Lance took Carl and Surdak to the top floor of the Magic Guild, where the office of Grand Magician Gerald, the head of the Magic Guild's Law Enforcement Corps, was located.

The top floor of the magic tower is a little deserted, not many magicians are qualified to work on this floor, there is a faint scent of jasmine in the empty hall, the sun shines into the hall from the glass windows around it, the top floor of the magic tower is very well lit, and the top floor is completely isolated from the other floors, and it is not in the spiral design of the magic tower.

There are various painted murals on the vaulted sky dome on the top floor of the magic tower, Surdak looked up and saw a city in the clouds, from a distance, the city in the clouds looks like a huge mountain floating in the air, and many dome-shaped exquisite buildings are built on the floating mountain, the unified feature of these buildings is that there are no doors, and huge terraces stretch out of the windows of all buildings, and a long team of winged warriors with white wings fly in the sky, and the whole city in the clouds is also full of prosperity.

Surdak felt a little dizzy after looking at it twice, and the best way to admire this kind of ceiling mural is to lie on the ground.

"Carl, do you really think there is such a gorgeous castle in the sky?" Surdak asked him by gently pushing Karl from behind.

A female magician wearing a black and white striped dedication magic robe passed by the three of them, and when she saw the shocked expression on Surdak's face, she couldn't help but laugh, she walked in a hurry with a stack of magic books, and disappeared into a room in a blink of an eye.

Karl raised his head and followed Surdak's gaze to look at the paintings on the top of the sky, and he was also very shocked.

"Of course, it's just that these winged people left the Roland Continent a long time ago, and now few people can see the winged people." Karl said seriously.

"Lance, have you seen the Winged Terrans?" Surdak slowed down and asked Lance, the magician who was leading the way.

When Lance came to this level, the expression on his face became much more serious than usual, he paused slightly, and replied, "No, but Ferdinand Scholar's laboratory has a winged human wing, and you can go and take a good look at it if you have a chance." ”

When passing through a glass window, Surdak took the opportunity to look out the window, and the whole rich area was in full view, and there was still a lot of snow left on the roofs of those gorgeous buildings, and the Knight Academy occupied a large area of land in this rich area where every inch of land was valuable? Whether it's the riding training ground behind? Or is the playground in front of the school building very empty? Surdak could confirm at a glance that it was the Knight Academy of Highlandsa City.

The three of them passed by a stone wall of reliefs? I just saw three functioning magic portals standing next to the wall, and there were three magicians guarding them in front of each of them? Dressed in magical robes with hoods, they stand motionless in front of the magic portal? If not after Surdak approached? When I saw their faces hidden under their hoods, I thought they were three statues.

Several magicians gathered in front of a stone platform, bending down on the stone platform to fill out the form carefully, and Lance walked over to greet the group of magicians familiarly? These magicians all wear badges on their chests, symbolizing the Magical Guild's Enforcement Corps? The badge is patterned with a magic book and a wand on each end of the scale.

Lance left with Carl and Surdak, and Carl asked curiously, "Lance, what are they doing?" ”

"These magicians are teleporting." Lance seemed to be accustomed to these things, and replied casually.

Carl looked at the three magic portals, and his eyes looked very eager? Asked Lance, "Are these three portals open to the public?" ”

Lance spread his hands, and a proud expression of mages appeared on his face? Spread out your hands and say, "How is that possible!" Only the Wizards Guild has the right to use it, and it's expensive to teleport once? Of course, if there is a right to use it from the president of the Magic Guild or the head of the law enforcement group? You can also borrow it temporarily. ”

The expression on Lance's face was somewhat underwhelming.

"Do I need to pay to use these magic portals?" Karl asked Lance curiously.

"Of course!" Lance nodded.

"How expensive can it be?"

Lance groaned? He said to Karl, "For us magicians? Each teleportation costs anywhere from five to ten magic crystals! As for the nobles of the city of Highlandza, I don't know. ”

"I'm afraid I don't have the financial ability to use the portal here before I inherit the family territory......" After hearing this, Carl immediately said that his current financial ability could not afford such an expensive teleportation fee, and then said with some yearning: "I heard that there is a teleportation hall with dozens of portals in Greendy, and you can take the portal to enter any provincial capital city of the empire. ”

A strong aura of magic emanated from the magic door, and those magic streamers were like flowing mist, and these magic streamers were bound by some kind of power, forming a magic door.

The laboratory of Grand Magician Gerald, the head of the law enforcement team, is located in the room on the left side of the portal, and after Lance stepped forward to explain his intentions, the three of them waited outside the door for a short time, and Lady Memi, the magic assistant of Grand Magician Gerald, invited the three of them to enter Archmagician Gerald's room.

It was a circular room, surrounded by bookshelves against the wall almost ten meters high, all the bookshelves were piled with magic books, and Grand Magician Gerald was crouching on the bookcase, holding a magnifying glass and looking at a magic pattern, the cover of the magic book was pitch black, Surdak felt similar to the one in his magic pocket, and the whole magic book was surrounded by a strange aura of shadow elements.

Seeing the three of Lance walk in, Grand Magician Gerald put down his work and set his eyes on Karl and Surdak.

Karl informed Archmagician Gerald that Samia was not dead, and that it was possible that the person who was burned to death by the Great Fireball Technique was only Samia's stand-in, and Archmagician Gerald nodded slightly after listening to the autopsy, and did not have any surprised expression, just shook the bell and called Ms. Memy in the outer room.

"Memi, you go and bring in the two magicians, Elbert and Brewer." Grand Magician Gerald commanded.

"Yes, Lord Gerald." Ms. Memi immediately walked out.

Not long after, there was a knock at the door, and two young magicians stood at the door, and said respectfully, "Grand Magician Gerald, are you looking for us?" ”

Grand Magician Gerald motioned for the two of them to come in, pointed to Surdak and Karl and said, "These two are the knights of the guard battalion, they have come to inform us this time, that Samea's body is an impostor, the real Sameya is still at large, can you briefly tell me how you hunted down Sameya last night?" ”

"Of course, Grand Magician Gerald." The two magicians looked at each other and replied.

"Here's the thing...... two magicians asked Carl about the details of the matter, Samia exposed her whereabouts in Christie's castle, and after leaving, she fell into the sight of the Magic Guild Enforcement Force, and the two magicians of the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Team chased after Sameya for nearly half a night, and finally blocked Samea in Alley 19-2 of Highlanza City, both sides used magic, and finally Elbert, the magician in the Magic Guild Enforcement Corps, burned Samea to death with a large fireball, The whole process was not carried out, and Sameya did not choose to escape.

After listening to the narration of the two magicians, Karl and Surdak naturally couldn't figure out what was going on.

In the end, it was Grand Magician Gerald who said, "...... All right! We will pay close attention to this matter, and if there is any news about Sameya from the guard camp, please contact our law enforcement team in time. ”

The two magicians got up to take their leave, and Lance took the opportunity to leave with Carl and Surdak.

Lance sent Carl and Surdak away from the heavily guarded top floor of the Magic Guild, and explained to them as he climbed the stairs halfway through that this was not the first time this had happened to the Magic Guild Enforcement Corps, and that there were double spells in the dark arts that could cause the illusion of the death of the target, and some necromancers who could refine puppets to achieve the same purpose.

The Dark Arts Retreat has a complete stand-in technique, and this evil black magic requires a special medium to use, which is clearly forbidden by the Magic Guild. Don't do magic.

Karl and Surdak left the Magical Guild and rode back to the guard barracks.

……

Surdak walked into the prison of the guard barracks, and found that there was only a long corridor here, and on both sides of the corridor were some cells isolated by iron fences, this prison was more than ten meters underground, and in winter, he couldn't feel the cold outside, but the prison was dark and damp, Surdak stood at the gate of the prison for a while, and felt a cold aura around his body, as if he wanted to get into his bones.

He showed the guard barracks badge to the guards guarding the prison gate, and took out the entry and exit pass specially signed by Captain Sauron, and then the guards allowed him to enter the guard camp prison.

With a keen sense of magic, Surdak only felt that the prison was full of an eerie death atmosphere, under such a thick death atmosphere, Surdak felt that this place might not be too peaceful, the mottled walls of the prison were covered with dark purple moss, and there were some wooden crosses and other holy objects hanging on the walls that could dispel the death qi, but it seemed that these wooden holy objects were almost rotten and about to grow mushrooms.

The corridors were covered with white cobwebs, and some of the cells were stained with blood on the walls, but there were not many prisoners in the prison.

Occasionally, there would be a prisoner in a cell, also with a wooden expression, and when he saw Surdak walking by, he didn't react at all, which reminded Surdak of the opera manager Levi he had seen in the morgue in the morning, and I heard that he had squatted in the prison of the guard camp for nearly a month before, so thin that he was almost out of shape, and he was leaning on his body when he walked, and he already had a lot of painful memories.

Surdak walked for almost a quarter of an hour in the prison, and when he was almost at the end, he saw Baron Grenfell tied to a huge wooden cross in the room facing the cloister, with heavy shackles on his body, wearing a blood-stained linen shirt and trousers, and tied to the cross barefoot, and for just over a week, Baron Grenfell looked even more miserable than a homeless man in the streets.

Standing in front of Grenfell, Surdak stopped, and the only time he saw Baron Grenfell was in the opera house.

At that time, Surdak was hidden in the box on the second floor of the opera house, and Baron Grenfell was sitting in the hall on the first floor, and there were many familiar nobles around him, whether he entered or left, Baron Grenfell was busy greeting him non-stop, his reputation in the aristocratic circle has always been very good, but no one expected that he was actually colluding with the Dark Arts Hermitage, and raised a powerful bandit group, and in the summer of this year, he washed three noble manors in succession.

None of the nobles thought that the mastermind behind the bandit group was actually Baron Grenfell, and after the investigation of this matter was revealed, the noble circle of Highlanza City was almost in an uproar.

"Baron Grenfell, you want to see me?" Surdak asked the embarrassed Baron in front of him.

The man hanging from the wooden cross struggled to open his eyes, and it seemed that he was not getting the treatment that a death row inmate deserved.

"I see you at last, Knight Surdak......" Grenfell's eyes were filled with dead silence, and his voice was extremely weak.

But it was like some kind of flashback, after seeing Surdak, a flush appeared on his pale face, and a pair of eyes stared at Surdak and said: "I've been guessing who is the person who sabotaged our series of plans, including intercepting Taylor halfway, and rescuing Hoyle must also have something to do with you, the dark red knight next to me followed some clues to the barren land outside the Paglos Pass, and never returned, I just want to know, did he die at your hands?" ”

Surdak stood still and did not answer.

Silence is the answer.

The last glimmer of hope in Baron Grenfell's eyes was also disillusioned, and his eyes became empty and godless, perhaps at this moment he was already dead in the spirit world.

After being silent for a while, Surdak felt that he should explain, after all, he had not joined the guard battalion at that time, and at least he should explain his motives, so he pondered for a while before saying, "...... The bandit leader had robbed me of the iron I had bought for the village on the road. ”

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

All that came was a sharp cough from Baron Grenfell.

Surdak couldn't help but ask, "Since I answered your question, I also have a question for you, what exactly are you looking for?" ”

Baron Grenfell did not answer the question, but said, "I will take this secret to the grave, but you don't have to be in too much of a hurry, someone will definitely tell you the answer." ”

In fact, he didn't need to come to see Baron Grenfell at all, although he knew that Baron Grenfell would definitely not say it, but he still tried it with a hint of luck.

“……”

Unable to hear the answer from Baron Grenfell's inquiry, Surdak could only sigh softly and turn around and leave the prison without a sound, Surdak really had nothing to say to the baron who was about to be pushed to the guillotine.

When I walked out of the prison, there was already a light snow in the sky outside.

The cold north wind mixed with snowflakes fell on Surdak's face, and there was no cold in the prison to make people shudder.