"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. He looked around for strange things, and then 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?" It seems that he 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 the cloak turned around expressionlessly: "Anyway, with so many of you stranded 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, and then started walking 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-Elysées."
The slow pace did not stop. The girl 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 aura: "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 walked through the hot wrought iron streets of Thebilis Castle. Ignoring the occasional pointing glances, she walked through the central square and finally came to the familiar street where Duan Qing and others had just been. It became quiet because there were fewer passers-by. The atmosphere gradually reflected her steps more clearly, and the clicking sound echoed on the side of the bluestone pavement: "...you can come out now."
"..."
The sound of the collision of heels and bluestone finally stopped at a certain moment. The girl who was standing between the light and shadow of the street suddenly spoke out, and then slowly responded without any change in the silence around her. His own 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 eyes that seemed to be focused on each other continued to gather 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 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. Her eyes turned to the player and she looked at him quietly for a long time 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."
"Hmph." 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 are here now, of course we must take care of you as soon as possible."
"What are you planning?" 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?" Qian Zhihe raised his eyebrows and asked, raising his palms and pointing sideways at the other party, "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." 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: "The guy who calls himself the Minister of Transportation of the Empire?"
"That's right, he has just taken office and has not yet fully understood the cruelty of the struggle between 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. He was able to suppress the weird feeling lingering in his heart. Perhaps it was because she had too little game time and experience, but after thinking with all her strength for a long time, she still could not get rid of the weird feeling. She walked most of the way with her slender fingers on her chin. A few blocks away, and then as the number of people around him gradually increased, he regained his composure slightly and said, "...Hmm."
"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 magic book tilted upright: "Hello."
"Oh, it'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 eyes full of passion: "Welcome to the Mages Council branch of Thebilis Castle. What do you need--eh?"
"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'm just here to report." Some people who couldn't adapt to the enthusiasm of this receptionist looked like Qianzhihe, and stepped back slightly: "Isn't every adventure group going to other parts of the empire... Do you need to report to the local area? The same goes for magicians..."
"This is a unilateral rule 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 deceitful 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: "What country doesn't worry about a powerful adventurer like you?"
"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 smiled and replied: "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. Farbna, and Mr. Gordon - see everyone's names gradually appear here, as the administrator Dorothy, 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 whose 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 scholar's dress, the receptionist named Dorothy showed a polite smile again: "Excuse me... are you also a magician adventurer?"
"Yes, I heard that the adventurer magicians who come here need to register, so I came here." He nodded at the other party, and the gray-robed magician with the words "Lin Yuan Duan Shui" on his head followed. 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 the group?"
