my age of magic

Chapter 1610 159. The Truth 2
The entire wall outside the icehouse was covered with a thick layer of ice. Two barbarian slaves shoveled off the thick layer of ice and snow from the stone door, and opened the stone door with crowbars together. The sky is filled with white mist.

Su stood outside the cave, looked up at the cracks on the roof of the cave, and said to me:
"I remember this icehouse, you brought me here."

I put my arms around Su's shoulders, and before I knew it, she was already as tall as me.

There was an indescribable bitterness in my smile, and I said to Su: "When I brought you here last time, I stood outside the cave and hesitated for a long time, and I didn't tell you the truth because I wasn't ready at that time. But this time I brought you to the swamp jungle, in fact, I want to tell you the truth of this matter... come in!"

I pointed to the door of the ice room that was pushed open, and walked in.

Annie couldn't wait to follow me into the ice room. Enduring the cold air coming out of the ice room, she stepped over dozens of 'Continuous Frost' rune plates on the floor of the ice room, her leather boots clattering on the thick ice shavings. There was a crackling sound.

The surrounding area of ​​the ice room is covered with ice, and these thick layers of ice squeezed the originally spacious stone room into a very narrow place. It is precisely in such a narrow space that a huge ice monument stands on the ground of the three of us. In front of it, I walked slowly over with a heavy face, stood in front of the ice monument, but it was bitingly cold, and slowly stroked the frost and snow with my hands.

A translucent ice monument appeared in front of us. I held up a magic lamp. Under the faint magic light, a translucent figure was reflected in the ice monument...

"This is my sister..." Su couldn't help but exclaimed after approaching.

Hearing Su's exclamation, Annie also rushed to the front of the ice monument, her eyes fixed on the ice monument, and tears welled up in her eyes.

She gritted her silver teeth tightly, reached out to touch the ice monument, and asked me: "How is she frozen in the ice, how is she here?"

Su also had tears in his eyes, and knelt down in front of the ice monument, crying sadly, "Is she dead?"

"Strictly speaking, she died ten years ago." I said to Annie and Sue.

Su threw herself on the ice monument, her pale face pressed against the ice monument, as if she could throw herself into Sister Guoguo's arms.

Only under the refraction of the magic light can the general outline of the ice elemental spirit of Sister Guoguo in the ice tablet be revealed. Annie stared at me and asked, "Tell us quickly, what is going on, how did she lie down?" In this ice coffin?"

I slowly slowed down my breathing, and said to Sister Anne: "This is just the elemental spirit incarnated by her soul remaining in this world."

"Sister Guoguo died at the hands of Montetroja in the Battle of Baipuya. Before she died, she just incarnated into an unconscious water elemental spirit. Because of the shackles of war in Montetroja's hands, her The soul is bound in the chains of war."

"Later, Montetroya came to El City to find me. With the help of Mentor Heidi and Moraya, I killed him and got the shackles of war in his hands. I found in the shackles of war Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit, which retains fragments of memory, may be because of some instinct, the water elemental spirit incarnated by Guoguo sister has been with me all the time, she has grown continuously over the years, and has gradually gained self-awareness."

"I was worried that before the memory in her soul would be awakened, the spirit of the water element would awaken, so I asked Scholar Xiao En from the Royal Academy of Magic to seal it in the ice tablet, hoping to delay her awakening time. Master Bruce of the research institute obtained a method to use the ancient ruins to awaken the memory fragments in Sister Guoguo's soul, and I spent two years preparing for this trip to the wild swamp."

These words sound a bit unbelievable. It involves undead magic and knowledge about the soul level. Annie stared at me.

It was Su who asked me: "You mean that after my sister died, she turned into a spirit of water element with no memory. You took us all the way to the wild swamp this time, in fact, to complete some kind of ritual to kill my sister. wake?"

I nodded, stood beside me and said: "That's the thing, but Sister Guoguo is not a water elemental spirit anymore, she has now been promoted to a high-level ice elemental spirit under the nourishment of the ice monument, if it is not for consideration The Ice Monument is about to be unable to suppress this high-level ice elemental spirit, I actually want to finish this matter after graduating from the Royal Academy of Magic, but it seems that Sister Guoguo can't wait any longer!"

Even the body of the ice element belongs to the existence of the elemental world, and ordinary people cannot see the spirit of the element.

Sister Guoguo's spirit of ice element appeared in the ice monument, which means that some mutations occurred in her body, but she was sealed during the mutation process, but how long this state can last, even the Shaun scholar can't say allow.

"You mean..." Annie seemed to understand the overtones of my last sentence.

I nodded affirmatively at her and said, "Even with the seal of the ice monument, Sister Guoguo's ice elemental spirit will wake up, so I have to wake up Sister Guoguo's memory before it wakes up."

Annie leaned her back against the ice monument, as if all her strength was drained at this moment, she sat on the ground along the ice monument, and asked to herself, "How long has she been lying here?"

"It's been about two years!"

I touched my nose and said, "For about three years, she was by my side in the form of a water elemental spirit, but no one could see her."

She whispered: "You can tell us earlier, I have been used to her life without us for so many years, she left when we were most helpless, but is she coming back now?"

"Annie, our sister...she's still alive!" Su trembled all over, weeping in his sister Annie's arms.

The sudden news made Annie a little at a loss. She opened her mouth, wanting to say some comforting words to Su, but she didn't know where to start.

He could only put his arms around Su pretending to be strong and said, "I always dream that one day she will suddenly appear in front of me, even if she has nothing, even if she is disabled, as long as she can come back..."

……

I thought that Annie and Su should be given some time and space to slowly accept these things, so I turned around and walked out of the stone room, letting Katerina wait outside.

I went to the magic seal workshop by the way. In the past half a month, the magic seal workshop has completed more than half of the magic pattern construction of the Nacoma black iron armor for the barbarian slaves. At present, it can be armed with at least six Hundreds of barbarian warriors, and the magic engraving machine for printing the simplified version of the metal armor magic pattern structure is also being intensively debugged.

The technology of the magic printing machine has basically matured, so many uncertain factors in the debugging work have been reduced a lot. The number of dwarves on the magic printing workshop has increased to 180. Apart from rum, this group of dwarves usually like rum. Get into the sweaty work of the Blacksmith's Workshop and the Rubik's Workshop.

North Duisburg has begun to forge a large number of this standard full-cover black iron armor. I believe it will not be long before this mass-produced metal magic pattern structure will appear in the magic market of the imperial capital.

The two sides of the magic seal workshop are full of turnover boxes. Inside the turnover boxes are filled with the bottom materials of various magic rune plates. A group of female half-orcs are moving these turnover boxes to a rail car. These finished rune plates It will be transported to the warehouse near the teleportation altar. As for the scrap, it will be melted and forged into iron ingots first, and then shipped back to the North Duisburg blacksmith workshop in bulk.

Although these female half-orcs have heavy work every day, during the period of living in the underground cave, the work and rest time is completely formulated according to the standard of the imperial capital. The life is no longer so difficult, and the diet has been greatly improved. The rough skin has faded, and although the skin is still dark gray like an orc, it has a brocade-like luster.

Although the female half-orc is not full of muscles like those orc girls, her arms and legs are also tense, and iron bumps will bulge every time she exerts strength.

Four female half-orcs can push a rail car. If it is replaced by the Grimm Empire, at least ten adult men are needed to push it.

Walking to the rest area of ​​those barbarian slaves, there were still giant swamp crocodiles that were roasting sizzlingly on the bonfire, a heavy crossbow hanging on the nearby stone wall, and a Nacoma black iron structure. The armor was neatly placed next to the stone wall, and a group of barbarian slaves were drooling and waiting beside the campfire.

Seeing me appearing in the underground cave, Lao Zewang limped on one foot and struggled to catch up from behind.

Out of breath, he called out to me: "Lord, please wait..."

When did I accidentally become a lord?

Seeing Lao Zewang running over, the group of barbarian slaves quickly covered the bonfire and looked at Lao Zewang vigilantly.

I could only turn around and stop, and asked the current manager of the underground cave: "Old Zewang, what do you want from me?"

Old Zewang glared at the barbarian slaves angrily, but he still had some sense, so he didn’t complain to me in front of the barbarian slaves, but pulled me out of the barbarian slave’s living area and came to a remote place. In the corner of my room, I kept pouring bitter water on me.

The wrinkles on his face are like a withered chrysanthemum, and his big yellow teeth are showing a bitter face.

He complained to me: "These barbarian slaves can eat too much, and they have to eat meat every meal. If they can't get enough, they will grab... the frozen meat in the hatchery, look, Karan As soon as Cuo and the orc warrior left, the big stupid cow and Justus stopped watching. Almost no one can restrain these big guys. Otherwise, if you find a way to take them away, I can't manage them , If this continues, they will almost eat up all the reserve rations for the hatchling spiderlings."

Unexpectedly, after losing the restraint of Justus and Luka the tauren, this group of barbarian slaves would act recklessly in the underground cave.

"There is still such a thing, well, I know about this matter, and I will find a way to solve it." I frowned and said, thinking whether to let the tauren Luka return to Xinliu Valley, maybe Just S is more suitable.

After all, bringing [-] barbarian slaves into the swamp of the tropical rainforest, not to mention that they are not used to the hot climate there, the goal of our team will suddenly become bigger.

I waved to Lao Zewang and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Old Zewang's wrinkled face was distorted, and he smiled wryly at me and said: "Of course it's not just this, there are also female half-orcs working in underground caves who hope to return to the orc village for vacation regularly."

I said disapprovingly: "What's the matter? Can't it be enough to arrange a vacation as much as possible?"

Although these female half-orcs are all slaves, I think they have already integrated into the orc village. I have suggested to Lao Zewang before that these female half-orc slaves should also be arranged to take vacations according to the workers of the rune workshop in the imperial capital. Thinking of this time, Lao Zewang took the initiative to bring it up.

Want to praise him for his progress in thinking...

I heard Lao Zewang licking his face and saying: "I mean, look at my old arms and legs. I have been squatting in an underground cave for several months. Can you also allow me a few days off..."

Well, when I didn't say it.

I patted old Zewang's skinny shoulder, looked at his old face and said earnestly: "It's okay if you want to live in the Beastman Village forever, but before that, you have to recommend me a Beastman manager with prestige and brains." Need to have both..."

Hearing what I said, the old orc turned his face away with a sad face, and said vaguely:

"Forget it, I'm holding on for a while!"

……

Annie and Su came out of the ice room, covered with a layer of hoarfrost, the two girls were a little bit lost, and walked to me silently cuddling each other.

Su's small face was blue from the cold, and she fell into my arms like a piece of cold ice. She hugged me tightly, resting her head on my chest, her body trembling non-stop. , I don't know if it's because my mood is still hard to calm down, or because I was frozen by the cold air of the stone room.

Annie's face was also pale. After walking out of the ice room, the frost and snow on her face began to melt into water droplets, dripping down her face.

Two barbarian slaves closed the stone door, and I led them back to the teleportation altar.

Su held my arm and walked by my side. Her big delicate eyes were a little red and swollen from crying. After the frost and snow on her long blond hair melted, her hair became strands and dripped continuously.

In order to prevent small reptiles from getting into her trouser legs rashly, she wore a pair of high leather boots and a leather armor, which was better than a cool suspender nightdress to keep out the cold.

"Will sister wake up?" Su leaned his head on my shoulder and couldn't help asking.

It was a bit cold in the cave, so I took out two towels from my magic pocket, threw one to Anne, and covered Sue with the other, rubbing her blond hair vigorously and said, "Of course, this time I entered the Wild Swamp to For this matter."

"You should have told us sooner," Sue complained to me.

I stretched out my hand to pinch her face as smooth as egg white, and said softly: "Sorry, it's my fault, let me see, Su Du has grown to be as tall as me, and she still cries every now and then... "

"Counting the prosthetic limbs, I'm already taller than you!" Su raised his head all of a sudden, although there were still tears in his eyes, there was a smile on his face.

Annie who was following me asked me, "Is this your private plane?"

I nodded and said, "Well, every magician has a little secret."

It can be seen that Su has never mentioned this place with Annie.

We came to the front of the teleportation altar, I took Su and stepped out of the teleportation gate
Anne called out behind me, "Giga..."

"Huh?" I stopped.

"Thank you!"

(End of this chapter)