After breakfast, Cage comforted his son and did not let the latter follow, staying at home and being taken care of by the housekeeper for the time being, while Roland let Vivien and the others continue to rest at Reed's house.

The six magic apprentices actually wanted to act with Roland, after all, the 'leaders' were all on board, how could their subordinates, or apprentices, not act, but Roland strongly refused their request.

In fact, this so-called expedition is estimated to be not too dangerous.

However, this involves the secrecy of the Reed family to some extent, Roland has no problem with him, he has such a 'good' relationship with Andonara, he can be regarded as a quarter of the Reed family, and if there is no Roland, Cage can know about this matter in his lifetime.

So Cage piggybacked Roland as well.

The three of them walked outside the village, and the natural environment of the village was actually quite good, with trees planted on both sides of the dirt road, and it was also fruit trees.

But I can't stand it, I can see sheep feces and cow dung from time to time, and even the smell of human urine comes from time to time.

This makes the quiet pastoral atmosphere without the mood.

On the way out of the village, you can meet some villagers from time to time, and they greet Cage warmly.

And Cage happily responds to them, there is no sense of 'separation' between the nobility and the untouchables, as if everyone is equal.

And some of the older villagers, when they see Andonara, will also say hello: "Little Anna, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Anna will also respond with a sweet smile.

When he got out of the village, Roland breathed a sigh of relief, he was a little uncomfortable in the village just now, for a person like him who loves cleanliness, the smell of the village is really a bit heavy.

There are two forks in the north entrance of the village, one leads to the Winter Wind City, and the other forks to the left, which is the road up the mountain.

In the distance, on the hills, you can faintly see a flock of sheep moving.

Cage took a deep breath and said, "According to Grandpa Kate's manuscript, those three vials of Phoenix blood are hidden in a cave in the mountains, but they seem to be in trouble!" ”

"What's the trouble?" Andonara asked.

Today she wore brown soft leather armor, the kind that was more close-fitting, and she looked heroic and handsome.

Cage said: "Grandpa said in the manuscript that in order to prevent a lucky guy from entering by mistake and taking the three blood vials, he set up some traps in the cave, which is easy for our family to break through, but for others, it is an unlikely task. ”

Roland's first reaction was: "The evil exorcism effect of the Brave Bloodline? Looks like there's something like a demon 'guarding the door'. ”

Cage was stunned for a moment, then shook his head speechlessly: "All mages are so smart?" ”

Roland smiled: "This is just a very normal reasoning, and most people can think of it." ”

Andonara smiled on the side and said, "I really didn't expect it if you didn't say it." ”

Roland was speechless for a moment, he didn't know how to describe Andonara, call her stupid, but the other party's adoring gaze made Roland's man's self-confidence a little inflated, and he couldn't hate it at all, but felt a little cute.

Cage sighed on the side: "You two are in front of me early in the morning, don't you take my uncle in your eyes?" ”

Roland and both of them suddenly laughed awkwardly.

It has been several years since Cage's wife died, but in fact, he has no shortage of women, but he doesn't want to marry, for fear that it will not be good to marry a son. So every ten days, he would go to the city of Winterwind and communicate with the most beautiful prostitutes in the city.

"Let's go." Cage took the initiative to walk ahead and walked to the bottom of the mountain.

Roland and Andonara immediately followed.

Walking all the way up from the bottom of the mountain, Roland was able to cope easily at first, but when he reached the halfway point of the mountain, he found himself in some trouble.

The mountain was very barren, and under the mountain forest, there were low thorny grasses or vines everywhere, and Roland was wearing a robe, and from time to time he was hooked by the barbs of the branches and leaves of the plants, which was quite troublesome.

And the trouble is far more than that, just hook the robe and get used to it, and then the rugged mountain road makes Roland extremely uncomfortable.

The moss was slippery under the trees, and if the center of gravity was unstable, it would have to fall.

And there is a bit of a difference in height in many places, Cage and Andonara both jumped lightly and stepped on, while Roland had to climb up with both hands and feet.

For unfamiliar terrain and environment, it is easy to waste physical strength.

Roland was a mage, and his physical strength was not as good as that of two warriors, and he soon began to sweat on his forehead.

Andonara took the initiative to come over, leaned on him, and whispered, "I'll pull you in a moment." ”

Cage walked in front, and when he heard the words, he looked back and smiled: "This is normal, mages are like this, although they are very powerful when they fight, but when they usually travel far away or need to take dangerous roads, they become a burden, I used to be a mercenary, I saw a lot of them, and I got used to it." Don't worry, we'll be waiting for you. ”

Cage was talking about a fairly common situation in the entire mage world.

The vast majority of mages, or warlocks, are like this, and the truly powerful, master-level magicians, who are as precious as giant pandas, will hardly appear outside the city, they will do magic experiments in their magic towers, and occasionally appear in the banquets of nobles.

Therefore, there has always been a stereotype in the mercenary world that the caster is a 'high-attack crispy body'.

Roland stopped, he took a breath, and said, "Don't wait, I can handle it." ”

"Don't be reckless." Cage smiled softly, "A mage can't do everything. ”

"It's not recklessness." Roland sighed and said, "I was just stupid just now, why should I follow the pace of your warriors, so I decided to follow the routine of our mage." ”

Cage was a little confused.

Roland began to flick his fingers, and a stream of magical light surged out of his body.

'Extremely effective body strengthening technique'.

'Levitation'.

'Magic Shield'.

'Sensitive Enhancement'.

Then there were two mage hands to help him clear the grass and trees along the way.

And when encountering terrain with height differences, Roland directly used the teleportation technique, anyway, the short-range teleportation technique is not high, and there is no need for the magic return suit, just the specialty of 'Roland's enthusiasm' can double the magic return effect, and he can return it by himself.

Now it was Cage's turn to be speechless.

He looked at the magic light on his body, teleporting from time to time, and Roland, who was already looking extremely relaxed, couldn't help but say, "You are so young, how can you have so much magic?" ”

"Learned."

Cage used his scabbard to push away the tall grass in front of him, turned around and asked, "But as far as I know, academic spells are very expensive, how much did you spend?" ”

"If you don't count what you earned back." Roland thought for a moment and said, "The cost of buying the spell model alone cost nearly two hundred gold coins. ”

Cage looked back in surprise: "Wait, how do you have so much money." ”

As the head of a village...... Cage's life is good, but compared to the real nobles, it is far behind.

It is not bad that a small village can pay more than one gold coin in taxes a year.

Most of his savings were earned back as a mercenary when he was young.

The mercenary doesn't actually make much money, and after more than ten years of hard work, he has earned less than forty gold coins, not counting the maintenance of weapons and armor, as well as the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Really calculated, his more than ten years of mercenary career, the net profit is only more than 20 gold coins.

But this can already make him a little rich.

His younger brother is a traveling merchant and earns more than him, and after more than ten years of traveling business, the net profit is estimated to be more than 100 gold coins.

However, the land in the royal city was expensive, and the two small estates almost emptied Andonara's father's savings.

So until now, Andonara's father is still making money outside as a traveling businessman.

And the money for the Roland optical spell model is already almost two hundred gold coins.

Cage couldn't help but speak: "No wonder some people always say that mages are a very rich and poor profession. It turns out that the real mage is strong, and this is the feeling of spending money, throwing hundreds of gold coins out without blinking. ”

Although Cage has been a mercenary for more than ten years, he has not been in contact with a super mage powerhouse in the true sense.

The most powerful mage he had ever encountered was the elite level, at most higher than Roland's rank.

And to be honest, normally speaking, mages and warlocks who go to the mercenary world are essentially poor ghosts.

If there is money to buy magic materials and spell models, the caster is willing to come in the wind outside, go in the rain, and make money at any time in the danger of hanging up.

The only exception is the player.

For players, the mercenary world is not only a place to make money, but also a good place to 'level up'.

With a lot of missions and a lot of information, the Mercenary Guild is a natural training ground for them.

Cage exclaimed, then shook his head.

Then continue to walk in front.

Roland also took the time to cast an extremely powerful body strengthening technique and levitation spell on Andonara and Cage.

The three of them moved significantly faster in the mountains and forests.

Walking around the mountains and forests, Cage finally stopped at the point where he was almost at the summit.

In front of him, there was a beach of gravel.

Cage recalled what he had seen last night, and said, "According to the codex, the Chamber of Secrets is under this gravel beach. Let's see if we can get rid of the rubble. ”

Roland stretched out his hand to stop Cage, who was about to roll up his sleeves and work, and said, "Wait, let me scout first." ”

Then Roland closed his eyes, and the huge spiritual power network began to be released, directly penetrating under the mountain.

Roland's mental power was well controlled, and none of his mental power filaments touched Cage or Andonara.

But Cage still felt uncomfortable being surrounded by a heavy pressure.

However, Andonara's feeling was different from Cage's, she could feel Roland surrounded by her, and she didn't know how relieved she was.

After about three minutes, Roland withdrew his mental power, and his face turned a little pale: "There is indeed a large secret room down there, but ...... There's something quite disgusting about it entrenched in it, seemingly disembodied, and it makes me very unhappy. ”