The innkeeper himself served delicious food and wine to the knights, and more than a dozen people took up three tables in a corner of the inn, and Stan, Nerfi, Magill, and Tirin sat at one table, and the two border people were still talking about the past.

Tirin holds the flask and fills Stan's glass. "How did you end up hanging out with these Canrito knights, and running so far south to Threndra, I'm almost roasted. ”

Stan politely raises his glass and thanks Tirling. "It's a long story, Canrito and I share the same goals, so we formed an alliance. ”

Tirin thoughtfully swept over the other two on the table, frowning at the sight of Nerfi, and then smirking over Stan. "That's good, Stan, I used to have Rui with you, and now I've got a different chick, and every time the chicks around you are so charming and have their own characteristics, how did you trick them?"

Nerfi heard the words and guessed what Tillin was saying, glaring at him with slanted eyes. Stan coughed awkwardly, "I haven't introduced it yet, this is Nerfi, she's a mage, she's been an integral part of us by helping us a lot along the way." Stan looks at Tirin. "This is Tirin, we met them at Sara on our way to collect the Sacred Seal a few months ago, there were five of them, all of whom were Sarah's surviving soldiers, and only two of them survived to fend off the demons and ghouls who were tracking Rui and me, and Tirin was one of them. ”

After listening to Stan's introduction, Magir and Nerfi looked at Tirin with a noticeable difference in their eyes, Magill's eyes were full of admiration, and Nerfi was at least less disgusted with him, although his foul mouth still bothered Nerfi.

After the introduction, Stan fills Tirin's glass. "Did you hear from your wife later?" asks, but Stan believes that since Tirin is here alone, the answer is clearly no.

Tirin picked up his glass, and instead of drinking it immediately, he stared at the liquid in the glass. "In the months since I parted with you, I have visited every farm in Doyle that is still inhabited, and even some very remote logging and fishing grounds have left my footprints, but there is still no trace of my wife, and in the end the miracle has not happened. ”

"And how did you do this for Doyle?" Stan asked curiously, picking up a piece of bread sprinkled with curry powder from a small bamboo basket.

"I've got to get a job, and it just so happened that Wolf Castle was recruiting again, so I went to enlist, you know, I was a soldier and passed the test without difficulty. Tirin smirked, grabbing a large piece of lamb chop and nibbling on it, the juice running down his fingers and dripping onto the table, Nerfi looked at it with a frown, and then tried not to look at him.

As soon as Magil finished eating a quick sauce of beef, he patted the cumin powder off his hand and muttered, "Then your luck is really good, you were sent to Serendra when you first joined the army, and this place is hell for you border people." ”

"No, I guess I did so well, and the task was so difficult, that they had to send me, and you can't imagine the constipated look on the faces of those officers when they saw my performance in the test, and I really wanted to slap them flat with a shield. Tirin said with a fluttering eyebrow, completely ignoring the disgusted look of Nerfi on the side.

Stan finishes his bread and picks up another smoked sausage, smiling awkwardly. To his surprise, Tillin spoke in a way that seemed to suit Magill's appetite, and the two sang and harmonized, and Magill had just stuffed a piece of bread coated with curry powder into his mouth, and when he heard what Tillin said, he burst out laughing and squirted out of his mouth. "Well said, Tillin, those officers are too self-righteous, give them some color. ”

Nerfi pulled a handkerchief from the inside pocket of his jacket and covered his nose and mouth. "Don't forget, you're an officer yourself. ”

"In Cumberland yes, I don't think so here, out of Cumberland, I'm Magill. With that, the knight captain turned his attention to Tirin again. "When I was enlisted as a knight, those censored knights also said that I was not of good character, and let them fart! I was not of good character? Then they were all servants of the dark lord, hahahaha!"

Tillin laughed loudly, and the two of them touched their glasses several times, and it didn't take long for the wine to finish. Stan raised an eyebrow and looked at Magill, he really didn't expect the captain of the Knights, who was still serious in Canrito, to be so rude in his heart. Seeing that Nerfi was about to lose his patience and almost leave the table, Stan stopped the two from chatting endlessly. "Let's talk about the next mission, the High Lord of Sigmund told us that you will wait for us here, and tell us what to do next, so do you have any information to tell us?"

Stan's words calm the two of them down for a moment, and Tillin picks up the rag his boss has given him and wipes his mouth, the greasy rag doesn't make his mouth much cleaner, and Nerfi feels something churning in his stomach. Tillin scanned the inn alarmingly, and the other patrons were all blocked by the other two table knights, and no one could hear their whispered conversation. "I have been ordered to investigate the traces of the Holy Seal, and for more than a month I have traveled to almost all the towns and villages north of Threndra, and on the basis of the information I have received and the results I have deduced, the Holy Seal has been taken further south. ”

Stan let out a low groan. "Is it further south in the rainforest?"

"I'm afraid yes, Stan, the damn rainforest, people here call it the Sweet Rainforest, I can't imagine going through it. Tirin grabbed her hair helplessly. "The locals told me that in addition to the endless rain, there are all kinds of plants and animals that you have never seen before, and that if you spend a lot of effort cutting down the plants that stand in your way, after a few days they will grow back to their original shape, even more luxuriant than before, and you can't even find your way back, but the most terrible thing is not these plants. Tirin raised his glass and poured it down.

"What's that?" Stan asks nervously.

"Poisonous insects. Tirin subconsciously scratched at his back. "Every year, a significant number of locals are bitten by poisonous insects in the rainforest, and some of them die of poisoning after fleeing back to their villages, swelling and blackening their bodies. ”

Nerfi's brow furrowed even tighter. "What kind of poisonous insect can be so powerful?"

Tirin nodded to Nerfi. "It's not a kind of worm, there are countless poisonous insects in the Sweet rainforest, and even the locals still don't know how many species there are, and what their toxicity is, usually they can only try various antidotes one by one in order to save the poisoned people. ”

Magill mumbled as he shoved a piece of beef into his mouth, and his speech became inarticulate. "The villagers here must have some herbs or something, and I'll send some knights to ask from house to house tomorrow, although I don't know how much it will be useful. ”

Stan suddenly comes up with a question. "Since the Sweet Rainforest is so difficult to traverse, how did those mages get through there with the Sacred Seal to the south, or are they actually still on the north side of the rainforest?" Stan added, blinking. "It's the people from the Mage Tower who are carrying the Holy Seal, right? ”

"That's right, it's the people of the Mage Tower. Tirin nodded vigorously. "From what I heard in the villages along the way, they went all the way north from the northeast of Silkra and then from the easternmost part of the Sweet Rainforest, and then they should have tried to follow the coastline as far as possible, and of course according to the locals, the eastern coastline is actually covered by rainforest, and those strange plants even grow inshore, which is crazy. ”

Stan nodded solemnly, clenching his hand tightly in his glass. "We'd better follow the same path as those mages, and I'm sure they don't choose their own path at random. ”

"I agree. Magill swallowed the beef and quickly took a large sip of wine to moisten his throat. "Maybe you'll find some clues along the way. ”

"By the way, if we follow the coastline to the east, there is also a fishing village about halfway through where we can rest and recuperate, and I'm sure we will be exhausted by the time we get there. Tillin took a roll of parchment from the package he was carrying, spread it out on the table, and pointed at it. "We are here, and from here into the rainforest, that fishing village is probably in this place. ”

Stan and Magill listened as they spoke, Nerfi just listened quietly, and Tirin and Magill's mouths full of wine made her wrinkle her nose and cover her face with a handkerchief again.

After the discussion, Stan looks to the south of the rainforest on the map. "So, where is our destination, or where did those mages take the Holy Seal?"

Tirin pointed to the largest circle to the south of the rainforest. "Here, Grivel, used to be the largest city south of Cerrendra, but about two years ago there was a fire there, the fire lasted for more than ten days before it was completely extinguished, two-thirds of the city was burned down, countless people died in the fire, there were rumors that there was a lot of suspicion about that fire, and, after the fire, there was some ...... Abnormal. ”

"What do you mean?" Nerfi snapped into something, and quickly asked, though she still covered her mouth.

"People here told me that Grivel is only half a day's walk from the Sweet Rainforest, and it is located in the south, not far from the sea, so it usually rains there almost every day, sometimes even several times a day, but during the ten days of the fire, not a drop of rain fell, so it became very difficult to put out the fire, and it took more than ten days to extinguish it. Tirin said cautiously, lest he miss a single detail.

"Maybe it's an anomaly, you see Cumberland is still so cold. Stan doesn't quite agree with Tirin's suspicions.

Magill shook his head, hesitate with the hand that took the beef in his mouth. "Stan, you're from the north, you don't know the climate in the south, in Griville, it doesn't rain for a day or two is an anomaly, five days without rain is only once in decades, if it doesn't rain for ten days, I can only say that there must be some reason. ”

"Is it really that serious?" Stan's eyes widened in disbelief.

Nerfi nodded, and looked back at Tirin. "What else people say about the abnormality after the fire, is there something wrong?"

Tirin's eyes flickered visibly, and he looked nervous as he crossed his hands together. "People say that on the ruins there, at night, there will be something that glows, like ...... Phantom. ”