It was about ten o 'clock in the morning. Locke walked to the training ground of the city guards on time.
There were already a large number of activated sprites training here.
From quite a distance, Locke saw his watermelon platoon jarl and his three ordinary sprite subordinates at a glance.
The training in the morning was boring. Compared to the orthodox training methods of knights in the Sorcerer World, the training course for activated sprites was crude and simple.
Moreover, the physical fitness of most activated sprites was worrisome. Very few people could lift a boulder that weighed two hundred pounds. The average strength of the activated sprites was fifty pounds, which made Locke believe that the ordinary civilians of the Three Western Islands were a little stronger than these activated sprites.
Fortunately, the most prominent feature of these activated sprites was their ability to spit mucus. Otherwise, these low-level activated sprites would really be at the mercy of others.
"Luo, are you okay?" Alai didn't go out to patrol today. It seemed that the castellan had ordered them to strengthen the patrol work in the city.
Today, Ah Lai's team's patrol area was the Xicheng District.
Others couldn't see Locke's strange expression, but Alai, who had been with him for a few days and was close to him, could see it. Through his pale face, Alai only thought that Locke didn't sleep well last night.
"Do you want to rest for a while?" Alai was also aware of the riots in the southwestern district this morning. His family also lived in that area, and the whole family couldn't sleep well because of it.
"No need, you guys go patrol the western district." Locke yawned and waved at Alai.
Alai's other two teammates were fine. After all, they carried Locke back, so there was some kinship between them. However, the durian man, Ah Ze, was different. From the beginning, there was a hint of hostility.
At first, Locke didn't know how he provoked this activated sprite. When Alai asked about his situation worriedly, Locke caught a glimpse of the durian man's angry and jealous eyes. Locke understood everything.
Activated sprites rarely intermarried, but it didn't mean that they couldn't. In the history of activated sprites, there were many tragic love stories of different races.
This durian man, Ah Ze, was clearly interested in Ah Lai, but he didn't. At most, Ah Lai treated him as a brother and didn't have any other thoughts.
The training mission of the city guards was relatively simple. Those who joined the army were ordinary Animated Fairies who had not undergone any training. Other than a little strength and a talent for spitting mucus, they had nothing else.
Holding the spear to attack and defend was the task given to them by the squadron leader of the watermelon people.
The training ground was in the southwest city, but Locke's eyes were always on the mysterious area in the southeast city.
"Is there something there?" Locke thought to himself. He didn't believe that there were so many animated fairy soldiers patrolling the city at night. There was something fishy going on here.
After a day of training, he bade farewell to his three teammates in the afternoon and left under the admiring gazes of the three sprites.
In addition to his height of 1.7 metres, Locke's talent during training had also shocked many of the sprites who knew the inside story. Even the platoon jarl felt that he was no match for Locke if they were to fight with a spear.
Ali, whose family was killed, even wanted to kneel on the spot and ask Locke to be his master, but Locke rejected him.
Locke could only promise to take care of him during training. As for how much Ali could learn, it would depend on him.
At night, the moon hung high above the branches.
Just as the bright moonlight revealed a hint of brilliance, thick clouds appeared. Together with the crystal mist in the surrounding sky, the area of Mist City was covered in gray.
The door creaked open. Locke, who was wearing a black cloak and looked like an apple-man, flashed across the spacious street.
"Let me see what that is," Locke murmured under the cloak.
Just in case, Locke changed his appearance again tonight and put on an extra layer of black cloak. As long as he was careful and didn't attract the attention of the top patrol sprites, it wouldn't be too dangerous.
Holding his right shoulder, Locke thought of the powerful lemon man general from last night. It was a quasi-Knight-level animated fairy. Locke licked his lips. If the conditions allowed it, he really wanted to have a good fight with a powerhouse of this level.
Locke, who had many trump cards and was confident in his strength, was sure that he wouldn't lose too badly.
The cool night breeze blew the fallen leaves on the street, and the crystal mist in the sky seemed to have been blown away. It was going to be another sleepless night.
.....
"What did you say? It's an apple-man this time? "The crystal fruit man looked at the animated fairy in front of him in shock.
It was the lemon man. He was the one who was patrolling last night. He was unwilling to let the invading enemy escape, so he squatted in the forbidden area in the middle of the night and waited for the mysterious animated fairy to attack. He didn't expect that he would actually succeed.
After seeing the animated fairy in a black robe sneaking around the forbidden area a few times, the lemon man general saw an opportunity and ambushed it while it was unprepared. He severely injured the black-robed animated fairy, and from the appearance of the injured animated fairy, he could tell that it was an apple-man.
"Did you catch it?" The crystal fruit man asked. If the lemon man general had caught it, he wouldn't have come here alone to report it.
"No." As expected, the lemon man shook his head.
"Increase the defense of the forbidden area again, and forbid ordinary animated fairies from approaching. I'm guessing that it's the work of the invaders." The height of his strength also increased the height of his vision. The crystal fruit man general didn't believe that any of his kind would do such an outrageous thing at this time, so he shifted his suspicion to the invaders.
Sometimes, the truth was always so close to speculation.
"Yes!" Said the lemon man general seriously. The invaders had escaped twice in a row, and the lemon man general was a little embarrassed. It didn't believe that there would be a third time.
No matter which invader it was, as long as it caught them again, it would definitely teach them a lesson.
"Alright, you may leave." The crystal fruit man general who looked slightly tired waved his hand at the lemon man general.
These days, as more and more animated fairy refugees entered Mist City, the crystal fruit man general felt more and more agitated, as if something bad was going to happen. When it came to intuition, the crystal fruit man race rarely made mistakes, let alone a level-1 creature like him.
"Relax, I'm still here." Not long after the leader of the lemon people left, another slender crystal fruit person who was about the same size as the crystal fruit person city master walked to the city master's side and massaged its shoulders.
"Okay." The crystal fruit man squinted his eyes, enjoying the comfortable feeling of his wife's shoulder massage.
It was now the fifth day since Grandmeisterin Parlina had given Locke. Locke had infiltrated Mist City for five days now. He had explored the mysterious forbidden area in the southeastern part of the city twice, but he didn't come up empty-handed.
"I can ask Grandmeisterin Parlina to study this substance when I get back," Locke mused as he held the translucent stone in his hand.
He'd risked being discovered by the animated fairy guards during his second exploration of the forbidden area and forced his way to the large mound in the center of the forbidden area.
There wasn't a tower in the center of the forbidden area, but a giant crystal tree with a three-meter-tall mound right below it.
There were many translucent stones like this around the mound. Some of them were exposed while others were buried in the mound. Locke didn't know what they were used for.
Other than that, Locke had a rough understanding of the defenses of the forbidden area.
He grinned and rubbed his aching back, cursing the lemon man in his mind.
Just you wait and see when the city is breached, Locke thought resentfully.
He'd underestimated the strength of a quasi-Knight-rank creature. During his second exploration, he was ambushed by the lemon man general again. The full-powered blow from a quasi-Knight-rank creature almost exposed him on the spot.
If it wasn't for the sufficient recovery potions in his spatial ring, if it wasn't for the wind impetus that granted him decent speed and agility, and if it wasn't for the Invisibility Cloak, Locke would've been defeated long ago.
In the end, Locke managed to obtain some useful information and resources, but he wasn't able to exert even half of his strength for the time being.
The loss of strength was secondary. What worried Locke the most was that the Invisibility Cloak was slightly damaged by the lemon man general.
This piece of magic equipment made by a level-one Magister could withstand two blows from a quasi-Knight-rank creature, but it was already at its limit.
The Invisibility Cloak that had no blind spots and could change Locke's appearance was now showing the muscles of a normal human. Locke was very worried that the magic equipment would suddenly stop working and put him in an awkward situation.
Locke couldn't imagine what would happen if he, a knight from the Sorcerer World, was suddenly exposed in a city of tens of thousands of animated fairies.
At least, he didn't dare to hope to get out alive.
In order to live a little longer and complete this mission as soon as possible, Locke planned to draw up the remaining defense map of the northern part of Mist City today before leaving this city of animated fairies.
After tidying up the things in his room, Locke walked towards the training camp of the city guards in the southwestern part of the city.
Now that he was the captain of the animated fairies, his mission would be much easier and safer, so he couldn't just not make use of it.
"Luo, I brought some ice mud. Do you want to try some?" As soon as he left the room, Locke met Alai walking towards him. It seemed that Alai had specially come to bring food for him.
"No thanks," Locke rejected. "I have to go to the training camp."
"Oh, alright then." Alai's mood visibly calmed down when he saw this.