After breakfast, Cage comforted his son and prevented him from following him. He stayed at home and was temporarily taken care of by the housekeeper, while Roland asked Vivian and others to continue resting at Reed's house.
The six magic apprentices actually wanted to act together with Roland. After all, the 'leaders' were on board. How could they, their subordinates, or apprentices, not act, but Roland forcefully refused their request.
In fact, this so-called expedition is probably not too dangerous.
However, this involves the secrets of the Reed family to some extent. There is no problem for Roland to follow him. He has such a 'good' relationship with Andonara, and he can be regarded as a quarter of the Reed family. Moreover, if there is no Roland, Cage It is hard to say whether we will know this in our lifetime.
So Cage took Roland along with him.
The three of them walked outside the village. The natural environment of the village was actually quite good. The dirt roads were lined with trees, including fruit trees.
But I couldn't help but see sheep and cow dung from time to time, and there was even the smell of human urine from time to time.
This makes the quiet pastoral style lose its sentiment.
On the way out of the village, I met some villagers from time to time, and they greeted Cage enthusiastically.
And Cage responded happily to them. There was no sense of 'separation' between nobles and untouchables on both sides, as if everyone was equal.
Some older villagers, when they see Andonara, will say hello: "Little Anna, long time no see."
Anna will respond with a sweet smile.
When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Roland took a breath. He felt a little uncomfortable in the village just now. For a person like him who loves cleanliness, the smell of the village was a bit too strong.
There are two forked roads at the north entrance of the village, one leads to Dongfeng City, and the other forks to the left, which is the road up the mountain.
On the mountains in the distance, you can vaguely see sheep moving.
Cage took a deep breath and said, "According to Grandpa Kate's manuscript, the three bottles of Phoenix's blood are hidden in a cave in the mountains, but there seems to be some trouble!"
"What's the trouble?" Andonara asked proactively.
Today she was wearing brown soft leather armor, which was more close-fitting. She looked dashing and handsome.
Cage said: "Grandpa said in the manuscript that in order to prevent lucky guys from accidentally entering, he took away three blood bottles, so he set up some mechanisms in the cave. It is very easy for people in our family to It’s possible to get through, but for others, it’s an impossible task.”
Roland's first reaction was: "The exorcism effect of the blood of the brave? It seems that there should be something like a demon 'guarding' it."
Cage was stunned for a moment, then shook his head speechlessly: "Are all mages so smart?"
Roland smiled and said: "This is just a normal reasoning, and most people can think of it."
Andonara said affectionately on the side: "If you don't tell me, I really wouldn't have thought of it."
Roland was speechless. He didn't know how to describe Andonara. He could call her stupid, but the admiring look from the other party inflated Roland's self-confidence as a man. He couldn't hate her at all, but found her a little cute.
Cage chuckled at the side: "You two have been teasing each other in front of me so early in the morning. Do you think you don't take my uncle seriously?"
Roland and Roland both laughed awkwardly.
It has been several years since Cage's wife passed away, but in fact he has no shortage of women, but he doesn't want to marry because he is afraid that marrying her will not be good for his son. So every ten days or so, he would go to Dongfeng City to communicate with the most beautiful prostitutes in the city.
"Let's go." Cage took the initiative to walk in front, towards the foot of the mountain.
Roland and Andonara immediately followed.
Walking all the way up from the foot of the mountain, Roland could handle it easily at first, but when he reached the middle of the mountain, he found that he was in some trouble.
This mountain is very barren. Under the forest, there are low thorny grasses or vines everywhere, and there are no roads at all. Roland was wearing a robe, and from time to time he would be caught by the barbs of plant branches and leaves, which was quite troublesome.
And the trouble goes beyond that. Just get used to the hooked robe, but the rugged mountainous terrain will make Roland extremely uncomfortable walking.
The slippery moss under the woods means that if you lose your balance, you will fall down.
Moreover, there were some height differences in many places. Cage and Andonara climbed up with a light jump, while Roland had to use both hands and feet to climb up.
Unfamiliar terrain environments can easily consume your energy.
Roland was a mage and his physical strength was not as strong as the two warriors. He soon began to sweat on his forehead.
Andonara took the initiative to come over, leaned against him, and said softly: "I will hold you in a while."
Cage walked in front. Hearing this, he turned around and smiled: "This is normal. This is how mages are. Although they are very powerful in battle, they become a burden when they travel far or need to take dangerous roads. I used to When I was a mercenary, I saw a lot and got used to it. Don't worry, we will wait for you."
What Cage was talking about was a fairly common situation in the entire mage world.
The vast majority of mages or warlocks are like this, but truly powerful, master-level magicians are as precious as giant pandas and will hardly appear outside the city. They will all be in their own magic towers. He conducts magic experiments and occasionally appears at banquets of nobles.
Therefore, there has always been a stereotype in the mercenary world that spellcasters are 'high in attack, squishy and weak'.
Roland stopped, took a breath, and said, "No need to wait, I can handle it."
"No need to show off." Cage smiled gently: "A mage can't do everything."
"I'm not trying to be brave." Roland sighed and said, "I was just stupid. Why should I follow your warriors' pace, so I decided to follow our mage's routine."
Cage was a little confused.
Roland started to snap his fingers, and rays of magical light emerged from his body.
'Extremely effective body strengthening technique'.
'Levitation'.
'Magic Shield'.
'Sensitive enhancement'.
Then there were two mage hands to help him push aside the bushes along the way.
And when encountering terrain with a difference in height, Roland directly used the teleportation spell. Anyway, the teleportation spell at close range does not consume high mana. There is no need for a mana recovery suit. The special skill of 'Roland's Enthusiasm' alone doubles the mana recovery. The effect can be recovered by oneself.
Now it was Cage's turn to be speechless.
He looked at the magical light emerging from his body, teleporting back and forth from time to time, looking extremely relaxed, and couldn't help but said: "You are so young, how can you have so much magic?"
"You can learn it."
Cage used the scabbard to push aside the tall grass in front of him, turned around and asked, "But as far as I know, academic spells are very expensive. How much did you spend?"
"If you don't count what you earned back." Roland thought for a while and said, "Just buying the spell model cost nearly two hundred gold coins."
Cage turned back in surprise: "Wait, how come you have so much money?"
As the head of a village... Cage's life is pretty good, but compared with the real nobles, it's far behind.
If the tax paid by a small village in a year exceeds one gold coin, it would be considered good.
Most of his savings were earned from working as a mercenary when he was young.
In fact, the money a mercenary makes is not much. After more than ten years of hard work, he has earned less than forty gold coins. This does not include the maintenance of weapons and armor, as well as the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
After all, in his more than ten years as a mercenary, his net profit was only more than twenty gold coins.
But this has allowed him to join the ranks of the little rich.
His younger brother earned more than him as a traveling trader. During his more than ten years as a traveling trader, his net profit was estimated to be over a hundred gold coins.
However, the land in the royal city was expensive, and the two small manors almost wiped out Andonara's father's savings.
So until now, Andonara's father is still making money outside as a traveling merchant.
The cost of Roland's optical spell model is almost two hundred gold coins, not counting other expenses.
Cage couldn't help but gasped: "No wonder some people always say that mage is a very rich and very poor profession. It turns out that a real strong mage feels like spending money. He can throw hundreds of gold coins out without blinking an eye. "
Although Cage has been a mercenary for more than ten years, he has never come into contact with a truly powerful mage.
The most powerful mage he had ever encountered was at the elite level, at most a level higher than Roland's.
And to be honest, mages and warlocks who go to the mercenary world are essentially poor people.
If you have money to buy magic materials and spell models, which spell caster is willing to go out in the wind or rain, and make money at the risk of dying at any time.
The only exceptions are players.
For players, the mercenary world is not only a place to make money, but also a good place to 'upgrade'.
There are a lot of tasks and a lot of intelligence. For them, the mercenary guild is a natural training ground.
Cage sighed and then shook his head.
Then keep walking ahead.
Roland also took the time to cast extremely effective physical enhancement and levitation techniques on Andonara and Cage.
The movement of the three people in the mountain forest was obviously much faster.
After going around and around in the forest, Cage finally stopped near the top of the mountain.
In front of him, there was a pile of gravel beach.
Cage recalled what he saw last night and said: "According to the content in the manuscript, the secret room is under this gravel beach. Let's see if we can clear away these gravels."
Roland stretched out his hand to stop Cage, who was about to roll up his sleeves to work, and said, "Wait, let me do some reconnaissance first."
Then Roland closed his eyes, and the huge mental power network began to spread out, directly penetrating under the mountain.
Roland's mental power was controlled very well, and no strands of mental power touched Cage or Andonara.
But Cage still felt like he was surrounded by a heavy pressure, which was very uncomfortable.
But Andonara's feeling was different from Cage's. She could feel Roland surrounding her, and she didn't know how relieved she felt.
About three minutes later, Roland regained his mental power and his face turned pale: "There is indeed a large secret room down there, but... there is something quite disgusting entrenched in it. It seems to have no body, which makes me very sad. accurate."