Chapter 133: The Underground Exchange (1)
Golden Cornflower Manor, used for teaching in the small living room.
Holding a slender stick, Antonite was pointing to the flowery characters on the spread parchment scroll, teaching the muse a set of flower-style characters that were popular among the aristocracy.
At the end of the conversation, Antonite tapped lightly on the table, and then said, "All right, Muse, now you try to write the thirty-eight basic characters of this set of flowery characters, and let me see how well you have learned in the past three days." โ
"Okay, Antonite Scholar. The muse replied quickly, then took the quill and dipped it in ink, and quickly wrote on the blank parchment in front of him.
With the flick of the muse's fingers, the most standardized flower characters appeared on the parchment quickly, and it only took a short time to finish writing.
And looking at the correct flower characters written by the muse, Anthony clapped his hands with satisfaction, and after looking at the time, he nodded and said, "Very good, Muse, it seems that you have mastered the basic characters of this set of flower characters." โ
"So that's the end of today's lesson. โ
"Tomorrow we will continue to learn more in-depth knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure. โ
"Goodbye, Muse. โ
With that, Anthony quickly packed up his things, nodded to the muse, and walked out of the small living room.
When Antonit's figure had disappeared around the corner of the house, the muse stood up, shook his head casually, and moved his body.
And with the activity of the muse, a smooth sensation came from all over the body that had almost recovered.
"It's almost recovered. As he walked out of the small living room, the muse silently thought, "Then, it's time to see the underground exchanges in the city of Deira!"
"It's said there's a blacksmith shop run by the gray dwarves!"
"I'm afraid that the high-precision molds needed to make arcane constructs can only be forged by dwarves!"
The Muse walked straight in the direction of the restaurant, and Mina, who was waiting by the side, followed closely.
After dinner, the muse returned to his room, silently sorting out what he was preparing.
After nightfall, a figure suddenly appeared in a cemetery on the northern outskirts of Deira.
This cemetery built on a hill is one of several cemeteries built at the same time in the early days of the establishment of the city of Dela, and it can be said that it has a long history, and there are even many noble tombs, so there are special grave keepers guarding this cemetery.
Wrapped in a gray robe, his face was covered by a hood that had been pulled down a few times, and his conspicuous physical features such as his body shape and shoulder width were slightly raised and widened, and after this disguise, the muse slipped out of the Golden Cornflower Manor and came here.
Surrounded by neatly placed tombstones, and it was already night, the cemetery could be said to be pitch black, and the hoarse screams of crows sounded from time to time, mixed with the whistling wind and the rustling of tree branches in the cemetery, which together created a creepy atmosphere.
But after only a slight induction, the muse had already discovered that the concentration of negative energy in the cemetery was extremely low, and the only negative energy was also suppressed in some corners.
After a few more glances, several unusual lines soon came into the eyes of the muse, and along a winding line, the muse looked at a faintly lit hut in the center of the cemetery, which was the hut where the grave keeper was stationed: "There is a large magic circle expelling and suppressing negative energy?"
"Interesting ......"
But that wasn't what the Muse needed to think about, and he quickly shifted his gaze to the marker that represented the entrance to the underground exchange.
Soon, the Muses found this one markerโthe tomb of Lord Horns!
On the surface, this cemetery is no different from the others, just as weathered and old, with several lines of epitaphs carved into the marble tombstones, and in front of the tombstones is a small clearing paved with stone slabs, with a few weeds growing tenaciously from the cracks in the stone bricks.
But after the muse stroked the tombstone that was already a little yellowed, the touch in his hand clearly told him that there were three places that seemed unusually smooth, obviously the result of people from time to time!
After gently pressing down the three anomalous places, the muse retreated to the side of the shadows and waited quietly.
Soon, there was a slight sound of chain mechanism activity underground, and two heavy stone slabs on the ground slowly opened up, revealing a passage that stretched diagonally downward, and the interior was also pitch black, with only a slight light at the end of the passage.
Looking at this narrow and unusual passage, where even taller people had to bow forward, Muse's eyes flickered a few times, there was no doubt that if anything happened in such a passage, the terrain alone was a big limitation.
But after only a moment's hesitation, the muse walked briskly inside, and after a few moments, the two heavy stone slabs slowly returned to their place.
The smell in the passage wasn't great, with a faint smell of decay and the usual dark dampness of an underground building.
In a short time, the Muse came to the end of the light-revealing passageway, and entered another passage, which was much more wide, and the walls were lit up by a number of blazing torches.
But on both sides of the passage, there were also nailed corpses that had been dehydrated and shrunk into a dry corpse, and their facial features were all squeezed together, and it was indescribably creepy at a glance!
Walking through the dried corpses without changing their faces, and after turning a corner, two guards with gloomy faces and fleshy faces, standing in front of a heavy gate made entirely of black iron, appeared in the muse's field of vision, and looking at the muse who suddenly appeared, they had already raised their crossbows in their hands!
Looking at the muse with gloomy eyes, as if to confirm it in some way, one of the guards spoke, "Newcomer?"
"Remember, boy, no matter who you are out there, robbers or nobles, it doesn't mean anything here!"
"The only thing you need to remember is to follow the rules of this underground exchange!"
"Trade in parts, don't try to make any stupid moves!"
"At least in the underground exchange, we guarantee your safety!"
"And those who break the rules of the underground exchange can only be made into dried corpses and nailed to the wall forever, as the best example of warning the next fool!"
At this time, another guard also said in a low voice: "Take out at least 500 gold coins or equivalents to prove that you are qualified to enter!"