Chapter 57: Edge of the Northland

Leaving the manor, Bran unhurriedly walked towards the wasteland. This will be a long journey. He didn't plan to hurry up, he just wanted to finish it like this, perhaps the last journey in his life. Although he knew that walking alone would face various dangers, he thought this was the best way to quickly adapt to the wild environment in the North from all aspects. He was to complete the trial and come back alive from the treacherous wasteland, not to die with a moment of blood. So he must step by step from simple to difficult, and let the environment promote his own change.
When he walked out, he felt very relaxed physically and mentally, and he even felt like he moved away from the boulder on his body. He realized that he didn't care about life and death as much as he had imagined. After so many years, and now he finally came out alone, this feeling of freedom was enough.
In the past two years, Dany has taken him hunting from time to time, so he still has some understanding of the wild. Although this understanding is still very superficial, at least it is not ignorant.
Bran knew that his most deadly shortcoming was not force. As long as he is prepared, the bits and pieces all around him, coupled with the ability, have a natural advantage in digging and ambushing. His biggest flaw is that he is too dependent and lacks the courage to face it. If you don't get rid of these, you can only get confused when facing various emergencies and pressures.
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My castle is not in the center of the Northland. In fact, it is the gateway to the Northland, a checkpoint. Although there is still a considerable distance from the border, the castle is set up here only because it is an important place for the throat and the only way for the brigade to penetrate into the north.
Within a day or two from the castle, there is no danger, at least Bran thinks so. But he neglected that during this period of time, it was not only the Northlanders. There were also missions, caravans, and idle nobles nearby, among which there was no shortage of people with various intentions. At the same time, he underestimated his own value. After several incidents, his villa has gradually become the focus of attention. Although no one dared to invade the manor anymore, there were more secret peeping from the periphery.
The caravan was originally used as a hole card to detect, escape, and convey information in times of crisis. All the wizards disappeared within a few days. Several wizards who can be transformed into a certain magical form disappeared somehow, making many people feel incredible. These wizards may not be able to cause direct harm to others, but they have considerable restraint on many methods, because when they enter the magic form, conventional physical methods have no way to do them, but now they are caught in a pot. After gathering all the information, all doubts point to the child-Bran. I don’t know how many people in the mission are upset, cursing, or scolding themselves for being blind. How can they think that child is an idiot before?
Bran is a wizard, it is no secret, anyone with a heart can draw this conclusion. The murals on the exterior wall of Bran Mountain Villa were still there. When Bran participated in the siege of the Rocky Chamber of Commerce, someone saw Bran pull a cluster of stars from the ground. On the surface, it seemed that only one corpse was left, but the giant rat never appeared again. So someone thought about the starlight that Bran pulled down from the ground. In the days when the caravan wizard disappeared, many people saw Bran and Dany roaming the market.
Now they wondered how Bran dealt with the wizards who could transform themselves into magical forms. There has been no effective means to deal with such wizards before, and Bran’s performance allowed them to see a possibility and some hope. If they can get a breakthrough from Bran, then such wizards will no longer pose a threat to them. Thinking about the fate of the wizard who wants to invade Bran Mountain Villa, it makes them feel excited.
At this time, the Northlanders didn't think about it. The Northland's habitual inattention to wizards and contempt for abilities made them ignore these. The most important thing is that the Northlanders are too self-confident. They don't believe that anyone dares to blatantly run wild on their territory.
Bran left the villa, turning a blind eye to the peeping eyes. Although his current ability can easily receive a lot of information, he is still careless. He didn't believe that someone would dare to do something to himself at his door. All the predictions in his mind were for the vast wilderness and forests of the Northland, but he did not think about the threat of people. He reported that he wanted to see it, and he left without any disguise.
Before dawn, in everyone's eyes, a child carried a cat out of the villa alone. Then the news was quickly passed back through various methods, so there was movement in each station. If it is just a certain person, a certain team, then there will be no obvious commotion. But at the same point in time, in a not-so-large range, when many individuals and groups start to act in unison, this influence can no longer be concealed, even if none of these people want to make a noise. People gradually discovered each other's actions, and then various intersections between individuals and groups began, and finally began to differentiate and combine.
Before Bran was captured or intercepted, no one would provoke a conflict, and the interests could only be divided after they were determined, so these people kept a safe distance from each other and set off in a tacit understanding.
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Bran walked in a relaxed manner. It was still within the scope of home. Although it had been a few kilometers away from the manor, the villa and the castle could not be seen under the cover of trees, but it was still within the scope of home. So Bran turned a blind eye to more and more information feedback in the magic network, and was not at all vigilant about the vibrations in his intuition. Home is only a place of peace of mind, a place to relax, how can it be dangerous?
When a ray of morning light reflected the horizon, Bran was stopped, or surrounded. Now he suddenly realized that he had made a mistake that no real Northlander would make. He didn't believe his instincts. I just take it for granted and think it's safe here, so it's safe.
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Bran looked at the tall knight in the mission, who was like a northerner. The man who sighed and pityed every time he saw himself. He regretted it a bit. If he was alert earlier, he had too many ways to avoid them, and he didn't want to hurt the person in front of him.
Under people's gaze, the kid holding the cat, with a crisp and childish voice, asked the tall knight who was a little cowering, dissatisfied: "Why are you here?"
"Follow me, I will..." The knight didn't finish his words, and a cloud of wind passed by him, the real wind, a wizard turned into the wind to Bran.
As a member of the mission, she escaped Bran’s search fortunately, but she did not believe the analysis in the intelligence, she did not believe that the child could cause her harm, and then she paid the price for her arrogance. .
Everyone can see that a cloud of wind began to struggle a few meters away from Bran, struggling silently, trying to get rid of something, wanting to return to the shape of a person. A transparent, bubble-like figure, let out a silent howl, and finally shattered into a cluster of starlight, exuding a kind of sad beauty, and then silently floated to the child, rising and falling like a dance around the child Spin.
A huge pillar of fire formed in the hands of a wizard and rushed towards Bran. It's just that it's not a real flame, it's just a manifestation of magical power, so it was smoothed a few meters in front of Bran, as if there was an invisible huge mouth swallowing everything. Then everyone noticed that the pillar of fire began to shorten rapidly. An invisible force is expanding in all directions with the child as the center.
So the encirclement spread out, everyone wanted to wait before they could figure out the child's ability. There will always be people who will try because of orders and because they can't hold their breath. As long as the child shows flaws, as long as he understands his specific abilities, he will find a way to deal with it.
The child who was besieged by everyone seemed to have not figured out the situation. He still stared at the knight, persuading in a crisp voice: "You go."
The knight looked at Bran, finally exhaled and pulled out his weapon: "Sorry, kid."
He understands this emotion, as when he leaves home, the child is holding his thigh and crying, I don't want you to go. He could feel the simple, impurity-free emotion at this moment "I can't bear it."
He believed that this child could kill him, just like the wizard turned into a star, and could no longer escape the fate of death.
"You can take your people away." Bran finally persuaded.
"I can't, I'm really sorry, kid." He saw water flashing in Bran's eyes, and he knew the last moment had come.