The next morning, the noisy sound outside the recording room woke me up from my deep sleep. I threw off the thing covering my body and jumped up from the table. It wasn't until the thing fell to the ground that I realized that it was a purple robe. .
Purple robe? !
"Miss Messiah." Selin, who had been standing by the door for a long time, called me. He was not in good spirits and had thick dark circles under his eyes. It seemed that he had not closed his eyes all night.
"It's a bit noisy." I rubbed my eyes and squeezed to his side. Through the crack in the door, I could see a large group of people pouring into the purple guy's headquarters. They surrounded Darien and another purple guy. .
"I need my Philosopher's Stone, I've been out of work all day!" The loudest voice inside was undoubtedly Wendell Sparks. The dwarf mage stepped on the chair, staring with bright eyes, and almost jumped up.
"Master, we have been working hard to investigate this matter..." Darian tried his best to explain, but Wendell didn't give him a chance at all.
"Is this your efficiency? Do you know how big my losses are?! I still owe customers the unfinished potions! Without the Philosopher's Stone, those semi-finished products cannot be saved! Those are precious medicinal materials! Extremely valuable! "
"terribly sorry……"
"You have to find at least one piece for us! Otherwise, the entire Alchemy Street will be paralyzed!" someone shouted again.
“We provide taxes, not just to let you walk around doing nothing!”
The voices outside the recording room became louder and louder, and I sighed helplessly, "In other words, Darien and the others didn't find Wendell's 'very, very, very valuable' philosopher's stone?" I asked Sai sideways. Forest.
"It's not just Master Wendell's Philosopher's Stone," the trainee knight also sighed, "I heard that last night, the entire Alchemy Street's Philosopher's Stone was taken away, so the mages were extremely anxious and angry."
"The whole Alchemy Street?!" I opened my mouth wide, "How many philosopher's stones should there be?! Then...how many gold coins should they be worth?!"
"Gold coins are not the most important thing! The most important thing is credibility! Credibility!" Unexpectedly, Wendell's voice came from the other side again, extremely angry, "I can't deliver on time!"
Facing the anger of the mages, even though Darien was the son of a great lord, he could only laugh with them.
At that moment, the door of the headquarters was suddenly pushed open heavily, and an extremely tall middle-aged purple man appeared at the door. He had an angular face. When he frowned and looked at the mages, he seemed to Intense pressure surged out of him, "We found it!" His voice was rough.
In an instant, the hall that was so noisy just now fell silent.
*
Something did indeed happen, because when the purple-robed man whispered to Darien, I saw the expression of the knight who kept laughing so much that I wanted to slap him changed, and he immediately looked towards us.
"Messiah." He looked at me from a distance. Although his mouth didn't move, I heard his voice ringing in my ears.
"Huh?" I looked around in surprise.
"It's a magical voice, Miss Messiah." Apparently, Selin also heard it, he explained to me, "We can hear him speak, from the magical world."
"Messiah, maybe the thief who hired someone to harm you has been found." Darien told me, "Would you like to go and have a look?"
*
Philip died in the damp and dark sewers under the North City neighborhood. When Darien took us there, there was still a long section of his intestines floating on the fetid water, and there was no time to salvage it.
Yes, you read that right, it's part of it, because he only has half left.
The reason why the purple guys think that half of the body belongs to Philip is because after preliminary testing by the accompanying pharmacist, the remaining half of Philip's body was severely corroded by strong poisons, and the skin was purple-gray, and the strong poisons and I The bottle that was thrown over at that time was very similar. What's more, there are deep arcane burn marks on his shoulders, which are very fresh. One of his eyeballs was placed squarely next to his body, and the whites of his eyes also showed patches of purple-grey.
Oh my God!
At one glance, those things almost made me throw up!
"Don't look, Miss Messiah." Selin immediately blocked in front of me, frowning. It was obvious that the sudden appearance of something that irritated his eyeballs shocked him unpreparedly, and the one on my left Wendell was already holding on to the wall and starting to vomit.
"vomit"
Oh, the sour smell mixed with the already disgusting air made me want to vomit even more. I couldn't help but grab Selin's clothes and cover my face tightly. His linen shirt clung to his body and smelled slightly of sweat, but it was much better than the smell in the sewer.
The trainee knight stiffened for a moment, then gently patted my shoulder, "Are you okay?"
I responded in a muffled voice, and it took me a long while to suppress the overwhelming feeling in my stomach.
"You should have told me, Sadan!" Darien was heard saying in a low voice angrily.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." The voice clearly belonged to the knight who reported the news. Although he said sorry, his tone was only filled with schadenfreude.
"Sorry, Messiah," Darian whispered in my ear. I only felt a strong hand gently pulling me out of Selin's clothes. At that moment, Darian's blue eyes Right in front of my eyes, I could almost see the deep red bloodshot eyes beside his pupils. "Are you okay?" he asked me, his warm breath blowing on my face.
"Oh," I immediately took a step back, "I'm fine, just a little nauseous."
Sadan over there chuckled, "Ha, I knew you wouldn't be afraid, little Miss Rubio."
I subconsciously turned around and took a closer look at him. The knight made me feel like a rock in a barren mountain. Even the expression on his face was as hard as the rock. "Do I know you?"
"I am Sadan, Sadan Dasohan. Maybe you don't recognize me, but I recognize you."
"What?"
"I happened to see you when you were waving that little wooden sword. You were so majestic." He gave me a thumbs up, but there was no hint of sarcasm in the look on his face or the tone of his words.
I couldn't help but look at Darian, who unconsciously touched the corner of his mouth. There was a small scar there.
Our little action made Sadan laugh and look at the dwarf mage beside us, "Master Wendel, are you feeling better?"
"How can it be possible? It will never get better in this life!"
"If my people clean this place and then invite you, I'm afraid your voice will ruin our headquarters."
"snort!"
"My people have discovered something and want to ask you for help. Please come here."
*
The torches in this sewer area have been completely lit. In the dusk, there are traces of sunlight filtering in from the vents, giving the place a misty feeling.
The square tiles on the wall were cold and wet, and there were still bright red blood stains on several of them.
"They fought here." Sardan pointed to several deep carvings next to the blood stains and said, "These are the marks of the dagger. They are very clear, but what are they?"
Following the direction of his finger, I saw a charred round hole next to the dagger mark, as if it had been blown up by something. It seemed that it should have appeared after the dagger mark was carved.
"That's not a masterpiece of gunpowder." Darien stopped the magic pen in his hand and said.
Wendell stood on the oak barrel in the corner and looked at it carefully. "Yes, it was corroded by the potion." He said firmly, but his voice was still a little hoarse. It was obvious that he had just spit it out, "This is a quick-acting poison." When this poison is fainted, there will be purple-gray threads."
"Shouldn't the wound caused by quick-acting poison be a burn, Master?" Sadan said, "I have been poisoned by that kind of poison, and even after several days, the wound is still hot. But there is no temperature in this mark. "
That sentence made Wendell narrow his eyes, "It can only be detected."
"This is why we invited you here. Your attainments in arcane magic are obvious to all."
Wendell snorted, but his complacency could not be hidden in his voice.
I saw him reciting something in a low voice, and then, the magic wand raised high suddenly flashed pure arcane purple light.
"The God of Magic, lend me the eyes to see through illusions, lend me the power to break through obstacles..."
He prayed in a low voice, and suddenly, the arcane light suddenly surged, dazzling the entire sewer, and the roar of the light overwhelmed the sound of the sewer water.
"...Magic...Detection." The air seemed to vibrate during his prayer, and I clearly heard the last few syllables of Wendell.
The arcane light shone at the dazzling peak for a moment, and then slowly extinguished. When I looked over again, I saw that the charred black hole had become like a bright mirror, with a few black threads looming on it.
"Holy light, what did I see?!" Sadan's face became solemn, "Is this... shadow magic?!"
"That's right," Wendell replied breathlessly, "after all, magic doesn't lie." It seemed that the magic just now seemed to consume a lot of him, and his originally bright eyes were dull.
"There's trouble." Sadan frowned, "Frel!"
"yes!"
"Report this to the superiors! Go now!"
"yes!"
*
Sadan's reaction surprised me, "Selin," I couldn't help but look at the trainee knight beside me, "Shadow magic... is there a problem? I heard that many Holy Light priests are involved in shadow magic. "
"There is nothing wrong with the shadow energy itself, Miss Messiah." Selin looked at me, with deep worry still in his eyes, "But, he killed someone."
"Look here!" At that moment, Darien suddenly exclaimed. He was squatting on the dirtiest step of the sewer. Following the direction of his finger, I saw a small piece of detection magic that was like a mirror. There are also thin shadow threads on it, which are only as big as a fingernail!
I immediately followed over. In that smelly place, I held my breath and looked around. Suddenly, further away, I also saw a little bit of detection magic, and it was only the small ring surface. Big, and almost covered by the gurgling sewage, "Look there!"
"They went into the water." Darien confirmed while detecting magic and said.
"It looks like they're going that way," Sadan narrowed his eyes fiercely and clenched the sword at his waist with his left hand, "Boys, come with me and have a look!"
