In the summer of the third year of the national calendar, there was a monster attack that shook the whole country, and there was a huge monster in the seaside city of Sko, with a dog-headed body, dozens of meters tall, holding a huge weapon halberd, and the wind was raging between the dances, and the buildings within a radius of 100 meters were destroyed, and the people in Sko City fled out of the city one after another, and it became a dilapidated empty city within half a day. The remaining guards and magicians attacked frequently, but with little effect, and paid a terrible price, and the monsters marched again after breaking through the city, and continued to attack the next city.

The unprecedented crisis shocked the entire country and even the entire continent, and the news spread throughout the continent in just a few hours under the spread of the guild's information, and it was directly released a first-level task, the reward is sky-high, 50 million imperial coins, this price can even buy a small city, and then because of the empire's intervention in the gratuity, those who kill monsters can get 80 million imperial coins.

The news was like a typhoon passing through and entering everyone's ears, Clive listened to what the staff said, endured anger and sent the staff away with a smile gritted his teeth and said: "It's Giles again, it's you again! The connivance I gave you again and again is to let you challenge my bottom line again and again?!" After the anger, thinking of another person, a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes, he was a ninth-level magician and he couldn't do anything, and after hesitating, he called Carol in, this matter can't be delayed.

On the third day of the incident, Valen was sitting with Helena on a stone chair in the corner of the courtyard of their house, when suddenly a villager rushed in at the door and gasped and said, "Wa, Valen, at the entrance of the village, someone is looking for you." ”

Valen put down Helena's jade hand, got up suspiciously, and asked, "Who is it, did he say what his name is?"

"A young man who looked at him was not very old, and he said his name was Carol. The villager recalled.

"Teacher Carol?!He's coming!" Valen looked at Helena in surprise and joy, Helena also had a happy expression on her face and came to the entrance of the village with Valen, when she saw Carol, Valen and Helena pounced on her at the same time, hugged Carol tightly and said, "Teacher, why are you here." ”

Carol smiled and patted his two students on the back, although Valen had only followed Carol for a few months, Carol had always regarded him as his own student, and now he was very happy to see it again, but remembering what he was here for this time, the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually drooped again.

Valen and Helena also saw Carol's strange expression, so they asked, "Teacher, is there anything worth your visit?"

Carol looked at Valen and hesitated, this mouth opened and closed several times but no figure came out, and finally took a deep breath, looked at Valen seriously, put his hands on Valen's shoulders and said softly: "Valen, don't be excited about what I say next, because the matter is not decided, everything is unknown, but Principal Clive said that this matter must be told to you, so ······"

Valen looked at the serious expression that Teacher Carol had never shown, his heart tightened, and he was inexplicably a little flustered, as if something terrible had happened, in order to reject the uneasiness in his heart, Valen said with a forced smile: "Teacher Carol, you can tell me something, we are not children anymore." ”

Carol looked at Valen's smile and felt pain in her heart, and could only say the heaviest truth in the calmest tone: "Three days ago, a monster suddenly appeared in the ancient castle of Jerodik in Scott City, attacking the city, but the guild staff of the neighboring city came to inform us to go to the rescue, we were puzzled and inquired before we learned that the rescue that Giles sought, he and Charles went to Scott City together, and Charles is now uncertain in Scott City. ”

Carol looked at Valen, who was frozen in place and motionless, grabbed his arms on his shoulders and shouted: "Valen, it's just that life and death are uncertain, that is, missing, and now the academy has sent a large number of personnel to Sko City, Valen?!"

Helena shook Valen's apparently petrified body in a panic, and kept calling out Valen's name.

Valen's mind kept echoing the information that Carol had told him, Charles's life and death were uncertain, Charles's life and death were uncertain... ？

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Before leaving, Charles said with a smile: "You really don't have to care, it doesn't matter if I go alone, my uncle and aunt are impatient." ”

"Hehe, where can there be such a coincidence, this time I went to a sea-watching resort that is frequented every year, there will be nothing wrong, the important thing is you, coax your girlfriend well." ”

"By the way, do I want to bring you something delicious and fun when I come back, Sko City seems to have a lot of good specialties..."

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"Smack!"

In the stunned gaze of Carol and Helena, Valen slammed into his cheek, leaving a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth with such great strength, the red marks on his five fingers looked so shocking, and the tears that burst out of his eyes cut Valen's godless expression.

"It's my fault, it's my fault! If I hadn't rejected Charles, he wouldn't have died! I'm a sixth-level magician! But now—what's the point of me studying magic!" Valen cried out loudly, and the heart-rending shout alarmed the people around him, and called Valen's parents too.

As soon as Valen's parents heard that something had happened to Charles, their brains were dizzy, if it weren't for Valen's father helping Valen's mother, they would have fallen to the ground, they have always liked Charles, a gentle and sensible child, and even regarded it as their own child, but ······ They can only hope that this thing is not true!

"Teacher Carol, I'm going to Sko City right now, right now!" said Valen, wiping away tears and clutching Carol.

Carol nodded, Valen settled his parents and promised to save Charles, Helena silently stayed by Valen's side, the jade hand never left Valen's palm, giving Valen a steady stream of warmth and encouragement.

Valen glanced at Helena gratefully, and put the sadness in his heart away for the time being, now is not the time for the so-called sad spring and autumn, Valen does not believe that Charles will die, no matter what kind of danger Charles encountered before, Charles was able to save the day, this time, Valen also believed.

"An Shounong, I'm going to call the army privately now, do you dare to come with me?" Pulit sat next to An Shounon and asked calmly, Pulit heard that something happened to Scott City, and his mind suddenly appeared full of expectations and illusions when his daughter Yukina said Sko City, after the guild investigated, Yukina took over the task of Jerrodike Castle, and now Plitt can sit in his seat and talk to An Shounong well is already the maximum limit of patience, and Plit's brain can only accept the simplest information now, yes or no.

"It's a big sin to call the army without permission. An Shounong put down the teacup in his hand, but he didn't notice that there was no tea in the teacup at all, only some old tea leaves from yesterday.

"Bang!"

As soon as Prit slapped his big hand, he got up directly and wanted to leave.

An Shounong took out a piece of paper from his bosom and called Pulit and said, "With the transfer order, how can the soldiers be used, and where can they go within the empire." ”

Since this time the king did not ask Pulit to lead the troops, after all, the role of the magician in the face of this kind of monster is the most effective, and it is not to support other countries to make an appearance, something happens in his own country, and all the magicians in the demon court are dispatched, and the damage must be minimized.

Plitt looked at the order in An Shounong's hand and said with joy: "I can't come down anyway, I'm so angry that I'm going to slap the king in the mouth, why do you want to come down." ”

An Shounong said with a smile: "The monster attack on the city will definitely cause ****, Sko City is so close to Bilk City, as long as I use the proposal to suppress the civilians to appease the civilians, thinking from that direction, I will give me this order." ”

"So what are you going to do?"

"I? The life and death of the student I finally found is uncertain, if this student is really gone, I will return to my hometown and not be an official!" An Shounong finally saw a person who could become his successor, and now there is such a thing, all he sees every day are a group of nobles with moth-eaten heads, what is the meaning of what this official does? Thinking of the expression on which Charles said to himself that he insisted on going to Sko City with Giles, he really hated and loved Charles.

Charles opened his eyes, looking around at the darkness and a faint glimmer of light for Charles to see his situation, although his body is not in good condition now, but it is not too bad, perhaps because he has used healing potions before, although his legs are pressed by the disordered stones and do not move at all, but the overall is fine, there are several monster corpses next to him, it seems that he may have been stoned to death.

Next to him is Yukina, Yukina's condition Charles looks obviously much worse than himself, not only the lower body, but even the abdomen and hands are stuck in the cracks of the stones, if Yukina is not injured before he may still be able to come out, but Yukina's legs have been broken before the fall, and the fall is even worse now.

"Yukina, Yukina!" Charles tried to call out to Yukina, but luckily Yukina only struggled slightly, and then responded to Charles's call with a muffled grunt of pain.

After Yukina opened her eyes, it was dark in her eyes, and then she felt that her whole body was motionless, and in an instant fear spread throughout her body, and Yukina, who has a character that is not afraid of heaven and earth, has an inexplicable fear of darkness.

"Yukina, are you awake?"

Charles's voice made the fear in Yukina's heart a lot less, and asked softly, "Are we still alive?"

Charles couldn't help but smile when he heard the question: "Yes, we are still alive." ”