On a cliff more than 200 meters high, a waterfall about ten meters wide cascades down from the top of the mountain and falls into the lake at the bottom of the cliff, the sound is like a galloping horse.

There are several streams around the lake, but there is no small river large enough, presumably because there is an underground river at the bottom of the lake.

On either side of the stream is a huge grove of fruit trees, many of which are covered with fruits ripe in the summer.

Ten boys and women, aged eight to teens, stood upwind outside the orchard and threw a handful of herbs into the freshly lit haystack that was rising smoke.

The stench of burning herbs filled the orchard with the smoke, and the monkeys who had spent the night in the orchard last night were so smoked that they fled in all directions, and Charles was also smoked out of the tent, and immediately flew into the air with wings.

After Hasselblad and Juan negotiated that night, Juan agreed that the dragons would come and carry Valrhona's body with the blood-soaked dirt on the ground.

The garden turned to mud, but the dragons lost their money.

After Valrhona's body was removed, Hasselblad handed Juan a torn cotton robe and a wooden wand soaked in dragon blood that he had found while digging in the earth.

No one knew the robe, but everyone, including Juan, recognized the wand as the property of Anthony's teacher, Santos.

Charles didn't care about the rest of the matter, he left the city of Martris without looking back the next day after telling the relevant people about the incident, he didn't want to get involved in the subsequent political struggle between Juan and Anthony.

However, Juan gave Charles the dragon's blood wand before he left, saying that it was the trophy he deserved.

That wand was a fine product in its own right, a blue weapon, and had reached the level of a purple weapon after being soaked in dragon blood.

However, Charles wanted to go to the Temple of Souls and Dreams next, and ask the Pope to seal Valrhona's soul power into this wand, so that it could become an orange weapon.

He didn't want the stolen goods that the bandits had robbed, but the bandits themselves could still play a role.

Now Charles's goal is the destination of the caravan in Pietran, and he has to go over and fight everyone.

At this time, Charles had not left the kingdom of Meseta, he found a place with mountains, rivers and fruits to rest for a night in a place where there was no store in front of the village and no store last night, but he didn't expect to be woken up by those children early in the morning.

Charles flew over to the group of kids, and to be honest, he wasn't much older than them.

The children found that they seemed to have gotten into trouble and provoked a terrible person, and they immediately became panicked.

At this moment, a boy of about ten years old, who seemed to be in the lead, walked up to Charles, bent his left hand flat in front of his chest, and gave him a standard adventurer salute.

"We apologize for inadvertently offending you," he said. ”

The boy was different from the others, he carried a short bow, a quiver in a basket, and a wood knife tied to his waist.

Charles, an uncle's inner guy, is not to be angry about this.

The children knew at a glance that they were little adventurers who had come to collect fruits, and selling them to the adventurers' guild was their only income.

The little adventurers whose strength in the field is equal to that of delivering vegetables naturally need some means to drive away dangerous monsters and animals, and releasing this stinky ghost crying wolf smoke before work is their usual method.

Charles waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I don't blame you." ”

"Who taught you the recipe for repelling beast smoke, the general recipe is not so strong. ”

The little adventurer said, "Your Excellency, this was taught to us by an elven lady named Halkala who passed by our town a few years ago. ”

Charles was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect to hear the name of his elven teacher here, but he didn't know where this "mountain elf" was hiding now.

He asked, "Where do you live, far from here?"

The little adventurer replied, "The city of Granada, where we live, is just to the northwest, and we are just a hill away. ”

Charles thought for a moment, waved at him and said, "Go about your business, leave me alone." ”

The little adventurers were relieved to see that Charles didn't pursue them.

Soon after, two older boys dug with shovels to extinguish the fire, and when the wind blew away the foul smoke, they went into the orchard with baskets woven of bamboo on their backs.

Charles packed up his tent and went fishing by the waterhole at the bottom of the waterfall.

The fish here is not big, three fingers wide, it looks similar to the Hehua fish, there are no small bones, and it is good to use it for soup and grilling.

The most important thing is that this guy has been lost in the mountains for two days, and he now needs someone to take him to a nearby human settlement.

Chasing wild boars can chase and get lost, this belongs to his black history.

In the orchard behind him, the cries of the children as they picked the fruit could be heard from time to time. They are familiar with the forest and know which trees have fruit that is just in time to be picked.

Charles thinks it's likely that the grove was planted on purpose, as some trees need a dedicated environment to grow healthily, and some fruits need insects or birds that aren't friendly to humans to pollinate.

The children picked the fruit very quickly, and at noon they filled their baskets with fruit.

At this time, they began to take out dry food and water bottles for lunch, intending to go back when they were done.

Charles was skewering the fish he caught with thin rattan sticks and skewering them like a bunch of grapes.

When he goes out, he can save money, and he plans to exchange these fish for dinner.

He glanced at the young men and women who were eating in the shade of a nearby tree, and saw that they were eating different things, some eating rice crackers, some eating sweet potato-like roots, some using skin bags for water, and some using bamboo tubes.

It can be seen that the older teenagers are more financially well-off, and they eat rice crackers and use skins to carry water, while the younger boys and girls can only eat roots and water in bamboo tubes.

Charles soon spotted the problem and asked the men, "Are you missing someone?"

He didn't see the kid he had been talking to before.

The children looked at each other, and then a young girl cautiously said to Charles, "Huntington has gone to the neighborhood to look for herbs." ”

Looking at the calm expressions on the faces of the girl and the others, it was clear that it was not the first time that the kid named Huntington had done such a thing. It wasn't that he was taken away by the beast, and Charles was relieved.

A short time later, the young man named Huntington returned, and Charles saw a pheasant and a hare hanging from his waist, and the basket behind him was also full of fruit, and some herbs could be seen on the fruit.

The girl who had just spoken to Charles stood up, walked quickly to Handington's front and back, wiped the sweat from Handington's face with her sleeve, and then handed Handington the bamboo tube with water.

The people around were no longer surprised by this scene, they were chatting, and a few people were even discussing whether to rent a donkey tomorrow to pull more fruit.

Now it's starting to get hotter and hotter, the juice business in the city is booming, and the demand for fruit is starting to increase.

After a brief lunch, Charles followed the young adventurers back to a nearby city.

He claimed to be an adventurer who had gone out on a safari, but unfortunately he found nothing on this hunt.