Louis placed a mark on them.

Once they leave the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm, the Secret Guard will follow the mark and find them to ask about the specific situation.

After all... it's not supposed to be that easy to enter the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm.

Louis suspects there might be something off about them.

But as he approached the mage, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

He glanced at the mage, then turned and began battling the creatures.

When Alice arrived, Louis whispered a reminder:

"Use the items, don't hold back."

Alice frowned:

"Alright."

Indeed.

Even though they were in battle, both were fully equipped with items.

Strictly speaking, the items in their possession could take out most of the creatures.

Otherwise, when Alice blew the whistle, Louis should have turned and fled.

Before long, with their relentless assault, the surrounding creatures were wiped out.

The mage, with a look of bitter pain, adjusted his mage hat:

"The local creatures here are so rude... uh, what are you doing, buddy?"

The mage raised both hands as he looked at the sword across his neck.

Louis looked at him and said:

"This is the second time we've met, right?"

Louis had previously encountered this mage when he fell into a weak passage.

At that time, he claimed he accidentally fell in while using magic.

Louis barely believed him.

Mainly because his hunting instincts didn't sense any danger from him.

Just... a bit weak.

Unlike the two thieves he encountered before.

It felt like this mage was only level 3-4, not any higher.

"So, what's your reason for coming in this time?"

"Buddy, believe me, I didn't do anything bad!"

The mage raised his hands, looking forlorn:

"I just wanted to find some magical materials."

"After all, there aren't many stable passages to the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm, I thought I'd gather some unique materials from here."

"The spell scroll for Shadow Stealth is still in my backpack!"

"Who'd have thought I'd come in twice and not only fail to gather anything, but also lose a fortune."

"Just now I didn't know who used an item that agitated the creatures, and I used up most of my assets just to escape."

"Cough, cough." Alice coughed.

The mage paused, then jumped up as he looked at Alice:

"It was you who blew it?!"

Then tears burst from his eyes.

He squatted on the ground, looking half dead.

Rolling around and wailing loudly.

"Who would stupidly summon creatures out of boredom?"

"No wonder they were so rude!"

"My money! My items!"

His tantrum left the two looking at each other in dismay.

Alice turned her head and whistled nonchalantly.

Of course, Louis noticed her fingers still hooked around the knife handle.

Knowing that if he made any move, the sharp curved saber would directly strike him down, leaving him no chance to speak again.

"Alright, be honest, come back with us, let the City Lord's Mansion determine if there's any issue."

The mage nodded in sorrow without saying anything further.

On the way back, Louis was getting a bit annoyed with the mage.

This guy really talked a lot.

He wouldn't stop recounting his experiences after entering the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm.

Like when Louis encountered him last time and saw a large area of Unjustly Deceased Water Ghosts.

The mage seriously explained that places where Unjustly Deceased Water Ghosts reside usually have dark water grass.

This dark water grass is one of the main ingredients of "Deep Diver Potion".

On the Star Continent, it mostly originates from East Monet Kingdom.

Then he talked about how the East Monet Kingdom had been experiencing frequent necromancer disasters in recent years and rarely sells this material externally.

And he mentioned West Monet's ongoing contention with East Monet over the rightful Monet Kingdom.

Then veered into how hostile and rude the local customs and powers of West Monet were.

Finally looping back to his gains today in the Fallen Shadow Nether Realm.

His mouth just wouldn't stop moving.

It left Louis at a loss for words.

Yet he mentioned something that piqued Louis' interest.

That was, West Monet currently had an outbreak of plague demons.

These plague demons left plagues in their wake.

However, it wasn't the plague demons doing it intentionally.

Such plague demons, which only appear under extremely rare circumstances, are said to be created from severe toxic magic waste pollution.

Logically, without large-scale specific magic waste leakage, and with abundant undead around, it should be hard for such plague demons to form.

But the reality is, they did appear.

Is something happening over in East Monet?

Louis frowned.

But after giving the mage a look, he said:

"Both East and West Monet Kingdoms prohibit outsiders from entering at will."

"How do you know about these things?"

The mage's expression stiffened.

He said in a low voice:

"Can I not say?"

"Hmm?"

The Celestial Heart Sword slid out a bit.

"Speak, buddy, what kind of bond do we have? Life-and-death friendship! What can't I tell you?"

His voice weakened: "Sneak..."

Louis said: "Sneak what?"

"Smuggling..."

Louis: ???

Great.

This guy's an outlaw or what?

"Really? Are you saying you even smuggled into Ense?"

The mage kept silent.

Louis was stunned.

Damn.

Ense doesn't even ban outsiders, and you smuggled in?

"Once we get out, properly report everything to the City Guard and let them punish you as needed."

The mage mournfully said:

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