my age of magic

Chapter 1474 24. Missing
The blue flames danced in the pottery bowls at the four corners of the high platform, and accompanied by the lyrical whispers of Wizard Janna, the entire square echoed a sad tune, which made people shudder.

A faceless mermaid girl keeps appearing in my mind. Although I can't see her face clearly, the girl's frowns and smiles seem so real. From her birth, growth, and the first encounter in her life A beloved, finally died on a quiet island, now lying in the ice coffin in front, like a cold ice rock.

The huge ice coffin is parked on the stone platform. The ice coffin looks very thick. Through the translucent ice wall, I can vaguely see the vague figure inside. I can even tell where is her head and where is her beautiful fish tail. Come, the cyan scales stick to the wall of the ice coffin, reflecting a slightly blunt diamond-shaped grid.

Ying Li led Helena and Becky to the ice coffin, and the powerful Janna guarding around the stone platform came up silently. They put their strong arms on the coffin lid, and slowly pushed the thick ice cover Open, I instantly felt a large amount of ice elements gushing out of the ice coffin, and the chill in the ice coffin instantly spread to the entire high platform, but it lingered between the four pottery bowls, not a trace of ice mist flowed to the high platform under.

Ying Li stood in front of the ice coffin, she looked back at me, then took a deep breath, held her breath, leaned forward, and glanced inside.Helena and Becky stood cautiously beside Ying Li, guarding against the two strong Jannas in front of the ice coffin.

When she saw Princess Ariel lying in the ice coffin for the first time, it was difficult to describe the expression on her face, or as if looking at the makeup on her face in the mirror, she pursed her lips slightly, Her eyes widened, she looked at Princess Ariel in the ice coffin, her eyes showed a look of envy, she touched her cheek, and asked the great wizard Janna: "Is this what I look like? I will also have Ariel soon." Princess Rillier is as beautiful as this?"

"That appearance originally belonged to you, and now Ariel is just giving it back to you..." Grand Wizard Janna said to Yingli.

I don't know why, but there are some fluctuations in my spiritual sea for no reason. The phantom of the great wizard Janna floats on the surface of the spiritual sea, and every slightest body movement is constantly slowing down in my mind. I found that when she was answering Ying Li's question, her hands hidden in her sleeves trembled slightly, and in these words of Great Wizard Janna, I could still hear a kind of eagerness, which was the unstoppable desire hidden in the deepest part of my heart. The longing, although she tried her best to hide her inner thoughts, was still detected by me.

Perhaps because he found the answer he wanted, Ying Li's face showed a hint of joy.

But because I didn't know what the great wizard Ganna was hiding deep in his heart, I felt a chill down my spine, and I kept telling myself to keep calm.

She turned around and waved to me, and then said to Grand Wizard Janna who was singing a ballad in a low voice, "Grand Wizard, I want Ji Jia to see how I look, is that okay?"

"Follow your heart, that's what you want. I believe Ariel will respect your decision while lying in the ice coffin." Grand Witch Janna said vaguely in a hoarse voice.

"Jijia, do you want to come and take a look?" Yingli turned to me and asked me with a smile.

I stood on the edge of the high platform and shook my head vigorously.I am different from Noah, it is difficult for me to have a good impression of these Jana mermaids.

"Don't you want to see my original appearance?" Ying Li asked in surprise.

Although I didn't want to laugh at all on this occasion, I still smiled at her and said: "Because that's not you, the one lying in the ice coffin is the princess of the Gana Sea Clan, and what I like is you now, Gentle, brave, kind..."

Ying Li was silent for a moment, but still let out a long breath, her whole body revealed an incomparably relaxed state.

Then she took the hands of Helena and Becky, and said in a confident tone: "Yes, you are right, that face is no longer me, not to mention that there is nothing wrong with me now, and I And Helena and Becky."

Yingli, Helena, and Becky bowed to Princess Ariel in the ice coffin. This is the courtesy of the Grimm Empire, and it can be regarded as a kind of comfort to the dead.

Afterwards, she came to the Grand Wizard Jana, who was still sitting on the high platform, and she was still singing about Princess Ariel's life, but the trembling in her singing became more and more obvious. Feeling that she was trying her best to suppress herself, as if she would burst out with anger in the next moment, her whole body was tense.

"That beauty was originally yours. Ariel's last wish was for you to get back this alluring beauty. My child, don't let her down..." Grand Wizard Janna said anxiously , She opened her eyes like two incandescent light balls again, staring at Ying Li and said.

Ying Li took two steps back in fright.

The Grand Wizard Janna softened his tone, and said to Ying Li: "The transfer magic ceremony and Ariel's funeral will be held the day after tomorrow. You still have enough time to think about these, whether you accept Ariel or not. This last wish is all thanks to you for traveling thousands of miles from the Grimm Empire to the City of the Abyss to attend Ariel's funeral."

Her electric eyes closed again, and she was on the high platform again.

"I..." Ying Li didn't say anything after hearing what the Great Wizard of the Jana clan said.

Grand Wizard Janna looked at the crystal ball in front of her with a calm face. After she calmed down, she sat there like a talking stone, and said to Ying Li in a cold tone: "In three days, there will be a la Masi Sea Beast arrives in the city of the abyss, and I will arrange for you to return to the city of Haiyinsi in the Green Empire. Before that, you can walk around in the city of the abyss. I hope you can have an unforgettable abyss Journey, Tia, get them out of here."

Sitting on the high platform, she seemed to be like an icy and cold stone, and there was that kind of sad but not hurtful tune floating around.

I finally found out the name of the thin-waisted mermaid. Her name is Tia, which sounds pretty good.

Bypassing the statue of the Angel of Destiny in the underground palace, the coldness surrounding the body disappeared little by little.

……

The mermaid Tia took us to the portal of Janna's Palace. After she showed the seal to the guards of the portals, she led us into the portal.

After a while, we walked out from another portal. As soon as we walked out of the teleportation array, we felt a choking smell of sulfur and magma floating in the air. The air was filled with a lot of fire elements, and the entire magic mask A layer of black smoke floated, almost making the magic mask lose its original transparency.

The Janna guards at the entrance of the portal are placed in two oval-shaped bubbles, which are filled with clear sea water. The Janna guards are like baby chickens hiding in eggshells. They have two gills hidden by their ears. The Janna guard in the seawater inside the bubble is breathing with gills.

The mermaid Tia also hated the smell here. She took out a handkerchief from her bosom, then soaked the handkerchief with water, and covered her mouth and nose with the handkerchief.

The thin-waisted mermaid stopped and said to Yingli and me: "Prince Hitt has been in the forging hall here recently."

The area covered by this magic mask is at best the size of a football field, and the entire mask is like a large blacksmith workshop.

This is like the edge of the city of the abyss. I can only see a lot of faint light from the left side of the mask, and the endless dark deep seabed on the right side. Occasionally, there will be a large piece of almost transparent swimming slowly near the seabed. I can still tell when his body is against the mask.

A river of lava meanders through the center of the mask. The magma on both sides of the river of lava continuously condenses into volcanic rocks. However, the magma in the center of the river of lava is extremely viscous. From time to time, a stream of gas flows from the magma. The river spewed out, and a smelting workshop and a forging workshop were built beside the river of lava. On the other side of the blacksmith workshop, there were piles of weapons such as halberds that Janna warriors were good at.

There were tinkling knocking sounds from the blacksmith's workshop below the portal, and gray smoke was constantly coming out of the workshop's chimney. This was probably the reason why the magic mask was filled with choking smoke.

A group of Janna laborers carried bundles of weapons along the stone road of the blacksmith workshop to the circular arched connecting passage not far away, and they formed a long line.

The slender-waisted mermaid Tia stopped suddenly while she was walking. She untied a water bag from her waist and poured the water from the bag over her head.

Ying Li hurriedly said with concern: "Miss Tia, are you feeling unwell, you should rest more."

Tia, the mermaid maid, smiled slightly and shook her head when she heard what Ying Li said: "It's okay, I just don't quite adapt to the environment here, I don't like dry places very much, let's go, I'll take you to see Hitt prince."

Ying Li followed behind the slender-waisted mermaid and asked her, "Cousin Hitt likes blacksmithing?"

The thin-waisted mermaid smiled, turned her head sideways and said to Ying Li: "Actually, Prince Hitt will be quieter here than in other places, and he doesn't hate the sulfur smell here."

Her long hair is smooth and straight, hanging down to her waist, and her big eyes can always tell us something extra that cannot be said.

For example, Prince Hitt likes to stay in the forging hall full of sulfur smell, probably to avoid some other troubles. This shows that his life in the city of the abyss is not very good, and he has no sense of existence. The Wiki queen even forgot that there is such a person in the city of the abyss.

Here, it really is rare to see those Jannas dressed in gorgeous scales.

Except for the Janna laborers who transported weapons, there are only some Janna laborers carrying ore lined up to approach a huge furnace. They threw the ore on their backs into the furnace, and then quickly left from the other side. , and then back to the ore pile.

Yingli and I looked at each other.

The mermaid Tia probably saw the worry in Yingli's eyes, and quickly explained to Yingli: "Prince Hitt doesn't know how to move ore here. He is one of the few blacksmiths in our Janna clan. He has a very good Forging. I can only bring you here, and then I will involve some secrets of the Janna clan, please wait here, and I will ask Prince Hitt to come out to meet you."

Speaking of which, Mermaid Tia left us in a shed in the armory outside the blacksmith shop, and walked into the small-scale forging hall alone.

I sat in the shed and looked around. For such a huge city of the abyss, the scale of the blacksmith workshop in front of the magic mask is really too small.

Such a blacksmith workshop is not even comparable to the size of the North Duisburg Blacksmith Workshop. In the imperial capital of the Green Empire, there are at least a dozen blacksmith shops of the size of the North Duisburg Blacksmith Workshop.

I am very interested in this furnace built by the Jannas because of the clever use of the river of underground magma in this furnace.

This is similar to how the dwarves build underground cities with the help of underground mine veins.

In an undersea city that is extremely short of fuel, it is very good to have a blacksmith workshop with the help of an underground lava river.

"Maybe I shouldn't be self-willed and come here all the way." When we were resting in the shed, Yingli said to me regretfully.

I turned around, put my arms around Ying Li's shoulders, and said to her: "Actually, it's nothing to come and have a look. Maybe meeting Ariel was originally a wish hidden in your heart, and you just happened to find such a wish." It was just an opportunity that came true."

Yingli looked up at me, with complicated expressions in her eyes, she said: "Actually, I have always had a difficult choice in my heart. I hope to become as beautiful as Qige, but I enjoy my current life very much. I am worried. When my appearance has changed, this kind of leisurely and clean life will never come back. Jijia, thank you for being able to find me among so many people..."

I leaned over and kissed her forehead, and said softly to her: "It was the goddess of luck who sent you to me, and I should thank the goddess."

Every time she kissed her, she would blush and bury her head in her arms like a quail.

I held her heart-thumping beautiful face in my hands and said to her: "Besides, this is not what a princess should say. You should become more confident."

She struggled to put her head in my arms and refused to lift it up.

"Jijia, I want to go back to the imperial capital." Ying Li said quietly.

I looked at Yingli in astonishment, and asked her, "Aren't you going to attend Princess Ariel's funeral?"

"I do not know either……"

Ying Li said with a very tangled heart.

Looking at the dark bottom of the sea through the mask, I didn't expect Yingli to feel a little homesick on the first day we came to the city of the abyss...

(End of this chapter)