Dawn of the Grey Tower

Longji top pub, three days after the arrival of the cheese, snow

"Have you heard? Jack's sheep lost their head today." A villager took a sip of wine and said.

"Ah, I heard, the animals have been missing for these two days, and I don't know what happened." Another villager nodded and said.

"I heard that a pack of wolves is nearby." The third villager said something.

"No! The animals are kept in cowsheds and sheepsheds at night. How did the wolf come in?"

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The heated discussion stopped because of a person's presence. The cheese was still wearing his iconic grey robe, and snowflakes accumulated a thin layer on his hood and shoulders, showing that he had been walking in the snow for some time. When the rumored gray robe entered the tavern, the villagers stopped talking unconsciously, seeming to be afraid of his existence.

"A glass of ale." The cheese frowned and said to the lady boss sitting at the bar. His eyes had no focal length, so he could see what he was thinking about. Perhaps his thinking was so focused that he didn't pay attention to the whispers of the villagers around him.

Soon, the villagers in the tavern left the checkout in twos, threes and threes, and the tavern that was just overcrowded in the blink of an eye turned out to be only the boss lady and the cheese unconsciously drinking ale in front of the bar. The proprietress packed up the dishes and utensils on the table, and the expression on her face was a little angry. After all, the cheese disturbed the business in the tavern.

"If you don't find out where those animals are going, I'm afraid I will close the door in less than half a month." The boss complained to the gray robe with a nearly rude action to grab the empty wine glass.

"Ah, sorry, I was thinking about something just now." The cheese was awakened from contemplation, looked at the deserted surroundings, and said awkwardly.

"Since you arrived here, you have lost nearly ten animals in three days. If you are hungry, you can tell me. Even if you need raw meat, you can let Grandpa Jon talk." The lady boss was doing simple cleaning. Say.

"I have said it many times, Elsa, I really have nothing to do with the missing animals, the abyss is down, and how do I explain you will believe that I do n’t need living animals to make sacrifices." Cheese Hold his head and say.

The lady boss put down the plate in her hand and walked across the cheese. Her hands fell sharply on the bar and made a loud noise. After the cheese was scared to raise her head, she said to the latter in this very imposing pose.

"Then you will solve it! Bring the real thief back, if it is a wolf, take their skins, if they are humans, take their heads! Tell those people that you are innocent."

I have to say that although Elsa is very sweet, when she is angry, she shows a momentum that is not comparable to those of the noble ladies in the south. The sturdy blood of the northerners also flows in the girl's body. . And our poor cheese became the victim of this momentum, he was completely implicated. Obviously, the lady boss put all the reasons for the bad business on his head, although this is not wrong.

"Yes, my lady, but as you can see, I have been running for a day in the village for this matter, how about giving me a little rest?" The cheese said bitterly. This is true, even though he is a genuine magician, but magic is not omnipotent, not to mention that he is still investigating the matter of the magic plague, there is really no way to deal with this innocent disaster.

Back to his room, the cheese was lying on the cold wooden bed staring at the ceiling of the room.

"What the **** is going on ..." The young mage whispered.

The cheese raised his hand and condensed a small green halo 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 light that made people look and feel Evil green. This was collected by the cheese from the town. Although it is very light, he can be sure that this is a dangerous magical plague. And it must be related to the task given by your teacher. The mage looked at the green light in his hands and combed through the events he had experienced in the past few days.

"As soon as I came, the animals began to lose, so to say it is almost certain that I am the most suspected person, but it is not me, unless ..." The cheese narrowed his eyes, and he thought of a possibility. And the next step is to prove whether this might be right. Turning out of bed and putting on his robe, the mage rushed back to the lobby of the tavern as fast as he could.

"Elsa! Tell me that something unusual happened to this town or stranger before I came!"

The boss lady first saw such a state of excitement in the cheese, at least in these five days, this gray-robed man has always looked like a child, even if he talked to the leader of the frost guard or was criticized by the people in the town behind him It's all indifferent. So the boss lady was really taken aback.

In fact, cheese has always had the arrogance peculiar to the mage, which is very common among people with power or knowledge. They always think they have more knowledge than ordinary people, so they can see the keys that are ignored by others. Because of this pride, although the cheese was investigating the town for three days, he did not ask the villagers. In the words of his teacher, the mage should believe what he saw more than people see.

And when the gray robe master decided to go to other people to prove, he can also become a good communicator. So the cheese quickly got information from the boss lady about the black robe who appeared in this tavern three days ago.

"Can you show me that silver coin?"

Alsa was not willing to take out this precious silver coin, but in order to make the case of theft of livestock in the town resolved as soon as possible, she could not care too much.

"This is the one." The lady boss reluctantly took out a silver coin from the inside of her clothes and did not give it directly to the cheese, but put it on the counter. At the same time, she is alert to the action of the cheese. If the other party shows a willingness to snatch, she will immediately respond.

The cheese naturally ignored the boss lady ’s small movements. He carefully examined the silver coin. Under the sunlight shining through the window, the silver coin shone with the light of metal.

"The icebreaking trout emblem." The cheese whispered frowning. On the upward side of the silver coin is a trout logo leaping from the ice surface. Of course, given the rough casting technology of the silver coin, only those who are familiar with this emblem can see what it is, in the eyes of ordinary people. Can only recognize that this is just a fish.

"The emblem of the Salon family?" Although Elsa had little impression of the noble's logo system, as the nearest lord family, she still knew the Salon family's logo.

"I think so." The cheese nodded, then turned the silver coin over, and the other side of the silver coin was cast with the royal logo.

"What does this mean?" Elsa also raised interest at this time, and she was eager to know what this gray-robed man could know through a silver coin.

"The silver coin is the emblem of the lord on one side and the emblem of the royal family on the other. It proves that this kind of silver coin is a coin approved by the king and then handed over by the lord. Generally, this type of coin will not be circulated too far outside the territory. There is a certain difference in the weight of the metal mixed with the coins minted between the lords. If the merchants traveling between the major territories are more willing to use the currency issued by the king, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com is more uniform in their value. " Si said quickly that as a mage who first entered a civilized society, much of his knowledge was only learned in books.

"So which guest in black robe has a high probability of coming from the Earl of Salon. And ..."

"And you said three days ago that the Earl of Saron is finished." Elsa said after the cheese.

"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 meant a certain army or other armed forces. Now it seems that maybe I made a mistake, "the cheese said. He had previously looked at the plague and the destruction of the Earl of Saron separately, but now, he found that the relationship between the two might be closer than he thought.

"What do you mean?" Asked the proprietress.

"It means that the destruction of the Earl of Saron may have arrived in this town, and if we do not dispose of it quickly and safely, perhaps this town will also be very dangerous." The cheese said with a smile.

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

"Why are you so excited when you mention danger?"

"No, my lady, I am not interested in simple danger. I am happy because ... well, because of something else." The cheese raised an eyebrow and said.

Elsa had to speak again, but the gray robe continued to speak for himself.

"Relax, I promise to dispose of it, no matter what it is." As he said, the cheese pulled up his hood and turned towards the outside of the tavern.

"Is this the test question you gave me? It will not fail me, just like the other questions you gave me." The mage walked out the door of the tavern and murmured to himself in the cold wind mixed with snowflakes.