"According to the news from the Magical Guild of Bena Province, one of the archmages of this organization has quietly infiltrated the city of Highlandza, and our law enforcement team has been secretly investigating this matter recently."

With that, Lance pulled out a magical portrait from his bosom.

A magician came to life in the portrait, and Lance pointed to the magician in the portrait and introduced Surdak:

"His name is Arvid. Ives, the bounty on the wanted warrant of the Wizarding Union has been as high as thirty magic crystals, it is said that several witcher organizations are looking for his traces everywhere, because he is good at spatial magic, so he has escaped several roundups against him, this time there is a clue that he came to Highlandsa City, and met with a rebel liaison, although our law enforcement group magician in charge of tracking this matter did not track Arvid's whereabouts, but found clues to the rebel liaison in Highlandsa City. ”

The dark red magic robe was covered with strange magic patterns, a wand inlaid with seven gems, and surrounded by several lightning bolts, which looked imposing.

Surdak was surprised and said to Lance, "Rebels...... Is there still a rebel army in the Grimm Empire? This is really the first time I've heard of it......"

Lance nodded and said: "That's it, even in the period when the situation in the empire was the most stable, there were some rebel forces in various places, some forces generally occupied a small plane, and then cut off the portal to the Roland Continent, it is not uncommon for such a small plane to carry out such an organization, and most of this kind of rebel organizations are related to this magical organization." ”

Surdak motioned for Lance to continue......

"A week ago, we received information from an informant that the rebel liaison had actually appeared in the White Elephant Trading Company, but not long after he left the White Elephant Trading Company, he died in the back alley of a shopping street, and was later found by a maid who went out to take out the garbage.

Lance said to Surdak:

"We suspect this has something to do with Wizard Dharle, Dark, on April 17th of this month, you went to the White Elephant Firm?"

Surdak thought back for a moment that it was his last day in Highlandsa City, and he nodded calmly and said, "That's right, I'll go to see the Magician of Dalla and sign a contract with the White Elephant Merchant House about the Brimstone Mine. ”

Lance asked, "When you were in the White Elephant Trading House, did you see a foreigner dressed in black with a somewhat thin face?" ”

Surdak recalled earnestly and affirmed: "No. ”

With some loss in his eyes, Lance patted Surdak on the shoulder and said, "If there are any clues about this, remember to write to me." ”

Seeing that Lance didn't ask any more questions, Surdak was stunned and asked, "Uh...... You flew here just to ask me this to my face? ”

Lance Wizard nodded seriously: "The stakes are very high, and every piece of information must be carefully investigated." ”

He pulled the magic handle from his magic belt bag, let it float in front of him and straddle it, and hurried away on the magic handle, without even drinking saliva.

The arrival of the Lance magician, of course, could not hide the old village chief Bright, and when he arrived at Surdak's side, Lance had already flown without a trace in the sky, so he stood alone on the cornerstone, looked at the sky with a trace of floating clouds, and sighed sincerely:

"This young magician really forgot to sleep and eat at work, and he left without even drinking a saliva when he came to Vol Village......"

The house was built according to Surdak's design drawings and the way it was built, with a foundation of limestone strips, and then a puff of pozzolana cement in the crevices of the rocks, and only the foundation has been completed.

The old village chief Bright was very busy every day, whether it was the tidal flat drainage canal construction site or the reservoir construction site, there were a lot of trivial matters waiting for him to come forward to coordinate, so he stayed with the security team for a while and left.

Surdak walked under the shade of the tree, took out the magic note from his bosom, and turned it to Celia in the page. Cooper asked, "Celia, you know Arvid. Ives Magician? ”

Celia. Cooper was asleep in her magic notes when Surdak turned the pages and woke her from her sleep, much to her displeasure.

She stretched out in the middle of the page, glanced at Surdak across the railing, and said:

"He is a space magician, proficient in space magic and building magic teleportation arrays, and it is said that the double-door teleportation array in Durva Province was designed by this great magician himself! But it seems that later because of the study of the forbidden magic of another dimension, he was tracked down and wanted by the Imperial Capital Magic Union, and later joined the Gate of the Dark Moon. ”

"The Gate of the Dark Moon?" Surdak repeated.

Celia. Cooper nodded and said: "Well, it is a magic organization composed of all space magicians, because the Grimm Empire has a complete fire magic inheritance, so most of the top leaders of the Imperial Magic Union are fire magicians, and they exclude magicians from other factions, so about a few decades ago, the Grimm Empire Magic Union broke out a mass defection of space magicians, and the magic organization of the Dark Moon Gate was a magic organization that was temporarily formed to resist the magic union at that time." ”

"This magical organization has several magicians who are proficient in teleportation circles, and some noble lords who plan to occupy a certain plane, if they plan to break away from the rule of the Grimm Empire, they will usually find the Dark Moon Gate and ask them to seal the teleportation gate and break all ties with the Grimm Empire."

"They used to find me, when I was with Margaret, Cyrus. Hickok was about to replicate the Demon Gate and didn't accept their invitation. ”

Listen to Celia. As soon as Cooper explained this, Surdak realized that this Dark Moon Gate was actually an illegal organization, and it was on the opposite side of the Grimm Empire Magic Union, no wonder the Magic Union would trouble this group of space magicians whenever they had the opportunity.

As for the rebels who betrayed the Grimm Empire, they have probably been closely watched by the Imperial Intelligence Department......

As expected.

Three days later, the security team of Mount Paglos in the city of Highlandsa received a message from the guard camp that two Imperial rebels had fled from the city of Highlandsa overnight, and that they had taken refuge in Oak Ridge during the night, and that if they wanted to leave the province of Pena as soon as possible, they would most likely cross the barren land and then go north along the Paglos Mountains, which was a difficult but sustained way to leave.

The main reason is that the Paglos Mountains are like a north-south beacon, across the territory of the Grimm Empire.

When Surdak received this news, he quickly unfolded a map of the Badlands that Andrew and Samira had jointly mapped, and circled the area bordering Oak Ridge and the Badlands with red lines.

For the past few days, Andrew has been riding two horses, patrolling the Gobi Desert alone, and he wears a full cover armor that is too heavy, so he has to switch to another horse after riding for a while, so that both horses can maintain their strength.

Samira, the half-elven archer, doesn't need to be so troublesome, and Samira, who has elven blood, is naturally close to nature, and she can communicate with her mount superficially, so she can roam around the barren land with a horse.

Andrew and Samira investigate the whereabouts of the two rebels and inform the nineteen villages to take precautions, since they are absconding rebels, they will inevitably have to do something murderous in order to keep their whereabouts secret.

As the villages were prepared in advance, the two rebels were discovered by the villagers when they infiltrated a village to steal food, and their whereabouts were exposed.

When Surdak received this news, Andrew and Samira were still out on patrol, and the territory of the Badlands was quite large, and Andrew and Samira would have to stay outside for nearly a week every time they went out before returning to the village of Wall once.

He knew that this could not wait, so he took the ogre Gulitham, who was about to follow the chariot into the depths of the wasteland, and chased him out in the direction that the villager had told him.

Horse-drawn carriages carrying volcanic ash have carved a bare road across the Gobi Desert, which is largely devoid of sharp gravel.

In the afternoon, the villager took Surdak and the ogre Gulitam to the small mountain village called Uta by the locals, and after the villager returned to the village, he asked the two rebels in detail about the escape route, and then walked into the Gobi Desert in the barren land again.

In the barren land of early May, the temperature difference between day and night is extremely large.

The temperature is extremely low at night, and during the day, the sun is scorching overhead, and the only layer of moisture on the surface of the earth is evaporated.

Riding a horse on the rolling Gobi Desert, at a glance, there are yellowing gravel everywhere, this is located ten kilometers north of Pubao Mountain, the route chosen by the two rebels is also to try to avoid the smoke of Pubao Mountain, as long as you bypass Pubao Mountain, it is not so desolate, but it is deep into the depths of the mountain range where demonic beasts are rampant.

Before Surdak left the door, the old village chief repeatedly warned Surdak not to enter the depths of the Paglos Mountains.

The villager who walked in front stopped.

Surdak looked at him suspiciously, and he pointed to a hillside in front of him, and Surdak looked intently, and saw in the distance two men in earth-colored linen cloaks on the hillside, leading horses on foot.

The ogre Gulitham followed Surdak all the way, catching almost nothing along the way except for a graystone iguana.

Seeing these two travelers leading their horses on foot, they suddenly became refreshed.

Surdak took the lead in chasing the two rebels, and the ogre Gulitham did not fall behind, and the two did not hide their whereabouts at all, so that the other party found out behind him early and tried to catch up with Surdak, these two rebels were very alert, and when they saw Surdak catching up, they did not hesitate to turn over their horses and flee to the north.

The two rebels did not ride horses along the way, just to keep the two horses strong enough to escape.

So at first they ran very fast, and the distance between them and Surdak became farther and farther, but the stamina of the two horses was very average, and gradually when the sun was about to set, the speed gradually slowed down.

The horse Surdak rode was his old buddy, and since its severed leg was strengthened by the Ferdinand Scholar's Magic Scroll, its physical fitness was much better than that of the average Guborian horse.

The ogre Gulitam only cared if the rebels' two horses could be eaten, and always followed Surdak's side steadily, no matter how fast Surdak's horse ran, the ogre could catch up with his two big feet.

When he was still a hundred meters away from the two rebels, the ogre Gullitum stooped down and picked up a stone the size of a frisbee from the ground, took a deep breath as he ran, stretched his hand holding the edge of the stone shard, and then held his breath and threw the stone violently.

The stone was like a spinning flying saucer, whistling at the rebels in front of it.

By the time the rebels realized that it was bad, the stone was already on the right hind strand, and the sharp stone suddenly cut a long wound on the warhorse.

A neighing roar nearly knocked the rebels off horseback.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two rebels immediately decided to flee in the left and right directions, and Surdak pointed to the ogre Gulitam who had been wounded by him, signaling that he was in charge of the rebel, and he hurriedly chased after the other rebel.

Originally, Surdak thought that the rebels were all strong warriors, as soon as he came into contact, Surdak felt that the rebel had almost no combat effectiveness, but he was still very cautious to test it, swung his sword and fought with the rebel once, the craftsman heavy sword in his hand cut off the long sword of the rebel soldier, Surdak sat on the horse, and then waved the dwarf chain shield in his hand, and smashed the rebel off the horse.

These movements were done in one go, and it took almost no effort to subdue the rebels, and looking back at Gulitham, the ogre had begun to look here and there for ropes, clumsily tying the rebel firmly.

This time two horses were captured, and although one of them was wounded in the strand, there was Surdak, and it is believed that the wound of that horse will soon heal.

The village of Wall was desperately short of horses, and Surdak decisively refused the ogre's request to taste the horse's meat.

Surdak then brought the two rebels back to the village of Wall, and sent a message to Karl in the city of Highlandza, informing him that the two fleeing rebels had been captured.

Surdak locked the two rebels in a wooden cage next to the kobold slave shed at the entrance of the village, and asked Luke, who was in charge of the kobold slaves, to help guard it.

Before Surdak could go home and get a good night's sleep, Luke, who was in charge of guarding the two rebels, caught up with Surdak and said, "Dak, those two people have offered to talk to you, saying that they want to make a deal with you......"

Surdak waved his hand at Luke and said, "Ignore them for the time being, let them calm down, otherwise they don't know what conditions to offer, what qualifications do they have to negotiate with me now......"