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"I didn't expect that there are still people who understand the etiquette of the Magic Empire period." Old Will nodded to Jack and said with a smile: "It seems that your family should be an ancient family with a lot of ties to the empire."

"My ancestors used to be the 'followers' of a high-level wizard's family during the Magic Empire! He has been taking care of the cherished plants from all over the multiverse for that great wizard." Jack's expression was a little complacent, "Actually strict Speaking of which, my ancestors are no different from the Griffin's royal family, the Augsger family."

"Followers"? Oh, just a gardener. For Jack's boasting, Barrett couldn't help sneering in his heart. But he didn't really sound sarcastic, because Jack's statement wasn't wrong either.

The royal family of the Griffin Empire, the Augsger family, also claims to be the "followers" of a certain wizard during the Magic Empire period, but anyone who knows history knows that this "Griffin family" that established a huge dynasty, In fact, it was originally to take care of various monsters for a certain high-level mage.

In the initial period when the Millennium Empire collapsed, most ordinary people on the road did not know about it. After all, mages and ordinary people belonged to two different worlds, and the intersection with each other was very rare.

But as time went by, when the local people habitually looked up at the sky, they found that the thirty-six floating cities in the sky all over the continent disappeared one by one. While this made people terrified, it also caused a lot of suffocating evil aliens to think differently, and finally led to the outbreak of the Chaos Era.

Human civil wars, orc invasions, all kinds of alien counterattacks, and various forces in the multiverse all began to hunt down mages. For a time, gunpowder smoke filled the continent. Until the Magic Association, as the eldest son of the empire, grew up in the "corpse" of the empire and stabilized the situation again.

And the Augsger family rose in one fell swoop by relying on its own "advantage" during the era of chaos. Although without the shackles of the mages, many powerful monsters have returned to the wild and can no longer be domesticated by ordinary people, but the griffin has always been synonymous with "loyalty".

"But my ancestors didn't have the ambitions of the Augsger family." The handsome Jack said brightly, as if Old Will was their family's bosom friend, "They have always been loyal to their duties and took care of the mage's 'property'. Listen to My grandfather said, our family is very good at growing 'killer vine', very good!" He repeated, "You know, that's a very dangerous plant. If, I mean, if my grandparents wanted to be in the Age of Chaos, too. If the period is mixed, maybe there will be nothing to do with the Augsger family now!"

Without the Griffin Empire, the Killer Vine Kingdom has risen? The royal knights are all riding on a soft killer vine? Barrett imagined that kind of picture in his mind, and could not help but thank the ancestors of Jack for keeping himself safe.

Old Will smiled and didn't answer. Instead, he glanced at Barrett and motioned him to deal with this guy who was a little over-enthusiastic in front of the mage.

Barrett coughed, interrupting Jack Nosed's chatter, and said to the latter, "A few people in your party." I mean most of them, "seems not to have much adventure experience. Not at all," It doesn't look like they feel very reliable." No, not reliable at all, I'd rather fight alone than give my back to those.

"They are indeed 'tender'. You know I'm not referring to age, because Dylan is sixty-three this year, haha!" Jack made a joke that wasn't funny, and he laughed first.

sixty-three? Very young indeed for someone, thought Barrett.

"Of course, he could also be called Di Rui, or Duren, who knows, it's not important anyway. But I prefer to call him 'Old Man'. This nickname is not very distinctive, but it suits this person very well." Putting one hand on his stomach, he habitually pressed the nails on the leather armor, "But Elton is really 'tender', the little boy at the front of the team. I guess he is only about 12 years old, But he himself said he was 17. 17? Ha, have you ever seen a 17-year-old boy with no hair on his underside? When I was 17, the underside was already as lush as reeds in a swamp." He looked proud.

"You shouldn't bring these people into the foggy forest, they don't belong here." Barrett frowned. Although he used to recruit team members in the slums, he only recruited mature men. And Barrett will teach them many skills and precautions when they are adventurous to increase their chances of survival, but the effect is not very good...

For adventurers in the foggy forest, as long as they can survive, they can earn gold coins after all, because the forest never spares its gifts, but sometimes you can't bear it.

"They really don't belong here." Jack nodded, "but where else do they belong? Instead of lying in the slum and waiting to die, it's better to come out and fight. 'The sieve' is the guy over there who has been shaking all the time. ..." He turned back and pointed behind him, but his words suddenly paused, "Okay, now we have 7 'sieves'."

Jack shrugged his shoulders, then turned to look at Barrett, "Do you know the fire in Galano a few years ago?"

Barrett spends little time in Galano during the seasons other than winter. But he did know about the fire, because the fire was very famous. Although it started and ended quickly, it caused great losses.

The population in the slum is quite dense, and various tents, wooden houses and other buildings are built very closely, and it is easy to cause a fire if one is not careful.

The fire a few years ago spread very fast, and it spread in a blink of an eye, burning hundreds of people. However, as the largest commercial city in the western part of the kingdom, Galano is home to a branch of the Magic Association. In the Mage Tower in the center of the city, there are always Mage on duty.

Barrett heard that the mages from the Magic Branch at that time quickly arrived at the scene and used an enlarged version of the "cumulonimbus cloud" and a reduced damage version of the "frost fog". The combination of the two spells instantly destroyed the fire. put out.

But the disaster didn't go away. Immediately after the fire, the abnormally low temperature followed. The sudden drop in summer temperature made people even more unprepared, not to mention the residual magic that never disappeared.

Although the powerful mage has weakened the damage of magic, it is still unbearable for ordinary people. Nearly 700 people were injured by the low-temperature frostbite that followed, leaving behind various incurable sequelae.

"'Sifter' Johnny was lucky to survive that fire, but the cold from magic stayed in his bones. He needs to take a boiling water bath once a week, my God, does that make sense? Even No nobles are so hygienic!" Jack scratched his messy hair and continued, "If he didn't wash it in time, he would twitch all over and wriggle on the ground like a skinned snake. More The most important thing is that he even put garlic and black pepper in the boiling water. Ha, I don't even know if it was a doctor or a cook who treated him."

"Then why did he come to the Misty Forest?" Barrett was a little puzzled, "It's even colder here!"

"Don't worry, Johnny is shrouded in the cold all the time, and this **** forest can't steal more temperature from him." Jack replied, "The main thing is, you know, the black The price of pepper is expensive…”

Barrett frowned, and the handsome Jack talked a lot, which made him feel a little confused. He was pretty sure that Jack was speaking for some purpose, but what that purpose was, he couldn't guess at the moment.

"In any case, it's hard for most of them to get out of here alive." Barrett looked at the new adventurers not far away, "At least you should teach them how to use weapons."

The minimum requirement for using weapons - don't accidentally injure your companions, at least this should be learned, Barrett thought.

"Those who survive can learn everything, and those who die don't need to bother to teach." Jack was noncommittal.

Barrett doesn't want to say anything more about this, every adventurer has his own style of behavior, and he won't feel injustice because of the irresponsible behavior of handsome Jack to the newcomer.

Dying can sometimes be a relief. Maybe the man named Sieve is a good fit for that, thought Barrett.

"If nothing else, I think we should be separated," he said to Jack. "Good luck to you." You need this, very much.

"Wait a minute." Jack rubbed his hands and laughed.

Barrett looked at Jack, waiting for his next words. I knew he had a purpose, and the barbarian was sure in his heart.

Jack faced Barrett, but his eyes looked at Old Will, "There is a proverb widely circulated among adventurers, 'A lone wolf dies, a pack wolves live'! In any case, the number of people is always better. There is an advantage. This, let us join your team." He said with a smile on his face.

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