Witch Forest Friends Club

With Mosu fireworks positioned, the support fleet will find the temporary camp as soon as possible.

The girl came to the bonfire where everyone was sitting around. In the cooking pot set on the earthen stove, the thick soup with chopped mushrooms was bubbling and bubbling.

The ingredients are the sausage dry food that Elsa carried, paired with the energy mushrooms spawned by Anjaye, added an appropriate dose of magic medicine, and stewed into a large pot of chowder that helps restore physical strength and magic essence.

Gloria wanted to go to the lake to catch fish and shells, but no one except her wanted to eat creatures that had survived in the sea of ​​fog.

After all, those fish monsters resembling black fish and catfish entrenched in the turbid water waves near the island are so big that they can overturn a canoe, and they look like mutated species that have suffered from biochemical pollution.

The lake shells are not the edible shellfish that fishermen often eat, but the cute magic shells raised by the Bicol people. They are hard shell shells that are about the same size and covered with dirty algae. Dirty blackened colloidal mucus.

Forced to give up hunting lake monsters, the dragon descendants still shot down a bunch of bold crows returning home. After plucking their hairs and removing their internal organs, they roasted the outside charred and tender inside to fill their hungry appetites—but Anjaye She felt that the crows on the island probably did not eat less living corpses and rotting corpses washed ashore on weekdays, so she would rather drink mushroom soup in a proper manner.

Under the harsh dining environment, only the savage, Gloria, was present, eating happily. All the witches seemed unwilling to eat, especially the kitten, who couldn't even lick the honey water in his hand.

"Xiao An, you still have to climb the mage's tower later, so you can work with more energy." Goliath also stuffed the grilled crow skewers that she ate a few bites into An Jiaye's hands.The girl looked at the crow's wings, which looked like the tooth marks left by a beast, and felt her entire stomach twitching.

"Goria, you have to be clear, not everyone is like a dragonborn, with a lead belly that can digest ore." An Jiaye coldly rejected the kindness, and stuffed the crow skewer back into Gloria's mouth.

"After staying in the sewer all night, the smell of slimes and flies hasn't affected your appetite?" Elsa also sneered, "It really is an uncivilized primitive creature."

"A cat with only desserts on the recipe, what kind of imperfect animal is it?" Gloria swallowed the whole crow contemptuously, chewing with puffed cheeks.

Seeing that the two ferocious beasts were about to quarrel again, Anjaye tried to distract them.

"Uncle Black Marsh's fleet has docked."

Focusing on the "Grey Shrike" that the girls had been on, two armed merchant ships sailed to the nearby waters and sank anchor, then lowered several small boats full of soldiers to land.

The leader was Gambino in full armor. He held the sword and led the gray wolf guards to the shallows, and soon led the team to the front of the camp. The old wolf seemed to be working as a shopkeeper outside the city, and after a while of peace of mind, he was even more energetic.

Anjaye propped up his staff and stood up slowly, facing the old wolf across the bonfire.

"After taking off your glasses, your eyes are much more beautiful."

Gambino, who took off his wolf mask, looked at the girl's magic eyes indifferently.

Stimulated by his demeanor as if it had nothing to do with him, a few tiny poisonous mushrooms popped out of the staff in An Jiaye's hand.

She held back a little bit of anger rising like mud in her heart, and maintained restraint.

"The trial you arranged, I have already done it."

"The local organizer of the martial arts competition owes me a favor, and the champion has also lost to us. I think the tickets for the finals have already been obtained, and the demon organization entrenched in Shuangcheng Port has also been defeated, and no one will fight again. Using the banner of the Academy to act recklessly."

Anjaye finished his brief report.

"Good job." Old Wolf clapped his hands and turned to greet Fan Na.

"Miss Marshall, you have also seen the mess in Lenghu. If the turmoil in Shuangcheng Harbor cannot wake Uncle Lenghu from his castle, we will go to Paolisad, the city of white sails. I'm guilty."

Fan Na was as silent as if she had lost her breath. Her gloomy gaze collided with that of the old wolf, and then she said with a stiff expression, "I will fulfill my obligations as a member of the Marshall family."

The old wolf was noncommittal, turned his head and sneered at the knight guarding Fanna who should have died.

"Knight Earnshaw Randall Marchius, it seems that your name does not need to be engraved on the tombstone."

"Thanks to your concern, I guess I can live long enough to attend your funeral." Knight Earnshaw sneered dully, and actually took his head off his neck in front of the old wolf.

"Look, I'm not afraid of being beheaded this time."

"Excellent." The old wolf stared at the knight of Enbridge without changing his expression and took his head back. "Don't cut off your head again."

Finally, Gambino bowed to Mentor Bod to salute.

"Your Excellency Wanyi Witch, Jiushu greetings."

"Your Excellency Gray Wolf, it seems that little Fanna in my classroom, please take care of me." Ms. Bode showed a gentle smile that made the temperature drop instantly.

"It's a great honor for me to be able to send your Excellency to assist the pilgrimage." The old wolf remained calm.

"Do your part, Gray Wolf." Instructor Bode leaned on his civilized staff and walked up the mountain without looking back, "The reason why Ms. Ramir trusts you is not worth mentioning here. "

The old wolf squinted at the mayor, who was tied and sealed on a mushroom cap, half of his face covered with starstone scales, and squeezed out a cruel sneer: "Would you like to hand over Fernando to me? He still has a large number of followers waiting in the city." liquidation."

"He is Anjaye's trophy." Mentor Bode just emphasized, and then spread the wings of the death butterfly and flew to the mage tower.

Seeing the old wolf's eyes turn back, An Jiaye lowered his head and thought: "Fernando can be handed over to you, but I have to agree to two conditions."

"Tell me." The old wolf raised some interest in his tone.

"First, the next stop is Paolisad's operation. I will still command the patrolling witches alone." Anjaye looked up at the other party's sharp eyes and did not back down. "Second, Fernando's life will be given to me." Keep it."

"Yes." The old wolf didn't bargain. He stroked his chin and looked directly at the little witch who had become hardened with interest. "Xiao An, as I said, your eyes really have become beautiful."

"We are going to search the Mage Tower, and then Black Swan Island needs to be completely sealed off to prevent the possible remaining disasters on the island from spreading again."

"Don't worry, I'm used to dealing with witches." The old wolf suddenly turned around, pierced the witch spell that bound the demon with a sword, and picked up the dying mayor to return the same way.

"Gloria, come with me, some things are inconvenient for Uncle Black Marsh."

"Smelly old man, the old rules, I get a share of what I earn." The dragonborn's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he picked up the dragon hunting ax and strode after him.

An Jiaye watched Goliath leave the team helplessly. These two like-minded guys are probably going to take advantage of the fire again.

But the things under the table are really the most reliable to be handed over to the old wolf.

After finishing the connection with Gambino, the girls came to the main entrance of the Chaodeng Mage Tower again.

According to the exploration plan drawn up before the meal, Bode mentor first explored the way, flew to the top of the tower, and opened the door for them from the tower.

The defensive barrier that lacks the support of the master has been forcibly broken by Bode.

"come in."

As the stone gate painted with the pattern of dancing swans rumbled open, the silhouette of Instructor Bode raised his head and looked around the scene in the tower, appearing in the dim and strange twilight.

"According to the information of the Academy, after Ello arrived at Cold Lake 14 years ago, the mage tower was handed over to her by Earl Marshall, and it was repaired and remodeled according to Ello's requirements."

The air of the dark green miasma was continuously absorbed by the wriggling and glowing stamen-shaped wings on the back of Teacher Bode.

"Ouroboros fled in a hurry, and may find useful clues."

In the hall at the bottom of the mage tower, there is a majestic and mighty mottled bronze statue, which seems to be protected by a powerful enchantment mechanism.

The main body of the bronze statue is a man holding a sword and walking naked on the waves. His muscular body seems to be supported by the stormy waves.

And under the turbulent and broken water waves, a deformed and thick fish tail was rolled up. It seemed that there was an extremely fierce and huge monster lurking under the water surface, and the man's sword was inserted into the water, obviously fighting the lake monster for life and death.

"Who is this?" Elsa circled half a circle around the bronze statue curiously.

Fan Na bowed deeply towards the statue.

"The ancestor of my family, the head of the heroes who saved the cold lake more than 200 years ago - the 'Knight of the Lake', the first lord of the cold lake 'Julian Rodrigo Marshall'."

The solemn light emitted by the barrier reflected Fanna's fair and beautiful face, and the girl seemed to be remembering that magnificent epic.

"This statue was built to commemorate the legend of him eradicating the evil god. The sword that assassinated the lake god was the 'Heart of the Cold Lake' made of the Cygnus meteorite, which was honored by the 'Paolier' clan. The lord's sword of acknowledgment and blessing - since then, the cold lake knights have carved fishtail patterns on the hilt for generations to commemorate their achievements in killing evil gods - it's a pity that the "heart of cold lake" also followed the evil god The bones disappeared at the bottom of the lake."

"If there is an enchantment, there may be some secrets hidden." An Jiaye found that it was difficult for the magic eye to penetrate the enchantment of the bronze statue.She then looked at Elsa, and saw that the black and white Rubik's cube in the kitten's eyes was also spinning in a daze.

Elsa shrugged her shoulders, and Anjaye immediately realized that it seemed to be a powerful barrier connected to the mage tower's spell foundation and ground veins, and it should not be broken rashly.

"Let's go to the top of the tower first." Instructor Bode motioned for the girls to follow.

The passage from the hall at the bottom of the tower to the second floor is a disc-shaped upgrade ladder driven by witchcraft. The starstone rune array embedded in the elevator can still run freely.

Afterwards, from the second floor up, there are beautifully shaped spiral ladders.

Between the second and fourth floors, there are complex circular corridors, as well as kitchens, handy rooms, classrooms, laboratory tables and other places. Decayed and dusty furniture can be seen everywhere, and broken and broken alchemy servants are lying on the floor.

As the elevator went deeper to the top of the tower, Anjaye felt that the miasma remaining around him became thicker. When the elevator stopped on the fifth floor, the concentration of miasma was visible to the naked eye. wandered here.

The flower-shaped demon wings of Instructor Bode have been cleaning up the miasma along the way, and the girls will soon no longer have to maintain a high-strength enchantment.

Anjaye pushed open an open wooden door, and there was an elegantly decorated bedroom inside. Compared with the many dusty rooms on the lower floor, the bedroom was much cleaner and tidy.

"It's the lady's room."

Anjaye saw the gauze corroded by the miasma on the velvet bed, the antique vase on the wooden table, and even a bouquet of flowers that had withered due to the miasma. His appearance maintained the illusion that he was not far from his master's life, but he was eventually destroyed under the impact of the miasma.

"Perhaps the Bird Witch once lived here."

They left the bedroom and continued to climb up the stairs. The sixth floor was a large study room with bookshelves and ancient books densely stacked.

"This is the main workshop of the Mage Tower." Instructor Bode stated calmly, "Ouroboros destroyed the traces he left behind."

"Most of the books were burned by the miasma." Anjaye used his staff to lift up a few books with incomplete covers and turned them into ashes. Should be in a state of extreme instability."

"It's a pity for these precious books." The girl sighed softly, "It's a big project to restore, and I have to find a book repairer from the Curse Department to take a look."

"However, I obtained his notes on the development of the apocalyptic potion in the Fly's Nest, hoping to find some clues."

"Did that guy keep it on purpose? To mislead us." Elsa looked at an incomplete canvas on the desk with her hands behind her back, "If this painting is from Ouroboros, then his artistic aesthetic , is much taller than that Fly Demon."

An Jiaye also noticed that the painting turned out to be a portrait of the Asuka Witch, but she seemed to be leaning on the back of a blonde woman, even though she was rotten by the miasma, she could still see the elegant brushstrokes of the painting Delicate, deep and dark artistic conception, revealing a very sad and dignified atmosphere.

Fan Na also fell into a trance after seeing the portrait of the Asuka Witch.

"Although he is a conspirator who does all kinds of evil, he seems to disdain to destroy evidence."

Anjaye deduced his own view of Ouroboros as a person.

"I think he is completely indifferent to whether the secret of the power of 'Apocalypse' will be exposed—or he wants his own research to be known and recognized by more people."

"Let's go to the lighthouse room." After studying the painting for a while, Instructor Bode turned her head and walked to the rooftop outside the study room. She reminded, "I found an interesting clue on the top of the tower."

The girls climbed carefully along the frost-condensed sky ladder outside the tower, holding on to the fence, and came to the lighthouse room surrounded by two rows of magic element searchlights in a circle—the searchlights were all uniformly fixed on movable strip metal light stands .

Instructor Bode came to the center of the empty lighthouse room and tapped the traces left by Ouroboros' teleportation with the staff of civilization.

"This was originally supposed to be the base of a certain statue, and it was moved along with the teleportation circle. Fanna, come and have a look."

Fan Na stepped forward holding the bird staff with a depressing expression, and saw a series of notches pointed by the staff of civilization.

"This is Elo's mother's handwriting!"

The girl then read the clue aloud.

"When the tide lights guide the swan back to its voyage, the prison guarded by the traitor is about to open."

"She still likes to play these puzzles." Instructor Bode looked at the searchlights all around and sighed nostalgicly.

The moment Anjaye heard the riddle, his mind immediately turned quickly.

"Tide lights refer to the lights of lighthouses. Is it to turn on these searchlights, move them to the correct position, and illuminate a certain route?"

Instructor Bode looked around the lighting stand, and soon found a rune tablet that controls the lighting system: "Let me see, you need a key to activate these magic element lamps."

Anjaye also discovered the rune slate, and there was indeed a groove in the shape of a keyhole.

"This shape, like the treasury, may be opened with the stone statue of Tristi." Anjaye remembered the dream flute he had snatched from the port officer. "Let me see if I can remove the stone statue on the dream flute."

Although Fan Na held the statue of Tristi in her hand, it would be too unnatural for her to use the stone statue made of her stepmother's ashes as the key.

"There's no need to dismantle it." Mentor Bode picked up the staff of civilization, fluently cut open the triangular space anchor, and took out a dark stone statue again, "I also got a stone statue when I was on the Fly's Nest. The Destroyer also said that monster was quite unpalatable."

An Jiaye suddenly understood: "Is it the apocalypse parasite?"

With the stone statue of Tristi embedded in the groove of the rune slab, the dazzling blue magic light is activated instantly, like many gorgeous big eyes, spanning a long time and space, overlooking the vast waters indifferently—waiting for enlightenment Those who sail and return home guide the way.

"It seems that these stone statues were originally made by Elo. What did she do with Ouroboros?" Instructor Bode shook his head regretfully, "As a result, even his own bones were made The stone statue, my sister is so stupid."

"Let's adjust the direction of the lights." Seeing Fan Na's distraught appearance, An Jiaye quickly changed the subject, "But what is the route of the swan's return?"

"I'll do it." Knight Earnshaw suddenly stepped up to the lampstand and took over the job. "Grandfather told me that the so-called return of swans refers to the wind and waves blown by the autumn trade wind on the cold lake. Break through the fog to form a safe channel."

"Every year, swans will take advantage of this wind and waves to return to Black Swan Island to settle down. The lost boats on the cold lake can find their way home as long as they see the swans flying against the lake. In order to guide the swans to go home smoothly, The Tide Lighthouse will display a special signal light, but I haven’t seen the light turned on for many years, and the swan has long since disappeared.”

The headless horseman, who was rarely talkative, adjusted the somewhat rusty searchlight deck with all his strength.

"Let me see if the direction is right."

With the continuous adjustment and combination of the angle and position of the upper and lower distribution of the two rows of searchlights, more than a dozen beams of light interweave and emit, and finally reach the center of the island from the rippling lake in the north of the island, forming a gorgeous and regular light trail.

Anjaye looked at the waterway formed by the light trail in the mist, and imagined the beautiful scene of swans returning from afar in the distant years, flapping their wings and landing on the island for the winter.

It's a pity that their homeland is no longer there, but the people of Lenghu still live tenaciously here for generations.

The huge and heavy sound of the mechanism suddenly climbed from the bottom hall to the top of the tower, and An Jiaye's feet shook faintly, waking her up from her mournful reverie.

"Success." Anjaye's hand was held by Elsa again, and the kitten led her down the stairs, "There is movement under the tower."

Anjaye and his companions took the elevator back to the hall, and found that the solid barrier covering the statue of the "Knight of the Lake" had disappeared.

The bronze statue also sank from the heavy marble floor, exposing a dark, square crypt.

"The prison guarded by the Betrayer." Anjaye recalled the riddle left by the Asuka Witch. "The knight of the lake is called the 'betrayer', which is interesting."