Magir thought about it for a long time before deciding to let the group continue towards the ruins, and after leaving the forest path, there were no more woods around them that would allow them to hide their whereabouts, and the march on an empty plain did not make everyone feel good... However, the knights were not unprepared, and Magir sent two teams to run ahead of the others, so that they could spot the danger as soon as possible, although no one could come up with a good response to what to do if they encountered a mage.

Ulf and Clifford were in a group, both of them drawing their swords and straddle their horses, staring warily at the ruins ahead. The young knight obviously lacked actual combat experience in this tense atmosphere, and his palms were sweaty. "I should have put the armor on, without the armor I feel like a snail without a shell. ”

"Relax, young man, this will only make you die faster. Ulf's eyes were always scanning back and forth in several places, and experience had taught him that that was the most likely corner of danger. "When it matters most, you need to prioritize protecting critical situations, like here. The middle-aged knight pointed to his head, throat, and heart from top to bottom.

Clifford tried to calm himself down. "What do you say we should do if those mages suddenly appear in front of us?"

Ulf glanced at his companion. "How is it possible, as long as we take it step by step, they will not have this opportunity, and even if it appears, it must be far away, and we have enough time to escape, of course, provided that from now on, you have to concentrate all your attention and don't think 'messy' in the mind. ”

Clifford swallowed and half-crouched on his horse, and Ulf glanced at him helplessly, but said nothing.

On the other side, about a hundred yards from the two, Xavier and Zach were also in pairs, pushing forward at the same pace as their companions on this side. The sun shone out of the dark clouds, almost the height of the sky, and the rest of the men slowly followed two hundred yards behind the two groups, heading in the direction of the setting sun.

As they got closer and closer to the ruins, everyone's nerves became more and more tense, and the two teams of people who were exploring the way had already dismounted and walked towards the ruins half-crunched. The rays of the setting sun pierced through the dilapidated house, reflecting all kinds of dilapidated scenes in the eyes of everyone, adding some bleakness and tragedy.

Ulf quickly ran towards a wall with only one remaining, and after a few minutes of sticking to the wall, he glanced back at Clifford who was following him, and pointed to where he was standing, then made a few gestures to the other two people opposite, and finally he took a deep breath, quickly flashed into the wall, and disappeared from everyone's eyes in an instant.

Clifford immediately took up the position where Ulf had been standing, and almost at the same time, he saw Zach on the other side also climb over a low wall, and the sturdy figure disappeared behind the wall. Then there was a suffocating silence, and Clifford cautiously poked his head out against the wall, and before him was an endless ruin, and Ulf was long gone, presumably deep in.

Stan and Magill stopped about a hundred yards from Clifford and Xavier, and Fraser and Ted had already brought back the Pathfinder team's horses. Stan anxiously waited for a signal from the front, and Magill was much more calm than he looked, and although the Knight Captain had been keeping a straight face since leaving the forest path, he was still much better than a restless Steiner. Nerfi rubbed the gem on the tip of her wand in her hand, and she didn't feel any strong magical 'waves' nearby, which was a good sign. But faint waves of magic were always there, and she had expected that, according to her guess, if Grivier was indeed destroyed by a magical explosion, the remaining magical residues would not be completely dispersed for years.

Time does not wait for them, half of the sun has already sunk to the ground, and it will not be long before it will be dark, and even Magill is a little anxious, but he still tries to keep his composure and looks at Nerfi beside him. "Will those ghosts really come out after dark?"

"Of course, I didn't see it with my own eyes, but Stan and Tillin did. Nerfi replied lightly.

"Hell, we're running out of time, why haven't those two guys come back yet, we need to let them have one less drink tonight......" Magill was still complaining, and suddenly there was movement in front of the right, only to see Zach flip back from the wall, except for gasping for air, there didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary, Xavier waved his hand behind him, signaling that there was nothing wrong with their side.

Magill's eyes were focused on the left, Ulf had not yet returned, he was the most trusted knight in the team, but at this time the knight captain had no other way but to curse his right-hand man. Finally, after another ten minutes of collapse, Ulf finally appeared behind the wall, his look made Clifford realize that the situation was not optimistic, but he didn't ask much, he knew that their time was running out, and he had to let Magir know the situation. Clifford stood up, crossed his hands above his head, made a fork pose, and then ran to the other side, led by Ulf.

"Go to the right!" Magil commanded, leading the horse to the right front, and Ulf and Magill arrived at Zach and Xavier at about the same time. "What have you discovered, old fellow?" said Magill, jumping off his horse, drawing his saber as he hurriedly.

Ulf looked at the Captain Knight solemnly, his chest still rising and falling violently. "There's the corpse of the mage on the left, it looks like it arrived here almost ten days ago, I'll talk about it when I settle down, I see that it's about to get dark, I don't want to wait for the ghost to come out and still wander in this ruin. ”

Magill nodded and turned to Zack. "Lead the way, Zach, don't go deep tonight, to the nearest resting point. ”

Zach hummed and strung out from the other side of the low wall, followed by Xavier, Ulf, and Clifford, and the three of them followed closely behind Zach, each facing three directions with full attention. The others led the horses and followed, with Magill and Stan breaking off themselves, and Nerfi and Wright surrounded in the middle, heavily protected.

After more than two years of wind and rain, the tragic situation of the year has been washed away, but the despair of the people at that time can still be felt from these ruins. Most of the wooden buildings have only a small section of the wall foundation left, and the rest is either completely burned or turned into charcoal, which melts into the rainwater. Most of the stone houses were destroyed by the blast waves, and the few that survived on the edge of the town were blackened by the fire, leaving only some of their walls broken in the erosion. With the exception of a few wide main thoroughfares, the rest of the narrow streets are impassable due to rubble, but the intricate road system on the ruins still shows the prosperity of Greville at the time.

Zach stopped in front of a two-story stone building. "This is it, and I bet there's no better house in the whole city. ”

The other knights were still on guard, and Magill stepped forward and looked at the house in front of him, and as Zach said, at least it was the most complete house they had seen along the way, except for a large gap in the roof on the second floor, there was no other obvious damage, of course the windows and curtains were certainly absent, and the exterior walls must have been knocked out of several dents.

Magir looked back at the horizon, the sun was almost invisible, and the sunset had dyed the dark clouds in the sky a deep 'color'. "That's it, we don't have a choice, the horses stay on the first floor, Zack, Xavier, Frazier, Ted, the four of you also stay on the first floor, the rest go to the second floor, and after dinner, I'll decide who will keep vigil. With that, the knight captain assumes a battle pose and flashes into the room, followed by Stan with his sword in both hands. Then came Nerfi, Tillin, and Wright, who led the horses in, followed by the rest of the horsemen. The horse's head was so high that the men had to lower their heads before they could barely pass. Finally, the four knights who were exploring the way turned their backs to the house, and one by one they fell into the house. Ulf was the last to enter the house, and as he stepped into the house with his left foot, there was no red 'color' on the horizon, only a dark blue 'color' remained, and it was as if nothing had happened outside.

Dark clouds covered the moon and stars, strange sounds rose and fell in the ruins, white and purple figures appeared among the ruins, and night fell.