In the woods, Ania and Joseph rode towards the Devil's Wrath Canyon to the west.

Riding smoothly all the way towards the Devil's Fury Canyon, Ania asked Joseph, "Uncle, how did you meet my teacher?" You seem to be familiar with my teacher. ”

Joseph was sitting on his horse and looking at the map, and when he heard Ania ask, he put away the map and replied, "Me and the Dark Mage?" We met about thirteen years ago, right? At that time, I was just a platinum adventurer......"

You're just a platinum-level adventurer, how many adventurers will make you feel the urge to strangle you when you say this? Looking at Joseph's current appearance, he must only be about forty years old, right? Thirteen years ago, that means he was probably not yet thirty years old. You must know that a platinum-level adventurer is basically about thirty-five years old, and Joseph can become a platinum-level adventurer when he is less than thirty years old, which can be said to be a genius among geniuses.

Joseph continued: "I came across a butterfly during an adventure, and to be honest, I would never be afraid of a monster of the butterfly's size. But the butterfly I met at that time was extremely violent, and it was far more powerful than a normal butterfly in terms of speed and strength. I didn't expect this accident and was almost killed by the butterfly, but just when I thought everything was over......"

……

Thirteen years ago, also near Domma, the young and promising Joseph was on his own investigation mission to investigate the appearance of Ottokaron near the Oni's Fury.

During that time, it was not known that Otto Karon appeared more and more frequently in the canyon, and the Adventurers' Guild issued a special investigation mission, and Joseph, who took this task, was the adventurer who was the best at hiding his body in Doma at that time.

After three days and three nights of investigation in the Canyon of the Devil's Fury, Joseph did not find Otokaron, so Joseph, who thought that the guild might have mistaken information, packed his things and prepared to leave on the morning of the fourth day.

Just as he was about to retreat to Doma City, a winged butterfly attacked Joseph.

The four-meter-long Winged Butterfly with fully open wings is a social monster, but the Winged Butterfly that attacked Joseph at the time seems to have flown away from its own race, or for some other reason.

Attacked by a Winged Butterfly that even a Black Iron Adventurer could defeat, Joseph naturally didn't care that such a monster basically had no means of attack, except for being able to use its big wings to flutter and emit phosphorus powder to hinder breathing, the Winged Butterfly did not pose any threat.

So Joseph chased him away after being slapped by the other party, ignoring the winged butterfly in the air and continuing to walk back.

But Joseph knew in the next moment that his decision was wrong, and the butterfly suddenly rushed down and knocked Joseph down the canyon on the edge of the canyon.

By the time Joseph knew that he had been hit by the Winged Butterfly, his body had already fallen towards the bottom of the canyon, and he was too far away from the cliffs on both sides to grab on either side of the cliffs to stop the falling body, so he could only wave his limbs in the air without being able to stop his body.

And just when Joseph thought that his body was about to be smashed into meat sauce because of the fall, a gentle force dragged Joseph's body.

When he opened his eyes, Joseph found himself lying quietly in a pile of decomposing corpses, the air around him filled with a disgusting stench.

He covered his mouth and nose to prevent himself from inhaling the poisonous gases in the canyon, when a voice came into Joseph's ears: "Open your mouth." ”

Joseph looked in the direction where the voice came from, and a magician in a pitch-black magic robe was standing beside him: "Open your mouth, do you want to suffocate to death?" ”

Joseph didn't know who the magician was, so he had to open his mouth as he was told. Then a strange pill popped out of the magician's hand and shot directly into Joseph's mouth.

"Ahem......" Joseph, who accidentally swallowed the pill, asked, "What is this?" What did you give me? ”

"Mi Lisu." The magician said, "So that you can survive in this canyon for the time being, young man, how did you fall down here?" It stands to reason that human beings should not be disoriented by the effects of the poisonous gas below. ”

Joseph replied honestly, "I just got knocked off by a butterfly......"

"Did you accidentally get knocked off by the butterfly or did the butterfly accidentally knock you off?"

was corrected by the other party like this, and Joseph was embarrassed and said: "I was accidentally hit by the winged butterfly......"

"Alas......" the magician sighed, "Forget it, I'm almost done investigating anyway, I'll send you up later." ”

Joseph stood up and slapped the rotting pieces of flesh off his body, and the smell he could smell was no longer a foul smell, but the gases around him felt like normal air.

"What are you, sir? Why is it down here? Joseph asked the magician.

"Me? I'm just an ordinary magician, I tracked a prey to the vicinity, and then accidentally let the prey escape. But I suddenly remembered that I had found a strange creature down there, so I went down to see where the monster had gone. ”

Monster? Could it be that Otto Karon is being spoken? Joseph immediately replied: "Actually, I was also investigating the monster, but I investigated it for three days and three nights and did not find that the monster went up to the canyon......"

"Really? That's normal. The black-robed magician said, "Because I've been chasing that guy for five days, and he's still avoiding me." ”

Joseph was stunned for a moment, what was this magician talking about? He chased after Naotokaron for five days...... Wait a minute! This black magic robe! Could it be that he is the legendary black magician?

"Let's go, it doesn't look like it's going to come out to see me." The magician waved the magic wand in his hand as he spoke, and then the bodies of the two floated into the air, and Joseph at this time also confirmed the fact that the other party was the black magician!

The two quickly rose to the top of the canyon, and then Joseph saw the butterfly that had just knocked him down.

When the butterfly saw someone coming up from the canyon, it rushed up again and tried to knock the two of them down. As a result, as soon as the other party flew in front of the two, the black mage raised his magic wand and knocked on the seemingly fragile wings, and the body of the winged butterfly fluttered and fell.

The black mage looked down and muttered, "That's it...... Forget it, those viruses can't be infected down there anyway. ”

……

"The Dark Mage rescued me and walked with me for a while, and at last he said that he was going to find the fleeing monster and separated from me. I haven't seen the Dark Mage since then......" Joseph had tears in his eyes when he said this: "The Black Mage is my savior, if it weren't for the Black Mage, I would have fallen to my death, right?" ”

Ania didn't think that his teacher was Joseph's savior, and from what he just said, it could be inferred that Aniah's teacher was on his way to chase Margara, and happened to pass by the Devil's Wrath Canyon, so he gave up on Margara and went down to have a look. But it was because he didn't chase Margara that Margara infected the butterfly, and the butterfly knocked Joseph down.

In other words, Joseph's knock down was completely caused by the butterfly effect caused by the black magician, so it was only natural for him to save Joseph.

But there was something in what Ania was concerned about just now, that is, his teacher had already met Ottokaron, and he was at least going down for the second time...... So when was the first time a dark mage went down? Could it be when I was with the Sword Warrior?

Ania learned from what Jun Xun said before that his teacher was probably a partner with the Sword Warrior when he was young, and the path under the Demon Fury Canyon was discovered by the Sword Warrior. Could it be that his own teacher also went down with him at that time, and then found Otto Karon below?

But according to the teacher's habit, why didn't he write down the events of Otto Karon in detail in his notebook? He always saw anything he saw and wrote it down. However, Ania did not find any information about Otto Karon in the Dark Mage's notebook, so that Ania only learned about Ottokaron's existence later from some rumors in the adventurer world that Eunice had heard.

And what made Ania even more concerned was what the Dark Mage said after beating the Winged Butterfly into the canyon...... Magala's virus is uninfectable in the canyon, perhaps because of the poisonous gas under the canyon. If Margara can be lured into the canyon at that time, can the poisonous gas in the canyon make Magara lose the ability to control phosphorescence and become a complete blind person?

Maybe it's not impossible...... Ania is planning that as long as Otto Karon is eliminated and Magara is introduced into the canyon, the canyon will definitely become the burial place of Magara.

"Aniah! Be careful! Joseph suddenly threw his luggage from his horse and knocked Ania off his horse, and he himself jumped from his horse and rolled on the ground.

As soon as Ania looked up and was about to ask Joseph what he was doing, suddenly two neighing sounds of horses came from ahead, and the bodies of the two horses were torn to shreds in front of them.