my age of magic

Chapter 522 20. Mysterious Scroll
What impresses me the most about San Carlos City is not the towering chimneys emitting thick smoke, but the quaint and elegant small hotels on both sides of the streets in the Midtown and Lower Town.This bustling street seems to be an elegant green scarf, and those small hotels are the warm embroidered flowers on the scarf.

The small hotel we stayed in in San Carlos was on the bustling street in the tenth district of Midtown. It was quietly squeezed between a magic potion store and a grocery store. It is extremely narrow, and as soon as you enter the door, you will see the registration desk. There is a blond man standing in front of the desk. Although he has already seen that we are all nobles, he still stands straight in front of the registration desk, without any courteous gestures. Smiling and said to us in an unassuming manner: "Welcome, Your Majesty the magicians."

I stood in front of the registration desk and asked him, "Are there any cleaner rooms? I'd like something quieter, preferably the top floor, you know, we don't like being disturbed by strangers."

"Of course, I have exactly what you need here, please allow me to show you, maybe you will like it." The blond foreman said.

He then recommended us a room with a loft in the hotel.

This is a small hotel. Due to the limited space, the hotel only has a very small winding staircase. The handrails of the stairs are made of walnut wood. The handrails have been polished very smooth, and some places even have a transparent primer , the fine wooden texture makes this staircase a little more old. The staircase is covered with a red carpet, and each step is quite high. After walking up three floors, Mrs. Alia turned a little dizzy before arriving at the hotel. She probably has never lived in such a small hotel, and her eyes are full of novelty.

The corridors of the hotel are also relatively narrow, but there is always a scent of coffee, coupled with the red carpet and golden lights, giving people a warm feeling.

There are some small paintings on the wall, one of which is actually the work of a certain inscription master, it is a piece of magic parchment that has turned dark yellow, and the magic circle on it is slightly blurred, which is strange. The magic rune is something I have never seen before. There is a groove in the center of the magic circle, and the magic crystal fragments inside have disappeared. This magic rune painting is inlaid in a mahogany frame, which is similar to the oil paintings of those master artists. Hanging together on the wall, it looks like a masterpiece of an abstract master.

Later, I saw it at the Pompidou Center.

Each room here has a unique small attic, which is not very spacious inside. Open the floor-to-ceiling windows of the attic, and there is a small balcony outside. Ant cauliflower is raised in wooden troughs on the balcony, which are extremely colorful.

There is a recliner made of wire on the balcony, lying on it, looking at the faint blue sky and white clouds, quietly listening to the hustle and bustle of the street, as if everything is far away from us, the southeast monsoon brings the humid air of the endless sea, smells It seems that you can still feel the smell of the sea wrapped in the wind. If you can lie quietly on the deck chair and have a good sleep in a certain afternoon, it will be a real pleasure.

Mrs. Aliya and Sally are full of curiosity about this kind of small hotel. All the big castles in the world must have similarities. Only in these seemingly inconspicuous small hotels can you feel a different style. It is the owner's unique taste and his interpretation of the meaning of the word 'home'.Warmth, romance, and mystery are the unique features of this small hotel.

It seems that Moraya and Sophie are also very satisfied, so we choose to live here.

The foreman seemed very happy, and he said to me cheerfully: It is an honor for him and this hotel to live in this small hotel with noble wizards and nobles.

This reminds me of Captain McIntosh who introduced the hotel to us. When I said that I was going to wait for a friend here, the meticulously dressed foreman warmly said to us that we can tell the name of the friend to us. He, he will be in charge of reception for us.

And we can take advantage of this free time to take a good tour of the city of San Carlos, a city with hundreds of years of industrial culture, there are still many places worth visiting, such as the San Carlos Grand Opera House, the Victory Plaza, the bustling commercial street of magic rune metal plates, etc.

Probably Captain Mackintosh is a frequent visitor here, I told the foreman his name, and the foreman said in surprise: "So you are friends of Captain Mackintosh!"

I asked him where I could rent a horse-drawn carriage, which would take a full day to cross the city on foot.

He smiled and told me that renting a carriage is far worse than taking a public carriage at the intersection. It only costs ten copper coins, and the coachman will take me around the city. Of course, this requires me to sit in the carriage all the time. If I get out of the carriage, If you get another car, you need to pay another fee. These carriages will not stop at the same place and wait for someone.

Several of us unanimously agreed to stay here. The quilt in the room was very clean, with a smell of freshly laundered soap and sunlight.

The trek along the way made us a little tired. Not long after dinner, we all went back to the room to rest. Each of us chose a room. I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional. The rooms are the farthest, mine is at the back of the corridor, and Mrs. Alia's room is next to the stairs.

The head waiter also specifically told us that the hotel will provide hot water for guests at night, and if you need to wash clothes, you need to pay extra.

I sat on the deck chair in the small balcony of Moraya’s room, closed my eyes and felt the cool night wind, and Moraya sat on the carpet next to me, resting her head on my lower abdomen, holding a magic book, There is a lamp inlaid with a moonstone on the small coffee table, and the light stretches our shadows very long.

Luxurious magic items such as moonstone table lamps are of course not prepared by the hotel. They are Ya’s own personal belongings. Ya’s life has always been very high-quality. It seems that it has been a long time since we spent a beautiful time together in such a leisurely way. It's night.

When she was in El City, she would occasionally take turns to guard El City at night. As a wood magician, she had the ability to communicate with trees.

And I am very busy, there are a lot of magic scrolls to draw almost every day, I always like to lock myself in the attic room, draw those boring magic scrolls, although busy, in the past three years Over time, I have drawn more than ten thousand magic scrolls, and drawing these magic scrolls has laid a solid foundation for me to draw magic rune metal plates.

Of course, I have my own blacksmith shop in El City, and I also make some extremely simple metal plates of magic runes, such as concentrating fire, condensing water, light body, etc. I can still make these most basic magic runes It can be controlled with a magic engraving pen.

So we don't have many intersections at ordinary times, just occasionally have lunch together, or the magic rune teacher Tobyn will leave me in the laboratory building to help him draw some magic energy scrolls. , sneaked into her dormitory to sit for a while.

But there are not many such opportunities. In all, we spend more time together only during the hunting of barbarian slaves in winter.

……

I am half asleep and half awake, feeling the magic elements in the body nodes slowly flowing in the body, these magic elements will follow a new route to flow in the body, compared with me before, when I cast water magic now , I feel smoother, probably because of the influence of the "water magic amplification circle" in the body, the "ice shield technique" is more solid.

Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit is leaning against the railing of the balcony. She has her mouth slightly open, spitting out the free water element in the night sky, as naughty as a child of a few years old, except that she is light blue The translucent body is what she used to be.

The last thing I want to see finally happened. Sister Guoguo, who is currently transformed into the spirit of water element, is growing naturally. With her incomparable affinity with water element, she gradually let her figure out the "water system augmentation circle" 'structure.In her naked and transparent body, there emerged a pattern of 'Water Amplification Array' exactly like mine.

Sister Guoguo, who is the spirit of the water element, if she succeeds in opening up her own intelligence and wiping out the last bit of memory seed in her original soul, this is what Mentor Heidi and I have always worried about. There are already obvious signs, so I rushed to the imperial capital so urgently.

But having said that, now I have unknowingly pushed open a crack in the door in the field of 'the fusion of body and magic', and I seem to be able to peek into some things inside.

Just like the 'Water Amplification Circle' that I have now, it seems that this magic circle is running around the clock in my body, so each of my water magic will be better than the water magic of a magician of the same level, It is slightly larger in terms of power, which is some hidden advantage.

I think, maybe one day, I will realize the true meaning of 'time stagnation' or 'magic catalysis', these two powerful magic circles are completely integrated in the meridians in my body, and the power I have at that time will be Going to the next level, oh no, maybe the strength will suddenly become leaps and bounds.

Probably after experiencing some fierce battles, I will have some insights and growth in my understanding of magic.

……

Ya reached out and picked up a strawberry from the plate on the coffee table, put it in her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then said to me seriously: "Jijia, I want to go for a walk!"

I pushed her head away, sat up from the recliner, stood on the edge of the balcony and poked my head out, looking at the bustling street scene on the street, and then said to her: "It's so late, where are we going, for several days in a row Flying, you didn’t even meditate, your mental strength can handle it?”

Ya gave me a very dissatisfied look, threw the magic book aside, and stood side by side with me on the edge of the balcony. She bent down, resting on the balcony with one elbow, and resting her chin on her palm, inadvertently showing her beautiful back. And the slender curves, Ya just took a shower, her hair still looks a little wet, she is wearing a low-cut V-neck cotton pajamas, when she leans over, in the dark night, there is an empty, plump belly under the collar. The breasts showed a clear outline.

"I'm not talking about this, what I mean is that after accompanying you to the imperial capital, I want to go outside and see the mountains and the sea over there!" Ya said to me, shaking her wet hair.

"...Okay!" I didn't expect that what Ya said would be like this. I paused and thought about it. See the rainforest to the south, the dark forest to the north, and the burnt forest to the west of Dwarfland.

I thought for a while and said: "After I graduate, I also plan to travel to this continent to explore those mysterious and unknown things. Maybe I will go to Etia for a walk."

Ya suddenly turned her head, stared into my eyes, and asked me seriously: "You will miss me, right?"

I said without thinking: "Of course, don't forget to write to me when the time comes, I always want to know where you flew to!"

This reminds me of Qige. I wrote a few letters to the address she left me, but unfortunately, those letters seemed to disappear into the sea, and there has been no news. I think maybe she returned to her hometown, the Kingdom of Aetia.

I pulled my thoughts back and said softly to Ya: "When I miss you, I must find you as quickly as possible."

My voice became unsteady and out of tune due to a little emotional fluctuation.

Ya'puchi' let out a laugh, curled her lips slightly and said: "Who cares, maybe I can find a new love, one who is better than you, but if I don't meet, when I come back, You are responsible for marrying me!"

We quietly looked at the dimly lit city in the distance, the colors of the night covered those ugly chimneys, and the starry lights in the city of San Carlos showed the prosperity of the city.The artisans and slaves who came out of the factories and workshops gathered into streams of people, filling up the streets and alleys of the lower city at once. Outside, a scene of prosperity.

After a long time.

I just said to Ya: "You will come back, right?"

Ya stubbornly said: "I didn't say that..."

Soon, she shrugged her shoulders and laughed non-stop. She suddenly became very happy, and said to me proudly: "I knew...you still care about me! I knew... ..."

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On the issue of Mrs. Alia, Ya wants to express her dissatisfaction to me. Although on the surface, she and Mrs. Alia get along very well, Ya doesn't like this aristocratic woman very much. She looks elegant and lazy, she will appear charming and charming in front of me, and she will appear dignified and decent when standing in front of everyone. That kind of aristocratic atmosphere makes Mrs. Alia always become The focus among several people.

On the second morning, Ya organized a few women to visit the city of San Carlos together, but they only left me in the hotel, which they called me to have a good rest, and some places for women to visit, men It is not convenient to follow.

But I didn't expect that this kind of punishment would last until Luka came to San Carlos City safely.

The next afternoon, our group boarded the airship to the imperial capital and continued our journey.

And in my luggage at this time, there is another very strange magic scroll, which is the magic parchment inlaid in a picture frame on the wall of the corridor on the top floor of the hotel where we live, which has become a little blurred. A magic pattern circle that I had never seen was drawn on a piece of parchment, so I found the innkeeper and bought this ancient-looking scroll at the price of a work of art (nine gold coins).

In the past few days, I have always been alone in the bustling commercial street of San Carlos City, and I have also bought some blank magic rune metal plates with fine workmanship, probably because of the mature processing technology here, the magic rune here The price of the metal plates was actually cheaper than the magic rune metal plates made in my own small blacksmith shop in El City, so that I couldn't hold back, bought a dozen metal plates at once, and threw them into the I put it on my magic belt, and I didn't stop until there was nothing in the magic belt.

With heavy backpacks on our backs, we boarded the airship, waved goodbye to the city of San Carlos, and arrived at the imperial capital.

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