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Wasting energy on intrigue in the face of a common enemy is probably a problem for many groups, even in this remote village.

Although Sir Leinster was not the lord of Lemongrass, there was no need for the inhabitants to respect him, and he cared more about the purpose of his trip than what these people thought of him. But if you want to ensure his interests here, you must fulfill what you have agreed with the village elders.

"This matter is put aside for the time being, and it is a waste of tongue to deal with ignorant fools, and I need not bother with it. ”

He seemed to be used to seeing this kind of thing, and said indifferently: "In addition, I have another matter I want to ask you two for." Although my companions and I can strengthen the surrounding walls with spells, we still need the villagers to build the basic walls with civil engineering. And in order to understand the environment around them, I would like you to make a tour around the village - and look carefully for signs of malfunctioning magic in the structure of the defenses."

Most of the people present had something to do to defend themselves against the monster's impending attack, and it was clear that the mages alone were not enough to control the situation. Sir Leinster entrusted Frick with the task of patrolling the surroundings of Lemongrass, and recording the details on a map.

This should be the most suitable job for a scrivener, after all, a scrivener is an expert in recording information. Especially when there are many magicians present, let them add magic to the modified map, and even make special maps that can explore the movement of surrounding creatures.

However, what Sir Leinster sent to Frick was an ordinary map, unremarkable except for a slightly older vintage. This drawing, which is said to have been hand-drawn by the current resident scrivener when he first arrived, has no magic attached to it, and only uses pens of various colors to draw the distribution of buildings in Lemonglas, and the rest is the terrain structure in the vicinity of the village that is less than a few hundred meters away.

After taking a closer look at the map, Flick realized that he had not observed the surroundings of the village at all, and that they had actually been cleaned up. With the fence as the boundary, there is not a single tree in the area of more than 100 meters near the village, and even the overly long weeds have been cleared.

A buffer was left between the village and the nearby hills, and in the middle of the cleared frontier was an area that Sir Leinster had deliberately marked with wax stone. If Frick is not mistaken, the area within the Wax Stone is the area protected by the defensive spell.

On the map, there are many locations inside and outside the wax stone line marked with circular markings of various sizes, and several of them have been deliberately marked with red paint. Thinking of this, Frick immediately rushed to the nearest marker with Suval to see what the marked thing was.

If they are concentrated around the village's defenses, then the magic that Sir Leinster cares about should also have something to do with them. According to the knowledge he had learned, some Rubik's Cubes that needed to be maintained for a long time would usually have nodes to concentrate their magic, such as runes engraved with ancient characters.

However, the facts before him were clearly not what he had expected, and as he walked there along the ash marker, there was only a white trail on the ground that continued to stretch forward. It stands to reason that they had stepped directly above the red mark, but there was no unnatural magical reaction where the two of them stopped.

"Strange...... Suvar, you'd better go over there and investigate, and I'll leave it to me. He pointed to the outside of the ash stone trail and told Suval to investigate the vicinity, "Since this point is specifically marked on the map, I think there must be something noteworthy nearby." ”

The sky was getting brighter, and the first rays of sunlight of the day had already appeared at the mountain pass in the east, and the cold fog had dissipated a little under the sunlight. By the sunlight tearing through the cold mist, his gaze looked beyond the white lines drawn by Sir Leinster on the ground, and looked beyond the white mountains.

Just like what I saw in yesterday's dream, the cold fog that gathers and spreads envelops the distant scene, revealing only a few unrealistic outlines. Fog, trees, villages, and strange people singing unknown songs are all elements that can be found in everyday life, but it is difficult for Flick to correspond them to reality.

He calmed down and slowly let the magic in his body infect his surroundings, trying to capture the trajectory of the energy flow in the Rubik's cube that protected the village. However, no matter how he perceived it, there were always only fragments of magic around him, and it was completely impossible to form a complete Rubik's Cube structure.

"Sierra Leonean seniors, it seems a little strange here. ”

Just as he was about to take out a piece of paper and use the more refined magic to capture the trajectory of the magic flow, Frick, who was investigating on the other side, found something. He held a broken stone in his hand and called out to Frick, as if to ask him to come over and take a look.

Not only that one, but in his other hand he held several pieces of rubble of various sizes, which looked like they had been torn apart, and which had once been part of a cut slate. Although it has been shattered into several pieces, the ancient characters engraved on both sides clearly prove their importance.

"Behold, there is evidently a special magic attached to this stone!"

Delivering what he found to Flick, he said with some excitement: "The forms of these magic powers are very complex, and it may be difficult to find them if you only use ordinary methods. I really didn't expect to use this structure for the village's defensive Rubik's Cube, and it wasn't even mentioned in the book. ”

According to the above lines, the scattered stones were put together, and those fragments of ancient words and scratches barely formed an incomplete Rubik's Cube. However, Suval's collection of rubble was apparently incomplete, and the Rubik's cube on the stone slab was missing some important parts.

Ignoring the excitement of this young junior, Flick could indeed feel some kind of wonderful magic in them, as he said. If you use them as a base point and extend around, you will immediately perceive that there is a huge magical structure operating in the land around Lemongrass.

It seems that it must have been specially marked on the map provided by the resident scrivener, and if you dig near other marked points, you should be able to find similar objects. To prove his point, Frick immediately grabbed Suval and rushed to the next marked location.

Holding the stone they had collected earlier, it was easy to sense the location of the nearby mana node, and the two quickly rushed to the place where the nearby node was buried. However, when they had to dig it out of the dirt, they found that the slab had already broken apart.

"Sure enough, these are broken......

They searched for several nodes, but all but a Rubik's cube engraved on a natural boulder were all broken. You can still feel the traces of magic on the stone slab, and even if it is broken like this, it must still be exerting residual heat.

These stone tablets engraved with the Rubik's Cube were undoubtedly used as props to keep the defensive spells running, but it is possible that most of them have fallen into disrepair. They should be able to keep their spells running smoothly in normal times, but on the night of the new moon they lose their effectiveness due to lack of magic.

If it weren't for the sorcerers who came to help Lemongrass's defenses, the script would have been written like this: the village's defensive Rubik's Cube, which was in disrepair, was gradually rendered useless, and the villagers, who knew nothing about it, wanted to rely on it to defend themselves against a new breed of monsters. Although the monsters were unable to get past the broken defenses at first, on the night of the crescent moon when their magic was at a low ebb, the beast plague that destroyed the entire village occurred.

However, after careful consideration, Frick quickly disproved the simplistic idea that if it was useless due to lack of maintenance, the mana in the node should be depleted. And although the stone tablet they held in their hands had little magic power left, the most lethal damage obviously came from the impact of external forces.

The land around Lemonglas is rather barren, with very little land to be cultivated into fields, and even fewer areas protected by defensive techniques. There should be one of the few flat areas in the area that can be planted close to the village, but no one has cultivated farmland in the vicinity.

The history of this village is not old enough, so old that even the village elders have forgotten the key point of defending the village. And even if they don't have the knowledge of magic, at least they villagers won't be stupid enough to destroy what protects the village and expose their weaknesses to the threat of monsters.

The villagers certainly had no reason to self-destruct their defenses, and they couldn't possibly destroy the spell nodes and cover them with dirt as if nothing had happened. Moreover, this camouflage technique is clever, because the magic of the defensive spell is different from the normal magic power, and it is very difficult to touch the outline of the overall Rubik's cube if the person who comes to investigate does not find the broken nodes.

In addition, Frick also suspected that the culprit of the destruction of these nodes was not the group of black monsters, although they repeatedly tried to cross the protective wall of the defensive spell, but if they simply applied an impact to the protective wall, they would definitely not be able to directly damage the magic node through the protection of the magic power.

So, could it be that someone had deliberately sabotaged the defenses around Lemonglas and intended to secretly manipulate the situation around the Gate of the North? Just as he had suspected that those black monsters had been forcibly created by spells, could it be that this crisis had been planned from the beginning?

As soon as he thought in this direction, Frick felt as if he was a branch caught in the turbulence, and it was impossible to know which direction it would flow if it was connected. He didn't want things to turn out the way he thought they would, but he couldn't ignore the worst-case scenario.

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