The Central Mountains, which cut the main plane in half, are a paradise for adventurers and explorers, and the Oak Tavern is the most famous tavern near the Agro Mountains in the Central Mountains. Although many people are jealous of the dividends brought by this mountain trail, they have no choice but to give up in the face of a behemoth like the Adventurers' Guild. The Adventurers' Guild is also well aware that there are also trails for adventurers to explore outside of this trail, but they are not as safe.

Sitting in the oak tavern, Carl ordered a roast made from the front legs of the carapace, a beast endemic to Mount Agro, and a glass of rye beer brewed by the dwarves. The barbecue is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, melts in your mouth, and the spicy taste brought by just the right amount of garlic and pepper and the freshness of rye beer make Carl, a gourmet, can't help but praise loudly.

With such elaborate delicacies in taverns for the convenience of adventurers, it's no wonder that the Adventurers' Guild has been able to master the eye-popping mountain trails. The world is still kind to people with good intentions.

Thinking of this, Carl couldn't help but smile dumbly, he had obviously seen the cruelty and darkness of the world, and he could still have such an idea, he was already an old bird who had been adventuring for many years. "Phoenix, you're eating too much. At the moment when Carl was stunned, a crimson bird named Phoenix, who had been squatting on his left shoulder, had now flown to the table and feasted on the barbecue plate.

"Are you Lord Carme Les?" a call made Carl, who was playing a game of cat and mouse, stop his movements and look up. I saw a middle-aged man wearing a gray tweed coat and a badge of the director of the Adventurers' Guild on his left chest smiling at him. Carl then remembered that he had used transfiguration to go to the Oak Tavern to ask the Adventurers' Guild about where the mausoleums existed in the Central Mountains. For the sake of this current image, Carl also specially gave himself a new name, but he was called this name just now, and Carl was still a little uncomfortable.

Karl is now seen by the directors of the Adventurers' Guild as a middle-aged uncle, dressed in a shabby leather coat, with pale sideburns and a pair of eyes as clear as a lake on his weathered face. The identity is an adventurer from the Kingdom of Elolt, who has a special hobby for the tombs of some ancient emperors, and also delves into necromancy on weekdays. Because the current imperial tombs of the Elolt Kingdom have basically been explored, they plan to try their luck here in the Central Mountains.

A few days ago, Carl had come to the Oak Tavern to express his appeal to the Explorers' Guild. The Explorers' Guild received Carl and said that someone would come to hand him over in a few days. Then the director of the Adventurers' Guild in front of him should be the one who came to talk to him.

Karl returned to his normal state after a slight pause, and smiled, "Hello, Your Excellency. I'm Carme Les. ”

Pulling the oak chair away from the wine table, the director of the Adventurers' Guild straightened his clothes and sat down opposite Karl and said, "Your Excellency Carme, I'm Lance Maggs, the director of the Adventurers' Guild, you can just call me Lance." I heard you want to know about the ancient imperial tombs in the Central Mountains?"

"Yes, Director Reims. ”

"Then I don't know which emperor's tomb Your Excellency Ka Mei wants to know, you also know that the emperors on the continent are very fond of the central mountain range, which is a treasure of feng shui. There are too many, and if Lord Carme could tell me the name of the emperor you are looking for, the Adventurers' Guild would be able to provide more accurate information. ”

The directors of the Adventurers' Guild are really black-skinned foxes through and through, and looking at the smiling directors of the Adventurers' Guild, Carl couldn't help but complain in his heart. "Director Reims, I don't have any specific requirements on that. However, if His Excellency could provide some information about the famous imperial tombs, he would be grateful. ”

Seeing that Karl did not take the bait and reveal the target, Lance groaned for a moment and said, "Since Lord Carme does not have the target he wants to explore. Let me give you a few suggestions. ”

"Thank you, Director Reims. Taking advantage of the opportunity for Lance Maros to bow his head and take out the information from the spatial ring, Carl glanced at Phoenix on his left shoulder, who immediately understood Carl's hint, flapped his wings and flew stealthily above Director Lance, and then disappeared.

Director Reims, who didn't notice Phoenix's disappearance, smiled and handed the information in his hand to Carl, "Your Excellency Kamei, the information in your hand has been carefully selected by me according to your requirements, some of the imperial tombs inside have been explored, some have just been discovered and need to be explored, and some are just rumored to be buried in the Central Mountains. We hope that you will have the information you need. ”

Carl took the information and read it patiently and carefully, although he had a clear goal, it did not prevent him from coming to explore after completing the goal. After flipping through the information in his hand, Karl put it on the wine table and said, "Director Reims, your information is only a brief introduction, I'm afraid I can't choose the target I want based on this." ”

"Your Excellency Kamei, you are also a member of the Explorers Guild, how can you not know the rules of our Explorers Guild. After you have paid the corresponding remuneration, we will hand over the specific and complete information to you. Director Reims's answer was watertight, and Karl was scolding himself for being careless. Carmels Les's identity was left by his dead ghost father, and although Carl had been adventuring for many years, he still did not choose to join the Adventurers' Guild, and he was very unhappy with the rules and regulations of the Adventurers' Guild, so he made this low-level mistake.

"Oh, look at my piggy head. Director Reims is really sorry that I have been in the kingdom of Elotel for too long and have forgotten this rule of the association, may the great Henry Morton forgive me for my mistakes. Carl had to apologize sincerely, but fortunately he had done some homework before contacting the Explorers Guild and knew that the Explorers Guild believed in gods.

"Director Reims, I don't know how much I need to pay for this material. ”

"Your Excellency, I have forgotten the relationship, and I often come across it. Lance eased his embarrassment a little and then said, "As for the honorarium, since you are a mid-level member of the association, and you haven't used your discount rights for a long time, you still need to pay me ten gold coins after the discount. ”

It turns out that Daddy Dead is still an intermediate member of the Explorers Guild, and it seems that he will have to carefully examine Daddy Die's legacy when he goes back, and there may be unexpected surprises.

And no wonder Karl was happy. The Explorers' Guild is an organization that has been around for nearly a thousand years, born out of the Mercenary Guild. The first president of the Explorers' Guild was the great explorer, the legendary mercenary Henry Morton Stanley. In the twilight of his life, Henry Morton no longer fell in love with exciting adventures, but chose to keep the history of the main plane down. So after gathering a group of like-minded friends, Henry Morton resolutely gave up his position in the Adventurers' Guild and established the Explorers' Guild with the purpose of exploring the truth of the world and recording the history of the main plane. The Explorers' Guild is a membership-based organization that provides useful information and resources to those who aspire to document the history of the world, while charging a fee to keep the association afloat.

Originally, Henry Morton thought that his actions were destined to be a difficult journey, but he did not expect that this move would be helped by the Mage Guild. As a result, the Explorers' Guild has grown into a rival to the Mercenary Guild over the course of a millennium.

The membership of the Explorers' Guild is also strongly supported by its members, because it is too beneficial for explorers. Carl's Dead Daddy has left his mid-level members to be the first to know about the latest information, and if they need help, they can ask the Explorers Guild for a free time. Not to mention the higher premium members and the few premium members.

Carl collected his thoughts and said slowly: "Director Reims, what if I want to know the information that is only provided within the association?" "Then you need Your Excellency Kamei to use the privilege once, but the price of the corresponding previous mausoleum news also needs to be ......" Without waiting for Lance to finish, Karl put a bag of gold coins on the wine table, "Director Reims, the honorarium is not a problem. ”

"Since Your Excellency Kamei is so cheerful, then I will also show my sincerity. At the moment when Lance opened the spatial ring, a glimmer of light quietly disappeared into the ring. Handing over several indestructible scrolls made of Cliff Volcano goatskin to Karl's hand, Lance took the bag of gold coins on the wine table into the space ring, "Lord Carme, you take your time here. I need to go back and report to the association. Karl, who was immersed in the material, ignored Lance, and Lance was not angry, explorers are obsessed with research, and Lance has seen scenes like this many times.

After Lance left the wine table, Karl, who had been immersed in the materials before, quietly raised his head and casually discarded the precious parchment roll in his hand onto the wine table. Carl looked over his left shoulder, where the vanished Phoenix had reappeared. "How about it, does our Councillor's Space Ring have the information I want?" "You greedy demon has made the great Phoenix do the act of peeping into someone else's Space Ring, oh, may God forgive me for my actions, I still want to return to the High Heavens. "Would you like to eat the roast you just had? Close your beak if you want." "Carl can't do anything about this stinky bird he raises, if it weren't for the fact that there is some use in keeping it, Carl would have wanted to roast it and eat it, and it would be better to add some cumin.

"Why didn't you tell me the situation?" Carl waited for a long time and didn't hear Phoenix tell him about the Lance Space Ring, "Didn't you say tell me to close my beak? I still want to eat that barbecue again!" Phoenix's aggrieved appearance made Carl speechless, although Carl didn't know why he felt that Phoenix was wronged now.

Just as Carl asks Phoenix to tell the news, Lance is already in Carl's sight. "Forget it, we'll talk about it when we get out. ”

"Your Excellency, I'm already registered with the association. I don't know if there's anything else you'd like to ask about this deal?" Lance didn't choose to sit down this time, but stood in front of Karl with a formulaic smile.

"I've just read the information provided by Director Reims, and I may need Director Reims to prepare some holy water and some goblin grenades for me, and it would be great if there were puppet scouts made by the dwarves. Karl also stood up and smiled as he made his request.

"Your Excellency is indeed a veteran explorer, and all the items you need are essential for exploring the mausoleum. As a director, I can provide you with ten milliliters of holy water and twenty goblin grenades for free within my terms of reference, and the puppet scouts need to be purchased at the expense of Lord Kamei. At the same time, as a director of the Explorers' Guild, I also hope that if you encounter a stone gate wall with research value when exploring the mausoleum, you can blast it without a goblin grenade!"

"Director Reims, as a member of the Explorers' Guild, it is also my duty to protect cultural relics of research value. As for the puppet scouts, I'd like to see five from Director Lance. ”

"No problem, Lord Carme, please come with me. ”

Carl, who walked out of the oak tavern, looked at the spatial ring on his right hand, and thought that the puppet scout he had just purchased was lying neatly in the ring, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise slightly. This time it was really a bumper harvest, not only did I get news about various imperial tombs, but I also bought the coveted puppet scout.

Dwarves have always been masters of forging, and both their well-crafted swords and weapons and sophisticated mechanical equipment have attracted many adventurers. The puppet scout that Carl just got is a weapon for exploring various ruins, which can effectively help explorers evade the mechanism of the ruins, and can also detect hidden malice and undead souls lurking in the shadows. However, dwarves rarely make puppet scouts, for the simple reason that they feel that such machines cannot survive forever and do not reflect the abilities of the maker. Because the puppet scout had to enchant malicious reconnaissance and undead detection on it in order to be effective, the dwarves, who were born unable to perceive the elements of magic, stubbornly refused to enchant their works. The dwarven works that can now be enchanted on the main plane have been reworked by alchemists. Therefore, the relationship between the alchemist and the dwarf is very poor, and the dwarf firmly believes that the dwarven works enchanted by the alchemist no longer have any value, even if the enchanted works are more beautiful and powerful, but the dwarves refuse to admit it.

However, it is still a pity that no information was obtained about the tomb of Julius Caesar. In order to fulfill the last wish of the dead ghost father, Carl had no choice but to continue to work hard and not let go of any valuable information.

In the far corner of the second floor of the Oak Tavern, in front of a nondescript room, Lance whispered a spell, and as the room was gently opened, a glimmer of light shrouded Lance through the door. After a few moments, the glimmer vanished, along with Lance, the director of the Explorers' Guild.

Feeling the ripples in space, the corners of Carl's mouth, who was already far away from the Oak Tavern, showed a trace of disdain, he didn't expect the Explorers Guild to have such hypocritical behavior.

The headquarters of the Explorers' Guild, built on the ruins of the city of Jiatai in the western part of the Famasca Empire, is the heart of the entire Explorers' Guild, where countless messages and resources are organized. On weekdays, there will be a prime minister at the headquarters of the association to deal with difficult problems.

At the headquarters today is Amerigo Wesp, a great explorer who discovered the Troll Horde in the Flodari Forest, filling in the historical void of not seeing the Troll Empire since its demise. At the age of 589, although he has gray hair, he has obtained the gift of Henry Morton, the god of exploration, by virtue of this great discovery, so his body is still quite strong.

At this moment, he was sitting in his office, waiting for someone to arrive. As there was a knock on the door outside the room, Wespy knew that the man he was waiting for had arrived. "Come in. Lance gently pushed the door open and saw Amerigo looking at him with a smile on his face. Although he had seen the legendary explorer in magical images before, he was thrilled to see it for himself and to have the opportunity to talk to him today. "Ah, Your Excellency Amerigo. As soon as he opened his mouth, Lance wanted to slap himself, but he didn't expect to stammer when he met for the first time, if the great Lord Amerigo didn't like him because of this, he really threw himself into the nine layers of hell.

"Director Reims is not more nervous, let's sit down and talk. Seeing that Lance was a little nervous, Amerigo also remembered the scene when he was summoned by God for the first time, and he was as nervous as he was.

"Okay, okay. Thank you, Your Excellency Consul General. Lance, who was trying to calm his mind, was much calmer before and after he sat down with America, perhaps because America was approachable.

"I wonder how the things I entrusted to the councillor are going now?" Seeing that Lance was no longer so nervous, Amerigo was relieved to ask about the situation.

"Your Excellency Consul General, I have already taken care of what you have explained. As you might expect, Lord Carme did come to the Oak Tavern today, and the information he was looking for was indeed about the Imperial Tombs of the Central Mountains. Lance, who had relaxed his mind, told Amerigo what he had met with Carl today and what they had discussed.

After listening to Lance's words quietly, Amerigo didn't react at all. When Lance saw it, he was a little uneasy. Did I say something wrong?

"Oh, Your Excellency, I'm sorry, I was a little distracted just now. Are you sure you're meeting a middle-aged man?"

"Yes, Your Excellency Consul General. I can't be more sure. ”

Amerigo fell into deep thought, since what Director Lance said was true, then it was right that the person who used his old friend's identity should be his adopted child. But why would he use the identity of an old friend? Doesn't he know what the consequences of using this identity will be?

"Your Excellency Consul General, if there is nothing else to do, then I will go out first. Lance's words interrupted Amerigo's musings, "Trouble the Director." ”

"Your Excellency Consul General, you are so gracious. It's a great honor for me to be able to do something for you. ”

Just as Lance was about to walk out of the room, Amerigo suddenly stopped him, "Your Excellency, please keep today's matter a secret for me." ”

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that I have not seen you today. ”

Watching the door close softly, Amerigo sitting in the chair remembered what his old friend had said: friendship in the twilight is warmer than the sun, but it can also make people despair.