Rushed to the doctor when he was sick, this is a portrayal of Oscar's mood now.

He didn't know the female apprentice of the theory department who was standing next to Lizzie, and he didn't know why she was with Lizzie. When he relayed Hepburn's missing information to Lizzie, she had some idea to help her find Hepburn's whereabouts.

Originally, Liqi thought about convincing her, but she was blocked by her big words, and when she asked her what she could help with, she didn't hesitate to come out.

What an overzealous person......

However, Oscar didn't know if it should be that an unrelated person was also involved in the confrontation with Danforth and his large group of ancient spells. Against a group of at least dozens of senior apprentices, there is not a big gap between two people and three people.

Especially among the few people, the only one with combat effectiveness is Liqi, and one more person is one more burden. Oscar, who has already witnessed Lizzie's combat prowess, can assert that Lizzie doesn't take Danvers seriously at all, but she certainly won't pay attention to her safety and that female apprentice.

It must be admitted that he is very worried about Hepburn's current situation, and now is indeed the time when one more man will have more strength, but he still has doubts about the strength of this girl. Not to mention that with his character, he is even more reluctant to see others suffer misfortune because of him.

However, when she showed the effect of the "Orientation Technique", Lizzie agreed to let her join the team looking for Hepburn, and Oscar had nothing to say, after all, he was the one who asked for help, and the other party was willing to help him. It would be hypocritical to say more.

Ever since that strange ritual that prevented Danvers from taking Hepburn, he felt that the apprentices under Danfoss were always looking at him and Hepburn with ill intentions. In order to prevent those guys from being bad for himself and Hepburn, he had to increase his vigilance.

If anyone were to use one word to describe his actions in the past few days. Then it sounds good to be cautious, and to put it simply and bluntly, that is, the grass and trees are soldiers. He didn't know who was part of the Danfoss research team, to warn enemies he hadn't met. He can only do that.

The basis of the strategy is that there is no equal amount of information between two or more parties, so if you want to prepare a plan, you must have the corresponding intelligence at hand. If you don't know anything about the other side, then you are strategically at an extremely disadvantage. You can be caught off guard by the other party at any time.

Of course, this is already in the past tense, and things have already been born.

An ancient strategist once said, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, then every strategy will succeed; There is a half-time chance of success, and if you don't know each other and yourself, you don't have any chance of success."

But it was clear that Oscar was the last one, when he didn't know a little bit about the other party. His background has long been thoroughly explored. Not to mention that Hepburn, who once belonged to the other organization, had unknowingly revealed the information about the two of them.

Not to mention knowing oneself and knowing one's other, he has even been known by others. The preparation has been completely exposed under the nose of the other party, no matter how careful he is, he will be found by the other party. As it turned out, Danfoss's men began to act where he was unprepared.

So time has passed to the present...... Oscar and Lizzie were navigating the vast natural environment of the academy under the guidance technique used by Mio Distad, the penny sinker pointing straight ahead, and a slight shaking seemed to tell the trio that the target was moving.

Stepping on the ground full of rotten leaves, Oscar couldn't help but ask, "What is this thing called...... is it really accurate......? Are you sure we're going in a good direction? ”

Although it is still the home of the college, it is a natural area that is off-limits to the general public. Areas that maintain intact natural beauty are overgrown with weeds just like unopened wilds. Ordinary apprentices will only enter this place under the guidance of a teacher if they need to learn to collect materials in the field.

"At least eighty percent accuracy...... Although it is only a general direction. It wasn't Mio Didstad who answered. It was Lizzie, who was at the back, "There is nothing to question the accuracy of the guide. Because its effect is just a hint of direction. ”

It's not that Mio Distad doesn't want to answer, it's that she can't. She's also a half-ass, after all, she's already consumed most of her concentration to maintain the Orientation Technique, and now she is still distracted by answering questions, and it is very likely that there will be something wrong with the Orientation Technique, which is barely maintained.

After leaving the teaching area of the college through a small gate near the building of the theory department, the group has now penetrated into the area of the mountain behind the college. Although these lands are nominally owned by the Academy, the vast expanse of land in the vicinity is not protected by the fence, and nothing is known about it.

Lizzie also tried to use the student manual as a spell catalyst to search for Hepburn's direction, and there was no problem with the direction indicated by the guide technique used by Mio Disstad. The only thing worth noting is that whether it is a guide spell or a search spell, it will only tell the general direction of the thing the caster is looking for, and there is no way to know the distance or whether there is an obstacle in between.

That is, Hepburn was indeed in the direction indicated by the plumb sinker, and it is not certain whether he was only a few hundred paces away from here, or whether he had been transported out of the Dominion from that direction. Of course, it is impossible to transport a person out of Catrice in such a short period of time, and there is no need to worry too much about poverty.

Beyond the wood-covered grove, it suddenly became clear to me that there were a few crumbling houses on the other side of the woods, and this was a village built on a gentle slope, no, it would be more appropriate to call it an abandoned village now. Under the warm summer sun, the deserted village looks desolate.

"Here it is...... An abandoned village?" Standing in the shade of the trees, Oscar looked at the abandoned village not far away and said, "I've always heard that there are many settlements where residents have left on the land of the academy, but I didn't expect that there is one so close to it, and it looks like this should be a building in the last ten years, right?" ”

The village is a hundred paces away from the woodforest where the trio lived, and most of the buildings that had not been visited for years had been devastated by wind and rain, and only some stone buildings had barely survived some prototypes. The village is almost reclaimed by nature, the ground is covered with rammed earth, weeds about a person's height have grown from the collapsed ruins, and even the barn that was once used to store grain has been turned into a nest for birds and beasts.

As long as there is no superfluous atmosphere, the village will be as calm as it appears to be. Even without a sound, Lizzie was aware of the scent of several creatures hiding in the shadows of the ruins, silently hiding in the shadows, monitoring the surroundings of the village.

As long as it is alive, it will always need to breathe air, and as long as it needs to breathe, it will inevitably breathe. No matter how well a person hides, the vitality and magic that radiates when he breathes will reveal his place. With a few simple spells, they can be found.

It has been trained to reduce the amplitude and frequency of breathing as much as possible, but it is impossible to completely block out the things in this world that do not need to breathe at all, and there are probably only "creatures" such as the living dead or mechanical puppets that are not "alive" in nature.

"Shhh ”

Lizzie pulls Oscar into the shadow under the tree and motions for him to hide his body. The chaotic forest has been completely wildened, and even now it is daytime, and the shade of the trees is as dark as night. As long as you hide your body behind a tree, it will be difficult for the other person to appear.

Affected by the atmosphere, Mio Disstad also shrank under the shade of the trees, and she crouched on the ground, allowing her body to hide under the cover of the bushes. The plumb pendant hanging from her hand shook slightly, pointing to the largest building in the village ahead, the only one in the village that had been reduced to ruins.

The black heavy stone bricks of the building form the façade and the red tiles make the conical roof, and this style of house was once the exclusive property of the monastery in the Dominion. The golden sun emblem embedded in the roof told Sù Liqi and others that this was once a monastery that worshiped the Waikinasian religion.

Imperial law states that the Empire is a secular state that is neutral in religious matters and does not interfere with the beliefs of its citizens. There are more than a dozen monasteries and monasteries of different religions in the city of Catrice alone, and it is not surprising that there are monasteries that worship Wigginyasm in such a small village.

However, now that the village has been abandoned, this monastery should not be able to maintain its original function, as for whether there are other people who occupy the magpie's nest and use this monastery that should have been abandoned as their own base, it is really impossible to say without investigation.

Snatching Hepburn's student handbook from Oscar's hand, Lizzie once again used a manhunting spell. Unlike Wayfinding, which is purely directional, Finder spells used to find someone within a certain range can better understand the distance of the object to be sought than Wayfinding.

After all, if it is not within the effective distance, it will not react.

"Stad-san, you're doing a good job and you don't need to maintain the orientation technique in the future, I think we've found our destination. Lizzie lowered her voice and whispered in Mio Dustad's ear, "Hepburn seems to have been brought into that monastery by his friends...... And it shouldn't be the first time. ”

Glancing at the young apprentices with a puzzled look on their faces, Lizzie didn't bother to explain to them, but said, "Get ready, we don't have much time." (To be continued......)

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