Duke, the owner of the Three Trees Tavern, was napping behind the counter, he was tired from being with Merry's fat last night, and he needed time to recover.

"Boss, the pelicans are here. He had just squinted for a while when he was woken up by the young man.

Duke, a pelican, suddenly lost his sleep, and ran into the backyard in three steps and two steps.

I saw a pelican with white feathers and black wings standing on the shelf next to the big water tank in the backyard. It stood on a wooden shelf, its little black bean-like eyes staring at the water tank, unconcerned about Duke trotting all the way.

Duke walked over to the tank and scooped up a palm-sized oxtail from the tank with a fishing net, and the moment he lifted the net to the surface, the pelican opened its large mouth and something fell, and the fish that was struggling in the net disappeared.

Duke picked up the small leather bag that had fallen from the pelican's mouth with his left hand, threw away the net, ignored the pelican who had swallowed the fish, and walked briskly into his room with his head down.

The pouch was wet, except for the water and possibly the saliva from the pelican's mouth, a fishy smell, Duke opened the pouch with a frown, and took out a roll of fishskin paper from it.

"Kraken Seven is bald," Duke looked at the seal in the middle of the scroll and opened it.

There was only a very simple sentence on the scroll, "Pay attention to a small squid boat that arrived at the dock around noon, from Gree Island, and find out the bottom of the boat and the bottom of the mage on board." ”

If it was before, Duke would not have taken this sentence to heart and just dealt with it casually. At that time, the Kraken VII was just one of the many merchant ships of the Dechang Chamber of Commerce, but now it is different.

Because the heir of the major shareholder of the Dechang Chamber of Commerce, the son of the previous president of the Dechang Chamber of Commerce, and the stepson of the current president, Mrs. Yong, Young Master Bailichen is now on the Sea Monster No. 7.

Young Master Bailichen returned from the temple this year, and Mrs. Yong said that she should let the young master go to the ship first to familiarize himself with the business, so as to accumulate experience for taking over the Chamber of Commerce in the future, and then somehow, how did the young master Bailichen, a golden bastard, fall on the bald Chen's ship.

Therefore, this may also be something that Young Master Bailichen wants to know.

As a tavern opened by the Dechang Chamber of Commerce in Mosquito Bay, it is his duty to collect information from all walks of life, and he must not leave the impression of incompetence on the young master.

Duke held out two long thin fingers, pinched his eyebrows, and strode out the door back to the store.

"Ball," he beckoned to the young man, "you go to the docks, and watch out for any small sturgeon boats from Gree Island, especially the ones with mages on board." ”

"Will there be a mage on the little squid boat?" the ball reacted quickly.

The small cargo ship is a small cargo ship with a blue and slender squid flag on the mast, which is usually owned by civilians, and only travels back and forth between offshore islands and inland rivers, and cannot go out to the ocean, and usually cannot afford to hire a mage such as the Heavenly Weather Master.

"There is always an accident in everything, go quickly, and keep watch until the hour of the morning¹. Duke waved his hand impatiently at the young man, and then added, "Beckon their sailors to the tavern for a drink as much as possible, and say that there is a sale of wheat wine in the tavern today!"

As long as those rude sailors come, a glass of wine is down, and anything can be said, not to mention where the ship came from, what goods were carried, and who was on board, even when they were happy, any woman in their hearts would tell you.

When the ball was gone, Duke beckoned the other two men to go to the cellar to fetch the wine, and to check the roasts and pancakes in the kitchen, so that he did not see a young man with a wand and a backpack walking briskly past the door of his tavern.

Before dawn, two groups of sailors had already arrived at the Three Trees Tavern, Duke himself poured them wine with mugs, and the fat cook Merry cut a few pieces of roast meat and served them on a wooden plate. The barbecue is sprinkled with a lot of pepper and served with coriander, mushrooms and crushed radish, and it is just as charming as Merry.

The sailors screamed "wow", some whistled at Merry, and some of the uneducated even stretched out their groping hands to Merry, Merry twisted her waist to dodge, and then spat at him, causing a burst of laughter.

In less than half an hour, Duke already knew where the sailors came from, one from the Western Continent and the other from Gree Island. Duke turned his attention to the sailors from Gree Island.

"Hey, it's been a great day, our little mage is amazing!" a sailor with a pimple-scarred face grunted as he drank half a glass of ale before talking about what Duke wanted to hear the most.

The people around him agreed.

Someone at the table next to him answered: "Aren't you from the little sturgeon boat?

This made the acne-faced sailor very unhappy, and there was a rare thing to brag about in the boring life of a sailor, "Will the world lose mages? I only saw the little mage beckon today, and he summoned a large dark cloud, which could cover the entire squid boat, and he moved his finger, and the seaspout obediently gave way......"

More than a dozen sailors echoed in unison, chattering about the supplementary details, and the crowd was passionate, and gradually it seemed that they had become mages themselves, chasing the clouds and clouds on the sea, turning the clouds and rain, and the words became more and more exaggerated, and the details became more and more abundant.

Duke didn't interject, and he quickly figured out the facts from these somewhat exaggerated and fictitious words:

The captain of the little squid boat somehow tricked a mage into being their weather master in exchange for sending him from Grey Island to the Mosquito Bay Pier for free. On the way, the mage manipulated the spell wind to make the little squid ship go fast, and almost caught up with a squid ship (a large merchant ship with a squid flag on its mast), and the mage on the squid boat mistakenly thought that it was a sea wolf (pirate ship) coming from behind, and warned them, which caused a tornado, so the two mages began to fight. After fighting for a while, I probably found out that it was a misunderstanding, so I stopped, and the two ships went their separate ways. The little squid boat arrived at the Mosquito Bay wharf, and the big squid boat seemed to be heading towards the Sunset Strait.

Well, this is just an accident, and there are many things about mages fighting at sea. On the beach, if you see a dark cloud rolling from here to there, from there to here, or thundering and wind, maybe there is a mage fighting.

It's just that today's squid boat belongs to the Dechang Chamber of Commerce, and the mage on the boat is the heir of the Chamber of Commerce, Young Master Bailichen, although the fighting method is not divided between up and down (maybe the young master also suffered a little secret loss, as soon as this idea arose, Duke quickly destroyed it), but was offended by a civilian's small fish boat, no wonder the young master was angry, no wonder the bald Chen wanted the pelican to send a letter over.

"You all call him a little mage when you talk about him, is he still very young?" said Duke, who gave them a drink.

"Probably fourteen or fifteen years old, aren't you small?" With that, the acne-faced sailor put his face on the glass that had just been filled with wine, and the impatient look made people think that he wanted to soak his face in the glass.

"You've seen his wand and how many stripes are there?" the answer really surprised Duke.

Young Master Bai Lichen is eighteen years old this year, he studied under the High Priest of Lei Jia eight years ago, and he just graduated this year.

"No ornamentation. The acne-faced sailor was already flushed, and he held his cup and muttered disapprovingly to the tavern owner, "No matter what lines it is, people have great spells, old check, drink-"

If you don't have ornaments, you're only fourteen or fifteen years old, so you should still be a mage apprentice. And, Young Master Bailichen heard that he was the proud disciple of the High Priest of Lei Jia, and the witch staff had been decorated with five stripes.

Duke compared it in his heart, and felt that the idea that he might think that the young master might have suffered a little bit of a secret loss was ridiculous!

It should be that the young master was merciful, but he only gave a warning, but did not do his best, these ignorant fools thought that the mage apprentices on their ship were so powerful that they should have cut off their tongues, lest they talk nonsense outside and ruin the young master's reputation. However, they didn't know that the young master was on the ship, and the young master's name was not something they could know.

"Do you know his name, such a powerful little mage?" Duke asked the last question he wanted to know.

The Scab-faced sailor was already drunk, and another sailor next to him said, "When he got on the boat, he said he was Garrong from Gree Island. ”

......

Jiarong didn't know that her name had been passed on by a group of sailors, and that someone was interested in her and was investigating her.

By this time, she had already left the lively Mosquito Bay Pier Town and was walking on a country road.

For Jiarong, who grew up in the mountains, the pier was not a desirable place, crowded, noisy, chaotic, and with a disgusting smell, it was simply breathless.

So as soon as she got off the boat, Jiarong left the dock at her fastest pace, through the town, until she left the town and saw the patchwork of farmland, the meandering river, and a few willow trees on the bank. The potholed dirt path was much more comfortable for her than the dirty stone roads in town.

As she walked, she thought back to the "fighting method" just now, after all, this was her first "magic practice".

Thinking of the spells I memorized, calling for wind and rain, and catching up with the clouds, it was simply a fairy method!

This kind of mantra, Jiarong will not be the only one, she is on the mountain, but she has been memorizing books with the old mage for ten years! Although she has not memorized all incantations, at least half of them are. So Jiarong is now full of confidence, no, it should be said that he is full of ambition!

"I want to be the youngest, most powerful, and most amazing archmage in this world! I can open mountains with one palm, crack rocks with one foot, and raze the earth with one spell......"

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Exegesis:

1. Hour: The Punia continent divides the day into twelve hours, each of which is equivalent to two hours. The hour of dawn is one of the twelve o'clock, also known as the sun, which is equivalent to 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monkeys like to cry at this time.