Shamrock Castle used to exist as the capital of the Kingdom of Tomiri.

The city was once glorious during the chaotic Dark Ages, and its peculiar clover-shaped curved walls have withstood countless battles and are still standing today.

Numerous human kingdoms, hordes of united ogres, hordes of gnolls, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of goblins, alliances of lizardmen and lizardmen, and so on and so forth, all of which were bloodied beneath its walls.

However, griffons can fly. No matter how strong and reasonable the construction of the city wall is, it cannot stop the attack from the sky. Fleeing the sky with elite griffon knights, the griffons swoop down from the sky, attack the gates from the inside, attack the walls directly with the siege troops, or land in the center of the city, plunging the entire city into chaos and winning the battle with ease.

In the later stages of the chaotic era, the griffon kingdom was invincible on the battlefield after the establishment of the griffin knights after a hundred years of development, and it only took more than ten years to annex all the remaining more than ten human kingdoms on this territory.

Now, the glorious history of Shamrock Castle has disappeared with the fall of the Kingdom of Tomili, and although it can still be regarded as a towering and majestic city, it has long since lost its prosperity. Far less than the 'Flanders', which was built on silver mines, more than 300 kilometres away, and even less so than the 'Ash City', which thrived on trade more than three hundred kilometres away, near the city-states of 'Satuha' and 'Revan'.

But in any case, Shamrock City is still a big city with a long history, a special status, and a permanent population of hundreds of thousands, so the Magic Association has also established a branch here.

And the mid-level mage Alvin, who has reached the sixth level of mage, is one of the several mages stationed in the magic branch in Clover City.

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At this time, Alvin did not hide in the mage tower all day long, like his fellow mages, and concentrate on studying the esoteric magical knowledge that could never be learned, but sat in an open-air stall like a grocery store, boredly listening to the young man opposite him complimenting himself.

But the young man with a flattering smile on his face didn't last long when he was interrupted by a long line of people waiting behind him.

"Hurry up, don't talk so much nonsense, we're all waiting for us. "Many voices of discontent.

"The great Alvin Master doesn't need your flattery at all, he's not here to listen to you. ”

"Take out your things, say your requirements again, dare to say more useless, I'll beat you!" This is one of the hottest tempers.

The young man on the other side could not resist the condemnation of the crowd, and in a panic, he took out a round moonstone the size of a pigeon's egg from his pocket. He placed the moonstone on the oak table in front of Alvin, although there was some reluctance in his eyes, but it was more of an inexplicable expectation.

Alvin picked up the moonstone and looked at it briefly, and casually put it into the spatial ring.

"Ahem~~~" He cleared his throat, looked up into the other's eyes, and asked in a deep voice, "Give me your wish, mortal." ”

Alvin likes to speak in such a tone that way, but he doesn't usually do that.

"I want, I want ......," the man gasped excitedly, "I want Lydia to marry me!, Master Alvin, I tell you, we've known each other since we were kids, her house is next door to mine, we always played together when we were kids, and even bathed together, I know every mole and birthmark on her body!" he clutched the edge of the table with both hands, "but that bastard Gavin took my Lydia away from ......"

The man kept recounting how good and deep his relationship was with Lydia, mixed with resentment and swearing at Gavin, the rival in love. Alvin, on the other hand, just listened quietly to the person in front of him, occasionally nodding his head in agreement.

Finally, the young man asked expectantly, "Your Excellency the Venerable and Incomparably Powerful Master Alvin, I would like to plead with you, can you let Lydia marry me?"

"Let this girl marry you?" Alvin smiled at the young man, and then said nonchalantly, "No! He waved at the other man and motioned for him to leave.

"No, why?" the young man asked in a panic, "Your Excellency Master Alvin, I ......," but no sooner had he said than he was caught in his throat by an invisible force, and he couldn't say a word.

He stood up, stared at Alvin with wide eyes, put his hands around his neck, and stepped back with fear on his face.

"Idiot. The strong man behind the young man pushed him away, "Guy who doesn't know the rules, when Master Alvin asks you to leave, all you have to do is not say a word and leave obediently! ”

After the strong man finished speaking, he sat down on the place where the young man was originally sitting, and put a bag of gold coins in the center of the table.

After he had done this, he suddenly became embarrassed, "Great Master Alvin, tomorrow is my daughter's birthday, I have rarely been with her for so many years, and I hope that tomorrow when she wakes up from her bed, she can see the rainbow from the window." ”

"Rainbow?"

"Yes, Lord Alvin, my daughter loves rainbows the most, so, I hope ......," he hesitated, "it would be better if the rainbow could be closer." I mean, it's a little closer, not far away. Of course, the closer the better, preferably close enough to touch the ......," said the strong man.

Alpha picked up the money bag on the table and put it into the spatial ring, "Tell me the address of your home, tomorrow when the sun rises from the Wind's Breath, a rainbow will shine through the window and into your daughter's bedroom." The rainbow lasts about half a day, hopefully your daughter won't sleep until the afternoon. ”

"Thank you so much, great Master Alvin!" said the strong man, after telling the address of his house and the location of the window in his daughter's bedroom, he left beaming.

The next person to sit in the chair was a merchant with a gloomy expression, who placed a clear teardrop-shaped gem on the table and gently pushed it in front of Master Alvin.

"'Lich Cry'?" Alvin picked up the teardrop-shaped gem with a slightly surprised expression, "Do you know how valuable it is? It's an extremely rare gem. Legend has it that it crystallized from the last tears of a mage when he became a lich. ”

He took a moment to observe the gem and muttered, "But legends are legends after all, and while being a lich isn't a pleasant thing to do, it's not bad, at least you won't have to worry about longevity in the future." And the improved Lich Transformation Circle will basically keep your original appearance, but your heart will never beat again. ”

The mage smiled and looked at the merchant opposite, "What do you hope for with such a valuable gift?" ”

"I know your rules, Master Alpha. Each person can only request once a day, no lying, no return of the item, and the item must be in the possession of the person. I know it all, I know it all. The merchant said gloomily, "This gem has been handed down from my ancestors for more than ten generations, but no matter what, it is yours now." ”

"It's good, I like to deal with smart people. What do you want?"

"I want you to use magic to block out the sound, I don't want anyone else to hear what I'm going to say afterwards. ”

"Reasonable request. Mage Alvin clapped his hands and shrouded the two of them with a mute enchantment, "No one will hear anything you say, except me. He smiled again.

"My business partner, Bradley, has broken his contract and colluded with Baron Dutasa to embezzle all my property by despicable means. "And this guy is still engaged in the slave trade, and many of the female slaves kept by the nobles are smuggled by him from other places. Not only that, but some of the missing people in the local area are also related to him, and he smuggles them as slaves. And, my wife ...... too"

The merchant's voice choked and seemed to be about to cry, except that he had not become a lich and could not crystallize his tears into rare gems.

"Your wife was transported away by him?" Alvin's expression became a little more serious.

The merchant was stunned, "Oh, it's not. When my wife saw that I had no money, she ran away with the others as soon as possible. ”

“......”

"My wish is to be able to get back all the possessions that I have been swindled out of before. Your Excellency Alvin, I am not telling a single lie, you can easily hear that. The merchant said solemnly, "I just want to get back what belongs to me, that's all." ”

"No, your wish has been granted. Master Alvin said with a blank face.

"It's done?" the merchant wondered, "When?"

"Just now, when I asked you what your wish was, you said that you wanted me to use magic to block out the sound, and then I responded to your request. I promise, no one but me will hear what you say. ”

Alvin tapped his fingers on the table to lift the mute barrier, "Oh, by the way, I'll take care of that man's slave trade." There's no extra charge for this, so don't thank me. Next!" He leaned back and threw himself on the back of his chair.

The merchant's expression was stunned, and after two heartbeats, he reacted. Immediately afterward, the man's eyes widened and he wanted to argue something, but his lips just opened, and he held back.

In a very short period of time, the expression on his face changed several times, from confusion, surprise, panic, and resentment, to anger, struggle, patience, pain, and then back to confusion.

In the end, like a walking corpse, he dragged his body and slowly left here.

After the merchant left, a Nord man dressed as an adventurer sat down in front of Alvin. He placed a palm-sized high-purity magic crystal on the table, and then said in a deep voice:

"I want to know, where's Giethoorn?"

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