Chapter 61: The Traitor

  Lao Ge Lin had some idea, but Lin Li didn't know at all. He was now anxious beyond measure.

  After returning to the Jade Tower, the two of them tried to contact Grian, but on that crystal ball, there was no sign of the mountains and trees of Tumo Valley. The crystal ball in the Jade Tower was personally placed by Grian, connected to Tumo Valley through hundreds of Wizard's Words, and as long as one Wizard's Eye remained, this situation would not occur.

  And the Witch's Eye is only a 10th-level spell, which can be easily supplemented by Grian, a 15th-level great mage, without any effort.

  The crystal ball was completely still, which could only mean that the battle in the Valley of Demons was far more intense than Kevin's message had suggested.

  "What to do?" After waiting for an hour in the guild hall, Kevin's expression had become somewhat unnatural.

  "Wait a bit longer." Lin Li hesitated for a moment: "If there's still no news by tomorrow morning, we'll have to make a trip to the Demon Slaying Valley."

  "Ah!"

  Two people stood beside the crystal ball, waiting until around dawn. Just when they were both getting anxious, the crystal ball that had been still all along finally lit up!

  "Ferré, come quick, there's news!"

  "I saw it!"

  The two of them almost simultaneously pounced on him, just as they saw Gru's chubby face.

  Gillian looked unusually haggard in the image, his normally rosy chubby face was pale and frightening, and his breathing seemed a bit urgent. This was the result of excessive spiritual consumption. The old man first removed a few strands of grass stuck to his hair, and then forced out a smile for the two, before weakly saying: "Good morning..."

  “……”

  "What's going on?" Lin Li was so anxious that he almost died, and didn't even have the mood to greet him.

  "What else can we do..." Grian rolled his eyes: "It's those little rascals from Shadow Nest looking for trouble again, insisting on coming to the Demon Slaying Valley to stir up trouble."

  "What about now?"

  "Now? I just led the team to take them down, and we can probably be at peace for another ten or so days. That bastard Es Hall, really doesn't know how to write the word 'death'. Just you wait, I'll eventually flip over the Shadow's Nest for him..."

  Gillian still had the energy to brag, and after waiting for half a night in the hall, the two finally felt slightly relieved.

  "As long as nothing happens to you, we can talk about it when I get back. I've been waiting for you for half the night and I'm exhausted. You take your time replenishing the Wizard's Eye, I'll go to sleep first..."

  "Uncle, I'm going to sleep too..."

  "Hey! Hey! I haven't finished speaking yet...... You two little rascals are too much!"

  ……

  The next day at noon, Grian returned to the Jade Tower.

  Gillian walked into the guild hall with a murderous look on his face, looking for someone to ask about Kevin's whereabouts. Unfortunately, Kevin had known he would return today and had hidden outside the magic guild early in the morning. As a result, Gillian searched the entire Emerald Tower for half a day but couldn't find him, finally having no choice but to knock reluctantly on Lin Li's door.

  "So early?" Lin Li had waited till late last night for news, and today he slept till noon before waking up. When he opened the door for Ge Rui'an, his face still showed signs of sleepiness.

  "After refilling the wizard's eyes, I rushed back overnight. All the way, I was so tired that my eyes couldn't open..." Grian walked in and lay down on Lin's bed without saying a word, not caring about the owner's protests: "Lying down is really comfortable..."

  "Never mind, you go sleep first, I'll give up the bed..."

  "No way, I still can't sleep." Grian lay for a while, but suddenly sat up from the bed: "The matter of Demon-slaying Valley, the more I think about it, the more it doesn't feel right. If I don't get to the bottom of this, I won't be sleeping today!"

  "What's wrong?"

  "The Eyes of the Witch." Probably due to excessive fatigue, Grian's voice sounded a bit hoarse: "There are so many Eyes of the Witch that even I'm not sure I can clearly remember the position of each one. How would the people in Shadow's Nest know?"

  "This matter is definitely problematic, one hundred and twenty-five wizard eyes were almost simultaneously destroyed, after which the people from the Shadow Nest arrived, in the blink of an eye killing over a dozen mages. If I hadn't intervened in time, who knows how far this would have gone..."

  "Could it be... they also have magicians making a move?"

  "This is somewhat possible, the Shadow Nest has indeed expanded rapidly in recent years and might have recruited some defeated types...” Grian thought for a moment, then shook his head to negate this speculation: “But it still doesn't add up, those were one hundred twenty-five Wizard's Eyes. Even if I personally took action, I'm not sure I could destroy them all at once. If the Shadow Nest really had someone that powerful, why bother with stealth? They could just come and wipe me out directly."

  "Besides the Wizard's Eye, there is another thing that is not normal... In recent years, due to the Shadow Nest, I have made great efforts in the Demon Slaying Valley. Apart from setting up 125 Wizard's Eyes, I also set up nearly 20 sentry posts. But last night, these 20 sentry posts were as if they didn't exist. The people of the Shadow Nest infiltrated all the way in, and I didn't even receive a single message..."

  Upon hearing this, Lin Li somewhat understood what Geary was trying to say. The Wizard's Eye had suddenly been completely destroyed and the people of Shadow Nest had grasped the route to bypass the sentry post. Almost all signs pointed towards the internal affairs of the Magic Guild.

  "Traitor!" Gruen's teeth clenched as he made his judgment: "Absolutely a traitor!"

  "No wonder you rushed back so early..."

  "No choice, if we don't get rid of these guys, I'm afraid there will be even bigger trouble."

  "Do you have a clue?"

  "Not yet, but it's not hard to investigate. Besides you, me and Kevin, the three of us who can access the secrets of the Witch's Eye, others at least need to be at the level of a Magic Guide. Think carefully again, among the many Magic Guides in the guild, which ones are most likely to betray the guild?"

  "Or in other words, who else is dissatisfied with you?" By this point, Lin Li had already somewhat understood.

  "That's right!"

  For a while, both of them were spirited, and Ge Rui An didn't sleep either. The old and young duo secretly plotted to catch the traitor in the bedroom. The two discussed this until almost evening, when Ge Rui An was about to collapse, Lin Li helped him pull up the quilt and quietly walked out of the bedroom.