"Miss Marina, I really want you to forget what I said about exposing you before, can you be the cold you you were before?"

Watson, who was undulating as the horses advanced, listened to the unknown ditty that was humming from the mouth of Marina next to him, and he now understood why her mentor had made her appear colder outside, probably purely to suppress her out-of-the-box personality. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"No, I've been pretending for too long, and I've finally met someone who understands me, you have to let me vent, don't worry, if I meet outsiders, I will promise to return to that cold look. ”

"So I'm the one you vent to......"

"Oh, no. ”

Marina, who accidentally said what was in her heart, smiled awkwardly and tried to fool her.

"Let's talk about your profession, you're the first mage I've met so far, I wonder if the number of your mages has always been very small, so it's a little more mysterious than other professions?"

"It can also be said that if you want to become a mage, you need a very demanding talent, and not all people with this talent are willing to become mages, just like many people have a spell talent, but they use it as a secondary talent to major in other professions, because the mage's melee is too weak, although the output is high enough, but the situation is too dangerous, after all, in most battles, mages are the first target, so the number of professionals in our profession is really small compared to the huge base of other professions. ”

Speaking of mages, Marina finally showed the erudition that a mage should have, and a serious look appeared on her face subconsciously.

"And what do you, the mage, think of these things?"

"It's stupid. ”

"Stupid?"

"Yes, those who think that mages are weak in melee combat, so they don't choose this profession but instead specialize in other professions and waste this talent and blame mages are stupid in my opinion, accusing mages of weak melee combat is like accusing warriors of not being able to have long-range abilities, the real reason why many people don't want to become a mage is actually to sink down and delve into those mixed knowledge, every mature mage must have their own spell system and theory, and this requires a lot of knowledge to support, for us...... Knowledge is power!"

The pride unique to mage professionals emerged from Marina at this time, but Watson looked like he was pretending to be no matter how he looked at it.

"I agree with you, some mediocre people will always make ridiculous excuses for their inaction, but this is what your mentor told you, in fact, you don't understand these words very well......"

"Haha, you're right, my mentor asked me to use this passage when I went out and communicated with people, and I also had to show the momentum on her body when she said this to intimidate others, to be honest, I don't really understand what it means, I just love learning spells and my talent seems to support me to do so. ”

"That's why your soon-to-be-titled Warlord Mentor is willing to teach you, pure love is probably the most sufficient motivation to get stronger in a certain area. ”

"Perhaps, anyway, I don't think many mages in the Mage Guild who are about my age are as good as me, they have too little research and accumulation of spells, I don't understand why even so, they have to pretend to be advanced in front of me, and those theories about the superficial use of spells even make me want to laugh. ”

"This is normal, after all, the profession of mage is noble and erudite in the eyes of most so-called high society, and they may have become accustomed to the praise of ordinary people at some drinking parties and fall into it deeply, so that they forget that they are talking to a mage who is more accomplished than them in all aspects. ”

"Roar, you praise me so much, I am very happy, you will be my friend in the future, if you want help, you can find me, so as a friend, can you tell me why you have such a deep dark energy?"

In response to Watson's unobtrusive compliment, Marlena seems to be very impressed by the same oblique turn to ask Watson about his secrets.

"It's just a little bit of dark energy talent that is insignificant compared to you, and it's only after two years of training that I've grown a little bit and taught myself some superficial use. ”

It is unrealistic to hide one's dark energy talent in front of a mage, because the other party can easily feel Watson's aura with his powerful perception.

"Unfortunately, my talent isn't dark either, so I can't help you with that, but I guess you don't need it. ”

"Hehe, I applied this ability to the combat aspect, because although I can use dark energy, I found that I couldn't build any effective magic circle to cast spells, and in the end I had no choice but to give up. ”

The inability to construct a magic circle is not something that Watson has made up, he did consider becoming a mage when he first obtained the ability of dark energy control, but when he practiced against the most basic magic circles in some cheap spell books, he found that although those dark energy was at his mercy, it could not play its due effect, so he had no choice but to use this talent as a supporting talent.

"I think it's because you can't resonate with spells, it's a typical phenomenon, this ability is an important condition for becoming a mage, because only resonating with your own energy can activate the magic circle, and many people are lacking this so that their talent for mobilizing energy is wasted, of course, I think you have found a better way to use this ability. ”

The two men just communicated, and before they knew it, they were moving away from the city and beginning to deviate from the concrete-poured and cleared road into the undeveloped wasteland.

Known as the Merra Wastes, the area is full of stone forests and jungles, inhabited by many beasts and monsters, and as such, it is a place frequented by Verdath's adventuring party, and with a bit of luck, it only takes a few successful hunts to reap the rewards.

The trade routes in the Myerra Wastes are also very famous, because as long as you pass through the Milesa Wasteland, you will be adjacent to the city of Rothhill, and in order to reduce the time and cost of many caravans, the first thing that many caravans need to think of when traveling between the two places is to cross the Milesa Wasteland.

After paying a great price for such a long time, they finally explored and opened up a safer trade route.

It was in the vicinity of this trade route that the caravan carrying goods to Miller's Tavern had the misfortune of encountering a roaming mountain troll and was attacked by it until all of them were killed.

"Wait...... There seems to be activity in this area. ”

"It's normal, and there are indeed frequent teams of adventurers in the Myerra Wasteland, so it's not a strange thing to meet people. ”

"Well, you're right...... It may be that I was too sensitive the first time I came out. ”

By the time the sun was almost overhead, the two of them finally reached the area marked on the map, as evidenced by the mutilated corpses that appeared one after another along the way.

"Can you sense the scent of the mountain trolls?"

Dismounted, crouched next to a broken wheel and some fruit scattered on the ground, Watson checked the blood on it, summoned the dumplings to a familiar breath, and asked Marina.

"No, the life fluctuations of a large monster like a mountain troll should be very strong and I don't feel it around here, I think it's out of here, you cat...... Warcraft?"

"Yes, alien cats. ”

"Luckily, this kind of monster hasn't appeared in a long time...... Sure enough, everyone except the master is wary. ”

Marina squatted down to touch the head of the dumpling, but it avoided it, so she could only withdraw her hand and look enviously at Watson, who was kneading the dumpling.

"It looks like it's going to take us some time to find the mountain troll, and we don't know if the cargo was dragged by the mountain troll, but it doesn't matter to us, all we have to do is kill the troll. ”

"Meow. ”

"Your cat seems to smell it. ”

Dumpling called and raised one of his front paws to point to the northwest, Watson picked it up and walked in that direction for a while, and sure enough, he saw footprints hidden by weeds, the size of the troll was huge, and most of the wasteland was muddy, so it was easy to leave traces of walking.

"Let's go, take the horse, we'll have to go down this direction. ”

Watson looked into the distance and noticed a large bush in the distance, turned to Marlena.

"You think the trolls would be in that bush?"

"I don't know, but we'll have to look over there now, and we'll always find some clues. ”

Marina looked at the bushes in the distance and nodded thoughtfully, followed Watson and continued to walk, walking for about ten minutes, the position of the two of them was getting closer and closer to the bush, but at this time Marina's footsteps stopped.

"Watson, there's a spell fluctuation ahead, someone is fighting!"

"Check it out!"

Quickly mounted their horses, the two began to rush to the bushes, and when they reached the edge of the woods, they dismounted and tied their horses to the trunks of trees, and entered the bushes.

The forest was not too dense, but it was a large number of trees, and it covered a large area, so Watson drew two long knives and opened the way in front of him, while Marina followed him and walked forward step by step.

"See! Can you find a way to hide the aura on us?"

Watson grabbed Marlena behind him, leaned against a tree, stared not far away, and asked.

"I think I can do it. ”

A thin white barrier appeared on the periphery of the two of them after Marlena waved her wand and uttered a few incantations, just as the men in the battle not far away began to move towards the side where they were hiding.