my age of magic

Chapter 1246 50. Who moved my dead body?
There is a row of magic wall lamps with moonstone wicks on the columns beside the arches of the vestibule cloister, and the wall lamps exude a cool halo through the milky white lampshade.

I followed the shadow of the shrub wall beside the fence, bypassed the two guards in chain mail holding sword and shield at the door gate, and groped into the courtyard against the wall.

When I turned a corner, there happened to be a wall lamp on the wall above my head. The soft light suddenly illuminated my body as a phantom, and the slightly dim shadow was reflected on the mottled bluestone wall.

I didn't expect to meet a magic wall lamp at the corner. The body was exposed to the light, and the 'shadow cloak' lost its invisibility. Although the body was still in a semi-empty state, the shadow was clearly printed on the stone wall. Spotted by the guard at the door of the corridor.

A sword and shield guard standing in front of the corridor immediately tapped the wooden shield covered with a metal plate with the hilt of his sword, making a dull crackling sound, reminding his companions on the opposite side to be alert.

He put his hand on the copper hilt, and walked towards me step by step. The chain mail made a light rattling sound, and the steel helmet on the guard's head probably affected his vision, so he stretched out his hand to straighten the helmet.

I stood stupidly under the wall lamp, retreating a little bit into the shadow of a square marble column in the corridor, until my body turned into a cloud of black mist again, and I quickly got into the corridor.

The sword and shield guard turned around the corner for a long time, and used his long sword to poke through the bushes and search back and forth for a long time, but he didn't find any clues.

At this time, his companion was standing at the door of the corridor, watching him nervously. He also held the hilt of the sword tightly with his left hand. As long as there was any trouble, he would probably hit the shield with the copper hilt of the long sword , to issue a warning to all the guards in the manor.

But seeing that the sword and shield guard tossed about in the bushes and corners for a long time, but couldn't find any clues, the two guards got together again and talked in a low voice, probably thinking that there might be hallucinations or something, and the two of them talked together. In this way, you chat with me sentence by sentence, preparing to survive this long night.

Their imperial language is not standard, they always raise the tone at the end of some compound words, and some linking words are spoken lightly and quickly, probably a unique dialect of a certain area in Nanfeng, in short, it is very different from the way of speaking in the imperial capital. Big surprise.

I didn't get any useful information from their conversation, so I sneaked into the corner from the shadow behind them, ready to search for the warehouse in the northeast corner of the castle.

Perhaps it was because I brought a gust of cold wind when I passed by the shadows behind them. When I passed behind them, the two guards touched the back of their necks with their hands, and stared at each other with wide eyes. Then, although they didn't issue any warning, they clenched the big round shield even tighter.

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This manor covers an area of ​​about ten acres. In the imperial capital, it can only be regarded as a mansion, not a manor.

Only in the second and third blocks will there be such Cui Fanke style buildings. The most typical features of these buildings are the walls with exquisite reliefs and exaggerated hollow patterns. Some small nobles and lords in the imperial capital In order to make themselves different from the ordinary upstarts, they pursue some extreme aristocratic life, so as to show that they have higher taste and style, and have a stronger artistic atmosphere.

It is precisely because of this that the nobles brought the diverse architectural styles of various regions of the empire to the imperial capital, forming many beautiful architectural complexes in this bustling city.

This manor is also a mansion with a very typical southern architectural style. Although it only covers an area of ​​more than ten acres, the architect has made full use of every inch of space here. There are many rooms in this mansion. It is not an easy task to find those corpses in the courtyard of more than ten acres.

So after sneaking into the courtyard, Katerina and I split up to find the whereabouts of the corpse fire oil in this manor.

Katerina got into this complex of buildings, and she disappeared from my field of vision after only a few swayings. She was only wearing the sub-dragon skin magic pattern structure. Tooth' the ultimate magic effect.

When making it, the leather master completely designed it according to Katerina's figure, and this set of light leather armor almost stuck to her body like a layer of skin.

When the magic effect on the magic pattern structure is turned on, her body will also be blurred to a certain extent. If she stands still in a dark place, she can blend in with the surrounding environment, just like a dark forest A chameleon inside.

Her movements are as light as a civet cat, like a dancer walking in a dark world.

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It seems that a dance party has just been held in the courtyard. There is a row of long tables on the lawn in the courtyard. There are messy silver plates and silver wine glasses on the white tablecloth. The roast goose on a plate has been cut up in a mess, leaving only one With the skeleton of a goose, some wine bottles still have residual wine in them, and the aroma of food and wine still lingers in the air.

There are many rooms in the courtyard main building with lights on. Through the glass windows and screen curtains, people can be seen in the rooms. It seems that the dance is still going on, but the place of dancing has changed from the yard to the living room.

Occasionally, some female relatives would appear in the glass window, and the faint sound of music and laughter could be heard. They wore graceful dresses and danced in the room like colorful butterflies, spinning back and forth with their male dancers.

In front of some glass windows, overlapping figures of two people are reflected, as if kissing in front of the window, but their faces are blocked by gauze curtains, like a stage play without narration and lines.

I don't know if there is the Marquis of Hasa in front of these glass windows, but I accidentally saw Quentin in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floor of this mansion. He was holding a wine glass and chatting cordially with an aristocratic lady in front of the window .

Not long after, Prince George and a female companion appeared next to Quentin, and they had a good conversation. The two female companions in costumes were laughing and laughing beside them, almost sticking to their bodies.

There are some patrolling guards everywhere in the house. These guards are not ordinary fighters, almost all have the strength of first-rank fighters. I guess these people are members of the Constructed Knights brought by Lord Hasa from the south. It is very likely that Hasa The Marquis' entire Order of Constructed Knights lives in this manor.

I quietly walked around to the northeast corner of the yard. These guards were very vigilant. Although no one would see me if I hid in the shadows, the sharp intuition of many guards could always guide them and keep their eyes on me frequently. Falling where I passed behind.

I originally thought that there was a large warehouse in the corner here, but I didn't expect it to be a row of stables. The stables were full of fat and strong horses. Under the dim light in front of the stables, several grooms used a huge guillotine Looking at the pasture, they mixed the finely divided pasture with some beans and grain bran, poured it into the trough in front of the stable, and fed the war horses more food at midnight, which could quickly replenish the physical strength of these war horses.

Many lords would feed their horses like this only on the eve of their expedition.

Obviously this is not the best place to store corpse kerosene, and even if the corpse kerosene is packed in a tin bucket, it will emit a faint smell. I didn't smell that smell at all, so I left Over here at the stables.

The quality of these grooms is much worse than those of the constructed knights who have the strength of a rank.

I walked through the stables, and some horses in the stables neighed in horror. The grooms just stood up and ran to appease the horses in the stables, but no one was alerted by this, and let me walk through the stables to the back of the courtyard. House.

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The summer in the imperial capital is warm and rainy, and it is located in the basin of the Majaro crater. Although the overall terrain is high, it is a low-lying place in the crater basin. Of course, the lowest place forms a vast Weiyang Lake .

In order to welcome the arrival of the summer rainy season, the backyards of each courtyard are built with water storage tanks to prevent flooding, and these storage tanks are closely connected with the city's sewers.

I touched the backyard of this mansion and found the mark left by Katerina, so when I followed the mark to find it, I saw Katerina lurking in the dark in a cistern.

She almost merged with the night, but she couldn't escape my keen magic perception, which was like dancing octopus tentacles, constantly exploring the surroundings.

I quietly touched behind her, still in a state of black mist.

Unexpectedly, she noticed something, her body tensed up suddenly, as if a black panther had been rushing towards the low wall from its original hiding place, and then glanced behind vigilantly, of course she didn't see anything, at this time she instead Relaxed, and quickly waved to me in the dark.

There was a faint smell of corpses in the air, and I touched Katerina's side and recovered from the shadow state.

Seeing my figure, Katerina gave me a gentle smile.

Then both of us held our breath at the same time, and two guards passed by the sidewalk of the flower bed, and the chain mail on their bodies made a crisp sound.

I couldn't help sticking to Katerina's ear, and asked her curiously, "How did you find me just now?"

Katerina curled up and let me move closer, pulling us both into the dark shadows.

Her lips were right in front of my eyes, as attractive as two rose petals. She gave me a blank look and did not answer my question. I said, "The corpse fire oil is hidden in the cistern."

The backyard of the courtyard is also heavily guarded, and night guards pass by the reservoir from time to time.

Katerina and I sneaked into the entrance of the cistern while the guard just passed by.

The long winter kept the reservoir dry. Although there were a few rains in the early spring, the reservoir was still dry before the soil was saturated. Katerina and I dived into the reservoir. Only then did I see barrels of tin oil drums neatly stacked in the reservoir, and the seals on many of the oil drums were not opened.

These oil barrels almost filled the entire reservoir. It seems that these corpse fire oils are the batch of corpse fire oil that was bought from the trading firm. Katerina and I glanced at each other, and then followed the oil barrels Walk to the innermost side of the reservoir through the narrow corridor reserved in the room.

I took out the 'Hammer of the Time-Space Breaker' from my magic pocket, quietly opened the portal leading to Xinliu Valley, and walked into the portal with a bucket of dead oil.

I found a few orc warriors guarding the teleportation altar in the underground cave of Xinliu Valley, and told them to move all the corpse fire oil in the reservoir into the underground warehouse of Xinliu Valley. Katerina and I guarded the entrance of the reservoir place.

It took almost a quarter of an hour before the orc warriors emptied all the corpse oil stored here, and then Katerina and I sneaked out of the courtyard.

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In the next few days, I will show up on the campus of the Royal Academy of Magic every morning on time. After completing the required courses in the academy, I will go to the headquarters building of the Stargazer Union to help Senior Dylan make the second A metal rune plate for the mobile magic teleportation array required on a teleportation sea ship.

Senior Dylan has always been worried about the fact that the Prince of Wales did not invite me to board the ship during the last trial voyage, but the person who ordered the construction of these ten mobile teleportation ships was His Majesty Charles, and it was directly issued to the Stargazer Magic Union. , this is also the largest engineering project of the Stargazers Union at present, and the union is currently using almost all resources to ensure the smooth progress of the renovation project.

No matter what request Senior Dylan puts forward, the union will solve it as quickly as possible. Senior Dylan lacks experience in how to perfectly connect the magic lines between the metal rune plates, so the Astrologer Union directly asked the imperial capital magic The Institute wrote an invitation letter inviting Yerkes scholars to participate in the construction of the teleportation ship.

Due to the will of His Majesty Charles in the plan to build a teleportation ship, the research topic of the 'Continuous Frost Rune Board' designed by the Yerkes scholar had to be terminated. I went to the Stargazer Union to participate in the improvement of the design of the metal rune board of the teleportation ship, so the three of me, Senior Dylan, and Scholar Yerkes got together under such circumstances.

Just two days after Katerina and I stole the batch of corpse fire oil, a piece of news was finally published in the imperial capital's magic newspaper. This incident even alarmed the law enforcement team of the Imperial Capital Magic Union.

After a senior magician of the law enforcement team inspected the scene, he found that the scene contained a large amount of space-based magic elements, so he determined that the theft of strategic materials was related to a certain space-based magician. At that time, the matter would just go away like this.

Without conclusive evidence, who would want to mess with the magicians of the Stargazers Guild?
Recently, Prince George and Quentin rarely appear at the Royal Academy of Magic. I heard from Senior Vernon that Prince George and Quentin are currently searching for magic herbs and healing potions all over the world in the imperial capital.

Since His Royal Highness Charles and Duke Ryan are behind the two of them, it means that the situation in the planes of Ahn Qirador and Warsaw is not as optimistic as the people of the imperial capital predicted. collect healing potions.

Prince George and Quentin came forward to make such a mess in the magic market, which directly increased the price of magic herbs in the magic market of the imperial capital by three layers, and many magic pharmacies wanted to avoid the embarrassing out-of-stock situation last summer. , also began to secretly hoard magic herbs.

A very strange scene appeared in the magic market of the imperial capital. Those magic herbs seemed to disappear overnight...

(End of this chapter)