Ted's first impression of Koto wasn't very good. For a research mage like him, frivolity and impulsiveness mean carelessness, and it is often easy to mess up things that are not suspenseful, so that he suddenly questioned Victor's vision, wondering if the chess pieces chosen by the city lord this time were really reliable?

Of course, he would not have said this from his mouth to everyone present.

Urs's voice brought him back from his stupor. The blue-robed mage moved his gaze back to the young man's face, thought for a moment, and replied, "Say your doubts, I'll listen." ”

"So, I wonder what you think of the Scorpion Adventures, Mr. Ted?" Urs looked at him as well, and then asked.

"Isn't it a question about this mission?"

"It's also a good idea to learn a little bit more about your potential competitors."

The young man smiled.

But the reason for his question was naturally not that he really regarded the Red Scorpion Adventure Group as a thorn in his side, after all, although there was indeed a little conflict between Dambert and him, Twilight City was only the first stop on his long journey in this life.

Urs's current concern is about what he accidentally triggered in Twilight that he didn't know about in his previous life.

He was now sure that there was a high probability that the plot of the game, which was unknown to him, had something to do with the Red Scorpion Adventure Party. Dambert's overly flamboyant style in the city is really easy to attract envy, but the red-headed captain does not hesitate to do so, and seems to want to lure Victedo into the last emergency mission incident, and Victedo seems to have other ideas about his team.

Young people hate the hazy feeling of being caught in a game and surrounded by fog.

Past experiences and instincts as a former player tell him that Ted Hirst's horror visit tonight isn't just about handing out this four-star mission to his team on behalf of the Adventurers' Guild.

The blue-robed mage fixed his eyes on the subtle expression on Urs's face, and after hesitating for a while, "The Oak White Mage Guild doesn't have much intersection with the Red Scorpion Adventure Troupe, and the Red Scorpion Adventure Regiment that I know is the number one active regiment in this city. ”

"What else? Mr. Ted. Urs could tell that Ted's answer was purely perfunctory, "I've been hearing rumors lately that the leader of the Red Scorpion Adventure Troupe, Dambert, is entangled with the city lord? ”

"Nonsense."

"But in the last emergency mission incident, Dambert obviously wanted the city lord to come forward in person in the hall of the association, and you also deliberately used the information that the black dragon appeared in the black mist swamp as a reason to support the Red Scorpion Adventure Group, right?" Urs asked relentlessly, and he didn't like or was good at going around the corner, so he simply played a through ball to Ted.

"Captain Urs." Ted looked into the young man's eyes, and suddenly interrupted the topic in a deep voice, "I suggest you put more thought into this mission. The Adventurers' Guild values your potential for development, which is why they have issued you this four-star assignment, and the thing you must do right now is to cherish this hard-won opportunity to perform. ”

With that, the mage who had used his human appearance as a disguise stood up from his seat, and after saying this, he pulled open the door of the small council hall and walked out.

He was tired of the troublesome social etiquette in the human realm, so he simply finished telling Victado to explain what he had instructed him to explain to the Thorn Squad, and then walked away.

"Thai, Mr. Ted, please wait—" Seeing that the conversation between the young man and the mage ended abruptly without warning, the wolf-eared priest girl sat on the side of the long table and was stunned, and hurriedly trotted after him, and politely escorted the blue-robed mage all the way out of the main entrance of the villa.

Seeing Ted leave, Urs looked back at the quest scroll that was still spread out on Koto's side, and sighed softly, saying that the spirit sucking mage really didn't plan to tell himself about Victedo's thoughts along with this mission.

Fortunately, however, the verbal temptation he had just made was not entirely fruitless. Judging from Ted Hearst's reaction, it seems that the target of the Red Scorpion Adventure Group is really Victedo, and Victedo seems to be looking for a suitable chess piece to fight or balance Dambert.

You must know that the dragon vein mage city lord has the level of characters and spell-casting ability in the transcendent realm in the game world, and the difficulty of destroying an adventure group is completely different from good or bad mood for him.

Victor tolerates the Red Scorpion Adventure Troupe led by Dambert for several years to be flying in the Twilight City, and it would be a hell of a ghost to say that there is no element of conspiracy in this.

In this way, things are getting more and more complicated......

Urs tried to figure out the clues in his mind a few more times, but then shook his head, feeling that his brain was probably not suitable for calculating or counter-calculating others.

So...... If only analytical thinking was as easy as swinging a sword at someone. For a moment, he couldn't help but think to himself.

As for the Cave of Bones, a four-star mission assigned to him by the association?

Naturally, he wouldn't let go of the low-hanging fruit rewards written on the quest scrolls.

……

So after the night passed, the team spent a day preparing for the adventure under the arrangement of Urs.

During the day's preparations, Grohledon made another trip to the city's business district for his team, Urs and Thea went to the temple area, but only used Thea's priesthood to purchase a few bottles of holy water from the diocese of the Sogo Church, and the paladin companions suggested in the quest scroll were not part of the young man's plan from the beginning.

Urs respects the paladins for these orderly, virtuous men, whether they are knightly or their sacred beliefs and ideals, but he is always cautious in his choice of recruits.

Because the black-haired young man was really afraid of some stunned green saint warriors.

He still remembered that in his previous life, he had a mission cooperation with several paladin NPC teammates who met by chance in the wild area, trying to enter the depths of a forest to exterminate a cult gang that believed in demons, but at that time, there were several sane out-of-control guys in the team chanting the god of justice, and they picked up the weapons in their hands in the woodland environment to desperately pursue a small demon monster as bait, and finally led to the team being ambushed by the cultist enemy and moving towards group annihilation.

The belief of the holy warriors is valuable and respectable, but they regard the glory of justice as their lifelong belief in too many typical rigid flaws, and there are too few mature people who know how to be flexible under the premise of abiding by the bottom line.

For this adventure, the young people do not plan to make temporary changes in the personnel structure of their team for the time being.

After all the preparations before departure were successfully completed, the Thorn Squad set off from the city early the day after tomorrow and arrived at the entrance of the Bone Cave along the mountain road of the Tongguan Mine in a relatively safe way.