Sitting at the front of the noisy tavern bar, Surdak was chatting with Carl about something in the guard barracks with a glass of cold ale.

After becoming the sheriff of the Paglos Mountains outside the pass, Surdak also had to consider recruiting some helpers.

According to his idea, these men should preferably be retired veterans who live outside the mountain pass all year round, have a wealth of tracking and combat experience, and can bring some changes to the law and order problems in the Badlands.

But Karl did not approve of Surdak's idea.

He believes that among Surdak's group of subordinates, there must first be a deputy who can write some written copy, preferably the kind of young academic who is willing to use his brains, and it is best to have two cadet knights who have graduated from the knight academy, and finally two veterans with rich combat experience, so that the combat team will avoid some unnecessary situations when the old and the new are replaced in the future.

Due to the defeat at the Battle of Moyunling, Surdak did not have any good feelings about the graduates of the War College, but under the persuasion of Karl, he decided to give the young graduates some chances.

Although the reputation of the guard battalion in the city of Highlanza is not very good, there are still many young probationary knights who want to enter the guard battalion after graduation.

The tavern's lady whispered to Mrs. Christie while scrubbing her glasses with her head down, a barmaid in a crop top pushed the tray onto the bar, which was filled with empty glasses stained with beer foam, and the young barmaid wiped the sweat from her forehead, took out two silver coins from her chest groove, handed them to the bar, and sat down on the high chair and waited quietly.

The proprietress carried the empty glasses to the sink and began to fill the clean glasses with ale and arrange them on wooden trays.

The door of the tavern was pushed open, and a young magician wearing a magic robe walked in, the drinkers sitting at the door were a little stunned, staring at the magician in a black robe, some even got up from their seats nervously, few magicians will come to this tavern, most of the people who come here to drink are some warriors, and magicians have their own life circles.

"Good evening, Mrs. Christie!"

Lance sat down beside Surdak and greeted Mrs. Christie, ignoring the strange stares around him, and his face was extremely indifferent.

"Good evening, Lance Magician!" Mrs. Christie responded politely.

"Lance, your mission accomplished?" Karl turned to Lance and asked.

The young magician sighed, looked at Surdak with a melancholy expression, and said to Karl, "Yes! If we can't do it, I'm afraid we will be scolded to death by Grand Wizard Gerald, and we have worked hard outside to track down the whereabouts of those black magicians, and in the end it is better for you guard camp knights to wander the streets and pick up clues about dark magicians. ”

Karl took the red wine from the hostess and handed it to Lance, and asked, "What did you find on Lady Marion?" ”

Lance said with some yin and yang weirdness: "There are all the valuable things left, what else do you think we can find?" ”

There is no doubt that Lance must have been greatly stimulated by the Magic Guild, so he became a little irrational, and when he spoke, he could not do without sarcasm and sarcasm, and Lance said solemnly to Surdak: "Dark, the law enforcement team hopes that you can transfer those magical items of the black mage Marion to the Magic Guild......"

Before Lance could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Karl, "Hey...... Hey, hey, Lance, it doesn't matter if that Lady Marion is a dark mage or not, but what evidence do you have that we took Lady Marion's relics, maybe she didn't have them with her at all, or maybe she was taken by the dark mage Samea. ”

The magician Lance looked embarrassed, looked at his friend Carl with some depression and said: "Karl, this is what Master Gerald meant, and it is not for Surdak to take out these magic items plainly, the magic union will have some corresponding compensation, hoping to trace the clues of the black magician Samea, and those black magic items are also some contraband in Hailansa, and it is difficult to sell these things without special channels." ”

Karl said unceremoniously: "I don't care if I don't care what is forbidden or not, if I want Marion's inheritance, I must exchange it for the equivalent of magic crystals or gold coins." ”

Magician Lance took a sip of wine a little depressed and said, "I know, I will come to communicate with my superiors about this matter." ”

He knew that he would not let go easily, but since he had brought the words to him, he could be regarded as having completed the task assigned by Lord Gerald.

Then he immediately changed his face, his expression was no longer so serious and depressed, and he clinked glasses with Surdak, who had not yet changed his mood, and said with a smile: "It's our private chat time......

His eyes were full of curiosity, and he asked Surdak, "I have always wondered how you managed to turn the defeat around in the face of two dark mages with one-turn strength?" The two mages can form almost uninterrupted magic coverage, and as far as I know, these two dark mages are good at high-level fire magic, even if they keep throwing small fireballs, it shouldn't be something your team can bear, and Lord Sauron was held back by the dark binders at that time, how did you do it? ”

"That's the second reason you came to us, right?" Karl stared at Lance with a smile, until Karl's gaze made Lance's expression a little unnatural, and then Karl put his arm around Lance's shoulders and said to him, "If you're willing to have a treat tonight, I don't mind going into more detail about the battle." ”

The scene of Surdak's battle with Count Fornak, Karl did not see it with his own eyes, he was still in a coma at the time, so the version told to the magician Lance was also described by Surdak afterwards, and it could not withstand the scrutiny of professional magicians at all, such as how Surdak resisted the spiritual whipping of Marion magician......

Seeing that Karl was almost finished, Surdak interrupted, "Alright, Karl! ”

You turned to the magician Lance and said: "Lance, tomorrow I will personally go to the Magic Guild to deliver Lady Marion's relics, but her money bag should not be of any help to your investigation, I believe you don't need these unimportant items, when I count the relics, in addition to some high-level magic scrolls, there are also two bottles of magic potions and a few black magic skins with complete magic patterns, and tomorrow I will get them all to the Magic Guild." ”

"Ha, in the end, Surdak is more chivalrous." Lance immediately patted his chest and promised: "Dark, don't worry, I will help you fight for the same things, this time it was involved in the Funak Manor tragedy, and the Magic Guild of Highlantha City was held accountable by the headquarters of the Bednar Magical Guild, after all, two counts have been involved one after another, and these members of the Dark Magic Retreat are also connected with some nobles, and Lord Gerald was summoned by the provincial union to report on his work." ”

Everyone didn't expect that these things in and out of Highlandsa City would actually implicate Lord Gerald of the Magic Union Law Enforcement Corps and be held accountable by the Magic Union of Bena Province, Carl was also a little surprised and said: "The matter is so serious? ”

Lance sighed and said, "According to the information obtained by the law enforcement team, there are about six black magicians on the side of the Dark Arts Retreat in Highlandsa City. In addition to Hett and Marion, four other dark mages are absconding. ”

"They are the Somerya magicians who have been lurking in the dance troupe, and Celia, who is good at the space magic array. Cooper the magician, Cyrus who specializes in Sleeping Clouds and hypnotism. The last of them was Jesse, who was skilled in magical gemstone processing. Haussmann Magician. ”

"Celia. Cooper and Cyrus. We have the least information about the two dark mages of Hickok, who have hardly ever appeared in the city of Highlandsa. Haussman is a wizard who is said to be a very good jeweler, but our law enforcement team has investigated all the gem craftsmen in the city of Highlandsa and found no Jesse. Haussman trail. ”

"Now that four Dark Mages are on the run, Dark, you need to be a little more careful......"

Lance said a lot about the Dark Magic Retreat, and he probably thought that Carl and Surdak were already involved in this matter, so he would reveal the news of the other Dark Mages, so that Surdak and Carl could take more precautions in normal times.

Carl and Mrs. Christie left first in the magic caravan.

Surdak walked out of the tavern, and a north wind blew in his face, which made him tighten his neckline, took the reins of the horse from the hand of the waiter at the door, turned over on the horse, and walked alone in the direction of the knight's academy.

……

It was not the first time that Surdak had come to the Magic Guild, he walked up the grand spiral staircase of the Mage Tower to the second floor, and according to the prompting of the beautiful female magic apprentice at the front desk, he found Lance who was studying the magic circle in the magic laboratory on the second floor, and waved his hand to Lance in the room through the door.

It's a pity that he was concentrating on the experiment and didn't see Surdak greet him.

Fortunately, a magic apprentice next to Lance saw Surdak's gesture, and the magic apprentice reminded Lance, Lance then looked up at the door, saw Surdak standing outside the door, and hurriedly made a wait gesture to him, it seemed that he was participating in a magic experiment that could not be separated, Surdak quickly nodded, turned around and found a bench in the corridor to sit down.

Seeing a magician on the side catch some water under the faucet by the wall, he also took out the water bladder and leaned over to pick up a little, and returned to the bench while waiting for Lance, while tasting whether the water in the magic union would taste different, but to his disappointment, the water here was nothing special except that it was pure.

Surdak tilted his head to look at the crowded corridors, the magic apprentices trotted all the way with some experimental instruments, and sometimes a magician followed by several magic apprentices, watching them hurriedly walk in front of Surdak, as if they were walking against time, and there were busy figures everywhere.

Watching these beautiful or serious sorceresses walk in front of them, Surdak thought to himself that if someone marries a magician, will the two of them fall into a quarrel in bed, and the angry sorceress will blast her husband out of bed with a fireball spell and turn him into a roast pig with a red roast?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder.

At this moment, a hand slapped on his shoulder, startling him again, and he looked up to see Lance looking at him curiously, so he could only smile awkwardly.

"What are you doing in a daze, let's go, I'll take you to the magician of the appraisal department, these magic items you sent must first pass through the appraisal department, and then make a price to give you some compensation, don't worry, this time Lord Gerald personally wrote the approval note, you will definitely get a good compensation!" Lance said to Surdak.

"Ahh Thank you so much! ”

Surdak quickly got up from the bench and said to Lance.

"You deserve it." Lance said with a slight smile, his handsome appearance looked very gentlemanly.

The two of them walked up two floors up the grand slalom staircase before Lance led Surdak to a room.

The room was filled with shelves of all kinds, it looked more like a warehouse, the room was filled with a faint musty smell, and an old magician was sitting in the middle of a pile of magical items, the desk in front of him was full of clutter, and he was holding a magnifying glass in his hand, looking at a piece of silver magical metal.

Lance didn't seem to dare to bother, just took Surdak to stand at the door and waited quietly, after waiting for a while, the old magician finally put the magic metal in his hand back into the box, and took out a note to write a line of notes, and pasted it on the box with glue, then he raised his head and saw Lance standing at the door, and waved to him and said, "Come in, Lance, ask me to identify something?" ”

"Mr. Nimitz, this time I want to ask you to price the magic items." Lance replied as he walked over with Surdak.

The old magician glanced at Surdak, and those eyes had a sharp light, as if shining into Surdak's spiritual consciousness.

"Whatever you need me to identify, take it all out!" The old magician said very simply.

Surdak took the twenty-seven black-veined skins and two bottles of magic potions, the Weak Troll Potion and the Lion King's Power Potion, and twenty-five magic scrolls, four of which were three. The first-level magic scrolls and eight second-level magic scrolls belong to Marion Magician, and the remaining thirteen magic scrolls belong to Cyrus. Hickok Wizard, Cyrus. The magic herbs in Hickok's magic belt pack had been sold by Surdak, and now he had taken out the magic scrolls that he didn't need with them.

With so many magic items on the table, the old magician frowned slightly, and he stretched out a withered arm and threw all the magic scrolls into a wooden barrel at his feet, and said to Surdak and Lance: "There is nothing to identify these magic scrolls, any magic grocery store knows the price, and there are a few black magic scrolls in it that are contraband......"