Barrett used to hear other people talk about mages when they were chatting.

One of the things he remembered was that of a drunken adventurer on a night when a campfire was flickering, with a low hoarse voice and dancing movements, in fact, Barrett at that time paid more attention to the adventurer's shadow than his movements, and the shadow was constantly twisting and deforming in the shaking of the campfire, as if he was acting in a unique play.

It was as if the adventurer had seen it with his own eyes, but in fact he had heard from another adventurer, and the adventurer had listened to a chef, and the cook had listened to his wife, and his wife had heard from a meat butcher named Rawang next door......

In short, most things are passed down in this way to become widely known. Sometimes you can't tell what's rumored and what's really happening. The news reached Barrett's ears, and he set up camp inside, recuperating and preparing to wait for an opportunity to go out and occupy another brain......

It is impossible to tell whether the truth is true or false, and it is not known how much each narrator has added his own inventions to it. However, after stripping away the ridiculous and grotesque elements, the event itself was not complicated, but at this time the matter jumped out of Barrett's mind.

The protagonist of the incident is a mage, and the narrator did not dare to use the word "evil" to describe it like the author of the novel "Magic Is Nothing But", but his expression and tone all speak to it.

In fact, the mage did not do anything cruel or horrible, he just took the young son of a farmer's family without permission, and after a few days, he had the child brought back intact and paid a large sum of money.

When the narrator took the child away, the narrator did his best to describe the dark and moonless night, the mage's face that appeared and disappeared under the light of lightning, the mage's blood-colored robe and the hideous white bone staff in his hand, the huge terrifying monster with three heads lying on the mage's side, and the cold wind and banshee-like screams in the wind when the mage walked.

In fact, with Barrett's knowledge of mages, no mage would travel like this. They are powerful, but never ostentatious. The weak will show off, and the strong will just smile faintly.

In the incident, although the child was returned, people still panicked about it. Because the youngest son of the original farmer's family was a little special, he was born to speak standard elven and dwarven languages, but after being taken away by the mage and returned, the child's outstanding language ability disappeared, and the whole person became a little dull, and his eyes also lost the original agility, as if he had become another person.

People said that it was because the mage was curious about the child's innate ability to speak, so he took the child's soul and studied it, and what was returned was nothing more than a shell.

......

In the eyes of the mage, maybe I was no different from the child who was born to speak many languages, Barrett thought to herself.

Barrett wasn't delusional, and the incident itself was probably somebody's drunken gibberish in the first place, but discussing the oddities that didn't happen to the mage or heard about it, but to do it to himself, was a bit risky, just like Old Will's eyes were shining in now, and you couldn't guarantee what he would do next.

"You know more?" said Old Will, with some excitement in his tone.

"No, no more. Barrett replied with a blank face.

"Only these two?"

"Only these two!" Barrett said firmly.

"Do you know what these two characters mean, then?" asked Old Will curiously.

"If you don't know it, I can't know it. Barrett shook her head, "Actually, I'm just asking, because they always appear in my dreams, over and over again, so it makes me feel a little weird." ”

Barrett scratched her head and sorted out her words, "My initial suspicion was that those two characters might be some kind of evil thought that the devil or other evil guys in the bottomless abyss have instilled in my head, so I was a little worried and wanted to ask you. He found a plausible reason. "But seeing your expression, I don't think those two strange symbols are anything scary. Of course, maybe they weren't some kind of words or symbols, but some other mess. You know, things that come out of dreams are always weird. He explained wildly.

The last thing mages lacked was curiosity, but Barrett didn't want to talk deeper.

"You can rest assured that I don't feel evil thoughts in these two characters, nor do I feel any polluted depravity in you. Old Will smiled and comforted, "But your worries are not unreasonable, there are too many unknown and evil beings in the bottomless abyss, and some even ordinary people will be polluted and degraded by their souls just by silently reciting their names in their hearts." For those guys, the soul is like the golden wine produced in Qingting Island in the eyes of an alcoholic, full of infinite attraction. So they really can't be careless, they can do everything. ”

"You're right, being tempted and depraved by those wicked fellows happens every year. Barry nodded, "You should have heard that just a few years ago, in the capital of the Griffon Kingdom, there was a nobleman who sacrificed his wife, children, relatives, and servants to the devil in an extremely cruel way, all of which were more than a hundred lives. Barrett said with a serious face, "I heard that the scene was terrible, blood, organs, limbs, and heads were all over the house in a strange way...... he didn't want to continue, "Although in the end, the mages got rid of the demons who crossed the boundary, and cleaned up all the depraved aura nearby, but the house and its surrounding area, until obviously, no one dared to enter and move in. ”

"Those devils have indeed been particularly active and rampant in the last hundred years. Old Will also put away a smile on his face, "Similar things happen all over the world from time to time. I heard that those guys actually want to move the nest out of the bottomless abyss, and I don't know what they think. ”

Barrett doesn't know much about the multiverse, and in the eyes of ordinary people like him, the Bottomless Abyss is a gathering place for all kinds of bad guys, and now if a bad guy wants to move out, then don't come to this continent.

However, there are mages on this continent, and presumably they don't dare to come in, Barrett can't help but be a little lucky, and at this time, the fear and alienation of mages in his heart have turned into gratitude.

"I said, guys, let's focus on the task. The half-elf knocked on the table and said, "The multiverse is so large that even the mages of the Magic Empire didn't fully understand it, so anything strange can happen." At least we know that those two symbols are not blasphemous words of the devil or demons, and that's enough, isn't it? As for the devils wanting to move, it has nothing to do with us. It is impossible for such an existence to break through the space barriers of our world. ”

"Not necessarily. If there are enough creatures on this continent to summon them through sacrifice......" Old Will said with a serious face, and then he laughed and denied his hypothesis, "It's impossible, if those devils want to move the entire plane of their lair, even if they sacrifice all the humans, they can't be satisfied." ”

"Even if it happens, aren't you mages protecting us? The half-elf teased.

That's exactly what I'm trying to say, Barrett thought.

"Hey, this kind of big thing is not in my hands, I'm just a very ordinary, wandering mage who has lived for a long time, don't find me for such an important thing as protecting the mainland, besides, I don't have such ability. Will mage coughed deeply, as if to deepen the persuasiveness of the idea that he can't protect the continent, "This kind of big thing is something that the high-ranking mages of the Magic Association need to consider. He held up a finger and pointed upwards, gesturing to the Magic Association's Sky City, "And I'm just begging for food under their hands." ”

"Even a wandering mage is a mage, and he can use the power of magic, not just an ordinary person like me. Barrett complimented cheekily.

Old Will smiled noncommittally, "After the mission, if you need it, I can introduce you to Mage Alva, who is an expert in history and writing, and is also proficient in the blasphemous writing of the evil species. If you still have any concerns, you can go to him. As for now, Estelle is right, let's talk about the mission. ”