"You're finally back. I thought you were going to leave me behind." Just as Lawrence squeezed into the basement carrying several heavy chairs found from a house, Miss Rat Man looked a little excited.
Said to him.
"I said I'm here to help you, and I won't give up halfway." Lawrence smiled and then asked. "By the way, do you still have the strength now?"
"Of course." Ms. Rat Man said with certainty. "I've only been here for three hours, and my whole body is full of energy. If you need my cooperation, please tell me immediately. Now I feel like I'm about to pour out my breakfast."
"
"Don't be so excited yet." Lawrence tried to dissuade him, then he built a simple shelf with the chair he brought down and climbed up. At the same time, he touched the shoulder of the rat-man in front of him with one hand.
"It's no problem now." Seeing that the [Protection from Evil] magic that had been blessed on his body and was still maintained now did not respond, Lawrence finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Then he climbed to the top of the pile of stools.
He signaled the rat man to grab his waist and push it up to loosen the noose, and then untied the noose hanging from the rat man's ankle.
"Ha, it's finally okay." The rat-man who climbed down the pile of stools staggered when she returned to the ground, and then she sat down regardless of the dirt on the ground. "By the way, big man, what is your name?"
."
"Lawrence August." Lawrence jumped off the stools and looked at her and asked, "What's your name?"
"Lucia Fatina Androk. But you can just call me Fatina." The rat lady named Fatina introduced her very familiarly, and Lawrence didn't even ask.
Fatina took the initiative to guide him to the small hole hidden behind the altar. This was also the place where Fatina entered just now.
"There is a sewer behind the house. I dug five or six meters on the side wall of the sewer to get here. I thought I could get some good treasures, but I accidentally stepped on those shiny little things before I could touch them.
It's a trap." Before Lawrence could ask, the rescued Rat Man lady rambled on about everything she had encountered today.
"By the way, you can take these jewels. After all, you saved me." At the end of the sentence, Fatina took a painful look at the jewels placed on the altar and said to Lawrence.
"I can't take these things either." Lawrence smiled. "Don't forget, this thing was placed on the altar of the evil god. God knows what will happen to these pieces of jewelry after they are taken away?"
"Wait, you mean the evil god?" Fatina widened her small eyes, then took out a brass-framed goggles from her arms and tied them on her head.
"Squeak, I didn't see anything." After looking at the altar through the lenses, Fatina's small eyes showed confusion, and then she explained to Lawrence who was staring at her goggles with interest. "I
My grandfather was an alchemist, and he gave this to me. You can tell by the magical reaction."
"Is [Detection Magic] constant?" Lawrence immediately knew the effect of this alchemy tool, but he still advised. "To be honest, this tool is indeed easy to use, but you can't completely believe it, and
Not all things related to magic can be discovered by this magic. Especially things like altars, which are no different from a pile of stones before they are activated."
"Squeak, that's it!" Fatina showed an expression of sudden realization. "Sorry, this is my first time to go on an adventure, so I don't understand many things."
"Well, I am also a novice." Lawrence looked helplessly at the rat-man lady in front of him. "But didn't you read the notes recorded by others before you came out?"
"No, Zhi." Fatina shook her head. "In addition to businessmen, alchemists, or farmers who grow mushrooms and moss, no one in our family has ever gone on adventures. The only experience I have is
You can tell from reading novels.”
It seems that novices are indeed the most likely to make mistakes. It is no wonder that the records Lawrence saw in the notes found in the Church of Knowledge said that the casualties of adventurers are often concentrated in the first few times, especially the first time.
"I personally think you'd better learn some experience first or find someone to guide you, otherwise it's easy to accidentally lose your life in adventures like you." Lawrence advised, and then he stood up. "By the way.
, I am going to inform the Knowledge Church now, please wait for me here for a while, I will be back soon."
"Are you going to St. Gutenberg's Cathedral to inform them?" Fatina asked curiously. "If that's the case, please leave me some weapons in case anyone comes to attack me."
"No, it's enough for me to go to the roof and release a contact rocket." Lawrence explained, "If we were going to St. Gutenberg's Cathedral, I would definitely not leave you here."
After explaining clearly, Lawrence left the room and walked to the roof, igniting a pinky-sized rocket he took from his belt. In an instant, a blue Holy Emblem of the Church of Knowledge exploded in the air.
After releasing the rocket, Lawrence walked to the edge of the roof and looked down. He found that in the shadows of the street below, there were several guys looking towards the building. They should have been attracted by the sound of the gunshot he fired just now. But
After seeing the fireworks exploding in the sky, they immediately retreated into the shadows of the surrounding houses on the street.
As gang members in Eagle Fort, they know deeply that if they want to survive in this city, a very important prerequisite for living well is to know who they can afford to offend and who they cannot afford to offend.
.And people or forces like this who can use the church's summons signal to summon people are the kind of people who absolutely cannot be offended.
So even if they know that the signals released by people from the church here may mean that there are good things hidden in this building that can help them achieve success, they absolutely do not dare to approach this house at this time and provoke the church.
After finding that no suspicious people were approaching the building, Lawrence returned to the first floor and carved some messages with a knife at the gate, then returned to the basement with the altar of the evil god.
While waiting for support from the Church of Knowledge staff, Lawrence and Fatina chatted. Only then did Lawrence learn that Fatina secretly ran away from the family to take risks.
"This is all my fault." Fatina looked a little regretful. "When I awakened from my bloodline, I happened to be cleaning the treasure house at my home. As a result, I spit out a fireball uncontrollably and destroyed several very precious works of art in the treasure house.
It's lit."
"Although my family didn't blame me, and they were very happy that I became a warlock. However, I blamed myself very much, so I decided to go out on an adventure to see if I could find enough wealth to make up for the family's losses."
"Wait, are you a warlock too?" Lawrence opened his eyes in surprise. The book he read before said that warlocks are very rare. He didn't expect that he could see two in such a short period of time after his bloodline awakening.
"Yes, I am a red dragon warlock." Fatina shrugged. "I think this may be related to a business trip my parents went out for before I was born. They said that they encountered an injured giant on the road.
Red dragon. They also had a little bit of dragon blood."
"Red Dragon Warlock?" Lawrence finally knew where her extroverted personality came from. "I am a Baize Warlock, a bloodline that was awakened in an accident. As for the origin of the bloodline, I don't know, after all, I
I have never met my biological parents. Fortunately, my adoptive father is really good to me——"
Just as the two people were chatting more and more, a voice came from the passage leading to the basement that opened in front. "Lawrence August, we are the action team of the Church of Knowledge. How is the situation below you?"