Realizing the practice of obtaining additional spellcasting abilities in a slightly less safe way, Rufus almost immediately concluded that someone in the Alchemy Society might be doing that.

It's because of too much understanding that it brings suspicion.

Therefore, he did not waste his energy on asking someone to invest for him, and urgently went to the front line of North City, which borders the steppe in the north.

It is said that there are many accidents throughout the year due to wars, and the mortality rate is slightly higher than in other parts of the kingdom, and people often disappear without explanation, supposedly by scouts of orc tribes.

But in Rufus's opinion, all those strange and bizarre events may not all be due to orc harassment......

……

Bidding farewell to the young alchemist, when Chen Zhou returned to the guest house, he found that the Penguins had returned from the Alchemy Society and Metatown's residence.

"How's your communication, can you confirm the evidence of Norton's delivery of scrap?"

Chen Zhou pondered, this penguin who traveled thousands of miles to other planes to investigate the evidence of the crime was more like a plane detective than an envoy?

"In fact, the lampbearers themselves are one of the variants of the investigators, and their main job is also to investigate."

Rat Mouse gave an explanation in time, of course, this investigator is not the other investigator.

Cthulhu or something, coming to the wizarding world is actually not that dangerous.

"Well, should we say that it was negotiated or not?"

In the face of Chen Zhou's curiosity, Tira didn't know how to summarize: "The process of exchanging alchemy knowledge is indeed going well, and they also invited me to go to the front line to observe the battle of the latest batch of Steam Knights, as well as a mysterious alchemy application plan. ”

"Mysterious plans?" This caught Black's attention, "As far as I know, when humanoids sell off this kind of thing, it often means that it's a big thing to talk about. ”

"Yes, rats think there are a lot of riddlers."

Chen Zhou nodded, indeed, but now he can kill the Riddler through the "Detection Mind".

"Ahem, your focus is always weird."

Tila waved her hand exaggeratedly, wondering if her feathers would fall out as a result.

"The big plan mentioned by the Alchemy Association is probably to use alchemy in combat or people's livelihood."

According to her investigation during this time, she can clearly feel that alchemy has entered all corners of the Norton Kingdom, and even ordinary civilians can enjoy the convenience brought by alchemy with a meager salary.

With such a high popularity of alchemy, it is not an exaggeration to call it a "high demon".

It's just that due to the huge flaws in the alchemy used by the Norton Kingdom, the harm they are about to face is just as serious.

"I'm curious how the Alchemy Society of the Norton Kingdom is going to deal with the side effects of the imminent outbreak of alchemy, maybe the big plan they want me to visit this time is related to it."

Portals?

Tyra inexplicably felt a sense of foreboding, could it be that they were preparing to transfer the contaminated land to other planes through the portal, and then pull new matter from the inner realm?

Don't do that kind of thing, if you can't prevent such a major disaster, the client of the Monopoly Association may kill her......

"So we're going to go to the front with you too." Chen Zhou suddenly remembered Rufus's words when he left, there must be a major hidden danger in North City on the front line.

"That's right!"

Tira nodded seriously: "Anyway, we will go to the Northern Frost Land to investigate the Great River Territory, and we just happen to be on the way." ”

Chen Zhou, who already felt that something major would happen in North City, had no choice but to join in the fun...... After all, he still has to go to the north to assassinate the Earl of Frostfall.

Three days later.

The three astral adventurers, who had completed academic exchanges, investigations, and tours in Metatown, embarked on a journey to the north with the caravan's carriage.

Along the way, I looked through the scenery along the way, only to realize that there was more than one land in the Norton Kingdom that was contaminated by alchemy waste.

The pollution that has been calculated for a hundred years is so abnormal that even Tira can't help but wonder why the people of this country have not changed due to the toxins that permeate the atmosphere and water.

"Maybe the Nortons we see are already mutated by alchemy." Looking out the window, Xiao Hei subconsciously suggested a possibility, "Don't you think there is a difference between Norton and humans in other places?" ”

"I don't think so." *2

In Tira's opinion, the human race is basically the same, and at most there is only a difference in the degree of "different feather colors of birds", which really does not reflect any difference.

As for Chen Zhou, who is from another world, the human appearance of this plane is actually a type of person - foreigners, who all look similar, and can distinguish the degree of beauty and ugliness (in terms of personal aesthetics) at most.

Or maybe he just didn't care?

Xiao Hei was dumbfounded, are you intelligent creatures or am I intelligent creatures?

Even automatic gnomes who are not good at recognizing images can detect the specialness of the Norton Kingdom!

"Just check the Blue Star forums, and guess what those Blue Star people must have discovered."

Chen Zhou shook his head, it was a pity that the battleship that stayed in the sky above the Blue Star interfered with the use of the forum.

"Lily thinks that the people on Norton's side are a little sick, and the spirit of our people is very different."

"Lords?" Tira was puzzled, she didn't expect her fellow adventurer to be a lord.

Xiao Hei on the side held his forehead with a headache, and the gears clicked, thinking that Tira hadn't even discovered the true identity of this Cen Storm spirit.

"Don't worry, I'll have time to ask the Star People later."

Just as Chen Zhou was about to reactivate the stand-in on Blue Star's side to contact the archbishop and the others, the carriage they were riding in suddenly shook violently.

No, it was not the wagons that trembled, but the ground beneath their feet!

"Oops! It's a mutant sandworm! ”

"Find cover and don't move, they can detect the tremors!"

Through the shouts of the caravan personnel outside, the three of them realized the culprit who attacked them.

"We're not on a boat, are we?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Chen Zhou hurriedly pressed his head, "It's only natural for adventurers to encounter monsters, not to mention that it's normal for the place we are in to be rich in mutant creatures. ”

Hearing this, Tira stuck her head out of the window and found a lot of monsters that looked like super giant earthworms, half of their bodies were exposed to the surface of the ground, and they were hunting with their mouths open.

In the face of such a large monster that can come and go freely underground, perceive things through vibrations, and release toxins due to mutations, the caravan's guards are very reluctant.

Seeing this, the penguin man stimulated his instinct on the spot: "Let's go out and have a look, maybe we can find a chance to make money." ”

(End of chapter)