my age of magic

Chapter 480 278. Wine cellar
Several people stood on the lawn in the garden behind the ruins of the castle, surrounded by a shuttered box, staring at each other in silence. Xiu knelt on the ground on one knee, and used a small knife to pry open the top cover of the shuttered box. With a decadent look, he looked at the shutter very intently, constantly fiddled with the shutter blades of the window that can adjust the angle at will, his eyes flashed cunningly, and said seriously: "If I guess correctly, this is the wine cellar." Usually, such vents are located in some hidden places, and in order to prevent some small beasts from burrowing inside, there are usually complete protective iron nets at both ends of the air duct.”

The vent of the wine cellar was found by Xiu. As an assassin, he has training in this area. When we were standing in the yard at a loss as to where to start, Xiu easily found the vent.

I teased him, "Xiu, you found the vent so quickly, did you have training in this area in the Thieves Guild?"

He usually likes to pretend to be aloof, and he never shows his true face, he is lazy and doesn't talk much, but I always like to chat with him, although sometimes he will just ignore me, but I always have fun.

He glanced aside, didn't look at me at all, just looked at the vents intently, until finally he said in a light tone: "Just find a book about architecture in the library, which faces various buildings. There is a very detailed introduction to the design, as a high-achieving student of the Magic Academy, have you never even read books on imperial architecture?"

"..." I was speechless for a moment.

I carefully looked at this small box, which was only one and a half feet square, hidden under the benches for people to rest around the lawn in the garden, and was covered by snow as thick as cotton. Ordinary people would not notice such seclusion at all. corner of.

At this moment, the long wooden chair had been overturned to the side. Xiu took a sharp dagger apart and took apart the blind box. Finally, he bent down and took off the outermost iron mesh of the vent. Inside, there was a dry and warm hot wind. Pounced head-on, Xiu knelt on the snow, put his hands on both ends of the vent, and leaned his upper body into the vent.

After a long while, he withdrew from the air passage, and then frowned and said to Captain Cynthia: "The passage inside is too narrow, and there is a rune metal plate inlaid with a wind magic circle at the corner, so I can't pass through it." Such a narrow vent, once it gets stuck inside, there is no way to get back."

"Let me try it!" I said to Captain Cynthia.

"No!" Xiu and Captain Cynthia said at the same time.

Captain Cynthia glanced at me and said to me seriously: "I will not put a magic apprentice in danger!"

"You haven't received professional-level training, and once you encounter an emergency, it's not easy to escape." Xiu said.

Seeing everyone's embarrassment, Karu also participated in this discussion.

"Or we'll just dig the wine cellar right here!" Luka proposed eagerly. "Anyway, if there are people inside, we need to break through a passage!"

I thought about it, and I still want to go in and have a look.So he said: "Let me go in and have a look, I have a way, trust me!"

"You won't even learn Heidi's 'water escape technique'?" Cynthia asked me.

"I don't know this magic yet, but I have a way!" After I finished speaking to Cynthia, I got into the air vent with a low body. The direction is changed to extend horizontally towards the ruined castle.

The inside of this air vent made of blue stone is a bit slippery, and the stone wall of the air vent is covered with purple moss. This air vent is not that wide. Unable to turn over, he could only curl up and crawl forward, his hands and knees rubbing forward little by little on the bluestone board in the vent.

Soon after entering the first corner, there was no light in front of me. I took out the moonlight stone drum totem from the magic pocket with difficulty, and after sending in a trace of wind element magic power, the stone drum totem floated above my head , exuding a glistening white light, although the light is not very bright, but the light is very soft.

From the stone drum totem, there is a faint air flow of wind element. The weak wind element wraps around my body like a silkworm cocoon. A trace of wind element airflow forms a vague wind circle on my feet. , Those magical powers of wind elements support my body, making me feel a lot lighter all of a sudden, there are always two wind powers wrapped around my thighs.

'Wind Rush'

This is the totemic power of the orc shaman.

Crawling forward another ten meters, a fork suddenly appeared in front of me. I didn't have any good ideas, so I bit the bullet and chose a road at random, and climbed in.

This is me. I can already smell the smell of old wood in the air in the vent, with the bitter fragrance of some oak seeds. I was so happy that I even sped up the speed of crawling forward.

According to Liont, who was drunk again and told me about the brewing process of golden cider, the barrels of the most elegant golden cider are made of mature oak hoops.

At this time, I can smell the smell of old wooden barrels in the ventilation channel, which only means that I am not far from the wine cellar.

……

Climbing forward with the faint light of the moonlight stone drum totem, the figure of Sister Guoguo is also following me at this time. Her body of water element is squeezed a bit narrow in the air vent, but the appearance of her face has not changed. , but suddenly appearing beside me silently like this really shocked me.

When I was slightly distracted, I didn't expect that the right hand stretched forward suddenly pressed to the empty space, and after the body lost its center of gravity, it suddenly fell downward.

This is a shaft of unknown depth. Fortunately, when I fell only half a meter, my right hand pressed against an iron net, and my falling posture slowed down a little. The corrosion is too serious, just let me press it lightly, a big hole was made in the iron net, and my body, which had stopped falling, hit the iron net at once.

With a sound of 'Boom', the whole person fell down from the iron net.

Without any hesitation, I drew a magic circle in the air with my left hand, and uttered a series of spells in my mouth, and quickly completed a spell within less than two seconds of falling.

'Shadow Cloak'

In the process of falling, I turned into a cloud of black mist, and my arm also turned into a cloud of black mist along with my body, and the iron net worn on my arm was released from the restraint at once, and fell to the ground with a "boom!" With a sound, the wine cellar seemed very quiet, and it must have spread far away.

I found myself falling into a dark space, and the black mist I turned into quickly melted into the darkness.

When I landed on the ground, I vaguely saw that there were rows of huge wine barrels around me. This made me secretly happy. I successfully entered the underground wine cellar of the manor, which is the same as what Captain Cynthia said The wine barrels piled up in piles almost occupy the entire space of the underground wine cellar. I don’t know how big the wine cellar is, but the oak barrels, which are the size of gasoline barrels, are placed continuously on wooden shelves from bottom to top. On the fifth floor, these neatly arranged wine barrels are in the dark underground wine cellar, and you can't see them at a glance.

Just when I was about to release the invisible state, someone beside me suddenly whispered in my ear: "Hey, the noise was obviously coming from here just now, why did it suddenly stop?"

The strange voice startled me. A strange man passed through my body. He held a piece of moonstone in his hand, which shone dimly in the dark wine cellar. His body looked a little bloated. , wearing a leather waistcoat and linen white shirt, a pair of jodhpurs, and a pair of riding boots, with curly hair and beard, one can tell that he is the groom of this manor.

I thought he had discovered me, but I didn't expect someone to speak behind him. His voice was a little hoarse, but there was an indescribable cruelty and indifference in his tone. I don't know why, but my heart tightened for no reason.

"Could it be a mouse?"

That person also passed through my body, stirring up the mist of my illusion, and almost returning to my human form.

He was dressed a little more elegantly, with a little braid in his hair, a white linen shirt, and silk knickerbockers, but he wore only a pair of socks on his feet.

With a 'click', his foot kicked the iron net on the ground, he didn't even groan, he bent down and picked up the iron net directly from the ground.

The man dressed as a groom in front heard the abnormal sound, and quickly turned around, holding the moonstone high to check the situation.

"Your eyes have grown to the top of your head, and you didn't see such a large piece of iron net?" The hoarse voice said to the groom very dissatisfied.

"Sorry, Anthony!" The groom quickly apologized, and took the iron net from the man with the braids, and then brought the moonstone closer. At this time, the two of them could see the iron net clearly. a big hole.The groom said pleasantly, "Maybe a mouse really came in!"

"I don't think so. The mouse doesn't have enough strength to crush such a thick barbed wire. It should be much bigger than the mouse." Anthony's hoarse voice immediately retorted.

"My God, if it's a badger or a civet, even a hedgehog is fine, these days I can't wait to nibble on my arm!" The fat groom heard Anthony say this, very said excitedly.

"Don't get too excited, we have to search carefully, we must be careful not to let go of any clues." Anthony turned around and said to the fat groom.

The fat groom had a pretty good temper, and he honestly agreed to whatever that Anthony assigned him.

I just want to go up and talk to them at this time, they are trapped in the wine cellar, maybe they need my help very much.

But when the moonstone was close to Anthony, I took a sharp breath because I saw a few large bloodstains on Anthony's white shirt on his chest.

In the past month, the number of barbarians hunted with the No.11 team has exceeded at least 30, so we have a very clear understanding of the blood of the barbarians. The blood on Anthony's body is not the blood of the barbarians at all. After the barbarian's blood dries up, it turns purple-black, which is fundamentally different from this dark red.The blood on his body was clearly human blood, obviously not his.

My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly canceled the idea of ​​showing up, and just quietly followed behind them in the form of mist.

These two people searched here, but of course there was no result.

They returned along the same road, and I followed closely.

At this time, I discovered that the wine cellar is really big. After walking more than 300 meters, I still can’t see the end of the wine cellar. There is a vertical beam every six meters in the wine cellar. The wine barrels are arranged in arrays and divided into areas Stored in the cellar, each area has a corresponding vintage.

I marvel at the size of this estate's wine cellar.

At this time, I heard the fat groom complaining to Anthony: "Anthony, do you know? Yesterday, Mrs. Roxani also committed suicide. Don't these women really want to live anymore? If they all committed suicide, we What's the point in this wine cellar?"

"What is the whip in your hand for? Punishment, you need to show some means to the women who made mistakes, you know? Punishment, just like you tame those horses, they are no longer high-ranking noble ladies and Miss Noble, even though they are noble, they are our slaves now, you have to punish the disobedient people so that they know how to obey our will." Anthony's hoarse voice was like a cat's paw on the metal Scratching on the board sounds so harsh.

"You know, Anthony, I'm just an honest groom, I can't do this, I can only tame the animals in the stables!" said the fat groom.

Anthony, who was walking in front, laughed "hehe", his laughter was sharp and piercing, he slowed down and said to the fat groom: "You can also lock them in the stable, the leather whip is not only useful for ponies, sometimes, for those thin Aristocratic ladies with tender skin are rare weapons!"

"Okay, after the shift, I plan to listen to you, go back and try, maybe there will be unexpected results!" The fat groom said emotionally, he rubbed his hands, then sighed, and said: "Anthony, You said we are hiding here, maybe one day, the knights of El City will find us, maybe we will be sent to the stake."

Anthony took out a bottle of wine from his waist, pulled out the cork, took a big gulp of the wine, and said, "It's delicious!"

Then he turned around and put his arms around the shoulders of the fat groom, and said, "Don't worry, even if you go to the stake, according to the crimes I committed, I will definitely die before you. Since we are lucky enough to enjoy such a wonderful life, even if we live What's the point if it's a little bit longer?"

Hearing this, the uneasy mood in my heart finally turned into a bad premonition.

Unexpectedly, there is a secret hidden in this wine cellar.

(End of this chapter)