The Magic Guild of Highlanza City is a round dark gray tower like a birthday cake, the entire mage tower is divided into four levels, the top of the tower in addition to some exquisite stone sculptures, the imprint of the four elements in four directions, the top of the tower stands a statue of a magician, this magician holds a staff in one hand, a thick magic book in the other, the statue faces southeast, and the scepter occasionally flashes a flash of lightning.

The Mage's Tower is one of the few landmarks in the city of Highlandsa.

The guard at the gate of the magic tower carefully checked Surdak's knightly badge before he reluctantly let him enter the magic tower.

The magic tower has a spiral-shaped internal corridor, it is difficult to clearly distinguish the floor from the inside, some magic apprentices wearing magic robes holding materials, or holding some experimental equipment, magic materials shuttle back and forth in the hall, so that Surdak as soon as he walks in, he feels the rich learning atmosphere here.

According to the address left by Francis Magician, Surdaq easily found the magician's laboratory, and it happened that Francis Magician had just completed an experiment, and after the assistant in the laboratory reported it, Francis Magician quickly walked out of the laboratory.

Surdak explained his intentions, and took out a piece of salamander loin and two salamander hearts and stomach pouches specially left from his magic waist bag, Francis Magician remembered what he said a month ago, remembered that he bought some salamander meat in the underground market, but he didn't expect that only a month later, the other party really sent some salamander meat to the door, Francis Magician quickly asked his assistant to bring a glass container, and put two salamander hearts into a petri dish.

Then he asked his assistant to bring two hot drinks with light blue stars, sat down opposite Surdak and asked curiously, "Are you a professional witcher?" ”

"Actually, no, it's just that I found some sulfur mines on the side of Paglos Mountain, and these big guys also like to eat sulfur mines, and if they run out of the mountains, if they don't find a way to hunt them, the sulfur mines will be eaten up by them, so they have prepared some traps." Surdak didn't hide it either, and said truthfully.

Francis listened intently to Surdak's story, as a magical assistant brought out a large map of the city of Highlandsa from the bookshelf and spread it on the coffee table.

Magician Francis pointed his finger down the Paglos Mountains to the vicinity of the Puss Mountain, pointed it with his hand, and said, "I know that there is always a little brimstone mine outside the Paist Volcano in the depths of the Paglios Mountain, but it is also a bit far away for us magicians, and there is filthy volcanic ash everywhere, and the environment is extremely harsh, where are you digging for sulfur?" ”

Surdak didn't expect Magician Francis to find out the approximate location of the sulfur mine at once, and then he could only say: "The river of lava at the foot of the Paist volcano has some stalagmites associated with sulfur......"

Seeing Surdak's hesitation, Magician Francis smiled heartily and said, "Don't worry, although no one has set foot on Paist Volcano in recent years, it doesn't mean that we don't know what the situation is there, generally speaking, as long as it is an active crater, there is a high chance of associated sulfur mines." ”

"I guess you don't climb to the top of that mountain to mine for sulfur, and most of the sulfur mines you find at the bottom of the mountain are the bursting of the lava pools in the crater, or small eruptions, causing lava to overflow from the top of the mountain into a river, and the lava washes some of the sulfur-containing gravel from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and then you have the sulfur mines you described."

"The only way to get more sulphur is to go to the crater near the lava pool, but I don't recommend going to the lava pool on Mount Paest, which is very dangerous."

"But I didn't expect this sulfur mine to attract salamanders, which only shows that your luck is really good."

Magician Francis did not hide it either, and told Surdak what he knew.

"Do you know there's a sulfur mine over there?" Surdak asked, somewhat surprised.

Francis Magician showed a look of course, and said bluntly: "Of course, it's just that the cost of mining is too great, and there are no professional alchemists in Highlandsa City, and the demand for sulfur is not so great, who wants to run there to eat ashes, and it's not the group of dwarves in the Western Lands, this thing is enough to buy some of it for ordinary magic experiments, but since you have sulfur in your hand, you can take it and trade it with me...... Market price! ”

Surdak smiled and said, "That's fine, Magician Francis. ”

Francis Magician talked with Surdak for about a quarter of an hour, this magician has a lot of knowledge, no matter where Hailanza City seems to know, especially the distribution of magical beasts among some mountains, I heard that Surdak's home is located on the edge of the barren land, so he casually asked about the situation over there, and heard Surdak say that occasionally sand wolves haunt the barren land, Francis mage frowned, and said: "If it wasn't for being forced to have no way out, those sand wolves probably wouldn't have set foot in the barren land." ”

Unexpectedly, the Magic Union of Hylansa City had long known that there was a sulfur mine in Pubao Mountain, and it was only because of the harsh environment that they gave up the plan to mine sulfur mines.

In the eyes of Francis Magician, it is probably necessary to set up a mine in a volcanic crater, which may be a serious sulfur mine.

……

Coming out of the Magic Guild and seeing that it was still early, Surdak decided to visit Karl at the Casment Casement.

Surdak had good luck this time and was just in time to catch up with Karl. Kesment was at home, and when he heard that Surdak was visiting, he hurriedly came to the door to greet him, and when he saw that Surdak was still wearing the monster leather armor, Carl smiled and asked, "Did you report to the Knight Academy this time when you came to Highlandsa City?" ”

"I just came from there." Surdak said.

The two walked through the courtyard, Karl invited Surdak into a living room, it seems that this should be Karl's usual place to entertain guests, without waiting for Karl's instructions, the butler brought a set of afternoon tea with the maid, the two sat on the soft leather sofa, Karl said to Surdak: "Here in the city of Highlandza, if there is anything that needs me, just look for me." ”

"Nothing bad." Surdak replied.

Seeing Surdak glancing at the butler next to him, Karl said to the butler, "Kingsley butler, please see if there are any delicious muffins or hazelnut kernels in the kitchen, I want my friend to taste them." ”

"Okay, Master Karl, I'm going to get ready for you!" The butler gave a proper salute, and then left with the maid beside him, and closed the door of the living room.

The butler was also very discerning, and actually took the maids in the living room away, and Karl didn't need to find any reason to let them go.

"What's wrong, what's going on?" Karl asked Surdak.

Surdak hesitated, but decided to tell Karl about it. So he said, "A week ago, a Knight in Gear went into the Badlands and investigated some news about the bandit groups in several villages near the village of Wall, and I think he has something to do with them. ”

He didn't directly say that the Scarlet Knight was a member of the Dark Magic Order, mainly because he couldn't come up with any strong evidence, and the people had all been reduced to ashes in the Brimstone Cave, and now Surdak just wanted to know where he came from.

When Carl heard Surdak say this, he also put away the smile on his face, and said with a somewhat serious expression: "Construct a knight? Can you tell us about his characteristics? ”

Surdak thought about the Scarlet Knight's outfit and said, "He rides a black-scaled horse with a full-coverage black iron pattern and a dark red cloak......

When Surdak said those features of his attire, Karl said directly: "You said that this is the Scarlet Knight, a follower of Baron Grenfell. ”

"But he is really a bit mysterious, he usually lives in a simple place, and he has no friends, no one in Highlandsa City knows his true strength, anyway, no one has seen him shoot, but some people say that his strength is unfathomable, and you also know that after the outbreak of the Plane War, most of the constructed knights in Highlandsa City set off with the legion to participate in the Plane War in Warsaw, and there are very few constructed knights who are still in the city." Almost no need to investigate, Carl was able to identify him in one fell swoop.

Surdak secretly wrote down the name of Baron Grenfell.

"You say he's related to the bandits?" Karl asked Surdak.

Surdak nodded and said, "He doesn't seem to be inquiring about the whereabouts of those bandit groups, but more like investigating the village patrols involved in the nearby bandit groups." ”

Karl lowered his voice and said to Surdak: "The matter of the Scarlet Knight is related to the reputation of Baron Grenfell, don't look at him as just a baron, but he has a lot of friends in Highlandsa City, he is a very influential nobleman, and he is also a member of the Council Hall of Highlandsa City, and his identity is a little sensitive. Unless he can come up with conclusive evidence, any speculation will have little effect on him. ”

Later, Karl said: "Even if you investigate the news of the patrol, it must have something to do with the bandits, maybe it's for the bounty on the bulletin board......"

Seeing Surdak frowning, obviously disagreeing with his own conjecture, Karl also hurriedly said, "Okay...... I'll look into it. ”

Carl was a bit perfunctory, apparently not believing the idea that the Scarlet Knights were in collusion with the bandits.

Seeing that he couldn't convince Karl, Surdak could only sigh softly in his heart, he couldn't show any evidence, and he couldn't be too eager, after all, the Scarlet Knight died at his hands, and before the Scarlet Knight's crime was revealed, killing a constructed Knight was to send Surdak to the Inquisition.

After eating hazelnut kernel cake and drinking two cups of black tea, Surdak took his farewell to Karl.

……

Then Surdak went to a grocery store and bought some daily necessities, after all, there was almost nothing in the dormitory except a bed and a desk, and the bedroom needed to be cleaned properly, but Surdak didn't even have a rag in his hand, and these things needed to be bought back from the grocery store.

When he entered the junior knight academy again, Surdak stopped at the gate for a moment and chatted with the doorman before entering the gate of the academy.

In the afternoon, there were obviously a lot more probationary knights on the playground, many people got together in twos and threes to communicate, and some simply practiced with wooden swords on the playground, most of these teenagers did not seem to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, Surdak passed through this group of young people, as if walking in a chest-high reed pond, those thin little bodies in his eyes were not much different from the chickens in the chicken coop.

Many of the midshipmen saw the knight's badge on Surdak's chest and thought he was an instructor in the academy, so they straightened up and saluted him with some restraint.

Looking at those green faces, Surdak couldn't defend anything, so he could only walk quickly across the playground and walk directly back to the dormitory.

Under the plane tree in the dormitory area, this group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers are gathering together, probably watching the light leather armor on a teenager, when they walked into the dormitory building, they happened to come out with two girls with beautiful faces, and saw that they were also wearing the knightly robes of the cadet in the knight academy, Surdak was still guessing how the female students actually ran into this dormitory building, and when he climbed the third floor and passed through the long corridor, he actually saw two young girls talking casually in the room from the door of a half-open room, There were also some trinkets hanging in the room, and Surdak realized that this dormitory building was a dormitory for all second-year students, and these dormitories were mixed.

Surdak patted his forehead vigorously, once again wondering if it was a mistake for him to choose to study in the junior academy, maybe he should have chosen to go to the senior knight academy, maybe in the senior knight academy, the age gap between himself and the other students would not seem so obvious.

But the matter has come to this, it is useless to regret anything, for that piece of paper, no matter what hardships and hardships, you have to grit your teeth and persevere, fortunately, it is said that there is only half a year, that is, a winter, endure it and it will pass.

Surdak has not always been a pampered person, it is not difficult to clean up the room, back to the dormitory began to clean the room, inside and out, wiped several times, the oak floor in the room only revealed the original dark red paint, and the tables and chairs were wiped clean, and the beds were replaced with new sheets, this dormitory can be regarded as a little people.

Surdak then threw the rag in his hand into a wooden basin, then sat down on the single bed against the wall, took off his monster leather armor, hung it on the shelf, and walked to the terrace wearing only a linen shirt and pants to deal with the withered flower pot on the railing.