The weather in Panyu is getting cooler, and last night it was too late, and I had a cold!

The intense hunger caused Cohen to wake up, and he slowly opened his eyes, but there was a stirring in his mind, and he shouted violently, "Rachel!" and sat up with a slump of his body. But what catches your eye is the burning fireplace and the smell of barbecue in the air.

"Where is this?" Cohen looked at everything in front of him in confusion, he only remembered that Rachel had completed the high-level earth elemental compression technique, and fought to the death with that petite figure, and finally heard Rachel's angry roar vaguely, and then... What happened after that? Cohen tugged at his hair, unable to remember what had happened next.

Cohen froze, the Elegy for Life ring still in his hand, and looked around at the shelf of the Radiant Redemption Blade and dagger hanging from the window, and the slightly low roof, as if he had been rescued back to the digger's passage. Without much thought, he turned over and got out of bed, put on his clothes and weapons, and after a while, he glanced at the barbecue and a small glass of fruit wine in front of the bed, solved it by dividing it by two, pushed open the door and walked out.

It was still the familiar smell of wine, and sure enough, it was the Battle Hammer Tavern, and I watched the only two dwarves downstairs gulping rye wine. Cohen walked slowly, and behind the pine bartender, Liz carefully wiped a crystal wine glass. Seeing Cohen come down, Liz expertly mixed a glass of cider, placed it on the bartender, and whispered, "How are you awake?" and gently pushed the glass, motioning for Cohen to come over.

"Okay, I've been in a coma for a few days?" Cohen asked, taking the cider and leaning back on the bartender, glancing at Liz.

Liz glanced at Cohen with a slightly playful look, lowered his head and continued to wipe the crystal wine glass, not rushing to answer Cohen's question, and after gently placing a smooth and flawless crystal wine glass back in the cabinet, Liz said, "You should thank Xie Tulus and Joyce, they rescued you in the mines!"

"Only save me?" Cohen asked anxiously.

"There's also a dwarf that's almost roasted, resting in the room next to you. You were in a coma for a day and a night, and it was Turus and Joyce who carried you and Rachel back to the Battle Hammer Tavern, and went to great lengths to bring in healers to heal them. As for the situation inside the digger's tunnel, I don't know for a moment, but I heard the dwarven miners who came here to drink small talk that the rock rat mine was temporarily closed because there were signs of collapse. What the hell is going on in the mines?" Liz gestured to the second-floor door, indicating that it was Rachel's room, but the seemingly innocuous question made Cohen feel a little nervous.

Rachel's successful escape made Cohen feel relieved, but the identity of the petite figure, as well as Cohen's own suspicions, made him wonder how to face Liz. After all, she has another identity, the dwarven patriarch Clement, a closed disciple of the Divine Light Battle Axe, if the assassin is Liz, then the issues involved are not something she can handle.

Taking a sip of the fruit wine, Cohen looked at Liz's eyes seriously, and said, "There are subhuman spies who have infiltrated the digger passage, and then Rachel and I fought with her, that's all!" Cohen deliberately accentuated his tone when he said her words, and his eyes were even more focused on Liz's eyes, hoping to see a trace of panic from them, but unfortunately Cohen was disappointed. Liz's eyes were still radiant, and there was no panic in the slightest.

Maybe it's because her city is too deep, Cohen can only bury this suspicion in his heart.

"To hurt you so badly, Rachel almost put that life on the Rock Rat Mine. It seems that this subhuman spy still has some work on his hands!" Liz pulled out a crystal wine glass from the wine cabinet and wiped it slowly. Sighing, he continued: "You kid is only a junior warrior when he dies, Rachel I also know, Black Iron Battle Axe level, according to the description of the Mine Road Patrol that night, the battle level in the Rock Rat Mine Tunnel is at least a strong man above the Gold Tomahawk level. What the hell are you hiding with this little slippery head?" Liz smiled, raised her right hand, and gently tapped Cohen's forehead.

"It smells so good!" Cohen sniffed Liz's outstretched hand, a knowing smile on his lips. "But I passed out early, otherwise I would have told you what happened, it's a pity, it's a pity!"

Liz naturally heard Cohen's nonsense, and didn't defend anything, and then casually asked a few innocuous questions, Cohen was anxious to visit Rachel, and after answering Liz's inquiry in a coping manner, he rushed to the second floor; Liz looked at Cohen's slightly thin back and laughed softly: "The little guy is quite cautious!"

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Cohen came to Rachel's door and hurriedly pushed the door open, and Rachel, who had thought that he was seriously injured and bedridden, was now sitting at the head of the bed with a plate of roast meat, bread and rye wine, and devouring it.

When he saw Cohen standing helplessly at the door, gesturing his right hand irregularly towards him, Rachel swallowed a large mouthful of barbecue, poured another sip of rye wine, and said, "Shall you have something?" After speaking, he tore out a piece of fatty barbecue from the plate and handed it to Cohen.

"I thought you were dying, they said you were seriously injured when they came back!" Cohen looked at Rachel with a black face, shook his hand, declined Rachel's kindness, pulled up a chair, and sat down near the window.

Rachel shrugged his shoulders, threw the barbecue into his mouth, and said while chewing: "That little injury won't kill me Rachel, but you, just planting some grass or something, will be mentally exhausted, and faint directly, this is too inferior!"

"I'm an elf who hasn't even reached the coming-of-age ceremony, how strong mental power do you expect me to have? In that case, I can control so many flame manny grasses, and I can also help you block a knife, which is already a super level of performance!" Cohen said proudly.

"Can you die if you don't brag?" Rachel glanced at Cohen, put away the plate and wine glass, moved his body a few times, and after feeling no discomfort, he turned over and jumped out of bed, and after tidying up his clothes a little, he also pulled a chair over, sat opposite Cohen, and said, "That assassin had a problem last night, and there was more than one person!"

"Shhh ”

Glancing at Cohen mysteriously, Rachel whispered, "That assassin is a pretty girl!

Cohen looked at the dwarf inexplicably, and didn't know what he was saying this for, and asked, "How do you know that she has a great figure and is beautiful?"

Rachel's face flushed, and he continued: "At that time, Lao Tzu was red-eyed, and he didn't care if his body could stand it, and he used the housekeeping skill at the bottom of the box-the lava roaring battle axe. That girl is locked in my rock cage, and if I go down with this axe, it must be split in two. But when my axe blade touched her body, an accident happened!"

"What an accident!" Cohen asked anxiously.

Rachel drank the rest of the rye wine in one gulp, and said slowly: "When the tomahawk had not touched her, the blazing heat and strong air currents scraped off her mask, and you don't believe it, it was a very delicate face, more beautiful than Liz in the tavern, and the girl had her eyes closed at that time, and I guess she was also resigned to death." Besides, I didn't care who she was, even if Adelaide Burr, the god of rocks, stood in front of me!"

The dwarf smashed his mouth and continued: "But when the axe blade touched her body, as if time had stopped, it quietly stopped in that position, and could no longer be chopped. At this point, Rachel's expression inexplicably became nervous, and her hands trembled slightly with excitement or fear.

Cohen gently pressed Rachel's shoulder and asked, "And then?"

Calming down, Rachel stared into Cohen's eyes, and said in a slightly cold tone, "Do you know what I saw at the time?" In front of the little girl, suddenly appeared a black-clad crumb, with eyes without the slightest emotion, staring at me like a dead soul resurrected. And one of his fingers gently pressed against the handle of my axe, do you know? Just like that, my axe momentum will not be able to advance a single inch. With that, he stretched out his finger, dipped some rye wine, and symbolically tapped Cohen's sword hilt.

It was just a watermark the size of a grain of rice, and you can imagine what a terrifying presence Rachel encountered in the Rock Rat Mine at that time. After sorting out his thoughts, Cohen suddenly said, "You mean that that person may be a ghost?"

Rachel was excited for no reason, and roared, "I think so too, in such a remote place, there must be something wrong with encountering a figure comparable to the dwarven race's Divine Light Battle Axe." The dwarf hurriedly took the jug by the fireplace, poured himself a full glass of rye wine, and after taking a large sip of contentment, he recalled: "At that time, I did not dare to move for half a minute, the powerful momentum suppressed me, I could only hold the battle axe, and watch the man in black easily cut off the rock shackles on the little girl's body; when he was about to smash the rock cage on the surface, I did not know where the courage came from, and I felt that it was better to die vigorously than to retreat without a fight and be laughed at by my fellow people."

Just as he squatted on the ground and didn't pay attention to his back, the lava roaring battle axe slammed down, but he didn't even look back, just waved his left hand lightly, and several powerful outrageous sword qi instantly pierced my arm and calf, and even the lava battle axe was cut in two. What's even more terrifying is that the sword qi has not weakened at all, and it has blasted into the rock rat mine like chopping melons and vegetables, and if you don't lie to you, the hard rock wall is almost as smooth as a mirror under the polishing of the sword qi. But the most unexpected thing was that my loose axe cut through the chick's leather coat, and grandma's, the towering hill and Leeds definitely had to fight. Saying this, Rachel smiled very innocently, and probably his mind drifted to the proud twin peaks of Leeds.

For Rachel's lustful face, Cohen had to let him use his imagination, just when he was about to ask Rachel what happened next, the dwarf changed into a serious expression, and said solemnly: "At that time, I thought that I would definitely not be able to live this time, who knew that after the man in black dealt with the rock cage, he didn't care about my life or death, as if I didn't exist, and after saving the chick out, he took her directly and walked towards the exit of the mine." Rachel said this, and the scene in the mine that night resolutely came to mind:

"You're not going to kill me?"

"I don't kill the nameless, you don't deserve it!" After speaking, the man in black didn't make any moves, Rachel flew out of the road as if he was hit by a dozen high-speed Kodo beasts, hit the mine and rolled a few times, and then the man in black disappeared into the mine with his petite figure in his arms, and never looked at Rachel again.

"My name is Rachel Black Iron Tomahawk, and one day, I'll let you remember my name!" said that, the dwarf passed out.

After listening to Rachel's recollections, Cohen patted him on the shoulder again and said, "As long as you live, you will definitely meet him again." Until then, we have to keep getting stronger, and then, let him remember us forever. ”

Rachel suddenly smiled and said, "She'll definitely come back to me, what do you think this is?" After speaking, he slowly opened his palm, and a string of dark golden pendants appeared in front of Cohen's eyes. The pendant is an irregular hexagonal prism, with two words engraved on the front and back: beloved, rival. At the junction of the pendant, a small, unknown gemstone glows with a soft pale blue glow. When Cohen picked up the pendant from Rachel's hand, it felt heavy to the touch, and a characteristic metallic texture mixed with a trace of warmth spread from the palm of his hand.

"The female Assassin?" Cohen asked, glancing at Rachel.

"Well, I guess I accidentally fell out during the battle. This thing is still a bit of a nickname among the subhuman assassins, and it's called 'Fate'. In that gem, there is a trace of the owner's soul breath sealed, and ordinary people get this pendant, which is no different from ordinary rotten iron brands, and in the subhuman race, there is a legend that two people who really love each other, and hold this pendant at the same time, the word beloved will shine brightly, proving that this is a couple who love each other. But if the word "love" does not light up, the lovers who were originally very happy with each other will become undying rivals in an instant, until one of them falls. Because what the subhuman race hates the most is emotional fraud!" Rachel said with a smile: "Now that she has lost such an important token, she will definitely come to the door, either rob and rob it, or cheat and deceive her, and she will definitely get this token back." ”

Cohen glanced at the pendant and was about to throw it back to Rachel when the dwarf said, "Besides, I want to discuss something with you, but it's not a big deal, it's just a small thing." You have also seen that I am a big man, and if I put such a delicate pendant on me, I will definitely be laughed at by other dwarves, and this is not the main thing, you see that I am so hairy, if I accidentally toss this thing and rot it, then the chick will be annoyed and angry, maybe let the man in black come to us for trouble. So, it's safer for you to keep it. With that, he patted his ass and stood up, completely ignoring Cohen, who had a black line on his face.

When Cohen was about to ask Rachel why he was practicing the Advanced Earth Elemental Compression Technique in the Rock Rat Tunnel, "Du... A crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded. "Cohen, aren't you?" Turus's voice rang out outside the door.

Cohen opened the door, and Turus and another dwarf stood outside the door with serious expressions, glanced at Cohen and Rachel, and said, "Cohen, Lord April, Lord of the Excavator Passage, please go to the Lord's Mansion with Rachel to find out what happened in the Rock Rat Passage last night. ”

"Now?" Cohen winked at Turus secretly, implying that Aprile had come to us to ask him about his guilt? Turus shook his head as he understood what Cohen meant. At this time, the other dwarf said, "Hurry up, Lord April, please don't delay too long, Turus and I are waiting for you outside the tavern." With that, he ignored Turus and walked away.

Turus smiled bitterly and said, "Camille has this character, don't you mind!"

Cohen didn't say anything, smiled, and signaled that he didn't care. After turning to explain to Rachel, the two cleaned up a little and followed Toulus out of the city.

The Lord's Mansion was not far from the tavern, but Cohen was here for the first time, and looking at the three-story stone mansion in front of him, the rough and wild style, and the raunchy exterior walls, it was hard to imagine that the only Golden Tomahawk-level powerhouse in the Digger's Passage, Lord April, lived here.

The four of them stood outside the gate of the Lord's Mansion, Turus nodded to Camille, and then said to Cohen: "I won't go to the Lord's Mansion, Camille will help you in the future, I'll leave first." With that, he raised his fist and looked at Cohen with a smile.

Cohen hurriedly stretched out his fist and touched Turus, and said, "Xie Lu, thank you and Joyce for saving us both, and when these things are done, I will invite you to have a drink." "As far as our friendship is concerned, whatever we thank you is due, haluha!" Turus smiled heartily, waved his hand, and left.

Then Cohen and Rachel followed Camille into the Lord's Mansion, and as far as the eye could see, the entire floor was filled with various ore specimens, and in another corner, there were many weapons scattered around, Camille took the two of them around, came to a slightly spacious meeting room, and poured a glass of water for the two of them at will, and said that they would go up and spread the word, so that the two of them would wait here for Lord April, and they also left.

Rachel looked at the glass of water on the table, and said dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter, I don't even have a glass of wine, and the fine traditions of the dwarves are as poor as smelted ore slag in this guy." With that, he pulled his chair over and sat down heavily.

Cohen was calm, after all, Turus had mentioned Camille's character beforehand, so he couldn't persuade Rachel anything, so he picked up the water glass alone, looked at the room full of ore specimens slowly, and asked while looking: "Rachel, if Aprile asks about what happened in the mine last night, how would you answer?"

Rachel had asked him to keep a secret for himself: a junior dwarven warrior of the Black Iron level actually knew the high-level earth elemental compression technique, which was a high-level elemental spell that even the silver level could not reach. The clear traces of battle in the rock rat mine, as well as the ghost-level assassin in Rachel's mouth, all this, if the dwarves know about it, the digger passage will definitely turn the sky upside down.

"As long as you help me hide the matter of the high-level Earth Elemental Compression Technique, nothing else will be a problem. Rachel thought for a moment and gave her own answer.

Cohen wanted to speak and stopped, and sighed, he really wanted to know what Rachel was carrying, but he also knew that Rachel would naturally tell him if he wanted to, and if he didn't, insisting on questioning would cause a rift between the two.

"Cohen, if we can, we'll just deal with it in a moment with Lord April, and I'd like to tell the dwarven patriarch Clement everything we know, and maybe he will be able to give us the answers we want. Rachel looked at Cohen silently and said in a determined tone.

Cohen looked at Rachel in surprise, but out of an inexplicable trust, he nodded anyway, and agreed to Rachel's request.

After a while, Camille motioned for the two to go to meet Master April, and said that a distinguished guest had just arrived in the digger's passage, and the two did not say much, and followed Camille up to the second floor.

April's room was small, with a small pine table, a few polished birch chairs, and a stone grinding table near the window, and the rest of the space was occupied by piles of ore. As Cohen and Rachel entered, a rugged dwarf stood up and said, "Friends of the Elves, welcome to your visit! I am April, Lord of the Digger's Passage, and I would like to praise you for your heroic deeds last night on behalf of the people of the Digger's Passage. May Adelaide Burr, the god of rocks, be with you. With that, he pressed his right fist tightly to his chest and bowed slightly to Cohen.

Cohen hurriedly returned the salute and said, "May Sanjara Weiss, the goddess of the earth, walk with you, honorable Lord April. ”

After a little politeness, Aprile invited Cohen and Rachel to take a seat, saying, "Please rest for a while, there is also a distinguished visitor, it should be almost there." Taking advantage of this time, Cohen secretly looked at April, a rugged dwarf with a famous nerves, with a deep scar on the left side of his face, which is said to have exploded violently when he smelted the god metal Enikmas Star in the past, and a piece of metal was embedded in the upper jawbone, which could not be removed, but it was also a blessing in disguise, with the help of the powerful power of the god metal, he was promoted to a golden battle axe-level warrior in a very short period of time, and became a legend of the dwarf clan.

Under April's stewardship, the dwarven race has taken its fierceness to the extreme: fists are everything, that's April's motto.

After a while, Camille knocked on the door and came in, and humbly said to April, "My lord, Lord Anita has arrived!"

"There's trouble!" Rachel said, glancing at Cohen after hearing the name Anita.

"What's wrong?"

"This guy is the most powerful elemental manipulator of the dwarves, not one of them. His talent for elemental manipulation is unmatched even by the Patriarch Clement Divine Light Battle Axe. I know the secrets of the high-level earth elemental compression technique, as long as he glances at the scene, he can see through it!" Rachel's tone gradually accelerated, showing the tension in his heart.

Cohen glanced at Rachel and said, "Can you tell me why you want to hide the fact that you can cast a high-level earth elemental compression?"

Rachel nodded first, then shook his head, and said hesitantly, "I can't say it yet, I have to wait until I go back to the Silver Fort to deal with the matter, and then I can tell you the reason." I'm in trouble!"

"Well, I trust you!" Cohen was about to say something more when there was a knock on the door.

Aprile himself pushed open the door, and a dwarf in a beige gold silk leather shirt walked in with a smile, and when he saw Cohen and Rachel, he nodded very kindly, then pulled up a chair and sat down, and did not speak, just looked at Rachel happily.

When Aprile wanted to introduce Cohen and Rachel one by one, Anita stood up and said, "Needless to say, April, let's get down to business first." ”

Even if April's nerves are rough and he is robbed by Anita for a while, he doesn't know what to say for a while. Anita saw that April was standing there speechless, so she continued: "The situation is urgent, Rachel, the patriarch has ordered you to rush back to the fortress of Thurium overnight, and if you can, this friend of the elven clan will also set off with you, and the patriarch has something to see you." As for the aftermath of the Rock Rat Passage, I don't need your help here. ”

Rachel stood up abruptly, with a look of surprise in disbelief, and asked loudly, "You said Patriarch Clement was going to summon me and Cohen?"

Anita nodded and said, "Yes, you must go right away. There's no more time for you to lose. ”

Hearing this news, not only Rachel, but also Aprile and Cohen were even more surprised, because Anita's first words: the situation is urgent, what does it mean, different people have different ideas.

Patriarch Clement actually wanted to urgently summon a black iron battle axe-level dwarf, and this guy had been unknown in the digger's passage before, what the hell was it for? Is there something going on that I don't even know about?" April thought to himself, looking at Rachel.

Cohen thought more simply, the ghost-level black-clad man appeared in the digger's passage, the secrets involved in it. That's probably why the dwarven patriarch summoned Rachel and himself.

Rachel looked at Cohen and said, "Rush to the Thorsilver Fort overnight, are you okay?"

Cohen said that it just so happened that I also had an urgent matter to find Patriarch Clement, so naturally there was no problem. Nodding at Rachel, he said, "Since Lord Anita has said that the situation is urgent, I will divide the weight, let's rush to the Thursilver Fortress overnight!"

Anita glanced approvingly at Cohen and said, "Before you leave, Rachel, you come with me, I have something to tell you alone!" After speaking, she pointed to the door, pulled Rachel and walked out.

Rachel looked at Anita in confusion and asked cautiously, "What can't you say to their face?"

Anita turned around and closed the door, approached Rachel, and said softly: "Patriarch Clement wants me to tell you that your high-level earth element compression technique will never be allowed to be used in the digger's passage in the future, there are subhuman spies here, and the patriarch will tell you the details!"

Rachel's eyes widened suddenly, and he asked in disbelief, "How do you know that I know that I can use the high-level earth element compression technique!"

"The patriarch asked me to teach you!" a message that made Rachel feel like a lightning striker, whispered from Anita's mouth.

Without waiting for Rachel to react, Anita opened the door, walked in quickly, and said to Cohen: "I'm done explaining here, you guys go right now, go to the Thursilver Fortress and go directly to the patriarch, and he will tell you about the rest of the matter." April, let's go to the Rock Rat Mine now, there should be the answer we need, go!" and then pulled Aprill directly out of the Lord's Mansion.

When Cohen repeatedly urged Rachel to move, the dwarf came to his senses from the horror he had just had. The matter has come to this point, and only by rushing to the Seyin Fortress as soon as possible can we know the cause of this incident.

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As the two stood at the entrance to the digger's passage, Cohen stopped, stared at the Battle Hammer Tavern for a moment, and said in a voice that only he heard, "Liz, I hope I was wrong!" and then turned and disappeared into the entrance.