On a hot afternoon, a modest carriage pulled up at the door of the Oak Row Academy. As the door opened, a burly man led a young boy of seven or eight years old and stepped out of the car. The boy's soft brown hair showed a healthy glow in the sunlight, and he was looking at the bustling college gate from afar, but in his clear blue eyes, there was a hint of resistance, or resistance.

"What's the matter, my little Veran?" the man asked softly, noticing the change in his son.

The boy shook his head at first, then looked up into his father's eyes, and asked, "Father, can I not go to the academy to study?......" he said, his voice getting quieter and quieter as if he had done something wrong, and finally he simply lowered his head.

The man laughed, crouched in front of the boy, and rubbed his hair. "Didn't we say yes, little Veran can't talk and doesn't count, do we?" said the man, scraping the tip of the boy's upturned nose with his fingers.

"But, but, ......," the boy's face flushed, as if his father's words made him a little embarrassed, "but why should I go to study at the Academy?" he asked, "why do I have to be a knight?......

The man tapped his forehead. "Okay, then little Veran thinks, why did your father send you to the Hucong Academy?" he wanted to hear his son's opinion.

The boy tilted his head and thought about it seriously. "Do you want me to be as strong as my father?"

The man listened and shook his head, he looked into the boy's somewhat ignorant eyes, and said seriously: "My child, the purpose of honing oneself is never to be stronger than others. But so that one day, you can use your own hands to protect all the things you cherish...... Do you understand?"

The boy listened, shook his head, but quickly nodded his head in understanding. "Do you love your grandfather?" the man asked, with a glint of love in his eyes.

"Love. The boy replied immediately.

"Do you love your father?" the man smiled and pointed to himself.

"Of course!" said the boy, "my father is the best!"

"Are you willing to protect us in the future?"

"Yes!" the boy nodded vigorously. Then he took the man's big hand and tugged him, "Send me in, I'll try to be a knight!"

The man laughed. He kissed his son lightly on the forehead. "You will, little Veran, and on that day, I will personally point the steel sword on your shoulder......"

“......”

The picture in front of me gradually blurred, and the faint yellowing of the soft light became farther and farther away. Then, like grains of sand blown away by a breeze, they shattered and turned into bursts of flying light. The points of light flickered in the darkness and regrouped together into a slightly open slit......

“...... For, guard. With a low murmur, Sovereign awoke. The fine droplets of water smashed on his face, and it was unexpectedly cold, and the smell of earth mixed with a strange smell poured into his nostrils, and he took a deep breath. He felt that the cells in his body were like the parched earth had been moistened by the rain, and he came to life in an instant.

"What's going on?......" Sovereign struggled to brace himself and shook his head vigorously, but the stinging pain in his forehead almost caused him to fall back down. As if in a long dream, Sovereign searched his mind for all possible useful clues, and gradually, his gaze suddenly froze on the last image in the depths of his memory—the Moonrise Forest, the Guards' Lodge, Soram, and the purple-red liquid.

"Solam's Spirit Vine's Juice ?......" At that moment, a screaming black shadow swooped down on Soveilan, startling Soviran. Hands and feet stepped back together, and what rushed into view were two little pigs covered in mud!"This, what the hell is going on?......

He looked around blankly, only then did he realize. He was slumped in a tattered pigsty. Thin lines of rain fell straight from the night, through the exposed roof of the shed, and smashed into the mud in front of them. The moldy straw and the running piglets looked at Sovereign in such a strange way that he could not connect the former moonrise forest with the current pigsty. "It's a bit exaggerated to sleep this night......" he thought.

Looking down at the muddy clothes, Soveran even believed. Even if you are a beggar or a homeless person, you must be more decent than your current self. Soon, however, he found in the pocket of his coat two things that beggars and outcasts would not have—a letter and a small bag of "stones," all he had found after rummaging through his body.

However, the inside of the bag was not an ordinary stone, and through the seal, Essaovilan could easily identify that it contained a purple phosphorus gemstone of excellent color. After a brief count, there are about two dozen pieces, which is a real hard currency. Re-lacing the lacing, Sovereign set his eyes on the letter.

Compared to the intuitive gem, the letter is a bit mysterious, with a dark red fire paint on one side and only two short lines of writing on the other side - "Treasure Bay of Rivigaz, Cadius". It seemed to be the address and name of the recipient, and Sovereign thought, and the only question that followed was what was this place and where it was......

But with a bucket of sewage falling from the sky and a figure at the door of the pigsty, Sovereign found that the current situation had not improved much. "Damn, you're awake, aren't you?!" a middle-aged man with stubble squirmed, "Wake up and get your ass out of my pigsty! If it weren't for the fact that you're still panting, I'd have told the guards to throw you off the wall!

"Uh...... Hug, sorry......" Sovereign hurriedly shook the water stain from the letter, put it back in his pocket, and got up from the ground. "Sorry, I mean, I didn't mean to. As he spoke, he stepped out of the pigsty one foot deeper and one foot shallow out of the sludge.

"Vomit...... Look at the smell......" The man quickly stepped aside, "Wake up and get out, hell, how did I meet such an idiot......"

The man muttered and turned around and was about to leave, when he was stopped by Sovereign. "Excuse me, sir, can you tell me what this place is?" his gaze slowly rose up the wall behind the pigsty, and the confusion and shock in his eyes intensified. Because the height of the city wall in front of me is far beyond common sense, it has reached the point of more than twice the ordinary city wall.

With a thud, the man threw the barrel on the ground. The gaze that stared at Essaoweran suddenly turned cold. "Boy, are you here to trouble me?" he said, drawing a short knife from behind his back, and the palm holding the handle of the knife did not tremble in the slightest. "before I get angry, or I won't mind chopping you into minced meat." Give my piglets a meal......"

Sovereign smelled the breath of extreme danger, and he didn't have the slightest suspicion of the other party's words, but fighting a stranger in a strange place was not a wise choice in any case. So he quickly took two steps back and explained, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you at all, sir," he dropped the first question directly, "I mean, you know where the 'Treasure Bay of Rivigaz' is?......"

The man was stunned for a moment and spat in extreme disgust. "It's a drunkard, and a drunkard who hasn't woken up......," he said, picking up the barrel again, "and turning right out of the alley, along the main road, and you'll soon be able to see it." With that, he muttered and walked away.

"Thank you......" Sovereign said to the man's back. But the other party did not look back. With a long sigh of relief, Soveran smiled bitterly and walked to the alley behind him, his main concern now was where he had been sent by Solam.

However, when he stood on the main road in the man's mouth in a daze, the doubts in his heart directly turned into a shocking foul mouth, which unconsciously spurted out of his mouth. "What the fuck is this?!"

As far as the eye could see, the scene subverted everything he had known for eighteen years, he had never seen such a chaotic city! The undulating eaves paved along the main road into the distance, and there was no fixed architectural style or simple wooden houses. Or a strange attic, or a thatched hut hanging high above the ground, or a cave mixed with brick and mud...... The muddy road was trampled, and there was a cacophony of sticky sound at any moment. All sorts of smells mix together, and you even have to forcibly control your twitching stomach pouch.

And the people walking on the main road, yes, Sovereign felt like he was going crazy. In a few moments, Sovereign saw elves, dwarves, orcs, rogcans, erics, ogres, and even goblins and moon demons that were only seen in book pictures...... As for humans, humans are already the most ordinary human race.

Sovereign took a deep breath. Raising his head to make himself sober up by the rain that fell on his face, he didn't know what kind of expression to put on, except for a bitter smile. He even wondered if he was still in a dream, but after pinching his thigh hard, he thought of him with clear pain, this is indeed a real reality. After reconfirming the name of the address, Sovereign reluctantly blended into the crowd and walked along the main road.

As the crowd slowly moved forward, Essaoweran's curious gaze was drawn to all sorts of wonders. There were places where there was a flickering light and smoke, as if the people gathered around them were praying or divining at night, in some dark and gloomy corners, where the palms of each other were exchanged for silver coins and packets of jet-black powder, and from time to time there would be unfortunate spirits who were injured for some unknown reason, wailing out of the poor alleys on the side of the street, and finally collapsed in a pool of blood and convulsed a few times, never to move again. And the people passing by naturally bypassed him, not even a single expression, or a look.

Soveland's body was getting colder and colder, and the feeling was not from the rain falling from the sky, but from the indifference and hideousness of the people here and this unknown city. He had never seen a place like this, a place where even the air was full of sin.

Lowering his head slightly, Solveland subconsciously quickened his pace, he now just wanted to find the address and the recipient mentioned in the letter as soon as possible, and find out where he was and what was going on in the city as soon as possible.

Thankfully, the owner of the pigsty wasn't lying, and it wasn't long before Havelan found the "Treasure Bay of Rivigaz" on the side of the main road. In other words, as long as you walk on the main road, it is very difficult to deliberately ignore such a large building.

Of course, Sovereign finally understood why the man called himself an "alcoholic", because the unusual name turned out to be a tavern. I saw a square three-story building standing abruptly in the middle of the houses on the side of the street, and under the eaves of more than ten propped up, a group of wine drinkers with wine bottles were standing at this time. But the most surprising, or perhaps impressive, thing is the statue standing on the roof.

If Essaouiran was not mistaken, the statue, which was far taller than the building itself, depicted a goblin with its arms outstretched. The exaggerated corners of the mouth, the large triangular ears, the bare headcase without a single hair, and the glow-in-the-dark sign that flashed "Treasure Bay of Rivigaz" at the foot of the foot are a spectacle that will never be found on the main road where the sewage flows.

Deliberately avoiding a few unkind glances, Sovereign once again checked the letter in his hand with the colorful signboard. Just as he was pondering how to get into the tavern, which was obviously not a good place, he heard a thud, and the two spring-leaf doors of the tavern were slammed open.

Then, in the midst of laughter, a slightly sloppy figure was held up by two green-skinned orcs, and directly threw a beautiful arc, and finally fell heavily into the mud on the main road. "Don't forget to bring money next time, old ghost!" the orc cursed angrily, turning to walk back to the tavern.

Sovereign looked at the figure in the mud and hesitated, but still opened his mouth to the two orcs and asked, "Hello, is there such a person as Caddius?"

The two orcs were stunned. "What did he say?" asked one of the orcs, looking at his companion. The other slowly turned around, looking Sauvelan up and down with his big brown eyes, as if he were looking at an idiot. "You are looking for Cadius?hahaha......" he repeated, and suddenly burst into laughter, and not only him, but many of the drinkers standing in the doorway.

Just as Essaoweran was a little embarrassed to leave, one of the drinkers suddenly raised his bottle and laughed loudly at the figure who had fallen into the mud. "Dear Lord Cadius, someone is looking for you!hahaha......" As soon as he finished speaking, the whole tavern burst into louder laughter.

Sovereign froze, his gaze slowly downward, fixed on the muddy guy. "You...... You're Cadius?......" he asked. (To be continued.) )

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