Chapter 22: The Knights Who Step Into the Abyss

Early in the morning, it was the most confused period of time for Tianyi, so he yawned and came late, completely ignoring the time he had set, and chose to be late.

Fortunately, early in the morning, there was no one in the Colosseum, and the Count and his retinue had placed the boxes by the stone wall, covered with canvas, and a crowd of people stood around them like street thugs.

When Tianyi entered the earl's sight, the count of Boge could be said to be overjoyed, he stepped forward, and did not mention the fact that the other party was late, but couldn't wait to say: "Master, you are here, can you start?"

"Hmm. Tianyi casually agreed, waved his hand, and signaled the people next to him not to get in his way. After a few steps to the wall, he pulled out a small piece of turquoise from his clothes, about the size of a chalk head.

He crouched down, cut some sand, and carved two crosses haphazardly out of the shards below the surface: "I haven't studied your emblems much, so I'll leave it at that." Before he could finish his sentence, the mark carved on the wall with a cyan glow gradually faded, and soon faded away.

"Hmm...... Master, I don't know if this is ......" The Count has not finished asking.

Tianyi interrupted: "Then I will make the ground behind me into a variable hidden entrance, and this sign is the switch that touches the entrance." He turned around and took a few steps forward: "But at the moment I'm just temporarily sealing the passage with earth to prevent someone from inadvertently stepping on the air and falling down." As he spoke, he stomped his foot on the ground, and a large chunk of the ground collapsed in front of him.

It was pitch black in the pit, and from the visible entrance, it was a steep slope, and the entire tunnel was cylindrical like a sausage.

Then, Tianyi took out a few pieces of black paper, which the Count recognized, which were the papers with magic arrays printed on them that he had seen Tianyi folding in the bookstore before. At this moment, there are four pieces of black paper on Tianyi's hand, three of which are flat, and the remaining one is like a folding fan, which has been folded out of the rules of one positive and one negative. The magic circles drawn on the four pieces of black paper were all the same, but no one knew what the wizard in front of him was going to do with them.

Tianyi squatted in front of the hole in the passage, put the folded black paper underneath, and put the flat three pieces of paper on the other three sides, and whispered something in his mouth, and the magic circle on the paper emitted a flash of light, and then, the three black papers dyed into ashes by themselves.

The Count and his retinue saw a shocking scene. The tunnel in front of me is shaped like a hollow sausage, starting from the entrance and gradually changing, the sand of the slope under the feet undulates up and down, folded and fixed, from near to far, one by one into a step, and the arc-shaped expansion of the walls on both sides and the slope overhead, as if flattened by a pair of invisible pushers, become a flat and vertical wall, but the angle between the top of the tunnel and the two sides is not a right angle, still maintain a certain arc.

The retinue of the Earl of God...... drew crosses on their chests, marveling at the wonders they had seen. And in an instant, he admired the "master" mentioned by the earl.

The Count looked up to the sky, "This is truly an amazing magical spell, Master. ”

"No, it's science. Tianyi pursed his lips and replied listlessly: "Theoretically speaking, everyone has the qualification to learn 'magic', but unfortunately, after more than a thousand years of practice, it is still difficult for human beings to master this knowledge, and there are very few people who can cross the threshold." Recently I am thinking of finding a different way to study a scientific system that would allow every ordinary person to have the opportunity to use or participate in the creation, which I call a 'mechanical' civilization, which is much easier than the system of magic, which requires little 'understanding' and can be learned and used only by accumulating knowledge. Maybe in a few hundred years, everyone will be able to master or at least be able to use this technology, and hopefully then the rate of human progress will be a little faster than in the previous millennia. ”

The Earl listened to this god-like remark, and basically did not understand it at all, anyway, he felt very powerful in his heart.

Tianyi didn't expect any of the people in this group to understand what he said, he just waited for the stairs to go down, and took advantage of this boring time to find some random topics to talk about.

"Are the torches ready?" asked Tianyi.

"Yes, it's all ready. The Count replied.

"Then light the fire and get down before you get someone's attention. Tianyi said.

The Count only glanced at him, and his retinue understood, took out the torches they had prepared, lit them, and took up their wooden boxes, and prepared to set out.

"You go down first, and I will hide the entrance when I come down. Tianyi said.

The retinue looked at Count Beauge, and the count nodded, which was a sign of confirmation, and the retinue received instructions and without hesitation, holding torches and carrying boxes, and rushed into this mysterious passage created by 'magic'.

The Count walked at the end of the line, and Tianyi followed the Count down. Standing in the passage below the ground, Tianyi took out a strange prop, it was a knot, and the rope used looked like an ordinary hemp rope, but the rope faintly exuded a rotten atmosphere. He threw the knot on the staircase in front of him, took out the piece of the cyan glow, looked up at the length and width of the entrance, took a few steps back, and motioned for the Count to stand on the lower staircase behind him.

I saw that Tianyi used the fragment to draw a line horizontally along a certain staircase on the ground, and after doing this, he recited the incantation again, and as his incantation ended, the knot also burned to ashes.

Then Tianyi turned to the earl and said, "Go down." With that, he made a downward gesture of pulling the rope out of thin air, and the staircase behind him suddenly rose as if it were alive, sealing the entrance and blocking out the light shining in from the outside.

In the flickering light of the torches, Tianyi took off the hood on his head, stared at the earl, and said, "Go, your retinue will be worried if they don't see you go down." ”

At this moment, in the eyes of the Earl, there seemed to be an unkind aura hidden in Tianyi's face, maybe it was just an illusion generated in a claustrophobic environment, maybe it was just an unreasonable fear in his heart, the Count quickly drove this thought out of his mind, and told himself: This wizard has helped me so much, if he wanted to harm me, he could have done it a long time ago, I shouldn't have thought about it.

"Yes, Master. The Count answered, took up his torch, and hurried down.

Tianyi followed behind him, and the moment the earl turned around, the corners of Tianyi's mouth quickly climbed up a sneer, and then, his face was full of evil and terrifying smiles, if this expression was seen by the earl, I am afraid that he would be so frightened that he rolled down the stairs.

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