Chapter 214: People Always Change
Perhaps everyone didn't expect Barbossa, who is a legendary wizard, to be so approachable, and under his shy appearance, he can also say such humorous funny things, and the atmosphere suddenly becomes much more relaxed.
Of course, it is obviously impossible to send away so many "fans" directly with two or three witty words.
After thinking about it, the young legendary wizard patiently answered the questions of the lucky ones, and then made suggestions on some details - mainly some red flags in the Aurora Tide, and how to effectively deal with different mana beasts.
Although he is a legend, Barbossa's age is actually about the same as everyone present, and if you ignore the powerful aura that comes with the legendary wizard, then he looks more like a brother-like character.
Although Xu Nan and Jiang Yuanchi didn't ask questions like everyone else, they still pricked up their ears to listen.
After all, this is also the experience of legendary wizards.
It is said that Barbossa participated in the last Aurora Tide and won the second place, although he did not win the championship, but you know, he was not even ten years old at that time!
At such a young age, it would have been an exaggeration to be able to harvest so abundantly in the tide of aurora.
It can only be said that genius is indeed something that cannot be measured by the thinking of mortals.
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After answering about seven or eight questions, the crowd was finally willing to get out of the way.
Barbossa smiled softly and tugged at the brim of his hat to signal that he had something to do.
Although the rest of the people were a little disappointed, they were also very sensible and did not continue to stop them.
The young legendary wizard was able to make his way through the first half of the hallway, his gaze slowly scanning the cabins on either side, as if searching for something.
"Is there anything we can do to help, Mr. Barbossa?"
A lively witch shouted nearby.
Barbossa shook his head with a smile, then quickened his pace.
It's just that his gaze is still circling around the cabins on both sides.
It didn't take long for him to walk near Xu Nan, and in the next second, he stopped, glanced at Jiang Yuanchi, and bowed slightly:
"Long time no see, Ginger."
"Long time no see." Jiang Yuan belatedly replied with a trademark smirk.
She didn't seem to have much of a crush on Barbossa.
"This time the tide of aurora is very dangerous, and I saw the shadow of the Arcane Empire's fleet in my previous prophecy."
Barbossa suddenly said quickly: "If you see the fleet in the tide of the aurora, don't come close!" ”
Jiang Yuanchi glanced at him with some surprise and narrowed his eyes:
"Did you come to remind me?"
"I remember when you didn't believe in the metaphysical claims of the [Daughter of the Floating City], right? He also brought out all the famous sayings of the ancestors of the prophecy school and pressed me......"
Barbossa's face flushed slightly, as if he had thought of something embarrassing.
He whispered, "I'm sorry for what happened at the beginning." ”
"But I didn't come here on purpose, I'm looking for my [Pai]."
"It prefers to run around, and I just found out that it got lost again."
Xu Nan interjected with some curiosity: "What is Paipai?" ”
"A toad that spits gold." Jiang Yuanchi interjected: "I just saw it in the kitchen, you may still have time to find him in the past...... In the newly served vegetable soup. ”
"Huh!?" Barbossa seemed to be a little panicked, hurriedly said goodbye, and hurried away.
It wasn't until his figure disappeared at the end of the corridor that Xu Nan took his gaze back.
"You don't seem to like him very much?" Xu Nan asked.
"A little." Jiang Yuan tugged at the straw a little harder: "How can I say it, this guy doesn't look very bad, he's super talented, and his personality is quite funny...... But I always felt that it was all acting. ”
"Acting? You mean, he deliberately pretended to be shy? ”
Xu Nan became more and more confused:
"By the way, how much do you know about this Mr. Barbossa?"
The water in this Stephen Sand is too deep. Legendary mages have to disguise themselves?
"It's hard to say, it's just a woman's intuition."
Jiang Yuanchi frowned slightly:
"Junior Fish Belly, you seem to have changed."
Xu Nan was stunned for a moment, and then sighed softly:
"People always change."
In fact, there was no need for Jiang Yuanchi to remind him that he realized that he was becoming more and more fond of thinking...... I don't know if it's a good thing!
Who knew that in the next second, Jiang Yuanchi looked at Xu Nan with a suspicious expression and said:
"In the past, you probably only asked me for information about girls."
"You're actually asking me for information about a shy little white face now......"
"Your orientation has become outrageous, hasn't it? The world is going down! ”
Xu Nan: "......"
He sat down in silence and said no more.
In fact, he did have some interest in that Mr. Barbossa, not because it was related to Jiang Yuanchi, but because when he came over just now, Xu Nan suddenly felt that the energy stone that he had collected had become a little hotter!
The main reason is that this change is a little too subtle, and he doesn't know if it's his own delusion.
"Is this young legendary wizard also interested in the alchemy of the gods?"
"Helena once told me that this gem will produce some additional changes when it is close to people who are interested in it, and that increase in temperature just now, is it the so-called change?"
Xu Nan thought secretly in his heart.
Although in the following time, he learned from Jiang Yuanchi that Barbossa did not know alchemy, and he himself had nothing to do with the incident of divine alchemy, he still did not let his guard down.
He always felt that it was a little unnecessary for someone of Barbossa's status to come to the VIP room, and if it was to find the lost toad, he could do it in other ways - as the head of the prophecy school, Xu Nan believed that he could find his pet even if he didn't go through formal magic.
This excuse is a bit too obvious.
And the way he looked left and right in the corridor was too fake, although he pretended to look at the cabins on both sides casually, but all this was full of flaws in Xu Nan's eyes.
It's a little worse than the acting skills of Thomas, the soul stealer, or rather, they are in the same vein.
"This guy can't be a Lifestealer, right?"
Such a bold thought suddenly popped into Xu Nan's mind.
Thinking from a positive logic, the high status of the chief of the prophecy school is obviously not suitable for the parasitism of a character like the Soul Stealer, after all, the people who come and go are super masters, and it is easy to be caught by others; But thinking from the opposite logic, the Soul Stealers are likely to have a rebellious psychology and create a great hidden effect.
If the existence of the Soul Stealer Legion is exposed and the law enforcement team takes action, it is estimated that no one will suspect Stephen Sand's Yaba!
Combined with Barbossa's own slightly miraculous growth experience, it is not like a single prophecy school wizard who has no power to cultivate can do it!
Xu Nan became more and more suspicious, this guy is also a soul stealer!
It's a pity that he doesn't have an evil detection scroll by his side, and he doesn't dare to rashly accuse Stephen Sanya-level characters because of some of his guesses.
"By the way, this Mr. Barbossa, is there anything nasty?"
Xu Nan asked seriously.
Jiang Yuanchi thought for a long time before he replied with some uncertainty:
"It seems to be...... Rabbit bar. ”
Xu Nan's eyes widened suddenly.
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Regarding Barbossa's question, Xu Nan already had a guess in his heart, but at this juncture, before guessing the other party's specific intentions, Xu Nan is unlikely to give up the tide of Aurora to report Barbossa.
In fact, with the identity and status of the other party, Xu Nan has to think carefully about the channel if he wants to report.
"Assuming that Barbossa is indeed a soulstealer, then he must have come to contact me, and they certainly didn't come to Helena's aid in the first place, they must have had a plan. Although the Lifestealers are not all alchemists, their thirst for divine alchemy is mediocre. But this thing is too lethal for ordinary alchemists, and with the power stone that records the alchemy of the gods in hand, it is not too simple to make a fuss about it to encourage the entire group of alchemists in Stephen Sand......"
Xu Nan thought very deeply:
"And what I need to care about most now is, will he attack in this incident of Aurora Tide?"
This is a question worth pondering and pondering.
Soon, Xu Nan calmly gave his answer: that is, no.
Assuming that Barbossa is indeed a member of the Lifestealer Legion, then his existence must be a very important pawn in the implementation of the Lifestealer Legion's follow-up plan. If it weren't for the fact that the Lifestealer Legion was ready to launch the fiercest offensive, it was obvious that his presence would not have been actively exposed.
It seems that Barbossa is the only one who is presiding over the aurora tide celebration, but as far as Xu Nan knows, this level of event is at least supported by Ansuli and Lawrence. No matter how strong Barbossa is, it is impossible for him to play hooligan under Ansuli's nose.
What's more, they don't have to.
The power stones of God's alchemy are important, but for the soulstealers, they are only a weighty pawn at most, and their importance is far less than that of Stephen Sand's eight-leaf level undercover identity.
In Xu Nan's view, Barbossa's actions were more like an rather reckless "accidental contact".
Presumably, he just wanted to determine who exactly was the person who had disrupted their layout, and to confirm the location of the power stones.
If the Soul Stealer Legion really wanted to attack the power stones, then Xu Nan could instead take the opportunity to strike them down.
As for Barbossa himself, he will definitely not make a move.
"Wait for the celebration to end, and let Senior Sister Jiang help inform Ms. Ansuli directly......
Xu Nan secretly made up his mind in his heart.
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Three hours later.
The speed of the float became very slow, and the air seemed to become thinner by the point.
There was soon a slight chatter on deck.
The Land of Aurora has arrived.
Xu Nan and Jiang Yuanchi left the VIP room, and the two of them exchanged good luck and left the float boat.
Throughout, they didn't mention the topic of teaming up.
That's because the two of them actually have a tacit understanding - a festival like Aurora Tide, because of the relatively low risk factor, each spellcaster is in competition with each other.
In previous years, there were many cases of fighting for a mana beast.
Besides, Xu Nan and Jiang Yuanchi are both more confident guys, and teaming up may be a shortcut for the weak, but for those who think they are strong, sometimes it will be a burden.
Therefore, after saying goodbye to each other, Xu Nan chose a passage to get off the boat.
The place where the floatship hovers, less than three kilometers away from the real land of the aurora, the wizards need to fly over on their own and wait for the tide of the aurora to come.
In the Land of Aurora, the beautiful aurora is almost daily, and some lucky wizards can even collect some alchemy items condensed into crystals in the aurora, which can be used to make good magic items.
It's just that this kind of crystal is very rare, and most of the auroras only have some useless dust.
When Xu Nan got off the boat, he tried the newly acquired witchcraft broom, and the effect made him very satisfied.
"Sure enough, you get what you pay for, and there are protection measures in key parts, and it's quite comfortable to sit on."
"I just don't know how fast it is......"
Sou.
In an instant, even people flew out hundreds of meters away with brooms, attracting sideways glances from the wizards next to them, thinking that Xu Nan was here to show off his skills.
Xu Nan was also taken aback.
Stephen Sand's alchemy name is indeed true, the performance of the witchcraft broom is outrageous, Xu Nan was quite satisfied with the speed of the meteor magic carpet before, but compared with the witchcraft broom, it is about the difference between an electric car and a high-speed rail.
At the moment, he quickly became familiar with the operation of the witchcraft broom, and at the same time entered the territory of the Aurora Land with the army of black spellcasters!
Here, the aurora is practiced into a film, and sometimes the light and shadow effects can form a scene that deceives people's vision.
Xu Nan put on special sunglasses early to prevent his eyes from being deceived by the aurora.
At this moment, apart from the slightly excited young spellcasters passing through the territory like locusts, the only thing that has some presence in the Aurora Land is the small cabins floating in the air.
[Defender's Cabin].
Like the Wizard's Broom, this is also an item produced by the Dwarf Alchemy Workshop, an official collaboration with Stephen Sand.
Although the Land of Aurora is not a sea of curses, it also has a certain suppression of magical power. Considering that Aurora Tide is a high-intensity battle that lasts for two to three days, Stephen Sand thoughtfully placed these huts for wizards in need to rest.
Of course, there is a fee for this, and the price is not low, one day's rent is enough for most low-level wizards to spend half a year.
Many wizards forcibly supported it, and when they couldn't hold it anymore, they would temporarily rest for an hour.
A person like Xu Nan, who has deep pockets and directly rents twenty defender huts, is definitely unprecedented!
Yes, Xu Nan had just gotten off the spaceship and was still practicing the control of the Wind Resister's witchcraft broom, so he directly rented all the defender huts in a specific area of the Aurora Land!
After this news spread, it also caused a little sensation among the wizard community, and soon, everyone's gaze at Xu Nan was somewhat mocking.
I guess I thought he was a model of stupid people with a lot of money.
In fact, Xu Nan had another purpose.
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