Deep in the misty mountains, the mandrakes who have escaped from the White Bear Village are looking for soft ground to bury themselves in the moonlight.

I saw the mandrakes dancing strangely, swaying like drug addicts, and the green leaves on their heads swaying back and forth with their movements.

With the shaking of the mandrake, the magic in the air resonated at the same frequency, and the imperceptible mental fluctuations spread to the outside world and melted into the thick fog.

……

"What's going on? Why can't we go back to the village? ”

In the mountains, Jason and the others carried torches and wandered around the mountains, trying to find a way back to the village. But no matter how Jason and the others walked, when they reacted, they found that they had already walked out of the mountain.

"Master Green, do you know what's going on?" Several villagers turned their eyes to Green for help.

The Demon King's abnormal resistance is very high, which also makes Green not very sensitive to the surrounding magic situation, even if he perceives it carefully, he can only vaguely detect a faint magic fluctuation in the mist. But Green was at least certain of one thing, that the reason why he couldn't get out was not due to visual illusions and distractions, but to mental distractions.

"There is a very hidden mental distraction in the dense fog, which can make people lose their sense of direction." Green pointed to the fog around him.

"Mental disturbance?" The villagers looked at each other.

"It is difficult for ordinary people to resist the effects of spiritual magic." Grimm paused, "But you're all out of the village anyway, so let's go to the city first and report the matter to the city hall." I'll go to the mountains to see. ”

"Master Green, I'll go with you." Jason spoke.

"No, don't join in the fun below the extraordinary."

After driving away the villagers, Green and his party lit a bonfire, rested for a while, and planned to wait until dawn before entering the mountain.

After a night of tossing, Green and Thousand Shadows could bear it, but Beladona was already very tired.

The next day, after casually eating a few marching pills, Green took Chikage and Beladona and plunged headlong into the thick fog.

Before the Mandrakes left home, the villagers could not leave the village, but when the Mandrakes left home, the villagers found themselves unable to return to the village. It's hard to say that this has nothing to do with those "two-legged turnips" that look a little cute. So instead of returning directly to the village, Green wandered around the mountains, trying to find the escaped mandrakes.

The mountain is huge, but it is obviously impossible to run far with the small arms and legs of the mandrake. So when Green was about to arrive at the village, he finally caught a mandrake hidden among the dead branches and leaves by the stream outside the village.

After being caught by Green, Mandrake screams, but is of no use to Green.

Although he caught the mandrake, Green still didn't figure out the cause of the fog.

With mixed and tangled feelings, Green returned to the village with the mandrake.

By the time Green returned to the village, a thick fog had enveloped the entire village. There is peace in the village......

"Something is wrong!" Green looked at the village warily, scanning around.

Although you can't see far because of the thick fog, the village is so quiet that it's like no one is there!

Hearing Green's warning, Beladonna hurriedly raised her shield and drew her short sword from her waist.

Belladonna's shield is a high-end item that Green bought in the port of Ancona, and it is definitely sturdy enough! Coupled with the strange power brought by the red dragon's bloodline, when Beladona holds a shield in front of her, it will be as strong as a city wall.

Beladona held her shield and walked in front, while Green and Chikage walked behind, looking around warily.

"Daddy...... No one. Beladona's face was scared.

"Well, it seems that there is no one." Green also felt a little up-and-down.

Fear comes from the unknown, and it would be a lie to say that you are not afraid, but the abundant chaos magic has somewhat given Green a little confidence.

Walking around the village, I found nothing, nothing but tranquility, not even a mouse. This situation made Green a little dazed.

However, everyone was not without gain, at least Green and his party successfully retrieved their luggage, and Green also found the seal of the monster's lair in the castle of the village chief's house.

In a bluestone room, a shrine sits on an altar, and a ray of magic is spilling out of the shrine.

"I don't know what's going on here, but it seems like a shame if we don't do something about it." Green looked around, thought about it, and finally decided to free the nest with his hands.

Slap the shrine to pieces!

In the next instant, a strong storm of magic exploded from it, and the rich magic power was suffocating like a greasy tide! But this feeling soon disappeared, and the pitch-black monster lair began to take shape, and the surrounding magic power was sucked into the monster lair as if it had encountered a black hole.

Before the lair began to farm monsters, Green injected his chaos magic into the lair, transforming the lair into his own camp.

When the chaos magic power was injected into the monster's lair, the nest was completely stabilized, and a white bear more than three meters tall crawled out of it......

After wandering around the village and releasing the seal of the monster nest in the village, Grimm and his party, who failed to find the cause of the mutation, also left the village.

When everyone left, the village fell completely silent, except for a few white behemoths looming in the village.

……

Three days later, the port of Ancona.

When Green returned to the vigilante, he reported his findings to Alicia.

Holding the report from Green's report, Alicia was dumbfounded: "There is a fog that will interfere with the spirit in the White Bear Village, the seal of the White Bear Village has been broken, and the villagers have disappeared collectively, for unknown reasons?" ”

Green sat on the sofa and took a sip of tea with mandrake: "Hmm~ Sure enough, it tastes good to use mandrake to make tea." Alicia, would you like a drink? ”

"No, thank you." The female knight shook the report in her hand, "I just want to know what happened in White Bear Village now!" ”

"I'd also like to know what's going on in that village." Green couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Originally, I thought that the mutation in White Bear Village was caused by some monster behind it, but I didn't encounter anything!" Nothing! Oh, it's not completely nothing, at least I encountered some nest monsters, but even if they are killed, they won't drop anything. It's a big loss! There are no cursed items, just mandrakes! ”

Alicia: "You weren't attacked?" ”

"If you don't count the big white bears that came out of the monster's lair, I didn't encounter any attacks!" Grimm paused, "Not even the goblins and kobolds that can never be killed." ”

"Hmm......" Alicia rubbed her forehead, "How do you report such a report to the top?" ”

"That's your business. But I don't want to touch this weird task anymore. Green couldn't help but roll his eyes, "If it weren't for the fact that I found a few mandrakes on the way back, I would have lost a lot this time!" ”

"Mandrake......" Alicia looked at the teacup in Green's hand, "Mandrake, fog, mental disturbance......"

Something seemed to pass through Alicia's mind, but she couldn't think of a reason.

The matter of magic, sure enough, should still be handled by the magician.

"Chas, what do you think?" Alicia set her eyes on the middle-aged uncle sitting on the couch sipping mandrake tea.

Chas is a magician. While most sorcerers are only good at fighting with various magic items, and are not very good at researching anything, Chas, who has been tinkering with living research, is clearly not among them - although his experiments ultimately failed and yielded no results, this at least shows that he has some biological knowledge.

The middle-aged uncle put down the teacup in his hand and touched his scum: "I don't know much about spiritual magic. Someone may have set up a large magic circle in White Bear Village that can confuse people's hearts, and the mandrake itself can be used as a medium for spiritual magic, so when the position of the mandrake changes, the effect of the magic also changes slightly. This kind of thing requires a certain amount of expertise, and I'm afraid that only those magicians who are good at magic arrays can figure out what is going on in White Bear Village. ”

"Magic Circle? I see, no wonder I don't know what's going on there. Green scratched his hair, "In other words, those mandrakes are actually the eyes of the magic array?" So as long as all those mandrakes are destroyed, they can destroy the magic array? ”

"I don't know. This kind of thing needs to be identified by a professional magician. Chas took a sip of the mandrake tea on the table, "This mandrake is very good, but it's a pity that the tranquilizing flowers in it are not fresh enough, and there is a lack of fragrance." ”

"Because there are no Ningshen flowers in the office, these are from the restaurant." The braided girl in charge of the secretary's work spoke.

"I don't understand why you guys like this weird smell." The rat-eared thief pouted.

"The taste doesn't matter, the important thing is that it can restore magic and improve mental power." "For the mage, it is more meaningful than red wine and coffee, or a variety of herbal teas. ”

……

Seeing her subordinates drinking tea and chatting there, Alicia couldn't help but reach out and rub her temples.

Aside from Alicia herself, who is in charge, the rest of the office obviously doesn't care what happens to White Bear Village.

"Magic Circle?" Alicia thought for a moment, "It seems that we can only go to Master Anres." ”