The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 28 Green Shadow
"Master Lin En, these are the white shadow mushrooms we purchased today."

On the south side of Cuilin City, in a hidden corner outside Cuiying Market.

A young man with a simple and honest face held a cloth bag in both hands and handed it respectfully to Lin En in front of him.

Lin En opened the cloth bag and checked it. After confirming that there were no problems with the quantity and quality, he nodded and praised:
"Good job, Brian."

This young man in his twenties was a helper hired by Lynn.

He is an honest man with a wife who works as a laundry worker and a son who is seven or eight years old.

Lin En hired him to buy white shadow mushrooms for him in the Green Shadow Forest at a high price of 2 gold dragons per month.

He comes to collect the goods every afternoon.

This way you can save time waiting in the market.

"Sir, you haven't paid me for tomorrow's goods yet." Brian reminded Lin in a low voice as he looked at her lost in thought.

Lynn came back to his senses, took out 56 gold royals of payment from his pocket and handed it to Brian.

Although this was not the first time he had seen so many gold dragons, and although he had spent so many gold dragons every day in the past week or so.

But Brian still subconsciously held his breath and carefully took the golden dragon with both hands.

"Sir, is there anything else you need me to do?" Brian carefully put away the golden dragon and asked respectfully.

"Nothing."

Brian nodded and continued, "Then my lord, I will leave first."

"Brian, how are your wife and children doing lately?"

Brian stopped and answered seriously:

"They are all well and are probably waiting for me at home... in the shed on Black Ditch Lane, you know it, sir."

Lynn nodded slowly and watched Brian leave calmly.

The human heart cannot stand the test.

He had never fully believed the young man in front of him.

In the first few days, he had been secretly following Brian.

But Brian was very honest and cautious, sometimes even wearing simple disguises, and he had never had any problems.

Lin En then felt slightly relieved and began to focus his energy back on improving his strength.

Of course, on the other hand, he is no longer the same as before and can already afford the loss of 56 golden dragons.

"What a pity... I don't know where Gigos went..."

Compared to Brian, Lynn is more familiar with Gigos, and can even be said to know him inside and out.

If the boy were still there, he wouldn't mind paying a little more money in exchange for more peace of mind.

……

……

Green Shadow Forest.

A tall and thin brown-haired boy was walking slowly in the dark forest, holding a machete and carrying a backpack.

He was dressed like the ordinary hunters who entered the Green Shadow Forest, except that his face was covered with a dark green paint, so his specific features could not be seen clearly.

After a moment, the boy found his target.

Under the big tree in the front left, a white mushroom is faintly visible.

"It's the White Shadow Mushroom!"

The young man carefully examined it and confirmed that it was correct. Then he held his breath and tiptoed towards it.

Surprisingly, the white shadow mushrooms, which usually would quickly flee at the slightest disturbance, did not react at all when faced with the boy's approach.

It was not until the young man grabbed it swiftly, grasped it firmly, and pulled it out of the soil that he began to move his "feet" at the lower end belatedly.

But at this time it was caught in the air, and swinging its legs was useless and would only look ridiculous.

"Sure enough, just as the instructor said at that time, the white shadow mushrooms have no eyes or ears. They rely on their sense of smell to identify danger!"

The young man tied up the white shadow mushrooms tightly, threw them into the backpack behind him, and covered them with cloth.

Then he wiped the sweat that came out due to nervousness.

Some of the green paint on his face was wiped off, and the boy's appearance became familiar.

This is none other than the long-missing Gigos!
'I never thought that this knowledge, which I learned out of curiosity at the beginning, would become my life-saving straw now.'

Jigos sat under the tree, took the pottery jar from his waist, and re-applied the green grass paint to cover up the smell on himself, feeling mixed emotions.

Over the past nine years, their only goal in the academy has been to become wizard apprentices.

All the knowledge learned is for this purpose.

They learned language and writing, learned about the structure of the human body, learned the nature of magic power, and understood a lot of common sense.

But that was all. More useful knowledge would only be accessible after successful advancement. Things like white shadow mushrooms were not originally within the scope of learning.

The reason why Gigos knows its characteristics.

It was only because I, Lin En and a few others, had eaten fried white shadow mushrooms together that year and couldn't forget them. I went to ask the counselor and found out about it by chance.

In fact, if Lin En hadn't reminded him that he could come to the Green Shadow Forest to try reselling goods, Jigos would not have remembered this knowledge.

"It's too difficult to resell goods... It's easier to pick white shadow mushrooms like this."

After reapplying his camouflage, Jigos stood up and planned to continue searching to see if he could find another white shadow mushroom.

However, as soon as he stood up, he caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of his eye.

Jigos looked over subconsciously.

At the end of the sight, hidden among the branches and leaves, one can catch a glimpse of a blurry figure walking.

The back figure was blurry and far away, but Jigos always felt that it was somewhat familiar, especially the curly hair...

'Ante?'

He thought with some uncertainty and took a step to follow the figure.

But after a few steps, the figure disappeared around a corner.

Jigos subconsciously quickened his pace.

But after walking a few steps and looking at the deep jungle in front of him, he stopped belatedly.

This is not a safe place. If we go any further, we will enter the depths of the dense forest.

"It's probably just a resemblance...Ante can't possibly have the courage and strength to go so deep into the Green Shadow Forest."

Gigos took one last look and wisely turned away.

A breeze blew by, and a strange sound was faintly heard in the green forest behind me. In the darkness, a faint light appeared...

……

In the shed.

Lynn is practicing swordplay.

More than a week later, Bai Ya's swordsmanship had improved significantly.

The final level of the waist and abdomen has reached 76/100. He is only 24 points away from practicing the first three parts of the White Crow Swordsmanship to perfection.

During this period, he also took a peek at the Horsens meditation method.

Although he still hasn't gotten started, Lin En can feel that he is making gradual progress.

I believe that after 3 or 4 times at the fastest, or 5 or 6 times at the slowest, he will be able to successfully get started with meditation.

By then, as long as he successfully constructs the meditation rune in his mind, he will be able to successfully be promoted to a wizard apprentice and achieve a great leap in identity and status!

Time passed peacefully.

A few days later.

Cuiying Market.

"Boss, how much is this white shadow mushroom?" Brian asked while squatting in front of a stall.

“Seven golden royal dragons a piece.” The stall owner replied.

Brian nodded and was about to buy it when a middle-aged man interrupted and said in an unquestionable tone:

"I want the mushrooms, help me pack them up."

Brian looked at him. The middle-aged man was wearing a hood and had a burly build.

The most striking thing is that the man has a long scar on the right side of his face, extending from his eyebrow to his chin.

At this moment, the man was also looking at him, with scrutiny in his eyes.

Brian's heart started to panic. He withdrew his gaze with a little fear and turned to walk towards another stall.

After walking a few steps, he turned around and saw that the middle-aged man had not caught up with him, and he immediately felt relieved.

What Brian didn't notice was that in front of him, two men were slowly approaching him.

……

in the afternoon.

Lynn arrived at the delivery location agreed with Brian as usual.

He looked around, feeling somewhat puzzled:
"Hasn't come yet... maybe you haven't bought enough mushrooms yet?"

Just when Lin En wanted to check it out,

A slight sound of wind suddenly came from behind!

　There will be more later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)