My Magic Age

This pub is like a small country bar. There is a 20-meter-deep courtyard at the door of the bar. Many purple grapes are planted in the courtyard. Now the grapevines are covered with wooden frames and the entire courtyard is covered in the shade. Now it’s time to arrive During the grape ripening season, bunches of green and red grapes are hidden among the green leaves.

When I was young, I often liked to pinch off the tendrils on the grape vines, break them into sections, and taste them in my mouth. It was sour and astringent.

On each bunch of grapes, there is always one grape that is different from the others. It will be dyed red first, then turn red, and finally become so red that it turns purple when the other grapes are still green...

A group of us walked under the shady grape trellis. There were some scattered wooden seats under the grape trellis.

In the morning, there didn't seem to be many people in this pub. There was a drunken drinker lying on the wine table and sleeping soundly. A waiter was cleaning up the messy table next to him, which was piled with wine bottles and wine. Plate with food and drinks.

"Dear guests, the pub is currently closed. The official opening time will be after two o'clock in the afternoon." The waiter looked at us in surprise and then said to us.

Rita stood in the middle of the crowd and said to the waiter: "We are here to buy news."

"Well, if you want to request purchase information, please go and register over there." The waiter pointed to an attic on the left side of the courtyard and said to us.

It seems that this loft is integrated with the tavern, but it is actually a building facing the street. A group of people gathered under the notice board at the door. They were whispering next to the notice board, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

Under the guidance of the tavern waiter, we came to the front of the loft. There was a large bulletin wall on the left and right of the door of the loft. The bulletin board on the left side of the loft was filled with announcements written in charcoal, a bit like the ones in the Imperial Capital. Some of the news in the magic newspaper was written like a wonderful little story. The group of people standing under the bulletin board seemed to be reading the news on the bulletin board with relish.

Some even held wine glasses and drank while evaluating the authenticity of the news.

The bulletin board on the right is filled with various questions covering most of the wall. I took a casual look and found that there were dozens of bounty questions posted on this wall. Behind each question was the release date and bounty amount. Several rangers in tight leather armor were standing under the bulletin board. Holding a quill in one hand and a parchment white paper in the other, they recorded some valuable bounty information on the white paper.

A group of us walked over, and before the waiter standing at the door came to ask, Rita walked up and said, "We want to buy some news."

The waiter nodded slightly, looked around at our group, and then said: "Dear guests, please follow me."

"If you want to buy something, don't you need to write it on the blackboard?" Helena couldn't help but ask the waiter.

When the waiter saw that the person who asked the question was a girl with a pretty face, he immediately began to answer Helena very patiently: "Of course not, our guild archives record all the major events that have happened on Dunai Island in the past few decades. Of course, there are also some strange rumors about the incident. If the questions raised by guests happen to be related to these news, the answer should be found soon. "

"So, what kind of questions would be written on those notice boards?" Becky on the side continued to ask.

The waiter continued to answer patiently: "Only for questions that cannot be answered, with the permission of the funder, we will publish them on the notice board and mark the amount of the reward."

"However, sometimes there is a time lag in these bounty questions, that is, the poster of the question has already got the answer, but does not come to us to cancel the bounty question at the first time. When encountering such a thing, even if the answer to the question is obtained, You won’t get bonuses either, so when choosing to answer questions, please pay special attention to the question release date.”

I heard one of the words mentioned in the waiter’s previous words mentioning ‘our union’.

Suddenly, it occurred to me: There seems to be this kind of organization that provides various information in various cities in the Green Empire. It seems that they also use taverns as their bases, because most of the providers of information and intelligence are thieves. They are fringe people living in the city. , after a long evolution, this kind of organization that provides various information and intelligence is known as: Thieves Guild.

Helena asked again: "Is there any question that has been posted for a long time but has not been answered?"

The waiter immediately replied: "Of course there is, and it's very common, so if you want to post a bounty question but don't get the answer within a period of time, please come to us in time to update the bounty question."

By this time we had walked into the attic, which was designed like a bank's office lobby.

I asked the waiter: "How can we determine whether the news we obtained is true? What if we publish a bounty question but receive false news?"

The waiter glanced at me and replied: "For many professional and academic questions, only the publisher can determine whether the answer is correct. If the authenticity of the answer needs to be verified, then the words 'needs verification' must be marked in advance. We will keep the reward money on our behalf before the answer is verified, and only after the answer is verified, we will pay the reward to the answerer..."

The waiter took us into a soundproof secret room. It seemed that the girl Rita was here for the first time. She looked at the decoration in the room curiously. There was only a square table and six chairs in the room. The waiter asked someone to bring a pot of tea, put the teacups in front of us, and filled them with hot tea for us, and then left without saying a word.

It was not until a middle-aged man holding a thick document came in that she realized that she seemed not to be standing here. She waved to us, walked out of the secret room with light steps, and then stuck her head in at the door. She gestured to us, indicating that she would wait outside, and made exaggerated lip shapes, as if saying: "I'll wait for you outside!"

Rita disappeared at the door with a "whoosh". She was really a thoughtful and sensitive girl.

The secret room was very quiet. The middle-aged man was wearing a black robe and looked like a conservative priest, but he didn't have the emblem of "faith" on him.

He stood in the secret room for a while, and then asked us: "Everyone, if you have any questions you need to know, please ask them! However, there is a premise, that is, the scope of the questions I answer is limited to the sea area around Dunai Island and the events on Dunai Island."

I bowed and said to the middle-aged man: "We came to Dunai Island this time to find out some news about the sea monster."

The middle-aged man frowned and said seriously: "This is the first time I have heard that someone wants to find a sea monster in the sea near Dunai Island in so many years!"

The 'Thieves Guild' has always made a living by selling information. As a staff member here, he is naturally knowledgeable and knows many unknown secrets on Dunai Island.

Now, when I heard him say that he had never heard of 'any rumors about the sea monster', my heart sank to the bottom.

With full of hope, I came to Dunai Island all the way to find the soul horn, but it seems that there is no sea monster in the sea near Dunai Island, otherwise these people in the Thieves Guild would definitely know it.

However, my news came from the dean of the Royal School of Magic. I have no doubt about the authenticity of this news. Even if I am here in person, everyone says that there is no sea monster here, but I still can't believe it completely.

The "answer to the news" is a reward for my outstanding performance in the summer festival. The old dean even gave up the reliable information on the Endless Sea and suggested that I go to the plane of Vashj to find the answer. There should be a basis for it.

I said to the middle-aged man: "Have you really never heard of the rumors of the sea monster?"

The middle-aged man's brows were locked into the shape of a "chuan" character, and he supported his hand on his chin and thought hard.

After a long time, he still shook his head and sighed helplessly. Just when we were full of disappointment, the middle-aged man said again: "If you insist on continuing to look for this information, you can apply to search the large database of the guild archives. Of course, this large-scale file transfer and query work will cost us a lot of manpower and material resources, so whether you can find this news or not, as long as you apply to search the large database, you need to pay us for the search fee."

"Okay, I agree to search the file!" I said without hesitation.

The middle-aged man seemed a little surprised, obviously he didn't expect that I could make a decision so quickly.

Then, I paid the middle-aged man a gold coin. As expected, the price of investigating the archives was so expensive that it was outrageous. You know, even if you have a fine dinner in the "Imperial Capital", it will never exceed ten silver coins. One gold coin is almost two months' family income for an ordinary civilian family.

He asked us to wait in the secret room for a while and walked out of the secret room.

From the time the middle-aged man walked out of the secret room, time seemed to freeze, and it seemed that every minute seemed particularly long.

After a long time, the middle-aged man walked into the secret room. Before he spoke, he shook his head at us with regret.

The middle-aged man stopped in front of me and said to me: "It's a pity that no information about the sea monster can be found in the big database."

My heart fell to the bottom of the valley, and only two words kept popping up in my mind: "How is it possible? ’

The middle-aged man saw that I was extremely disappointed, so he suggested to me: Why not post a reward message? If you want someone to respond quickly, you might as well set a higher reward amount.

I was full of expectations, but in the end I got nothing. This feeling of disappointment is like falling from a high altitude.

But I didn’t want to write this question on the notice board, so I flatly rejected the middle-aged man’s proposal.

Ying Li next to me came over, put his arm around me, gave me some comfort, and said to me: "Don’t worry, Ji Jia, after returning to the Green Empire, I will accompany you to Haiyinsi. We can ask the Naga sea tribe who settled in Haiyinsi about the news of the sea monster. There must be a sea monster in the Endless Sea."

So with full of disappointment, we left the Thieves Guild in this tavern.

Rita was waiting at the door of the attic. Seeing the solemn expressions on our faces, she knew that things were not going too smoothly.

So, Rita didn't mention where to go next, but directly said to us: "There are a few taverns on Dunai Island, why don't we go there and try our luck?"

I shook my head slightly and rejected Rita's kindness.

I didn't cancel my plan to tour the island in the afternoon, but because I was a little absent-minded, I just basked in the sun on a pleasant beach on Dunai Island for most of the day. Looking at the vast sea, my mood became a little better.

A dark red light wheel fell into the sea, and the sky darkened.

Unknowingly, we spent an afternoon on the beach and took the magic caravan back to the manor hotel. The ladies knew that I was in a bad mood and kept silent all the way.

When returning to the manor hotel, when the magic caravan just drove into the gate, I happened to see a magic caravan passing by me at the gate. Although the light was a little dim in the evening, my five senses were a little different from ordinary people. Under the influence of magic perception, they became particularly sharp. Just when the two magic caravans passed by, at the moment when the two magic caravans passed by, I saw Duke Wheeler sitting in the carriage.

I was a little surprised. It was so late, did Duke want to go to the tavern?

But in the carriage, I didn't see the figure of the blonde beauty who had been with him all the time.

Just as the magic caravan Duke Wheeler was riding in drove out of the manor, I suddenly felt a familiar magical breath in the magic caravan... Shadow magic elements, that familiar breath, made me think of the shadow of the 'Black Magic Hermitage'.

Unexpectedly, I would meet members of the 'Black Magic Hermitage' on Dunai Island. I thought to myself: These guys from the Black Magic Hermitage are really omnipresent!

Last time, they kidnapped Jacques Mensa in the Galapagos and wanted to perform the 'evil magic ritual' on Jacques. This time, they aimed at Duke Wheeler again...

I didn't think much about it and told the coachman of the magic caravan to turn the car around and follow the carriage that just drove out of the manor.

After being promoted to an eighth-level magician, my magic perception has been greatly enhanced. The water element on the island is extremely strong, so my magic perception can extend more than 200 meters.

We followed the magic caravan from a distance until it drove into the alleys of the civilian area and slowly stopped in front of a house. By then, the sky had completely darkened.