"I said, do we need to come in this way?"

On January 16, 796 in the new calendar, on the afternoon of a new day in the City of Freedom, the figure of a gray-robed magician named Linyuan Broken Water appeared far away on the inner side of the moat in the northeast near the City Lord's Mansion, and climbed onto the shore with water stains: "Since you have received an invitation, why don't you visit honestly?" ”

"It's all at this point, and I don't want to take these people's words lightly."

He also quietly climbed out of the moat, and the snow spirit phantom ice with his cloak already soaked in water also appeared on Duan Qing's side at this time: "Even if it's the City Lord's Mansion, God knows if the news he asked Ning Lan to bring back is to lure us over." ”

"If we hadn't believed Reiner, we wouldn't have made contact with him in the first place." Twisting the magic robe on his body, Duan Qing's voice carried a bit of a wry smile: "I won't run over thousands of mountains and rivers to the City Lord's Mansion in this situation, isn't that asking for hardship?" ”

"That's why we're going to take a sneak peek." Also cleaning up the river water on his body, Xue Lingphantom replied in a low voice, "Look at what the hell is this city lord who claims to have locked himself up in the City Lord's Mansion doing now...... Hey, what do you see? ”

Observing the surroundings back and forth with a vigilant gaze, the white-haired woman's gaze suddenly noticed that Duan Qing was looking her eyes up and down, and the light like substance then swept over her water-soaked figure, and finally hurriedly put it away in the wave of her hand: "Ahem, that and that...... Didn't I want to ask if you needed help with magic? ”

"Isn't the use of magic in this kind of evening to reveal our presence?" So Xue Ling's hand tearing Duan Qing's ears became a little harder: "Don't look for those high-sounding reasons!" I'm familiar with this kind of vision! You are, you are—"

"I see, I was abrupt." Looking at the rare face of Xue Lingphantom Ice that suddenly turned red, Duan Qing, who covered his ears and hid by the wall, then also put on a natural expression: "The next time I appreciate the beauty of women, I will tell you openly...... Hey, hey, don't fight, don't fight, are you afraid that our target will not be exposed enough? ”

"When I go back, I must change into a new armor." Putting away his fangs and claws, Xue Lingxuan said angrily: "This novice cloth has been worn on my body for a long time, if it weren't for the fear of revealing my identity, I wouldn't have been able to endure a piece of clothing that has survived on me for so long......"

"Isn't that equipment we collected pretty good, why don't you just pick one and change it in?" A hint of triumph flashed in his eyes, and Duan Qing, who was hiding with his head on the side, lowered his gaze behind the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice: "And that sunset-I've already walked out of the novice area, when will you be able to get these equipment conditions?" ”

"Right away."

Xue Ling, who waved his hand and raised his head with his arms crossed, then began to observe the city wall standing high in front of him: "How should we go up?" ”

"I thought you had it figured out." A slap on his head, Duan Qing took out the adventurer map in his hand expressionlessly: "In the end, I still have to figure out a way." ”

"I can climb up myself anyway, but I don't know if I'll encounter any guards or mechanisms." Quietly coming to Duan Qing's side, Xue Lingphantom Ice said something like this while sticking out his head: "And you, a magician, shouldn't have the physical strength and endurance to climb this high city wall like us...... Hmm, what is it? ”

"The dark line left by Ning Lan before."

Pointing to a coordinate on his adventurer's map that had been artificially marked, Duan Qing then looked up at the east side where the two people were: "According to Ning Lan's habit, she should have secretly arranged everything a long time ago, so as long as I find the location of this map she left me, there should be a way to get in." ”

"It is worthy of being a well-known maid of the Duan family, and she is even prepared for such an arrangement." A sour taste flashed in Xue Ling's eyes: "If it weren't for your previous arrangement to send Longhui grass to Shanaiduo, it would definitely be her who accompanied you this time." ”

"How is it possible, she is not the only one who went to send Long Huicao." Cold sweat flashed from his forehead, and Duan Qing hurriedly pushed his hands: "Didn't Asahi Dongsheng and Gedemayne go together?" Although I mean the two of them are too big, it is better for them to go and hide in Shanaido for a while than to come together...... Well, it's here. ”

"This should be it."

Walking quietly close to the wall for a while, the two of them then simultaneously took into their eyes a trench blocked by an iron fence and a fragment of an iron fence that had been cut off by some kind of sharp blade at this time: "I see, no matter what kind of castle it is—"

"You've got to design a drain."

The gray-black figures then quietly disappeared into the darkness in the corner of the city lord's mansion, and spiraled up along the invisible passage along the invisible passage with the chaotic shouts of killing that rang out in the entire city from time to time, and the tallest building in the city of freedom, bathed in the light of dusk, gradually fell silent in the endless darkness, as if gradually separating its own existence from the existence of the entire city of freedom. Poking his head out and appearing in a corner of the City Lord's Mansion, Duan Qing, who was the first to appear at the end of the secret passage, then slowly pushed away the metal baffle on his head, which was also cut, and while confirming whether there were any garrisons from the City Lord's Mansion around, he brought the scene around him into his line of sight: "...... Was it here? ”

"Here it is...... Arena? Crawling out of the same place, Snow Spirit Ice's field of vision also became much more abrupt: "Is it the arena where we once helped Tristan fight?" ”

"I guess so." Looking at the blackened walls of the circular building that had been burned by the fire and the appearance that the high platform he had once confronted had collapsed at this time, Duan Qing's eyes then flashed with a look of embarrassment: "It's not just that it hasn't been repaired, I'm afraid they haven't been here since that day." ”

"If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have had a chance to use this passage to infiltrate the mansion." Shaking his head and retracting his gaze, Xue Lingphantom Ice took the lead in stepping on the ground in front of him, which was scorched black by the giant flames: "Let's go." ”

"Hopefully this place isn't cordoned off by the guards."

The footsteps of Xi Yao then turned into a silent step, and the two figures one after the other passed through the dilapidated ground of the arena, and the ruin-like scene was then replaced by the back garden of the City Lord's Mansion in the forward vision, and the verdant and gorgeous that was once displayed here seemed to have become much more cold and silent under the influence of the cold and dusk of autumn. Didn't find any existence like a guard, the figures belonging to Duan Qing and the two people then began to follow the scenes left in their memories and began to follow the steps up, and the familiar pictures in their impressions also appeared on the left and right of the corridor of the City Lord's Mansion again as they passed, and became more and more obvious with the appearance of some faint lights: "Turn left, and then go up this step...... That's right, that's it. ”

"Further down is the hall."

Hiding behind the flower bed made of white jade marble, Duan Qing lowered his voice and said to the stone pillars and corridors that appeared diagonally above: "I have been here a few times at that time, and this place was like this at that time. ”

"You're talking about the council chamber, right?" Also hiding behind Duan Qing, Xue Ling Phantom Ice also carefully observed the expression of the oblique upward, and it also became weird: "Twelve thrones, twelve candidates, block their respective forces and lives, and compete for the position of new city lord under the gaze of the city lord...... Why is there no one now? ”

"How do I know?" Duan Qing then took the lead in walking out of his hiding place: "The city lord is no longer here, and everything related to the city lord has been cut off by the Molna Star that night, since it has come to this point, it must be a matter of course to be abandoned, huh?" ”

"Something seems to be the sound."

Taking two steps forward along the steps, his gaze that was observing the surroundings of the cloister suddenly stopped at the end of the darkness in front of him, and the door of the council chamber that appeared directly above the wide staircase that matched his memory seemed to be constantly showing a slight vibration, and the sound of gold and iron clash that was sealed in it was faintly heard. Stopping the snow spirit phantom ice who wanted to rush forward and pull out the spear, Duan Qing's gaze kept flashing around the equally empty gate around him, and he involuntarily moved forward again after carefully confirming something, and finally turned the vibration from inside the door into a more regular and clear sound: "It seems to ...... Striking iron? ”

"It's like gunsmoke."

The familiar smell of melting gold and iron came from the tip of his nose, and the expression on Duan Qing's face changed from the previous vigilance to unbelievably weird: "How did the City Lord's Mansion become a blacksmith shop?" ”

"Is it Reiner?" He also frowned, and Xue Ling's eyes also had a strange feeling: "Why didn't your Ning Lan mention these before?" ”

"Maybe there are other possibilities." Duan Qing, who shook his head vigorously and shook his head vigorously, then took his attention out of the state of thinking: "Anyway, just go in and take a look." ”

He took the lead forward, his slow steps followed by the steps he had stepped on step by step, and his outstretched hands finally pushed hard under the gaze of Xue Ling's Phantom Ice, slowly pushing open the door of the city lord's hall in front of him. The imaginary magnificent scene or the scene of waiting for the battle did not appear in front of Duan Qing, but instead the tall and wide hall that he had seen once was already in a dilapidated state, and the thrones that originally stood on both sides of the aisle in front of him were also staggered to the side at this time, showing the fiery red picture that originally belonged to the city lord in front of him, but at this time it was already occupied by iron furnaces and anvils and other utensils in Duan Qing's eyes: "...... Yes? ”

“……”

The sound of striking iron stopped for a moment, and the sound of gold and iron echoing above the high hall also stopped, and a sturdy blacksmith who was illuminated red by the fire also appeared bare-chested at the end of the red carpet in front of Duan Qing's eyes at this time, and his muscular right arm was holding an iron hammer high in the air: "Who are you?" ”

"Uh, I, we are—"

I don't know how to answer in the face of this strange scene, the voice from Duan Qing's open mouth also became stuttered at this time, but the blacksmith with a white beard on his face ignored the appearance of the gray-robed magician, and his eyes swept over the white-haired woman who gradually appeared behind him: "You guys...... I'm here to find the lord of the castle. ”

"Go over there."

He shook his head, and the hammer raised in the air then pointed at the two people's sides, and a stone staircase that ran up the side of the city lord's hall also appeared in the dark depths in that direction at his signal, and the space behind the city lord's throne that could not be seen above this hall disappeared. The sonorous sound of striking iron then echoed in Duan Qing's ears again, wandering back and forth regularly around this hall, and the gray-robed magician who was standing with Xue Lingphantom Ice then withdrew his searching gaze and saluted far away in the direction where the blacksmith was: "Thank you." ”

"Who is he?" Without trying to take another step forward, Xue Lingphantom Bing, who was walking behind Duan Qing towards the corner of the hall, then asked in a low voice, "Is it someone you know?" ”

"Perhaps, but I'm not sure." Stepping on what looked like a newly built staircase away from the center of the hall, Duan Qing replied intently, "But even if it's really him, he probably doesn't know me now." ”

"I just didn't expect—"

The field of vision began to rise as the steps went up, and Duan Qing looked down at the pale-haired strong man who was still striking iron from a distance: "He will run to this place." ”

"This guest came to the City Lord's Mansion, and I couldn't believe it at the time."

A calm voice then appeared in front of Duan Qing, who had already reached the depths of the second-floor platform at the top of the steps, and the darkness that had originally filled the dim space was then replaced by a faintly rising light, reflecting a figure sitting on a bench there with his back to the two of them at this time between the light and shadow of dusk and darkness. The vigilance aroused by instinct then gradually relaxed in an inexplicable feeling, and Duan Qing, who was wearing a cloak, then took the lead in walking in the direction where the figure was, and the image of Reiner, who was extremely familiar in his impression, gradually turned back in the footsteps of Duan Qing and Xue Lingphantom Bing, and stood up with his body that had been sitting upright like a sculpture for a long time: "It's like I can't believe that you can come here again now." ”

"It's a pleasure to see you again."