Heavy clouds covered the sky, silver lightning flickered in the clouds, and dense raindrops swooped down into the black earth like transparent arrows.

In the heavy rain, the group trudged through the mud on horseback, the rain trickling down the hood, and the black cloak was wet and clinging to the body, revealing the shape of the armor inside.

No one spoke, only the sound of wind and rain remained between heaven and earth, and occasionally a muffled thunder rolled overhead.

After a few more miles, a small village appeared in the rain.

"Let's take a break here." The leader said loudly.

Naturally, the others did not object, and they turned their horses' heads and soon entered the village.

The village was really small, there were only six or seven houses in total, and they stopped at the door of one of the largest houses, and someone dismounted and knocked on the door.

The owner of the house, an honest peasant, had a look of horror in his eyes, but for the sake of the gold coins, he summoned up the courage to open the gate, led the horses into his own cattle pen, and carefully fed some fodder.

His wife, a stout woman, lit a fire in the kitchen with her hands and feet and began to boil water for cooking.

A teenage boy looked nervously at the guests in the room, a little nervous, but still couldn't help but look curiously and secretly.

After the cloak was removed, the little boy found that there were orcs, elves and dwarves in this team, and the badge on their chests, which he had seen with his father when he had visited the village of Gurudin not long ago, belonged to a mercenary group called Warfire, and I heard that it was a very famous mercenary group.

The vast majority of boys are always very concerned about this kind of thing.

The man brought a brazier, and the mercenaries sat around it to bake their soaked clothes.

"It's really unlucky, such a heavy rain ......"

The grizzly bear grumbled as he wrung the water off his clothes.

"Kai, how long will it take to get to the wasteland?" Leygin asked with a bitter face.

The elf looked very embarrassed, and his white-blond hair had lost its former brilliance, drooping, and the rain was dripping.

"What? Regretted it? Yana glanced at him.

"No, no, no! Just ask. ”

The elf shook his head quickly, the rain in his hair was thrown everywhere, and the people sitting next to him frowned.

"If the weather is good, it should take another two days."

Mu Kai said calmly, in fact, he was also a little irritated in his heart, this sudden rainstorm seemed to indicate that their trip to the wasteland would not be smooth sailing.

"I heard that the demon Balles was sealed there, and because Barles used black magic to form today's wasteland, the mages of the ivory tower took action and sealed him under the wasteland."

Salene's mood was not affected by the rainstorm, and she still had endless things to say.

"It's scary to think about, how much strength does it take to do something like this?"

The female dwarf has a keen interest in all kinds of anecdotes, but unfortunately most of the rumors she hears are not true.

"Hey, you say, Balles won't have run out, right? Will you run into him this time? Edith said with some concern.

Everyone shook their heads and sighed at the same time.

Their guide has a lot in common with the dwarf Salene, they are all the same simple and cute, but they are a little unreliable.

Kai Zhe said with a smile: "That kind of character, how can you say that you can see it?" ”

The heat of the flames gradually dried up the dampness on their bodies, and the mercenaries were in a much better mood, and they began to talk about the legendary demon one by one.

"Kay, do you know the story of Barles? A little more realistic. ”

The middle-aged mage asked suddenly, and the others also looked over, and in their impressions, Mu Kai seemed to know a lot of things that others didn't know.

"O Balles......"

Mu Kai looked at the brazier in front of him and said softly, "If that demon Ballis is a magician from the ivory tower, would you be surprised?" ”

"What?"

"How is this possible?"

The mercenaries exclaimed.

The name of the ivory tower was too loud for them to accept that the demon Balles had been one of them.

The little boy who was sitting in the corner and listening to them was startled by the mercenary reaction, and seemed to want to get up and leave, but hesitated for a moment and sat down again.

Stories and legends have always had an irresistible attraction for children.

"I believe it, I believe it! What about the back? ”

The female dwarf urged on the side, looking impatient.

"Everyone knows that the ivory tower is a sacred place for magicians, in fact, it was originally established to study and restore the magic of giants, which is now black magic. During the time of the Elmoadine Empire, it was the heyday of the ivory tower, and the magicians there wielded great power, even rivaling the empire of the time, and the strongest of those magicians was the Balles, known as the Demon. ”

As Mu Kai spoke, the farmer came over with boiling hot water and poured water for the mercenaries in a crude clay bowl, he didn't care at all what the mercenaries were saying, probably thinking that at least they didn't look like bad people, and his face no longer showed nervous expressions.

Mukai took a sip of hot water and continued: "Balles is a descendant of a fallen royal family, with royal blood, so he is qualified to enter the ivory tower to study, and he quickly showed excellent talent, he was fascinated by the study of giant magic, and mastered the power close to that of giants.

Maybe that kind of power is not something that humans can have, and he has been eaten back by the power and has begun to breed ambitions, or it may have no effect at all, but the empire and the ivory tower feel that their position is threatened, so they decide to unite against Balles.

The process in the middle is no longer verifiable, but the final battlefield is in the current wasteland, which was still fertile land at that time.

Barles summoned an army of demons to confront the mages of the ivory tower, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and in the end, the invincible mage band united to cast the strongest forbidden spell, of course, the forbidden spell is also black magic.

The collision of black magic and black magic formed a violent explosion, and Balles was defeated and sealed underground, and the once grassland was turned into a wasteland due to the side effects of black magic.

A large number of innocent civilians were reduced to ashes in the magic duel, and such a large basket was poked out, whether it was the empire or the ivory tower, it was natural to find someone to be responsible, so the rest of the matter was like that. ”

"Fuck, Balles carried the black cauldron?"

As soon as Mu Kai's words fell, Grizzly Bear couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

"Barles is so pitiful."

Salene said with some sadness: "I was wronged, and I was sealed underground for hundreds of years. ”

Mu Kai sighed and said, "Who is right and who is wrong, how can you make it clear now?" Barles is not necessarily a good person, but it is unfair to put all the fault on him alone. ”