The mage picked up the quill that Lanster had handed her, carefully translated the contents of the letter in lingua franca, and copied it on the blank scroll. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

With her handwriting, Lancet read the main content of the letter, and then he suppressed his excitement and waited until Moria had stopped writing before taking the scroll she had translated.

Ranster checked the contents again, and didn't smile until he saw the words "Golden Page" appear on it.

There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.

This sentence popped into his head.

The translated contents revealed that the letter was not simply a letter from inside the Horn of Fear.

"The golden light will go away from the gaze of the maid, and it will bring light to the people of the eternal night."

Ranster chewed on the meaning of the above sentence carefully, and his mind began to spin rapidly, thinking about the information about the "handmaiden" and "eternal night".

That's when the benefits of being a gamer come into full play. A map of the world of Tyrenriel automatically popped into Ranster's mind, and he began to recall the areas he had ventured into, information about these two keywords.

If he didn't expect, "Eternal Night" should refer to the Eternal Night Harbor located in the southeast corner of the Mersel Continent, which means that the other party should be referring to the waterway.

But Lancet remembered all the ports he could remember, including the boulder gates on Dwarven Long Island, but he still couldn't think of a port for maids anywhere.

The mage glanced at the frowning Ranster and took the scroll from his hand.

She also spotted the riddle-like message at a glance, and soon had an idea of her own.

"Does this so-called 'maid' refer to Makana's Knight's Strait?" Moria pointed to the location of the anagram on the scroll and continued, "I remember that there were many stone statues on both sides of the strait there. ”

Hearing the words of the female mage, it dawned on Ranster that he had been too obsessed with the relationship between place and name and neglected the other connections.

"Yes, there are indeed two rows of statues of maids." Lancet nodded, Makana's Knights Strait was not only a port for wartime warships, but also the departure place for Makana's royal family members to be buried at sea after their deaths.

The statue of the maid there was specially created to reflect the royal family's remembrance and respect for the deceased.

Although he didn't experience the Second Blood Moon War in the game, Lancet can be said to be familiar with the history of that period of more than ten years ago.

On that day, the cultists of Aukus snatched all three pages from Celestial City, leading to a demonic invasion that heralded the dawn of the Year of Chaos.

Judging from the contents of this secret letter, the Horn of Dread has set its sights on a ship that will soon be heading for Eternal Night Harbor via the Knight's Strait, and it is highly likely that it will contain the golden pages of their dreams.

It seems that Eternal Night Harbor is their next stop.

……

Lord Damien sat in his chair, looking back and forth at the two men standing at the table.

Although he knew that this long-eared guy and the female mage who hid her identity would leave sooner or later, he didn't expect it to come so soon.

But in any case, an order is an order.

The Lord of the Northshire signed the blank pass with his name and handed it to Ranster.

Lancet reached for the rolled-up paper, but couldn't pull it out of Damien's hand.

"I'm curious, who the hell are you?" The Lord of the Northshire narrowed his eyes and stared at Ranster, he still didn't know what the origin of the half-elf in front of him was.

"Like you said the other day, just a swordsman and a lady." Lancet replied with the words he had teased himself and the female mage.

Lord Damien pursed his lips when he heard this, and relaxed the strength in his hand. Lancet put the rolled pass close to his body and left the room with the female mage.

"Tell Master Loris that I've done what he told me to do." Damien, who walked to the window, watched the two war horses run out of his lord's mansion one after the other, and said to the guards behind him.

……

The two of them left the Lord's Mansion and did not rush to the Northern Fortress, and Lanster took the mage to buy a lot of necessities for the next adventure in the town, including food, fur cloaks and sleeping bags, and other adventure items such as torches and ropes.

Ranster obtained a silver-gray steel crossbow from the blacksmith Moss, which, according to Moss, was the work of a dwarven blacksmith and has been kept as a family heirloom.

Lancet examined the crossbow and found that it was indeed from traditional dwarven craft. With its small size and powerful crossbow arrows, it's an excellent weapon for assassination or sneak attacks.

Pressing the bolt into the smoothbore to secure it, Lancet hung the delicate crossbow at his waist within reach.

After making all the preparations, the two men rode their horses and galloped towards the north.

The farther north went, the cooler the air became, and soon Lancet and the mage each had a fur cloak and soft leather gloves.

The Coldridge Mountains were getting closer and closer to Lance's eyes, and tiny snowflakes began to fall in the sky. The horses' hooves stirred up falling snow and frozen ground in the shallow snow, which was soon obscured by falling snowflakes.

"Put on your hat, a blizzard is coming." Lancet looked at the distant sky and instructed Moria, who was beside him.

The other obediently put on his hood and only exposed his chin.

Lancet's runic horse ran ahead, and the female mage's horse panted as she struggled to follow.

The Northern Fortress was already in the sights of the two.

……

As the first checkpoint to detect and defend against the invasion of northern orcs, the northern fortress is of great strategic importance.

Built on a breach in the Coldridge Mountains, this fortress has never been breached by orcs in history, and has been impregnable since the reign of the Heder Empire, under the protection of the mages and mages stationed there.

Led by the guards at the fortress gates, the two Lancets soon found the commander inside the fortress.

"What are you going to do in the Coldridge Mountains?" The commander asked bluntly, and he hurriedly glanced at the pass that Lancet handed over, and threw it aside.

"Back to Aden, our home is over there." Rance replied with a pretext he had already thought of.

"The orcs of the north have been harassing the villages near here, and quite a few refugees from the north have run outside the fortress to ask for help." He glanced at the other man's equipment and continued, "If you go out now, it won't take you a day to become one of those refugees." ”