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It's almost time.

Katie Maggie leaned against the wall of the abandoned mill, the damp greystone floor making her feel greasy and uncomfortable, with the smell of mold, smoke, and gunpowder everywhere.

She was bound hand and foot with rope and could only lean against the mossy wall. The holes in the roof cast specks of light, turning from the bright of the day to the dull yellow of the evening, and she knew that the appointed time was almost up, and that if no one came to deliver the ransom, the kidnappers might actually kill her.

Katie felt that she was really unlucky today, she was going to go home for a vacation, but this kind of thing happened.

The beginning of April is the best season in Sapphire Town, and at this time of year, many leisure tourists make a point of visiting Katie's hometown, the Sapphire Town of the Kingdom of Frankland. Katie took a week off work to help out at her family's hotel. As is customary in previous years, Katie packed her bags and walked to the station on the outskirts of Adrian. This road is not a remote path, but it is on this road that Katie suddenly feels a strange aura.

As a clerk of the Wizard Alliance, Katie can use a lot of auxiliary magic magic weapons, and naturally she can also perceive the breath of the original magic. She immediately turned her head, and in front of her was a tall, thin porter pushing a rusty trolley. Almost reflexively, Katie raised her hand to stop him.

"Miss?" the porter looked dazed.

The porter was covered in dirt and his clothes were patched. It should be a poor man. In the Anglo region, many people use carts with magic drives, but he only has such an old car. Katie squatted down sternly, raised her hand to signal the porter not to move, and slowly approached the trolley.

"Excuse me, what's in here?"

Katie couldn't believe that the station in Adrian City would contain a shipment of goods containing the magic of the Origin, perhaps, it didn't come from the station at all, "Where did you get it from, who told you to transport it, and where are you going to transport it?"

"Ah, this. The porter scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. He wore an old gray fur hat. "It makes me very embarrassed by your question, miss, you see that I am only a porter, and the goods belong to the employer. I don't know what it is. Why don't you ask your employer? ”

The porter lifted his hand and pointed behind him. In front of a few shops, pedestrians looked at them curiously as if they were bustling. Because I'm going home. Katie didn't wear the white uniform of the office clerk, but just a very ordinary brown trench coat and red plaid skirt, and Katie immediately stood up when she heard this.

"Who is the employer, can you take me to him?" she asked urgently.

The porter shrugged his shoulders and pushed the cart towards the shadow behind a bakery.

Katie didn't even know when the porter had pulled out the gun, and when she reacted, several men surrounded her. A man in a black coat smoking a cigarette looked at her coldly, and then, Katie was twisted by the arms of the two men on the left and right, and the porter behind her shouted compassionately, "Shut up, or I'll kill you!"

"This is the city of Adrian in the Anglo region......"

Katie was shocked that these people were so bold, but on second thought, she had only been kidnapped once in the last month, and the bandit had broken into the Wizard Alliance office. She held her breath, the noise on the road seemed so close and yet far away that the people in the street would have heard it if she shouted loudly, but they had more time to kill her and run away.

"You don't need to remind you, miss. The man in black had a gloomy face, "Quick, stuff her in the car!"

"Oh!

Katie couldn't help but shout. The car was obviously dangerous, otherwise how could there be an aura of origin magic emitted?, but as soon as she shouted, the porter behind raised the butt of her gun and hit her the back of the neck, and when she woke up, she was left in this abandoned mill.

"You guys are ......" Katie struggled to prop herself up, her position of lying on the ground with her hands and feet tied was uncomfortable for her, and she found herself alive.

"Hey, the clerk is awake. At the door of the mill, two men looked at each other. Katie wondered how these people knew she was a clerk, only to remember later that the clerk's uniform was in her package.

"Be honest, huh. The tall and thin porter snorted irritably, "It's all because of you, our plans are all disrupted! Damn, why hasn't that poor boy come yet?"

"Maybe they don't want to care about such a stupid clerk. Someone outside the mill sneered contemptuously, holding a shotgun and a box with a bomb symbol at his feet, "Wait until six o'clock, and if no one comes, kill her and leave!"

"You guys, what do you want to do?" Katie suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It looks like I've been kidnapped, oh no, I guess I've been kidnapped.

"Who are you?" she asked.

The two men at the door looked at each other.

"It's stupid. A man said helplessly.

"Not your average stupidity. The porter held his forehead.

No one answered Katie's question, but Katie gradually calmed down and began to look at the mill. She thought it was near Adrian City, with a spring that had not dried up next to the mill, surrounded by a forest, and where the cart was, still exuding the scent of the magic of the source. She felt that the person who kidnapped him was likely to be a vicious Demon Crystal thief, and she couldn't help but shudder in fright.

Very few people dare to steal and sell the Magic Guiding Primordial Crystal in Anglo, the direct region of the Magic Channeling Alliance, unless they are crazy for money, these people only need money, and they don't care about her life or death at all.

"You guys, what did you do? Why did you kidnap me? Do you want to ask the Alliance for ransom?" shouted Katie, frightened by her thoughts, "This is not going to work! The Alliance has a lot of powerful magicians, and they will destroy you!"

"Idiot. The porter rolled his eyes.

"Who's going to let the sorcerer come over. Another person said.

"Sue you. Miss Clerk. Let's ask a newspaper delivery kid to send a message to your office and ask them to give the ransom to the kid, and the address is known only to the kid. The man outside the door smiled dryly, poked his head out, and raised the shotgun in his hand, "Thank you for your kindness, Miss Clerk, but unfortunately, your office probably doesn't have time for any tricks." ”

Katie froze. Keep your head up. I looked at the porous ceiling.

It was already afternoon when she left the office, and I don't know what time it was, but it should not be far from the deadline they said. It seems like everyone has a gun here. And bombs. Even if there happens to be a magician who is good at fighting in the office. If you don't know the situation, you will be ambushed, and they will only let the children who deliver the newspaper come over.

"Well, what if the kid doesn't come?" said Katie, bowing her head. Timidly asked.

The kidnappers replied with a laugh.

Time slipped by the kidnappers' laughter and Katie's thumping heartbeat, and Katie's mood grew more and more tense. She felt that even if the child who delivered the newspaper came, it would not be useful, and these thugs would probably kill the innocent child as well, which was really the worst.

Just as Katie was thinking nonsense, suddenly, the kidnapper pacing at the door stopped, and Katie jerked her head up.

"-- Let the clerk's sister come over, or I'll run away with the money!" In the distance, a somewhat childish voice sounded.

"Yo, this little devil is quite clever!" one of the kidnappers' eyes widened, "is he alone?"

"I don't know, he's standing too far. The kidnapper at the door raised his shotgun, then lowered it again, and it seemed that the child was out of range of his shotgun. Katie suddenly felt a glimmer of hope, maybe the kid who delivered the newspaper was a very smart child!

At this moment, the man dressed in black walked to the door of the mill, took a puff of his cigarette, and threw the end of the cigarette on the ground.

"Hey, probably someone in the office taught him that. Take that woman out!"

So Katie was quickly picked up, and she couldn't help but scream, and her numb foot hurt like a pinprick as soon as she moved. The porter quickly cut the rope at her ankle and pushed her out.

"Wait, wait, I can't walk!"

As soon as Katie complained, someone rudely shoved an old handkerchief into her mouth, and she was pushed out.

She saw no one else, only a child in a plaid shirt, gray cloth pants, and an earthy yellow cap, standing behind the bushes more than a hundred meters away, hiding with his head down. The child, certainly not more than fifteen years old, looked like a poor poor child, carrying in his hand a grass-green package, perhaps the same one he usually used to keep his newspaper.

"Little one, send me the money, we'll release your clerk sister right away!" shouted the man in black.

"But I'm scared!" replied the boy aloud. Katie vaguely felt that the child's voice was a little familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a moment, and she looked at the child blankly.

There was a slight sāo movement around her, and Katie soon noticed that there were many sneaky figures hiding in the shade of the nearby trees, and sure enough, there was an ambush!

"Don't scream!" ordered the man in black fiercely. "Hurry up and come here! I'll kill her if you don't send the money!"

The man in black shouted at the child in a threatening tone.

"No! I'm afraid!" the boy still refused, "You let my sister go this way towards me, and I'll go over, or I'll run right away, I'll run fast!"

"Interesting. The man in black muttered, and his face became stern. He waved his hand and motioned for Katie to walk towards the child. But Katie's feet were so heavy that she felt like lead, and she took a few steps with difficulty, and fell to her knees.

"Be careful, maybe the kid doesn't have any money in his bag at all. Another kidnapper leaned into the ear of the man in black, who nodded, took a few steps back, and retreated to the mill door.

The porter came over and picked Katie up again, and Katie wept and continued to walk towards the child. Her feet gradually became less numb, and after walking about twenty meters, she turned around and saw the porter behind her holding his gray fur hat, and under the leather hat, a short gun pointed at her back.

They obviously didn't intend to let her go up to the child.

"You go this way too, hurry, if you want to save the clerk's sister, hurry up!" the man in black scolded.

The child obeyed and came out from behind the bushes.

The kidnapper's ambush didn't know about the kidnapper's ambush and walked towards Katie, Katie was so shocked that she even thought that she had seen the child get shot and fall, she didn't even think about it, and ran desperately towards the child.

If she could get to the kid before he got within range of the shotgun, maybe she could save him!' The only thought left in Katie's mind was that she would run away from the kid, and the kid might be able to escape.

The child also ran, and Katie almost cried at the sight of the child running into range of the shotgun. She didn't notice at all that the child didn't look like he was carrying a heavy money bag. It's too late! The kidnappers in the woods have already raised their shotguns.

But at this moment, the child did something terrible, he suddenly lifted the package and threw it out violently.

"Shoot!" the man in black decisively ordered.

"Aisha!" the newspaper seller shouted at the same time in a decisive voice, and Katie was stunned and fell forward. The child's agility was beyond her imagination, as if it had been specially trained. She watched as the child leaped up in the air a few meters away from her, the bullet whizzing towards her, only to be bounced away by a beam of silver light that rose from the child's hand.

Before the child hit the ground, the silver light suddenly transformed into a spherical light curtain, enveloping Katie and the child, and the bullets were all blocked by the silver light curtain.

This is, what is it?

"Stay next to me. The child grabbed Katie with his left hand and held his right hand flat, and on his wrist, the golden wrist chakra was as dazzling as the sun. Flames erupted in the woods, and flying fireballs flew out from behind the ambushed kidnappers and crashed into them, followed by a wall of ice falling from the sky. The child dragged Katie and ran briskly towards the kidnappers in front of the mill.

"Don't, don't come here!"

The porter's face turned pale, and he fired the last bullet and ran away. The child paused abruptly, and a silver, glowing spear was added to his right hand. Instead of being blocked like a bullet, the spear pierced through the silver curtain and flew straight out as if it had been sped up, pinning him to the ground through the porter's right shoulder. Just then, several lit bombs flew out of the mill.

Katie immediately closed her eyes, and there was a terrible roar that shook the ground violently, and the blinding light seemed to penetrate her eyelids. When she could finally open her eyes, the newspaper seller was no longer holding her.

The child stood in front of the ruins of the mill, one of the walls of which had been reduced to a pile of rubble, and the earthy yellow cap on the child's head had been lifted off by the wind, and a soft linen hair was lifted in the wind. The man in black and another kidnapper struggled to get up from the rubble, covered in dust and blood.

The child pointed a silver one-handed sword at them diagonally, and revealed his true identity in a very calm tone.

"I'm Ivan Yafir, the executor of the Wizard Alliance. He said as he pulled out a turquoise Executor badge, "You guys, arrested." ”

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