The magician from the time of peace

Bud drove them away, reached out and pressed the stone pillar under the bust of the goddess. The seemingly flat and hard pillar suddenly rose, and the four corners were still connected to the bust, but there was a small space in the middle. At the same time, a stone platform It sticks out from it, and if you look carefully, you will find that there is a place in the center of it that is slightly concave.

Bard took out a round medal-shaped golden object from his arms, carefully placed it on the stone platform, and constantly adjusted its position so that the subtle patterns on its surface perfectly matched the stone surface.

After the sound of "click", the stone platform shook slightly, and retracted with Bard's medal, the mechanism returned to its original state, and the bust of the goddess returned to its original height.

Bud bit his finger, smeared the blood on the place he just pressed, and said a series of complicated and lengthy spells.

Following his deep and deep voice, the entire corridor vibrated slightly, and behind the bust, a crack slowly opened in the tight wall—this was a secret passage for only one person to pass sideways.

"Xiao Ai, I opened the door. It's not the first time you've gone in. Remember what you should and shouldn't do." Bud wiped his bloody fingers with a handkerchief to prevent it from staining his pure white face. robe.

"Don't worry," Agnes nodded, and said to the others, "Come with me."

This road—in fact, it is more appropriate to be called a seam—is too narrow, even if you are sideways, whether you can pass it depends on the size of the person.

Lamb squeezed in with difficulty, and finally got his shoulders stuck in it. Just when he was about to try his best, Bud's loud voice pierced his eardrums.

"Followers of Vera, it is forbidden to enter this room!!!"

Then he immediately stepped forward, grabbing Lamb's arm and trying to pull him out, but the latter was about to squeeze in, and when Bud pulled him, his shoulder blades were caught between two walls , immediately screamed.

Everyone except him had already entered the room, and Merris turned her head and called out with concern: "Lum, do you need help?"

Lamb burst into tears and choked up for a moment, feeling moved and hurting on the one hand, but this made him lose the last chance to call for help.

"It must be Uncle Bud who won't let him in." Agnes said, "It's okay, Uncle is very nice, I won't do anything to him."

"That's good." Merris nodded, leaving Lamb behind, and looked at the room.

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This is not a very big room, but it is only a dozen square yards. There are three frighteningly tall bookcases, with a total of more than [-] floors. There is a triangular ladder with adjustable height standing beside the bookcases. Next to it was a pile of messy white paper, with strange calculations written on it with ink pens.There is a desk in the corner, and behind the desk is a bed, not even a chair.

"This is the place where Lady Nell lived." Aigers introduced: "It is said that hundreds of years ago, she taught the people of Nefer the knowledge of alchemy here. This small room is where she usually lives. place. But then she left, no one knows where she went, leaving only this cabinet full of books, and the people who received her favors used this as the origin to build the central temple. Hey! Don't mess with the things here !"

Felix was already standing by the bookshelf, ready to take the book, when he heard the stern voice stop, he asked inexplicably, "Why?"

Agnes angrily said, "Is there even a need to ask why? Of course it's because—uh...because, um...if it's found that the contents inside have been messed up, I'll be scolded badly!"

Then Agnes saw four large characters written on Felix's face as expected: "None of my business", so she had to think of a new rhetoric immediately: "If you touch the goddess's things indiscriminately, you will be punished by her!"

"Really, that just saves us the trouble of finding her." Felix eagerly wanted to overturn the bookshelf to the ground to see if the legendary goddess would trouble him.

"Philly, don't make trouble." Merris said lightly, and asked, "Aigers, what kind of books are here?"

"Half of this bookcase is books related to alchemy, which have basically been copied and circulated in the outside world." Aigers pointed to the shortest bookcase and said, "The other half are books about history, geography, cooking, picture albums, music scores, Travel notes and other related books."

After she finished speaking, she hesitated a bit, then lowered her head, and introduced bravely: "The two shelves over there...uh...all of them are novels..."

Merris looked up at the two bookshelves that almost broke through the ceiling, and couldn't help saying: "..."

"Most of them are romance novels, a small part of fantasy and adventure novels, and some of them are joke books," Agnes said self-abnegatively. "The top shelf has her own handwritten novels... Compared with alchemy textbooks... ahem, it's better not to compare."

"You goddess...don't be funny." Merris left room for evaluation.

"Don't mention it, do you know how people felt when they turned through this pile of books one by one and found that they were all novels..." Agnes sighed: "And the ones she wrote... well, it's really hard to describe."

Merris smiled and said, "You put it that way, I'm thinking about reading it."

Before Aggers could distinguish whether his words were sincere or casual, she caught a glimpse of Felix's movements out of the corner of her eyes, and said anxiously, "Didn't I tell you not to move?"

Felix had already climbed to the middle of the bookshelf by stepping on the ladder, pulled out a thin book hidden in the corner without listening to it, put it away after only glancing at the cover, jumped off the ladder and walked towards Merris.

"Look." He handed the book up.

"Did you find anything?" Merris took it over, glanced at it, and asked in surprise, "This book...why is it here?"

Agnes and Foster leaned forward and found that there was nothing surprising about this book. It was very simple, with a gray cover and yellowed inner pages. The title was even handwritten, without any fancy artistic sense. Directly and clearly wrote "Basic System of Fire Magic and Elementary Application of Fire Element".

"This book is nothing special." Foster muttered, opened it, and found that the words and magic circles on the inside pages were all handwritten, and he couldn't help but click his tongue: "This is a bit of a project."

"Not much," said Merris, "because that's the only one I've written."

"You wrote it?" Agnes was startled, then calmed down and said: "Yes, since you are from 1000 years ago, the possibility that the book you wrote has been handed down to the present and received by the goddess is not zero. After all, she I have accumulated such a shelf of books."

"No..." Merris shook his head slightly: "This is... an enlightenment book I wrote for my nephews at home. When I wrote it, there were not many school-age children, so there was only this one, and it also It is indeed my handwriting."

Agnes said silently, "Is Lord Nell your descendant?"

Merris smiled: "Impossible, my family is of pure human blood, so they can't live for so long."

He put the book back: "It's meaningless to pursue the origin of this book, let's find out if there are other clues."

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"I was just about to say, actually, I just found such a thing." Foster held up the small box in his hand like offering a treasure—it looks a bit like a jewelry box, but it is a little bigger than ordinary jewelry boxes , made of unknown materials, five of the six sides have delicate textures concaved by thin metal wires, and at first glance, there are incredible key props hidden inside.

"Do you think we haven't found such a box? Here are brooches and hair flowers." Agnes curled her lips: "And the styles are outdated."

But Merris took it over, looked it up and down, and said, "I guess you haven't let the magician see it."

"Of course, Lord Nell bluntly said that she hates magicians, so how can we let magicians come to observe her remnants." Agnes said proudly, and after a long while: "Wait, did you see anything?!"

Merris walked along the metal wire engraved with a flame-shaped totem with his fingertips, and the pattern immediately glowed as if it had been ignited, becoming the brightest light source in the dark room.He handed the box to Felix, and said to Agnes, "The one engraved on it is obviously a magic circle."

Agnes: "..."

Foster: "..." Why can't he see something obvious!

When they were speechless, Felix threw the box back again, and the patterns drawn in the shape of water flow had been lit up. Merris caught it and handed it to Foster: "I remember, you seem to be with four people at the same time." An elemental affinity?"

Foster: "Yes, yes..."

Merris smiled: "Then I'll leave this to you."

Foster worked tirelessly on the side to trace the pattern with the method Meris taught him, but due to lack of control, he broke down several times, so he had to repeat it mechanically.

On the other side, Merris is explaining to Aigers: "This kind of box is more popular in our time, and it can be used to store relatively important things-because it is not an easy task to gather five magicians who are good at different elements .Maybe because of the popularity of multi-element magicians, this box lost its meaning and was gradually eliminated. It’s normal if you haven’t seen it.”

"Really?" Agnes wondered, "Then why would the goddess use this kind of box to store items? She shouldn't know magic."

Merris smiled and said: "I don't know the reason, maybe because she doesn't understand magic, so she thought it was an ordinary storage box. Philly's father once locked all his family's cash here It was in a seed box, and it was Philly who brought it to the academy to find someone to open it."

Felix: "I've banned the box from my house."

Merris: "Why, it's so fun. If we can't open it, we still have Pol. He can open a box by himself."

Felix: "Trouble...things that require someone other than me and you to solve are troublesome."

Agnes took a no-see-no-evil countermeasure against this forced display of affection, and silently rolled her eyes.

Merris and Felix took only a second to solve the pattern, and it took Foster a full 10 minutes to complete it. When all the lights were on, he hurriedly returned the box to Merris—he took a short time. Nei never wanted to see that pattern again.

The magic unlocked box did not produce any earth-shattering special effects, but a new opening was opened from the bottom of its original opening. After Merris took out the jewelry used to cover up the previous layer, he opened the real core. .

Placed in it, and kept safe for hundreds of years, is a stack of letters.