Dusk has arrived.

The once energetic sun also exhausted its strength and sank lowly on the gap in the western mountain pass, sending the last faint light to the earth.

The sunset spreads on the earth. As the sunlight gradually disappears, it is slowly covered by night. The beautiful orange brilliance and the thicker shadows are mixed together. The buildings dyed with dusk exudes a different charm from the daytime. The land that combines a landscape full of tiny and colorful scenery is as beautiful as the painted glass used to decorate the church.

Now it is time for ordinary people to rest, but from now until the night has completely swallowed the city, the busy time for various shops will officially come. At this time, many pedestrians gathered in the square near the gate of Katrissi.

Some people are in a hurry, are they rushing to the market to buy goods that have been reduced in price, or are they still rushing for a livelihood? Some people are slow, looking extremely relaxed, with a feeling of "Today's work is done! What should I do?"

All kinds of people shuttled through the streets and continued their lives.

Oscar was also among the crowd - he was sitting on a bench covered in shadows cast by a huge statue, flipping through the manuscript used to record spells.

Today, he spent some time buying all the equipment during the day and then spent all the rest of his time in the library. It was not long ago that he came to the agreed location and found a bench to sit, while reviewing the spells, waiting for the time to pass slowly.

The main body of the statue is made of shiny steel with excellent plasticity. It looks like a strong tree, with a large amount of emerald green concentrate covering the branches like leaves. This is the symbol of Catris. Oscar once learned that the term "Catris" represents the meaning of "old tree" in ancient languages.

Why use metals and ores to deliberately show the appearance of trees?

Oscars are hard to understand.

It's only less than a moment since six o'clock, and it's still far from the time that Curt had agreed with him. Oscar has always asked him to act in advance, which made him come to the agreed place a lot earlier and also made him wait in the sunset for a long time.

Maybe this is also a part of the test, you cannot slack off - Oscar is so self-comfortable.

When the time was still fifteen minutes before the appointment, Oscar heard the voice that had just heard from behind him: "Good afternoon, Oscar. I didn't expect you to come so early. It's still a while before the agreed time, but you can actually check out the spot."

"Ah, no, I've just arrived here not long ago."

Oscar turned around while explaining. Curt, who was talking just now, was still wearing the clothes he had seen in the morning, and the eye-catching reflex knife was still straddling around his waist. Perhaps the only difference was the off-road bag behind him, which looked like it didn't contain much, and it was empty.

"Are you the newcomer Curt mentioned?"

According to a hoarse dialogue, it was heard from outside the line of sight that Oscar's ears, and then he noticed that in the shadows beside Curt was a girl with a head shorter than him. Her appearance was very similar to Curt, but she was even more gloomy than him.

The girl had long, chaotic hair, and her black hair was as unenergic as Curt. Her eyes were carved from the same mold as Curt, lazy and unenergic. Compared to Curt's slightly sturdy body due to exercise, the girl looked extremely thin, and her body looked a little nutritious and made her look useless. She seemed to collapse with a slight movement.

It was as if to highlight her weak body, she was wearing a short suit that was easy to move, wearing a dirty white dress on the outside. Her thin and fleshy limbs extended out of it, making people even wonder if she would break her limbs with a little force.

Curt still maintained a standard smile and patted Liqi on the shoulder to introduce to Oscar: "Let me introduce it. This girl is my sister Liqi. I told her before that she wanted to go up the mountain to dig night mushrooms, but she said she had the materials she needed and wanted me to take her with me."

I don't know if it's because of fear of having sex or something else, Liqi is not as active as at home, but just nodded to Oscar a little restrainedly to say hello. Oscar replied a bit stiffly, and he always felt that a condescending momentum was revealed from Liqi's alienated attitude.

Why did he bring his sister when he was doing a task? He looked at Liqi, who looked sick like Curt. Oscar suddenly thought that the two brothers and sisters looked very bad. Could it be that there was any family inherited disease? But Curt did not explain it, and he didn't ask much.

"Yes, I'm Oscar, and the new guy Mr. Curt is talking about is me."

Therefore, although he was thinking a lot of things, Oscar tried his best to endure it and did not show it. He just maintained a meticulous politeness and greeted Liqi, who was standing behind Curt.

On the other hand, I should have seen Oscar's doubts, and Curt roughly explained the situation: "As you can see, our family has some genetic diseases that cannot be cured. So, my face looks a little wrong, but it is not as good as it will affect daily life."

After hearing Curt's explanation, Oscar seemed a little busy. He observed for a while, and despite his doubts, he finally decided to give up further inquiries. After all, everyone has their own problems, and it would be bad if he accidentally stepped on the other party's disgusting.

So he hurriedly concealed, "It's not like that. Actually, I just want to ask your sister, a girl, to go to the mountains to collect materials. Anyway, we have to go to the mountains. If she has any things she needs, she can just collect them together when we work?"

"I didn't expect you to be a warm-hearted person." Curt laughed at Oscar's appearance when he almost bit his tongue, and then added a sentence to comfort Oscar, "To be honest, you don't have to worry about her problems, at least she can take care of herself and safety."

After hearing Curt's words, Oscar's face seemed a little uneasy. But soon he found that he had no strong evidence to refute Curt.

There was also a "weapon" hanging around Liqi's waist - a cane with a length of forearm, forged from a pitch-black metal he had never seen before, and it looked quite light. The exposed polygonal stick still had a chill in summer, and it was obviously a weapon with magic power attached.

Although I don’t know how this kind of "weapon" can be achieved in actual combat, as Curt said, Liqi carrying weapons is not a problem to protect herself. And since Curt has already made a promise, it seems that there is no need to worry too much about Oscars in this regard.

"Anyway, let's go up the mountain together in a while." Curt should have realized that he had said a little straightforwardly, and quickly changed the subject, "When I mentioned this, Oscar... I asked you to prepare the necessary things for work before, why did you bring only this little?"

"So a little?" Oscar used Curt's words a little strange, and began to look out the supplies in his bag. "Collection of gloves to avoid mosquito bites, just in case of toxic neutralizer... After all, it's just collecting some materials, and I think this is enough."

"If it's the same in your school, collecting materials from private fields for training, then these preparations are basically enough." Liqi whispered, with a little smile in her voice, "because those places are not wild at all, they can only be considered as well-organized courtyards."

"The garage is not so exaggerated, right? The internship area of ​​our collection class is done on the land owned by the school, but it is also a large mountain. You don't know that just walking to the class location will make most of the students exhausted."

Oscar muttered that he did not agree with Liqi's opinion at all. You should know that the most troublesome thing about participating in the collection internship in the academy is not the collection itself, but the physical strength required to cross mountains and rivers. Cott doesn't care, he doesn't think that Liqi, who is also sick, has enough action.

After hearing Oscar's words, Curt wanted to laugh a little, but he tried his best to hold back his smile: "Actually, these things you prepared are indeed necessary, but they are basically only for collection. There is another thing. Since you have prepared even the consumables for emergency treatment just in case, why don't you even bring the most basic self-defense weapon with you?"

"It's not that I don't want to bring it!" Oscar immediately complained after hearing Curt's teasing, "But when I went to my sister Wen, where can you get weapons cheaply, I realized that my living expenses this month are only enough to buy the cheapest things - buying those things is not as good as the wooden sticks you use! But my sister is unwilling to get me training weapons, so it's too dangerous to let me wave these weapons..."

After hearing Oscar's words, Curt finally couldn't help but smile for a long time, and his lips kept raising: "My God, you actually want to use that unblack practice weapon to go up the mountain... It's no wonder that she is. If she gets you a practice weapon to fight monsters, I will scold her when I go back."

Weapons that can be used for actual combat are not cheap. Curt originally wanted to buy at most a defective product with the financial resources shown by the Oscars. But unexpectedly, he disdained to use defective products at all. Instead, he wanted to use practice weapons without blades to join the actual combat, which made Curt sigh that his ideas were too naive.
Chapter completed!