I said...... Are you really not thinking about it anymore?"

This was the third time the captain of the guard had repeated the same words on the road.

It's not because of his fear, although those rampaging wolves look terrifying, but as a guard, he has the least dignity, and the soldiers of the empire will never turn their backs on the enemy!

Even ferocious beasts!

What made him uneasy was something else, stemming from the group of children behind him at the moment......

Those are all future magicians, even if they are only civilians at the moment, but they are students of the Reox Academy, which is equivalent to half a nobleman, and if something happens to them here......

The captain of the guard did not dare to think any further.

Glancing at the children next to him, he could tell that at least two of them were from the nobility of the Empire, one was a calm boy with glasses, and from the tone and gestures in which he spoke, it was obvious that he had received an excellent aristocratic education, and the other was a girl, a red-haired girl, with the arrogance of a superior in her tone, although she herself may not have known it.

The children were obviously not going to accept the kindness of the captain of the guard, which made the man in his thirties a little discouraged, and secretly prayed that nothing would happen along the way.

"Everyone, there's a bunch of mountain wolves in front of you...... "Lisa tugged at the sleeves of Alan's robe as she spoke.

"Hmm?" The children looked up and saw more than a dozen mountain wolves standing on the road not far away, as if they were peeping.

"Be careful!" shouted the captain of the guard in a panicked tone, standing in front of the group with his spear in hand.

But strangely, after a long time, the mountain wolves remained motionless.

This surprised Scott a little, pushed away the captain of the guard, walked up to his exclamation, walked a few steps, as if he had found something, turned his head and said, "Come here, everyone, these wolves are dead!"

"Dead, dead?" The captain of the guard stared at the group of mountain wolves with wide eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then took the lead with his spear, and after a few seconds, he had walked in front of the wolves, but the mountain wolves were still motionless.

Out of vigilance, the captain of the guard poked the mountain wolf in front of him with his spear, only to find that the wolf's body had fallen after shaking for a while.

"Whew, it's indeed dead......

After taking a turn among the wolves, Scott said to Jiang Zhe and the others who were walking forward, "All of them are dead!"

"All?" muttered, Jiang Zhe stepped forward, squatted down and looked at the wolf corpses on the ground, his expression was a little solemn, because he couldn't find the cause of death of these wolves.

In his eyes, the wolves did not suffer the slightest external injury at all, as if they were asleep, but they were not breathing......

"It's strange," muttered Alan, who had also found something strange, and turned to Scott oddly, "How did these wolves die?

In response to Allen's outrageous words, Scott rolled his eyes, pushed his glasses and said to Jiang Zhe, "According to my observation, it may be under psychic magic, but ......" He shook his head, because he himself was not very sure.

"Is Professor Hodd good at psychic magic?" Dia asked Jiang Zhe in a low voice.

"This," after hesitating, Jiang Zhe shook his head and said, "I've always thought the professor is quite mysterious, but I think he should be best at fire-based blue magic......"

"So...... Not a professor?" said Dea, gesturing to the path in the distance.

In the distance, there were still many similar wolf corpses along the road......

"......" looked at the wolf corpses along the road, and Scott's eyes were very surprised.

You must know that psychic magic is a high-level magic science, and it has great requirements for the spiritual power of magicians, and not everyone can master this science, but to make dozens of mountain wolves die at the same time, this kind of magic and spiritual power is at least a senior magician......

But strangely, wouldn't that veteran magician know any other type of magic?

You must know that casting psychic magic is very consuming of mental power......

It's weird!

Scott shook his head in confusion.

"I said how come I didn't encounter many wolves along the way," he muttered, Jiang Zhe said with a smile, "But it's fine!" As he spoke, he turned to the captain of the guard and asked, "Uncle, how far is it from that abandoned mine?"

"Uh, oh," the captain of the guard, who was stupidly looking at the children and discussing the cause of the wolves' deaths, finally came back to his senses, looked around, pointed to the front and said, "It's almost three or four hundred yards ......away," he said, looking at Jiang Zhe with some curiosity.

In his eyes, the little boy did not speak like a nobleman, but as if he was the captain of these children......

It's weird!

"Four or five hundred yards? Okay, let's go!"

Four or five hundred yards away, it was nothing, and within a few minutes they were at the destination of their trip, an abandoned mine.

But the strange thing is that they still encountered quite a few mountain wolves with strange causes of death along the way, and they followed this road......

Could it be that there are other magicians besides Professor Hodder who have discovered the strangeness of this place?

Jiang Zhe didn't know.

They came to the foot of a mountain col, and the captain of the guard pointed to a cave-like place in front of him and said, "Here we are, this is it!"

Before that, Jiang Zhe had been puzzled why he called this a pit instead of a mine, but after arriving at his destination, he finally understood......

This kind of thing that resembles the entrance to a small cave can really only be called a mine!

Looking around, Scott asked, "Is this the only one?"

"Yes," the captain of the guard nodded, and said in a somewhat amused tone, "a few years ago, it was rumored that there was a silver mine here, so some guys who dreamed of making a fortune came here......"

"Imperial law strictly prohibits private mining of precious metals, silver, which is a precious metal!" pushed his glasses, and Scott said lightly.

"Ahem," the captain of the guard, who had been interrupted, coughed a little embarrassed, and continued, "Indeed...... But after surveying, this is actually a very ordinary iron mine, and the number is not very large, it was abandoned two years ago, but some guys are not reconciled, and they dig for a while, but nothing is dug up......"

"And are those people still there?"

"No," said the captain of the guard, shaking his head with a look of mystery and fear, "because something strange happened a few years ago......

"Strange things?"

"Yes, according to those who escaped, they seem to have dug through something...... Well, I heard that there was another magician, who went into the mine but never came back, so the nearby villagers were scared and didn't know what was going on, so no one dared to approach it again...... Later, there were some undead guys who sneaked into the mine, but they didn't seem to come back......"

"Didn't come back?" Scott looked up, his face full of confusion.

"Yes, legend has it that there is a demon sealed underground, so the nearby villagers will not approach this place......"

"Demons?" Alan said with a smile, "If there are any rumors of demons here, I'm sure many magicians will be very interested in it!"

Demon......

Jiang Zhe shook his head helplessly, glanced at the dark pit, and said to his companion beside him, "Okay, if you want to go in, it's early!"

"You, do you really want to go in?" It seems that Uncle Guard couldn't understand Jiang Zhe's words, and said hurriedly with a little anxiety, "Although the rumors of the devil may not be true, but don't look at this mine as inconspicuous, in fact, it is very deep, I bet that those guys who dream of making a fortune have dug at least a hundred yards underground......!

"Thank you very much for showing you the way, you go back first, we'll be back soon!" Scott said politely, with a tone that could not be refuted.

At this time, Lavia, who was standing outside the pit, also said impatiently, "If you want to go in, don't bother!"

"This ......," the captain of the guard hesitated, nodded and said, "Alright then, may God bless you!"

"God?" said Alan laughed.

The captain of the guard left, with a bit of relief and relief, after all, if these children were hurt in the presence of him, then he would inevitably be implicated in some law, in the Empire, nobles and commoners were completely different.

"I say......" Standing beside Lavia, Lisa poked her head into the pit and said with some uneasiness, "Are we really going down?"

"Don't worry!" Before Lavia could speak, Alan smiled and said, "Your knight will protect you, if there really are any monsters!"

While he was talking, Jiang Zhe and Scott had already rubbed his shoulders and walked into the mine, and the two of them gave Alan a roll of their eyes.

"What the hell, Alan!"

"Yes Yes ......"

I have to say that girls are born with a sense of fear in dark places.

Like Lisa and Lerella, since they got out of the pit, they didn't dare to speak, and followed the boy next to them closely, Alan smiled at this, and Scott felt a little uncomfortable, frowning several times and looking at Lerella who was next to him, but when he saw the uneasiness on Lerella's face, Scott finally didn't say anything.

The pit was probably mined down from the foundation of a cave, which was fine at first, but as we went deeper, the ground under our feet was covered with rocks, which made it a big obstacle to walking.

Although the children had prepared some torches before coming here, unfortunately the light range of the torches was too limited.

Looking at the darkness in the distance, even if they knew that there was no other side, the girls would feel uneasy.

"Oops!" Perhaps slipped by the rocks under her feet, Larella subconsciously tugged at Scott's robe.

"......" glanced at the girl who was looking down depressedly, and Scott patted Jiang Zhe on the shoulder, "Soth!"

"Hmm!" Jiang Zhe nodded, raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.

As the snapping of fingers echoed through the tunnel, five fireballs appeared in front of the children's eyes almost at the same time.

Jiang Zhe controlled it slightly, positioning the five fireballs in the front and back of the team, left and right, although they were just ordinary fireballs, but they were enough for lighting.

Using the fireball technique to illuminate is indeed a good note, but except for Jiang Zhe, I'm afraid no one will be so extravagant.

After all, for magicians, magic is very precious, it is the foundation of magicians' survival, I don't think there are many magicians who are willing to waste precious magic so much, in the dark environment, they would rather hold torches.

However, for Jiang Zhe, the consumption caused by these five fireballs can almost be ignored.

Control four fireballs to levitate around the team, and Jiang Zhe is controlling the remaining fireball to explore the way in front at the same time.

"Man, it's really great to have you here!" Alan laughed.

"Hmph!" In response to Allen's words, Lavia snorted lightly, it was obvious that the fire magic of the flame route she had learned was really inconvenient to use for lighting, although she could also cast a fireball, but first, she did not have Jiang Zhe's super recovery ability, and second, she could not control multiple fireballs at the same time......

"It's well controlled!" Lavia muttered in a voice she had only heard.

"There's a fork in the road?" Scott reminded.

Jiang Zhe looked up, he found that the tunnels in front of him had changed from one to three, and they looked roughly similar, hesitating, he controlled three fireballs to fly into the three forks respectively, and then ......

"Boom, boom!"

"I just praised you...... Be careful, man, I don't want to be buried underground!" Alan reminded in a strange voice.

Rolling his eyes, Jiang Zhe said helplessly, "Am I in control?"

Indeed, the explosion of those three fireballs did not cause much vibration in this tunnel, after all, Jiang Zhe only converted the fireballs into flames.

At that moment, Scott hesitated, shook his head, and said, "The three roads look similar, what should I do?" as he spoke, he jerked his head up and scanned his surroundings vigilantly.

At the same time, somewhere like a room underground, a man wrapped in a black robe was facing a crystal ball, and in the crystal ball, the figures of children appeared......

"There are still a few little mice......

ps: I'm sorry, I broke my trust yesterday...... I was so sleepy that I fell asleep, I was too lazy...... Make it up...... ＞．＜

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