361 Disgusting thing
After breakfast, Cage comforted his son and refused to let the latter follow him. He stayed at home and was temporarily taken care of by the housekeeper, while Roland asked Vivian and others to continue to rest at Reed's house.
The six magic apprentices actually wanted to act with Roland. After all, all the "leaders" have joined. How could they not act? But Roland refused their requests with a tough stubborn rejection.
In fact, this so-called adventure is probably not too dangerous.
However, this involves the secrets of the Reed family, so there is no problem with Roland to follow him. He has such a good relationship with Andonara, and he can be regarded as a quarter of the Reed family. Besides, if it weren't for Roland, Cage would know this in his lifetime.
So Cage brought Roland with him.
The three of them walked out of the village. The natural environment of the village was actually quite good. The earthen road was planted with trees, and they were fruit trees.
But I can't resist the fact that sheep dung can be seen from time to time, and even the smell of someone urinating from time to time comes.
This makes that quiet pastoral style lose its mood.
On the way out of the village, you can meet some villagers from time to time, who greet Cage warmly.
Cage also responded happily that the two sides did not have the sense of "isolation" of aristocrats and untouchables, as if everyone was equal.
Some older villagers would say hello when they see Andonara: "Little Anna, it's been a long time since we saw him."
Anna would also respond with a sweet smile.
When he left the entrance of the village, Roland breathed a sigh of relief. He felt a little uncomfortable in the village just now. For someone like him who loves to be clean, the smell in the village was really heavy.
There are two forks at the north entrance of the village, one leads to Dongfeng City, and the other crosses to the left, which is the road to the mountain.
On the distant mountain, you can vaguely see flocks flowing.
Cage took a deep breath and said, "According to what Grandpa Kate said in his handwritten copy, the three bottles of Phoenix blood were hidden in a cave in the mountains, but it seemed a bit troublesome!"
"What trouble?" Andonara asked.
Today she was wearing brown soft leather armor, the one that was close to her body, looking heroic and handsome.
Cage said: "In the manuscript, Grandpa said that in order to prevent lucky guys from entering, he took away three blood bottles, so he set up some mechanisms in the cave. It is easy for people in our family to break through, but it is an unlikely task for others."
Roland's first reaction was: "The effect of the brave bloodline to exorcise evil spirits? It seems that there should be something like demons 'guarding'."
Cage was stunned for a moment, then shook his head speechlessly: "Are all mages so smart?"
Roland smiled and said, "This is just a very normal reasoning, and most people can think of it."
Andonara smiled and said, "I really didn't expect you to say it."
Roland was speechless. He didn't know how to describe Andonara, saying that she was stupid, but the other party's admiring gaze made Roland's man feel a little confident and couldn't hate him at all. Instead, he felt a little cute.
Cage chuckled from the side: "You two are in front of me early in the morning. Don't you take my uncle seriously?"
Roland and the others immediately smiled awkwardly.
Cage's wife has passed away for several years, but in fact he does not lack women, but he doesn't want to marry her, for fear of not being able to marry her son. So every ten days, he would go to Dongfeng City to communicate with the most beautiful prostitute workers in the city.
"Let's go." Cage took the initiative to walk in front and walked towards the foot of the mountain.
Roland and Andonara immediately followed.
Walking up from the foot of the mountain, Roland could handle it easily at first, but when he reached the middle of the mountain, he found that he was in some trouble.
This mountain is very deserted. Below the forest, there are low thorny grass or vines everywhere. Roland is wearing a long robe and is occasionally hooked by the barbs of the branches and leaves of the plants, which is quite troublesome.
And the trouble is far more than that. Just get used to it after hooking your clothes. The rugged mountain road made Roland extremely uncomfortable.
The slippery moss under the woods will fall if the center of gravity is unstable.
Moreover, there are still some differences in height in many places. Cage and Andonara jumped up and stepped on it, while Roland still had to climb up with both hands and feet.
It is easy to waste physical energy for unfamiliar terrain environments.
Roland was a mage and was less physically strong than two warriors. He soon began to sweat on his forehead.
Andonara came over, leaned against him, and said softly: "I'll pull you later."
Cage walked in front and turned around and smiled after hearing this, "This is normal. This is the case with the mage. Although it is very powerful in combat, it becomes a burden when traveling far away or needing to walk on dangerous paths. I saw it a lot when I was a mercenary before, and I got used to it. Don't worry, we will wait for you."
Cage is talking about a very common situation in the entire mage world.
This is true for most mages or warlocks. Magicians who are truly capable and above are as precious as giant pandas and will hardly appear outside the city. They will conduct magic experiments in their magic towers and occasionally appear at banquets of the nobles.
Therefore, there has always been a stereotype of spell casters in the mercenary world that "high attack and crispy body are weak".
Roland stopped, he gasped and said, "No need to wait, I can handle it."
"Don't be stubborn." Cage smiled gently, "It is impossible for a mage to do everything."
"It's not a show of strength." Roland sighed and said, "I was just stupid just now. Why should I follow your warriors' pace? So I decided to follow our mage's routine."
Cage is a little confused.
Roland began to flick his fingers, and magical lights emerged on him.
‘Extremely effective physical strength’.
‘Floating technique’.
‘Magic Shield’.
‘Sensitivity enhancement’.
Then there were two mage hands to help him clear the grass and trees along the way.
Moreover, when encountering terrain with height difference, Roland directly used teleportation techniques. Anyway, the teleportation technique at close range is not very harmful, so there is no need to return to the demon suit. Just the double-digit effect of "Roland's Passion" specialty, you can get back by yourself.
Now it was Cage's turn to be speechless.
He watched the magic light emerge on his body, teleporting from time to time, and teleporting lightly, and he couldn't help but say, "You are so young, how could you have so much magic?"
"Learn."
Cage used his sword sheath to push away the grass that was tall in front of him, and turned around and asked, "But as far as I know, academic spells are very expensive. How much did you spend?"
"If it's not what I earned back," Roland thought for a while and said, "It would cost nearly two hundred gold coins just to buy the spell model."
Cage turned back in surprise: "Wait, why do you have so much money?"
As the village chief of a village... Cage's life is pretty good, but compared to the real nobles, it's far behind.
The taxes paid by a small village in a year are considered good if it can exceed one gold coin.
Most of his savings were earned from being a mercenary when he was young.
The mercenary actually didn't make much money. After more than ten years of hard work, he only earned less than forty gold coins, which did not include the maintenance of weapons and armor, as well as the expenses of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
In fact, his net profit was only more than twenty gold coins after more than ten years of mercenary career.
But this has already made him squeeze into the ranks of the rich.
His younger brother earned more than he did when he was a traveler. After more than ten years of traveler career, his net profit was estimated to be more than 100 gold coins.
However, the land in the royal city is expensive, and the two small manors almost emptied Andonara's father's savings.
So until now, Andonara's father still makes money outside with his life as a businessman.
The money for Roland's optical spell model is almost 200 gold coins.
Cage couldn't help but be shocked: "No wonder people always say that mages are very rich and poor professions. It turns out that a real mage strongman feels like spending money, and he throws hundreds of gold coins out without blinking."
Although Cage has been a mercenary for more than ten years, he has never been exposed to a truly super mage powerful man.
The most powerful mage he has ever encountered is the elite level, at most a higher level than Roland's.
And to be honest, normally, mages and sorcerers who go to the mercenary world are essentially poor people.
If you have money to buy magic materials and spell models, the caster is willing to come out in the wind and rain outside, and make money with the danger of dying at any time.
The only exception is the player.
For players, the mercenary world is not only a place to make money, but also a good place to "upgrade".
A large number of tasks and a large amount of intelligence, for them, the Mercenary Guild is a natural drill field.
After amazement, Cage shook his head again.
Then continue walking ahead.
Roland also took the time to cast extremely powerful and floating techniques at Andonara and Cage.
The three of them moved significantly faster in the mountains and forests.
Going around the mountains and forests, Cage finally stopped at the point that was almost at the top of the peak.
In front of him, there was a pile of gravel beaches.
Cage recalled what he saw last night, and said: "According to the contents of the manuscript, the secret room is under this gravel beach. Let's see if we can clean up the gravel."
Roland reached out to Kay and stayed and wanted to roll up her sleeves to work, and said, "Wait, let me scout first."
Then Roland closed his eyes, and the huge network of mental power began to spread out, directly penetrated under the mountain.
Roland's mental power was well controlled, and no mental power thread touched Cage or Andonara.
But Cage still felt like he was surrounded by heavy pressure, which was very uncomfortable.
However, Andonara's feeling was different from Cage. She could feel that Roland was surrounded by her side, and she didn't know how relieved she was.
Chapter completed!