After leaving Hill City, we headed towards Luoying City again in a leisurely manner. By the time we returned to Luoying City, it was already half a month later, late at night in late September.
However, even at ten o'clock in the night, there were still many people entering and leaving the city at the city gate, and the queue was not long nor short, and the firelight illuminated the entire city tower and city gate.
Lin Tianqi took Mia and sat on the carriage. He briefly glanced at the team next to him, signaled the old servant Matthew who was driving the carriage to stop, and then gave instructions to the knight captain Allen in front of the team.
"Alan, go ahead and talk to the city guard to see if you can arrange for us to enter the city directly."
"Yes, Master."
Ellen responded and immediately got off the horse and walked quickly towards the defenders in front. Not long after, a knight dressed as a middle-aged general followed Ellen and walked quickly. When he saw Lin Tianqi on the carriage, he immediately became enthusiastic.
said with a smile.
"Master Carl."
"Knight of Arav."
Lin Tianqi also smiled at the middle-aged knight.
"Master Carl still remembers me."
Hearing Lin Tianqi call out his name, the middle-aged knight suddenly became excited and asked.
"Of course, when I first came to Luoying City to study four years ago, the first person I met was the Knight Arav. How could I forget that?"
Lin Tianqi smiled again when he heard this, but the middle-aged general in front of him was none other than the knight general who defended the city when he first came to Luoying City four years ago.
Hearing Lin Tianqi's words, Yarav became even more excited. You must know that when Lin Tianqi first came to Luoying City, he was already blessed with brilliance and was known as a genius. Now four years later, Lin Tianqi has been awarded the official title.
As a mage, he has become the youngest genius mage in the Luoying Principality. His future is limitless, and he is known as the person most likely to become the second legendary mage in the Luoying Principality.
Although he is also a formal knight and a principal guardian, and is considered a big shot compared to ordinary people, but compared to today's Lin Tianqi, he is undoubtedly Yinghuo and Haoyue.
Therefore, at this moment, when Lin Tianqi said his name and remembered him, and when a big shot like Lin Tianqi remembered him, Arav felt a huge sense of pride.
"I didn't expect that Master Karl still remembers me. It's really a great honor for Yarav."
Yarav said excitedly, and then quickly said.
"Master Carl, please come here quickly."
With that said, Yarav quickly and enthusiastically greeted his soldiers to arrange for Lin Tianqi and his party to enter the city.
"Please, Knight Arav."
After entering the city, Lin Tianqi thanked him politely.
Yarav was a little flattered and kept saying.
"It's no trouble, no trouble. It's Arav's honor to work for Master Karl."
Upon hearing this, Lin Tianqi smiled politely at Yarav and directed the team to move forward without saying another word.
Entering the city, as you get further and further away from the city gate, the surrounding streets gradually become deserted and quiet.
A lone crescent moon hung in the night sky, casting its cool moonlight, adding a bit of coldness to the quiet streets.
"Um?"
After walking along the street towards the Mage Academy for a while, Lin Tianqi frowned slightly and looked towards a small alley on the left side of the street outside the carriage.
Almost at the moment Lin Tianqi looked over, in the darkness deep in the alley, a white figure flashed past like a ghost.
"Master, what's wrong?"
Mia, who held Lin Tianqi's left arm with both hands and rested her head on Lin Tianqi's shoulder, felt Lin Tianqi's movements and couldn't help but raise her head and asked. She also glanced at the small alley where Lin Tianqi was looking, but the carriage had already passed by, so she could only watch.
When we arrived at the entrance of an alley, we saw nothing else.
"fine."
Lin Tianqi smiled slightly and didn't say much, but his mind immediately relaxed and began to sense the surroundings.
............
"Run, run!"
At the same time, in a small alley in the city, five boys and girls who looked to be twelve or three years old were running away in embarrassment.
Behind the five people, there were several ghost-like white figures that flashed and chased them.
"Wind Blade!"
One of the five people, a boy with short blond hair, struck out with a wind blade and slashed at a white figure chasing after him. The wind blade passed through the white figure, but the white figure seemed to be fine, and the figure remained frozen in place.
After a while, he chased the group of people again, and you could see that half of this man's face was rotten.
"Damn it, what the hell is this? Magic is useless."
Seeing this scene, the young man with short blond hair couldn't help but cursed, and at the same time, his expression showed a look of horror.
"Run quickly, don't worry about so much, don't let these things catch up, run to the academy."
The girl at the front of the five-person team shouted, with a look of panic on her face, but besides that, she also had a calmness that was far superior to the others.
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Go back to the academy. There will be instructors there. As long as we get to the academy, we will be safe."
After hearing this, several people spoke in succession, with frightened expressions showing signs of hope, as if they had grasped a life-saving straw in a desperate situation.
The group of people immediately ran desperately towards the direction of the Master Academy in front of the alley.
After running for another ten minutes and going around several alleys, the group of people rushed out of the alley entrance and onto the street.
"Look, there's a carriage team there."
As soon as they rushed out of the alley, a girl in the team suddenly spoke and pointed to the left side of the street. As expected, on the street, a team of horse-drawn carriages came slowly towards this side.
"It's Master Karl. I recognize the knight at the front of the convoy. He is the knight captain under Master Karl."
Another man in the crowd suddenly spoke excitedly.
"There must be Master Karl in the carriage. We are saved."
When the others heard this, their spirits were immediately shaken, and they all showed happy expressions. Only the woman at the head of the team showed a hint of complexity in her expression.
"No, those things behind are catching up, and there are more of them."
But before the group could get too happy, the boy with short blond hair in the team suddenly shouted in horror.
Looking back, the faces of several people changed drastically, but they saw that in the alley behind them, the white figures chasing them were less than fifty meters away from them at some point, and the most important thing was that the people who were chasing them at the beginning were still behind them.
There were only three or four, but now at a glance, there were a dozen more.
When the group saw this, they all couldn't help but wear the hat of the dead. Faced with this group of white silhouetted monsters that appeared out of nowhere and could not be killed by magic, the group was really frightened.
"Quickly, go to Master Karl!"
The group of people immediately did not dare to hesitate any longer and ran wildly towards the direction of the convoy.
"who!"
At the front of the motorcade, Ellen suddenly stared at the five people rushing out of the alley and ran towards them. She pulled out the long sword in her hand and shouted.
Teng! Teng! Teng! Teng!
The other four trainee knights following Allen also drew their swords from their waists and pointed them at the five people who were rushing towards them.
"Don't take action, don't take action. We are students of the Mage Academy. Is it Master Karl who is in the carriage?"
Seeing the actions of Ellen and his group, the five people who rushed over immediately shouted loudly.
When Ellen heard this, her face suddenly became murderous, and she turned to look at the carriage behind her.
"Master."
At this time, Lin Tianqi had also stepped out of the carriage, looked at the five people running towards this side, and pressed his hands on Allen.
Seeing Lin Tianqi's gesture, Allen immediately put away the long sword in his hand slightly, and at the same time made a gesture to the other four subordinates, indicating not to act rashly, and looked at the five people running over and the alley behind them.
, but after seeing this, Ellen's expression changed again.
I saw a dozen ghostly white figures running out of the alley behind the five people, chasing the five people. The white figures looked like people, but they flashed forward, and some of them had limbs more like beasts.
He stood on the ground and rushed towards this side quickly after chasing the five people.
"what!"
A chill ran down Allen's back, and the hilt of the sword that he had just relaxed immediately tightened his grip again.
"Master Carl!"
The five people rushing towards this side immediately showed surprise when they saw Lin Tianqi, and shouted quickly.
Lin Tianqi also glanced at the five people, but he only recognized a beautiful girl with long brown hair in the front of the five people, who turned out to be Christina.
Christina also looked at Lin Tianqi with the same surprise as everyone else, but also a little complicated.
"Master, those are the ones!"
Mia also followed Lin Tianqi out. When she saw the ghost-like white figure chasing Christina, her face suddenly changed, and she nervously grabbed the corner of Lin Tianqi's clothes.
"Don't worry, it's just some relatively weak evil spirits."
Sensing Mia's nervousness, Lin Tianqi gave a simple word of comfort, and at the same time, he immediately flicked his finger and fired a stream of blood into sword energy.
"Mage Carl, be careful, these monsters cannot be killed by ordinary magic."
Seeing Lin Tianqi take action, a boy behind Christina immediately shouted a reminder, and at the same time looked behind him following Lin Tianqi's inverted sword aura.
But the next moment, the boy's voice stopped suddenly, and he was stunned along with Christina and the other four people next to him.
In sight, Lin Tianqi's red sword energy was about to hit those white figures in the air, and suddenly it turned into two, two into four, four into eight...
In the end, it turned into more than ten, hitting all the white figures. The moment these white figures were hit by the bloody sword energy, they all turned into black ash and were annihilated in an instant.
"this!!!"
Just now, Christina and others who were worried that Lin Tianqi's methods would be unable to deal with these white figures were stunned when they saw this scene.
Is this the difference between a Dharma apprentice and a formal Dharma master?