Leobold Tegrelit, anyone who has lived in Luther for more than a year will have heard of his murderous name to a greater or lesser extent.

Leobard Ben was a gold-level adventurer, a top-notch warrior who was once part of the famous gold-level expedition team "Blade of Light". Later, it is said that he was too murderous and left the Blade of Light under the persuasion of its commander, and became a free adventurer again. However, soon after this, he formed the Bloody Blade Thieves Regiment, which specialized in robbing and killing the nobles and wealthy merchants who passed by, and the killing methods were extremely cruel, and the scope of their activities was in the territory of Luther City, and their actions were extremely rampant. The Adventurers' Guild was aware of Leoberd's danger, and after removing him, he also tried several times with Luther City Hall to eliminate the Bloodblade Thieves, but repeatedly allowed him to escape. Over time, the Bloodblade Thieves became more and more famous, ranking eighth among the top ten thieves wanted by the Adventurers Association.

Claire had also heard of Leoberd's name, and his face was not very good when he heard the news, so he nodded to Ed: "In that case, I'll let him come here to talk to you." ”

Claire looked at Maddie and said, "Have someone from the Communications Department inform Kenneth to come here." ”

Maddie nodded, turned and headed out for the Academy's communications department.

The Communication Department is not a subordinate department of the Student Union, but one of the subordinate departments of the College, and its main business is to receive and transmit important information about the College, and sometimes it can also convey notices to students for the Student Union, and the means is the student registration card in the hands of each student.

Different from the principle of the communication station, the communication department can only rely on a simple second-order magic "information transmission" of the wind system and the superb sky stone at the top of the Lutheran Tower to transmit information to each student's school registration card, so this communication method can only take effect in the Lutheran School of Magic, and Kenneth, who is now outside the academy, naturally cannot receive this message.

When the on-duty officer in the Communications Department informed Maddy of this, Maddie's heart sank, and she hurried back to the president's office to inform Claire and Ed of Kenneth's absence at the Academy.

However, Kenneth and Mick, who are in the Barrow market, don't know all this, and still choose carefully in the market.

Kenneth was born in a poor family, the eldest son in the family, and had visited the market with his parents, and he was good at bargaining with an uncle who sold fish, much to the horror of Mick on the side.

I saw this tall and muscular fish seller uncle shouting loudly: "Boy, do you know that this is a high-end product that was just caught today?!" Ten copper coins want to take it, are you dreaming?! Only thirty-five copper coins! ”

Not to be outdone, Kenneth shot back: "Ha, it's afternoon now, where is it still fresh?" ”

This uncle is also an anxious man, and when he heard Kenneth say this, he was immediately unhappy, and approached Kenneth's face and narrowed his eyes and said, "You kid dare to say that my fish are not fresh?" ”

To say that this uncle is also a man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, there is a scar on the corner of his mouth, which looks very intimidating. If ordinary people were stared at by him like this, how would they dare to say anything, but Kenneth was an ordinary person, but he resisted the uncle's forehead and said: "Let's just say it, the high-end goods you are talking about are a tabby fish, and I can only sell ten copper coins at most, so you can say whether to sell it or not." ”

The uncle was stunned, he had never seen such a horizontal ghost, and he actually saw through his lies. Tabby is not a high-end ingredient, but it is very similar to another more advanced ingredient, bear-striped fish, if you don't carefully distinguish it, it is easy to get confused, and tabby because of the more fish bones, so it is not loved by most white people, but southerners prefer it, and it can be sold here for one to two copper coins per catty. The tabby fish in front of him weighed about five kilograms, and the boss originally planned to slaughter the little ghost in front of him, but he didn't expect that this little ghost who didn't look old was also an expert, and he could see that it was a tabby fish.

But even so, the price of this tabby fish is more than ten copper coins, how can Kenneth's asking boss accept it, so he puffed up his chest and said: "If you don't buy it, go away, so as not to disturb my business!" ”

"Oh? Then I'll just stand here and tell the people who come to buy the fish that these are ordinary tiger striped fish! At this time, Kenneth's brain seemed to be enlightened, and he wanted to be as clever as he was.

The boss gritted his teeth, although he didn't explicitly say that these fish were bear-shaped fish, but he could mislead others into thinking so, even if he bought them back and found out that they weren't right, he couldn't trouble himself, so if Kenneth was so stirred up, he would lose more than a dozen copper coins.

"You're a great kid! I admit it, ten copper coins, you take it. The uncle shook his hand, packed the fish and handed it to Kenneth, and hurried out of the store like a plague god.

Mick took the bag from Kenneth's hand and put it in the Ring of Darkness, and said with a smile, "Kenny, your bargaining skills are really unabated!" ”

Kenneth said complacently: "Of course, when we were still in Tushan Town before, we didn't look at who helped you bargain for books?" ”

As if remembering the past, a thick smile appeared on Mick's face: "Yes, remember that your uncle and aunt always have to take you to the market!" ”

"That's it! My bargaining skills are also well-known near our Tushan Town, but I got acquainted with those uncles and aunts later, so I was embarrassed to bargain. Kenneth laughed.

After Mick used his mental power to find out the ingredients in the ring, he said to Kenneth, "Auston has almost bought all the ingredients he explained, and we should go back." ”

Kenneth stuffed the sesame candy in his hand into his mouth, looked at the Barrow Market, where the shops were scattered, and said with some regret: "That's it, it's a pity that I didn't come at night, I didn't finish the puppet show last time, and I don't know how it will end...... It's all because Bran suddenly had diarrhea! ”

Despite complaining, Kenneth obediently followed Mick back, and was about to hang his head when he saw a tall man in a wide cloak and shrouded in shadows walking towards him and Mick.

Now that the cold spell has passed, and people have changed back into their usual light clothes, this man's outfit is clearly strange and eye-catching. But Kenneth also looked at it curiously, and then didn't pay attention to it, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, maybe this is someone's quirk?

However, just as Kenneth and the mysterious man staggered by, the dragon's heart shook violently, Kenneth was startled, but before he could make a warning, there was a pain in his abdomen, Kenneth looked down and saw that the cloth around his waist had been broken, revealing a shallow wound under it, and blood beads came out and blood flowed down in wisps.

Kenneth tightened his wound and looked back at the mysterious man, only to find that he had already turned into the next intersection, so he said to Mick, "I'll go back" and chased after the man.

"Kenny! What happened?! Mick yelled strangely at Kenneth's rapidly disappearing back, and after thinking about it, he felt uneasy, and followed.

As for the mysterious man, it seems that he did it on purpose, always showing his body when Kenneth was about to lose so that Kenneth could follow in time, but he couldn't catch up.

About twenty minutes later, Kenneth stopped in front of an old mansion with a locked gate, and he saw with his own eyes that the mysterious man had climbed over the wall to enter, but the old mansion was ...... Isn't it the ancient mansion that he and Marcas came to investigate four months ago?

"Could it be...... That man? Kenneth had a slight guess about the identity of the mysterious man, who had punched a man that day and burned him with magic, but was eventually allowed to escape because of the other thieves, only to learn that the man was the leader of the band.

"Dare to come back and attack me? You're not a little cowardly, huh? Just send you to meet your brother. Although it was only a punch, Kenneth clearly felt that the man was not his opponent, so Kenneth climbed up the iron door and climbed into the vestibule of the ancient mansion without hesitation, but did not see the figure of the mysterious man.

"Hmm...... If memory serves......" Kenneth muttered as he walked to the dry fountain in the center of the vestibule.

In the center of the fountain is a stone pillar, which remains spotless even after all this time. At the top of the pillar is an eerie statue of a human body with a sheep's head, while around it are kneeling human statues facing in all directions. It is said that the owner of this ancient mansion was also a nobleman, but one day it suddenly disappeared, leaving this empty mansion, and it is rumored that it is haunted. It wasn't until the recent announcement of the auction at the City Hall that Cristel wanted to buy it, so he commissioned the Lutheran School of Magic to investigate it and exorcise any ghosts or curses that might exist in it, but unexpectedly caused death.

Kenneth slowly twisted the male goat statue facing the gate so that it was facing the gate, and then turned the four human statues so that they were facing the male goat.

After all this was done, all that could be heard was a muffled "rattle", and Kenneth jumped off the stone pillar and pushed it aside with all his might, revealing the steps beneath the pillar and the dark tunnel.

Of course, this mechanism was not something Kenneth could discover, and that day he and Marcus searched the interior of the ancient mansion and found nothing, nor did they find anything strange, until he was about to return, Marcus sensed the strangeness of this fountain with his experience and intuition, and locked his eyes on the statue on the stone pillar according to the grinding marks at the bottom of the stone pillar, and finally discovered this secret passage, and then found the Bloodblade Thieves hiding inside.

Kenneth didn't hesitate either, taking out the wand from the Spatial Ring (a gift from everyone on Kenneth's birthday), using illumination to illuminate the path ahead, and then walking into the dark tunnel.

And just after Kenneth's back disappeared in the tunnel, the stone pillar slowly moved to block the entrance to the tunnel, and the statue on it was restored to its original state.