Sean reacted much faster than his father, and immediately drew his sword and turned around when he heard the voice, holding the long sword that emitted a purple glow diagonally across his chest, and subconsciously assumed the strongest defensive posture that his mother Anne had taught him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, with a shake of his left shoulder, an extremely small and delicate crossbow machine slid down from the left sleeve of the long brown coat, the crossbow bolt was ready, and Sean pressed the mechanism to open the buckle, aiming the crossbow arrow at any time into the hole.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and although the cave was dark, the light coming in from the outside could still be seen at a glance.

Sean froze and saw a man standing next to the extinguished shaft furnace.

He wore a robe with a black background and yellow trim of the most elaborate fabric, and covered his entire face with a golden mask, his hair was gray, and the skin on his hands was wrinkled like dead wood.

"It's you!"

Sean recognized it as the boss behind the Bounty Hunters' Guild's point of contact.

"It's me. It was still the same old and hoarse voice, "Don't be nervous, young man, I have no ill will. ”

Sean didn't move, his sword and crossbow still in his hand: "How did you get in?"

The masked man found a large rock and sat down: "Do you say Ollie powder, that kind of gadget is your young man's toy, it doesn't work for me." ”

After saying that, he looked at Sean, who was still on guard, and let out a sneer: "Are you going to talk to me like this all the time?

Sean thought for a moment and shook his head self-deprecatingly. With his eyesight, the strength of the other party can still be judged. If this masked man really wants to kill someone, even if he resists with all his might, it probably won't help.

So he put his sword into the sheath, and put down the crossbow arrow, but he still had it at hand, and his body was still standing close to the hole, so that in case the other party suddenly attacked, he could shoot an arrow first and then turn around and run.

Not resisting is not the same as not maneuvering, and not maneuvering is not the same as not fleeing.

This is the experience he has summed up over the years of fighting against strong enemies.

The masked man obviously saw Sean's little abacus, and he didn't poke it, but said lightly: "Twenty years ago, I met your father. ”

"What, you've seen my father?" Sean immediately became interested.

"Well, at that time, it was in the capital of the Rakshasa Principality, Blood Dragon City, and your father inadvertently did me a favor, and I didn't want to owe favors, so I also promised to help your father do something. ”

Rakshasa Principality, Blood Dragon City...... Sean thought for a moment and remembered, "Ah! My father told me that you are the great magician!"

"That's right. The masked man seemed to smile wryly, "I've never liked to owe favors, and since your father has helped me, whether intentionally or not, I have to repay it." ”

He paused and continued: "Over the years, there have been quite a few people who have asked me to do things, so at the beginning, I knew what kind of requests your father would make. Finding a magician could ask for nothing more than spells, scrolls, and wealth, so I let him ask for it, and I thought I could always do it. ”

Sean couldn't help but smile and said, "As a result, my father made a request that you can't do. ”

The masked man laughed, "Yes, I was squatting on a hillside and watching your father take local materials, build a stove out of clay, and throw in a few pieces of iron ore for me to ...... Turn them into molten iron. ”

Speaking of this, he shook his head helplessly: "I think I've traveled all my life, traveled all over the continent, even the Seven Counties of the Morning Star in the extreme east, and I've never heard of anyone making such a strange request to a great magician." But I can't do that. ”

"Can't you even do it with your magical skills?"

"Can't do it. The Masked Man sighed, "After saying goodbye to your father, I felt disgraced, and I went back and tried again, but neither I could use the Elemental Flame or the Divine Flame to completely melt the iron ore into the kind of molten iron that your father said I was. ”

After saying that, he looked up at Sean: "The method you used last night was amazing, blowing air into those half-melted porridges, so that the molten iron boiled, how did you do it?"

"I don't know how it works, my father invented it. After saying that, Sean immediately reacted, "Did you see my smelting process, and when did you enter the cave?"

"I've been following you since you left the tavern, and I've been standing outside the cave with invisibility, because the light from the flames when you smelt is too strong, and if I come in, I'll be shadowed. ”

"Why do you want to follow me all the time?"

The masked man was silent for a moment before he said slowly: "Because I want to learn something from you about what happened eight years ago, but I am afraid that you will not tell me directly, I have to use the Sleeping Spell on you, read your dreams, and hope that you can forgive." ”

After saying that, he stood up and performed a noble salute to Sean.

Sean looked at him with a smile: "Since you have this strength, then who can stop you from doing what you want to do, don't be so pretentious, besides, I'm not a nobleman." ”

The masked man said: "I also said that I am not a nobleman, although I don't know your mother, but I also knew the story of Duke Stag's youngest daughter eloping with a little blacksmith. Your blonde hair, and lake-blue eyes, look like the Stag's family. ”

Sean retorted, "Duke Stag has already announced that he has severed ties with my mother, and my father is not a little blacksmith, he is the best foundry technician on the entire continent. ”

The masked man nodded: "Your father is indeed a genius, it's a pity. ”

After saying this, both of them were silent for a while.

The masked man not only followed Sean, but also peeked into the smelting process, and also used a sleeping spell on Sean to read the dream, which was already too deceitful, and ordinary people would have been furious, but Sean has always remained calm.

This is originally a world of the jungle, if the strong do not have moral or conscience constraints, they will give and demand to the weak, what can you do if you are angry, and even how can you resist, in the face of absolute strength, everything is just ants.

Don't be quick for a while, survive, and then find a way to make yourself stronger, this is the philosophy of life that Sean has realized after so many years of traveling alone on the mainland.

So after a moment of silence in the cave, Sean was the one who broke the silence first:

"You said you read my dreams just now?"

"Yes, it's a type of spiritual magic, and you can rest assured that it won't have any effect on your sanity. ”

"And what do you see in my dreams?"

"Everything, whatever you can see and hear in a dream, I can also see and hear. ”

After the masked man finished speaking, he raised his head and stared at Sean, and threw out a sentence that shocked Sean to the extreme:

"From your dreams, I learned that the man who found your father with the fragment of the Demon God Sword was my son who had been missing for eight years. ”