"Welcome, Lord Randy. A middle-aged and slightly chubby officer sat behind the table, looked at Zhou Lie and his party with a smile and said, without the slightest intention of getting up.

"Receiving a secret order from the Prime Minister, we have the right to cooperate with you in your search work, and the specific matters can be discussed with the officers of the Intelligence Service, if it is necessary to transfer subordinates, there is a patrol team available here, as long as it does not interfere with the normal operation of Mephisburg, we will fully cooperate. ”

"That couldn't be better. Randy smiled, "I wonder if there's been a Magister from Theonlis who has been here lately, it's a Magister named Kuwait." ”

The middle-aged officer shook his head, "I know who comes in Mephisburg every day, not to mention the arrival of the Magister, those people will make a lot of noise everywhere they go, but nothing like this has happened recently, so the person you want to see should not have arrived yet." ”

Randy nodded, thanked him, and left the office.

Accompanying Randy to meet the top person in charge of Mephisburg were Alfred and Friede, Zhou Lie didn't want to go through this useless process, and as soon as Layla entered the city, she was attracted by the unique architectural style of the city, so Zhou Lie took the opportunity to take Layla to investigate first, and avoided this trouble.

"Your Excellency Randy, what is the origin of that little young master in the East, no one will give face. Leaving the officer's room, Alfred muttered with some displeasure, and at the officer's countenance, the dissolute thief was very unhappy.

"It's okay to tell you, he is the prince of the Xia Kingdom, and with the eyesight of the two of you, you can also find that he is not a simple character. Randy simply sold Zhou Lie.

"No wonder he is secretive about his identity, and we don't necessarily believe it when he says this background. ”

"But whoever it is, it doesn't hinder our work, and don't ask why he should agree to our request in his honorable capacity for him to appear here. ”

"Haha, of course I know. Alfred snorted haha, "Who hasn't ordered the past and secrets, right, living to my age, naturally knows very well, curiosity kills cats, curiosity kills cats." ”

"But the Magus, no, how do we find the star?"

"First of all, we will investigate the surrounding anomalies, we will investigate all the anomalous events that may be related to magic one by one, narrow the scope of the search in Kuwait, calculate the date, the other party should also arrive in these two days, we will first go to the intelligence department to transfer all the abnormal cases in the past few days. Landy said.

"Ahh Alfred cried bitterly.

Ignoring Alfred's complaints, the three of them went to the Intelligence Department and began to investigate the file, and the officials here were greeted beforehand, so they cooperated with Randy's request.

Not to mention the three people who are working hard here, Zhou Liezheng and Layla are eating and drinking on the streets of Mephisburg, which used to be a wartime fortress, and the soldiers here may face enemies at any time, in order to ensure that the soldiers can always be on duty, most of the food here is simple and fast barbecue products, but now it has become a feature, and many dishes have been developed.

The aroma of the food is usually the appetite of the ditch people, not to mention the aroma of barbecue, sprinkled with spices such as natural pepper, the smell wafts through the street, as long as people walk into this barbecue street, they will be hungry for it, and want to enter the store to eat two bites of tender barbecue.

Now He Zhou Lie and Layla are deeply tempted by this aroma, and the taste of spices is mixed with the fragrance of meat fat, which makes their stomachs scream involuntarily.

"Sure enough, the meat still has to be grilled to be delicious. Zhou Lie took a knife to cut a piece of roast lamb chops, and watched the golden fat overflow from the meat, and the aroma was overflowing.

"This is our unique grilled lamb chops, and it's different from other places. The shopkeeper was a rough man, and when he came to Zhou Lie with the dishes, he heard his praise and came over with a smile.

"It's lamb. Zhou Lie asked.

"Yes, the guests are coming from afar, and if you come from the west, you will find that the fields are full of sheep, and most of the mutton on our street is bought from those shepherds. ”

"We came from the direction of Babylon, but we only saw the mountains as far as our eyes could see, and there were many small villages along the way, which are also said to belong to Mephisburg?" Zhou Lie asked curiously.

The boss nodded, and said, "That's right, those villages used to be supply depots for this fortress during the war, and now they are much better, but they don't have the same developed animal husbandry as on the other side." ”

"May I ask the boss what condiments are used for this barbecue? Layla asked, with a mouthful of oil on her mouth, it seemed that it was the first time that Layla had eaten such a delicious barbecue with a knife.

"Hehe, that's our secret. The boss smiled mysteriously, "If you like it, you can come and visit more, and you can take it out." ”

"By the way, boss, where can I see that grassland, we have bumpy mountain roads all the way, and we have never seen that kind of grassland. Thinking of the kind of prairie that can let wild sheep spread all over the mountains, Zhou Lie felt fascinated.

"Ah, if the guests want to see the scenery, then naturally they go to the watchtower where the castle is, in the past it was a watchtower for military warning, and now it still plays a similar role, but the general public has been allowed to go up and visit, saying that it is to develop what kind of tourism, I don't know what those officials think, but there are really many people who pay to go up, you can go to the west wall to see. ”

Zhou Lie thanked the boss, and the two of them settled the plate of Chinese food, packed two bags of barbecue as a gift for Randy and them in the evening, and headed for the west side of Mephisburg.

Half of these gifts were brought out of Layla's apology for feeling lazy, and they were supposed to go with Randy to meet the commander of the fortress, who is now the current archon, and conduct an initial search, while now eating, drinking, and merrymaking.

However, Zhou Lie didn't have this kind of consciousness at all, he was originally half threatened and half discussed, and was basically in an equal cooperation mode, so he had to accommodate all kinds of cumbersome etiquette here, which was something he couldn't bear.

When you come to the western wall of Mephisburg, sure enough, there are huge watchtowers for the coming year, and behind the towering walls, you can see the end of the valley.

At this point, we finally reached the edge of the Philins Mountains, opposite the endless starry sea grassland, where the nomads who had been a headache for the Marston Empire gathered, these brave and warlike people lived in pursuit of water and grass, good at swords and arrows, and every adult man and woman was a qualified warrior.

However, the mighty warrior tribe could not resist the conquest of the well-swords-swords, the Marston Legion, and the magicians, and ten years ago, the layoff tribe finally bowed to the empire and was incorporated into the territory of the Marston Empire.

On the watchtower, the breeze blows, and the field of vision can reach extremely far away, and the grass that is half a human height floats with the wind, like waves, which is a veritable sea of grass, and a few white clouds disappear from time to time on the grassland, which is a flock of sheep that are gnawing on the grass.

Suddenly, a green tornado appeared in the grassland, like a spear, breaking through the sea of grass and bringing up countless broken leaves.

Seeing this abnormal scene, Zhou Lie and Layla both frowned, this was obviously not a natural scenery, Layla felt a surge of magic power from it, and in Zhou Lie's eyes, there was a serious elemental turbulence in that area.

And the gale that drove straight forward like a spear came straight towards the fortress, and when it came closer, the soldiers stationed below noticed something unusual, and rang the alarm bells, closed the gates, and waited for the battle.

As he approached the fortress, the turquoise tornado of the wind suddenly weakened, and a panicked voice came out of it.

"Get out of the way!!"

"Boom. "Poof. ”

Before the soldiers could react, a green figure rushed straight into the watchtower, and with a sound of chaos and wood chips breaking, a watchtower slowly toppled over.

"Icicles, rise. Layla waved her hand, and as the watchtower on the opposite side was about to topple, an icicle sprang up from the side, then became stout and held up the falling watchtower.

"Ah, that's pretty good. It was still the same voice, but it seemed healthy and lively at the moment, and it was completely free from the panic it had before.

Then with the screams of the crowd, Zhou Lie found that under the protection of a circle of green magic, the people on the watchtower were wrapped in it, and slowly fell, and finally fell in front of the soldiers, a man wearing a mage robe.

It was a man in his early forties at the end of a month, his falcon-like eyes showed that he was a very wise man, he always had a confident and arrogant smile on his lips, his right hand slowly fell, and the group of civilians fell safely to the ground, and then the man looked at the soldiers in front of him, stretched out his hands and said, "Welcome me, I am the Wind Magus, Kuwait." ”

The soldiers looked at each other blankly, and finally a man who looked like an officer stepped forward to show the insignia of his unit, reported his name and affiliation, and then said to Kuwait, "Since you destroyed our watchtower and caused panic, please go to our consul's place to report, and please do not use magic at will when you are in the city."

In the face of the rude behavior of this group of soldiers, Kuwait's face was still calm and calm, but what he said surprised Layla on the side.

"And what about this girl who uses ice magic?" Kuwait gestured to where Layla was, and then with a burst of force, pulled Layla to the ground, "She also used magic." ”