Hank never admits that he is a noisy person, he feels that he is just a talkative and enthusiastic ordinary person, especially the businessman's opinion of himself, which is quite immediate.

But today, Hank has to admit that he is indeed a noisy man, at least to some extent, and now, he has met a guy who is even better than himself.

"Oh~ How can there be three colors of flowers? Hank, do you think this kind of flower can be eaten? I think it is poisonous, I have read a book about plants before, most of the flowers with complex and bright colors are poisonous, they just like to deceive good people with this overly luxurious appearance, so we must not touch it. ”

"Look at it, why is this soil so dark......? It seems to taste a little strange, shouldn't it be pulled here...... Blackie, you can't ...... anywhere You know, it's about the manners of the horse, and you have to pay attention to it, otherwise no other horse will want to play with you in the future, especially the mare. ”

"Anyway, after so many days, why does Xiao Hei often stick out his tongue and run water? Isn't he feeling well? Oh! It's heat dissipation, but it's not hot now, and sticking out his tongue seems to be a way for dogs to dissipate heat? No, many animals do, but horses are still relatively rare, Hank, what do you think?"

Hank rubbed his temples, his head buzzing a little, and he had the impression that this girl seemed to have been nagging endlessly since she woke up.

Hank: "Why do you have so many questions? Is it that weird?"

Ilya wondered, "Isn't it normal to be curious about things you don't know?

Not really, after all, there are very few things I don't know.

Hank suddenly remembered someone, and he smiled at Elijah, "Maybe you'll get along well with that guy." ”

Ilya: "Who?"

Hank: "An old friend of mine who is also interested in things he doesn't understand. ”

Elijah: "Oh, if you're a friend and just as curious as I am, he's not a bad person. ”

Hankno said thoughtfully, "It's really hard to say. ”

The dark horse suddenly tilted his head, arched Hank hard, and condemned the other party with his eyes.

Elijah: "Look, you are talking badly about your old friend behind your back, even Xiao Hei can't stand it." ”

Hank shook his head, not commenting.

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The Cliff of Thorns is a special place, it is a cliff dressed in a hedgehog, and its "thorns" are thorns all over the mountain.

The head-to-toe thorns are hard to approach, and with only a few winding paths for an adult to navigate, it takes a lot of time to widen the path even with a sharp enough blade.

And the thorns of the Thorn Cliff are not ordinary.

They have an alternate name, Black Iron Thorns.

Its hardness cannot be damaged by any weapon in the world, and magic may be able to help you here, but only temporarily, although you can destroy thorns by casting spells, but for every thorn you destroy, it will grow two thorns, so the black iron thorns will only grow more and more, and grow more and more.

The rugged terrain and the thorns that disturb the direction undoubtedly make every explorer who enters the thorn cliff get lost in the maze full of spikes and dangers.

Outside the labyrinth, the two of them were slowly approaching.

Ilya looked at the gloomy cliff not far away and asked, "This is our destination?"

Hank: "What's wrong?"

I'm afraid, I'm not afraid of heaven and earth, how can I not be afraid of a small cliff?

Although the idea is brave, the closer it gets, the hairiness in the bottom of my heart will inevitably grow, and the coldness will climb up the back ridge, making Ilya shiver.

The dark horse is getting more and more excited, walking with light jumps, bouncing, and looking forward to it.

Hank looked at the girl in the atmosphere of the Thorn Cliff, smiled, and said: "Although your strength is okay, and you can completely hide your magic power in front of me, proving that you have a good level of control over magic and detailed magic, but it is not very useful here, I advise you to be more restrained later." ”

Ilya said with a wooden face: "What are you talking about, I'm not a magician, I'm just an ordinary person, you have to protect me." ”

This girl is still addicted.

Hank: "You said before that I couldn't cast the displacement magic to get rid of you for some reason, and you're right, because of a little accident, my magic is not stable, small magic will not have an effect, and magic that works on me can be activated normally, but it's not easy to say about external magic, if you rashly launch a larger magic, there is a certain probability that the magic will run wild, which is not a good thing." ”

Elijah: "Aren't you afraid that I'll do something bad for me?"

Hank: "You don't think I'm a bad person, and I don't think you're a bad person. ”

Ilya grinned, then remembered something, and asked, "And what about the majestic momentum you exuded at that time?"

Hank: "Urging magic to scare people and driving magic to cast physical magic are two different things. ”

Ilya narrowed her eyes and said in an unkind tone: "So you were bluffing me at the time?"

Hank smirked.

Ilya gritted her teeth, indignant.

Sure enough, the human heart is sinister, the world is impermanent, and the wit is as good as I have been deceived, the hateful villain Hank.

complained about Hank's despicable behavior in his heart, but he didn't forget to blow himself up.

Elijah: "In that case, why did you come here?

Hank patted the old guy next to him, touched the black horse's neck and said, "This is my hind hand." ”

The dark horse holds his head high, wanting to look more powerful.

Ilya only glanced at the dark horse and kept staring at Hank, staring at the other party until he began to feel a little uncomfortable, and then said, "Why don't I think it's this?"

Hank subconsciously scratched his chest and said fakely: "How come, my back hand is my old buddy, I don't blame you, after all, you haven't seen the real strength of the old guy once, but you are very lucky, because then you will have the opportunity to see how strong this guy is." ”

Ilya was skeptical, but Hank didn't give her a chance to continue asking, and he shook his head at the dark horse.

The black horse trotted closer, and when he was one step away from the thorns, the thorns covering the entire cliff trembled slightly, and as the black horse approached, the thorns began to slowly retract their spikes, and respectfully moved out of the way, and the thorn maze took the initiative to open, welcoming the black horse to enter.

The dark horse looked back at the two of them, motioned for Hank and Elijah to follow him, and then walked into the labyrinth of thorns.

Hank: "Well, I'm right, with my old buddy, we're perfectly fine here. ”

Ilya: "So you're not very useful?"

Hank: "......"

Stinky girl, it's really not cute to talk at all.

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The Cliff of Thorns has lost its former gloom, and it has put away all its edge, revealing its most docile side, just to welcome the return of the dark horse.

The black horse is like returning to its own warm home, where the "family" welcomes it very much, and occasionally a few thorns gently slide over its body, as if to greet the black horse.

After walking with the black horse for a while, the thorns in front of him spread out, revealing a black stone staircase, extending all the way to the top of the thorn cliff.

After passing through the thorn labyrinth and entering the thorn cliff, I found that the thorns all over the mountain looked draped on the cliff from the outside, but in fact, there was a distance of several meters between them and the cliff itself, as if floating on the surface of the cliff.

Walking on the black stone stairs and looking up, the dense thorns will make people mistakenly think that they have walked into a cage made of thorns.

The whole thorn cliff is as silent as death, among the black iron thorns with spikes, there are not necessarily any animals that can make a home here, and the dry soil is difficult for plants to survive, under a closer look, it seems that only the black iron thorns in this cliff can be regarded as a living thing, or the only living thing.

Only tonight, Thorn Cliff welcomed three living guests.

Looking at the impermeable thorns that covered the outer perimeter of the blackstone staircase, Elijah was very curious, she had never seen or even heard of a place like this in her hometown. Ilya held out her index finger to poke at the thorns that had been smoothed out by the spikes, but was stopped by others.

Hank: "Didn't I tell you to be more restrained? These thorns are not welcoming us, but my old fellow, and we are just considered to be its retinue, so don't do anything offensive beyond the bounds." ”

Ilya stuck out her tongue and withdrew her hand. Although the thorns did not change at all, she vaguely felt that these thorns were very defensive about her actions just now, and it could even be said that they were aggressive, and if Hank hadn't stopped them just now, maybe she would have to suffer a little.

On the blackstone staircase, there is only a sporadic thin light of the moon, and the gloomy environment greatly obstructs the view. Elijah wanted to ask Hank why he didn't use a simple lighting spell or simply bring a torch, but she didn't say anything.

Because the higher he went, the closer he got to the top of the Thorn Cliff, the calmer and more serious Hank's expression became, and under this calm and serious expression, there was a very heavy caution.

Even the dark horse that took the lead at the front has changed, and every time he lands, he is calm and powerful, not in a hurry or slow, and every time he takes the two people behind him step by step with the same rhythm.

After walking quietly on the blackstone stairs for a while, Ilya suddenly noticed that the thorns around her felt stiff, and she almost instantly understood that they were not far from their destination.

Ascending the last staircase, the two of them were faced with a flat field, misled by the visual effect of thorns, which made Ilya mistakenly think that the cliff was very high, but it was not.

This flat land is very clean, clean as if someone has been cleaning all year round, there is no bump, there is not a grain of dust, it is not at all like a wild cliff.

The black horse paused for a moment, looking at the surroundings as if he was feeling nostalgic, and then he took a few steps forward and lowered his head. Ilya looked down and found a huge magic circle carved beneath her feet, with an unusual aura of murder and a series of unintelligible words.

Hank crouched down and placed his palm on the magic circle, and there was a flash of heat in his palm.

He closed his eyes and said.

"Next, let's open the gates of Nagara and enter this purgatory. ”