Full-Time Wizard: Starting with Harvesting Wheat

"Well...sir, you're asking this..." The priest paused, his voice lowering, "Well, there is indeed such a child."

"Only one?" Roy looked up.

"Then...when did you disappear?"

"I remember, it's been seventeen years," the priest stated precisely.

Seventeen years...

If I remember correctly, the Dragon Tooth Steel Ingot appeared fifteen years ago.

The near-overlap of these two figures increased Roy's confidence in his hypothesis.

"Please give me some information about that child, and it would be best if you could tell me if she has any friends in town."

A deep voice came from under the helmet.

"Please, this is very important."

The priest was clearly aware of the seriousness of the matter; anything that could make a knight so anxious must be no small thing.

"Sir, I need to look for the records." The priest said that he had a bad memory, but he had investigated the case of the child's disappearance years ago and recorded the information he had obtained on papyrus.

The papyrus was in his temporary rest room in the church, and because it was so old, it took him a long time to find it.

Fortunately, the priest had used charcoal ink instead of a charcoal pencil, otherwise the writing would have faded long ago.

"That child's name is Teresa. She was very withdrawn when she was little and only got along well with one person."

As Roy listened to the priest's narration, he looked at the contents of the paper.

Apart from a short section of Teresa's movements before her disappearance, the rest of the records focus on her personality and social interactions.

Moreover, the details of that movement are unclear because few people pay attention to the child.

"She is an orphan." On the papyrus, the relatives section reads "orphan."

If she were an orphan, kidnapping her would be an easy thing to do.

"She was very withdrawn, and few children played with her," the priest sighed. "To my shame, I didn't notice this at the time. I only found out later that she was basically always alone."

"There was only one child, and she was a friend of mine," the priest recalled.

"Now, that child should be working in the blacksmith's shop."

"I see, I understand now." Roy noted down the name of Teresa's friend, bowed solemnly, and said, "Thank you for your help."

The priest was flattered.

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"Uruk ivory... Two years before the appearance of dragon tooth steel ingots, a child went missing..." Roy's thoughts grew stronger. "And the appearance of those with bloodlines happened nearly twenty years ago, after Soraya came to the Blackwater Territory plane..."

"If I'm not mistaken, that child is a bloodline inheritor, a bloodline inheritor of the Uruk elephant. The hair growing on his body is a mutation of the bloodlines of the Lotl Lion and the Hound King Kong Ape, so could the tusks be a mutation of the bloodline inheritor of the Uruk elephant?"

He walked slowly down the road, head down in thought.

"In that case, there's a high probability that the child is still alive and has been forced into a state of alienation in order to utilize the tusks that have grown out of him."

Although this is just his speculation, he is already 80% confident.

"Next, we need to find her friend to verify our guess. The premise for the blacksmith shop to use ivory is that they witnessed the birth of ivory, and the premise for the birth of ivory is the use of bloodline abilities."

"Therefore, there is a high probability that Teresa used her bloodline ability in public, and the person who saw it was most likely her friend."

"Eloy..." he murmured the name, recalling his conversation with the priest earlier.

"Eloi's family didn't own any land. They could only work as hired laborers for the rich, receiving a portion of the farming profits, so his family was very poor," the priest said. "But that was the situation for most families twenty years ago. Only a very few people could afford to eat their fill and stay warm. Well... one of the professions that allowed them to live comfortably was probably blacksmithing."

"Back then, Gray's blacksmith shop rarely took on apprentices, and among those who were sent to learn, only a small number of those who were quite talented were able to stay at Gray's blacksmith shop."

This is a little different from Old John's blacksmith shop.

Old John was often tolerant of apprentices who weren't particularly talented. As long as their skills wouldn't cause trouble in the blacksmith's shop, he would do his best to keep them. This earned him the respect of many.

But this doesn't mean that Gray was less kind-hearted than old John. Who knows what the situation was like twenty years ago? Perhaps the dire circumstances at the time simply wouldn't have allowed him to do this?

The priest continued, "There's something quite interesting that happened back then."

"I don't know why, but Aloy entered Gray's blacksmith shop as an apprentice. His family certainly didn't have the money to pay the tuition, so everyone said that it was Gray—who is now Gray's father—who saw Aloy's talent for forging and made an exception to take him on as an apprentice."

"Has that Eloi become a famous blacksmith?" Roy asked.

After more than ten years, if someone is talented, they can probably graduate from their apprenticeship and open their own shop.

The priest shook his head: "It turns out that Aloy doesn't actually have much talent. Even now, more than ten years later, he is still far from being a master craftsman."

A master craftsman is someone like Old John or Gray, the head of a blacksmith shop, who can make ironware for lords and formal knights.

As for Eloi, he can currently only create equipment suitable for knights and squires. It is unknown whether he will ever reach the level of a master craftsman in his lifetime.

In conclusion, it is impossible that he was invited to become an apprentice by Gray at that time because of his talent.

In that case, things become quite intriguing.

Roy had reason to suspect that Eloise had betrayed Teresa in exchange for this opportunity.

Afterwards, Eloi was tied up in the blacksmith's shop.

If the speculation is true, he will definitely not get any results by asking Aloy directly. Instead, it will arouse the vigilance of Gray and the others. It would be better to find someone Aloy knows and arrange to meet him.

Roy had no idea where to find this person, so he could only go to the tavern to inquire about information first, since the tavern was the center of information exchange in the town.

Whether intentional or unintentional, information, whether true or false, will always leak out of the tavern.

Unfortunately, when Roy sat down in the tavern and wanted to talk to someone, everyone else avoided him like the plague.

He immediately realized that it was his armor and his identity as a knight that had aroused the vigilance and fear of others.

Especially since he never takes off his helmet to reveal his true face, the people of Dragon Tooth Town are already speculating about how terrifying his face must be under the helmet—perhaps charred by fire, or even sliced ​​off by a sharp sword.

However, he couldn't very well take off his helmet.

The child's innocent face is probably more shocking than horror.

Fortunately, the bar owner was still standing at the bar, and he was able to strike up a conversation with him.