the other side.
Kanon also left Delan City and went to an underground palace somewhere outside the city.
Entering the underground palace, Canon kept his usual serious expression and walked through the corridors. Wherever he went, low pressure spread, and everyone he met lowered his head without saying a word - not because he was afraid, but because he didn't know what to say to his boss. Under Canon's special serious aura, no one would have the thought of finding something to talk about. Even if they really had something important to report, they would be as concise as possible.
In this way, Canon walked without incident and quickly walked back to his own secret office.
The office secret room is very large, covering an area of fifty or sixty square meters, but the light is very dim. There were originally many lighting crystals, but for some reason, more than half of them were removed by Canon, so almost half of the secret room was in darkness.
Canon's desk is right at the junction of darkness and light. Canon sat on it, with the front half of his body in the light and the back part wrapped in darkness.
"call-"
Canon sat on his seat, exhaled a breath, squinted his eyes not knowing what to think, and continued to maintain a serious expression.
Suddenly, in the darkness behind him, there was a slight sound of "plop-pap-pap-pap-pap". Then a pair of blood-red eyes appeared, like the eyes of a hell demon. They were so terrifying, as if they could suck away a person's soul with just one look.
Canon heard the sound, became aware of it, and turned his head to look into the darkness behind him.
Those blood-red eyes looked directly at Canon, as if they were angry because they were discovered, and they pounced on him with a "pop" sound.
The opponent's speed was so fast that it was almost impossible to catch it with the naked eye. You could just barely see a white shadow rushing out of the darkness, easily passing over Canon's body, and landed on the table with a "thud".
After the other party landed on the table, he lowered his body, sniffing at the table with his nose, his three-petal lips opened and closed quickly, his snowball-like body jumped around, and a short fluffy tail dotted the back of his body. Jitter.
The other party turned out to be... a rabbit
Well, bunny!
To be precise, it is a demonized white rabbit, so it has excellent jumping ability and can accurately jump to the table from the darkness several meters away.
Canon looked at the demonized white rabbit, his expression still serious, but his hand slowly stretched out and approached the white rabbit.
The white rabbit was not afraid at all, and cooperated by jumping closer to the canon, letting the canon's hand fall on its body and caressing it slowly.
The soft rabbit hair slowly passed through the fingers, and in an instant... the rain fell on the dry pond, the breeze blew through the woods, a feather floated across the lake, and the tips of the grass showed through the soil... The huge pressure dissipated like a collapse.
Canon's serious expression gradually faded away, he lost the mask that maintained his dignity and identity in front of others, and his body relaxed.
Lying back on the chair, his eyes gradually closed.
At this moment, footsteps sounded outside the door, and someone knocked on the door and said, "Bang, bang, bang! Manager Canon, I have something to report!"
Canon opened his eyes and stopped stroking the rabbit. The rabbit clearly jumped off the table and hid in the darkness.
Canon raised his head, his expression became serious again, and shouted toward the door: "Come in!"
"Yes." Immediately, a young blue-robed wizard walked in, trotted to the canon table, put down a pile of information, and quickly reported the report, "That's it, the canon manager, we just learned that there seems to be someone from the Northern Soma Alliance. He came to Deland and left recently. We don’t know what he did, but we are certain that he went to the northwest, possibly passing through our absolute core city in the Southern Free Federation.”
"Pompeo?" Canon asked with a straight face after hearing what his men said in one breath.
"Yes." The blue-robed wizard nodded nervously and inhaled secretly.
"Is that so?" After Canon received the confirmation answer, he thought for a moment, then looked at his subordinates and said, "Okay, let me think about it, and I will give a solution later."
"Yes, I'll go down first, steward?"
"Um."
After receiving permission, the blue-robed wizard left quickly and carefully closed the door. Canon was immediately left alone in the secret room of the office.
"Pap tap tap..."
The demonized white rabbit jumped out again, this time jumping straight into Canon's arms. Canon raised his hand and stroked the rabbit's fur, thinking about the matter seriously.
…
The perspective shifts back.
On the road outside Delan City, a wide four-wheeled carriage, pulled by two strong black horses, moved quickly forward.
In the four-wheeled carriage carriage, Joseph was facing Richard and Popovich, telling him about the mission.
"The specific content of the mission we are going to carry out this time is to explore an ancient ruins, and its danger level is rated as level seven."
"Level seven?" Richard asked, "Why level seven? What is this level based on?"
“Level seven is based on the lower limit of the strength of members who can safely perform tasks.” Joseph explained, “Within our Truth Society, the danger levels are generally divided into nine levels—from level one to level nine.
Level one is the lowest, that is, a low-level wizard can safely perform it. Level 2, which is slightly higher, requires the level of a first-level intermediate wizard to be executed safely. Or it may still be executed by a first-level low-level wizard, but a certain number of members must be added.
By analogy, level seven represents the lower limit of the strength of the members performing the task, which is a third-level low-level wizard, or a second-level wizard in a team. "
"Is that so?" Richard nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Then let me continue talking about the mission." Joseph picked up the conversation and said, "This mission is currently rated at level seven, but for careful consideration, it can also be regarded as level eight, so the three of us will A senior level three wizard executes it.
Our purpose in entering the ruins is also simple, that is, to go as deep as possible and find a magic prop that may have been left behind by the ancient wizard civilization. "
"A magic item? What magic item?" This time it was Bobo Bovich who asked.
"It's a box, not very big, but it can produce special effects on the items placed inside, and it will be of more important use to our truth." Joseph said vaguely.
"So, you know exactly what it is?" Bobo Bovich asked, grabbing the key point. "You obviously haven't completely explored it, but you know this, which means you have a lot of information about the ruins. Why? Did you do it?”
"Is this..." Joseph hesitated after hearing this, looked at Bobo Bovich, spread his hands and said, "Now, it's really hard to tell you what's going on. But after you join the Truth Society, you will know sooner or later. Yes, trust me."
This is actually similar to what Canon said before, but when it comes from Joseph's mouth, at least it's not so unacceptable or embarrassing.
"Okay then." Bobo Bovich accepted and said, "Then I will wait until I join the Truth Society and then figure it out for myself. Now I will explore the ruins first."
"That's best." Joseph said.
Richard next to him didn't speak, thinking about the small amount of information revealed in Joseph's words, and made some guesses.
The carriage continued to move northwest.
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