Author: Half-wounded but not broken

Since he had been attacked by killers several times while purchasing supplies, Pei Renli specially asked the three of them to go together this time, leaving him alone to guard Miao Jie.

After all, Princess Miaojie's head is more valuable than her bodyguard. If Pei Renli is the only one guarding her, Miaojie will be closer to being a loser, and her assassination success rate will still be very high.

Of course, Pei Renli was absolutely confident in doing this. If a killer appeared, he would immediately trick Miao Jie into closing her eyes, and then ask Ravna to come out and kill her randomly. Later, he would say that it was his super powerful spell that did it.

That’s it.

——In the end, the killer never came.

Of course, Pei Renli didn't know that the killers had been scared out of their wits, and no one dared to take the order, which was a bit disappointing.

By the time the supplies arrived, it was getting very late, so everyone decided to stay in the town for one night. With enough supplies, they could go straight to the capital, Silver Moon City, without stopping at any village or town.

It is estimated that they will get the commission money in a few days, which makes everyone very excited.

However, you still need to take the necessary precautions on the road, and if you just shiver, you can't let all your efforts go to waste.

As always, only two rooms were opened in the hotel. Miaojie lived with the two girls, and one of Anna and Cosette had to stay awake during the night.

At the same time, Kemir and Pei Renli also took shifts to keep vigil at the door of Miaojie's room, so that they could respond immediately if there was any movement.

Since it was not yet time to change shifts, Pei Renli was alone in his room reading a book. The cold moonlight shone through the window and onto the pages of the book, but it didn't feel dark at all.

The book he was reading was given to him by Teacher Grace before setting off. It was also a spell book from the Conjuration School, but compared to the spell book he read before, which focused on summoning creatures, this one focused on summoning creatures.

'create'.

The Conjuration School is the only school besides the Alchemy School that is good at using magic to create matter out of thin air.

Typical examples, such as the Grease spell, create large amounts of greasy and flammable grease out of thin air.

Moreover, the school of conjuration is also called the universal school. It has buffs on attack, defense and control. It has all kinds of spells. It can also summon creatures and open portals.

This is a very good choice for Pei Renli who needs to comprehensively improve his abilities. It makes him want to specialize in conjuration.

Since he didn't have much time, Pei Renli always found time to read books during this period, and he didn't have much time to practice. He could only memorize the contents by rote and copy the key points into his spell book for the time being.

At this time, Ravna emerged from the shadow and walked softly to Pei Renli:

"Your Majesty, I have something to report."

"What's going on? The maid golem following nearby found traces of the killer again?"

"No, it's about the Demon King's Castle."

When Pei Renli heard this, he immediately closed the book.

"Perhaps due to heavy rains, there was a mudslide in the Supreme Mountains recently. When some lizardmen were checking the situation nearby, they discovered an abandoned mine."

"Is my coffee tree okay?"

"Of course, I have sent people to guard it 24 hours a day."

Pei Renli felt nervous when he heard about the mudslide. Since the coffee trees were fine, there shouldn't be any big impact.

But an abandoned mine?

"When was the mine established? Have you heard about it from the former Demon King?"

Ravna shook her head:

"No idea at all."

Inside the sea of ​​trees there should be a virgin forest that has not been developed at all. The Demon King's City is close to the highest mountains and is completely surrounded by the sea of ​​trees.

In a place like this, an abandoned mine suddenly appeared...

Perrenli immediately remembered that when he went to Brevoir before, he had found the traces left by gray dwarves under the High Mountains on the side of Brevoir. (See Chapter 217 for details)

At that time, he felt that it was too close to the Demon King's City and that it might have something to do with the tyrannical Demon King. He planned to ask Ravna later, but because there were too many things, Perrenli simply forgot about it.

But this time, the mine was discovered directly near the Demon King's City...

It was difficult to ask Ravna anything useful. After all, when she was born, the tyrannical demon king gave her a few instructions and then disappeared without a trace. She didn't know many things without asking.

The presence of abandoned mines indicates that gray dwarves may have lived near the Demon King's City, but we don't know if they lived during the period of the tyrannical Demon King.

Was it with the permission of the Demon King of Violence, or was the mine closed before the Demon King of Violence appeared?

There was no answer to this question for the time being. Perrenli said to Ravna:

"Let the lizardmen form an expedition team to go in and have a look, but tell them not to go too deep. If there is danger, they will retreat as soon as possible. I will talk about it when I get back."

Regardless of whether the mine once belonged to the gray dwarves, the mine itself is very valuable.

There may be remains of unexcavated mineral deposits, a large number of dusty metal tools, and the mine itself can be used as a residence.

"Concerning the expedition team, I have one more thing to report."

Ravna continued:

"The myconids in the forest found the maid golem today and hope to be loyal to Your Majesty."

Myconids are also intelligent creatures, but they are regarded as monsters in most places.

It looks like a human-shaped mushroom, some are like shiitake mushrooms, some are like Ganoderma lucidum, and some are like chickens... Anyway, you know what I mean.

To put it simply, they are mushrooms turned into spirits.

This kind of creature usually only appears underground. They are very afraid of sunlight. They will die after being exposed to the sun for one hour, which is equivalent to being dried into dried mushrooms.

The myconids in the sea of ​​trees mainly live in a dark environment where the trees cover the sky and the sun, as if they can't see their fingers. They are protected by the highly toxic spores that are produced all year round, and have almost no contact with the outside world.

Even during the period of the tyrannical Demon King, adventurers went in and out of the Big Tree Sea all day long, and no one knew that there was actually a group of myconids living in the deepest part of the Big Tree Sea.

Since the murlocs made no secret of crossing the Great Tree Sea when they came to Falling Star Lake, Pei Renli also accepted the lizard man and the shape-shifting spider. Many creatures from the Great Tree Sea came to seek refuge under the Demon King's command, hoping to find stability.

However, Pei Renli refused most of the time. After all, the food problem had not been completely solved yet, and he could not afford to feed so many creatures.

But myconids...

It just allows them to go to the mines, and compared to the lizardmen, the myconids' home is in the dark underground, so it will be safer to move around in the mines.

In addition, myconids themselves are very cost-effective. They are very good at cultivating mushrooms and only feed on mushrooms. They will not put too much burden on the food supply and can increase production.

What's more, the types of mushrooms that myconids can cultivate are not limited to edible ones. A large number of mushrooms required for alchemy potions can also only be found underground. The myconids can cultivate these precious mushroom varieties, which will not only provide for Pei Renli's own consumption, but will also become a large number of mushrooms in the future.

income.

As the saying goes, when you are sleepy, come to the pillow. Pei Renli immediately decided to postpone letting the lizardmen form the expedition team and let them go instead of letting the myconids go.

Of course, we will have to wait until Pei Renli is finished with his work in Orion and returns to school.

That's all Ravna reported. After saying that, she went back to the shadows. Perrenli looked at the moonlight outside, closed the book and stuffed it into his backpack.

In the first half of the night, Kemir was guarding Miaojie's door, and in the second half of the night, it was Pei Renli. He had to go to bed early so that he could change shifts with Kemile.

He was lying on the bed, and when his eyelids were about to close, he suddenly sat up again.

Because he saw that the moonlight, which was cold just now, now showed a strange crimson color through the window and fell on the floor.

Pei Renli hurriedly stood up and leaned against the window to look outside.

I don't know when, a layer of fog appeared outside the window, and it was a very dazzling scarlet color, as bright as blood, and it blocked everything in the field of vision at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This is definitely not a natural phenomenon.

Ravna, who had just slipped into the shadow, came out again. She looked around and said:

"Your Majesty, be careful. I feel a strange magic power lingering nearby."

If there is magic power, it means it is a spell or a spell-like ability, but Pei Renli searched his memory and did not expect any spells to have similar effects.

As he spoke, the fog became thicker and thicker, and in the blink of an eye, it was like a large piece of red was directly pasted on the glass window.

Pei Renli was worried that this thing was poisonous, so he immediately used the poison detection method, but found nothing.

When he was about to try detecting magic and detecting creatures again to see what was causing the mischief, the mist changed again.

The thick fog outside the window began to gradually fade, not as if it had dispersed, but more like it was being compressed by some force.

In the end, the fog was reduced a lot, but it was still difficult to see the distance beyond 10 meters, and the compressed fog became transparent and more like a thin film.

It covered the sky over the entire town, making the moonlight look like flowing plasma projected onto the ground, scattering a strange red light.

"Boundary?"

This time Pei Renli recognized it. At a glance, he knew that this style of painting was some kind of magical barrier, and he could clearly feel through the detection magic that the magic power that made up this barrier had unabashed malice.

The killers who were chasing Pei Renli and the others obviously didn't have this ability, and with such a style of magic barrier, one could tell at a glance that it was definitely the work of the devil.

In Brevoir, due to the death of the summoner, a large number of demons were sent back to the abyss, but there were also many demons who were not summoned by Randall.

They mixed in with the summoned cannon fodder and still roam the territories of the River Kingdoms to this day, but the harm and scale are far less than that of Brevo.

Ravna reminded Perenli to get back into the shadows, and Perenli quickly armed himself, took Camille's backpack and went out to inform others that something was wrong and they needed to pay more attention.

He didn't know if he had some connection with the devil. Pei Renli probably ran into those damn things again, and he didn't know why the devil came to this border town.

You can't come here to cause trouble for Princess Miaojie, right?

No way, right?
Chapter completed!