The tall man entered the room, threw the fur from his fur into the hands of his attendants, his face tense slightly, his eyelids twitching to hide the weariness in his emerald green eyes—even in a state of exhaustion, he still exuded the innate elegance of nobility. 「」

There was a small living room outside the room where the man lived, which had been converted into a study, but the man had no interest in reading at this time, and fatigue swept over his handsome eyebrows.

He walked slowly into the room, leaving the squire outside.

There is no fireplace in the inner room, and the dry and cold atmosphere is very cold.

Unbuttoned under the two collars, loosening the long hair that was tied tightly by the white and gold headbands, the scalp was slightly loose, the man relaxed his limbs, and sighed comfortably:

For some reason, he has been running low on energy lately, tired easily, and his memory has become a little poor, but he can't detect anything abnormal in his body. And this kind of personal matter cannot be revealed to the public at will, and only when he is alone can he find an opportunity to relax his spirit.

Fortunately, this does not hinder his daily life, even if his energy is a little overdrawn, but it does not affect him too much.

After closing his eyes for a while, the man slowly opened his eyes, and a little dull fatigue was eliminated in his emerald green eyes like a deep pool, and his eyes swept over the alchemy platform in a corner, and his eyes suddenly froze-

Underneath something like a gray-white twig was a small piece of paper that seemed to have something written on it. 「」

The two were inconspicuous among the things randomly placed near the alchemy table, like sticky notes written by the owner, which were forgotten in their places when they left for some time, and mixed with other things.

But as the owner of the room, the man was of course well aware that he did not have such a thing as a twig. Moreover, he had used the alchemy table all night the night before, and when he left in the morning, he didn't write down anything with a sticky note.

- Someone took advantage of his absence and invaded his room!

The man was instantly alerted.

Thinking of the movement on the upper floor of the fortress in the past two days, it seems that it is a little uncalm. The arrival of the flying boat boosted the morale of the lower ranks, but some well-informed people in the circle known to the man spread some vague and one-sided information. It seems that the adults sitting in the fortress are worried about something.

With his innate acumen, the man intuitively sensed that there was something unspeakable in it, and that the situation might not be as good as it seemed, and out of the aristocratic mage's natural prudence, he kept an eye on and was vigilant about the situation.

However, he didn't reveal this conjecture to anyone, otherwise he would have been one of the few promising mage geniuses who had been valued since his trip to Babel. Shaking the morale of the military at such a critical time will not end well. 「」

"The other party didn't even let the magic circle I set up in the room have any reaction, if it wasn't for the other party deliberately left these things, I'm afraid I might not be able to detect that someone had invaded."

The man thought to himself.

However, this also proves that the other party should have no malicious intent.

Otherwise, in this fortress where the defense is like an impregnable wall. If you want to harm someone, you should do everything possible to hide yourself in the shadows and look for opportunities to attack, otherwise if you are detected by the target, even if you succeed later, it will be easy to be exposed under the strict security system of the fortress.

However, even if the other party seems to have no malicious intent, being able to invade here has already posed a threat to his safety, and the man has to guard against it.

"Keith. See what traces are left. ”

"Yes."

In what should have been an empty corner, someone answered in a low voice.

The wall moved slightly, like a ripple in the water, revealing a vague humanoid form, about the size of a medium-sized man, and then the humanoid disappeared again. I don't know if I left.

"Who the hell is it?"

The man didn't rush to touch the two things, and released several detection spells to make sure that the two things were not poisonous and harmless. 「」

Many things flashed through his mind, and he wondered who had the ability and motive to invade his room without knowing it, and without any ill will towards him.

His gaze subconsciously fixed on the branch-like thing, and the man recognized it as a fragrant perch branch at first glance.

This is an alchemy product that can increase the efficiency of meditation, but the off-white color is inferior, and it only has some effect on the apprentice who has just started, and the man has already reached the peak of the advanced apprentice, and after the Tower of Babel, he stepped on the threshold of the official mage, and this thing has no effect on him.

"How...... Seems familiar? ”

The gray-white fragrant perched branches, the more familiar he looks in the man's eyes, he has been in poor spirits recently, his memory is a little blurry, and the previous period of time was the most ups and downs in his life, his energy was all focused on it, and he naturally left a lot of irrelevant things behind.

The man pressed his eyebrows and rubbed them slowly, his thoughts slowly turning in his mind, and the things in front of him matched the memories of a certain part of the trade fair in his brain before he officially entered the ice field.

The man's well-maintained fingers jumped reflexively, and as soon as he reached out, he quickly picked up the note with handwriting on it.

Juanxiu's scribbled handwriting fell into his eyes. 「」

The man swept the lines of words on it into his eyes at a glance, and then put down the note, his face was slightly happy at first, and then he thought of something and became solemn.

There was a slight knock in the corner, interrupting the man's thoughts, and the man knew that it was his secret guard who had returned, and raised his head slightly to the corner of the sound.

A hoarse voice sounded in the corner, and he whispered: "Safe, no traces, no one notices." ”

"I see," the man nodded, and then said after a moment, "it doesn't matter outside, but here is a little more protection, and a few more traps, I don't want anyone to enter my room casually." ”

This time the object is not malicious, but next time it is difficult to keep someone with bad intentions, the man has a secret guard by his side, not worried about safety, but he doesn't like the hidden dangers of the environment around him.

"Yes." There was a sound in the corner, and there was no more sound.

The man picked up the small sticky note again, thought for a while, and gently rubbed his fingers on the middle of his left hand A ruby ring lit up, and the sticky note burned for no reason, turning into ashes in the firelight.

The man whispered a few bytes, and a light breeze blew in the room, rolling up the ashes and lifting them out of the window, where they drifted softly. 「」

Then the man waited for a moment, his eyes fell on the low-quality fragrant perched branch, thought for a while, and rubbed the ruby ring on his finger again, a red dot ignited at the end of the perched branch, and a light aroma with the smell of charcoal fire wafted out.

The man placed the lit incense branch on his desk, leaned his shoulders back, crossed his fingers loosely together, and closed his eyes.

The room fell silent, and only the fragrance of incense branches gradually diffused.

When the incense branch was halfway lit, there was a knock at the door, with moderate force, not in a hurry, and then after a pause, the voice of the attendant sounded:

"My lord, I have a guest visiting."

The man slowly opened his eyes and slowly stood up, "Come in." ”

The lock turned, the door was gently pushed open, and after a slight sound of rubbing of clothes, the door was closed, and there was an extra breath in the room.

The man stood there, watching his squire's face distort, his body shrinking, his silhouette changing from tall and rugged to petite and feminine, and his eyes shrank as the white skin exposed outside the clothes reflected the snow-white hair.

The woman's face on the other side had barely changed, and if it weren't for the snow-white hair, the man almost thought that the accident had not brought any change to her.

The woman looked up and smiled at him, "Chamberlain, long time no see." ”

"Indeed, it's been a long time...... Quiet. ”

***

"Lord Rogiel, please ......"

"Get out of here!"

There was a loud noise outside the door, which grew louder, and then the door of the living room slammed on the floor, and someone kicked it open, and the intruder was menacing.

"Burn, I heard from that Akira guy that my name was on the Scout Brigade's list of military mages!"

The man who came shouted loudly, panting.

"I'm sorry, my lord, but Lord Rogier ......," the attendant followed, explaining helplessly.

Burn raised his head, looked away from the page in his hand, waved his hand at the attendant, signaled that he did not need to explain, then closed the book and set it aside, and the visitor rushed to him.

Seeing that he was out of breath, Burren stuffed a cup of black tea that was still slightly hot into the person's hand.

"Tea first."

Seeing that the other party poured tea into his stomach without any manners, Chamberlain frowned and was displeased, "What about your manners, Rogier!" ”

"Fuck his bullshit aristocratic manners, now is not the time to talk about this!"

Rogier jumped to his feet, "My name is on the list of the scout brigade, that is to be sent to the north to find cannon fodder for the demons, it is full of death row prisoners and slave soldiers, how did I get on that list, is there someone doing ghosts!" ”

"The scout team has to scout outside, but the task is a little harder, and five out of ten teams can't touch the demon army and habitat. You are also a mage with the team, you don't need to scout, as long as you bring enough supplies in the space, don't run around, in the vast ice field, it is safer than in the fortress. ”

"But ......"

"Nothing, I got you in,"

Chamberlain was calm, as if he were talking about a trivial matter—

"What do you think you are, if others want to make ghosts, they will only target me, this mission, you have to complete it steadily, don't run back halfway, I will let Keith keep an eye on you." Chamberen said categorically.

"What? It's you—" Rogier blushed as if hearing the Arabian Nights, "I'm not going!" ”

"The list is out, and if you disobey the military order, I can't save you."

"You! You, you ......"

Rogier could not have imagined that this was the answer he had received from his brother, and he was so angry that he could not speak, and glared at Chamberlain for a long time, and angrily slammed his glass, jumped up, and rushed out as he came, and slammed the door out with a loud noise.

The room fell silent again.

Burren quietly watched the closed door, the teacup in his hand constantly turning.

"Keith, Rogier will be handed over to you."

(To be continued) (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )