Arya followed the guards through the red and yellow corridor to a thick red-lacquered wooden door. The guard knocked softly on the door, and a voice came from inside: "Come in." ”

The guard pushed open the door and bowed down to make a gesture of please, and Arya was stunned for a moment, her heart thumping, and her footsteps slowly stepped over the threshold.

Virgin sat on the fluffy couch and looked up at Arya. A standard slum girl, her face is quite a bit beautiful, if she can cultivate it well, she will have a chance to marry into a noble family, at least the baronial family is more than enough.

After all, it is difficult for the nobles of this kind of title to have the opportunity to marry with the previous titles, this class does not worry about food and clothing, most of the wishes are to marry a beautiful wife to spend their lives ordinarily, it is best to marry a person with no background, who can't control themselves, so that when they have money, they can also take care of a few more to experience different feelings.

Some tastes focus on even trying women of different races, such as the orcs, which are the favorite of many nobles with special fetishes, and the number of orcs sold from different regions every year is not small.

"You know Kane?" Virgin asked.

"There's a letter here, he wrote it to you, and he said you'll understand it when you read it." Arya took out the letter and placed it on the table.

Virkin was still skeptical of Arya at this time, he remembered that when he met Kane, he didn't hear him say that there were other people in the family, and he was still wary of Arya's identity at first, but think about it, is a knight of honor in Harrence still afraid of these little tricks?

While it is true that Wilkin is known for his caution, he is not so afraid of being plotted even when he meets a girl.

When he saw Arya take out the envelope, Virgin already believed her, he opened the envelope, and after reading the contents, he completely believed Arya's identity, and he got up and asked Arya to lead the way.

Wilkin grabbed a hat and strapped, and followed Arya out through the side door, and they walked down the lonely path so as not to attract attention.

Neither of them spoke on the way, and Virgin didn't ask Arya Kane how she was doing, and he walked silently beside Arya. The two walked side by side, and the aura that Virgin exuded made Arya a little scared, and it was found in the knights who came down from the battlefield, which was accumulated from fighting dark creatures, and of course, there were many enemy souls.

Walking through the towering old towers, the cold wind poured in from the broken windows, hitting the face, making it difficult for the eyes to resist, and the dark clouds accumulated in the air, like a huge net to capture the whole sky, and the oppressive breath forced from the canopy.

The jackdaw turned its neck mechanically on the ruined wall, its eyes dripping around it.

Arya pushed open the loose wooden door with a creak.

Kane was sitting on the edge of the bed, the fire from the fireplace glowing faintly against the invading cold.

Virkin saw Kane look at him with a smile on his face, and nodded at him with no expression on his face. Then I found a random chair and sat down.

Virkin spoke first, "I didn't expect you to survive in that kind of place, it's quite surprising. I've been looking for you for a few days, but I haven't heard from you, thinking that if there is still no news from you in a few days, then what I promised you before will count. Now you're better than I expected. ”

"Mishinro's explosion that night was also caused by you, many forces have found dark creatures there, everyone is paying attention to the cause of that night, as a party, you should have a lot of useful information to tell us, right?"

Wilkin looked Kane in the eye.

Kane nodded, "The explosion that night was indeed caused by me, the dark creatures, the ......" Before Kane could finish speaking, Wilkin interrupted him so that he didn't have to continue.

"It's not too late to talk about the rest when I see Lord Franz later, now pack up and I'll take you to Master Kakireć."

Kane was happy at first, then worried, for he hadn't thought about how to get Arya to safety. He glanced at Arya, who was silent and well-behaved.

Wilkin saw his concern and said to him, "If you are worried about this girl, then you don't have to, I can help you get her to a safe place, the Hammer family has a lot of property in their name, and we can arrange for her to work there." You know, it's not easy to have a job to support yourself these days. ”

He continued: "If she's smart enough, it's not hard to get into a good position, as long as she shows her worth. ”

It's not easy to find a good job in this day and age, and Wilkin's words made Kane hesitate to agree with him.

The two of them are planning the future of Arya's life, but Arya, as the master, has a different opinion.

"I don't want to leave you, I think I can stay with you and do a lot of simple chores for you." Arya said to Kane.

"Hammer has no shortage of servants, and if you don't want this job, I'm afraid you're going to lose a stable opportunity to support yourself, remember, opportunities don't always come by." Virkin said to her as if warning.

Kane also spoke to persuade her, "Listen to Lord Wilkin first. ”

At this time, Arya no longer insisted, and could only agree to their arrangement.

Virgin led Kane back from the way they came, Kane walked slowly, not in very good shape, and when he returned to the back door of the Kahlan Tavern, a tall carriage was parked on the blackstone floor, and two tall horses stood majestically, trampling on the floor with their iron hooves from time to time, making a clattering sound.

This kind of high-headed horse is not simple at first glance, and it is usually a horse that only high-ranking generals in the army have the opportunity to equip, but this kind of general-level war horse is now used by Hammer as a coolie to pull a cart.

Kane has once again refreshed Hammer's status and influence with Harness.

Wilkin first asked a middle-aged female servant to take Arya to make arrangements, and then let Kane get into the carriage with him.

The red upholstery in the carriage shows his style, and the black gold thread printed carpet is a step up the carriage.

The carriage led them smoothly past the stone arch of Perfume Street, and after exiting Perfume Street, they turned into a wide road lined with evergreen trees, and there was even a wooden warning sign at the entrance prohibiting horse-drawn carriages.

The groom ignored the sign and hurried past the carriage. The patrolling sheriff saw it and turned a blind eye.

Kane lifted the curtains, and the building swept backwards at a rapid pace, faster than any carriage his father had ever ridden with him when he was a child, and even Viscount Henry's purebred horses were less than half his own.

Driving through a large garden of various colors, a swarthy castle looms visible, and a towering tower rises abruptly from the top of the building.

A carriage stopped in front of two dark iron gates, and several servants hurried over to open the gate, and they guided the coachman to drive the horses to put them away. Virgin told Kane to follow him.

Kane observes the architecture of the castle, a huge statue of a black wolf in a howling posture with its head facing the full moon in the sky. There was not a single trace of dust on the stone carving, and Kane guessed that a special servant should come to clean it carefully every day.

Except for a few servants he had seen at first, there was no one to be seen on the road to Kane, and the castle seemed eeriely lonely, with long corridors covered with portraits, and some biographies of these men and the golden words they left behind.

From the word Hammer in the back, it is not difficult to think that these hanging are the masters of the Hammer family for generations. Across the corridor, Kane descended a spiraling staircase to the ground.

As he walked down, he heard a scream of pain, a heart-rending sound that was not loud but audible.

Kane had an ominous premonition in his heart, and even for a moment he had the idea of running away, but as soon as this thought appeared, he quickly extinguished it. There is no turning back when the bow is opened, and it is impossible to have a chance to retreat when you come to this point.

Virgin frowned, and he pushed open a door carved with wolf claws.

"Hey! I said can you fix the cage over there, every time you come here, it's noisy! Vilkin looked annoyed by the screams, and he spoke at young Ruan.

The grumbling Ruan shook his poet-like hair, which was what he himself thought of as a hairstyle. Smiled and responded to Virgin, "It's not something I can decide, of course I want him to shut up and keep their voices from coming out, but we don't have any gold coins, and we can't fix it if we want to." ”

"Gone again? Didn't you just give it last time. ”

"Well, you know the temper of Master Kakireć, he spends all his money on researching the latest potions, oh yes, he named them "Rebirth". He also said that you will bring a good experimenter recently. ”

By the time he heard the word experimenter, Kane probably already knew what he was going to do. It turns out that to use potions to become transcendent is to first become an experimenter in drug testing. A wave of fear rushed from the cold floor, and Kane felt like he had fallen into a trap. He may end up with the same fate as the owner of the voice that just came.

Ruan turned around and saw Kane behind Virkin, and he asked with a surprised expression: "This is the drug tester that Kakirech said, I'll go tell the teacher now, let him prepare the "rebirth" he developed, and it will be all right soon." ”

Virgin turned back and said to Kane, "Don't worry too much, the use of potions is somewhat dangerous, and we will try to minimize the danger." ”

Kane nodded silently, he began to disbelieve Vilkin's words, although at the beginning Vilkin had told him that it might cost him his life, but he was still a little scared when he was really in danger of his life.

In the alchemy laboratory, all kinds of equipment are placed in various places, all kinds of record experimental papers are scattered on the ground, and transparent utensils contain liquids of various colors bubbling, and the viscous liquid flows slowly like paste.

A few young alchemists scrambled to prepare, and the irascible Kakireich, a bald old alchemist, grabbed a bottle of purple potion and hurled at them with a curse.

"Okay, hurry up and bring someone over, look at how many days it's been delayed, I still have a lot of experiments to do, do you think I have a lot of time? Yes? Mr. Wilkin, I wish you could know how much time is valued by us pioneers in the pursuit of alchemy. After saying that the complaining Kakireć had been holding back the anger in his heart for a few days, he didn't wait for Virkin to speak, pulled Kane up and left.

Kane wanted to break free from his hand, but the old man with a bad face had a lot of strength, and Kane couldn't break free for a while.

Virkin stepped forward and grabbed Kakireć's shoulder, and said in an unkind tone, "He's not like your previous experimental waste, don't use your garbage on him." ”

Virgin's threat didn't frighten Kakireć, he just replied impatiently: "I know! I know! Mr. Franz has already commanded. ”

Virkin let go of Kakireć, who still believed Franz's words.