Despite being a small border town, the night shadow bar in Watt Town does a good job, especially in the evenings, when many residents like to go there for a drink, to expose the trivial things in the town, or to talk about the latest events in the kingdom, every day. If there's been the most talked about lately, a mercenary team destroyed a nearby Psiloucum lair a few days ago, which is something to rejoice about for all the terrestrial creatures in the kingdom and even on the Redstone continent, although this matter has not yet spread across the continent.

That night, as usual, the inhabitants gathered in the bar to talk, and at the door came a tall and burly man, carrying a seemingly heavy one-handed greatsword, and wearing a white armor, with a strong hand carved into the left chest of the armor, and a lightning bolt of light. He looked around the bar and walked straight to an inconspicuous corner, took off his helmet and placed it on the table, and raised his hand to the waitress, who saw the signal and walked towards him.

The waitress walked up to look at the stranger, he was about 30 years old, human, his armor was a little dirty, he should have been on the road for a long time. "Are you new here, I haven't seen you, I usually know everyone who comes here, you seem to have traveled a long way, your forehead is full of sweat, is there anything urgent, where are you going", the waitress was more curious, making her forget what her job was. The stranger looked at the waitress: "A beer." ”

The waitress trotted to the bar and poured a glass of wine, trotted to his table, put down the beer, and surprisingly, instead of leaving, she sat down next to the stranger. "If you don't mind, tell me your story, you look like an adventurer, there must be a lot of interesting things", the waitress smiled sweetly and looked at the stranger expectantly.

The stranger was surprised, licked his lips, picked up the cup and took a long sip of beer, "What's your name?" ”

"You can call me Sheryl, what about you. ”

"Tarrant, I...... Maybe you can help me, I'm here to find someone, a mercenary squad, you should have seen it", Tarrant observed Sheryl's expression, "I heard on the way here that they just did something big. ”

"Which squad are you talking about, there are often adventurers passing by here. ”

"They should be four people, one of them has a greatsword, and a beautiful lady, and they came here to investigate the situation of the psiphers, do you have any impressions?" Tarrant provided as many details as he could, he was sure that the people here should know about the spiritsuckers.

Sure enough, Sherrill laughed, "Oh, I see, you're talking about Garfield, haha, he's been living here last week and has told me a lot of stories, that pretty young lady is called Grace, don't you know the names of the other two, hehe, one is called Casper, he's a priest, he doesn't like to talk, and the other is called Adrian, he's handsome......" As soon as Sheryl started the conversation, Tarrant asked what he wanted to know, he was not interested in the information that Sheryl was providing now, he still had a task on his side, and he needed to find their team as much as possible, so he had to take the liberty of interrupting Sheryl, "Sheryl, you said they lived here last week, are they gone?"

Rather than being annoyed by being interrupted, on the contrary, she didn't mind at all, Nunu, and said, "I'm not sure, they came for a drink every night last week, not once this week, and the townspeople didn't see them, so they should have left." Garfield had promised to tell me about his last adventure in Tree Mountain, and he hadn't even said goodbye to me", a hint of complaint appeared in Sheryl's eyes, and he immediately smiled again, "But Adrian is still here, and he lives in the church in town."

At least this is good news, Tarrant thought to himself, he set out from the Knights, and followed their route all the way, if they had already returned the same way, they should meet when they returned, if they went somewhere else, would they leave Adrian here alone, should he still be nearby, "Is Adrian injured?"

"Adrian, he was almost eaten as a snack by the tentacles of a psionite when he was in the elixir's lair", Sherrill made an exaggerated disgusting expression, "Fortunately, Garfield killed the psilocyclad in time, his sanity was slightly affected, and the town priest said that there was no major problem, no fundamental damage, and that he could recover after two days of rest." Sherrill was glad to be asked so much about what she knew, and was extraordinarily detailed.

"It's not fun to be touched by the tentacles of a psychic monster, he's lucky, and under normal circumstances, he either gets his brain eaten or becomes an idiot. "Tarrant knows a lot about psiloca, and in fact, Tarrant is here for psilocy. "Have there been any traces of psisques in this town before?"

"No, never, there was never any sign of a spirit sucking monster here, and until Garfield destroyed that lair, there were still many people who couldn't believe it, such a terrible creature actually lived around us, it was terrifying to think about, but fortunately Garfield", Sheryl found himself starting to miss Garfield.

Tarrant didn't notice Sheryl's feelings, he was thinking about the Spirit-Suckering Monster, this is a very confusing point, the Spirit-Suction Monster has built a nest here, but it doesn't expose any traces at all, haven't they harmed the people in the town, the Spirit-Sucker is an underground creature, there is no need and it is impossible to build a base here if there is no conspiracy, in addition, what about their food source, do they want to change to a vegetarian diet? Perhaps, they have disposed of the food residue well, Tarrant asked again: "Are there any cases of disappearances in the town recently?"

Sheryl's big eyes stared at Tarrant, and he smiled mischievously: "Of course not, our town is very safe, and such terrible things never happen, even beasts rarely hurt people." ”

"Tell me how Garfield found out about the Psivac lair. ”

Sherrill really didn't know much about this question, and Garfield didn't tell her this, so he had to smile apologetically: "Garfield didn't tell me this, you can go to Adrian, he found it with Garfield, or you can go to that lair to have a look, now the sheriff is temporarily in charge, and someone will be sent to investigate soon." , Sherrill didn't know exactly which side it was and who the people were over there, so she had to bring it vaguely, she just knew that someone would definitely conduct a follow-up investigation on this.

Go to Adrian first, Tarrant made up his mind, if he wanted to know something, Adrian would at least have more news from there. Thinking of this, Tarrant suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, he has been in a hurry for the past few days, and he has not had a good rest, he can find a hotel tonight to have a good rest, and go to Adrian early tomorrow morning. Tarrant gave Sheryl a smile and said, "Thank you, lovely girl, you have helped me a lot." I wonder if you mind helping me again, where is the nearest hotel in town?"

Sherrill smiled even more happily and pointed to the east, "Go out to the east, turn right at the second intersection, and it will take about a few minutes." ”

Tarrant threw three brass plates on the table, got up, picked up his helmet in his right hand, and was about to go out of the house, when a troubadour came in at the door, with unkempt hair, a beard, and neatly dressed. The troubadour saw Tarrant's chest coat of arms, and said as if to himself, "Even the knights of the Sheltered Light have come to Watt Town, it's so lively", and the corners of his mouth raised imperceptibly. Tarrant tried hard to remember if he knew the troubadour, but he really couldn't remember where he had seen it, so he nodded politely, walked out of the tavern, and heard Sheryl's cheerful voice behind him: Biantris, you are here, you didn't finish the story last time, what happened to the expeditionary force?

The man's name was Biantris Tarrant, but maybe he just knew the insignia of the Light of Protection, and the "expeditionary force" that Sherrill was talking about would be ...... He felt too tired to think about it, so he should go to the hotel and rest first, there was still a lot of work to do tomorrow. Out of the bar, the street was silent, most of the town buildings had turned off the lights, and the sky was sparsely lit with two stars, it was a quiet night.

The next day, Tarrant got up early in the morning, he had too many things on his mind, he always couldn't sleep peacefully, too many unfinished things to do, if he spent all his time in bed, he might not be able to complete what he wanted to do in this life, thinking of this, he would jump out of bed, get ready as fast as possible, and start the day according to the plan last night, and now, he wanted to find Adrian immediately, he went out to find a passer-by to inquire about the location of the church in the town, and went straight to the church.

The church in Watt Town is very small, if you put it in the national capital, it is a very ordinary old house, but there are two big trees at the door of the church that are very conspicuous, and the shade of the trees has been covering the door of the church, and it completely blocks the view from the window on the second floor of the church, at this time, a young man in a sky blue robe is standing in the shade of the tree, the rising sun caresses the harmonious light, through the shade of the tree leaking the slightest point of light, falling on the young man's body, the young man is looking down and pondering something, completely unaware of Tarrant's arrival, until Tarrant walked to his side, he saw the visitor, and the badge on the visitor's chest, he nodded slightly, asked in a polite tone"Knight of the Sheltered Light, is there anything I can do for you?"

When he got closer, Tarrant was able to see the young man's face clearly, a face full of heroism, like a portrait outlined by a thin line on the bottom of the painter's hand, no wonder Sherrill would specifically mention that this should be Adrian, "I'm looking for Adrian." ”

"I am," Adrian nodded slightly, "what's the matter?"

"My name is Tarrant, and I'm the one in charge of the Psilogue incident with the Light of Protection, and Captain Ryan told me about you, and you've been investigating the Psivac incident for a while, right?" Tarrant asked tentatively, and at the same time, according to his observations, Adrian's injuries were indeed fine.

"Your investigation is correct, we've been following a clue related to the Psisuction", Adrian invited Tarrant into the church, "There is reason to believe that the Psivacs are moving much more on the ground than they used to, but we haven't noticed it yet." ”

"That's why I'm looking for you", Taranta followed Adrian, "I'm worried about something that's happened on the ground lately, and although there is only very circumstantial evidence, my intuition tells me that there are spirit-absorbing monsters behind the incident, and this evil underground creature is no longer willing to satisfy the underground world, and is appearing more and more on the surface, and they are probably plotting something, I mean, a systematic plan to attack the ground creatures, rather than occasionally coming to the surface to hunt for food." The most direct evidence of what you have found this time is that they are forming a nest. ”

Adrian glanced back at Tarrant and said, " It's a very bold idea, I don't dare to say whether your idea is right or wrong, although the spirit sucking monsters are evil and dangerous, but considering the poor physique of their race, it is very difficult to attack the ground creatures on a large scale, even if they can mentally control other creatures, it is impossible to perform such a large-scale mental attack, once the war starts, only our human warriors can absolutely overwhelm them in numbers, not to mention, we also have the two solid allies of elves and dwarves as a backing. The two walked to a room on the second floor of the church, and Adrian opened the door, "Please come in, I'm staying here for the time being." ”

The church in the town was very simple, with a few basic furnishings in the room, a bed, a closet, a table, three chairs, and if the windows were furniture, then a window, Tarrant thought, it was even more modest than the hotel last night. He sat down and continued his idea: "You forgot their mind-control, what if you controlled a group of creatures to fight for them in advance? ”

Adrian poured a cup of tea for Tarrant and sat down, "Then we have to assume a premise, they are not controlling low-level humanoid creatures or beasts, such as earth spirits, although they have strength, but compared with trained warriors, their resistance to magic is also quite poor, even if they are formed into troops, they can't have any big effect at all, the goal of the spirit sucking monsters is at least human-level highly intelligent creatures, and to gain a decisive advantage in fighting ground creatures, a considerable number is required" Adrian paused and continued: "There is a problem involved here, a large number of human warriors are missing, will no one find out?"

He was right, Tarrant was also troubled by this question, if the Psics wanted to attack the creatures on the ground in a large area, they must have their puppet troops, and there were quite a large number of them, so far, there were no rumors of this, what the hell are they going to do?Taranta began to have a headache again, he got up and walked to the window, a large shade of trees in front of him blocked the view, and they turned to look at Adrian, "Tell me how you found this Psilogue lair, this is big news." ”

"Of course," Adrian began to recount, smiling, "because of the occasional reason we were tracking this incident was that there was a very famous equipment shop in the trade area of the national capital, which you should know, called 'Faith'. ”

Faith, is a very famous equipment shop, located in the trade area of Siante, the capital of the Serenzo Empire, known for trading the top equipment, many of the equipment sold in it are out-of-print made by famous people, and there are some legendary artifacts, there are many legendary characters on the Redstone Continent, legendary characters will die, and the weapons and equipment they have used will not, you can see it there, faith is an equipment exhibition hall, as long as you have enough money, you can bring one or two pieces back, make yourself a new legend on the continent。

The shopkeeper of faith is a male human in his fifties, very cheerful and talkative, often chatting with his customers about some little-known stories, his real name is not known, everyone calls him "believer", which is also the meaning of the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper believes that a person with faith is the best equipment, can provide the strongest protection and the most tenacious life, the name of the store also means this. Many people wonder why the owner doesn't use these crazy pieces of equipment himself, and there are some rather legendary rumors involved.

There is a rumor that the owner is very fond of the "Breaking Blade" , The one-handed axe used by the legendary dwarven hero, after the physical smelting of the weapon maker and the magic forging of the magic weapon maker, is sharp and abnormal, with an absolute probability of destroying the armor, the dwarf hero disappeared in the Giant Mountains, along with his teammates, a human sword master and an elf mage, considering that there is also an elf of the female mage profession in the belief store, the possibility that the shopkeeper is a human sword master is naturally very high, a character who has created quite a lot of legendary stories.

There is another rumor that the female elf in the store has a very high talent for spells, and her chanting spell level is much higher than that of master mages, plus the rare spell books and spell casting scrolls in the store, which are reminiscent of an elven mage, a long-disappeared character, her spouse, happens to be a human warrior, and there is no follow-up story after the two leave the elven realm.

No matter which legend it is, there can be some reasons for people to sit in the right seat, and there are also some contradictory flaws that make the identity of the faith shopkeeper even more mysterious, fortunately, one thing is certain, the things in this store can only be bought with gold coins, and if you want to rely on other means, the elf has many ways to make people disappear forever.

As someone who ventures everywhere and knows "faith" for sure, Tarrant nodded slightly and motioned for Adrian to continue.

"We saw a cloak on the 'Faith' side, Grace recognized it, it belonged to the Chloride Mountains, it was very strange to appear in Faith, the believers said that a black market merchant changed hands on him, Grace and the great druid of the Trellin Mountains have known each other for a long time, so Grace bought the cloak and sent it back to Chloriden Mountain. There we learned that the owner of the cloak, Sgel, had disappeared, and that he had been sent to investigate some strange events in the western valley of the Tree Forest, and never returned, and that the Grand Druid had commissioned us to find out what was going on in Sgel, and we found the man, however, he was dead, with no external injuries, and after an examination it was found that his brain had been sucked dry, and since then we have been investigating the Psicosm. ”

"In other words, you found out about the Spirit-Suckering Monster in Cuilin Mountain?" Tarrant didn't know anything about it.

"We're not sure if it's in the Treewoods, but we've found corpses that have been eaten by the Spiritsuckers there, and the druids, as the guardians of the forest, have a special sense of evil and destruction, and they found some abnormalities in the valley west of the Treewoods that would lead to Sgel's investigation. We didn't find any anomalies when we searched for Sgel. ”

"That's... How did you track down Watt?"

Adrian said: "It's just luck. You know that cloak, the one that Grace bought, called the Cloak of the Tree, which gives the user some magical abilities. ”

At the beginning of the production of magical equipment, the manufacturer will infuse its own ability into it, so that the equipment can obtain more powerful capabilities, which also depends on the manufacturer's ability and the quality of raw materials, the reason why legendary weapons become legends, not only because of the user's ability, but also because of its innate manufacturing ability is also an important aspect, based on the fact that there are many skilled craftsmen on the mainland, there are a lot of weapons that can be recited on a large scale, and those who are not as good as the legendary level, there are many fewer people who know about it. Of course, Tarrant's historical research on equipment was only at the elementary level, and he had not heard of the Cloak of the Green Forest, so he could only pout helplessly.

"Some things are wonderful, and you might have a hard time imagining it until you know that it really exists", says Adrian with a mysterious smile.