'Leisure Time' is a coffee shop located on the corner of 'Oak Street' in Muya city-state. The environment is quiet and the decoration is elegant. The walls outside the house are covered with half-green and half-yellow saffron. The afternoon sun in the late autumn, with a hint of bleakness in the warmth, dyed this quiet coffee house with an intoxicating dim yellow.

With the sound of a soft and pleasant bell, the wooden door of the coffee house was pushed open, and a tall Nord man with a tattoo on his forehead walked in from outside. The other party was wearing delicate leather armor, with a long sword on his waist, and a pure black construct raven was still parked on his shoulder.

The Nord stopped for a moment at the door after entering. He looked around at the environment in the house, his expression a little restrained. "Are you sure you're meeting here?" he whispered, turning his head to the raven on his shoulder.

"Corn, jade..." The raven replied loudly, but as soon as he uttered a word, the Nord tightly clamped his mouth with one hand. The other party opened the door again, threw the raven on his shoulder with force, and then turned to look at the proprietress at the counter of the coffee shop, with an apologetic and embarrassed smile on her face.

The proprietress is a female half-elf with glasses, blond hair and no real age. She wears a light green plaid apron. When she smiles, her eyes turn into sweet crescent moons. "Hello, what would you like to drink?" she asked the customer.

"Rye beer." The Nord said subconsciously, then quickly changed his tune, "No, I don't drink anything, thank you. I'm here to find someone, someone asked me to meet here, he might, should, probably has come."

"May I ask what your name is..."

"Barritt," the Nord replied. "Barritt Mungo."

Before entering the Holy Land of Elves to repair the sword, Barrett was worried that the existence of the flesh-and-blood puppet 'Joey' would cause the disgust of the nature-loving elves. Temporarily for safekeeping.

Joey is a strange "construct" with a mysterious life experience and a very special shape. It is very dangerous in itself (it will devour other flesh and blood, even living creatures). If you are not careful, it may cause a riot. Not just giving it to anyone can reassure the barbarians.

Barrett's original plan was to go to the "Gear Heart" again, hand over the meat ball to the boss there, and ask him to take care of him for a while.

'Gear Heart' is a shop selling clocks and small construct toys in the city-state of Muya and 'Mercury Spider Street'. The owner is a modron wanderer from the mechanical realm. Barrett had approached him to find out something related to Joey. Although the other party didn't fully understand what Joey's essence was, at least he gave a guess that sounded fairly reliable. Good candidate for meatballs.

However, this matter was finally taken over by the little mage's friend 'Ben Yisu'.

When Barrett went to the Negative Energy Plane to do a mission before, he had a simple deal with this Master Ben Ysu. The character of the other party is quite good, but there is a strange temperament that is not easy to describe. Although it is only a low-level mage, the status of Mage Ben Yisu in the Magic Association does not seem to be low. Moreover, Barrett also heard from Kris that Master Ben Yisu had also contributed to the process of rescuing himself from hell.

Since the other party was very active, enthusiastic, and actively asked to take care of the meat ball, and said that he would definitely return it to him in good condition, then Barrett naturally agreed. Although Barbarian also knew in his heart that the meat ball would inevitably be studied, this was not the reason for his refusal.

More importantly, the little mage has already hinted that it is best to leave the meat ball to Ben Yisu for a period of time, so Barritt doesn't have much choice. If you don't let Meatball be properly studied by the mage, maybe one day the one who is studied may become yourself...

After returning to the Muya city-state from the dryad couple's hut, Master Ben Yisu invited Barret to this coffee house through the construct raven 'corn'. Our barbarian adventurer came to this kind of place for the first time in his life. The style and atmosphere here made him feel very uncomfortable, far from being comfortable in a tavern that can be noisy and noisy at will.

Barrett followed the directions of the coffee house proprietress and came to a box on the second floor. He reached out and opened the door. The space inside was quite spacious. The curly-haired Mage Ben Yisu was leaning back on the chair with a leisurely expression, teasing a small gray-white mink with a piece of fresh meat the size of a palm.

The piece of fresh meat was caught by Ben Ysu with the "Hand of the Mage", and it floated up and down in the air. Whenever it jumps high and looks about to touch the target, the piece of fresh meat will rise a little bit, and then fall back to its original height. Repeatedly, the anxious little guy circled back and forth on the table.

Barrett's entry attracted the attention of this man and the beast, "Master, master!" The little mink shouted in a tender voice, then kicked its limbs and rushed towards the barbarian's face, but was caught in mid-air. The barbarian grabbed it.

The little sable beast that was caught by the body did not struggle, and let the barbarian carry it back to the table by the neck.

"Sit whatever you want," said Master Ben Issu to Barit. "What would you like to drink? I'll treat you to someone. The coffee beans they have here are specially imported from Heard Island in the Kingdom of Fusai. The volcanic ash on that island can make the coffee beans' The flavour becomes more intense and has a very strong smoky flavour, which I really like.”

Barrett once heard from the little mage that Ben Yisu was not a pure-blooded human. A certain generation of mage ancestors of his ancestors had been combined with the red dragon, so this guy also has some blood of the red dragon in his body. This is why Master Ben Yisu always likes to wear a fiery red robe with a flame pattern.

In the era when the magic net was not torn apart and the magic empire was not established, some mages would choose to fight with those legendary creatures (mainly dragons) with powerful spell-like abilities, physical fitness and adaptability. ) combined to increase the probability of future generations awakening to become mage, and eventually become a long-standing mage family.

There are pros and cons to this approach. Take Ben Yisu as an example, because he has the blood of a red dragon in his body, it is easier for him to learn flame magic, and the effect when using it is more significant than other mages. But at the same time, it would be extremely difficult for him to learn and cast water and frost magic. Therefore, such mixed-blood mages generally have relatively obvious specialties and shortcomings.

"No, thank you. I'm really not used to drinking this weird drink." Barrett sat across from Ben Ysu. Heard Island? volcano? These two common words reminded him of a charming past that was sealed by (dust).

"To be honest, I didn't like it at first." Ben Yisu said with a smile, "but there is no way, who can make this thing refreshing, the mage likes all kinds of refreshing things." He took a sip of the dark brown in the cup in front of him. Liquid, "Although the effect of energy potion is better, it must be added with the juice of 'Yingluohua'. This light blue juice is not harmful to the body, but it is difficult to be eliminated from the body. If You take the energy potion too often, the blue color will be concentrated on your lips, and the color will get darker and darker. Some people like this color very much, not including me, it is me Not worthy at all." The Red Dragon Mage pointed to his fiery red robe and said.

"I still prefer to drink." Barrett stroked the little sable beast, "beer, wine, or those that tasted strange. But the wine brewed with the mucus oozing from the glue monster can be No, I drank it once and almost vomited out my stomach."

After a simple exchange of words, the two sides finally returned to the topic. Ben Yisu looked at the little sable beast with narrowed eyes under Barrit's touch, "Do you know what this thing is?"

"It?" Barrett rubbed the little guy's soft belly. "In Nord, we call this the ermine."

"No, I mean, what's in here," Ben Ysu added.

He was referring to Joey. Barrett tapped the belly of the ermine with his fingers, and a very narrow gap suddenly cracked where he was hit, followed by a slender tentacle sticking out from the gap, then a second tentacle and a round Body. The meat ball crawled out of the belly of the ermine, relying on its four tentacles, and jumped into the palm of the barbarian.

What is this thing? "A somewhat special flesh-and-blood puppet," Barrett replied, "I once asked the boss of 'Gear Heart', 'Fu Binn', and he told me that this thing should have been in the process of devil promotion and had not yet transformed into a new devil. Primordial larvae. According to Rich Binn, this larva has a very special deformation ability, and the flesh-and-blood puppet transformed from it can become many things."

"Well... how should I put it, I have different views from that Mr. Modron Rogue." Ben Ysu looked at the meat ball with a strange expression, "To tell you the truth, during the time of taking care of it, Several colleagues in the association and I have done a little experiment on it."

Barrett had already anticipated that, and he estimated that the experiment would probably not be "point" or "small". The barbarian threw the meat ball in his palm up and down, "Did you find anything?"

"We discovered a new form of it, and maybe that's what it really looks like," said Ben Ysu. "Specifically, let it tell you."

With the words of the Red Dragon Mage, Joey's meat ball body also cracked a gap. The gap opened wider and wider, turning into a mouth that took up half of the body. "That's what it used to be," said Barrett.

"Don't worry." Ben Ysu motioned the barbarian to continue watching.

Barbarian lowered his head and continued to stare at the little guy in his palm. He found that when the meatball's mouth was opened to the maximum, from the depths of its big mouth, an eyeball that was almost the same size as the mouth slowly emerged. After the eyeball appeared, it just stuck in the position of the mouth.

Now the shape of the meat ball has become a strange eyeball with four tentacles. This eyeball looks very strange. Barrett closes his palm to observe carefully, and finds that the eyeball seems to be composed of countless small eyes. When he stares, he feels a little dizzy for no reason.

"It's best not to stare at it all the time." Ben Ysu's voice came from the opposite side, "Although the danger has been greatly reduced after special transformation, there are still some characteristics that have not been removed. Or it can be said that there is no way. remove."

This little thing looks really unique, "What the **** is this thing?" Barrett put the meat ball on the table and asked suspiciously.

"Well, I can't tell you too much, because it's not good for you. You just need to know that it should have been a very dangerous uninvited guest in the past." Ben Yisu said, "As for now, as you said just now , is a rather special flesh-and-blood puppet."

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