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Yamela Province is located in the southeast of Yasha City, which is also the southeast of the Yalong Empire. A large part of the land is connected to the sea. The capital of the province, Demira City, is a city facing the sea. You can see the coastline and pier.

But Keech's airship did not land in the city of Demira, but passed it and flew straight to the east.

Soon, a huge lake surrounded by dense forests appeared in front of Keech and others. In the center of the lake was an island lined with strange rocks. There were mountains on the island, and a towering old castle was built on the top of the mountain. With a strange mist, the appearance and area of ​​the castle are all hidden in it.

Seeing the familiar black of the mist, Kiki couldn't help but think of the Abyss of Nightmare, and subconsciously squinted his eyes to check the elements of the mist.Although the distance is still a bit far away, Keech can only take a rough look, but it is enough for him to discern that they are indeed a kind of thing, but the density of the fog here is relatively small, far from being as dense as in the Abyss of Nightmare.

The airship landed in an open space on the edge of the island. Below it was a stone platform that could accommodate two airships. It had obvious man-made traces and mottled with time, and it looked like it was specially built for landing the airship.

A light four-wheeled carriage had already parked under the stone platform, but it was not a horse pulling the cart, but four strong and tall goats.Behind the four goats, a thin old man who looked very similar to them was squatting on the coachman's seat. Seeing the airship land and the people on it started to get off, he jumped out of the car and greeted Keech and his group. .

"Hi, Hasari, long time no see!" Zooey seemed to know the old man, and raised her hand to greet him.

"I'd rather never see you again." The thin old man Zoe called Hasari snorted coldly, but glanced behind Zoe, and soon landed on Kiki, revealing a Surprised face.

Keech didn't understand why he looked at him this way, but he habitually squinted his eyes and looked at Hasari with a supernatural power.He is not a magician, but he is a bit like a warrior, and he is an agile warrior like Tim Qi.

"Hasari, what's the matter?" Zooey also noticed Hasari's gaffe, and asked suspiciously.

"Who is he?" Hasari asked Zoe while continuing to stare at Kiki.

"Why, do you think the face looks familiar?" Zooey chuckled and asked without answering.

"Just the similarity doesn't mean anything." Hasari snorted coldly and looked away, "Are you looking for that so-called secret room again? I told you earlier, even if there is, it's not something you can covet."

"Stop whining, Hasari, hurry up and take us there." Zoe said with a smile, "And you should also be able to see that this may be the last time."

"Maybe?" Hasari snorted again, showing a sneering sneer, but still turned around, walked towards his sheep cart, and said as he walked, "Come here, get in the cart by yourself, don't expect me to serve you .”

Zoe smiled disapprovingly, gestured to Kiki and the others, and followed Hasari.

By the time the four got into the carriage, Hasari had already sat back in his seat, waved his whip, and drove the goat to drive the goat cart to the top of the mountain.

Keech turned his head to look out the window, and found that the airship that brought them over had also taken off again, flying in the direction it came from.

"Don't worry, you can contact the Magic Association directly and call the airship to pick us up at any time." Zoe explained with a smile.

Before Kiki could answer, Loren, another great magician who was traveling with him, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is this arrogant old guy the legendary gatekeeper of the Chimera family?"

"The word legend is a bit exaggerated, but his family has indeed guarded the castle here for generations. Because of their existence, although the Yalong Empire took back its territory, it was unable to occupy this ancient castle. Even we must visit the castle. You can only enter it with his approval in the name of your name." Zoe continued to explain.

Kiki silently listened to Zoe's explanation while watching the scenery outside the car window.The four-wheeled vehicle pulled by four goats is heading towards the top of the mountain along the winding road. There are some vegetation on both sides of the road, but it is very sparse. The sky is the same as the nightmare abyss, and no birds can be seen at all.

After a while, the sheep cart had entered the area where the mist was located, and the scenery outside the window suddenly became dark, as if the time suddenly changed from noon to night, and occasionally even the twinkling of stars could be seen.Kiki closed his eyes, and soon realized that the twinkling ones were not stars, but the eyes of monsters, but their level was not high, and they seemed not interested in his pedestrians, so he turned his attention after a glance.

This journey lasted for more than ten minutes. Suddenly, the sound of metal collisions came from my ears, as if the gate of the city was being opened. The next moment, the sun appeared outside the window again, and an ancient and majestic ancient The fort also appeared in front of everyone.

The sheep cart also stopped, and without waiting for Hasari in front to greet her, Zoe opened the door and got out of the sheep cart.

Keech and others walked down, and Hasari in front also jumped off his seat and asked a few people, "Do you want to prepare a room for you to rest?"

"Please prepare, we may have to stay here for a few days." Zoe replied with a smile.

"Up to three days, otherwise I will throw you out." Hasari gave the time limit bluntly.

Zooey smiled, but didn't answer.

Although his face was full of reluctance, Hasari still gave Kiki and others the hospitality they deserved, prepared guest rooms and lunch for them, and took them to visit the castle after lunch.

Zoe didn't hide their reason for coming, and told Hasari bluntly that they came here to complete the secret room mission issued by the Lucifer family, and pointed out Kiki's identity, saying that he was a descendant of the Chimera family.

Hearing this, Hasari looked very calm, and said lightly, "In this case, let's not waste time and go directly to the so-called secret room!"

After finishing speaking, Hasari turned around and led Kiki and his party to the bottom of the castle.

After passing through several corridors and a spiral staircase, the entrance of an underground tunnel appeared in front of everyone.

"The so-called secret room should be here." Hasari said in a slightly complicated tone, then reached out to pick up an oil lamp from the side of the entrance, and led the four of them into the tunnel.

Except for the oil lamp that Hasari brought in, there was no light in the tunnel. Although there were magic lamps appearing at intervals on both sides, Hasari did not light them up. He only held the oil lamp and walked step by step. Lead the way.

It seems that this is not the first time for Zoe to come here. While following Hasari, she introduced the situation here to Kiki and the others, "...This is actually a gallery. Look at the wooden frames on the walls on both sides. They are all picture frames, but the portraits inside have turned into a black mass at some unknown time and for some reason, and can no longer be recognized.”

"They looked like this when my grandfather guarded the place." Hasari in front continued.

"Hehe, Hasari, you are very talkative today!" Zoe smiled meaningfully.

"Hmph!" Hasari snorted coldly, but did not retort, "The history of the master's family is much longer than what you know, and the Chimeras you know are just a few who are not even qualified for the ancestral house. Living prodigal son."

"Oh? Could this be the real reason why the last few generations of the Chimera family all lived in Asshai instead of here?" Zoe asked curiously.

Zoe's curiosity was aroused, but Hasari refused to say any more, so he quickened his pace and walked forward.

Zooey could only shrug her shoulders, turn around, and started chatting with the Great Mage Loren next to her.

Keech has been silent all this time. Ever since he entered this tunnel, his attention has been attracted by the rich dark elements here, but after careful observation, he found that these dark elements are just living in every corner of the tunnel, although The concentration and quantity are abnormal, but there are no monsters hidden like in the Abyss of Nightmare.

Keech was trying to get his gaze deeper, but suddenly there was a strange feeling in his arm, which made him change his vision and look to the side with normal eyes.

Turning his head, Kiki found that Avella had grabbed his sleeve.She seemed very uncomfortable with the gloomy atmosphere here, her face was very pale, and the fingers holding his sleeve were trembling.

Kiki was slightly taken aback, and immediately realized that Avella may not be afraid of the dark atmosphere here, but more likely because the dark elements are too thick, the fire elements are too few, and the temperature is low, which made her get used to being surrounded by fire elements. The body feels restless and fearful.

Kiki immediately raised his right hand, gathered the fire elements in the tunnel, condensed into a fist-sized fireball, and hung it on his palm.

The moment the fireball appeared, Avella instinctively moved closer to Kiki, who simply raised his right arm, signaling Avella to hold his arm and keep a closer distance to the fireball.

Zoe, Loren, and Hasari in front also turned their heads in unison because of the sudden light. The two great magicians were not surprised by an instant fireball, but Hasari couldn't help but look at Ji With odd eyes, there is also a little bit of imperceptible expectation in the eyes.

After walking like this for a while, the group finally came to the end of the tunnel, in front of a wall hung with golden discs.

"It's here." Hasari stopped and said lightly.

"Here?" Kiki was taken aback.Along the way, Keech never stopped using his abilities. Before Hasari stopped, he had already inspected the wall with his abilities. However, there were only ordinary earth elements behind the wall, and there was no so-called secret room at all. , and there is no space magic that can teleport people to other places.

"The Chimera's Gate." Zoe next to him interjected, "It is said that you can enter the Chimera's secret room by opening this door."

"It's just rumored." Hasari said disapprovingly, "I told you a long time ago that even the Chimera family themselves have not been able to open it, and you don't believe it."

— it was clearly not meant to be opened!

Keech didn't make a sound, but secretly slandered in his heart. He dissipated the fireball in his hand, and asked Avella to stand next to the other two great magicians, while he walked to the side that was a head taller than him. Gold disc front.

Looking at the disc under the dim light, Kiki really couldn't see anything special about it, only recognized that it was golden, but not pure gold.However, Kiki didn't expect to be able to see anything with his eyes. He stretched out his hand, put it on the disc, and then closed his eyes, pretending to feel the magic elements in the disc, but in fact he was using his ability. Change horizons.

The moment Kiki touched the disk, Zoe subconsciously looked at Hasari, thinking that he would stop him, but Hasari didn't speak, but looked at Kiki intently, as if full of enthusiasm for his move. expect.

At this time, Kiki really saw a clue.After switching his horizons and focusing his attention on the disc itself, Kiki immediately discovered that there was a large and complex magic circle hidden in the disc, and a considerable part of the magic circle looked familiar.

After thinking for a while, Kiki remembered the obsidian bracelet he was wearing, and the magic circle embedded in it that could be used by familiars to hide seemed to be like this.

Kiki quickly turned his gaze to his right hand, and after comparing it, he quickly confirmed his judgment.

But the disc that looks like a pet ring is much more complicated than the obsidian bracelet in his hand, especially in the part of the magic circle where the pets hide, there is obviously another magic circle with different effects embedded, which looks a bit like The serial magic circle that I used to enchant Gordon and the others can use one magic element to gather another magic element.

Looking at it, Keech suddenly remembered what Moriarty had said to him: You have got the key to find the treasure.

Thinking of this, Kiki ignored Amir's warning not to expose his familiar for the time being, withdrew his ability, restored his normal vision, and then injected spiritual power into the obsidian bracelet on his right hand to drive out the shadow monkey inside.

"Ah!" As soon as the dark little monkey appeared, there were several exclamations immediately behind Kiki, and Zoe asked directly, relying on her relative familiarity with Kiki, "This...is this Is it a magic pet?"

"Yeah." Kiki replied without turning his head, holding the monkey and lifting it to the disc.

The monkey was not happy with Kiki's sudden act of kicking him out of the pet ring, and screamed in protest, but when he saw the huge disc in front of him, he stopped screaming suddenly, stretched out his front paws, and squeaked in the circle Touched on the plate.

After a while, the monkey suddenly swayed, grabbed Kiki's wrist with one paw, and hung on it, while the other paw stretched out towards Kiki, begging for it.

The monkey didn't ask Kiki for much, so without thinking, Kiki took out a low-level fire magic core and handed it to the monkey.

The monkey didn't reach out to pick it up, but shook its head vigorously, and then hung its lower limbs upside down on Kiki's wrist, gesticulating with its two paws, as if it wanted something bigger.

——A bigger magic core?

Kiki hesitated for a while, and finally took out one of the two high-level magic cores that Amir gave him, and handed it to the monkey again.

The monkey took the magic core this time, then jumped over to the disc on the wall, and turned into a cloud of black smoke in a blink of an eye, disappearing in the center of the disc.

Zoe and the others next to him were too surprised to speak, and Hasari was even more excited. When the monkey entered the disc, he fell to his knees and worshiped Kiki.

But at this time, Zoe and the others were in no mood to investigate Hasari's anomaly. Just a few seconds after the monkey entered the disk, the disk suddenly burst into a dazzling light, drawing a picture on the golden disk. The family emblem of the Chimera family appeared-a two-headed dragon surrounded by cloud patterns.

Immediately afterwards, the magic lamps in the tunnel lit up one after another, illuminating the originally dark tunnel as if it were daytime.The portraits on the wall also gradually faded from the black cover, revealing their original appearance one after another.Although the ones on one wall are all male, and the other wall are all female, their appearances are remarkably similar, without exception, with black hair and black eyes, and the same proportion of facial features. Rely on age and clothing to distinguish the difference from each other.

Before Zoe and the others could scream in admiration, one after another, unfamiliar voices that obviously didn't belong to any of them had already preemptively rang out one after another in the tunnel——

"Master is back!"

"The master is back!!"

"The master is back!!!"

Accompanied by these voices, a male figure composed of dark elements also gradually gathered in front of the golden disc. When all the magic lamps in the entire tunnel were lit, he also condensed his almost transparent body and bowed. Lower body, greeted Kiki in front of him: "Welcome back, my master."