In the ordinary mage's house, in the middle of the night, the apprentices who were tired for a day would plunge into the bed and sleep with their heads covered, and occasionally some particularly diligent apprentices would make up for their magic knowledge at this time, in order to get out of this embarrassing identity as soon as possible.

Basti Duncan was one of them, and although he was talented, it would not have been possible to achieve an amazing career without the corresponding efforts, and since that little eye was lightly broken, he also settled down and studied with Penn Diesel.

He was not stupid, he was impulsive and reckless, and he knew that there was no benefit in going against this wizard again, and after recognizing the reality, he decided to redouble his efforts to learn spells, and was promoted to become an official mage as soon as possible.

Although he recognized the strength of Pan Diesel, his arrogant surname did not give him much humility, but instead contained a deep jealousy, and he must not stay under this wizard for too long.

This is also the most important reason for his hard work.

Now he was in a corner of the dormitory, reading thick spell notes in the dim light of the Luminomy, the warmth of the room was not suitable for late night study, and the cool breeze outside was often more helpful for the apprentice to combat the intrusion of sleep.

The night was dark, he yawned, wiped his face with a wet towel, and continued to study.

For him, it was not unacceptable to grovel to serve Pan Diesel and Rand Scarpour, but to gain strength.

But his plans were soon interrupted.

"Basdy, Basti!" Duckland Baus ran in breathlessly, "No, no. ”

"Oh no, why are you so flustered?" Duncan put down his spell notes, his eyebrows furrowed on his tired face.

"You...... What you did was discovered. Baus let out a long breath: "Rand and that little girl are talking to kill you, run!"

Duncan's hair exploded all over his body, and he immediately became energetic, and jumped off the stool with a jump: "When." ”

"I just overheard, soon, soon, that little girl is preparing poison......" Baus took a long breath.

Cold sweat crawled all over Duncan's cheeks between two breaths, and his confused eyes returned to normal after a trance, and when Baus saw him calm down, he pointed to the fence in the distance on the other side of the window: "Quick, she has ordered those pirates to block the entrance, there is a path in the flower garden, only I know, you run quickly, you can still live." ”

"Live, live......" Basti Duncan's eyes rolled twice, turned his head and gritted his teeth to stare at the courtyard behind him and the mage tower surrounded by flash magic patterns for a while, his expression changed for a while, he turned his head to look at Baus, and took a breath: "Baus, what are you going to do?"

"I ...... Hmm......" Before the fourteen-year-old apprentice could react, a dagger had already sunk into his stomach, and his eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at the hideous face of his close roommate.

Duncan pinched and grabbed Baus's mouth so hard that he wouldn't make a sound, and his other hand kept twisting and inserting the blade into Baus's stomach, until the intestines, stomach, liver, spleen, and kidneys were ground up, and blood foam kept coming out from between the fingers of the hand that covered Baus's mouth, and he rolled his eyes under the great pain, and finally fell to the ground with convulsions, constantly spitting blood, but he could not make the slightest sound.

The murderer gasped violently, did not draw his murder weapon, turned and ran towards the 'only path', and his escape would have been much smoother with one less informant.

As he fled, he did not forget to glance back at the mage's mansion with hatred.

The lights soon became bright.

Many footsteps reached the ears of the dying Duckland Baus, his eyes were open, his mouth still foaming with blood was weakly opened and closed, his curled palms scratched a few handfuls of sand on the ground...... "Let him run......" Nephis looked down at the cold-hearted corpse of the young apprentice, with a smile on his lips, but his face quickly became gloomy.

...... Simon City is not a safe place.

With this warning, Penny left Vika's mansion, only to find that it was already getting dark.

The city of Ximen in the middle of the night was not as quiet as the other cities of Faerun, and the noise of the streets and alleys was still constant, which was completely different from the city of Serre, and was obviously more vibrant, reminding him a little of the cities he had lived in in his previous life.

Of course, there was a big difference between the two, but it was just a little bit of vitality that made Penny press the idea of flying to the Mage's Tower.

He felt compelled to take a good look at the city, and it might be a good idea to take a walk through it.

Although he knew very well that, as Vika had said, Simon City was not a safe place, and that the forces in the city were so mixed that it was impossible for a newcomer like Penny to know how deep the water was based on rumors and prior learning.

At least for some time to come, he will be in this muddy water.

Penny was well aware that it was impossible to establish a solid presence by wandering around in Feron.

And only if he has a strong enough force, he will have the capital and Searle's red-robed chief to call for it, otherwise he will only drown in the sea of red-robes if he is alone.

The mage apprentices on the island have made a good start for him, and there are familiar forces here to draw on - he is not a high-ranking guy, as long as he wanders around the West Gate, it is inevitable to borrow Vika's influence, which is an unavoidable thing.

Therefore, he thought that he could accumulate his strength in Simon.

He stroked the white robe that was a little dazzling on his body, and recalled that her demeanor in the mansion seemed to be the same as it had been a few years ago.

Penny sighed, and suddenly a gust of wind brought several screams, which made him prick up his ears.

The more a city is mixed with dragons and snakes, the more prone it seems to be to commit crimes.

In this way, it is not uncommon for a little boy to be chased and run away by a red-eyed man in the alley.

"Help, help!" shouted the man, who had short legs and couldn't outrun the man.

When he saw the strange fangs in the man's mouth, Penny frowned, stretched out his finger, and a little light gathered at the tip, and after a few seconds, a thin ray of light radiated from his fingertips, penetrating the man's forehead, and the man was shocked, and the next moment his brain exploded like a watermelon under the shock of arcane energy.

This kind of reaction speed is probably just the lowest guy.

Penny shook his head, a little disappointed by the vampires he had only heard of in rumors.

Before he came to Simon, he knew that this was a city frequented by vampires, and this city had fallen under the control of the vampire king several times in its history, and until now, vampires have not disappeared, on the contrary, they are more active than most of the area of Faerun.

Now it seems that such low-level vampires can roam everywhere, and the vampires in this city are not ordinary rampant.

The little boy saw that the vampire chasing him was killed by a flash of light, and sat on the ground with his ass exhausted, and when he saw Penny in a white robe, he blinked his eyes and opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

"How dare you run alone on the street in the middle of the night?" the wizard withdrew his finger and shook his head at the trembling little boy.

"Hug hug sorry sorry......" The little boy stood up with his jaw trembling and trembling legs, still a little unsteady: "I, I didn't mean to......"

"Didn't you mean to?" Penny chuckled, "What are you explaining to me about this?, since it's all right, let's go home quickly." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I'm ......" the little boy lowered his head, "but I'm lost." ”

"Lost?" said Penny, laughing, only to notice that the little boy's lingua franca was rather lame.

Although the pronunciation of the lingua franca varies from place to place, in the Hartland region where the Dragon Coast is located, the lingua franca here is regarded as the standard by almost all the Faeron regions, and its status is equivalent to the Mandarin of another world.

As a result, Penny was able to tell that the little boy's accent did not belong to Hartland.

"Where do you live?"

The wizard had the idea of helping others again, and if he left this little creature on the street to feed the vampires, it would seriously disturb his little remaining conscience.

"Ah, my name is Orson and I live in the Golding Firm, sir, will you help me?" said the little boy with a look of surprise on his face.

"Do you think I should leave you here to feed the vampires?" Penny stroked the boy's hair, a little surprised at the child's cleverness.

The little boy's head shrank and shuddered.

The wizard turned and walked towards the avenue on one side, and the little boy obediently followed, and Penny looked at the signs, walked to an inn and asked for directions, and then found the Lantana Comptoir, and met the little boy's mother.

The woman, who was in her early thirties, was a sturdy woman with a wild surname on her eyebrows, and was obviously not a businessman, her name was Sanna, a ranger from the south, and the guard of the caravan in the merchant, she waited anxiously for her son's return, and was very grateful to learn that Penny had helped her son to be saved, and left Penny in the living room for a cup of tea.

"My lord, are you a wizard, or a servant of His Majesty?" Orson sat aside, looking curiously at Penny, who was dressed in white robes.

He was obviously curious about the power Penny used to take down the vampire, and Penny looked at the little boy's eyes and inquiring tone, and inexplicably thought that the little boy might be more inclined to the previous answer: "Oh, I'm a wizard." ”

"Sir, are you really a wizard? Sure enough, wizards are great people, just like my father. Orson's eyes lit up.

"Your father?" Penny frowned, "Your father is a wizard?"

"Yes. The woman came over with a cup of tea, although her appearance was not very beautiful, but the lines of her body that had been exercised for a long time were extraordinary, very eye-catching, she could be called a charming woman, and her two mellow red lips made this charm more prominent, and she could not see that she was already the mother of a ten-year-old boy.

But Penny wasn't in much of a mood for it now, so he didn't look much at it, accepting the gratitude of his mother, named Sanna, while talking about some topics.

"Oh, actually, I have been separated from his father for a long time, and I didn't want him to know yet, but Orson is ten years old, and I think as a child, he should know what his father looks like, so I brought him to Simon to find him. Sanna stroked the little boy's head, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "It seems that the gentleman is not from Simon, if so, maybe I can ask you for news." ”

Penny's expression was a little weird: "This...... You don't know your husband's whereabouts?"

"He's not my husband, he's just a companion I went out on an adventure ten years ago. Sanna frowned: "A very interesting middle-aged man, unlike most wizards, well, damn it, he even used a pseudonym to deceive me at that time, so that I still don't know his exact residence, and I find this place by following the clues, I don't know if I can find it." ”

Penny shook his head.

It seems that he can't help anymore, and he doesn't want to be nosy.

But he also began to admire this woman a little, he didn't know the other party's name, and it was really not easy to keep looking for so many years.

"I'm sure I'll find it, and I'm going to learn magic from him, you know, but there are quite a few wizards who have taken a fancy to me. Orson said, holding his head.

"You're going to find him. Penny smiled, stroked the boy's head, and after a few pleasantries, left the firm under the grateful gazes of Sanna and Orson.

The wizard returned to the Mage's Tower, learned what had happened in Nephis's veiled account, frowned at the horrific corpse for a long time, shook his head, and said nothing, except to tell the apprentices to bury the corpse.

"Nephis, you're on your own hands again. Ordering the apprentice to disperse, he frowned at the little girl who was biting her fingers with her head bowed and her back: "Didn't I tell you not to do such a thing? ”

"You're not going to kill him, are you?" Nephis's voice was inaudible at first, "If he can harm an adult once, he can kill him a second time, and staying in these apprentices, and making bigger things happen in the future, is a destabilizing factor." ”

She spoke in a calm tone, raised her head, and looked thoughtful: "What's more, the apprentice who died this time is also a fellow party of that guy, eating inside and out, it's not a pity at all, it's better to die." ”

The wizard frowned and looked at this little face, feeling that the cold air above was not pleasing to the eye, and beckoned to the black warrior who was watching the excitement next to him.

"Hmm, your education doesn't look good. Lanny came over with a smile and took the little girl into her arms: "You can't even teach this naughty little baby, do you want me to help you spank her little ass?"

Hearing this, the determination to kill on Nephis's face immediately turned pitiful, making Penny even more speechless, and the already small amount of anger vanished.

"This ...... When I was away, I was optimistic about her. Tell all the servants and men not to take what she says seriously, and not to let her do anything like this again. ”

Lanny glanced at Nephes, who had an aggrieved expression, with a funny look, and then at Penny: "Oh~ It seems that in addition to being a nanny, I also need to take on the work of preschool education?"

"If she doesn't obey, spank her ass. The wizard coughed dryly.

Nephis's eyes immediately turned red, and the wizard rubbed her hair: "It's not Serre here, and I don't want you to still be alive like you are in Serge, it's enough to leave everything to me." ”

The little girl's cheeks immediately flushed, and she lowered her little head at the sorcerer's touch.

It was late at night, and tiredness set in, and the wizard yawned and walked out of the hut and went back to his bedroom to get ready for bed.

Got off the boat in the afternoon, and it was already midnight.

Leaving a couple of women in the room staring at each other with wide eyes.

"Hear no, if you don't listen to me, I'm going to spank you. Lannie narrowed her eyes and slapped Nepher on the ass with one hand, "Just like this." ”

Nephies screamed, her eyes reddening even more, but she heard Lanny whisper in her ear with a smile, "Baby, good job." ”

"Huh?" the little girl blinked, looked at the black warrior's face close at hand, and immediately burst into tears and smiled, very bright.

It's just that between the eyebrows and eyes, no matter how you look at it, you can feel a little cunning.

...... "Your Excellency, this is the director of the association, Lord Devon Bucklaw. ”

Before deciding to take over the mage tower, Penny knew that one day, the Wizards Guild of the Turn-Dragon Coast would deal with them.

But he didn't expect that the day would be so fast, and not long after he got up the next day, a middle-aged wizard in a robe came to visit with a team of samurai retinue.

The wizard was in his thirties, and had a hooked nose that Penny thought was unsightly, for he remembered that one of his greatest enemies had one of them, and thus detracted from his impression at first sight.

Not to mention that this person's expression was cold, and he looked like he was rejecting people thousands of miles away, which made Penny feel that the person who came was not good.

It may be a little difficult to get rid of this person.

He secretly activated the arcane vision, and unsurprisingly was blocked by the evasion detection spell, this kind of thing is also a matter of course, basically any mage will find a way to keep it on his body after understanding this spell.

However, he felt that the strength of this spell was not very strong, and he only needed to snoop carefully by himself, and he would definitely be able to know the level of this mage.

But that would be pointless, because it would mean that the wizard in his thirties wouldn't have the same level of spelling as Penny.

So he bowed to him silently, and told his apprentice to draw two chairs, and sat down on one of them.

"Don't be busy, sir, you haven't told me who you are. ”

There was a smell of gunpowder in the question, and Penny frowned, for this tone could only be used in the time of judgment, so he glanced disapprovingly at the wizard and at Rand, who replied very obediently:

"This is Lord Pan Diesel, the distant nephew of Mentor Zos and the wizard of Sesk, who has been approved by Lord Zos to inherit everything here after his death. ”

"Distant nephew?" Devon Bucklaw snorted, looking down at Penny with contempt, "How did I hear that the apprentice here is trying to trick the Wizards of the Coast into using a stranger to take possession of the property that rightfully belongs to the Society?"

(To be continued)