Chapter 399 Orphan Boy

"This is it..."

After going deep into the slums, Anvis looked at the direction of fate again and confirmed that the target he was looking for was in this area.

At this time, he suddenly looked to one side, an alley, with something in his heart. There seemed to be a small unexpected situation there.

In Anvis's eyes, a boy about fifteen or sixteen years old ran out of a nearby dark alley in a panic, holding something in his arms.

He has brown hair and jet black eyes. Although his face looks ordinary, if you look closely, it is very attractive. Wearing a worn-out burlap jacket that was obviously too big, he looked no different from the average poor boy in the neighborhood.

"Damn that dirty rat cub, you still dare to run?! Stop it, or I'll break your legs if I catch you!"

Behind him, two fierce-looking refugees carrying sticks quickly chased him out. And while chasing him, he was still cursing fiercely, constantly threatening the young man who was running away in front of him.

The young man in front turned a deaf ear to this, and just tightened the items in his arms again, while speeding up his escape.

When you look carefully, you can see clearly that what the young man is holding in his arms like some kind of treasure is just a bag of ordinary black bread.

The moment the boy appeared, Anvis' eyes immediately locked on him.

Although the boy's appearance is no different from other people of the same age in the slums, from his perspective of fate, the amount of destiny's favor on the boy can be said to be astonishingly strong, just like a sea of ​​brilliant stars.

Apart from Fiona, he is the person with the strongest blessing of fate that Avis has ever seen.

Anvis even had some doubts. He was able to predict this location because of the strong favor of fate in the young man, which attracted him as an alternative 'adventure'.

It's just that it seems that his story has not officially begun yet, which is why he is currently in a difficult living environment.

At this moment, as if by coincidence, the direction in which the boy and the two refugees were chasing each other happened to be rushing straight towards Anvis, who was standing in the middle of the road.

Without immediately intervening, Anvis leaned slightly to the side of the road to make way for him.

But in the secret, Anvis has used his mental power to leave an observation mark on the boy's body, so that he can be found again at any time.

With no time to pay attention to Anvis, the boy nimbly rushed across the avenue and into another dark alley. Then he skillfully climbed over a low wall at the end and disappeared into a large mess of dilapidated shacks behind.

Although the two male refugees were adults, they were unexpectedly not as nimble as the teenager. Since they lost the trace of the teenager, they could only leave cursing after searching for a while.

Under Anvis's mental gaze, the escaping teenager emerged from another shanty area through a hidden passage between several shanties.

After realizing that he had escaped from the pursuers behind him, the young man breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards his real home.

After entering a low shed at the foot of the city wall, the young man carefully closed the door and blocked it with a wooden stick before entering the back room.

"I'm back--"

Hearing his voice, a slender girl with silver-white hair and light green eyes came out of the room to welcome his return.

Although her face was dirty, she could still tell from her face shape that she was a beauty. However, a huge ugly blue-black birthmark almost covered the left half of her face, completely ruining all the beauty.

However, on the back of the girl's left hand, one can see shiny structures that look like crystals.

That's a sign of crystallization disease.

"Brother Langton, you are back."

Seeing the young man's figure, a hint of relief flashed in the girl's vigilant eyes.

The two originally lived with their parents in a small village outside the city and had a happy family.

But the good times didn't last long. A group of thieves ransacked the village. The two parents resisted desperately and managed to let the two escape from the back mountain trail, but they themselves were killed by the thieves.

However, while the thieves were looting, a crystallizing wind suddenly invaded the village. Most of the bandits, who were not even professionals, were directly covered in crystals and died, and the remaining half also fled in all directions.

The two people who escaped were not spared either, but fortunately, because they escaped from the hardest-hit area in advance, the content of crystallized dust in the crystallized wind they encountered was already very thin.

It seems that because of this, the boy was lucky enough not to suffer from crystallization disease, but the girl younger than him was not immune.

Their homeland had been destroyed, and they had to leave their homes and seek refuge in the city of Malamos.

With no money and no experience, the two were almost deceived and sold by the gangsters at first. Fortunately, they got help from a pub owner at a critical moment and were able to find a place to live in the slums. It has been several months now.

"Don't worry, Leah, brother will definitely find a way to save enough money to ask the priest to cure your strange disease."

Putting the bag in his arms aside, the boy took the girl's thin little hand and looked at it, then touched the crystallized part distressedly.

"It's okay, brother, Leah doesn't feel the pain anymore. Although it hurt at the beginning, there is no feeling there anymore."

Shaking her head slightly, the girl looked at her hands and showed a strong smile.

"Brother, let's cook quickly, Leah is hungry."

"Okay, let's start cooking!"

As he spoke, the boy poured the contents of the bag onto the dark, tattered wooden table.

Thirty-seven Saint Mercia copper coins and two loaves of black bread were his daily wages as a waiter at Old Bill's tavern. Fortunately, he was familiar with the terrain of this slum, so he was not robbed by those villains.

He carefully poured out today's harvest, counted it twice, dug out a jar from the bottom of the indoor corner, carefully poured the coins into it, and then buried it again.

Then, he held a black amulet of unknown material on his chest, closed his eyes and prayed to the God of the North Wind, hoping to bless himself and his sister's safety.

He accidentally picked up the amulet on the way to escape. Although he didn't know what it was, it made him feel familiar, so he always wore it on his body.

While the boy was doing all this, the girl started to make a fire to boil water and prepared to start cooking bread.

After the water boiled, the boy threw the black bread he brought back into the pot and slowly boiled it until it softened. Then he put the cooked bread into two bowls, took out a small bottle hidden in the corner of the room, and sprinkled a little salt in each bowl.

After thinking for a while, he sprinkled a little more salt in the girl's bowl.

"It's time to eat."

Sitting at the table, the boy and the girl were ready to enjoy this shabby dinner.

However, this meal was destined to be uneasy.

Bang——

With a loud bang, the dilapidated wooden door was kicked open! The figures of the two villains who had been chasing the boy before appeared at the door.

"Aren't you very good at running? Little mouse, run for me now!"