Chapter 005: Mage Apprentice
The forest was quiet and eerie, with dense tall pine foliage stretching on both sides, palm-sized round leaves stacked on top of each other to block out most of the sun, and the forest was in a dark shadow.
Grant stood at the edge of the forest, the dangerous aura floating in the air made him doubly careful. He trampled on the leafy woodland, his slender white fingers gripping the hilt of the cross, his eyes keeping an eye on his surroundings.
"Woo~~"
Heiru was half-crouched, just as vigilant as he was behind Grant.
"This place is relatively close to the mage's location, I'd better find a place to hide first, otherwise there may be some misunderstandings when encountering it head-on." Grant's eyes glanced around, and he saw that the trees on either side were tall and leafy, making them suitable for him to hide.
With a thought in his heart, Grant decided to hide in the leaves.
"I have a layer of covert magic blessing on my body, and the level ten professional mage, which is also the first-order mage here, won't notice me at all, so there's no problem."
Grant thought that there was no problem, stepped on his tiptoes, grasped the approaching tree pole with both hands, firmly grasped the borrowed strength, and quickly climbed to the rough and thick tree branches, and at the same time wrapped the gray-black pointed leaves around his body, revealing only a pair of eyes, while Heiru was ordered to go to the green grass under the tree, prostrate and wait for an opportunity.
Heilu's breath gradually became calm and calm, like a dying old man who was about to wither, and his breath was like a gossamer.
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In the eerie forest, two people cautiously walked along the edge of the bush, their childish faces containing a hint of fear, but both stubbornly moving forward.
The woman who walked in front was surrounded by a light blue light, her slender figure was exquisite, she was wearing an amethyst tunic dress, her snow-white round fragrant shoulders were carrying two straps, and her slender left hand held a silver cross-sword.
The young man next to him was only fifteen or sixteen years old, with long golden hair draped behind his head, a handsome face, and two eyes carefully staring around.
They are the daughter of the Baron of Wanghuo, the apprentice of the mage, Emile Hanmo, and her younger brother, Yard Hanmo. Because Emir had more than a month to go until his birthday, he wanted to look for herbs to make a special perfume before his birthday, and he sneaked into the forest because he didn't want others to know.
The emir felt that he was a first-class mage apprentice, and with Yard's strength close to that of a quasi-knight, the two would not encounter the demonic beasts or powerful beasts inside the outer edge of the forest.
"Sister, I haven't found the herbs you want until now, it's not too early. And we didn't encounter any beasts along the way, which was very wrong. Yade frowned, and his tone was vigilant, and the long sword in his hand was a little crooked because of the trembling. Originally, he had always been confident that there was nothing to be afraid of on the outside, but now he felt as if there was a pair of cold eyes staring at him in the dark forest, and his skin was covered with goosebumps.
"Don't be afraid, there's nothing going on." Emir comforted.
Grant hid in the tall tree in the distance, and his eyesight was amazing, and he could naturally clear that the young master and young lady of the baron's family were in the distance, and he was relieved in his heart, but there was a trace of disappointment.
He originally thought that it might be the white-robed mage in the mage tower who came in person, but now he looked disappointed.
"Hey, forget it, a little mage apprentice is of no use to me, after all, I can't learn spells from her." Grant muttered to himself, intending to leave quickly when the other party was far away.
As he thought, the leaves around him rustled and a roar came from afar.
"Roar~~~" like a huge roar like the king of all beasts, Grant's face changed, and a bad premonition rose in his heart, if a more tricky beast comes out now, I am afraid that the situation will be chaotic.
The shrubs under the empty ground were trampled by two black shadows, and the two gray-haired giant bears more than four meters tall pushed aside the bushes, raised their hideous bear heads, and stared at Emir and Yard with scarlet eyes, their eyes full of greedy and bloodthirsty looks.
"Ah............ Sister, those are two quasi-knight-level grizzly bears, and we can't deal with them. Hurry up and get out of the way now, or Father will only have to reach our corpse. A look of horror flashed in Yard's eyes, and he understood how terrifying the grizzly bear's strength was.
Emir's face was difficult, fine beads of sweat oozed from her smooth and round forehead, and her cheeks were wet with her graceful snow neck, and she took a deep breath to let Yard retreat, holding the cross sword in one hand, the corners of her lips squirming slightly.
"You follow me, I'll deal with it." Emir stared at the grizzly bear with a solemn face, and reached for the black bag around his waist with his left hand, grabbing a handful of snow-white dust from it.
"Glitter Dust!"
Throwing a handful of dust into the air, her mouth immediately chanting a long, obscure incantation, she finished casting the spell and pulled Yard to run north.
She is only a mage apprentice, and she has not yet learned the attack spells in the first order, so she can only use some ordinary auxiliary spells.
"Zi~~"
The dazzling white light suddenly illuminated the entire clearing, the giant bear felt the stinging pain in his eyes, it was pitch black in front of him, and the stinging pain made it roar violently, and the other giant bear noticed that the situation had changed, and it was not affected, and roared after the two humans.
A man and a woman ran desperately in the forest, but Grant frowned, because he found that the other party was running in his direction, he didn't understand why he had always run into trouble in the past two days, this depressed mood made Grant stay there cautiously, waiting for what the situation would develop later.
Grant didn't have the idea of saving the baron's children immediately, but knowing that his ability to rescue would definitely be exposed, he pondered the consequences.
On the other side of the woods, the emir looked panicked, but still stubbornly held his brother's hand, not giving up hope at all. The hem of the tunic was messy with a lot of green juice leaves.
"Roar~~"
The two huge grizzly bears roared angrily, and their eyes spewed out a burst of anger, they didn't expect to let a girl play tricks, although they were a mage, but the mage apprentice at this stage had no combat power.
"Glitter dust."
Emir threw a handful of dust again, and after chanting a spell from the corner of his mouth, the blinding light made the bear who followed him and the other bear who had regained his sight roar sideways, knowing that the light hurt their eyes so much that they didn't want to go.
The emir took the opportunity to turn his head sideways and glance at the shady meadows around him, carefully observing each of them.
"Come here." Emir took his brother's hand and ran in the direction of the Grant Tree.
"What's going on, why do you know exactly where my tree is going?" A trace of doubt flashed in Grant's eyes, he seemed to think that this girl was not so simple, whether she ran here intentionally or unintentionally, Grant couldn't tell.
After some chase, two giant bears roared and surrounded Emir, and the glittering dust in Emir's hand was almost gone, but at this moment, she was pale, and shouted in her mouth: "Please help us with the people above, we are the daughter and son of the baron, deal with them, and we will give you a commission." ”
Grant didn't answer, just stared downwards with both eyes. He didn't even hear the idea of going down.
The two giant bears became more and more annoyed at this time, and approached step by step.
The emir said with a heavy sigh again: "I know that you are on it, and the footprints I have followed all the way to this place just now, and those hollow places have not recovered, proving that they have just been trampled, and I followed the road to the tree behind me." ”
Grant couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, jumped down helplessly, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "My little nobleman." Now that you know I'm on it, there's no other way for me to do it. "Grant understands that a first-order mage (official mage) has the ability to retrieve memories, and if she dies here and she remembers herself, I'm afraid things will get even more troublesome.