The magic merchant who mingled with Fairy Tail

In Urrutia's life, it seems that from the moment she was born, she has formed an indissoluble bond with ice, or in other words, with people who use ice.

Just like now, the second road on the left is freezing to the bone.

Few people know that she can not only use the lost magic, the arc of time, but also the shape of ice.

She is the daughter of Uru, so she naturally inherited her magical talent. Although it is rarely used, Urudia's attainments in this area are no worse than Gray and Leon.

Urrutia also has a cold-resistant physique. The ice in front of her did not make her feel cold, but what puzzled her was that after experiencing this, she actually felt that the magic power contained in the ice was very familiar.

"what is going on?"

Urrutia was suspicious, frowning, and lost in thought, "Why do I feel that this ice has a kind of familiar feeling? It's like...it is one with me..."

…

On the second road on the right, Jellal walked along, trying to sense the darkness ahead. There were no bones, no foul-smelling corpses of monsters, and no bone-deep ice. Instead, the entire passage was empty. , nothing can be seen.

"Is this the case in other passages as well?"

Looking at the metal passage in front of him, Jellal speculated for a while, "We were deliberately separated. I thought someone would be ambushing here. Am I wrong?"

Just then, a dazzling light flashed!

Jellal suddenly looked up and found that he had reached the end of the passage without knowing when!

"What's going on? I clearly remember that I can't see the head... By the way! Kira said that the entire castle is made of that kind of metal and can be controlled at will! Since the owner here can control it freely The castle, of course, can allow me to reach the end at any time..."

After thinking about this, Jellal looked at the metal door in front of him: "In this situation, don't you want to waste time in vain? Do you want to have a good talk face to face?"

He took a step forward, reached out and pushed open the door...

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"Are you the owner of this castle?"

When Kira opened the door, the blond young man was playing with his "gadgets" in the room. Four large screens were hung on the wall in front of him. On the screens, the scenes of the other four passages were projected. Urrutia , Jellal, Eric, Dark Night and others are among them.

"Kira Hopelite, first time meeting, I'm Silver!"

The blond young man stood up and greeted Kira. He had a bright smile on his face. After Kira looked carefully, she found that his eyes looked like Natsu, his actions looked like Gray's, and his hair style looked like Laxus's, except for "I am a good person". The words "My youth is also a passionate comic" are written on his face.

Kira just felt that she was on the wrong set: "You... aren't you the owner of this research institute?"

Silver gave Kira a strange look: "Of course!"

Kira: "..."

Silver asked Kira to sit down and said: "To be precise, I am just one of them. Including me, there are a total of five researchers here. I am responsible for the research on machinery. This castle is me. Designed. How do you like it? Pretty good, right?"

Kira sat down opposite him, nodded sincerely, and said, "Indeed, it's amazing! It's really good news for otakus! It makes me a little envious!"

In fact, I was very envious, but Kira felt that there was not much difference between the two. What he is most concerned about now is...

"I learned from Brian that the owner here is not an old man?"

"Brian..." The other party lowered his head and thought for a moment. After a while, he looked up at Kira again and said, "Is he the leader of the 'Six Demon Generals'? He did come here once a few years ago, when the old director was still here. Management, the director died not long after. From then on, it was me and a few companions who managed it."

"So that's it!" Kira understood. "So this is indeed the 'Dragon Slayer Research Institute'. Are you doing research on the Dragon Slayer Demon Crystal and selling the Dragon Slayer Demon Crystal?"

Silver nodded, shook his head, and said, "It used to be! Not anymore!"

Kira asked: "Why?"

"Because the supply is insufficient! You may not know that the so-called dragon-slaying magic crystal is made from the heart of a dragon. But in this era, dragons are almost extinct!"

A very real and pure reason, Silver answered concisely.

"Actually, this place has been in decline since the time of the old director. The research cost was too high, the research success rate was too low, and all the dragon-slaying magic crystals that were successfully produced were sold. Brian bought it that year The "Poison Dragon-Slaying Magic Crystal" is already the last few."

"Are there no more ones here?" Although he had expected it, Kira was still a little unwilling and asked, "I can buy it...I mean, buy it at a high price."

Kira is really disappointed in her heart!

Before coming here, he had always thought that these mysterious and suspicious magicians who had never appeared must be conducting invisible transactions in the black market all day long, and at the same time doing various human body work in the dark laboratory. A mad scientist who performs experiments, then he can "do justice for heaven" without any psychological burden.

But the scene in front of me, with the sunny young man, the well-lit and unique villa, and the machines, metals and magic props everywhere, is very different from the imaginary scene.

'It seems that this is not the kind of black-hearted processing factory that I imagined. I originally thought that there must be a lot of inventory here, and I thought about grabbing it directly...'

Di Xizu said without changing his expression: "There are indeed not a single one here!"

Kira caught a certain word keenly: "You said...'here'? Is there any other place?"

Silver was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "That's true! No matter how you think about it, 'making a dragon's heart into a dragon-slaying magic crystal' doesn't sound like something that can be achieved in just a few years or decades. experiment."

"Even I don't know how long this organization that studies the 'Dragon Slayer Magic Crystal' has existed. I only know that this is just one of the branches of the institute. All this time, this institute has been able to contact , it’s just another branch.”

"But because this base has run out of inventory a long time ago, and the remaining machines have been scrapped, we lost contact with other branches after the death of the previous director."

"In other words, we haven't had contact with the organization for seven years. Maybe they thought there was no one here and abandoned this stronghold long ago. It's impossible to find any clues from here!"

Just a few words blocked all Kira's thoughts.

Are we going to leave empty-handed this time?

Kira turned his attention to the screen. While he was chatting with the other party here, several teammates had already walked out of the passage and faced the defenders at the end of their respective passages.

"These are the five researchers you mentioned? They are all young...wait, is this gray cat a transcendent?"

Silver seemed not surprised that Kira was called "Transcender" and looked up at the screen. Kira noticed that his eyes became much more friendly: "That's right! Its name is Nikhil, and he is the youngest one here. Bit, 6 years old this year, when I picked it up, it hadn’t hatched from the egg yet.”

6 years ago... that is, like Habi and the others, they were the ones who came from Edras to escape.

"Can cats also become researchers? No, I'm not racist, but the brain capacity of cats... well... the one in our guild is still clamoring for fish every day!"

"Haha..." Silver couldn't help but chuckle, "Nichol is similar. He has lived in a research institute since he was a child, and what he has seen and learned is much more advanced than people in the outside world. He has naturally become smarter because of what he has heard and seen."

"However, he is also greedy. He thinks about eating bones every day. Even I can't do anything about him."

Silver's tone was full of endearment, and Kira felt that he was not talking about his teammates, but his younger brother.

"Wait...he's a cat, not a dog, right? He eats bones?!"