After exchanging banknotes and notes, he returned to the old woman and handed the money to the other party.

Bert glanced at the contents of the note and tucked it into his cuff.

Nearly twenty minutes later, three more successful trades in succession, and today's party was over.

They still left every five minutes, but today Chris took Bert and walked out first under the guidance of the young waiter.

Chris and Bert, hooded, hurried away and took off the black masks on their faces as soon as they walked into the crowd because it was too eye-catching.

Bert stopped a free carriage, and the two took off their black robes on the way back home, because they were afraid that there were extraordinary people hidden around the meeting place, so they didn't take off their masks and black robes in the first place.

Chris doesn't drive the carriage himself because the carriage is easy to be marked, and it used to be because of Oliver, the big guy in Sequence 5, who was naturally able to sense whether there were people around him.

As soon as he got home, Bert took out the note and handed it to Chris, only to see that it read:

"Deep in the Walkham Forest, in the suburbs, in a cave. ”

Chris couldn't laugh or cry after watching it, which he didn't think was reliable.

He felt that the 20 gold pounds had been wasted, and looked up at Bert and asked:

"Do you think this message is true or false? Could it be some kind of trap?"

Bert thought for a moment and said:

"I can't rule it out, but whether the news is true or not, we have to go over, right?"

Chris shook his head helplessly, no way, danger and opportunity are always with you.

It was already five o'clock when he returned, and Chris looked in the yard to see how well the horse was doing today, and went back to the kitchen to make dinner.

Today's dinner is Chris's bacon and ham sandwich, creamy vegetable bisque and pea stew, and Bonnie's favorite chocolate vanilla pudding.

And such a dinner costs about 10p.

Before eating, Bonnie asked if there was anything to be gained from today's meeting, but Chris was not in a hurry to answer, and at the end of the dinner, Bert said:

"We do have some news. ”

Then he stopped without looking at Chris's words, reached out and took the napkin on his leg, and said directly:

"Originally, Chris and I weren't going to tell you, after all, the location is in the Walkham Forest on the outskirts, and we don't want to take you on an adventure.

"But I think that once you know about this, you will definitely be angry, so I have to be a bad person for once, and now I ask you, are you going to go on an adventure with us?"

Although Bonnie looked at the smiling chris, she was still a little moved.

She looked at Chris with blue eyes, then at her brother, and said in a firm tone:

"I don't care if there's any danger or not! I'll go wherever you go anyway. ”

"So be it. Seeing that the matter was a foregone conclusion, Chris shook his head helplessly and compromised:

"In the next few days, we are all ready. Bonnie made some potions to repel snakes, ants, and mosquitoes, and I was able to familiarize myself with and further master the extraordinary abilities of the Arcanist. ”

Bert got up and put away the dishes and said:

"Then in three days, I can also prepare the materials needed for ritual magic. ”

In this way, the three of them began to prepare for the adventure three days later.

Three days later, in the early morning, the trio who had eaten breakfast were ready to leave the city of Federenburg for the first time, and for the first time they went out on an adventure as extraordinary.

Of course, strictly speaking, Chris is not, after all, he was picked up by Cole from the woodland in the suburbs.

Instead of wearing her fancy dresses, Bonnie changed into a sports-friendly shirt and trousers.

After about an hour in the wagon, they arrived at the entrance to the Walkham Forest on the outskirts.

This is what Chris learned after asking a few neighbors, because many civilians who do not have a good life come here to hunt and pick mushrooms and wild vegetables in their spare time.

After the three got out of the car, Chris locked the carriage next to a stout tree.

At a certain bend in the road, there was a wooden sign, and although the handwriting on it was a little blurry, it was still recognizable as the word "Valkham", and further on, there was a wooded bush.

It was only eight o'clock, so the dew in the forest had not yet completely dissipated, and although it was August, the air was still a little cold.

It seemed that the silence had passed, and some of the animals in the forest had also begun to get up and hide after hearing the movement of the three people walking.

The three of them walked in the woods, and as they went deeper, the trees became taller and denser, so that the depths of the woods gradually became darker.

Chris looked up, and the sunlight, which had gradually become warmer, was shining through the shade between the leaves, like stars twinkling in the sky, a little dazzling.

Because the eldest of the three, Bert, was just fourteen years old, the youngest Bonnie was only eleven years old, and Chris would not be twelve years old in a little more than a month.

In terms of height alone, Bert is 1.7 meters, Chris is 1.5 meters, and Bonnie is 1.4 meters...... Yes.

Chris was at the front, followed by Bert, and Bonnie was at the end.

Among the three, Bert is still stronger, but he has not suffered much since he was a child, on the contrary, Chris grew up in the slums since he was a child, and later worked as a coachman for three years, so he is naturally better than the two brothers and sisters, but it is still far worse than adults.

Therefore, the three of them walked and stopped, and the footsteps of others took more than an hour, but it took three hours, so at noon, the three of them still did not go to the depths of the forest, let alone see any caves and grottoes.

Bert looked at his sister, who was already tired, stopped, and said:

"Let's rest for half an hour and eat something to replenish our strength. ”

Bonnie actually couldn't walk for a long time, but in order not to drag her feet, she kept gritting her teeth and insisting, and if she hadn't taken care of her ladylike image after hearing Bert's voice, she would have sat down on the ground.

Chris walked to a relatively flat land, opened the backpack behind him, pulled out a two-meter-long blanket from it, and spread it on the ground with Bonnie.

The trio pulled out pre-made sandwiches and pastries from Chris's backpack, as well as glass bottles of Xibe black tea.

Towards one o'clock, the three of them packed up their things on the ground and continued on their way, and if they could not find their destination at two o'clock, they would probably have to go home.

After all, in the forest when it was dark, the three of them still didn't feel at ease to walk, so they had to get out of the forest before it got dark.

Just when the three of them were about to give up, a steep stone wall suddenly appeared in front of them, Chris hurriedly ran over, and about ten meters above the stone wall, there was really a two-meter-high cave.

"Here, come here. Chris waved to the two behind him, "There really is a cave, we found it." ”

When Bert and Bonnie heard the voice, they immediately quickened their pace and walked to Chris's side.

"But...... How are we going to go up?" asked Bonnie, pouting as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Bert looked at Chris, "How are you practicing wind magic, can you use the wind to carry us up?"

"You're kidding. Chris wanted to roll his eyes, but he obediently stretched out his right hand to mobilize the spirituality of his whole body.

I saw a cool breeze blowing, although it was much bigger than four days ago, but it was only a little bigger...... Wind.

Bert thought for a moment after looking at it, then took off his backpack behind him, and methodically took out some spiritually rich materials needed for ritual magic, including night vanilla, misty flowers, chamomile, blood-colored thorns, etc.

"Can you successfully perform ritual magic?" Bonnie's eyes were a little excited, after all, she hadn't heard Bert talk about it in a while.

The so-called ritual magic is to place different spiritual materials at different times and places through some different rituals and spells, and to perform different magic by pleasing different gods.

Ritual magic consists of two parts, "ritual" and "magic".

"Rituals" include postures, words, times or points in time, special objects and movements, etc. And the essence of ritual magic is a symbolic act.