Hearing Erin's speculation about Clement's intentions, Leon froze as he shook his chair, and then he slowly lowered the chair flat, and his legs were retracted from the table.

At this time, countless thoughts turned through his mind like lightning, and finally said slowly: "Very likely, that's why he won't say anything to me." ”

Erin noticed that the young man's face was very solemn, hesitated for a moment and said, "This is just my guess, you don't need to be too nervous, it is also very likely that he came specifically for the ancient documents we took out from the ruins. ”

Leon was silent for a long time, and then suddenly said, "Why do you say that? We went to the underground ruins and no one else knew. ”

"Just because others don't know doesn't mean that the observer doesn't know either, or that the observer knows something they feel compelled to know," Erin asked, "Have you heard the Observer Code?"

"No, let's hear it. ”

"I happened to read a book about the observer, so I know a little bit," Erin subconsciously stroked the long hair around her ear. Observers have been around for hundreds of years, and during that time they have observed and documented a sea of discoveries and events, but for a member of the Observer, they can consult any records from the past, but they cannot leak any of the information contained in them, let alone use them for direct benefit, which is part of the Observer's Code, and no observer has ever violated them. ”

"So, they have most of the world's secrets, and even know the location of many undiscovered ruins scattered across the continent, but even someone like Clement, who is interested in ancient knowledge, can only wait until someone is lucky enough to find a ruin, and bring out from the ruins those precious items that have been buried for hundreds of years, so that he can get them from these lucky ones in a fair way. ”

"......I see," Leon said, "so our exploration of the underground ruins is an important event, and it will be recorded by these elusive observers?"

The mage girl nodded.

"What the hell......" The young man felt uncomfortable with the observer's behavior, which made him feel like he was standing on the street with countless surveillance cameras, and at the same time he was a little puzzled, "Isn't it a direct benefit for him to learn that we brought back ancient documents from the ground in this way?"

"I don't know," said Erin, "but since Clement can make it clear to us that he is here for this, he should be sure that this behavior is not a violation of the code, and that he is also dealing with us in a fair way, isn't he?"

Leon leaned back in his chair for a long time and didn't speak, he pondered back and forth several times about the two possibilities of Clement's intentions, and filtered all the big and small affairs of Campbell in his mind, and really didn't find out what kind of heavy events the territory would face that would make the person in charge of the observer come deliberately, so the ups and downs that were shaken by Erin's words just now slowly calmed down.

"Anyway," said the young lord at last, "although you have only mentioned a possibility, I always feel that this matter should not be taken lightly, and as long as old Mr. Clement remains in the manor, we must be more vigilant. ”

"Yes, that's what I mean," Erin said, "so as soon as I thought of this possibility, I immediately made excuses, you have to leave the manor tomorrow, and it is better to say hello to Master Kaka and Jeff and remind them." ”

The meaning of this sentence is a bit unusual, for Erin, a girl who has dreamed of having a famous teacher by her side since she was a child, it is not a simple matter to be able to leave Clement's side, which shows that she has now put Leon's affairs above her own ideals in a sense, and it can be regarded as inadvertently showing her heart.

Leon understood Erin's pursuit, so he understood the unusualness of the other party's move, so he was also very moved, he looked directly at the black and white eyes of the mage girl, and a feeling that he couldn't explain welled up in his heart.

After Erin finished speaking, she suddenly noticed that the gaze radiating from the eyes of the silent young man was a little different from usual, it seemed that there were a lot of things of unknown meaning in it, the girl's heart tightened, and at the same time, her cheeks turned red, and she immediately lowered her head slightly, allowing her long and smooth hair to cover her expression from both sides.

No one spoke for a long time, and the two of them fell into a certain atmosphere at the same time, and this atmosphere became more and more ambiguous, until Erin was a little unable to bear it, and said in a mosquito-like voice under the rapid turn of her thoughts: "Where are those centaurs locked up, their bodies are too strong, be careful to recover and hurt the people in the manor." ”

"Centaurs?" The young lord's mind immediately shifted at the mention of these prisoners of war, "It's okay, there are alchemy masters, they can't even stand up, but what are you going to do with me catching a few live centaurs?"

"Of course, for a reason, centaurs are not kobolds, goblins, or trolls, their way of life and civilization are very close to us humans, and they have even established their own countries in the depths of the Pale Mountains and in the Arrakhan steppes, so I wanted to see if I could get in touch with them, and if we could release our kindness through these prisoners of war, maybe there would be unexpected gains. ”

After saying this, Erin secretly let out a long breath, and at the same time, the palm that was tightly grasping the placket of the shirt under the table was quietly released, and she glanced at the young man who was thinking about it from the corner of her eye, and for some reason she was suddenly a little disappointed in her heart.

"What can we gain?" Li Ang didn't pay attention to the mood of the girl next to him, and asked curiously, "And has the centaur civilization developed to such a point?"

Erin pinched herself and said in a straight tone as much as possible: "Yes, and the centaur kingdom of the Arrakhan steppe has been in contact with the surrounding human countries for a long time, and by now the humans in many countries have accepted the existence of humanoid creatures like centaurs around them, and even many mercenary groups can see the figure of centaur warriors, it can be said that the centaur tribe is gradually beginning to move closer to the human kingdom through the efforts of the Alakhan Kingdom in the past few decades." ”

Li Ang had never known about this, he listened to it with relish, and couldn't help but ask the humanoid mobile library next to him, "Can humans coexist peacefully with the centaur race, has there never been a conflict?"

"Of course," the learned mage girl explained impatiently, "as long as there are no great interests involved, the highly intelligent races will always find a relatively peaceful way to get along with each other. ”

"There will also be small-scale conflicts between the kingdom of Arakhan and the surrounding human kingdoms, but they can be ignored in the overall environment, the biggest enemies for this kingdom are the ogres and orcs on the north and south sides of the steppe, as well as the tide of monsters that appear from time to time in the endless wilderness, if you don't have a good relationship with the human kingdom outside the grassland, the entire kingdom of Arakhan will be in a disadvantageous situation of being attacked from all sides. ”

"It seems that the centaur leader of the Arakhan steppe is also a man of great talent...... "Leon sighed, "so the centaurs in the Pale Mountains are the same?"

"It's not the same, the Ducente Empire in the Pale Mountains is more chaotic than the Kingdom of Arahan, which may also be due to the different circumstances in which they are located. ”

I have to say that Erin's knowledge is indeed rich, and these things are said through her gentle voice, which makes Leon listen to the evolution and development of centaurs in the past hundred years in a pleasant feeling like a spring breeze.

"For us humans, there is still no accurate and comprehensive account of what the depths of the Pale Mountains look like, and a few years ago, several of the Candle Keepers explored it once, and although they also visited the Ducente Empire, they did not really touch the deepest area. ”

"The lamp bearer?" Li Ang was very curious about this unfamiliar word, and couldn't help but interject again.

"There are twelve supreme men in the Candle Castle, and they are called the Bearers of the Lamp, which means the torch of knowledge transmission, and their duty to light the way forward for the world. ”

"The meaning of this name is just a cow's ......," Leon sighed as he motioned for Erin to continue with the topic.

"However, according to the information brought back by the lamp bearer, the Emperor Ducente disappeared inexplicably more than ten years ago, and now the entire empire is in a situation of leaderlessness, and there are countless powerful races living around, many of which are mortal threats to centaurs, if it were not for the empire established on the edge of the dagger mountain range that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is likely to be disrupted by those creatures long ago. ”

"The Centaur Empire of the Pale Mountains can only be maintained in this situation, and the Candle Castle Bearer once wrote a book for this, mentioning that after losing the super strong who can shelter the entire empire, those powerful races who have received the news have flocked to take the city for themselves, so the Ducente Empire is facing a serious threat from foreign enemies, and has begun to consider whether to seek the assistance of other intelligent beings within the empire, and even has the idea of relocating to other regions as a whole, although it is far away from its homeland, it can at least be relatively safe, and it can also allow the war-torn races to recuperate。 ”

However, the entire empire is also debated, with two of the loudest voices, one of them believes that it is relatively close to the Dark Realm, so it wants to contact the Dark Council to see if it can get their help, and the other believes that it can follow the example of the Kingdom of Arakhand and make contact with the human kingdom on this side of the mountains. ”

"At the end of the book, it was proposed that several neighboring countries could unite to support the Ducente Empire, or jointly set aside an area for these centaurs to relocate, so as to avoid such an empire from leaning towards the Dark Realm in an all-round way, and add a powerful opponent to humanity for nothing, but because it involved the distribution of land, the supply of resources, and the consumption of all kinds of money and materials, so the countries including Sverl were not interested in this, and in the end, the matter was not settled. ”

Leon's eyes gradually lit up, first of all, he didn't expect the civilization of the centaur society to develop to such a point, and secondly, it was the first time he had heard of the current situation of the two centaur countries, the centaurs of Alahan could coexist peacefully with humans?

Although he is not qualified to talk to such an empire in terms of his own strength and territory, does this mean that there are other possibilities?