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The old man raised his head and looked at Ian, who was nervous, with a suspicious expression: "This is yours?"

Ian nodded a little awkwardly, and at the same time kept convincing himself that at least it was mine for now, and it wasn't a lie. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Where's the ID tag?"

Ian knew he was asking about the domino Rudo, but he put it on Rudo's chest and buried it in the snow together. But of course, he couldn't tell the truth, so he could only say nonsense: "When I performed the last mission, I accidentally dropped it, and I haven't had time to make up for it." ”

"Lost?" the old man's brows frowned, and he said slowly, "Look at the pattern on your dagger, you are also a hunter of no low rank in the hall, and you will make this kind of mistake?"

"Well, the prey is too powerful. Ian said with a blank face, "It's powerful you can't imagine. ”

"Huh?" the old man's face changed, his whole face became vivid, he flipped up from the chaise longue with his hands and feet, and then leaned over to Ian, his two white eyebrows trembling together.

Ian was taken aback by him, and thought that there was something wrong with this old man's mind. subconsciously wanted to dodge, but was grabbed by the old man.

"Is it the task of slaying the dragon?" said the old man in a low voice, for fear of being heard.

"Uh, yes. Ian scratched his head, he wasn't lying, he had indeed hunted a dragon in the snowy mountains before, although Rudo had put most of his strength into it.

The old man's expression suddenly became reverent, but he didn't believe it immediately, but continued to ask, "How do you prove it?"

Ian hesitated, but cautiously pulled out a brown, metal-like piece from his bosom. The old man was a little confused at first, but after taking the piece from Ian's hand, his expression was once again enriched.

That's right, that's dragon scales. When Ian descended from the ancient tree, he found the corpse of a brown dragon. Although falling from a height of hundreds of meters, the dead can no longer die, but the body is still very well preserved, even if the dragon's blood is spilled on the ground, there are not many smashed dragon scales.

In line with the principle of keeping them as a souvenir, Ian also picked up a few dragon scales and came back, which came in handy at the moment. I hadn't taken it out before, because I thought that it would be impossible for an old man living in such a small city to recognize the dragon scales, but now it seems that this is not the case.

The old man's body blocked the dragon scales, so that Nicole didn't see what Ian had taken out at all, but saw that the old man's shoulders were trembling slightly.

The old man stroked the dragon scales as if he were caressing his lover's hand. After a while, the sunken eyes were filled with tears. Tears dripped from his eyes and fell on the dragon scales, which were already dead scales, glowing slightly under the purification of tears.

"I won't admit it, I won't admit it. The old man choked up and said, "These are dragon scales, I won't be mistaken." ”

Nicole was not far from the old man, although she couldn't see the dragon scales, but she also heard what the old man said, and her expression suddenly became wonderful. She bypassed the old man and ran to Ian's side, and when she saw the brown scale in the old man's hand, she immediately turned her head to Ian and began to winkle her eyebrows.

As if to say, where did you get the things that fool people?

Ian didn't speak, and the scale could be said to have been bought by Rudo with his life. It was stained not only with the blood of dragons, but also with the blood of the old hunter Rudo. The blood-soaked dragon scales were watered with tears on the hands of another old man, making Ian feel a little uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry, Cassius, I lost my temper. The old man wiped his tears and said, "I have worked in the headquarters of the hall for more than ten years, specializing in alchemy. I've been researching for many years, how to pierce dragon scales, dragon scales and alchemy have been with me for almost my whole life. No one knows dragon scales better than I do. ”

Nicole's expression was even more exciting. Is this scale real?

"The afterlife is terrible, the afterlife is terrible. The old man sighed, and then reluctantly returned the dragon scales to Ian, "The hunter who can slay the dragon alone is so young and terrifying, Cassius, you are really amazing." ”

Ian didn't know what to say, so he could only answer, "I'm not called Cassius." ”

"Don't you call?" the old man was stunned, then patted his head, "Hey, look at my memory." ”

As he spoke, the old man bent down at Ian, and his silver hair was particularly dazzling in front of Ian: "Honorable lord, alchemist, Cassius Holmes is at your service. ”

Ian's heart trembled slightly, as if someone had plucked a string in his heart. Cassius stood up a little dazed, and muttered, "What are you here for?" Oh, you're here to take on a mission, I just saw your sign, right, Cassius. ”

Ian didn't speak, and Nicole's eyes were already reddening.

Cassius babbled back to the chaise longue and, trembling, bent down and took out two pieces of parchment from under the chaise longue. Then he walked back tremblingly and handed Ian two pieces of parchment: "The city is relatively small, and there are almost no commissions, so that's all there is to it." One of them was recently released and is an exploration mission. The other one has passed the time limit, and no one has picked it up for ten years after it was released, and that employer is dead. ”

Ian looked at it, and sure enough, there was only one to pick up. So he took out the prospecting task and asked, "What's next?"

"Signed, Cassius, of course. Cassius handed Ian a quill and said, "Sign your name, oh, and this beautiful young lady." ”

Ian took the wool pen and asked Nicole to sign his name first. Then he took it back and signed his name on her back.

"Ian Iliad".

It's just that the word Iliad is scribbled by him, and he can barely make out it.

"And a deposit of ten gold coins, Cassius. Cassius said, Ian gave him ten gold coins, Cassius stamped it on it, and returned it to Ian, "Then you can get the bounty at any branch of the hall, which is one hundred gold coins, and get your deposit back by the way." ”

Ian nodded, and as he was about to leave, he saw Cassius lie back on the recliner and read. He hesitated, and left the scales behind, where Cassius could see them as soon as he put down the book. Then he left with Nicole.

When the two walked out of the house, they saw an old man in a robe approaching them. The old man's robe was printed with the pattern of "Eye of Heaven", who was the godfather of the church. He looked a little surprised when he saw Ian and Nicole, and then smiled.

"In the name of heaven, no one has come to see old Cassius for a long time. The godfather greeted them happily, "You should come and see him more often, he is a poor old man." ”

The two greeted the godfather with a church ceremony, and Nicole couldn't help but ask, "Excuse me, does Cassius senior have some problems in his brain?"

"Oh, don't you know?" said the godfather with some surprise, and then said with some loneliness, "Actually, old Cassius was not like this when he was young, he was the ace alchemist of the hall. Once upon a time he had a proud son, with his name, Cassius the Younger, who was the hunter of the Hall. ”

"What about his son?" asked Ian, curious.

The godfather sighed: "Ten years ago, I died in a disaster. Since then, Cassius has been crazy, he can't remember any names, no matter who is called Cassius. There is no way to carry out the work of alchemy. Originally, the hall wanted to place him in the imperial capital, but he may have touched the scene, he was crazy all day long. As soon as he saw the Thorn Flower Totem, he began to make a fuss, and then the hall could only send him to the farthest place from the Thorn Flower, which was this. ”

Ian's heart thumped.

How many families were ruined by the disaster ten years ago?

The godfather patted the two of them on the shoulder: "Come and spend more time with him, as long as he doesn't come into contact with anything about dragons, he will be fine." ”

Ian's eyelids jumped, and then there was a loud bang in the room behind him.