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Priests and mages are natural enemies, there is no doubt about it.

Otherwise, why were these mages able to find his location with such precision?

With the hazy moonlight coming in from the window, Yannick could see the person in front of him clearly.

It was a brown-haired male mage pointing at himself with a staff. He looked very young, but he did not conceal his malice no matter in his expression or his actions.

There were four other people beside him, two men and two women. Yannick didn't take a closer look, but the man standing at the end looked very mysterious. He was covered in a pitch-black cloak from head to toe, and it seemed that some kind of mask had been applied to confuse his appearance. The spell makes people unable to see his appearance clearly.

The brown-haired mage was very dissatisfied with Yannick's distraction, and the staff in his hand was a little bit harder, stabbing Yannick's neck fiercely, while the other hand grabbed Yannick's skirt, and roughly pushed him off the bed Drag it up.

"This is just a low-level priest, the lowest level of the Holy See. There is no need to send him to the Magic Guild. We can get rid of him here." The brown-haired mage said coldly, and his tone made Yannick feel that the other party Really do.

"No, Asur, the Magic Guild issued an order. Any priest must go through the trial of the Magic Guild before he can be punished. Have you forgotten?!" A female mage tried to dissuade him.

"Come on, Lily!" Asur sneered, "You can tell those mages in Tumaco City, maybe they will listen!"

All five of them were mages, this one wanted to kill himself, and the other four didn't seem to agree, but except for this Lily, they were all watching with cold eyes and didn't stop them. Yannick quickly analyzed and knew that his situation was very bad.

"I say, everyone," the neck hurts from being poked, but Yannick had to try his best to keep his voice calm so as not to anger the brown-haired mage in front of him. "Not all priests are bad people, and I have never had the blood of a mage on my hands."

"Haven't you been stained with the blood of a mage?"

"Yes," Yannick said calmly, ignoring the mocking tone, "I was hunted down and fled all the way here from the Principality of Mecklen. I only helped the residents here to heal their injuries. There was no mage here either. You can have any town resident testify."

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." The brown-haired mage roughly rubbed his gauze-wrapped hands on Yannick's body. The wound seemed to be deep, and blood was oozing even through the gauze. With his movements, Yannick There was a chill on the back of his hand.

Then he heard the brown-haired mage say: "Then now you are stained with the mage's blood, I can kill you."

Yannick: "..."

Are you really okay with this? Hey!What is going on with this messy, speechless feeling in the wind!

"Okay, Asur, stop! He can't die for the time being. This time, we may encounter many dangers on the way to the Garter Empire. We need a priest!" Another female mage said.

"We have magic potion. What can such a low-level priest do, at most, heal you when your finger is pricked by a rose!" Azul obviously couldn't listen, and spared no effort to mock Yannick.

"Yes, sir, but at least I can help you heal the wound on your hand." Yannick was a little out of breath from the action of his tugging on the skirt, and the staff on his neck seemed to stab him to death Same.

"Are you talking to me like that, bastard, don't forget your life is still in my hands!" Azul was enraged, looking like he was going to stick his staff into his neck , Yannick's skin is relatively thin, and it is easy to leave marks, so he knows that there must be bruises there now.

No matter how good his eloquence was, Yannick couldn't persuade him to change his mind in a short time for this kind of mage who hated priests so much, and he believed that if it weren't for the existence of the four people next to him, he would have been killed by Azul long ago died.

"Release him." It was the mysterious man wrapped in a cloak who spoke, his voice was a little low, like the cello that Yannick had heard sliding slowly over the strings, it was unspeakably sweet. "He's useful to us."

"Why listen to you, I discovered him first!" Azul said angrily, he didn't like this guy who pretended to be mysterious, and they walked all the way, except for his name, they knew nothing about him.

"Asur!" Lily was also a little annoyed, "Don't be self-willed, the effect of magic potion is much worse than the priest's healing technique, we really need him, and it's the same to bring him to the Magic Guild of the Garter Empire for trial! "

Another male mage also smoothed things over: "That's right, Asur, look at the wound on your hand, isn't the magic potion useless, how about letting this priest heal you?"

Azul stared at Yannick viciously, and finally let go of him reluctantly after a long while.

"Put on your clothes and come with us!"

There were five mages here, and Yannick had no idea of ​​running away at all. He dressed silently, picked up his cloak, and followed out.

"Can I say goodbye to the people here? Otherwise, if I don't see you like this, they might think that something happened to me." Yannick asked.

"Come on, it's fine if I don't kill you, don't try to challenge my bottom line!" Azul sneered and pushed him roughly.

Well, I hope the old mayor and the others won't be too surprised when they find themselves missing tomorrow morning.Yannick thought helplessly, grabbed the cloak in his hand and put it on his body.

"You..." Lily turned her head to say something, but suddenly froze.

Under the moonlight, a head of silver hair was winding down, shining brightly. The priest's complexion was very fair, which made the huge bruise on his neck poked out by Azul just now more conspicuous. He seemed to have noticed their gaze. Pull it up to cover the wound, and completely cover the slender and graceful neck line under the black cloak.

Just now in the room with the back of the light, no one deliberately looked at the priest's face, but now, everyone who saw his face couldn't help being a little absent-minded.

Yannick looked at her, as if waiting for her to speak.

Lily blushed slightly, but luckily no one noticed at night. "Well, that, can you please heal Asur's wound?"

Can he say bad?Obviously not.

"Of course, I'm happy." Yannick said to Azul, "Please raise your hand a little higher."

Azul really wanted to say that he didn't need to be healed by the priest, but when he spoke, he found that the other four mages were staring at him. The meaning in those eyes was very clear: hurry up and get on the road.

He had no choice but to stretch out his hand, not forgetting to say: "Don't let me find out what tricks you want to play!"

When I can use "Brightness", I must beat this guy until my parents don't know him.

Yannick thought to himself, with a diametrically opposite gentle smile on his face: "As a priest, you shouldn't question my integrity."

After untiing the gauze, the wound on it was deep enough to show the bone, and it was bleeding all the time. It looked like he had been cursed by some kind of spell. Azul noticed his gaze and snorted coldly: "Are you proud? This is what you evil The priest made it!"

Yannick put his hand over his wound, but did not touch the opponent. As the spell was spoken, his palm gradually glowed, covering the opponent's wound, and the deep bloodstain gradually healed at a speed visible to the naked eye , and finally disappeared, the skin healed as before, and there was no scar at all.

Lily breathed a sigh of relief, Azul's bleeding wound made him more irritable, and now he's finally healed.

After casting the spell, Yannick couldn't hide his exhaustion. He even felt a little cold, so he couldn't help closing his cloak and shrinking his body inside.

Azul snorted, and seemed to be in a better mood, and finally stopped uttering bad words.

The mages decided to go on the road overnight, so the captive priest could only follow. He didn't even have time to say goodbye to the people in the town, so he could only leave a sentence on the table, explaining that he had to go away on a temporary emergency, and hoped that the town residents would You can see it when you come to him.

Since they are going to the Garter Empire, the way out is completely opposite to the way they came. The other end of the town is an open plain, not far from mountains, and they will enter a valley. After passing the valley, it is known as "the place of death." ", they need to pass through the forest to reach the border of the Garter Empire.

It is said that there is a town of Tomei between the valley and the dark forest. Because it is in the "three no-regards" zone on the border between the two countries all the year round, it is actually much more prosperous than the town of Jed over time. Of course, it is also very chaotic.

The mages did not have any means of transportation, which surprised Yannick. He knew that mages were not famous for their physical strength. He thought they would have horses and the like. It would be enough to get a broom to fly in the sky. Now relying on two Walk on your legs, when will you be able to reach the town of Tomei.

On the fifth day of the trip, the group stopped and went, and after getting acquainted with Lily, the most talkative female mage, he realized that it was not that they didn't want to ride horses, but that something happened in Tumaco City. It all fell there, and there were no horses in Jade Town, so everyone had to walk.

Lily and D'Antonio, another mage in the team, are lovers. D'Antonio seems to have a sunny and cheerful personality. Although the two of them are in the mage camp that is opposed to the Holy See, they don't have the kind of one-shot fight like Azul. A shipwrecked person thinks that "all priests deserve to die", Lily is more sympathetic, and Yannick's appearance is easy to let people off guard. After a few days, his relationship with Lily and Dantonio is already good Well, at least they didn't take him as a prisoner, and they would invite him to join them if they had something to eat.

In contrast, the radical mage Azul, who has a bit of a second disease, is much more annoying. He still dislikes Yannick and sneers at every turn. Yannick has a good character and is not angered by him. Eat and drink, this seems to make Asur angrier, and he will trip him up if he gets the chance.

The other female mage is called Aphra, and she is friends with Azul, but she is obviously not as radical as him, and she looks much gentler and calmer.

The most mysterious person in the team is Chris, the man who wrapped himself tightly in a cloak. Yannick noticed that although the team of five mages appeared together, Chris was obviously out of tune with the others. I don't know much about him. Usually, even when eating and resting, Chris would sit alone on the side and rarely talk to other people. The more mysterious it is.But when everyone is discussing, he often points out the key points in a few words and decides the direction of everyone's next step - these are the results of Yannick's careful observation in the past few days.

The six-person team is loosely organized. Lily and Dantonio are in a group, Azul and Aphra are in a group, Chris is alone, and Yannick is forced to go on the road together. Everyone is just with the same destination. Gather up temporarily, because the future is uncertain, so they must help each other, otherwise no one can break through the dark forest alone.

The cooking skills of these five people were not very good. After Yannick ate the burnt black potatoes for the eighth time, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and volunteered to be responsible for cooking.

Azul began to question habitually: "You won't take the opportunity to put poison in the food so that you can escape?"

"In terms of magic potions, does a priest know more than a mage? What's more, if we eat this kind of food again, I'm afraid everyone will fall down sooner or later even if there are no enemies." Yannick couldn't help but sarcastically one time.

Most of the worst-spoiled food comes from Azul.

Sure enough, Azul frowned: "You damn bastard of the Holy See, how dare you speak to me in such a tone!" As soon as the wand was raised, an offensive curse was about to be blurted out.

"Okay, Azul, enough is enough!" The one who stood up and stopped him was Aphra, who has never talked much, her tone was gentle, "If he is good at cooking, I don't mind letting him take over. Your cooking After all, he healed the wound, didn't he?"

"..." Azul put down his staff resentfully, and glared at Yannick again.

"Priest, I hope your cooking skills are enough to surprise us." Aphra said to Yannick.

"I'll try my best." Yannick responded gracefully.