my age of magic

Chapter 970 71. The Whereabouts of the Treasure Map
Justus was lying on the cold stone slab of the cave, his body curled up in a ball, panting rapidly with his mouth open, like a rainbow trout out of water.

After squeezing the last bit of strength from his body, he began to twitch all over his body, and the blue fish scale lines under his skin became more and more obvious, gradually spreading to his face.

The green light in his eyes dissipated little by little, and his eyes gradually became clear, but the pain in his body did not decrease at all.The outbreak of drug addiction made him lost his mind, unable to suppress the blood of the sea monster in his body, and turned into a monster with fish fins growing from his limbs and fish scales on his body. The physical signs gradually disappeared from Justus's body, and he woke up.

Justus was tortured in the stronghold of the Black Magic Priory before. After we rescued him, his physical condition has been very poor.

The word 'rescue' seemed inappropriate, maybe Justus didn't think so.Probably because he thought he was just moving from one magic lair to another, that's all.

I don't know what kind of pain I have to endure when the drug addiction breaks out after taking the 'Devil's Blood' addiction.

I still remember Su at that time, once the drug addiction broke out, he would enter the state of the 'Shadow Body'.

Kalantso seemed to know what I was thinking at the moment, and she said to me: "Compared to Su at that time, his level of drug addiction is far behind!"

"It might hurt, bear with it!" I walked up to Justus and said to him.

A light blue hexagram circle rose under my feet, and a 'hydrotherapy technique' landed on Justus' body. The severe pain made his face extremely distorted.

I knelt down and asked him, "Are you a descendant of the sea monster?"

"...I am like this now, can I still say 'I'm not' to you?" He smiled wryly, the fish scale pattern on his face made him look a bit hideous.

I said, "You know what? I came all the way to Du Nai just to find you!"

Justus lay on the stone slab, as if his whole body was paralyzed, only his mouth and eyeballs could move.

He said weakly: "What do you want to know, maybe what kind of treasures do you think my mother will leave me? If you think so, then you must be very disappointed. With a bloody body, she couldn't leave anything behind."

"For so many years, there will always be people who have traveled thousands of miles from all corners of the world. Like you, they are also looking for my mother's whereabouts, but these people have never thought that sea monsters have a lifespan, and she will grow old, and die, too."

He stared at me with complicated eyes.

I was surprised: "She died?"

He wanted to laugh, but found that when the corners of his mouth were pulled, the muscles on his face were a little stiff, so he just pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, and said, "According to the calculation, it has been more than 20 years."

"Oh, so, I heard she has a soul horn?" I asked Justus.

Justus told me: "Every sea monster will have a soul horn, and she is no exception. I thought you were for the half of the treasure map left by the rumored pirate king, but I didn't expect you to be Come to find the soul horn."

I said to him, "I can... well... I mean, I just want to borrow the horn of the soul, of course I will pay you a fee that is satisfactory to you, and I will sign a magical contract with you, so that Guarantee that after the ceremony, I will return the original."

"I don't have any soul horn in my hand. In fact, her soul horn was snatched away a long time ago!" Justus showed a trace of nostalgia in his eyes. Those memories seemed to be a long time ago. Turning back from memory, he said to me again: "Actually, I have never even seen it, it only exists in my mother's memory."

"The horn of the soul was snatched away?" I said aloud.

Although I feel a little unbelievable, I have a self-consciousness: what Justus said is true.

"That's right... Of course, you can choose to believe it, or you can choose not to believe it, just like I don't have half of the treasure map in my hand. In short, who would believe what I said?" He said.

"I believe you!" I said to him.

"Huh?" He looked at me in astonishment.

"I believe what you said is true." I looked into his eyes and said to him seriously.

"Should I be grateful for your trust at this time?" He smiled wryly again and asked me in a self-deprecating tone.

"Of course...no need." I was still a little uncomfortable with his humor, and said to him casually: "If possible, I would like to know whose hands the horn of the soul ended up in. I just want to find the horn of the soul." The horn of the soul, it is very important to me."

He didn't speak, just looked at me with a look of 'you are no different from anyone else'.

In silence, I suddenly realized that I didn't know how to speak.

After a while, he suddenly asked me, "Am I dying?"

I said to Justus: "Speaking of which, you are heavily addicted to drugs. It is a kind of potion from the hell world. Although it can be seen occasionally in the Grimm Empire, it is considered a very rare magic material." , the magicians of the Green Empire like to use it to make 'Jade Fire Ink', which is the main material for drawing 'Magic Catalysis' scrolls."

"Sounds like it's expensive?" Justus asked me.

"Generally speaking, rare things are more expensive!" I said.

Later, I said to him: "However, 'drug addiction' will not affect your life, but in the following days, your life will become more and more difficult. This is the usual method of the Black Magic Retreat , but the cost of this interrogation method is very high, not everyone can enjoy it."

"What's your relationship with the black magic hermit?" Justus was a little curious about me.

He asked me, "Alliance?"

I shook my head.

He asked again: "The enemy?"

I nodded.

"Oh!"

He agreed without hesitation.

"I can help you get rid of drug addiction, the price is that you have to stay with me for a while." I said to Justus: "Of course, you don't have to accept my help, in that case, you will get Liberty, I can take you to the docks on the Isle of Dunai."

He stared at me strangely, and asked: "You don't want to know the whereabouts of the horn of the soul?"

I smiled and replied, "Didn't you already tell me?"

His eyes widened, his speech was a little hasty, and his pitch became slightly higher, causing his voice to be a little sharp: "When did I say that?"

I pointed to his eyes and said to him: "The answer is hidden in your eyes. You told me with your eyes that the horn of the soul is hidden in the treasure of the pirate king. Only by finding the treasure of the pirate king can you find the horn of the soul." Horn, so I want to try and see if I can find the treasure of the Pirate King."

"Well, you're right. It was indeed the Pirate King who took the horn from my mother. As for whether it was hidden with the treasure, I don't know. After all, no one has seen the horn. A batch of treasures." There was a trace of fatigue in Justus's eyes, and his eyelids kept fighting.

His consciousness gradually became trance, and he said to me again: "I'm a little sleepy, if I can wake up, maybe I can tell you a story!"

"Sweet dreams!"

Seeing Justus falling into a coma, the fish scales on his face dissipated little by little, and the bone spurs that had grown on his elbows, ankles, and back gradually retracted into his body, returning to his original human appearance, his expression became even brighter. He looked pale, and it seemed that after exhausting all his strength, he could sleep well.

Turning around and walking out of the stone room, I was going to have a good talk with another evil mage to see what new things he could tell me.

……

The evil mage was no different from the previous one named 'Utley', and said in unison: The purpose of coming to Dunai Island is to find out the whereabouts of the half of the treasure map from Justus.

In my mind, the grievances and grievances at sea decades ago in Vashj's plane clearly appeared:
Decades ago, a powerful pirate king appeared in the sea area of ​​Vashj Plane. His whole life was almost non-stop conquering other pirates. He led the most powerful pirate army to rob countless treasures. (Including the soul horn of the sea monster)

After the death of the Pirate King, he hid the treasure he had accumulated all his life in a secret place, drew a treasure map, divided the treasure map into two, and distributed it to his two sons, hoping that their brothers would They were able to work together to share that treasure, but what people didn't expect was that the two sons of the Pirate King turned against each other because of this.

The eldest son of the Pirate King joined forces with the sea monster to defeat the second son of the pirate king. In the end, the sea monster snatched the half of the treasure map from the second son, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Years later, the pirates still couldn't forget the treasure map. They searched everywhere for the whereabouts of the sea monster, but never shared this secret with others.

The second evil mage didn't look surprised when he saw me, worried that I would drag him into the textile workshop to feed the spiders, wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, and told me another thing: he was a pirate. The eldest son of the king did not have the ability to command the troops left behind by the pirate king. A few years later, he died in a pirate rebellion, and the whereabouts of the half of the treasure map in the hands of the eldest son was also unknown.

Thinking of this, I thought of Captain Johnny Jones on the 'Slave Trader' and the half of the treasure map found on his ship.

……

When Justus woke up again, the native Yero woman who took care of him approached Kalanzo and told her: 'Justus wants to talk to me. '

Kalancuo found me again.

I saw Justus in the stone room, and saw that his complexion was much better than before, but he had two big dark circles, sunken eye sockets, and a haggard face. He was leaning on the stone wall with a wolf fur behind him Matt, seeing me rushing over, smiled at me reluctantly, looking like a very polite gentleman.

He has been resisting the 'drug addiction' in his body, that's why he looks so haggard mentally.

In front of his couch was a bowl of fish soup and half a naan, and the food had only moved a little.

It seemed that the Hierro native woman was very caring.

When I came this time, the Yero native woman even moved out a stone bench from the corner of the stone room and let me sit in front of Justus. I saw that his body was covered with a thick layer of fur, but his face still looked pale. livid.

Seeing me, Justus cheered up and said to me, "Now that it's all said and done, if I still wake up, I'll tell you a story!"

I nodded to him, expressing my willingness to sit aside and listen quietly.

"My childhood was probably the kind of life that was always at sea and lived a life of ups and downs.

Since I was a child, my mother took me to live incognito on various islands. The life was very bitter. She never showed her extraordinary power in front of me. Mothers are no different.

We often rush to the sea when the tide is low for a bite to eat. One of the words she often said is: Thank the God of the Sea for giving us everything.

I have never seen my father. When I was a child, I asked her why I don't have a father.

She never explained it to me.

In fact, I have never felt that I am different from other people. If there is, it is because my physique is slightly better.

I didn't realize the difference between myself and others until I first awakened the power of the siren's blood. I was terrified that time. I thought I was transformed into a monster by some magician's 'Transformation' Monster, I learned from my mother later that the reason why I became like this is because my body has different blood from others.

That's right, when I use the power of blood, some bone spurs will grow in my body, and a layer of green scales will appear on the surface of the skin. These signs can give me the ability to 'breathe underwater', allowing me to In the sea, free as a fish.

At that time, I realized that I was different from other people.

I heard the past from her mouth. In those years, she has been leading me to look for the whereabouts of Dominique, the second son of the Pirate King. She wants to find the treasure of the Pirate King and get back the branch that belongs to her from the treasure. I have been looking for the horn of the soul for many years. Later, as I grew up and needed a stable place to live, her desire to find the horn of the soul gradually faded away.

However, after so many years, although we haven't recovered the soul horn, we have collected some clues.

You say you need the horn of the soul, just want to perform a soul ritual? "

Justus suddenly asked me.

"Ah... yeah, I just want to perform a soul ritual with the horn of the soul." I said.

"Although I don't know where the pirate king's treasure is, I do know the whereabouts of half of the treasure map..." Justus said to me.

(End of this chapter)