my age of magic

Chapter 479. 277. Zimmerman Manor
When we arrived at the town of Maas, everything here was completely covered under the thick snow, the hazy sky was like white paint on a gray canvas, and a few black crows were Flying through the air is like looking for food. In such heavy snow weather, it is definitely not an easy task to dig through the thick snow to find food.

Collapsed walls, abandoned houses, corpses of town residents, a row of charred stables crumbling in the wind and snow, all the windows of the hotel in the center of the town were smashed, and the bodies of some town residents hung on the On the windows without glass, they still held their spears tightly. They were also fighting before they died. The people of this town are tough and have a guard that belongs to the town. Most of the members of the guard are retired soldiers from the North Wind Legion. , There are also some local hunters. In the past, they were brave and good at fighting, and they were often able to frighten those stupid barbarians back, but this year was different. They failed to stop the attack of the barbarians, and the whole town fell.

The price is always so heavy. Those residents may not be aware of the brutality of the barbarians, and they still carry a large amount of supplies when fleeing. Unfortunately, those people cannot take those things away. They may have fled to El City alone, or they may have been killed The barbarians took them away, and the supplies were piled up on the main street of the town. The carriages parked by the side of the road were still there, but there were no traces of the horses.

Walking north along the long street, the most famous dilapidated gate of the Zimmerman Manor in the town has appeared in front of you. The two large iron gates of the manor wall are twisted and hung on the door frame, and an extremely huge one appears in the middle. The hole is big enough for a barbarian to walk into the manor.

The castle in the manor seems to have been burned by a fire. Except for the whole building made of stones standing black in the wind and snow, everything that can be burned has been destroyed. The castle square on the manor The sculpture on the large fountain fell to one side in a mess, some blood stains were stained on the white granite, and the broken wooden door of the kitchen was blown by the wind until it creaked non-stop.

Quiet, that is a kind of quiet that makes people feel scary.The dead silence, like a spider web, stuck everyone in our No.11 team.

Basile stood on the roof of the tile eaves of the bell tower of the manor, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, looking for the traces of the barbarians. The hawk he tamed had already rushed into the sky and disappeared.

Captain Cynthia walked in front with a serious face, carrying a huge two-handed sword, and Wei En followed closely behind her with an alloy bow in his hand. The two of them cooperated tacitly, and every movement was so coordinated .

Xiu walked behind the two of them silently, wearing a silver-white cloak like a monk, and was silent all the way.

I was worried that I would accidentally step on the corpse under the snow when I was walking, so I simply sat on Luka's shoulder and followed everyone.

This trip to the town is not a pleasant one. The town of Maas is one of the few satellite towns around El City with independent guards. The golden cider brewed here is exclusively for the Grimm Empire. The largest land in the small town of Maas is the fief of Earl Zimmerman, who owns a gorgeous manor and a large apple orchard including 21 hills. This nobleman who is famous for brewing fine wine The aristocratic family, did not expect that this winter will usher in a catastrophe.

The entire town of Maas and the Zimmerman Manor will disappear from the territory of El City. On the way here, Captain Cynthia was still describing to us how hospitable the current owner of the Zimmerman family is. Listen It can be seen that Cynthia has a deep friendship with the noble earl. Now seeing the town of Maas in ruins and the Zimmerman Manor in a dead silence, Captain Cynthia's face has become ugly. She tried her best to adjust I followed my own breathing rhythm, but there was still an urge to go crazy.

I sighed secretly. I heard from Cindy that the situation in Maas Town this year was not optimistic. There were several barbarian slave hunting teams outside the town. Many residents were panicked. Many people chose Flee from here and rush to El City for refuge.

Unexpectedly, it was really guessed by Cindy, and the town of Maas was not spared in the end. Those barbarians from the Storm Bear tribe occupied it by force. They captured all the men in the town, and there was a massacre. The sign of the woman, they destroyed the town of Maas, and the homes that the residents of Maas town depended on for their survival. I don’t know if it will be rebuilt in the future, but the barbarians of the Storm Bear Tribe have already taken over from this moment. Hate was etched on their faces.

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The barbarian Celtic tribe originally bordered on the north of El City. This old tribe in the south of the ice and snow tundra has always been known for its slave hunting. Although they capture a large number of human men every year, the Celtic tribe will never harm Human women, they are more like a group of shepherds. They think that the province of Sloit is a huge pasture, but they just haunt El City within a radius of [-] miles. There are a large number of slaves here. To continue, they need human women to breed more slaves, and they rarely destroy towns, which will lose a large number of people.

It's a pity that the young leaders of the Celtics made a very bold decision this spring. They colluded with the nobles of Sloit City and wanted to swallow the guard group of Sloit City. It's a pity The final plan failed. Eight thousand young barbarian warriors of the entire Celtic tribe died by the Benma River in the spring of this year. This was a fatal blow to the Celtic tribe.

The entire tribe was divided up by the remaining powerful barbarian tribes in the surrounding area this summer.

The one that swallowed up most of the territory that belonged to the Celtic tribe was the powerful tribe of the Storm Bear tribe that came from the northernmost tip of the ice and snow tundra.

Along the way from Mount Antiea to the small town of Maas, our team has hunted and killed dozens of barbarian warriors from the Storm Bear tribe. According to Cynthia, these barbarians with tattoos on their bodies prefer to drink The bloody massacre made these barbarians even crazier.

After the battle at the pass in the western mountainous area of ​​Antiia, several of our teams were still resting near the pass and were not in a hurry to leave.

These barbarian warriors with giant bear patterns on their chests came so suddenly, it is unknown where these barbarian warriors came from.

Seven falcon squads hunted and killed more than 300 barbarian fighters with 'magic traps' at the pass in the western mountainous area of ​​Antiia. Almost at noon the next day, there were more than [-] well-trained barbarian fighters , under the leadership of several barbarian warriors, quickly penetrated into the Antiya Mountains, trying to encircle and suppress our dozens of Falcons.

That night, Cynthia discussed with the other six Falcon captains, and the seven teams were divided into seven ways to escape.

Compared with other Falcon teams, our [-]th team with skis has an absolute speed advantage in the hilly golden apple grove. After all, the barbarians who run day and night are not as fast as the skis. Our team attracts There were more than five hundred barbarians walking freely in the snow.

Even under such circumstances, it is still possible to hunt and kill those lonely barbarians with ease.I finally let the team members see my marksmanship. The lead bullets with the flame burning effect made those barbarians suffer a lot, and my ability to survive in the wild is even stronger than the other members of the team. With a team of more than 500 barbarians, they went around in circles on the outskirts of El City until those barbarians finally realized that they could not catch up with us anyway, so they resolutely gave up chasing us.

Along the way to the town of Maas, we saw several noble fiefdoms and large manors destroyed. We did not expect that the town of Maas could not escape the clutches of the barbarians.

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The exquisite statues of figures beside the huge swimming pool and the crystal street lamps made of copper in the gorgeous square highlight the luxury of the Zimmerman Manor in the past. Along the stone steps on both sides of the main road, the marble-polished ground has been Covered by thick snow, the magnificent building comparable to the city hall of El City, now only remains the burnt stone wall, and the rubble of the roof falls from the ruins from time to time and smashes to pieces.

Captain Cynthia led the way into the ruins of the castle with a livid face, and Wei En followed without thinking. Xiu's figure disappeared from my sight, and I also jumped off Luka's shoulder, patted I patted Luka on the arm and asked him to wait outside. Maybe there might be some other new clues in the yard. I followed Captain Cynthia and walked into the ruins of the castle.

The castle was full of burnt smells. There were still burnt picture frames on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor. Burnt corpses could be seen everywhere. Most of them were women and children. There were no obvious wounds on their bodies. Probably died in the fire.Perhaps because of the winter, there is no smell of rot here yet.

"These damned beasts!" Vayne knocked down the armored statue standing on one side of the circular arch with a fist. The statue fell on the ground full of black ash, and the dust flew up immediately.

Walking out of a bedroom, there is a large wrought iron bed in that room. Inside, a woman who was burnt to the ground is holding a three or four-year-old child in her arms. She tightly protects the child in her arms. The child Curled up in her arms as she was when she was pregnant, she tried to use her body to block the heat of those flames, but unfortunately death would not stop harvesting life because of love.

I covered my mouth and nose with a handkerchief, looked at Cynthia and said, "Captain, there is no one alive."

Cynthia frowned and sighed, but she kept saying, "It's impossible for these people, unless they successfully break out, those men shouldn't leave with their families, such a big manor! It’s impossible that there are just such a few people, where have they all gone?”

"Will it be captured by those savages?" Wei En kicked open a burnt wooden door with a metal frame, and in the charred room were only the ashes of the furniture.

Cynthia glared at Wei En, with a sense of scolding in her eyes. She was in a bad mood, and her tone became very harsh: "When did you hear that barbarians have captured women? When they are hungry, they will Eat human females, but in the manor, we can't find those bones..."

"Is there a basement or water dungeon here?" I suddenly thought of a refuge. If at the initial stage of the fire, the outside of the manor was full of barbarians, the people in the castle would not be able to rush out. Death, so where will the women in the castle flee to?I think the place farthest from the fire should be the water prison in the castle.

When I said this, Cynthia also came to her senses, and then she frowned and said: "There is no water prison in the manor castle here, but there is one in the basement, but there... I know!"

"I see," I said loudly, and Cynthia's voice overlapped, echoing in the empty castle ruins.

Cynthia and I looked at each other, with a glimmer of hope in our eyes, and said at the same time, "The wine cellar!"

That's right, Zimmerman Manor is most famous for the most delicious golden cider brewed here, even for the royal family of the Grimm Empire. There are 21 mountains full of apple trees in the manor, and they must brew a lot every year golden cider.How could such a large winery not have a wine cellar?

Not only are there, but the scale is also very huge.The freshly brewed golden cider tastes very astringent. It needs to be put into oak barrels and stored in a wine cellar at a constant temperature for more than three years. wine cellar.

We quickly ran along the stone steps to the first floor. Under the leadership of Cynthia, we found a stone step extending downwards just behind the secret door of the kitchen on the first floor of the castle. This is the only entrance to the wine cellar.

Back then, after the delicious golden cider was brewed here, in order to prevent thieves from stealing the golden cider, the then Earl Zimmermann sealed all the other exits of the wine cellar with stone mortar, and only one of the back kitchen Behind the hidden door, there is an exit.

After we pushed open the iron secret door, we were completely dumbfounded. The passage here has collapsed, and several huge stone bars are lying in the passage.

Cynthia went up and tried to remove the hundred-jin stone blocked in the passage. She just moved the stone a little, and a large amount of sand and stone poured out from the gaps in the stone, submerging her body in an instant. Wei En, who was behind her, hugged her desperately from behind, and refused to let her move the stones in the passage no matter what.It looked like the entire passage had completely collapsed.

I stepped forward and said to Cynthia: "It's too dangerous here. With the strength of just a few of us, it will take several days to dig through this passage. Let's make sure that there are no survivors in the wine cellar! If Really, it’s not too late to dig the wine cellar!”

"But if we don't dig here, we don't know if there are any survivors inside!" Cynthia said distressedly.

I said to her: "Go to the outside of the manor and look for vents. There must be many vents in such a large wine cellar. I am small and thin, so I should be able to get in easily..."

(End of this chapter)