"Alan, you're the best donkey-riding magician I've ever met!" Curry gave a thumbs-up to Eren on his horse next to him, but it was a little strange to hear it to Eren's ears.

"He has a problem with the saddle. Captain Hackic also caught up and gave his opinion in time.

"Saddle?" Several people's eyes were focused on the back of the donkey that Alan was sitting on, obviously they didn't have Howch's observation, and they looked at it for a long time, but they didn't find anything abnormal.

"Alan, take out what's under your saddle and show it to everyone. Havic said to Alan.

Alan jumped off the donkey's back, leaned over and pounded under the donkey's belly for a while, and whispered a few magic spells, then took out a piece of something and handed it to Captain Hardich.

It was a square, bone-like thing, with a small white crystal inlaid on each of the four corners, and between the four crystals, there were thin magic runes, which were grooves carved into the surface of the bone armor, and the grooves were filled with a dark brown dye, as if the color of blood had dried up. From the outside, this should be a simple small magic array.

"Alan, is this what you did these nights without sleeping or eating?" Captain Hackich asked Alan, raising the bone armor in his hand.

"Yes, Captain!"

"Captain, what is that?" asked James, who was on the side, curiously.

"If you're not mistaken, it's supposed to be a small flotation magic array. Captain Hackic replied.

"He actually took the time to make a magic circle and use it on his donkey?" asked Durant, a little surprised.

"Looks like so, Allen, how much did you spend on this magic array?" Sterling asked.

"Almost a dozen gold coins, right?" Alan didn't seem to have any surprise effect when he saw the performance of several mercenaries, but Captain Hardich's face was a little serious, so Allen said very vaguely.

"Ha! A dozen gold coins, Alan, you are really willing to put down this book, a dozen gold coins can buy two horses like this to travel. Raheem Sterling unceremoniously pointed out that Allen had made a loss-making deal.

"Is the value of the magic array comparable to that of horses?" Captain Savic first refuted Sterling's erroneous view, and then looked at Alan seriously and said:

"Alan, as a member of the team for this mission, I have the obligation and responsibility to remind you that during the mission, the magician must save all the mana and reduce the unnecessary waste of mental power, so that he can go all out and give full play to his strength when the mission requires it. ”

"Although our mission is not very difficult, as a mature mercenary team, I hope you can follow the tradition of mercenaries and keep your mental strength in the best state at all times, in case of accidents that may occur at any time, understand?"

"Oh, I see. Alan stuck out his tongue, thinking to himself that mercenaries still have such rigid rules, but how do you know if you don't tell me.

"Boss, since this magic array Eren spent a lot of effort to make it, it will be wasted if you don't use it. I've never ridden a mount with a magic circle before, Alan, how about we swap them?" Sterling jumped off his horse and snatched the magic circle from Captain Havech, looking at Alan and saying sheepishly.

"Brother Sterling, that's not good, my donkey is slow!" said Allen, with some reluctance.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid!"

"But I'm afraid, I've never ridden a horse, and if it doesn't obey, I'll be miserable!"

"My horse is very well-behaved, just like your donkey, and I don't believe you can ride it and try it. ”

So under Sterling's coaxing, the two exchanged mounts, and after Allen reset the magic array, he got on Sterling's horse, and Sterling rode on Allen's donkey.

"Brothers, how about we try it?"

"Compare it, are you afraid of you?" the elder brother had a look of "look at your appearance that has never seen the world".

"Okay! ”

Brother a few horsewhips, the crotch of the horse rushed out, although Alan is riding a horse for the first time, but because of the experience of riding a donkey, so he is not very afraid, but the initial acceleration is a little slower, but gradually followed.

In the end, only Stirling was left riding a donkey, no matter how he shouted and swung, the donkey under his crotch just couldn't speed up, and when he was in a hurry, far ahead, Allen's voice came.

"Brother Sterling, I forgot to tell you just now, my magic crystal was not filled last night, and now there are no magic elements!"

"What? Alan, you little bunny, stop me!" came Sterling's angry shout from behind, but only a quicker hoof sounded in reply.

After another three days, Alan and his party finally arrived in Nice County, where the mission destination was located, and it was already the eleventh day since they left Zhuma Town. In the next three days, due to the influence of the flotation magic array, Alan finally replaced a horse with his donkey, although he still couldn't change the state of eating ashes after him, but at least he was in a much better mood.

The group stayed that night in the central city of Nice, which was more than 100 miles away from their destination, the village of Dege.

The next morning, a few people spent the morning preparing the items needed for the mission, a few mercenaries specially found the best local blacksmith to polish their blades, Sterling and James went to order two shields, Curry purchased some steel arrows, and Hackitch purchased a simple map of Nice County, some trauma medicine, dry food, and equipment for field accommodation. Alan also took the opportunity to sell his levitation magic array and bought a medium-sized air-based magic crystal, and in general, Allen also earned a few gold coins, and now Allen already has a medium-sized fire-based magic crystal and a medium-sized air-based magic crystal, which can be regarded as a good configuration.

Everything was ready, and the group left the city of Nice at noon that day, and arrived at the village of Dege in the evening according to the map instructions.

Located in a mountain col, Daige Village is a small mountain village with only 30 households, mainly relying on farming and cattle and sheep for a living, the mercenaries that the villagers have been looking forward to finally arrived, the villagers are overjoyed, and the village chief personally received Havic and his party.