my age of magic

Chapter 963 64. Farewell to the Black Demon Society

This tavern is like a small country bar. There is a 20-meter-deep courtyard at the entrance of the bar. A lot of purple grapes are planted in the courtyard. In the ripe season, bunches of green and red grapes are hidden among the green leaves.

When I was young, I often liked to pinch off the tendrils on the vines, break them into sections, and put them in my mouth to taste, which was sour and astringent.

On each bunch of grapes, there is always a grape that is different from other grapes. It will be dyed red silk first, then turn red, and finally turn purple when the other grapes are still green...

A group of us walked under the shady grape trellis, under which there were some scattered wooden seats.

In the morning, there didn’t seem to be many people in this tavern. There was a drunken drinker lying on the wine table and sleeping soundly, and a waiter was cleaning up the messy table beside him, which was full of wine bottles and wine. A plate with appetizers.

"Guests, the tavern is currently closed, and the official opening time is after two o'clock in the afternoon." The waiter looked at us in surprise, and then said to us.

Rita stood in the middle of the crowd and said to the waiter, "We're here to buy news."

"Well, I want to ask for purchase information, please register over there." The waiter pointed to a loft on the left side of the courtyard and said to us.

It seemed that the attic was integrated with the tavern, but it was actually a building facing the street. A group of people gathered under the notice board at the door, and they were whispering next to the notice board, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

Under the guidance of the tavern waiter, we came to the front of this attic. There is a large announcement wall on the left and right of the entrance of the attic. In the magic newspaper, some news were written like a wonderful short story. The group of people standing under the bulletin board seemed to be reading the news on the bulletin board with relish.

Some of them even held wine glasses, while drinking wine, while appraising the authenticity of the news.

On the bulletin board on the right, there are only half a wall of various problems written.I glanced casually, and found dozens of bounty questions posted on this wall, each with the date of release and the amount of the bounty, and a few rangers in tight leather armor stood under the bulletin board, Holding a quill in one hand, and holding a parchment white paper in the other hand, they recorded some valuable reward information on the white paper.

A group of us walked over, and before the waiter at the door came forward to ask, Rita stepped forward and said, "We want to buy some news."

The waiter nodded slightly, looked around the group of us, and then said: "Guests, please follow me."

"If you buy news, don't you need to write the news on that blackboard?" Helena couldn't help asking the waiter.

The waiter saw that it was a girl with a pretty face who asked the question, and immediately began to answer Helena very patiently: "Of course not, our guild archives have recorded all the big things that happened on Dunai Island in recent decades." Incidents, of course, there are also some unbelievable rumors, if the questions raised by the guests happen to be these news, then the answer should be found soon."

"So, what kind of questions will be written on those notice boards?" Becky on the side continued to ask.

The waiter continued to answer patiently: "Only those questions that cannot be answered, with the permission of the benefactor, we will publish them on the bulletin board and mark the amount of the reward."

"However, these bounty questions sometimes encounter a time lag, that is, the publisher of the question has already got the answer, but he didn't come to us to cancel the bounty question in the first time. When encountering such a thing, even if he got the answer to the question, You can’t get a bonus, so when choosing answers to questions, please pay special attention to the release date of the question.”

In the waiter's previous speech, I heard a sentence mentioning 'our union'.

It suddenly occurred to me that in every city of the Grimm Empire, there seems to be such organizations that provide various information, and they seem to use taverns as their bases, because most of the information and intelligence providers are thieves, and they are the marginalized people in the city. , After a long evolution, this kind of organization that provides various information and intelligence is called by everyone: Thieves' Union.

Helena asked again: "May I ask if there are any questions that have been posted for a long time and have not been answered?"

The waiter immediately replied: "Of course there is, and it's very common, so if you want to post a bounty question and haven't received an answer for a while, please come to us to update the bounty question in time."

At this time, we have already entered the attic, which is designed like a bank's office lobby.

I asked the waiter: "How can we determine that the news we got is true? What should we do if we receive a fake news when we post a bounty question?"

The waiter glanced at me and replied: "For many professional and academic questions, only the publisher of the news can determine whether the answer is correct. If you need to verify the authenticity of the answer, you must mark the word 'Verification Required' in advance. Before the answer is verified, we will keep the reward on our behalf, and only after the answer is verified, we will pay the reward to the answerer..."

The waiter took us into a soundproof secret room. The girl Rita seemed to be here for the first time. She looked at the decoration in the room curiously. There was only a square table and six chairs in the room. The waiter asked to serve a pot Tea, put the teacups in front of us, filled us with hot tea, and left without saying a word.

It wasn't until a middle-aged person came in holding a thick document that she realized that she shouldn't be standing here. She waved to us, walked out of the secret room with light steps, and poked her head in at the door again. We made gestures to show that we were going to wait outside, and made exaggerated mouth shapes, as if to say: "I'll wait for you outside!"

After finishing speaking, Rita disappeared through the door with a 'swish'. She is really a delicate and sensitive girl.

The secret room was very quiet, the middle-aged man was wearing a black robe, he looked like a staid priest, but he didn't have the emblem of 'faith' on his body.

He stood in the secret room for a while, and then asked us: "Everyone, if you have any questions that you need to know, please ask them! However, there is one premise, that is, the scope of the questions I answer is limited to Confined to an area of ​​sea around the island of Dunay and events on the island of Dunay."

I bowed my body and said to the middle-aged man: "We came to Dunai Island this time to inquire about some news about sea monsters."

The middle-aged man tightly locked his thick eyebrows, and said with a serious face: "In all these years, this is the first time I've heard that someone is looking for sea monsters in the waters near Du Nai Island!"

The 'Thieves' Guild' has always been selling information for a living. As a staff here, they are naturally well-informed and know many secrets that are not known on Du Nai Island.

Now, hearing him say that he has never heard of 'any rumors about sea monsters', my heart sank into a trough.

With full of hope, they came all the way to Dunai Island to find the horn of soul, but it seems that the sea area around Dunai Island is not haunted by sea monsters, otherwise the members of the Thieves Guild would not be unaware.

However, my news came from the dean of the 'Royal Academy of Magic'. I have no doubts about the authenticity of this news. Even now that I have visited Dunai Island in person, everyone says that there is no sea monster here, but I still can't quite believe it.

The 'answer to the news' is my reward for my outstanding performance at the Summer Festival. The old dean even gave up the reliable information on the endless sea, and suggested that I go to the Vashj plane to find the answer, which should have some basis.

I said to the middle-aged man, "You really haven't heard of the rumor of the sea monster?"

The middle-aged man's brows were locked into the shape of "Chuan", and he put his hand on his chin and thought hard.

After a long time, we still shook our heads and sighed helplessly. Just when we were full of disappointment, the middle-aged man said again: "If you insist on continuing to search for this information, you can apply to search the large database of the guild archives. This kind of large-scale file adjustment and query work will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, so whether you can find the news or not, as long as you apply to search the large database, you need to pay us the file search fee."

"Okay, I agree to check the file!" I said without hesitation.

The middle-aged man seemed a little surprised, obviously he didn't expect that I could make a decision so quickly.

Immediately, I paid the middle-aged man a gold coin, and the price of investigating the archives was really outrageously expensive. You must know that even if you had a fine dinner in the 'Emperor Capital', it would never cost more than ten coins A silver coin, one gold coin is almost two months' household income of an ordinary civilian family.

He asked us to wait in the secret room for a while, and walked out of the secret room by himself.

From the time the middle-aged man walked out of the secret room, time seemed to freeze, and every minute seemed extraordinarily long.

After a long time, the middle-aged man walked into the secret room, and before he could speak, he shook his head at us regretfully.

The middle-aged man stopped in front of me and said to me: "Unfortunately, no information about the sea monster can be found in the big database."

My heart fell to the bottom all of a sudden, and only two words kept appearing in my mind: 'How is it possible? '

The middle-aged man saw how disappointed I was, so he suggested to me: You might as well post a reward message. If you want someone to respond quickly, you might as well set the reward amount higher.

I was full of expectations at first, but in the end I got nothing. This feeling of loss is like falling from a high altitude.

But I didn't want to write this question on the notice board, so I flatly rejected the middle-aged man's proposal.

Ying Li next to me came over, put his arms around my arm, gave me some comfort, and said to me: "Don't worry, Jijia, after returning to the Green Empire, I will accompany you to Haiyinsi, we can settle in Haiyinsi. The Naga Sea Clan of Yinsi asked about the sea monster. In the endless sea, there must be a sea monster."

So full of disappointment, we left the thieves' union in this tavern.

Rita was waiting at the door of the attic, and seeing the solemn expressions on our faces, she knew that things were not going too well.

So, Rita didn't mention where she would go next, but said to us directly: "There are still a few pubs on Dunay Island, why don't we try our luck in the past?"

I shook my head slightly, rejecting Rita's offer.

I didn't cancel my plan to go around the island in the afternoon, but because I was a little absent-minded, I just basked in the sun for most of the day on a beautiful beach on Du Nai Island, looking at the vast sea, and my mood improved a little.

A dark red light wheel fell into the sea, and the sky turned dark.

Before we knew it, we spent an afternoon on the beach and returned to the manor hotel in a magic caravan. The girls knew that I was not in a good mood, so they were silent all the way.

When I returned to the manor hotel, when the magic caravan just drove into the gate, I just saw a magic caravan passing me by the gate. Although the light was a little dim in the evening, my five senses were a little different from ordinary people. Under the influence of force, I became particularly sensitive. Just when two magic caravans passed by, at the moment when two magic caravans passed by, I saw Duke Wheeler actually sitting in the car .

I'm a little surprised, it's so late, does Duke want a tavern?

But in the carriage, I didn't see the blond beauty who was always by his side.

The moment Duke Wheeler drove out of the manor in the magic caravan, I suddenly felt a familiar magical aura in that magic caravan... The shadow magic element, the familiar aura, made me 'The Priory of the Black Arts' came to mind.

Unexpectedly, I would meet members of the 'Black Magic Priory' on the island of Du Nai. I thought to myself: These guys from the Black Magic Priory are really pervasive!
The last time Jacques Mensa was kidnapped in Galapagos, and he wanted to perform an 'evil magic ritual' on Jacques, this time he aimed at Duke Wheeler again...

Without thinking too much, I told the coachman of the magic caravan to turn around and follow the carriage that just drove out of the manor in front.

After being promoted to be an eighth-level magician, my magic perception has been enhanced a lot, and the water elemental atmosphere on the island is extremely strong, so my magic perception can extend more than 200 meters.

We stayed far behind the magic caravan, until the magic caravan drove into the alley of the civilian area, and then slowly stopped in front of a residential house. At this time, it was completely dark.

(End of this chapter)