"Uncle Shouno, what happened in the castle?" Delphine Wiggins asked, grabbing her sleeve and looking at the steward uneasily.
Xiu Nuo turned around and saw the little daughter of the Grand Duke of Four Leaf Collar staring at him unblinkingly, her light blue dress wrinkled by her.
This is the highest-ranking noble lady of the Wiggins family in Frostleaf Castle. She was born in the Flower Moon fifteen years ago, at the end of a period of nightmare, so people believe that she is bringing light to the South. Warm angel.
The little princess with a four-leaf collar has blond hair, inherited from her father, which is braided and hanging behind her back; her complicated sea blue dress is covered with a layer of white gauze, her eyes are as bright as night stars; her delicate and soft lines Her facial features resemble those of her aunt, the current Queen Flavia. As for his biological mother Tracy, her fierce character and neutral and cold face can only be vaguely seen in the outline of Danlfien's face.
This daughter of the South has many beautiful names, such as the four-leaf little angel and the Virgin of the Dawn. Her most famous and widely spread title is the name "Berti's Noir" dedicated to her by the people of Venice. kindness".
Berti is the name of the goddess of luck; Norn is the angel who spreads luck for her, and is the only line of witches accepted by people.
In Winniewats, Danelfion, who has only turned fifteen this year, is almost worshiped as a goddess. Even though she has never been to this winter city since she was born.
Xiu Nuo smiled and said kindly: "Don't worry, my princess. There is nothing serious in the castle. You don't need to personally intervene in chores and patrols...Delphine, where is your brother?"
"He's studying," replied Delphine.
"Good boy." The steward touched the girl's hair, even though they were actually about the same height. "Go back to the house. The class you are waiting for will be postponed for two hours, and the maid will bring you some snacks."
Miss Wiggins watched as her uncle, whom she was not very close to, ordered the guards to set up defenses, then straightened her face and headed straight for the spiral staircase downstairs. She gently closed the door, turned around and said with fear and excitement: "Gavin, there seems to be a thief in the castle!"
The room is luxurious and luxurious, but the most eye-catching thing is not the gold-edged princess bed, but the stack of books on the table.
"What? What thief?"
A young man with raven hair pulled his head out of the page, his face full of curiosity.
He is the third son of the Grand Duke of Cloverland, Gavin Wiggins, and the biological brother of Danlfion. The boy has unique black tea hair and equally bright black eyes. He is one year older than the girl. Because of this, he is not as famous as his sister.
Danlfion was born just after the major event "Wynnworth Massacre" fifteen years ago, and became the spiritual symbol of the people of the Ice Territory.
Gavin was already over a year old at the time, so naturally he didn't have such good luck.
"You were almost discovered by Uncle Xiu Nuo."
"There's still a long way to go," Gavin said. "Tell me about the thief. I was too involved just now."
"Can't you just go back to your room and read?"
Dandelphin said angrily: "You have been grabbing my desk since a month ago, but we have the same class!"
"It won't be like this tomorrow. Is this okay? Tell me, dear sister, where is that bold thief?" Gavin begged. He didn't come here just to read.
Berti's little Norn rolled his eyes, "Unless you let me participate - don't think I don't know, you are looking for the Scroll of Oath, right?"
"How do you know?" Her brother was startled.
"There are only a few legends in Frostleaf Castle, including the Cursed Wing Scepter of the Swift Shadow Legion, the Golden-armored Unicorn, and the Scroll of Oath. The scepter was hidden by Mother, and the Unicorn is a nocturnal creature. , the only one you can find is the last one.”
Dandelphine said smugly, "I'm much smarter than you, stupid Gavin."
Gavin didn't like what she said: "If it hadn't been for the book saying that the Scroll of Oath was placed 'under the steel rock, covered with a canopy', I wouldn't have come here at all, and you wouldn't have discovered anything."
He believed that the canopy referred to the princess bed of Delphine, which was a mysterious item that calmed the nerves and had a long history in the Wiggins family.
"You don't want to know about the thief?"
"...I admit, you are indeed not stupid."
Delphine snorted, she now understands that joking is enough. "Someone has sneaked into the castle, but Cervantes has already led the team to search. Now is a good opportunity, and the history class has been postponed."
"I almost forgot about it." Gavin was annoyed, "I wish it would be longer. I haven't finished my homework yet."
After learning the whole story of the intruder, he was immediately disappointed, and his attention turned to the difficult choice of going treasure hunting or making up for homework.
"I can lend it to you." Danfion was afraid that he would give up.
The young man glanced at his sister and knew that she liked history precisely because the teacher happened to talk about the "Demon Hunting Movement" twenty years ago. The Glorious Council suffered a huge loss of face during the turmoil that lasted for five years, and Croita was also blamed by people. Only the newborn Danlfien became a lucky angel inexplicably.
He said angrily: "That's great. When I find the Scroll of Oath, I will write on it the wish that 'the history class will never begin', and let the demon hunting movement and the Glorious Council go to hell."
"If it can really fulfill any wish." Danfion pretended not to hear his brother's jealousy and added: "Don't forget to add etiquette lessons, my heels are still hurting now."
Gavin couldn't help but smile, "No problem."
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Since they are undead, there is nothing to say.
Without thinking, Uriel closed the door; his magic power had not recovered much, and it was not necessarily who would be unlucky enough to bump into a corpse eater. Now we can only temporarily block the undead from the door and use the method Cecilia used to solve the problem.
He backed up against the wall, breathing rapidly. The door panel shuddered, and there was a faint sound of sharp objects scraping. The apprentice lit the candle with a flint and stepped on the sawdust and dust on the floor to approach the door.
However, at this time, he suddenly hesitated: although the flames could burn the undead, they would also attract attention. Uriel finally left a reminder to Mr. Eze to stay away from the study. If the bar owner or the necromancer was attracted by the fire and came here, his preparations would be in vain.
What's more, this is Frostleaf Castle.
The apprentice was not mentally prepared to destroy the lord's castle.
If you don't use fire, you can only raise your sword to meet the enemy.
Uriel is still very self-aware. He has no pressure to deal with low-level undead, but if he goes up against a knight corpse eater who has certain wisdom, he will definitely be defeated - magic is not omnipotent, and the application of power requires skill. Skills can sometimes influence the situation of the battle.
What else can we do, run away? The only exit is behind you now. If you jump down, you will most likely land on the skylight of the lobby on the first floor... But this is the fourth floor!
Such crazy behavior, just think about it and forget it.
Uneasiness and panic gradually replaced calmness. Uriel rubbed the soles of his shoes back and forth on the floor in the room, not noticing the wax dripping on his hands.
Until a cat meowed, he lowered his head and saw the black cat standing on a long pole, twitching the tip of its tail at him. Uriel felt for no reason that the black cat was telling him to "Follow me."
Do you really want to jump out of the window?
The black cat did not go to the window sill. It ran like a black lightning bolt, blinking from the apprentice's face to behind the fallen bookcase. At this moment, the cat in the inkwell stopped, looked back at him, turned around and disappeared into the wallpaper.
Uriel almost thought it had turned back into ink, but it was clean there. His heart skipped a beat and he reached out to touch it——
Cold walls.
The apprentice was startled, this was different from what he thought. But he soon realized his mistake, mobilized his magic power and carefully injected a little, and the rough paper covering the masonry became soft.
He put down the candle, rushed over and groped on the wall, and quickly measured the scope of the change. Behind the wallpaper is a cave about three feet in diameter, with thick paper covering the surface like a water curtain, allowing people to pass through.
A mysterious...magic passage, where does it lead?
Uriel's heart was pounding. He knew that he must have discovered the secret room of Frostleaf Castle. Perhaps there is a treasure of the Wiggins family hidden inside, a secret that even Controller Shouno doesn't know.
In any case, that's not a place where a "mercenary" like him can go.
But the situation was urgent, so the apprentice didn't think much and just dived in.
Then he fell on the steps——
Bang!
The apprentice never dreamed that the exit would be in mid-air, half a person's height above the ground. He almost hit the stone bricks with his face on the ground. Fortunately, his reaction was much faster after becoming a mystery, and now he only felt pain in his back.
It's strange, why are there two missing stone steps at the exit?
Uriel climbed up holding on to the wall. The rock under his palms was cold and dry, as hard as iron. In front of him was a narrow passage. The candle above his head was dim, and the flames were a strange light green.
The passage leads to a secret room without any turning or threshold, and you can see the end at a glance. He was about to go down the stone steps when he suddenly stopped and knocked on the stone wall with the hilt of his sword.
The crisp sound of metal clashing echoed in the narrow passage.
"Steel?" he murmured to himself doubtfully.
There is a room made of steel hidden in Frostleaf Castle. The ironwork was expensive, but the apprentice had never heard of a lack of wealth in the Wiggins family, which didn't seem unusual.
"Meow--"
Uriel heard another cat meow. He turned around following the sound and saw the ink black cat squatting on a table, with the tip of its tail covering its front paws, looking obedient.
But according to the cat's habits, it seems to be wary of something.
This kept the apprentice from walking over in a hurry. He looked around in the dim light and found a person lying in the shadow on the ground. The other person was leaning against the wall, with a thick silhouette and terrifying height.
But there was no sound.
Uriel walked over and saw a knight in armor. His limbs were covered in blood, and his shoulder armor was shattered, as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer. The apprentice did not respond when he approached.
The knight's life was gone.
Uriel didn't know why he died here or what he died for, so he had to pray for the knight based on Gaia's teachings.
The doji is drawn meticulously.
The goddess's poetry seemed to resound in the darkness. She came from nothingness and embraced the confused soul wandering in the forest of steel. After praying, the apprentice walked around the knight and came to the table.
This is an iron-colored round table, with a dark surface and cold tentacles. The candlelight moved behind Uriel as he walked over, still bright as it bounced across the table. The apprentice then realized that he was not supposed to be able to see the table—no light reached his eyes.
The black cat seems to be integrated into the round table, its vertical pupils are dilated, and there is mystery flowing inside.
In the legend of the four-leaf collar, the black cat is not a symbol of luck. Uriel didn't know if Knox's legend had changed due to the existence of mystery and magic, but he believed that the cat in the inkwell would not hurt him.
Even if it broke into its master's secret room... wasn't it brought in by it personally?
The apprentice looked at the empty round table and gently stretched out his hand——
He touched a parchment scroll.
This is really a magical thing: there seems to be nothing on the table, and the scroll protected by magic shows no trace at all; but when Uriel lifts it up by one end, it appears from the air Suddenly, the light no longer penetrates the paper.
