Surdak's prejudice against the academy students may have been deeply ingrained in his bones, and his attitude towards Xinding was extremely unfriendly.

This made Carl a little worried, and had to solemnly remind: "Dark, you can carry out rigorous training for these young knights who have newly joined the guard battalion, but the most important thing is to pay attention to their safety, they ran to the barren land, originally to avoid military service, since you can go to the high-level relations of the guard battalion to stuff people, that is some of the leading people in the city of Highlandsa, you don't need to make everyone love you, but at least you can't make everyone hate you......"

Eating crispy salted cashew nuts, Surdak and Carl talked a lot.

"You actually got the official name of the cavalry battalion, and you plan to carry out a change of guard mission with Marquis Luthor's legion in the spring, which is really good, maybe when you come back from the Bailin plane, you will already be a first-class baron!" Karl heard that Surdak already had the qualifications to build a private army, and that he was also a minor lord in Bena Province, and looked at Surdak with a surprised expression.

Surdak shrugged and said nothing.

This was obtained with the support of the Marquis of Luthor, and there was really nothing to show off. Surdak suddenly felt that he was no different from the Bird tax officer who ate soft rice.

Tax Officer Bird interjected and asked, "Duck, is your cavalry battalion ready?" I'm talking about cavalry, horses, armor, supplies, and stuff. ”

"It's not ready yet, and it's not easy for cavalry and horses to get ......," Surdak said.

The stocky tavern lady made her way through the crowd and walked up to Carl, who was wearing a very modest dress and whispered a few words almost into Carl's ear.

Karl glanced in the direction of the bar, where Lady Mariana had fallen asleep.

Karl carried the drunken Lady Mariana back to the room upstairs of the tavern, where Lady Mariana's maid followed behind her in her long dress.

The Bird tax collector and Miss Hoyle were drunk and left together.

Only two people, Surdak and Lance, were left, and Surdak asked, "How can I increase the affinity of the magic element?" ”

Lance was taking a sip of wine from his glass, his eyes fell on the bulging chest of the ale girl in the corner, and when he heard Surdak's question, he didn't react for a while, and asked in surprise: "Ah! Why do you ask this? ”

Surdak pondered for a moment before saying, "There is a friend who has awakened the fire element in his body, but the fire elemental affinity is insufficient. ”

Lance frowned, he put down his glass, and while beckoning to the wine girl, he said to Surdak: "This is a troublesome matter, if you can't raise the affinity of the fire element, if the fire element can't fully merge with the body, it will continue to burn the body, as a fire magician, I can often feel this pain." ”

The wine girl walked up to Lance.

Lance reached out and picked up two large glasses of ale from her tray, and shoved a shiny silver coin into her full chest, causing the ale girl to scream, and quickly dodged away with the wooden tray, but threw a wink at Lance as she turned her head.

"But...... For us magicians, the solution to this problem is actually quite simple. Lance pushed a glass of ale in front of Surdak and said, "The first way is to use fire-based magic often, as long as the mana in his magic pool is consumed below the horizontal line, it will not affect the body. ”

"And what about the second method?" Surdak asked.

"The second way is to increase the affinity of the fire element through meditation, which is a persistent process, and the effect will not be too obvious every day, and the benefits of meditation can only be appreciated over time." Lance said.

Then he said: "The third way is to increase one's resistance through foreign objects, such as anti-fire potions, powerful troll potions, vitality potions, etc., of course, any magic potion is very expensive on the market now. You can also improve your physical condition by eating the flesh and blood of fire-type demonic beasts. ”

Only then did Surdak realize that in order to come to Highlandsa to find the salamander, he actually wanted to solve his own troubles.

"Are you saying that eating some salamander meat in this situation will make it better?" Surdak asked.

"Of course!" Lance responded.

"Lance, I'd like to hire a mage to scout in the skies and be the eyes of our battle squad." Surdak said to Lance, "If he wants to follow us into the desert and clean up the desert bandits over there, is there any good candidate from your side that you can recommend to me?" ”

Lance asked in surprise, "Are you finally ready to do something to those desert bandits?" ”

Surdak nodded and said, "They've been making a bit of a fuss lately." ”

Lance patted his forehead, and said with some worry: "On such a cold day, you always have to ride a magic handle in the sky to fly around, this kind of drudgery, only those magic apprentices who have no savings are willing to do it, but they have no savings, and many magic apprentices can't afford to buy magic handles, I can help you ask the people around me about it." ”

The two chatted for a while before leaving the tavern.

Putting his arms around the wine girl's waist, Lance slipped into a magic caravan on the side of the road and ran to it, leaving Surdak alone at the door of the tavern.

It is estimated that Lance will not ask which magic apprentice is willing to accept this task tonight, Surdak sighed softly, thinking to himself if he should try his luck in the magic union in the city.

This tavern is not far from the Garden Square, and there are not many pedestrians on the street at night.

The cold wind blows on the face, and soon the exposed skin is frozen red.

Surdak was going to walk back to the inn and tell Aphrodite about tomorrow, and if he didn't need to stay in the city of Highlandza, he would use the Void Gate to return to the village of Wall, where the bed was much warmer than the one in the hotel.

……

Viru climbed over the wall outside the hotel, reached out and threw the hook onto the ridge of the four-story building, and he reached out to climb up the roof like a gecko and stood on the terrace against the cold night breeze.

The bone-chilling wind blew through the leather armor on his body.

He didn't know why the fire element in his body had been weakened, or if his body had become stronger, but in short, he was feeling better than ever.

Even feeling that as long as he calms down, it is very likely that he will open the door in the sea of spiritual consciousness and let himself reach another level.

It's just that he has an obsession in his heart that he can't settle down, he is an eagle-eyed and a professional demon hunter, and he knows how to find his goal.

Searching for that faint breath, Viru chased after him.

He crept to the terrace, thinking about how he could euphemistically wake up the occupants in the room.

He walked to the wooden door of the terrace, originally wanted to reach out and knock on the door in front of him, but at this moment he suddenly felt that something seemed to be staring at him in the dark, he seemed to be aware of it, and suddenly turned his head to look at the glass window on the side, only to see a cold face reflected on the glass of the window, looking at him with a gloomy face, his heart at this moment as if it had been hit hard by a dwarven craftsman's hammer.

The body standing in the doorway staggered, but he held his heart in his hand but did not fall.

The door to the terrace was pulled open by a woman with a Mithril mask on her face, and the next second she appeared in front of him, the Mithril mask was lifted by the woman, revealing a face that was delicate to perfection inside.

That face seemed to be able to blend into the dark night, those eyes were far deeper than the winter starry sky, he looked at those eyes and actually had a trance and confusion, he even forgot where he came from, where he was going, he even forgot where he was......

In the few seconds that Viru's body stiffened, Aphrodite almost focused all the magic in her eyes, and she was 'seducing' Viru.

Night, originally considered her home field.

Although she could feel a smell of danger in Viru's body, she decided to give it a try, she didn't even use 'Sleeping Cloud' or 'hypnosis', let alone drag Viru into the illusion, but directly used her natural powers.

She wanted to subdue Viru and bring Surdak back......

But she completely ignored the consequences if the operation failed.

As a veteran witcher, Viru has done targeted training for 'hypnosis', 'charm', 'soul concussion', 'fear', 'psychic scream', 'death gaze', etc., his spiritual consciousness may not be stronger than others, but because of a 'calm pendant' hanging around his neck, he can restrain many negative black magic, although Aphrodite did 'charm' him at the moment of his appearance, but it was only a moment.

Soon he struggled out of the Endless Void, and he seized this rare opportunity to stand in front of Aphrodite, and pulled the scorching bow in his hand, a steel arrow on the bowstring, and as soon as he let go, the steel arrow would shoot through Aphrodite's heart.

And Aphrodite had a shiny dagger in his hand, just on Viru's throat.

The two were at a stalemate, and neither of them moved.

……

Surdak pushed open the door and found it dark and unresponsive, and his heart sank to the bottom.

He knew that there must be something going on in the room, and the succubus was usually very alert, which had a lot to do with the fact that she lived in the harsh environment of hell all year round, and in hell, if she didn't know how to protect herself more effectively, I was afraid she wouldn't even know how she died.

Surdak knew in his heart that it was impossible for Aphrodite not to respond when he pushed the door in.

There was no light in the room, and he took a few steps into the room, and saw that the wooden door of the terrace was open, and the cold wind was pouring in from outside, and the two people on the terrace were in a stalemate that refused to back down.

"Relax, don't hurt her." Surdak reminded Viru, a hint of warning in his tone.

Viru simply lowered the scorching bow in his hand, and Aphrodite took the opportunity to put away the dagger around his neck, and stared at Viru coldly.

Surdak lit the wall lamp in the room and said to Viru on the terrace, "Come in and sit for a while." ”

Viru was silent for a while, then looked up and said to Surdak, "She has the stench of demons on her!" ”

Surdak let the succubus into the room, stood at the door of the terrace and said to Viru, "Aphrodite is a succubus, but she has defected from the demons and is now a member of my battle team. ”

Viru walked into the attic room on the top floor of the hotel, ignored Aphrodite's succubus, and asked Surdak directly, "Do you remember me?" ”

"I don't remember, including a lot of things before." Surdakla crossed a chair and said with a very calm face.

Unwilling to give up, Viru reminded Surdak, "The Stormchaser Adventure Group that the two of us created together? ”

And he said, "The enemy whom we are hunting and killing? ”

Continued: "Our hometown ......"

He saw that Surdak was still indifferent, and there was no evasion or retreat in those eyes, which made the bud of hope that had just germinated retract into the soil, and he stared at Surdak with a look of regret.

Surdak felt goosebumps rise all over his body at Viru's sad eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "I don't remember, I forgot a lot of things......"

"When I woke up, I was being carried back from the pile of dead by a group of soldiers of the Heavy Infantry Regiment on the front line of the Forest Farm in the Gandaer Mountains of Handanar County in Warsaw, and I stayed there to fight with them until they were completely wiped out in the Battle of Moyunling, and I came here to fulfill one of my promises."

Viru could feel that what Surdak said was true.

He sat down dejectedly and looked at the strange and familiar northern man in front of him......

Viru told him why Surdak was lying on the battlefield of the Gandar Ear Forest Farm.

"We were searching all over the world for the Magician of Mondtroa, do you remember the Wizard of Mondtroa? Strong Bach! Viru asked suddenly.

Surdak shook his head without hesitation.

Viru sighed and said: "That's our common enemy, we are looking for him all over the world, thinking that one day we can kill him on the spot, with our own means, we can't sneak into all planes, so we found the largest mercenary group in Sloit Province, and followed the mercenary group to carry out missions all over the world, participating in various forms of mercenary battles, but then the two of us performed two different missions, and when I came back from the Rocky plane, I heard that they said that you died in the Warsaw plane, and there were no bones......"

"Later, I also left that adventure group, and I just walked around the world without any destination."

Viru said something about the two of them joining the mercenary group, and it felt like he was still avoiding certain things, but Surdak couldn't remember this memory.

"Are you Hawkeye?" Surdak couldn't help but ask.

"How?" Viru looked at him quizzically.

Surdak touched his nose, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "If so, I'd like to ask you for a favor." ”