Meanwhile.

On the third floor of the Adventurers' Guild, there is a candle-lit box room.

"You mean, the guild has a slave knight from the Golden Warbler Empire today, and a half-beast female priest who is traveling with him, right, Irina?"

"Yes, Father. The Slave Knight and his priestess's companion left their names on the register, Urs and Thea, respectively, and they also completed the three-star mission of the Serpent's Fang. Irina sat on the edge of a conference table, her long blond hair dyed orange by the light of the candlelight, and her emerald green pupils reflected the two strangely dressed men opposite her.

The two people in the eyes of the half-elf head lady are both mages.

The man she called her father was undoubtedly the Dragon Vein Mage Lord of Twilight, his name was Victedor, he was clad in an enchantment level +5 archmage robe, and he wore a ridiculously shaped pumpkin helmet on his head above the neck - according to him, this was to prevent the natural dragon power in his eyes from accidentally unleashing it to frighten his precious adopted daughter.

In addition to Victor, the other person standing next to the dragon vein mage city lord is a handsome elven man, named Draco Barton, although the race is an elf, but he has lived and raised in the human social environment since childhood, a few years ago he was a famous five-star adventurer in Twilight City, and now he is Victor's personal friend and personal guard, wearing dark green dryad chain mail, with a beautifully crafted elven sword at his waist, and he has both tactics and advanced professional magic swordsmen, With its current strength, it can be regarded as a strong player in the top three echelons of Emerald Bay in the future.

Not to mention that at this time of age, it is not an exaggeration for some tavern bards to hail him as the strongest adventurer in the Okazawa region, and there is no need to add the suffix "one" to the title.

The two people present were among the best in Twilight.

Through the gap between the eyes on the surface of the helmet, Victordo's gaze fell to the four lilac snake fangs placed on the table, and after a while, he gently picked up one of the four fangs and said: "This is indeed the fangs of the Ice Fang Python, the real thing, which proves that the imperial slave knight named Urs went to the Frost Forest before entering the city." ”

After a few seconds of pause, the mage city lord wearing an iron helmet put the teeth between his fingers back and continued to analyze: "The Frost Forest is located to the east of the Nordick Mountains, and the edge of the forest is close to the Great Snow Field of the Northlands, as well as the Helmet City and the Winter Fortress on the northern frontier of the Golden Warbler Empire. ”

"Father, don't you suspect that the slave knight is a secret envoy sent from the Northland by the Imperials?" Irina guessed.

"Of course not, Irina." Viktedo waved his hand, "Slave knight is a false title, with an empty title and no status, except for being able to brand an extra mark on his neck, it is not much different from ordinary slave soldiers. ”

"But speaking of the Empire's movements and the current situation in the Northlands, Lord Castle." The handsome Elven Demon Swordsman Draco suddenly interjected, "Do you remember the recent expedition that the Empire's army launched into the depths of the snowfield? ”

"Holy Expedition—A Prestigious Holy War." A sneer leaked from under the tin pumpkin helmet, as if looking down on the bugs with the arrogance and disdain of a dragon, "It's a pity that the original purpose of the war is secondary, and the main goal of the nobles and politicians is probably to transfer the domestic tax contradictions to ensure their own interests, and the authority of the Sogo Church has become a clever front in the hands of those people...... Humans, hehe, most of them are selfish creatures by nature. ”

"So what do you predict the outcome of this war?" The Elven Demon Swordsman has a humble attitude.

"There's no need to predict anything, Draco, because the outcome of the war is already out." The Dragon Vein Mage confidently gave his answer, "The expeditionary force of the Golden Warbler Empire has been defeated, and the Frost Forest can reach Okazawa by passing through a mountain tunnel under the Notlik Mountains along the snowfields to the west, and the boy named Urs has escaped from the battlefield. ”

"Huh? The Golden Que Ying Empire was defeated? This...... How so? Irina was in a daze, her head clearly not keeping up with the speed of her father's thinking.

"Basic judgment, and intuition." When he turned his gaze to his precious adopted daughter, Victedo's gaze softened again, "If you don't believe me, Irina, you can run to the Oak White Mage's Guild and ask Uncle Ted for help, and let that old fellow spy on the slave knight's memories to confirm that my reasoning is completely correct." ”

"Uh...... I don't think so, it's not good. ”

As soon as she heard the Uncle Ted mentioned by her father, Irina pursed her lips and shook her head like a rattle.

It was as if the character's name reminded her of something terrifying.

At this moment, there was a movement on the windowsill of the box, and a black-feathered crow fluttered its wings and flew in smoothly from the mid-air outside the window and landed on the floor of the room.

"Oh, Ted Hearst, my old friend, what kind of wind brought you here from the alchemy lab of the Oak White Guild? Well? ”

Victor glanced sideways in the direction of the windowsill, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the four ice-toothed python fangs on the table and threw them at it.

The black-feathered crow blinked its white eyes, and pitch-black smoke rose from the sides of its body, transforming into a humanoid creature with four slender tentacles hanging from its beak.

Psychic Monsters - or terror beings known as Mind Flayers by the inhabitants of the Underworld.

Ted Hearst is a soul-absorbing mage who left the underworld and came to the surface in search of the ultimate knowledge, specializing in psionics, alchemy, confusion and change-based high-ring magic, and usually appears in the public eye of Twilight City as the head of the Oak White Mage Guild.

Of course, since he had already made a certain agreement with Victedo at the beginning of the city's founding, he would not actively attack the adventurers, merchants, and ordinary residents of the city, but Irina always seemed to have a bad impression of him, perhaps because of racial prejudice, or for some other reason.

The Psisucker Mage returned to human form in the form of a crow, standing about six feet tall when he stood up.

He raised his hand to catch the four python fangs thrown by Victor, and a low, ethereal voice came from between the tentacles of his mouth and replied to the dragon mage, "Come and take the items I deserve for the mission, and inform you of one thing on the way, honorable lord of the city." ”

"What's going on, Ted? Is there anything important that requires you to come to the association in person? Standing beside Victor, Draco frowned as he turned to look at him, sensing that things weren't easy.

Ted's milky white eyes, without pupils, deviated from the comical tin pumpkin head on Victor's neck, and he met the elven swordsman for a moment.

"Abandoned empty house."

"Abandoned empty house?"

"A few minutes ago, a large human male and a white-robed silver-haired half-beast woman broke into an abandoned empty house in the slums." He said expressionlessly.

As soon as the words fell, Draco's eyes were visibly stunned, and the half-elf head of the Adventurers' Guild was even more frightened, taking a deep breath of cold air, and directly covering her mouth and staring at her eyes.

The atmosphere was instantly silent.

Until a second, two seconds, three seconds.

Syllable!

"Nonsense, this is nonsense!" Irina slammed the table and instantly guessed something, "Urs, Thea...... Warnes is on top, and I warned them not long ago not to mess around in the city, oh my god......"

"No, I've got to get them out of that place right now, maybe it's too late!"

With that, she immediately stood up from her seat.

However, Victedo chose to stop her at this moment: "No, Irina. ”

"Father?"

"Let them make a fuss." The dragon vein mage wearing an iron helmet sat down across from her calmly, "It's been a long time since anyone visited the abandoned empty house...... It just so happens that we need such a fearless pawn in our hands. ”