"Sir, he's just overtired, huh...... Mentally tired, but physically healthy, if he hadn't fainted, I would have considered him a nobleman. ”

But he remembered nothing but his name. ”

"Sorry sir, this is not my domain, you can go to the bishop of the church, maybe they have a way to get him back to his memory. ”

Ferrante nodded, and ordered the old butler to send the doctor away and return to his room.

Soster was still checking Cassia's body, and Ferrante sat down at his desk and blew on a cup of coffee.

"Leave him alone for now, now explain what happened last night. ”

Sost came back to his senses and sat down at the foot of the bed: "Where do you start first? Let me think about ......."

Sost smiled at the corners of his mouth, and held an index finger in the air, his lips moving slightly as if he was reading something.

Then, under Ferrante's shocked gaze, Thorst's fingertips lit up with a faint light, and the room was full of sunlight, but it still couldn't block the white point of light the size of a soybean.

The point of light emitted the same light as the stars of the night, but it only lasted for half a minute, and the point of light flickered twice, and then it went out, and beads of sweat appeared on Thorst's forehead, obviously this operation was also a big burden for him.

"This isn't a magic show in a theater...... Your coffee is spilled. ”

"Ahem......"

Ferrante hurriedly put the coffee aside, and looked at Sost who was panting in disbelief.

"You...... You ......"

Taking a deep breath and straightening his body, Ferrante's expression and mood were expected by Sost, normal people, even believers in gods, would never remain calm when they saw this method.

"That's the explanation I gave you, magic. ”

"Magic?"

Ferrante frowned and asked, isn't that something that only exists in children's stories, he has not needed those things to sleep with him since he was five years old.

"Yes, magic, maybe you'll think it's ridiculous, whether it's as a son of a believer in the God of Light, or as a top student at Solan Academy, but...... That's real, magic. ”

"Wait...... You asked me to brush it up. ”

Ferrante waved his hand, looked back at the Larbo salmon by the fireplace, turned his head to look at his mother's portrait, and after five minutes, "Go on." ”

"Magic has always existed, not only magic, but even the major churches have had incredible means, otherwise you think that the ancient books record that the church has thousands of believers only by lip service?"

"Of course, I don't know what it is now, because I don't dare to get too close to the church, otherwise I wouldn't have to do business with you. ”

"You're a paleontologist, and you're supposed to be involved in a lot of unsolved mysteries from the previous era, but the academy's textbooks will never tell you everything. ”

"Judging from the excavated artifacts and relics, the level of civilization in the last era is in no way inferior to that of the present, and even to a height that we need to look up to. ”

However, it has also been recorded in some broken ancient books, and the beginning of the last era is called the era when the gods existed in the world, when people were with faith, and the gods often set their eyes on the world. ”

"In the middle of the year, it's also called the Age of Magic, yes, it's those things in fairy tales, at that time, magic academies were all over the world, and even the church had to pinch its nose and endure three points, like the means I just had, and I didn't even have the qualifications to be called an apprentice. ”

"In the late stages...... I don't know, at that time the magic was close to the decline, the eyes of the gods may not have been seen for a long time, and then what happened is unknown. ”

"You see, that's all I know, it's not much. ”

"Why do I sound like you're talking nonsense?" Ferrante said, rubbing his chin without letting go.

"Your ears will hear lies, are you blind in your eyes?"

Sost walked to the window, habitually and subconsciously closed the curtains, and continued:

"These are all written on a broken stone slab that I found in a ruin in the south, but unfortunately there should be a detailed explanation later, but it has long been weathered, and I have not even been able to bring the slate out. ”

"At first I had the same opinion as yours, but then I continued to pursue and investigate the absurd legends that I could hear, and I slowly changed my opinion. ”

"It wasn't until I came across another ruin in the Southern Continent that I found a parchment scroll in it, but the words on it didn't belong to any of the present ones, and I learned the hand I had just learned by guessing and luck...... Lighting magic, well, that's what I call it. ”

Sost sat by the window, trying to show Ferrante another hand, but his mental power had been exhausted, and after a long period of development in the last era, magic had already had a more complete system and expansion, and it was not easy for him to do this without serious study.

There was a dead silence in the room, only the sound of Cassia sleepy breathing was more distinct, Ferrante's eyes were lowered, and the whole person was quickly digesting what he had just seen and heard.

He is not a very conservative person, believing that everything has an explanation, as Sost said, the eyes do not deceive him, and this is indeed not a magic show in the theater.

Time passed little by little, and seeing that it was afternoon, Sost even took time to take a shower, and Ferrante breathed a sigh of relief.

"This is what you call the real world?"

"Not only. Sost took a sip of his coffee, "If you want, I have a business in the evening, which may give you a better understanding, and even what I know is only the tip of the iceberg." ”

......

......

"Grandpa Knard, I'm not going to eat at home tonight. ”

Bidding farewell to the old butler, the three of them walked out of the Duke's mansion by the afterglow of the setting sun.

Cassia woke up in the afternoon, but still remembered only his name, and Ferrante took him directly with him, deciding to send him to church after seeing Sost's 'business'.

The trio rented a carriage and left the East City and headed for the West Side, a slum in Sears.

To be honest, Ferrante had lived here for almost twenty years, and it was the first time he had been there, because in his perception, it was supposed to be a common people's quarters, and it had nothing to do with the aristocracy.

"Ordinary people?" Soster smiled slightly mockingly, "what do you nobles mean ordinary people?"

Ferrante smiled and didn't say anything, he could hear the disdain and disdain in Sost's tone.

The wheels were rolling, and when the last rays of sunlight disappeared into the horizon, the street lamps on the side of the street were also lit, and the three of them finally walked into Xicheng District.

Dilapidated, Ferrante could only come up with this adjective, and unlike the stone-brick houses of other urban districts, here are mostly wooden spires, and rarely exist more than two storeys.

"How's that, isn't it a little different from what you think of the prosperous Sears?"

Sost led the way in front, Ferrante looked around in silence, and Cassia at the end was even more dazed.

Although the west of the city is a slum, it is still lively at night, and the little people also have the life of small people, there is no street control here, but it is full of life.

The gloomy weather had been going on for days, and Ferrante looked at his tweed coat and then at the rags of the passers-by, and said that they must be lying if they were not cold.

But the Sears City in his impression is not like this, how can this be Sears City, the capital of the Duchy of Solan?

"If you have time, you still have to go out and walk more, you don't even know your own door, what's the use of dying to study?" Sost didn't miss any opportunity to taunt, as if he was trying to save face for his gaffe last night.

"Alright, here we go. ”

Sost's voice pulled back the lost thoughts of Cassia and Ferrante, and the three of them came to the door of a simple wooden house.

Pushing the door in, the house was surrounded by walls, and only a middle-aged man sat on a chair and held his head in contemplation.

Seeing Sost's arrival, there was a glint of hope in the middle-aged man's eyes, and he stepped forward in three steps and two steps forward and grabbed his arm.

"You're here at last, Mr. South. ”

"It is a gentleman's good habit to fulfill an agreement, what about your daughter?"

"In the back room, in the back room, you come with me. ”

Sost turned his head and winked, Ferrante told Cassia to stay here, and he went into the back room together.

There was only a broken bed and a chair in the back room, and on the bed lay a human girl with cat ears, very beautiful, she looked like a half-breed, maybe she had a cat people's mother.

But the corpse spots on the girl's face caught Ferrante's attention, and on closer inspection, it turned out to be a corpse!

Sost didn't talk much nonsense, took out a glass bottle from his pocket, put his hands together and recited a spell that no one understood, and then sprinkled the clear liquid in the glass bottle onto the girl's corpse.

Bang! Bang!

The corpse, which had lost its breath, began to move, and its expression became hideous, but its eyes were still closed.

Ferrante's eyes were about to pop out, and he swore that last night's cult rally was just weird, and now it was terrifying! If it weren't for the weakness of his legs, he would have turned around and ran.

In the dimly lit room, the girl's corpse throbbed more and more violently, and Sost's brows furrowed into the word 'Chuan', and he took out a bottle of liquid and spilled it.

But this time it was like adding fuel to the fire, the girl's body shot to the ground, the stiff fingers bent, and the sound of the nails rubbing against the ground was like an ode to death.

Sost swallowed, his eyes rolling from side to side, things clearly out of his control, but his work ethic kept him firmly in place.

At this moment, Cassia, who had nothing to do outside, raised his head and looked at the inner room through the closed wooden door, he suddenly felt a little noisy, and his heart was a little irritable, so he coughed heavily.

Smack!

The girl's corpse went limp, as if everything was an illusion, Ferrante broke out in a cold sweat, and Sost breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Whew...... It's finally settled. ”

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......

"I think it was a mistake for me to come with you. ”

"An error that has already occurred is not called a mistake. ”

"No! Right is right, wrong is wrong. Cassia spoke suddenly, earnestly, interrupting the conversation between the two.

Ferrante glanced at him, "Do you know what we're talking about?"

"I don't know, but right is right and wrong is wrong. ”

"Hehe......" Soster on the side took three glasses of inferior ale and sat down at the table, "I said did you hit your brain, not only amnesia but also brain damage, there is nothing black and white in this world." ”

As soon as Cassia wanted to stubbornly refute, he saw Soster wave his hand: "Okay, okay, don't argue with you, I'll go see if the potato soup is ready, I only have this here, I'll just take a break." ”

Silence fell again in the room, where the trio were located in Sost's home, and of course in the slums west of the city.

Ferrante said that he was very suitable for his identity, especially since he had just experienced the riot of the girl's corpse, and he had hooked Sost with the mysterious people in fairy tales, who generally liked to live in the slums.

But jokes aside, Cassia stubbornly thinks it's black and white, and he doesn't bother to argue, because until now, he hasn't completely recovered from the shocking horror of the scene just now.

A moving corpse?Ferrante suddenly felt the need to actually go to church and ask the bishop to bless him.

"The soup is coming!"

Sost brought a large pot of potato soup and a stack of dough cakes, even for today's dinner.

Cassia didn't matter, whatever he ate was eaten, but Ferrante felt a little difficult to swallow, not only was he frightened, but it was also the first time he had eaten such a simple food.

"Let's just take a look, this meal is considered luxurious here, and there is a brazier in the house, like the one just now, the daughter just died, I don't know if I can survive this winter." ”

"What the hell is going on? I mean the corpse. Ferrante asked, putting down the half-eaten dough.

"Do you believe there are souls in this world?" South's eyes narrowed.

“...... I do not know. ”

"The girl just now starved to death half a month ago, because the weather was cold so there was no smell, although she died, but her soul is still wandering in the world, and has not been willing to disperse, maybe it is...... Life is too hard, and I am unwilling. ”

"Is there really a soul?" Ferrante frowned.

"That's the tip of the iceberg I'm going to tell you, the world is much bigger than you think. ”

"Then you were just helping her enter the kingdom of God?"

"Huh...... How could I have that kind of ability, that was the bishop of the church, and besides, as far as I knew, the girl was not a believer. ”

"Then you ......"

"In her father's eyes, I did help her get free, but actually, I bought the bottle of holy water on the black market, huh...... Produced by the Church of Light, it only has the effect of extermination...... That's right, I killed her soul. ”

Ferrante was stunned, staring blankly at Sost's unconcerned eyes, as if he had said that today's potato soup was missing a spoonful of salt.

"Don't you think I'm cruel, but what's the solution? Keeping her will only make it more painful, the holy water of the church can flow into the black market, and they will only pray to the believers of the gods. ”

Taking a deep breath, Ferrante silently finished the dry and hard dough and drank the somewhat light potato soup in the bowl.

"Is there no other place to go but the kingdom of God?" Ferrante had unconsciously begun to accept the bizarre side of this world.

“...... Yes, there is a legend that in the belief of the Grim Reaper, all things that wither will go to hell in order to be reborn. ”

"Then why is this happening?"

"I don't know this time, but when I was traveling in the Southern Continent, I once met a very old Grim Reaper believer, he was a very wise man, and before he died, he told me that the gods were dead, so he would let his soul stay in the world. ”

"But I think it's the obsession that he prayed for all his life and wasn't inspired by the gods. Sost said with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Is this the real world......

"Yes, this is the real world, but if you are interested in magic, you can study it together, don't ask me about the gods, you should be able to see that I am not a believer in any of the gods. ”

Cassia on the side listened to the clouds, Ferrante looked out the window at the branches of the trees that were blown by the cold wind, and fell into deep thought.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, Soster packed up his dishes and led the two to the door of his basement.

"Here, I'll show you something good, I've got more than just live Larpo salmon here, I've been collecting a lot of new things in the past few years, by the way, can you be sure that the claws in the sewers are real last time?"

“...... It does look like some kind of paleontocreat's outer armor, I don't see much more. Ferrante then remembered the claw-shaped throne in the hall during the cult meeting.

"That's true, there's a chance to dig it up. ”

"What's that?"

Sost turned around and smiled mysteriously, "Dragon!"

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