Escaping from the Earl of Thorns' Cafe quickly, Lance didn't dare to stop long, and walked briskly out of the lounge area of the Crimson Castle.

By the time he arrived at the coral cave quarters, his back had already become wet.

"What the hell is it?"

At that hurried glance just now, Lance is still in shock!

The upgraded Eagle Eye was able to penetrate anything within eight centimeters, so Lance could easily see through Caterina's clothes - and that thin layer of skin!

To Lance's horror, there was nothing under the skin of his "selfless" mentor who had helped him improve his physical fitness.

He didn't see anything under Katerina's human skin, except for a few mutilated white bones and a black mist made of something he didn't know what it was.

This means that Caterina is definitely not a human wizard in the normal sense of the word—it's hard to even talk about whether she's a creature or not.

With Lance's knowledge, her form at this moment is closer to that of a demon or a lich.

Sitting on the bed in the room, Lance wiped the sweat from his forehead. His heart was beating hard, as if a wordless fear was eating away at him.

"Katerina...... Definitely problematic......"

In front of him, the fox was parsing the scene he had just seen, and Caterina's body was parsed into a three-dimensional model, slowly spinning in Lance's retina.

Where her skin was broken, a terrible red sign appeared. Lance counted and found that Caterina had countless cracks in her skin, which was like a skin bag made of countless pieces of human skin!

Is such a person also a high-level wizard recognized by Scarlet Castle?

Lance was very skeptical.

He felt an inexplicable sense of pressure and danger in Katarina, a pressure that was purely a spiritual fear unlike facing a powerful wizard. Lance's mental power had always been very sensitive, and he could even feel the imperceptible greed that flashed in Caterina's eyes as she looked at him.

It's like a lion lurking in the grass, calmly and greedily watching its prey.

Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. Lance didn't really believe that such a pie could fall from the sky, and in general, third-level wizards were not obliged to take apprentices, and busy wizards would definitely not choose to waste their time on those elementary apprentices. Caterina's unusual behavior is definitely hidden behind it.

It's just these things, Lance can't resist for the time being. He was only a junior apprentice, and even if Caterina tried to kill him, it would be difficult for him to fight back. The strength of a third-level wizard is not something that a first-level wizard can compete with at all.

"Run?"

As soon as the idea arose, Lance dismissed it. He'd worked so hard to join the Crimson Castle, and if he escaped, his hard work would be in vain, and even where would he go, Rainbow Island, or the Tree Worshipper's Cottage, or even leave Ferendor?

None of these options are realistic. The three wizarding organizations are very hostile to each other's students, and the traces left by the poisonous snake curse on their bodies make it difficult to join Rainbow Island even if they change their faces. As for leaving Ferendor, it is even more unreliable, on the vast continent, the places where wizards gather are too rare.

It was not easy for him to gain a foothold in the Scarlet Castle, and he was really unwilling to leave like this.

Only take one step at a time.

Lance clenched his fists tightly, and it took a long time to shake off that indescribable sense of dread and let out a long breath.

He felt the amount of power coming from his body, and his mana level stayed at 66 points, only one step away from the advanced apprentice.

"The only way is to improve our strength. Lance thought quietly, "No matter what her intentions are for me, as long as I can be promoted to a second-level wizard and make those few demonic items, even if I can't beat her, I can escape." ”

"Looks like it's time to go to the Wizard's Emporium. ”

......

Early the next morning, the first bone train roared to the Wizard's Emporium.

The last time he arrived at the Wizard's Emporium, Lance was still a servant. And this time, he was born at his own expense in the Crimson Castle.

After getting off the train, Lance did not hesitate and prepared to go straight to the store of the potion master Regis.

He was walking on the platform, and at this moment, a green mailbox on the side of the road suddenly greeted him: "Good morning sir." How about a newspaper?"

Lance looked at the green mailbox and asked with some curiosity, "How much?"

"It's free. In the green mailbox, a hot newspaper spat out and landed in Lance's hand: "The weekly newspaper of Ferendor is funded by the Rambo Union, and our slogan is: There is nothing that cannot be done with magic." If you have any needs, please feel free to contact us at 8821. ”

"Rambo union? That's interesting. ”

Lance laughed as he opened the newspaper -

In the next second, he almost fell to the ground!

"Hey, good morning, Mr. Lance?" a crisp voice sounded behind him.

Lance turned around stiffly and found that it was the red-haired girl in student management, Lorel.

"You don't look good. Lorel greeted Lance and ran to the mailbox and said, "Give me a weekly report, thank you." ”

The mailbox shouted the Rambo Union slogan as it spat out a new newspaper.

"Good morning, Miss Rorel......" Lance forced to suppress the shock in his heart, and smiled at Rorel with some embarrassment.

Fortunately, Lorel didn't seem to care, she glanced down at the newspaper, and then closed it with some disappointment.

"I knew the headline of the week was the hooded man. Rorel pursed his lips and nodded and smiled at Lance: "This guy has calculated a lot of limelight, since the live broadcast of the Rambo Guild, the price of Ferendor's bow and arrow has increased by sixty percent - in a week." ”

"There are countless wizards who imitate him. A lot of female apprentices want their boyfriend to be that guy......"

"Hooded man?" Lance struggled to look calm.

The two walked side by side and headed for the exit. The girl gave Lance a strange look, "Oh! you don't even know what the hooded man is, do you?"

"Well, I really didn't know before. Lance gave a playfully shy smile: "I've never been very well-informed. ”

"Also, if it weren't for the ill-informed, you wouldn't have chosen the Magnetic Storm Mage, right?" Lorel grinned, "The matter of the hooded man is very clear in the newspapers! The Rambo Guild even offered a reward of 100 magic stones to find clues to this guy. ”

"A hundred magic stones!" Lance was taken aback.

"yes, I guess you're tempted too. Rorel said with some regret: "It's a pity that I didn't dare to go to the puppet city last time it was opened." Otherwise, maybe I'll have a chance to figure out the identity of that guy! But then again, a lot of people died in the puppet city last time, and fortunately I didn't go, otherwise I might not have been able to come back. ”

Lance reluctantly coped with two sentences.

The girl has a straightforward personality, and she comes to the Wizard's Emporium, supposedly for another part-time job - the same job she does at the Student Management Center. She works two part-time jobs just to earn more magic stones to improve her magic power. After the two broke up outside the station, Lance walked alone for a while and couldn't help but take out the newspaper and read it carefully.

After reading it, the chill in Lance's heart finally dissipated a little.

"Thankfully, Lao Tzu wears a hood......" Lance secretly wiped his sweat.

Some of the photos and textual descriptions posted on the front lines of the newspaper made Lance know that no one else should know the true identity of the hooded man. And the outfit, as well as the witchcraft wheel, were left in the puppet city by Lance.

And now, there is only one person who clearly knows the identity of Dorance.

"Ellie......" Lance's face was a little cloudy.

He didn't expect that this matter would be so big. The Rambo Guild suddenly made a breakthrough in its technique, causing his actions in the puppet city to be exposed to the eyes of all the wizards of Ferendor.

At this time, the wizards are keen to find out the true identity of the hooded man. Not only did the Rambo Guild offer a bounty, but also the wizard apprentices who had previously eaten under Lance's hands on the Puppet City Square.

Judging by the newspapers, the whole of Ferendor is discussing who the hooded man really is!

This made Lance feel very depressed.

In addition to Ellie, the Rainbow Island apprentice who sold him the hood may also know his identity, as well as the young man in the weapons shop.

"Perhaps, even Regis could have guessed. Lance secretly smiled bitterly, with the eyes of the potion master, it should not be difficult to see this. After all, he had used a scorching ray in front of him.

And once his identity is exposed, I don't know what the consequences will be?

Lance took a deep breath and thought quietly for a moment before he found a magic supply store, bought a new one with a different number, and dialed the apothecary's spell coordinates.