Chapter 19: An Unexpected Letter
Seeing Morin's energetic appearance, Pike couldn't help but be surprised, in the evening, he was still listless in bed, and there was no sign of improvement in his illness, how could it be that in only half a night, the whole person was completely restored. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Concerned, the baron didn't care about the life sacrifice with a black face on the side, stepped to the side of the bed in two steps, touched the young man's forehead, sure enough, the temperature was normal, and looked at the young man's eyelids, which were still normal, and then pinched the young man's face, Mo Lin screamed in pain, Okay, the force used was a little big, but this reaction was also normal.
It was really strange, the baron glared at the clear eyes of the young man and asked, "Are you well?"
Mo Lin rolled his eyes, seemed to be feeling his physical condition, found that there was nothing abnormal, and replied excitedly: "Okay!"
"Isn't it uncomfortable at all?" asked Pike again.
"It's not ...... at all" Mo Lin just wanted to answer, but he felt a discomfort in his abdomen, and said in a low voice: "My stomach is a little uncomfortable, well, it's quite uncomfortable." β
Baron Pike looked at Morin's face and asked suspiciously, "Hungry?"
"Hmm......" Mo Lin felt it for a long time, and finally nodded affirmatively, thinking that he was really well, and replied excitedly: "It turned out that it was because I was hungry!"
"Ed!" Seeing that little Morin was well, the baron let go of most of his hanging heart, and called out comfortably: "Go and prepare some food for Morin." β
Eddard's answer came from outside the door, and it turned out that he had been waiting outside the door all along.
The baron's smile didn't last long, though, for there was another person in the room.
I said...... I can't go. A low, annoyed, and even slightly angry middle-aged female voice said.
Baron Pike then remembered the existence of a middle-aged woman.
He looked at the life sacrifice that was already obviously dissatisfied with it embarrassedly, and smiled embarrassedly: "Or...... You can help to see why Maureen suddenly had a fever so seriously before, or what sequelae there are so many to prevent it from recurring again in the future. β
The priestess closed her eyes, felt carefully for a long time, and said coldly: "There is no appearance of being sick, and there is no sign of getting sick, this young man is very healthy, in fact, very healthy." After saying that, he walked out of the door, thinking that he had really had enough of this night, he was forcibly pulled from the temple of life to such a far harbor, and he had to wait until tomorrow morning to go back, not to mention the thunderstorm outside, the key is that this young man is obviously very healthy, and this strong nobleman looks like he is teasing himself.
"You can stay here for one night, and then go back to White City tomorrow, and I can ask Ed to prepare a room and come out. The baron cried out, stretching his neck.
"Don't bother, I'll go to the town to find an inn myself, and the next time something like this happens, you just wait to face the temple's accusations......"
After seeing the life sacrifice leave, and having a full meal with Merlin, and making sure that his body was completely recovered, the baron, who felt a little sleepy, stretched and yawned to rest.
Maureen, on the other hand, returned to the house alone, lazily throwing himself on the bed.
He stretched out his right hand and looked at it, and he felt that there was something strange about the ring mark on his middle finger. Just as he was about to take off the ring and take a closer look, he found that wisps of black flames squeezed out from between the ring and his skin, and in the boy's stunned eyes, a black fire-like creature formed in the air.
Probably sensing that there was no one else around, the black fire ran out again very restlessly, just to find that the boy had woken up, so he jumped and swayed in the air with some joy, two slender arms waved excitedly, and the two small green eyes narrowed into a curved curve, which also looked extremely happy.
And Morin looked at the black flame floating in his hand, and his first reaction was: Who is this who is using magic in the room and is going to catch fire!!
The curvy eyes and dark red mouth of the black fire were so unremarkable, and the edges of the two slender arms were also burning, so it was no wonder that the boy took it for an ordinary flame.
He was about to cry out at the thought of Morin, but he immediately noticed that the black flame was floating in the air, not far from his hand, but it didn't feel any burning sensation, and there was nothing in the air to burn. So he leaned closer, stared wide for a long time, and finally confirmed that it was a strange creature, like an elemental creature.
The boy remembered reading about it in a book called "How Much Do You Know About the Order of the Broken World". Most of the order races are multiplied from generation to generation through blood, whether it is elves with high intelligence or beasts or even plants that survive in the mountains. But there's one type of creature that's unique: they're spawned directly from pure elementals, tend to be found where the elemental and magical powers are particularly strong, and develop intelligence over time. This way of giving birth to individuals without reproduction is closer to chaos, but they are particularly close to the Order race, known as elemental creatures.
For example, the fire elemental creature, Morin remembered, looked similar to the thing in front of him - except for the color, the main body of the fire elemental creature was mostly dark red, while the main body of the fire in front of him was pure black.
It turns out that his ink-colored ring marks have always been such a strange creature, the young man thought about it, and took off the silver ring on his fingers, but found that the ink-colored ring marks were still there, only a little lighter in color. However, looking at the traces on his fingers, the boy found that there was indeed a faint connection between himself and the black fire, as if he could vaguely feel the joy of the black fire.
He looked up curiously, looking at the black fire that was happily shaking in midair.
The small green eyes, the dark red mouth line, and the slender two arms, everything seemed so novel.
The boy picked up the corner of the quilt, touched the red and yellow flames on the edge of the black fire, found no scorch marks, extended the contact time for a while, and still did not change, took it back and touched the sheet with his fingers, only a faint warmth, not hot. So he cautiously stretched out his hand, slowly approached the edge of the black fire, gritted his teeth, curiosity still overcame fear, and touched the black fire. Hmm, it seems to feel very good, and the boy can't help but pinch it. The reddish-yellow flame at the edge of the black fire is warm, a little like water to the touch, some like a milk pudding, and the black body in the middle is more elastic, like the soft skin of an animal.
Feeling Morin's touch, Black Fire's slender arm wrapped around the boy's two fingers, and his body began to swing around like a swing in mid-air, having a lot of fun.
"Do you understand me?" Morin asked in a whisper as he brought the black fire to his eyes, staring at the two dark green eyes. He felt the faint connection, but he didn't know how to communicate with the black fireβif it was an elemental creature, it must have enough intelligence to communicate.
Hearing the voice, Black Fire turned his two small eyes to look at Morin, grinning with a dark red mouth, and said nothing else.
"Can you speak, can you make a sound?"
Still nothing.
In desperation, Morin suddenly had an idea, looked at the black fire that used his fingers as a swing, estimated the position of its waist, stretched out a finger and scratched it.
"Chirp...... Chirp ......" Black Fire finally let out a birdsong laugh.
"Tweet ......"
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More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, the season has turned to the height of summer, and although the afternoon sun is blazing, the baron, who is half-lying on the bench under the eaves, is still in a leisurely mood at this time.
Merlin had an extra elemental creature as a pet, and it had come out of the inky ring marks, and Baron Pike was not without worrying about it. The inky ring marks, the baron still remembers, were left by the black aura around Xiao Morin, and the ominous emanence of those black aura makes the baron still hard to forget.
But the black fire was very close to little Morin, and he didn't look malicious at all, but he was quite afraid of others, and the baron gradually let down his vigilance, after all, he only knew so much in the letter, as long as it didn't hurt Morin.
These days, in addition to waiting for the admission notice from the unknown college, what Morin will do every day is to teach Black Fire to speak, but he can't say that he has achieved nothing, but Black Fire's memory is extremely poor, and every time he teaches a word, he forgets another word, and now he can only ...... two words "I, you", and I don't know if I really understand what they mean. However, its voice is very pleasant, and it is as melodious as a song, and whoever listens to it loves it.
"Daddy Pike, did you see Blackie, he doesn't know where he went. Maureen in the courtyard shouted. Xiao Hei is the name that Mo Lin gave to Black Fire, of course, it still can't remember it, and because Xiao Hei has a bad memory, he often forgets the way back after wandering around the house, and he is extremely timid and afraid, so he can only hide in an unknown corner and wait for Mo Lin to find it.
"I don't know, it's not that you don't know its cowardice, it must be in a corner where no one is around. The baron replied as he lay on the bench without opening his eyes.
The place where Xiao Hei often hides in the house has been searched, but still no figure has been found, Mo Lin can only close his eyes and sense it carefully. During this time, the connection between himself and Xiao Hei has become a lot stronger, and he can vaguely feel its general direction, but it takes a lot of energy, even Mo Lin will feel tired.
With the direction in his senses, he turned around and actually found his room, and finally pulled out Xiao Hei from a pile of clothes on a tea table. I saw that his two slender arms were still dragging a magic card, the magic card was not smaller than Xiao Hei, but its dark red mouth was extremely wide, and it was trying to stuff the magic card into its mouth. Suddenly pulled into the air by Mo Lin, as if frightened, a pair of small green eye bones turned anxiously, and the magic card was half stuck in his mouth for a while.
Because when Xiao Hei ate the gray flame before, Morin was still asleep and didn't see it, so he was very curious about this scene. It turns out that elemental creatures also eat, Merlin exclaimed, this is not recorded in detail in the book. But why is that magic card so familiar, wait, isn't that the floating card that Strayer gave him, it is a second-order magic card, at least a hundred gold coins, the young man felt a pain in his heart, and hurriedly reached out to grab the card from Xiao Hei's mouth.
Seeing Mo Lin reaching out to grab his own food, the black fire was in a hurry, he actually overcame the obstacle, stuffed all the magic cards into his mouth at once, and immediately chewed it, the dark green eyes still looked at Mo Lin proudly, and the two slender flame arms waved, signaling that there was no more in his hand, young man, you are too slow.
I don't know what it looks like in Black Fire's dark red mouth, the card made of crystal flakes only chewed a few times and then became silent, and after swallowing a card that is not much smaller than himself, Xiao Hei doesn't seem to have grown bigger at all. It burped as usual, exhaled some imperceptible gray breath, and began to leap and dance in front of Maureen, chirping and singing.
Just ate it like this? One hundred gold coins are gone? The crazy Mo Lin half held Xiao Hei in his hand, how many barbecue meat is enough for me to eat, enough for me to survive my grandfather's punishment for a long time, and you actually ate it all after one meal?! Thinking that the young man was angry for a while, he couldn't help but squeeze Xiao Hei like a water bag, and quickly spit it out for me, spit it out...... The black fire was rubbed by the young man, but stretched comfortably, as if it was just enjoying a massage, feeling the meaning of Mo Lin, its dark red mouth grinned slightly, and spit out a small wisp of orange flame, and at the same time innocently waved his hand, indicating that there was only this, and nothing else.
In the face of Xiao Hei, who is stupid to death, the talented Mo Lin also had to be defeated, and secretly warned himself to keep the magic cards carefully in the future, and he must not let Xiao Hei find a chance to bite again.
At this moment, Morin suddenly heard the voice of the baron in the mansion: "That should be here to deliver the admission notice." β
Hearing this, Morin rushed to the window.
In the dazzling sunlight, a black shadow in the clouds grew rapidly, and after a period of dive and deceleration, it hovered in the air about a man high in the courtyard of the mansion, and its flapping wings whipped up a strong wind - a gargoylee with huge wings and metallic black skin, a messenger of the Academy of Magic.
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