Chapter 10: The City of Ice
I saw that the lake seemed to have a shape, rising from the surface of the water, and the translucent river water glowed with warm reflections under the illumination of street lamps, light ice blue, and silver light in the corners. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info immediately after, the flowing water and the surface of the lake, quickly shrouded in a thin ice armor, like a tightly structured ice sculpture toy, an invisible big hand, quickly using river water and ice chips as materials, to build their own majestic structure.
It is a fortress-like box-like castle with a height of about 30 meters and a horizontal area of about 2,000 square meters, with the shape of a medieval castle, but each piece of ice armor is faintly glowing with water, and the translucent structure can vaguely confirm what the people inside are doing......
Even Archer, who didn't know much about magic, knew that this must be the magician's workshop!
It's just that what she didn't expect was that there was actually this type of magic workshop!
Generally speaking, even if a magician's workshop can change the internal structure, it cannot change the external structure...... It is unheard of for a magic workshop like Abner, who hides in the water during the day and reveals himself at night under the guidance of magic!
In fact, it's not an easy thing to do.
However, Abner was a genius.
If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have succeeded to the throne of the Winifred family at such a young age. Even if it is only a weak crown year, but it is more excellent than the previous lord who studied the magic path and inherited the seal, for the better development of the family, the previous patriarch chose to let Xian, hoping that the talented magician can exonerate the family mark more.
Moreover, Abner is good at the magic of water attributes, especially [precision operation], and it is no exaggeration to say that this is a construction worker who is good at using water to frame things. In particular, he also studied fluid mechanics to assist his own operating force, although there are many people who study science in the clock tower, but if you really want to talk about the operation of water attributes, I am afraid that even the magicians of the older generation of the clock tower have to sigh: the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the new people replace the old people.
For the operation of water, Abner can even be accurate to dispatch every water molecule in the entire river, and he is proficient in modern science, he can use the characteristics of flowing water to build his own magic workshop anywhere in the river with the least effort, and with the reinforcement of Rune's magic words, he can quickly combine a powerful magic workshop.
Therefore, although EBNER's workshop looks like a disposable workshop, it is fundamentally different.
With a magic workshop of this level, the benefits obtained are not worth spending so much mana at all.
The workshop is a place where magicians use to lay magic preparations, and to put it bluntly, it is similar to a modern research institute, no matter what kind of research is done, test tubes, potions, etc. can be quickly prepared. However, if you spend all the funds in order to buy a research institute, it will be more than worth the loss.
So what did EBNER do...... It's shocking.
Before he came to Qianxi, he had already investigated all the water conservancy here, and in addition to the fact that it was close to Beijing, the capital of China, and the ancient capital stood on the dragon vein, Abner used water as a medium to lay this whole river as his magic workshop! In other words, as long as he was in any part of the river, he could easily obtain the magic of the dragon veins flowing in the flowing water, and gather on his workshop.
In this way, it is possible to bypass the disadvantage of the huge consumption of disposable workshops.
That's why EBNER doesn't mind if his workshop is discovered. Because this is a disposable consumable, just like a disposable paper cup, in addition to drinking water, people often use it to fill things or extinguish cigarette butts, because it is cheap.
Albert didn't mind if his workshop was discovered.
Because, any corner of the river can become his workshop.
Such a workshop is useless in terms of defense, and the magic power in an open palace is easy to disperse, and it is impossible to gather magic power to place traps and defensive works.
But...... If it is only used as a [Mana Furnace], then the entire artificial river will flow through this fortress to provide Albernar with mana......
Quite a terrible supply of mana.
I see...... Lohia tried her best to suppress the consternation in her heart, allowing the lemon smell to spread in her lips, and she turned back to see the reaction of the people in the shop. But the men and women here are just focused on themselves......
Don't?!
Archer Lohia understood immediately......
This is probably a kind of [avoiding people magic].
Let the pedestrians ignore all the action on this river...... Or maybe it's a big illusion that makes them think it's still the river they know it is......
Lohia quickly turned her gaze, no longer staring at the castle, but pretending to be waiting for someone, looking around with an anxious look.
Presumably, what Abner meant was that whoever paid attention to the castle could determine who was not affected by magic, and who was the one with magical powers.
Then, I can only try my best to disguise my innocence.
Archer didn't mean to snipe him.
archer's Noble Phantasm is only of C level, which is just an ordinary weapon that can work on servants, and it doesn't even have the ability to liberate his real name, so it's impossible to snipe Ebner inside the castle.
Moreover...... If he is so swaggering, someone will definitely notice him and challenge him. No archer hands-on required. As the saying goes, the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear, as long as you stand from an outsider's point of view, many things will become very clear. Waiting for work and bringing back as much information as possible is the job of a spy.
Even if no one comes to challenge, you can analyze the character and habits of other combatants.
Thinking about this, Archer continued to safely disguise herself as a girl who was anxiously waiting for her boyfriend, and tasted her milk tea safely in the store with the righteous indignation of "Why hasn't that kid come yet!
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As the night darkens, the night light replaces the skylight as the dominant hue in the field of vision. No one was surprised by the castle in the water, and it seemed that EBNER's precautions were in place.
He is a first-class magician.
As the night wore on, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the streets, and after ten o'clock there was hardly anyone hanging out outside. The reason is very simple, the reason why everyone chooses Shallow Creek is that [slow pace] can [enjoy life], and people who enjoy life will definitely not hang out so late.
Even if you enjoy nightlife, you can already sit at your favorite bar or take your favorite girl to your favorite hotel...... How is that possible?
However, Arhcer's hard work has finally paid off.
I don't know when, a pitch-black figure quietly entered Lohia's field of vision.
Needless to say, that's the servant of ASSASSIN, Hattori Hanzo.
Both servants have the ability to "breath break" that makes it difficult for enemies to see, and can easily hide themselves in the crowd. But this ability is also meaningless to themselves. Although they can't track each other magically, they can see and notice each other with the naked eye.
Perhaps believing too much in his own ability to block his breath, the Assassin walked leisurely towards the water ice city of Abner.
In the bubble tea shop, Archer keenly disguised himself as an anxious girl and successfully escaped the Assassin...... Or rather, the Assassin was so preoccupied with the Ice Castle that he didn't pay attention to his surroundings.
Even if he looked around, it was useless, because Archer also possessed the ability of [Stealth Action], which could hide his magic, and in the eyes of the Assassin, Lohia was just an ordinary girl.
And Lohiya did confirm the posture of the Assassin during the battle, but at that time, Lohia was wearing that green robe......
(Let me see how the Servant of the Assassin Rank fight?)
With this in mind, Archer skillfully used his vision to pay attention to the Assassin's actions.
The man in his nightcoat made his way through the crowd quickly, and then he stepped into the frozen river, his dark figure contrasting with the pale white ice walls. He quietly approached the door, and then ......
I saw him pinching a seal from both hands, a cloud of green smoke surged, the smoke and dust dispersed, and the figure of the assassin had vaguely appeared in the ice wall!
Ninjutsu!
If it weren't for the fact that the two were in a hostile position, Archer really wanted to applaud him, he really deserved to be a ninja, and he was deified and continues to be deified by animation and film and television. It's really quite an ambitious approach.
At the same time, the Assassin had infiltrated the Ice Castle, and without touching any of the mechanisms, he quietly approached Abner's room in the middle of the castle.
In the magician's workshop, a strict security system is usually installed, but unfortunately, in this special terrain, the magic spread of the magic used for defense is too serious, which is equivalent to telling the other party that there is a trap. As long as you know where the trap is, it's easy not to step into it. In addition, Albert was not prepared to use it as a long-term stronghold from the beginning, and he was happy to relax, and did not apply a defensive alert system at all, but just made some random mechanisms, symbolically expressing the concept of "this is a workshop".
The assassin gave full play to the agility of the A-rank, skillfully stepping on the gap between the mechanisms, like a juggler, easily put it in unscathed, and quietly approached EBNER's mattress.
On the bed made of ice chips, the blonde-haired, white-skinned magician rested peacefully as if he were asleep. Unaware of the fact that the Assassin was approaching, he was still wearing the gray suit of the day, and his whole body looked like a corpse waiting to be buried, his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed.
(What a stupid thing to do.) )
(Dare to sleep like this before eliminating the Assassin?)
The Assassin laughed at the magician's innocence, although it was a good thing to have courage, but it was too unscrupulous. Look at the strong mountain-strong heroic spirit, squatting against the wall in the corner of the wall, the clothes on his body have long been changed into golden armor and crimson cloak, the hard muscles as rock stretch out, hugging his knees, in the gap in his body, the spear pierces through, resisting his shoulder. Looks like he's closing his eyes.
(You trust your servant too much.) )
Thinking so, the Assassin quietly pulled a short knife out of his bosom. Although there was a convenient way to throw flying props, considering the huge shield of the Heroic Spirit, the Assassin decided not to gamble, he had already caused a mistake to the master, and he must not come back a second time.
After all, the special skill of the assassin level [Breath Blocking] is an ability that will have a thin sense of existence without revealing the killing intent. That's right, [not revealing killing intent] This is the premise. Even after reaching the A level, the assassin still hasn't been able to release a murderous aura without attracting attention.
Therefore, it is necessary to get close to the point where it is useless to be discovered.
He quietly cut close to Ebner's body, the whole person straddled Ebner, raised the blade high with both hands, and under the encouragement of B-level power, the back of his hand jumped violently, and the sharp short knife stabbed at the magician's peaceful sleeping face!!