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To be careful, Benjamin created a curtain of water to protect all the mages while keeping the five men out.

"Who are you?" he asked, looking at the five people who were bounced away, frowning.

I saw that among the five men, there were men and women, dressed in fine leather armor, and almost all of them were carrying weapons. Some had swords, some had swords, and some had crossbows on their backs...... From the outside, it looks like a group of mercenaries passing through the valley.

Although there are not many magical beasts in the Valley of the Abyss, there are still some special kinds of plant materials and magical beasts. Therefore, there will also be mercenaries who don't care about legends to come here and complete the mission.

It's just, look at the way these people look......

was stopped by Benjamin with a water curtain, and the mercenaries looked a little confused. However, the panic on their faces did not disappear, but became more panicked, and they shouted at Benjamin and his party: "Hurry, run!

The mages looked at each other.

Thankfully, the confusion didn't last long. Soon, the "monster" mentioned by the mercenaries also appeared in the eyes of the mages.

It was a huge creature with a long strip-like body, a brown body, like a giant python, but on the torso, a pair of small claws that resembled a dinosaur. Under the gaze of everyone, it crawled and waved its small short hand, looking a little happy.

Benjamin couldn't help but shake his head.

Is this Warcraft?

It doesn't feel like ......

He didn't feel the panic of those mercenaries at all. Is it necessary for a strange snake with small claws to be so afraid? These mercenaries are not very good.

Without Benjamin saying anything, the other mages also took action and cast their magic. In an instant, more than twenty fireballs were summoned and hit the body of the strange snake. In the blink of an eye, the strange snake that was still majestic just now turned into charcoal.

Benjamin glanced at the corpse of the strange snake, then looked at the mercenaries, and said helplessly: "You guys...... Is it really a mercenary?"

The mercenaries also looked incredulous when they saw that the strange snake was easily destroyed. After being stunned for a moment, they turned their heads and looked at Benjamin and his party with awe.

The one with the crossbow came over and said cautiously, "Thank you...... Are you all mages?"

Benjamin nodded.

The mercenaries looked at each other, then bowed to the mages as well, as if to show their gratitude.

"Hello, we are the Coral Mercenaries from Riley City, thank you very much for your help. The one with the crossbow said with some embarrassment, "That'...... It seems a little strange in the Valley of the Abyss today, we plan to leave here, I wonder if you can take us for a ride?"

Hearing this, Benjamin raised an eyebrow.

Railay City ...... If memory serves, it should be the headquarters of the Mercenary Association, the most prosperous city in Freden outside the capital, and mage activities are also active.

Thinking so, he observed the mercenaries and felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with them. So, he nodded and lifted the water curtain.

Seeing this, several mercenaries hurriedly thanked them.

The mages on the team didn't pay much attention to it, they were about to leave here, but there were a few more fellow travelers. These mercenaries are still indigenous, so it's not bad to chat a few words on the way and learn a little more.

In this way, the accidental rescue of these young mercenaries seems to be just a brief episode of Benjamin and his party on the road. After the episode, they continued to move forward, and as for the mercenaries, they took out their binoculars and followed them as if they were sentinels.

"That's right...... What did you mean when you said that the Valley of the Abyss was a little strange today?"

The crossbowed mercenary glanced at Benjamin with some awe, and replied, "Not long after we entered here, we found a lot of strange animals. Like a three-headed rooster, a six-legged rabbit, and the snake just now, with very thick skin...... We don't know why, they're certainly not monsters, but we've never heard of such strange creatures. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin nodded thoughtfully.

The Valley of the Abyss was originally a strange place, but according to the legends of the past, that strange direction was not the same as it is now.

Feeling weird......

The system suddenly popped up and said inopportunely: "The chicken has three heads, the rabbit has six legs, put the chicken and the rabbit in one cage, a total of forty-one heads, seventy legs, ask ......"

"Shut up. Benjamin couldn't take it anymore and interrupted it.

Roughly aware of the situation here, Benjamin also witnessed all this with his own eyes on the rest of the journey. A wolf like a big doll, a mosquito the size of a fist, a turtle with horns...... The ordinary animals in this valley are like being exposed to nuclear radiation, one by one genetically mutated, and have become some very strange appearances.

Luckily, these monsters aren't very capable of fighting, at least they're vulnerable to magic. Therefore, they were not hindered by anything along the way.

Benjamin was a little curious about what was going on, but his instincts told him not to meddle. Even if there really is any strange radioactive material here, they will take the best step and not stay longer.

"By the way, is there any mage organization in Freden?" When the time came to noon, the group stopped to rest and eat. Benjamin patted the crossbow mercenary on the shoulder and said, "We're here from Ikor to find out what's going on here." ”

The other party thought for a while and said, "I...... I don't know what kind of algorithm organization it is, like the mage mercenary group registered in the Mercenary Guild, there are actually quite a lot, and there are hundreds of people. But if you're referring to the Mage Guild before the Empire was divided, after the former leader left, it's no longer there. ”

Hearing this, Benjamin thought for a while, and then asked: "In other words, the mages in Fredon are basically doing their own thing, and there is no such large-scale mage joint organization?"

The mercenary with the crossbow shook his head and said, "I don't have much contact with the mage, and I don't know. However, I seem to have heard of the existence of a mage Freemasonry, which is quite famous even on the side of Caritus, and it may be the large-scale mage union you are talking about. ”

Mage Freemasonry?

How...... Sounds like a democratic party?

Benjamin wasn't too worried. Freden's mage living environment must still be relatively free, and a Freemason like this sounds more enlightened than the Mage Guild. Besides, if Benjamin wants to obtain more magical resources, he must also deal with this kind of organization.

I hope they can talk a little better, and don't have too much to do with politics behind them like the Mage Guild.

After a few more chats with the mercenaries and learned some details about the local situation, gradually, as shown on the map, they also came to the edge of the Abyssal Valley.

The surrounding trees were not so dense, the environment was not so gloomy, and although there were still some shape-shifting animals rushing out, Benjamin's heart had relaxed a lot.

They will be able to leave the place very quickly. The stories of people who disappeared in those legends could not be fulfilled for them.

However, when they reached the exit of the valley in the afternoon, things took another turn.

Countless soldiers in unfamiliar uniforms, who didn't know where to use them, surrounded them.

At first glance, there were at least a thousand soldiers in this group. The one at the head, dressed in ornate armor, rode on a horse, and pointed his sword at Benjamin and his party, exuding a formidable aura of iron and blood all over his body.

"Who are you, and what do you have to do with the wanted mage who smuggled across the border last night?"