Night.

Crowded and cramped alleys, the stench that blows in your face, and the tiresome noise and indulgence...... All these kinds of imagery that make people think of words such as poverty and backwardness at once superimposed, which is where the people at the bottom of the city of Droya live.

Poverty is a phenomenon that exists in every country, and the difference is only common and uncommon – at least in the Elohim world.

Not to mention the Vola Empire, a country that attaches great importance to the army and city defense over the people's livelihood, even the Hawar Empire, the richest in the Western Continent, and even the legendary gold everywhere in the Eastern Continent, the mysterious country of Chirnat, where people will illuminate with night pearls at night, there are also people living at the bottom.

For example, Elsie.

Silently weaving through the bustling crowd, Elsie staggered towards her home. His tattered boots were quickly soaked in black mud all over the floor, and the damp touch made him even more unpleasant. He didn't say anything, though, and just kept walking.

It's here.

He opened the door, threw his tired body on the somewhat dirty bed, tried not to look at the clutter that was piling up around him and could fall at any moment, and sighed.

It is only in this place that can be called "home" that he can temporarily take off that mask and become his true self.

Elsie was originally an orphan, and if it weren't for his adoptive father, an orc store manager, who relented for a moment and picked him up as a future heir, it is estimated that his bones would not be found now.

It is said that his adoptive father was a promising mage apprentice in his early years, but later suffered a series of accidents, and had to give up the magic path and inherit the family business and open a grocery store.

Unfortunately, Elsie had no talent for magic at all, and she especially liked the views of the materialistic school, which had long been rejected by the mainstream academic community, which completely cut off the little extravagance of his adoptive father.

Three years ago, his adoptive father died of illness, and Elsie knew that he was not the material to open a store, so he simply sold the store to become a tour guide.

It's just that this choice is not very good, because the competition in this industry is quite fierce, and Elsie did not receive any business at all in the first year, if it weren't for the small profit from selling the shop, he might have starved to death.

Even now, he is not doing well, he has to spend almost all his energy every day to make a living, where is the time to continue to study what he likes?

If it weren't for the half-elf guest who inadvertently led the topic to this aspect when he was chatting with him today, maybe Elsie would really have to consider completely giving up her yearning for the material school after a while and concentrating on living that life of "one day counts as a day".

At that time, he was helping the very generous guest—it was not flattery, but he genuinely felt that the other party was very generous, and the tip he had earned today was enough for him to squander for a month—and after checking into the hotel, Elsie was cheeky enough to stay with the idea of making a little more tip.

Unexpectedly, the guest really didn't mind, but chatted with him.

Of course, most of the time it was Elsie who was talking, and the other party didn't have much desire to talk. Elsie didn't feel embarrassed either, anyway, if she really couldn't do it, she would be entertaining herself, and it would be even better if she could ask for a little more tip.

As a result, when talking about Elsie's past, the half-elf was obviously interested, and said a lot of things rarely.

I don't remember the specific Elsie either, I only remember the last words of the other party, and I simply pointed out a new path for myself.

He said: "I have heard that there is a territory in Falkenridge called the Icourt Valley, and that the lords there are very interested in the material school, and have even formed a society to specialize in this knowledge. ”

Elsie admits that he was moved.

Rather than continue to stay here and wait for death, it is better to try your luck, although the poor little gadget that you have made up may not be eyed by the lord, but even if you can contact a few people who do not reject the material school, that would be fine......

God knows how long Elsie has been waiting for this opportunity, since he was a child, he didn't even dare to tell others about his hobbies, for fear of being ridiculed and alienated, even if he later developed a cheeky skin comparable to the city wall, it can only guarantee that he will not show a lost expression in front of others.

What's more, the half-elf also mentioned that the goblins in the Icourt Valley do not belong to the bottom people......

Elsie sat up, took a device slightly larger than a slap from the pile of clutter, and examined it carefully.

Spiral dial, brake tubes, copper coils and pressure reducers...... He knew that it was a balancer that had taken him two years to make, and it seemed like an inconspicuous one, but it was made to fulfill his childhood dream of making it possible for people who knew nothing about magic to have long-range attacks.

He didn't want that dream to end there.

On the other side, in the most luxurious upper room of the hotel, Iroh opened his eyes that were sleeping.

He didn't look at the table not far away, which was full of food, but went straight to the window.

It's not that Iroh can't accept the food that these humanoids like, but his body fluids are highly poisonous, and if they are left on the food utensils, they may reveal their identity......

And, now there are more important things.

"The appointed time seems to be coming. ”

There was a bit of strange smell in the wind, and Iroh subconsciously sniffled and carefully discerned, but to no avail. After thinking for a moment, he simply opened the window and leaned outside to check.

As a result, his face changed when he looked at it.

"What ——?do you need?"

Ignoring the polite waiter outside the door, Iroh strode downstairs, not even bothering to explain, and rushed straight in that direction as soon as he got out.

This is also the real reason why Ieloh will be at the important moment when Falkenridge and Stacy are in full war, but he does not hesitate to entrust everything to Vis and run to the Walla Empire himself.

It's actually quite simple, when Iroh wakes up one day and walks out of the door of the General Intelligence Department, he finds a wide leaf that has been glued to the door in a clever way, and there is still a trace of the aura that is very familiar to Iro.

If you're not mistaken......

This kind of aura is actually five points similar to Iro's own!

Iroh knew that this was a very rare thing. Since he was born, he has been keeping an eye out for the aura of the dragons around him, trying to find clues to his origins. But unfortunately, the surrounding dragons, whether it is Ves, Shilkat or Karamank, Natalie, and even Alfred and Star Venerable, their aura is completely different from their own.

And at this moment, he suddenly sensed an aura so close to himself, where would Iroh leave it alone?

The contents of the leaves are a short puzzle, and after spending half a day solving them, Iroh gets an invitation to meet and the time and place.

Iroh didn't worry too much about security, since the other party could find him accurately, it means that the other party must have some guesses about his identity, and he wouldn't know that he never relied on the people around him for protection.

That's why Iroh was standing in the middle of the empty square in Droya City at the moment.

And so it was.

Eloh's expression was cold, and his black eyes were like real monsters, ready to devour his target at any moment. However, his heart is not as calm as it seems, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is overturned.

Seven completely different energies were faintly flowing in the air, and he knew that the owner of the energy had adopted a way that was so clever that he could not yet comprehend that he had modified the perceptual frequency of the energy so that only he could perceive it.

How similar this feeling is to the scene in Hillcart's Crystal Record!

"Yes, this is it. ”

In the night, following the dense distribution of energy, Iro's figure appeared on the back of the lord's mansion in Droya City.

He half-knelt down and reached out to touch the ground.

After determining the location of the mana node, Iroh leaped forward, and the cover of darkness went straight into the lord's garden.

The world is not actually a complete whole, as ordinary people see. On the contrary, there are gaps in many places that are either naturally occurring or artificially created, connecting different locations, even the primary plane with the secondary plane.

And if you want to get through the gaps in space, you need to find an entry point.

This entry point is called a "node".

In essence, those passages to famous planes such as the divine realm and hell are actually a manifestation of nodes.

However, it is also difficult for ordinary people to find nodes, because in the words of the material school, nodes are mostly hidden in microscopic space-time.

In addition to the powerhouses of the legend, only mages and warlocks who tend to choose space-time type magic are easy to find. Others can only wait until the natural changes in space cause the nodes to automatically appear in the macrocosm, of course, this probability is very small, it is almost like a volcanic eruption tomorrow.

"Found it. ”

It didn't take long for Iroh to find his target under the guidance of the seven energies - although he was not a legend and did not learn the magic of the space-time category, the owner of the energy was obviously showing him the way, and in this case, he could not find it, so he simply did not go to meet him.

Inject a small amount of mana into the node - this is the easiest way to activate the node. Soon, the node that received the activation reacted, and a blue portal opened out of thin air on a rockery in the garden, which was the entrance to the spatial passage.

In just an instant, Iroh completely recognized that the aura that was slowly spreading out from the spatial passage came from the man in black who called himself Yan Scarlett and had some mysterious relationship with Red Yan!

Without any hesitation, Iroh walked straight inside.