The magician from the time of peace

"The DeMarca family..." Agnes repeated softly: "This surname is a bit unfamiliar."

"After so many years have passed, the decline of the family is inevitable." Merris smiled, but there was something unclear in his eyes.

Agnes frowned slightly. When she saw the magician in front of her for the first time, she felt a slight sense of alienation from him, whether it was with the people around him or with this era, but she only realized it now. I realized that there was a deep gulf between this person and them.

This well-bred young aristocrat, who looked like a pile of gold and honey, belonged to a family that should be famous and well-known, but she had never heard of this surname.

All the glory and wealth of the past will be washed away by the torrent of time, leaving nothing but empty signs.

Hmm... Sure enough, I should write a book for myself in the future, Agnes thought to herself: lest after she dies, no one will know that she has lived.

"Why does your family's crest appear here? What's the relationship between your family and the goddess?" Foster asked, his tone a little aggressive, and Felix immediately gave him a hard look and shrank his neck.

"Even if you ask me that, I don't know..." Merris didn't care about such rude words: "But..."

He reached out and fumbled on the badge—of course he shook off a white paper on which Felix had fixed the cleaning technique in advance, and washed the dusty badge clean: "Your goddess seems to be in the hundreds of years It appeared before, I hope that after so many years, our family's habits have not changed much."

When his nimble and slender fingers touched the falcon's outstretched wing feathers, there was a slight "click" sound behind the wall, as if some mechanism had been touched, but the joy on Merris' face had not faded. Several spikes stood up from the feathers spread evenly, and he was caught off guard by his fingertips. The originally transparent spikes quickly absorbed every drop of blood, showing a strange crimson color, shrinking rapidly. Back into the wall, a difficult and violent sound of gears turning came from inside.

Merris held her hand and opened her mouth slightly, completely unresponsive to what happened.

There was a loud "bang", and everyone quickly looked towards the source of the sound, but it was Felix who turned black and kicked the wall fiercely.

He glared at the others and ordered: "The one with the sword, you split this wall."

My name is Lamb... But the honest knight still didn't dare to say this, he just stammered: "This is not very good... Didn't the boatman tell us not to break anything, no, Otherwise, the goddesses will be angry."

"So you thought we were here to chat with your beloved goddess, have afternoon tea, and enhance our mutual relationship?" Felix sneered: "You heard that voice too, there must be something behind it."

"The thing that dares to hurt him in front of me, I will destroy it." Felix gritted his teeth, completely forgetting that he is so close to the source of elemental activity suppression, and now he can't even break a wall It's over.

Foster inexplicably recalled that when he took Merris to do the elemental intimacy test at the beginning, he also pricked his finger and took a little blood...

Ah ha ha ha, looking at Felix's face, he decided to delete this memory from his mind.

"Phili," Merris called, and Felix turned his head immediately, and asked in a series of voices: "How is it? Has the bleeding stopped? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Are you feeling dizzy?"

"You're too anxious." Merris stroked his black hair and comforted him, "It's nothing, it's just a simple prick in the hand, and it's not bleeding anymore."

Felix held his pricked finger, his face paled.

Seeing that he had no follow-up reaction, Lamb breathed a sigh of relief: he neither dared to open a hole in the goddess's house, nor did he dare to reject this fierce god so directly—although he didn't know that "fierce god" was because of his beloved goddess. Because of this, more than half of the combat power has been lost at this time - it is best to be able to maintain a spectator state of doing nothing.

The continuous roar behind the wall suddenly stopped, and the falcon's head popped open a long and narrow opening with a "click", and a metal frame protruded from it, and stopped firmly in front of them.

"What is this?" Merris asked hesitantly, his hand was tightly held by Felix, so he had to look up and observe.

"Is this what we want us to put on it?" Foster moved his face closer and studied it carefully for a long time, only to see that it is a very ordinary shelf - except that there is a lot of dust.

Everyone stared at the shelf solemnly, and after a while, Agnes tentatively said: "Meris, since it popped out after pricking your hand, do you need something related to you?"

Everyone collectively looked at Meris, who blinked his beautiful blue eyes: "I don't know, why don't you...try?"

He was a man of action, so he took off the stud on his left ear without hesitation—it was a bright ruby, even in a room without sunlight, it still had a faint gleam.

"I've carried this pair of earrings for a long time, and they should be regarded as personal items." Merris put it on the extended shelf without much hesitation.

Probably feeling the weight, the shelf automatically closed its mouth, and retracted with a "snap", but within a few seconds, it popped out in exactly the same posture as before, and the ruby ​​earrings it put in disappeared. .

"..."

After everyone was silent for a while, Merris said, "It seems that I guessed wrong."

That gem seems to be very expensive, can she really afford it with a fixed salary? !Aegis's calm expression was a roaring heart. She quietly observed Merris' face, and found that he didn't take the loss to heart at all, so she was secretly relieved, and put her energy back on guessing the goddess. superior.

"Is it because things like earrings don't smell human, so we need to use things like hair and clothes." Foster was imaginative.

Merris smiled and said, "I don't think this kind of rectangular shelf can hold clothes. I have a guess... Judging from its rectangular shape, can it fit a book. What do you think?"

Lamb made a decisive decision, ran to the nearest corner, found an undamaged book among the piles of old books, and handed it to Merris, who stuffed it into the shelf after asking for everyone's consent.

Everyone tacitly ignored the words "Evil Charming Blood Race Falls in Love with Me" on the cover.

This time it took twice as long to take back the shelf than last time, but it failed in the end, and the book that people didn't want to know the content was also taken in.

Everyone was worried about the empty shelf, and finally went to the doctor in a hurry, and simply put everything they could think of on it.

Merris pulled out a hair, Felix stuffed a piece of paper, Foster donated his wallet with a look of reluctance, and Lamb secretly gave him the king's medal with the "Son of Dawn" engraved on it. Putting it on top, Agnes opened the box in which she packed the finished product, and took out her newly made mini firecracker that could fit into such a narrow shelf.

However, all of this is like a mud cow entering the sea, everything is swallowed by it, but nothing happens.

Foster, who had paid the most, gritted his teeth and stared at the shelf, and wanted to tear it down on impulse, but before he could do it, a strange voice sounded.

It has an excellent timbre, a bit like music, but people can't tell what kind of instrument it is, and the sound it makes intermittently is actually imitating human speech!

Everyone hurriedly pricked up their ears and listened carefully. The sudden voice paused word by word, and said awkwardly: "The descendants of the DeMarca family, please, let us, give, your set of books, among them, Any one, put it on the metal shelf, and in this way, the way forward will be opened."

It repeats three times and eventually fades into silence.

"Demarca's descendants..." Merris touched his chin and thought, "Could it be that it took my blood just now to verify the bloodline?"

"What relationship does your family have with the goddess?" Foster asked, "You should know about your own family."

Merris looked at him lovingly: "Do you know how many people there are in my family?"

Foster choked for a moment, then woke up and asked, "How many?"

Merris smiled slightly: "I can't remember either. So do you think I can know what other people are doing?"

Foster: "..."

Agnes pushed him away: "Okay, okay, let's discuss what the set of books is. Do you think it will be—"

She shivered suddenly: "It can't be a series of novels written by her! I don't have a single book of that kind!"

This question is really too complicated, Merris thought for a while, raised his voice, and asked to the wall: "Hello, do you mind if we ask about the title of the 'set of books' you mentioned?"

The wall was silent for a moment, and the weird voice sounded again: "Engineering, alchemy, theoretical foundation, advanced, and, breakthrough."

"Hmm... the title of the book sounds familiar..." As the only alchemist present, Aggers thought hard, thinking that she must have read this book, but for some reason she just couldn't remember the content.

"I know what book this is."

Agnes suddenly looked at the source of the voice, but found that the words came from Felix's mouth. He glanced at her indifferently and said, "The book I brought out from that small room is called "" Theoretical Advancement of Alchemy in Engineering Department."

It turned out to be that book!No wonder she felt very familiar and strange at the same time.

At that time, she was very angry when she found out that the magician from another era had stolen the book. She immediately confiscated it, put it in her treasure box, and planned to put it back in the goddess' room before leaving the next day.

Later, because she got so angry waiting for someone, and was almost pierced in the head by an ice pick, she didn't remember this book during the whole morning of waiting.

So... the book is now on...

Agnes opened the box roughly, rummaged for a long time in the box that was messed up by the shipwreck, and tremblingly took out an old book with yellowed pages.

"Hey, isn't this the precious book of the noble goddess? The faithful believer of the dignified goddess actually disregarded her wishes and brought such a precious treasure to the deserted island." He scolded and snatched away the book, causing him to have a lot of resentment for not being able to finish it.

But Agnes didn't have time to pay attention to him. She carefully put the book from the goddess' room into the shelf. The book was tightly attached to the shelf and was retracted by the wall.

After a while, the floor under their feet shook slightly, and a huge floor tile cracked along its complicated patterns, revealing an underground entrance. There is no end to the stairs.

The door opened.

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deep underground.

A girl with blond hair in a white dress curled her legs on a chair, looking at a book on her lap in a very awkward posture.

Suddenly, she raised her head, squinted her eyes to listen to the slight roar above, and said softly: "Vera, door number two is open."

"Door No. [-]..." Another girl raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and threw the book in her hand aside: "It's a guest who hasn't been here for a long time."