On the edge of a canyon surrounded by a sea of trees, bare white rocks burst out of the soil on the rugged ground, sparsely surrounded by black weeds, and occasionally half-human-tall Gandhi flowers growing in the distance.

The side of the steep mountain wall near the clearing was cleared of a large area of sharp rocks.

Five carriages were in close proximity, and a dim yellow bonfire was lit up in the central clearing. It was almost night, and the flames on the surface of the campfire were so bright that it didn't stop until the carriage stopped.

Several people gathered around the campfire, using a charred wooden root to stir the firewood, and in the gaps of the stone squeezing there were skewered porcupine legs, and the tender calf meat was roasted to a golden brown, and the gravy on it was dripping with oil, and the sound of burning oil was heard in the air.

"Let's take the time to eat first, and we will be able to reach the Orleans Gorge tomorrow. Out of there is a flat land, and there is no danger to reach the destination, this can be regarded as a short celebratory feast. ”

Abbott sat on the side and laughed loudly at the knights and companions around him.

"Grant, do you want to eat this tender pork leg first? I've given it to you, and if it weren't for your help, I wouldn't have been able to earn these magic stones. ”

He took the lead in getting ten magic stones from the knights of the tulip family, and they claimed that when the master sobered up, they would pay for the magic stones and enchanted items in the back, these values had already made Abbott forget the troubles along the way, as for the members of the blood piercing, they cleaned and burned all the corpses, and also disposed of all the breath, etc., I believe that it is difficult for the other party to search.

"That's right. Grant, you can eat some. This meat is really good. Yuri Phixis munched on a piece of leg meat, and the aroma of the pork made him droop with oil.

"Nope. I'm not hungry yet. Grant shook his head and smiled wryly, turning his head to stare at a carriage with unicorn marks engraved in the distance. He still had some doubts about stabbing the group of members in front of him.

In the luxurious carriage, the space around was pitch black, and Tefeel, who was close to the right side of the window, suddenly blinked her long eyelashes, and the silver-gray eyelashes revealed jewel-like eyes, she slowly scanned the surroundings, and with the help of the firelight reflected outside the carriage, she could see that next to her finger, Taylor was sleeping soundly on the blanket.

Her face was pale, and beads of sweat were dripping from her forehead.

"Did Taylor pass out due to mental exhaustion?" Tiffel shook his dazed head. Twisting his brows, he covered the sides of his head with his hands, rubbed it lightly a few times, felt a trace of pain subside, and then climbed out of the carriage.

She knew that this was the case, so it was better to look outside first, and the last of her senses knew that they were out of danger, and nothing else was clear.

Tefir opened the curtain, and a mixture of moonlight and firelight poured in, slightly illuminating her face, and the scenery outside was more clearly visible. The sun had long since slept from high in the sky to the west, and the clouds of the sunset were hidden in the dark and blue night sky. The crescent moon was obscured by the clouds, and the jade-white moonlight cast down was not too bright.

Around the campfire in the center of the carriage sat three robed figures squatting to grill some fragrant barbecued meat and pork legs.

Tefir breathed a sigh of relief. Silently lifting the curtain, the cold chill unique to the night in the wild greets you, and you feel this chill at the same time. Tefel's stinging was a little lessened.

With a thud, Teffiel's feet went down to the ground.

The four knights standing in the carriage suddenly turned their heads and said in surprise, "Miss Tefier." It's great that you're okay. We're safe now, during the time you and Miss Taylor are asleep. I paid them a deposit of ten magic stones, and promised to pay the rest of the magic stones when the young lady came to her senses. ”

"Yes, I know about it." Tefier nodded, glanced at the dirty armor on their bodies, and some gray and black wounds, and said indifferently: "You clean up the wounds by yourself first, and then find a place to rest, and I will help you heal tomorrow." ”

"Yes, Miss!"

The three knights bent down and clasped their left hands over their chests in respect and gratitude.

Tefier also took a breath after a simple command, and walked to the campfire a little nervously, after all, this was the first time he had encountered such a thing, and it was naturally impossible to calm down in his heart.

She approached a few dozen meters, and with the help of the bonfire, she could see a young mage with long flaxen hair, and next to him sat two pale, ordinary-looking mages, who were talking with smiling faces at the moment.

"It's time to go and give them the deposit they agreed upon." Thinking of this, Tefir took out fifty magic stones from the reserve ring and waist bag, counted them carefully, and walked quickly to them.

"Hello three mages, I am Tefier of the Tulip family, thank you for your rescue before, if it weren't for you, I think the last direct bloodline of Tulip would have been annihilated."

"Huh." Grant glanced up at the girl in the firelight, and her delicate face could basically be judged from her appearance to be twenty-three or four years old, and her face was pale at the moment as if she was a wax man. Grant smiled and said, "No trouble, we have our own benefits anyway, and besides, I still have some questions for you." ”

"Really?" Teffel snorted suspiciously.

She found a clean place to sit down, took out the fifty magic stones she had just prepared from the reserve ring, and said with a grateful face: "Thank you for your help, these are fifty magic stones, about the two enchanted items, I will tell you a few things now, choose them yourself." ”

"Hum~~"

The elemental particles in the air were slightly disturbed, and a pile of pitch-black stones appeared out of nowhere, all piling up on the surface of the soil next to the campfire.

"Abbott, according to our previous agreement, you can take forty-two magic stones, and you were given ten before, and you can also take thirty-two magic stones here. You take it slowly, I want to ask Ms. Tiffel about being attacked by the Lancet before I do this. ”

After Grant spoke to Abbott, he also turned his head and asked.

"Master Grant, why do you care so much about this? Is it because you're afraid of the Bloodthirsty Tissue's retaliation, or maybe you're afraid of getting into a big problem? Tefier asked rhetorically.

"Of course not. I'm just a little confused, but I'll show you my badge first. Grant pulled out a blue-gray metal badge from one of the sewing bags of his bra. In the moonlight, a layer of pale blue moonlight gathers around the surface of the coat of arms.

"This is a shadow badge? Are you from the Mage Cluster? It seems that we are all the way, and we also belong to the shadow science. For you to come to the rescue, I think this Shadow Badge is also a bit of a strength. ”

"Sort of, can you tell me about these things?"

"Yes, yes." Tefiel nodded, and began to slowly talk about her family's troubles.

"Among the three archdukes in charge of the Speer Kingdom, the Tulip family is the big family in charge of the northwest, and its power is very good on the border, but a month ago, there was a rebellion in the main capital of Six Towers, and some people began to suffer bloody attacks, and all of them were cleaned. And we are the mages that our family has always hidden, mainly to study the theory of spells. and will not be involved in any affairs related to the Empire of Humanity.

"Later, a group of knights informed themselves that they were leaving their local station, so they immediately retreated, and they chased and fought all the way along most of the Imperial routes, and the Bloodthirsty Tissue pressed forward step by step, and almost killed us before."

When Grant heard what Tiffel had said, he sat down on the ground and stared at the campfire with a thoughtful expression, and he sensed that there was something strange about the story, and that it was not that Tiffel was lying. It's why they want to assassinate a mage looking for a bloodline, after all, it is very laborious to hire a blood-piercing organization, and the consequences of chasing the descendants of the family are even very distressing.

Going through so many things. Including the qualifications of the two mages in the four-wheeled car, the qualifications are not particularly good, and it is almost impossible to take revenge, even with the help of the forces in the shadow mage's land. That's just as troublesome. After all, the mages in the mage cluster generally do not intervene in the conflicts between ordinary empires and humans.

"Detect!" Grant looked at Teffel and meditated on his skills.

As columns of azure arcs of electricity swept across the pupils. He understood and understood a little, and his pinpoint-like eyes fell into Tefeel's snow-white chest groove. There was a necklace on the snow-white and soft breast, and he knew that the necklace in it must have a big secret, and there was a little eagerness in his heart.

Grant speculated that the real possibility of these pursuits might be related to the necklace factor, but the specific possibility can only be considered certain if it is thoroughly explored.

"Miss Tefel, this necklace on your chest is also an enchanted item, I wonder if it can be counted as one of the two enchanted items you promised? I'm still interested. Grant smiled calmly, his eyes falling to Tenfil's chest with interest.

Tefeel's face turned red, and he shook his head and refused: "I'm sorry, this enchanted item includes earrings, and the ring in my hand are all some commemorative items left by the patriarch, and they can't be given to people casually." So, I can only apologize for this request and say that I can't do anything about it. I'm going to get you a bunch of nice items. ”

"Really?" Grant shook his head ruefully.

But Grant still didn't give up and asked: "Then can you show me, I always feel that this chain is more familiar, I just want to take a look at it now." ”

"This?" Tefier hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, since it is a request from Master Grant, I will give you an observation." ”

The sparkling aqua blue necklace has a refreshing and beautiful shape, a spar shaped like an angel on the front, with a strange rune carved on it, surrounded by a layer of silvery white Mithril, and a golden string strung them together and placed around the neck.

In the moonlight, it exudes the same strange light and charm as the shadow badge.

"Thank you." Grant smiled and took the necklace, because it had been on his chest for a long time, and there was still a hint of milky fragrance and warmth on the necklace. The runes writhed as if they were activated.

"Analyze!" Grant's analytical skills were activated in his heart, and at the same time, his pupils established a model of the necklace, the spar on the necklace rapidly expanded, and the glass shield on the surface was also removed, revealing its own appearance, which was a heritage item engraved with the family mark.

"This is a necklace made of green wood hedron, and it also has a sealing spell inside, and it seems that the Tulip family was also a descendant of an archmage in the past. After all, green wood spar is very rare, it is a high spar material, and there is no casual necklace that can be created. ”

Grant still remembers this hedron material, he once used these materials to strengthen a rather stylish magic item, and engraved more than a hundred spells on it, which are basically instantaneous spells, which are very powerful among undead mages.

As he pondered, a sound came from the chip in his head.

"Does it absorb the energy that exists in the hedron itself, and it contains a large amount of pure energy?"

Grant was slightly stunned, and with a smile on his face, he immediately agreed in his heart, he knew that there was no reason to refute at this time, and a large amount of energy instantly poured into his body and turned into silk threads and wandered all over his body, and in the invisible energy pool in his body, the energy of the liquid was getting higher and higher, directly approaching level ten.

"Stop, stop!"

Grant was busy shouting when he felt that he was one step away from reaching a first-order mage, he knew that an elemental aura would appear under his feet when he was promoted to a first-order mage, and if he let Tefiel find out about his changes, even if he didn't know the origin of the necklace, he would definitely guess that he had stolen the energy in the necklace.

This kind of thing is extremely easy to destroy the previous relationship between him and them, and the possibility of relying on a certain amount of strength of their mages in the mage cluster must be reduced to zero.

"How's it going? Master Grant, I see you've been holding it in your hand for half an hour. ”

Tenfil asked curiously and eagerly, she really didn't expect that it would take Grant half an hour to shake it. Abbott and Eury Phices next to him were also quite strange, but they didn't say much, they were both biting on the oily pork leg there, after all, they both understood some of Grant's basic habits.

"It's okay, I observed a little carefully just now, but unfortunately I still don't know the origin of this item." Grant casually explained and handed her the necklace as well.

Grant was a little glad in his heart that he had blessed the concealment technique, so that they didn't even notice that their spirit had become stronger.

"Now you can trade enchanted items, it's not too early this night, let's rest a little, although the mage's sleep doesn't need to be too long, but today's battle is too tired, I think more rest is still necessary for tomorrow through the Orleans Canyon."

Abbott explained that he knew that he didn't know when he would be able to get the value of the deal if he delayed it like this, especially since he had one more enchanted item that he hadn't yet arrived.

Teffel nodded, and with a slight distress, she took out four enchanted items from the reserve ring, and introduced them, explaining how good they were.

"The four, from left to right, are the Light Ring, the Poison Gauntlet, the Dodge Boots, and the Mist Ice Ring."

"Although they are all enchanted ornaments, the effects attached to them are among the best in their class, you only need to distinguish a little to know how effective they are, you can pick out two enchanted items from them first." (To be continued.) )