My Magic Age

Several people stood on the lawn in the garden behind the ruins of the castle, gathered around a shutter box and looked at each other speechlessly. Xiu knelt on the ground and used a knife to pry open the upper cover of the shutter bit by bit. With a decadent look, he looked at the shutter very attentively and kept fiddling with the window to adjust it at will. The angled shutter blades, eyes flashing with a sly light, said seriously: "If you guessed correctly, this is the underground vent of the wine cellar. Usually such vents are located in some hidden places to prevent some small animals. When living in caves, there are usually complete protective iron nets at both ends of the air duct opening.”

The vent in the wine cellar was found by Xiu. As an assassin, he had training in this area. When we were standing in the yard and didn't know where to start, Xiu found the vent easily.

I teased him: "Xiu, you found the vent so quickly. Did you have training in this area in the Thieves Guild?"

He usually likes to pretend to be aloof, and he never shows his true colors to others. He is lazy and doesn't talk much. But I always like to chat with him. Although sometimes he will ignore me directly, but But I always enjoy it.

His eyes glanced to the side, not looking at me at all. He just looked at the vents intently, and finally said in a light tone: "Just find a book about architecture in the library, which covers various buildings. The design is introduced in detail. As a top student at the Magic Academy, you haven’t even read a book on imperial architecture?”

"..." I was choked and speechless for a moment.

I carefully looked at this small box, which was only one and a half feet square. It was hidden under the benches for people to rest around the lawn in the garden. It was also covered with snow as thick as cotton. Ordinary people would never notice that it was so secluded. corner.

At this time, the long wooden chair had been overturned. Xiu took a sharp dagger to take apart the shutter. Finally, he leaned down and took off the outermost iron mesh of the vent. There was a dry and warm hot air inside. Rushing toward him, Xiu knelt on the snow, held both ends of the vent with his hands, and leaned his upper body into the vent.

After a long while, he withdrew his body from the ventilation passage, then frowned and said to Captain Cynthia: "The passage inside is too narrow, and there are rune metal plates with wind magic patterns embedded in the corners. I can't pass through. Such a narrow vent, once stuck inside, there is no way to get back. "

"Let me give it a try!" I said to Captain Cynthia.

"No!" Xiu and Captain Cynthia said at the same time.

Captain Cynthia glanced at me and said to me seriously: "I will not put a magic apprentice in danger!"

"You have not received professional-level training. Once you encounter an emergency, it will not be easy to escape." Xiu said.

Seeing everyone's embarrassment, Carew also participated in the discussion.

"Otherwise, we can dig up the wine cellar right here!" Luka suggested eagerly. "Anyway, if there is someone inside, we need to open a passage!"

I thought about it and still wanted to go in and have a look. So he said, "Let me go in and take a look. I have a solution. Trust me!"

"You can't even learn Heidi's 'Water Escape Technique', right?" Cynthia asked me.

"I don't know this magic yet, but I have a way!" After I said to Cynthia, I ducked into the vent. The wind blowing out was very gentle. The vent extended straight down for less than one meter, and then it changed. The direction was changed to extend horizontally towards the direction of the ruined castle.

The vent made of green strips of stone is a bit slippery inside, and the stone wall of the vent is covered with purple moss. The vent is not very wide. I am a thin person, less than 150 centimeters tall, and I can't get in. Unable to turn over in the vent, he could only crawl forward with his body curled up, his hands and knees rubbing forward bit by bit on the bluestone in the vent.

Soon after entering the first corner, there was no light in front of me. I took out the Moonlight Stone Drum Totem from my magic pocket with difficulty. After adding a trace of magic power of the wind element, the Stone Drum Totem floated above my head. , emitting a gleaming white light. Although the light is not very bright, the advantage is that the light is very soft.

A faint wind element airflow emanated from the stone drum totem. The weak wind element wrapped my body like a cocoon. A trace of wind element airflow formed a faint wind circle on my feet. , the magical power of those wind elements supported my body, making me feel a lot lighter all of a sudden, and there were always two wind powers entwined around my thighs.

'The Wind's Swiftness'

This is the totemic power of the orc shaman.

After crawling ten meters further, a fork in the road suddenly appeared in front of me. I didn't have any good ideas, so I chose a random path and climbed in.

I could already smell the smell of old wood in the air from the vents, with the bitter fragrance of oak seeds. I felt so happy that I even crawled forward a little faster.

According to Lent, who was drunk again and told me about the brewing process of golden cider, the most exquisite golden cider barrels are made of adult oak hoops.

At this time, I could smell the smell of old wooden barrels in the ventilation system, which only meant that I was not far from the wine cellar.

…

I crawled forward with the faint light of the moonlight stone drum totem. At this time, Sister Guoguo followed me. Her water element body was squeezed into a narrow and long shape in the vent, but her face did not change. However, she suddenly appeared beside me without any sound, which really scared me.

When I was distracted for a moment, I didn't expect that my right hand, which I stretched forward, would suddenly press into the empty space. After losing the center of gravity, my body suddenly fell down.

This was a shaft of unknown depth. Fortunately, when I fell only half a meter, my right hand pressed on an iron net, and my body fell a little slower. However, I didn't expect that the iron net was too rusty due to years of rust. Just by pressing it lightly, I made a big hole in the iron net. My body, which had stopped falling, suddenly hit the iron net.

With a "boom", the whole person fell down with the iron net.

Without any hesitation, I drew a magic pattern in the air with my left hand and chanted a series of spells. In less than two seconds of falling, I quickly completed a magic.

‘Shadow Cloak’

During the fall, I turned into a ball of black mist, and my arm also turned into a black mist along with my body. The iron net on my arm was suddenly freed and fell to the ground with a ‘clang’ sound. The wine cellar seemed very quiet, and it must have been heard far away.

I found myself falling into a dark space, and the black mist I turned into quickly melted into the darkness.

When I landed on the ground, I vaguely saw rows of huge wine barrels around me. This made me secretly happy. I successfully entered the underground wine cellar of the manor. It was just as Captain Cynthia said. The barrels stacked in piles almost occupied the entire space of the underground wine cellar. I didn’t know how big the wine cellar was, but there were five layers of oak barrels as big as gasoline barrels on the wooden shelves from bottom to top. These neatly arranged barrels were endless in the dark underground wine cellar.

Just when I was about to remove the invisible state, someone beside me whispered in my ear: "Hey, the sound just now was clearly coming from here, why is it suddenly silent?"

The strange voice startled me, and a strange man passed through my body. He held a piece of moonstone in his hand, emitting a miserable light in this dark wine cellar. He looked a little bloated and fat. He was wearing a leather vest and a white linen shirt, a pair of breeches on his lower body, and a pair of riding boots on his feet. His messy hair and beard were all curled. At first glance, he was known to be the groom of this manor.

I thought he had discovered me, but I didn't expect someone to speak behind me. His voice was a little hoarse, but there was an indescribable cruelty and indifference in his tone. I don't know why, my heart tightened for no reason.

"Could it be a mouse?"

The man also passed through my body, stirring up the mist I had transformed into, and almost restored to human form.

His clothes were a little more sophisticated, with a small braid on his head, a white linen shirt on his upper body, and a pair of silk harem pants on his lower body, but he only wore a pair of socks on his feet.

With a "click", his foot kicked the iron net on the ground, and he didn't even hum, but bent down and picked up the iron net from the ground.

The man dressed as a groom in front heard the unusual sound and turned back quickly, holding up the moonstone to check the situation.

"Your eyes are on the top of your head, and you didn't see such a big piece of iron net?" The hoarse voice said to the groom very dissatisfiedly.

"Sorry, Anthony!" The groom apologized quickly and took the iron net from the braided man, and then brought the moonstone closer. At this time, the two of them could see the iron net clearly. There was a big hole in the middle of the iron net. The groom said in surprise: "Maybe it was really a mouse that ran in!"

"I don't think so. The mouse doesn't have enough strength to step on such a thick wire mesh. It should be much bigger than the mouse." Anthony's hoarse voice immediately refuted.

"My God, if it's a badger or a civet cat, or even a hedgehog, I've been wanting to bite my arm these days!" The fat groom said excitedly when he heard Anthony say this.

"Don't be too happy too soon, we must search carefully, and we must be careful not to miss any clues." Anthony turned around and said to the fat groom.

The fat groom was quite nice, and he agreed to whatever Anthony assigned him.

I wanted to get close to them and talk to them at this time. They were trapped in the wine cellar and might need my help.

But when the moonstone approached Anthony, I took a breath, because I saw a few large blood stains on Anthony's white shirt on his chest.

Over the past month, the number of barbarians hunted by the 11th team has exceeded 30, so we have a very clear understanding of the blood of barbarians. The blood on Anthony is not the blood of barbarians at all. The blood of barbarians is purple-black after drying, which is fundamentally different from this dark red. The blood on his body is clearly human blood, and it is obviously not his.

I was shocked and quickly gave up the idea of ​​showing up. I just followed them quietly in the form of mist.

These two people searched here for a while, but naturally found nothing.

They returned along the same path, and I followed closely.

Only then did I realize that this wine cellar was really big. I walked more than 300 meters and still couldn’t see the end of the wine cellar. There were vertical beams supporting every six meters in the wine cellar, and the wine barrels were arranged in an array. It is stored in the wine cellar in different areas, and each area has a corresponding vintage.

I marveled at the size of this estate’s wine cellar.

At this time, I heard the fat groom complaining to Anthony: "Anthony, do you know? Yesterday, Mrs. Roxani also committed suicide. Do these women really don't want to live? If they really committed suicide one by one, we What’s the point of being in this wine cellar?”

"What is the whip in your hand for? Punishment, you need to use some methods on the women who have made mistakes, you know? Punishment, just like you tame those horses, they are no longer noble ladies and noble ladies. Noble ladies, even if they have noble status, they are now our slaves. You have to punish the disobedient people so that they know how to obey our will." Anthony's hoarse voice was like a cat's claws on metal. It's like scratching on the board, it sounds so harsh.

"You know, Anthony, I'm just an honest groom. I can't do this. I can only tame the animals in the stables!" said the fat groom.

Anthony, who was walking in front, smiled, his voice shrill and harsh. He slowed down and said to the fat groom: "You can also lock them in the stable. The whip is not only effective on ponies, but sometimes it can also be used on those little horses." Noble ladies with tender skin and tender flesh are even more rare tools!”

"Okay, after the shift, I plan to listen to you and try it when I go back. Maybe there will be unexpected results!" the fat groom said emotionally. He rubbed his hands, then sighed, and said: "Anthony, You said that if we hide here, one day, the knights from El City will come and maybe we will be burned at the stake."

Anthony took out a bottle of wine from his waist, pulled out the cork, took a big gulp of wine, and said, "It tastes good!"

Then he turned around and hugged the fat groom's shoulders, and said: "Don't worry, even if I am burned on the stake, according to the crime I committed, I will definitely die before you. Since we are lucky enough to enjoy such a wonderful life, even if we live It has to be short, so what’s the harm?”

After hearing this, the uneasy feeling in my heart finally turned into a bad premonition.

Unexpectedly, there is a secret hidden in this wine cellar.