"I didn't expect that there are still people who understand the etiquette of the Magic Empire. Old Will nodded to Jack and said with a smile: "It seems that your family should be an ancient family with a lot of connections to the empire. ”

"My ancestors were 'followers' of a family of high-ranking mages during the days of the Magic Empire! Jack's expression was a little smug, "Actually, strictly speaking, my ancestors are no different from the royal family of griffons, the Augsges. ”

"Follower"? heh, just a gardener. For Jack's boasting, Barrett couldn't help but sneer in his heart. But he didn't really make a sarcasm, because Jack's statement was not wrong.

The royal family of the Griffon Empire, the Augsg family, also claims to be the "followers" of a certain mage during the Magic Empire, but those who know history know that this "griffon family" that established a huge dynasty was actually to take care of various magical beasts for a certain high-level mage in the first place.

At the beginning of the collapse of the thousand-year-old empire, the vast majority of ordinary people on the road did not know about it, after all, mages and ordinary people belonged to two different worlds, and the intersection with each other was very rare.

But as time passed, when the local people habitually looked up at the sky, they found that the thirty-six floating cities in the sky all over the continent had disappeared one after another. This made people panic and at the same time, it also made many remnants of the evil alien race think differently, and eventually led to the outbreak of the Age of Chaos.

The human civil war, the invasion of the orcs, the counterattack of all kinds of alien races, and the forces of all sides in the multiverse began to hunt and kill mages, and for a while, the continent was filled with gunsmoke. Until the Magic Association, as the eldest son of the Empire, grew up as a "corpse" in the Empire and stabilized the situation again.

And the Augsig family rose in one fell swoop during the Chaos Era, relying on its own "advantages". Although without the restraint of mages, many powerful magical beasts have regained their wildness and can no longer be domesticated by ordinary people, but the griffin has always been synonymous with "loyalty".

"But my ancestors didn't have the ambition of the Augsgers. The handsome guy Jack said with a smile on his eyebrows, as if Old Will was their family's bosom friend, "They have been faithfully taking care of the mage's 'property'. My grandfather said that our family is very good at growing 'killer vines', very good at it!" he repeated, "You know, it's a very dangerous plant. If, I mean, my ancestors had wanted to get involved in the Age of Chaos, maybe there would be nothing to do with the Augskids now!"

Without the Griffin Empire, the Kingdom of Killer Vines has risen?The royal knights all rode a soft killer vine to attack?Barrett imagined that kind of picture in his mind, and couldn't help but thank Jack's ancestors for keeping to themselves.

Old Will smiled, and instead of answering, he glanced at Barrett and motioned for him to deal with the guy who was a little overzealous in front of the mage.

Barrett coughed, interrupting Jack's chatter and saying to the latter, "A few of you have on the team. "I mean mostly," as if there wasn't much adventure. "Not at all," they don't seem to be very reliable. "No, it's not reliable at all, and I'd rather fight alone than give my back to those.

"They're a little more 'tender', you know I don't mean age, because Dylan is sixty-three this year, haha!" Jack made a not-so-funny joke and laughed himself.

Sixty-three, indeed, is still young for somebody, Barrett thought to himself.

"Of course, he could be called Derry, or Duren, who knows, it doesn't matter anyway. I'd rather call him 'Old Man', though, a nickname that doesn't quite characterize it, but it's a good fit for this person. Jack put a hand on his stomach and habitually pressed the iron nail on the leather armor, "But Elton is indeed 'tender', the little boy at the front of the line." I guess he's only about 12 years old, but he says he's 17 himself. 17. Ha, have you ever seen a 17-year-old boy who doesn't even have hair underneath? When I was 17 years old, the hair underneath was already as lush as a reed in a swamp. He looked smug.

"You shouldn't take these people to the Misty Forest, they don't belong here. Barrett frowned, he used to recruit men in the slums, but only for able-bodied men who had reached adulthood. And Barrett will teach them a lot of adventure techniques and precautions to increase their chances of survival, but it doesn't work very well......

For adventurers in the Misty Forest, as long as they survive, they can earn gold coins, because the forest never spares its gifts, but sometimes you can't bear it.

"They really don't belong here. Jack nodded, "But where else do they belong? Instead of lying in the slums and waiting to die, they might as well come out and fight." 'Sieve', that's the guy over there who keeps shaking......" He turned his head behind him, but his words suddenly paused, "Okay, now we have seven 'sieves'. ”

Jack shrugged his shoulders and turned to look at Barrett again, "Do you know about the fire that Garano had a few years ago?"

Barrett rarely spends time in the city of Garano during the rest of the season, except during the winter months. But he did know about the fire, because it was famous, and although it started and ended quickly, the damage caused was enormous.

The slums are quite densely populated, and all kinds of tents, wooden houses and other buildings are very closely built, and it is easy to cause a fire if you are not careful.

The fire a few years ago, the fire spread so quickly that it spread in the blink of an eye, burning hundreds of people. However, as the largest commercial city in the western part of the kingdom, Galano is governed by a branch of the Magic Association - in the mage tower in the center of the city, there are always mages on duty.

Barrett heard that the mages of the magic branch at that time quickly arrived at the scene, and used an enlarged version of "Cumulonimbus Cloud" and a reduced damage version of "Frost Mist", and the two spells were used in combination to extinguish the fire in an instant.

But the disaster didn't go away, the fire was followed by an unusually low temperature, and the sudden drop in summer temperatures caught people off guard, not to mention the remnants of magic that never disappeared.

Although the powerful mage had weakened the damage of magic, it was still unbearable for ordinary people. Nearly 700 people suffered from the ensuing hypothermia frostbite, leaving behind various sequelae that are difficult to cure.

"Johnny 'Sieve' was lucky to survive the fire, but the cold of magic remained in his bones. He's going to have to take a boiling bath once a week, and oh my God, doesn't even a nobleman do that!" Jack continued, scratching at his messy hair, "and if he didn't wash it in time, he'd have convulsed and writhed on the ground like a skinned snake." What's more, the boiling bath he took actually had to put garlic and black pepper in the water. Ha, I don't even know if it's a doctor or a cook who treats him. ”

"Then what is he doing in the Misty Forest?" Barrett was a little puzzled, "It's even colder here!"

"Rest assured, Johnny is enveloped in cold all the time, and this damn forest can't steal more temperature from him. Jack replied, "More than that, you know, black pepper is expensive......"

Barrett frowned, and the handsome guy Jack rambled on a lot of things, making him feel a little confused. He was pretty sure Jack was saying this for some purpose, but he couldn't guess what that purpose was.

"In any case, it's hard for most of them to get out of here alive. Barrett looked at the adventurers not far away, "At least you should teach them how to use weapons." ”

The minimum requirement for using a weapon - not to accidentally injure a companion, at least this should be learned, Barrett thought.

"Those who survive learn everything, but those who die don't need to bother to teach. Jack was noncommittal.

Barrett didn't want to say anything more about this, every adventurer has his own way of doing things, and he won't be upset by the handsome Jack's irresponsible behavior towards the newcomer.

Death can sometimes be a relief, at least the man called "The Sieve" fits that well, Barrett thought.

"If nothing else, I think we should be separated. He said to Jack, "Good luck to you." "You need this, you need it.

"Wait a minute. Jack rubbed his hands together and laughed.

Barrett looked at Jack, waiting for his next words. I knew he had a purpose, the brute affirmed in his heart.

Jack looked at Barrett but his eyes looked at Old Will, "There is a proverb that is very popular among adventurers, 'Wolves die alone, wolves live together'! Well, let's join you. He said with a smile on his face.

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