"Stop! Stop it Richard, I am also a teacher of the Ignis School."

Seeing this situation, Raymond anxiously waved the seal ring in his hand and signaled to Richard who was still hiding in the forest.

"I was just passing by here, and I saw a big fire suddenly burning here from the sky, so I came to take a look."

Although Richard was a veteran, it was the first time he met such a shameless guy like Raymond.

Richard was completely dumbfounded to hear such words.

"What kind of bullshit is this! I don't think even you would believe it!"

Richard didn't even have the desire to talk to this kind of person. It was a pure waste of time.

In response to Raymond, Richard launched a series of mental shocks and death rays!

"Boo!"

The continuous long-range witchcraft attacks immediately made Raymond panic. The protective witchcraft he cast was constantly broken by Richard's rapid attacks.

Looking at the two undead summons that were about to rush over, Raymond said with horror:

"Richard, believe me! It wasn't my people who wanted to kill you just now. It was Gildarts! Gildarts from the Ring of Noth!"

It seems that no matter which world it is, most people would rather die than let their fellow Taoists die.

Raymond, anxious, sold Gildarts immediately.

But unfortunately, although Richard heard it, he still had no intention of stopping.

“Crash!”

Raymond was unable to dodge and a thick black chain was wrapped around his ankle, causing his movements to slow down instantly.

“Puff!”

A black beam shot out from the woods and pierced Raymond's heart.

“Puff!”

At this moment, Raymond, who was lying on the ground, had lost focus in his eyes, but he was still mumbling:

"It's really not the assassin I contacted."

Seeing that the other party had been killed by him, Richard slowly walked out of the forest.

Coming to the dead Raymond, Richard began to search through the folders.

"There's no tracking mark or anything like that? Well, the other party is already a high-level wizard of the first level, so there's no point in setting up a tracking mark."

When he was on the surface before, the second and third level wizard apprentices that Richard killed seemed to be mostly "seed players" with the potential to be promoted to wizards, so they were tracked by major forces, families or mentors.

But when the target he killed reached the level of a first-level high-level wizard, there was no tracking mark at all.

It seems that if one is still killed at this level, even the family or academy behind it will find it difficult to take revenge. At the same time, formal wizards generally have ways to eliminate tracking marks.

This saved Richard a lot of trouble!

Richard took out an ancient parchment scroll, several bottles of potions, a bag of magic stones, a letter and a palm-sized bone plate from the other party's waist bag.

Richard first opened the bag of magic stones, and saw that there were ten high-level magic stones, more than thirty intermediate magic stones, and hundreds of ordinary magic stones.

"Hey! There are so many magic stones. It seems that this guy is not a simple person."

He sorted the magic stones into different categories and put them in his bag. Together with the proceeds from killing the assassin of the Hand of Death, Richard's harvest of magic stones alone on this trip was quite considerable.

After sorting out the magic stone, Richard picked up the letter.

The letter had been opened. Richard took it out and looked at it, his face slightly grim. This letter was written by his old acquaintance Gildas to a man named Raymond Soto.

Obviously, the body under his feet was most likely Raymond Soto.

Although Richard didn't know this Raymond, his last name was Soto, which immediately reminded Richard of something.

"The Soto family"

Gildas wrote two things in the letter: one was that he was dissatisfied with the Soto family for not daring to take direct action against him, and the other was that he asked Raymond to track his whereabouts.

Seeing this, Richard began to believe what Raymond had just said. The assassin of the Hand of Death was probably not sent by him, but was done by Gildarts.

But "it's a pity that I found out too late. Otherwise, if I captured him alive and returned to the Ignis School, I could blackmail the Soto family for some money."

"If the other party doesn't agree, I can choose to expose this matter. In that case, the Soto family will be accused of betraying me and colluding with the Ring of North to murder my school's new genius wizard."

After thinking for a while, Richard carefully put away the letter and turned his attention to the dominoes.

The bonnet was white in color. When Richard held it, he felt the warm touch of jade. However, after careful examination, he found that it was indeed made of the bones of some creature, not jade.

The light blue lines on the surface of the dominoes clearly outline a bird's head, and at the same time, the lines flicker with a faint light.

Looking at the shape of the bird's head, Richard immediately thought of the flying mount that Raymond had just ridden.

Similar in appearance and very lifelike.

Richard's expression changed slightly, and after a little thought, he realized that this should be the domino used to control the flying mount.

He had heard that for some ferocious mounts, wizards would try every means to prevent the mounts from rioting or getting out of control, so they would make special witchcraft props or magical tools and engrave special magic arrays on them to control the mounts.

Most land mounts and general flying mounts do not require dominoes.

For example, Richard's giant nocturnal bat is an extraordinary evolution of an ordinary nocturnal bat, and its temperament is quite docile, so it only needs a few months of training by an experienced trainer before it can be ridden with confidence.

However, swamp dragons, hippogryphs, etc., these highly aggressive extraordinary birds of prey cannot be tamed in a short period of time.

Sure enough, after Richard fumbled around for a while, he figured out how to control it.

As he sank a strand of mental power into the dominoes, bursts of bird calls soon rang out in the sky.

The big bird that originally belonged to Raymond, at this moment, flapped its wings and slowly landed beside Richard.

I saw a big bird standing on the ground, almost a head shorter than Richard, with dense feathers of blue and green interwoven on its body, which was quite gorgeous.

The bird's head is shaped like an eagle, but there is a circle of independent, palm-sized feathers behind its head, like a peacock spreading its tail.

There is also a branded pattern on the bird's chest, which is exactly the same as the one on the dominoes.

"It appears to be a hippogryph."

After carefully observing the appearance of the big bird, Richard quickly recognized its name and origin, and couldn't help but smile with joy.

When flying, an adult hippogryph will constantly use an innate magic - cyclone magic, which can spontaneously separate the high-speed surging airflow to both sides. This makes it much more comfortable to ride than other flying mounts and greatly increases the flying speed.

Therefore, its flying speed is at least 30% faster than that of the giant nocturnal bat, and its combat power is much greater than that of the giant nocturnal bat.

Richard jumped directly onto the Hippogryph and circled around, his face overjoyed. The airflow spontaneously dispersed to both sides of the Hippogryph. No wonder it was more comfortable and faster when flying at high speed.

Obviously, if I use the horned hippogryph to travel, I will save a lot of time.

Controlling the Hippogryph to land again, Richard came to the giant nocturnal bat, took out the luggage, and placed it on both sides of the Hippogryph and secured it.

Richard has decided to give up on the giant nocturnal bat that Raymond had tampered with.

After securing the luggage, Richard quickly controlled the hippogryph and flew rapidly towards the Griffin City of Pandos.

After flying for several hours.

Richard found a hidden dense forest and landed.

As night falls, a light mist rises from the entire forest, which looks like a dream under the faint moonlight.

Richard built a bonfire, randomly inserted a few bent branches around it, and hung some processed game on the branches and started roasting it.

After finishing the meal, Richard took out the ancient parchment scroll.

After untying the ropes and spreading out the parchment, a map came into Richard's sight.

There is a big red cross in the center of the entire map.

The red dot is located halfway up a mountain, surrounded by continuous mountains and forests, and there is a river pattern below the forest.

This map without a beginning or an end immediately made Richard frown.

There are at least fifty places with this kind of terrain in the continent of Baisos, if not a hundred. And it is completely unknown what the red crosses mean.

"Raymond is so concerned about this map and always carries it with him. Obviously, the location marked by the red dot and cross on the map must have some important meaning to him."

"Could it be a family treasure? No, it shouldn't be."

After Richard thought for a moment, an idea suddenly occurred to his mind.

He remembered one thing. According to records, ancient wizards seemed to like to play some tricks to keep the maps confidential.

Could it be that this map is also the same? So Richard tried to use smoke, fire, moonlight, developer and other methods to test this old sheepskin roll one by one.

After using the developing agent, Richard discovered that a few small words suddenly appeared on one side of the forest. Looking carefully, he saw that they were small words marked in the Hutt language - Ivers Forest.

Next to the red cross, there were a few small words written in the Hutt language - the place where the dead live forever.

"Could this be the Iverson Forest at the border of the Vitrol Continental Business Alliance and the Death Prairie?!"

This immediately shocked Richard.

"And these six words 'The Land of Eternal Life of the Dead'? Such familiar words!"

Immediately, Richard walked quickly to the side of the horned eagle, took down the luggage and began to search.

Soon, Richard found another parchment scroll that he had obtained long ago.

Richard quickly opened the parchment scroll and saw a drawing of a series of towering mountains in the center of the parchment scroll. The top of the mountains were covered with snow. On one side of the mountain, four big words "Bering Mountains" were written in the Hutt language.

In the southwest of the Bering Mountains, on a mountain near the core area, there is a big cross. Next to the cross, there are also a few small words in the Hutt language - the place where the dead live forever.

Although they are both Hutt languages, the size of the characters will be slightly different when written by different people. However, Richard compared them carefully, especially the six words "Land of Eternal Life of the Dead" were found on both maps.

This makes Richard's comparison very convenient and intuitive.

After many comparisons, both the stroke habits and the size of the characters are extremely similar, and it can be basically concluded that they were created by the same person.

Add to that the two sensitive place names of Iverson Forest and Bering Mountains.

Richard was almost certain that the location marked here was the site related to Rodriguez.

At the same time, the newly acquired map can be regarded as a confirmation of the previously obtained Bering Mountains map, which should undoubtedly be the site of Rodriguez.

Richard couldn't help but feel excited.

"Meiro knows how to get to the Summer Sea Basileus Island, and I already have two maps of the Bering Mountains and the Ivers Forest."

"It seems that I have found all the three areas that Teacher Celes collected clues for last time!"

"However, Meiluo also made it very clear last time that the only captain who knows how to get to Basileus Island in the Summer Sea is currently being held by her uncle. It seems that I have to go there as soon as possible to avoid any more trouble."

"I have a horned eagle, which is better than Meiluo's land mount. Even if I go to the imperial capital, I should be able to arrive at Crab Claw Peninsula very close to her."

As for the imperial capital, Richard must go there.

Because apart from that person, there has been no news about Stephanie until now, which is also very abnormal.

Stephanie's renewed ambition?

No, even if she had ambitions and wanted to be free from her own constraints, she would not adopt this method of disappearing without a trace.

He had a vague feeling that something might have happened to Stephanie. ——Three days later.

Near the Griffin City of Pentos.

Richard rode on the horned hippogryph and flew all the way. After a while, a majestic mountain appeared in his vision in the distance.

The highest peak of the mountain range, a gray-white main peak, is like a sharp sword, reaching straight into the sky.

As Richard flew closer, he discovered that there were a large number of houses and buildings on the entire mountain.

Starting from the foot of the mountain and going all the way up, there are densely packed bungalows.

However, as the terrain becomes higher and higher, the style of the houses becomes more and more beautiful and elegant, but the overall color does not change, and most of the buildings are still gray and white.

Near the top of the mountain there is a protruding platform, which seems to be used for viewing the scenery or landing some large flying mount.

There are several large palaces with pointed roofs on the left, right and back of the platform.

Richard could see from afar a few small black dots hovering above the palace.

"I guess that's the characteristic of Griffin City - the griffin?"

"If I fly there directly, I will get a warm reception, but it will be too high-profile and will not be conducive to my investigation of Stephanie's situation."

Richard thought about it and decided to find a place to land first, and then walk into Pentos to find out the situation.

Because just now, Richard tried to contact Stephanie through the communication mark on his chest, but there was still no response. This was obviously wrong.

(End of this chapter)