The Edmont family's mansion is not hard to find, it is on the outskirts of the city at the end of the harbour, surrounded by plantations, but the harvest looks mediocre.

The exterior of this mansion is not unusually ornately decorated, nor is it very old, just a few three-story buildings, and it is not as complicated as the average aristocratic courtyard.

There was a coin hanging at the door, and the sign was simple and straightforward.

"My lord, Edmont House has a history of three hundred years in Ximen, ranking ninth among the local noble families, and it is also the old family in the ruling council. The captain of the harbor, named Giggs, said, "If you follow the conditions you say, you should be looking for the eldest lady here." ”

As he introduced, he introduced some other information to Penny: "Well, she is one of the few people in the limelight in Simon right now, and just last year, the old master of the Edmont family fell ill, and she has been maintaining the family's affairs......"

"Thank you very much for your help. Penny smiled as he recounted useful information, then bowed his head at him.

Giggs hurriedly returned the salute: "You are too polite. ”

Penny looked at the twenty-year-old man and shook his head: "To be honest, that bastard position is not suitable for you. I think that if a person has a quality like yours, no matter what his ability is, there will always be a day when he will get ahead. ”

"I can't help it. Giggs shrugged his shoulders with a smile, as if disapproving: "In the whole port of Ximen, there is no cleaner place than where I am, and I have just been put where I should be." ”

There was a bit of resentment between the words, but Penny, who didn't know much about the area, couldn't speak, exchanged a few pleasantries, said goodbye to the seemingly competent head of the guard, and looked at the courtyard gate of the mansion.

He silently recited a spell, and in a flickering figure, he had teleported to the gate of the courtyard, and the gatekeeper saw a man in a wizard's robe appear at the door with a flash of light, and his expression immediately became solemn.

Identifying yourself appropriately can save you a lot of trouble.

"This is Edmont House, Venerable Wizard, is there anything you can do?"

Penny was sure that if he walked over in a somewhat shabby black robe, he would never receive such a respectful greeting.

"I'm looking for Vika. He put his purpose bluntly: "Let's just say that old friends from the north are visiting. ”

Naturally, no one dared to ignore the words of a wizard, and even though the information contained in this sentence was a little vague, the servant quickly passed the word.

"Old friends from the north?" "Vika lay lazily on a long chair, her brow furrowed slightly, "What do you look like?"

"It's a wizard who looks very young, and he has a desperate ......"

Hearing this, her heart pounded, and the words behind her could no longer be heard clearly, and she sat up from her chair.

This appearance surprised the servant who delivered the message, and there was really not much news that could surprise this calm and wise young lady so much.

Her heart was beating violently, and she wanted to rush out immediately, but she saved herself from being wearing a thin pajamas, and immediately waved her hand: "Invite him in immediately, be quick." ”

The servant took the order to leave the room, and Vika stood up, paced from side to side on the floor for a while, her expression changing, and then she looked at the closed door that led to the inner chamber, and for a moment she shook her head.

Maybe it's not what he thinks at all, Edmont has a lot of desperate words in Searle's secret agents, maybe there is some important news coming, maybe it's completely different from what he thought.

While she was changing her clothes, she was thinking wildly, and the countless thoughts that passed by in an instant obviously made her a little dizzy, and she leaned against the wardrobe with the long dress that had just faded in her hand.

Squeak...... I don't know when the door opened, and the young man who came in saw the woman next to the closet, blinked, looked embarrassed, and pulled the doorknob out of the door.

"Wait. Vika immediately stopped him.

Penny turned out from behind the door again, not knowing what expression to use to face the lady who was spurting blood.

"Thank goodness you're still alive. She staggered to the door, tugged his head into her arms, and said with a lost look, "We almost thought you were dead." ”

"I'm so sorry. The wizard broke free from her embrace, gasping for breath and dreaming.

Just half a month ago, he was still on the move, and for a few moments, he thought he would never see these familiar people again.

"She's in there, go see her. ”

After a while, she calmed down as well, pushed Penny to the door on the other side, and then sat down in a chair next to her, breathing to calm her boiling emotions.

Penny glanced at her, felt the silence inside, pushed open the door and walked quietly inside.

"Daddy......"

Her eyes were closed, her pale lips murmuring, her fingers clutching the quilt, sweat pouring out of her forehead, making the pillow towel wet.

The wizard picked up the towel and gently wiped the sweat from the girl's forehead, her eyelids trembled, and she opened a pair of gray eyes, and a little light came out from the depths of the pupil, instantly illuminating the entire dark face: "Penny?"

She struggled to move her arms, using her forearms to prop herself up, trying to lift her upper body, but the long-term weakness clearly overwhelmed her, and the wizard stretched out his arm to support her, and Hiccol's body fell into his arms.

She raised her right hand, and the cold fingertips ran across the wizard's cheek, and a smile appeared on her face: "So I'm not dreaming?"

Penny stroked her long hair, and with her other hand pulled the quilt over her body, she was silent for a long time, until she let out a steady breath.

...... "She's asleep?"

Sitting opposite Vika on a chair in the living room outside, the wizard's fingers rubbed the crystal cup, the mellow red wine inside swirled with the gentle shaking of the rim, the wizard stared at the whirlpool in it, and did not mean to drink, while nodding in response to Vika's inquiry.

"Looks like she's finally getting a good night's sleep. Vika sighed, "Did you know that the other day she looked like she was going to die at any moment. ”

"I'm really bothering you. The Serles didn't find it. ”

"This is Simon, they don't count, you can live here with peace of mind. Vika shrugged, "What are you going to do in the future?"

Penny was silent, put down the glass, walked to the window, and looked at the city outside: "...... I won't stay here forever. ”

"And you're still going back to Searle?" Vica frowned.

"Perhaps, but not now, but someday......" The wizard shook his head and turned to face Vika, "Maybe that day will be a long time." ”

"Seriously......" Vika was silent for a while: "Your enemy is the chief, and that day may be far away. ”

She wasn't optimistic about Penny's power: "Stay at Simon with peace of mind, it's safe here." Hiccor needs you. ”

At this point, her eyes darkened and she sighed again.

"It's okay, if I don't have enough time, I'll transform into a lich. Penny replied, "As a wizard, enough time is always available." ”

His tone was flat, Vika's face changed suddenly, and Penny also found that this statement was a bit inappropriate, and quickly shook his head: "Forget it, don't talk about it, in short, thank you very much for taking care of her, thank you very much, Vika." ”

"It's nothing. Vika looked at the young wizard, and after some ordeal, he seemed to have changed again.

The innocence weakened by two points clearly, and there was a more insistence between the eyebrows, and there was a bit of a gloomy aura, and this temperament was more obvious than when he was in Serre.

Obviously, the ordeal didn't knock him down, but it gave him some other qualities, more like those of a red-robed mage.

Man is an animal that becomes less and less lovable the more he lives, but he does grow up again.

She remembered such a sentence inexplicably, and let out a sigh, feeling happy and a little lost at the same time.

"Vika, I heard you have a guest?"

Just then, the door was violently pushed open, and a young man dressed in bells and whistles walked in with a big grin.

He spoke in a sharp voice, with a long chin, a pair of goldfish eyes, and he looked very annoying, his cheeks were red, and there was a smell of alcohol in the innermost part, which made his disgust rise even more: "Yo! Where did this little white face come from? Vika, I haven't seen you fool around with a man for three or four years, this kid is dry and thin, what is the comparison to the Shangxiu Corradi?"

Penny frowned, and aside from the man's personal assault on him, the temperature in the room dropped by two degrees as soon as the man and the two tall entourages behind him entered.

"Please, clean your mouth, Claude. Vika looked at the man with a somewhat unpleasant face: "Be careful with your pocket money. ”

"Don't you dare not give it to me, or I will tell my father, if he knows that you are abusing me, he will definitely be even more angry, with the old man's body...... Trust me, you don't want to see that happen. There were only two chairs in the room, and the man named Claude walked to the side of the one where Penny was sitting: "Go, little white face, this is my chair." ”

There was a hint of anger in Penny's eyes.

"Wait, you sit on mine. Vika immediately stood up and stopped before Penny and Claude: "He's a guest. ”

"Hell, this is the master's decision, not to mention what kind of thing is this little white face?" He looked at Penny with red eyes, and burped, and a stench smoked on Penny's face: "I can find a stack of this kind of goods when I go to the purple girl, a hundred coppers a night, such a cheap thing, also worthy of being our guest? ”

The two attendants glanced at each other, and stepped forward to sit on the chair of the wizard, but in the next moment, the vision was covered by a flash of light, and the body was as if it had been hit by a fist weighing hundreds of pounds, and the angle of the hit was extremely accurate, so that their bodies flew out of the narrow portal in a cloud, and together with this young man with bells and whistles, Vika covered her mouth in surprise and wanted to chase out, but was pulled by Penny, and quickly looked at the wizard with an anxious look:

"He's my brother, please, Penny, let me out. ”

Penny was dumbfounded, he couldn't imagine that Vika actually had such a brother, let alone a big aristocratic family could give birth to such a child, which was obviously incredible, but it made him know that he couldn't stop Vika's actions.

He let go of his hand, and Vika ran out, and the guy was about to get up and rush into the house when he was grabbed by two of his attendants.

Offending a wizard is no fun.

Penny didn't care about anything outside the house, and after a while, Vica walked in haggardly, staggered down in her chair, rubbed her forehead, and said to Penny weakly, "Sorry, Penny, he drank too much. ”

That kind of habit of speaking words and arrogant attitude, I'm afraid it's not much better when sober, not to mention spitting the truth after drinking, being able to threaten Vika with that kind of speech, this person is also inferior to the level of beasts, Penny thought so, but he didn't say it, just nodded.

Vika smiled reluctantly, "He is the only direct heir of my family's generation, and I have to take care of him." ”

"You look tough. Looking at her face, Penny frowned and stood up: "I won't bother you anymore, you have helped me too much, wait until I settle everything, and then come back to pick up Hiccol." ”

"Wait. ”

The wizard stopped, felt his arms go from behind to his chest, the body pressed against his back, his forehead against his neck, his heart beating slightly, he felt the clothes on his shoulders get wet, and he stopped all movement.

It was a long time before Vika sighed and turned Penny's body over, and the wizard looked at her red eyes and felt a little uncomfortable.

"This robe is too dirty, wait a minute, I'll find you some. She sniffed, and rummaged through the closet for a while, finding a few white robes, which Penny took and unfolded to examine for a moment, frowning, though not clearly marked, but they resembled clerical robes, and were slightly larger.

But there is nothing to find fault with at the moment, this black robe has been with him for a long time, he actually only has two clothes in Serre, except for this one that has accompanied him since his apprenticeship, only the red robe that dies at the sight of light is left.

He glanced at Vica and felt that she had no intention of getting out of the way, so he generously changed into this robe.

Vika looked at the wizard in the white robe, her eyes gradually became confused, as if she was looking for some distant shadow in the wizard, she waited quietly for Penny to tidy up her clothes, and sighed again: "Siccol is still better with me, where are you going?" ”

"There's a mage tower to the south waiting for me to pick it up. Penny smiled and nodded at Vika, "You can rest assured." ”

"Be careful. Vika patted the fold on Penny's back, "Simon City is not a safe place. ”

......Why hasn't your lord come back?" Zoth's abode was not as ornate as expected, compared to the ones Nephis had seen in Serre, the four-story mage tower was too rudimentary, some of the Adamantite Mithril brackets on the outside had not even been carefully demonized, and the structure was even more chaotic, this kind of craftsmanship was undoubtedly a serious cut of corners in Nefez's eyes.

Although he doesn't have too high spell-casting ability, but he was born in the Red Robe Mage Society, and Nephie has more knowledge than many apprentices, especially in terms of arcane knowledge, Penny promised these apprentices to teach magic, and some corrections related to basic knowledge, he simply handed it over to this little girl.

After a period of getting along, Zos's apprentices also saw how powerful this little girl was.

Of course, they didn't know that there was such a land in Feren, and if the apprentice could not master enough knowledge before a certain age, there was a high possibility that his surname would be killed by the mentor, so they were surprised by the level of the little girl.

As a result, Nephies was disdainful of the mage tower.

Although the bay and fresh city she had never seen before were refreshing to her, the mage tower made her agree with some of the arguments of the Red Robe Mage Society.

"The magic of the rest of Faeron is stale, old, conservative and powerless, and the most powerful arcane will always belong to Serre. ”

This statement is actually too arrogant and does not fully correspond to the facts, but compared to most of Faerun, this sentence still has its own surname.

Of course, this did not arouse Nephis's deeper dissatisfaction, and what made her really dissatisfied was that this humble mage tower actually used an enchantment to prohibit them from entering.

"I know some of these settings, but with my permission, I can't open them, and only powerful spellcasters like adults can enter this mage tower if they come and cooperate with my guidance. This was the answer given to her by the apprentice Rand, so she had to stay obediently in the courtyard next to the mage's tower, boring and discussing the basics with the apprentices.

Basically all mages use apprentices as coolies to be squeezed, which is similar whether it is Searle or anywhere else, and these apprentices are worse than Searle, their basic knowledge is not very solid, so this kind of communication can undoubtedly satisfy the vanity of the little girl, and these apprentices also regard her as a talent.

In fact, being able to have the ability to cast spells in the ring before the age of ten is also a great thing in the eyes of many apprentices.

But this kind of thing is always annoying, and I said a spell pronunciation again, stretched my waist, and was a little interested.

At this time in the previous two days, the apprentice master, who was good at observing words and feelings, would always urge the apprentice to disperse at the right time, so as not to tire the little girl—you must know that this is the young wizard's treasure, but today after he dismissed the apprentice, he did not leave immediately.

"Rand, what's the matter?" Nephis winked at the apprentice.

"This, there is indeed a ......" Rand nodded, although he didn't have to grovel to Nefez, but he still maintained politeness, he lived for many years, and he knew the world very well: "When we were returning from the ship with Diesel that day, the mercenaries on the ship suddenly started a riot......"

"Riot?" Nephes's eyes immediately lit up, "What riot?"

The mercenaries rebelled together, trying to question Lord Diesel's authority. ”

"There is such a thing?" the little girl's face immediately became gloomy.

In the end, Mistress Diesel kept things down. ”

Hearing the apprentice's words, Nefi's face was slightly better.

Noticing Nephie's face, Rand paused for a moment and continued, "But now that I have heard from those mercenaries, I know that one of us was the one who provoked them to do this kind of thing. ”

Nephesi's expression immediately became gloomy: "Who is it?"

If you dare to be detrimental to your adult, this person must die.

(To be continued)