"Sebas, tell our guests about the results you found. Sir Yarman instructed the castle steward, "what you see in the book you found in the basement called 'The Castle Book'. ”

"Yes, sir. The butler put down the spoon and smiled at the table.

Everyone stopped their cutlery and looked listening. After all, everyone has been sneering at each other openly and secretly for so long, and finally it is time to talk about something really substantial.

The old man was about to speak, but suddenly stopped. With an apologetic smile on his face, he made a "wait" gesture, then picked up his glass, took a long sip of fruit wine, cleared his throat again, and then took another sip.

He placed the glass on the table and moved it toward his right, then took a deep breath. Finally, in the slightly anxious gaze of everyone, Shi Shiran opened his mouth and said, "Actually, a hot spring boiling incident like this one has happened more than once in the past, and it has been recorded for a long time. ”

"Isn't this the first time?" Barrett looked at Hannah and saw that she was also full of surprise.

"Not really. The castle steward shook his head and continued, "In fact, this castle has existed since the time of the Magic Empire, but it is no longer clear who its original owner was, after all, we lost too much information and too much literature during that dark and chaotic era. Of course, there may be a record of it in the Floating City of Mages, but we all know that it is not easy to go there to find information, unless you are a mage registered with the Magic Society. ”

It's a pity that none of us are there, Barrett added in his heart.

The castle steward placed his hands on the dining table in front of him, "Later, at the beginning of the Griffon Empire, the castle fell into the hands of Viscount Dydins. Because of the beast tide, the viscount rebuilt the castle and made it what it is now. This spiky castle has successfully protected the Viscount's family and its inhabitants on several occasions. But in the midst of the most famous and largest beast tide, the castle unfortunately fell. But there was no way around it, after all, Garano was almost wiped out in that beast tide. ”

"The one that led to the death of the Lord of the Moon and Sun?" Barrett asked.

"Good guess. The old butler smiled and nodded, "As a Nord, you know a lot about the history of our griffon kingdom? ”

"No, I just know a lot about the history of the beast tide. Barrett replied, "For adventurers like me who wander the Misty Forest, the Beast Tide is something that must be mastered. ”

"That's the beast tide. "According to records, the castle fell the day before the death of the King of the Moon and the Sun, on the night of the rebellion in the royal capital. ”

"To the great Augsig III. Sir Yarman raised his glass and spoke suddenly, "To the great King of the Moon and Sun." ”

"Respect the king of the moon and the sun. Everyone raised their glasses and whispered in response.

The old butler put down his glass, "For a long time after this, the castle was directly managed by the Benson family, until Count Garano gave the castle, along with the entire village, to our ancestors of Lord Yarman. ”

"Although the castle has fallen to the beast tide, most of the facilities inside and outside have been damaged. But there are still some hidden things that have been preserved, after all, the monsters will not be interested in the stone walls and walls. Fortunately, they don't eat stones, otherwise the whole castle would not be saved. The old butler tried to make the atmosphere at the table more pleasant, but without success, "Ahem, what remains is not only the walls and walls, but also a lot of strange contraptions and a secret room. ”

"Well, the Chamber of Secrets, it's not a good place. It holds secrets, and maybe something else, such as corpses and the undead. Barrett heard Eddie muttering softly beside him.

"The Chamber of Secrets was discovered by Dylan. Dylan: Oh, that's the little boy who always follows Flanda. Two months ago, when he went to the castle's underground warehouse to pick up turnips, he stumbled upon the secret room. Dylan, the kid, always likes to bang and drill around the castle like a mole. By the way, the chandelier-like facility above was also discovered by him. The old butler pointed to the table with glowing stones placed above the heads of the people.

Barrett had in mind the little boy who liked to cover his mouth and snicker, maybe this castle was the boy's 'misty forest', where he lived, where he explored, and was pleasantly surprised by any unknown discovery.

"In addition to this, the castle has a lot of quirky facilities, and there may be more that have not yet been discovered. "After all, the secret room has only recently been discovered." I suspect that its previous owner, Viscount Dydins, did not know much about it either. The room is set up in a simple setting, with only a table, a chair, and a few books that are fairly well preserved on the table. And in one of the books, there is a record of the hot springs boiling. ”

Finally about to get to the point, Barrett subconsciously straightened up. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Hannah staring at the remaining bean stew on the plate in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

She became extraordinarily silent, and the brute thought to himself, this was not like her character. But then, he threw those thoughts behind him. It makes no sense to guess what is going on in a woman's head. In this respect, the woman and the mage are very similar.

What about the female mage? Barrett knew that such strange creatures existed, but he didn't want to deal with them.

"The book was written in the form of a diary, and it did not appear to have been written by Viscount Dydins, judging from the habits and contents of the writing. The old butler's expression became a little serious, "The diary contains a lot of content and knowledge related to those planes and semi-planes, and I suspect that the author of this diary is likely to be a mage, and this mage is very likely to have lived in this castle." ”

"It's also possible that Viscount Dins got the book out of nowhere and hid it in the vault. Hu Cong George expressed a different opinion. "We've all been to see the chamber, it's too small to be worthy of a noble mage. ”

"It's a possibility. The old butler nodded.

"The Chamber of Secrets is for concealing secrets, not for revealing identity," retorted another servant.

"It's all in the past, it doesn't matter. Focus on the contents of the book!" Sir Yarman said impatiently.

"I was about to get to the point, my lord. The old butler said respectfully. "This mage, let's call the author of the book a mage. In his book, he records the cause of the boiling of the hot springs - a plane rift, a plane rift that only opens once in hundreds of years. ”

Plane Rift?Barrett frowned. In his previous contact with mages, he had learned that the space where this continent was located was called the main material plane by the mages, and he didn't know what the name meant, but he knew that there would indeed be some gaps and rifts in the dimensional plane where everyone lived.

Some of these rifts lead to the ethereal void, others lead to unknown planes, and these planes occasionally spawn monsters from other planes. Although Barrett is very good at dealing with monsters and monsters, dealing with creatures on the heterotopic plane is not his area of expertise.

He had encountered the massive stone elemental in the Misty Forest three times, but each time the battle ended in his escape. Barrett didn't know how to get rid of this troublesome guy who had no brains, no heart, no bleeding when chopped, only crumbs of dirt, and wouldn't be able to recover in a short time.

Barrett once asked a mage he knew how to deal with the elemental creatures of the Otherworld, and the answer was banishment, and an expulsion spell would return them to their original plane.

It's not a good answer, and Barrett doesn't like it anyway because it doesn't mean anything to him. However, the mage also gave Barrett another answer - smash the elemental core, and the elemental creature would perish.

So where is the elemental core? Barrett asked again, and the mage replied that you can see it when you break the elemental body.

Obviously, this answer is not much better.

"On the east side of the village, there are four small and one large five hot springs, which are nearly a kilometer apart, but they are connected underground. The largest hot spring was bottomless, and in the mage's account, the plane rift was at the bottom of the deep hot spring, which connected the water elemental plane in many elemental planes, and constantly emitted the breath and energy in the water elemental plane. ”

"I thought it was the fire elemental plane. Brandon asked curiously, "The energy in the water elemental plane also makes the hot springs boil?"

"If it were the Fire Elemental Plane, these hot springs would have been dried up a long time ago, and maybe there would be no hot spring boiling incident today. The old butler said with a smile.

But there will be other things going on, Barrett thought.

"In the plane materials recorded in the book, there is a description of the water elemental plane. The old butler said, "The water elemental plane mentioned in the book is not all about rippling blue waves and slow ocean currents. There, in some places there are huge icebergs floating on the surface of the water, while in other places the water is thick and muddy, like a swamp, and in other places there is boiling boiling water, like a soup pot of mixed meat. ”

It seems that the rift in the depths of the hot spring is connected to such a place in the water elemental plane that is full of meat mixed soup, no, boiling water. Barrett guessed. And what is the monster that is pouring out of the rift?

Roast pork, ham, tea sausages, pickled cucumbers, or fresh mushrooms?

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