As soon as Ayana took the worn-out parchment scrolls out of the tree, the gray-white folded cat crouched on the man's body, flicking its tail and watching Ayana warily.

"These are your master's things, aren't they?" Ayana and the cat's eyes met, and she walked over to the man's side and gently placed the parchment scrolls on his body—she had just briefly looked at them, most of them were mutilated and blank, except for the relatively intact parchment scroll with the words "Requioning" written in ancient script. When Ayana lived with Russell and Feo, Fei O had taught her some ancient scripts, which were similar to the current scripts, but there were some fonts that were very different from the current ones.

The Folded Ears Cat lowered its head and sniffed at the scrolls, then pressed them with its palms and looked at Ayana quietly. And Ayana didn't pay attention to the man who passed out and left the mountain forest directly.

After returning to her makeshift shed, Ayana took out some roasted rabbit meat and wild fruits and put them on a piece of cloth, then brought a pot of water and returned to the dense forest. By the time she returned to the man's side again, the folded cat was gone, leaving only the man lying motionless on the ground. At this time, the sky was already covered with dark clouds, and a heavy rain that washed the mountains and forests was about to come.

Ayana then walked over to the man's side and briefly examined the man's body, and sure enough, as she guessed when she left, the man had no external injuries on his body, and the reason for his coma may be related to the collision of the brain.

As soon as Ayana finished examining the man's body, the gray-white folded ear cat sprang up from behind her!

"Did I faint?" the man's voice came suddenly, and the dagger in Ayana's hand had already been slashed backhand, colliding with the sharp claws of the folded cat. The gray-white folded cat jumped away from the dagger blade, staring at Ayana in the distance.

"Who are you, and why are you in the trunk of that big tree?" Ayana took a few steps back so that both the man and the folded cat came into her view.

"My name is Simos, and I'm a blind man," Cat's Eye didn't open his eyes, he lay on the ground, reached out and pulled a long rag from his waist, and tied his eyes first, "You rescued me from the trunk?"

"You haven't answered my question yet, why are you in the trunk?" Ayana stared at the elderly folded ear cat, that cat was as agile as the legendary cat spirit, the very aggressive movement just now was definitely not something that ordinary cats could do, if she couldn't resist the other party's claw blow, maybe the cat would cut a bloody mark from behind.

Cat's Eye felt the dozen or so worn-out sheepskin scrolls on his body, and he fumbled for them, slowly arranging them and putting them back in his cloth. He took a deep breath of air, the smell of rotting trees in the forest.

"You've seen what I've been on, so you should have guessed who I am..."Cat's Eye sat up and tried to stand up, but the pain in his knee made it difficult for him to stand, and the folded cat walked over to its owner, whispering.

AYANA put the dagger away, "I don't know, I can't guess, I don't want to guess," she glanced at the food and water right next to the man, "There is food and water there, if you feel hungry, eat a little, and I'll leave." ”

Cat's Eye reached out and touched the kettle, he heard the footsteps of Ayana walking into the distance, and a drop of rain fell on the back of his hand, "Please wait a minute," Cat's Eye immediately thought of the stranger he had met before, "If you can, please take me back to your hunting house, you are the hunter of this mountain, right?"

"Cat's Eye" had been thinking about it for a long time before saying this. When he killed the magician who hid in the Sunrise Plateau before, the magician's family witnessed the fierce battle between the two magicians, those ordinary people were so frightened that they hid in the house and didn't dare to move, and "Cat's Eye" chose to kill those who saw everything in the end - he just wanted to continue to act in secret, just like in the past ten years, except for the folded ear cat around him, everyone else who saw him perform magic died, or was on his hunt list. One more person who knows his identity and whereabouts is more dangerous, including the girl hunter who saved him. But this time, "Cat's Eye" felt the special temperament of Ayana - neither panicked nor afraid, calm and cold, like a beast without human feelings.

"Can you walk on your own? I'm not going to hold you. Ayana looked at the blind man, and her instincts told her that the man was not as fragile as he seemed.

"Yes. ”

Cat's Eye followed Ayana down the mountain, and he rarely began to feel hesitation, not knowing whether to kill the girl.

In the battle with the Healing Magic Master, he used up all the magic power in his body to destroy the opponent, although he will not die due to the burial of the tree, but if it rains suddenly, the "Cat's Eye" will still be flooded by the rain due to lack of strength and magic power, resulting in suffocation.

She saved me, she saved me, and if I could, I wouldn't kill innocents. "Cat's Eye" thought in his heart.

Ayana pushed open the door of the self-built wooden shed and pointed to the side of the shed, "If you want to sleep, lie down in that corner, there is some hay there," Ayana looked at the sky, the dark clouds had obscured the afternoon sun, and the rain was falling down, "I'm here, let me know if you need anything." With that, he sat down on his bed of straw, and unloaded his dagger and bow.

"Cat's Eye" has a sensitive nose, and he can distinguish his location by smell, "You don't seem to be an ordinary hunter, ordinary hunters don't live in the mountains in winter, after all, it is difficult to catch good prey at this time." ”

"I'm just recuperating from my injuries," Ayana picked up a stick of wood and began to sharpen the arrows without iron arrows, "If you don't want to explain, don't say anything, and leave on your own when you feel like you're recovering." ”

"Cat's Eye" sat down on the hay, and his cat came out of his clothes and lay on his legs, "May I ask your name?"

"Ayana. ”

"Hmm... If it weren't for your help, Ayana, I might have died in that tree. ”

"It's nothing, no thanks. ”

"Cat's Eye" didn't want to owe anyone anything, he thought for a while and said, "I don't have anything of value on me, and you just asked me the reason for being in that tree, if I answer your question, I wonder if it can be regarded as a reward for saving your life?"

Ayana didn't raise her head, "I'm not imposing, and there's no need to take the things you dug up to heart." ”

Cat's Eye nodded, "Have you seen the Requiem Book?"

Ayana's sharpening hand paused for a second, she was indeed thinking about the origin of the parchment scrolls. The average person can guess that the parchment scrolls have something to do with magic, the name "Requiem" has something to do with magic, and the blind man who can bring down a towering tree and hide in the trunk with a cat is obviously magic. No matter how incredible it may be, the inexplicable signs point to incredible power, which is magic.

Cat's eyelids moved, "As you might expect, I'm a magician, like... Like the Holy Maiden of the Theoguna Empire, Golia, she is well versed in the long-lost magic of the continent. "Cat's Eye" decided to try again, because until now, he was not sure whether he wanted to save the girl's life.

Ayana sharpened the wooden arrow as she listened to the other party's words, and this time she wasn't too surprised, "Oh, magician, and then?"

"Aren't you surprised?"

"It sounds surprising that a man who claims to be a magician has knocked down a towering tree and hid in its body, but it has nothing to do with me. ”

"Cat's Eye" can feel that the other party's composure is not pretended, and the other party's coldness is also something that "Cat's Eye" has never seen, and the most important thing is that he is not even interested in the magician's affairs?! At this time, "Cat's Eye" began to feel a little regretful, he didn't practice the spiritual magic practiced by Ben Nicot at the beginning, if he mastered the spiritual magic, maybe he would be able to know what the girl in front of him was thinking.

"Have you heard the story of the magician?"

"Magician? I heard that there is an old mage in the continent, he has three apprentices, I don't know why, after the old mage died, the other two mage heirs are also missing, only a female mage named Golia remains," Ayana recalled the battle of Doret, it was indeed magic, "this is what I heard, the story about magic. ”

"Cat's Eye" ran her hand along the folded cat's fur, and it was pouring rain outside, so Ayana's voice became quiet, "I also want to tell the story of the old mage." ”

"Whatever. ”

"Cat's Eye" frowned slightly, "The old mage is the last mage on the continent, and like his father and grandfather, he has always insisted on a mission, that is, to destroy everything related to magic on the continent, until all the magical power that fuels selfish desires becomes history and the past. ”

"Sounds like an interesting mission. ”

"The old mage also has a son, and he wanted to put his mission and everything he learned into the hands of his son, but unfortunately the old mage's son was controlled by the selfish desires in his heart, and became the kind of person who must be eliminated in the old mage's mission. By the time the old mage found out all this, it was too late, and the old mage had to use all the magic he had learned all his life to suppress his son, who was extremely gifted and sensible. In the end, the old mage made his son lose the ability to use magic, and the old mage also cut his lifespan due to excessive consumption. ”

"He still has three apprentices, doesn't he?"

"Those three apprentices were found after the old mage suppressed his son, and at that time, the old mage had realized that his son's magic power could not be suppressed forever, and he needed to find a successor to deal with the son who had turned into a humanoid demon, and continue his mission. The three apprentices didn't study for long, and the old mage died, although they didn't get along with the old mage for a long time, but the three apprentices were very advanced, and each learned a kind of magic from the old mage, and they were in charge of themselves. ”

Ayana put aside the dozens of sharpened wooden arrows, thought for a moment and responded, "This story is interesting. ”

"It's a true story. ”