"This time it's the Ice Peak Fortress and Monster Hunter thing, you can go or not. My advice is that you stay in Fuzo and I will stay with you at midnight so that you can summon me at any time. Fei Qi found Xia Ni alone and said to her, "The people of Ice Peak Fortress are like relatives to me, and listening to Tron's tone, it seems that everyone is in conflict. When they see that I can show my true side, I have a chance to really solve the problem. ”

"I see, I stayed at school with midnight. If I miss you so much, can I really summon you back?"

"Yes. In the same world, the calculation of the return coordinates will be much easier, and you can theoretically summon me more often. But......" Feige said in a low voice, "My body is still a devil, summoning me will make me exude a devil's breath." It doesn't matter in hell, but in the area where the church is located, it's better to be careful. ”

Being a devil is inconvenient, but being stronger than humans, agility, insight, and physique is also a real benefit, not to mention being able to fly. If he encounters any monsters in the Sunset Mountains this time, being able to fly gives Feige more options in battle - of course, he won't show his wings in front of everyone unless he has to.

As soon as he appeared, he was about to set off, and the students of the magic school had the biggest opinions. According to Liz's report, there are already students who are able to perform the simplest glowing magic, and every student has at least completed the construction of mana tracks, so the scenario of all members performing magic is just around the corner. The students want to give Principal Feige a "show", and Liz wants to congratulate Feige. Whether it's the rune spells of the Eight Eyes or the priest of the Goddess of Truth and Thunder, no student has ever been able to learn to cast spells.

Feige didn't bother to celebrate right now, and he didn't have the heart to think about why magic was taught so well. All he could do was hastily lay out a lot of homework and get on his horse and set off with Tron. Although there is snow outside, the long-standing emphasis on road traffic has worked well, at least on horseback from Fuzang to Collingwood.

In this environment, the horses did not dare to run, so Feige and Tron were still able to talk. "Now that there's no one else, can you tell me in detail what happened?"

"Okay, but I won't talk about the fight. Tron paused for every sentence or two, half reminiscing, half organizing the language. "That five-headed monster has a very strong recovery ability, so we don't dare to let it heal slowly. Follow its trail all the way into the mountains, then trap it in a narrow canyon. After trying, we found that the acid was able to inhibit its wound recovery. With this discovery, we finally killed it. ”

Sisina then suggested dissecting the monster completely to see what kind of species it was, and the suggestion was approved. They dismantled the monster into pieces, took back the heart, skull, and liver that looked important, and shredded the bones and bleed them to ashes. No creature can regenerate in this situation, and even if it could, it would happen where the heart, head, and liver were located, and it was brought back just enough to monitor the vigilance. Everyone thought that was the end of the matter......

"Ramsden first noticed the problem: the internal organs that had been brought back did not rot properly, but remained in their original condition. This anomaly ......"

"Wait, I'm not trying to ask what's going on with that monster or the mountain light, I'm just wondering why everyone is arguing and getting to the point where it's about to start?"

Tron choked, swallowed hard, and adjusted before speaking, "Sisina and Mom think that something is wrong in the mountain and must be visited, but Kailie thinks that the mountain is too dangerous, and the permission of the presiding priest is required to enter the mountain in winter. And then Sisina ...... She said that you are not there anyway, and not objecting is tantamount to acquiescence. How could Instructor Kaire's serious personality agree? ”

"Tron, what do you think?"

"I? I think everybody is just idle. Tron tilted his head and said, "To be honest, nothing has happened in the past two years. Roads are being built, and more and more wild land is being cleared into farmland and villages, and monsters are far away. And now there are elven rangers and hunters patrolling everywhere outside, and there is no need for monster hunters. ”

"Do you feel less and less important?"

"Yes, it feels that way. The people outside no longer need our protection, so we just eat in the castle and wait for death. Feige, you may not believe it, but what used to be boring routine patrols has turned into a popular job. To put it mildly, if you have a mission, it's like being released from prison. ”

Tron ended his words with a sigh, and Feige fell silent. Since the establishment of the model leader, each lord has paid attention to the security construction in his own territory and is willing to spend money on it. Mercenaries and adventurers who smell the gold coins have uprooted the "monster ecology" here, and the monster hunters really have nothing to do.

No one can doubt that monster hunters have better combat experience and more knowledge in the field, but they can't leave their area of duty, so they can't have a large "hunting range" like mercenaries. As the Exemplary Territory environment gets better and better, Monster Hunter will slowly be trapped to death.

"Wait a minute, Tron, I'm exiled to the Ice Peak Fortress, aren't you! Didn't I leave all the blank mission books in the Ice Peak Fortress? You want to write the mission yourself and go out by yourself, why wait for me?"

"The main thing is that I am afraid that I will not take care of it. What if there is an emergency and everyone is not there? In the past, Lord Snowy Owl was at Ice Peak Fortress, and everyone had a backbone. Now there are only stacks of blank papers that you have signed, who can feel at ease?"

"Alas, blame me, the stall is too big, and the doppelganger lacks skills. Fei Qi bit his lip and said, "Personally, I think that our people from the Ice Peak Fortress still have to come out, but we just have to find a more suitable way." What do you think of coming to Minas Ihir, or simply to the school of magic. ”

"What are you doing here?" Tron sighed, "I always thought knights were very good, but after trying them, I found that there were still too many things that I didn't know." The knowledge of norms, systems, and families has always given me a headache. Even the action of getting on the horse is required, isn't it torture?"

"You've been deceived, aren't you? Why didn't I know there were so many ...... Forget it, even if I knew, I never did that, don't think of me. Feige thought for a moment and said, "But I still think you've been tricked." Ordinary knights don't ask for those, and they are not royal guard knights, so they don't need to travel with the king or the archbishop, and how to get on the horse is their own business. Who did you go to for knight training?"

"It's okay, I don't want to go again for the time being, let's settle the matter of our fortress first. ”

"yes......" Feige nodded vigorously.

They rode in the snow, left their horses at the coach house when they reached Collingwood, and began walking up the hill. The snow on the mountain was very soft, and it was buried all the way down to the thigh, but it was not an obstacle in front of the Qi elemental rope. One by one, they pulled and dragged straight up from the cliff, and the Ice Peak Fortress was close in front of them.

Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you know how much damage the previous monsters have done to the fortress. About one-sixth of the castle collapsed, and a huge crack stretched from the top of the tower to the end, like a monster with fangs and claws opening its bloody jaw. The central and outer walls also collapsed, and the original stables were completely gone, leaving only the remains of a wooden body with sharp horns emerging from the snow.

Old man Kiprin used to be very fond of looking at the courtyard from the three-story platform, but now that the old man is gone, the platform has also been sacrificed in battle. Feige looked at the gap, and it looked like an ugly scar on the castle's face, but also on his own heart. He smacked himself in the mouth, and then climbed straight through the gap in the wall, not even trying to knock on the door.

"They should be over there in the hall. That side of the castle received relatively little damage. Tron said.

"Punpeng didn't tell me that the losses in this battle were so great. Look at what the fortress has become!" Feige pushed the walls hard, and a brick was pushed out, falling down the cliff and disappearing into the snow.

"Who!" a voice came from the fourth floor of the castle, and then Calet was seen with his head out, his beard unkempt, and a heavy crossbow in his hand. "Tron, where did you kid go? Feiqi! How did you get up there? Hey, guys, there's someone coming, come alive!"

Are they all alive? Could it be that everyone was in a state of "half-dead" before? Feige heard something from Instructor Kailey's words, and when everyone gathered, he felt a faint estrangement, and his mood was even worse.

"I'm sorry, I haven't been back for so long, and I haven't done anything in the name of a presiding pastor. Feige apologized to everyone first, "To be honest, after the death of Old Man Kiplin, I have not fully accepted this fact, and I am not ready to become the presiding pastor. And my ......"

"Don't say it, we don't want to hear you apologize, and we don't demand you from the standards of a saint. Sisina fingers twirled the dagger with a buzzing sound. "Mom told us that you do have a lot to do down the mountain. We are in the mountains...... Who called you up? Tron didn't have the guts. ”

"Me. Giles opened his mouth to say a word, then closed his mouth again.

"Okay, it's not useless for you to come up. We felt that the light inside the mountains was suspicious and wanted to see it. Kyret hid our gear, obviously looking for trouble!" Silkna was so angry that the scars on her face became terrifying. "I never thought there would be thieves in Monster Hunter!"

"To enter the Sunset Mountains in this weather is to die! The animals are gone, and you can't get enough food. What do you live on? Just the little thing in your backpack?" Not to be outdone, Kyle said: "According to your stinky temper, you will definitely not be convinced, and you will go forward if you hold on." And then, we're going to dig you up the corpse from the snow in the spring next year?"

"Corpses, you guy with a face more rigid than stone, have you stayed in the frozen fortress all day, and your spirit of exploration has been frozen in ice? Now there is no apprentice to let you roar, so you are coming towards me, right?" Sisina grabbed the flying dagger: "Why don't we two fight, who wins?"

"If that's the case, why don't you fight with me!" Feige roared, his voice echoing through the hall like thunder. The illusion on his face trembled, and his face was like a turbulent wave, obviously angry. "Come on, it seems that there is really nowhere to vent your anger, huh? You'd better use all your skills and beat me like a monster. You don't need to think of each other as enemies, I can be your enemy seriously. Come on, have a good fight!"

"I'm not going to fight you," Silkina was taken aback by Feige, and then looked at Kyle, "Of course I won't fight you either." ”

Feiqi stepped forward and clenched his fists, not knowing where to put it: "What the hell! Is this the base camp of the monster hunters or the cave of the primitives? A joust to decide who is right and who is wrong? What a good rule! What a good rule! What a round of applause here! Are you people who follow the teachings of the goddess, or have you degenerated into orcs?"

"Well, orcs don't compete, goblins compete. Ramsden raised his fat hand tremblingly, half muttering, half reminding. Wu Mama hurriedly gave him a light kick on the surface of his foot.

"Of course I do! I'm so!" Feige rolled his eyes, but the atmosphere slowed down. "I've come later than you, I've been here for the shortest, and I haven't even lived with a few of you for long. You may not believe it, but if I had been given a chance at life, my childhood would have been spent here. ”

"Huh?" This time, everyone was confused, but some showed it, and some remained serious or expressionless.

"I've been getting emotional lately due to spells. I...... Damn, I can't lead and care for you like Old Kiplin, I can only solve problems. If it's dangerous, it's bulldozing, if there's a monster, it's hacked to death, if there's a problem, it's going to get rid of it! That's all I can do, that's what I try, okay?!"

Perhaps because Feige mentioned Old Man Kiplin, everyone finally calmed down. Sisina tilted her mouth and said, "Okay, as long as it can solve the problem." My opinion is that the glowing place has to be visited. ”

"Got it, Kyle, I know what you're thinking. The two of you, one of you has the point of view of going to see, and the other point of view that the current environmental conditions do not allow you to go to see it. I wondered, what kind of contradiction are the two of them? One is a question of direction, and the other is a question of method. As long as you solve the problem, will Calyte still stop you from going out in the winter?"

"Finally ......" Giles, who has always been taciturn, clapped his hands and said, "I saw the sober one." Feige, two things. ”

"Say it. ”

"One, there are no geists this year. Giles squinted, his voice as steady as a deep pool in the mountains. "Two, they didn't pay attention. ”

"I noticed. Ramsden raised his hand again, and raised one foot to avoid being stepped on by Umama, but his other foot was trampled on.

"Who hasn't noticed this?" Fitch asked, looking left and right, before noticing Tron, Silkina, and Mohm patting themselves with their hands. "Well, that's another anomaly, let me ...... I'd like to hear what the people who noticed had to say. ”

Giles waved his hand to show that he had nothing to say, and Kylie frowned, almost snorting from his nose, "The geist is a mission that takes place every year, how can you not pay attention?"

"I've always wanted to see what geists look like, so I remembered. Ramsden smiled and said, "Wu Mama probably listened to me a lot, so he remembered it, right?"

There is no doubt that he was beaten again by Wu Mama. The fight was just a joke between the two of them, and Feige didn't bother with it, he was just thinking about the non-appearance of the geist and the mysterious glow of the Sunset Mountains. "I want to see the light of the Sunset Mountains now, can anyone take me?"

Tron was stunned for a moment, and the question on his face didn't seem to be fake: "Hey, don't you see it? You can see the glow in the place where we climbed up!"

I really didn't see it. The group led Feige to the city wall, and then pointed in a direction almost due west. "Look, it's still glowing, right next to that pinnacle, do you see?"

"No ......" Feiqi not only used his own eyes, but also used the Eagle Eye meditation technique, and as a result, he couldn't see anything. He thought that he had the ability to see through illusions, maybe the light there was some kind of illusion, so he couldn't see it? If it was an illusion, it slowly attracted everyone's attention, and even affected their mood, causing some people to not notice the problem of the geist not appearing. Well, the logic looks perfect.

"I'll try it with magic. Feige said as he removed the cat teaser from his back. The moment he grabbed the cat teaser, he saw a strange light in the mountains.

It was a shimmer of red and blue, a bit like an aurora, but fluttering around the ground. The light made people feel suspicious at first glance, and the thought that something strange must be something strange arose. Feige let go of the teasing stick, and the light disappeared in the distance, and when he held the teasing stick again, the light reappeared.

"What's going on? Does it have anything to do with the light in the distance whether I hold the staff or not?" The Teasing Stick can be used as a medium for casting magic and increasing the speed of spellcasting, but if you just hold it, the Teasing Stick is just a very strong cane. (Teaser (⊙_⊙) stick's expression)

Letting go of the cat teasing stick, Feiqi directly used the magic matrix of his arm to cast a spell, although the speed was slower, but the spell effect was the same. He used several detection spells in quick succession, and then discovered a very strange phenomenon: only when he held the teasing stick and could see the light, he could detect the meager mana fluctuations there. As long as he can't see the light, the detection spell will be blank.

"Because that piece of light is so far away, I can only analyze a portion of the mana fluctuations. The first thing to make sure was that it wasn't an illusion, but a hybrid spell, including some kind of summoning spell, and perhaps a spatial spell. I need to get closer to judge further. Feiqi said to everyone, "Whether it's summoning or spatial spells, it's definitely not good news. And I can't explain why the light is so frequent for me...... By the way, can you be sure that the monster from before died in the Land of Light?"

"The name of the Land of Light?...... Forget it, it's all unimportant. Sisina muttered a few words, then nodded and said loudly, "Yes, it is indeed in that place." It may be a little wrong to get so far away, but at most it's half a mountain away. ”

"The geist didn't appear, and the Sunset Mountain Range now has this strange light, plus the monster that suddenly appeared...... These unusual things come together, and if you choose to turn a blind eye, you are stupid and blind. So, we're definitely going to go to that place and investigate. Kyle, get everything out, this time you have to be fully armed. ”

"Then you'll have to settle the issue of supplies and how everyone gets there. If you don't solve this, you will remove me or kill me, and you will not be able to get anything. ”

"Teleport. Feige said to Kyle, "Take out all the spell rune tools in the fortress, and I'll make a directional teleportation array, launch everyone's supplies first, and then teleport people after making sure it's okay." Build an action camp in front with enough supplies, so that at least you don't freeze and starve. Even with enough spell rune materials, I can make a teleportation array to return. Carley, how about this if I do?"

"Teleport, Feiqi believe you, I'm fine. Kelie nodded, "In this way, can we start moving?"

"Yes, let's split up, I'm going to see how much rune material is left, and then calculate the upper limit of the weight of the teleportation...... It's all my business, and you guys are prepared to explore and fight. Feige thought for a moment, then said, "Giles, you'll be in charge of the exploration preparations, Sisina, you'll be in charge of the battle preparations, and Kyret and Mom will help me make the spell circle and prepare for the camp." Tron, do you remember to take me to see the corpses of the dead monsters in a moment, Witch Mama and Ramsden, you are in charge of the ravens who delivered the message, ask the other fortresses what they think of the light of the Sunset Mountains, if they have seen geistes, and if they have encountered a wave of animals being driven away by geistes. ”

"Hey, that's what it feels, isn't it?" Sisina whispered, resting her elbow on Mohm's head.