Each magical guild has an enforcement team, and the law enforcement team is responsible for handling cases related to magicians.

Since the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team is destined to deal with evil mages hiding in the shadows, as the deacon of the Law Enforcement Corps is the best among the local magicians, walking up the stairs to the third floor of the Magic Guild, this place is obviously much more deserted.

Hanging from the plaque at the entrance of the staircase is a magic badge the size of an iris shield, which is made up of an unfolded magic book and a magic staff.

Walking into the third floor of the Magic Guild, I was immediately infected by the solemn atmosphere here, the entire circular corridor seemed extraordinarily quiet, Caterina and I walked to the staircase and faced the door of the room, the door of this room happened to be open, and a middle-aged magician was standing on a test bench, holding a silver spoon in his hand, pouring some brown powder into the test tube bottle.

I was worried that my sudden opening would affect his ability to make potions, so I stood at the door and waited for a while.

When the middle-aged magician poured all the powder from the silver spoon into the glass, I guess knocked lightly on the open door, the middle-aged magician turned to look at me, and then beckoned me in, there was a desk on the left wall of the room, he put down what he was doing, went behind the desk, unfolded a book bound of magical parchment, looked up and rolled the dead fish's eyes, and asked me, "Young magician, what can I do for you?"

I told the middle-aged magician about Heidi and Moraya, who had deep nasolabial folds on his face and a frown to record all that I said.

"The Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team will investigate here, please be patient, and we will notify you as soon as there is news of the two magicians. ”

The middle-aged magician said to me numbly, as if he hadn't listened to what I had just said.

"Thank you then. ”

I could barely squeeze out a smile.

Ignoring me, he turned and walked over to the test bench, took two tubes of bubbling green solution from the reagent rack, and carefully poured them into a glass beaker.

"Bang"

With a muffled sound, the glass beaker on the test bench exploded.

The room was filled with choking smoke, and the middle-aged magician came out of the smoke in embarrassment, saw me sitting at my desk and didn't leave, and asked me with a very ugly face, "Do you have anything else?"

I looked at his blackened face and said, "Are you alright?"

"Isn't it common for magic experiments to fail? It's just a small case, it's nothing. He picked up a towel and wiped his face, saying with some embarrassment.

The room was filled with spicy smoke.

I came to the test bench, the middle-aged magician's test bench was a very standard potion preparation table, the wooden shelves on the table were filled with all kinds of magic reagents, and there was an Ogholas I grinder, which was suitable for grinding all kinds of magic herbs, and there was a small crucible next to the test bench.

The explosion was caused by the boiling magic solution in the cauldron that exploded after being poured into the beaker, and the explosion was not destructive, but it produced a large amount of smoke that was choking.

I took out an exhaust fan from my magic belt bag, placed it in the window, and took out a fragment of magic crystal and embedded it in the gem pedestal, a magical glimmer lit up on the rune board of the exhaust fan, and a gentle wind carried the smoke in the room and blew it out of the window.

The middle-aged magician came over, first looked at the exhaust fan on the windowsill, and couldn't help but ask me, "This...... What is it?"

"Exhaust fans, magical items that remove smoke and dust from the laboratory, this thing can be found everywhere in the imperial capital. I said to the middle-aged magician with a smile.

The middle-aged magician looked at the exhaust fan with his eyes, and saw that the smoke in the room was blown away by the wind little by little.

He sat back down at his desk and coughed lightly, "That...... Tell me, Magician...... How do you want me to help you?"

"Well, can you help me investigate their information registered with the Strange Rock City Magic Guild?"

I sat down across from him and said.

The middle-aged magician frowned slightly and explained to me, "The registration information is only a record of the approximate time when they arrived in Qiyan City, I don't think it has much to do with finding the missing magician!"

He thought for a moment, looked up at me, and said, "In the last two months, there have been as many as seven cases of missing magicians in Qiyan City, and almost all the personnel of the law enforcement team have been dispatched. ”

"So many mages are missing?" I said, taking a cool breath.

I didn't expect that there would be so many cases of missing magicians in Qiyan City, and all the mages of the law enforcement team were dispatched to investigate these cases.

The middle-aged magician said solemnly: "That's right, probably all of them disappeared after following the adventure group into the Wild Swamp, and the entire adventure group was also missing, not long ago, the Knights of the Strange Rock City Guard Battalion had issued a warning of the danger of the Wild Swamp, I think your friend probably also entered the Wild Swamp with the adventure group, since our people have entered the Wild Swamp, I believe there will be news soon." ”

"I'd like to find out when they came to the Strange Rock City Magic Guild. I said to the middle-aged magician.

"Well, since you're insisting on investigating their registration with the Magic Guild, then...... Please follow me. ”

After speaking, the middle-aged magician stood up and led me back to the second floor of the magical public official's reference room, and said to the female magician who was sorting out the documents in the reference room, "Miss Dennis, please help me find the recent registration information of the two magicians. ”

"Okay, Master Constantine, which magician would you like to find?" Miss Dennis smiled at us, wearing a short magical skirt and a white shirt with lace on the top, and her chestnut hair pulled up high.

Konstantin set his eyes on me, and motioned for me to tell Miss Dennis that I was looking for the name of the magician.

I hurriedly said, "One is Teacher Heidi, an ice mage from the War Magic Academy in El City, Sloit, and the other is Miss Moraya, a wood mage from the Imperial Capital. ”

Unexpectedly, when I reported the names of Mentor Heidi and Moraya, Miss Dennis covered her mouth and exclaimed in surprise:

"Is it Heidi and Moraya?"

Her emotions seemed a little excited, and she spoke a little hurriedly, with a strong dialect of Qiyan City, and asked me:

"Oh, I know them!

I discerned it carefully before I understood the meaning of the sentence, and I replied:

"That's right, she's my mentor at the Academy of War Magic in El City, and she's been invited by me to go on an expedition deep into the Savage Swamp in Strange Rock City. Moraya, her former assistant and a good friend of mine, has a lot of experience exploring the jungle and is also a very good wood magician. ”

She stood in front of me and looked me carefully from beginning to end, "So you're friends with Moraya? ”

"Miss Dennis, do you know Moraya?"

I didn't expect to meet Ya's friends in Strange Rock City in the Magic Guild.

Miss Dennis nodded and said to me, "Of course, she used to take on some quests to explore the Wild Swamp last year on the Magic Guild's side, and I was still working at the mission announcement at the time, and every time she came back from the Jungle Swamp, she would bring me some strange seed gifts. ”

"We had dinner together half a month ago, and she introduced me to her companion, Her Excellency the Wizard Heidi. She said with some concern.

She invited us to sit down on the sofa in the reception area in the corner of the reference room.

I said to Miss Dennis, "We made an appointment to meet at the Hollien Hotel in Strange Rock City for the next few days, but they didn't leave any messages and left in a hurry, so I thought of looking for some clues from the Magic Guild. ”

I looked into her pale blue eyes and asked Miss Dennis, "Did she say anything when you had dinner with Moraya?"

Miss Dennis thought about it seriously before she said: " She told me that she was going to go deep into the wild swamp with a group of friends recently, but she didn't say what she was going to do, I advised her not to take risks at this time, but I knew that she would definitely not listen to me, and then I told her that since she had to go there to adventure, it would be better to take a few tasks that no one wanted to do that had been hanging in the bulletin, and those tasks required the depths of the wild swamp to be completed, and she had been hanging for almost half a year, and there were many people who picked up, but no one had completed the reward, and she just laughed and said nothing, as if she had no interest in those tasks. ”

I pressed on, "Then she didn't say anything else, like who she was going to meet?"

Miss Dennis rubbed her forehead, her eyes lit up, and she said, "Oh, I remember, she said she was going to visit a friend, and she is said to be a very famous guide in Strange Rock City, I want to think about it...... Let me think, oh, by the way, that guide's name is Nathaniel, and he is a little famous here in Strange Rock City, and Ya said she was going to visit him. ”

Wizard...... I remembered that Moraya had said that she wanted to find the guide who had led them into the Savage Swamp in the first place, so that we would have a better chance of finding the Ancient Altar in the Savage Swamp.

I said in my mind: "Nathaniel." ”

"Okay, thank you, Miss Dennis. I said to Miss Dennis.

"Thank you, Constantine Magician. I said to the middle-aged magician again, but in my heart I was only grateful to the exhaust fan.

......

Walking out of the Strange Rock City Magic Guild, the sun climbed overhead, and the leaves of those trees on either side of the street trees drooped listlessly.

The scorching sun fell on the skin, and it felt hot all over the body, and the shadows of the sun were hidden under the feet.

Walking briskly to the shade of the tree, Caterina followed me and asked me, "Where are we going to find Nathaniel?"

Standing on the side of the road, waiting for the magic caravan passing by, he thought for a moment and said to Caterina: "Let's go to the mercenary association first, Nathaniel, since he is a very famous guide in Strange Rock City, there should be many people who know him, you can find a few guides to ask." ”

......

The Mercenary Guild of Strange Rock City is just across from the Holier Inn, a two-story building in the shape of a 'D' next to the Civic Center, where many people gather every day.

Granite is abundant in a valley near Strange Rock City, so many of the buildings here are made of rock with a white background mixed with many black star patterns, and the entire building lines and outlines are simple and crisp, which will make people feel refreshed.

Every day, different employers will go to the mercenary association to post tasks, many local mercenary groups in Strange Rock City will come here to find suitable tasks, of course, there are also some foreign adventure groups, many adventure groups have joined the mercenary association, the principle is that they can also receive mercenary tasks, but the competitiveness is much worse than that of local mercenary groups, the main reason is the problem of reputation and mutual trust, if the employer does not trust, even if it is excellent, it is useless.

Caterina and I came to the door of the Mercenary Society, and a large group of people gathered at the entrance of the Mercenary Association, and when these people saw that we were about to enter the Mercenary Society, they hulaed and surrounded us like locusts, and the young man who was crowded in front took the opportunity to shout at me: "Your Excellency, do you want to hire a guide? I am the best guide in Strange Rock City, and I am extremely familiar with any rainforest around Strange Rock City. ”

"Are you as familiar with the inner city of Strange Rock City as you said?" I asked, pausing and looking at the young man in front of me.

The young man smiled so that his eyes narrowed completely, and said with a grin in standard Grimm Chinese: "Your words are simply the greatest insult to a native of Qiyan, I can swear to my grandmother, I know every street, every alley, even every house number in this city, as long as you say the address, I can take you to find it." ”

"Yo-yo...... Kapa, you're saying that beautifully, but with all due respect, it's just the basic ethics of those magic caravan coachmen, so why do you need a guide in Strange Rock City!" someone in the crowd sarcastically said.

"Fuck off, what's the matter with you here!" the young guide, Packa, turned back and lashed.

The crowd was immediately filled with the smell of gunpowder, and in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, I hurriedly pulled Capa out of the mercenary association, found a secluded place, and said to her, "Okay, since you say so, let's talk about it, if you can help me find my target, I will pay you a commission, if you can't find it, I won't give you a dime." ”

"Tell me, Your Excellency the Magician, where do you want to go?" said Capa, a little impatient with my nagging.

I stared into his eyes and asked him, "I'm looking for Nathaniel, so have you seen him lately?"

Capa's eyes widened and he asked me in surprise, "You want to find Saniel?" I last saw him half a month ago, oh! ”

"You know each other well?" I asked, as I hurriedly asked Kappa.

Capa touched his nose and said with some humility: "It's not familiar! It's just that everyone usually eats together in the guide industry in Qiyan City, and they don't look up and look down at each other, they just know each other." ”

It sounds like there's probably some competition......

I then asked, "Do you know his home?"

Capa's eyes widened and he looked at me with a wary expression:

“......”