"Hasn't that guy come back yet......"

In the hotel, Frey kept pacing back and forth in the room: "I don't know if he has left Lovenia." ”

There aren't many people in the inn anymore.

In fact, after the earthquake just now, the city lord's mansion sent personal guards to use alchemy items with amplification effects in the city to make the people evacuate Lovinia quickly.

The exact reason for this was not explained, except that the earthquake could cause problems with the rock pillars below, and it was hoped that people would be able to leave the city through the suspension bridge before the problem was resolved.

Even the innkeeper, after hearing the words of the guards, left his shop and packed up some belongings and daily necessities and left.

From this point of view, the lord of Lovenia is still quite prestigious.

In addition, the city guards also helped maintain order when the people were evacuating, so the evacuation of the whole city was unexpectedly smooth.

There was only one city where there was some accident, and although the city guards had tried their best to block the news, according to the people who escaped there, there were many monsters that had come out of the ground in that city......

Maybe for ordinary people, this kind of thing may be closer to urban weirdness, and they may turn their heads and forget about it after hearing it, but for those who know the inside story, such as Theo, I am afraid that this matter cannot be laughed at.

"No, if you continue like this, even Miss Theo will be in danger, we must get out of here!" Finally, Frey gritted her teeth.

"What about that guy." Theo looked at the half-finished pile of alchemy items in front of him, frowned, and asked in a tone that seemed emotionless.

But Frey knew that if Theo really didn't care about the young man at all, she wouldn't even ask—she used to be like that when she was in the clock, she didn't care about anything but what she cared about.

"No problem. The block that fell into the hands of the monster was quite far from here, and that guy wouldn't have gone to that kind of place. ”

Frey tried to comfort Theo: "Now he may have followed the instructions of the guards to leave Lovenia. ”

The girl lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes obscuring her eyes, preventing Frey from seeing her gaze and murmuring softly.

"My baked maple crepes ......"

"So that's what you care about?! I don't understand the hearts of girls now! ”

Frey subconsciously complained.

But then she realized that it was a sign of Theo's shyness.

Oh no, did Miss Theo really like that suspicious fellow...... Although not incomprehensible. That guy does have a temperament that she subconsciously wants to get close to, but this kind of thing is still not good, right? Not to mention, just the old guys in the clock mechanism who want to leave Theo to their own heirs to improve their bloodline will not allow this to happen, and if it leaks out, that guy will be really lucky.

Frey thought with some loss.

"Frey."

Theo's voice woke Frey from her thoughts, "Do you have any orders, Miss Theo?" ”

"Ready to go."

"Huh? Oh! I see. ”

Frey was stunned, and her face immediately became serious: "Leave everything to me!" I'll gamble on my knighthood and send you out of the city safe and sound!" ”

"Frey, are you going to be an alchemist?" Tio asked, tilting his head.

"Huh?" Frey suddenly failed to understand what the other party meant, and let out a dumbfounded voice.

"Or do you want to be a chef? But. The meals you cook are hard to eat. ”

"Huh?"

"Singer seems to be hot lately......"

"Huh? Why assume that I'm sure I'll fail?! ”

"Because it's Frey." Although Theo's expression didn't change, Frey always felt that she saw the meaning of 'isn't this a matter of course?'

"Please give me a little more faith!"

So she could only cry without tears.

"Uh-huh......"

"Why do you want to show 'I'm embarrassed'!"

Although the two of them were still arguing, Tio had already held all the half-finished products in her arms, and Frey had packed some of her luggage and carried it on her back.

Then the two of them left the room with a tacit understanding - but because the luggage package was too large, Frey was stuck at the door for a while......

When the two arrived at the door of the hotel, they saw a little girl holding a parasol squinting her eyes and staring at the hotel's signboard. There are still words in the mouth that shows a little tiger tooth.

"Bell and Orchid...... Orchid? What a strange name for this hostel...... Woo, that guy's memory of us is too vague. There are so many hotels on this street, I don't know which one it is......"

Frey looked back at the hotel's signboard and saw that the words Lily of the Valley Hotel were written in fancy font.

Could it be that she is a passenger who has been separated from her parents? Judging by his appearance, he seems to be a little younger than Theo.

Frey secretly guessed the identity of the other party, and at the same time hesitated whether to take the other party with her.

If she's the only one on her own, then it doesn't hurt to bring the other party with her. Anyway, she is quite confident in her skills, even if there are few people in the clock mechanism who are her opponents.

The problem is that Tio is right now by her side. Although he has alchemical equipment such as the "Valkyrie Leg Ring", Theo is not a knight after all, and his physical fitness and reaction speed are definitely not as good as those who have been trained for a long time, and it will be troublesome if the other party is an assassin.

This is not alarmist. There are many enemies in the Eastern Plains, and there have been precedents of high-level clock officials being assassinated by people disguised as ordinary people.

"Take her." But Theo didn't think much about it, and just looked at Frey fixedly: "Let's go together." ”

"But......," Frey frowned.

"I'm very confident in myself."

"Please give me a little bit of that part of your faith......

Frey sighed helplessly and stepped forward to talk to the little blue-haired girl.

As a result, as soon as the other party saw her, he immediately looked like he had seen a cherished monster, and his eyes sparkled and pointed his finger at Frei: "Found it!" ”

What the?! Could it really be an assassin sent by a hostile force!

Frey was startled, and the whole person had entered a state of alert.

But the other party didn't care about this at all, and ran towards them.

"Wait—"

Frey immediately tried to stop the other party, but just as she could utter a word, the ground shook again.

The blue-haired little girl was already unstable because of her running, and the sudden earthquake directly made her snap and fall to the ground in a face-landing position, and then because of the earthquake, the whole person rolled like a can, and directly knocked off the board outside the hotel that said 'Today's Recommended Dishes'.

How so...... It hurts just by looking at it.

But now neither Frey nor Theo had the heart to look at the blue-haired girl whose eyes were about to turn into mosquito coil eyes, and their attention had already been taken away by something else.

It was a tree.

A giant tree that seemed to be made of flesh and blood, looking twisted and disgusting.

The tree was quite far away from their neighborhood, but because of its large size and the smell of fish, it always gave the illusion that the other person was in front of them.

"W-What's that?!" Even after traveling around on a mission with the clock mechanism, covering most of the Eastern Plains, the self-proclaimed well-informed Frey had seen such an ugly creature for the first time, and its mere existence could have made all people of normal mind feel uncomfortable: "Is it a monster?" Just kidding, ......"

It wouldn't be much if it was just disgusting in itself, but the oppression that came from the twisted thing, and the sense of presence that was hard to ignore anyway, kept touching Frey's alert nerves, making her scalp tingle and telling her that the twisted thing was not an easy existence to deal with.

"This creature doesn't exist in the monster literature of the mechanism."

Even Theo showed a rare look of surprise, and she subconsciously hugged the half-finished products in her arms even tighter.

In the next moment, dense spider-like monsters crawled down from the twisted object like a giant tree, as if to cover all of Lovenia...... (To be continued......)