"Excuse me to interrupt your conversation - Sir Leinster, I have a question that I would like you to answer from the perspective of a monster scholar. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

As Uls Leinster was about to discuss the relics deal with Dean, Frick spoke, "We're from the nearby village of Lemongrass - in fact, the village has been plagued by monsters of unknown breed lately, and it's not going well. ”

He then told Ulles Leinster all the things he had seen around the village and the news he had heard from the village chief. With that, he patted the villagers beside him and told Sir Leinster that if he had anything else to ask, he could ask him.

Thankfully, Sir Leinster, though concerned about the ancient relics found by Dean and the others, did not neglect his own problems. Rather, he seemed to take what Frick had said, and immediately went over to the villagers to inquire about the situation.

The villager was clearly not a bold man, especially when he noticed that Frick and the adventurer were in awe of the man he was talking to in a deep voice. Admittedly, it was not easy to ask the mud-legged of a border village to maintain a calm attitude when communicating with the nobles, but his panic clearly made it difficult for Uls Linester to inquire about it.

Fortunately, Sir Leinster did not feel impatient, but showed more patience than ordinary people, and communicated with the villagers in a calm and powerful tone. Frick noticed that he was also using his magic to make notes on some scraps of paper while asking questions, asking questions that were not clear many times until he was sure.

However, after understanding the general outline of this incident, his expression was not so relaxed, his originally calm expression receded slightly, and his brows were furrowed. For some reason, Frick felt like he had known about these monsters before, and now he only knew more about them.

"It's probably going to get troublesome. ”

Although he was somewhat reluctant, after a long silence, he still spoke: "Actually, there is no need to hide it, so I came to the vicinity, not because I fancy this ruin, but because the investigators affiliated with the society have found traces of some strange monster activity." ”

There are only a few dozen official members of the Raven Society, so in order to ensure sufficient sources of information, they will also buy information from "investigators" of different classes and identities in various places. And this time the information is also quite weighty, so that he, as the head of the society, rushed to this forest.

Talking about why he had come here, Urles Leinster took a photograph from his bosom and illuminated it with a magical glow for all to see. Even so, Flick was hard to determine what was depicted in the photograph.

This is not to blame Sir Leinster, after all, the photograph is so unclear that only the sketch-like black and white outline remains. But from the distorted outlines of the photograph, it is clear that the photographer was in a hurry, so he was left with only the blurry black and white image.

Perhaps also aware that the photo in his hand could not be understood by the eyes of a layman, he used his other free hand to trace a few simple Rubik's cubes on the surface of the photo. Soon, dark magic flowed along the trajectory he had traced, resulting in a simple structure centered in a ring surrounded by several rectangles.

"It's not surprising that you can't see clearly, the camera that originally held this photograph has been destroyed, and now the remaining photographs are all retrieval items. He sighed, "We have never found such a monster before, and in order to avoid further losses, we and several companions have come here to investigate. ”

And in order for ordinary people like them to be able to see the content from the residual magic on the photo, he can only choose to use spells to strengthen his ability to read and write. This is clearly not a job that can be done in a short period of time, and the dark magic is constantly flowing through the photograph, pulling out something that is unrecognizable to the naked eye and depicting it in mid-air.

The creatures in the reconstructed image appear to be some kind of monster, halfway between a wolf and a bear, and much larger than the usual breeds in the Empire. Combined with the information obtained from the village chief, the monster that appeared near Lemongrass should be it.

However, if it is only a huge size, the creature shown in the photograph is a huge beast at best, not enough to be called a monster. And as if to prove the peculiarity of its existence, behind its huge body, which can only be described as "ordinary", there is also a tail that is thicker than a small tree trunk - only there is not the extent that it can be described as "slightly".

Frick intuitively sensed from the image Sir Leinster had constructed with his writing, that the monster's tail was a snake the thickness of a tree trunk. It seemed to have a will of its own, slightly twisted and stretched out straight ahead, and the aura of force came through the illusion of hypocrisy.

"This is...... Sir Leonster, do you think it's some kind of monster that belongs to the beast species, or is it actually a demon created by an alchemist using some kind of technology?" he asked without hesitation after seeing the projections made by the monster scholar with spells.

He had seen many monsters in the form of wolves in monster books in the past, but he had never seen this kind of tail directly transformed into a snake, like a chimeric beast. However, even if he wasn't a monster scholar, he knew that it wasn't accurate to simply call an unseen creature a monster.

Originally, "monster" was indeed a relatively vague term, which was usually used to refer to a variety of special creatures in the past, although there were often various inconsistent terms to call them. But before that, it's necessary to determine what kind of creature it is.

In principle, there are two ways to classify monsters in monsterology: one is the traditional method, which uses the "big category" as the benchmark to classify monsters according to their characteristics, and the other is similar to biology, classifying them according to their structure, reproduction, and the relationship between occurrence and development.

Based on past books written by Urs Leonster, Frick believes that the other side prefers the traditional method of separating by "broad categories", so he chooses to use it as "appropriately" as possible when asking questions, hoping to obtain more information.

But it would be naïve to rely on that alone to put words into words, and Urs Leinster is not one to be swayed by a few words. But Frick still noticed that only when he mentioned the word "demon creation", there was a slight waver in the other party's calm eyes.

"I can't say for sure, but the reason for this is because I haven't seen them yet. ”

Sir Leonst's face did not change in the slightest, but his tone still looked a little regretful: "Young scribe - no, Frick Sierra Leone, your opinion is really interesting. In terms of appearance alone, this kind of monster should belong to the beast species, but its appearance is also heretic among many monsters of the same category. And if you propose the other end of the possibility, it is a demon-making produced by the art of forbidden ...... I really don't want to imagine it. ”

Then he stopped, as if avoiding what he called the "forbidden art." However, this was by no means good news for Frick, for the silence was now only one step away from the worst possibility, and Sir Leinster avoided it, presumably reluctant to touch the unpleasant possibility.

The monsters called beasts in monsterology are basically beasts whose bodies have mutated after being affected by abnormal magic in the environment. Most creatures are mutated by the contamination of magical power, and beasts that can turn them into their own power become monsters.

Similarly, demon-making is a creature that is affected by magic (though it may or may not be a living thing), but this process is often done artificially rather than by the natural environment. Sir Leinster called it the "forbidden technique", perhaps because it was a process that defied the laws of nature.

Frick had read about demon-making creatures in a number of books, and their appearance made it hard to imagine why anyone would want to study such unpleasant things. The vast majority of demon-making is the result of failed experiments, and their ancestors may well have destroyed the entire mage's research before they were freed - it goes without saying that they are dangerous, and some of the more aggressive and adaptable groups have led to large-scale disasters.

"Sir Leinster, if you may, could you please come with us to Lemongrass after the investigation is over? Flick, after thinking for a while, invited Uls Leinster.

The other party is a well-known monster scholar in the empire, and he is more knowledgeable than the adventurer who mainly relies on actual experience activities or Frick, whose understanding of most monsters is still limited to books. With the help of a scholar who is familiar with the habits of monsters, the village should be better able to guard against them.

And let him have another consideration, that is, if he can persuade Lemonglas to go to Lemongrass, in case he really can't avoid the battle with the monster at that time, he won't sit still. After all, even if the village self-police regiment basically has no combat effectiveness to speak of, the strength of the mage is enough to support the arrival of reinforcements.

Just the appearance of monsters near the village made those ordinary people nervous like this, but they probably didn't know how terrifying the beast disaster really caused by monsters was. Without strong enough reinforcements to protect Lemonglas, it could disappear from the map forever when the Beast Plague strikes.

Thankfully, Urs Leinster easily accepted his invitation.