The creaking wheels crushed the morning dew that hung between the grass branches.

Between the mountain and forest paths, a mule is pulling a pallet truck and staggering forward in the mountains.

On the cart, bags of grain were piled up in the corner, and Nana was sleeping on her stomach. Leo and Esenus on the side were discussing something in a whisper, and from time to time they asked for the opinion of Omoni, who was riding on another horse.

The bumpy mountain road brought Nana up from her sleep.

Leo was keenly aware.

"Are you awake?" Leo brought a jug of water and a piece of bread and placed it in Nana's hand. "Water and bread. I'm sorry to wake you up so early. Don't move later, this old man next to you will show you your eyes. This old man is a mage, and maybe he can cure your eyes. ”

"Hello, Nana. Omoni bowed slightly to say hello. "My name is Omoni, you can call me Lao Mo. ”

"Hello, old sir. ”

"And the second thing, since we're going to have an adventure together, it's better to be a little bit restrained with each other. There is an agreement here, not much content, I said you listen, Lao Mo, you also listen. ”

"First, the members of the adventure party should treat each other as companions, help each other, entrust life and death, trust each other, and do not dig holes for teammates, plot, etc., etc., ————etc., etc., as long as they have a spectrum in their hearts, we don't play word games. ”

"Second, the purpose of the adventure group is to explore the wonders of the world, whether natural or human. Members are obliged to share relevant information. ”

"Article 3, new members of the party must obtain the consent of at least half of the members before signing the agreement. ”

"Article 4, the distribution of funds, half of the funds obtained from each adventure shall be reserved for the public use of the expedition group, and the rest shall be distributed to individuals after consultation. ”

"As for the duration of the agreement, it is indefinite. ”

Leo handed the four agreements to Omonima and asked, "Old Mo, can you add a soul of language to these agreements?" ”

"No problem. Omoni twitched his hand four times, and the milky mist flickered on the four protocols before disappearing into the paper. The original rough and untidy paper has undergone some subtle changes, the surface is smoother, the edges are more neat, and a little bit of fog with ripples can be faintly seen when you stare at it.

Leo nodded in satisfaction.

"If you agree to this agreement, just sign it or put a handprint on it and leave a mark. ”

"Press here, Nana. Old man, help me look into Nana's eyes now. ”

Omoni rode over on his horse, put his hand on Nana's head, closed his eyes and felt it, sighed, and said regretfully: "No way, her soul is slightly defective, this is double blindness, the physical body restricts her from seeing the world physically, and the soul restricts her from the mind from having the idea of seeing the world." ”

Leo let out a long sigh and went back to distribute the agreement.

These agreements were actually negotiated last night, and I repeat them here just for Nana's feelings. If there is no negotiation, Leo will not be able to insist on leaving with Nana.

According to Esenas's idea, an adventuring party should be made up of elites. However, after listening to Leo's story, Isenus still agreed to Nana's joining out of consideration for his companion's face and out of respect for his companion's face, after all, he is not a devil.

Of course, this is only part of the reason. The root cause was that Omoni also agreed to Nana's joining, and according to the third rule, the vote ratio became a damn two to one.

"What about these agreements now, are they burned?" asked Leo.

"Although it is generally true that burning is a safe and reliable way to prevent someone from tampering with the words of the agreement and destroying the words by other means. But it will also make the spirit of speech lose its carrier, and its effectiveness will be weakened... Leave it to me, I've got a safer way to do it. ”

Omoni took the contract, took out a wand the length of his forearm, pointed in the air, and wrote.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Leo seems to see that as Omoni's wand slides, there seem to be dark blue traces left in the air, and when these dark blue marks join into a circle, a crack opens in the air.

Watching Omoni put the agreement into this crack, Leo finally couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"

"Space plug-in and space stretching. I used my magic to create a hanging point on the wall of space, and then changed the spatial coefficient of the space around me. ”

"Why is your magic different from other magicians I know?"

"Because they are magicians, and I am a wizard. ”

Wizard?, Igernus, who was in the audience, silently considered the word.

"Okay. Leo shook his head. "In short, these are all things that have nothing to do with us, we just need to think about tempering our fighting spirit. ”

"Then the third and final thing comes next. I've just been talking to Esenas about the history of dragons. ”

"Twelve years before the Sacred Calendar, this is the first time that dragons have been recorded, and it took place near the Holy City. It was a time of strife between humans and aliens. Two years before the Sacred Calendar, the first god in the history of the world ascended to the throne. ”

"In the year 220 of the Holy Calendar, the peak of the world was surrounded by three dragons, and then in the 227th year of the Holy Calendar, there was a battle of faith between Arman, the god of battle, and Torgon, the god of forging, and the ending ended with the fall of the god of forging. ”

"In the year 330 of the Holy Calendar, the tenth year after the division of the Religious and Free Nations, there was not an extremely terrifying ice-type dragon in the deep ice crystal sea at the junction of the Religious and Free Nations—which was not called this name at the time—and turned half of the inland sea into a glacier. In the three hundred and thirty-third years, the god of harvest and the god of commerce declared war on the goddess of nature, and after a battle, the goddess of nature disappeared, and now it seems that it has been changed to esoteric religion to broadcast the faith. ”

"In the 375th year of the Holy Calendar, that is, twenty-five years ago, seven dragons attacked the town of Artisans, and then in the 377th year of the Holy Calendar, the God of Lies and the God of Trickery attacked the Goddess of Wisdom, but for unknown reasons, the Frederick family of the Free Kingdom sent an elite army to support the Goddess of Nature, which did their best to recover the loss. ”

"Finally, now, in the 400th year of the Holy Calendar, we found a baby dragon on Mount Mobius by the Sea of Falling Stars. ”

"From the beginning of the Sacred Calendar to the present, there have only been six divine wars, but there are four times before the divine war, and each time is more compact than the other, such a high probability and the law of discovering the traces of the dragon before the divine war, this makes me and Isenus confident enough to judge that there is some kind of strong connection between the divine war and the dragon. If there is no objection, the main purpose of our expedition is to unravel these historical mysteries. ”

"I'll just listen to your arrangement. Nana nodded.

"I don't have a problem either. Omoni nodded in the same way. "But I have one more thing to add. ”

"Listen up. ”

Mogny pondered for a moment and said, "This involves the issue of divine power and divine order, and cannot be mentioned directly, I am referring to the explanation, you can understand more." ”

"At that time, the first god and the only god king opened up the divine power system, and several factions and neutral gods were formed. This god-king stood up in the face of human suffering and defeated all the alien races, so his god line is biased towards maintaining the stability and peace of mankind. ”

In addition to the huge god system of this god king, there are many gods who tend to maintain the balance of nature and explore the truth of the world, but this path is not comfortable and there are no strong protectors. ”

"There are also a few hard-tempered gods who are indispensable to their function in humans and even in other races, so they choose to stand on their own. The advantage of this is that it is not bound by the upper and lower positions, and the number of beliefs is as much as there is, and it will not be dispersed to the entire god system. ”

Leo understood that the battle, the harvest, the business, the lies, the tricks, these profit-making gods who took the initiative to provoke the war should all belong to the god-king god lineage. And the gods of forging, nature, and wisdom should belong to small factions and neutral gods, but the specific division is elusive.

According to this logic, the traces found in the portal could not be stealing divine power, but actively cooperating.

Leo and Esenas glanced at each other, affirming each other's thoughts.

"Now that the party has just been formed and the team's goals have just been determined, we need to re-plan the adventure route. But wherever we went, we had to pass through Fishscale, where we had to fix up, replenish our food, replace the wooden cart, and Omoni picked up a bit of 'loot', which we went out and sold as part of our adventure. Splitting money regularly helps to stabilize people's hearts. ”

Little by little, the sun rises and sets little by little. It wasn't until the light of the sun dimmed to the faint shadow of the moon on the other side that everyone saw Fishscale.

From a distance, there will be a few fish hanging in front of the door of each house, and the body of the fish will reflect the silvery white light.

"Is that where the name Fishscale Town comes from? Leo looked at the town curiously.

The adventuring group went around and found a shopping street in a short time. As Leo hesitated between the shop and the blacksmith, Isenus pointed to the blacksmith.

"Here, in general, the craftsmen of the blacksmith shop are a little more down-to-earth and more knowledgeable. I usually don't go to the shop if I can, it's too treacherous. ”

Walking into the blacksmith shop, a middle-aged man was banging around an iron stove, a neatly dressed warrior of about thirty years old was waiting on the sidelines, and a little boy of eleven or twelve years old was touching and looking at the weapons on the shelves in the corner.

The man who was striking iron raised his eyes and said, "If you buy equipment, please wait, if you want to build equipment, please come back tomorrow, the shop is closing." ”

"No, we're going to sell some materials for the equipment. Omoni stepped forward and took out a handful of dragon scales, a few dragon teeth, two dragon teeth, and a keel from his pocket.

Esenas raised his eyebrows and asked in a low voice, "Old Mo, do you have private goods in your pocket?"

"The Traceless Stretching Spell can expand the actual space a little. Mogoni whispered back.

The blacksmith stared at the dragons stacked on the counter in amazement, and did not come back to his senses until the flames under his hands burned into his hands. The blacksmith reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and concentrated on dealing with a large shield under his hand.

After a long clang, the blacksmith handed the shield back to the man waiting next to him, and quickly came to the counter and touched it carefully.

As the children and warriors gathered around to watch, Esenas grabbed Leo.

"Do you see that?"

"What? Are you talking about this kid being a thief?" Leo glanced at the kid who was trying to remove a knife from behind the warrior.

"How could I care about such a trivial matter...", Isenus glanced at Leo speechlessly. "But the kid was quite light. ”

"Look at the warrior, the armor on his body is at least one and a half times the thickness of ordinary heavy armor, and there are many useless decorative patterns on the armor, but this does not affect the defense of this armor in the slightest. There is also the shield in his hand, which is light and strong, with a reasonable structure, and a layer of outer bread is a monster skin. ”

And the way he looked at the dragon scales, this kind of look was not greedy, but scrutinizing and reviewing. This shows that he knows about the dragon. So..."

The more Isenas spoke, the more serious Leo's face became.

He gradually realized that this warrior was wearing a set of knight's plate armor, which was only produced and maintained by large forces. And the decorative patterns on it are not all useless, which declares the camp of this set of plate armor. This set of patterns is simple and elegant, faint and full of this sense of beauty, even with Leo Weimo's artistic appreciation ability, it can be seen that this is a pattern that belongs to a certain church. Not all monster skins are suitable for use on shields, which have special requirements for toughness, softness and energy conductivity. And this kind of adult monster is notoriously difficult to kill.

The information about dragons is highly confidential, and the information he revealed about dragons to Isenus and Mogoni has been drowned in the dust of history due to various natural and man-made reasons, and only a small number of relevant major powers have copies left.

Judging from these inferences, this warrior, no, this knight, should be an important member of the god-king line.

Leo's hand quietly touched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

Since it was a god-king line, according to the information they had in their hands, this person was most likely their enemy, so Leo decided to strike first.

In a thunderbolt, the sword was delicately unsheathed, aiming for the knight's unprotected throat.

Leo felt that his sword was bound to win.

However, the knight backhanded back the knife from the child who had stolen his equipment from behind, and with a twist of his body, the knife was aimed squarely at the tip of Leo's sword.

Leo was stunned, the tip of the knight's sword flicked, slashed down the tip of the sword, and knocked the whole sword sideways with a blow on the sword, and then kicked it again, and the knife hit Leo in the throat.

One inch is long and one inch is strong, and one inch is short and one inch is dangerous. Although Leo knew how to use a sword, he was suddenly approached by a small knife, and he couldn't use half of his sword moves.

The knight was unforgiving, the knife was pressed against his throat, and the cold hair on Leo's throat seemed to be being teased by the tip of the knife, and in an instant, Leo's forehead was already dripping with cold sweat.

After a few moves, Leo was beaten behind his back, and he was already leaning against the wall of the room, seeing that the knife was about to break through the flesh and go straight into his throat, Leo twisted his waist and drove his neck to the side, which was able to avoid a fatal knife, Rao was so, and Leo's throat was also brought up with a shallow blood mark.

"So he should be the apostate paladin Ente who is being hunted down by the God of Light. We can get him to come over and be a teammate, and we just don't have someone in the team who can stand up to the front. ”

Isenas next to him made up the second half of the sentence leisurely.

Leo, who was leaning against the wall and didn't dare to take a breath, gritted his teeth and glanced at Esenas, and squeezed out a few vague words from between his teeth: "You calculate me?"

"How can this be called a calculation? This is obviously a surprise!" Isenas looked at Leo's embarrassed appearance with satisfaction, Leo cut first and then played, and he was very unhappy to stuff people into the group without his consent, and seized this opportunity to make him suffer a loss, and he also deliberately pointed out the word surprise, which was to tell Leo that he was retaliating openly.

Seeing Leo trembling against the wall, Esenas was refreshed.

Listening to the conversation between Leo and Izenus, the knight realized that there seemed to be some misunderstanding, but to be on the safe side, he still put the knife to Leo's neck and warned him, "Don't move!", and then he glanced at the child who was sneaking away along the foot of the wall, and said again: "That child, you are the same." ”

"It seems that there seems to be some misunderstanding between us, can you give me a reasonable explanation. The knight's sword rested firmly on Leo's neck, but his eyes were fixed on Isenus.

"No problem. Esenas shrugged. "You can just put a knife on the man's neck and we'll go to a hotel or a tavern or something, casinos can do, but brothels can't. ”

The knight thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Of course, during the exchange between the two, both ignored Leo who grinned and tried to make his point. Even the knight "accidentally" made another shallow opening in Leo's neck in his excessive worry.

"Hurry up, Lao Mo, don't sell everything, leave some dragon skins and dragon teeth for your own people. ”

"Come along, kid, I'll have something to ask you later." Before the knight left, he unexpectedly called out to the child.

The night by the sea is cool and moist, bringing the salty and moist taste of the sea. The taverns in the adventure town are noisy and stuffed with people who like to watch the excitement.

After Leo came to the tavern with a knife, he immediately brought a small climax, and laughter spread among the people watching the excitement.

Leo suddenly felt the urge to hit the knife in desperation.

Isenus led everyone to a corner, took out a handful of gold coins, and shouted to the adventurers around him: "Brothers, make room for a circle!

In the laughter of the surrounding guests, he smiled and left with a gold coin.

Esenus pulled out a map and asked Mogney for a deal.

"You see, this is our adventure plan, and most of it is investigating events related to dragons. I don't know what your needs are, but from what I know about you, I think we should have a lot of overlap in our adventures. It's a risky agreement, and if you're going to go with us, it's a good idea to sign the same agreement as we do. ”

The knight reached out and tugged across the map.

The map is well marked, and anecdotes from various places are collected, and the knight has only heard a small part of them. Compared with some of the vague information he knew, he judged that the map would not be fake. At least most of it is true.

The knight grabbed the agreement again, looked at it twice, and frowned, "The first one seems to be unworthy of its name, you seem to be harming your companion just now. ”

"How can the affairs of his companion be called framed, this is his trust in me. ”

"He almost died under my knife. ”

"It's called my trust in my companions!" said Isennas, permanently.

The knight was speechless, but looking at Leo's expression, the shameful anger seemed to be more than the anger of being calculated by his companions.

The knight revisited the map and protocol.

While everyone was waiting peacefully, Nana, who had been silent, spoke.

"You, how are you?"

Nana's voice was hesitant and tentative, but the knight's face changed: "Who are you talking to!"

"I, I'm talking to a lady and I just heard her seem to be asking some questions. ”

Unlike the cautious and nervous knights, Leo and the others were curious.

"What's her name?" asked the knight again.

"Alandor?" she said her name. ”

This is the name of the goddess of luck and the goddess of happiness and written. Omoni explained.

The knight withdrew his knife and looked at Nana in silence.

"Okay, I've agreed to join your party. ”

Things were unexpectedly easy, which made Isenus rejudge Nana's weight in the team.

"Okay, then that's it, I'll write another agreement. ”

"Wait a minute!" shouted Leo, who was free.

"What's wrong?"

"Let this kid join the team. Leo pointed to the child that Knight Ente had insisted on bringing with him.

Isenus shook his head and refused.

"I don't see a reason to let him in. ”

"This kid is a good fit to be a scout. Don't you see when he steals? That's talent. ”

"Indeed, in our army, such a light-hearted little guy is a natural scout. Ente agreed.

Esenas still shook his head.

"We can find better, more trustworthy ones that don't need to be cultivated, and we don't necessarily have that much patience to nurture him and wait for him to grow. ”

"Then let's vote. "Leo is also very simple. "Now I agree, Mr. Knight agrees, you object. What about the two of you?"

Nana shook her head in denial: "He's too young, such a young child shouldn't go to such a dangerous place, Leo, you can't afford his risk." ”

Isenas was overjoyed, and the vote he thought he had lost was unexpectedly helping him.

"Two against two, plus Lao Mo's vote against it..."

"I agree. ”

Isenas was dumbfounded, you old bald head with thick eyebrows and big eyes actually betrayed me?

"Three to two, passed. ”