The Legend of Fatality

Your soul will feel solitary

Worried by the gloomy tombstone

Your neighbor will not come to inquire

Your secret but undeclared taboo;

——Legendary Mage, Edgar Allen Po

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When Bai En read these lines, he sighed. His situation seems to be the opposite. The hunting festival is long over, everyone on Fatalin Island seems to be back in his or her life, and Bai En seems to be somewhat out of tune with the others.

He seldom reads such poems. He prefers to read some popular books or works that will allow him to have a deeper study of magic or to increase his control. But the collection of books in the Black Tower was either spent by him or drowsy after a while. As his status and surrounding living environment improved, he became more and more slack about the in-depth study of magic.

Bai En gently closed the book and set it aside. He is sitting alone outside a tea house opened in Fatalin City by Antalat. There are a few long stone tables. This is the place he likes recently. The scene I dreamed of last night was shocking-blood was flowing into the river, burning corpses, screaming in horror-but waking up with open eyes. Those details gradually fade away.

Now, he is sitting at the stone table with a cardamom difference in front of him, reading Edgar Allen Poe ’s poem, and Bai En is about to leave the nightmare behind.

The stone table is next to the main road of Fatalin City, and it is still not visible, but Bai En expects that it will soon be the widest and busiest traffic lane on Fatalin Island. Even though it was still early, there was already a crowd on the road. Some people glanced at the black robe on Bai En's body when they passed by, and subconsciously moved away or rudely towards Bai En, but most did not care too much.

Bai En also did not care about passing pedestrians. His attention was completely devoted to more important things. He approached the small tea bowl and absorbed the aroma of the tea deeply to heal the fatigue in life. The sweet and spicy cardamom scented, and the moisture moistened his cheeks and beard. In this feeble morning, he felt for the first time that he was still alive.

When he was an apprentice in the Black Tower, he needed to guard against threats from other apprentices and mentors. After becoming a black tower mage, he has to face monsters on the island, and even chase to the northwest end of the island. Soon after the Fatalin Association was established, he went across the sea again to participate in foreign wars. Even if he came back here again, it wouldn't be long before he had to face the mutant monster of the plague.

It's very difficult to live in the wind and sleep, but as a mage with his own goals, Bai En is also used to this situation. It's just that he is now in a place he is most familiar with, in a newly built, but relatively safe city, instead he starts to feel so out of place until he has this bowl of cardamom tea on the front of his noodle.

Antalam returned to his mage tower on the grounds of studying the long-eyed seed after the hunting festival. In order to repair his mage tower as soon as possible, Flynn ordered some accessories from the dwarf and ran to the contacts in Port Tatuga to buy other accessories that could not be produced on Fatalin Island.

The night owl was busy helping the man-made house, the black elk ... Bai En guessed that the black elk came home and was busy making children. Dean was recruiting. He chose his staff according to the smartest, most cunning, and strongest standards. The only drawback is that few people have all three qualities at the same time, which makes Dean have a headache and can only divide their duties as much as possible.

However, Bai En still admires a few of them. It seems that Antalatem has already made preparations. As soon as the main street is built, a tea house is opened, and several of his apprentices are responsible. Of course, in addition to tea, several special drinks are sold, and soon it became a temporary meeting place for Masters of the Fatalin Association. Bars like mercenaries and adventurers.

According to the weekly salary that Bai En asked from several of his apprentices, the income of these apprentices has exceeded Bai En himself. This made Bai En not hesitate to decide to come here for tea and never pay.

Flynn and Dean both opened a magical wonder shop, but Flynn's preference was for some wonderful things, and Dean acted for the students and apprentices in colleges and associations. It is said that the business is pretty good.

Bai En ’s potions are good, but there is still a gap with professional potions instructors. As for his apprentices, they are basically in a stocking state, and their combat effectiveness is not bad. Maybe they can become an adventurer, but doing business is just a joke.

Bai En thought of this and sighed again, maybe he was a poor man. He raised the tea bowl to his mouth and took a sip, tasting the licking incense. He heard the footsteps of Falheim walking in and asked about the taste of the small pastry brought by his friend. Bai En feels that such days without spending money for eating and drinking are simply fairy days.

Falheim put his tea bowl and a plate of small pastries on the stone table, and made two loud sounds, and then his lean body sat on the bench opposite. Bai En has always been curious, according to whose advice he can dress himself so fancy.

The purple robe seems to have changed again, and now exquisitely makes Bai En suspect that his robe is more expensive than his net worth. The longest foot in the feathers on the broad-brimmed top hat is two feet long. Necklaces, rings, and bracelets basically covered the whole body, and Bai En could feel the magical light on it, knowing that these are real guys.

Falheim grinned as he sat down, showing his white and neat teeth. He pointed to the dessert and said.

"Special cookies made of almonds, walnuts and butter-you have to open a small stove before you open the store. May the gods pity you, make you a greedy fat man, and stop this future fat friend Woke me up early. "

Bai En waved his hand disdainfully. "As a wizard of our age, we should wake up before sunrise. Sleeping too late or too long means suicide."

Falheim snorted. "A nap madman is qualified to say this? Why did it come to this topic again? Since you came back from the last assignment, your personality has become more weird than ever."

Bai En grabbed a piece of shortbread and gnawed it, swallowed it crunchingly, then stared at his tea bowl again. Falheim was sitting by and waiting for his response. Bai En finally spoke, not even raising his eyes.

"Wacky? Huh. I was still performing the task you said in the forest more than a month ago. I thought I had seen enough disgusting things in the black tower, but this time it was different. Those things were originally human. It grows out of the body, tentacles. Tumors, pustules, or anything that pops out of mucus with a light touch. "

Bai En picked up the tea bowl, and the tea swayed slightly, reflecting the reflection of his shaking head.

"After living for so long, I have to get involved in this crazy crazy thing. Why?" Bai En raised his head and asked. "Isn't engaging in this force to reduce my errands to accomplish this kind of task?"

"Because our destiny is so arranged. And there is no more suitable person to do these things." Falheim shrugged. "You have experienced more terrible things before. To be honest, maybe you should go find a woman and feel their tenderness, you won't be so sentimental. Recently I heard a saying from Tirya to hold back It's bad for your health. "

"Hah," although Baien was in a bad mood, after being attacked by Falheim, he felt better. "It sounds like you have the courage to find a woman ~ www.NovelMTL.com ~ By the way, can you join me in this pastry shop?"

"Actually, it's a snack bar, a pastry shop and a restaurant. I'm going to open three stores." Falheim also picked up a shortbread with his hand and broke a small piece into his mouth with his hand. "Of course, but do you have any exclusive formula?"

"There should be a few copies." Bai En thought about whether he would make or know the recipes. "You open three stores in one go? Is the income from setting up overseas contact points so high?"

"Write it down. It's better to hurry. I'll go back to Tatuga Port in two days and go out to sea. How much you can divide depends on how the recipe you provide sells." Falheim sweetened After eating the shortbread, he clapped his hands and patted off the crumbs. "The income is really good. Our island and the mainland on the east must have been a backcountry. We just brought some specialty products from the port and sold out quickly."

Bai En wanted to continue to ask something, but Falheim stood up. He rubbed the almond crumbs on his fingers on his spotless robe. Miraculously, debris and butter stains fell to the ground, and his robe was still as bright as new.

"I won't disturb you for reading, and I will talk about it for the rest of the day. I will talk to Dean, a guy who likes you as early as you." Falheim licked his teeth with his tongue, making sure there was no stain on it On something. "You can train more apprentices and assistants. These little guys may really save your life at a critical moment. If you train well, maybe you don't have to run around like that."

Falheim finished exaggeratingly greeted Bain with a farewell between the wizards, and walked towards the carriage he parked not far away.