Throne Steps

The Samir Forest has a long history, and the verdant green stretches as far as the eye can see.The more you go in, the more scenery you don't usually see.

The giant tree, which is more than a hundred years old, is tall or strong, and proudly dominates the world.The canopy is crowded with the canopy, with large and small bird's nests exposed among the leaves, and vines of different thicknesses hanging from the branches.Some wood plants that cannot be competed, some stand crookedly in the pile of fallen leaves, some only stretch out thorns but do not grow leaves, and some directly protrude buds from the mud cracks of the giant tree branches.The flowers and plants under the shade do not see the sun, nor are they discouraged.They each stretch their bright and eye-catching bodies, and their fragrances are intertwined, competing to attract passing pollinators.But the quick-witted and intelligent monsters know how unruly these seemingly delicate plants are.

The song of the siren is here in clusters, mixed with other unknown beautiful plants, and the intoxicating fragrance lingers and spreads among the moss and rotting leaves.The fluttering butterflies and the buzzing swarms of bees will be fascinated and then fall. Only the little poisonous creatures in bright coats dare to pass under their petals.

The jungle stretches down to the foot of the Samuel Mountains, the borderline of the wildly inaccessible Raetia.There are quite a few prominent peaks in the Samuel Mountains, whose heights can be seen from the white snow visible in the distance, and even the kings of the sky have difficulty climbing those peaks.

In such a dangerous forest, a mercenary camp was built against the mountain.These mercenaries were notorious in Leti Ali and were rarely provoked.Although they became a mercenary regiment in name, they basically only took jobs that required human life, and none of them were desperadoes who walked on the tip of their swords and put their life and death above everything else.They are flesh-eating wolves. On the one hand, people are afraid of their ruthlessness and strength, and on the other hand, it is difficult to detect their whereabouts.

The mountains in this area do not belong to the Samuel Mountains, but they are also a small area of ​​their own, and the entire "Lone Wolf" mercenary group is scattered in it.The lone wolf is more messy and casual than the rock eagle, and it is normal for some men to nest directly in the cave.Lean or strong mercenaries with old wounds can be seen everywhere, even with a lazy look on their faces, there is a faint ruthlessness all over their bodies.

In the camp's largest mansion, a youth walks through a hallway.He is different from everyone here, or even the opposite.He was wearing a blue-and-white blue-and-white embroidered lapel-sleeved mask shirt, trousers with closed feet of the same color, and a long-sleeved long-sleeved gown with silver flowers on a moon-white background. He looked smart and elegant.His appearance was rather handsome, his eyes were clear and light, and his youthful appearance was like a green pine standing upright. Even though his face was expressionless, he did not show a trace of hostility.This is actually his consistent style. The cool main color is the representative color of magicians, and the exquisite but unobtrusive decoration makes him appear approachable among nobles.He is cautious by nature, but on the surface he pretends to be brave.This kind of him was popular among nobles and commoners alike, until four years ago.

He has been here for four years, and he is still out of tune with everything here.

"You are here."

A man turned the corner in the hallway.He was taller than the young man, wearing a short robe casually, his exposed muscles were solid and well-shaped.Although he is not so strong that he can envelop people in black shadows, he has an extremely oppressive aura around him, as if one glance can break people's hearts with a sword.

The youth stopped in front of him.Even though there were thousands of resentments and resentments in his heart, the young man still remained silent.He has been here for four years, and he understands that no matter how casual the man in front of him is, he can't hide the violence in his bones.

"At this time of year, you are as anxious as an 'ant on a hot pot'." The man approached the young man, showing a slightly interested smile, "Why, are you still thinking about your study career, President of the Furnace?"

The young man looked at each other coldly.This guy has a faint obscenity on his body. It is estimated that he has just finished the work not long ago. With the teasing expression in front of him, it is full of provocation.The young man wanted to bear it, but one thing the man said was right, he would feel restless at this time of year.Coupled with the title of "President of the Furnace", the young man couldn't help but speak.

"I am no longer the president."

"That's right. It's been four years, and the chairman should have changed several times." As if he hadn't noticed the hidden needle in the youth's words, the man picked up a strand of the other's long hair and sniffed it under the tip of his nose. Do you remember, dear Meloyer?"

The young man wanted to sneer, but in the end he just twitched the corner of his mouth: "Meloyer? Can't afford it."

"Why can't you afford it?" The man meaningfully swept the young man's body, "Looking at your body, you are still very worthy of the 'color of sea blue'."

The young man's anger still surfaced on his face.For four years, he had been restricted in his freedom of movement, use of magic, and contact with the outside world. However, the humiliation of all these was far less than that brought by this suit!He is only allowed to wear the clothes given to him by men. These clothes are luxurious, beautiful and elegant, and the main color of each suit is blue, which makes him look like he has never left home.In the past, this hue may have meant a noble status, or that he could be proud; but in this vast Samuel, in the frightening lone wolf, it has only one meaning.

He is the "canary" captured by the Lone Wolf leader four years ago!

Almost everyone in the wolf den wears clothes that are convenient for hiding, moving quickly, and fighting immediately. Young people dressed in cumbersome and elegant clothes are conspicuous heretics.The mercenaries never looked him straight, and they didn't need to look him straight.Even if he is considered a student with good grades in school, there are not many people who can crush him in Lone Wolf.Most of the time, the mercenaries ignored him.Anyway, he looks like he could be broken if he is pinched, if the leader wants to keep it for fun, then let him keep it for fun.

Whenever he thought of himself back then, the young man wished he could go back and get two slaps.He was careless, and after entering by mistake, he fantasized about cooperating with these wolves, trying in vain to move the volcano with "Yan Ying is cooperating with Saenz".The past life has paralyzed him in the intrigue, so that he did not realize that the lone wolf is the place where strength judges status!No matter how much he can talk about lotus flowers, even if he is a student with no reputation and no strength, the lone wolf will definitely not believe in any cooperation that "has a relationship with Sarnlich".His current condition is worse than that of ordinary people's pets.If I knew this earlier, I should have escaped desperately at that time, and it would be better to die than now!

But four years have not passed in vain.The color of the young man's eyes is gradually becoming lighter, showing the operation of rich magic power in his body.He didn't know what was going on outside, and he didn't know if anyone was still looking for him.He was restricted in action for four years, but the speed of his thinking was trained to be fast.Piaoyuan's thoughts were put away in a blink of an eye, and when he came back to his senses, the anger on his face had disappeared.

The man watched the young man's vague anger disappear quickly, feeling a little bored.He took out a small thing and stuffed it into the young man's hand: "Here, play with it, it is said that it is a popular thing."

The young man looked at the thing in his hand—a translucent square crystal the size of a thumb, with a slight white mist, neither a colored magic crystal nor a crystal-clear decoration.He wouldn't really believe the phrase "it's trending" that the Lone Wolf leader said.But since the other party can throw it into his hand, it means that it is probably a useless plaything.

"You study it slowly." The man seemed to have no intention of telling the usage.He yawned casually, with a casual tone: "Fuzhao Grace is coming, do you want to go?"

When the young man heard this, he was not in a hurry to be pleasantly surprised, but only showed doubts: "Can I go?"

The man smiled and said, "No."

The young man looked away from the other person's face.

"You can't go." The man said, "However, there will be someone to accompany you."

The young man would not believe the nonsense of "accompanying himself", but asked indifferently: "What kind of unlucky ghost was caught to fill the mountain?"

The man smiled and said, "Maybe there are others you know."

The young man's expression froze—Pesa's student!

In the middle of Samir Forest, a "cat and mouse" chase is going on.

The turbulent aura is moving rapidly ahead, and from time to time, it pauses slightly when it encounters obstacles and turns back to cast the enemy's blow. The leader will even turn ahead of the obstacle.The group following behind was firmly gnawing at the not-too-distant distance, approaching without haste, not like strolling in the garden but also with a well-thought-out plan.The rapid commotion startled the birds perched in the trees, and the beasts crawling in the shadows watched.

The magician at the forefront knew that he couldn't outrun the pursuers, so he gritted his teeth and increased the output of the wind drive on the soles of his feet.He can slightly lose to fighters in physical skills, but this is definitely not the time to be a little bit slack, and there is still a team behind him!

But the chances of escape are getting slimmer.Not only the leading magician, but almost the whole team felt that they were surrounded.The enemy outflanked their two wings. At the beginning, they could only detect movement occasionally, and after a while they were close enough to see the opponent's shuttle.

"Small formation!"

The leading magician raised his staff while shouting, and the brilliance of the magic crystal inlaid on the top of the staff flowed, and a strong flash burst out almost instantly!

Even in Samuel, which was hidden by the bushes, many of the pursuers who followed closely were stopped for an instant by the flash.Unexpectedly, the team of magicians kept advancing at full speed. Presumably, the phrase "close the formation" just now was not an order, but a code word for the flash bomb.

Moment is life!The magician's team pulled out a section again, breaking away from the half-encircled structure.But before they were happy for too long, several tiny whirlwinds rushed from the rear wings on both sides, blocking the way with tricky and weird routes.

——The chasing magician followed up.

The fleeing team had no choice but to slow down and stop, forming a circle with their backs concentric, and within a few seconds they were surrounded by the opponent.A man came out of the encirclement, probably a leader, with a contemptuous and vicious expression.He looked at the nervous "prey" several times, and sneered with his mouth crooked: "Tsk, student boy."

The leading magician turned to meet him.The face of this magician still showed signs of youthful age, and the hand holding the staff trembled slightly, which was far from the ease and ease of a man.Looking carefully, the team behind the magician is full of teenagers who are similar to his age, or even look younger.The high-intensity rush just now consumed a lot of their energy, but even if they stopped, it would only make them more nervous.

This is one of Pesa's cohort of students entering Samir's practice this year.They are still young, and most of them have never encountered such a thing, so it is difficult to be calm.However, when the warriors and magicians in the outer circle couldn't calm down, an alchemist in the inner circle had already thought about it several times in his heart.

The Samuel trial—especially after the accident four years ago—few alchemists participated, but Li Chen signed up just like Sean four years ago.When the team was attacked and tried to escape, not only would he not be left behind, but he would also have a chance to escape at any time.

However, even if the teleportation array never left his body, he would not choose to escape at this time.Nine out of ten of these raiding mercenaries came from the "Lone Wolf".Saenz used "teleportation" in front of them two years ago. If Li Chen did it again in front of everyone, he would inevitably get into big trouble.What's more, this is a rare opportunity to get close to the "lone wolf", he doesn't want to miss it.

Samuel already has a hollow star on the map of the mercenary union, representing a higher level of unknown danger factor.Pesa also made this year's Samuel Trial the last because of the frequent accidents of the Samuel Trial.Although Li Chen couldn't be sure to meet the "lone wolf" when he signed up, but God favored him, this trip was not in vain.Fortunately, his registration was sudden on the surface, but meticulous in secret; with the assistance of Saenz, not only did Wiggins, Noah, and even no acquaintances exist in the team, which allowed him to act cheaply.

And the only person in this team who had some contact with Li Chen was the team leader, Xia Luo, who was already in seventh grade.

A soldier-looking boy beside Xia Luo glanced around, leaned close to him and whispered, "The teacher didn't return to the team."

Xia Luo didn't show any panic expression.Before he came, he had been warned by his elder brother that there were "dangerous factors of instability" in Samir; it was he himself who hoped to encounter an opportunity to advance as he did two years ago, so he came here at risk.When encountering this group of inexplicable attackers, the two teachers entangled the enemy and asked him to lead the team to evacuate first. At that time, he faintly felt that something was wrong.Now that more than a dozen of their students are blocked here, the teachers are afraid that there will be bad luck.

In fact, it was not difficult for the other party to hear the conversation between the little soldier and Xia Luo, but he didn't make any comments, just waved his hand: "Take it away."

When Xia Luo turned around, he roughly counted the number of people. The team was not too far behind, and the injuries were not serious. Now it seems that it really means to capture alive.He squeezed his staff and squinted at the man standing in the front, wondering in his heart how likely it would be to succeed again.

Seeing that the group of students seemed to have no intention of moving, a magician surrounding the inner circle stretched out his staff and poked at a little soldier.The little soldier responded well, and immediately raised the knife with his backhand and put the wooden staff aside.The magician raised his eyebrows, put his back palm against the end of the stick and pushed it, the tip of the stick hit the little soldier's knee.The little soldier flicked sideways, and while dodging, he bumped into his companion.

When Xia Luo had to turn his head because of the commotion, the little soldier had already walked dozens of rounds under the hands of the magician.The other students did not dare to move rashly because of the extremely fast back and forth between the two, while the magician's companions looked at them leisurely without paying much attention.Xia Luo knew this little warrior, who was ranked in the top twenty in the competition.Even with such achievements, he still can't beat the opponent's magician in physical skills, which shows how big the difference in overall strength between the two sides is.

"Come on, enough fun." The man standing opposite Xia Luo shouted, "Hurry up and get to work."

The magician resentfully put away his staff and took two steps back: "Hey, isn't this just to see how upset they are?"

"Are you fussing with them?" The soldier next to him joked, "How fast can a group of chicks led by a magician run?"

The magician gestured to strike the warrior with his staff, but the warrior dodged it with a smile on his face.The leading man looked at Xia Luo: "Please - do you want me to kick you?"

Xia Luo couldn't, so he could only lead people to follow up in the depths of Samuel.