The viscount frowned, probably thinking about how he went around for a long time and came back?

But now that part of the negotiation has been settled, Arrow took out the power of attorney and wrote on it the commission and the category of the money very skillfully, Viscount Ruichi took out five gold coins from his pocket and put them on the table, turned around and got off the barstool: "I'll wait for your good news!" I'll be staying at the Unicorn Hotel for the next two days, and let me know if it's done! ”

Weighing the five shining gold coins, Arrow's eyes were about to bloom with a smile. At that moment, he respectfully sent the viscount out of the guild gate, and waved to him very warmly, until he turned a corner and could no longer be seen.

"Yay!"

It was so excited, even so excited that the guild leader couldn't help but clench his fists and cheer slightly.

Five gold coins! That's five gold coins!

Arrow held the five gold coins in his hand, took out one and blew on it, put it to his ear and listened. Then he turned the five gold coins upside down in his hand repeatedly, listening to the crisp and pleasant sound of them hitting each other.

The voice...... It's really only natural that can play such a beautiful sound! I really can't get tired of listening to it no matter how many times I hear it!

But Arrow also knows that this kind of business doesn't happen very often. This time, thanks to the light of heaven for raising the commission price, I can also take advantage of the situation to ask for the price. If it were a normal case, I'm afraid I would need a maximum of two gold coins.

Holding the gold coin back to the counter and placing it, Arrow's eyes naturally began to calm down as long as he stopped looking at the glittering golden thing.

At this time, the guild members who had been listening to the side also came over and gathered in front of the counter.

"What a fool that man is."

For outsiders, Coco's evaluation will not be very polite.

Arrow shook his head and smiled, "How can you say that about our guests? Arrow, you know, since people are willing to give us money, it means that this guest is very smart! So, as long as the guests who give us money are the smartest people in the world! Do you understand this? ”

Coco rolled her eyes silently. The cream on the side looked a little worried: "Let's not care about the viscount for now, let's talk about this Swan Castle, what are you going to do with it?" ”

That's a problem.

The two warriors went to Swan Castle to explore, and then there was no return. In fact, in comparison, Arrow hoped that the real answer was that the two warriors suddenly felt troubled after arriving at the gate of the castle, so they ran away with the money, at least so that he felt better.

This is not to say that the two people are alive, but that they have not explored the castle, so there may not be a "existence" in the castle that can kill the two warriors.

However, such hope is only hope.

Judging from the current perspective, Arrow is indeed more inclined to the fact that the two have been completely wiped out in Swan Castle. Again, it means that there must be something really bad in the castle.

"The two fighters didn't know if they went during the day or at night...... I warned them before they left that if you enter at night, you might encounter monsters that are good at sneak attacks and like dark and confined areas...... If there really is some kind of magical beast in there, it may really be self-defeating to go at night......"

"Hmm...... In fact, we don't have many options, we don't have the ability to make night vision potions at the moment, so we can only go and talk about it during the day. So so—"

Arrow took a slight breath, took out a stack of paper and pens from under the counter, put them in front of Cream and said, "Cream, you are fast, you have more combat experience, and you also have a Shadow Ring to escape. If we want to explore safely, we need to be prepared in advance. Can you take a look around that Swanwan Castle first? ”

"Me? Alone? Cream looked a little nervous, "I said, now I'm going to explore a place where I might have killed two well-prepared fighters, and you're going to let me go alone?" ”

Arrow nodded, "Indeed, this is not possible. ”

As he spoke, he took out one of the three bottles of therapeutic aerosols from the counter in the back and handed it to Cream along with the pen and paper—

"You have this bottle of medicine with you for self-defense. I don't need you to go into Swanstein Castle to investigate, you just need to look around and search around to see if there are any traces of monsters or other traces. Then look at the entrances and exits of Swan Castle and check the terrain. As a thief, I want you to be as good as you can be. Remember to come back before dark. Also, remember what you say, adventurers don't take risks, and you must remember to keep yourself safe. ”

Since Arrow has said so, what else does Cream have to say?

With a helpless expression, he grabbed his things, put on his backpack, and after picking up his fanged dagger from the training room, he went out the door.

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The time of day can pass quickly or slowly.

When there is nothing to worry about, pleasant time is like running wild. But if there is an obstacle in your heart, it seems that every minute and every second you spend has a feeling of torment.

Arrow thought he could rest assured.

But as it turned out, he overestimated his patience.

As the sun gradually sank in the west, the whole Pelican Town was stained with a layer of golden afterglow.

The people in the square gradually left to go home, and every family began to brew dinner, and the smell of food and reunion wafted through the streets.

But, Cream hasn't come back yet.

Seeing that the sun was about to disappear and Pelican Town was about to be occupied by darkness, Arrow's heart couldn't help but become more and more nervous.

Don't...... Shouldn't he really let Cream go to that castle alone?

Should I really let Brad, Parfay, and Coco go with Cream?

Could it be that it was his trust in the cream that put the thief in a very bad and dangerous situation?

Ero clutched his head and began to recall his instructions to Cream, trying to see if he had anything he shouldn't say or hadn't been reminded of.

As the sunlight completely fell behind the Eternal Sleep Mountain Range, Arrow's heart couldn't help but be tightened, and a deep sense of remorse began to spread in his heart.

There are few members of the guild in the first place, and if there is really something wrong with the cream because of this mistake in judgment......

If...... If that really leads to that happens......!

Arrow didn't dare to think about it, he even thought it would be terrible just to think about it.

This is really funny, think that during the day, I still secretly mocked the viscount in my heart that I could do anything in order to stop thinking, so now I can do everything in order to stop thinking, isn't it the same that I can do anything?

Arrow admits that he was nervous.

This nervousness made him not even make dinner, but just sat in the rest area and waited, keeping his eyes on the guild door.

"Whew, I'm back!"

In the faint haze of the moonlight, Cream stepped into the guild unharmed.

It was also at that moment that Arrow lay on the table as if he had collapsed, gasping for breath twice before getting up.

"Ah, President, I've investigated something, don't you want to see ......"

"Not available! I'm going to make dinner! ”

Arrow yelled and hurried into the kitchen. This made Cream look very embarrassed, he held the drawings in his arms, looked at Brad who began to put the dishes over there, and then looked in the direction of the kitchen: "What's wrong with the president?" Took the wrong medicine again? ”

Brad just smiled, but Parfay said, "President! Lose sleep over something! One day, don't move! Got it? ”

In just a few words, Cream had a sour nose after a moment's pause, and he laughed.

After eating dinner and packing up their things, everyone in the Mermaid Song Guild can finally gather around the table and carefully examine the contents of Cream's exploration for the day.

Creamie opens a map that gives a sketch of the distance between Pelican Town, the Shining Forest, the Eternal Sleep Mountains, and Swan Castle, which can be seen as the closest to Pelican Town, standing on a slightly sloping grassland.

"After I went around the area, I got quite a lot of information."

As he spoke, Cream stretched out his hand and pointed to the location of Swan Castle and said—

"It's a castle built of stone, not to mention the age, the whole thing is made of large and large stone blocks. It's sturdy, and I feel like I can even withstand a few explosions of high-level fire magic. But the time is so far gone that the castle has grown so many vines that it seems to be all over the castle. ”

With that, Cream opens another drawing, which shows a sketchy drawing of the exterior of Swan Castle.

"The highest point of Swan Castle is an observation deck, which is probably the same function that was used to supervise the mines. There are almost no windows in the whole Schwanstein Castle, which seems to be very disliked by the owner's design, but the view from inside is definitely not good. ”

"Then, as I walked around Swanfellstein Castle, I found that the castle had been burned."

"The age of the fire must be very old, but it can still be seen from the few remaining windows, and it is not known whether the fire burned from the inside of Swan Castle or spread from the outside to the inside."

Arrow looked at Cream's simple drawings, thought for a moment, and said, "What's going on with this fire?" You said that this is a castle made almost entirely of stone, but I look at this sketch you drew that there are scorch marks on the stones in many places. The fire looked as if it had enveloped the former Granite Fort in flames. What kind of fire can produce such an effect? ”