Just like a few months ago, Moswood's apprentice also had an accident during the forging process, when the red-hot iron piece slipped off the anvil and fell directly on the apprentice's leg, and the scorching iron instantly scorched the leg muscles, and even the bones were clearly visible.

So he paid attention to whether the emir had clamped the iron piece with pliers at the beginning, but he never expected that this time it was actually the hammer that had a problem.

At the last moment, Lydia drew her saber and in an instant struck the metal hammer open, thus avoiding tragedy, and she used the same sword that the Emir had forged for her yesterday, and it was quite easy to use.

Although the emir was saved, he broke out in a cold sweat, on the one hand, because he was almost seriously injured, and on the other hand, he understood that the so-called curse had just happened.

Looking at Moswood, it seemed completely helpless, so how could he guarantee that the curse would not put their lives in danger.

After such a play, both Emile and Sain were too frightened to continue, and if they were to choose between honor and life, they would certainly not hesitate to choose the latter.

Although they all longed to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, it was not certain to die, and the curse they were facing now was very likely to kill them.

Surprisingly, Moswood did not force them to continue forging, but instead said to them with a serious face.

"That's all for today, you guys go back and rest first."

“…… But don't you need our help forging it? Sain asked with concern.

"Well," Moswood continued, grimacing, "of course I do, but I don't want to risk you until the curse is known." ”

Emile was very moved by Moswood's words, but he also understood that Moswood was in an unsolvable predicament.

As an old man, he should have gone home to enjoy his old age, but he still wanted to forge weapons for the lord despite the difficulties and dangers, and even his old man was not afraid of the so-called curse, but the emir was afraid, what is this called.

So, Emile scolded himself, and then made up his mind to go with Moswood, he wanted to persuade Sain, but the other party obviously figured it out.

"What's the matter, didn't I tell you to go back and rest first? Give the old man a little time, solve the curse first, and it won't be too late for you to continue forging tomorrow. Moswood saw that they did not want to go, so he had to persuade them patiently.

"Mr. Mosswood, I understand this, but do you have any clue?"

This stopped Moswood, who was speechless for a moment, he didn't understand anything about the curse, let alone solve it, but he had to bite the bullet anyway.

"Really, Mr. Moswood, why can't you rely on us now that we're your apprentices?" Sain's tone was slightly complaining.

"Well, well, it's the old man's fault." Moswood sincerely apologized.

"So, do you have a clue?"

Lydia asked suddenly, and began to wink at the emir again.

“…… Belch. ”

Emir scratched her head in annoyance, not understanding what Lydia meant.

The first hint that he could understand, presumably because Lydia had different opinions from Mosswood, and he also knew through personal experience that Lydia's approach was correct, and that beating for too short a time would indeed lead to unqualified quality, but Moswood was a senior forger and couldn't make common-sense mistakes, so Lydia couldn't let her grandfather lose face.

But this second hint was completely incomprehensible to the emir, didn't she want them to help solve the curse?

Still, Emile decided to heed Lydia's hints, because with what he knew about the knight-apprentice, she would never do anything meaningless.

"Hey, Emile, Lydia is winking again, what do you think she means?" Sain also didn't understand the situation, so he quietly asked the emir.

"I don't know, anyway, let's listen to her first." The emir whispered.

"Oh." Sain nodded.

Later, Emir answered Lydia's question, saying that she had no clue and could only investigate first.

"By the way, Mr. Moswood, did your previous apprentice encounter a similar situation?" The emir asked suddenly.

"Well," Moswood nodded, explaining, "it was because the piece of iron accidentally slipped off and burned my apprentice to severe injury. ”

"Oh, this time it's the hammer that has a problem, so is it possible that the hammer has been used for a long time, and the connection between the hammer head and the wooden handle is loose, so that's why it's like this?"

Moswood picked up the hammer that had fallen in the corner of the room, put it back on the wooden handle, and after pressing it harder, he swung the hammer and found that the joints had become very tight.

"It shouldn't be possible, this is a new hammer that was just changed to train you a few days ago."

"Could it be that the beating has taken too long?" Sain asked.

"This one is even more unlikely," said Moswood, shaking his head, "and during the thrashing process, the hammer head and the wooden handle will only become more and more tightly connected due to inertia, and it is impossible to fall off. ”

At this time, the emir thought of only one possibility, since it was not a problem of the hammer, it could only be a problem of people.

He had been training with Sain for so long, and there was no problem with the hammer, why did an accident happen now? Then the only possibility is that someone has tampered with the hammer, and it was this morning.

Emile thought of this, but did not immediately tell Mosswood, as he chose to heed Lydia's hints.

After that, they thought of all other possibilities, but they were all overturned, and in the end Moswood sat down in his chair in disappointment.

The Emir tried to persuade him, but Mosswood waved his hand directly at them, signaling that they should go back to the manor first, and that he needed to be quiet.

If it weren't for Lydia's hint just now, the Emir would have been here with Moswood anyway, but he wanted to know what Lydia really thought, so he didn't hesitate to choose to go back to the manor.

"So, Lydia you ......"

The three of them sat in the carriage back to the manor, and Amir and Sain asked questions almost simultaneously, but Lydia made a silent gesture to them before speaking mysteriously.

"Don't ask, let's get back to the manor."

The two had no choice but to look at each other, holding the great question in their hearts for the time being.

After some time, they returned to the second floor of the central building of the manor and gathered together in the emir's room.

The Émile quickly cleaned up the messy room, then made a clean place and invited Lydia to sit down.

"Oh, there's no need to be so restrained."

"It's okay, it's proper etiquette for guests." Emir made a gesture of please.

Lydia didn't shirk anymore and sat down in front of the two.

"So, why did you just look at us?" Sain asked eagerly.

"Well," Lydia said after a pause, "I can tell you the truth, but you must keep it a secret for me, or I may be killed." ”

"What?" Emir's eyes widened.

"Why is there a disaster of killing, no." Sain was also unbelievable.

"Well, don't worry about that for now, you promise me first, or you won't want me to tell you the truth, and I will continue to obstruct your forging ......"

As Lydia spoke, she suddenly sensed that something was wrong, and she seemed to be telling part of the truth.

"Huh?" The emir was shocked.

"What? It turned out to be your troublemaker. Sain said huffingly.

"No, it's not, I'm ...... Alas, well, tell you to forget it. Lydia had no choice but to accept her fate, she continued, "The so-called curse is actually that I am doing things in secret, and my grandfather's apprentice was burned by the iron piece before, and I took advantage of their inattention to bounce a stone over, which just knocked over the hot iron piece, and the other apprentices were also injured in this way. ”

"No, you must be conspicuous when you do this." Sain was skeptical of her claims.

"Hmph," Lydia snorted, "I didn't expect you to believe it, but it seems like you'll have to show your hand." ”

With that, she pointed to the ceiling of the room, and both Emile and Sain looked up and saw a fly perched on it.

As the two of them wondered, Lydia showed them a stone the size of a fingernail, and then, under their gaze, it ejected in an instant, hitting the fly.

Shockingly, if they didn't look closely, they wouldn't have been able to see that the stone had been launched from Lydia's hand, and they couldn't even see its trajectory.

"This, that's too powerful, isn't it?" Sain couldn't help but exclaim.

"Indeed." The emir nodded.

"So, last time, because of my interference, the matter of forging the sword could only be shelved, and grandpa had to continue to look for new apprentices."

"But what are you doing this for?" The emir asked the most critical question.

“…… Well, I have to tell me the reason for this. ”

"Well, you just say, we listen," the emir nodded, and then added, "I promise you that I will never leak this matter." ”

"I promise you," said Sain, but he then changed his tune, "no, I can swear that if I leak a word, I won't die." ”

"Oh, it's okay, don't say it's so serious, I believe in your character."

Lydia waved her hand hurriedly, and then, after a little contemplation, she finally began to speak.

"It all started a few months ago, you should know that I belong to the Knights of Christy, although I am only a supernumerary trainee knight, but I often train with the official knights, it is no exaggeration to say that my strength is also among the best in the knights, and it is only because someone says bad things about me in front of Kristy that I have been in the position of trainee knight.

That day, I was doing daily training with my colleagues in the Order as usual, and suddenly I noticed that Chrysti was coming, and according to the rules here, the lord was easy not to show up, but this was her routine inspection, and no one could object to it. I was so happy that the opportunity to perform had finally come, as long as I could show the strength of not losing to the official knight, Master Kresty would recognize me, so I immediately showed my long-trained sword skills, and in an instant I knocked the sword of my colleague who was training with me away, Kresty obviously saw this scene, and I felt stable at that time, and I could finally become an official knight, but I never expected that the final result disappointed me, because Kresty only stayed for a few minutes and went back, It doesn't seem to care what I'm capable of.

However, what kind of person am I, how can I give up easily, watching Christy walk away, I always feel that I am getting farther and farther away from the official knight, I am too unwilling, so my brain is still hesitating, my body moves, I decided to catch up with her, and explain my true situation directly to her, at that time I was really hot-headed, I didn't care about anything, and I even had the heart to challenge her, since I defeated the official knight and was not recognized, then what did she say about defeating her as a lord? Anyway, I followed, but Chrysti's steps were fast, and she seemed to be in a hurry to go back to do something important, worthy of a paladin, I tried my best to catch up with her, so I could only let the distance get bigger and bigger, and finally I simply gave up, don't get me wrong, I just gave up chasing her, because there was no need, Chrysti would definitely go back to the tent in the barracks, and I could walk slowly.

In this way, I followed Chrysti from a distance, but gradually, I noticed that something was wrong, Chrysti's destination did not seem to be the barracks, but in the opposite direction, and she always tried to avoid people, I was curious, so I began to follow, maybe she thought she was well disguised enough, and she didn't notice being followed at all, and finally, I followed for about half an hour, and found that Chrysti came to the edge of the town's wall, which belongs to the deepest part of the slums, and is rarely visited, She stood there, as if waiting for someone, and it didn't take long for a figure to appear in front of her, and I immediately felt incredible, because I kept looking at Christie, but I didn't see how the figure appeared, I subconsciously felt scared, that figure was probably an extremely dangerous thing, and the next scene confirmed my suspicion even more, I found that the figure was a man wearing a hood, no, to be precise, some kind of creature, because the other party peeked out from under the hood something like an octopus tentacles, It can't be a human being.,Thinking that it was not long after the appearance of the demons.,It's conceivable.,That's a monster.,This conclusion is like a thunderbolt from the sky.,Completely ruined my fantasy of Cresti.,I didn't expect her to collude with the demons.,I've always dreamed of working for her one day.。

I was so scared that I escaped from the slums, ran all the way through the streets, and finally returned to the barracks, but I still had palpitations, I was not afraid of that monster, I was really afraid of Chresti, her strength must be stronger than me, if I found out that I was following her, and also broke her secret collusion with the demons, it would definitely kill me, and then, in order not to make her suspicious, I no longer dared to show it in front of her, but this secret has been haunting me, keeping me awake at night, after all, if I learned about it and did nothing, Isn't that just sitting still? So I decided to tell my brother about it, he was an official knight, and he had a good relationship with the Knights, and he would definitely be able to figure out a way to deal with Chrysti when the time came, however, after all, I made a mistake, I thought my brother would be on my side, but he didn't believe me, and said that I was resentful because I was not appreciated by Kresty, so I framed her......"

At this point, Lydia abruptly stopped, but Emile and Sain listened attentively and did not come back to their senses for a long time.

"Hey, I'm not telling what a great story, and I'm so fascinated by it?" Lydia couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh, so you talked about such a simple thing for a long time? I thought there was some twist. Sain couldn't help but complain.

"But aren't you fascinated by what you're listening to? And you seem to be mistaken, this is not a fictional story. Lydia said angrily.

"Oh, of course I know, I just want to know the follow-up, but you suddenly stopped talking, didn't I react?"

"There's no follow-up, oh, if I really want to say it, the follow-up is that I can only figure out a way by myself, the first is to prevent Kresty from getting a new weapon, so that at least her combat power can be reduced."

"I see," Emir nodded, and then said, "In other words, Chrysti, as the lord of this town, actually colluded with the demons, so isn't the fall of the town a foregone conclusion?" ”

"yes, so the situation is pretty dire right now."

“…… Wouldn't we just help Chrysti forge it? Sain came up with a solution.

"Hehe, I'm afraid this won't work, not helping to forge and trying to help but failing, these are two different things, if you choose the former, then Christy will definitely suspect that we know her secret, so as to kill people, and the latter is normal and will not arouse her suspicion."

"That makes sense, then let's pretend to fail in the forging." The emir made a proposal.

"Alas, this is a pity for my grandfather, and he is still worrying about it." Lydia said worriedly.

"Why didn't you tell the teacher the truth? Maybe he can help you. ”

"Hehe, it's just a bad old man, what else can you help me? Let's hide it from him for the time being. Lydia smiled wryly.

Knowing this, Emile and Sain also fell silent, could they all sit back and wait?