When Barrett used to chat, he would often hear other people tell something about the mage.

One of the things he remembered vividly was a drunken adventurer who spoke in a hoarse voice and dancing on a night with a swaying campfire. In fact, Barrett was concerned about that adventure at the time. The shadow of the person is more than his movements, and the shadow is constantly twisted and deformed by the shaking of the bonfire, as if performing a unique drama.

It was as if the adventurer had seen it with his own eyes, but in fact he was listening to another adventurer, and that adventurer was listening to a cook, and the cook was listening to his wife, and his wife was listening to a man next door. Laowang's butcher said...

In short, most of the things are passed on like this, and they are widely known. Sometimes you can't tell which ones are rumors and which ones are real. This matter spread to Barrett's ears, and he set up camp inside, recharged his energy and prepared to wait for the opportunity to go out to occupy another brain...

It is impossible to distinguish the truth from the false, and it is unknown how much each narrator has added to it. But after stripping away the absurd and grotesque elements, the event itself was uncomplicated, but at this point it jumped out of Barrett's mind.

The protagonist of the incident was a mage, and the narrator did not dare to use the word "evil" to describe it like the author of the novel "Magic Is Just That", but his expression and tone all told this.

In fact, the mage didn't do anything cruel or terrifying. He just took the youngest son of a farmer's family away privately. After a few days, someone brought the child back intact. Also offered a handsome reward.

The narrator tried his best to describe the dark and moonless night when the Mage took away the child; the Mage's face that appeared and disappeared under the illumination of lightning; The blood-colored robe and the ferocious bone staff in his hand; it describes the huge three-headed terrifying monster lying on the side of the mage; it describes the cold wind that the mage brings when he walks. Screaming like a banshee in the wind.

In fact, based on Barrett's knowledge of mages, no mages would travel like this at all. They are powerful but never show off. Only the weak will show off, and the strong will just smile lightly.

In the incident, although the child was returned, people were still panicking about it. Because the youngest son of the farmer's family was a little special, he was born with a standard Elvish and Dwarven language, but after being taken away by the mage and returned, the child's outstanding language ability disappeared, and the whole person became Some were dumbfounded, and the original agility was lost in his eyes, as if he had become another person.

People said that it was because the mage was curious about the child's natural language ability, so he took the child's soul for research, and what was returned was just a body.

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In the Mage's eyes, maybe I'm no different from that kid who was born to speak many languages, Barrett suddenly thought to himself.

Barrett did not suffer from paranoia, and the incident itself was likely to be someone's nonsense after drinking. However, discuss with the mage about the kind of thing that didn't happen to me, nor heard it, but to myself. Weird things, after all, are some adventures, just like old Will's eyes are shining now, you can't guarantee what he will do next.

"Do you know more?" Old Will said excitedly.

"No, there's no more." Barrett replied blankly.

"Only these two?"

"Only these two!" Barrett said firmly.

"Then, what do these two characters mean, do you know?" Old Will continued to ask curiously.

"If you don't know the wisdom, it's even more impossible for me to know." Barrett shook his head, "In fact, I just asked casually, because they always appear in my dreams and appear repeatedly, so let I feel a little weird."

Barrett scratched his head and sorted out his language, "My initial suspicion was that those two characters might be the devil, or some kind of evil idea that the other evil guys in the abyss had fed into my head. , so I was a little worried and wanted to ask you." He found a reasonable reason. "But seeing your expression, I don't think those two strange symbols are scary things. Of course, maybe they are not some kind of words or symbols, but some other mess. You know, in a dream It's always weird." He explained haphazardly.

The most indispensable thing for mages is curiosity, but Barrett doesn't want to talk deeply.

"You can rest assured on this point. I didn't feel any evil thoughts in these two characters, nor did I feel any pollution and corruption in you." Old Will smiled and comforted, "But your worries It's not unreasonable. There are too many unknown and evil beings in the bottomless abyss. Some even ordinary people just recite their names in their hearts, and their souls will be polluted and corrupted. For those guys, the soul is like a In the eyes of drunkards, the golden wine produced by Qingting Island is like a golden wine, full of infinite attractiveness. So it is really not to be careless, they can do anything."

"You're right, the temptation to fall by those evil guys happens every year." Barrett nodded, "You should have heard that just a few years ago, in the capital of the Griffin Kingdom, there was a The noble sacrificed his wives, children, relatives, servants, a total of more than 100 lives to the devil in an extremely cruel way." Barrett said with a serious face, "I heard that the scene at that time was terrible, **** , organs, limbs, heads, were filled in the house in a strange way..." He didn't want to continue, "Although the mages finally got rid of the demons that crossed the border, and cleaned up all the depraved atmosphere nearby, but That house and the surrounding area, until apparently no one dared to enter it."

"Those devils have been very active and rampant in the past hundred years." Old Will's face also put away his smile, "Similar things happen all over the world from time to time. I heard that those guys still want to get rid of the bottomless nest. Moving out of the abyss, I don't know what to think."

move out? Where to go? Barrett doesn't know much about the multiverse. In the eyes of ordinary people like him, the Abyss is a gathering place for all kinds of bad guys. Now if a bad guy wants to move out, don't come. on this continent.

However, there are mages in this continent, and they must not dare to come in. Barrit can't help but feel a little fortunate. At this time, the fear and alienation of mages in his heart turned into gratitude.

"I said, friends, let's focus on the task." The half-elf knocked on the table and said, "The multiverse is too huge, even the mages during the Magic Empire period did not fully It is well understood, so strange things can happen. At least we know that those two symbols are not the blasphemies of the devil or the devils, that's enough, isn't it. As for the devils wanting to move , which has nothing to do with us. It is impossible for such an existence to break through the spatial barriers of our world."

"It's not necessarily. If there are enough creatures in this continent to summon them through sacrifice..." Old Will said with a serious face, and then he denied his assumption with a smile, "It's impossible, those If the devil wants to move the entire plane of their lair, even if they sacrifice all the human beings, it will not be satisfied."

"Even if it does happen, isn't it still your mages protecting us." The half-elf teased.

That's exactly what I wanted to say, Barrett thought.

"Hey, I don't care about this kind of big thing, I'm just an ordinary, wandering mage who has lived for a long time. Don't come to me for such important things as protecting the mainland. Besides, I don't have such ability either. ." Mage Will coughed deeply, as if to deepen the persuasiveness of the view that 'you can't protect the mainland', "This kind of big thing is something that the high-level mages of the Magic Association need to consider." He raised a A finger pointed up, indicating the city of the sky of the Magic Association, "And I am just begging for food under their hands."

"Even a wandering mage is a mage and can use the power of magic, not an ordinary person like me." Barrett complimented cheekily.

Old Will smiled noncommittally, "After the mission, if you need it, I can introduce you to Mage Alva. He is an expert in history and writing, and is also proficient in the blasphemous words of the evil species. If you still have If you are worried, you can go to him. As for now, Estelle is right, let's discuss the mission."