Palm Dragon

The small town of Kotata has always been hospitable, and the annual Harvest Festival is also very famous in this area.The mellow wine and the generous hospitality of the residents often attract tourists from other places for no reason.However, a month ago, a strange outsider came to the town.

Most of the townspeople remember him vividly.He looked very young, wearing a long gray cloak that he refused to take off.At this time, the Harvest Festival had passed for a month, and most of the tourists had already left, so everyone remembered this strange young man.He doesn't talk much, and once he arrives in the town, he stays in the hotel and doesn't go out.But someone found that when Wan Lai was silent, he would go out alone, and then return to the hotel in the middle of the night. The night watchman also saw it several times, because the door was opened for him in the middle of the night, and the shop assistants complained to passers-by during the day Pass.Although he behaved strangely, until he left three days later, no one had any suspicions, and only regarded him as a strange person.But on the very night the young man left Kotata, something terrible happened.

The first thing to happen was the pastor who lived in the church.When everyone was asleep, a rush of bells woke up the entire town of Kotata.

The solemn bells on weekdays have become a signal of distress and warning, and terrifying skeletons and ogres have poured into the town.The middle-aged people who rushed out the door to check what happened first were attacked. The priest of the church climbed up the tower covered in blood and rang the bell to warn. The masters desperately lured away a large number of skeletons and ogres, and the mayor led everyone to temporarily drive back sporadic monsters, but this was only temporary.Although relying on the magician to barely escape the attack, many townspeople also lost their relatives and property in that horrible night.

"Since then..." Mantasha bit her lower lip, "every day after the sun goes down, those terrible things will pour into Kotata. Now people in the town dare not go out no matter day or night. Outsiders heard that No one dared to come after this incident. Afterwards, a few roaming knights came, but—” Mantasha raised her head, her eyes full of despair. "There are too many of those things."

"Such a thing happened..."

Adrian felt a little sad.Although he doesn't go out often and doesn't come to Kotata very often, he always goes to the Cranberries. He likes the pungent mantasha, the pretty waitresses, the stubborn Andrew, and every time he is with him. Alcoholic drinkers.

Xiaolong usually looks like he has excess energy, but his sudden low look makes Yis feel a little strange.

In fact, through the observation of the town and Mantasha's narration just now, Iss already roughly knows what is going on in his heart.

Elegantly adjusting his collar, Ice was about to comfort Adrian with a confident gesture when the door was suddenly opened from outside again.

"Mantasha!" A young girl staggered in.

"Lily?" Adrian recognized the adorable waitress in The Cranberries.

But Lily didn't notice them at all, her hair was disheveled, and her panicked look no longer had the happy look in Adrian's impression.

"Mocales' wound has suddenly deteriorated! Mantasha!"

Mantasha walked quickly to the door to have a look, then closed the door and pulled Lily to the chair: "Don't panic, explain the matter clearly."

"He had a fever last night, but just now..." Big tears rolled down Lily's cheeks, "His wound has deteriorated again, I'm afraid he will go on like this..."

"Didn't you go to the doctor?"

Lily cried and shook her head: "Doctor Com is at the blacksmith, and the blacksmith's wound was infected this morning..."

Mantasha pondered for a while, and asked Andrew to prepare things to have a look.

"I'll help too!" Huolong quickly raised his hand.

Mantasha did not object. "When you go outside, don't speak loudly, and be careful at all times."

Seeing Mantasha carefully lock the door behind her, Adrian was a little puzzled.

"Didn't you say..." The words were cut off by Mantasha's eyes turned sideways, and Adrian hurriedly lowered his voice.

"Didn't you say that those strange things only appear at night? It's daytime now." Why bother to walk on tiptoe in the alley like a thief.

Mantasha shook her head.

"Everyone thought it was safe at least during the day. But recently, people have been attacked during the day." That's why Kotata has become almost invisible during the day and night.

Attacked during the day too?Ice raised an eyebrow.

But now is obviously not a good time to talk. Under the leadership of Lily, Adrian and his party hurried through the alley behind the residence and came to a house with a white roof.Lily looked around nervously, and took out a brass key from her skirt pocket.She put the key in the lock on the door, turned it three times, and whispered, "It's me, Lily." The lock clicked.

Lily pushed the door open, and when Adrian walked into the house, he smelled sulfur in the house, and wrinkled his nose.

Lily lifted an oil lamp and led them up to the second floor.

The sulfur smell on the second floor was even stronger.

Lily walked quickly to the only room on the second floor. The room was simply furnished with a bed, desk and wardrobe.

There is a person lying on the bed.

"Mocales!" Lily put down the oil lamp and called him softly.

He didn't respond.In fact, Mantasha and the others also noticed that the young man on the bed was unconscious.

"Mantasha..." Lily couldn't help sobbing.

Mantasha hugged her comfortingly, then lifted the quilt on the bed and carefully observed the young man's injuries.

The white bandage on his chest was still faintly oozing blood, and his lips looked like wood that had been frozen for a whole winter, showing a cracked brown.

"The wound is not open." Mantasha checked carefully, and then asked Andrew to bring over the basket they brought.

Mantasha took out a bottle of whiskey from the basket, ordered Lily to find a clean towel, soaked it with wine, and asked Andrew to help the person on the bed wipe their bodies.

"I'm not a doctor, I can only try to make his fever less severe." Mantasha sighed.

"Just now his wound was bleeding again, I obviously just helped him change the bandage last night..." Lily looked like she was going to collapse at any moment.

Mantasha hugged Lily to comfort her: "Mokales will definitely be blessed by the God of Light, and he will not lose sight of the sacrifices this brave young man has made for this town."

Only then did Adrian find an opening to interject: "Who is he?"

"The only magician in Kotata of Mokales." It was Andrew who was working hard.

"It was because Mokales led those monsters out of the town that night that most of the people in Kotata were saved." Andrew soaked the wine with a towel again. "During the daytime the next day, the mayor led a group of people to search for him for a long time before finding him unconscious and bringing him back."

Seeing Lily go downstairs to get clean water, Mantasha said sadly, "He and Lily were going to get engaged next month."

She didn't go on, but everyone understood that the person on the bed was obviously extremely weak.

There was a brief silence in the room.

Yisi suddenly spoke: "Are there no priests in this small town?"

Mantasha smiled wryly: "Kotata is just a remote town, and priests are only found in big cities directly under the temple."

Adrian understood what Iss meant. "Mokales' injury caused by black magic?"

Ice nodded slightly.

The damage caused by black magic, of course, is most effectively healed by a priest with the blessing of light magic.

but……

Adrian turned his head to look at Yisi in a flash.

"Are you a magician?" Although he doesn't have the priest's holy healing technique, he has seen Mokales' injury. To this extent, as long as he is an intermediate-level white magician, he can use ordinary healing magic to heal the wound to a certain extent. improvement.At the very least, it may not get worse.

"Mr. Yisi is a magician?" Mantasha was a little surprised.Yisi looks like a nobleman who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world. He doesn't look like a nerd who only specializes in magic.

Because he simply isn't.

Lily didn't think so much, she only knew that her lover was dying in bed, and Ice might have saved him.

"Sir!" Lily's tears rolled down again. "Please save him! Save him!" He was the straw she suddenly saw in her despair.

His was helpless.He never admitted that he was a magician, and he was a "white magician"...

However, if there is no principle involved, it is not something a gentleman should do to make a lady cry like this.

Besides, seeing Adrian's expression of "you must have a way", Mr. Noble feels that he has been greatly satisfied.Moreover, this degree of injury...Is stepped forward and looked at the young man on the bed, snorting coldly in his heart, he knew it was injured by a low-level monster. Kung Fu.

But of course he doesn't show it on his face.

Blocking everyone's sight with his body, Yisi moved the corners of his mouth slightly in a pretentious manner, as if reciting a spell, and then stood up straight.

"Okay." A gentle and holy smile.

"Okay?" Adrian stared blankly.Yi Si just said something with his back to them, okay?

He thought he was going to take out a very gorgeous and dazzling magic staff while waving it while shining or something...

"Well, the injury doesn't matter anymore." Yi Si continued to be gentle.

Otherwise, wouldn't he be foolishly swinging a flashy stick like a stupid magician, not to mention that he couldn't use white magic at all.

... To a certain extent, Iss and Adrian can be regarded as having a tacit understanding.

However, although the trauma was healed, the vicious Mr. Noble did not restore Mocales' energy by the way. (Yes, he can. —_—)

It's fine if you can't die, and forget about the extra things.Mr. Noble thought to himself, politely assuring everyone that he would wake up soon.