The carriage is interesting, it is clearly a vehicle designed specifically for this "dirty work". The almost sealed windows, the quiet axles, and even the deliberately made seats in the carriage to make a slight noise can be thought to have been designed to prevent the occupants of the carriage from predicting or estimating the direction and destination of the carriage from memory.

Of course, these details may also be just the work of Cheese's excessive persecution delusions, after all, not everyone will have to memorize the complicated neighborhood map and the speed of the carriage and every turn in his mind.

In fact, cheese doesn't have to do that. Charon was the one hired to take them to the meeting place, and he would do 100% as Jung asked him to do, and so far, the Barak had no reason to be against the mage, and he knew where the meeting place was.

But he did it anyway, perhaps because the gray robe had taken his neurotic alertness as a warm-up for entering a state of imminent battle, or maybe he was not at ease with the half-sheep driver. But none of this was shown on his face, and it seemed to the apprentice that his mentor was just sitting quietly, his eyes dark and he couldn't catch any clues.

"Do you like the name Yoni?" asked Cheese suddenly, his eyes falling on his apprentice. The sudden inquiry obviously frightened the boy, but he did not dare to panic.

"I... I can't tell the difference between good and bad names. There was no name before. The apprentice kept his head down and tried to express himself, he was not proficient enough in the language to practice his conversation.

"That's good, you don't have a sensitivity to the name right now, and you don't have a sense of identity, and it's very difficult to cast spells on you by name in this situation. Cheese's tone was calm, his elbows propped up on the corners of the window, his palms rubbing against his chin, and the stubble that had grown slightly disappeared as his fingers ran across his chin. After doing this, he reached for that hand to Yoni.

"The name and part of the body are the materials that are most likely to be used to cast spells from a distance, and being obtained by others is like being choked by the neck. The man-bear's hair protects most of your body from falling out of it, but the head is not. My magic can temporarily suppress normal physical shedding, and you need to be careful to collect the parts that fall out of normal conditions, or at least remember where they fell. That sounds redundant, and so do those who have been killed by spells and don't know where they have done wrong. As he spoke, he ran his palm over every inch of skin on the apprentice's head.

It was obviously uncomfortable, and if it were a normal child, he would have tried to resist, but Yoni hadn't, he had been subjected to more cruel treatment, and Cheese had already explained to him the reason for doing so, "Are our enemies everywhere? Why are they tying mine, well, hair to my head now, and what if they go to the place where they live to steal?"

Most of the children's language is questions, and they do not yet understand the rules of the world, or in other words, they do not understand that the world itself has no rules, and everything must be left to their own judgment. That's why they are hungry for answers, throwing out question after question. If it were Clark, he probably wouldn't have answered these time-wasting questions.

Cheese wasn't his teacher, and although he admired efficiency, they were still on the move anyway, and his apprentice was showing an intention of engaging in complex communication with him for the first time, so he didn't care to bother answering Yoni's questions.

"That's a good question. You're starting to have problems, and that's a good start. This time, I'll answer you, and you'll have to try to find the answer yourself. You have to remember that neither books nor teachings can make you know everything, and you have to bow down to understand it thoroughly. As for the topic, of course, that's because our enemies aren't that versatile, and they can't collect the hairs you usually drop. And the relationship between the hair and its owner will not be permanently intimate, which is quite delicate knowledge, and it would be too complicated for you to explain it now. So, can you guess why I'm only casting a spell on you now?"

Yoni frowned and began to think at full speed, his little head was not able to take in too big things, but small had small benefits, since his teacher had already asked, the answer must be in the previous conversation. Hair, spell casting, curses...

"I see. It's because we're going to run into a cursed enemy, so you don't let my hair fall out and be picked up by those people. ”

"That's a good point. The only problem is that those people are not our enemies yet, they are even our helpers. It's just that there are not many trustworthy people in this world, and helpers are not necessarily helping you. ”

Cheese spoke with a smile on his face, which was an appreciation for the apprentice's quick response. He hadn't trained anyone else, and the kind of instruction he had in the valley was purely technical. Therefore, I am afraid that he himself has not noticed when the joy he felt in the process of guiding Yoni to learn to think came about. However, this does not justify the Apprentice Trials being reduced in difficulty.

"Here we are. The door of the carriage was opened, and the half-sheep man said to the master and apprentice in the carriage. There was a little unhappiness on Caron's face, for a man with thick hair like him, the rushing and thick water vapor was enough to bear, and the part near the surface of the water was simply tormenting. If possible, he didn't want to stay for a minute.

Cheese and the others stepped out of the carriage, and the wheels immediately began to turn in the opposite direction. The master and apprentice stood on the wooden floor, their ears filled with the sound of noise. This is the docklands, in other words, the liveliest place in the whole rush. The mage looked at the street sign not far away and confirmed their location, and Charon did not directly stop them at the meeting place, which was also greeted in advance.

"Come with me, don't get separated. After saying this, the gray robe turned and walked in one direction, and Yoni behind him immediately followed, almost clutching the corner of the gray robe.

However, it was necessary for the apprentices to follow suit, because as the pace of the cheese slowed down, and the pedestrians around them began to become less and less, and the sounds began to become blurred, as if they were coming from far away. When they crossed a certain boundary, the entire street was simply invisible. There was only a fountain that appeared in the center of the street at some unknown point, and a few figures beside the fountain.

"They've arrived. ”