Tides: Years of Dawn

When Tristan and the other three found the exit of the house, the house was sitting on a hill.The hills are covered with green grass, and a blue stream passes not far away.

It seems that this world is in the early spring, when everything is revived, the sky is bright and the air is clear, and the air is so fresh that it is unreal.

After staying in a dark room for a long time, when I first went outside, my eyes couldn't even adapt to the light outside the house.Gareth assisted the fool in laying the dying man on the soft grass, covered only by a shirt at the moment.

The shirt belonged to Tristan. After all, among the other three, it was relatively safe for Tristan to show his tattoos.

The killers of the spider family are very expensive, and without more than ten years of investment, they cannot cultivate a decent finished product.So even if other people caught Tristan, they wouldn't kill him right away.After all, it is more cost-effective to take him back alive to the spider's house for money than to kill him directly.

Tristan squinted his eyes and looked around, still clutching another wizard's wand.But there is not a single family in the surrounding area, only the vast green and the endless blue sky.

So he went to the top of the slope, and was in the position with the widest view possible.Then he rested his wand on the grass and sat down cross-legged.

Tristan has heard that there is also a kind of wizard in the depths of the ocean. They have their own positioning system and have a strong sense of direction. They can find the right direction in the sea area where all sides are the same, and reach their destination impartially. .

However, wizards on land do not have this tricky skill, so they must use other tools to make up for their lack of ability.

It has to be said that the less combat skills God gives to a species, the faster the evolution and the larger the brain capacity of the species as long as it does not perish.

For example, comparing wizards with ordinary humans, the technological level of ordinary humans has surpassed wizards for several lifetimes.Compared with the land wizard and the sea witch, the magic skills of the land wizard are a few blocks away from the sea witch.

This characteristic is not only reflected between magic and technology, even if you compare orangutans with humans—although orangutans have extremely developed limbs, their intelligence is far behind that of rapidly evolving humans.

Survival is an instinct for creatures, and when they cannot compete for survival resources by hand-to-hand combat, they can only outsmart them.

But the creation of such things as animals violates the laws of human evolution.

Not only does it not allow the human brain to be fully utilized, but it tries its best to increase its physical fitness, in order to change its genes to surpass other species that win with a strong body-this is destined to not last long.

Therefore, animals can only be bred by human hands, and if they are allowed to reproduce by themselves-they are likely to kill their spouses with great interest during the sex process.

But, of course, when Tristan and Gareth were doing shameless things, Gareth didn't really bite him, although he often scratched a few bloodstains on his back.

Tristan was very careful about this, so that he never dared to be too violent, lest he was still intoxicated in the joy of the unity of nature and man, while the other party had already bared his teeth, grown beast legs and fangs.

This cautiousness is not only reflected when the two are shy, but in daily life, Tristan also pays great attention to guiding Gareth.

God knows what Gareth looked like when he was taken away from the spider's house. His life habits, which are exactly like dogs, made Tristan want to give up countless times.

But fortunately, even though Gareth was being called stupid every day, in fact Gareth was not stupid.I don't know whether it's Tristan's good teaching, or Gareth's ability to understand. Now he is no different from a normal person, so normal that he not only has sympathy for fools, but also has a curiosity about unknown things.

Seeing that he settled the fool for a while, he swayed to Tristan, sat on the ground together, pointed to the wand on the ground and asked - "What are you going to do?"

"Orient us," Tristan said.

He spread his right hand over his wand.Although the palm was about three inches away from the wand, the wand spun rapidly after Tristan uttered a strange sound.It turned like a small propeller on the grass, and after a few turns reluctantly, it gradually rose into the air.It turned faster and faster, opening up a little bit of weak airflow like a windmill.

This process lasted for about ten seconds, and its speed gradually slowed down until the tip of the wand pointed to the direction of ten o'clock, then swung slightly, and finally stopped.

Tristan grabbed the wand and retracted it, and looked in the direction indicated by the wand.

"Is that the north?" Gareth followed Tristan and stood up, looking into the distance as well.

"No," replied Tristan, "that's a popular place."

For Tristan, who has been away from this world for many years, it doesn't matter which side is north.Those wizards' countries, cities, streets, and even every building he used to be familiar with may have changed more or less.Demolition and reconstruction, development planning, it is no longer possible for him to find a safe shelter by looking for the memories of the past.

"Popularity? But... aren't you a wanted criminal?" Gareth didn't forget what the white-bearded old man said to Tristan before, "If someone you meet later happens to want to arrest you, then—"

"It's as if the two of us were not wanted in the world over there in the past 20 years," Tristan smiled, turned his head to look at the fool and his master who couldn't delay the treatment, and said—"If we really meet When it comes to what you said, let’s turn someone else’s house into our new home.”

Tristan is used to killing, and was a killer before he was a bounty hunter.He killed someone with a wand for the first time when he was ten years old, but it was a long-distance attack at that time, and the shock to him was far less shocking than stabbing the opponent's stomach with a knife and blood flowing on the back of his hand.

But he is used to innocence.In the hearts of the spider family, there is no distinction between guilt and innocence.They provide a service for a fee, very pure and very efficient.

This simple, one-tenth-like way of doing things allowed the spider family to grow rapidly, weaving webs everywhere like spiders, and soon became an indispensable part of the wizarding world.

When they were training at the spider's house as children, they would often attack each other with wands.The law stipulates that it is not allowed to have a wand alone until the age of eight, and it is not allowed to cast spells independently without supervision under the age of 16.

This, to a certain extent, prevents wizard children from causing harm to those around them due to their inability to control their own mana.

But the spider family didn't care about this.Those training sessions were kept secret and took place in a basement as large as a Colosseum.The Colosseum is full of children under the age of 16, and they will have their own wands when they are about four or five years old.Although at that time they had no idea what wands were used for, but just walked around crookedly and babbling nonsense.

People in the spider family believe that the earlier you have a magic wand, the more tacit understanding between the wand and the owner.Therefore, treating the wand as a toy for these children will allow the wand to absorb human spirituality earlier.

This tacit understanding has been cultivated for five or six years, and children will enter the Colosseum when they are about ten years old.Rolling in the Colosseum for two or three years, basically starting to perform shadow missions at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

After all, children can lower one's vigilance, and most wizards would never think that a child who is pulling at the hem of his clothes and begging for a few coins from the other party will pull out his wand in his tattered clothes, know a spell Let unsuspecting adults die.

Tristan has great potential, so he only rolled in the Colosseum for half a year, and started to "beg" in a rag robe when he was ten years old.And after successfully carrying out three or four missions, as a reward, he got Gareth.

Tristan believes in destiny. After all, he was constantly told that "your mission is doomed, and you must sacrifice yourself as the cornerstone of maintaining the wizarding world".

So Tristan believed that Gareth was his destiny, and now—as he circled back to the mystery that had been buried in his heart 20 years ago, he was even more convinced of it.

After walking for nearly four and ten minutes, they saw a simple farmhouse.The surroundings of the farmhouse are kept clean, and the chimneys on the roof still have smoke coming out.

There are people inside, and there's a good chance there's more than one.

Tristan glanced at Gareth, and Gareth told the fool and his master to wait beside a large boulder nearby.He and Tristan made a detour to the rear of the farmhouse, intending to take a closer look first.

Gareth hoped it was a family that wouldn't fight back, so they wouldn't have to go on a killing spree.

But when the two of them approached the side door of the farmhouse and looked in through the tiny gap in the wooden door, they found that there was no one inside.

Tristan was curious, so he packed up and asked Gareth to go towards the window.Gareth the cat got down and tiptoed along the walls of the farmhouse.As a result, he hadn't even approached the farmhouse when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart.

He opened his mouth to remind Tristan, after all, the pain was very strong, and he believed that a wizard was approaching quickly with a wand.

But unfortunately, he was still a step too late.Because he didn't even have time to turn his head, he heard a deep, husky woman's voice from Tristan's direction stealing their lines-"Put down the wand, I don't want to kill people today."

Gareth was taken aback—fuck, maybe he met his peers.

He stopped immediately, not only that, but also retreated in the opposite direction.This is the agreement between him and Tristan, once one person is discovered, the other must wait and see what happens, and don't rush to rescue.Otherwise, both of them will be caught, and they will be in trouble.

But maybe they really met their peers, because before Gareth took a few steps back, the husky female voice raised the volume and said a second sentence-"There is also the one hiding by the window, your partner In my hand, you'd better put down your wand and walk around in front of me."

TBC