Five days after the Sea People attack.

　　Inside the ship's magnificent dining room.

　　Freya, who had finished her daily routine of meditation, casually walked to a seat with a plate full of food and ate delicately.

　　Because it was the sea, most of the food inside the ship was seafood, although because the chef's cooking skills were very good, eating too much of it was also very tiresome, so most of her plate was filled with green vegetables and a few golden-coloured grilled fish.

　　The restaurant was large and lavishly decorated, but other than Freya alone, there were only two or three people dining here, and they were all spaced far apart.

　　Just as she hadn't taken more than a few bites, a silhouette came round from behind her and placed her plate across from her.

　　"Freya, I'm also eating alone, mind if I sit here?"

　　That was an ordinary teenager wearing a brown swordsman's uniform, about fourteen or fifteen years old, his raspy voice in the stage of voice change was a bit hard to hear, but his attitude was kind and had a sunny flavour.

　　Although it was an enquiry, the teenager was self-conscious and directly smiled and sat down.

　　Freya looked at the opposite teenager somewhat speechlessly, just gently tapped the plate with a dinner knife to show the other party's unreasonable behaviour, but also did not utter a voice to drive away.

　　This ordinary teenager was accidentally befriended the day after the Sea Nation attack while practising sword in the exercise room, and his name was Francis. Francis Bucklander.

　　It was embarked at the last Mayan port, and was himself an apprentice going to the Sorcerer's Academy, just to a different destination than Freya.

　　However, although Francis was in the same capacity as Freya, compared to Freya who knew nothing, Francis knew much more than her.

　　And most of the things about this ship were actually what he told Freya.

　　Except for Francis' conversation at the beginning, after that, the two of them just ate their food in silence, during which the restaurant, which already had very few people in it, had two more people walk out just now.

　　Now only the two of them were left in the entire large dining room.

　　After a while, Francis finally couldn't help but open his mouth after devouring a live squid.

　　"By the way, Freya, I still don't know where you're going after all this time."

　　"I'm going to the Elgrim Witch Academy." Freya calmly said.

　　In these few days she also had some understanding of Francis' self-centred personality, apart from being a bit of a chatterbox the person was actually a simple teenager.

　　"Elgrim ah?" Francis picked up a bowl of thick soup and blew slightly, thought for a moment and then said "I seem to have heard of this organisation, it's over the Dias Mountains, only two medium-sized countries separate from where I'm going, it seems to be very close."

　　"Oh? You know about Elgrim?" Freya raised her head slightly, putting down her food and asked curiously "Then do you know anything about this organisation?"

　　"This..." Francis embarrassedly smiled "In fact, I only know the approximate location, the organisation between the wizards in fact, the secrecy is very strict, if you are not joining it then it is difficult to understand, but I can tell you, in about ten days or so, you are going to arrive. are going to arrive, and I'm going to be three or four days later than you."

　　His answer to his question was to be expected.

　　It was just that Freya frowned slightly, "...It's actually going to be more than ten days."

　　Given the speed of the giant ship, the current location was far, far away from the Dragon's harbour, and if one were to go back with an unusual carriage, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to take years as a unit of measurement.

　　"That's actually pretty fast." Francis saw Freya's expression and consoled "You have to know that some wizards' organisations are still further away, it is said that some special wizards are still active over the pole, as far as I know, there are two people on this ship who are going there, that would take half a year to get there oh."

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　　"Er...half a year..."

　　Freya was a bit speechless, it was hard to imagine that someone would need to stay on this ship for half a year to get to their destination, but she turned her head to look at Freya Sith suspiciously.

　　"Then again, why do you know so much about it?"

　　"It's nothing, I'm actually a second son who was deported because the family was in trouble, and now that the family is up and running, I have the chance to go back." Francis spread his hands and spoke bluntly, as if he had nothing to hide about his identity.

　　"Family? Do you mean a family of witches?"

　　"Well, it's just a small family, if you're interested you can give up that Elgrim Academy and come to my family, I guarantee that I won't treat you badly." Francis seemed to have a casual tone, but his gaze towards Freya was with an inexplicable sense of anticipation.

　　In a few days of contact, through subtle probing he also somewhat understand some of Freya's information, itself has the peak strength of the knight at the same time also has the qualification of the third level of the sorcerer, which even in some of the sorcerer's big organisations can be regarded as an elite level of the apprentice, the character is too rational but it can't be said that this is also a kind of advantage.

　　If he pulled Freya into the family, it would definitely help the current family as well, and what he said in his words that he wouldn't treat him poorly, but it was also true.

　　Freya looked at Francis' sincere expectant eyes, and also knew that what he said was not a joke, it was just about the contract between Hegel and her, so she slightly shook her head and smiled.

　　"Forget it, I also promised someone when I went to Elgrim, so... if there's a chance, I'll visit your family."

　　"Oh, oh~ That's a shame." Francis showed an exaggerated expression and said "But, seriously, although I don't understand the content of that organisation in Elgrim, but I do know that over that Dias mountain range is the area where there are frequent wizard wars, if you go there and can't mix it up, you can come to my side, I will welcome you anytime as Buckalanen's second son. "

　　"Oh, so it's settled, at that time if you really go don't back out." Freya was also flabbergasted by Francis' exaggerated expression, then replied with a smile.

　　"That's for sure."

　　Although the two of them had only been together for a few days, Freya could also feel Francis' sincerity towards her, there were no special feelings in it, it was just the simple camaraderie between friends brought about by running into people who appreciated each other in the middle of a vast ocean.

　　"By the way, do you know what kind of power those black-robed people on this ship are using? Are they also sorcerers?" Freya asked as she suddenly thought of the strange powers used by the black-robed men during the Sea Clan's attack.

　　"Oh, those ah, those people aren't sorcerers, they are just dead soldiers that the Elk family cultivated from a young age with sorcery, themselves an existence between knights and sorcerers, their potential has been overdrawn by sorcery from a young age, while getting strong power, in fact, by nature it's just a group of warriors with no potential, at most, they reach the level of peak knights, and those of us with infinite potential It cannot be compared to us who have boundless potential." Francis slowly replied, just a hint of contempt showing in the bottom of his eyes.

　　"Oh, between a sorcerer and a knight... originally, huh?" Freya nodded, somewhat understanding.