Boom-

A huge lightning landed onto the nearby open space, and the hit rock instantly turned into debris, and fragmented dregs scattered all over the ground.

The stable ground trembled with fear. On this thunderstorm night when you can't see your fingers, everything seemed to become frightened. The magic power filled with the air depicted a strange trajectory, as if to tell people that they are not "normal" natural phenomena.

The storm shrouded the earth, and the magic contained in the wind and water seemed to be crazy, raging the earth without compassion. The huge thunder from the foothills in the distance played an unlucky tune, and the lightning rolled above the clouds cast its blue-white glow towards the ground.

"The weather is getting worse and worse. We have been in Katris City for three years. I have never seen such heavy rain before." Liqi frowned slightly, and carefully observed the trajectory drawn by the crazy magic. "Although the heavy rain that lasted for a week before was already very abnormal... But now the rain looks like someone is sprinkling water into the miniature box with a basin."

This unusual storm is full of traces of spell manipulation everywhere, but its operating principle is difficult to explain. Since a long time ago, many spells have been studying how to use spells to control rainfall, but their efforts have not received any relative rewards.

After all, with the total amount of magic as the basis for consideration, it is difficult for ordinary people to create large-scale natural phenomena, and it is extremely difficult to adjust the operation of elements in the entire environment.

"Forget it, don't worry about so much, let's find the way back first... This is indeed around the city, right?" Looking at the valleys around which were almost burned by flames, Liqi waved her hand to mobilize the shadow tentacles that extended from the ground to transport the two spells tied up tightly.

All their power was pulled away by Li Qi's spell. Now they could only look at her who was operating the spell with a wide eyebrow. There was no doubt that these two guys did not intend to surrender obediently. Although they were bound by the three layers of the spell, they were still trying to mobilize the few magic power left in their bodies, trying to break through the first line of defense set by Li Qi and regain their physical ability to move.

Although the vague magic is extremely weak, it keeps flowing under their control to seek the correct angle to unlock the spell. This alone is enough to show that they are of good quality. If they are not successful by Li Qi when they reveal their flaws, it may take some effort to subdue them.

Of course, Liqi noticed their behavior, but she just raised the corner of her mouth mockingly and did not make any actions that hinder them. The shadow tentacles that bound the two spells seemed soft. But they were far from being cut off as easily as they had imagined. And... if it was really necessary, she could use some more "efficient" means to prevent them from escaping at any time.

So she was happy to see how hard the two magicians could do - watching someone get a headache to crack their own spells is very interesting for her. Although she looked like she was indifferent, she had already laughed out loud.

"You're right. Finding the road as soon as possible is the most important thing... But the question is, where is this place?" Looking at Liqi, who was having a bad taste, Curt could only pretend not to see it, "I'm sorry, I can't seem to see where this place is."

He observed everywhere in a daze. But everything on the rainy night had lost its original appearance, and even he could not judge the direction based on the direction of the stars. To be honest, he never expected that he would get lost in the hilly areas around Katris City. As a mercenary who often performs work in the wild, such an encounter was no different from getting lost in the back garden of his home.

This scene was quite helpless for Curt. After all, he rarely strolls in the wild on stormy nights. The tools he carried with him were damaged long ago in the busyness before, and the sword star emblem on his chest did not react because of the magic of the surrounding riots.

The word "Wild Mountains and Wild Mountains" is probably the most suitable term for this valley. There are a large area of ​​mountains and fields around the city of Katris, and these places have not been fully developed yet. Tomorrow, there are probably only a small number of mountain people walking in these places except for mercenaries.

"Probably there... or there?"

Faced with Curt's problem, Liqi could only smile dryly and point one direction casually: "I have tried to use spells to identify the direction of the city. But the magic field around is too chaotic, and even my spells are disturbed. In short... let's go there first."

Inexplicably, Liqi missed the nagging girl Mio Distad a little. If she had the guidance technique she mastered at this time, she would have been able to find her way back soon. Only then did Liqi remember that she hadn't said hello to her for a long time.

Perhaps after returning to the academy, it is necessary to find Oscars and others to explain some things... Thinking of this, Liqi shook her head gently.

"Then is the direction directly north." Liqi said in a direction, "not only that, but it is also the most likely that the road leading to Katris City is found in that direction."

As we all know, the city of Katris is built in a small corner surrounded by endless mountains. Apart from the vast northern plains, the remaining directions are either mountainous areas covered by pristine forests or some undulating hills, which are somewhat similar to the terrain here.

"North...maybe it's really in that direction."

Curt looked at the outline of the northern mountains, and the mountains in that direction gradually opened, as if it were the exit of this mountain valley. Perhaps Liqi's choice was right. Only the northern slope was slowly slanted downwards, and a turbulent stream was flowing along it to the distance.

Walking slowly along the direction pointed out by Liqi, Curt carefully crossed the river beach covered with sharp gravel by the stream. The fire that had been extinguished before the arrival seemed to burn most of the valley. The more you walked forward, the more you were burned.

He lit up the lantern that had been taken from the magician duo and observed the surrounding scenery through the lights. It was strange that some crystal fragments were embedded in the center of the lantern, which made it emit some kind of blue light lacking temperature, which looked like a ghost fire.

I don't know if the two spells were in the fire prisoners, but they absolutely had no way to separate themselves. On the scorched earth left behind after the fire, some wreckage that had not been burned - most of them were weeds and small flowers, and some wooden stakes that pierced the ground seemed particularly surprising.

It looked like a fence or low wall standing around the farm, but only the grounds surrounded by them were burned to ashes. Even if this was really a farm, it might have been abandoned a long time ago, and even the farmhouse had long been razed to the ground.

At the edge of the valley, some dumped stones were vaguely piled up together. When I first saw them, Curt thought it was just a pile of rocks left by chance. Now, thinking about it, they may be the remains of the pillars of the building, gradually being covered with clusters of weeds over time.

He looked at the remaining things around him in confusion, frowned and muttered to himself: "Strange... I always feel that the environment here looks familiar - what exactly is this place? It's an abandoned farm or something... I don't remember there is such a place around Katris City."

The Mercenary Management Office has a map carefully surveyed by the Books Bureau in the area around Katris, and clearly records the coordinates of all facilities and locations on that map. But no matter how Curt recalls, he cannot find records similar to this mountain valley in his memory.

There is no error in that map, because members of the Books and Scholars Bureau re-schedule records every year, so the map of the management office must be replaced with the latest version every year. Curt did not see any "absent farm" mark on this year's map. In other words, it was either not recorded for some reason, or some people used their own means to cover up the information of the area.

If this news is reported to members of the Books and Scholars, those who manage texts may fall into chaos. They trust the data they obtained after investigation. If they learn that this data has been maliciously tampered with by some people, the expression on their faces will be unfair.

However, it is not the time to consider how the scholars react to the news - for those who have used their already wrong intelligence, the bigger dilemma has just begun. Since the map may be biased, there must be more or less problems in the surrounding area.

So the biggest suspicion naturally fell on the head of the "Eye of True Vision".

"It's really troublesome. How powerful are the tentacles of the 'Eye of True Vision'? Why do I feel that they have encountered many important places? Although they may be hidden in every corner of us... I didn't expect that even the Books and Scholars Bureau had their part,"

Curt couldn't help but complain that if his inference was correct, not only the talent dispatch of the subordinates of Katris Academy would become untrustworthy, but even the Books and Scholars Bureau had been infiltrated. If he could reach the surrounding map, his status would be far above that of ordinary Books and Scholars.

This was really beyond Curt's expectations. He did not expect that even the upper staff of the Royal Books Bureau would appear, which would undoubtedly make the already chaotic situation even more complicated.

A faint premonition of anxiety climbed into his heart. I am afraid that their strength will be greatly underestimated, whether it is the "Eye of True Vision" or the "Ultra-Green Faction". I am afraid that now that Catris has messed up, they still have not used all their chess pieces.

Thinking of this, Curt subconsciously accelerated his pace of progress. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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