I became the master of the alien world

Chapter 531 A new journey (12)

That night, Edward and the three of them followed the old man to the village where the accident occurred.

The village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, located at the foot of a high mountain. From the outside, it seems to be no different from an ordinary village.

But what is a bit strange is that although the mountain next to the village is not high, it always looks strangely shrouded in clouds and mist.

However, after looking at it, Ellie explained that because there are other high mountains around the village, the nearby water vapor condenses there, so a little fog is normal.

The old man turned out to be the village chief. After hearing from the mercenary union that Edward was the only S-class mercenary in the mercenary kingdom, he seemed very excited.

There were constant compliments along the way, for fear that Edward would leave if he wasn't happy.

Soon, several people entered the village and took a short rest at the village chief's home.

"Okay, old man.

Let’s talk about what’s unusual about this.

I know that that guy must be hiding something, and I feel that this matter is not as simple as he said." After resting for a while at the village chief's house, Edward asked.

"This..." the village chief hesitated for a while, and then said in a somewhat uneasy tone, "Actually, there is basically nothing wrong with this matter.

Just, just..."

"Just what?" Seeing the village chief's hesitant look, Ellie couldn't help but interjected.

"Actually, I do feel something strange about this matter, but it's hard to explain." The village chief said and rubbed his hands, looking very uncomfortable.

"Let's talk about it, maybe we can solve this problem with those things." Seeing the village chief's look, Ellie probably guessed that he must know some weird clues, and he acted like this because he was unsure.

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"Well, then I'll say it.

But those things are all my own thoughts, so you can just listen to them.

Don't take it seriously." The village chief seemed to be moved by Ellie's words, nodded and said, "Actually, during this period, for some reason, the village will be particularly quiet after dark every day.

Dogs that usually bark all night have become very quiet.

Every night, people in the village sleep soundly and don't wake up until the next morning."

"This isn't really a clue," Edward said with a wry smile when the village chief said that.

The village chief immediately shook his head and said with a serious face: "No, don't say that.

You may not know that my wife is not in good health and often couldn't sleep at night.

I usually have to rely on some medicine given by the doctor in the city to sleep.

But something happened in the past few days. My wife didn’t need to take medicine at all and still slept well."

"Well, maybe your wife is in good health." Edward also interrupted at this time.

"At first I thought the same thing as you.

But that's not actually the case at all.

Because just a few days ago, my wife and I went to the city to seek help from your mercenary union. Because we left a little late, we could only rest in the city for one night before going back.

But who knows, my wife couldn't sleep that day.

But when I came back here the next day, I immediately fell asleep peacefully at night.

Do you think this is strange?"

After listening to the village chief's words this time, Edward and the other three fell silent.

After a long time, Edward raised his head and said: "I understand, so no matter what, my companion and I will stay here tonight to see if there is anything wrong.

If there is really someone behind the scenes, I will never let him go."

"Then please." After seeing that Edward and the others had made up their mind to help, the village chief seemed to finally show a relieved expression.

"You shouldn't have agreed to it.

We don't have time to take care of these things now." After walking out of the village chief's house, Rosamiya, who had been silent, suddenly said.

"Why? Are you willing to die without saving anything? If I'm not wrong, there is definitely someone behind this incident." Edward stopped when he heard this, but he didn't look back, he just turned his back to Rosamiya.

asked.

"But you should know that if Lucifer gets the Dark Crystal, there will be more, no, the whole world will definitely be destroyed.

Can't you tell your priorities?" Rosamiya's words already took on an accusatory tone, so frightened that Ellie on the side didn't even dare to speak up to explain to Edward.

"I understand what you mean, Miss Rosamiya.

But I have always believed that there is no distinction between high and low in life.

In this case, why can't I save them? Is it because I need to stop Lucifer from killing people and leave them alone?" When Edward said this, he suddenly turned around and asked with a serious face, "If I can't even see the person in front of me,

If I can't save it, how can I save the world? If I don't save it, is there any difference between what I do and what Lucifer will do?"

After hearing Edward's words, Rosamiya couldn't help being speechless for a while, and stood still and stared at him blankly.

Edward didn't say anything, he just walked towards the entrance of the village alone.

Night still came to this world on time as usual.

As the moon rose higher and higher in the night sky, the expressions of Edward and the three of them became more and more solemn.

According to the village chief, when the moon rises to its highest point, the whole village will become dead silent, and now there are only a few minutes left before the time he said.

At this moment, there were no lights in the village, and only a few dog barks occasionally came from the yard of a certain house. It seemed that there was nothing unusual. The three people looked at each other and seemed to feel that everything was too peaceful.

"The moon has risen to its highest point, but it seems that this village is still very peaceful." Edward stretched as he spoke, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the expressions of Ellie and Rosamiya changed at the same time.

And almost at the same time, all the living creatures in the entire village that could make sounds suddenly became silent.

The whole village seemed to have turned into a ghost town, as if no sound could be heard.

"What's going on? Could it be..." Edward was so excited that he immediately turned over and stood up.

"Sure enough, there are magic fluctuations, but they can be hidden so well.

I didn’t expect someone to be able to do this, even if the mercenary union here can’t detect it.” At this time, Ellie swallowed her saliva and said.

"Yes, the level of the spell caster is not low.

At the very least, he is also a high-level magician, and his strength is probably close to that of a great wizard.

And it is estimated that the opponent has very high-level magic items in his hands." Rosamiya looked at the dark night sky and said calmly.

"Hey, can you two tell me something that I can understand?" Edward looked at Ellie and Rosamiya behind him with their incomprehensible looks and was very depressed. Who knows nothing about magic?

Hearing Edward's words, Ellie immediately stuck out her tongue, and then explained: "It's like this, someone has spread magic similar to hypnosis here.

However, the technique is so clever that most people will be tricked without even noticing it.

Moreover, the range of his spells is very wide, not only covering the entire village, but even the entire area of ​​about a hundred miles around the village."

"That means that what happened in the village was indeed deliberately done by someone." Edward nodded coldly after listening to Ellie's explanation, and then drew out his Divine Mighty Sword, "Then we are going to have a good meeting with this person.

Master of magic."

At this moment, Rosamiya, who had been watching the situation in the village, suddenly discovered something.

She patted Edward, who was a little excited, and then pointed to the village.

Following the direction Rosamiya pointed, Edward and Ellie immediately saw a thin figure staggering out of a house.

Looking at the thin figure walking, Edward and Ellie felt a little numb.

As the thin figure gradually walked towards their direction, the three people finally saw his appearance clearly.

That figure was a little boy who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, but at this moment, the boy didn't look like a human being at all.

Not to mention the man's staggering walk, what made Edward and Ellie feel numb the most was that the boy could hardly bend his knees when walking. If it weren't for the blood on his face, the two of them would have almost regarded him as a zombie.

Processed.

At this time, the boy had walked less than a hundred meters away from the three people. Seeing this, Edward planned to rush forward and stop the boy first.

But as soon as he stood up, he was pushed down by Ellie beside him.

"Calm down Edward, don't go there.

You will only hurt him." Ellie said while looking at the boy worriedly, "The other party obviously used hypnotic magic to control the child's body.

If you stop him so coldly, you might damage that boy's soul."

"Then what should we do? Are we just going to watch him being kidnapped like that?" Edward is obviously the kind of person who wants to do something, and he doesn't seem to give up.

At this time, Rosamiya finally said: "Follow that boy.

As long as the caster's magic is interrupted, the boy will be fine.

And this person who was real a few days ago should be fine."

Now that he had a direction, Edward no longer thought about being as anxious as before.

The three people followed the boy closely under the dark field cast by Rosamiya.

After the boy left the village, he immediately started walking towards the hill on the edge of the village. After the three of them followed the boy for a long time, they suddenly found that the surroundings around them had become foggy.

And the boy also disappeared out of thin air in front of them not long after walking in the fog.

Seeing this situation, Rosamiya frowned. She raised her left hand and slightly gathered a ball of pale white light, then flicked it into the fog in front of her.

Soon, the ball of light also disappeared into the mist ahead.

"Sure enough, there is something wrong with the fog here." Seeing this, Rosamiya seemed to be relieved.

For people, only the unknown is truly scary.

Once you know the truth, everything will become natural.

"What's going on? Is the mist formed by magic?" After hearing what Rosamiya said, Ellie asked strangely.

"Almost.

But the fog here does occur naturally.

But the reason why they haven't dissipated is because someone did it deliberately." Rosamiya nodded and continued, "Someone set up a large barrier here, and it seems to protect something inside.

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That's why the surrounding fog never dissipates, because they are all forcibly blocked by the barrier and cannot get out."

"Is that barrier very strong?" Edward on the side became a little worried when he heard what Rosamiya said.

He is not afraid of breaking the barrier. In fact, there is no barrier that can absolutely exist in front of the Great Mage.

Not to mention, Rosamiya may have completely surpassed the Great Mage.

The only thing he was worried about was wasting too much time when breaking the barrier and being discovered by the people inside, which might cause them to be disadvantageous to the missing children.

"No, that barrier has almost no resistance.

In addition to ensuring that the fog does not dissipate, the rest is only an early warning function."

"That's right." Edward seemed to feel a little more relieved at this time, and then he thought for a moment and said, "Okay.

Let’s go back today.”

"Go back? Why? Aren't we here to save people? Are we just going back empty-handed?" Edward's words undoubtedly surprised Ellie. Just now, Edward, who had not understood anything and was planning to rush to save people, now

He actually proposed to go back when he knew his opponent.

This is simply so illogical.

Edward nodded to signal Ellie not to worry, and then slowly said: "This is the only way now.

There was definitely more than one child kidnapped.

If we rush in happily, we might be able to save a few children, but we might also be able to alert the enemy.

Now we don't have enough manpower, so we have to go back first.

Then find helpers so that you can be confident enough to save people."

"A very wise judgment.

You don't seem to be as reckless as before." Rosamiya nodded slightly at this time, with a look of approval on her face, "If it were two years ago, I guess you would have rushed in regardless of others.

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"Well, people are always growing, right?" After being directly exposed by Rosamiya, Edward also looked embarrassed.

After making up their mind, the three people immediately went down the mountain quietly and returned to the village.

At dawn the next day, they heard the cries coming from the home of the missing child.

Edward shook his head helplessly, and then went directly to the village chief.

Although it was inconvenient for him to say many things directly, after all, the strange barrier was too close to the village, and even an ordinary person could walk there and back in three or four hours.

So he just told the village chief that he already had a clue.

Now I hope he will send someone to the mercenary union in the city to find some helpers.

When it was over, Edward also wrote an explanatory letter and asked the village chief to send someone to take it with him.

Around afternoon, people sent by the mercenary union had already arrived at the village.

Edward looked at their badges and knew that several of them were C-level mercenaries, and the leader was a B-level mercenary.

(End of chapter)