"Your Highness, it's not good, Your Highness is not good!" Rommel, whose head was covered with yellow weeds and leaves, and the hem of his breeches was covered with dew, panted and ran into the pine forest, "The spring is gone, the spring is gone!"

Merlin struggled to maintain his inner peace, and found that the familiar sound of running water in the pine forest had indeed disappeared. He walked a few quick steps to the brook, where the brook that had been running yesterday was gone, and only the white rocks were exposed.

Shizhongquan is the key to the development of Ashlu Mountain, which is the key to Merlin's foothold in the territory. Otherwise, we will have to look at the faces of the church and the college in everything in the future.

Calm down, be sure to stay calm at this time. This is the experience accumulated by Merlin in 13 years of work as a grassroots women's director, and the more problems arise, the more we must not panic.

"What's the matter," Merlin asked, "is there no spring in the stone on the hillside?"

"Yes, there's only one big hole left there," Rommel gestured with his hands to look like a bucket, "and there's only such a big hole." It's dark inside, and you can't see the bottom. ”

At this moment, the bell rang outside the pine forest, and someone rushed out of the house without getting dressed. All at once the village came to life, the cries of children, the cursing, the cries of chickens and ducks.

The camp of the craftsmen from Hippo was on the edge of the village, and it was now a mess. A faint smell of blood drifted along the hillside along the morning easterly wind. The alert people noticed the anomaly, some people began to panic, and tension spread everywhere, and the children who had not yet opened their eyes were grabbed by their own adults and stuffed into the house.

"What's going on?" Merlin walked under the oak tree with the bell in Ashfurnace Village, and Lance led a few strong goths together, some of them agitated, others already carrying swords and shields with them.

"Kobolds, kobolds. A bloated lady by the oak tree said with a horrified face, "The mountain people of Biya have disappeared two men last night, and they live on the other side of the village. I heard that it was convenient to go out at night, and I never came back. ”

"Yes, it's kobolds who found their imprints on the path up the mountain. Edessa's face was sad, "There was a pool of blood there, I'm sure it didn't belong to the kobolds." ”

"We didn't see ten stonemasons last night," Augustine grimaced, "Last night's party made us all let our guard down, so much so that no one came close to the damn ones to find them. The elders of Arius College clasped their hands together in front of their chests, "Their souls have ascended to heaven, and those who gave their lives for the sake of the monastery will be forgiven for their sins." ”

The people around them actually showed a look of envy, which made Merlin feel incredible, of course they were not envious of these craftsmen being captured by kobolds, they were envious of ascending to heaven and their crimes being forgiven.

"Your Highness, it's not good," suddenly Kate ran in from outside the village, panting, and she cried out loudly as she ran, "Your Highness, it's not good. ”

"Is the sky falling, my Kate?" Merlin frowned with some dissatisfaction, the orc maid had been with Merlin for so long, but some bad habits still couldn't be broken. For example, this big voice and a big grinning temperament. Forget it, and then slowly adjust it.

"Your Highness, Uncle Bill, Uncle Bill, he is gone. ”

"What, what are you?" Merlin exclaimed, "what did you just say?"

"Uncle Bill is gone, I looked around in the village just now, and I also looked in the pine forest, and everyone said that they had not seen him. ”

Merlin couldn't care much at this time, he directly called out the system in front of everyone, and in his attribute column, the population of Ash Furnace Village had become 198, which means that counting the two missing people, there was another person who disappeared last night.

"Your Highness, don't worry, Lord Bill used to be a silver-level knight, and although he lost a left hand, he couldn't deal with just a few kobolds," Lance said, "I think Lord Bill should have found something, he should have followed the trail left by the kobolds." ”

The forest ranger from Ash Furnace Village nodded, "What Village Chief Lance said makes sense, Lord Bill still has an easy time dealing with a few kobolds. ”

"On the other side of the pine forest, there was the corpse of a wolf, its upper and lower jawbones had been separated, and it was too dead to die. Merlin said.

"That's the Frost Giant's method, even if they are still minors, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. The forest ranger laughed, "If those thieves would never have thought that there was a frost giant guarding his highness Merlin's hut underneath. But if the bean-stealers had a wolf, they would go fast, and Lord Bill might not be able to catch up with them. ”

Although Merlin is the eldest prince of Styric, the king of Cyris, he does not even have a true person in Adrianople. The system's favorability doesn't lie, and in the entire Celis Kingdom, the only thing that really treats him is the old Visigothic who lost his left arm.

That cheap old dad Stillico has a very strange attitude towards Merlin, and it is hard to imagine that a father would be in a state of ambivalence about his son all the time. And in Merlin's memory, there seems to be no mother's character. There is also no news about her in Adrianople.

It is strange that Merlin's aunt actually lives in Adrianople as a hostess. And Varins was actually Stilico's illegitimate son, and her mother was said to be the daughter of some big man in the South. Of course, there was no such idea of primogeniture in the minds of the Goths of the Northlands, and in their minds only warriors were worthy of follow, but it was strange that a Varins had all the privileges of an heir as an illegitimate son and a second son.

But Merlin didn't care about this, power had been very indifferent in his previous life, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed in the position of women's director for thirteen years. Merlin is a person who takes human power lightly, but some things are taken very seriously. During those days in Adrianople, as well as in Ashfurnace Village, Bill was always a spiritual support for Little Merlin. Now that Daddy is gone, Merlin feels an irrepressible wave of panic and loneliness rising from the depths of his heart.

To save him, to save him.