(Today's second update, don't miss it)

There was a lot of speculation about what would be inside this warehouse-like place, and there was a lot of speculation about what was going to happen inside before entering.

――Full of spoiled and expired ingredients?

――As far as the eye can see, there are valuable treasures everywhere?

――Or are you hiding rare equipment and items, or even sealing some powerful monsters?

Still is...... Nothing empty?

“…… I really didn't expect it. ”

Xia looked at the destroyed desk in front of him and thought:

"This would be a big man's study."

In fact, it is a bit reluctant to say that the study room, there are not many books here, and there are only 5 bookshelves in the large room, which are placed next to the desk and the four corners of the room.

In addition, there are a lot of luxury goods and sundries, there are still a lot of alchemy props left in the corner, and some unknown extracts are piled up in the utensils, and the long years have made these things lose their smell and color, and it is impossible to see what the body is.

Xia Maibu walked around the room for a while, and suddenly saw a metal badge hanging on the wall.

The badge was unusually simple in structure, with a staff and a sword crossed on top, and a dragon hovering below, which was slightly chunky and bloated, very different from the mighty and hideous appearance of ordinary dragons.

"This is the coat of arms of the Empire."

Natsu was all too familiar with this pattern, so he walked over and took it off, brushing the dust off it with his hands.

The texture of the emblem is clearly extraordinary, with purple gold and Mithril inlaid edges, and the pattern itself glows with golden magic. Even after a long time, the magic attached to the metal surface still works, and it seems that the person who made it is quite powerful.

"Sammer's mosaic, an ancient alchemical method...... It is rumored to be able to run for a thousand years with very little mana. ”

She has a fairly extensive knowledge of alchemy, and has seen through the secrets hidden in the badge.

The pattern of the imperial coat of arms is strictly forbidden to be changed, but the specific color can be distinguished according to the status and strength of the owner. Purple and silver, the colors used by Harlem's top aristocrats, and the rare and frustrating alchemy of the Sammer mosaic is enough to bankrupt an ordinary rich man.

"In the deepest part of a deserted and completely abandoned base, there is a study room that only the nobles of the empire can use...... I have to say that it is a very contradictory thing. ”

She hung the badge back on the wall, although this thing was very valuable, but if she really took out the family logo and sold it, if the family still had descendants, she would definitely be frantically traced to the source of the goods, she didn't want to get into trouble.

"Time seems to have passed too long, and all traces have been covered."

The silver-haired girl held her breath and walked around the dusty room, finding no useful clues other than the destroyed desk and the few shattered pieces of furniture on the floor.

"A quick guess is that the intruder may have just stuck its head in...... And then ate a person, or broke something and left? After all, even the door inside was not damaged. ”

She crept to the door, slowly opened the door, and a large amount of dust fell.

After dodging through the door, a quiet hall appeared in front of her, some decorative antiques could be seen on the edge of the hall, ancient swords and shields were on the wall, a long table was placed in the middle, and next to it were chairs that were tilted horizontally, which should be a hall for deliberations.

"It turns out that this is really a military base, and the appearance of the warehouse is just used to deceive people."

Xia Yilian opened the doors of several rooms, and the layout inside was similar to the first room, but some of the owners of the rooms were warriors, and some were magicians, which can be seen from the furnishings and collected items; In addition, a large military-strategic map tucked away in the conference room reveals the purpose of the place.

To be sure, these people are clearly gathered here not for tourism on the island, but for some kind of war purpose.

Natsu didn't come in to get information and explore, she didn't care too much about the origin of this place, she left the conference room and walked through the huge empty base, constantly observing the structure of the house along the way, and occasionally stabbing with her sword to see if there were any holes in the walls and floor.

"Whether it's the artistic value or the value of the material itself, these things in it can be called a lot of wealth, but unfortunately, it is difficult to turn them into funds."

She looked at her surroundings with some regret, this was indeed an abandoned base...... But it's actually more like a history museum, with each item having its own unique stamp on history, and if you know how to trace the magic, you'll even be able to discover some hidden stories on it.

"Maybe it's because they found this place too dangerous, so people left."

After walking through the entire base roughly, she stopped, and thought unsure in her heart:

"There are signs of violent destruction of individual doors, and many things have been broken; But it wasn't the big guy who destroyed the roof who did it, it was more like it was man-made. ”

"Come in, try not to make a noise, and keep your voice low when talking."

She said to her friends outside with a telepathy.

After a while, the team members quietly climbed in through the gap, and Xia also returned to the study, and set up several magic formations like the fence, temporarily blocking the gap.

"The thickness of the roof varies."

She used the sound transmission to guide everyone inside, asking everyone to find a space where they could rest:

"Because the private rooms are closest to the inside, the people here probably don't think too much about safety, so the roofs are very thin. Some of the rooms in the base don't have high ceilings and should be the most heavily defended areas, so we'd better choose that kind of place. ”

"Is this a treasure trove for the Imperials?"

Abner's eyes widened as he was being carried:

"What do I see? The kind of ceramic jar with a curved neck...... It should be the real thing fired by Master Eloyin, who was called the 'Heavenly Hand' 200 years ago! And the table carved out of the wood of life! If the whole family uses it for food every day, it can increase the life expectancy by at least 20 years, which is a precious commodity that cannot be seen in the market! ”

"Precious is precious, but you can't take it away."

Merlin looked at those things with a sad face:

"Didn't you notice? Most of these items have family coats of arms on them and are in private collections...... Now that the Harlem are not dead, if you dare to leak a lot of the stuff in this house, the Imperials may directly send troops to raid your golden warhammer headquarters, and then turn your branches on the mainland upside down. ”

"Don't look at those useless ones, it may be a time of war soon, a collection of prosperous times, gold in troubled times; At that time, these things may not be comparable to a piece of metal used to make weapons. ”

In order to prevent them from being consumed by their desire for profit and making some irrational moves, Xia said in a timely manner.

The search for a safe place to rest went well, and it wasn't long before someone came back to report that a large room had been found to store weapons, and that it could easily sleep more than a hundred people in it with just a clean cleaning.

"Here, it looks pretty good."

Xia opened a map of the structure of the base from the conference hall, looked for the location of this place, and found that this place was exactly the center of the base in the middle of the lake, and above everyone's heads was a solid metal plate with a thickness of up to 3 meters, even if it was bombarded with large magic for a long time, it would be difficult to blast it open.

"Strange...... Judging from this picture, it should be a symmetrical house structure, but when I came in, there was a wall on the opposite side. ”

"Could it be that there's something hidden behind that wall?"

She couldn't help but feel a stir in her heart:

- I can't take those collectibles and imperial insignia, but I can't take anything else!

ores, unmarked weapons, armor; There are also magic items, potions, and ancient documents! You might even find some unexpected surprises.

"You wait for me here...... Sadonam, follow me. ”

She called the white-haired boy to the front of the wall, and drew a few lines deep on it with the Dagger of Godfall:

"Can you take this off?"

She said to Sadonam:

"Don't make too much noise, don't damage what's inside, pull it outside."

"It's easy."

Sadonan pressed his hand in the middle of the square crack, and with a slight smack of his palm, the entire area of the line was sliced off the wall like plasticine, and the edges were intact like sharp blades.

"Sneer......"

After a soft sound, the 30-centimeter-thick metal wall was sucked out of his palm, revealing a square hole.

"What a lot of magic!"

Both Natsu and Sadonan felt the fluctuations of magic coming from the cave opening, and their hearts were amazed.

"What could it be?"

Instead of rushing inside, she summoned a small, dark-vision monster and sent it behind the wall.

"Soul Skill - Mind Possession".

She attached her vision to the little monster, and the first thing she saw inside was a big hole in the roof!

Like the original study, the forcible tear gap was about four meters wide, and it was now completely dark, and the night sky and stars could be seen outside.

"That's ...... Magic Crystal? ”

As the monster's head shook, she saw many oval crystals in the room that shimmered with magical brilliance.

These crystals were similar to those of the Faense Continent, but the energy she felt contained the unique fluctuations of the New World, and it was certain that they were not the kind of magic crystals that were common in the Old World.

"There's no danger inside...... Di Lia and I will go first to take a look, and you are still responsible for keeping everyone safe. ”

Natsu nodded to Sadonan and slipped into it with the curious werewolf princess.

"Wow, that's a lot of crystals!"

The werewolf princess's magic perception is not very sensitive, and she can't find the difference between the two crystals, and her expression looks very surprised, and she ran to the front of a bunch of magic crystals, and wanted to reach out to touch it, but was blocked by a layer of light blue light.

"It's a guardian barrier, but it's already very weak."

Xia walked up to her, looked at the blue light and said:

"Judging from the orientation, there should be a lot of reserves in this place...... But now the stuff is more than half empty, and there is less than a fifth of the amount left. ”

"Still, it's amazing."

She sighed and said:

"As far as I know, no one in the New World has yet found anything that can replace the Faense Crystal...... As a result, the strength of the magicians is not as good as before, due to the lack of things that can replenish the magic power, the combat power continues to be insufficient, and many items also lack energy sources. ”

Seeing that the werewolf princess seemed to understand whether she understood or not, she explained:

"Such a huge number of magic crystals...... If it can really be used instead of the magic crystal, if there is a war in the future, it will be enough to change the direction of the war. ”

"Shall we take them all first? Yikes! No way. ”

The werewolf princess looked at the total amount of crystals in the house and stuck out her tongue:

"There are just too many of them......"

"Smack!"

Xia stretched out his hand and pierced the shield around a bunch of crystals, grabbed a handful from inside, and returned to the outside with it for Sadoran and the others to study.

"The magic crystal of good quality is probably the best of the best."

Merlin took one and put it in front of him to observe:

"But...... I always feel that there is something wrong with the magic fluctuations, is it a defective product containing impurities? ”

"Above this is the magical energy of the New World!"

Sadonan's magical knowledge was much stronger than his, and he immediately recognized the peculiarities of this crystal:

"If it can really allow magicians to replenish their magic power in the New World, it will be crazy for outsiders to know about it."

"I think the Harlems should know about it."

Xia took a crystal and stroked it a few times in his hand, and said a different opinion:

"But they keep it as a secret resource...... At present, there are no plans to leak it, perhaps they want to wait for a key battle and use them to turn the tide of the war. ”

"It's very likely that this base is full of Imperial items, and Harlem must have known about the existence of the new area for a long time, but he just hid this information and put up with it."

Sadonan agreed:

"Not being able to cross the sea of fog is also one of the reasons...... There is that whale in the sky, and even if you climb over the peak, you may be attacked, and countless people have proved this with their lives. ”

While the two were talking, the werewolf princess suddenly moved her ears, as if she heard something.

"Shh

She lowered her body and made a silent gesture to the others.

Natsu and Sadonan stopped talking.

The werewolf princess kept her short posture and silently walked to the hole in the wall, slowly straightened up, and poked her head into the hole.

As soon as I reached the entrance of the cave, I saw two hideous vertical pupils from inside.

These pupils are somewhat like dragon eyes, but they don't have the awe-inspiring sense of a dragon, and some are just full of ferocity.

"-Quack!"

The werewolf princess retracted her head with great speed, and a mouth full of sharp teeth protruded from the hole, biting down on the spot where she had just been, and making a dull noise. (To be continued.) )