Early in the morning, Barrett went to a tavern in the Bay of Pigs called 'Fortune, Fortune!', which was the meeting place he and Old Will had agreed upon. The 'Dirty Novel's group didn't stay in the chaotic adventurer camp of Pigs Bay last night, but went to the Misty Castle next to Pigs Bay.

The north and south sides of the Misty Castle are the towering Cavis Mountains, which form a semi-arc around the entire Misty Forest.

The earliest Caveis Mountains were a majestic mountain range that towered into the sky and stretched for thousands of miles, and then, for some unknown reason, a huge gap broke out in the middle part of the mountain range from top to bottom, and the broken mountains were named the South and North Caves Mountains respectively.

Because of the existence of the gap, whenever the intermittent beast tide of the Misty Forest erupts, countless and strange monsters and monsters will pour out of the gap, invading the hinterland of the griffin kingdom, causing devastating disasters to the kingdom.

In order to solve the invasion of the beast tide once and for all, the griffin kingdom has established a huge misty castle in the gap of the mountain range with the help of mages, and stationed a regular knight order of about 1,000 people in the fortress - the Golden Alfalfa Knights to prevent the invasion of the hinterland of the kingdom by the monsters and monsters in the misty forest on the west side.

Now, the Misty Forest, which was originally a source of disaster, has become one of the most important sources of economic resources for the kingdom.

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'Fortune, fortune!' is the most "luxurious" building in 'Bay of Pigs', a three-story wood-and-stone house with a semi-circular dome on the top floor. The owner of the tavern is undoubtedly a clever man, and the name was chosen with the not-so-high level of literacy of most adventurers, as well as the desire to please good omens.

Barrett asked for a stewed pig's tail soup, a piece of aged cheese with a chunk of ham, two hard-boiled eggs, a salted fish, and a glass of rye beer. Rye has a bitter taste that cannot be eliminated, but this bitterness is just right for brewing beer.

When the salted fish is served, it is served with a small bowl of vinegar stuffed with figs. There are also a few pickled olives floating up and down in the pigtail soup. Before every adventure, Barrett had to eat a full meal at the camp for the last meal......

Breakfast time was quite quiet and there were no other adventurers in the tavern. When the barbarian adventurer drank the last bit of pigtail soup and fished out the cabbage that stuck to the bottom of the pot and ate it, the door to the tavern was pushed open again, and Old Will led three non-humans in.

"A good appetite is a necessary quality for a good adventurer. Old Will said to Barrett with a smile. "Food will not only give you the energy you need to venture out, but it will also give you a sense of pleasure. I remember that His Excellency Master Adrien Lucius, the legendary mage and 'super-magic dancer', once said in his biography, 'The pleasure of eating is the most primitive emotion that living beings receive'. ”

"Oh? I remember that the legendary mage of Quinton disagreed. The half-elf beside the wandering mage expressed his suspicions: "Master Quinton said, 'The impulse to reproduce is the most primitive emotion of living beings. ”

The half-elves wore dark green close-fitting leather armor and had a strangely shaped scimitar hanging from each side of their body. Barrett remembered that this style of cutlass was usually only used by the Dark Elves underground. He looked at the half-elf's complexion again, not black nor dark gray, but a kind of fairness peculiar to the forest elf, with the golden hair and bright green eyes, it looked very handsome.

It's the kind of person that the ladies in the boudoir like the most. Barrett thought again with some malice, wondering if it was out of jealousy.

But the impulse to reproduce is not counted as an emotion. The 200-year-old wandering mage retorted, "It's just an instinct of a creature." Instinct, on the other hand, should not be counted as emotion, it is a law of the operation of living beings, similar to the formula used in alchemy. ”

What is this?, Barrett was speechless at the argument between Old Will and the Half-Elves. This 'pointless' argument is undoubtedly unappetizing.

Good thing I'm done, he thought to himself.

The ogre stood beside Barritt, bending down to scrutinize the food scraps on the table. When the ogre's massive body approached Barrett with a shadow, it gave the brute the feeling that the Cavis Mountains were about to collapse.

"Roasted quail is better!And roasted clams!" said the ogre to Barrett, "especially roasted clams, you have to eat them with their shells!, and with lemons!", and it spoke the lingua franca fluently, even with a little bit of the tone peculiar to the Holy Arazo Kingdom on the east side of the continent, and I don't know who taught it.

No, I don't have that good teeth, "but I prefer salted fish." Barrett replied.

The ogre straightened up and pursed his lips, expressing disdain for the barbarian's dietary preferences.

There should also be a dwarf on the 'nasty fiction' team, where is that dwarf? He remembered that the dwarf liked to hide in the shadows, and Barritt had little affection for creatures that were always hiding in the shadows, out of a habit of adventure. And that dwarf always has a bitter face, and it's hard to make people feel good.

Barrett found the dwarf in the shadows behind the tavern door, which reassured him a lot. If he can't find it, he will involuntarily have a feeling that he is on his back.

"Why don't you eat something?" he asked Old Will, "There is no good food in the Bay of Pigs, but the pigtail soup in this tavern tastes good." "At least they use real pig tails in their soup, not anything weird.

In the Bay of Pigs, you should never look closely at your food, because it may not mean something. Lizards, shelled snails, pigs' wombs, spiders' bellies, moth larvae, cheese like vomit, and so on and so forth.

If you eat it with your eyes closed, it tastes really good, but be sure to keep your curiosity in mind and don't dig into it.

Don't worry too much about that, though, at least you won't find your own kind in the food, unless you're a goblin.

The Bay of Pigs is a dirty and messy place, but it's not a bad place with too bad morals. Because the mages don't allow that to exist.

On this continent, there must be rules for everything. Although most of the people are poor, their lives are generally stable, because the mages use powerful magical powers to suppress everything, whether it is alien races or humans themselves.

"Nope. Old Will refused, "We've had it in the Misty Castle, stewed beef, milk oatmeal, herring cooked in mint and radix, and roasted onions soaked in gravy, oh, the last dish is my favorite, you really should try it." ”

Roasted pearl onions in gravy? That's my favorite. However, Misty Castle does not allow adventurers to enter, and you can make an exception because you are a mage. Barrett sneered in her heart.

"And Moglock......" said the wandering mage Old Will, pointing to the ogre, "and it has eaten a whole honey-roasted suckling pig of its own." ”

"Suckling pig is better than pig's tail, and clams are better than salted fish!" the ogre echoed.

"Let's put the issue of food aside, and while it's a good topic, we have more important things to discuss. "Old Will sat opposite Barrett, and the half-elf sat next to the wandering mage.

Old Will said to the ogre, "My dear Moglock, stand first. The chairs here won't be able to hold your weight. ”

"The chair is not as good as the tree stump. The ogre replied.

The wandering mage looked at Barrett again, "We need a guide, someone who is familiar with the Misty Forest, you already know that. But you didn't ask us what we were going to do in the Misty Forest. It can be seen that you should have doubts in your mind, but you choose to keep them. It has to be said that silence is a good quality. But we've got a good guy in this area. ”

Old Will glanced at the dwarf in the shadows and said in a witty tone, "Mapula is undoubtedly the best of them, so you don't need to talk to him about it." We need your advice, advice on all sorts of things, to help us accomplish our tasks. Communication is important, isn't it, we need that. ”

Barrett really didn't ask too much about anything, in fact he didn't ask anything. As a newcomer to the team temporarily, he didn't want to ask questions without a head. If there was anything to know, he thought Old Will would tell him that he was a man who was clever and good at grasping the 'heart'.

"It seems that you have agreed with me, and this has laid a good foundation for our cooperation. Old Will habitually said to himself: "First of all, let's first understand the specific task of this time. ”

After speaking, the wandering mage flattened his palm, and a delicate roll of parchment suddenly appeared in his hand.

Barrett looked at the exquisite rings worn by the wandering mage on his index and ring fingers, and couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart. It was the 'Ring of Space', somewhat similar to Barrett's own leather bag, but more convenient to use and carry, and more space inside.

Most of this equipment can only be used by mages. Because their mental power and soul strength are high enough, and they also have strong magic power as a trigger medium, it is very easy to use space and magic equipment.

If ordinary people can also use magic equipment without risk, the price of such equipment may have to be dozens of times higher.

Barrett reached out and took the smooth parchment scroll, untied the blue strap on it, and flattened the scroll, looking at the contents of the mission written on it.

But when the barbarian adventurer first saw the first word of the scroll, something strange happened again:

Barrett felt a pinprick pain in his head, and the pain disappeared in an instant, and then everything in front of him suddenly blurred, like a highly myopic person taking off his glasses to see the world.

Immediately afterwards, those strangely structured square words actually jumped out automatically, which surprised Barrett inexplicably.

Compared to the blurry surroundings, the text appears unusually clear. The four words at the beginning are extraordinarily large, and their meanings are imprinted in Barrett's mind-

【Task Log】

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