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Kiki thought they would be jolting in the carriage for a while, but on the morning of departure, there was no carriage stopped outside the gate of the Wizard Tower, and Tina and Amir did not take him to the gate of the Magic Association. On the contrary, they Carrying luggage, he walked to the interior of the association, and soon came to a square called "Flying Land".

A flat-bottomed boat larger than a troika was moored in the center of the square, and an oval sphere several times larger than the hull was floating above the boat.The huge elliptical sphere seemed to be sewn with some kind of cloth, filled with a rare wind element, and on the flat-bottomed boat, two senior wind magicians were standing at the bow and stern to control these elements. The elements of wind make them stay safely in the elliptical sphere instead of flying in all directions.

In addition to the two wind magicians, several magicians wearing robes of various colors were already standing on the boat, and there were more than a dozen magicians chatting or busy gathering under the boat, including Tina's uncle. Freud.

"Amir, Tina, you are a bit late!" Seeing Amir and Tina approaching, Freud turned around and greeted.

"The ship hasn't taken off yet, has it?" Tina put down the suitcase in her hand, stepped forward and hugged Freud.

Amir also made a mage's bow to Floyd, but the two didn't talk much. Amir quickly picked up Tina's luggage and motioned for Kiki to board the boat with him.

"Is it the first time to take an airship? You can watch it take off from the deck in a while, but don't affect other magicians-you know what I mean." When boarding the ship, Amir said to Keech.

"...Yeah." Keech responded.Of course he understood that Amir wanted him to control his curiosity and not allow him to tentatively plunder magic elements.

——If all the wind elements in this big ball are removed, the ship will not be able to take off, right?

——If you do this after takeoff, the whole ship will probably fall down, right?

Keech fantasizes about that scene, and decides to follow Amir's advice and be a good passenger honestly.

Tina also bid farewell to Floyd quickly, stepped onto the airship, waved goodbye to Floyd below again, and greeted other passengers on the airship with Amir.

There were less than ten people on the deck, including Kiki, but from what Amir and other magicians said, it seemed that some magicians had already gone to the lounge below the deck.

When all the magicians who needed to board the ship were in their positions, several green-robed magicians on the ground untied the ropes tied to the sides of the airship, allowing the airship to rise into the sky under the control of two wind magicians.The whole process was very smooth, without the bumps of riding in a carriage, but there was a weird feeling of being oppressed by some invisible force when taking off.

The ascension speed of the airship is not fast. Watching the scene in front of him gradually change from near to far, from big to small, this unprecedented novelty makes Kiki feel a little excited.

——Flying, this is also a special journey that only magicians can experience!

Keech was leaning on the edge of the boat, watching the scenery below with great interest. Amir had already walked to his side, patted his shoulder and said, "Don't look, go down and meet other people first."

"Oh." Kiki responded, picked up his small suitcase, and followed Amir and Tina into the cabin along the escalator.

The size of the cabin is not large, more like a small living room, with only a few tables and chairs fixed on the floor, which also seems to imply that the trip will not take too long.

Kitsch saw the necromancer Barosh sitting in the corner at a glance. She still covered most of her face with a hood, sitting in the corner in darkness, like an overly dark shadow.

But Barosh was not the only great magician on this trip, there was also a middle-aged man in a black robe in the cabin.As soon as she saw him, Tina greeted him warmly and proactively. From the conversation between the two, Kiki quickly understood that this great magician named Zoe was also a master alchemist, and had a great experience in alchemy. Tina has been given a lot of guidance.

Zoe also brought two magicians with her. One is an intermediate male magician who is older than Amir, and the other is a newcomer who has just passed the junior magician examination like Kiki and is about the same age as Avella. But more pretty than Avella.She and Kiki are also the only two junior magicians among the people on this trip, and the rest are all wearing magic robes above the intermediate level, and most of them are obviously purple.

At this time, Amir took the initiative to act as an introducer, introducing everyone present to each other.It was only then that Kiki realized that these magicians were not from the same country—the great magician named Zoe came from a small country at the junction of Oz and Yalong, and Barosh's nationality turned out to be Oz.Although Tina is in Yalong, her nationality belongs to an island country at the southernmost tip of the mainland just like her father, Fernando Canaan.There is also Amir, who claimed to be from Tarren Mir in the introduction. As far as Kiki knows, this is a small country in the northwest, which does not border Oz and Yalong, but another big country close to the north of the mainland—Lo Dan Union.

——How did these people gather in the Magic Association of the Yalong Empire?

Keech couldn't help but have a question.

But Amir was obviously not prepared to answer his questions. After introducing each other's identities, he briefly introduced the destination of the trip - the Golden Tomb.

"The reason why it is called this is because it is from the golden age, not because there is real gold in it." Amir explained jokingly, "The top two floors have been patronized by tomb robbers, and there are more places available for research." There are not many things, but fortunately, that is not all of this ancient tomb. Below, there are third and even fourth floors waiting for us to explore and study, and those daring tomb robbers use them His bones show us the way - where we may find the real treasure of gold."

"If there is only gold, our president will probably refuse to pay for our travel expenses for this exploration." A purple-robed magician also responded with a joke.

"Since we already have enough gold, why should he let the old man spend money?" Amir replied with a smile.

After less than a day's flight, the airship arrived at its destination, an open field.

When the airship was about to land, Keech took the lead on the deck with his luggage, and looked down at the destination below.Several simple tents have been set up there, and a bald man wearing Orion costume is leading a young man with a similar costume and a blue-robed magician standing there, raising his arms and waving to them.

"That's Gordon, he will be our guide on this trip." Amir's voice came from behind Kiki.

Kiki turned his head and glanced at Amir, and asked suspiciously, "Where's the ancient tomb? Isn't it here?"

"Over there." Amir raised his finger and pointed to the rolling earth mounds not far away. "The entrance has already been dug. After a while, Tina and the others will probably go down to check the situation first. The formal exploration should start tomorrow. will begin."

"What about me? What are you going to do?" Kiki turned his head and continued to ask while squinting at the dirt bag over there.

"Don't do anything," Amir replied, "No matter what you find, whatever you encounter, don't do anything, just keep your eyes open and look carefully, remember this."

"...Okay." Keeki replied.

As Amir predicted, after the airship landed, Tina waited for the magician to send the luggage into the tent that had already been set up, and then excitedly prepared to explore the ancient tomb.For safety reasons, Keech, another junior female magician and an intermediate magician were left behind, and together with the ordinary man brought by Gordon, they prepared dinner for everyone.

Keech can't cook at all, and there is no shortage of water here, and he doesn't need to use his water magic to prepare drinks for everyone. Therefore, from the beginning to the end, he just stood silently watching, and dealt with that by the way. A boring pick-up by a young sorcerer who calls herself Molly.

Since Keech was too cold, Molly quickly turned her attention to the ordinary man who was actually in charge of cooking, and chatted with him in a familiar way.Their conversation quickly aroused Kiki's interest, because the cook-like man turned out to be an adventurer who only appeared in novels.

"Actually, I prefer to call myself a mercenary." The man smiled and said to Molly, "But you also know that the Yalong Empire prohibits the existence of mercenaries, and the Mercenary Association has to be renamed the Adventurer Association here. "

"Yes! Yes! Many laws of Wulong are too self-righteous. Both the Empire of Oz and the Holy See allow everyone to be a mercenary. Why don't they allow it!" Molly nodded in agreement, and quickly talked to that A man chatted about the first emperor of the Yalong Empire, Borgia the Great, and from Borgia the Great to the history of the rise of the Holy See. There are many things that Keech has never seen in the history books.

Kitsch listened silently, keeping all the things he hadn't heard in mind, and when he was about to return to the imperial capital, he would ask Hill carefully—so far, he has never met anyone who is more knowledgeable than Hill, As long as it wasn't about magic, any doubts he had could be answered satisfactorily by Hill.

More than two hours later, Tina and the others came back from the tomb. Unlike the excitement they had when they went there, they all had serious expressions at this moment, as if they had encountered some serious event.

Before Kiki could ask, Molly had already rushed to the great magician Zoe and asked about the situation in a low voice.

Kiki immediately activated the wind element, and transferred their conversation to his ears verbatim.

But in the face of Molly's inquiry, the great magician Zoe didn't say much, just replied in a low voice: "I found some unexpected situations, and I will explain to you in detail later." Then he washed his hands and changed clothes with the other magicians, have dinner together.

After dinner, the great magician Zoe came forward and gathered all the magicians on this trip, as well as the bald man Gordon and another adventurer, to discuss what they saw.

After their own investigation, the magicians denied Gordon's previous claim that this place had been visited by tomb robbers.Through the analysis of the bones and the remaining clothing, weapons and other items around the bones, Barosh and Zoe both determined that these people were not only not grave robbers, but most of them were probably the same magicians as them, and the rest were the Warriors of the age.

"I'm afraid this is not a tomb in the true sense." Zoe said seriously, "From the structure of the building and the furnishings inside, it is more like an underground palace deliberately built for the purpose. As for the dead magicians And warriors—they are more like dying in a war."

"Obviously, they didn't conquer this underground fortress. On the contrary, they seemed to be wiped out." Barosh continued, "I can clearly feel the undead elements flooding here. As we all know, necromantic magic It's the longest-lasting and longest-lasting form of lethal magic, so we'd better prepare ourselves for the worst."

"What's next?" Molly asked, raising her hand.

"Something you definitely don't want to see." Barosh replied indifferently. After finishing speaking, she turned the right to speak back to Zoe, who would arrange the next action plan and corresponding grouping.

Under Zoe's arrangement, Amir, two other high-level magicians, and an intermediate magician who is good at light magic will join Baros and Zoe as the starters to open the gate at the entrance of the third floor. Tina and the other magicians stayed on the second floor as a backup force in case of accidents.As for Keech and Molly, they didn't even get the qualification to go underground, and they were all left on the surface, not allowed to participate in tomorrow's exploration.

After breakfast the next day, the magician led by Zoe, together with the adventurer Gordon and his men, re-entered the tomb that had been "transformed" into an underground palace to explore the various secrets hidden in it.

Due to changes in the situation, the airship that was scheduled to leave today to return to the Magic Association has also postponed its voyage. The two wind magicians who piloted the airship stayed on the ground with Keech and Molly as the last voyage of this exploration. A group of vital forces——If Zoe and the others encounter an accident below, they will be responsible for bringing the unfortunate news back to the Magic Association.

Kiki thought they would wait for a long time, at least as long as a day and a night, but after only an hour, Tina and another female magician returned to the ground first, and began to vomit profusely as soon as they came out, making everyone on the surface The four of them felt inexplicable.

"Excuse me, what's going on next?" Molly asked tentatively.

"You... definitely don't want to know the situation." Tina took a steady breath, and replied with Barosh's adage yesterday, and then bent down again as if remembering something, and vomited vigorously.

In view of the fact that another female magician also behaved like Tina, Molly wisely did not ask again.

A few hours later, another group of magicians returned to the ground. Although they didn't react as violently as the first two female magicians, their expressions were also not very good—there was no tension from yesterday, but just In terms of color, it was even uglier than yesterday.

When it was getting dark, Zoe, Barosh, Amir and others all returned to the surface.No one was injured, let alone died, but that night, only Barosh and the four mages who stayed on the ground enjoyed dinner normally, and the rest of them only drank a little water. Even the great mage Zoe After taking only a few mouthfuls, he pushed the dinner aside.

"What's going on?" Kiki couldn't help asking Amir during the break.

"Go down and see by yourself tomorrow." Amir replied indifferently, "Remember, don't eat breakfast."

——What happens if you eat it?

As Keech thought about it, he couldn't help thinking of Tina's endless vomiting when she came back.

The next day, Kiki finally got permission to enter the increasingly "mysterious" underground palace with Amir and others.To Kitsch's surprise, Molly, who was obviously more curious than him yesterday, didn't come down with her.When they set off, she just watched with a strange face, and when she learned that he was going down, she gloated and patted him on the shoulder, wishing him good luck.

——What's so weird about it?

Keech follows Amir in bewilderment.When the door of the entrance on the third floor was pushed open again, and a pungent rancid smell came in, Kiki looked at the rotting corpses in front of him, and immediately understood the truth.

"As Barosh said, there are indeed a lot of necromantic elements here, because the owner here is a necromancer." Amir stood beside him and explained with a blank expression, "And his The main job is to control the walking dead."

"The following... are all walking corpses?" Kiki asked in a daze.Among the rotting, mutilated and rotting corpses on the ground, only a very small part is in a complete human form, and the rest are more like half-human, half-beast alien races.

"That's right, it's just that the age is too old. Most of them have lost their combat effectiveness, and some of them were even turned into ashes the moment the gate was opened." Amir replied with disgust. , "But there are still a few extremely tenacious guys, even if they are cut into pieces, they are still ready to move."

As he spoke, Amir ejected a whirlwind from his fingertips and landed among the bones.

A few things that looked like leg bones immediately jumped up, constantly jumping around the whirlwind, and caused complaints from other magicians——

"Stop messing with these bastards, and let them be quiet!"

Hearing the complaint, Amir shrugged and turned the whirlwind on the ground into nothingness.

"So, what are we going to do now?" Keech asked suspiciously.

"Obviously, clean up." Amir's face was as bad as his voice, and he added coldly before Kitsch continued, "Do it honestly by hand, don't use your 'magic'!"

— No wonder Tina and Molly refused to come down!

Kiki twitched the corners of his mouth, resisting the urge to curse.