Chapter 26: The Grey Courtyard
"Wow, the golem has spoken!"
Bellinglith stared at the steel golem who claimed to be a mechanical mage, and the words of surprise once again involuntarily leaked out of her mouth - but her meaning was not expressed properly, because the golem could indeed speak, as long as the mage who created the golem had no technical defects, and also hoped that the golem she created had the ability to speak.
What really surprised the little girl was that the man named Abel was completely autonomous in his words, proving that he had an independent sense of personality. She heard the black cat named Soros claim to be a mage's pet, and then thought that the machine man standing in front of everyone was actually controlled by the spellcaster behind the cat pet.
The mechanical mage named Abel couldn't see through what the little girl was thinking. Bellingis's exclamation only caused it to briefly shift its gaze to it for a moment, then raised its gaze again, as if to make sure that it had not recognized the wrong person, and spent a few seconds observing the group in silence, and then spoke again, facing the Thorn Squad's pleas in a respectful tone:
"Dear Mentor, I have successfully met your guests, now please guide us to your courtyard."
It said, but it was not asked for any of Urs' group.
Urs looked at it from a distance between them, and felt as if it was speaking to the air...... As for the name Abel, the self-introduction of the machine man made him immediately recall a memory in his impression after a moment of surprise, and that memory told him that this machine man mage was the apprentice of the sage of the gray court!
Yes—the magical apprentice of the Grey Court Sage Yustina, the legendary mage.
However, it is naturally inappropriate to use the title of "magic apprentice" to call it, because Abel's spell-casting ability has long surpassed the scope of magic apprentices, not only has he mastered the spell-casting skills and magic knowledge of formal mages, but also has completed the career advancement of formal mages, and the total level of characters in the Year of the Candle is about 21~23.
Similar to Grolayden and Stonefist, it is also an NPC character with a personal story and quest chain in the game's world, and players in the Castaño game world have a certain chance of encountering it on the Limestone Peak, and even invite it to accompany them if certain conditions are met.
Urs knew many things about Abel.
And the black cat named Soros is its magic pet.
Soros was able to separate himself, and the black tom was quietly prostrate on the man's shoulder, his gold and green eyes blinking at his dark face.
In the next second, this scene on the mountain road seems to have been added with a layer of invisible filter, and the lens of the picture has changed from color to gray as a whole.
Gray symbolizes stagnation under the laws of the world. Time has stopped, space has also stopped, and the two sides who meet on the mountain road freeze in this stagnant picture, and the hazy fog then disperses like a curtain of magic.
The scene seems to have undergone a complete transformation in an instant—the misty mountain path of the limestone peak has disappeared, the ground beneath everyone's feet has become a flat brick corridor, and the surrounding mountain rock walls and roadside cliffs have completely disappeared as if they had woken up from a dream, and have been replaced by some elegant carved buildings, flowers and trees.
The color is then restored on each person's body. Everyone stood on the pavement of that corridor, except for Abel and Soros, as well as Urs, who had expected this a little, and the other members of the Thorn Squad all looked around in unison, looking at each other.
Bellinglith blinked her big eyes, the curiosity in her eyes matched the words in her mouth: "Oh my God, was that a large space spell just now?" What type of teleportation? Or is it an illusion of venue scale? It's amazing! ”
"Thank you for the compliment, sweet little girl." Suddenly, another woman's voice calmly came from behind them, "But the spell just now is neither teleportation nor illusion, but just your arrival at the designated entrance, and I will open a door to this place for you." ”
The voice was gentle, with a girlish softness and an indescribable wisdom in it, as well as an underlying majesty.
Everyone turned around in unison, and immediately saw the lady who had also appeared in the corridor of the court at some unknown point. Her face looked as young as Thea and Dorothy, her friendly smile adorned with an approachable beauty, her long gray hair cascading like a gentle waterfall almost to her ankles, her fair skin framed her graceful figure under a long tuxedo-like shawl dress, and a wooden-handled staff with a jeweled halo at the tip obediently held in her right hand and erected on the floor of the corridor at her feet.
"What a beautiful big sister!" The little dwarf girl looked at her, and her round eyes couldn't help but reveal a look that wanted to praise her.
At the same time, the agency man named Abel waited for the little girl's words to fall, leaned forward with his right shoulder, bowed his forehead, and bowed to her silently.
The long-haired lady in the black dress kept a smile on her face, her gentle gaze calmly roamed over the faces of the team, reading the confusion and nervousness of the group about coming to this strange and strange place, and then continued to explain: "I know that you must have many questions in your mind, but please don't worry, because I am the one you are looking for. ”
"Are you ......?" Thea looked at her, subconsciously maintaining her politeness in her tone.
"Yustina." The lady nodded calmly, "That's the Grey Court Sage that Victor told you." ”
She was deliberately silent, as if leaving time for everyone to be surprised.
The silence lasted for a few seconds in the gray courtyard corridor. Urs had already reacted, and had let his guard down, knowing that the object of his group's search was indeed standing in front of him, even though the legendary sage, a famous legendary mage, was only a young human girl in any way, as if he had not been tested by the years at all.
This may not be in line with the image of a sage in the impression of ordinary people.
In addition to the young people, everyone in the Thorn Squad did subconsciously think that at this moment, it was better for Xia to look at everyone again, and then continue to ask cautiously on behalf of the team: "Then ...... this place?"
"Gray Courtyard." The Sage Lady named Feather Tina answered the wolf-eared girl's question, "My abode, to explain, is also part of the main material plane, but it is different from the normal location of the main material plane, specifically, it is probably a ...... in the subdimensional space between time and space" ()
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