In the cave hall, a cluster of water suddenly rose from the calm pool, and a figure faintly emerged.
"who!"
The face of the city guard who was in charge of cutting up the carcass of the black-maned giant pig changed drastically!
The two wizards standing nearby also tensed up.
This is a dark forest, and there is no room for them to be careless.
"...Don't be nervous." Colin came to the shore, stood by the pool, raised his triangle badge, and said slowly.
The triangular badge the size of a table tennis ball was glowing silvery white in his hand.
The two wizards opposite looked slightly calmer.
The school's badges are bound one-to-one, and only I can inspire this silver-white brilliance.
"Is Wizard Holt still here?" Colin asked again.
After leaving the stone room and returning to the water pool, it was just as he thought. The giant black-maned pig that forced him into a desperate situation had been killed by Holt and his two men, and the passage connecting the cave hall had been reopened.
Even now, there are city guards in the cave hall, dismantling and carrying the carcasses of the giant black-bristle pig.
It seemed that time had passed longer than he thought.
After all, the stone chamber is isolated from the world and there is no light, so it is difficult to detect the specific passage of time.
"Wizard Holt...should be in the city now." A wizard on the left in front of him replied, and then he paused and said, "You must be Colin, everyone thought you were dead..."
Colin smiled and didn't explain much. He just nodded to them and said:
"I have to go find Captain Holt, so I won't disturb your work for now."
…
Forty minutes later, at the guard station in the west of the city.
Tuk-tuk-tuk.
Colin knocked on the wooden door of a room on the second floor.
"Please come in." A familiar voice came.
Colin pushed open the door and entered.
Holt was sitting behind a black wooden table, basking in the sun.
"Colin?!"
Seeing him, Holt couldn't help but expressed surprise.
Although Colin's body was not found in the cave hall, he did not have high hope that Colin was alive.
"Captain." Colin nodded to him calmly and said hello.
Although the wizard's robe was constantly cleaned and was still dry, the corners were a little tattered. His half-length blond hair was still wet and a little messy.
"It seems that you have a lot to tell me..." Holt said slowly after looking around at Colin.
Next, Colin informed Holt in detail about what happened before.
Of course, the contents of the stone chamber are hidden.
He just said that he relied on the witchcraft of pretending to die and hid in a pool to escape the disaster.
After listening to Colin's story, Holt frowned slightly and said:
"...So what you're saying is that when you were confronting the giant black-maned boar, Catherine and others took the opportunity to escape and blew up the passage?"
"I'm not completely sure whether they blew up the passage, but I guess it's very likely." Colin explained calmly.
"...Do you know that Orlando, Willard and Blake of the Chiwen Gang are all dead?"
After a moment of silence, Holt suddenly asked.
‘Everyone except Catherine is dead?!’ Colin was a little surprised.
Holt continued earnestly:
"I'm very happy that you can survive... As long as you survive, no one will care how you survive."
Colin looked puzzled and looked at Holt doubtfully.
Holt frowned, sighed, and simply stated clearly:
"Katherine is the exact opposite of what you're saying, you know?"
"Everything I said is true!" Colin emphasized in a deep voice. "I..."
"Colin!" Holt shook his head to stop him. His tone was no longer gentle and he said in a deep voice:
"If according to what you said, the three senior intermediate apprentices were half disabled by the black-maned giant boar... then how can you still be alive and kicking? How can you confront the black-maned giant boar with your own strength?"
Colin hesitated for a moment and was about to explain. But Holt interrupted him again.
"Catherine said that it was because of your nervousness that the formation was disrupted."
"Then the giant black-bristle pig knocked you away and the roof of the cave collapsed at the same time.
Under the chain reaction, a large part of the cave roof collapsed one after another, and Willard and others were frightened by the black-maned giant pig and did not have time to escape."
"In the end, only Catherine survived by chance..."
Holt gradually calmed down, turned around and looked at Colin, his tone softened slightly:
"Colin, you have just advanced... Inexperienced in combat, it is normal to be nervous in battle. No one will blame you. There is no need for you to make up this excuse..."
Colin was stunned, and a large number of complicated thoughts flashed through his heart.
He didn't expect that Catherine would complain first...and Orlando and the others would actually die?
‘Could it be that Catherine killed Orlando and the others?!’
As if a blessing came to his mind, this speculation emerged in his mind.
But now is not the time to dwell on such things.
His eyes flashed, and with a clang, he pulled out the bee needle from his waist.
Holt raised his eyebrows, but he didn't care. But the next second, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Colin raised his arm and stabbed the palm of his raised left hand fiercely with the rapier in his hand.
Ding!
The bee needle collided with the palm of his left hand, making a sound like gold and stone striking against each other.
Colin continued to exert force, and the bee needle gradually bent under the strong force. He did not let go until it bent to ninety degrees.
Then he looked up at Holt with a calm expression.
Holt wasn't angry either. He looked at Colin's intact left hand and was really shocked.
He knew that Colin was the Grand Knight.
The Grand Knight is the pinnacle of the knight system, although it is nothing compared to the wizard.
But this is only because the knight's attack methods are too single and his own defense is average.
In terms of actual attack power, generally speaking, the defensive witchcraft used by the intermediate apprentice cannot defend against the full thrust of the great knight.
After all, it's a stabbing attack, not a slashing attack.
Of course, no wizard would be stupid enough to let a great knight get close to him.
He also saw that Colin used all his strength, and the Bee Needle was also a rare and good sword...
After pondering for a moment, he took the initiative to apologize:
"I blamed you wrongly, Colin..."
"Don't worry too much, captain." Colin responded quickly, he had no objection to Holt.
After all, Holt has no preference for anyone, it's just a reasonable guess.
"As for Catherine, I will go find her again and ask her for details."
Holt continued to add, with a solemn look in his eyes. Apparently he also thought of Catherine's suspicion.
Seeing this, Colin didn't add anything more.
After a pause, he said goodbye to Holt and then walked home.
People cannot do things based on imagination.
Otherwise, you will not be able to take revenge on the real culprit, and you will easily create unnecessary enemies for yourself.
That's why, as soon as he returned to the city, he went to report to Holt first.
But now, combining the information from Holt and his own personal experience in the cave hall, he is 80% sure that it was Catherine who collapsed the passage and killed the three Orlandos at the same time.
Although I don’t know how Catherine managed to kill three people at the same time, the truth of the matter should be close to ten.
However, he is not in a hurry to cause trouble for Catherine now.
If it is what he thinks, the school will avenge him without him taking action.
After doing such a thing, Catherine had no choice but to die. There was no way she could survive, not even as a slave like Charlie!
Of course...if the school cannot do justice to him.
Colin's eyes flashed with a glint, and he said quietly in his heart: