Green Bay was still noisy in the middle of the night, and the hot night made it impossible to sleep, and the travelers and sailors gathered in the tavern to drink and chat, and the bard just sang a tune, and his head was covered with beads of sweat. The sexy women who solicited in front of many houses were also mostly gone, and the closed doors and dim lights in the rooms indicated that they had found customers. The port town, which is only a four-day's walk from the ruined Grivel, seems to have been untouched by Grivel, and is still bustling with activity, as if the people here are not at all worried about becoming ghosts in the ruins.

Two horses tethered to a doorpost are quietly napping in a quiet alley about five minutes from the noisy pub district, a street that is so narrow and muddy that few pedestrians pass by. The starlight didn't seem to want to shine into the alley, and the shadowed path was even more mysterious, and the occasional dim light from the houses on both sides gave the path a hint of a human feel.

Behind the door where the horses were tethered, four mages and two swordsmen sat around the table, and one of them, an old mage, moistened his lips with a few sips of tea, and his thoughts were slowly opened. "It's still summer, but in Doyle, it's short, and you don't feel hot when you sit in the tower, I've spent six years there, and unlike Hessey, I'm not a person who likes to read, so since I'm looking after the source of magic, of course I should take this opportunity to study it and kill time. ”

Jasmina frowned, it was hard for a mage like her to read to understand what Black Ward was thinking. "What did you study, and what did you find?"

Black Ward snorted twice. "Don't worry, kid, it's still some time before midnight, and we don't have to hurry tomorrow, we can talk slowly. ”

"In the tower, I found a book with a cover made of animal skins, and the paper inside was like a charred leaf, in which there was a mention of the Dark Lord's lair, I don't know how these materials have been handed down to the present, but according to the above, it seems that the Dark Lord was once not in the Far North, but in the exact opposite position. ”

"You mean in the South?" Fern gripped the teacup in his right hand, his left hand being held tightly by Ness.

"That's right, in the south, and right here, Serendra. Black Ward nodded. "In fact, the location of the Lord of the Dark is not fixed, sometimes in the far north, sometimes here, but always in one of the two. ”

Ness wrapped her arms around Fern's arms. "But what does that mean? Almost everyone knows that the Lord of the Dark is now in the Far North. ”

Barred glanced at Ness, and said approvingly, "That's right, we went deep into the Far North more than twenty years ago, and we did prevent the Dark Lord from being released there, and he should be there." ”

"At that time, he was still there. Black Ward's expression became mysterious, even more eerie in the flickering candlelight. "I've been trying to peek into some of the signs of the source of magic, and finally I've discovered how to get my consciousness into it for a short period of time, and I've also discovered how to get into the illusions of different periods. ”

Fern touched his forehead and shook his head. "To be honest, I didn't understand what you meant. ”

Black Ward stared into Fern's eyes, looking him back and shrinking his neck. "You've been to the source of magic, and you know that everything that happens there has some connection to our world, some is true and some is false, I tried to enter many times when the Dark Tide was raging in Wallis, and recorded the information obtained in each era, and then compared it with the real-world accounts of the Dark Tide Wars, and finally found a shocking conclusion. ”

"What's the conclusion?" everyone except Hussey held their breath and stared nervously at Black Ward.

The old mage took a sip of hot tea unhurriedly and slowly put down the teacup. "When the Dark Lord in the Source of Magic appears in the South, Doyle will defuse the attack of the Dark Tide at a similar time, and when the Lord of the Source of Magic appears in the North Mirror, nothing will happen to Wallis, but during the same time, the Twilight Cult will appear on the mainland, although they have not been able to do anything in the end. ”

"Does this have anything to do with the re-emergence of the Twilight Cult this time? So now in the source of magic, the Dark Lord is wreaking havoc in the Northern Mirror?" Fern stroked the stubble on his chin, cautiously guessing.

"That's right, you're right, Fern, the first time I saw you in the Black Swamp, I thought you weren't a simple fellow. Black Ward's mysterious face finally showed a slight smile.

Jamina thought for a moment. "There's one thing I can't understand, why the Lord of Darkness appears in the north in the source of magic, and nothing happens in our world? ”

Black Ward gave Jasmine an appreciative look. "Your question was puzzling to me until I left the Tower and lived in seclusion in the Black Swamp, but then Hesey found me, and we put together what we knew, and after bold assumptions, we came to a conclusion. ”

"Don't stop, keep talking!" Fern straightened up, almost jumping onto the table.

Black Ward held up his teacup again, and fortunately Hussey answered. "That's because the old Twilight Cult didn't find everything they needed, so when the Dark Lord switched places, they had to continue to hide. ”

"Everything you need......" Jarena cupped her chin and thought hard. "Could it be...... Is it a holy seal and a holy artifact?"

Black Ward nodded appreciatively again. "Manfred's apprentices are different, it doesn't seem to be a fool that you can become an archmage at such a young age, that's right, the holy seal is the key to unlocking the seal of the dark lord, and the holy weapon is the last straw for those who want to use the power of the dark lord, but are afraid that the dark lord will destroy them after using them. ”

"In this way, it is in line with what we know now, Fern you first got the Holy Seal, and then were taken to Serendra to release the Dark Lord, and the Holy Weapon must be something that the Twilight Cult had to get if they wanted to restrain the Dark Lord, otherwise they would have been killed by him as soon as they released the Dark Lord. Jarena's right hand was clenched into a fist and rested on her lips.

"Yes, your assumptions have been correct so far, but there is one more crucial point that I have not yet said. Black Ward's gaze swept over Ness's nervous face. "No matter how hard it is to obtain the Holy Seal and the Hallows, at least they exist in Wallis, so the Twilight Sect will always have a way to get them, but why has the Dark Lord never been released so far?" the old mage's gaze met Ness's. "That's because they also need someone, someone who can use the Holy Seal to release the Dark Lord, and this person can also maximize the power of the Holy Weapon to compete with the Dark Lord, and this person, in the past few hundred years, has never appeared. ”

Ness hid her face behind Fern's arm, and her gripping hands began to tremble, and Fern took the girl's hand, hoping to give her some strength.

Jasmina glanced sympathetically at Ness. "You mean, they're waiting for the elemental envoy to reappear in Wallis?"

Black Ward slowly looked away from Ness's face and looked at Morena. "Yes, they can't do anything without the elementals, and now it's different, the vanished elemental envoys have reappeared in Wallis, and the reincarnation of the north and south has come to the south this time, all this foreshadows...... Wallis's biggest crisis is coming. ”