Chapter 752: The Rise of the Golden Boy???
As night fell, most of the streets of Ecstasy fell silent.
Originally, there was no curfew in Ecstasy City, but in the past few days, because the gray orcs have a big operation, the control is strict. It still affected the nightlife in Ecstasy to some extent.
In the whole city, except for the big rich and nobles in the upper city, the lights are still bright, and only the big health street in the east of the city is left.
Those large big sword clubs all have a very strong backstage, and they will never go out of business.
And for some people, what gray orcs fight the autumn wind has nothing to do with them. The all-night fun, drunken dreams and death, is the most important thing.
In the dead of night, in an old-fashioned three-story villa on the edge of Uptown, a young man in his twenties descended into a hidden basement with a candle.
Although the young people are dressed as nobles, the nobles will never wear the old clothes of the time, and many nobles will never lose their "decency" if they are in debt.
For the young man is indeed destitute.
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His grandfather used to be an honorary viscount, and although he didn't have a fief, his family had been holding Oliver IV's thigh when they moved their capital to Ecstasy City. Therefore, there are more than a dozen shops and workshops in the city.
But his grandfather is a big loser, not to mention eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and he especially likes some obscene tricks. Very interested in those mysterious items, buy them at a large price.
When his father arrives, he is a little loser again! He likes all kinds of adventures, and he doesn't know anything about running a family business. So I got a lot of messy collectibles back. In the end, he disappeared while participating in an adventure and never returned.
Although this young man also wants to continue to lose, his family has collapsed, and he has no capital to let him lose again. He doesn't even have enough golden dragons to complete the title succession!
Inheriting a title also costs money, just like inheritance tax. He couldn't even take out the three hundred golden dragons!
In order to revitalize the family, he can be regarded as having gone through hardships. But he's not the protagonist in it, so after the second surge of magic some time ago, after determining that he couldn't advance to the bronze official mage, he finally collapsed.
After seven or eight years of hard work, I can only be a mage apprentice who plays tricks and makes some simple alchemy potions for the rest of my life?!
What could be more brutal than that? How hard it used to be, what a blow now!
He drank heavily and gave up everything. I even thought about suicide!
"Even if you die, you are not qualified to enter the kingdom of the God of Magic, right? Hahahaha......"
Then he heard an ethereal voice......
He didn't pay attention at first, after all, he had already developed symptoms such as auditory hallucinations due to days of alcoholism and the reversal of day and night.
But when the sound became clearer and clearer, he followed the sound and looked for it.
"Come here, come to me. If you don't want to be so and inactive, come to me......"
The drunken youth came to him. Because his father and grandfather liked to collect some strange things, this old mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago, is full of hidden compartments and secret rooms.
At first, he thought that there would be something valuable, but he was busy for a few months, sold several boxes of things, and before he could scrape together enough fifty gold dragons, he gave up completely.
This time, however, he followed the sound and opened a dusty basement. Found an ancient book in the compartment of the box!
This heavy black book with an unknown leather cover had clearly been sitting here for some years, and the dust had fallen under a thick layer.
In this dilapidated and old basement, or utility room, the book is unremarkable. After all, there are so many quirky things here.
However, young people know that such objects that can affect people's thinking are definitely not simple.
He's also a mage apprentice who has studied and trained for seven or eight years, and he knows the dangers of this kind of thing, and he will never open it casually like those dirt buns.
In the dusty basement, the dim candle flame flickered without wind, making the shadows cast on the wall constantly change.
The young man finally came to his senses, hurriedly left the basement, and found a lock to lock the basement firmly.
But if the basement can be locked, how should people's hearts be locked?
Two days later, the young man's classmates who had studied together at the Master's Tower came to visit.
Looking at Nuo Nuo Wei in the past, the people who followed him now came to visit him with a hint of pride, and casually "inadvertently" revealed that he had advanced to bronze.
Looking at the students who came together, the school girls who used to admire and be affectionate to themselves have also become reserved.
Pain began to gnaw at the hearts of young people!
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"Ahh No! Looking at the magic experiment that had failed again, the young man could no longer suppress his anger. He swept the utensils from the bench to the ground and rushed out.
He tried to pull himself together, but undoubtedly failed again.
He was drunk again, cursing everything.
"Shit, damn it...... Damn the tide of magic! Why! Why? If, if there is no such surge of magic...... I, I'm ......" He fell to the ground drunk.
The effect of this surge of mana on the caster was huge, and many people were able to advance. But those who fail to advance prove that their talents have been exhausted and they cannot advance through the normal program.
Without this surge of magic, youth might have been able to live a promising few years instead of drinking as much as they do now.
Half-asleep, the young man came to a strange place, a magic laboratory.
From the perspective of a bystander, he watched how an unsatisfactory mage apprentice embarked on the path of a dark wizard!
The mage apprentice was also lacking in talent, and was judged by the mentor to be unable to advance. It wasn't until he later got a copy of the black notebook......
In this dream, the young man knew very clearly the danger of the black notebook, but he was very sure that this notebook would bring strength to him!
Then, he woke up!
After a minute of reflection, he lit the candlestick and went to the basement again.
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"Harry Pottia, twenty-four years old, the last descendant of the House of Borodia, apprentice to the Purple Fire Mage Tower. After eight years of study, it was determined a week ago that I could not advance. The family is in a state of desperation, and has not yet carried out the title succession ceremony......"
The young man, this Harry, looked at the MI7 officer with a blank face as he read his message, very indifferent. Even the broken eyes don't mean anything.
He had retrieved the strange magic book the previous night, and in less than a spell, he was arrested by MI7 men who had stormed the villa.
In this magical world, there are some unconventional means to monitor public safety, and it is also right.
What's more, this is the capital of Nonaway, and it has just erupted into a second surge of magical power. Even if it costs a lot of money, MI7 has to monitor the prophecy magic around the clock.
The vast majority of people like Harry who come into contact with dangerous magical objects or powers are detected and apprehended as soon as possible.
The old mage, with gray hair, put on his magic eyes and a pair of wurm holsters, and carefully examined the black magic book.
After checking it for a long time, he carefully opened it.
He was not careful, after the first surge of magic power at the beginning of this year, five careless colleagues had already died tragically because they were looking at unknown magic items.
After inspecting for a long time, the old mage got up and went to another room.
"My lord, this book is a dark witchcraft book and lab notes. The cover is made of high-grade demon skin, and the content is written with a mixture of human blood and potions. It looks like it's at least 300 years old......"
The one who was called an adult by the old mage was the woman with the code name "Zero". The head of MI7.
On the night of the harvest festival, after the second wave of magic, their work began to get busy.
Most of them are mutated magical creatures, and a small number are evil forces intent on causing trouble. But the most dangerous thing is that such casters or magic items awaken and lose control.
Those strange magical items that had been silent for many years suddenly "came to life", causing a lot of chaos and damage.
There are frequent disappearances in one of the workshops, only to find that an antique teapot has sucked people into it, turning them into a strange liquid......
An antique sword that will make its owner go berserk......
A helmet that allows the wearer to dominate an ordinary person......
A pendant that turns people into a black shadow......
A book that will blind people's eyes......
A mirror that makes the person who shines through gradually lose consciousness......
Who knows what MI7 has become of these days!
In order to avoid causing panic, they also try their best to suppress all rumors!
If it weren't for a few temple handles on the other side of the cemetery, they would have collapsed a long time ago.
But the most dangerous of them is something like today.
For example, just five days ago, a homeless man in a slum picked up a stone mask and turned out to be a ghoul that could absorb human fluids through contact!
If it weren't for MI7's timely dispatch of the trump card, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Even if it was dealt with in time, eighteen people died tragically! Just overnight!
So much so that the rumors are a little uncontrollable!
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"What I want to know is, did this Harry have time to do anything?" Zero asked faintly.
The old mage hesitated and said, "It seems that we arrived in time, this young man has not had time to do anything, and he has not been completely robbed of consciousness......
"Don't talk about it." Zero waved his hand, "I didn't let go of the killing." Shut it up for now! The old mage had no choice but to nod.
That book of dark witchcraft has a special process to seal, but this unlucky young man can only consider himself unlucky.
Harry is dragged like a dead dog by two men to Violet Prison, where dangerous people are kept.
He had no expression or reaction all the way, as if he had lost his soul.
The two jailers threw him into his cell, locked the door and left.
After a long time, Harry suddenly stuck out his tongue and made a "hiss" sound......
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Charlotte had seen it all in the first half of the day.
Because Harry's villa was only more than 500 meters away from Charlotte's residence, it was a neighbor.
In the middle of the night, Charlotte is woken up by Freddy to say that she has spotted an enemy on the minimap.
Then Charlotte found out that something was wrong with the house next door.
But before Charlotte could make a move, MI7 was dispatched. Charlotte even used the thorn vine to see Zero. Of course, he didn't know anyone.
He had heard from Feiluo a long time ago that MI7 was now "fighting fires" everywhere, but he didn't expect to be able to run into it!
Charlotte felt that there would be a lot of tasks in this situation, but she didn't have time to do it.
Wouldn't it be beautiful if you could let the "broilers" do the task and take a cut in the middle through the card insertion machine system?
I just don't know how to contact this secret service......