As night fell, it was as if Cavides had been covered with a greasy black covering.

On Capernaum Street in the Red Church District, the lamplighter holds a long pole to light the oil lamps on both sides of the road, and the wind blows with a strange smell of grease.

In an alley not far from this avenue, Martin was biting on a red apron from the Meat Eater, running along the wall, stopping every now and then to listen to the movement around him.

This is Green Spider Street, which is part of the Red Church District along with Frying Pan Lane, and is located north of Cavides and is a gathering place for commoners and homeless people.

Although the town hall has long promoted street lights throughout the city, street lights have only been installed on the main roads of the Red Church District, such as Carernaum Street, where Martin has been there, and there are so many people and carriages on the streets that the streets are muddy.

He walked down Green Spider Alley to a red brick house.

He gently pushed the door open and entered, placing the apron in his mouth under the bed of a single bed in the corner.

The interior of the room was painted white, and there was an oil lamp in the corner, which was so bright that it smelled of the same strange grease as a street lamp.

On a large wooden table in the middle of the room were several large mortars, measuring cups, and small hammers, and on the wall hung baskets and tools, and in the corner there was a burning fireplace with a kettle boiling water, and the fireplace seemed to be connected to the iron chimney outside.

It's somewhat similar to a chemistry lab in a previous life, but it's much more rudimentary than a laboratory.

When Martin first arrived, he remembered the "Alchemist's Cave" he had seen in various books and videos in his previous life: an old alchemist wearing a red robe, holding a flask and a scale, staring at the fire of alchemy burning in the furnace.

He had just put his apron away when he heard the door open.

Then an old man with a gray beard pushed the door and entered, and with his blank eyes open, he asked into the empty room:

"Martin, is that you?"

Martin, who seemed to be the old man, breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied, "It's me, Belisarius." ”

The old man heard the familiar voice, and loosened his hand that clenched his blind cane, and said in a relaxed tone in the direction of Martin:

"Why did you come back so late today, and haven't found your noble lady yet?"

Martin had been bumped into by Belisarius three days earlier when he had gone to the house to steal food, and was about to flee when he heard the old man say into the air:

"Please don't hurt me, a blind old man, there's a lot of food in the fireplace, you can take it."

"Please try not to touch the powder in the mortar on the table, it is the powder made from the [Mad Witch's Nails], and it will make people insane if you eat it."

Martin tested it and made sure it was a blind old man, so he had an idea and pretended to be a person to talk to him.

In Martin's account, he is a gardener of a declining baron's family, who is persecuted to the point of nearly dying because of his love for the baron's youngest daughter, thanks to which the noble lady seized the opportunity to elope with him. But after arriving at Cavides, he was separated from the young lady, and he had to come in to get something to eat, and asked the old man not to make a noise.

And the old man, Belisarius, did not seem to doubt his words, and allowed him to live here, offering him something to eat.

After the first night, Martin gradually let his guard down, and through conversation, he learned that the old man was a medicine man, and together with his apprentice, he opened a medicine shop called the Mercury Fountain on this Green Spider Street.

And these days his apprentice has returned home, so he guards the shop alone, this room is the warehouse of the pharmacy, and it is also the place where some herbs are usually made.

Over the past few days, Martin has gradually become acquainted with Belisarius, and he has noticed that the old man seems to be some... In Martin's words from his previous life, the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as Alzheimer's disease.

He asked Martin for his name three times, five times told him not to touch the Mad Witch Nail powder on the table, and mentioned the name "Philia" several times.

This person seems to have a deep relationship with him, and I don't know if it's his apprentice who went home.

This made Martin feel a little pitiful for this old man who lived alone.

So Martin would try to help him with some chores, and the two got along quite well.

That's why Belisarius joked about Martin, saying that Cithian was his "noble lady".

"Not yet." There was some loss in Martin's tone.

"Don't be discouraged." The old man walked up to Martin with a cane and tapped him twice on the left shoulder as a sign of comfort.

"We can help you find it."

Martin was stunned for a moment, and he thought that the old man was just polite, so he replied:

"No need, Belisarius. You have limited mobility, I'll do it myself. ”

Belisarius smiled at this moment, and he said, "It's not me, it's my apprentice Juncker, he can help you find it." ”

"He just came back in the afternoon, and now he is counting the herbs in the front hall, and he will be over soon."

"He heard that you have been here to help me for the past few days, I must express my gratitude to you, rest assured, he is his own person, and he will not tell you about it."

When the old man finished speaking, he still opened his empty eyes and squeezed a little playfully in the direction where Martin was.

Martin felt like blood rushing to his limbs again, and he wanted to run.

And at this moment, outside the gate of the red house, a young man's voice came.

"Teacher, are you in the lab?"

"Yes, yes, come in Juncker, come and meet our friend Martin." Belisarius shouted enthusiastically out of the house.

Martin felt the blood flowing to his limbs flow back into his head, and he clamped his tail again, his breathing began to become rapid, and his face felt hotter and hotter despite being covered in fur.

A rush of footsteps sounded outside the door, getting closer and closer.

And Martin at this time, the ghost came up with a solution, he didn't know if it would work, but he could only gamble.

I saw him stretch out his left front paw and snap his fingers again.

"Smack."

A red flame appeared at his fingertips.

He shook his head.

Then, the flames swelled, quickly enveloping his palm, enveloping his entire arm, and then covering his entire body.

I saw a huge humanoid firework appear in the room, it flickered for a moment and gradually dissipated, and in the afterglow, a "person" wearing a mask and hood and a wide black robe walked out.

It's like a magician's show.

When Juncker pushed the door and walked into the red house, he saw a strangely dressed man standing in front of the teacher, and he walked up to the teacher a little nervously and asked:

"You're Martin?"

Martin nodded lightly and said:

"That's right." He paused, then added:

"I have injuries on my face and body, so I'm dressed strangely for fear of scaring people, please don't mind."

Juncker reacted for a moment, and then said in a free and easy tone:

"I heard from the teacher about you and that noble lady, don't worry, I'll help you find it."

It could be seen that he was a little frightened by Martin's clothes, after all, Martin was covered in his robe, and he really looked a little abnormal. But he should have chosen to believe Martin anyway.

This was in line with the best that Martin had expected, since he had been with Belisarius, a blind man, for three days, and if he had tried anything else, he wouldn't have to wait until now.

He had already come up with an excuse for the long nose on the mask, but he found that the nose on the mask copied by Red Flame was actually of normal proportions!

And the replica glove also magically makes his claws look like human hands, and Martin's skillful use of the two front paws can be used as a hand, both in appearance and in actual use.

Martin felt both strange and glad that his nervous heart finally relaxed a little.

On the way back, he had an idea, if the red flame in the two-color flame could replicate the magical item [Queen's Mailbox], then the axe, the rappier, and even the robe on her body used by the woman he saw could also be copied.

At the time, it was just an idea, but I didn't expect it to be used soon.

But the uneasiness in his heart was also stronger.

When the red candle was lit just now, the strange whisper rang in my ears again, and the sound seemed clearer and longer.

"Carnstein and Gethsemane... What the hell is it? ”

Martin continued to talk to Juncker while thinking in his heart, two thoughts going on at the same time, without interfering with each other.

He found himself seemingly becoming more and more adept at dual-tasking.

"Don't use the two-color flame as a last resort; It's best to find a way to separate it from my body. Well, you can ask them for relevant clues. ”

He looked at the two people in front of him and said to himself in his heart.

Then he seemed to hear a familiar voice from nowhere:

"Agreed."

"Did you hear that?" He interrupted the conversation and asked Juncker in front of him abruptly.

"What?" Juncker looked puzzled.

Martin was silent for a moment, then calmly replied, "It's okay." ”

Then he asked Junker and Belisarius in front of him in a somewhat worried tone:

"Do you know of any magical places or people nearby? She likes mysterious things, and I want to try my luck there. ”

"You're talking about the Deliverers and the Masters."

Juncker answered immediately.

"They're very mysterious and hard to see. However, the [Reindeer Market] has been open for the past few days, and I heard that in the [Screaming Tent] near Rose Square, there is a [Savior], he is a "stargazer", who can make certain divination and prophecy, you can go to his to try your luck. ”

"[Savior]?"

Martin exuded a dose of curiosity.

"Yes, haven't you heard stories about them? The little ones in Green Spider Alley know it. Juncker looked at Martin's reaction with some confusion.

"I've lived on a manor since I was a child, and I didn't know a lot about the outside world." Martin made up an excuse to prevaricate.

"I see." Juncker nodded.

"The teacher has a lot of knowledge in this area, let the teacher tell you about it."

Juncker looked at Belisarius.

When he heard the names "Savior" and "Master", Belisarius squinted his eyes, and his originally godless eyes seemed to become a little deep, as if he was remembering something.

The old man stretched out his blind cane and walked forward a little, Martin gave way to him, he went to the wooden table in the middle of the room and sat down, and said slowly like a teacher:

"The Rescuers are a group of people who fight against the Polluters, what we call the Xeno, and the Tainted Ones, all of whom have magical powers and protect the world in their own way."

"The best of them is called the Master." Belisarius said calmly, not with the same respect in his tone as Juncker did when he mentioned the word.

"Each Master has a unique name. One of the three holy places of our Redstone Kingdom, the [Immortal Bird Monastery] located on the mountain of St. Athos, the abbot there is a [Master]. Belisarius paused at this point.

"He is called: Feather of the Firebird Blans."

Martin keenly captured the name "Mount St. Athos", a name he had heard from Stanley's mouth, and Martin remembered his exact words:

"The real shackles come from the St. Athos Mountain and the Hot Springs Palace."

His eyebrows jumped.

"You can hear these words from almost all the people living here."

Belisarius' hollow eyes turned to the direction of the fireplace, and his tone changed and began to grow low.

Martin felt that Belisarius at this moment no longer seemed to be the blind old man with some dementia, he was like a lake, and Martin had paced to the edge of the deep water.

"And my advice to you is." Belisarius turned his head at Martin as if he could really see.

"Stay away from them! Stay away from the Savior! Stay away from the Master! ”