God's Chosen Archmage

Chapter 16 The Haunting of the Mine in Norlin Town
Norlin Town, although it is not the first time for Ed to come to this place, but every time he comes here, the first thing he sees are those big and small mud houses.

Perhaps without the Nolin Swamp next to the town, the town's name would probably be Mudwater Town.

Since Ed successfully completed the first magic inscription on the magic crystal, it seems that everything has become calm again.Ma Gelin and Dinah, one big and one small, are working hard to recover from their injuries, and Ed, like Pinkie, is immersed in his own magic practice every day.

No one made trouble for him, and Ed was very comfortable with this kind of life.But what he didn't expect was that even without these artificial interruptions, some unexpected emergencies still prevented him from practicing magic and alchemy in peace.

The sudden unexplained death of a miner in the mine was the reason why he came to the town.

Just as it is difficult for Ed to understand why the people in Nuolin Town would rather farm the land than set foot on the Nakaluo Mountains behind them, the people in the town are also mining the old land on the south hillside for them for more than ten years. The iron mine was suddenly haunted by rumors and was inexplicably shocked.

What necromancer is enlivening the undead?Ed doesn't think so.The town is full of the most ordinary people, even if they are turned into undead, they are not necessarily better than the corpse of a low-level fighter in the mainland - a low-level swordsman.

Besides, refining undead with living people has always been a taboo on the mainland!Once it is known, it will definitely face the joint pursuit of all major forces.

"Brother Ed, we're here! The mayor is waiting for us!"

Pinkie's voice came.When Ed looked up, he found a few men standing at the intersection of the only street in this town.

The leader is a 1.9-year-old man who is [-] meters tall and tall and thin.He is Mark, the mayor of Nolin Town.The big man in an old iron armor standing next to him is the town's defense officer (equivalent to a policeman or urban management) - the only fourth-level professional fighter, top swordsman Ade.

The others are all young and strong miners in the town.

Seeing from a distance that the people who came were actually two children, Mark couldn't help frowning.He still hurried a few steps, with a sincere smile on his face.

"Are you two disciples of Master Ma Green? Welcome! May I ask why Master Ma Green didn't come with you?"

"My teacher will come later. Let's go and see the dead miners first."

Ed understood the other party's thoughts, but he had to hold on.

"Oh, don't worry about it. Well... so. My wife prepared some food under the house, hehe, I think my children will like you two."

Anyone can hear Mark's evasion.It's true that the other party is still young, but it makes people around him feel a little uncomfortable to underestimate the disciple of the magician.

Ade, who was next to him, laughed, and said: "Food, this is always something to eat. But since Master Maglin will come at any time, wouldn't it be bad if her disciples were not allowed to know about the situation here!"

This Ade seemed to smooth things over, but he didn't save the mayor Mark any face. He waved and greeted several young miners around him.

"Come with me, everyone. Those dead miners are staying at the gate of the Bright Church in the town. They have been dead for almost three days, and the weather is hot, so there is no need to delay."

Following Ade's guidance, the group quickly came to the Guangming Church in the east of the town.The seven or eight corpses on the ground were already showing a very strange emerald green color.The relatives of these corpses only dared to stand far away and sob.

The only one busy beside the corpse was the only priest of light in the town.He is already over sixty years old, and his eye sockets are also blackened.But even so, he dutifully used some simple light magic to try to restore the corpse.

He is different from the scum that Ed met before. This old priest of light is a truly respectable and good person.

"Uncle Milan, we have invited Maglin's disciples here, you should take a break." Adegao shouted.

When the old Milan heard this, he sat down on the ground regardless of his image.

"Oh, is it finally here? Hehe, if I don't come, I will have to confess my old bones here."

"How can you? Your body is still strong. My youngest son was still thinking about his Grandpa Milan yesterday. He was arguing to see you."

Ade exchanged a few words with the old Milan, and he turned to Ade and said, "The two little mages, the bodies of the dead miners are all here. Please try to give everyone an explanation, I beg you, Ade."

Ed didn't answer, he went directly to one of the corpses and began to observe carefully.

This is a man in his early thirties.The person had been dead for three days, but the body didn't even show any signs of decay.If it weren't for the emerald green all over his body, he would seem to be asleep.Ed asked for some spirits and a dagger to begin the autopsy.

He had watched some popular science programs about mine gas poisoning in his previous life, so he thought about checking this aspect first.The body had been cut open, and the internal organs of the chest cavity, like the epidermis, showed an abnormal emerald green color.

As for the sticky brown-black things inside, the relatives of the deceased said "he smoked before his death" to cut off Ed's speculation on this aspect.

It wasn't an accidental death, nor was it eroded by the magic power of the dark undead.Could it be that these people have been poisoned by something they don't know?

Suddenly, Ed's eyes lit up.He took out a ring-shaped magic item and placed it on top of the corpse.This is a prop specially used to check magic spirits.The moment it touched the corpse, the transparent gemstone in the ring immediately flashed green.

It is the symbolic color of earth attribute magic spirits.The same is true for other corpses.Ed has a bottom line.

These miners dug something special in the old mine, and were killed by the strong magic spirits emitted by it.

Ed shouted loudly: "Don't worry, these people were not killed by the dark forces. Don't worry that they will become undead. If you think this is not safe, just cremate them directly."

As soon as Ed's words came out, the impatient relatives of the deceased rushed over.What they need is not the exact news of whether their relatives will become zombies, but to let their relatives go to the ground as soon as possible.

The competent pastor, old Milan, began to read the funeral speech for the deceased again.Ed also asked the little girl Pinky to show her fire magic to the family of the deceased who agreed to be cremated.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ed also called Mark, Ad and others to the corner: "Mr. Mayor, now I know the cause of everyone's death, can you arrange for me to enter the mine as soon as possible?"

Check it out. "

"There is absolutely no problem with this."

After seeing Ed's "magical" means, Mark no longer looked at Ed with colored eyes.

"However, in order to prevent it from happening, I have ordered the mine to be sealed. If you dig it now, you will not be able to enter until it gets dark..."

Before Ed agreed, the man next to him suddenly came over to grab the words: "Old man Mark! Don't you think it's irresponsible to let these two little mages go into the mine late at night? Hehe, at least let them have a good rest." One night. Leave it to me to dig the mine at night."

"Oh, that makes sense." Mark pondered. "Well, it's not safe to dig the mine now. Tomorrow we'll get up a few hours early. As soon as the two little mages wake up in the morning, we'll leave immediately."

When Na Ade heard it, an inexplicable anger seemed to flash in his eyes: "Alright then, just do as the mayor said."

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There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Ed followed everyone to the front of the mine at the foot of the Zharo Mountains.The mayor, Mark, was on the sidelines and would only move stones, soil and so on.

"Good morning, two little mages! Did you sleep well yesterday?" Seeing Ed and his party coming, Mark greeted immediately.

"Hehe, please don't worry. We slept well and the food was delicious." Ed responded with a smile.

But secretly admire the physique of people in this world.A group of ordinary people have been busy for most of the night, and each of them is still so energetic.No wonder.Although the average life expectancy of people in this world is between 70 and 36 years old, there are [-] months in a year here.

Mark smiled, and he pulled a 37-year-old man with a mustache beside him, and said to Ed: "Little mage, this is Leon Stoke who worked with the miners who died. He has been working here since the mine was opened, and he is familiar with everything in the mine.”

"Fortunately, it's all up to you!" Ed greeted, but his eyes were carefully observing Leon Stoke.

This is definitely a handsome man.Although the coarse clothes and trousers were a little wrinkled, it was difficult to hide his straight and straight body.His brown hair was messed up and untied, showing a bit of unruliness.The most difficult thing was the pair of eyes, they didn't look particularly bright, but they shone with a restrained crystal color which was rare!

Na Leon took a step forward, but hid his eyes.

"It's easy to say, the two little mages come with me. I have worked in this mine for more than ten years, and I will never go the wrong way."

"I'm tired"

Ed could only bury the weirdness in Leon's body in his heart.

Maybe it was because of such a big accident before, the inside of the mine was very messy.With a dim miner's lamp and an old mine cart, the three of them moved forward silently.After twisting and turning for a while, they finally came to an area with a huge space.

Judging from the traces on the surrounding walls, this should be a newly opened new mining area.

However, what caught Ed's attention was the incomparable density of earth-attribute magic spirits here.According to the division of magic power gathering areas commonly used by the magic guild, this is almost over the tenth level.

No wonder those ordinary miners would die, even magic apprentices like Ed, who practiced magic, felt uncomfortable.

Ed breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Leon: "Okay, this should be the root cause of the deaths of innocent miners, Mr. Stoke, you..."

At this moment, Ed stopped talking!

He found that Leon in front didn't pay attention to what he said, but was just staring at the sub-pit on the right side of this place.Not only is his figure shrouded in a layer of white dou qi, but the aura he exudes is also as real as it is!Let people not have the slightest resistance!
If Ed's guess is correct, there must be someone hiding there.It shouldn't be some mediocrity to cause Leon to go to war so much!
(End of this chapter)