the road, and from the right side of the path, it only takes a day, it is estimated that it will be reached at noon tomorrow, just the left side of the roadThere are many mountain roads, and there are many wild beasts, which is really not suitable for night travel. Krezer thanked the pedestrians and rode down the path to the left.

It was nearly dusk, and there was no clear path in the deepest part of the path, except for a shallow layer of treading, and the path was lined with trees, made up of sentinels with gray-green pine needles, strong oaks, and iron trees as old as the Empire. Here, the thick black trunks of the trees squeeze against each other, the twisted branches weave a dense towering tree overhead, and the deformed intertwined roots wrestle with each other underground. Kratzer slowly rode his horse through the woods with difficulty, and only then did he let go of his steed when a smooth road appeared, and before he knew it, time passed quietly, the sky gradually darkened, and the roar of wild beasts could be heard in the distant jungle. This adds a touch of mystery to the path ahead. From time to time, Kratzer looked around, looking for a way to keep himself from getting lost, knowing that it was dangerous to get lost in such a large forest.

Suddenly, the horse under Krezer's seat froze, and the sound of Herod kept coming out of his mouth, and he refused to take another step forward no matter how much he whipped. After seeing the strange state of the sitting horse, Krazer looked at the surrounding woods vigilantly, and suddenly felt a dangerous aura, only to see the bushes in front of him shake violently, and suddenly a gray beast burst out and pounced on Kreze.

Frightened, the cyan steed man stood up, Krazer was caught off guard and fell down, the gray beast pounced directly on the body of the cyan steed, and immediately pressed it under him, opened his bloody mouth, revealing his white teeth, and bit down, suddenly, the cyan steed struggled, but its neck had been bitten by the gray beast, and it couldn't struggle, the gray beast shook its head violently, and the cyan steed slowly stopped struggling, and a pair of smart big eyes gradually lost their luster. Seeing this scene, Krazer reflected, took out his magic wand and looked at it, it turned out that the beast lying on the horse and biting turned out to be a huge wolf, seeing that its size was not much smaller than the horse, so it was easy to pounce on the horse, seeing this scene Krazer couldn't help but gasp. By this time, the blue steed that had been bitten by the huge wolf had long since ceased to struggle, and the time it took was so short that before Kreezer could wake up from the surprise of discovering the wild wolf the size of a horse, the matter was over.

At this time, Krazer realized that the huge wild wolf on the opposite side had already set his target on him, and his eyes showed bloodthirsty desire. It was the most dangerous moment that Kreeser encountered alone for the first time, and now he had to face it alone.

At this time when Kraser encountered the first life-and-death moment in his life, Old Jack's home, Old Jack was whispering something to Alex, the big black dog.

Suddenly, Alexey, the big black dog, had hair standing up all over his body and rushed outside, Old Jack and Alexey rushed to the yard, only to see a person standing in the courtyard who was shrouded in a black coat and exuding a cold breath, only to see Old Jack suddenly take out a stick-like thing and aim it at the man in black standing in the yard, and confronted the comer.