The purple-skinned butler led Vincent and Elver to squat next to a group of children playing with marbles, even though Alfer was worried about catching the village chief of Diru Village, but I have to say that the game of marbles was much more interesting than sneaking into a dilapidated underground casino, especially Vincent quickly mastered the rules of marbles, and his face was full of eager expressions, Alfer borrowed a marble from one of the children with the candy in his waist bag and gave it to Vincent, Vincent smiled and rubbed his hands to take it, and immediately joined the ranks of the children's marble war with a popsicle in his mouth.

There are rows of regular small shallow pits on the ground, arranged in a triangle, from more to less, from near to far, only need to take turns to occupy the pit position, and finally reach the tip of the triangle, because the pit position is getting less and less, if it is beaten out by others, you can choose another pit position for the first time, and the second time it is beaten out by the same person even if you lose; three times you fail to bounce into the pit of the prescribed row, it is also considered a loss; the former loses the marbles and hands it over to the person who hits you out of the pit, and the latter is collected by the person who finally occupies the tip. Vincent relied on the ability to lose hidden weapons learned in school, and quickly beat a group of children to the ground, so that many adults also came to watch, but Vincent was afraid that this group of children would cry their noses, and after winning, while returning all the marbles to the children, he muttered that there was no loss anyway, and promised to be the teacher of these children and teach them how to exert their strength.

As a result of Vincent's involvement, the game of marbles no longer attracted the attention of the butler who led them after two rounds, and he began to chat with Alfer with a pair, but the content was boring, nothing more than the daily work in the castle of Elba - arranging the work of the servants, checking the results of the work, receiving important people, accompanying the waiters to dinner, recording the places in the castle that needed to be repaired, etc., and the night steward was his distant relative, who suffered from photosensitivity after a food poisoning, so he only took care of the night shift.

Alver didn't ask anything, the butler who always seemed to have a straight face just said it all by himself, and he didn't even have a chance to interject and ask Alver questions.

"Why don't you speak?" the purple-skinned butler asked Elver.

"I don't have much to say......" Alver didn't know whether to smile or not, "you answered my curious questions before they were asked." ”

"Don't be afraid of other people's talk, my job is boring, and I don't have the opportunity to talk nonsense. ”

Before Alfer could hold back his words of comfort, a strong magic fluctuation suddenly came from the underground casino not far away, and the time was so short that Alfer didn't even have time to give a warning, the big iron door of the casino and the windows of the welded railings were washed out by the huge current, and even the chimney was rushing into the air, and then some bottles, pots, pots and pans and other miscellaneous things splashed everywhere along the gushing water, and the crowd screamed and ran. Alfer and the purple-skinned butler tried to enter through any of the squirting openings, but the water was so violent that the water jets were so strong that it hurt to spray on their bodies far away, but after a while, the water began to weaken, and people escaped with the water one after another, and the streets were overflowing with water, and after Elph found seven or eight accompanying guards, he finally learned from the mouth of a guard who was less injured and still sober that Teacher Luna was near the back door of the underground casino near the sewer of Erba City, and at this time the water had been washed into the sewer。

"Who started this magic?" asked Alver.

"The person you want to arrest should have brought the circle scroll, anyway, it happened very suddenly......" said the guard after spitting a large mouthful of water.

"Let's go, we can rush in now. Vinson said.

"The situation in the house is unknown, what if you go in and the back door is not in good condition?" said the purple-skinned housekeeper, "and after the collapse, many old sewers were abandoned almost without repair, resulting in the intersection of the old and new sewer systems, I will lead the way, don't worry about the guards, this impact will not be too much of a problem, there is another sewer near here, go down from there." ”

"What's your name?" Alver asked.

"Bloom, no need to say anything superfluous, let's go. ”

Elfer kind of understood why Vincent liked to complain, and his mind was now full of what Butler Bloom had been talking about his job just now.

The sewers of Erba City are magnificent, paved with red bricks, lit by light crystals at intervals, and the shortest pipes are more than one person tall, but it is true that as Brook Steward said, many places that look very old have collapsed and even traces of people's lives, and it is easy to get lost.

"It's really amazing to be able to remember where the old and new sewer systems are going. Vincent praised heartily.

"It's actually very simple, whether it's new or old, the sewer system in Erba City runs from high to low from the upper city to the slums, and eventually there is a junction and then dispersed to several outlets in the same row. ”

"Then the flow of water just now must be a planned escape method by the village chief of Dilu Village, so that he can escape to the drainage outlet as quickly as possible along the current. Alver clutched his neck, the curse marks on his neck swollen and hot.

"We'd better run at full speed, Mr. Bloom. ”

"If you don't mind, we can be quicker," said Butler Bloom, "and the equipment is still sturdy, aren't we?"

"It should be sturdy," said Vincent, "and our headmaster is never stingy with equipment, and though it can't be high-end, at least it's not junk." ”

"That's great," Bloom smiled at his face, "That's great," he grabbed Elph and Vinson one by one, his palms stuck under Elph and Vinson's armpits, between his leather armor and shirt, "curl up your legs, or you'll break them." ”

The ensuing gallop made Alver want to vomit, and Bloom used some kind of wind magic that Alver didn't know about, and ran quickly, Elph had to curl up and endure the bumps and have to hold Bloom's neck tightly to prevent himself from sliding, but Vincent sounded happy, cheering "oh roar" all the way.

As the underground pipes grew thicker and more and more began to meet, Elver knew that they were soon close to the drain, and found the anomalous flow of water gushing out of the underground casino—which had remained clear and not mixed with the dirt in the sewers—and Alfer sensed at least two different streams of magic surging continuously, and finally, in the main pipe that finally connected to the drain, Elph said to Butler Bloom, "When you get to the drain, go to the left, and the source of the magic is on the left." ”

Bloom rushed forward for a short while, but put Alver and Vincent down, he gasped and said, "Holding two older children and using magic again, I can't hold it anymore, whether it's physical strength or magic, especially Vincent, it's too heavy." ”

"Then run only with physical strength," Vincent moved his body, "I'm tired of the old curled legs." ”

"Be careful when you run," Alfer reminded him, standing knee-deep in the sewage, "no wonder Mr. Bloom can't run, the water is getting deeper and deeper." ”

"Only to the nearest drain," said Vincent, pointing to the light that penetrated through the drain directly facing the main pipe, "and going straight out from there, you will definitely find the old Wang Ba, the head of Dilu Village." ”