The Piercing Fort is very different from the small town in the Port of the Sharp Jaws.

It was huge, with four milky walls and twenty-seven towers, and the structure of the fort was so delicate and sturdy that it looked like an intricately carved multi-layered ivory ball, and the pier and harbor below it were like special brackets and silk for this lovely little ball - the port served the city, not the city served the port like the jawed harbor.

Captain Colbert had a first-class charter signed by the Speaker of the Free Council of Cape Beach, he was able to travel between the inner and outer cities and the docks at will, he was the guest of many nobles and wealthy merchants, and he also had a few reliable friends here, one of whom was Alva, a mage who was based at Pillland, he was strong and good at fighting, and the council provided him with a lot of money, and his life was quite leisurely.

"Try this," said the mage, recommending his latest trophy to his friend, a plate of milky white fruit with fine fluff on the skin, "brought to me by a caravan, and they called it a polyma white melon—a clumsy name that detracts from appetite," he shook his head, pouting - you wouldn't believe a sixty-year-old human male pouting like this if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, he picked one up and demonstrated, "Tear the skin and eat the flesh inside." ”

The fruit had a thin skin, but a honeycomb middle skin about a finger thick, which reminded the captain of the grapefruit: "Where is the tumor?"

"In the innermost. Alva cut open two layers of skin with a blunt-tipped silver knife and showed the contents to the captain, and Colbert saw a large mass of slippery, bloody things, each the size of a thumb, like mouse cubs cut out of the belly of a mother mouse, huddled tightly together, the captain did not know if he showed a disgusted expression, but he immediately put down what he was holding.

"It's pretty tasty. Alva said, taking out a piece with a small silver spoon and putting it in his mouth, and a strangely sweet smell swirled between them, and his friend did not dare to look at it flatteringly.

"Are you sure this isn't some red-robed work?" asked Cowbett, "the kind that will burrow tentacles out of its body if you eat it." ”

Alva laughed, remembering the last time he had given Coubert durian, the stinking fruit covered in thorns, and the captain insisted it had grown from demonic dung.

"No," said Alva, "it's a plant, it has seeds." He spread out his palm to the captain, and the seed in his palm looked like a black almond. But he didn't want to tease his friend, so he asked his apprentice to take away the rest of the melons, and instead brought a plate of blue-purple raspberries, shisha, and sparkling wine, and Alva lay down in his wide, beloved spring chair, the carefully tanned walrus skin soft as if it were still filled with live fat, and he half-closed his eyes, hiding his face behind the delicate vertical glass bottle, and sucking the water out of the jug.

"How's the Jaw Harbor doing, it's still the same?"

"There's a new leader in the Thieves' Guild branch there, an ambitious young thief," said Cowbett, "but maybe it's because he's too young......," he shrugged at Raspberry.

"I want to hear about it. The mage slowly exhaled a white smoke ring mixed with the smell of mint, tobacco, and musk.

"Sounds like you've got a quirky little friend," Alva said, after listening to the captain's account, "he's a spellcaster?"

"Even an apprentice," said Cowpert, "has left his mentor." ”

"Do you think he's dangerous?" "When he was sent by the thief named Gülen," said the captain, "another tricky obnoxious, I think, a spiky pufferfish or a venomous sea serpent, but the very next day he saved my crew and my ship." ”

"Oh?" said Alva, "then perhaps he is courting you, or to ensure that his voyage is going well." ”

"Perhaps," said Colbert, "but there is always something like moonlight that cannot be obscured for long." ”

"For example?"

"Humanity and the beauty of life," said Cobbert, "I cannot say that he is innocent like a baby, but he reveres life and reveres nature, and he pours kindness into me, and my crew, and we reciprocate with the same feelings." ”

Alva flicked his forehead, which was as gray as a seabird's wings, and held out his hand to Cowbert, "Show me your badge." ”

He was referring to the badge with the Woking emblem, which many merchants and sailors would wear, as Woking was a symbol of wealth, and Colbert took it from his short cloak and gave it to Alva.

The badge was actually a magical device that could resist enchanting spells, and Alva made and gave it to his friend, who moved his finger over the badge and chanted a spell, and it flashed red: "The badge is not invalid," said the mage, "Your description reminds me of those who are loyal to the service of the Light Rosada or the benevolent Ilmot," he said as he said the two names with a slight touch of respect on his chest, "could he be a white robe?"

"Though he wore a white robe," said Cowbett, "he never prayed and never called on God's name." He's not going to be a pastor. ”

Alva looked down and thought for a moment, "Does he want to stay at Cape Beach?"

The captain shook his head: "No," he said, "he wants to go to the White Tower." ”

"White Tower......" said Alva, "I think I should meet him, and I think that's what you were all about, where is he now?"

"Egret Foot Inn. ”

"Did you leave him out of town?" said the mage, "You're so cautious, Colbert. ”

"He loved the hotel. The captain said, "When shall I bring him to you?"

"Tomorrow morning," said Alva, "I will be waiting for you at the rime hut when the shadow of the mast is south-west." ”

The captain bowed slightly, he knew that Alva would prepare a spell for what might happen on the day of the meeting, "May the light of Sulun shine on you and me." ”

"Her radiance will break through the darkness. The mage responded.

"He still doesn't believe you," said the lich.

To his surprise, the spirit of the other world simply hummed to indicate that it had heard, neither frustrated nor angry.

"You don't think so?"

"I'm not a child," the otherworldly soul said gently, "I know that there's not something you can get in this world. Although his memory is vague and messy, he still remembers that the first twenty years he was just an ordinary person, in that wonderful world of material abundance and advanced technology, he survived by relying on the Internet, and closed himself in a dense cocoon, but this did not mean that he would not be frustrated, threatened and betrayed, and sometimes he would even be surprised, because the profits in exchange for those evil deeds against him, which made him feel painful and difficult, were so small that they were simply ridiculous. A four-figure pay, a pompous free publicity, an ethereal promise, a few empty accolades can be the trigger for betrayal and harm, and they mock him, slander him, take advantage of him, and never be ashamed of their actions.

As the lich sarcastically suggests, he doesn't know how to get along with anyone but his parents, and he is willing to lend a helping hand to others when he can, but he never dares to put his hopes in others, and because of this, he is grateful to those who are willing to help him, and he does not feel abandoned and humiliated when they have to walk away - they have no duty or obligation to treat him well.

In his opinion, Captain Cobbert's cautious behavior was understandable, the plane was much worse than his world, and he was a stranger who had been forcibly stuffed onto the ship by the leader of the thieves, and the captain had not swept him into the barrel of apples, and threw him into the deepest cabins and into the sea, which was beyond his expectations, and he was willing to continue this shallow friendship after reaching the castle.

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