Dragon's Back Top Tavern, three days after cheese arrived, snow

"Have you heard? Jack and his family lost one of their sheep today." A villager said after taking a sip of wine.

"Ah, I heard that the animals have been missing these past two days, and I don't know what's going on." Another villager nodded and said.

"I heard that there are wolves coming nearby." A third villager said.

"No way! The animals are kept in the cow and sheep sheds at night. How did the wolf get in?"

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The lively discussion stopped because of the arrival of a person. Cheese was still wearing his iconic gray robe, and snowflakes had accumulated a thin layer on his hood and shoulders, which showed that he had been walking in the snow for a while.

When the rumored gray robe entered the tavern, the villagers unconsciously stopped talking, as if they were afraid of his existence.

"A glass of ale." Cheese frowned and said to the proprietress while sitting in front of the bar. His eyes were unfocused, which showed that he was thinking about something. Maybe he was so focused on his thinking that he didn't pay attention to the villagers around him at all.

Pointing at him quietly.

Soon, the villagers in the tavern paid their bills and left in twos and threes. The tavern that was crowded just now was suddenly reduced to only the proprietress and cheese, who was unconsciously drinking ale in front of the bar. The proprietress cleared the things on the table.

There were plates and cutlery, and the expression on his face was a little angry. After all, the cheese had disrupted the business in the tavern.

"If you don't find out where those animals have gone, I'm afraid I'll be out of business in less than half a month." She grabbed the empty wine glass with an almost rude movement and complained to the gray robe.

"Ah, sorry, I was thinking about something just now." Cheese was awakened from his thoughts, looked at the deserted environment around him, and said awkwardly.

"Since you arrived here, we have lost nearly ten animals in three days. If you are hungry, you can tell me. Even if you need raw meat, you can ask Grandpa Jon to talk about it." The landlady was doing simple cleaning while

explain.

"I have said it many times, Elsa, I really have nothing to do with those missing animals. The abyss is down there, and how do I explain it to you so that you will believe that I don't need living animals as sacrifices." Cheese.

He said while holding his head.

The proprietress put down the plate in her hand and walked to the opposite side of the cheese. She slammed her hands on the bar and made a loud sound. After the cheese was so frightened that he raised his head, she said to the latter with this very imposing gesture.

"Then you go and deal with it! Bring back the real thief, if it's a wolf take their skin, if it's a human take their head! Tell those people you are innocent."

I have to say that although Elsa is very sweet, the aura she displays when she is angry is completely unmatched by those aristocratic ladies in the south. The fierce blood of northerners also flows in this girl's body.

. And our poor cheese became the victim of this momentum. He was completely implicated. It was obvious that the landlady blamed him for the poor business, although this was not an injustice to him.

"Yes, my lady, but as you can see, I have been running around the village all day for this matter. How about letting me take a little rest?" Cheese said with a wry smile. This is true, even though he is a genuine person.

A magician, but magic is not omnipotent, not to mention that he is still investigating the magic plague, so there is really nothing he can do about this unreasonable disaster.

Back in his room, Cheese lay on the cold wooden bed and stared at the ceiling of the room.

"What on earth is going on..." the young mage murmured in a low voice.

Cheese raised his hand, and a small ball of green light condensed in his hand. The color of this green light was neither the green of the forest nor the green of the grass, but a kind of green light that made people feel...

Evil green. This was collected by Cheese from the town. Although it was very light, he was sure that it was a dangerous magical plague. And it must be related to the task given to him by his teacher. The mage looked at the ball in his hand.

Green Light once again sorted out everything I had experienced in the past few days from beginning to end.

"As soon as I arrived, the animals started to be lost. So it's almost certain that I am the most suspect, but it's not me, unless..." Cheese's eyes narrowed, and he thought of a possibility. And what happened next?

Just to prove whether this might be right. He got out of bed, put on his robe, and rushed back to the hall of the tavern as fast as he could in his life.

"Elsa! Tell me that nothing unusual or strange people happened in this town before I came here!"

It was the first time that the landlady saw Cheese in such an excited state. At least for the past five days, the man in gray robe had always looked carefree, even if he was talking to the leader of the Frost Guard or being criticized by the whole town behind his back.

They all looked indifferent. So the boss lady was really shocked.

In fact, Cheese has always had the unique arrogance of mages, which is very common among people with power, or knowledge. They always think that they have more knowledge than ordinary people, so they can see those who are

The key that people ignore. And it is precisely because of this pride that although Cheese has been investigating the town for three days, he did not ask the villagers. In the words of his teacher, compared to what people saw,

A mage should believe what he sees more.

And when the gray-robed mage decides to seek confirmation from others, he can also be a good communicator. So the cheese quickly got information from the proprietress about the black-robed man who appeared in this tavern three days ago.

"Can you show me that silver coin?"

Although Elsa was reluctant to take out this valuable silver coin, she did not care too much in order to solve the livestock theft case in the town as soon as possible.

"That's it." The proprietress reluctantly took out a silver coin from the inside of her clothes, and instead of handing it to the cheese directly, she put it on the counter. At the same time, she was always alert to the cheese's movements. If the other party made a slight move,

Show your willingness to snatch it, and she will definitely respond immediately.

Naturally, Cheese ignored the boss lady's little move. He looked at the silver coin carefully. Under the sunlight through the window, the silver coin shone with metallic light.

"Ice-breaking trout emblem." Cheese frowned and whispered. On the upward side of the silver coin is a trout symbol jumping out of the ice. Of course, due to the rough casting technology of the silver coin, only those who are familiar with this emblem can see it.

Once you know what it is, ordinary people can probably only recognize it as a fish.

"The emblem of the Saron family?" Although Elsa had almost no impression of the symbol system of the nobility, as the closest lord family, she still knew the emblem of the Saron family.

"I think so." Cheese nodded, and then turned the silver coin over. The other side of the silver coin was engraved with the royal family's emblem.

"What does this mean?" Elsa also became interested at this time. She wanted to know what this man in gray robe could know through a silver coin.

"The silver coin has the lord's emblem on one side and the royal emblem on the other, which proves that this silver coin is approved by the king and then handed over to the lord to cast it himself. Generally, this type of currency will not be circulated too far outside the territory. Because each country

There is a certain difference in the weight of the metal mixed in the coins minted by the lords. If the merchants traveling between the major territories are more willing to use the currency of the King's Bank, their values ​​will be more unified." Cheese said quickly, as

A mage who enters civilized society for the first time has only learned much of his knowledge from books.

"So there is a high probability that the black-robed guest is from the Earl of Saron. And..."

"And you said three days ago that the Earl of Saron was finished." Elsa continued what Cheese said.

"Yes, the raven told me that the land has been destroyed, and the threat of destroying it is still approaching here. At first I thought it referred to a certain army or other armed forces. Now it seems that maybe

I made a mistake." Cheese said. He previously looked at the plague and the destruction of the Earl of Saron separately, but now, he found that the relationship between the two may be closer than he thought.

"What do you mean?" asked the landlady.

"It means that the thing that destroyed the Earl of Saron may have arrived in this town, and if we don't deal with it quickly and safely, maybe this town will be very dangerous." Cheese said with a smile.

This time it was Elsa's turn to frown, and she said angrily.

"Why do you get so excited when danger is mentioned?"

"No, my lady, I am not interested in simple danger. I am happy because...well, because of some other things." Cheese raised his eyebrows and said.

Elsa wanted to speak again, but Gray Robe continued talking on his own.

"Don't worry, I promise to get rid of it, no matter what it is." As he said that, Cheese pulled up his hood, turned around and walked out of the tavern.
Chapter completed!