My Magic Age

Every magic union has a law enforcement group, and the law enforcement group's responsibility is to handle cases related to magicians.

Since the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Group is destined to deal with evil mages hiding in the dark, as the deacons of the Law Enforcement Group are all the best among local magicians, walking up the stairs to the third floor of the Magic Guild, the place is obviously much deserted.

A magic badge the size of a iris shield hangs on the plaque at the entrance of the stairs. The badge is shaped like an unfolded magic book and a staff.

When we walked into the third floor of the Magic Guild, we were immediately affected by the solemn atmosphere here. The entire circular corridor seemed extremely quiet. Catalina and I walked to the stairs and faced the door of the room. The door of this room happened to be open, and a person The middle-aged magician was standing on a test bench, holding a silver spoon in his hand and pouring some brown powder into a test tube bottle.

I was worried that speaking suddenly would affect his preparation of the potion, so I stood at the door and waited for a while.

When the middle-aged magician poured all the powder from the silver spoon into the glass, I guess he gently knocked on the open door. The middle-aged magician turned to look at me, and then called me in. There was a desk on the left wall. He put down what he was doing, went behind the desk, unfolded a book bound with magic parchment, raised his head and rolled his eyes, and asked me: "Young man Mr. Magician, what can I do for you?"

I told the middle-aged magician about the situation of Heidi and Moraya. He had deep nasolabial wrinkles on his face and frowned as he recorded everything I said.

"The Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team will conduct an investigation. Please wait patiently. Once there is news about the two magicians, we will notify you as soon as possible."

The middle-aged magician said to me with a numb face, as if he didn't listen at all to what I just said.

"Thank you then."

I forced a smile.

He no longer paid attention to me, turned around and walked to the test bench, took out two tubes of bubbling green solution from the reagent rack, and carefully poured it into the glass beaker.

"Bang"

There was a muffled sound, and the glass beaker on the test stand exploded.

The room was filled with choking smoke. The middle-aged magician walked out of the smoke in embarrassment. Seeing me sitting at the desk without leaving, he asked me with a very ugly face: "Do you have anything else to do?" ”

I looked at his face that was darkened by the fireworks and said to him, "Are you okay?"

"Isn't it common for magic experiments to fail? It's just a minor situation, it's nothing." He picked up a towel and wiped his face, saying with some embarrassment.

The room filled with acrid smoke.

I came to the test bench. The middle-aged magician’s test bench was a very standard potion preparation bench. The wooden shelves on the table were filled with various magic reagents. There was also an Augulas I grinding machine next to it. This grinder is suitable for grinding various magic herbs. There is also a small crucible next to the test bench.

The explosion just occurred because the magic solution boiled in the crucible was poured into the beaker and exploded. This explosion was not destructive, but the large amount of thick smoke produced was very choking.

I took out an exhaust fan from my magic belt bag and placed it in the window. I also took out a fragment of magic crystal and embedded it into the gem base. A magical shimmer appeared on the rune board of the exhaust fan, and a gentle wind enveloped it. The thick smoke in the room blew out through the window.

The middle-aged magician came over, first looked at the exhaust fan on the window sill, and couldn't help but ask me: "What... is this?"

"Exhaust fans are magic items designed to remove smoke and dust in laboratories. These things can be found everywhere in the imperial capital." I said to the middle-aged magician with a smile.

The middle-aged magician stared straight at the exhaust fan, watching the thick smoke in the room being blown away bit by bit by the wind.

He sat back at his desk and coughed twice, "Well... Mr. Magician, tell me... how do you want me to help you?"

"Well, can you help me investigate the information they registered with the Magic Guild in Qiyan City?"

I sat down opposite him again and said.

The middle-aged magician frowned slightly and explained to me: "The registration information only records the approximate time of their arrival in Qiyan City. I think it has little bearing on the search for the missing magician!"

He thought for a while, looked up at me, and then said: "In the past two months, there have been as many as seven cases of missing magicians in Qiyan City. At present, almost all the law enforcement team has been dispatched."

"So many magicians are missing?" I took a breath and said.

Unexpectedly, there would be so many missing cases of magicians in Qiyan City. All the magicians from the law enforcement team were dispatched to investigate these cases.

The middle-aged magician said solemnly: "Yes, they probably disappeared after following the adventure group into the wild swamp. The entire adventure group also disappeared. Not long ago, the Knights of the Qiyan City Guard Camp issued a warning about the dangers of the wild swamp. Warning, I think your friend may have entered the wild swamp with the adventure group. Now that our people have entered the wild swamp, I believe there will be news soon."

"I want to check when they came to the Qiyan City Magic Guild." I said to the middle-aged magician.

"Well, since you insist on investigating their registration information in the Magic Guild, then... please follow me."

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged magician stood up and took me back to the magic civil servants' data room on the second floor. He said to the female magician who was sorting out documents in the data room: "Miss Dennis, please help me find two magicians." Recent registration information.”

"Okay, Lord Constantine, which magician do you want to find?" Miss Dennis was wearing a magic skirt and a lace white shirt. Her chestnut hair was pulled up high, and she showed us a very standard look. Smile.

Constantine set his eyes on me and motioned me to tell Miss Dennis the name of the magician I wanted to find.

I quickly said: "One is Teacher Heidi, an ice magician who came to the War Magic Academy in El City, Sloit Province, and the other is Miss Moraya, a wood magician who came to the Imperial Capital."

Unexpectedly, when I announced the names of Instructor Heidi and Moraya, Miss Dennis covered her mouth and said loudly with a look of surprise:

"Is it Heidi and Moraya?"

Her mood seemed a little excited, and she spoke a little quickly, with a strong Qiyan City dialect, and asked me:

"Oh, I know them! Does Mr. Heidi, the magician, think that the second level is strong?"

I looked carefully and understood the meaning of this sentence. I replied:

"Yes, she was my mentor when I was at the El City War Magic Academy. This time she was invited by me to go to Qiyan City for an expedition into the wild swamp. Moraya is her former assistant and also my good friend. , she has very rich experience in jungle exploration, and she is also an excellent wood magician.”

She stood in front of me and looked at me carefully from beginning to end, "So you are Moraya's friends? She never mentioned it to me."

"Miss Dennis, do you know Moraya?"

I didn't expect to meet Ya's friends from Qiyan City at the Magic Guild.

Miss Dennis nodded and said to me: "Of course, she often took some missions to explore the wild swamp at the Magic Guild last year. At that time, I was still working at the mission announcement office. Every time she came back from the jungle swamp, she would bring it back to me. Some strange seed gifts."

"We had dinner together half a month ago, and she introduced to me her companion Heidi the Magician." She said with some worry.

She invited us to sit down on the sofa in the reception area in the corner of the reference room.

I said to Miss Dennis: "We made an appointment to meet at the Huolien Hotel in Qiyan City in the next few days, but they didn't leave any message and left in a hurry, so I thought of going to the Magic Guild to look for some information. clue."

I looked into her light blue eyes and asked Miss Dennis: "Did Moraya say anything when you had dinner with her?"

Miss Dennis thought about it carefully and then said: "She told me that she would go deep into the wild swamp with a group of friends recently, but she didn't say what she was going to do. I advised her not to take risks at this time, but I knew she would not listen. Mine. Later I told her that since she had to go there for adventure, It would be better to take on a few tasks that have been hanging on the bulletin board and no one wants to do them. Those tasks all require the depths of the wild swamp to be completed. It has been almost half a year. There are many people taking them, but no one has completed them to receive the rewards. She also He just smiled and said nothing, as if he had no interest in those tasks. "

I continued to ask: "Then she didn't say anything else? For example, someone she wanted to meet?"

Miss Dennis rubbed her forehead, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Oh, I remembered it. She said she was going to visit a friend. It is said that she was a very famous guide in Qiyan City. Let me think about it. …Let me think about it, oh, by the way, that guide’s name is Nathaniel, he’s quite famous here in Qiyan City, and Ya said that he’s going to visit him.”

Guide... I remembered that Moraya said that she wanted to find the guide who took them into the wild swamp. In this case, we have a greater chance of finding the ancient altar in the wild swamp.

I said silently in my mind: "Nathaniel."

"Okay, thank you, Miss Dennis." I said to Miss Dennis.

"Thank you, Magician Constantine." I said to the middle-aged magician again, but in my heart I just thanked the exhaust fan.

…

After walking out of Qiyan City Magic Guild, the sun climbed to the top of the head, and the leaves of the trees on both sides of the street hung down listlessly.

The hot sunlight fell on the skin, making the whole body feel hot. The shadows cast by the sunlight were hidden under the feet.

I walked quickly to the shade of the tree, Catalina followed me and asked me: "Where should we find Nathaniel?"

Standing on the side of the road, waiting for the passing magic caravan, he thought for a while and said to Catalina: "Go to the Mercenary Association first. Nathaniel, since he is a very famous guide in Qiyan City, there should be some Many people know him, so you can ask a few guides.”

…

The Mercenary Association of Qiyan City is right opposite the Hollier Hotel. It is a T-shaped two-story building, close to the Civic Center, where many people gather every day.

A valley near Qiyan City is rich in granite, so many buildings here are made of rocks with a white background and many black star patterns. The lines and outlines of the entire building are simple and bright, which makes people feel energetic. A jolt.

Every day, different employers come to the Mercenary Association to post tasks. Many local mercenary groups in Qiyan City come here to find suitable tasks. Of course, there are also some foreign adventure groups. Many adventure groups join the Mercenary Association. The principle is the same. You can receive mercenary missions, but the competitiveness is much lower than that of local mercenary groups. The main reason is the problem of reputation and mutual trust. If the employer does not trust you, no matter how outstanding you are, it will be of no use.

Catalina and I came to the entrance of the Mercenary Association. There was a large group of people gathered at the entrance of the Mercenary Association. When these people saw us preparing to enter the Mercenary Association, they shouted around like locusts. The young people at the front were crowded. The man took the opportunity and shouted to me loudly: "Mr. Magician, do you want to hire a guide? I am the best guide in Qiyan City. I am extremely familiar with any rainforest around Qiyan City."

"Are you as familiar with the inner city of Qiyan City as you said?" I stopped and looked at the young man in front of me and asked.

The young man's eyes narrowed completely with laughter, and he said with a smile in standard Green Empire language: "What you said is simply the greatest insult to a native Qiyan person. I can swear to my grandma that I am familiar with every corner of this city. A street, every alley, even every house number, as long as you tell me the address, I can help you find it.”

"Hey... Capa, what you said is so beautiful, but no! With all due respect, this is just the basic ethics of those magic caravan drivers. Why is it necessary to hire a guide in Qiyan City!" Someone in the crowd said sarcastically. .

"Go away, what do you have to do here!" the young guide Paka turned around and yelled angrily.

The crowd was immediately filled with the smell of gunpowder. In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, I quickly took Capa and left the mercenary association. I found a secluded place and said to her, "Okay, since you said so, let's go there." Let’s talk, if you can help me find my target, I will pay you a commission. If you can’t find it, I won’t give you a cent.”

"Mr. Magician, tell me, where do you want to go?" Capa said, a little impatient with my nagging.

I looked him in the eye and asked him, "I'm looking for Nathaniel, so have you seen him lately?"

Capa's eyes widened and he asked me in surprise: "You want to find Saniel? The last time I saw him was half a month ago, oh! It was right at the door of the Huolien Hotel opposite. At that time, he was in a hurry, and we were just Just saying hello."

"You guys know each other well?" I felt happy and asked Capa hurriedly.

Capa touched his nose and said with a guilty conscience: "It's not that familiar! We just work together in the guide industry in Qiyan City and we don't see each other when we look up. We just know each other."

It sounds like there may still be some competition...

I then asked: "Do you know his home?"

Capa opened his eyes wide and looked at me warily:

"..."