"What's wrong, Xiaoqian?"
The heavy footsteps of a warrior running quickly approached behind him, and a player named Qicai Lingguang also appeared at the corner of the alley and street. He was leaning on the wall and looked around with a slightly serious look.
There were strange surroundings, and then he asked in a low voice to the girl standing still in front of him: "What did you find?"
"No, it's nothing."
Still with her head lowered, Qian Zhihe's voice came from the front faintly. She stared closely at an empty corner in the alley in front of her, originally planning to answer.
There was also a hint of confusion in his voice: "Maybe... my perception is wrong."
"Someone is following us?" He seemed to have noticed the meaning of his little sister's actions, and his colorful eyes looked towards the front of the alley: "Is it the person sent by the imperial noble just now?"
"I don't know." Shaking her head slightly, the girl in cloak turned around expressionlessly: "Anyway, with so many of you staying here, sooner or later you will be exposed to the eyes of others."
"If there is really no other way, you can use Fu Feng's name." She hesitated for a moment, then started to walk towards the far side of the road with her own steps: "This guild is now only an empty frame.
, not many people should have noticed anything.”
"You, where are you going?"
"Champs-Elysees."
The girl who was walking slowly did not stop. She waved the red lotus staff into the void again and said without looking back: "Now that we are here, there are some greetings that must be said."
"Didn't I say that I will support you?" Just before disappearing around the next corner, she turned back and tilted her head towards the colorful light: "Don't worry."
"When it comes time to appear, I will naturally appear again."
As if the eyes of strangers were completely divided into two parts as the corner of the wall was divided, the last brief exchange between the two players was ruthlessly and indifferently abandoned by the girl. She pulled her hood to hide her figure.
She then remained silent and kept walking through the hot wrought iron streets of Thebilis Castle. Ignoring the occasional pointing glances, she finally passed through the central square.
She also came to the familiar street and alley that Duan Qing and others had just visited before. The atmosphere that became quiet due to fewer passers-by gradually made her steps more clear, clicking on the bluestone.
One side of the road kept echoing: "...You can come out now."
"..."
The sound of the collision between the heels and the bluestone finally stopped at a certain moment. The girl who was standing in the light and shadow of the street suddenly spoke out, and then slowly responded without any change in the silence around her.
My head: "You have been following me since I entered the city, right? Why don't you dare to show up now?"
"..."
"It seems that some lessons are needed."
The pretty chin under the hood lifted up again, and the two cold eyes belonging to the girl pierced straight in the direction where she came from as she raised her head, and the heat became stronger with this movement.
Two sets of eyes, as if they were solid, kept gathering at the end of the street: "Wait, wait."
"We do not intend to have any form of conflict with you."
The orange-yellow color like a raging storm of flames began to disperse in the air of this street as bits and pieces of flames condensed. Finally, a certain sound surrounded by it was forced out, and the man who jumped off the wall at the same time
He also pulled off the black hood on his head, revealing his rather slender face: "After all, our target is not you, is it?"
"..."
It seemed that she was a little surprised by the appearance of this figure. This time, it was the girl's turn to become silent. She turned her gaze to the player and looked at him quietly for a while, before finally choosing to focus on the flames on the street.
The energy was withdrawn: "You are from Wings of Freedom, right?"
"Yes, I'm sorry to say hello to you now." He raised his hands to show that he was not hostile. The player who was far away from the girl then showed a smile: "As guilds from different camps, we
You have to be careful in everything you do now, otherwise it would be really sad if it causes unnecessary misunderstandings."
"Humph." The eyes became a little colder, and the girl's delicate voice also had a hint of coldness: "It sounds so nice, but in fact, you haven't let go of any of the players who come in and out of this place.
"
"Yes, after all, a person like you can cause huge trouble if you are not careful." The player of Wings of Freedom smiled and scratched his cheek: "You are the key target of our Wings of Freedom.
, since you appear here now, of course we must take care of you as soon as possible."
"What are you planning again?" His eyes began to focus on the other party again, and Qianzhihe's hands gradually made a spell-casting motion: "Since you don't mind standing up so openly, then I don't mind either.
Use more direct means to resolve the grievances between us..."
"There is no hatred between us at all. After all, we are just thugs and have no idea where your hatred for us comes from." The Wings of Freedom player hurriedly interrupted the girl with his wave of his hand.
Not hiding the hostility revealed: "Besides"
"We don't have any big actions this time. We are just entrusted by others to teach some people here a lesson."
The smile on the slender face gradually disappeared, and the player's expression began to become serious: "We will leave immediately after the matter is completed."
"Oh? Really?" Qianzhihe, who raised his palms and pointed sideways at the other party, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What if I don't agree?"
"You should agree, because that person is the imperial noble who was extremely rude to you on the street before." The man with the slender face smiled again: "This is just a warning, so we will not really take it.
His life."
"..."
The condensed magical energy gradually dissipated, and the girl looked at the person in front of her with eyes full of suspicion: "That guy who calls himself the Imperial Minister of Transportation?"
"That's right, he has just taken office and has not yet fully understood the cruelty of the struggle among the top powers of the empire." The player replied with a smile: "Because of the struggle, this time's incident will most likely be blamed on him in the end.
, if your mission here is related to him, then you'd better keep our proposal in mind."
"After all, this general trend cannot be determined by small players like us."
He said these last two sentences, and his retreating body slowly disappeared at the end of the street. The outline of his gradually fading figure finally became more and more blurred in front of the girl's eyes accompanied by an inexplicable low laugh.
, accompanied by his voice that also became blurred: "You who have experienced many things should be able to understand our good intentions."
"...a bunch of bastards."
Cursing these words bitterly, the girl who had been standing there for a long time gritted her teeth. She tried her best to suppress her anger and then turned around and continued walking in the direction she intended, but she didn't.
She was able to suppress the weird feeling lingering in her heart. Perhaps it was because she had too little game time and experience. She tried her best to think for a long time but still couldn't get rid of the weird feeling. She used a delicate
She walked more than half a block with her fingers on her chin, and then she regained her composure slightly as the number of people around her gradually increased: "...well."
"I actually came to the place that the noble once mentioned."
Looking at the luxurious house marked as a noble residence and the plaque at the door that read No. 28 Avenue des Champs, Qian Zhihe murmured disdainfully, and then shifted his slightly disgusted eyes to the mansion.
Next to it, there is a small facade with a magic wand and a magic book tilted upright: "Hello."
"Oh, he's a magician adventurer, right?"
Stepping up the stairs, he crossed the door of the building. Thousand-Zhihe, who was wearing a black cloak, submerged himself into it. A man dressed as a female scholar standing behind the counter at the door also raised his hand.
He raised his head and looked at the young girl who entered the place with passionate eyes: "Welcome to the Magisters' Council branch of Thebilis Castle. What do you need?"
"Are you...Miss Qian Zhihe?" The voice was slightly stunned, and accompanied by the female scholar's wide-eyed gaze: "Ms. Freya's apprentice?"
"……yes."
"Welcome, what a welcome!"
The girl who slowly took off her hood, revealing her long fiery red hair, finally nodded silently, and the female scholar who received the response also closed the book in her hand and held it against her head.
The excited face of the pair of glasses came close to Qian Zhihe: "We haven't had a magician adventurer like you come to visit us for a long time! Do you need any help?"
"I, I just came here to report." Some people couldn't adapt to the enthusiasm shown by the receptionist. Qian Zhihe stepped back slightly: "Isn't every adventure group going to other parts of the empire the same?
Do you need to report to the local area? The same goes for magicians..."
"This is a unilateral regulation of the empire. Not every adventurer needs to abide by it." The female scholar smiled and waved her hand: "And not every adventure group that goes out for adventure needs to report to the local area.
They are just wary of fraudulent adventure groups migrating between cities at will."
"But the Frey Empire also doesn't respect magicians." The girl's expression became much lower: "Especially the magicians among the adventurers."
"There is nothing we can do about it. After all, you are all the pride of our Council of Mages."
Patting his hands, the usher of the Mage Council smiled and consoled him: "For a powerful adventurer like you, what country doesn't worry about?"
"Are General Steele and his imperial soldiers still coming here every day for interrogation?"
"Of course, but the frequency has become less recently."
Showing it in the direction of the three or two magicians who vaguely appeared in this small facade, the receptionist replied with a smile: "Because the pressure has become less, the members who come in and out of here have also become
A little more."
"This place is recovering in popularity, just like the Fenghua Town branch I stayed at before." After saying this, she folded her hands slightly happily, and then pushed a registration book on the counter to Qianzhi.
In front of He: "Look, look, Master Rodel, Master Vidi, Ms. Fabuna, and Mr. Gordon saw that everyone's names gradually appeared here. As the administrator, Dole
I am very satisfied!"
"Come on, hurry up and sign your name!" She wiped her black hair behind her ears, pointed at the names, and then handed over a magic pen: "I hope everyone can have a good rest here,
Just think of this as your real home!”
"Uh... Okay." Qian Zhihe, who didn't know how to deal with the enthusiasm of the receptionist wearing glasses, and his mood improved, then fell on the registration book in front of him: "Then, then I will
Just write it here."
"Excuse me"
A deliberately protracted voice then interrupted the conversation between the two people. Along with it, a gray-robed magician who pushed in the door gradually appeared at the door, looking around at him inside the Mage Council branch.
He looked back and forth for a long time like a new stranger, and then slowly laid his eyes on the two people at the counter: "Is this No. 29, Avenue des Champs, Thebilis?"
The Castle’s Council of Mages?”
"Yes, yes." After slightly adjusting her expression and the scholar's dress, the receptionist named Dorothy showed a polite smile again: "Excuse me...are you also a magician adventurer?"
"That's right, I heard that the adventurer magicians who come here need to register, so I came here." The gray-robed magician nodded at the other party, with the words "Lin Yuan Duan Shui" on his head.
He looked at the scene at the counter as if he had just reacted: "I wonder if the transfer registration here is different from the registration at the Adventurer Association... Huh?"
"You, you are... a girl from Guren?"
As if he had discovered a new world, a joyful smile suddenly appeared on the magician's face. Rubbing his hands, he then jumped up to the girl with frowning eyebrows. He hesitated and then coughed.
He asked in a serious voice: "That, that...ahem."
"I wonder where the girl is now. Is she willing to join a group?"
This chapter has been completed!