Mage's Secret

Trafal had lied to Murphy, for reasons that were hard for him to tell.

Fortunately, Murphy wasn't suspicious of him. After hearing his words, Murphy immediately froze.He looked at Traphael's gloomy face, and then stammered to comfort him.

Murphy's caring behavior made Traphael even more depressed. He waved his hand to stop Murphy from continuing, expressing that he wanted to be alone for a while.

Trafael's condition was really bad, and Murphy was of course worried about leaving him alone in the study.He knew that the mage's mind was always heavy, and it was difficult to communicate with each other when he was alone when encountering sad things, and sometimes he even got into the horns of the dead. After Elvis left, he actually agreed to the bard to go to the bard on the spur of the moment. The damn resurrection technique is a good example.

Seeing that he couldn't beat Murphy, Traphael didn't insist on letting him leave.Looking at Murphy who was sitting beside him trying to make himself happy, Traphael sighed. Since the time for separation has entered the countdown, if this almost stolen time can be extended, let him as long as possible.

But the mage didn't take the initiative to track down the whereabouts of the knight, but it didn't mean that the knight wouldn't take the initiative to find him.

Only about a month after Mayer left the Mage Tower, the knight's invitation letter appeared on Traphael's desk.And when he saw the letter, Murphy was by his side.

"DeWitt?" Murphy looked at the signature on the envelope and asked, "Isn't this the paladin from last time? Why did he come to you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his mind and thought of the most reasonable reason: "I had a conflict with him before, he couldn't have found some clues, it's been a few years, why did he always There was no movement, and now I suddenly found it?"

The more Murphy thought about it, the more he felt that this was very possible, so he looked at Traphael worriedly, and kept urging him to open the letter and have a look.

As for why the paladins came, Traphael had a completely different guess from Murphy's.He knew what this letter would mean, and naturally resisted opening it from the bottom of his heart.But at this time Murphy was still urging him, Traphael hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind to open the sealed envelope—if Murphy was destined to leave him, then he would There is no way to avoid it, and in the end it will just make everything mess up.

As he expected, DeWitt came to him not because of the fight he had with Murphy a few years ago, but because of the kid beside him.Since Trafael used a lot of contacts to find Murphy's brother, it's no secret that he was looking for the child with the red mark on his back.

Regarding himself and the child, DeWitt did not give a very detailed explanation in the letter. He just briefly mentioned the characteristics of the child, and then invited Traphael to meet at the Horn Hotel in Karen.

In addition, DeWitt also asked Traphael in the letter whether he had any results in the study of the demon blood sample left behind, and whether he had any clues about the black robe mage.These two points were mentioned briefly in the Paladin's letter, but the entire letter has undergone a lot of redacting, and the word order is also very chaotic. It is obvious that DeWitt was very flustered when he wrote the letter.But even in such a panic, he still mentioned these two questions, which made Traphael wonder whether he really found something as Murphy said.

But Murphy, who had such doubts at first, stopped worrying about this issue at this time. He took out the letter paper from Traphael's hand and read it several times before raising his head to look at Traphael. He said solemnly, "I think the child mentioned in Devitt's letter is very likely to be my younger brother..."

After finishing speaking, Murphy lowered his head and read that passage again and again, the more he read it, the more certain he felt.Finally, he couldn't sit still anymore. If the child was really his younger brother, then how much danger the little devil was facing at this moment, Murphy hardly dared to think about it—it could kill him with one blow A seriously injured high-level paladin!

Murphy slammed the letter on the table, stood up and was about to run out the door, Traphael quickly reached out and grabbed him: "Why are you going?"

"I'm going to find the paladin! If that kid is really my brother, I have to go and rescue him!"

Traphael was much calmer than him: "Have you forgotten, you said that there will be no evil aura on the devil before he reaches adulthood. The paladin may have discovered the abnormality, but he will not attack him casually. If you just pass by like this, your identity will be exposed instead."

"You don't know, on the devil's head..." Murphy looked quite anxious, but he stopped immediately in the middle of speaking, rubbing his forehead and turning to look at Traphael and asked: "Then what should I do?" ?”

"I'll go see him." Traphael pulled Murphy back to his side, looked him in the eyes and said slowly: "I'll go meet him and see why he is in such a hurry to find out the identity of the kid. You Don't forget, it was originally my task to bring your brother back."

Just as the mage promised, he immediately ordered the apprentices to prepare the horses, and when he arrived at the hotel the paladin had mentioned, the sky had just darkened.

Walking to the door of the third room on the second floor that he mentioned in the letter, the mage stopped, raised his hand and gently knocked on the door.

Before he could let go of his hand, there was a ping-pong sound in the room.Traphael waited for a while, and when the room calmed down again, he heard a deep voice say, "Please come in."

Traphael pushed open the door, and the first thing he saw was darkness.The curtains in the room were drawn tightly, so that the room was dark and stuffy, with a very faint peculiar smell.

Traphael glanced over and couldn't immediately see the figure of the paladin in this small room.After looking carefully for a while, he found the paladin standing by the window.

It wasn't because the mage had bad eyesight, but for some unknown reason, the paladin was wrapped in a black cloak, and he stood there without saying a word, almost completely blending into the darkness.

The mage closed the door and walked into the room, saying, "Long time no see."

DeWitt was silent for a while before replying in a low voice: "Long time no see."

After he finished speaking, he fell silent, and he didn't seem to have any intention to explain why he invited Traphael here, so Traphael could only take the initiative to ask again: "Where is the child mentioned in your letter?" ?”

The mage asked and looked around the room. The furnishings in the room were very simple, except for a table and a bed, there were only two stools lying on the ground.Trafael guessed that the sound just heard outside the door was the sound of the stool falling to the ground.He didn't have a house! Another figure was seen in the room, and there was nothing in the room that could hide people.

Just when he finished asking this sentence, the paladin's cloak suddenly moved, a head protruded from his chest, and then retracted immediately.

Because the light was too dark, and the child hiding in the paladin's chest was moving so fast, Traphael couldn't see his appearance clearly.The moment that head poked out, the special aura in the room instantly became stronger, but after he retracted his head, the aura faded again.

Although it was only for a short moment, Traphael still immediately recognized what kind of aura it was - this aura was exactly the same as the aura on Murphy's body. A certain kind of aura is a rather subtle concept.If Traphael and Murphy hadn't been together day and night for many years, I'm afraid they wouldn't have recognized each other immediately.

Then the identity of this child can be determined without asking Traphael.

Seeing Traphael staring at his chest, the air pressure around the paladin unconsciously dropped, which also woke up the mage who was in deep thought.

"Is this the child you were talking about?" Traphael asked, walking in the direction where DeWitt was standing.

But before he got close, the paladin immediately hugged the child hiding in his chest, and said to him, "Don't come any closer."

It was only then that Trafael discovered that DeWitt could easily jump out of the window.

At this time, Trafael didn't know what DeWitt's attitude towards the child was, and he didn't dare to act rashly, so he stopped as he said, and said tentatively: "You invited me here with the news of this child, then Just let me see him."

While the paladin was still hesitating, the child who had been hiding in his chest suddenly poked his head out again, and this time he didn't withdraw immediately.

The child didn't move, but the paladin pulled his cloak around him again.

"Don't come out." DeWitt yelled in a low voice, but there was no concern in his tone.

This somewhat relieved Traphael—it seemed that DeWitt really cared about this child, and judging from his attitude, he must have discovered something.Then even after he knew the true identity of the child, there might still be room for things to turn around.

Thinking of this, Traphael said: "Don't be nervous, I'm not a priest, and I don't even believe in the God of Light. So no matter what the identity of this child is, or what happened to you, I will not treat you Do something unfavorable. After all, the only thing I am interested in is the spell itself."

"So what will you do to him? Why are you looking for him?" DeWitt asked.

Trafal said: "I haven't even seen his full face, how can I be sure if this kid is the one I'm looking for. Over the years, I have seen too many children with similar characteristics. , maybe he is one of them. And even if he is the child I am looking for, I will not do anything to hurt him. As for why I am looking for that child, or what the identity of that child is, I have no idea. I can't tell you yet."