At first, Roland felt simplicity in this town.
But now, he felt something was wrong.
People often come to dig for things in that sealed land, and they can dig out something from time to time.
For example, pottery.
For example, valuable items such as copper coins.
This is not normal.
In Roland's spiritual exploration, there are indeed these things in the sealed land. But there is one thing to say. It seems that the Sealed Land has been excavated decades ago. It stands to reason that the contents inside have been excavated long ago. Just like a big tomb, it has been beaten upside down for thirty or forty years. It is nothing. There are no more.
But... this place still exists.
Moreover, some caves in the sealed land look relatively 'new'!
It seems like someone has been 'maintaining' this place, throwing things in from time to time
Roland felt that this conjecture was really unreasonable.
Moreover, there is an elf running out of here, which is even more evil.
Could it be that the elf has been locked up for so long and no one discovered it
More than two months.
But think about it, if a magician wants to imprison a person and make it impossible for other ordinary people to find him, there is a way.
But Roland really couldn't figure it out. If this place was really the place where Yabosuo was sealed, shouldn't the first thing Yabosuo did after escaping was to run away
He threw things here and caught elves to make longevity medicine. What the hell was he trying to do
Are you really not afraid that the goddess of magic, Mythra, will come to trouble him
Or should I say, confident
The more Roland thought about it, the more mysterious things became.
He took out the small stick prepared in the system backpack and inserted it into the ground again.
Make a wish when you are in trouble!
This is the old mage's routine.
Now he finally understood why many books said that high-level prophecy mages with high mental power resistance would not bother to play tricks with you.
The large and small wish-making spells are used in turn.
If your physical strength is not as strong as his, you will never be able to defeat him.
Fortunately, there are very few prophecy mages. Until now, the prophecy magic tower is in name only.
There were not many people, and there were only about a dozen or so prophecy magicians before master level.
Poor as hell.
But there are still no magicians who want to mess with them or cause trouble for them.
After the stick was inserted into the mud, Roland activated his spiritual technique.
"Make a wish and point me in the direction of Mythra's nemesis, Soberso."
Half a second later, the stick suddenly broke into several pieces.
Roland snorted, and then spat bloody saliva to the side in a very uncivilized manner.
He bit his tongue.
The effects of the little wish-making technique come back.
However, it can also be seen that, as Mythra said, Yabotso's strength has indeed dropped significantly.
Otherwise, the side effects of the little wish-making technique would not be as simple as biting your tongue.
It is estimated that he is slightly stronger than Roland in terms of mental strength.
After all, he was the one who could compete with Mythra for divine status back then. Even though he had been sealed away for hundreds of years, it was normal for him to still have this strength.
Just how to find this person
Was he sealed in this place before
If not, who was the one who used the alien plane to walk before
Roland doesn't even know that special space magic.
The more Roland thought about it, the more he felt a headache.
He guarded the sealed place for another night, but gained nothing.
The next day, he told his guide Beckrum that he wanted to visit the surrounding big towns.
As a guide, Beckrum naturally had to follow Roland.
Before leaving the yard, Roland saw the old woman holding a glass of red fruit wine and drinking it happily.
He really dotes on his own woman.
Roland was somewhat impressed.
Wine is actually quite expensive compared to ordinary people.
Beckrum doesn't drink it himself, but he is very willing to drink it for his old wife.
The two of them set off again on the cart.
After walking along the road among the sea of pink flowers for nearly seven hours, we finally arrived at a nearby town.
A much larger town than the previous one, a big town that could almost be considered a city.
Roland came to the town and found a hotel to stay. Then he asked Old Beckrum to help find out who had the best information in the city.
And he himself went to defeat this mercenary guild in Bubu.
After all, it is a large town with a population of more than 100,000. Although there is no assassin's guild, no magic guild, and no magic tower where magicians are stationed, there is one of the most popular and civilian servants' unions.
Roland went to work for the union president, and after paying a few gold coins, he was able to read the mission records in this city.
Then ask the secretary to sort out all the tasks related to the next town.
This is a big project and cannot be completed in a few days.
Roland paid ten more gold coins for this.
When he returned to the tavern, he found that there were two more glib-looking people in the tavern.
And Old Beckrum said: "Mr. Master, can I go home first? It seems that you will stay here for a while, but I am not too worried about the old woman at home."
"OK."
Roland nodded.
After Beckrum left, Roland gave each of them a silver coin and asked them about the town next door.
These two people are not young, both are over forty years old, and they answer all questions.
Of course... they didn't dare to lie to Roland.
Ordinary people dare not lie in front of a mage.
Because in the folklore of all countries, wizards can detect lies.
The intelligence of these two people is biased towards a lot of gossip.
For example, someone from this town had an affair with a woman from the next town.
Or maybe it's about some weird ghost story.
But what one of them said caught Roland's attention.
"When I was a child, I often heard that several outsiders disappeared in the neighboring town every year. It was said that there were vampires there. But in recent years, there has been no sign of this."
After hearing this, Roland thought thoughtfully: "Oh, it was about how many years ago."
"It seems that there have been similar rumors since I was sensible."
After that, the two of them talked about some unfounded rumors. Although they didn't get any more important clues, Roland still gave the two of them another silver coin as a reward.
Roland stayed here for two days afterwards.
On the third day, the mercenary union sent someone to invite him over.
It turns out that mission records about neighboring towns have been selected.
Roland expressed his gratitude to the hard-working staff, and then turned over the newly copied records page by page.
He discovered... Regarding the tasks in neighboring towns, most of them were looking for people.
There are three or four orders every year.
Although it does not match the amount provided by the previous intelligence dealer.
At least ten a year, tipsters say.
Maybe... there are many relatives of the missing and don't have that much money to be listed in the mercenary union
Moreover, none of these missing person missions have been completed.
Roland read them one by one and carefully compared the timetable.
Finally, he discovered that there was a record ten years ago, saying that a male elf disappeared nearby, and he hoped that the mercenary union would help find him.
Of course... this task is not completed either.
Roland looked at the time... June of the Year of Frank Spark!
Year of the Spark
Roland's eyes suddenly lit up.
France's calendar follows a cycle of ten years, and the male elf he met was also caught in the Year of the Spark.
He was arrested not for two months, but for ten years
Roland thought about it again. The intelligence dealer said that in recent years, there have been fewer missing people in neighboring towns.
He read the records one by one.
The records kept by this guild are very detailed.
There are probably about seventy years of records.
Roland discovered that records from fifty years ago were beginning to appear more frequently regarding missing person missions in neighboring towns.
Then it gradually declined ten years ago.
Matched up with the clues provided by the intelligence dealer.
Roland's brain was working rapidly.
If these data are correct, Yabosuo had escaped from the Sealed Land fifty years ago.
Why advance
Because a town appeared near the sealed place... It should have been a village at first, but it gradually developed into a town.
When Roland was looking for clues in a neighboring town, he accidentally learned that that town had a history of less than seventy years.
Farming activities in the countryside, or other actions, caused the seal to be opened, and Yabotso was freed from it.
As for why people were disappearing one after another at that time
Roland took out the 'Blood of the Modified Elf' from the system backpack.
The function of this thing is to increase people's life span.
Since the blood of elves can be used, then the blood of humans can probably be used as well... But the effect is probably not very good, and a large amount of collection and refining is required.
Therefore, many outsiders disappear every year.
The murderer did not attack anyone in the town.
Then in the last year of the French Spark, Yabotso accidentally captured an elf, so there was no need to use human blood.
The male elf was in a semi-sealed state and was not very sensitive to external time, so he thought that only two or three months had passed.
He even misled Roland.
But now that the information is in front of us, many things can be found out by following the clues.
Roland closed his eyes and thought for a long time. When he finally opened his eyes, he had decided on a candidate.
Teleporting back to the previous town, Roland once again came to Old Beckrum's yard.
The old guide was pouring red fruit wine for his old woman.
Roland pushed the door open and went in.
Old Beckrum turned around to see Roland and smiled cheerfully: "Master Mage, why did you come back so quickly? Didn't you say you wanted to stay a few more days?"
"The things are almost done, it's time to go back." Roland looked at the wine bottle in Old Beckrum's hand and said with a smile: "There is wine to drink. I happen to be a little drunk. Can you give me a drink?"
"Of course there's no problem. This is my home-brewed wine. Although I can't say it's particularly delicious, it's not much worse than what's sold outside."
As he spoke, he poured a cup and placed it in front of Roland.
Holding the wine glass, he looked at the clear red wine inside, as bright as blood.
Roland opened the system view and saw the description of this glass of wine.
Item: Potion heavily diluted with wine (fine)
Description: The magically improved elf blood potion is diluted with wine to reduce the potency and effect so that it is suitable for ordinary people to drink. The taste is no different from real wine.
Effect: Slightly increases the drinker's life limit.
After reading it, Roland smiled slightly, and then stretched out his finger to old Beckham.
"Rainbow jet!"
When his fingertips came forward, a ball of rainbow light formed instantly.
Old Beckrum stood stunned, as if petrified.
But Roland was completely unmoved, and he was not worried that he had killed the wrong person.
The rainbow light jet ejected out, and the moment it was about to hit Old Beckrum, it was blocked by a blue light film.
Then Old Beckrum turned into a ball of light and disappeared.
Teleport!
Roland immediately turned around and teleported after him.
Then I saw two halos of light flashing randomly, and in the blink of an eye, they had disappeared into the horizon of the grassland.
The two of them ran away far away, and the wine bottle that Old Beckrum was holding fell to the ground.
The wine inside spilled out and splashed everywhere.
The old woman walked over, picked up the wine bottle, and stroked it gently, with a gentle smile on her face.
The perspective returned to Roland, and the two people flashed at extremely fast speeds. In a short while, they flashed more than fifty kilometers away.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid of Roland, Old Beckrum stopped where he was, and his body began to fade away.
It's the space magic of 'walking on another plane' again.
But Roland was well prepared this time, and the same trick would not work twice on the Golden Son!
In fact, Roland wanted to shout like this, but he still held back.
He just quietly threw out the space anchor scroll.
Several transparent space chains appeared from the void and took root in the earth, locking the surrounding space tightly.
Old Beckrum was abruptly stopped from infiltrating into another dimension, and his body changed from translucent to solid.
He even suffered some magical backlash.
He looked at Roland while covering his chest, his face turned pale.
"If you keep using the Flash Technique, I may not be able to catch up with you." Roland looked at the other party indifferently: "Yabosuo, I didn't expect that you turned into an old man and gave yourself a powerful outer layer of illusion. Don't Speaking of ordinary mages, even I can’t see through it.”
Old Beckrum looked at Roland, and then the space around his body was slightly distorted, and his whole person changed.
The old look disappeared and he turned into a handsome guy with blond hair and blue eyes.
"It seems that you are the hunting dog sent by Mythra." Yabosuo chuckled: "I didn't expect that she has not forgotten me as an enemy."
Roland twitched his eyebrows and did not refute.
Instead, he asked curiously: "You should have woken up fifty years ago. Why didn't you escape from this place? You escaped. With your illusion skills and hiding ability, no one will be able to find you again."
"The most dangerous place is the safest place." Yabosuo looked at Roland: "I really want to say this, and I thought so before. But now it seems that this is just a harmful joke."
really!
Really smart prey will never return to dangerous places. The most correct thing to do is to stay away from the hunter's search circle, as far away as possible.
Therefore, Yabotso's approach is actually very stupid and completely inconsistent with the image of a powerful and wise magician.
"Many people have disappeared in this town before. It was you."
Yabosuo was stunned for a moment, and then he understood: "I said how did you find me? It turned out to be based on this clue. I have integrated into this town, and it stands to reason that I will not be discovered. I didn't expect... Close and sparse."
Roland also admitted in his heart that without the data on missing persons, he would not have suspected old Beckrum at all.
"So you admit it?" Roland's clothes were still wet.
"Let's make a deal." Yabosuo said with a smile: "Let me go, and I will give you all my spell models and magic experience over the past few decades. I will get away and never do it again. Appear in front of you."
"In the past few decades, you have 'eaten' no less than one hundred and fifty people, most of them teenage girls." Roland said coldly: "You scum, go to the underworld and make deals with them. "
Countless magic hands descended from mid-air.
The extremely cold field spreads rapidly.
The surroundings quickly turned into a silvery white, vast expanse.