Outside Hodge's door, four soldiers were leaning against the corner, monitoring witches on a rotational basis, and the next shift was still a long way off, and the older soldiers were already yawning.

Click!

The soldiers woke up in an instant, turned their heads to look at the house, and just now there was a sound from inside, which sounded like some vessel had been broken.

Airplanes!

Immediately afterward, a modest but penetrating sound passed through their eardrums, and each soldier experienced a brief burst of tinnitus.

But this was not the end of it, the soldier saw that the window on the second floor began to drift white mist, and the air flow rose upward, and soon extended to a long white dragon in the night sky.

The four soldiers glanced at each other, and they all saw surprise in each other's eyes.

The young soldier was the first to speak: "Aren't we—should we go in and see what is going on?"

"But the new intelligence chief forbade us to trespass. The other soldier hesitated at the thought of what Hodge had said to them. After all, he was the head of intelligence, and he was only a small soldier, and although the patrol guard was not systematically constrained by everyone except the mayor and the captain and deputy captain, it was best for the soldiers to cause less trouble.

"It's our job to keep an eye on witches. ”

"Our job is just to keep an eye on them so they don't run around and get into trouble in town. The older soldier spoke, "And now there is such movement on the second floor, which does not mean that they are still in the house, and as for the unusual movements, it may not be strange to them, after all, they are witches." ”

Young people are always more curious, and even then they say, "But this ......"

"Enough. The older soldier interrupted him, "We're soldiers, we just need to follow orders, and we've been ordered to stay here to make sure the witch doesn't escape from this house, so stop your damn curiosity and just stand here, understand?"

“...... Be. ”

The sound of hooves thundered from the corner of the street, and in an instant they were in front of Hodge's house, and the horses were all black, except for the black and white tail of the horse, and the knight in full armor jumped from the saddle and pulled the cover of the helmet apart.

The soldiers on duty saw the knight's appearance clearly, and hurriedly said, "Deputy Captain Leiden, why are you here?" ”

"Master Pollit is going to hold a meeting, let me inform Hodge. ”

Layton looked at the house in front of him, and the white fog at the window had almost dissipated, "Are they still inside?"

"It's still there, it's just ......," the soldier stopped talking, but finally said, "It's just that there is some strange movement in the room." ”

"Strange movements?" Leiden looked at them suspiciously, "what's going on?"

"We don't know, Master Hodge doesn't allow us to trespass into his house. ”

Layton shook his head, walked past the soldiers to the door of the house, pulled up the clasp on the wooden door and knocked on it.

The door was opened, and Hodge poked out half of his head to see who was knocking on the door, and only after seeing that it was Layton did he push the wooden door open and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Layton frowned and looked at Hodge's current appearance, at this time he was only wearing a thin pair of pants, his upper body was naked, a cotton towel was around his neck, and his short hair was wet on his head, and Leiden could feel the slight heat standing in front of him.

"What did you do?" asked Layton, puzzled, "Won't you be cold in all this?"

"I didn't feel it in the house, but when I opened the door, it was cold. Hodge shivered just right, and welcomed Layton into the room.

After moving from the abandoned mine house to this house in the town, because of the surveillance of the soldiers, they could not go to the previous forest to practice the wizard's abilities, so Devonie simply vacated the room on the second floor as a place to practice.

Practicing in a narrow space, it's okay for Hera, she has basically mastered the use of her own abilities, at most because she is not familiar with the environment, there is a slight deviation in the grasp of proportion, such as the vase that could have been cut smoothly, because of the voice control, the sound blade trembled when it was cut halfway, and the vase was broken entirely, but this would not have much impact, at most the sound made was louder and came out of the house.

However, it was not so simple for Hodge, knowing that losing control in such a crowded neighborhood was not something that could be easily avoided, and although Daphne was always ready, he still had to carefully try to control his disobedient ability, which made himself miserable, and he sweated profusely after practicing.

Still, he eventually lost control once, but this time it was different from before, instead of losing control of the microwave power when acting on the outside world, the heat accumulated in his own body, causing his skin to turn purple red, and the water was constantly evaporating from every pore, turning into mist and disappearing into the sky.

The heat accumulated in his body didn't make him feel burning, it seemed that after the wizard awakened, his body would change somewhat, at least he could avoid the damage caused by his abilities, but the process of dehydration caused by the evaporation of water made him quite painful, and he kept scratching at the back of his hand.

Devonne's ability to be fire, and Hera's ability to be sound, apparently did not ease his pain, and in the end, the two of them brought four buckets of water and poured them on him, so that he gradually cooled down.

Hodge took off the cotton towel hanging around his neck, twisted it vigorously to squeeze out the water absorbed in the cotton, wrung it out and hurriedly wiped his hair, "What's the matter with me?"

"It's not me looking for you, it's Lord Pollit, he's going to hold a meeting, and I'll tell you to hurry up. ”

"Meeting?" Hodge remembered from a book that the lord usually had several important people around him, namely the treasurer, the intelligence chief, the priest, and the captain of the guard, and whenever something important happened, they would hold a meeting to discuss the countermeasures for the lord's reference.

Before that, there was only one Rhodes by his side, although there was Harlow as the captain of the patrol team, but this captain never participated in such boring things as meetings, and as a legend of the North, Polit could not force him, so he only needed Rhodes to offer advice, and there was no need for a meeting at all.

But now that Hodge has filled in the position of chief intelligence officer, Pollit is able to consult with more than one person, and it makes sense to hold a meeting when something important happens.

It kind of made up for a little regret of Pollitt.

"Did our mayor say anything about it?"

Layton pondered for a while: "I don't know much, it seems that a few thorns in the miners refused to pay this quarter's mining tax because of the assassination of the merchant last time." ”