In the middle of this vein, a young magician crawled out of a crack beneath a stone cliff.

He held a piece of magic red copper in his hand, even if he came out of the crack in the stone, the sky was already full of stars outside, and he was still very excited to say to the middle-aged magician waiting outside:

"Teacher, look, what ...... is this?"

The middle-aged magician sat on a chair, with a tent set up next to the cliff behind him, he had just drunk a glass of hot milk, and he happened to be a little sleepy at this time, and not long after his eyelids were closed, he was startled by the shouts of his assistant.

The magic book in his hand fell to the ground with a 'click'.

The others stood up, looked at the sky, snapped their fingers, and a glimmer of light floated above his head.

"Copper!"

The middle-aged magician took the dark red metal in his assistant's hand and said in surprise.

Then he hurriedly patted his assistant on the shoulder and said, "It must be very cold in the crack below, come and drink a cup of hot milk to warm up, how big is the space under this stone crack?" ”

"Teacher, the gap below is also very narrow, there is no natural cave in it as you predicted, the crack below can see a copper-rich interlayer, and there is already some condensed magic red copper near the stone wall." The assistant wiped his dirty face and said cheerfully to the middle-aged magician.

"This is it, I'm going to apply to buy the land here, I guess the magic union still needs to dredge it!" The middle-aged magician was overjoyed and said, "It can be seen that this is a vein of extremely rich copper ore, and these magical red copper are the associated ores of this vein, and we are destined to make a fortune!" ”

The assistant's expression was also very excited, he took the hot milk handed over by the middle-aged magician, and saw that there was an empty cup that he had just drunk on the side, so he poured the hot milk into his stomach before saying, "Teacher, this is close to the town of Dodan, do we want to say hello to the local nobles?" ”

"When I returned to Wilkes City this time, I stopped by to take a look, and I don't know what these hillbillies would think if they knew that there were copper ore veins here!" The muscles on the middle-aged magician's face jumped unconsciously, and he quickly rubbed the skin on his face with both hands.

"I heard that the Luther Legion is stationed here, and the beast tide here has just ended, and these border towns have all made a lot of money because of this beast tide." The assistant sat down on the ground and began to take off his tight leather armor.

"But they didn't know that there was such a great deal of wealth in such a place so close at hand......"

The middle-aged magician laughed dryly.

"But...... Teacher, this is not an Empire-occupied area, you should have thought about how to develop this place earlier! After saying that, the assistant lowered his head and flipped through the books of the imperial laws on the magic belt before he said, "According to custom, you need to wait for the lords to open up this forest, and then pay sixty percent of the land to the Grimm Empire and Bena Province before you can buy this land. ”

The middle-aged magician smiled disappreciatively and said:

"Aren't we already standing on this land now, didn't we open up this place?"

The middle-aged magician stared at the young assistant's face and said word by word: "Now this is a wasteland where there is nothing, even those demonic beasts have run clean, I stand here, and the land here is now my ......"

The magic assistant trembled, curled up, and fell between the rocks, looking at the middle-aged magician in pain:

"Teacher...... What's in your milk......"

His eyes were full of despair, and he probably knew the tragedy he was about to face.

"I don't understand...... Teacher, why are you giving me that ......?"

The magic assistant widened his eyes as he looked at the middle-aged magician standing in front of him.

He only felt a sharp pain in his cheeks, which had been trampled by the middle-aged magician with his leather boots.

"Listen,

You're just a little magic assistant,

How can I get a 10% dry share share?

You shouldn't have a stake in such a copper vein......"

The middle-aged magician bent down and said to the young assistant's ear.

"If it weren't for me......

How do you know that there are veins here......

I worked as an assistant for you for three years......

Shouldn't you even take 10 percent of this? ”

The breath of the assistant's speech became weaker and weaker......

He saw the middle-aged magician pull out a bright dagger from his arms, and a sharp pain welled up from his chest, and he felt blood gushing out of his chest, almost staining the magic robe red.

Chills, fainting, severe pain...... And then it came to his head.

Then came the endless darkness, and he couldn't open his eyes at all.

The last little bit of consciousness is to feel someone dragging hard, and the unconscious body is falling. Falling down, he smelled the cracks in the ground again, but unfortunately this time he didn't wear leather armor and climbing gear, and only felt that he was falling into endless darkness......

The middle-aged magician unhurriedly packed his bags, put some valuables into the magic waist bag, and threw the two cups and the pot of hot milk into the stone crevice next to him.

He didn't take back the tent next to the cliff, and rode the magic handle alone, and flew slowly south along the treetops in the darkness, and soon disappeared into the endless night.

……

Like a cheetah, Samira jumped nimbly onto the branches of a large tree, and the 'Heavenly Strike' did not know when it was already in her hand.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Samira's tense face, Surdak stood up from the campfire and asked suspiciously.

"Nothing...... It seems that a mage flew over there, and he glanced this way, and for some reason flew away again. ”

Samira jumped steadily from the branch and walked towards the armed thunder rhinoceros.

"It's so late, how could there be a mage flying over in the Invercargill Monster Forest?"

Surdak looked up at the dark night sky and said puzzled.

"Maybe he happened to be passing by, but he seemed to be flying south...... The technique is not bad, and it grazes close to the top of the tree, otherwise I might not be able to see it......"

Samira paused as she spoke, her eyes looking at the night sky in the distance again.

"He seems to be back again......"

"He went around in circles again......"

"I seem to be hesitant......"

"He's watching us......"

Samira closed her mouth, pulled the hood on her head, and jumped on a tree very casually.

Surdak's mouth opened in an 'O' shape, and he found that the night didn't seem so dark for a Windranger who had crossed the second turn.

Just when he was a little distracted,

A black-robed magician slid silently down beside the campfire, riding a magic handle.

He wears a sorcerer's cone hat on his head, a short, neatly trimmed beard, and eyes with a sapphire glow.

Jumping off the magic handle, and without even retracting the magic handle, the magic handle floating in mid-air disappeared out of thin air......

Surdak felt that he was definitely suspicious of showing off his skills, at least not that Lance had ever done so.