Tides: Years of Dawn

When Tristan met with Gareth, the Fool was also recalled by Gareth.

"How many did you kill?" Tristan didn't forget to count them, in case wizards with ulterior motives would stay silent and lie in ambush in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to act.

But Gareth didn't count—"Seven? Eight? Seven or eight, I don't remember."

"Seven or eight?!" Tristan tried to pat Gareth on the head again, but he missed because of the lack of light around him.

"I don't know, let's think about it..." Gareth was lost in thought, and answered after a while—"Anyway, it's either seven or eight, I really don't remember."

"...Damn it, I need you to be a dick!" Tristan cursed, and flicked his wand instead, illuminating a path of light like a flashlight.

After practicing a few times, Tristan picked up this spell more and more steadily.It seems that learning spells is really the same as riding a bicycle. As long as you learn it once, even if you haven't used it for decades, you can still master it faster than ordinary people after a little memory and fumbling.

He went over the number of wizards in his mind again. Regardless of whether Gareth killed seven or eight, plus the one that Tristan himself brought down, at least one person was still missing.

So Tristan asked Gareth to follow him a little farther away, not to stand in the light, so that even if he encountered a sneak attack, he would encounter it himself, and Gareth could step forward to make a rescue in time.

What's more, Gareth could still feel the approach of the wand, and it was more suitable for him to walk in the dark.

The fool didn't follow Tristan either, but walked around Gareth.His animal legs were put away again, and he returned to the stupid appearance of a normal person.He sniffed here and there, but he was quite obedient and quiet.

So the group of three fumbled for the door in the dark corridor.

The house was very large and very old, and there were signs of peeling wallpaper where there were no tapestries on the walls, and there was a strong dusty smell in some rooms.

"This is probably the meeting place for the wizarding world," Tristan said.

In his memory, there would be one meeting place in every wizarding town.This kind of house is very similar to the one they are in, and they can move freely.Through the witchcraft of three to five people, the entire house in the meeting place can be transferred to any place in an instant, and of course, it is also possible to cross the border.

Also because of this, its function has nothing to do with business and trade, but it is specially provided for management personnel to hold meetings that are not known to outsiders.

In the first 20 years of his life, Tristan had seen this kind of old house once on the hillside and once by the river.

Its incongruous style makes it easy to recognize, but it's useless because once a meeting starts, it doesn't stay in the same place for long.During the meeting, there will be a special wizard who will keep moving the location of the house, and each foothold will only stay for ten to twenty minutes.

At the same time, there are also a large number of isolation spells around the house to prevent others from eavesdropping.

What is conveyed in the assembly hall is generally about hunting, hunting, cleaning and other shadow tasks that easily cause panic among the public and cannot be seen.

There are seven great wizarding families on land, and each great family has its own wizard or branch that specializes in dirty things.But on the entire continent, there is another family that specializes in dealing with all kinds of shadow problems. They are all over the corners of the land like a network, but they always hide in the dark and are not seen by ordinary people.

That's right, that's the spider's house.

The spider family is not in the ranks of the beast families of the Seven Continents, but it is the most widely branched and well-informed group of wizards on the land.The members who make up the family are not bound by blood, on the contrary, they are all abandoned orphans in the wizarding world.

On the surface, the Spider House is an orphanage, but in fact it can be regarded as a shadow corps refinery.

Every year, the managers of the Spider House collect homeless children from all over the world, and bring them back to the Spider House for screening and planning.

The children staying inside have undergone rigorous training since childhood, and thanks to these trainings, after Tristan left, he was able to live well on the other side of the world as a bounty hunter.

Of course, Gareth didn't know these things.That's why their family name is different from those ligers, tigers and leopards, because they can't be regarded as a family at all, they can only be regarded as a group of marginalized special wizards.

There was a reason why Tristan cared so much about Gareth.The spider's family is indifferent, but betrayal and escape are absolutely not tolerated.But young people always need some involvement. When Tristan watched the birth of Gareth and grew up with Gareth, he regarded Gareth as his only blood relative.

Although he was only seven years older than Gareth, he felt that Gareth was not only like his brother, but also his child, his friend, except that he was not like a dog he raised.

So he didn't want to see Gareth being trained like a beast, he didn't want to whip Gareth like a master, and he didn't want to set a plate for Gareth to eat on the ground, or when Gareth When Si couldn't meet the standard of a beast, he was called away by other masters, and got into the collar obediently, but he didn't know that the blade would cut its throat open in the next second.

But Tristan couldn't make those words clear to Gareth.He didn't want Gareth to think of himself as a savior, and he didn't want Gareth to feel guilty.

There is nothing to feel guilty about, even if Tristan is not for Gareth, maybe one day when he grows up, he will run away because he can't stand the different views from other families and the cold-blooded ruthlessness within his own family.

The corridors of the rooms twist and turn like a maze.Tristan kept holding his heart, fearing that a curse light that would kill him suddenly came from the depths of the darkness.

However, Gareth's additional skills still gave them great help. Just when Tristan felt that they were going round and round and always returned to the same place, so he stood still and wanted to find a way to find another way out, he followed behind him. Gareth in the distance suddenly shouted—"Oh my god, it hurts so much, fuck me!"

Tristan leaned down quickly, and threw the glowing wand aside.

Sure enough, a deadly ray of light struck from the depths of the darkness, hitting the wall beside Tristan.

The wall cracked and cracked, and the wallpaper was burned with little flames.

Just as Tristan was about to fight back, unexpectedly Gareth took a step ahead, aiming at the light path of the spell released by the wizard, and stepped forward in three steps at a time.

Without saying a word, he dragged the other party out of the darkness, held the other party's head and twisted it violently.

Only a slight snapping sound could be heard, and Fang Fang hurriedly died.

"How many are left?" Gareth wiped his hands, kicked the opponent's wand away, and walked out of the darkness again.

"...You fucking asked me? How would I know?" Tristan got up from the ground, and picked up the glowing wand he had lost.

"This wand is in your hands, and I feel very uncomfortable all the way." Gareth complained, "Hurry up, and you can lose this thing when you go out."

"You have to get used to it," Tristan said, and began to head forward again. "Even if I go outside, I have to carry a wand to defend myself. There are no guns in this world, and there are not many things that can be used as weapons. .”

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden sob from Gareth's direction.Tristan yelled "shut up" as usual, but just as he finished speaking, the idiot suddenly ran forward.

Tristan and Gareth were stunned for a moment, then ran after them.

If the fool hadn't turned into a beast, his steps would not be light.But he rushed forward as if summoned, and turned around, leading Gareth and Tristan around the labyrinth of corridors at high speed.

I thought that the fool had suddenly sensed the outside world, so his destination should be the door of the room.But the more they followed the fool, the more they felt something was wrong.The fool didn't seem to be facing the outside at all, but instead led them deeper and lower into the whole house.

After all, they followed for 5 minutes and had already walked down two floors from a small door.Tristan was on his feet. He didn't think they'd been on the second or third floor before.

Facts proved that their judgment was correct, and the fool finally stopped in front of a door at the end of the corridor.

He sniffed against the door, and then shook the doorknob with his hand.After finding that the entire door was not moving at all, he had no choice but to slam it hard.

Tristan stops Gareth and tells him to stand back a little.

With the impact of the fool, the dust on the door fell down one after another.But there was still no sign of the door being opened, and the lock seemed invulnerable to damage.

"There are spells on it." Tristan replied, shining the light on his wand.

So the two of them quietly watched the idiot being stupid, until they were moved by the idiot's persistence but decided to turn around and leave, the idiot suddenly stopped bumping.

He looked at the door lock, then at Gareth and Tristan, who were about to leave, and then walked a few steps in the direction the two left, before going back to the door and shaking the door lock again.

He seemed to be making a difficult decision, or organizing a sentence in an unfamiliar language.

He went back and forth like this several times, until Gareth and Tristan had reached the depths of the corridor and were about to turn around and climb the stairs the same way, the fool finally made up his mind.

He suddenly rushed over and grabbed Gareth's wrist, and said with difficulty - "No...don't go."

As he said that, he shook Gareth's hand, looked at Tristan timidly, and said seriously -- "Open it for me, open it."

TBC

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Cubic is a bit busy today, stop updating for a day~Resume updating tomorrow~