Maybe it's a time like never before, Phil walked with Venus on the shore of the sapphire lake for a long time, Venus kept talking about interesting things when he was a child, Phil didn't say anything, kept listening, until finally Venus got tired, and then sat under the tree by the lake and watched the starry sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The little girl rested her head on Phil's lap and slept quickly and deeply. Phil whispered to the guards to bring a blanket and put it over Venus, and he leaned against the tree and closed his eyes in meditation.

Phil didn't have any other thoughts about this girl, but he found that when he came into contact with this girl, the chip suddenly had a strange fluctuation, so he wanted to see what was going on up close. However, he was a little disappointed that Venus seemed to be an ordinary girl, nothing special.

That night, Phil was surprised to find that he no longer dreamed, perhaps because of the beautiful scenery in front of him.

The next day, Venus wakes up in her room, thinking that the previous night was just a dream, but the maid tells her that Phil had brought her back this morning.

"What about Mr. Underwood? Where is he? I'm going to see him!"

"Master Phil has gone to the Dark Forest. ”

Venus's expression was gloomy, he looked down at the blanket on his body, and smiled a little: "Mr. Underwood is really a very powerful person, he will definitely come back safely, right?"

Phil didn't ride the carriage that had come with him from the academy, and he also let Freeton rest in the castle, after all, for the Dark Forest, even he had to be careful not to die without any understanding.

Atwood prepared a castle steed for him, and the crisp sound of horses' hooves resounded through the forest.

There is a path that leads to the huts, which used to be used as a way into the mountains for hunters, but now it is inaccessible and somewhat overgrown.

As he approached, a thatched hut appeared on the side of the path, and Phil saw a pair of eyes inside, and the blue faintly looked a little strange through the crack in the window.

Phil Lema, stopped in front of the thatched hut, those eyes disappeared immediately, there was a man hiding inside, Phil called a few times, but no one answered.

Phil continued on his way. Then a squirrel appeared not far ahead, standing in the middle of the road with staring straight eyes, as if dead, but Phil clearly saw that it blinked, and only blinked after a long time, and Phil poked it with a stick, and the squirrel stood straight to the side, still not moving.

From this point on, Phil walked very slowly, and then gradually, the forest was silent, and there was no sound. There are no birds and insects, no wind and leaves.

Then a boundary appeared, like a straight line, with green trees on one side and dim withered on the other, and Phil found that even on the same tree, it was distributed in a line of decay so precisely, without a single error.

The sky was filled with a dull mist, and the deep forest into which the path extended seemed to be the same as in the night.

Phil dismounted, tied the horse to a tree outside the dark forest, took out a cross sword in his right hand, a scroll in the other, and put on a pair of glasses, and walked inside step by step.

The scroll is a teleportation scroll engraved by a high-level wizard, and although it will cause some physical damage to low-level apprentices when used, it is an extremely powerful self-preservation scroll, and the glasses are a pair of detection glasses, which have been attached by the alchemist to detect unusual fluctuations in a sorcery array.

These are the results of his preparation in the trading area, not specifically for this mission, but just to save his life as much as possible in this wizarding world.

In the dark forest, the further you go in, the darker it gets, and Phil has to use a light trick.

But it didn't take long for Phil to find that the light released on the tip of the sword began to dim, and then Phil saw that it was seriously and rapidly darkened, and finally disappeared completely, and Phil finally cast it again, and it disappeared in a while, and finally Phil had to try to make a torch out of the dead wood next to the path, but it worked, these dead wood had a lot of resin, which could burn for a long time, and there were such trees everywhere, although they were decaying, the resin was still useful.

In such an identically dimly lit environment, Phil began to experience a time gap, he thought it had been a long time, and when he took out the timer, it was only a few minutes that had passed. And here the cactus chip seems to be completely useless, as if there is a huge force field that isolates him from the chip.

After Phil felt like he had been walking for a long time, the cabin finally appeared in front of him.

In a clearing in the forest, the cabin has two floors, with a clearing in front and a vegetable garden with a dry stream at the side.

Phil stood in front of the door, pushed, the door didn't open, knocked twice and then pushed, "squeak".

Phil's heart became more and more solemn, and Atwood had told him that all the doors in the cabin had to be knocked twice before they could be opened, otherwise there would be no way.

Phil took his wand and pushed the door open, and there was a corrupt place inside, and in the middle of the hall facing the door there were old traces of a bonfire, which must have been left by his predecessors, just like a corrupt wooden house, except for the knock on the door.

There are three doors on the first floor, seven on the second floor, and each door knocks twice, then pushes it open, and looks at the room furnishings, this is a three-generation family-style wooden house, the first floor is occupied by grandparents, the second floor has a room for parents, and three children have a room, and three are guest rooms, it seems that there were three uncles from other places living in the beginning.

Aside from the fact that the furnishings are relatively new, not as old as the legend of a thousand years, Phil has found nothing.

Even though it's dark in the forest, it's still daylight, and maybe the weirder things will be revealed in the middle of the night, but Phil hasn't planned to try to stay for the night tonight, so he'll have to go back now.

Out of the dark forest, the sun was high, it was only noon, and Phil thought it was already evening.

Phil saw that the junction seemed to widen a little more, and a small tree that had been very green before entering, but now it was half gray, and besides, Phil's horse was gone.

The reins were still on the tree, but the horse was nowhere to be seen.

Phil had to walk out, only to get to the squirrel's place and find that the squirrel was gone, and it was inaccessible to people, not even the ferocious animals, where did the squirrel go?

When I got to the thatched hut, I saw the smoke of the cooking.

There was a blue-eyed man with strong hair cooking a pot of broth in front of the thatched house, the man saw that Phil seemed very enthusiastic, but the other party seemed to be dumb, pointed to the broth, and smiled honestly, he saw Phil alone, compared to the posture of riding a horse "driving", Phil didn't know if the other party was deaf, or explained: "My horse is gone, do you see it?"

The other man shook his head, and then he excitedly pulled Phil to the back of the thatched hut, where a lifeless squirrel was tied, which he had captured, and then he was there gesturing, and adding the action of riding.

It took Phil a while to understand that the man wanted him to ride the squirrel......

Phil didn't stop and left, he was delayed by a fool for so long, and he talked to him for a while, and he was helpless to think about it.

As a last resort, Phil finally walked back to the castle, Atwood seemed to have expected the horses to disappear, and did not ask a word about the horses, Phil took the initiative to talk about the strange man in the thatched house, and Atwood said that he had not been there for a long time, and there was no thatched house and no man.

Phil went to change into his regular clothes, and then talked to Atwood in the study, when he was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Venus, who was a little rude, but still very cute.

"Mr. Underwood, are you going over tonight?" Venus asked Phil, looking nervous.

"Not yet, I have to do some more preparations. Phil replied.

Vilas cheered slightly, and hurriedly apologized: "Actually, Mr. Underwood, Venus wants to invite you to my castle to play, I wonder if you want to?" Venus's castle is actually the castle that Atwood is building, because Venus will wait here in the future, so it is not wrong to say that it is Venus's castle, her fingers carefully tugged at the corner of her skirt, looking uneasy, for fear that Phil would refuse directly.

Phil thought about it, and didn't need to be in a hurry to get ready to go to the cabin, so he readily agreed. Venus ran out again in surprise, apparently to call the servants to prepare.

"What a faux pas. Atwood apologized.

"Where, I'm happy with Venus too, you don't have to. "Fieldau.

At this time, Atwood's expression was uncertain, and he finally made up his mind to ask Phil: "Mr. Underwood, in fact, I tested Venus some time ago on her wizarding talent, and her talent is actually as high as the third rank!

Phil only then understood what was going on with Atwood's wandering words for the past two days, especially when Venus appeared.

Phil said, "You know the rules of the academy, right?"

Atwood knew Phil's difficulty, and said, "Of course I know this, but there is actually another way to bring Venus into the academy. Although I have heard that you must be a full-fledged wizard to have a servant, it is already an unspoken rule for ordinary apprentices to bring a servant from the family, so can you ask Mr. Underwood to take Venus as a maid?"

The word maid stimulated Phil to think that the elf-like girl, who was also his playmate, as a maid, Phil didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to say that he would think about it.

"In fact, the next enrollment of the college is more than a year away, and you can wait until that time. ”

Unexpectedly, Atwood smiled bitterly: "This is impossible, when I accepted the gift of that master, I signed a contract prohibiting my descendants from entering the academy to study......"

Filton didn't know what to say, Atwood may have had to do it in the first place to sign this mission contract, maybe it was okay at the beginning, but now I don't know if this decision was the right one.

Outside, Venus was already waiting with a team of guards and a team of servants.

The girl sat on one of the two white horses at the head, looked back at Phil, and smiled like a flower, she did not know what kind of fate she had been arranged.