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Amir stayed in the Rose Manor for one night, shared a bottle of rose blood with Kiki, and left the manor in his own carriage the next morning to go to the Magic Association, which was also located outside the city of Assia.

Before leaving, Amir left the Nightmare Beast's stomach to Kiki, which had been embedded in a blue mid-level magician's magic robe and turned into a pocket inside.

"Don't let anyone know the existence of this thing, not even Tina." When putting the magic robe on Kiki, Amir warned sternly, "I have tried it, and I can just reach in and take things. Use it as a normal pocket, but don't stuff everything in it, especially big things!"

Although Keech has no interest in continuing to study space magic, he can't help but be happy to get a large-capacity space magic weapon—he thought that Amir planned to take this loot together, no I thought it was just a decoration and then returned it to him.

Keech responded with a blank stare, but the expression on his face betrayed his glee.

Amir didn't bother with him, and gave a few more instructions, then boarded the carriage and left Rose Manor.

After Amir left, Kiki happily played with the nightmare beast's stomach for a while, until he couldn't have any more fun, then calmed down, took out the rose blood and various magic cores prepared by Amir for him, and concentrated his energy Go to the research of elemental essence.

As Amir expected, the monkey in the obsidian bracelet was no longer attracted by the blood of the rose and the magic core. Kiki couldn't help but check the bracelet first with his supernatural power, and found that the dark element that looked like a monkey was dormant in the obsidian. In the magic circle of the bracelet, it was like non-water monsters sleeping at the bottom of the water when the abyss flooded.He tried to drive the monkey out of the bracelet with his thoughts, and these dark elements moved reluctantly. Seeing that Kiki's drive was not strong, they hibernated back to their original positions.

Kiki didn't force it out, and teased it a few times maliciously, then withdrew his mental power and turned to the rose blood and magic core in front of him.

Kitsch thought it was a very simple thing, but when he actually did it, he found that it was far more complicated than he thought.Different types of elemental essences are not compatible at all. It is impossible to load the elemental essence of another element with the magic core of one element. Moreover, once the shell of the magic core is broken, the elements will be lost. Wait for him to repair the shell with the ability , The elemental essence has long been decomposed into ordinary elements, and there is no possibility of recovery.

After tossing all morning, Keech didn't see any results, but wasted two primary magic cores in vain.

Depressedly having lunch in the room, Kiki decided to change the method. He no longer thought about how to inject dark elements into the magic core of natural elements, but planned to imitate the structure of the natural magic core and inject it into the blood of roses. The dark elements also make a "shell" that can hold them.

But new problems came one after another. The shell was quickly condensed with supernatural powers, but it was far from being as strong as the naturally formed magic core. Obviously the elemental structure was exactly the same, but it looked soft without a "core". And it will crack if you touch it, so you can't carry it at all.

Seeing that another afternoon passed, it was getting dark, Kiki was completely impatient, put away the magic core, poured all the remaining rose blood into his stomach, and soon fell asleep under the influence of alcohol past.

It was already late at night when he opened his eyes again, and Kiki opened his eyes in a daze, and found that he was still on the sofa chair, but the communicator in his arms was constantly vibrating.

Kiki took the communicator out of his pocket and opened it without looking at it. As soon as he put it to his ear, Amir's cold voice came out, "What are you doing?"

"Sleep." Keech replied with his eyes closed.

"Sleeping an hour ago? Sleeping three hours ago? Five hours ago?" Amir asked angrily.

"Drank some wine, then fell asleep." Kiki was not sober enough at the moment, and didn't take Amir's temper to heart at all, and asked impatiently, "Is there something wrong? If not, I will continue asleep."

"Go on to sleep!" Amir snapped off the communicator.

Kiki also stuffed the communicator back into his pocket, but it was a bit difficult to fall back asleep after being disturbed by Amir. Kiki quickly got up from the sofa because he couldn't sleep, and he only felt sore back In addition to being annoyed and depressed, he wanted to ask the servants of the manor to bring some food, but he felt no appetite.

After sitting on the bench for a while, Keech finally regained consciousness. Thinking of the wine cellar that was denied entry yesterday, he suddenly had the idea of ​​going in to find out.

——It would be great if I could come a few months earlier and see the brewing process with my own eyes.

Keech thought regretfully, and didn't have much hope for the wine cellar, but he was really idle at the moment, and he didn't want to continue doing useless work on those magic cores, so he stood up, opened the door and walked out of the room .

At this time, most of the people in the manor had already fallen asleep, only the night watch servants were still waiting to be summoned at any time.Kiki wrapped his body with the wind control technique, and moved lightly in the corridor, so as not to attract the attention of others with the sound of footsteps.

The gate of the main house was also locked, but this was nothing to Kiki. With a slight movement of his mind, the door lock was unlocked immediately, and the gate was automatic without wind, opening the way for Kiki.

Keech stepped out of the main house, followed the mark left yesterday, walked through the withered vineyard, and walked to the wine cellar in the distance.

The distance between the wine cellar and the main house is very far, not only separated by a huge vineyard, but also located at two opposite extremes in the manor, which makes people feel that there must be hidden secrets inside.

But seeing the wine cellar was approaching, Kiki involuntarily stopped.

Like the wine cellars in other places, the wine cellar in Rose Manor is also built underground, with only a windowless stone house on the surface as an entry and exit port.What is strange is that it is obviously the lifeblood of a family, but there is not even a servant on duty inside and around the wine cellar, only thick iron doors and huge door locks stand here, It's like they can really stop bad guys with evil intentions.

Not only is there no one here, but it is even more terrifyingly quiet. Except for the occasional breeze, you can never hear any other sounds, and you can’t see wild animals such as mice and insects. It’s like a dead cemetery, and you can’t feel it. A shred of life.

This feeling made Kiki very uncomfortable, and the idea of ​​going directly into the wine cellar to find out was dispelled. He only squinted his eyes in doubt, and examined everything he could see with another perspective.

There was no abnormality above the surface, but when Kiki turned his vision to the ground, a huge and strange dark magic circle suddenly appeared, which made Kiki gasp and almost escaped from the elemental vision.

This magic circle covers almost half of the Rose Manor, and the wine cellar is just a point in the middle of the magic circle. The house on the other side is not within the range of the magic circle. This makes Keech feel that the owner of this place knows the magic circle existed, and it was deliberately utilized in the construction of the estate.

Keech didn't know this magic circle, so he could only identify its type based on the effects it exhibited and the elements that supported its operation—dark system.But looking at it, Kiki felt confused again. The effect of this magic circle seems to be to divide the dark elements from other elements, condense the dark elements on the magic circle, and deposit other elements on the magic circle. Next, and the meaning of doing so, Keech couldn't understand at all.

——Isn’t it just to let the wine ferment perfectly?

Kiki was guessing suspiciously, but a long-lost voice suddenly sounded in his ears——

"It's better to stay away from here, my dear child, if you don't want to lose your life span."

The moment the voice sounded, Kiki only felt a chill down his back, and the hairs all over his body stood upside down, but he still couldn't help turning his head to look at the source of the voice.

The person who spoke was Moriarty, the guy who should have been killed by Kidge himself was only a few feet away from him at this moment, standing beside him, smiling lightly as always, with mockery in his eyes.

"Moriarty." Keech felt his voice trembling, "You...you really didn't die."

"No, I'm already dead, killed by your own hands." Moriarty smiled and grabbed Kidge's right hand, covering his heart.

Keech thought he would touch a cold body with no heartbeat, but in fact, Moriarty's heartbeat was strong and his body was not cold.

Keech couldn't help but raised his head in doubt, "You..."

"I'm from the past, my dear." Moriarty said with a smile, "Maybe I should be thankful that at this moment I don't know how painful it is to be pierced by a sharp dagger in the heart-that feeling should be very painful." right? Isn't it?"

"...Are you here for revenge?" Kiki took a deep breath and asked pretending to be calm.

"You have already received retribution, haven't you? You lost the person you love the most, and you will eventually lose your loved ones." Moriarty said meaningfully, but immediately changed his voice and asked curiously, "However, I don't understand why you chose to attack me instead of killing your lover or sister? Well, although you have given me a lot of convenience by doing this, I finally got rid of the exposed human identity."

"What... do you want to do again?" Keech didn't answer, but gritted his teeth and asked.

"Don't worry, honey, I won't do anything again." Moriarty pulled Keech's right hand from his chest, "The wheel of fortune has been repaired, and the new stage is ready. Now, I am just a pure spectator, leisurely waiting for your performance."

"I never understood what you said." Kiki frowned, but before he could say anything, the scenery around him flashed suddenly, and it became the room where he lived.

Keech didn't understand why Moriarty brought him back to the room from the wine cellar. Could it be that the magic circle would shorten the lifespan of human beings as Moriarty said?

Thinking of this, Kiki couldn't help asking.

Moriarty smiled, but didn't answer right away. He let go of Kidge's right hand, stretched out his hand to grab the air, and a bottle of rose blood appeared in his hand. Then he turned around and walked to the cabinet, and took out a wine glass from it. Open the blood of the rose, pour it into the cup, and then turn around, while sipping the fine wine in the cup, he said to Kiki: "We have exchanged, as long as you satisfy my curiosity, I will tell you what you want to know everything."

Kiki was startled slightly, and soon realized that Amir was asking him to answer the question he asked before, bit his lip, and finally answered: "I think you arranged everything, you are a god, aren't you? "

Hearing such an answer, Moriarty couldn't help laughing, "Should I say you are smart or stupid? Well, I have to admit some things, but I don't want to be blamed for other things."

Moriarty said this, but he didn't specify what it was, and Keech didn't ask.He didn't want to talk about this topic at all, and the answer he gave Moriarty was not the real reason for him to hide it deep in his heart.

Although Keech does see Moriarty as the driving force behind Hill's marriage to Lizzie—at least Hill wouldn't have gotten engaged to Lizzie so soon if he hadn't adopted Lizzy as his adopted daughter—but in Moore's case, When Riarty struck, Keech had no idea that he would succeed. He thought Moriarty would return the dagger to him, stab him in the heart, and bleed him to death in front of Hill.

But that vision didn't happen, and Moriarty "died", but he survived unscathed.

Then, looking at Moriarty's body, he suddenly felt stupid.

Why die?When you die, everything is really gone, it's over, it doesn't exist anymore.

Will Hill be sad for him?Maybe, but he would still marry Lizzy, or even find a new lover in the near future, and forget about him and everything between them.

As for Li Qi, she still doesn't know anything, and thinks she has found a perfect fiancé, but she doesn't know why this fiancé wants to marry her, nor does she know what kind of ulterior relationship this fiancé has with her brother.

Even if he is reluctant to kill Hill, he can't do anything to his sister, but at least he can stay away from them, away from them, not to see, not to think, and then not to be sad, and one day he will leave them alone. They all forget.

Why should he care about them when they don't care about him anymore?He originally lived in a world of one person, and now he just returned to that world again.

Keech lowered his eyelids, ignoring Moriarty's playful gaze.

Seeing that Keech didn't speak again, Moriarty shrugged and changed the subject, "Tell me, what do you want to know?"

"What's going on with the magic circle under that wine cellar?" Kiki immediately looked up.

"That was a long time ago. At that time, humans still surrendered to the gods, regarded them as their masters, and obeyed them." Moriarty said while recalling, "And the name of the magic circle It is called the resting place, as the name suggests, the place where this magic circle appears is the cemetery, where only human beings are buried."

"Why set up a magic circle in the cemetery, isn't there only dead people there?" Kiki asked puzzled.

"This matter is a bit complicated to talk about." Moriarty shrugged, "Perhaps we need to talk about the origin of the magic system—the current magic is divided into seven categories, and the four elements of wind, fire, water, and earth are magic. , and there are three special magics of light, darkness, and soul, but in the era of the rule of the gods, magic did not exist at all. What the gods have is power, which comes from their own power, while magic comes from human creation. It is also the key to distinguishing human beings from other species, and finally driving away the gods and ruling the earth."

"Can't you make it clearer?" Keech said gloomily.

"Another key word is the soul. Only human beings have a soul. A powerful soul can even surpass the limitations of the body, allowing them to communicate with the heaven and earth like the gods and resonate with the elements. This is the origin of magicians." Mo Mo Riati ignored Keech and continued on his own, "But the soul also brings troubles to human beings. A soul that is too powerful will not dissipate even if it loses its body, and it is easy to become a ghost or something like that. If they are destroyed by normal means and are not attacked by elemental forces, some people will deliberately separate their souls from their bodies, and the liches recorded in ancient times came from this."

"That magic circle is for separating souls and creating liches?" Keech couldn't help interjecting.

"No." Moriarty shook his head and smiled slightly, "I said that the resting place is for the dead to rest in peace, but how can the dead be rested in peace? Of course, the only way is to let them die completely, and that's the way to do it." The significance of the magic circle being set up in the cemetery—to make death pure and let the dead rest in complete peace."

"I can see that the effect of the magic circle is to separate the dark elements from other elements."

"Yes." Moriarty nodded, "Although even I haven't figured out what a soul is, one thing is for sure, all life is inseparable from the support of dark elements. As long as the dark elements are separated, even the soul will naturally usher in death, and this is why I suggest you stay away from there - the magic circle can't tell the difference between the dark elements on the living and the dead .”