At dusk the day after Aphrodite's departure, Surdak was having dinner in the castle's dining room.

Today is a very special festival in Ruyt City - the Day of Divine Revelation, it is said that a great swordsman who lived in Ruyt City received the revelation of the gods, and finally successfully stepped on the shackles of the peak of the three turns, and became a sword master who can travel the star field.

This Juggernaut's name is Gampoo. MacDonnell, the Juggernaut, wandered the Outlands for many years, finding several planes and leaving one of the plane coordinates in Ruit City, which came to be known as the Dry Cloth Plane.

The people of Ruyt City are for the Sword Saint Gampo, so the day he received his divine revelation has become a special festival in Ruyt City.

It was only when Surdak returned to the castle that he learned that today was a festival unique to the city of Ruyt.

Since it was a festival, of course, you can't just eat at the tea table in the bedroom, and Hathaway also made some elaborate preparations in advance, not only with a huge flower basket on the table, but also bought a piece of plesiosaur's neck meat from the magic shop and made a monster roast for Surdak.

As a second-turn strong immigrant, the usual intake of some Warcraft ingredients has many benefits for maintaining physical condition.

Many nobles also like fresh Warcraft ingredients, and the neck meat of the plesiosaur is one of the more expensive Warcraft ingredients, but I didn't expect Surdak to see it at the table of his own family.

Hathaway forked almost half of the plesiosaur meat onto Surdak's plate.

This main course is followed by a chowder soup made with blue ice deer whip.

This is the dish that Hathaway ordered half a month ago in order to make Surdak more effective in the evening, and even the chef who cooked this chowder soup was a chef she invited back from a high-end restaurant in Ruit City.

Surdak was already very full after eating a large plate of plesiosaur meat, and when he saw a bowl of broth with a faint oil splash being served by the maid, he felt that this soup tasted really good, just enough to relieve the oiliness of plesiosaur barbecue, and there was no greasy milk flavor in this soup, and it was more in line with Surdak's taste.

Seeing that Hathaway and Beatrice were both looking at him intently, Surdak lowered his head to see if there was anything wrong with him, and then asked in surprise, "Why are you all looking at me, what's wrong with me?" ”

"I didn't ...... Nothing, Dark. Hathaway's pretty face flushed slightly, and she quickly took a sip of sweet wine to cover it up.

Beatrice, however, asked without hesitation, "Dark, you don't have anything else to do tonight, do you?" ”

"Nope!" Surdak replied as he looked up at Beatrice.

Beatrice smiled very happily, took out a bottle of golden cider from the basket on the table, and said to Surdak:

"I've got a nice bottle of golden cider, we can wipe it out tonight......"

Before Beatrice could finish speaking, he saw a lilac magic pattern circle spread from Surdak's feet, and the lines of the circle continued to spread outward, forming a huge and complicated pattern in the restaurant.

Hathaway instructed the maids beside her, "Stand down first!" ”

A row of maids immediately walked out of the dining room.

At this time, a void door appeared behind Surdak.

He hesitated for a moment and then put down the knife in his hand, stood up from the table, wiped the corner of his mouth with a napkin, and said apologetically: "It must be Aphrodite who is in trouble, sorry, I'm afraid I have to go out......"

Hathaway and Beatrice didn't have time to tell Surdak 'make sure to get back as soon as possible'.

Surdak waved at them and strode into the Void Gate.

……

Surdak emerged from a ruin that was full of waste ore and grass growing in the crevices of the rocks.

In front of Surdak appeared a dark mine entrance, Aphrodi and a middle-aged strong man dressed as a hunter stood guard in front of the entrance of the cave, the hunter did not expect that someone would actually come out behind him, and he did not feel the slightest, when he saw Surdak, he was startled.

The hunter looked at the badge on Surdak's chest, his pupils shrinking inexplicably.

"Where is this?" Surdak stepped forward and asked Aphrodite.

Aphrodite motioned for the hunter to stay at the entrance of the cave.

Bringing Surdakla to a farther place, he said to him:

"The abandoned mine outside the village of Selia, the last mine in the iron ore field......"

Surdak looked up at the barren mountains overhead, and among the weeds in the valley were two rusted railroad tracks.

The hunter stared at the mouth of the mine very carefully, glancing in this direction from time to time.

Surdak looked at the deserted entrance to the cave and asked Aphrodite:

"How's it going over here?"

Aphrodite spread her hands and said helplessly:

"As you can see now, the current situation is a bit complicated, and I can't handle it alone, so I called you over."

Surdak looked around in surprise, he knew that Aphrodite's strength, to be able to make Aphrodite's inability to handle, must be very tricky.

"When I arrived at the village, the two old couples had already disappeared." Aphrodi said, standing beside Surdak.

Although he had a hunch, Surdak couldn't help but complain when he heard the news.

If it hadn't been for the Ruyt City Guard Battalion to put the matter to a conclusion, even if they had ordered them to leave the village of Selia, perhaps they would have had a chance to avoid going missing......

Aphrodite pointed to the hunter guarding the entrance of the mine in the distance, and introduced Surdak:

"This is Craik, he was trying to leave here with his two daughters, his wife and eldest son disappeared the night before, he was about to leave the village with his two daughters last night, his second daughter is about twelve years old, and the younger daughter is only seven or eight years old."

"I had just arrived at the village of Selia, and I had arrived at Old Avi's house first, and when I found that they were also missing, I secretly followed Craik and him to see if the murderer would reappear......"

"What did you find?" Surdak couldn't help but ask.

"Skeleton Warrior." Aphrodite lowered her voice and said, "I saw a skeleton warrior with a rusty knife in his hand running out of the woods and stopping the three of them. ”

"I'll take out that skeleton warrior ......"

She told Surdak about what had happened last night.

……

Craik sat down, staring at Aphrodite with a cloudy expression.

His two daughters hugged each other, or rather supported each other and hid behind Craik the Hunter.

In the woodland, the two skeleton warriors had lost their soul fire in their eye sockets, their bodies shattered into white bones, and the two rusty iron knives looked like kitchen knives stolen from some kitchen.

Aphrodite had just used the 'Spiritual Whip' to directly use her spiritual power to kill a skeleton warrior.

For succubi, the means of dealing with undead warriors are relatively simple, and many magic spells have little effect on these undead warriors, such as 'charm', 'hypnosis', 'seduction', 'psychedelic' and so on.

These low-level skeleton warriors are simply acting with this instinctive soul fire.

Aphrodite stared at Craik, not speaking or leaving, waiting for Craike to speak.

When facing humans, succubi have more means.

The forest was pitch black, Aphrodite was wearing a Mithril mask again, and Craik was only stared at by Aphrodite for a short time, and the mental defense line was completely defeated under Aphrodite's gaze......

"Are you the magician sent from above to investigate this? I'm aware of some of the circumstances, but I need you to get my two daughters to safety! ”

Craike hesitated for a long time, then finally said.

Aphrodite said cheerfully, "Yes, I promise you!" ”

She then followed behind Craik, the Hunter.

Under Aphrodite's protection, Hunter Craik and his two daughters walked through the mountains and walked for most of the night until they reached a small town, one of only two remaining in the abandoned mining area, with a population of nearly a few thousand.

There are grocery stores, hotels and pubs on the streets in the center of the town.

Craike was familiar with the place, and by midnight, even the tavern was closed.

He knocked on the door of the hotel, settled his two daughters in the hotel, and returned to the village of Celestia with Aphrodite without any stops.

Looking at Craik, who frowned, Aphrodite didn't say anything all the way.

It wasn't until he settled his two daughters that Craike showed a hint of anxiety.

Craik led Aphrodite directly to the ruins of a mine that had been dug up, and Aphrodite stepped on a piece of waste ore and stopped.

As it grew brighter, she asked Craik:

"Do you know what's going on?"

Craike lowered his head, and could see that he was struggling inside, and didn't want to give the answer.

“……”

Aphrodite said casually: "I know you need help, if I don't help you, your wife and eldest son will probably die......"

Before Aphrodite could finish speaking, Hunter Clayk spoke:

"She's been living here for a long time, I guess she's probably a magician, she usually lives in an abandoned mine, she's very thin, she doesn't usually come into contact with people, the first time I saw her, she happened to fall on the cliff outside the mine, or I sent her back to her house."

"Every month since then, I've sent her some groceries, and she's paid me a sum of money."

"Oh, by the way, she's very rich, I've never seen her make a living, but her purse is always full of silver coins......"

"Sometimes she would ask me to do some strange things, some things could be bought from the magic grocery store, some things didn't need to be bought at all, I would go hunting in the mountains, and if I caught them, I would send them directly, and if I couldn't catch them, I would go to Ruyt City to buy them, but this job only lasted for a while, and then the things she asked for became more and more difficult to find, so I was only responsible for some daily necessities."

"Until one time I saw some skeletons in that cave, all kinds of animal bones, and also human ...... There are many ...... Yes...... It's a lot, I'm a little scared, I'm scared, but I'm afraid that she'll find out, and one day, my family and I will be part of those bones,"