I am the Enchantress!

Chapter 124 Tracking Down the Murderer

"Professor Hollen!"

Wilder waved to greet him.

Hollen looked over at the sound, and paused for a moment: "Wild, you're still here—"

Then he saw the live wolf next to Wilde, which was licking its cheek with its tongue from time to time.

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That kid.

Did you bring back a wild wolf in the middle of the night?

interesting.

He didn't say anything more, but waved in response, though his hand pressed down slightly as he withdrew it.

Wilder nodded knowingly, understanding that this meant he should stay and wait a while.

The purple-robed mage walking next to Hollen also glanced at Wilde.

His gaze lingered on the two staffs behind Wilder for a few seconds.

One was an ordinary oak stick, but the crystals on the top of the staff were rather unusual; they were probably crystals from the body of a kobold priest.

A misguided sorcerer of the Bewitching School?

The other one is rather special.

The white, densely textured base material makes it easy to identify what kind of wood it comes from.

The purple crystal at the tip of the staff was of indistinguishable material.

Made by local artisans?

However, these two staffs are clearly different from the staff of the mage who went missing a couple of days ago, the one from Danube City.

Let's look again —

He withdrew his gaze and walked with Hollen to the entrance of the association.

After a brief farewell, he left the association.

Hollen stared at his retreating figure for a while before turning back into the hall and glancing at Wilder, who was waiting there: "Kid, come with me."

Fina hadn't started work yet, so the task of making tea was handed over to Wilder.

Hollen took a sip of the hot, fragrant tea, his expression relaxing considerably: "I used more tea leaves than Fina, but less honey."

Silver leaf honey tea.

Wilder was brewing for the first time, so he naturally didn't understand the proportions and relied entirely on intuition to determine the amount of tea leaves and honey.

"I'll be more careful next time."

He scratched his head, took a sip himself, and thought it was alright.

"That wolf—"

Hollen glanced sideways at the wolf licking its paws behind Wilder. "You learned [Animal Conversation]?"

"Um."

Wilder nodded.

In fact, he was a linguist, and animal communication was just a very small branch of it.

"I learned that when I first became an adventurer."

Hollen recalled, "But at most you'd ask a docile animal for directions or something. How did you get this wolf to follow you?"

"I don't know either."

Wilder stated truthfully, "I used [Quick Friendship] to seduce it, but after the spell wore off, it still stayed by my side."

"What?"

What surprised Hollen wasn't the wild wolf inexplicably following the kid, but something else entirely.

"You really learned how to make friends quickly? And so fast?"

He couldn't believe it.

It seems like only three or four days have passed since Wilder took the [Quick Friendship] spell scroll, right?

This is the most difficult bewitching spell for mages to master!

And it's level three!

Normally, it would be considered exceptionally talented to learn it in a year or two.

This kid—

"How did you learn it?" he asked.

"Well----"

Wilder told the truth, "I unrolled the scroll and tried to sketch out the spell's structure in my mind, repeating it ten times, and then I learned it."

He used the same three steps to put the elephant in the refrigerator back then.

First do this, then do that, and finally it's done.

This effect occurs when we avoid discussing the system itself.

"ah----"

Hollen nodded thoughtfully.

Is he really a genius of the deception and control school?

This is extremely rare.

Wilder looked at his mentor, Hollen, whose expression was complicated, unsure whether he should tell him that he had mastered the art of "quick friendship".

However, spell scrolls of the Bewitching School are too rare in Ironweave Town. If he wants to buy such scrolls again in the future, he will most likely have to ask Hollen, who often travels to other cities, for help.

This matter cannot be kept secret.

"By the way, Professor Hollen."

He proactively changed the subject, "Was the person you were chatting with last night part of the investigation team sent by the association headquarters?"

"You know about this," Hollen replied.

"Yes, I met them at the association a couple of days ago. There were ten of them in total."

"That's right, he's the attack mage from the investigation team, Monk Dres."

Hollen said, "Back when I was at the Danube City Association headquarters, he and I were apprentices of the same mage."

"I see."

Wilder then learned that his mentor, Hollen, had worked at the association's headquarters.

"I happened to be in town these past couple of days, and he talked to me last night," Hollen continued.

"Is it about the forest fire?"

"no."

Hollen shook his head.

He stared at Wilder in silence for two seconds before finally speaking: "He came to ask me for two favors."

"What is it?"

"For this investigation, the association headquarters opened a portal from Danube City to here."

Hollen took a sip of tea. "Besides the ten members of the investigation team, quite a few merchants and free adventurers from Danube City also came along."

"Um."

Wilder replied that Martha had also mentioned this.

"A few days ago, a team of four disappeared on the outskirts of the forest."

Upon hearing this, Wilder paused for a moment.

A four-person team from Danube City.

The outskirts of the forest.

disappear.

All of them are correct.

"So, Senior Monk asked you to help him look for it?" he asked without changing his expression.

"No, he believes the entire squad has perished."

Hollen shook his head. "It's said that although that team's professional rank isn't high, their teamwork is excellent, and they can handle even high-level monsters without any problems."

"Then how do we repay it—"

"Monk thinks it was done by adventurers."

Hollen sighed. "If it really was adventurers from our town who killed them, this is no small matter; it concerns the relationship between Ironweave Town and Danube City."

Wilder blinked.

Wow, this Monk is pretty good.

They guessed all of them correctly.

"Any clues now?"

Just to be on the safe side, Wilder immediately activated [Performance].

Not only did he not show any panic, but he even seemed concerned about the matter itself.

"have."

Hollen glanced at him, without a trace of suspicion, and nodded: "The four missing adventurers were all from noble families, and the weapons they carried were quite expensive. The murderer who killed them will definitely not let them go."

"If we find those weapons in Ironweave Town, we'll find a clue."

Wilder nodded calmly.

Tracing the murderer through the "stolen goods" route is a very effective method.

No wonder he noticed that Monk's self-illumination had lingered on him for a few seconds in the lobby earlier.

Looking back now, I think she was probably observing and identifying the staff behind her.

"Mentor Hollen, could you tell me what those weapons look like? I'll also keep an eye out for them."

Wilder said enthusiastically, "I'll tell my teammates to help me look for it."

"what?"

Hollen was taken aback, then said, "Who said I was going to help him?!"

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