my age of magic

Chapter 1599 148. Nathaniel
Every magic union has a law enforcement team, and the law enforcement team is responsible for handling cases related to magicians.

Since the Law Enforcement Team of the Magic Union is destined to deal with evil mages hiding in the dark, as the deacons of the Law Enforcement Team, they are all the best local magicians. Walking up the stairs to the third floor of the Magic Union, the place is obviously much deserted.

A magic badge the size of an iris shield is hung on the plaque at the entrance of the stairs. The shape of the badge is composed of an unfolded magic book and a staff.

Walking into the third floor of the Magic Union, I was immediately infected by the solemn atmosphere here. The entire circular corridor seemed extraordinarily quiet. Katerina and I walked to the stairs and faced the door of the room. The door of this room happened to be open. The middle-aged magician was standing on a test bench, holding a silver spoon, pouring some brown powder into a test tube bottle.

I was worried that my sudden opening would affect his preparation of the potion, so I stood at the door and waited for a while.

After the middle-aged magician poured all the powder from the silver spoon into the glass, I guess he knocked lightly on the open door. The middle-aged magician turned his head to look at me, and then beckoned me to come in. There is a desk on the left wall. He put down what he was doing, went behind the desk, unfolded a booklet bound by magic parchment, looked up and looked at the dead fish eyes, and asked me: "Young magician?" Sir, what can I do for you?"

I told the middle-aged magician about the situation of Heidi and Moraya. He had deep nasolabial folds on his face, and he frowned and recorded everything I said.

"The Law Enforcement Team of the Magic Union will conduct an investigation. Please wait patiently. Once there is news about the two magicians, we will notify you as soon as possible."

The middle-aged magician said to me with a numb face, as if he didn't listen to what I just said.

"Then thank you."

I managed to force a smile.

He ignored me, turned around and walked to the test bench, took out two tubes of bubbling green solution from the reagent rack, and carefully poured it into a glass beaker.

"boom"

With a muffled sound, the glass beaker on the test bench exploded.

The room was filled with choking smoke, and the middle-aged magician came out of the smoke in embarrassment. Seeing me sitting at the desk and not leaving, he asked me with a very ugly face: "Do you have anything else to do?" ?"

I looked at his face, which was blackened by the fireworks, and said to him, "Are you all right?"

"Isn't it common for magic experiments to fail? It's just a small case, it's nothing." He picked up a towel and wiped his face, and said with some embarrassment.

The room was filled with acrid smoke.

I came to the test bench. The middle-aged magician's test bench is a very standard potion preparation bench. The wooden shelves on the table are full of various magic reagents, and there is an August I grinding machine next to it. This grinder is suitable for grinding all kinds of magic herbs, and there is a small crucible next to the test bench.

The explosion just now was because the boiling magic solution in the crucible exploded after being poured into the beaker. This kind of explosion is not destructive, but it produces a lot of thick smoke, which is very choking.

I took out an exhaust fan from my magic pocket, placed it by the window, and took out a piece of magic spar and embedded it on the gemstone base. Looking at the thick smoke in the room, it was blown out along the window.

The middle-aged magician came over, first looked at the exhaust fan on the window sill, and couldn't help but ask me: "What is this...?"

"Exhaust fan, a magic item specially designed to remove smoke and dust in the laboratory, this thing can be seen everywhere in the imperial capital." I said to the middle-aged magician with a smile.

The middle-aged magician stared straight at the exhaust fan, seeing the thick smoke in the room being blown away by the wind little by little.

He sat back at the desk again, coughed twice, "That...Your Excellency the Mage, tell me...how do you want me to help you?"

"Uh, can you help me investigate the information they registered with the Magical Union of Qiyan City?"

I sat down across from him again and said.

The middle-aged magician frowned slightly and explained to me: "The registration information only records the approximate time when they arrived in Qiyan City. I don't think this has much to do with finding the missing magician!"

He thought for a while, looked up at me, and said, "In the past two months, there have been as many as seven cases of missing magicians in Qiyan City, and almost all the law enforcement team has been dispatched."

"So many magicians are missing?" I said, taking a breath.

Unexpectedly, there would be so many missing magicians in Qiyan City. All the magicians of the law enforcement team were dispatched to investigate these cases.

The middle-aged magician said solemnly: "That's right, most of them disappeared after entering the wild swamp with the adventure group, and the entire adventure group also disappeared. Not long ago, the Knights of the Qiyan City Guard Battalion issued a warning about the danger of the wild swamp." Warning, I think your friend probably entered the wild swamp with the adventure group, since our people have entered the wild swamp, I believe there will be news soon."

"I want to find out when they came to the Magical Union of Qiyan City." I said to the middle-aged magician.

"Well, since you insist on investigating their registration information in the Magic Union, then... please follow me."

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged magician stood up, took me back to the reference room of magic officials on the second floor, and said to the female magician who was sorting out documents in the reference room: "Miss Dennis, please help me find the two magicians. Most recent registration information."

"Okay, Lord Constantine, may I ask which magician you want to find?" Miss Dennis was wearing a magic skirt on her lower body and a white lace shirt on her upper body. Her chestnut hair was pulled up high, showing a very standard look to us. Smile.

Constantine fixed his eyes on me and motioned me to tell Miss Dennis that I wanted to look up the name of the magician.

I quickly said, "One is Teacher Heidi, an ice magician from the War Magic Academy in El City, Sloit Province, and the other is Ms. Moraya, a wood magician from the imperial capital."

Unexpectedly, when I reported the names of Mentor Heidi and Moraya, Miss Dennis covered her mouth and said loudly with a look of surprise:
"Is it Heidi and Moraya?"

Her emotions seemed a little excited, and she spoke in a hurry, with a strong dialect of Qiyan City, and asked me:
"Oh, I know them! Do you think Heidi, the magician, is a second-rank powerhouse?"

After carefully distinguishing it, I finally understood the meaning of this sentence, and I replied:

"That's right, she was my mentor when I was at the El City School of War Magic. This time, she was invited by me to go to Qiyan City for an expedition deep into the wild swamp. Moraya is her former assistant and also my friend. , she has very rich jungle exploration experience, and she is also an excellent wood magician."

Standing in front of me, she looked at me carefully from beginning to end, "So you are friends of Moraya? She never mentioned it to me."

"Miss Dennis, do you know Moraya?"

I didn't expect to meet Ya's friend in Qiyan City in the Magic Union.

Miss Dennis nodded and said to me: "Of course, she often took some missions to explore wild swamps from the Magic Union last year. Some strange seed gifts."

"We had dinner together half a month ago, and she introduced me to her companion Heidi, the Mage." She said with some concern.

She invited us to sit down on the sofa in the corner reception area of ​​the reference room.

I said to Miss Dennis: "We made an appointment to meet at the Hollyon Hotel in Qiyan City these few days, but they didn't leave any message and left in a hurry, so I thought of looking for some information from the Magic Union. clue."

I looked into her pale blue eyes and asked Miss Dennis, "Did she say anything to Moraya when you were having dinner with her?"

Miss Dennis thought about it seriously, and then said: "She told me that she would go deep into the wild swamp with a group of friends recently, but she didn't say what she was going to do. I advised her not to take risks at this time, but I knew she would definitely not listen. Mine, later I told her that since I must go there to take risks, I might as well accept a few missions that have been hanging in the bulletin board and no one wants to do them. Those missions are all required to be completed in the depths of the wild swamp, and I have been hanging up for almost half a year. , There were a lot of people who picked it up, but no one finished to receive the reward, and she just smiled without saying a word, as if she didn't have any interest in those tasks."

I continued to ask: "Then she didn't say anything else? For example, who is she going to meet?"

Miss Dennis rubbed her forehead, suddenly her eyes lit up, and said: "Oh, I remembered, she said that she was going to visit a friend, and it is said that she is a very famous guide in Qiyan City, let me think about it." …Let me think about it, oh, by the way, that guide is Nathaniel, who is well-known in Qiyan City, Ya said that he would visit him.”

Guide... I remembered that Moraya said that she wanted to find the guide who led them into the wild swamp. In this way, we have a better chance of finding the ancient altar in the wild swamp.

I said silently in my heart: "Nathaniel."

"Okay, thank you, Miss Dennis," I said to Miss Dennis.

"Thank you, Magician Constantine." I said to the middle-aged magician again, but in my heart I just thanked the exhaust fan.

……

Walking out of the Magical Union of Strange Rock City, the sun climbed overhead, and the leaves of the trees on both sides of the roadside trees hung down listlessly.

The scorching sun fell on the skin, and it felt hot all over. It was hot, and the shadows from the sun were hidden under the feet.

Walking quickly to the shade, Katerina followed me and asked me, "Where can we find Nathaniel?"

Standing on the side of the road, waiting for the magic caravan passing by, after thinking for a while, he said to Katerina: "Go to the Mercenary Association first, Nathaniel, since he is a well-known guide in Qiyan City, there should be some Many people know him, and you can find a few guides to ask."

……

The Mercenary Association of Strange Rock City is just opposite the Houlier Hotel. This is a two-story building in the shape of a 'T', next to the Civic Center, where many people gather every day.

A valley near Qiyan City is rich in granite, so many buildings here are made of white-bottomed rocks mixed with many black star patterns. The lines and outlines of the entire building are simple and crisp, which looks refreshing A shock.

Every day, different employers come to the Mercenary Association to issue missions. Many local mercenary groups in Qiyan City will come here to find suitable missions. Of course, there are also some foreign adventure groups. Many adventure groups join the Mercenary Association. The principle is the same. You can receive mercenary missions, but the competitiveness is much lower than that of local mercenary regiments. The main reason is word of mouth and mutual trust. If the employer doesn't trust, no matter how good they are, it's useless.

Katerina and I came to the entrance of the Mercenary Association. A large group of people gathered at the entrance of the Mercenary Association. When these people saw that we were about to enter the Mercenary Association, they huffed around like locusts. The young people who crowded in the front The man took the opportunity and shouted hard at me: "Master, do you want to hire a guide? I am the best guide in Qiyan City. I am very familiar with any rainforest around Qiyan City."

"Are you as familiar with the inner city of Qiyan City as you said?" I stopped and looked at the young man in front of me and asked.

The young man narrowed his eyes completely with a smile, and said with a smile in the standard Grimm Empire language: "Your words are simply the greatest insult to a native of Qiyan, I can swear to my grandma, I am familiar with everyone in this city. A street, every alley, even every house number, as long as you tell me the address, I can find it for you."

"Yoyo...Kappa, what you said is really beautiful, but! With all due respect, this is just the basic ethics of the drivers of the magic caravan. Why do you need a guide in Qiyan City!" Someone in the crowd sarcastically said .

"Go away, what's the matter with you here!" the young guide Paka turned around and scolded angrily.

The crowd was immediately filled with the smell of gunpowder. In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, I quickly pulled Capa away from the mercenary association, found a secluded place, and said to her, "Well, since you said so, we will go to the mercenary association." Let's talk, if you can help me find my target, I will pay you a commission, if you can't find it, I won't give you a dime."

"Master, tell me, where do you want to go?" Capa said a little impatiently with my nagging.

I looked him in the eyes and asked him, "I'm looking for Nathaniel, so have you seen him lately?"

Capa's eyes widened, and he asked me in surprise: "You want to find Sanier? The last time I saw him was half a month ago, oh! It was just at the entrance of the Horion Hotel opposite. He was in a hurry at that time. We just Just a hello."

"You guys know each other very well?" I was overjoyed and hurriedly asked Capa.

Capa rubbed his nose, and said with some guilt: "It's not familiar! It's just that we usually make a living in the guide industry of Qiyan City, and we don't see each other when we look up and look down. We just know each other."

Sounds like there might still be some competition...

I then asked, "Do you know his family?"

Capa opened his eyes wide and looked at me warily:
"..."

(End of this chapter)