Chapter 214: The Treasure of Lange (I)

"Dean, is it really okay to entrust such an important matter to Mr. Edric?"

Madame Lauren looked at the hole in the darkness and still bubbling with a faint blue light on the painting, and the wrinkles on her face seemed to be squeezed together, and asked Bruno, who was also staring at the entrance of the cave beside her.

In the old woman's opinion, although Xiwei does have a strength that is difficult for ordinary middle-level magicians to achieve, she is still too young after all. In many cases, for the exploration of ancient ruins, the biggest discoveries are not those powerful wilderness magicians, but the academic magicians who enter the ruins after that.

Although the profession of magician is very talented, personal effort is also indispensable. Lady Lauren's strength and adaptability in actual combat made Mrs. Lauren sure that he must be the kind of radical who constantly improves through actual combat - in fact, most of the traveling mages are the same as Sivi, focusing on actual combat rather than theory.

And the non-stop actual combat is bound to take a lot of time, plus meditation, connection, and magic learning, I'm afraid there won't be much time left for Sivi to learn some other things, so in places like ruins, it should be difficult for him to find useful things without systematic learning.

It is for this reason that Mrs. Lauren said these words to express her concern.

However, this old woman who is close to her ears naturally doesn't know the way, in fact, Xiwei has the plug-in of the academy system, and the relics in the miscellaneous studies are already lv3......

"Since we called him, we must give him a corresponding degree of trust."

Bruno, on the other hand, looked very composed, and out of nowhere he pulled out a small square table and chaise longue, and sat down on it with a big grin, making himself tea in a teapot that also appeared out of nowhere.

"Besides, do you have any choice but to believe in him now?"

Rather than being caught by the Mage Association, it is better to pin your hopes on Xiwei, who knows the roots.

Moreover, they did not have excessive expectations for this treasure in the first place, knowing that Bruno himself was a great magician. Even if you look at the Pan-Human Race Unification Alliance, there are a few powerhouses, unless there is really a legendary 'mage Krapach' in it? Lange's Mage's Codex, otherwise whatever the treasure is. It won't have any effect on him. And to be honest, he didn't think that the Legendary Great Mage would put all his life's experience and comprehension in one treasure.

"Well, I'm taught, but I'm a little too reckless." Mrs. Lauren wasn't the kind of dead eye, either. Immediately accepting Bruno's explanation, she nodded to Bruno and reflected.

"It's okay, anyway, we just need to be patient...... Do you want a cup of Darjeeling? ”

Bruno stroked his beard and drank black tea leisurely. He also shook the black tea jar on the side to Mrs. Lauren, and asked ostentatiously, "In the seventh year, the tea cake produced by Polofel is good."

"Well, Lord Dean, black tea is different from red wine, and it's not like the longer you leave it, the better."

After thinking about it for a while, Lady Lauren said to Bruno: "Darjeeling in seventy-seven years is probably already moldy. ”

Then she heard the sound of Bruno's tea spraying......

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An object slammed to the ground with a muffled thud. It is especially striking in the dark and silent environment.

After a while. Sivi got up from a pile of plants that didn't know what they were, rubbing his sore waist as he opened his eyes wide and tried to survey his surroundings.

After breaking into the trapdoor panel, Sivi found that the magical elements inside were in a strange state. To put it nicely, it's stable, and to put it badly, it's lifeless. There is no trace of vitality at all.

It is precisely because of this that Xiwei is completely unable to grasp the wind element. In the more than a minute of falling, he couldn't even use the levitation technique, and he barely slowed down the falling speed after the last minute. And smashed here like a human cannonball.

There is not a glimmer of light underground, and I'm afraid that even felines who are good at night vision can't see anything ugly in this kind of place.

So he could only try to separate the fire element from the magic element in the air that had stabilized to the point that it was almost a puddle of mush, and unleashed a ring of fire elemental magic whirling flame arrows.

The flames, which were half smaller than normal, suddenly illuminated the place where Sivi was.

It was like an underground mausoleum, with a pitch black ceiling, but it was definitely more than five or six meters high, and you couldn't even see where the trapdoor panels were, and the surrounding walls were full of cracked stone walls.

There were murals on the walls, but the color had faded, and many clusters of crystals about the size of a thumb could be seen in the places where many of the cracks were. In addition, many unrecognizable vines and plants are also scattered throughout the tunnel, and the dark green vines and palm-sized leaves not only do not add much greenery to the tunnel, but also give people a sense of oppressive terror.

However, if it weren't for the fact that there were many of these vines growing as a buffer in the place where Xiwei fell, I'm afraid he would have to be on the ground for a long time before he could get up.

The range of the firelight is very small, only about seven or eight meters around Xiwei, and beyond this distance, everything will be swallowed up by the darkness and become extremely unreal.

It was dark on both sides of the tunnel, and it was completely unsure which way to go, so after making a mark on the spot, Sivi chose a random direction and walked forward with the Whirling Flame Arrow.

Sivi walked very carefully, for fear that a Minotaur would suddenly burst out or something. But it turned out that he was still too worried, and walked for a long time in the labyrinthine criss-crossing tunnels, let alone monsters, not even rats and cockroaches could see a single one.

Considering it's only a half-plane, it's not incomprehensible.

After letting go of the doubts in his heart and just maintaining the necessary vigilance, Sivi traveled much faster than before.

Then, just as he was about to be stunned by the labyrinth that didn't make much difference anywhere, he suddenly found a huge iron door somewhere in the labyrinth.

The huge arched iron door with double doors was covered with rust marks, and Sivi tried to push it after carefully confirming that there was no magic attached to it, only to find that even with all his strength, the iron door did not move, and it seemed to be completely rusted......

Then Sivi used the mage's hand again, and increased the output level to the extent that even a car could easily lift the door, but to his surprise, the iron door still did not appear to loosen in the slightest.

This also made Sivi die of the idea of opening the door gently, directly replaced it with a magic blunt strike, and began to bombard the gate with this magic known as the 'battering ram'.

Of course, because it's still underground. Sivi couldn't really open it all his might, and just turned up the magic power to the maximum without asking - in case the door hadn't been opened yet, the tunnel wouldn't be able to withstand the impact first. It's a lot of fun when there is a cave-in, he doesn't liquefy the earth or the magic that survives underground like wall-piercing......

Even if the power of the magic is controlled, every time you hammer the iron door, a lot of rubble will fall from the ceiling. Let Sivi be scared.

Fortunately, the iron gate itself was not as strong as expected, and just as Sivi was considering whether to burn it with the Radiant Flame, the iron door let out an overwhelmed groan and was smashed open by a blunt blow of magic.

Inside was a large and huge room, which made Xiwei, who had been wandering around the tunnel for a long time, suddenly have a feeling of being a bright village.

There were a lot of round pieces of metal piled up in the room. However, because water was dripping from the ceiling, the metal pieces that were piled directly on the ground were already rusted.

Even so, Sivi pulled out a few barely intact ones from inside.

It is cast with a coat of arms similar to that on the trapdoor panels, and it also has the coat of arms of the Julian Empire - a slight departure from today's coat of arms, but still recognizable.

In terms of material, it must have felt like a small amount of gold mixed into the ferroalloy.

Apparently, it was a black gold coin minted by a member of the Lange family who owned a fiefdom in the Middle Ages.

This amount of black gold would have been a great fortune at the time, but it is clear that it is nothing more than a worthless metal containing trace amounts of gold......

Looks like this should be a treasure.

Sivi looked at the mess in the room. There is a subtle sense of emptiness in my heart.

It's like trying to get through a maze in a game. Outside the last boss room, the blood and demons are replenished and filled with various states, morale is high, and the fighting spirit rushes in, but the boss doesn't see it, but the creator list jumps out directly......

I knew that Lu Dao didn't spare his hand on the side of the trapdoor panel, and directly started to bomb the troll!

Skip the black gold coins that take up a lot of space in the room. Sivi found some more magic weapons in the room, but unfortunately except for a few with anti-rust enchantments. Other weapons and armor have been left in this dark and damp place for so many years, and they have long since rusted to the point of being unusable.

And those few that can be used in the appraisal of the academy system are just blank slate equipment. The only thing that can be called excellent is a two-handed axe, and Sivi tried several times but failed to lift it, but almost flashed to his waist, and finally had to be depressed and put it into the bronze storage box first - Nima, this is not the weapon that the master should use!

After that, Sivi couldn't find anything else in the room.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ What about the treasure of the good one!? Can something like that be considered a treasure? ”

Unwilling, Sivi continued to scan the room twice, but still found nothing else, including the rumored mage's manuscript.

"Is it because it's rotten after being immersed in water?"

Sivi bit his fingers, looked at the sewage on the ground, and muttered to himself rather aggrieved. He desperately rushed through the trapdoor panel and wandered around the maze for so long, only to get only such a small thing, which was really anticlimactic.

Thinking of this, Xiwei suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't know what was wrong with Lu Dao.

So he was not in a hurry to leave, and began to frown in the room and organize his thoughts, trying to catch the flashing thoughts just now.

"Head Bruno asked me to explore the treasure, and I found the pile of rags, and then he was going to say that I had swallowed the treasure and wanted to do something to me? …… No, no, he really wanted to do something to me, and he didn't need this reason at all. That's not the right idea. ”

"Could it be that someone has come to this treasure before and taken the most valuable thing? But there was no trace of anyone else along the way, and if he deliberately removed the traces, it would be too perfect...... This is too unlikely to be determined. Let's take a look at it differently. ”

"Whoever does something should have a motive. And Krapach? What was Lange's motivation for leaving this treasure? Xiwei vaguely felt that he seemed to have a clue: "Black gold coins are different from regular gold coins, with the change of imperial laws, the change of fief lords, etc., it is easy to become worthless, and it is not normal to pass it down as a treasure." Limitations of this currency Krapach? It is impossible for Lange & SΓΆhne not to think of it. ”

"Although the magic items are not bad, the original properties and enchantments of these items are not very good. Krapach? Lange lived at a time when humanity had just undergone a great migration, although the level of magical civilization may not have been as high as that of modern times. However, due to survival and war, the number of magical items far exceeds that of modern times, and such a thing is not a treasure at all. ”

"So what is the reason why he left this treasure that is not a treasure...... Or rather. What else was he going to use this 'treasure' to disguise? ”

With this in mind, Sivi took out the Night Orb and summoned the shadow minions, causing them to start tapping on the ground, looking for possible mechanisms.

As expected. After the shadow servants had cleaned up the rusty coins, the stone brick below was strange.

In fact, the reason why this room was not completely flooded was because the water seeped through the cracks around the stone brick, and it was clear that the bottom should be empty.

So he immediately commanded the shadow servants to warp the stone brick off.

At the moment when the stone bricks were warped off, in the hollow under the stone bricks, a magical power full of holy aura rose to the sky, and the few shadow servants who could not avoid it were as if they had fallen into the king's water. In less than a few seconds, it had dissolved into divine magic. Even the scum is not victorious.

Sivi noticed that at the edge of the hole, there was nothing in the place where there was originally frozen, and the crystal-like crystals on the outer wall appeared.

Sivi hesitated for a moment, then put the Night Orb back into the storage box and carefully reached into the divine magic.

Although it was a different kind of magic, that magic did not cause any damage to Sivi. On the contrary, it gave him a warm and comfortable feeling as if he was being exposed to the sun.

After confirming that this magic is harmless to oneself - at least not if it is not in possession of the Dark Orb. Sivi jumped in from the hole.

The feeling of immersing one's whole body in divine magic is like taking a bath. It's very comfortable, but it's clearly not the time to enjoy it. Xiwei vigilantly observed the surrounding situation, the cave was still a narrow tunnel, and there were crystals like ice up and down, left and right, but I don't know what entrance to the road would not appear crystallization, probably some magic array to prevent crystallization.

However, compared to this, Sivi was more interested in the source of the divine magic around him.

To be honest, Sivi didn't believe that this magic could be released by a certain being, because the amount of magic was too huge. The light light is the part that Xiwei is sensing now, even if the four white-clothed archbishops, cardinal saints, and the current pope of the pure white papacy of the Eastern Plains are tied together, the amount of their holy light magic power is less than half of this divine magic power.

If it weren't for the lack of hostility in this magic, Sivi would have turned around and fled at the same time as he sensed this terrifying magic......

It is also because of this divine magic that pervades the entire space, all the magic elements have disappeared, even the ether does not exist, and it is probably because of this relationship between the dialysis of the earth that the elements outside will show that extremely stable state, and those crystals on the cracks in the walls can also be explained.

In fact, the current situation is not very favorable for Sivi.

The Void Emperor's Fist only has one shot due to the number of elemental crystal fragments, and the Void Demon Sword is a large energy consumer, and it doesn't last long like Bumpman's transformation.

In addition, his strongest attack method, all the fire elemental magic in front of the radiant flame has been abolished, and even because there is no wind element, he can't even fly, and if he encounters an enemy, he must take great risks and fight people on the ground!

Because of the crystallization, although the ground is not as slippery as the ice, it is also very difficult to walk, and the ground is originally rugged, and the ice surface is also uneven, if it is not for the warmth that surrounds him, Xiwei even has the illusion that he is climbing a snowy mountain.

Fortunately, the road was not long, and soon Sivi came to the exit of the tunnel and slid down from there......

"the groove, it's actually a slope β€”β€”!"

Sivi's frightened voice carried a string of Doppler effects all the way down.

Fortunately, the road was not long, and it didn't take long for Sivi to crash into a raised crystal and stop.

"It hurts." Although he subconsciously activated the levitation technique, because there was no wind element, the magic did not work at all.

Sivi rubbed his head and stood up from the ground, then stunned by the sight before him.

A dark-haired girl with a double ponytail stared at him expressionlessly.

The girl has a delicate face and a slender body, the white dress sets off her dusty temperament to the fullest, and the bow on the back makes her have no sense of nothingness that does not eat the fireworks of the world, adding a lot of cute feelings, delicate collarbones and exposed jade feet are particularly able to attract the attention of men.

However, these are not the most striking things about the girl, what really surprised Sylvie was the almost translucent body of the girl............)

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