On a summer night in the imperial capital, there will always be a few days when the two jade hooks cannot be seen in the canopy, and the bright stars twinkle in the night sky.

When the carriage stopped at the gate of the courtyard, it was already completely dark, so I jumped out of the carriage and walked through the lawn of the courtyard in three steps and two steps, and came to the door, knocked on the glass window of the door, and called Caterina to bed.

She pushed open the door, looked at me with a look of surprise, and asked me in a low voice, "Jijia, why are you here at this time?" ”

As she spoke, Caterina took me by the arm and walked into the room, she was wearing cool suspender underwear and short-legged pajama pants, her delicate body exuded the breath of youth, her body exuded a faint fragrance after bathing, her fluffy hair was simply tied into a ponytail, and her creamy skin was as smooth as ivory in the dark night.

I lowered my voice and muttered a few words in her ear, and she looked at me with a look of surprise on her face and said, "Really?"

She followed me to the shelf behind the magic caravan, looked at the huge magic sealing box, puffed out her cheeks and blew out, her expression was clearly asking wordlessly: Such a big magic sealing box, Ji Jia, can you lift it?

In fact, I'm not as weak as I seem, and although it was a bit of a struggle, I was still able to lift this sealed box.

With Katarina's help, I unloaded the huge sealed box from the shelves behind the magic caravan, and a trace of ice breath flowed out of the cracks in the sealed box, falling down like a waterfall, and the ice mist disappeared into the air before it reached the ground.

Little Ella stood on the edge of the door wearing white cotton pajamas, rubbing her sleepy eyes, holding a copper candlestick in her hand, stretching her shadow on the wall very long, she looked at the huge demon sealing box curiously, and asked me in a thick nasal voice: "Jijia, what is in the box?"

Together, Caterina and I dragged the Sealed Chest into the house, leaving a deep mark on the lawn.

I took advantage of the gap between gasping for breath and reached out to scratch the little nose of little Ella, who had recently been dressed up like a cute doll by Katarina.

The orc warrior Karantso knows how to fight and how to manage the village, but she is not very good at taking care of her daughter.

The physiognomy of the hybrid between humans and orcs is closer to that of a human, except that there seems to be a trace of an orc in her wild eyes, sharp little tiger teeth and thick curly hair.

I said to little Ella, "There's a sealed elemental spirit inside!"

A small finger touched the ice mist that flowed from the crack in the sealed box.

"Oops, it's so cold!" Ella screamed as she was caught off guard by the icy gas.

Pulling the Sealed Chest into the basement of the house, and with the Space-Shatterer Warhammer in hand, I tried to open the portal in the middle of the basement.

The last time I shipped the magic herbs to Qige's laboratory, there was not much power of thunder and lightning left in my body, and now just a few days later, I controlled the number of times I meditated, not wanting to advance so quickly, and the power of thunder and lightning was not replenished, and a trace of electric arcs in my body was like arcs of electricity along my arms, converging into the war hammer.

It's a pity that before the warhammer was completely lit, because the power of thunder and lightning in the body was exhausted, it was never able to light up those demonic arrays on the warhammer.

The scene in the basement was a bit awkward, and the two beauties, one big and one small, were expecting me to open a portal for them, but unfortunately I failed to try several times in a row, and I sat down next to the sealed box.

It is precisely for this reason that I didn't ask the orc warriors from Xinliu Valley to help carry this cumbersome demon sealing box in advance, but I didn't expect it to work.

Originally, I planned to hide Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit in the underground cave of Xinliu Valley, and there was no safer place than there, but unfortunately, when the power of thunder and lightning in my body was exhausted, I could only temporarily put this demon sealing box in the basement.

So I erected four ice walls on the four walls of the basement, turning the basement into an ice room, and then took out a large bundle of 'Frost Scrolls' from my magic belt bag and placed them in the basement doorway, so that Caterina had to open a 'Frost Scroll' in the basement every day. (The Flame Gathering Scroll and the Frost Scroll, these are the two low-level scrolls I currently have that don't require a spell key, but can activate the magic pattern circle inside by slowly unfolding the scroll.) ）

Then, I pulled a freezing Catalina out of the basement passageway.

Sitting on the sofa in the living room, little Ella had no sleep at this time, she lit the candles on the chandelier on the ceiling in the living room one by one, the soft candlelight instantly filled the whole room, she hugged my arm and asked me curiously: "This box, is it the treasure you stored with us?"

"Sort of!" said to my little Ella.

Caterina came out of the kitchen with the tea tray in her hand, knelt on the soft carpet, and carefully placed the tea tray on the small table in front of the sofa, her gaze as gentle as water.

"Have you eaten dinner?" said Caterina curled the corners of her mouth slightly, and the smile resembled that of Kige.

Maybe the two of them have been together for too long, and Caterina is infected by Kig's uninhibited personality, so she will inadvertently show a Ki-shaped smile.

When Caterina asked, I remembered that I had been so busy all day that I had forgotten to eat dinner. And more importantly, I also released Noah's pigeons, I had made an appointment with Noah to have dinner together, I hope he won't wait too long in the library, look at the dark sky outside the window, if you rush back now, it's obviously too late!

I don't know how Noah will complain to Shirley, but I can't care about it that much now.

......

In the Grimm Empire, the Fire-Gathering Scroll seems to have entered thousands of households.

The cheap fire-gathering scrolls currently sold in the Imperial Capital Market are not the same as the ones I and Qige made in the wasteland, and the scrolls circulating on the market are a little larger, although they also have the property that if the scrolls are re-rolled up, the flames will be extinguished, but no matter the size of the magic sheepskin and the complexity of the magic patterns, they are far beyond the kind of fire-gathering scrolls I draw, and invisibly, it will increase the production cost by a large margin.

Skillfully unfolding the fire scroll and placing it under the stove, red flames came out of it, Caterina skillfully adjusted the wind shield of the stove to make the flame in the stove a little smaller, and skillfully placed a frying pan on the stovetop, cut a piece of butter and put it into the pot.

Later, Caterina found a piece of marinated beef eye in the closet and quickly threw it into the pot, and the moment the beef flew into the hot pan, it made a 'sizzle' sound, and the fat fried the beef, and the aroma filled the room at once.

Little Ella smelled the steak and immediately protested, "Hey, Katarina, it's our breakfast tomorrow morning!"

Caterina turned around and peeled green peas on the kitchen counter, looked at me with a smile, and said to little Ella, "It's okay, I can make an extra wheat cake tomorrow morning!"

Little Ella's expression was a little innocent, and she pleaded with me, "Oh, Giga, you must leave me at least a piece of steak for you, I know that Caterina's steak is delicious, but I boasted to my good friend Marianne at school that I would bring her the best cold steak tomorrow." ”

"No problem!" I promised little Ella.

Little Ella's eyes were bent into crescents.

Life in the imperial capital has unconsciously changed little Ella's outlook on life, before little Ella would never have so many new ideas, she would definitely be happy that I could eat her share of the steak, and now although she still doesn't mind me eating her steak, but at least she still wants to protest to Caterina, and then beg me to leave a piece for her friend.

She started to have a life of her own, and that's exactly what I wanted to see.

I hope that little Ella will be able to blend into the city life of the Empire, and perhaps when she grows up, she will be able to choose whether she wants to live in the city or in the orc village.

The kitchen of this house does not look too big, but a lot of care has been put into the decoration design of each place.

The wall tiles above the sink are inlaid with a Mithril-plated rune metal plate, which is a rune plate engraved with the Magic Pattern of Water Gathering, and above the gem groove in the middle, there is also a small piece of magic crystal fragment suspended, and a copper faucet is connected to the center of the magic circle, and when the faucet is twisted, the small magic crystal fragment will fall into the groove, and then there will be clear water flowing out of the faucet.

Life magic appliances have gradually entered thousands of households, originally these facilities were prepared by magicians for nobles, now due to the continuous decline in cost, the structure of the magic pattern continues to be simplified, and finally the price has dropped to an expected value, but even so, ordinary civilian families still can't afford this high consumption.

Looking at the gemstone grooves on the rune metal plate on the sink, I felt like I had caught something, and I casually took out the two magic books in my waist bag, took out the mysterious scroll sandwiched between the pages, and then put it in my hand to rummage through it and look at it carefully.

Little Ella was standing barefoot on the floor in her pajamas, looked at me curiously, and then asked me curiously, "Jiga, is this a metal rune plate like no other?

A flash of inspiration crossed my mind: Isn't this just a scroll that resembles a rune metal plate?

It's just that the most common thing we usually see is that a thin layer of magic metal is plated on the ordinary metal plate, and then the magic pattern circle is engraved on the magic metal with a carving knife, and the magic pattern circle carved on this magic metal has one of the biggest flaws, that is, the magic line cannot contain mana, that is, this magic pattern circle needs to have a source of mana, continuously provide mana for the metal plate, and the magic pattern circle on the metal plate will operate normally.

The biggest difference between the magic scroll and the rune metal plate is that the magic scroll is a one-time use item, and the biggest drawback of the magic scroll is that the success rate of drawing has been very low.

The Magic Scroll is lightweight and easy to carry, and the Monster Leather and Magic Ink are far less expensive than the Rune Metal Plate.

The rune metal plate is different, although its drawing success rate is also very low, but if you fail in the drawing process, you can also take the rune metal plate back to the blacksmith shop, refine and wash off the upper layer of magic metal, and then plate it with a new layer of magic metal, which can still become a new rune metal plate, and the rune metal plate needs to have magic crystals to maintain the normal operation of the magic pattern circle.

And this mysterious scroll in my hand is completely a nondescript item, it looks like a fusion of rune metal plates and magic scrolls, so there is no benefit at all, obviously this kind of thing will only be an old antique of a certain year, and the current magicians will not match it like this, making gem grooves in the leather, which can only be seen on the magic pattern structure.

Caterina had already put the fried steak on the table, and in the light of the candle flame, the faint burnt marks could not help but make people appetize, and then she put a spoonful of boiled peas in salt water on the plate, and she was not hungry, but when I saw these delicious foods, my stomach began to protest and 'coo'.

I put down the mystery scroll and sat down at the table to enjoy the food that Caterina had cooked for me.

Little Ella sat beside me obediently, she fiddled with the mysterious scroll curiously, she picked up the mysterious scroll in a good way, made a detailed comparison with the water gathering rune metal plate on the pool, put on a curious baby look, and asked me: "Jijia, you see this gem groove is so special, it is much bigger than all the gem grooves I have ever seen, well, bigger than those gem grooves on the axle of the magic caravan!"

Little Ella's words were like an empowerment, and the world in front of me opened a skylight.

I reached for the mysterious scroll and looked closely at the gem-setting groove in the center of it turned out to be a card slot gem base, which looked about the same size as the embedded gem base, but it was able to hold some larger stones.

The magic crystal I put in the gem groove before was just an ordinary magic crystal, as long as I put it on the groove, the magic crystal will immediately fall apart, obviously this magic crystal has not enough magic power to urge the magic pattern on the mysterious scroll, so I tentatively increased the chips, repeatedly filled the magic crystal, but those magic crystals inlaid on it, are like a stone sinking into the sea, disappearing into the invisible, so that I have lost confidence in this mysterious scroll.

But now it seems that the reason why I have not succeeded is mostly because the quality of the magic crystal I took out is not enough, after peeling off the magic core, the ordinary magic crystal is almost the size of a walnut. With this in mind, I reached out and pulled out a fist-sized black crystal from the skull of the Spider-Man Overseer from the purse of my magic fanny pack, and looked at the mysterious scroll on the table with some uncertainty in my eyes......