Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 1004 Shadow Hill
This is a stretch of rolling hills, and the heavy snow for several days has covered the hills with a layer of plain silver.

Now it seems that there is no style.

But Angel remembered that when he first arrived at Overwatch Fortress, he once stood on the tower and watched the place. It was pitch black, barren and bleak.

This is Shadow Hill.

Through the clues given by Popota, Angel came here.

Because there is a river in Shadow Hill, and if you are lucky, you will occasionally find the Silver Ring of Misty Turbulence here.In addition, the Hill of Shadows is near the fortress, which can be seen with the naked eye, so it is considered a safe zone.Therefore, from time to time, apprentices come here to explore opportunities in their free time.

Just yesterday afternoon, Popota and his two friends were wandering around Shadow Hill.

Then, they see Toby here.

"At the beginning, I saw it gouging the ice with its beak to fish on the surface of the river. Then it didn't seem to get anything, so it flew away. As for where to go, I didn't pay attention, because there was too much snow and it was dark. Once you blend into the sky, you can't see anything clearly."

This is Popota's rhetoric.

Although others saw it unrealistically, Duski did see Toby flying into the sky, so it can be roughly concluded that Toby still appeared in the Hill of Shadows just yesterday afternoon.

Angel immediately looked for it.

After he came to the Hill of Shadows, he could see the undulating snow at a glance, and the sky was constantly snowing. It was not so easy to find Toby's trace here.

The first place he went was the river that Popota had said was where Toby fished.

At the trough of the snow hill, a relatively spacious river channel has been covered with ice at this time, and there are occasional fish baskets covered by snow on the bank, which shows that there are still many people coming to this creek.

Popota found that the place where Toby cut the ice was a curved river channel under the ice cliff, and there were two trees with intertwined branches like acacia on the opposite bank.

The characteristics are obvious, and it didn't take long for Angel to confirm the location.However, after one night, even if a hole was dug, the river surface had already re-frozen.

However, according to the thickness of the ice layer, Angel still confirmed the place where Toby drilled the hole before.

He tried to reopen the hole, and the water below was still flowing. If he listened carefully, some fish began to gather under the hole because the air was pouring in from the hole.

Angor has no intention of fishing now, and when he was about to leave, he found a dark thing frozen in the ice.

He curiously opened it, and took out the black thing that looked like a small fan.

After licking it, there was a fishy and salty smell after smoking.

"This taste is... the small dried fish smoked by the maid of Mana?" Angel stroked it, removed the ice sand on the surface, and found that it was actually a fish tail.

This is obviously Toby's stuff. It is estimated that Toby didn't forget to eat small dried fish when digging holes and fishing here.

What Angor can be sure of now is that Bobota and the others are not lying.

However, although the leftover fish tail was found, where would Toby go?
Angel thought for a while, found a high ground, and released several scout puppets.Metal balls with eyes flew out in all directions.

"If you can't find Toby even by scouting the puppets..." Angel thought to himself in a low voice, then he could only ask Sanders for help.

The detection puppets are all over the Hill of Shadows, and with its small size, it can detect many hidden places, which is much faster than Angor's exploration.

Not to the east, not to the west.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and Angel's expression is becoming more serious. He is a little suspicious now. Could it be that Toby is too comfortable in the abyss atmosphere, played crazy, and ran away from the safe zone?

Time passed, and just as Angel made up his mind to return to the fortress and seek help from Sanders, he suddenly discovered that a scout puppet saw two shivering figures.

It was a man and a woman, wearing apprentice robes, running down the slope of a hill trembling.

Their faces were pale, their hair was covered with frost, and their lips were gradually turning blue. They looked like they had been frozen out... However, Angel remembered that Frost Moon distributed wizard robes with thermostatic effects to all the apprentices who came to the front line.

He looked carefully, only to find that there were obvious holes in the robes of the two apprentices.Moreover, there were bloodstains and scratches, as if it had just experienced a battle.

Judging from the expressions on their faces, they were also panicked. They turned their heads from time to time, and after confirming that there were no pursuers behind them, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Doubt flashed in Angel's eyes: Let alone what happened to them that made them panic.What concerned him the most was how did these two people come out?

The scouting puppets had flown all over the Shadow Hills before, but they didn't find these two people at all. They seemed to appear out of thin air.

Could it be that there is any hidden passage here?

Angel thought for a while, a faint light shone on the boots, and in the next second, he appeared in front of the two people whose faces were still a little shocked.

Angel's appearance immediately aroused the vigilance of the male apprentice, who stood in front of the female apprentice beside him.

Judging from the movements of the guards, Angel thought, these two are probably lovers?

Angel took off his hood and revealed his face: "I just came from the fortress, and I found you."

Angel's appearance was still somewhat youthful, and the gentle smile on the corner of his mouth made them relax a little bit.

Seeing that they were slack, Angel said again: "It seems that you need some help?"

Angel casually took out a fiery red bead from his bosom—a broken Firestone, which he had obtained a lot from the Firebone Witch during the battle of the Cinder Rock.It's not very useful, but it's very convenient for heating.

Angel put the broken Fire Stone in his palm: "I can give this to you, but I need you to answer a few questions for me."

The two looked at each other, and there was a gleam of joy in their eyes.

Both of them are middle-level apprentices. After fleeing before, not only the wizard robes were broken, but the magic source in their bodies was also empty, and they couldn't even summon the fire element to keep warm.

Although this place is not far from the fortress, they are already exhausted, coupled with the snowstorm, maybe they didn't die at the hands of those flying fish monsters, but would freeze to death in Shadow Hill instead.

Unexpectedly, when they were desperate, they met Angel.

They dared to venture into the abyss, so they naturally knew the "broken fire stone".Don't think it's useless in Angel's eyes, but to them, it's at least more than a hundred magic crystals!

Now, just by answering a few questions, you can get this item that can keep you warm and sell at a good price. How could they not agree.

They nodded without hesitation.

……

After a long while, Angel's eyes lit up. Not only did he get the information he wanted, but he might even get news about Toby, so he threw the broken Firestone in his hand without hesitation.

Such a handsome female apprentice stretched out her hand to take it, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, she staggered for some reason, and the fiery red ball fell into the hands of the male apprentice.

After the male apprentice got it, he immediately looked at the female apprentice with worry on his face: "It's all right, be careful, there may be gravel in the snow."

While talking, he helped the female apprentice up, and at the same time he muttered: "Put the fire stone here first, I'm very angry, you just rely on me to light it."

The female apprentice wanted to say something, but the male apprentice interrupted forcefully, and then bowed to Angel, "Thank you for your kind gift, sir, we will go back to the fort first."

After finishing speaking, he embraced the blushing female apprentice and walked towards the fortress.

Angor turned his head, squinted his eyes, looked at the figures of the two people who were gradually disappearing in the wind and snow, and clicked his tongue twice.

Angel could clearly perceive the reason why the female apprentice staggered earlier, it was the male apprentice who did it.Not only did he snatch the broken fire stone, but he also took advantage of the opportunity to grab the female apprentice, which didn't hurt him at all.

It seems that the male apprentice whispered to the female apprentice in the wind: "This thing is quite expensive. When I get back, I will sell it, and the magic crystal will give you half..."

Will the male apprentice really distribute the magic crystals he sells?

Angel didn't know the answer, but judging from the glowing eyes of the male apprentice after seeing the Fire Stone, it might be... difficult.

Before, it seemed that the male apprentice was sincere in protecting the female apprentice, but he did not expect that he would betray so quickly.

Angel shook his head, no longer thinking about other people's affairs, but his eyes were shining brightly, and he walked towards the top of the hill.

Just now, from them, Angel learned some secrets about Shadow Hill.

Speaking of it, it's not really a secret of true knowledge, but there are very few people who know about it, and the scope of dissemination is limited.

It is said that on the other side of the hill, there is a secret passage hidden in the hollow of a dead tree.That secret road leads to a cave under the hill. This cave is called Shadow, and at the same time, it is also the source of Shadow Hill.

According to rumors, every once in a while, strange white shadows will appear on the Hill of Shadows, and babies will scream like ghosts.

There are rumors among apprentices, but in fact, these white shadows are the white smoke evaporated from the geothermal spring water in the Shadow Cave, and the screams of the babies come from some long-term animals that regularly swim from the underground river in the cave. bearded fish.

Although the Shadow Cave is hidden, there are still some people who know about it. However, the underground rivers in the cave produce more turbulent silver rings. For personal interests, many people will not tell the outside world even if they know about it.

The couple apprentices from before went to the Shadow Cave to find the Misty Silver Ring.

When they went to the Shadow Cave this time, they were searching along the underground river, but encountered some accidents on the way. The black flying fish monster swimming from nowhere suddenly attacked them like crazy.

These flying fish monsters were at the level of junior apprentices at most, but they couldn't stand the large number, and the wizard's system recovered very slowly here, so they were eventually lost and escaped.

These are the experiences of the couple's apprenticeship, nothing extraordinary.

However, Angel got a clue from them, and this clue is likely to point to Toby.

Although they didn't see Toby in the Shadow Cave, the female apprentice was extremely sensitive to sound. She said that she seemed to have heard birdsong from the depths of the cave during her escape.

Angel imitated Toby's voice with the technique of sound illusion. After hearing this, the female apprentice said very firmly.

"That's the chirping sound!"

(End of this chapter)