In just one day, too many incredible things happened, which made Victor (Weike) lying on a simple wooden bed toss and turn, and couldn't sleep. As a human being in two lives, he experienced the warmth of home for the first time in the homes of Uncle Leo and Aunt Maria, which gave birth to the belief of protection in his heart.

Because Victor, who is familiar with the game process, knows that the current peaceful life is very fragile, and it won't be long before all this will be broken by natural disasters**! In troubled times, only strong strength is the guarantee of survival.

At this moment, Victor's desire to become a mage and a strong man has never been stronger!

In this way, Victor fell asleep with these intricate thoughts.

"Squeak...... Squeak......"

In the middle of the night, Victor, who was sleeping in a daze, was woken up by a burst of shrill and piercing sounds.

"What's that? Is it a rat? ”

Victor, who is accustomed to a modern and comfortable life, encountered such a situation for the first time. Deng Hang, who was sleepy, didn't want to pay attention, but the increasingly harsh sound made him dizzy and gradually became irritable.

"Damn it! Can you still make people sleep......"

Victor, who was completely sleepy, sat up straight and whispered a few foul words.

"Squeak squeak...... Creak...... Stepping, banging...... Step, bang, bang......"

Pricking up his ears to listen carefully, Victor tried to clean up the rats that disturbed his sleep, but in the quiet of the night, he heard something else.

"Step, bang...... Step, bang, bang......"

"Something is wrong!"

The alert Victor was immediately discernible from several different sounds, and in the alley outside the door came the sound of scrambled footsteps, as well as ...... The sound of weapons and armor colliding!!

Victor crept to the door, peering through the tiny crack. By the faint light of the stars, he could faintly see a number of heavily armed soldiers, marching through the alley in a procession.

"Who are these soldiers? Where are they going? Victor, who held his breath, drew a big question mark in his mind.

Thinking back to the road where the alleys were connected, Victor noticed that the group of soldiers had marched from the port district to the noble quarter.

At this moment, Victor immediately recalled the secret he had discovered during the day when he was carrying goods in the port area—the smuggling of weapons.

"Oops! How did I think of such an important thing!! ”

Due to the fifteen-year span of the game Scepter of Truth, the information storage module has lost some of Victor's number, and it is impossible to fully remember the events that occurred in the early days of the game.

Pulling the hair from the back of his head in frustration, Victor quickly recalled the whole story: "In the Year of Shadows, in the Moon of Fire, there was a brief riot in Carter City!" And it was this turmoil that led to the prologue of the first expansion "Northland War" - "Burning Carter Harbor". ”

"Although this rebellion was quickly suppressed by the army of the lord of the city, it brought irreparable disaster to the civilian area......

At this moment, no matter how much Victor regretted it, he only hoped that the riot would be postponed a little longer so that he could prepare for something.

Victor quickly rummaged through the dilapidated house, only to find a half-man's tall stick.

"It's terrible!" Victor, armed with a stick, comforted himself: "At least it's much better than being defenseless......

Leaning on the crack in the door for a long time, Victor waited patiently for the group of soldiers to leave the alley.

"Finally no one! I'll have to tell Uncle Sù Leo if he has a better way to avoid this disaster!" ”

After making sure it was safe, Victor quickly ran to the door of the Leo family on the other side of the alley and knocked softly.

"Who is it?" Uncle Leo's vigilant voice rang out immediately.

"Uncle Leo, it's me! Victor! ”

Victor lowered his voice, for fear of something unexpected.

There was a creak, and the door opened softly. Leo, armed with an iron sword, cautiously scanned his surroundings.

"Come on in!"

Victor dodged and turned sideways into the room through the crack in the door.

"Little Vic, how did you get here? Don't you know how reckless your actions can be? If there are three long and two short, what can I do? ”

Ignoring Uncle Leo's questioning, Victor hurriedly told what he had discovered during the day and his own guesses.

"Are you sure?"

Uncle Leo's expression became stern: "Generally speaking, most of the battles that occur in the city will not affect the common people!" This is the potential rule of the various forces......"

"But this time it's different!!"

Victor said with an affirmative face, "Let's prepare for the worst!" ”

Uncle Leo changed his usual amiable attitude, he stared at Victor deadly, exuding an inexplicable majesty.

"Good! This time, the uncle will listen to your Jianyì......"

With that, Uncle Leo turned around and walked into the back room.

After no effort, Uncle Leo walked out of the house with Aunt Maria, who looked a little nervous, and Penny in a daze.

The anxious Victor didn't notice that the expressions of Leo and Maria were just nervous, not scared and scared.

"Let's go! There is a dark passage on the right side of the alley, which I discovered when I was working on people...... I think it should be a safer place to come there. ”

Uncle Leo said as he left the residence with a few people lightly.

Since there was no one in the middle of the night, Victor and the others came very smoothly to a low broken wall, which was the entrance to the secret passage that Leo said.

Just as they were about to enter, the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the clashing of weapons, and the screams of people before death suddenly erupted.

After hearing the sound of this tragic battle, Uncle Leo's face, which had always been calm, was also stunned.

"Perhaps...... You're right! ”

Leo muttered in a low voice, and then said, "Little Vic, Uncle has a very important matter to do, can you take care of Maria and Penny for me?" ”

Victor was stunned for a moment, but he didn't ask Uncle Leo what he was going to do curiously, but nodded firmly: "Uncle, don't worry!" As long as I still have a breath of air, Auntie and Nini will never have any problems!! ”

After hearing Victor's assurance, Uncle Leo smiled and rubbed his hair, threw a meaningful look at Aunt Maria, and turned away.

By this time, even if Victor's brain was dull, he knew that Uncle Leo was not as simple as he seemed.

"Little Vic, let's hurry up and enter the dark passage......"

Under the whispered urging of Aunt Maria, Victor and the others entered the secret passage one after the other.