"Hello Alan. ”

The old woman who had been in front of the palace came down.

At this moment, she was wearing a luxurious dress, her hair was a little gray, and when she spoke, the wrinkles on her face suddenly appeared.

"My name is Tina, and I am the widow of Count Elliot. ”

The old woman walked up to Alan, followed by Marin.

Count Elliott's widow?

Alan was a little surprised.

Is this Count Elliot one of the three counts of Boulder City?

Be sure to ask Mia later.

"What's the matter?"

Alan didn't believe that the count's widow was charitable.

"That's right. ”

"I used to have many cats at home, but lately they've all disappeared one by one inexplicably. ”

"I want to know what the hell happened to them. ”

Lady Tina frowned, looked at Allen, and said sincerely.

"If you find out what the reason is, I'll give you the hardware, and even if you don't find anything, I'll give you two gold coins as a reward. ”

Before Alan could speak, Lady Tina rushed to speak.

Marin stood aside and watched silently, still with that standard smile on his face.

"I agreed. ”

Alan thought for a few seconds and nodded.

Although the reward for hardware coins is indeed tempting, it is not the main reason why Alan agreed.

He wanted to take this opportunity to get in touch with the count's widow.

If nothing else, Eren will stay in Boulder for a while.

Then it is very important to be familiar with the upper class of the city.

Alan knows very well that these medieval upper-class people like to engage in some things that they don't.

With Earl Scott's actions, these powerful ordinary people must have befriended magicians, even if the magician's job is only to kill monsters.

"That's great!"

A smile of surprise appeared on Tina's face.

"Those cats of yours, they can't just run away, do they?"

"No way, the doors and windows are locked all day, and there is not a single crack in them that can get out. ”

Marin said confidently.

Keeping your doors and windows locked all day?

Familiar with Detective Conan, Allen, who is familiar with the Sherlock Holmes detective series, suddenly discovers a blind spot.

If you don't worry about anything, you don't have to close the doors and lock the windows all day, and even the curtains are closed.

But none of this has anything to do with him.

As long as the missing cats are investigated, he can reap enough money to make ordinary people fight for a lifetime, as well as the friendship of this countess.

"Then their range of activity is only within this house?"

"Yes. ”

Marin nodded, determined.

Alan opened his mind.

It was dark, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

There's no magic in this.

Alan was probably a little disappointed.

Now he can't wait to encounter more monsters and enhance his strength.

After being promoted to a two-star mage, his senses became more sensitive than before.

Although the nose has the same sense of smell as a dog, it is not much worse.

"Take me to the cat's nest to have a look. ”

Following Lady Tina, Alan went up to the second floor.

In one room, cat fur was everywhere, as well as some torn mouse stuffed animals.

With a sniffle, the strong smell of snort entered Ellen's nose, making him feel like gagging.

"When was the last time you saw a cat?"

"The last two cats, which I saw two days ago in the evening, disappeared in the morning. ”

Following the strong smell of cats, Alan walked downstairs.

He stood in front of the stairs leading to the basement, frowning.

The rest of the house smelled of cat activity, but it wasn't as strong as the smell coming from the basement.

Except for the cat's room, the basement is the richest.

Not only that, but Allen, who felt extremely sensitive, also faintly smelled a smell of blood.

In the basement...... Is there a secret?

At this moment, Marin blocked his path.

He still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were fixed on Lady Tina, who was standing aside.

As if waiting for her signal.

"If the cats hadn't gone out, they would have been in the basement. ”

Alan swore by it.

Seeing Marin's movements, and the mysteriously missing cats, he was sure that there must be some secret in the basement.

"Is that really the case?"

Lady Tina sighed and took five gold coins from her purse.

"That's the end of the investigation, Alan, please come back. ”

Receiving the gold coins into his wallet, Alan did not hesitate and walked towards the main entrance.

"Alan?"

Just as Alan walked to the main entrance, Lady Tina's voice suddenly came from behind.

"Huh?"

Alan turned his head and looked into her somewhat cloudy eyes.

"Can you promise me not to mention today's events to anyone?"

Lady Tina tried to grab Alan's hand, but he dodged her.

"Collect money to do things, I will. ”

Alan opened the door and headed outside.

Lady Tina and Marin stood behind the door, watching Alan's mysterious black back disappear from the crowd.

"Honey, what if he leaks the news?"

"Baker's wolves, if they knew that our basement was hiding secrets, would be desperate to find out. ”

Marin put his arm around Lady Tina's waist and whispered softly in Lady Tina's ear.

"Even if he didn't leak the news, Baker and the others have already launched an investigation into us, if we hadn't been out of the house and reduced communication with the outside world, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to hide it for long. ”

"I've long thought that the cats have run underground, but I haven't been able to make up my mind, and now that Allen has appeared, it seems that it can't be delayed......"

Feeling the heat in his ears, two blushes instantly welled up on Lady Tina's pale face.

"Don't worry, we've got to go down. ”

She glanced at Marin, and there was a kind of lazy beauty of a woman.

At the mention of this, Marin's originally smiling face flashed a trace of gloom.

He grabbed a candle from the table next to him and headed downstairs.

As soon as she walked down the stairs, Lady Tina's hand, which had been holding Marin, couldn't help but let go.

The basement was so dark that only the candlelight from the staircase barely made it possible to see the surroundings.

Marin took the candle and lit all the candles hanging on the surrounding walls, and the basement was lit up.

Several barrels were placed in the corners, and the ground was a mess.

But not far away, there was a locked wooden door.

Not only is it locked, but there are three iron locks on the top and bottom of the wooden door.

There was no rust on the three iron locks, and they looked like they had been replaced.

The two walked to the wooden door, and their faces involuntarily turned pale.

If you look closely, you can even see that their bodies are trembling slightly.

It was as if there was some wild beast behind the door.

Lady Tina walked up to the wooden door and pressed her ear to it.

There was a dull moan from behind the door.

The voice seemed to be deliberately suppressed, and it would be difficult to be heard if it wasn't for the silence around it.

Lady Tina took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

Noah didn't cover his face with the hood attached to his cloak like Alan and Mia did.

On the contrary, he generously exposed his face, like a male peacock.

"How did you get here so fast?"

Alan couldn't help but ask.

"I've asked Tiffany, and I know you're taking this commission, so I'll rush over and contact you first. ”

Noah sat down in the chair next to him, one leg resting on the knee of the other.

Afaryn's suit, on his body, was like the elegant garment of a nobleman, full of noble temperament.

Alan sat next to him, "Since you can contact me through the boulder pendant, how should I take the initiative to contact you?"

"It's simple, just activate it with magic, then imagine in your mind what the person you want to connect with looks like, and then open your mouth to speak, and you're good to go. ”

Noah reached into his cloak.

When he reached out, a small red seal appeared in his hand.

"It's ......"

Allen's gaze shifted to the seal.

The red color on it is not because the seal is red in the first place.

The seal was full of blood stains after the blood had dried up.

So at first glance, you will mistakenly think that it is red.

"This is a lawyer's, and that guy lost the court and acquitted his opponent, and he went crazy and turned into a monster and was killed by me. ”

Noah handed the seal to Alan.

"This seal allows a person to do what you say. ”

Alan was a little sluggish, "What did you say?"

"As long as this seal is given to a person, he will become your servant, and all your commands, he must obey unconditionally, or he will die. ”

Noah still has that sunny smile on his face.

Allen's heart couldn't help but pound.

If this seal can really be like what Noah said, then the effect is too rebellious.

"There must be a limit. ”

But after only a second or two of excitement, Alan calmed down.

Such a buggy sacrifice, he didn't believe that there was no limit.

"That's right, because it was dropped by a one-star monster, it can only work on ordinary people. ”

"Not only that, but it also requires the wholehearted surrender of the caster, so that this seal can be effective, otherwise I will find an opportunity to stamp this seal towards His Majesty, then the Kingdom of Salos is not at my mercy?"

"Hahahaha!"

As if thinking what he said was funny, Noah couldn't help but laugh out loud.

At the moment when the two were talking, several passing women had already swept to Noah with their peripheral vision, and as a result, they never took a step again.

Alan silently put the seal into his sacrificial bag.

This seal may seem like a bit of a frustration, but when used in the right place, it is likely to be incomparably useful.

"Aren't you busy right now?"

"I just completed a commission yesterday, so I'll take a break for the next few days. ”

Noah leaned over to Alan's side, and a breath of heat reached Alan's ear.

"You know, after sacrificing a monster, you always need some time to reconcile your chaotic mind. ”

He squeezed his eyebrows.

Alan nodded, even though he didn't know what it was like.

"For the sake of you helping me out of trouble yesterday, I'll talk to you for a while, I know that if it was Mia, she wouldn't sit down and talk to you at all. ”

"That's true. ”

Alan couldn't find a chance to talk to Mia.

"She's always been withdrawn, doesn't like to talk to people, doesn't want to get involved in things that don't have anything to do with her, and only gets better when she's chatting with Tiffany. ”

"Maybe it's because of the trauma caused by passing the mage test......

Noah lowered his head and said to himself.

Suddenly, he raised his head and looked at Allen, "By the way, you shouldn't have passed the test of a two-star magician." ”

"Testing?"

Alan shook his head, vaguely remembering that Frant seemed to have said about the star test.

"That test is bullshit, anyone can feel the magic aura in you, it's just a ritual for you to be able to take the commission. ”

"This time it should be Mia's commission, it doesn't matter when you are partners, but I still recommend that you take a test and get a certificate first, so that you can accept the commission yourself in the future, and you don't have to do it again. ”

As he spoke, Noah lifted the corner of his cloak.

From an angle that no one around him could see, Alan saw his reddened right arm.

At the wrist, there are three stars that glow faintly red.

Is that proof of strength?

Alan thought.

"Scenes like yesterday must have happened many times, right?"

Alan couldn't help but ask.

In his previous life, he had never had such an experience, so naturally he didn't know what kind of experience it was.

"There are so many that I can't count them myself. ”

Noah smiled and continued.

"Because of commissions, or daily life, all kinds of messy relationships, I always meet some women who claim to be in love with me at first sight, and at first I will come forward to persuade them and tell them that there is no result between us. ”

"Later, when I saw too much and got annoyed, I asked someone else to come forward. ”

Noah sighed, his words full of melancholy.

The corners of Allen's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

If it weren't for the fear that he wouldn't be able to beat him, Alan would have done it a long time ago.

If it's really full, the man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry.

"Why do you have to turn them down? Isn't there one you like?"

Alan couldn't help but ask.

"I'm a magician, they are all ordinary people, people and demons have different paths, if you really have a deep relationship, in this chaotic world, no matter what happens to either party, the other party will be greatly hurt. ”

"If you know you're going to get hurt sooner or later, why bother trying?"

Noah, who has always been smiling, showed such a heavy appearance for the first time.

"The reason why I didn't want to take the initiative to face those women was that I didn't want to see them heartbroken and tearful after being rejected by me. ”

Alan listened silently.

"Since ordinary people can't, then you must have met a lot of magicians, right?

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and couldn't help but open his mouth and asked.

"Of course, I have always been very confident in my appearance, and when a five-star magician approached me and asked to be my wife, I politely refused. ”

"Ordinary people and magicians, the danger is only in the magician, the magician and the magician, the lives of both parties can disappear in the blink of an eye, I have also heard of a magician couple, the wife turned into a monster, the husband personally stabbed his wife and sacrificed it, because he couldn't stand the influence of his wife's soul and mind on himself, and as a result, he also lost control and became a monster. ”

Looking at Noah's expression, for some reason, Alan seemed to see a woman talking.

It's a very strange feeling.

Noah continued.

"Of course, the main reason why I am so reluctant to associate with women is ......"

"In the Wizard Test, I sacrificed my wife with my own hands. ”