Mage? Spell Engineer!

The bluestone slabs were removed to reveal the opening held in place by a wooden frame.

"Cellar?" After losing the sense, the spell effect of [Asking Nature] was also greatly weakened, so I could only go in personally.

Rorschach used [Detect Magic], and Master Humboldt released [Detect Poison]. The two shook their heads, but there was no reaction in the pit.

"Let me go down first." Archmage Koubo was just a clone, so he jumped in directly.

After a while, the cave became brighter, and Colbert's voice echoed: "The place is not big, just one more young man can come down."

The people on the ground looked at each other, and finally Master Humboldt made the final decision: "Since there is no danger, please ask the mage from the Tower of Stars to go down and check the situation."

Luo Xia nodded and groped forward.

It turns out there is a ladder. The inner walls of the basement are also made of bluestone. Due to the moisture, some fungus or other moss grows on the wall. Rorschach can smell a faint musty smell after entering. It should be Master Copper who activated the pre-embedded magic lamp, which provided lighting all the way.

Fortunately, there was no water. As he walked forward, Copper was reading a book. The book was thread-bound, with straw paper inside and animal leather on the cover. Rorschach suspected that the binding thread was not cotton or linen, but more likely animal sinew.

Yes, the first room in the basement is a study. Originally, the underground environment should not be conducive to the preservation of books, but the original owner should have maintained it on weekdays, but the maintenance stopped after the village was destroyed.

"As expected, it's you who came down, little friend Rorschach." Copper was sitting at the desk. The scattered documents, quills, and ink showed that the owner had left in a hurry. The layout of the entire room is monotonous and elegant, retaining the original colors of all materials, so that two uninvited visitors can tell at a glance that this is a pine shelf and that is a stone tabletop.

"Most of the Bookstore Tower is available, but there are still some interesting information." Rorschach took a closer look and realized that Cobb was holding a notebook, the elf elder's experimental notebook.

"Monsters are a race created by elves?"

"I took a quick glance at it, and it looks like it is true from the information. Someone in the Tower of Forest also proposed this idea. The key to the success of the elves is mutant strains." Copper flipped through the pages very fast, making people wonder if he had seen clearly. What was written.

"Taken from around the sacred tree." Rorschach realized the source without looking at the information - a place contaminated by aberrant power.

"Yes, fungi that can carry magic power have been cultivated by elves to form a symbiotic system with plants, as well as artificial spirits."

Rorschach felt that a study should not dig such a long tunnel. He knocked on the stone slabs on all sides to test whether there were holes. The original owner did not use magic to set up a restriction, and there may have been one, but it has long since expired decades later. After Rorschach heard the beating sound of the cavity, he pushed it away.

"Let me take the lead, that's what the clone is for."

The lights were turned on one after another, and a heavier musty smell overflowed. Rorschach did not go further, looking through the information and waiting for news from Colbert.

Most of the materials are mixed with poems sung by elves and praises of nature, and the rest are things that Rorschach can't understand. He has no foundation in the natural system. If it is a note about plastic magic, he can still understand it roughly. eight.

Rorschach found something that looked more like a diary. The calendar was based on the elven calendar, with year, season, and day marked, and the days were represented by moon phases.

"Spring One, First Quarter Moon Three:

Today's progress was successful, the hyphae are well developed, very good. I have to admit that taboo aberrations sometimes bring surprises, and my opinion is about to change.

Spring 3·Full Moon 4:

Artificial spirits are failures! They are even stupider than the animals in the forest, which makes me doubt whether they can match the intelligence of wolves. Everyone's joy in creating new life soon faded, and the day-to-day teachings and their failed imitations were wearing down everyone's patience, including me, the father of these monsters.

The Third of Autumn·The Second of the Waning Moon:

I have a new idea. Damn Wacker Ernst, I’m going to use this year’s reserves to make wine! And cloth, we need to find a way to trade safely with humans without letting them find us.

Spring 2·Last Quarter Moon 1:

The effectiveness of the ban in the forest is weakening, and it will be exposed if it continues like this. The power of the old man is declining. When will the next high priest of the village be born? Must speed up progress

Summer 1·Full Moon 5:

The old man extracted the little wolf's soul, even though it was destined to die young, but it still scared me. After that ray of soul and essence were combined, the mycelium symbiont accommodated it. Yes, I succeeded, but there was no trace of joy. Naturally, ancestors, please tell me, is everything I did right?

The third day of winter: Dark Moon:

This body can no longer maintain its restraint, and sooner or later we will be exposed to human swords. We will grow old and have no way out. We have no way out."

It failed in the end. Rorschach closed the note and put it back on the table. He began to focus on finding records of giant trees and pollution.

"Little friend Rorschach, I think it's safe now. Come and see something good."

Rorschach heard Cobber's call from deep in the secret room, and walked in with all his energy.

"Little friend Rorschach, why are you so nervous?" The "good thing" that Copper said was a bit scary - a wooden doll lying on a stone platform, covered with an irregular layer of fungus carpet, a piece of gray There was a brown spot. There were still hyphae spreading all over the floor, but all the bacteria had dried up.

It seems that this is the last work that the elder will complete, a new body based on mycelium that can carry magic and soul.

Was this village destroyed because it was burned down by a guy named "Ke You Die"?

Rorschach simply refused to go in. Although it was completely dry, the network of mycelium on the ground and the blanket covering the doll made his scalp numb.

"Little friend Luo Xia, you are very good at [Fireball], right? Now take five steps back and prepare. I have a bold idea. If the situation is not right, just attack here."

Your bold idea is easy to guess. Rorschach took ten steps back, and the fireball in front of him began to condense.

Cobb first made some water for the fungus carpet, and then "revived" it.

The mycelium came to life and turned white, and then the clay clone of Archmage Kuber was wrapped and swallowed by the rapidly growing bacteria.

The puppet started to move. It first sat up from the stone platform, then stumbled down and stood still. All the hyphae were absorbed into the body, and Rorschach saw that a tall and slender elf was about to appear.

Then its facial features and joints emitted cyan light, and with constant twisting and deformation, it turned into a wretched, rickety old man with a heart-wrenching creaking sound. A handful of white soil was left next to the stone platform.

Master, I think your avatar can change its image. There is no need to insist on yourself like this.

After swallowing the words, Rorschach used [Messaging Technique] to say to Cobb: "Arch Mage, I must talk to you about Peterson."

"They've been down for so long, do you want to send someone down again?" Peterson looked at the entrance of the cave and paced back and forth.

Immediately after he finished speaking, there was the sound of approaching footsteps.

"Be on guard." Master Humboldt told everyone not to let down their guard. Rorschach quickly said from below: "Captain, don't fire, it's me!"

He was climbing the ladder with one hand and holding a handful of clay in the other, with a serious look on his face. This gesture shocked the onlookers: "Master Rorschach, in your hand is..." Could it be that Master Copper's clone was broken to protect Master Rorschach? Did the investigation team lose a significant force at the last minute?

Luo Xia nodded: "It's Master Copper." Everyone's hearts were in their throats, "He told me to walk in front."

Behind him, an old man quietly came out of the hole and touched his beard: "This body is very good. It's not much different from my real body! Huh? Why are you all holding your face?"

Third update!

感谢书友“天下有只熊”“书友20230208105201053”“书友20190923215716709”“秋·柒”“书友20220420200745979”“行公安人”“雾骇zjl”“书友20210828105109342”“卑微的傻子”的月票support! Thanks to book friends such as "Roy-DB", "Admiral of Guangzhou", "Ward", "Da Meng Fu Sheng Sky", "Pippi Plundering Whale Pot", "Still Pillowing Nanke." and other book friends for their recommendation votes and encouragement!