Under the uneven light of the torches, the dark blue ice formed an arched cavity, and the low temperature allowed the moisture to form a thin mist, as if it also froze the sound.

"Brando," Veronica's voice echoed with a buzzing echo, and the lady turned her head, her emerald green eyes reflected in the flickering fire, "How much do you think it will take for Anlek to arrive in the center of this temple?" ”

"Half a day, or forever, it depends on how well Anlek knows this place," Brando's heart was clear to Veronica's question, and he looked into the depths of the ice cave by the light of the torches, his eyes were silent: "But Anlek's cunning is proved by the poet's ballad, and he exercises his iron-fisted rule on the plateau, will such a man kill himself?" ”

"A fanatical belief in the oneness of all things would have caused him to do so, but not necessarily stupidly, I've dealt with those guys, and I know them well." Veronica looked at him and replied.

"So we have half a day?"

"The worst-case scenario, yes, maybe more, but it's not worth counting on." Brando replied.

"Can we get there before that?"

Brando didn't answer the question, he turned his head, his gaze fixed on someone—wrong, a dragon. Star, who was under his gaze, looked unhappy, and the little fat man wiped the honey from the corner of his mouth, frowning and muttering, "Don't look at me like that, this road must be faster, I sweared-"

"What do you swear by?" Brando asked carefully, "Let's say, swearing by the scales of the third gold sè under Bahamut's neck?" ”

"Ahh You guy! Starr shouted. During the Second War with Dusk, the Serpent of the Atrium, Jörmungård, bit Bahamut's neck, and the third golden scale fell off and was lost, just as a warrior's scar is a badge, perhaps out of the same psychology, the dragons saw the lost scales as a symbol of eternal courage and honor.

Take an oath with the scales of this gold sè, the oath made. They are the most sacred oaths of the dragon family. Even for a cynical guy like Star, he didn't dare to disobey at will.

"Do you know what you're talking about, you actually made me make a sacred oath!?" The little fat man shouted angrily.

"But it's even more unfortunate below, isn't it? You work for me, but I have to make my employees swear to believe your words, is there a more unfortunate boss in the world? Martha watched from heaven as this mortal world took place. But there is nothing more absurd than that. Sta, someone told me not to believe you, you know why-" Brando glanced at the little she-dragon before she slowly replied.

Starr opened her mouth before replying, "That's for the enemy, that's not lying......"

"If you're not lying, then swearing doesn't hurt anyone's honor, does it?" Brando smiled slightly, and Shiduo and Akane, who were standing next to him, felt that the earl's smile at this moment really looked like a nobleman and a lord.

Self-confidence, hidden cunning-

"Okay. Alright," Starr replied dejectedly in front of everyone, "I swear by the third scale of the dragon god, this qiē is true, this path will be the fastest shortcut, and I bet we will get ahead of the old man." Just—"

"Only?"

"As long as you're not going down the wrong path......" Starr muttered quietly.

"You wouldn't mean to take the wrong path, would you?" Brando looked at him.

"Enough, I got it!" The little fat dragon was almost made a little nervous by Brando, and couldn't help but scream angrily.

Brando turned back to Veronica, meaning that this was the answer to the question, and the lady gave him a reproachful look, which seemed to her to be a little too much to offend a dragon for such a trivial matter.

Although the dragon is still very young. And the behavior is somewhat eccentric.

"We have to stop Anlek." She replied, and this sentence made Shiduo and Laurena behind her nod.

But Brando remembered a question. He raised his head and looked at Shiduo, "Miss Scholar, what prompted you to use the Magic Moonstone to activate those liquid monsters?" ”

Shiduo was startled by Brando's gaze, her slender eyebrows twitched slightly, like moth feathers, but quickly calmed down: "I—I really just want to try to activate them." ”

"Count Toniger," the eldest son of the Emperor had not spoken at this time, and Lenaret glanced at Brando, and reminded faintly: "Miss Shiduo is a descendant of the Thun family, and I want to remind you of what we Cruz honor is defended with?" ”

Brando turned: "Iron and blood before, pride and prejudice now?" ”

"Alright, don't argue." Shi Duo called softly, interrupting the two: "Mr. Earl? ”

Brando shook his head, "I'm not suspicious of you, Miss Shiduo, my question is, how did you suddenly think of activating them with magic moonstones." ”

Shiduo's eyes lit up slightly, the spark of memory in her heart flashed, and she raised her head on her back: "By the way, that's right, I found something." ”

"Something?"

"Some...... It's a strange discovery, you must want to take a look," Shiduo paused: "I'm sorry, I was too nervous before, and I forgot to mention it for a while." ”

"It's okay." As expected, Brando turned around, his brow furrowed, his gaze following the light of the torches as it spread along the ice walls into the darkness.

He seemed to get the answer he wanted.

……

The other side of the ice cave -

The young lord's gaze swept over the bones that were half immersed in darkness, a little over five feet tall, and no more than six feet tall - this was clearly not the remains of the frost giants.

He lowered the torches, and the dancing light rippled along the ice like water ripples, reflecting the full picture of the bones. The first skeleton was dressed in a robe, which froze to the ground like a piece of paper, and Brando crouched down beside it. Tearing off a piece by hand, the fabric is a little strange, not like cotton.

"This is Lunsa linen." Shiduo's voice, she had obviously examined the remains: "The slanted texture is their most striking feature—"

"Familiar to you?" Brando asked without looking back.

"No, Monsieur Earl, it is not my knowledge of the textile industry and the development of clothing, but only ......"

"It's just that it's famous." Brando took her words confidently.

Shiduo looked at the Earl with some surprise.

"Are these dead human?" Veronica asked suddenly.

"But why are humans here?" Laurenna asked, a little curiously.

"Explorers, perhaps." "These people are very famous everywhere, and the mystery of the unknown lost in the ancient ruins attracts them like a deadly poison to the fire, and I have seen many such stories," said Firas, who confidently put his opinion on the ground. ”

"It's not a story." Laurenna shattered his illusions straightly.

"But ......"

Miss Laurena was right. It is wealth, greed, not dreams, that attracts explorers. Metisa's voice replied faintly, and she smiled as always: "In our time. There are many explorers who are not separated from the tomb robbers, and their reputation is not good. ”

"It's the same now." Lorenna gave her fiancé a blank look.

Firas pursed his lips and shrugged helplessly.

"These aren't explorers, are they?" Veronica didn't have to get involved in the young man's argument, she approached Brando's side and asked in a low voice.

"Doesn't a style of armor on their bodies mean a thing," Brando turned his head and looked at Veronica who asked knowingly with some amusement, "I don't believe you will not see this, my lordship?" ”

"They're military, but on that side? Eruin, or Highland Knights? ”

"Neither."

"Neither?"

"See this?" Brando picked up the rag in his hand. Shook it.

"Linen?" Veronica frowned, the Legionnaire Lady seemed to be thinking, but a page of linen seemed to make no associations for her, and could only trap her in a labyrinth of thoughts.

Fortunately, Brando did not intend to waste any more time, and he just replied: "Lunsa flax is only grown in the north of the silver sè bay." The fabric it makes is not the mainstream nowadays, but it is a very famous plant. ”

He placed the piece of fabric on the page of the book that Shiduo was holding in both hands, "Miss Shiduo, you can answer." ”

"I ...... Lunsa flax is famous because it was widely cultivated by the Minr people, and the cloth made from it was once the main material for the clothing of the Miner dynasty. Shi Duo paused for a moment, but immediately answered.

"Miner?" Veronica looked up. Some incredulous: "Brando, you're saying these people are Miner." ”

"The Miners are originally humans, and modern humans are their descendants, whether they are Cruze, Eruin, or mountain people, in fact, in terms of appearance and height, they are no different from Minr - if they are all bones." Brando replied.

"You're saying that the Miner people used to be here, and that legend of them crossing the glacier is true?"

"Who knows......"

Brando's mind suddenly recalled the previous dream, the huge rift gorge repeatedly appeared in his mind, as if it was clearly within reach, the Miner people in black sè linen robes danced strangely on the edge of the rift, and then a group of priests came up carrying a golden sè chest.

They were chanting something at a loud voice, but the sound couldn't penetrate the dream, it was blurry, and finally the men shouted in unison and dropped the box down the rift.

Brando shook his head before the illusion was banished from his mind.

He instinctively felt that these Miner people who died here might have some kind of mysterious connection with the qiē he saw in his dreams. It's just that he didn't want to think too much about it, so he was silent for a while, then turned around and asked, "Shiduo, what else did you find in these people?" ”

"I found that their armor and weapons had lost their magic, and this ......" Miss Scholar walked over and removed a small bag from each corpse, which was supposed to be their money bag, Shido opened the money bag one by one, and then poured out the contents.

It was a lot of small diamonds, but dull and looked more like glass.

"The Miner use magic crystals as currency, but the magic in these crystals has long since escaped." Brando glanced at the diamonds and understood what Shiduo meant, and he replied, "No, these magic powers should have been absorbed, so you doubt—"

He raised his head and glanced at the silver liquid in the east and west of the ice cave.

Shiduo nodded.

……