"There is a road leading from here to the mountains, and as far as I know, the Sara people don't come here very often, so they shouldn't be able to form a mountain road of this size. Rui pointed to a clearly visible path at the foot of the mountain, not wide, but apparently trampled on it repeatedly. "Stan, do you know something?"

Stan crouched down and took a closer look at the trail. "Hmm...... It seems that no one has been here for a while, and the Doyle people rarely come here, except for a few herb pickers, almost no one will cross the permafrost plain plain here, this trail...... Very suspicious. ”

"It's funny, I think we're a little closer to the truth. Fern jumped off the rock and moved his legs. "Let's go a little bit into the mountains and find a place to rest. ”

Quiai followed Fern, the ball of light in his hand to light the way ahead, and after walking for a while, he replaced it with Ness to maintain the ball of light, thus preserving the mental power of the two mages. After a few rounds, Fern finally found a cave dozens of yards down an inconspicuous fork in the road, and by this time fatigue had taken over the crowd, and the mercenary realized that it was almost midnight.

"Fern, you're right. Ness saw that she had found a place to rest, and her mood improved. "Where there are mountains, there are caves. ”

Rui raised one eyebrow. "Oh, have you been in a cave before?"

With a ball of light hovering in her right hand, Ness turned around and replied, "Yes, Fern and I were caught in a blizzard, and we hid in a cave for the night, and Fern found the cave and made a curtain with his cloak to keep out the cold wind and snowflakes. At that, Ness's face flushed, and she was glad that no one else could see it in the night.

"I remember the blizzard, and I'm worried about you two. Stan had been at the back of the line and put his sword away.

"Just the two of you? You haven't met Quiai yet, have you?" Rui smiled at the corners of his mouth.

Fern's face twitched, he had already guessed what Ray was trying to do.

"yes, the cave is pretty big. Ness recalled happily, unaware that she had stepped into Ray's trap.

"Fern's cloak makes the curtain, so what do you do while you sleep?" Ray folded his hands, expectantly waiting for Niss's answer.

"Let's put on my cloak together, otherwise it's too cold for even Fern to stand it, but luckily my cloak is ...... enough" Ness only then realized what she had said, and immediately closed her mouth and followed Fern with her head down.

"Hell, Rui, don't always focus on these details, you have this time, you might as well think about what we are going to do tomorrow. Fern had reached the mouth of the cave and looked back at the mage.

Rui raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender. Fern sighed and led the way into the cave.

The cave wasn't high, and Fern had to keep his head down to get inside, and Ness followed closely behind, illuminating every corner of the cave with a ball of light. Luckily, the cave was on leeward, so not much wind blew in. After the rest of the group entered, Fern stuck his sword into the crack in the stone and hung his cloak while Stan started to make a fire with flint.

"Oh, Fern, who would you like to share a cloak with tonight?" Rui sat on the ground, looking at the mercenary.

"That's right, with you, you won't disagree, will you?" said Fern, not to be outdone.

Rui's eyebrows furrowed again, but he immediately returned to normal. "I'm fine, but I'm afraid Ness and Quiai won't agree. Of course, you can choose to share her cloak with Ness, just like last time, or Quiai. ”

Ness rushed to say, "Rui, I'll cover your cloak with you, and I'll give it to Fern." ”

Rui smiled with satisfaction. "It's a good idea, it's just cheaper for him. ”

Ness took off her cloak, handed it to Fern, and immediately slipped into Ray's cloak.

Fern put on Niss's cloak, and a girl's scent made him unconsciously want to touch the cloak with his nose, and the mercenary resisted the urge. "Thanks, Ness. ”

Ness smiled shyly and buried her face in the crook of her arm.

It was late at night, and Ness was tightly wrapped in Rui's cloak, lying back to back with Rui, her eyes secretly looking at Fern who was sitting vigil at the entrance of the cave. The mercenary was leaning against the cave wall, bending his left leg and drinking comfortably, occasionally glancing at Ness, who would close her eyes at once, and then only open a slit to make sure that Fern had looked away, before fully opening them again. After a few rounds of back and forth between the two, drowsiness set in, and Ness's eyes began to blur.

Suddenly, a deep, deep voice entered Ness's mind, this time, still not understanding every word, but Ness could still understand the meaning. "Why did you come here, this place has been cursed, get out of here as soon as possible. ”

With the experience of the first two times, Ness knew that it was not really someone talking, so she did not open her eyes, but tried to answer with her own consciousness, "We are here to find the Holy Seal, the Red Holy Seal, we need it, we can collect all the Holy Seals." ”

Another high-pitched voice came, mixed with the soothing rhythm of church prayer, "Holy seals, are you saviors, can you really help us?"

"Savior? I don't know...... But we will do our best to help you, but first you have to tell me who you are and what we can do to help you. Ness was able to communicate with them with ease, and she no longer felt alarmed, and the mage himself found it incredible.

A high-pitched voice rang out, surrounding Ness's ears, like the sound of a stone rolling down, "We are the ubiquitous stone elementals here, all around you, and beneath you, this place was cursed a few years ago, we have long lost the ability to communicate with all elemental envoys, we have always wanted to warn humanity, but there is no way, I didn't expect you to hear our voices." ”

"Yes, I can hear me, just as you can hear me, now, please tell me, what should I do?" Ness calmly uttered the messages in her mind.

"Somewhere in Dagger Mountain, there is a hidden conspiracy, a few years ago, a ** division in a white cloak came here, occupied one of the largest caves here, and began to study something, we don't know what it is, but all the elements around the cave died. A deep voice replied to Ness, "If you can find the cave, you may be able to find the crux of the matter, the Seal, we don't know about it, but if you think it's here, then there won't be a second place but that cave." ”

"Where is the cave you're talking about, and how can we find there?" Ness felt tired, and the communication with the elementals drained her mental energy, even if it was just such a simple question.

"Follow the path you came from to find there, you must be careful, this place is cursed, the closer you get there, the more irritable the elementals become, and it won't be long before we will become like them, but fortunately we met you before that. The deep voice spoke slowly, as dull as the thunder of the sky.

"Are you the savior, why can you hear us?" the high-pitched voice was like a song.

"I don't know...... I will do my best to help you guys, if I can. Ness grew tired and could barely hold up her consciousness. "Is that white-cloaked mage a woman?

"Embroidery? Are you fingerprinted? Yes, very gorgeous, golden, she's a woman, and although she has gray hair, she doesn't have the slightest wrinkle on her face. A deep voice rumbled.

"Thank you, thank you......" Ness's consciousness faded away.

"Savior, thank you, we ...... Appreciate. "A deep voice mixed with a high-pitched voice.

"No, I'm not a savior, I'm just, I can hear you ......" Ness lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.