"So the Mage Council has already planned to go to Free City, right?"

After a period of time, on the streets of Sky City, bathed in sunlight and the sound of a loud wind, Duan Qing, who had already sent away the lonely smoke of the sunset, sighed slowly, and sat on the surface of the bench in the artificial garden with a melancholy face: "They think that this is the current base camp of the restorationists?" ”

"If there are no surprises, the Mage Council is indeed planning to go to the Free City to operate." Cautiously saying this, the Thousand Fingered Crane, who was also sitting at the other end of the bench, clasped his hands and replied in a low voice: "Just like what Sunset Lonely Smoke said before, since it is not Tania and Redkar, then the only possibility is left in the Free City." ”

"Why didn't you tell me about this plan before?"

"Because, because I think with your wisdom, big brother, this possibility must be able to guess ahahahaha...... Belch. ”

The voice of dry laughter gradually retracted with the other party's still silent expression, and the red-haired girl lowered her head again: "Because, because ...... Because it was I who asked Mentor Freya and the Council of Seven to move the Sky City here, despite the opposition of the people, on the grounds that it was the base camp of the Restoration......"

"So, the efforts we've been making in the past few days are actually useless work on the opposite path, aren't they?"

Completely throwing his body on the back of the old bench, Duan Qing's gaze then fell on the clear blue sky in front of him: "It sounds like we are the villains." ”

"Why, how is that possible?" Thousand-Fingered Crane hurriedly waved his hands: "Saving Tania must have its own meaning!" They will definitely play their part in the battle that follows! You look at the city's defenses, and the ancient ruins, though...... It's all been destroyed by the impact of mana, but if it can be repaired—"

"I'm not regretting or blaming myself."

The low chuckle then interrupted Thousand-Fingered Crane's worried words, and at the same time, the corners of Duan Qing's slightly upturned mouth were revealed in front of her eyes: "Since we have come to this point, there is no point in thinking about these things anymore, I am afraid that only by taking all the plates that Wiggins threw at me can I be regarded as being able to give the people on both sides an equally satisfactory answer." ”

"I'm sorry for saddling you with so much responsibility, big brother." So the Thousand Fingered Crane, who shrunk his head, rubbed his fingers again: "For example, if the eldest brother really doesn't want to do it, I, I can-"

"Stop, stop."

Stretching out his hand to stop what the red-faced girl on the side wanted to say next out of his body, Duan Qing smiled bitterly and put away the sigh he originally wanted to make: "Don't always say this kind of self-blame, this is not something that two people can choose and decide, if there was no series of events from Redkar to Fars of the Imperial Investigation Team, maybe the final result of the Mage Council would not have happened." ”

"From this point of view, the series of actions of the restorationists can be regarded as a success." He gestured to the nearby sky: "It's yours, and the group of people who have been chasing us every step of the way...... Most of what Wiggins has done before is also hoping that I will be responsible for all the causes and conditions that have happened. ”

"How can an enemy that should have been dealt with by the Mage Council with just a few of us being able to deal with it!" Thousand-Fingered Crane replied with an indignant expression, "It's a shame that they behaved so bitterly and hatefully in the council, but in the end they chose a simpler and easier path—"

"It's not necessarily true which side is easy and which side is sleepy." Duan Qing shook his head: "Anyway, let's just treat it as an ordinary task in the free world, you can choose to do it or not, high-risk tasks naturally have high rewards." ”

"I was going to give up, too."

It seemed that he had reached a certain bottleneck in his thinking, and Duan Qing shook his head again when he said this: "The situation in the east is unknown now, and it doesn't look like it is used as a base camp by the Restorationist and the Alliance of Destiny at all, not to mention that we still have the affairs of the empire and the principality to deal with, and the Fool Adventure Group has not been found......"

"Vizad's people chose to appear at this time, and they must have taken a fancy to this." Remembering what he said when he was separated from a certain strong man in a red robe before, the red-haired Thousand Fingered Crane furrowed his eyebrows with an indignant expression: "Actually let us take the initiative to give up the task at hand?" How could it be! ”

"The council has just ended, so it is naturally impossible to agree to such a thing." Duan Qing also shook his head: "But even if we bite this matter hard, most of us don't have the ability and means to compete with the people of the two major guilds to snatch mission resources." ”

"Me, we can recruit people too!" Thousand-Fingered Crane clenched his fists and said as if cheering, "We have a relationship with the Mage Council, we also have a relationship with the Free City, we can also find the butcher uncle who stays in the Free City, and-"

"Okay, okay, don't worry about it."

Waving his hand, Duan Qing then pressed back the red-haired girl's excited expression with an indifferent expression: "Wouldn't it be nice to let them complete this task for us?" Anyway, I don't have that much ability on my own, I just occupy a back seat. ”

"They won't give the final task reward to you, big brother!" Thousand Fingered Crane still didn't give up the idea of struggling and persuasion: "It's not like you haven't seen the big brother of their face snatching the task, and these bastards don't have the word 'unbearable' in their dictionaries!" ”

"As long as you don't have obsessions, whatever they steal won't have half an impact on you." Touching the other party's head with a smile, Duan Qing, who stood up, pressed back the excited expression of the Thousand Fingered Crane with a comforting motion: "I will go and explain this matter to Wiggins, so that the general trend and trend can return to the right direction, whether the Mage Council should stay here in the future and continue to repair the leylines, and whether it will cost huge resources and manpower to bury it in the main quest that does not belong to them——"

"Let them decide."

He took a deep breath, and then slowly left with his turned body in the direction he came, and the garden on the edge of the city, which was protected by the magic array, then separated the high-altitude wind that blew through the area out of sight, and at the same time spread the noon sun from the nearby sky to the mottled ground that Duan Qing had just passed. The fragments of rocks that have been sleeping here for thousands of years do not seem to disturb the plants near these gardens in the slightest, but instead show the ancient magic arrays carved on their respective surfaces in the warm environment that maintains this garden, Duan Qing, whose heart has become as calm as these stones, then silently put away the sadness on his face, and the smile he sorted out is frozen again with the scene in front of him gradually becoming clearer: "...... So can you change places? There are already people in front. ”

"The city garden is communal! No one cares who comes and who goes, why can't they come to you? ”

In the field of vision, the Walnut Rakshasa and the others, who had been guarding the door for the two of them before, were also blocking several people who also looked like players outside the entrance of the garden at this time, and these players who didn't seem to know each other also had irritated and provocative expressions on their faces, and the hands that were pressed on their waists also looked like they were about to pull out their weapons: "Get out of the way!" We're going in! ”

"Why can't we be here when you can be here? Is this place owned by your family? ”

"Get out of the way, or don't blame our emperor's people for being unreasonable-"

“…… Is this really going to become a public enemy of the whole people? ”

Shaking his hair and letting out a wry smile, Duan Qing then slowly walked behind the two groups of people who were about to start a dispute, he reached out and grabbed the back of the Walnut Rakshasa who was about to make a move, and at the same time his calm gaze fell on the troublemakers at the front: "I'm sorry, we didn't mean to occupy this place, it's just that these friends of mine have to think about us, that's why- huh?" ”

"I remember you." He looked up and down at the clothing and grooming of the player standing at the front, and his gaze fell on the other party's ID: "Root King? Have we met elsewhere before? ”

"It's you."

Still the appearance of the little thief in the impression, the player named Root King also looked at Duan Qing's face: "Lao Tzu also remembers you, it was the guy who robbed our boss in Kemparo Canyon and killed us together." ”

"I want to reiterate that the incident you got yourself in has nothing to do with us." Duan Qing, who pushed his hands and pulled the Walnut Rakshasa aside, then asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, a person is looking for trouble to find Sky City?" What about the fallen brother of the king? ”

"I don't have much to do with them anymore."

As if mentioning a name that he didn't want to mention, the Foundation King spat vigorously to the side: "Since that guy likes to stay in that kind of backcountry and continue to live, then let him stay there himself, and as for us, hey, I happened to meet you here, and it saved me a lot of effort." ”

"Did you take a woman before? The one that the Mage Council once asked the Violet Tower to look after? His small eyes drifted around behind several people for a while, and finally relocked on Duan Qing's body: "Where is she now?" ”

"You mean Maggie?"

Combining the information of the characters in his heart with the situation described by the other party, Duan Qing blinked involuntarily: "You actually want to find her?" ”

"What? What's the problem? Still in his impression, he dragged into two hundred and fifty or eighty thousand, and the foundation king made up for the discount in the momentum of his short figure by jumping up and down: "Lao Tzu not only wants to find her, Lao Tzu also wants to take her away." ”

"I don't know where this woman has gone since what happened to Tania."

Duanqing, who hugged his arms and had several thoughts flashing through his heart, then decided to answer this question in a perfunctory way: "That woman is not a member of our adventure group that needs to be under her jurisdiction, she can go wherever she wants, and we can't grasp her whereabouts now." ”

"Really?" Slanting his eyes at the smiling face of the magician in front of him, the expression of the Foundation King became more and more unkind: "Don't prevaricate me with such words, my situation is very clear now, not to mention our mission goal, even the matter of the rising sun has been following you, we all know!" ”

"Did you collude a long time ago?" The little thief drew his dagger and weighed it up and down in the air that gradually became tense: "Last time, you escaped from the palm of our hands by relying on the relationship above, and that account has not been settled yet!" ”

"Do you people like to think about things this way?" Involuntarily pressed his forehead, Duan Qing sighed and lowered his head and replied: "It's not that other people are using some tricks in secret, or they rely on power and relationships above to solve it—even if you never have the concept of acting fairly in your hearts, you should at least find your own problems, right?" ”

"Less of this!" In the scene where everyone behind him drew their weapons one after another, the thief named the Foundation King shouted and waved his weapon: "You still want to rely on the relationship of the Mage Council to get by?" I also saw all the things that happened just now! Don't say it's in this place—"

"Even in the hall of Imoryid, Lao Tzu has a way to take your life."

Ignoring most of the surrounding crowd, the thief handed out his dagger in such a grand manner, and the sharp tip of the dagger then slashed in front of Duan Qing's nose along with the roaring laughter of the players around him, creating a terrifying cold light in the air. Raising his head with a backward footstep, the gray-robed magician then narrowly dodged the dagger from his head with his own reaction, and his body involuntarily retreated a few steps and then barely stood firm with the help of the outstretched hands of the rushing Thousand Fingered Crane, and returned to these players with a cold sweat that was born in an instant: "You, do you really dare to do it?" ”

"Huh? Do you think I'm joking? The thief's dagger-wielding figure became blurred at the sound of metal colliding all around: "Stand there and don't move, this 'black mirror' will soon pass through your neck-"

"Ice Gravel!"

The scene belonging to the Walnut Rakshasa and others who were constantly resisting appeared in Duan Qing's eyes, and the sense of crisis that was approaching in an instant also made his sense of hearing and touch instantly clear, and the magician whose eyes became cold then gritted his teeth and shook his right hand, colliding a large piece of frost and sand generated in the palm of his hand with the cold light that was about to come: "You-"

"Don't!"

The panicked voice then sounded in his ears, instantly masking the energy fluctuations that had collided between the two sides, and the air that had suddenly become quiet then replaced the half-spoken warning of the Thousand Fingered Crane, accompanied by the sound of the system prompt that appeared in his head.

[Damaging spell detected.] 】

[Activate Level IV Alert.] 】