my age of magic

Chapter 1513 63. Demon Creature Exhibition Hall

The silent night soaked into the imperial capital like water.

Looking down at the imperial city from a high position, those street lamps weaved a brightly colored light network in the city that could not be seen at a glance.

Mo Xiang and I left the Imperial Academy of Magic and walked out of the Tower of Pride.

Many citizens gathered in front of some stalls in the street market, and the whole street was filled with the aroma of food.

Pass through several stalls full of exquisite handicrafts, and walk along the curved promenade of the square to the street.

A carriage inlaid with gold ornaments was parked on the side of the street. The hollow gold relief showed the luxury of this carriage. The Mo family emblem was hung on the front of the carriage.

When we came to the front of the carriage, the door of the carriage was pushed open from the inside, and a delicate and beautiful face poked out from the inside, first glanced across Mo Xiang's face, then smiled and nodded at me.

She is Mo Xiang's personal maid. I have met her a few times before. What impressed me most about her was the two hard leather gloves hanging on her belt. I couldn't figure out why this weak-looking girl Will choose the cold profession of fighter.

The magic caravan drove along Yulin Street all the way to the lakeside avenue. This manor was not too far from James' lakeside manor.

When the carriage drove into the gate of the manor, I vaguely saw the ancient castle built on a high place in the manor. Under the night, I could only see the outline of it. The lights inside the castle were brightly lit. The carriage drove forward along a flat stone road for a while. He didn't stop in front of the steps of the castle, but walked around the huge building complex along the stone road and drove to the back of the castle.

"For so many years, the need for display in the showroom has been increasing. Ten years ago, it has been moved from the basement of the castle to an independent building in the back garden." Mo Xiang explained while sitting opposite me.

I nodded cautiously.

The personal maid next to him seemed to be very curious about me, and kept looking at me all the way.

The magic caravan passed through a garden, which was lit with colored lights, cheerful music and women's laughter came from inside, and there were bursts of exclamations from time to time. It looked very lively, but it was blocked by a bush wall. All I could see was the crowds in the garden, and some waiters walked into the garden carrying trays full of wine glasses.

"Who is holding a dance here?" Mo Xiang squinted his eyes and looked over there, and asked the maid beside him.

The personal maid was briskly signing in sign language, and her flexible fingers kept flipping. I couldn't even see her movements clearly. It turned out that she was dumb.

"It's Jessica? Is that little girl going to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony this year? How time flies!" Mo Xiang was very familiar with these sign languages, and then said something with a sigh.

Right next to the shrub wall in the back garden, Mo Xiang pointed to the lively scene inside, and asked me, "Would you like to go to the dance later? Maybe you will meet a girl you like."

The organ played cheerful music, and you could see many girls in beautiful skirts in the square of the garden, but when I thought that this was from the Mo family, I said to Mo Xiang: "Forget it, I don't want to meet you." William."

Mo Xiang smiled at me indifferently, and the carriage continued to drive forward. Mo Xiang looked away from the window and said to me: "Speaking of which, William has grown a lot this year and has become more stable. In the past, he always called himself a dragon blood mage, and his eyes were inevitably a little arrogant, but now at least he is no longer so ostentatious, and he was recently sent to the Kenda plane for rotation, and he will stay there for at least a year."

Turning around the back garden, a huge dark-toned building appeared in the night.

Mo Xiang pointed to the building in front and said, "Oh, we're here..."

The magic caravan parked under the steps.

The coachman opened the door graciously, and Mo Xiang and I stepped out of the magic caravan one after another.

There is a huge square building in front of you. The surface of the gray stone wall is covered with ivy. There are two bronze statues in front of the steps. The statue on the left is a warrior wearing armor and holding a long sword and shield. A ranger with a bow and arrow on his back and a spear in his hand, a huge five-meter-high stone gate appears at the end of the stone steps, the handles of the two round arched stone gates are animal head copper rings, and there are two magic lamps on both sides of the stone gate. Wall lamps, but the light is a little dim.

There are no guards outside the building.

Mo Xiang led me up the stone steps, and introduced to me: "This is the demon species exhibition room you want to visit. There are almost thousands of demon specimens, large and small, and the lower demon species are displayed in it." There are more specimens and more detailed information. If you want to dissect on site, there should be demon creatures such as double-headed hellhounds and sheep-headed monsters. Higher demons are basically specimens. After the connecting channel on the side was sealed, the dungeons on the family side were basically left unused."

There are some figure sculptures on the stone pillars on both sides of the steps, which look lifelike.

A line of waiters came from the old castle, and when we walked up the steps, those waiters just rushed to the front of the building.

The leader was a middle-aged butler. He saluted Mo Xiang respectfully, then looked at me politely, and gave me a slight nod.

Mo Xiang said to the middle-aged butler, "Butler Alberta, please turn on all the lights in the exhibition hall inside. My friend and I want to go inside and have a look."

"Okay, I'll serve you right away. Do you have any other orders?" The butler said in the standard imperial Grimm dialect. This is the accent I hate the most. William, Ivan, Diego, and the imperial gang of the Magic Academy The magic students in the school all speak in this tone. .

Mo Xiang patted his stomach, and said to the middle-aged housekeeper, "Then prepare us some wine and some food, whatever you want."

The middle-aged housekeeper couldn't help but glanced at me, and then said: "Tonight, the kitchen has prepared grilled salamander neck meat and magic antelope leg meatballs. I asked the kitchen to prepare a creamy mushroom soup for you. Look how?."

As expected of a rich and noble family, the dinner is made with some monster ingredients, and it sounds like it should be good. I heard that eating monster meat often can subtly improve your physical fitness, but in my opinion, white bread, mashed potatoes and beef Soup, like golden cider, can also improve physical fitness. The ingredients on those monsters are not special except that they are more precious.

"Okay, just eat this, it's better to have some desserts." Mo Xiang glanced at the maid behind him and added.

At this time, a waiter had already walked to the front and slowly pushed open the heavy stone door.

The middle-aged butler asked Mo Xiang again: "Then where are you going to dine? Over here in the showroom? Or arrange a restaurant for you in the old castle?"

The stone door was pushed open by the two servants, and there was a series of sounds of gears gnashing, and the inside was pitch black. The two servants took two torches from the wall of the door, held them in their hands, and walked into the building first, and The magic wall lamp inside is lit along the road.

"Just in the restaurant!" Mo Xiang ordered the housekeeper before entering the door.

"Follow your orders." The middle-aged housekeeper said respectfully.

Mo Xiang waved his hand at the housekeeper, motioning him to make preparations: "Okay, that's all, maybe we have to stay inside a little later."

Then Marquis Moxiang led me into the exhibition hall of demon creatures.

Returning to the imperial capital from Haiyuan City, I always think of the words that devil said to me on the nameless island: 'Where's your horn? '

The meaning in his words was as if I should have demon horns on my head, so I searched for information in the library of the Royal Academy of Magic, read some books introducing demons, and compared the demons introduced in the book with myself , I feel that I don't look like a demon anyway, at least my body structure is fundamentally different.

But... If I'm not a demon, that demon doesn't seem to have any reason to give me a potion plantation located on the 'knot of time'.

In the past few days, I have accompanied Ying Li to the potion plantation almost every day, and found that the mountainside was actually forcibly chopped out with a sharp axe. The ax marks left on the stone walls are clearly visible, and the top of the mountain has been dug. A very obscure lighting opening was set up so that the herb garden in the mountainside could get some sunshine and sunlight. The preciousness of time is self-evident, and many herbs in the potion plantation have entered the mature stage, which is precisely The best time to collect.

At this time, the devil gave me the herbal plantation... I can't stop thinking about it.

I couldn't find the answer in the library, so I went to ask Scholar Shawn. Unfortunately, Scholar Sean said that he knew a lot about elemental creatures, but he didn't know much about the demons in hell. Later, Scholar Shawn told: The Mo family, who fought against the demons on the plane of Kenda, has a museum with the most complete range of demon races in the Imperial Capital Manor.
This is the original reason why I made an appointment to meet Mo Xiang. I didn't expect to be able to enter this exhibition hall so soon.

After bypassing a rock screen, my eyes suddenly opened up, and a showroom with several thousand square meters appeared in front of me. Two servants holding torches quickly lit up the magic wall lamps around the walls. The whole stone room was roughly The outlines of the monsters appeared in front of my eyes, and the round or square stone platforms were filled with specimens of demon creatures, large and small, and those specimens were quite well preserved.

Mo Xiang led me into the showroom from the passage on the left, and there was a circular pond with a diameter of ten meters in front of him, which was actually full of Ye Meiluo. The big mouth with sharp teeth opened, and bright flowers bloomed on the mouth. There was a dead tree without leaves in the middle of the pool, but the dead branches were covered with strange fruits like mummified heads.

Mo Xiang stood by the pool, took a spear from the servant, and pricked the flower on the head of a Yemeiluo plant by the pool, the Yemeiluo immediately opened its mouth and bit the spear, The sharp teeth bit the spear tip made of fine steel, and some sparks burst out.

Mo Xiang introduced to me: "This is the lowest invasive species of the demons. It can grow wildly in any environment. They can not only absorb nutrients from the soil, but also set traps to catch prey, but this thing is so fragile. Very, it will only cause harm to ordinary residents. The tree in the middle is the most common corpse tree in the hell demon world. This kind of tree uses corpses as nourishment. If it absorbs a corpse, it can bear a fruit on the branch. Don't look at it Now that they are motionless, they are actually bound in place by the magic circle, and this kind of corpse tree can actually run freely on the ground, and the weapons they have are entwined trees and vines, but they are just cleaners on the battlefield, without any combat power."

I have never seen a corpse tree, but I know these Ye Meiluos.

Mo Xiang led me forward. There was a row of bucket-thick glass containers by the wall, only about one meter high. They were placed on wooden shelves. The containers were filled with light green preservative liquid. Each glass container contained There is a reddish-brown meat ball soaked in it, and the limbs can be distinguished, but there is no head, only a big mouth on the abdomen.

On the other side was a row of wooden boxes, above which was a round stone platform. A hellhound covered in gray volcanic rock was made into a specimen and stood on the platform. It looked like there were two rubies in the eye sockets.

Mo Xiang pointed to the meat ball in the container and said to me: "This is a caveman. There are a large number of such cave-dwelling creatures in the connecting channel of the Wala Valley. They usually eat moss. Once they eat yemeiluo It will go crazy, this thing is very fertile...hellhound..."

Mo Xiang is very familiar with the characteristics of these low-level demon creatures. When talking about how to hunt hell hounds, Mo Xiang seems very experienced. He said to me: "These hell hounds have only one tendon in their brains, and they only bite when they fight. , as long as you can grasp a little bit of fighting rhythm, ordinary people can also defeat it. At the moment it pounces on you, just point the spear in your hand at its mouth and stab it in. The spear point can easily pass through its anus..."

In fact, I really want to tell him that I am a water magician!There is no need for melee combat, just nail it to the ground with an ice gun from a distance.

Ordinary Hellhound...

Going forward, a goat-headed monster is placed on top of a sarcophagus. Its head is completely like that of a goat, but its torso is in the shape of a human. Its arms look very strong, but its legs are like sheep's hooves. , The chest of this sheep-headed monster was cut open, and the internal organs inside the chest cavity were all hollowed out. Seeing the curved horns on its head, I couldn't help reaching out and touching it.

Seeing that I was particularly curious about goat horns, Mo Xiang asked me enthusiastically: "Goat monsters... By the way, there are still a few goat monsters imprisoned in the dungeon. Do you want to dissect one to see their internal structure?"

Dissect a goat?I thought about it for a while, then shook my head resolutely, pointed to the mummified body of the sheep-headed monster and said, "Just look at the specimens on the stage. Are these the most common low-level demons?"

Mo Xiang explained to me: "That's right, the double-headed hellhound over there is a variant of the hellhound. Although it only has one more head, its strength has been greatly improved, and it is classified as a medium-level demon. , Gege, Succubus..."

(End of this chapter)