When Rui returned to the tavern, Manfred had already started the "drinking" prelude, and was still venting his emotions loudly while drinking, and when he saw Rui stepping into the tavern, he immediately ran over and pulled her over, and the smell of orange juice made Rui want to laugh, but he had to hold back his laughter. "Come on, Rui, have a drink with me, this foolish king doesn't listen to my advice, today is the last day, tomorrow he will kick me out, you say I'm depressed or not. ”

Rui understood that the great sage was acting for the watchers on the side, so he also cooperated very well into the play. "What you said is that we were still full of hope, but I didn't expect the king to be so unreasonable. ”

"Come, drink!" Manfred shook his head, tilted his head and drank the "wine" from his glass, then filled it again with a big grin. "Why don't you drink it, Rui, quickly, drink it, I'll fill it for you." ”

Rui looked at the wine glass in embarrassment, the memory of being so sour in the morning that she lost her teeth made her not want to drink it at all, but in order to make the performance more realistic, she had to close her eyes and take a sip, after drinking, Rui found that compared to the lime juice in the morning, this time it was much lighter. "Not bad, better than the morning wine. ”

"That's, that's. Manfred filled her up again. "If you don't get drunk today, you won't return!" the great sage held out his glass to Rui.

"If you don't get drunk, you won't return!" Rui clinked glasses with the great sage vigorously, she couldn't remember the last time she had such a good time, although it was just acting, but it made her regain the feeling she hadn't felt for a long time.

It didn't take long for the ten bottles of "wine" to be drunk by the two, Manfred was already lying on the table, with saliva still leaving out of his mouth, Rui's acting skills were still immature compared to the great sage, in order not to show the flaws, she had already fallen asleep on the table. Manfred seemed to be unsatisfied, and his hands struggled on the table, and he raised his head. "Again...... Two more bottles of ......" before he could finish speaking, he fell headlong.

The innkeeper hurriedly called the maid to help Rui to the guest room on the second floor, and then personally picked up Manfred and staggered upstairs. Manfred was dragged upstairs and muttered. "Again...... Two bottles of ......" at the same time held out three fingers towards the boss.

Manfred didn't stop until he was carried into the room, but at the last moment when he flashed into the room, the corner of the old sage's eyes caught a glimpse of the end of the aisle, and a watcher followed, the corners of Manfred's mouth raised slightly, and he was immediately carried into the room by the boss.

Rui lay in bed until dark, and Manfred didn't come to look for her, her nervousness kept her from sleeping, and she finally decided to go to the Great Sage herself. Rui opened the window, and outside the window was the back wall of the inn, there was nothing but a whole row of houses, and there was no street here, so not a single figure could be seen. According to the information that the maid specially told her before leaving, the great sage was in the next room, and Rui used his flying skills to fly to the next window and knocked lightly three times, but waited for ten seconds without any response. Anxiety and uneasiness crept into Rui's mind, and she tried to push the wooden window, but found that it was open, so she crept in.

The furnishings of the room were exactly the same as hers, except that it was an old man who slept on the bed, and Ray ran over to check it out worriedly, only to find that Manfred was asleep. Rui was a little dissatisfied, she was so worried about the old man, but he fell asleep on his own, and now that it was dark, he hadn't woken up, and she pushed Manfred hard. "It's time to get up, we still have a job to do. ”

Manfred rolled over, sleepy-eyed as he looked at the figure in front of him. "Rui, why did you get here, I was about to go over to look for you. ”

Rui sat down on a chair to the side, poured a glass of water and drank it. "I think if I hadn't come and woken you up, you'd have slept until dawn to-morrow, and then we'd leave here under the watchful eye of the Derluth guards. ”

"How so?" Manfred sat up on the bed. "But since you've woken me up, we can plan it first, I've got an idea. ”

"Oh?" Rui put down the teacup and looked at the great sage curiously. "Tell me about it. ”

Manfred sat triumphantly on the edge of the bed and began to speak.

In the middle of the night, there was silence in the castle, and in such cold weather, the insects had long since ceased to make a sound, except for the occasional footsteps of the night watchmen who passed by. A strange shadow flew over the towering walls, and as the shadows flew by, the stars in the sky were obscured a little, and the shadow stopped in the snow-covered garden, and then slowly moved towards the castle.

"It would be wise to bring you here. Manfred easily followed Ray.

"Don't talk, the Dark Wall Technique is very mentally draining, we have to find the King's room as soon as possible. Rui said hurriedly, speeding up his pace.

"Hey, slow down, don't worry, I'm here. Manfred trotted along, but a night breeze blew his peaked hat away, and the blue mage hat floated in the wind for a moment and fell down the aisle. "Hell, my hat!"

"Look at you, get it!" said Rui, turning around and walking towards his hat, just as a group of night guards turned around the wall and walked in this direction. "Damn!" Rui cursed unconsciously, and stopped, nervously watching the guards get closer and closer to their hats.

The guard found the hat, and one of the young soldiers ran over to pick it up and handed it into the captain's hands. "It's a hat, it looks like it's a mage's. ”

The captain of the guard took his hat and examined it in his hand. "Hmm...... It seems that it is the old mage who was received by His Majesty the King a few days ago, why did he fall here, you can send him over. ”

Hearing that they were going to be sent to Manfred's room, Ray's heart tightened, they were not in the room at all, and the guards did not know that they were "drunk", and they would definitely go to report to the king. Rui turned his head and glared at the great sage fiercely, and the old man spread his hands aggrievedly, indicating that he didn't want to do this either.

The young soldier thought about it for a moment. "But Captain, it's the middle of the night, and the old mage has gone to bed early, he's so old, it's not good for us to wake him up. ”

The captain touched his chin and nodded approvingly. "It makes sense, if you don't say that I was negligent, then you take it first, and then go and return it to him tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes!" the soldier saluted triumphantly and placed his mage's hat on his head.

"Keep patrolling!" the captain commanded loudly, and the group began to walk forward again, still muttering to the captain as they passed Ray and Manfred, "Why didn't that charming mage drop something, I'll send it to her myself." ”

Manfred covered her mouth, trying her best to hold back the urge to laugh, and Rui nervously watched the guards pass by them, and only let out a long breath as the guards disappeared from sight. "The closer they got, my magic will fail, and being too nervous will interrupt my spell casting. ”

"You still need to cultivate, kid. Manfred lowered his hand and regained his composure. "You've done a good job though. ”

"Is there anything else on you that will be blown away?" Rui turned, ready to move on.

"No, don't worry, the hat was also blown loose by the wind when I was casting the flying spell just now. Manfred said with confidence.

"Okay, let's go, I won't be able to hold out for long. Rui stopped talking, and focused on the spell.

The two of them found a passage to the king's chambers in the castle's intricate corridors, and after a few rounds, Rui had long since lost his sense of direction, and to her surprise, Manfred always seemed to find the right passage at the fork in the road, and remained awake after several turns in a row, which was completely impossible for Rui.

Whenever a guard or servant passed by the two men, they all stood quietly against the wall and remained motionless, waiting for the other to walk more than ten yards before they began to move on. The torches in the hallway swayed, the light dimmed and flickered, and the oppressive atmosphere made Rui even more tired, and several times, she felt that she could no longer guide the Darkwall Technique. At this point, Manfred would stop Rui and then levitate his hands at the sides of her temples, and after a few seconds, Rui regained his spirit and pushed forward again.

After walking through the castle for half an hour, a passage wider than the other walkways appeared in front of the two of them, and at the end of the walkway was a dark green gate, on either side of which stood six heavily armed knights. There were more torches on the walls than in the normal walkway, illuminating the entire passage very brightly, and the light of the fire reflected on the knight's shiny armor, glittering with a blinding light.