Chapter 165: Trace
"That's right, tell us how to fight back", Tarrant clenched his hands into fists, "Nicole's plan is still ongoing, we need to let her know that she has found the wrong opponent." β
"Let me think," Catrina said as she walked to the fountain and looked at her own reflection on the water, "give me some time." β
"Hey," Kira Veton whispered into Tarrant's ear, "Don't you feel guilty about what you just said, we're coaxing an apprentice at the Academy of Magic, and Nicole is probably stronger than all the old men in the Academy combined." β
"She's already half the puzzle," Tarrant looked at the mage's back, "I believe her, and you should believe her, if you've seen her in the Temple of Wisdom." β
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"I have nothing to do with you," Tarrant waved in disgust.
Kira Veton looked up and took a sip, "Have you forgotten what happened at night in the leafy forest, you crawled on my bed......"
"Shut up!" Tarrant lost the will to resist, "I've apologized," Catrina lost her thoughts, not hearing any sensitive words, "forget those bad things." β
"Hahaha, say you love me", Kira Veton suddenly liked the feeling of manipulation.
Tarrant gently squeezed out two words: "Never." β
Kira Veton walked over to Katrina, "I need to talk to my wife, I'm afraid someone is going to regret it." β
"What's the difference between this behavior and Lovell's and Nicole's?" Tarrant changed his combat thinking, "Dirty and dirty." β
Kiraweton paused, "Say you love me." β
"Mean, barbaric, ...... as a priest"
"Have you noticed anything out of the ordinary?" said Katrina, turning suddenly, "anything related to magic." β
Kira Veton shook her head with a wicked smile.
"It doesn't seem to be," Tarrant avoided the priest's gaze. "Any hints?"
"This world is different from ours, and it makes me think that maybe it's not a real world," Catrina explained, looking down as she thought, "similar to a maze, a purely magical world, because the world here is so much broken." The phenomena that make us feel strange all prove that it works very strangely, and it can be understood if it is a magical creation, and a mage once put forward this idea, and created a large number of imaginary objects, and when they were enough and real enough, a new world was realized, combined with the place where we are, and look at the ......"
"Katrina". Kira Veton patted her on the shoulder and interrupted the deduction, "What's the conclusion?"
"Hmm-" Katrina looked at her teammates, "to prove my conclusion, this is a wizarding world, not real redstone." β
"We know it's not real redstone but the world of a crystal ball, that's what you just concluded," says Kira Veton, looking very bored.
"No, I'm not denying it's a crystal ball. Rather, it is said that the world in the crystal ball is an incomplete magical creation, which relies on the support of magic to achieve it. β
Tarrant rubbed his chin. "What are we going to do?"
"Find evidence of the effect of magic, magic creation, magic arrays in operation, any magic anomalies. β
"I didn't find anything related to magic," Kira Veton replied.
"Does lava have anything to do with magic?" Tarrant asked.
Katrina blinked, "What kind of lava." There is indeed a great master spell that can create zΓ o out of lava. β
"In the cave I mentioned, there was a whole lava in it. β
"Are there any magical objects nearby?"
"No," Tarrant quickly flashed through the scene of the cave passage, "no anomalies found." β
Katrina looked around, "We need to draw a detailed map. Mark the possible magic points, and there must be a way out of here. β
"Check if they're hiding magic," Kira Veton pretended to think, "but damn dear, how do we know if it's magic?"
"Let me think about it......" Katrina looked up at the sky, her eyes glazed over.
"Kirawiton and I are in charge of looking for suspicious places, and Catrina comes to verify", Tarrant said.
"How do you share the conclusions, do you come here every day to concentrate?" the priest glanced.
"There is a limited amount of time in each day, so we have to make the most of it, and if we don't find anything suspicious, we don't have to come back here and continue the search the next day. β
"No, we need the town's food", Katrina interjected, "there is nothing to replenish in the wild, and even if we take the town's booze, they should be back in place by the time we wake up the next day." β
"Don't forget the antelope when you wake up," Tarrant gesticulated twice in the air, "and its hind legs will provide you with meat for two days, cut through its lower abdomen, tear along the texture of its muscles, and be careful to let the blood out." β
"Don't make me sick," Kiraweton said with an exaggerated vomiting sensation.
Tarrant sighed, "If we spend hours a day gathering here, we have a very limited radius of movement. β
Katrina picked up the water from the fountain and flushed it in her face, "Quiet, let me think again." β
"Listen to my opinion, and kill all the halflings in the town first," Kira Veton whispered, "they are definitely not normal creatures, and their intelligence cannot even control the coarse cloth of their births.
Tarrant ignored the madman's opinion, he constructed a map in his head, and there might be something on the other side of the mountain.
Katrina stood up suddenly, "This world has boundaries!"
"Yes, there are only a limited number of models in the crystal ball!" Kiraweton nodded in agreement, "and maybe you can get out by walking to the end of the woods." β
"No...... No...... She won't be so stupid, what will stop us", Katrina wiped her face.
The sky gradually turned dark, and the three of them looked up together, no matter how many times they got used to it, fear and despair would follow, and they could not be restrained.
"How about going back for a drink," Kira Veton said softly.
"Ahem! Great idea," Tarrant slowly lowered his head and walked towards the tavern.
Without the halflings, the whole town fell silent, and there was no light in the streets.
"The temperature at night is the same as during the day," Tarrant noticed, and there was no fog or moisture.
"Too many anomalies, maybe Nicole did it on purpose," Katrina replied.
"What's the plan for tomorrow," Kira Veton asked.
"Wake up and search the neighborhood and come back here when it's dark", Tarrant stood at the door of the tavern and turned to ask for advice, the two ladies nodded in agreement, "That's it, stay safe", he entered the door and lit the candle in the doorway.
Kira Veton jumped into the counter and expertly poured the wine, "Is death reversible?"
"My wounds have not recovered, and I have died...... Probably won't be restored," Catrina guessed.
"Fun adventure", Kirawiton handed the glass to his teammates, "Cheers." β
"Cheers!" the three glasses clashed.
After the monotonous and boring dinner, the three of them lay on the round table, looking at each other, waiting for the end and beginning of time.
"What do you want to say today?" asked Kira Veton deliberately.
"Wish, tomorrow there will be new discoveries", Tarrant smiled wryly.
"Familiar with the world like a baby," says Katrina, trying to squeeze out a smile.
"And I'm going to crush that slut's skull," Kiraweton said as if tasting the best dragon wine, his face beaming with satisfaction.
Katrina held out her hand, "I want to get some sleep." β
The team held hands around the table, building a mental space to keep exhaustion and frustration out.
The ground began to shake slightly, Tarrant walked out of the tavern with his teammates, the world began to separate, and Katrina suddenly said: "Come back here after dark, I need you ......" The last words Tarrant didn't hear clearly, only heard the tearing sound of the earth. (To be continued...... οΌββ
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