69. Interrogation
A drop of water fell from the roof of the cave and threw it into a small puddle the size of a palm on the floor of the cave, making a soft 'ding dong' sound.
A cave wall lizard panicked and disappeared into a crack in the rock at the top of the cave.
It was a natural cave of less than ten square meters, and the dwarf Bernd transformed it into a prison cell, with an iron fence at the doorway and two iron rings on the rock wall inside the cell, which protruded from the stone wall to lock the prisoner's hands to the stone wall.
On the other side of the stone wall, a wooden bracket stretched diagonally, on which was placed a copper basin, which was filled with whale oil, and on the edge of the copper basin revealed a wick the size of a bean grain, and a flame the size of a thumb that kept beating on the wick, giving the cell a touch of light.
Two Dark Magic Hermitage mages were tied to a cross in the interrogation room, their clothes stripped of their bodies, their hands locked in iron hoops, their thin bodies hanging from the walls, their arms dislocated from the long hanging, their mouths stuffed with rags, their eyelids drooping, and they seemed to be in a coma.
I think it's these two mages who have the ability to self-hypnotize themselves and put themselves into a state of slumber in order to save their bodies from suffering.
And the reason why the orc warriors stripped these two mages of their clothes was not to humiliate them, but to prevent them from having magical space items such as magic belt bags.
Their hands were locked in iron rings on the stone wall to prevent them from drawing magic patterns with their hands.
A rag was stuffed in their mouths to prevent them from secretly chanting magic spells.
Some alternative magic does not need the magic pattern circle and magic spell to coexist at the same time to release the magic effect, regardless of whether there is such a magic skill in the black magic, in short, since we brought it back to Xinliu Valley, these two evil mages have no reason to escape.
The leather boots made a crisp 'click' sound when they stepped on the rocky floor.
Guarding the door of the cell were two elderly natives of Hierro, perhaps because of the tempering of the years, their eyes were like ancient wells, and the oil paint patterns painted on their faces seemed to have lost their vivid colors, and those colorful black veins had been deeply imprinted on their skin and had become a part of their bodies.
Karantso stepped forward and asked one of the old natives to open the door to the cell, and I stepped into it, perhaps sensing someone entering, and one of the mages slowly awoke from his stupor, a groan of pain came from his mouth, and he opened his dull eyes, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
"You don't seem to know what kind of organization you're messing with, young man!" he said, struggling with every word.
Probably because he had to endure the pain in his body, he spoke with a trill.
"Is there anything else besides the Dark Magic Retreat?" I took a step forward, standing in front of the awakened mage, looking up at his slightly distorted face, perhaps because of the emaciation, his face was a little long, because his whole body was hanging from the stone wall, and he didn't even dare to take a deep breath, because that would make his body rise and fall violently, and pull his dislocated arm even more violently.
I stared at the black eyes of the mage and said to him, "Since I was seven years old, a mage in the Dark Arts Retreat has been haunting me. Hmph, since it has fallen into my hands, you should now think about it, not how to intimidate me, but how to go to hell without pain. β
His black pupils shrank slightly, and it was obvious that at this moment, he had a lot of mood swings.
Seeing that I was strong-willed, I knew that I would not be easily persuaded by him. So he slowly closed his eyes and began to self-hypnotize, allowing himself to fall into a coma, so that he could block the perception of many pains in his body.
I stretched out a finger and quickly drew a simple pale blue magic pattern circle in front of him, and as the short incantation came out of my mouth syllable by syllable, the "hydrotherapy" took shape in my hand, and a blue glow fell on the top of his head, and with the sound of "rustling", countless water elementals began to repair his body.
The advantage of 'hydrotherapy' is that it can quickly repair the injury, but at the same time, the disadvantage is obvious, when treating the injured, it will cause a huge pain, so after my 'hydrotherapy' is used on this evil mage, although the 'hydrotherapy' can quickly repair the damage to his body, but at this moment, it also brings him great pain.
'Ahh
A scream.
He suddenly woke up from his self-hypnosis, and his eyes suddenly welled up with resentful resentment, staring at me deadly.
"You're so poisonous!" the hoarse voice sounded like the roar of a one-horned demon crawling out of hell.
"Perhaps, this level of punishment is nothing to you!" I said to the mage.
A swirling balloon of water appeared in the palm of my hand, and I walked to his side with the balloon in my hand, a hint of fear in his eyes.
I stood in front of him, smiled at him, and said, "Hehe, yes, how can this be a punishment, this is healing magic!" This water magic skill can make your body recover quickly. β
"What exactly do you want to know?" the mage yelled at me, gritting his teeth.
"I want to know the secret of the 'Demon's Blood'!" I said slowly.
"'Demon's blood'??On the Roland Continent, it is a rare magic material, which can be configured with a 'magic catalysis' potion, this magic potion can instantly increase the magic level, but it also has some side effects, after often using the 'magic catalysis' potion, it will form a sense of dependence on this magic potion, and this primary magic potion, for more than one turn of magicians, there is no effect of increasing the magic level. The evil mage spoke quickly, and it seemed that he was very familiar with the 'demon's blood'.
I think maybe he's a potions master, and what he's talking about 'demon's blood' is something that can be ready in the library.
I said to him with a relaxed face, "It seems that you know a lot about the 'Demon Blood', but I don't know what you think of the 'Rococo Flower' potion?"
β...... How do you know about the 'Rococo Elixir'?" he asked me with a look of surprise on his face.
I clenched my hands into fists, put them to my mouth and coughed lightly: "Ahem, please note that in the current situation, I am the one who asks the question, and you are only the one who answers!"
With that, I glanced at Karantso beside me, and Karantso understood my eyes at once, and she walked up to the evil mage and punched the evil mage in the lower abdomen.
The mage hanging from the wall struck Karantso with a solid fist, and the sharp pain made his face twist extremely, and his body became a prawn on the wall, spitting out some bile from his stomach.
"The 'Rococo Elixir' is a potion that can temporarily increase the magic level of a mage by more than one turn, and it can be said that it is an upgraded version of the 'Mana Catalysis' potion. The mage said to me with his eyes closed, enduring the great pain in his body.
Then he began to say, "If you don't believe what I say, I can make you a vial of this potion with my own hands, and if you can find some vials of 'demon's blood', I can offer you a vial of this incomparably magical potion." β
I knew he was lying, but I pretended to be curious, and then asked him, "What is that 'Shadow Body' potion?"
"Shadow Body?As the name suggests, as soon as you look at this potion, you know that taking this potion will increase your resistance to shadow magic for a short time!" The evil mage began a new round of fooling me, and it seemed that he decided that I didn't know anything about potions, and it was impossible for me to know the effects of these two magic potions.
When he had finished speaking, he suddenly looked up and saw Caterina standing beside me, and there was a look of contempt in Caterina's eyes.
Suddenly, as if I had figured out that the fundamental intention of my two questions was to test him, in fact, I already understood the functions of these two potions.
He sighed softly, knowing that his lie had been exposed, so he quickly closed his mouth and remained silent.
"Help me put him down, probably this mage of the Dark Arts Cult of Extraordinary Origins has not yet realized what he is about to face, and death may not be the end of the tribulation, hehe!" I said to the Hiero natives who were guarding outside the cell.
With that, I pulled out a crystal bottle the size of nail polish from my magic fanny pack, put it in my palm, and placed it in front of him.
When he saw the crystal bottle, he was still a little confused.
But when he saw the light blue bubbles surging in the crystal bottle, his face turned pale all of a sudden, and he asked me with some uncertainty, "Is this the 'Rococo Flower' magic potion?"
As he spoke, the Hierro native climbed up the ladder and untied the iron ring from his wrist, and the mage lost his hands and fell off the rock wall at once, and fell to the rocky ground, knocking him to pieces, and he got up from the ground with difficulty, his arms hanging weakly at his sides.
"I'm going to show you some interesting things, and I hope they will make you more honest!" I said to the mage.
There was a look of determination on his face, and he no longer communicated with me, but his eyes fell on the 'Rococo Elixir', and he was a little unable to extricate himself.
Instead of attaching his dislocated arm, Karantso let a Gerro native help him by his side, and so we walked out of the cell, through a long cavern, into the weaving workshop filled with the disgusting smell of sour stomach juice, and watched as the giant spiders, driven by the spinning wheel, kept spouting silk and making a 'hissing' shrill cry from time to time.
Each giant spider that had lost eight spider legs was like a giant meat dumpling, trapped in an iron cage, unable to move at all, looking very disgusting, and dozens of Yaro indigenous women were struggling to shake the spinning wheel, and were reeling silk at a rapid pace.
The evil mage's eyes lit up slightly when he saw that the demonic spider silk was actually made in this way, and then, he was a little confused, and he couldn't figure out why I had brought him to the silk reeling workshop, and showed him such a very magical silk reeling process, and along the way, he always looked at me with a completely puzzled gaze.
I took him to the innermost cave of the silk reeling workshop, where there were more than a dozen corpses of goblin slaves, the corpse of a goblin slave was strung on an iron chisel by two strong men of the Gerro natives, and set up on a spinning wheel, at first it kept rotating, countless white spider silk wrapped the goblin into a white silk cocoon, making a mummy-like goblin silk cocoon, and then a giant spider obediently stretched out the sharp tubular mouthparts from its mouth, pierced into the white silk cocoon without hindrance, injected some toxins that can corrode everything, and then the Yerro natives skillfully hung the goblin silk cocoon on the cave wall on the sideγ
I pointed to the silk cocoons on the wall and said to the evil mage, "These goblin silk cocoons on the wall are all food for these big guys. β
The mage stared at the goblin cocoons in disgust, his face turning pale, as if he already knew what was about to happen to him.
"I heard that if you are poisoned by acid in a silk cocoon, your soul will always be trapped in the silk cocoon, and your life will not be reincarnated!" I said to him nonchalantly.
I said, "In a moment, you can feel how much pain it will cause when that giant mouthpart is inserted into your body!"
The evil mage's legs were weak, and if it weren't for the help of the native of Hierro, he would have fallen in the silk reeling workshop.
When this evil mage heard that I was going to make him into a silk cocoon, and then let the giant spider see him eat it, the evil mage's already loose spiritual world completely collapsed, and he looked at me with a look of despair.
"Tell me, what do you want to know, so that I don't have to be the food in the mouths of these giant spiders!" the mage said to me, looking at me with a look of despair.
"I'm glad you were able to come to your senses before you turned into a silk cocoon, and I wonder: why did you catch Justus?" I said to the numb mage with a faint smile on my face.
He didn't expect me to ask him this, and he froze in place for a while.
"Of course, you're not in a hurry to say the answer right away. "I said to the mage.
Then I said to the natives of Hiro, "Take him to a stone chamber, give him a moment, think about it, but be careful not to let this magician escape!"
I said to Karantso proudly, "Let's go and persuade his companions, and I'm sure he will give me a satisfactory answer when he sees these big guys!"
Sure enough, when the other mage heard that I was going to feed him alive to the spiders, he also showed a look of despair, and after some struggle, finally decided to tell the truth about the matter.
I separated the two mages and listened to them tell the secrets about Justus......