Unknown Knight

It was getting late, and the group set up camp behind a pile of rocks outside the valley entrance. It was sheltered from the wind and was a good place to camp and rest.

After a night's rest, everyone arrived outside the city of Aaron in the afternoon.

On the way to Aaron, James was surprised to hear the leader of the caravan say that they would pack the captives and sell them to Ramon, a big slave trader in the city.

He knew that this big slave trader was his master's mortal enemy, and he didn't expect that he had a base in the slave market here. In order to avoid being outnumbered and attracting attention, he parted ways with the caravan outside the city, saying that he had something to do outside the city.

After the caravan had gone far away, James and his four companions mixed in with the crowd entering the city and entered Aaron City.

Although Aaron City is located in a remote area, it is located in a fertile hilly area along the coast. The temperature here is suitable, the rainfall is abundant, the products are rich, and the population is dense. Just looking at the pedestrians on the street, there are no fewer people than in big cities such as Viruga and Dehrim.

The city's structure is the same as that of Viruga, with buildings mainly made of stone and wood, but the lords here seem to be richer, and the city walls are built one or two meters higher than those of Viruga.

The five of them found an inconspicuous inn to stay in. They asked Ran Ying to stay and watch over Aix who was greedy for food, while James and the other two went to the street to inquire about Velen's news.

But the more he inquired, the more nervous James became. This was obviously the base where Velen often operated. Many people knew this person, and it was said that this person was a guest of honor of the city lord Getras and often went in and out of Getras's city lord's mansion.

Being able to make friends with top dignitaries, this Velen is obviously not an ordinary old scholar.

When Aix was stabbed in Kudan City, Bandak and Kress organized a large amount of manpower and material resources to capture a large number of suspects in the city and conducted repeated and detailed interrogations of these suspects.

Although the main clues were lost because the assassin was dead, Bandak and his team still found many clues with their increasingly professional interrogation experience, and captured two other undercover agents of the Dark Cult lurking in Kudan City.

Although these two undercover agents were at the bottom and obtained limited information, all the clues obtained and the information heard by these two undercover agents pointed to one place, which was Aaron City where they were currently.

In addition, with the dark artifact in Velen's hand, he is likely to be a core member of the Dark Cult. Now it involves the great nobleman, the Lord of Getras, who has been passed down from generation to generation. Could it be that this nobleman is also related to the Dark Cult?

If the speculation is true, then the secret power of the Dark Cult is not small. When James thought about facing such a powerful enemy, cold sweat kept coming out of his back.

The three of them found the courtyard that Weilun rented that year, but the gate was locked. They found the landlord and asked about it, but they found out that the courtyard was still being leased and the rent had been paid until the end of this year.

I heard from the landlord that Velen had been his tenant for many years and had never defaulted on the rent. He also often traveled and would be away for half a year or a year at a time.

It's just that he was traveling for a little longer this time, and I haven't seen him for more than a year. But the rent is still there, and they have been friends for many years, so the landlord didn't touch his things in the house for the time being.

Upon hearing that it was Velen's old friend, the landlord was very polite. However, Velen kept a distance from everyone who knew him. He never talked about his past with others, and only nodded and said hello when meeting acquaintances. James did not get much valuable information from the landlord.

In order to prevent any accidents, James politely told the landlord that he and Velen were good friends who would risk their lives for each other, and that he would go to the inn to tell him once Velen came back and that he would definitely thank him, and told him not to worry about the rent, as he would help renew the lease when it expired.

The three of them said goodbye to the landlord, left the courtyard where Velen rented, and returned to the inn. They decided to sneak into the courtyard where Velen rented at night to find out what was going on.

In the middle of the night, three stealthy figures appeared outside the courtyard where Velen rented a house. In a secluded place, Bestur climbed up the wall easily, and then Rajmus and Asuden climbed up the wall together.

The three of them climbed into the yard and found that the weeds they saw through the crack in the door during the day were gone, and the yard was swept clean. It seemed that James' lie about renewing the lease during the day had worked, and the landlord must have cleaned the yard.

This was a small courtyard with two rooms. The room where Velen lived was locked with a copper lock. James touched it with his hand and found a thick layer of dust. It was obvious that the house had not been opened since Velen left.

The only window was closed very tightly, probably closed from the inside. The three men had no choice but to break in. Bestur held the copper lock with both hands to feel it, then exerted force and turned it counterclockwise. With a "bang", the copper lock broke.

The three of them entered the house and turned on the light to look around, but they were disappointed. The entire room was empty except for the furniture that probably belonged to the landlord. Even the bedding on the bed was gone.

It was obvious that the house had been specially cleaned and nothing was left behind. There was not even a needle or thread in the cabinets or drawers.

Fearing that they had missed something, the three of them searched every corner of the house again, but found nothing. They were about to return in disappointment after coming here with great enthusiasm.

James did not give up. He stepped hard on the corner of the wall beside the bed in the bedroom, but heard a "hollow" sound. It was obvious that there was something underneath.

Bestur used the dagger he carried with him to dig up the covering soil in a few strokes, and found a hard mahogany box under a wooden board. When he opened it, he found nothing else but a notebook made of well-worn parchment.

This was obviously a relic that Velen deliberately buried here. James opened the notebook and flipped through it casually. This should be Velen's personal notebook, recording his daily experiences.

James turned to the last page with records. The date on it was January 1247, 1, which was January 13 last year.

There were not many words on this page, and the words were written crookedly. With the help of the light, James read the record:

'January 1247, 1 in the mainland calendar, it was raining and snowing.

What a bad day. Every year at this time, there is always an influenza epidemic in Rhodok. This body is becoming more and more dilapidated. Can't it even resist a small flu?

Am I really going to return to Ile Ife to wait for reincarnation? I don’t know why, but I feel very unwilling to accept this. Although I know this is my fate that I cannot escape, why do I feel so unwilling?

Is it the instinctive reaction of this body that makes me want to bury this notebook, as a brief record of the past 61 years, or a form of commemoration? Who knows?

The new carrier's code name is Moros. Maybe he will come here soon to take away the notebook.

So the new carrier, Moros, right? Treat this carrier named Velen well. After all, he has fought for our common cause all his life.

When you are free, I hope you can go to a small mountain village called Granmel, where this blood relative lives. He still has a deep attachment to everything there, even the moldy air.