Opposite the Knight Academy, near the Magic Tower, there are many shops, many of which are dedicated to those magicians, including some magic materials, magic scrolls, books, magic robes, magic staffs, and a wide variety of shops, as well as hotels and restaurants, this is close to the rich area, so the consumption level is one of the highest in the city of Highlandsa.

A magic caravan stopped beside the plane tree that had fallen all its leaves, there was still some snow left on the grass on the side of the road, Karl was sitting on a bench in a thick coat, he raised his eyes to look at Surdak who was walking quickly, and smiled helplessly at Surdak: "I want to know, if I don't come to see you, you can really keep your composure and not ask about the outcome of this matter?" ”

Surdak, dressed in some old beast skin armor, sat very casually next to Karl, sitting on a bench that could see a magic shop called Orianna across the street, and he asked Karl, "You can't wait to come back on the weekend and tell me what happened in the past two days?" ”

"Don't you know how serious this assassination was?" Karl questioned Surdak.

He stood up, stared at Surdak seriously, and said, "That's not an ordinary assassin, he is an assassin in the Dark Arts Retreat who specializes in special missions, and he killed two swordsmen in the guard camp in one look, and those two are the best swordsmen in the guard camp. ”

"So what......" Surdak asked with a smile.

Karl saw that Surdak's reaction was flat, so he leaned in and asked, "I want to know...... How did you escape the assassin's assassination? ”

Surdak sat up straight and said to Karl, "I have prepared well in advance, and of course there is a little bit of luck in it, you may not know...... I used to be a shield warrior in an infantry regiment, and I bought a shield to prepare for a possible assassination that night......"

As he spoke, he pulled out a door-like tower shield from his magic waist bag and stood on the ground with a 'clang'.

Karl's eyes widened, and he looked at Surdak in amazement, and said, "You're exaggerating, you can actually carry such a heavy tower shield!" ”

Surdak slipped his arm into the sheath on the north side of the shield, lifted the tower shield effortlessly, and then demonstrated to Karl: "This shield is tied to the forearm, and although it is large and heavy, it does not need to be moved frequently in battle, just stand in front of you." ”

Karl touched the surface of the shield, the neatly arranged quadrangular spikes had an icy touch, and there were some dried blood stains on the surface.

Seeing that Karl was a little distracted looking at the tower shield, Surdak was not in a hurry to put the tower shield away, put one hand on Carl's shoulder, and asked him: "What is so beautiful about this ordinary heavy shield, you can buy it at any blacksmith shop in Hailanza City, anyway...... Did you catch Ms. Samiya? ”

"She slipped away...... Carl said with an embarrassed expression.

Surdak felt that he might have misheard, but seeing Karl's constipated expression, he asked Karl with some headaches, "Is this ...... Can you still let her run? ”

Karl explained to Surdak apologetically: "In the beginning, the camp leaders were negative about capturing Samiya, who was a well-known performer in the opera, and they didn't think my speculations were groundless, and they wouldn't even want to spy on Sameya if I hadn't taken the initiative at the meeting. ”

But in the back, no one thought that she was actually a puppet warlock! Although we sent the watchman, she actually used her puppet technique to lure the watchman away, and then killed five guards battalion knights who were chasing her along the way, and fled under the siege of the guard battalion! ”

"But our people didn't see her out of the city, and she should still be in the city of Highlandsa......"

Surdak's face was a little dark, Sameya did not leave the city of Hailanza, there were probably only two possibilities, the first was that she had a very safe hiding place in the city, she could escape the search of the black dogs in the guard camp, and the second was that she hid in a certain house in the city of Hailanza, just waiting for the assassination to succeed and quietly leave.

Surdak only hopes that it will not be the second, because ...... There's a good chance he's one of Sama's targets.

He asked Karl, "So what are you going to do?" ”

Karl rubbed his hands and said to Surdak, "Our analysis of Samiya is likely to be aimed at you, and the above means that we want to use you to lure them out. ”

"You mean members of the Dark Arts Retreat will come to me?" Surdak frowned, this was the last thing he wanted to see, but the matter had come to this point, it was useless to complain about anyone, everyone could only work together to make up for it, Surdak asked Karl again: "So what do you need me to do?" ”

Karl saw that Surdak was not mad and did not say some ugly and mean words, and hurriedly said: "We will arrange for you to go out of the city, they may plan an interception on your way home, this time the upper part will send a knight to protect your safety, and the camp will also mobilize a large number of people this time, and will also inform those magicians in the law enforcement team of the Magic Guild that this time it will be foolproof." If you don't deal with this trouble, you won't want to get a good night's sleep every night. ”

Surdak was a little hesitant, of course he also knew that Karl was telling the truth, if the Dark Arts Retreat didn't solve it, the trouble would come to his door sooner or later.

"But the knight academy is ......" Surdak thought of the heavy cultural classes every day, no matter what, the graduation certificate in the knight academy must be obtained.

Carl waved his hand very casually and said, "I'll help you get this, coming here to study, it's actually just a formality for us, there's no need to be so serious." ”

"You've got to give me some time to think about it......," Surdak said.

Then, seeing Karl staring at him intently, Surdak sighed lightly, and could only stubbornly agree and ask, "Well, what's in it for me?" ”

After getting the desired result, Carl smiled, as if he had been prepared and said directly: "We will invite you to join the Knights of the Guard Battalion." ”

Surdak sat back on the bench feebly and asked Karl, "Can this also be considered a reward?" ”

In fact, the knights of the guard battalion are like those night watchmen in the city, in the eyes of the people of the Green Empire, they are a group of stinky dung who can only squeeze ordinary citizens with low ability to do things, and a group of ruffians with government subsidies. Hooligans, this group of knights who usually ride horses to show off their might and wander around the streets, once there is an emergency, they are always the last to arrive.

Surdak really didn't want to put on this black skin unless it was necessary.

Karl smiled smugly and said to Surdak: "After you enter the guard camp, you will find that there are still many advantages to becoming an official knight, believe me, you will not be wrong in making this decision." ”

Although the guard battalion in the city of Highlanza is unpopular, it is the official department of the Green Empire after all.

Surdak asked again, "By the way, how is the situation at Baron Grenfell's manor?" ”

Carl's smile froze, and his originally somewhat flamboyant expression instantly withered, and he only said: "The above is going to use Samiya as a breakthrough, as long as I can find something from Samiya, I can apply for a search warrant!" ”

All right! The implication of this sentence is that Baron Grenfell is still under the protection of the Grimm Empire's Decree of Nobility, and the guard battalion currently has no right to invade Baron Grenfell's personal privacy.

Surdak put the large tower shield around him back into his magic belt bag, this shield had no drawbacks other than being a little bulky to carry.

The weather was a bit cold, and the pedestrians on the streets were wearing trench coats, and occasionally magic apprentices in magic robes could be seen, and in the city of Highlandsa, it was probably only here that you could see the figure of a magician.

Karl rubbed his cheeks, which were a little numb from the cold, and looked around, and sure enough, there was a sign of a tavern not far in front of him, and he pointed to the tavern and asked Surdak:

"Would you like to find a tavern and have another drink?"

Surdak looked at the sky, it was only noon, shook his head and refused: "Forget it, who knows when Sameya will come out." ”

Seeing that Surdak was reluctant to go into the tavern for a drink, Karl could only give up and said to Surdak: "Oh, by the way, if there is nothing to do in the afternoon, follow me to the guard camp to register, it can be regarded as an official employment." ”

Surdak shrugged helplessly and said, "I have four more cultural classes to take in the afternoon!" ”

"Okay, I'll go to the Knight Academy with you first, and take care of the affairs of the academy first!" Karl put his arm around Surdak's shoulders and smiled at him.

As he spoke, he waved to the magic caravan parked on the side of the road, and was about to take the carriage with Surdak to the Knight Academy, when he suddenly felt Surdak stop, and Karl asked strangely, "What's wrong?" ”

Surdak stopped, his eyes looked at the door of the Oriana puppet magic shop, through the glass window, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a lot of people gathered inside, and there were even people standing inside arguing, Surdak said: "I saw some acquaintances, new classmates in the Knight Academy. ”

"Would you like to go and say hello to them?" Carl asked.

Surdak retracted his gaze, waved his hand indifferently, and said, "Forget it, there are at least two generations between me and them, but there is no common language...... But it looks like they're in some trouble. ”

As he spoke, the door of the Oriana puppet magic shop was suddenly slammed open, and two teenagers were pushed out of the store in embarrassment, followed by more than a dozen young men in leather armor and swords on their waists. The front badge was not a sword and shield representing a knight, but a double-edged sword inserted in a rose bush that symbolized a swordsman, and the group of teenagers had a smug look on their faces, and at the door of the Oriana puppet shop, a dozen apprentice swordsmen surrounded the two apprentice knights.

Lena and Nedra and three other girls Surdak didn't know chased out of the Oriana puppet shop, and Lena ran to the front and yelled at the apprentice swordsmen, "Vic, stop......"

Among these apprentice swordsmen, a blonde boy stood out, only to see him come to Linna's side, and said to Linna: "Linna, how many times have I said it, you have to go outside to practice, and completely form an adventure team with us, everything is ready on our side, why do you need to organize another one, even if it is an organization, you can't just find some rabble casually, although there are no powerful demonic beasts in that half-plane, after all, there are still some dangers lurking." ”

Lina stood at the door of Oriana's puppet store, stared at the big blue eyes of the lake, and said to Vic: "What I want to do, you have no right to interfere, if you dare to hurt my classmates, I will definitely want you to look good!" ”

Then, Lina waved into the distance, and the two guards waiting next to a magic caravan hurriedly ran towards Linna.

Surdak knew that Linna's family was wealthy, but he didn't expect that she would be accompanied by two guards, apparently from a noble family in the city of Highlandza.

The teenager, Vic, said with a hippie smile, "I'm just helping you train them to be resilient." ”

A group of his companions surrounded the two midshippers, and the group watched the two midshippers back-to-back.

"You fart...... Oops! One of the apprentice knights scolded angrily, only to be slapped hard by one of the apprentice swordsmen in the crowd.

The two guards who ran over did not step forward, but just protected Linna behind them, and said with a straight face: "Young Master Vic, you can't do this......"

"It's not your turn to teach me what to do!" Young Vic scolded with an arrogant look on his face.

The two guards blushed for a while, but they didn't dare to really teach the young man in front of them a lesson.

Seeing that more than a dozen trainee swordsmen blocked the door of Oriana's puppet shop, pushing the two trainee swordsmen in the crowd, but no one really dared to rush up to relieve the siege, Linna, who was blocked at the door of the store, stepped out and pushed Vic away violently, she tried to break into the crowd of trainee swordsmen and pull her two companions out.

Nedra followed, but the two girls were powerless in the face of this group of apprentice swordsmen who were stronger than themselves.

The other three female companions stood aside and didn't dare to move at all, and when Lina saw that she couldn't rush into the crowd, she hurriedly chased after the young Vic, pointed to his face with her finger, and said to him in the harshest tone: "Vic, you'd better let them go quickly!" Otherwise, I'll let people do it. ”

The two guards who were closely following Lina also took off their shields and stood up from Linna's side to put pressure on Vic.

After all, this group of trainee swordsmen were only thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, and they were still very oppressive in the face of the guards who were already adults, and for a while, this group of trainee swordsmen retreated one after another, and the two trainee knights escaped from the crowd in embarrassment.

But the young Vic refused to suffer, 'Shake people, huh! ’

He picked up the whistle hanging around his neck and blew it down so hard that a sharp sound sounded, and the neighing of horses was immediately heard in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a group of knights galloped past Surdak and Karl at a rapid pace, and rushed directly to the side of young Vic.

The five Guborian horses and the sturdy armored knights on horseback escalated this little incident that was just a jealousy of the wind.