The heavy snowstorm was still falling. Although the roads were not completely blocked, there was no place to walk.
Ash studied outside for a long time before returning with his equipment...
"tutor."
Ignia and Warren stood up at the same time and said.
"It's okay, you guys sit down. I went out to check the situation outside. The snow is still very deep and we may not be able to move forward. Let's send a signal later to let the other knights know our location."
"Yes," Warren said.
The three were sent to the north to carry out missions as wizards of Elinta. During the war, many wizards of Elinta in the north died in battle. Even if they were not killed, most of the beasts were disabled or seriously injured. The only ones who survived were almost all from the southern organizations.
Originally, Ash's status in the Bashalan Empire wasn't high, but his profound knowledge and his reputation as a top student from a young age gradually earned him a reputation among the wizards. Sometimes, even if his rank and abilities weren't as high, he still held a position among the high-ranking wizards...
No wizard in the team would refuse a talented person.
This is especially true in areas that you are not good at!
"Warren, go outside and pick up some firewood. We will rest here tonight. If there is nothing else, everyone can go to sleep. I just checked and there is no one around!" Ash said.
"Okay, mentor."
After the wizard left, only Ash and Ignia were left in the room...
In the past two years, Igonia seems to have become less talkative, but she is more serious about her work than before.
If she was a lawless witch in Koga City more than four years ago, she has now begun to become more and more like a wizard.
We are about the same age, I guess.
She was only fifteen or sixteen years old at that time, but now she is almost twenty years old, and even her appearance has changed a lot.
It is said that in recent years, she has learned a lot from several high-level wizards in the Wizard Tower in the imperial capital, and most of the time she is alone in the Wizard Guild studying various books. Many people in the imperial capital have begun to say that Igonia is becoming more and more like themselves.
And it is true...
Ash's most ideal successor originally was Warren, but in just two years, Ignia relied on her hard work and talent to push her level close to Level 9 of the Orderer, and was about to break through Level 10, a level that even Warren had not reached.
Coupled with her current knowledge of various magic and wizard stories, she has already been initially called a wizard scholar!
"Nia..."
"What's wrong, mentor?"
Igunya turned her head. Although her face was still that of a young girl, there was a special determination in her eyes.
"Do you know why we are here?" Ash suddenly asked.
"Aren't we investigating the appearance of strangers nearby?" Ignia answered as a matter of course.
"That's just a lie to the outside world. How could anyone possibly live in an uninhabited area? Because of the war, even the crops in the nearby farmlands have been destroyed. If there are people living there, what would they eat?"
Ash's words suddenly brought Ignia to realization.
Today, the northern part of the Basaran Empire is no longer as prosperous as it used to be.
Many nobles died in the war in the north, and some of them died for various reasons later in life. Now most of the land has been given to the nobles to manage, and many of them are abandoned.
The places with people are mostly concentrated around big cities. If you go a little further, you will find no-man’s land…
In two years, it is impossible for anyone to exist in the uninhabited area, and there are probably very few animals.
Moreover, for ordinary civilians, living alone without a community means danger, and they would not do such a stupid thing.
"Teacher, do you mean that the people here are not human?" Igunya, who had been silent since just now, suddenly became serious at this time.
"It's just a possibility, because I don't think there are still people living in this area... Anyway, let's be careful and wait until dusk to send a message to let the surrounding knights or wizards know we're here, so they can take care of us."
Igonia nodded.
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Because the snow was too heavy to walk, Master Aixiu and his two disciples had no choice but to rest in this abandoned house.
This was probably the house of a wealthy person in the town in the past. When the war came, many of the furniture could not be moved away. There were still many leftover utensils, intact furniture, and food that had turned into charcoal slag in the house.
The potted plants in the room are long gone.
It was already dark when the three of them had eaten a little.
Like all deep winter nights, the cold wind blew the door loudly, and it felt like the wind was about to break the door down at any second. The sound was even louder outside the house.
When I had nothing to do at night, Igonia would go to the attic room alone to quiet down...
The attic is too messy to be lived in, but it seems quiet because it is empty.
She stood alone by the window, letting the wind and snow fly by, but the moment they got close to her, they all melted away.
It's winter again. I spent the winter before last in his town. That place is similar to here. It is also terribly quiet at night, but the room is warm, very warm.
Even the layout is similar to here...
Come to think of it, this couldn't be the original baron's home in this village.
Igonia laughed again as she thought about it.
I heard that the desert is very hot and there is no winter like this. I wonder what it is like over there!
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