Witch Forest Friends Club

"Before Elo's mother passed away, what else impressed you? Please tell me all the clues you can think of."

"Six months before the owner's death, her physical and mental state became worse and worse, but she refused to use any medication, and she did not mention any illnesses she had."

"Until one night, without any explanation, she suddenly asked our family to leave, saying that she no longer needed anyone's service, and gave me a lot of property, so that Erica's family could find their own life. Then Just close the Tide Lighthouse and send it back to Baisail City."

The doppelganger recalled the small details of the past, and also showed a sad face that was no different from that of a human being.

"I was still pregnant and didn't know what to do, so my husband and I became something else, lurking in a secret hideout on the island first."

"When we learned of the owner's whereabouts again, it was time for Uncle Marshall to hold her funeral. My mother also rushed over to join us. We were afraid of showing up in front of outsiders, so we only dared to pay homage to the owner secretly after the funeral was over and the crowd dispersed. .”

Fan Na's tone seemed to be unable to suppress the urgency in her heart.

"Erica, there should have been itinerant witches on the island at the time to investigate the cause of Elo's mother's death."

"We did meet a witch from the Academy, but she left not long after she was unable to break through the seal inside the Mage Tower."

Vanna asked.

"Don't you know what the itinerant witch did in the Tower?"

Erica shook her head: "Sorry, Miss Fanna, we are cowardly and weak, even a powerful solar eclipse witch like Master Elo will die without knowing why. We dare not be involved at all, so we have to hide in the dark like snails I finally found an opportunity to sneak into the ship that came to block the island and leave."

Fan Na nodded in understanding. "Afterwards, did you come to Hualan Villa to live with Sister Di'an?"

"Yes, Miss." Erica patted her chest gratefully, "Thanks to the fact that the villa is not completely sealed off, the enchantment protected by the mark of the bird is still open to our servants."

"Erica, I heard from Sister Dean that you have been responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the main house, including the witchcraft mechanism, all these years?" Fanna changed the subject in disappointment.

"Yes." Erica explained, "Including the guest room, the master bedroom, and the studio on the east side of the main house, there are a small number of seals in the castle that can be temporarily opened."

Fan Na looked out the window, calmed down and said, "Then please take us to have a look."

They chose to go to the nearer studio first, which is at the end of the corridor on the east side of the hall.

An Jiaye and his party followed Fan Na's footsteps, watching Erica stretch out her fingers to outline the corresponding rune combination, and unlock the closed starstone rune lock on the corridor door.

"Ms. Erica's method of lifting the seal is very skillful." Anjaye commented casually.

"I have learned the art of witchcraft from Master Elo for a period of time, but it is nothing compared to a real witch like Stella like you."

Erica turned her head and smiled humbly, while pushing open the door, she led the girls to a spacious room with elegant furnishings and spectacular curtains on three sides like a waterfall.

Erica raised her finger to turn on the Mosu lamp, and then quickly opened the closed curtains on both sides. With the skylight shining into the room through the magnificent glass windows, it illuminated the dark and solemn studio.

Behind a certain curtain, there is even a transparent and exquisite plant sun room hidden, facing the beautiful garden outside.

"This curtain?" Anjaye stepped on the floor stained with mottled oil paint and faintly smelled of pine oil and wood, and looked up at the familiar light blue curtain.

All kinds of simple and elegant patterns embroidered on the curtain fabric seem to be all kinds of folklore and war stories around the cold lake, seamlessly blended together, like an alternative totem pattern, singing the vicissitudes of life in the magnificent ups and downs Poetry of change.

She had seen the same curtain in the secret study of the Nest.

Is this style popular in Lenghu collar?

Fan Na is also looking around the studio devoutly—the painting utensils and sundries covered with a thick cloth, and the various scenery and characters displayed in the picture frames on the wall have all recorded the romance that happened in Hualan Villa one by one. past.

"Hey, is this a portrait of Fan Na when she was a child?"

Elsa, who was walking around and admiring the paintings, noticed a conspicuous portrait of a girl.

It was a blond-haired little girl facing the water, holding a wet pure white flower dress and wearing a narcissus wreath, treading water and playing in the cascading water fountain with splashing waves and verdant water plants.The mottled and interlaced light and shadow of the whole picture seem to reflect the glittering water droplets splashing into the eyes, like a vivid memory of yesterday.

Fan Na nodded shyly, and raised the flying bird staff to inject mana.

"Like Grandma Sarah, Mama Elo loves to draw."

With a wave of magic essence spreading throughout the studio, many bird imprints jumped up from the staff, and soon flew around the studio, looking for things that could resonate with it.

"Lucky, I found it right away." Fan Na said with a sigh of relief.

Finally, the studio is surrounded by shining imprints of flying birds, and the object that resonates and emits the light of the same magic element is a silver music box with exquisite and simple shape, inlaid with gemstones and swan reliefs.

The imprint of flying birds circling at high speed on the surface of the music box finally merged into it, and the whole music box also buzzed and burst into dazzling white light, and the powerful and concealed sealing barrier that had been guarding it was disintegrating.

"It's a magic tool." An Jiaye leaned over, looked at the music box that had been unsealed, and said, "It needs a specific spring to open it."

Fan Na moved the music box to the front, facing the keyhole on the side: "I used to wonder why the clockwork hole is shaped like this, and now I finally figured it out."

The girl raised her hand to hold a pure white wing on the head of the flying bird staff, and then silently chanted a spell, and it was actually picked off.

"So can the wings on the staff be removed?" Elsa also raised her head curiously.

The head of the flying bird staff is a composite structure that can be assembled and embedded, and the lifelike pocket feather lying in Fana's palm has a hidden fine gold key tooth attached to the bottom.

Fan Na inserted the wing key into the keyhole of the clockwork, and it fit perfectly.

"Yes."

Fan Na started to tighten the spring, and when the spring reached its limit, she let go, and the lid of the music box snapped open.

A crystal statue with Tristy as the main body, like a magnificently raised stage, swivels and rotates with the support of the mechanism activated by the music box.

Anjaye noticed immediately that the statue popped up by the music box mechanism was a miniature model exactly like the statue of Tristi in the fountain in the courtyard of the villa. The song of Tristi sung by the sound of nature was instantly transformed into a The rising and overflowing melodic waves echo.

On the inside of the box cover is engraved a line of shining silver words like spray spots: "To my dearest friend, Sarah Marshall, may the waves of the god of flowing water cleanse your flawless soul - Carlotta J. Amy."

"Senior An, I'm very strange—this is my grandmother's relic, why can I use the secret key of the flying bird staff as a clockwork?" Fan Na and An Jiaye looked at each other strangely.

"Carlota Amy. Who is this?" Anjaye realized that the interpersonal relationship involved in the previous generation of the Marshall family might be the key to solving the mystery in front of him.

"It is the core member of the Lenghu Advisory Group that I mentioned, Mrs. Amy, my grandmother's lifelong close friend, among the six heroes of Lenghu, the descendants of the poetess Fione and the great architect Lloyd, and also the leader of Lenghu. A well-known musician and mechanism master today."

Fan Na carefully holds the music box in her hand—the magical notes that have been preserved by precision mechanisms for decades, once they break through the dusty shackles, they will flow into the hearts of the girls who are listening carefully.

"This song of Tristy is sung by her original voice, and Hualan Villa also has her participation in the design."

The clockwork finally stopped turning, and Fanna gently closed the lid of the box, ending the echo of the old dream of the music box, and put the feather key back on the bird staff.

"Now that the key key has been found, it's time for us to find the legacy left by Elo's mother. Senior sister An, do you still remember the clues she left at the Chao Lighthouse? Elo's mother's last wish is to find the real Cui The song of Sti."

Anjaye nodded, and read out the key clue engraved on the sealing stone.

"I leave all the treasures unearthed from the cold lake in the garden where the birds sing. When the truth of the legend matches the melody of betrayal, only the wings of the swan can lead the lonely soul who fell into the water to the other shore of redemption."

"Senior An, the hint is already obvious." Fan Na stared at the oil painting that recorded her childhood playing in the water. "The garden where the birds were singing, we saw it when we came in."

"Are you talking about the fountain in the garden?" Anjaye had already expected it.

"Yes, that's where I learned the song of Tristy."

Fanna didn't hesitate any longer, and led her companions back to the garden again while Erica bowed and watched her off.

She stepped into the long-dried fountain pool, and slowly came to Tristi's statue.

The girl looked up at the pitiful face that had been carved and polished by the most skilled sculptors day and night.

For Miss Vanna, this face represented a beautiful and precious memory of the past, but now it became the source of her pain.

Beautiful, powerful and loving, the fairy witch who has been admired and sung by the people of Lenghu for generations is now a soul-absorbing monster that has fallen into purgatory.

The girl shook her head, lifted her robe and went around the back of the sculpture.

"really."

Anjaye, who was following Fanna, also found an empty square groove behind the base of the statue.

Fanna embeds the music box into it, just like filling a hollow stone sculpture into a heart.

The clear and rushing water waves slowly gushed out from all over the fountain and countless water outlets on the cascading steps, turning into a magnificent and shimmering water curtain, splashing outside the force field shields of the girls.

Fan Na returned to the front of the statue, as if holding a noble ceremony, holding up the flying bird staff.

The beautiful scene in the girl's memory revived.

The whole fountain is like a large water-color music box, fully wound up and running again.

The sounds of nature lingered in the girls' ears, like a rising wall of waves, sending the singer's ethereal voice into the clouds.

Countless flying bird imprints were liberated from the staff, gathering and flying around the water curtain of the fountain, and the phantoms of swans and swimming fish also swayed and swam in the gorgeously blooming water curtain.

"It turned out to be a musical fountain?"

Anjaye was dazzled by the unique and dreamy scene in front of him.

With such an ingenious design, she became very interested in the "mechanism master" Mrs. Amy.

Behind the fountain, under the water curtain of rockery cascading down like a waterfall, a majestic and majestic waterfall-like rune imprint emerges.

"It's the divine emblem of Ms. Liushuimingquan."

While the divine emblem was spinning and flickering, behind the fake landscape curtain, the entrance to a deep cave slowly opened.

PS: Recently, I have been conceiving a more exciting plot line, adding some trivial matters, and finally got it right, and resumed normal updates.

Chapter 140: The Secret of Marshall's Curse, The Witch's Legacy and Trials

Sometimes the entangled fate of human beings is more complicated than the ecological environment of mushrooms.Miss Fanna is a typical example. ——"Ankaye's Chat Notes"

Because there is still a lot of work to be done to tidy up the inside and outside of the villa, Jana and Adeli will be left behind and cooperate with other little witches to stabilize the situation.

In the end, only Anjaye, Elsa and Bundy followed Fanna to the hidden area under the fountain to explore the mystery left by the Bird Witch.

The girls passed through the hazy water curtain that emerged from the running water god emblem, followed the unsealed secret passage, and arrived at a rune dungeon with an exquisite structure.

Anjaye opened his magic eyes and observed the scene in the underground palace along the way.

The depth and spatial scale of the underground palace are not amazing, but from the material to the structure, they have been strengthened by constant witchcraft, plus the durable concealment and protective barriers. In terms of the cost alone, it is unknown how many dugs can be dug. She is in the mushroom hole in the academy.

In fact, being able to build a castle equivalent to a large mage's tower to be used as the hostess' palace, it can be seen that the Marshall family had a lot of money back then.

"The rune management center is here." Fan Na stepped into the ring-shaped hall covered by the mysterious magic circle first. Every piece of the seamless floor tiles and walls was engraved with a magical and gorgeous combination of runes, overlapping and orderly. The order unfolded, showing a perfect distribution topology in the eyes of the girls.

These complex combinations of rune circles represent the various spell mechanisms and functions that support the operation of the castle. However, the rune circles are basically in a dim state at this time.

"The rune combination grid built with the image of celestial bodies as the core is a typical Stella school style." The black and white Rubik's cube in Elsa's right eye is also analyzing the composition of the rune circle, "But the ground The basis of witchcraft on the Internet is combined with the divinity runes that have been handed down from the peninsula since ancient times, and the ones who have studied this deeply are basically the mages of the Spiritual Meeting."

"It seems that Elsa, you are still serious about class." An Jiaye didn't expect that a friend who likes to skip class would have such knowledge.

"Xiao An, don't underestimate me, this lady has always been a top student in runes."

"After all, the 'Castle Heart' was purchased from the Star Forging Workshop. Mrs. Amy, who was in charge of the construction at the earliest, is not only a descendant of the local alchemy family in Lenghu, but also asked the witches in the academy for astronomy knowledge." Fan Na explained , "Moreover, Mother Ello also made improvements later, so it is not surprising that the structure of the rune grid is compatible with the styles of the two schools."

"If we say that Tide Fortress mainly adopts traditional construction techniques, then the construction concept of Hualan Villa is completely based on the crystallization of alchemy crafts built according to the high-standard mage tower." Fan Na praised, "Mrs. Amy did not disappoint at the beginning. My grandmother’s trust has created such a perfect castle. As a descendant of Liu Yingjie, her right to speak in the advisory group should not be underestimated. If we can win the support of the Amy family, our actions in Baisail City, It will be much more convenient.”

"I hope she is worthy of your trust, Fanna."

"Actually, I've wanted to talk about it for a long time. How much gold coins will it cost?" A small nobleman from the countryside like Bounty has completely felt the suppression of the social status. "Compared to Hualan Villa, the small manor in my hometown is simply a Crow's Nest!"

"Actually, I'm also having a headache. Just relying on my own small treasury and income from the territory, the maintenance funds after the full opening of Hualan Villa alone are enough to go bankrupt several times." Miss Fanna also expressed that she couldn't bear it. , "I really want Xuegong to take over the villa and help me bear most of the expenses."

Missy, you are a bit of Versailles.Anjaye couldn't help muttering to himself.

Born with such an enviable big castle, Miss Fanna, as the sole heir of the Marshall family, is the most coveted treasure in the Lenghu Territory.

Most of the warriors gathered in Lenghu now came for her property and status.

Although Miss Fanna's marriage rights are estimated to have been manipulated behind the scenes by some nobles, but facing a group of wolves and flies who want to take advantage of them, the lady who is unwilling to join forces must be too disturbed. Openly defy your father's arrangements at the banquet.

It is a good thing that Fan Na is determined to shoulder the future of Lenghuling.

Now that she, Anjaye, came with the pilgrims, the situation was different.

She resolutely does not allow this kind of behavior of poaching the corner of the school palace!

The girls began to analyze the connection structure of the rune grid spread all over the floor tiles, and confirmed the core position of the rune management center.

"The heart of the castle is not here." An Jiaye looked at the core of the rune grid that should have sealed the "heart of the castle" in theory, but there was nothing there.

"Where did Elo's mother hide it?" Fan Na also asked in a daze, "Senior An, do you have any idea?"

"The heart of the castle is one of the signature products developed by the 'Star Foundry'. The alchemy department is only the manager in name of the workshop, and there is no relevant structural blueprint." An Jiaye shook his head regretfully, "I have no I’ve seen the real Castle Heart, so I’m quite curious about it.”

A fortress with a large number of constant runes and witch spells, the control center of all rune systems is the "Castle Heart".

Ancient alchemists and wizards, in exchange for the wealth and support of the secular regime, would use the technology of building mage towers to help nobles build castles.

Before the academy settled in the Mirage Peninsula, there were very few great nobles who owned magic castles.

As a large-scale magic tool constructed by the Star Foundry, the "Castle Heart" is the technical crystallization of the research results of the various classrooms of the Unification Academy. Looking at Wenlan, it is also a treasure with high cost performance.

It is equivalent to a loyal personal butler, and it only works for the master who has a specific source of power. As long as Fanna controls the 'heart of the castle', she can use various functions inside the "Hualan Villa" as she likes. If you want to feel at ease in Hualan The whereabouts of the "Castle Heart" must be confirmed in order to settle in the villa.

"Isn't there a portal hidden there?"

Elsa turned the Rubik's Cube pupils to search around, and suddenly pointed to a square pillar in the hall with a relief of Tristi.