In the misty forest, day by day, there is not much difference, the rain has stopped all night, and the forest is filled with a fresh breath.

Feida and Koster sat on the ground in front of the hut, Feida holding a branch in her hand, playing with it boredly. "Before we go, remember that the Great Elf King said that he would close the Elven Kingdom, perhaps, Nosilio's disappearance has something to do with it. ”

Kster nodded in agreement, "It's just that the magic of the Great Elf King is too magical, I thought that the elves should just close the entrance and exit of the main city, but I didn't expect that you were not there, and there was really nothing on the grass." ”

"I've heard Lolita say that the magic of magic can't be understood by outsiders, and the Great Elf King is one of the few powerful magicians in the whole continent. ”

"Phaida, one more thing. On my way to the main elven city, I stumbled upon an artificially buried elven corpse that had suffered a great deal of torture before he died. ”

"Is it a slave catcher?" asked Feida curiously.

"It's not like the slave catchers don't have that ability, the wound is so terrible, it's like being burned by fire. Thinking of the death of the elf in the hollow of the tree, Köster still had a lingering palpitation.

"Say it again, what kind of wound?" With a creak of the door opening, the door of the cabin opened, and the voice of the old man Mousse came from inside.

Kerst and Ferda jumped to their feet, "Grandma Mousse, did you hear it?"

"Come in and talk about it. Mousse commanded.

"The magic power of the Great Elf King is unfathomable, at the end of the Magic Empire, his spiritual magic is close to the Archon of the Magic Empire, and after this thousand years, if anyone can make the whole of Nosirio disappear, it is him.

As for the wound you mentioned, it reminds me of something, Caster, Feda, come down with me. ”

The secret passage in the house opened again, and the old man Mousse led the two of them down the stairs to the underground library. "I have the impression that there are several martial arts on the continent that cause the kind of penetrating wounds with burning marks you mentioned, and without exception, these martial arts are all on the list of adventurers guilds. ”

As they spoke, the three of them walked through the rows of bookshelves, "It's not here, it's not here, it's not here, it's not here, it's not here." The old man Mousse, who had a few words, finally stopped in front of a small bookshelf in the corner, reached out and took out an old parchment book, opened the cover and looked at it carefully, "Well, that's right." ”

Kerst and Feida hurriedly got together, and it was recorded in the book that about a few hundred years ago, there was a genius dark magician on the continent, who used attack magic to martial arts for the first time to stimulate the potential of martial artists, so that martial artists can attack from afar like magicians, and their weapons will emit sharp light and have great lethality.

This dark mage eventually died by the strangulation of the Adventurer's Guild because of his evil deeds, but after his death, his genius was inherited by several martial artists, and this magical martial art was later named Sword Qi.

Moreover, because the dark mages are not allowed on the mainland, in order to survive, these warriors came up with a way, they don't know where to find the information, the Magic Empire court once had a rainbow guard, so they attached their sword qi to the rainbow guard, claiming that they were the inheritance of the rainbow guard. In fact, the Rainbow Guards are just because the magic weapons they use are of various colors, and they are completely different from sword energy.

The characteristic of the sword qi scar is that the skin and flesh near the wound will be scorched black by the high temperature of the sword qi, which is very easy to recognize.

"I see!" After reading the record in the book, Koster had already decided in his heart that the corpse was killed by sword qi.

"Oh my God!" Feida beside him suddenly remembered something, "Koster, do you remember, on the day Prince Ferdinand was assassinated, that assassin leader, his weapon, was not able to spit out yellow sword light!"

"Oh!" Kerst gasped, "yes, Anna is in Nosilio, maybe the murderer is her companion, the leader of the Assassins, what ulterior motives do they have!"

Mousse patted Kerster's shoulder on the side, "Don't worry, if the Great Elf King can be so easily plotted, he will not be the Great Elf King, okay, Cast, let's go into the stone room." ”

Koster jumped back vigilantly, "What! No! I don't accept that Rausch spirit magic!"

Old Man Mousse gave Caster a reassuring look, and walked to the secret door of the stone chamber on his own. I touched the magic stone of the ring stone gate, and the ring mouth contracted to reveal the stone door of the black hole. "Caster, you come in with me, Feida, you wait outside. ”

Glancing apprehensively, Ferter followed in. The stone door slammed shut, leaving Feida alone.

After a long time, and everyone who was waiting outside was almost asleep, Feida finally heard the rumbling of the stone door opening. One of the spirits came to his senses, and Feida saw Old Man Mousse and Kester walking out one after the other, and Kester made a reassuring look behind him, and Feida was relieved.

Old Man Mousse walked through the bookshelf, walked to the front of a book, reached out and pulled out the thin book, "Give you three days, memorize it all in your head, and after three days, I will take it back, and you can leave." After saying that, without waiting for Koster's reaction, he left the underground and went back to the house.

Feida looked at Kerst with a puzzled expression, and Caster stretched out his finger and gestured a three, "She gave me three years, and I will come back here to find him in three years in exchange for giving me this book of Taolu to read for three days." ”

"Do you have to come back in three years?" said Feida, puzzled.

"I swore by the coat of arms of nobility and the glory of my family. ”

"All right!" Feida also knew that the glory of nobility was the most sacred and inviolable on the continent.

Caster suddenly smiled slyly, "Besides, my oath only said that I would be back in three years, and I didn't say that I would definitely accept the Guardian's legacy. ”

"Uh!" Ferda didn't expect Koster to still have this idea, and Koster winked slyly and smiled.

"Well, let's see what really works amazing about this book. ”

The two heads came together, looking at this legendary book, and sure enough, when they opened the bison leather cover added by the guardians, the real page saw four square-shaped words.

"What kind of text is this, Kerth?" asked Feida, unable to read it.

"You don't know, where would I know? Didn't you hear the Guardian, this is a book from outside the sky. With that, Kerst flipped to the next page.

Sure enough, as the Guardian said, the book was full of unintelligible text in the shape of this square, plus a large number of illustrations, drawing various patterns of soldier phalanxes and battles. "It's strange that these soldiers look just like ours. Kerst muttered. Fortunately, all generations of Guardians have consulted this book, and there are a lot of reading experiences and experiences of past generations of Guardians written in the margins of the book, which seems much more comfortable.

For the next three days, Chester did not leave this underground dark room for a single step, and at meal time, Feida would return to the ground, roast a few hares and send them down, Chester caught them and ate them, the whole person fell into a state of madness, the knowledge in the book seemed to be very exciting, and the hungry Chester wanted to seize the three days, cramming them into his head.

Three days passed in a flash, and the bearded Kerst returned to the ground and met the gaze of the old man Mousse. The Guardian seemed quite serene today, no longer with the sharp feeling he had given to Kerth, but as gentle as the grandmother next door.

"Done?", "Done." ”

"Remembered?", "Remembered." ”

"Got it?", "I don't understand it, but I'll understand it later." ”

Watching the two play a dumb riddle-like conversation, Feida couldn't help but touch her forehead.

Old Man Mousse sat down and pointed to a pot of flower tea on the table, "Drink the flower tea I brewed again, and you can separate after drinking." ”

Kester and Ferda did not refuse this time, and both sat down.

Old Man Mousse poured a cup of flower tea for both of them, and poured a cup for himself, and the churning hot flower tea exuded a rich aroma. "Castter", Old Man Mousse suddenly spoke, "I haven't asked you, what kind of family is your family, and what is the coat of arms?"

"Oh, our family is the knight lord of the Duchy of Kaman, the Koster family, our feudal lord is the Grand Duke of Kaman, and the coat of arms is a ring-shaped snake connected from end to end. With that, Koster took out the coat of arms in his pocket and showed it to Mousse.

"Ring snake, ring snake, head to tail, fate is connected, luck is not stopped. Good meaning, good meaning. Mu Si admired again and again, but changed her words again, "It's just that in my impression, none of the 1,300 aristocratic families in the mainland use ring snakes as coats of arms. ”

"Ah, how is that possible?" Kerst wondered.

"Maybe I'm old and misremembered. Lately, memories have always been disorganized. Old Man Mousse didn't go into depth on this topic, but ended it hastily, and Kerst didn't care, I guess he really thought that the guardian had misremembered, after all, the knight lord's coat of arms was not a joke, and he grew up with the coat of arms since he was a child. "Well, yes, she must have misremembered. ”

Early the next morning, Kerst and Phaeda, outside the cabin, bid farewell to Old Man Mousse, and the Guardian at this time, he really looked like an ordinary old man, and waved back to the house. Nor did Caster and Phaeda stop there, and drove the wagon from which they came, in a north-west direction. They will pass through the western part of the Misty Forest, enter from the Kingdom of Manning, and return to Kaman.

This time away from home is not short, and both of them are a little bit at home, Kerst is concerned about Karman's situation, and Ferda is concerned about her friend Lolita. The two of them originally came to the elven kingdom to treat Feida with dark magic, and the investigation of the Manning incident had not yet begun, and now they don't know what happened, so Green should have a headache.

The carriage of the two shuttled through the misty forest and would soon leave. And Grimm, who was worried about Kerth, who should have a headache, was indeed looking at the two strangers in front of him with a headache as he thought.