This was the first time that Shuge had seen the true power of magic with his own eyes.

The hot air rushed into the basement so violently that the wooden door he closed could not keep out the terrible heat, and the cramped world he was in seemed to be stuffed into a huge furnace in an instant, and even the dirt and stone bricks that had accumulated in the basement seemed to be spitting out heat.

"Instant fire."

Wei Lin, who was walking beside Xiuge, said lightly.

"Stream level, a somewhat superfluous spell."

Xiuge felt a little suffocated: "You say redundant? ”

"Well, it's redundant."

Wei Lin raised her hand and gently wiped the sweat from her forehead, her two strands of hair were already stuck to her forehead: "Generally speaking, it can only be used to create fire and light, and you can light a little bonfire when you are in the wild...... The current fire is caused by an overdose of mana and multiple recasts, so don't think too much about it. ”

As they spoke, the two had come to the exit at the other end of the basement, and Xiuge, who walked out of the basement, couldn't help but look back, but saw that the ancient mansion belonging to the Ernst family had been completely wrapped in flames, and under the light of the fire, Xiuge saw that the lips of the female mage Verin were a little pale, perhaps as she said, in order to create this terrifying fire in an instant, she consumed too much magic power.

Neither of them had any intention of staying here, and after a little confirmation of the direction, Hug led Willow in the direction of the bushes, and only through this deserted wooded area could go around the "Ladies Street" north of the city to the "Splash Street", which was the favorite place for men.

While it is not appropriate to walk into such a place with a woman of the same age, it is the most appropriate escape route at the moment.

As soon as he stepped into the uninhabited woodland, Shug summoned the Rat of Run, and the fully tamed magical creature immediately jumped into the bushes, where it would follow Xiug as a living sentry in case anyone tracked him.

It was only at this time that Shuge took the time to help Wei Lin remove a thorny branch that hung from the hem of her robe, and then asked, "Miss Wei Lin, who is chasing you?" ”

"I don't know, I just know that there are quite a few mages among these people, maybe members of the Law Committee, but more likely the Derean royal family."

Verin's breathing was noticeably shorter because of the mana drain, and she wrinkled her nose before quickly recounting her previous experience in succinct words.

"The situation is worse than I thought before, there are already problems in the independent government of Salem City, the General Defense Department has most likely completely fallen to the Kingdom of Deran, and only at the southern gate, at least three guards carrying crystallized guns and mixed spellcasters have entered the city, not only that, but the magic sealing ceremony of all the current walls and gates of Salem City has also been tampered with."

"Tampering? What do you mean? ”

"It means that the city has been completely closed, and maybe people from the outside can get in, but people from inside can't get out! If you forcibly try to destroy or pass the ritual, you will most likely be killed on the spot by the tampered ritual field. ”

After saying this, Xiuge and the two fell into silence.

Schugg was well aware that he and the female mage beside him, who also had the Ernst family name, did not have any solid foundation of trust, and although the two had hastily reached a relationship similar to that of a collaborator, all of this was the result of a rapidly changing form, and such a relationship was not strong at all, and it was even very likely that it would collapse at some critical moment.

In a state of apprehension and unease, Shug looked back at the road again, and through the gaps between the sparse trees, he saw that the old house of the Ernst family was completely covered in flames, and at this time, the fire brigade in the city of Salem had already arrived nearby, and even through the trees, Shug could see the huge modified vehicles with heavy water tanks.

Under the operation of the firefighters, several metal water pipes inlaid with crystalline ore and inscribed with many lines were lifted from above the huge water tanks, and then began to spray water columns towards the burning old house.

But somehow, the momentum of the flames did not subside at all, and the jets of water that sprayed down could barely suppress the spread of the fire, and in the already crumbling mansion, there seemed to be another force that kept generating new flames.

In this case, even a beginner spellcaster like Xiuge would be able to see the abnormality.

"It looks like some people are afraid that this room will not burn clean enough......"

Shug muttered to himself, and was about to ask Verin to verify it, when there was a strange movement from the Running Rat, which had been hiding in the distance—someone was walking quickly past it, and there were quite a few of them.

"Someone is chasing after you."

Shug immediately told Verin of her discovery, and when she heard this, the mage stopped, breathed a sigh of relief, and then took a delicate pocket from her waist and poured the contents into the palm of her hand.

"Sharp claws, teeth, and bird skulls...... It looks like it's all animal bones. ”

Shug recognized them at a glance, and then he saw a pale blue magical glow swirl and dance among the bones, and after about two breaths, the light finally landed on the bird's skull.

Vicion picked the skull from her palm and tossed it gently into the air, and the next moment, with a flash of magical light, a huge raven covered in pitch black but with blue feathers at the ends of its wings appeared in the air, and it quickly circled over Verin's head before burrowing into the canopy of the trees beside it.

"Aren't we going to keep going?"

Shug lowered his voice, and through the message from the Running Rat, the trackers were approaching the two of them, he had always been a self-aware man, so he didn't think it was a good idea to "fight" them in the woods.

"I respect your ideas, Mr. Shug, but you'd better not think of me as a fool who rushes into a decisive battle with the enemy."

Verin seemed to roll her eyes, she glanced in the direction where the raven was flying, a flash of magic flashed in the pupils behind the lenses, and after a brief pause, Xiug listened to her, "Hmm...... Instead of tracking magic, they used short-nosed dogs on the plains of the goddess, and that was easy to do. ”

"So, we're going to get rid of these hounds?"

"Of course."

Wei Lin chuckled, "Could it be that Mr. Xiuge is planning to invite them to your next hideout?" ”

……

In fact, when Shug and Verin left the old Ernst mansion through the passage in the basement, these ill-intentioned trackers had already reached the rear of the old mansion, and if it weren't for the simple magic of confusion that Vivien had set up when she entered the old Ernst mansion in a cautious manner, I am afraid that the two would have encountered this team when they got out of the basement.

The team consisted of two Stalkers with longbows, fifteen twin swordsmen, and five gunners with crystallized guns, in addition to a professional dog trainer.

This is a very standard tracking party in the Teresa army.

Known as the "Fugitive's Doom", these magical hounds with thin magical powers can memorize their targets' breath for long periods of time, and they are naturally very intelligent, even able to solve simple illusion tricks and traps on their instincts.

There are three short-nosed dogs, enough to show all traces of the escapees.

The short-nosed dogs had caught their target's breath, and the ferocious hounds let out a low bark before leading the dog trainer and the rest of the trackers into the depths of the wooded area.

By this time, Shug had begun to share the vision of the Running Rat, and through the eyes of the magical creature, he noticed that each of the swordsmen with long and short swords was silent and fierce, their clothing did not look much different from that of ordinary soldiers, but on the hilt of their swords, there was a rather bright iris pendant.

", iris guard?"

He nearly bit his tongue off.

For this group of silent veterans, Xiuge is very familiar, according to his own worldview of the creation, these elite guards belonging to the Deresan royal family still enjoy a prestigious reputation in the "Black Sun Age" two hundred years later, although they are not teachers, but they have undergone the most rigorous, even perverted "anti-demon" training, with weapons specially designed to fight magic, they are definitely good at hunting spellcasters.

Shuge remembers that in the past, among the several batches of merchandise that were released before the game was launched, there was a fleur-de-lis keychain that symbolized the royal guards of Teresa.

"Their blades are the undying irises of the kingdom of Deresa."

Even this sentence was typed into the document by Xiuge himself.

He now doubts that he has perfectly inherited the tragic and unlucky character of "Baron Ernst", maybe today's encounter is just the beginning of bad luck?

The crow chirping in the forest interrupted Xiuge's thoughts, which was the signal from Verin, and he immediately lifted his spirits and gave the order to launch a sneak attack on the Running Rat, who had been on standby for a long time.

So, the magic rat covered in dark green light and shadow immediately began to move, and the three long tails continued to sweep back and forth among the trees as it advanced, like three insidious poisonous snakes walking through the grass and trees.

The giant raven with blue feathers swooped down from the canopy, and Verin's goal was different from that of Shug, she needed to find a way to interfere with and even dispose of the dog trainer, and as long as the trainer was not there, even if the short-nosed dog was still alive, the remaining trackers would not be able to perfectly understand what the hounds meant.

In the face of this sudden attack, the tracking team that stepped into the woods was unusually silent, neither shouting for an enemy attack, nor standing up to command, the twin swordsmen with iris decorations on their weapons quickly gathered together, protecting the dog trainer and the five gunners in the middle, and the two stealth experts who wandered around the edge of the line took out their long hunting bows, the bowstrings buzzed, and the two arrows flew out immediately.

The blue-winged raven summoned by Vireen was extremely agile, and it gently deflected its body to dodge the two arrows, and then let out a hissing roar in the air.

The scream was so harsh that the gunners and dog trainers who were disturbed by the sound involuntarily raised their palms to cover their ears, while the iris guards on the periphery only frowned, and their bodies only shook slightly.

However, this momentary distraction also bought a very precious space, and while everyone's attention was on the blue-winged raven, the running rat under the control of Shug finally jumped out of the shadows, revealing its unusually sharp and terrifyingly poisonous claws, and pounced on a short-nosed dog that was also frightened by the raven's scream.

Although the body of this strange rat is already relatively large among rats, it is still much smaller than that of a hound, but at this moment, its burst of power is extremely amazing, and the strong hound was knocked to the ground on the spot, and its sharp front teeth and claws fell one after another, with the strange corrosive magic, almost instantaneously tore a tear in the side of the hound's neck.

In the next moment, the galloping rat, known as the "Mother Earth God Driver", made a movement beyond Xiuge's expectations, it jumped off the hound's body, and its three tails suddenly curled, and it stabbed forward like three stabbing swords, piercing the wound on the poor hound's body with precision, and piercing its neck.

"Squeak!!

Pleasure was transmitted from the Running Rat, which pulled its long tail back from the body of the short-nosed dog in front of it, and then rushed towards its next target.

Relying on his intuitive knowledge of his summons, Xiuge did not continue to forcibly control it, but let go of its control, leaving it to make its own judgment.

"Bang bang!"

With a few loud bangs, the gunners standing in the line had already raised their crystalline guns, about the length of an adult's forearm, with silver patterns on the surface and inlaid with bright crystals, and the delicate magic guns with silver patterns on the surface let out their own roar, accompanied by the flickering of the magic crystals, and the carved bullets powered by magic power bombarded out, creating a series of craters in the grass of the woodland.

At this moment, the Running Rat finally showed a terrifying speed worthy of its name, and even Xiuge, who was the summoner, almost failed to react, and among the splashes of soil and blades of grass, it accurately avoided each deadly bombardment, and the dark light on its sharp incisors became more obvious, and in the chaos, it jumped directly onto the back of the second short-nosed dog, and its three tails quickly pierced into the body of its prey, its claws scratching wildly.

At the desperate howl of the hound, fur and flesh flew in all directions.