Chapter 439: The Land Forsaken by God (28) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

"I understand," White Moth clapped his hands to shake off the dust on them, "So the current situation is that the Grand Mage bought the Perrin Mine most likely because the fairy kingdom of Alterac is underneath the mine, and the first mine tunnel was abandoned because the Grand Mage felt that they were about to dig through this barrier, so he urgently asked them to change the mine tunnel. The question now is why this mine was dug up and where the first missing miner went."

"Yes," Yun Guang nodded, "It seems to be the case at the moment."

"I have a question," Zhao Yinglai raised his hand, "Is the Grand Mage an alchemist?"

"I don't know..." Yun Guang paused, "I think so. Delmis said that he built the carriage. Why are you asking this?"

The miners trapped in the illusion not far away were ready to leave with everyone. Except for Lu Changfeng and Su Hao who were going to the outside of the Perrin Mine, the rest of the exploration team members gathered together, exchanged some information, and summarized the current situation.

"I'm a little confused," Zhao Yinglai touched his chin and looked at Enoch, "Didn't you say that magic sand is a very niche magic material that most alchemists can't use?"

Enoch initially said that he knew the whereabouts of the Grand Mage based on the supply of magic sand.

When the Grand Mage is here, the supply is large, so he pays less for travel expenses. When the Grand Mage leaves Besser City, the Mage Tower does not need magic sand, so he pays more for travel expenses.

Among all the alchemists in the entire city of Besser, only he and the Grand Mage need magic sand.

Enoch nodded: "Yes..."

"The reason why you ordered the magic sand is because the alchemy technique you learned is not the popular alchemy technique on the continent. It is different from other alchemists in Besser City," Zhao Yinglai pointed at Enoch with his chin, and then pointed at the Perrin Mine. "So if the Grand Mage also needs this magic material, then he should also know your alchemy technique, right?"

Everyone nodded.

Zhao Yinglai blinked and looked at the necromancer Delmis: "Then there is a problem."

Bai Jinshu raised his head and said, "You suspect that this abandoned mine leading to Alterac was opened by the Grand Mage."

Zhao Yinglai hummed, "Well... not so directly. I just wonder how the Grand Mage knew this place. If he also needs magic sand for alchemy, then why didn't he discover the peculiarity of the Perrin Mine at the beginning, but only discovered it seven or eight years ago."

According to Enoch, magic sand is a material that rarely appears in regular alchemy. The demand for this material is small, so there are not many mines and vendors that sell it. As a faction that needs special materials, most mages who need magic sand know each other. Through introductions from acquaintances, everyone also knows that there is a material supply site called the Perrin Mine.

Then why didn't the great magician, who also possessed this alchemical technique, know about it and had to wait so many years to discover the specialness of this place?

"There are many reasons to explain this," Xu Zichen thought for a moment, "For example, the Grand Mage has only used Perrin's magic sand, so he has no idea of ​​the average quality of the magic sand. It was not until he passed by here one day that he noticed the peculiarity of the underground."

"No," Guan Hongyan interrupted, "If you want to explain it this way, it's even more strange. The Grand Mage had never used the magic sand from the Perrin Mine before that guy discovered it. He was the only one in the entire Besser City who bought it regularly."

As an alchemist, Enoch ordered magic sand from the Perrin Mine on a monthly basis. He purchased the same quantity and paid the same fees every month, and was extremely sensitive to price fluctuations. Before this, the Grand Mage's Mage Tower had never placed an order.

Therefore, there must be some kind of opportunity that caused the Grand Mage to suddenly change the purchasing mine.

"I see." Xu Zichen paused, "The Great Mage purchased the magic sand because he discovered the special features of the magic sand."

All eyes were focused on Enoch.

"Why are you looking at me?" Enoch felt his back go numb when they stared at him.

"Do you have your own alchemical weapon with you?" Guan Hongyan asked directly, "Let Delmis see it."

How could the Grand Mage, a mage living in the Mage Tower in Besser City, inexplicably notice a small mine in a remote area? There was only one possibility, that is, he saw the alchemical weapons made by Enoch, who was also in Besser City.

Enoch said weakly: "I didn't bring it."

"I came to ask for mercy!" he argued. "I came with a weapon to get a fight..."

It's not like he doesn't know how terrifying Thermis is. He comes with weapons, obviously looking for trouble. He will definitely be beaten up by the other party.

Although now he knew that even if he didn't bring a weapon, he would still be beaten by the enemy...

Not only was he hung up and beaten, he was also forced to wear strange clothes when he returned to Alterac...

"How pitiful," the goblin from Alterac whispered, "Is this your mentor? A wizard apprentice?"

Enoch shuddered.

If his mentor was Dermis, he would not have survived more than a year.

"Since you don't have it with you, do you remember who you sold your alchemical weapons to?" Before he could deny it, Xu Zichen asked, "Is it possible that they were in the hands of the Grand Mage?"

"I sold too many alchemical items..." Enoch recalled for a few seconds and gave up immediately, "Most of the adventurers who passed by Besai City were deceived by me... No, I sold them my weapons. My prices were not expensive, so many people bought them."

Therefore, it is possible that a certain weapon was accidentally seen by the Grand Mage.

"Hmm... Let's sort it out. Now we can speculate why the Perrin Mine was bought by the Grand Mage. It was because he accidentally saw the weapon in Enoch's hand and learned that the quality of the magic sand in the Perrin Mine was abnormally good." Yun Guang sorted out the current clues. "Before or after this, at an unknown time, the Grand Mage once looked for a purple-haired adventurer. After failing, the rumor spread that only the purple-haired adventurer could save the world by traveling across the continent. At the same time, professional mentors of several other professions disappeared, including the God of Light of the Church of the God of Light, who is said to have abandoned the entire continent and needs to open the gate of the Kingdom of God to return here."

"Enoch," he looked at Enoch, "when did you come to Besai City?"

Enoch replied, "More than a decade ago."

"More than a decade ago..." Yun Guang repeated, "You discovered that the Grand Mage started buying magic sand seven or eight years ago."

Enoch nodded.

The Perrin Mine was gradually expanded in size after the Grand Mage took over, and this abandoned mine was abandoned a few years later. If this road in the Perrin Mine was penetrated by the Grand Mage, it must have been after it was abandoned.

"I can't quite figure it out," Zhao Yinglai casually picked up a leaf and pinched it, "If that's the case, why didn't the Grand Mage open this passage earlier himself, and had to wait until this place was abandoned before opening it."

Moreover, at this point in time, according to Lord Besser's description, the Grand Mage should have already begun searching the continent for the purple-haired adventurer.

"Also, one more thing," Guan Hongyan added, "after buying the mine, the great magician also started using magic sand for some reason."

"To make a carriage." Bai Jinshu was suddenly enlightened.

"The bigger the alchemical item, the more magic materials it requires. If we can obtain a large amount of a material with superior effects, we can use it as the main material and save the consumption of other materials," Bai Jinshu frowned slightly. "The Grand Mage has not touched the Perrin Mine because he needs magic sand to make a carriage."

But the purpose of the carriage is also strange.

The alchemical carriage, which had been made at great expense, was no longer used for anything else and returned to the Perrin Mine to deliver goods.

The members of the exploration team were all lost in thought.

I didn't think so before, but now that I think about it, what this great magician did is indeed strange.

Buying the alchemical carriage manufactured in the Perrin Mine and giving it to them to deliver goods, isn't this just a waste of time and a loss of a lot of money and magic materials?

"Let's send those miners out first." Yun Guang couldn't figure out the current clues, so he stood up from the tree and patted his back. "Let them go back first, and then we will slowly look for the miner."

As long as people have indeed entered Alterac, we will definitely find traces of them. Once we find the miner, all the problems will be solved.

Bai Jinshu nodded and looked at Su Hao: "Aren't you going to go with them?"

"Yes, I'll go with Changfen and Xiaoying's shadow puppet," Su Hao also stood up from the ground and patted the grass residue on his pants. "After we go upstairs, we plan to check where the magic sand in the Perrin Mine is transported to, and then go to these places to check for any traces of the Great Mage."

This missing great magician now seems to have a very close connection with this world.

Everyone walked towards the direction of the miners. More than seventy miners had already followed Enoch's creditors and stood by the lake.

"We thought that since we were near the lake when we came in," the spellcaster explained, "it would be easier to get out from here."

The entrance to the illusion should be in the middle of the lake. The closer to the entrance, the easier it would be to undo the spell.

"No need," Bai Jinshu shook his head, squatted down and placed his hands on the lake water, "It's the same everywhere."

But it is indeed more convenient by the water than on the grass.

Following the contact between his fingers and the water surface, golden lines extended forward, and then when they extended to a certain point, there was a dull crisp sound.

The lake in front of me suddenly receded and turned into a forest in Alterac.

"Trees!" one of the miners blurted out. "The trees have turned into monsters!"

The trees in the grass were normal trees one second ago, but the next second when the lake water broke, they turned into strange monsters with wings flying in the air.

"You are the monster!" Seeing the illusion shattered, the fairies chirped back, "It's a fairy! Fairy!"

Miner: "The monster is talking!"

"I already said it was a goblin!"

"You turned into the forest in the illusion?" Enoch immediately understood why the miner said that the goblins were transformed from trees.

"Yes," the goblin sitting on his shoulder swung his legs and propped his arms on Enoch's head, acting arrogantly and leisurely, "They must have turned into trees to play pranks."

These miners lived in a fantasy forest and had no idea that the trees around them were transformed from fairies. They thought they had accidentally entered some strange forest.

The goblins' illusion was exposed, and before Bai Jinshu and the miners could do anything, they started quarreling among themselves:

"Don't correct me! Didn't you notice that the illusion was broken?"

——"I found out, it was obviously you who didn't find out."

"Now that the humans have run away, there's no fun anymore..."

——"Hey, I remember that an apprentice will come to pick up magic materials in a few days."

"Apprentice! I'm going this time!"

——"Go away, it's my turn now."

"It's my turn. You made that apprentice cry last time. It's my turn this time!"

What a poor apprentice...

"An apprentice is here to get magic materials?" The goblin on Enoch's shoulder's eyes lit up, "I want to..."

Before it finished speaking, it suddenly realized that one of its wings had been burned off, and sat back down with a sullen look: "When will my wings grow back?"

Enoch shook his head and shook his hand away: "Maybe more than half a year."

"More than half a year—" The fairy closed his eyes in despair, "This is too much!"

Everyone here gets along harmoniously. The miners who were brought out were already frightened by this group of goblins and dared not move. They could only rely on instinct to move towards the spell wizard and Delmis.

Then, frightened by the other half of Delmis's skeleton that didn't look like a human, he jumped and ran towards the spellcaster and Enoch's creditor.

As the goblins continued to argue, the topic returned to their group.

"There are mages among these people coming in. Could they be apprentices who are here to get materials?"

"That wizard who doesn't look like a human is obviously not a good person."

"You're so loud he's going to hear you!"

"Then I should keep my voice down. Where did these people come from? From that cave too?"

"From the Perrin Mine," Bai Jinshu crossed his arms, watching the illusion almost fade away, and motioned for Lu Changfeng and the others to take the miners away first. He turned to the quarreling goblins and said, "Did you see a human who strayed in alone a few days ago?"

"A human who strayed in?" The fairies stopped arguing, "Aren't there all humans who strayed in here?"

The illusion is full of humans.

"It was a few days ago..." Yun Guang tilted his head to confirm, "Six days ago, six days ago, a human accidentally walked in here, a male, about 40 years old, with red hair, wearing clothes similar to these people. Have you seen him?"

The goblins gathered together and whispered a few words.

“I don’t know—” They flew to Yun Guang and looked him over. “Are you apprentices here to get materials?”

"No," Yun Guang was not angry even though he was surrounded by a group of goblins, and his voice was gentle, "We are here to look for these humans who strayed in."

"You guys also came out of that big hole?"

"Perrin Mine? Yes," Yun Guang nodded, "Do you remember the first person who came out of there?"

"The first one? I don't remember." The goblins muttered.

"If you take those humans away, who will play with us?"

"Why don't you stay with us?"

"But you can only stay for a few days," a light gray goblin whispered, "Other races cannot live in Alterac permanently."

"Let's go!"

The goblins were talking to themselves, and just when Yun Guang was about to open his mouth to refuse, suddenly, there was a "pop".

The goblin who had just finished speaking screamed, "Wings!"

Suddenly, a small flame ignited on its wings.

Although the fire was put out quickly, the flame still burned the tip of its wings, which made it feel so distressed that it suddenly forgot that it had to play with this human just now.

Before the surrounding fairies could laugh at it, they found that their wings were also burnt, and screams rose and fell everywhere.

Enoch heard the goblin on his shoulder laugh a few times with gloating.

Guan Hongyan seized the opportunity and together with Xu Zichen pulled Yun Guang out.

"You didn't know what happened just now," she whispered as she leaned close to Yun Guang, "You were surrounded by a group of fairies and were about to move forward. If Delmis hadn't acted quickly, you would have followed them and walked away."

"Go away..." Yun Guang was in a daze for a moment, "What did I just do?"

Wasn't he just standing there and talking to the goblins?

"You didn't feel anything?" Xu Zichen was puzzled. "We just watched you and the goblin leave."

Yun Guang was silent for a moment: "...I feel like I am standing there and talking to them."

"Fairy magic," Delmis' voice was cold, "The fairy has taken a fancy to you."

“Why do you like me…” Yun Guang was at a loss.

"You are so deceitful," Dermis' voice made everyone speechless, "Fairies love people like you who are so deceitful the most."

Yun Guang thought he was standing still, but in fact he had been bewitched by the goblins' magic and followed them into the depths of Alterac. Xu Zichen wanted to reach out and grab them from the beginning, but he didn't know whether it was because of the illusion or the goblins' magic, he actually grabbed nothing.

It was not until Bai Jinshu reached out and burned the fairy's wings that the two of them pulled Yun Guang back.

Goblins are creatures whose minds are filled with mischief and fun, and they are simply incapable of speaking properly.

"You believe whatever they say?" Bai Jinshu glanced at the surprised Yun Guang, and unceremoniously picked out a goblin with red wings from a pile of goblins, "Where is the first human who came out of this cave? Take us there."

The red-winged goblin shrank back, "I don't know."

Her wings were now pinched together by the opponent's two finger bones. She couldn't move and could only struggle in the air: "All humans are here! We haven't seen the person you are looking for!"

"You don't have other humans hiding in Alterac?" Bai Jinshu asked doubtfully.

"No!" The red-winged fairy said firmly, "Other species cannot live in the fairy territory for a long time! Besides, humans are not fun, why hide them!"

This group of goblins didn't behave like this when they surrounded Yun Guang just now.

Bai Jinshu shook the goblin and said in a rude tone: "Tell the truth. Otherwise, I will tear your wings off."

Red Winged Fairy:!

It cursed Alterac for a long time, trying to pass on the blame: "Anyway, I didn't hide any humans! I don't know if other goblins have hidden any, just ask them one by one!"

The fairies behind him who were imprisoned by Bai Jinshu were holding their wings and screaming or crying.

It seems that these goblins really don't know where the miner has gone.

Bai Jinshu threw the red-winged fairy away and looked towards the depths of Alterac.

"Is it possible that humans are hiding in the fairy kingdom?" White Moth asked tentatively, "Maybe the miner hid himself and was not discovered?"

"It's unlikely," Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly. "There are only fairies in the fairy kingdom. Humans are too different in size from them. Unless you never appear in front of fairies, it's impossible to hide."

There is no night in Alterac, it is always daytime, and there are always goblins outside. If someone hides in there, it is impossible for them to never come out.

It is impossible to tell how he got out of the cave, avoided the sight of all the goblins, and then found a place to hide.

but……

But isn’t there a ready-made impossible right next to him?

Bai Jinshu's eyes swept across and fell on Enoch.

"You must have stolen the thing from here," he said calmly. "How long did you hide in Otterlanklee? Where did you hide it?"

"Ah?" Enoch shuddered and started to play dumb, "What do you mean by stolen? I've never been to Alterac."

"Oh," a bone hand waved in front of him, "then just follow us."

"Happy 523rd anniversary to the teacher and his wife," Hector covered his mouth in surprise, "How did you become like this all of a sudden?"

Enoch:!

Wouldn't Dermis wipe off all the disguise on his face?

"Let's go," Bai Jinshu said in a relaxed tone, as if he could not sense the shock in Enoch's heart. "Since we don't know where this miner is hiding, I can only lead you through Alterac step by step."

"No, no, no!" Enoch said quickly, "I'll tell you, but don't let the goblin recognize me!"

"Haven't you been here before?" Bai Jinshu crossed his arms.

"Come here, come here," Enoch quickly took out the fan in his hand to cover his face, and spoke in a very low voice, "This is not... This is not because you stole the goblins' things and dare not appear in front of them."

"Then how dare you come in with us..." White Moth complained.

"If I didn't come in with you, you would have killed me too!" Enoch said in a sad and angry tone, "Besides, I had no idea that this place leads directly to Alterac before I went down the mine!"

If he knew, he would never come down.

After coming down, he arrived at the entrance of the mine. The atmosphere was very tense. A few minutes ago, Delmis summoned something like a tornado, which knocked all the goblins down there. How could he dare to speak?

It's a pain to stick your head out, and it's also a pain to hide your head. It's better to delay death and live longer.

"So the thing in your hand was stolen from the fairy?" Guan Hongyan blinked.

"It can't be considered stealing..." Enoch hesitated, "Originally, they were going to give this thing to someone else."

"To whom?" Xu Zichen asked.

"A dwarf craftsman," Enoch said timidly, "I was still an adventurer at the time, and I accepted a commission to help the craftsman get his reward back. I didn't expect that the reward was an alchemical item made by a goblin."

"It's the dwarf in your shop?" Guan Hongyan was a little skeptical. "If that's all, why are you so guilty?"

Enoch was just a middleman. If the goblins wanted to seek revenge, they should go after the dwarf craftsman. What did it have to do with him?

And this thing belonged to the dwarf craftsman, how come it is in his hands now?

"I went to the nearest adventurer's guild to hand in the quest after I left here, and then I learned that the dwarf was dead," Enoch said in a whisper. "At the same time, the goblin defense war in Besai City also broke out."

The goblins started a war just because of a sword in the city lord's inventory. Enoch was so scared that he didn't dare to return the alchemical item, but he couldn't just throw it away. Besides, many goblins had seen him when he stole the item.

"So..." Yun Guang looked at him.

"So..." Enoch cleared his throat, "Well, I borrowed some money from a friend, and then hid in Besai City after the defense battle was over."

The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place. As we all know, there is a fairy sword in the inventory of the Lord of Besser City, so the aura of another fairy item here can easily be ignored.

"Why don't you just hide inside? Why do you need to borrow money?" Xu Zichen was puzzled.

She has creditors all over the world, and now she has no choice but to insist that she is Hector's sister who is hiding from her creditors.

"That's not...that's not it," Enoch looked away, "I thought that with this thing, I would never have to leave the city again, so I might as well open an alchemy shop in the city, and I just need some start-up capital."

Everyone: …

This is a wicked thing.

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